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Even Congress gets weary of Congress…

Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row out, Republican Sean Duffy what I will do next. All I do
Washington) suddenly became the front know is that there has to be
Submitted at 5/5/2010 3:30:07 PM runner in that district, a more to life than explaining the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ridiculous, accountability
It’s not just voters who get tired columnist blogged. destroying rules of the Senate to
of Congress – members of “I believe the job of a good confused, angry, and frustrated
Congress get tired of Congress. politician was to be used up constituents.”
“I am bone tired,” David Obey fighting on behalf of causes you While the Democrats, who
s a i d i n a n n o u n c i n g h i s believed in, and when you are control Congress, are able to
retirement after 21 terms (that used up, to step aside and let push their priorities through the
w o u l d b e 4 2 y e a r s ) a s a someone else carry on the battle. House, in the Senate they face
Democratic congressman from Well, today I feel used up,” rules that allow the minority
Wisconsin. Obey said. party to more easily block
Public opinion polls show that Why would someone leave a legislation.
anti-incumbent sentiment is high-powered post as chairman And then there was the swing at
high going into the November of the House Appropriations reporters.
congressional elections in which Committee with his fist on the “I am also increasingly weary of
every House seat and one-third government’s purse strings? having to deal with a press
of the Senate are up for grabs. “I am, frankly, weary of having which has become increasingly
There’s also history to contend to beg on a daily basis that both focused on trivia, driven at least
with – in the mid-term election parties recognize that we do no in part by the financial collapse
during a new presidency the favor for the country if we of the news industry and the
party of the president usually neglect to make the long-term need, with the 24-hour news
loses seats — that would be i n v e s t m e n t s i n e d u c a t i o n , common denominator 76. And he said he will have cycle, to fill the air waves with
Democrats this year. science, health, and energy that legislation that is inadequate to served longer than all but 18 of hot air,” Obey said.
A n d s o m e m e m b e r s o f are necessary to modernize our that task and, given the mood of the 10,637 members ever to Do you think the retirement of
Congress have decided it’s just economy and decline to raise the the country, that is what I would serve in the House –”The wear senior, experienced, members of
not worth the fight, even from revenue needed to pay for those have to do if I stayed.” and tear is beginning to take its Congress like Obey is a plus or
r e l a t i v e l y s a f e d i s t r i c t s . crucial investments,” he said. Obey, saying he would turn 72 toll.” a minus?
A l t h o u g h , O b e y s a y s h i s “I do not want to be in a soon, noted the recent deaths of So Obey asked himself how he Photo credit: Reuters/Yuri
decision had nothing to do position as Chairman of the his former colleagues Charlie wanted to spend the rest of his Gripas (Obey after announcing
with any concern about winning Appropriations Committee of Wilson and Jack Murtha at age life. “Frankly, I do not know his retirement)
the election. By dropping producing and defending lowest
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Ahmadinejad says bin There's Only One Kind Of Bailout

Laden in Washington That Works, And That's A Dumb
Deborah Charles (Front Row
Washington) Bailout (AIG, GS)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:55:56 AM
Joe Weisenthal (Business
Insider)
Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad has the answer to Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:23:19 AM

the question that has plagued the

United States since Sept. 11,
2001.
He knows where Osama bin
Laden is — in Washington.
In an interview with ABC’S
“Good Morning America” on
Wednesday, Ahmadinejad
rejected reports that the al
Qaeda leader was in Iran.
“I heard that Osama bin Laden
is in the Washington, D.C.,”
Ahmadinejad said through an
interpreter in a contentious give-
and-take with his interviewer,
George Stephanopoulos.
“He’s there. Because he was a
previous partner of Mr. Bush.
They were colleagues in fact in picture); Reuters/Molly Riley out money first and
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In his morning note, RBS
strategist Tim Ash makes an
important observation regarding
the ongoing crisis in Europe,
and how it differs from past
They were in the oil business crisis.
together. They worked together. In many respects it reminds me
Mr. Bin Laden never cooperated of the run up to the April 2009
with Iran but he cooperated with G20 London
Mr. Bush,” Ahmadinejad said. summit, when Emerging
“Rest assured that he’s in Europe was in the eye of the
Washington. I think there’s a storm and clearly in crisis.
high chance he’s there.”
The G20 London summit
For more Reuters political news turned sentiment because G20
click here states agreed to give
bottle. demanded the banks offer
Photo credits: Reuters/State the IMF the firepower to tackle Ash could also include the US' extensive details about what
Dept handout ( Bin Laden the problem. The Fund dolled bank bailout, which "worked" exactly they were going to do
because the government with their money, it probably
(U.S. Capitol) asked questions later. My sense
is that Europe needs to follow a basically decided: We're going wouldn't have worked.
similar strategy. to give the banks gobs and gobs The problem, there, though is
Decisive action is now of cash in every way possible that blank-check bailouts are
required, but I worry that (direct investments, preferred basically immoral, taking cash
Europe is simply unable to act stock investments, cheap from one party and giving it to
quickly enough. The money, AIG (AIG) as a conduit another party, and that's why
developing cycle/spiral needs to Goldman Sachs (GS), etc.), we're asking a lot of questions
turning, and very, very fast. and then we'll ask questions now (in the form of SEC
Ash's comments are smart, but later. Remember, the initial
TARP proposal was just one
charges and extensive hearings).
But if it's going to work, that's
are coming a little late. Europe
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11 Ways You Can Make Your Space as Collaborative as the

Stanford d.school
Linda Tischler (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 9:05:09 AM

The Stanford d.school, which

opens officially on May 7, is a
space whose design has been
refined over the course of six
years to maximize the
innovation process. Every wall,
every nook, every connecting
gizmo, every table, every
storage cabinet, has been created
with a grand, collaborative
vision in mind.
Nice for them. But what about
the rest of us, out here in
standard-issue cubicle land? Are
we all destined for subprime
collaborative work lives because
our office spaces and furniture
are so numbingly left brain?
Not so, says George Kembel,
the executive director of the
school. Even if your company
doesn't have a few million to
throw at making your space as a sign on the table." Kembel's may not be amused. type. "Get your ideas up in big But keep it safe," Kembel says.
more innovation-friendly, there advice: Claim a space and label 3. Then, be willing to keep enough form so that others can No rude comments allowed.
are things you can do to it. changing things. Try out see and add to them." 8. Do something simple to
optimize what you've got. The 2. Go to the people who are different ways to configure 6. Keep any prototypes, surprise people. At the d.school,
d.school team sat down and interested first. Form a crack space to see what works best. sketches, or idea-jam artifacts they painted the women's
brainstormed 11 great ways to team of true believers to 4. Watch the behavior of the low-rez and not precious. "Don't restroom lipstick pink, and hung
transform your digs into a little spearhead your campaign. group and take notes. Have get too formal too fast," says disco balls. "That makes people
hive of bubbling creativity--or at Revolutions start from the somebody in your band of Kembel. Making things precious realize that somebody cares
least a place that manages to bottom up. innovators own this task. What's locks them in too soon, short- about your experience," Kembel
capture the occasional good 3. Empower your team to working, what isn't? "Try, circuiting potential says.
idea. change their space. Somebody reflect, modify," says Kembel. improvements. 9. Invest more in "we" spaces
1. Start with what you have. high enough up the food chain 5. Develop group-sized 7. Show your work in progress. than in "I" spaces. Cozy nooks
"We started in a trailer," Kembel needs to defend this activity artifacts. Whaa? In short, forget "Put your underwear up on the
points out, "with the 'd.school' against facilities managers who the spreadsheets with the tiny line and let people comment. WAYS page 5
4 Business/
Apple's iAd Goes ViP, Leaving Google Behind the Velvet
Ropes
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 9:37:08 AM
Apple's new iAd platform is
going to be a serious contender,
newly leaked data shows. The
company is so keen to beat its
competition in the mobile
advertising space that it's
releasing a special paid analytics
system that leverages iTunes
data.
The news comes via
TechCrunch, which has received
inside information from a
Quattro Wireless sales rep
(Quattro is the mobile
advertising platform Apple
bought earlier this year). This
makes the information
extremely reliable, and the news
itself even more spicy. The
system is called Verification of
iTunes Purchase (ViP) and it
works pretty much as the name
implies: App developers who
place an iAd in their apps, and
buy into the ViP system, will get
a direct measure of the
conversion of ad impressions
into app purchases.
So what's the big deal? This
route to ad efficiency
measurement is 100% reliable,
coming via Apple's own servers
and requiring no other special
action on behalf of app writers.
No need to program specific
SDK hooks or adhere to another
competing ad company's code
requirements. It's the kind of
data path, in fact, that
competitors like AdMob would
kill to get their paws on, as
without the inside proprietary
data from Apple, they actually
have to guess at similar sorts of
statistics. The benefit to
advertisers is an excellent
understanding of their ad
activities, users benefit form
only seeing the original ad once
(ViP enables the app owner to
suppress showing the particular
ad to users who go ahead and
purchase the app) and Apple
benefits from having an
advertising loop that's more
reliable than what its
competition can offer. The folks
at Cupertino are well aware of
this, and the email TechCrunch
saw notes ViP is unable to be
"duplicated by any of our
competitors."
Is this a murky pool for Apple
to be dipping its toe into
though? The very fact that it's
promoting this inability for
others to compete may well ring
alarm bells in industry
regulators' minds. Or perhaps
not: ViP would only seem to
work for a specific sort of advert
--in-app placements for products
that a user will purchase from
within Apple's system. It doesn't
work for non-iTunes wares, like
other people's software or real-
world products, and this limited
scope softens Apple's
monopolistic lead. It's also
arguable that Apple couldn't
open ViP's data to public view,
as it would reveal proprietary
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information to its competitors,
and not the good sort of
"promoting healthy
competition" data either.
The main complication is that
the FTC is rumored to be about
to pronounce on the Google-
AdMob deal, and some
indications are that it may bar it,
on monopolistic grounds. In this
sense, Apple's ViP may be in
trouble. But if these rumors are
wrong, as other commenters are
beginning to ponder, and the
deal does get approval, it would
sensible to enable companies
like Apple to develop strong
competitor technology, lest
Google's massive bulk let it
establish a consumer-unfriendly
bloc in yet another market
space.
There's also one more thing to
note: The ViP deal seems to be
targeted at the iPhone and iPod
Touch only...not the iPad.
Which makes us wonder if
Apple's got another secret
system up its sleeves, also under
the iAd umbrella, but primed to
make the most of the iPad's
greater processing power and
screen real estate?
To keep up with this news
follow me, Kit Eaton, on
Twitter. That QR code on the
left will even take your
smartphone to my Twitter feed.
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Fmr. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich on FTC: continued from page 3

for teams, not plush corner

Why Investigate Apple? Investigate Banks! offices for the alpha dogs.
10. Mix up seating options.
Dan Nosowitz (Fast largest U.S. financial institutions reform. Take the table out of the room
Company) are legitimately controlling the Reich echoes the conclusions of and sit on the floor. Vary seat
Submitted at 5/6/2010 9:47:36 AM U.S. economy? His argument on most tech experts in his analysis heights. Change customary
behalf of Apple, which is being of the merits of the investigation positions at meetings. For
You might remember Robert investigated largely due to its against Apple, and it's great to example, put the group leader in
Reich as President Clinton's decision to ban third-party have someone who's so the middle, instead of at the
Secretary of Labor, the man development tools--anyone who knowledgeable about these head of the table. Try holding a
largely responsible for the wants to make an iPhone app kinds of investigations, as well meeting where only standing is
Family and Medical Leave Act must use Apple's own tools. as the ebbs and flows of the allowed. In general, work to
who successfully lobbied to What’s wrong with that? Apple economy, weigh in and provide lower status markers.
raise the minimum wage, an says it’s necessary to maintain some perspective. The Apple 11. Make idea generation and
economic powerhouse who was quality. If consumers disagree story isn't exactly related to capture easy. Any non-porous
named one of the 10 most t h e y c a n b u y p l a t f o r m s other hand, the four largest U.S. banking reform--I'm sure (at surface can be a whiteboard,
successful cabinet members of elsewhere. Apple was the financial institutions are so big least, I hope) the FTC can says Kembel. Buy a sheet of
the century. Or, if you're more world’s #3 smartphone supplier and the rest of the economy so handle two things at once--but sheer acrylic at Home Depot and
familiar with one-off sketches in 2009, with 16.2 percent of dependent on them that if one of Reich's argument definitely mount it on a wall as a writing
from Late Night With Conan worldwide market share. RIM them makes a bad decision it reminds us that there are more space. Keep markers handy. Put
O'Brien than with brilliant was #2, with 18.8 percent. can take us all down. Between i m p o r t a n t t h i n g s f o r prototyping tools out where
politicians whose far-reaching G o o g l e i s n ’ t e x a c t l y a them they hold more than $7 governmental agencies to be people can grab them when an
work has helped millions of wallflower. These and other trillion in assets, over half the focusing on than an admittedly idea strikes.
A m e r i c a n s , y o u m i g h t firms are innovating like mad, size of the entire U.S. economy. fun slap-fest between Apple and "Creativity follows context,"
remember him as being very as are tens of thousands of So why is the FTC nosing Adobe. says Kembel. The main idea, he
short, and standing next to independent developers. If around Apple and not around Dan Nosowitz, the author of says, is not to segregate
Conan O'Brien, who is very tall. Apple’s decision reduces the W a l l S t r e e t ? B e c a u s e t h e this post, can be followed on creativity from other activities.
[youtube kWliylnxSrA] number of future apps that can Federal Trade Commission Act Twitter, corresponded with via "You don't need to be fancy to
Reich recently gave his two run on its products, Apple will allows the agency to stop email, and stalked in San do it," he says.
c e n t s o n t h e w h o l e F T C suffer and presumably change “unfair methods of competition” Francisco (no link for that one-- d.school principals (l to r):
investigation of Apple, and its mind. a l m o s t a n y w h e r e i n t h e you'll have to do the legwork d.school founder David Kelley,
effectively offered a smack And compared to the situation economy except in the financial yourself). Environments Collaborative co-
down. Why investigate Apple of the four largest banks in the sector. Banks are explicitly directors Scott Witthoft and
when the case is questionable to country, that minor quirk is excluded. Scott Doorley, faculty member
begin with, when the four absolutely meaningless. On the Another reason for financial Bernie Roth, and executive
director George Kembel.
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Prison Valley Interactive Documentary Puts Anti-
Social Behavior Into Social Media
Addy Dugdale (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 9:34:45 AM
Last month, a strange little
project launched online. Prison
Valley is an interactive, Web-
based documentary with its own
iPhone app, and a heavy social
media presence. It's been
produced in three languages, by
two French guys with a little
help from the the Franco-
German arts channel Arte.
What's odd about this project is
that, instead of the TV
documentary being the focal
point and using the Web as a
promotional tool, it's the other
way round.
The premise of Prison Valley,
which took 16 months to
complete, is about a town in
Colorado called Canon City.
36,000 residents, 13 prisons.
The crew spent time in the town,
interviewing the people who
live and work there, and
documenting what the voiceover
calls "the clean version of hell."
The town has grown up around
the prisons. "If the prisons
weren't here, there would be
nothing and nobody, because
there is nothing else to offer."
Gritty stuff.
After a four-minute
introduction, the $300,000
project gets interactive. Viewers
register via Facebook or Twitter,
and watch the documentary,
pausing every couple of minutes
to check out additional footage
and information. There's a
forum for the community to
share opinions of the show, and
a blog where this afternoon
(Thursday), French Secretary of
State for Justice, Jean-Marie
Bockel, is doing a live chat.
Thanks to the member profiles,
the Web site remembers the last
bit you watched, so there's no
need to go back to the beginning
and search for where you left
off.
David Dufresne, one of the
creators of the Web doc, spoke
to Fast Company about the
project. "We didn't plan to make
a movie at the beginning," he
says. "That came after our initial
filming in Colorado." He and
the rest of the crew on Prison
Valley wanted to prove that
online video is not just about the
five-minute YouTube clip, but
that a long-form doc can be
executed successfully on the
Web. "Our goal is to provide the
elements and tools of the debate
about prisons."
Most interesting, however, is
the way that Prison Valley
unfolds for each individual
viewer. "When you log into
Prison Valley with either
Facebook or Twitter," says
Dufresne, "your journey in the
movie is 'told' to your friends on
either your Facebook wall or
your Twitter timeline. We spent
several days with Eric Drier of
Upian(a Parisian production and
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Mark Zuckerberg's Brutal Prank On Sequoia
Nicholas Carlson (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:37:00 AM
Back in Facebook's early days,
Mark Zuckerberg used to carry a
business card that read, "I'm
CEO…Bitch."
So yeah, he had an attitude.
Take, for instance, that time
Mark took a meeting with top
venture capital firm Sequoia
Capital in his pajamas and
presented a PowerPoint deck
titled "The Top Ten Reasons
You Should Not Invest."
David Kirkpatrick explains in
Fortune's excerpt of his
upcoming book The Facebook
Effect:
As the Facebook boys started
dealing increasingly with real
business professionals, a
reputation for rambunctiousness
spread throughout the valley.
"It's Lord of the Flies over
there," one executive told an
executive recruiter. Zuckerberg
had to be careful which business
card he handed out at meetings.
He had two sets. One simply
identified him as "CEO." The
other: "I'm CEO...bitch!"
One of the crew's edgiest
A day with the Kin (photos)
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Submitted at 5/6/2010 6:00:00 AM
Taking the Kin Two from its
unique round packaging, I was
pranks in those days was a
presentation made to the blue-
chip venture-capital firm
Sequoia Capital, known in the
Valley for a certain
humorlessness. Sequoia
éminence grise and consummate
power player Michael Moritz
had been on Plaxo's board.
Parker saw him as having
contributed to his downfall.
"There was no way we were
ever going to take money from
Sequoia, given what they'd done
to me," says Parker. The firm
wanted to invest in Facebook, so
as a joke the boys offered to
excited to get my hands on the
thing and put it through its
paces.
Although it was fun at times, it
also proved quirky, and not
pitch the partners a Zuckerberg
side project called Wirehog, a
peer-to-peer file-sharing
program.
Zuckerberg and another partner
showed up deliberately late for
an 8 a.m. meeting, in their
pajamas. They didn't even make
a pitch for Wirehog. Zuckerberg
showed a PowerPoint
presentation David Letterman-
style: "The Top Ten Reasons
You Should Not Invest in
Wirehog." It started out almost
seriously. "The number 10
reason not to invest in Wirehog:
we have no revenue." Number
always in a good way.
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9: "We will probably get sued
by the music industry." By the
final few points it was
unashamedly rude. Number 3:
"We showed up at your office
late in our pajamas." Number 2:
"Because Sean Parker is
involved." And the number one
reason Sequoia should not
invest in Wirehog: "We're only
here because [a Sequoia partner]
told us to come." The partners
seemed to listen respectfully,
recalls Zuckerberg, who says he
now regrets the incident. "I
assume we really offended them
and now I feel really bad about
that."
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Pixar's 'Toy Story 3' comes out
on June 18. Three days earlier,
Toy Story 3: The Video Game
comes out on Xbox 360,
Nintendo Wii and DS,
PlayStation 3 and Portable. The
game features both a story mode
--which follows much of the arc
of the film--as well as a unique
'toy box' adventure mode. The
game was made by Avalanche
Studios, which took two-and-a-
half years to make the film. The
PS3 version will feature arch-
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Yahoo Slams Google in New, Ill-
Conceived Ads
Dan Nosowitz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 3:59:34 AM
Yahoo's got lots of stuff going
for them. Flickr is the best photo
uploading service around, and
they've got a massive audience
for news and entertainment (just
ask any blogger who's had a
post featured on their site).
Their new ads try to stick it to
Google, which isn't the worst
idea in the world, since Google
is encroaching on pretty much
everything Yahoo does. But the
strategy they've chosen? Awful.
Obviously and excessively
awful.
First, Yahoo's CEO, Carol
Bartz, told the BBC that
"Google is going to have a
problem because Google is only
known for their search...they've
got to find other things to do."
Even those cave lizards that are
born without eyes can name a
solid five Google services off
Now The Tiny Netherlands Will Get Spotify
Before The US
Mike Butcher (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 7:27:05 AM
It appears that hot streaming
music startup Spotify will
the top of their sightless little
heads. How about Maps, Picasa,
Reader, Voice, Docs, Calendar,
News, and Buzz? How about
Android? YouTube? Or Gmail,
for God's sake? There are lots of
things you could pick apart
about Google. Their design
work is often iffy. Android is
rapidly gaining popularity but
not necessarily functionality,
and splintering could lead to its
d o w n f a l l . T h e
interconnectedness in Google
Apps also puts users at risk of
loss of privacy and information.
But accusing Google of a lack
of diversification is almost a
punchline, as told in the world's
worst comedy club somewhere
in San Jose.
launch in the Netherlands on
May 18, if Dutch news reports -
and their own manager there -
are to be believed. Currently
Spotify operates in Britain,
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The new ads take it a step
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what Yahoo wishes it was--and
Costco Wholesale (COST), BP
who uses Google.com as a
p.l.c. ADS (BP), Alcatel-
homepage, anyway? Every
LucentADS (ALU), Economic fear of contagion and the euro
modern browser has a Google
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bar.
morning, now turned lower even deepening.
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after several selloff sessions the Continue reading Before the
fine people, I'm sure. But
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Warner ( TWX), a media entity
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reported first-quarter earnings
on Wednesday. The stock ended
up selling off, closing down
2.4% to $31.88 by the end of the
session. Volume was heavy. But
was the information contained
within the report so bad? Or,
was it simply a case of the
shares reacting more to the
general market weakness?
It's hard to say since you can't
always be sure what's going on
in the minds of the sellers. But
I'll say this: The first quarter
didn't look so bad to me. Net European countries. With riots Apprupt, an affiliate network
income was 61 cents per share, raging in Greece against the Portuguese debt? Probably not. for mobile apps aimed at
adjusted. Expectations were set austerity program, reserve bank Most likely it will drop in price developers and ublishers, has
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Summer 2010 Is Worth $4 Billion To Hollywood

Lauren Hatch (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:40:00 AM
Summer is always boom time
for the box office, and this year
should be no different.
According to Reuters, studios
are expected to bring in $4
billion over the next four
months by releasing more than
100 different films, including
"Sex and the City 2," Iron Man
2, and Russell Crowe's "Robin
Hood."
3D movies like "Shrek Forever
After" and "Toy Story 3" are
also on track to be huge money-
makers. 3D has become
extremely popular on the big
screen ( Thanks, 'Avatar'!), and
3D tickets are typically a few
dollars more expensive.
Last summer generated $4.2
billion in ticket sales thanks to
the season's top film,
"Transformers: Revenge of the
Fallen."
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Euro Bank CDS Go
Vertical (BNP, FIA)
Gregory White (Business
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Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:28:20 AM
Major European banks are
feeling the pressure from the
Greek crisis and starting to show
significant signs of market
worry in their CDS. BNP
Paribas, which has seen its CDS
dramatically rise throughout
April, announced$6.4 billion in
exposure to the Greek market
this morning.
From CMA Datavision:
Non-German European auto
makers have seen their CDS
spreads widen as well, with the
Italian giant Fiat and French
manufacturer Renault showing
dramatic increases.
From CMA Datavision:
Airlines, which have been put
under stress by the profit-
sucking Iceland volcano ash
crisis, have too seen their CDS
rise as a response to market
worries. Notably British
Airways, which recently merged
with Iberian Airways, has seen a
large widening as their key
London hubs were shut for
several days during the heights
of the crisis.
From CMA Datavision:
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scene Thursday in an
unprecedented attempt to cap a
blown-out well spewing
hundreds of thousands of
gallons a day.
Another boat with a crane
would start lowering the box to
the seafloor later in the day.
Engineers hope it will be the
best short-term solution to
controlling the leak that has only
worsened since it began two
weeks ago.
The waters at the spill site
Thursday morning were calm
with some clouds in the sky,
though visibility was good.
Roughly a dozen other ships
either surrounded the spill site
or could be seen in the distance.
Thick, tar-like oil surrounded
the boat for as far as the eye
could see. The pungent scent of
oil could be smelled even in the
bridge of the boat.
The Joe Griffin was expected to
meet up with another BP-
chartered boat, the Boa Sub C, a
Norwegian vessel that will use a
crane to lower the contraption to
cover the gusher of oil spewing
from the seabed — something
that has never been tried before
at such depths. BP spokesman
Bill Salvin said the drop is
expected at about noon
Thursday.
"We're even more anxious," the
Joe Griffin's first mate, Douglas
Peake, said. "Hopefully, it will
work better than they expect."
A rapid response team planned
to head to the Chandeleur
Islands off Louisiana's coast
Thursday to look into
unconfirmed reports that oil
from the spill had arrived there,
Coast Guard Petty Officer Erik
Swanson said.
The boat hauling the specially
built containment box and dome
structure pushed off Wednesday
evening from the Louisiana
coast. The dome-like top of the
structure is designed to act like a
funnel and siphon the oil up
through 5,000 feet of pipe and
onto a tanker at the surface. Oil
has been gushing into the Gulf
of Mexico at a rate of at least
200,000 gallons a day since an
offshore drilling rig exploded
and sank last month, killing 11
people.
"We're a little anxious. They're
gonna try everything they can. If
it don't work, they'll try
something else," Capt. Demi
Shaffer told The Associated
Press aboard his boat just after it
set off. The AP is the only news
organization with access to the
containment effort.
A 12-man crew aboard a supply
boat was carrying the precious
cargo. The 280-foot Joe Griffin,
owned by Edison Chouest
Offshore, also was involved in
helping fight the fire that
resulted from the oil rig
explosion. The vessel is named
for a boat captain who worked
with company founder Edison
Chouest, when Chouest was still
in the shrimping business.
The operator of the oil rig, BP
PLC, has tried several high-tech
undersea tactics to cap the leak.
The containment dome endeavor
is unprecedented and engineers
are fully aware of the risks.
First, crews need to properly
position the four-story structure
above the well as it sinks deep
into the mud at the bottom of the
Gulf with the help of a remote-
controlled robotic submarine. A
steel pipe will be attached to a
tanker at the surface and
connected to the top of the dome
to move the oil.
"It's very dark down there ... and
we will have lights on the
(submersibles), and we know
exactly where to put this and
guide it into place," said David
Clarkson, BP's vice president
for project execution.
That process presents several
challenges because of the frigid
water temperature— about 42
degrees Fahrenheit — and
exceptionally high pressure at
those depths. Those conditions
could cause the pipe to clog
with what are known in the
drilling industry as "ice plugs."
To combat that problem, crews
plan to continuously pump
warm water and methanol down
the pipe to dissolve the
clogging.
They are also worried about
volatile cocktail of oil, gas and
water when it arrives on the ship
above. Engineers believe the
liquids can be safely separated
without an explosion.
Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary
Landry tried to moderate
expectations that the
containment box would be a
silver bullet.
"I know we are all hoping that
this containment system will
work, but I want to remind
everybody that this containment
system is a first of its kind
deployed in 5,000 feet of
water," Landry said.
Asked to handicap the odds of
success, Bob Fryer, a senior
executive vice president for BP's
Deep Water Angola, offered up
this assessment: "This has never
been done before. Typically you
would put odds on something
that has been done before."
Fryer also said BP is exploring
a technique in which crews
would reconfigure the well that
would allow them to plug the
leak, but that effort is a couple
weeks off.
On Wednesday, good weather
allowed 18 flights to drop
150,000 gallons of a chemical
meant to break down the oil on
the ocean surface, drag it into
the water column and prevent it
from floating to shore, said
Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon
Blackwell, a spokesman for the
oil spill command center in
Robert, La.
Crews also skimmed a total of
588,000 gallons of an oil and
water mixture and conducted
five controlled burns. More fires
are scheduled for Thursday.
The containment effort comes
as dozens of boats were
11
deployed across the Gulf to fight
back the slick at the surface,
including setting fires to burn
off oil and laying booms to soak
up the crude and block it from
reaching the coast.
While people anxiously wait for
the mess to wash up along the
coast, globules of oil are already
falling to the bottom of the sea,
where they threaten virtually
every link in the ocean food
chain, from plankton to fish that
are on dinner tables everywhere.
Hail-size gobs of oil with the
consistency of tar or asphalt will
roll around the bottom, while
other bits will get trapped
hundreds of feet below the
surface and move with the
current, said Robert S. Carney, a
Louisiana State University
oceanographer.
"The threat to the deep-sea
habitat is already a done deal —
it is happening now," said Paul
Montagna, a marine scientist at
the Harte Research Institute for
Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas
A&M University-Corpus
Christi.
Scientists say bacteria, plankton
and other tiny, bottom-feeding
creatures will consume oil, and
will then be eaten by small fish,
crabs and shrimp. They, in turn,
will be eaten by bigger fish,
such as red snapper, and marine
mammals like dolphins.
The petroleum substances that
concentrate in the sea creatures
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Chemicals used to fight Gulf oil slick a trade-off (AP)
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Submitted at 5/5/2010 5:46:06 PM
ROBERT, La. – A massive oil
leak in the Gulf of Mexico has
become the testing ground for a
new technique where a potent
mix of chemicals is shot deep
undersea in an effort to stop oil
from reaching the surface, and
scientists are hurriedly weighing
the ecological risks and benefits.
Crews battling the spill already
have dropped more than
156,000 gallons of the
concoction — a mix of
chemicals collectively known as
"dispersant" — to try to break
up the oozing oil, allowing it to
decompose more quickly or
evaporate before washing
ashore.
The technique has undergone
two tests in recent days that the
U.S. Coast Guard is calling
promising, and there are plans to
apply even more of the
chemicals. But the effect of this
largely untested treatment is still
being studied by numerous
federal agencies, and needs
approval from a number of them
before it can be rolled out in a
larger way.
"Those analyses are going on,
but right now there's no
consensus," said Charlie Henry,
a scientific support coordinator
for the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
"And we're just really getting
started. You can imagine it's
something we've never thought
about."
A decision on whether to inject
the dispersants undersea on a
more routine basis could be
made late Wednesday or early
Thursday, said Doug Suttles,
chief operating officer for
exploration and production for
rig operator BP PLC.
Chemical dispersants carry
complex environmental trade-
offs: helping to keep oil from
reaching sensitive wetlands
while exposing other sea life to
toxic substances. The
concoction works like dish soap
to separate oil and water, but the
exact chemical composition is
protected as a trade secret.
The use of chemicals to break
up the oil is just one of many
techniques being used to try to
prevent as much of the slick as
possible from reaching land and
contaminating sea life in the
Gulf of Mexico since an oil rig
exploded April 20 and
collapsed, killing 11 workers
and posing a hazard to a fragile
ecosystem.
The undersea well has been
spewing 200,000 gallons a day
since the explosion aboard the
drilling rig Deepwater Horizon.
BP has been unable to shut off
the well, but crews have
reported progress with using
chemicals to reduce the amount
of oil that reaches the surface.
During a test over the weekend,
the dispersant was shot into the
well at a rate of 9 gallons per
minute, according to authorities.
About 3,000 gallons total were
dispensed during the
experiment.
More than 230,000 gallons of
dispersant is available, and more
is being manufactured by Nalco
Company of Naperville, Ill., for
use in the Gulf. Neither Nalco,
BP, rig owner Transocean Ltd.
or the Coast Guard have
specified how much of the
chemical brew will be needed to
handle this spill.
One of the chief agents being
used, called Corexit 9500, is
identified as a "moderate"
human health hazard that can
cause eye, skin or respiratory
irritation with prolonged
exposure, according to safety
data documents.
According to the company,
Corexit contains no known
carcinogens or substances on the
federal government's list of
toxic chemicals.
Even some of the most ardent
environmentalists, while
concerned about the potential
effects, aren't suggesting that the
chemical concoction shouldn't
be used in this case.
"It's basically a giant
experiment," said Richard
Charter, a senior policy adviser
with Defenders of Wildlife. "I'm
not saying we shouldn't do it;
we have no good options."
Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary
Landry, the federal on-scene
coordinator, called the tests so
far "very promising, very
promising." Sonar and camera
images from the first test last
week appeared to show a
reduction in oil on the surface,
although federal officials said
they want more information
from planes that will examine
the leak site from the air.
If deep water spraying is
approved, Landry said crews
would scale back their use of
dispersant on the ocean surface,
except to treat pockets of oil that
escaped the well before the
undersea injections started.
Corexit is included on the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency's official list of products
that can be used to fight spills in
an emergency. To qualify for
the list, manufacturers must
complete specific tests to
demonstrate a chemical's
effectiveness, ingredients and
aquatic toxicity. Charles Pajor, a
Nalco spokesman, declined to
provide the ingredients for
Corexit, saying that was
proprietary. The company's
website says the agent has "low
toxicity" and is "biodegradable."
Environmental tests on Corexit
indicate it can be stored in the
tissue of organisms, or
bioaccumulate, and that more
than half of the agent in tests
wound up storing in sediment,
with less absorbing into the
water and a smaller amount
evaporating into the air. Even
so, Corexit is classified as
having a "low" potential
environmental hazard.
The use of dispersants is also
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worrying shrimpers, who voiced
concern Wednesday that they
could help thin and spread the
oil on the seafloor, where
shrimp larvae and other
organisms could be affected.
The shrimpers said injecting the
dispersant deep undersea would
"guarantee" it reaches critical
shrimp habitat.
"Dispersants do not remove oil.
They relocate the oil from the
shores to the water column and
seafloor where it is not seen or
easily accessible," said John
Williams, executive director of
the Southern Shrimp Alliance.
Such chemicals have been used
for decades to break up oil
slicks, including the 11 million
gallons dumped in the Exxon
Valdez spill in 1989, but federal
officials say they have not been
used at such a great depth, and
do not understand the short- or
long-term effects on life on the
sea floor or in the water column.
When used on the surface,
dispersants remove oil from
where birds, turtles and other
sea creatures could eat it or
breathe in the poisonous fumes.
Marine scientists say they also
keep the oil balls suspended in
the water, where they are
eventually consumed by
bacteria, which can pass toxins
up the food chain.
"They're talking about using
dispersants in the deep water
where the oil is coming out that
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Official: NYC bomb suspect did dry run days before (AP)
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Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:10:11 AM
NEW YORK – Days before the
failed car bomb in Times
Square, a Pakistani-American
scouted the bustling district in
the same vehicle and then, on a
second trip, left a getaway car
blocks from his chosen target, a
law enforcement official has
told The Associated Press.
Faisal Shahzad, now in custody
on terrorism and weapons
charges, drove a 1993 Nissan
Pathfinder to Times Square
from Connecticut on April 28,
apparently to figure out where
would be the best place to leave
it later, the official said
Wednesday. He then returned
April 30 to drop off a black
Isuzu, according to the official,
who spoke on condition of
anonymity because of the
sensitive nature of the
investigation.
The official said Shahzad went
back Saturday and left the SUV
loaded with firecrackers,
gasoline and propane, enough to
likely create a fireball and kill
nearby tourists and Broadway
theatergoers had it gone off
successfully.
Shahzad, 30, of Connecticut,
admitted to rigging the
Pathfinder with a crude bomb
based on explosives training he
received in Pakistan, authorities
say. He was pulled off a Dubai-
bound plane Monday and has
been cooperating with
investigators. No court
appearance has yet been
scheduled for Shahzad, a
spokeswoman for the U.S.
attorney's office in Manhattan
said Thursday.
Kifyat Ali, a cousin of
Shahzad's father, has called the
arrest "a conspiracy."
In a city still jittery from the
failed car bomb driven into one
of its most famous
neighborhoods, a truck
abandoned near a toll booth to
the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge
caused alarm late Wednesday
when a bridge authority officer
believed he smelled gasoline
coming from it and saw a man
flee the truck. But the truck
turned out to be empty and not a
threat, the New York Police
Department said.
The bridge, formerly called the
Triborough Bridge, is a major
connector in the city, linking
Manhattan, Queens and the
Bronx. Police were looking to
speak to the person who
abandoned it.
Shahzad is believed to have
been working alone when he
began preparing the Times
Square attack, almost
immediately after returning in
February from his native land,
authorities said. They said they
have yet to find a wider link to
extremist groups or to pin down
a motive.
"It appears from some of his
other activities that March is
when he decided to put this plan
in motion," New York Police
Commissioner Raymond Kelly
said Wednesday. "He came back
from Pakistan Feb. 3, 2010. It
may well have been an indicator
of putting something
catastrophic in motion."
In leaving Times Square on
Saturday, he discovered he left a
chain of 20 keys including those
to the getaway car and his home
in Connecticut in the SUV, and
had to take public transit, the
official told the AP.
Investigators had already
started searching for suspects,
when he returned to the scene
on Sunday with a second set of
keys to pick up the Isuzu,
parked about eight blocks from
the car bomb site, the official
said.
Kelly told a Senate panel that
Shahzad bought a gun in March
that was found in his Isuzu at
Kennedy Airport, suggesting
that he was moving ahead on the
bombing plot shortly after
returning from Pakistan.
Pakistan Ambassador Husain
Haqqani said Wednesday that an
investigation into Shahzad's
links to Pakistan was ongoing.
He said an unspecified number
of people had been questioned
but no one has been arrested or
detained in Pakistan. Haqqani
spoke to the AP before an
appearance at Harvard
University in Massachusetts.
Asked whether any connection
had emerged between Shahzad
and Qari Hussain Mehsud, the
Pakistani Taliban's chief bomb
maker who is also in charge of
recruiting suicide bombers,
Haqqani said "no such fact had
emerged" at this point in the
investigation.
"I think it's premature to start
identifying groups and
individuals with whom he might
have trained," he said.
Haqqani added that it was
unlikely that Shahzad or anyone
could find a bomb-making
facility in the south Waziristan
region because that region is
now controlled by the Pakistani
Army. Shahzad said he was
trained in the region, authorities
say.
U.S. officials have also been
unable to verify whether
Shahzad trained to make bombs
at a terrorist camp in Pakistan.
Shahzad had previously lived in
Shelton, Conn., but got a low-
rent apartment in nearby
Bridgeport when he returned
from Pakistan. His wife and
children apparently did not
return with him.
Police recovered surveillance
video of Shahzad at Times
Square moments after the attack,
and he's seen in other video in
Pennsylvania buying fireworks.
Neither videotape has been
released.
Interviews Wednesday with
business owners and police shed
light on purchases Shahzad
made of fireworks and a rifle.
On March 8, Shahzad bought
six to eight boxes each
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containing 36 Silver Salute M88
fireworks from Phantom
Fireworks in Matamoras, Pa.,
said store vice president
William Wiemer. Even if used
together, the fireworks couldn't
have caused a large explosion,
Wiemer said.
"The M88 he used wouldn't
damage a watermelon. Thank
goodness he used that," said
Bruce Zoldan, the company's
president.
Each M88 has an amount of
pyrotechnic powder that is less
than one-sixth the size of an
aspirin, the company said.
Fireworks purchased illegally
can be up to 1,000 times more
powerful, they said.
"There's no doubt, had he
bought this on the black market,
that the outcome in New York
would have been totally
different," Zoldan said.
Shelton police said Shahzad
legally bought a Kel-Tec rifle
from a dealer after passing a
criminal background check and
a 14-day waiting period. The
owner of the gun shop declined
to comment.
___
Contributing to this report were
Associated Press writers
Michael Rubinkam in
Allentown, Pa.; Steve LeBlanc
in Boston; Tom Hays in New
York; John Christoffersen and
Eric Tucker in Bridgeport,
Conn.; Larry Margasak, Eileen
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TV news employee in LA has $266M winning continued from page 12

would prevent it from hitting

ticket (AP) shore, but would actually put it
into the water column and
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) station's 11 p.m. newscast with and 43 with 8 as the Mega claimed she would. possibly force it to the bottom of
Submitted at 5/6/2010 5:49:28 AM an interview. "I just cried, and number. "She said she loves work and t h e o c e a n , " s a i d C y n t h i a
laughed." The winner has 60 days to tell she doesn't want this to change Sarthou, executive director of
LOS ANGELES – The big Gilbert Cisneros added: "Right lottery officials how he or she her life that way. She says she the New Orleans-based Gulf
news for KNBC worker Jacki now we're probably too tired for wants the money. It can be paid needs the routine," Reese said. Restoration Network.
Wells Cisneros broke right our feet to leave the ground." in 26 equal payments of $10.2 The $266 million jackpot was "The environmental impact of
inside her own newsroom — she Cisneros has worked as a million or in a lump sum of the eighth-largest in the history that is totally unknown. It could
and her husband won the $266 freelancer for KNBC for about about $165 million, minus of the game, which began in end up killing everything at the
million Mega Millions jackpot. four years, and her husband was federal taxes, said lottery 2002 and is now played in 38 bottom of the ocean."
She told the Los Angeles TV laid off two weeks ago, the spokeswoman Cathy Doyle states and the District of ___
s t a t i o n i n a n i n t e r v i e w n e w s r o o m ' s a s s i g n m e n t Johnston. Columbia. Associated Press Writer John
Wednesday night that she manager David Reese said. On Tuesday night, Cisneros had The largest Mega Millions Flesher contributed to this report
discovered during her usual Reese said the newly minted wanted to order dinner from jackpot ever was $390 million from New Orleans.
routine on the assignment desk m i l l i o n a i r e c a l l e d h i m Kentucky Fried Chicken, but her on March 6, 2007, shared by Five Filters featured article:
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Cisneros had bought a lottery your faith in the universe that million, the cap on lottery Associated Press writers
ticket. something like this can happen bonuses in California, Johnston Andrew Dalton and Raquel
A quick wakeup call to her to someone who really deserves said. Maria Dillon contributed to this
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for much of the day but led her multistate game — 9, 21, 31, 36 really come in to work as she'd
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could kill them or render them slick will hitch a ride to the East ___
No bomb found in truck
unsafe for eating, scientists say.
"If the oil settles on the bottom,
Coast by way of a powerful
eddy known as the " loop
Associated Press Writer Ray
Henry contributed to this report on New York bridge:
it will kill the smaller organisms current," which could send the from Robert, La. Harry R.
like the copepods and small
worms," Montagna said. "When
spill around Florida and into the
Atlantic Ocean. If that happens,
Weber reported from aboard the
Joe Griffin supply boat carrying
police
we lose the forage, then you the oil could foul beaches and the containment box in the Gulf. (Reuters: Top News) Prosecutors on Tuesday
have an impact on the larger kill marine life on the East Cain Burdeau reported from Submitted at 5/6/2010 12:35:59 AM charged Faisal Shahzad, 30, a
fish." Coast. New Orleans. naturalized U.S. citizen born in
Making matters worse for the The cause of the rig explosion Five Filters featured article: NEW YORK(Reuters) - No Pakistan, with five counts,
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creature that excretes a hard with regulators Wednesday that of Manhattan, Queens and the homemade bomb of gasoline,
calcium carbonate exoskeleton, it has received a request from Bronx will reopen shortly, propane gas, fireworks and
and oil globs can kill it. the Justice Department to police said. fertilizer into Times Square on
Scientists are watching preserve information about the U.S. Saturday.
carefully to see whether the blast. New York Police Department New York Police
spokesman Paul Browne said Commissioner Ray Kelly said
OFFICIAL: the bridge was shut down after a the Times Square plot was the
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BP to lower huge box over gushing oil well Breathtaking
(Reuters: Top News) been used in water nearly 1 mile Secretary Gary Locke and other impact on marine and coastal
Submitted at 5/6/2010 7:56:39 AM deep. administration officials will wildlife in the region. Views in the World
Prevailing winds kept the giant travel to Biloxi, Mississippi, on Anthony Nelson, one of (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
VENICE, Louisiana(Reuters) - oil slick offshore two weeks Thursday to review relief thousands of idled shrimpers,
BP engineers prepared on after the Deepwater Horizon operations and meet with oystermen and fishermen in There are many things that can
Thursday to start lowering a 98- drilling rig accident triggered officials. Bayou La Batre -- the heart of leave someone breathless, aside
ton metal chamber over a the breach, and it was barely Obama administration officials Alabama's seafood industry -- from grinding out a triathlon or
ruptured undersea oil well in the moving. were reviewing the practice of signed up to help BP contain the spending time at high altitudes.
Gulf of Mexico, trying to "If you look at our trajectory for granting exemptions from oil spill. The sight of a bride on her
control a spill that threatens an the next 72 hours, they don't environmental impact studies He spent hundreds of dollars wedding day may take the
environmental catastrophe for show a whole lot of real for oil exploration projects getting his small fleet of nine breath from a groom-to-be.
the U.S. shoreline. movement from where it's at," deemed to involve little risk. vessels Coast Guard-certified Witnessing an orchestra play a
U.S.| Green Business said Charlie Henry, a The Minerals Management for cleanup duty while waiting Mozart symphony in a grand
The barge carrying the massive meteorologist with the National Service had exempted BP from to hear if he would be called concert hall might do it as well.
white-painted box arrived at the O c e a n i c a n d A t m o s p h e r i c a detailed environmental review into service. Still, he said laying Perhaps the sight of your baby
site of the spill where a BP- A d m i n i s t r a t i o n . of the project. boom in the gulf will earn a being born might do the trick.
owned well blew out two weeks The calm weather allowed for a U.S. government agencies grant fraction of what shrimping But sometimes it's not a life
ago 40 miles/64 km off the series of "controlled burns" of the so-called categorical would pay. event at all, but the mere sight
Louisiana coast, causing the t h e m a s s i v e s l i c k o n exclusions for types of projects "We'll help them clean it up, but of something awe-inspiring.
explosion and sinking of the Wednesday, the first such typically found to not have we rather go to work," Nelson You stand before it, a chill
Deepwater Horizon rig. attempts since a 28-minute blaze substantial environmental said. "I'm 55, and by the time comes over you and your breath
Oil workers, volunteers and the on April 28 that removed impacts, or in cases where the they open this back up again becomes shallow and measured.
military have been battling thousands of gallons of fuel. agency has past experience with (for fishing), I'll be dead, or I'll One can only imagine the early
desperately to shut off the Throughout the Gulf Coast, a similar projects. be in a convalescent home." settlers making their way across
gushing oil leak and stop the c r e w s d e p l o y e d m i l e s Driller Transocean Ltd said the (Additional reporting by Matt the American West and riding
huge spreading slick from (kilometers) of protective booms U.S. Justice Department asked it Daily in New York and Tom up to the rim of the Grand
reaching major ports, tourist to block the slick and used to preserve records related to the Bergin in London; Anna Driver Canyon for the first time. The
beaches, wildlife refuges and dispersants to break up the thick well's drilling and the deadly and Chris Baltimore in Houston; feeling they must have gotten is
fishing grounds on the U.S. Gulf oil before it fouls tourist beaches blast on its rig two weeks ago. Tom Brown and Pascal Fletcher likely similar to what a modern
Coast. and fishing grounds, threatening BP shares rose to nearly 572 in Miami; Michael Peltier in tourist might feel when faced
Once lowered to the seabed, an an environmental catastrophe. pence on Thursday, gaining 1.2 Pensacola; Brian Snyder in with that same breathtaking
operation that could take two BP has capped one of three percent, as bargain hunting has Mobile, and Richard Cowan in vista. The Grand Canyon makes
days, the massive riveted metal leaks in the ruptured well, but emerged after almost two weeks Washington; Writing by John the cut on our list, along with
containment dome is designed o i l i s s t i l l f l o w i n g a t a n of declines wiped more than $32 Whitesides; Editing by Vicki nine other breathtaking views
to capture and channel leaking u n c h a n g e d 5 , 0 0 0 b a r r e l s billion from the company's Allen) around the globe.
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Pakistan says NY suspect probably didn't act alone

(Reuters: Top News) to al Qaeda and the Pakistani Pakistani security official told be presented by the end of the stronghold in Pakistan. A law
Submitted at 5/6/2010 7:53:58 AM Taliban. Reuters. week. enforcement source said
"The people who have been The official said several men Pakistan was ready to give investigators believed the
KARACHI/BEIJING(Reuters) picked up do have links to Jaish recruited through the mosque them "every help, full support" Pakistani Taliban financed that
- Pakistani Interior Minister and have also been in touch with had fought against the military to bring the culprits to justice, training.
Rehman Malik said on Thursday Shahzad during his visits here," during recent offensives against Malik said. Shahzad waived his right to an
he thought it unlikely that a a Pakistani security official in the TTP. The United States has also initial court appearance within
Pakistani-American arrested Karachi told Reuters. "It may not be a surprise if the asked to interview Shahzad's 48 hours of his arrest and other
over a failed plot to bomb New The official was referring to people associated with the parents, the Post reported, U.S. constitutional rights, a U.S.
York's Times Square had acted Mohammad Rehan, a friend of mosque, or those who come quoting a Pakistani official who official and sources said. He
alone. Shahzad, who was detained on here for recruitment, are linked said their whereabouts are still faces life in prison if convicted
U.S. Tuesday after leaving the Bat'ha with the TTP," he said. unknown. of the charges against him,
Investigations in Pakistan have Mosque in Karachi. Other The U.S. official agreed. Shahzad was arrested on unless he negotiates a lesser
u n c o v e r e d p o s s i b l e l i n k s associates, including Shahzad's "TTP is entirely plausible but Monday night after he was sentence in exchange for
between Faisal Shahzad, 30, the father-in-law, have also been we're not ruling out other removed from an Emirates plane cooperation.
P a k i s t a n i T a l i b a n a n d a detained in Karachi, according groups," the official said, at New York's John F. Kennedy (Additional reporting by
K a s h m i r i I s l a m i s t g r o u p , to CNN. speaking on condition of International Airport that was Michelle Nichols, Edith Honan
officials and news reports said. The mosque is said to have anonymity. about to depart for Dubai. He and Daniel Trotta in New York;
"According to the available links to Jaish and neighbors tell If confirmed that the Taliban in had been on his way back to Jeremy Pelofsky, Adam Entous
information he says it was his of visits by its leaders. Pakistan sponsored the Pakistan. and Andrew Quinn in
individual act," Malik told U.S. investigators are also attempted bombing in New Shahzad, who was born in Washington; and Zeeshan
Reuters in an interview during a taking a "hard look" at possible York, as it claimed over the Pakistan and became a U.S. Haider in Mohib Banda,
visit to Beijing. "I would not ties between Shahzad and the weekend, it would be the citizen last year, has been Pakistan; Editing by Chris
tend to believe that." Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan group's first attack on U.S. soil. charged with attempting to use a Allbritton and Nick Macfie)
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Kashmir and which also has ties TTP) for training," a second urgent and specific assistance to in a Taliban and al Qaeda

Dinner Diary: Chicken, Avocado and Cheddar Melt

WomansDay.com Editors
(Daily Woman's Day Blog)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 3:00:00 PM
Dinner doesn't have to be
complicated to be good, right?
This open-faced sandwich was
easy to make and hit several
food groups in the process. Add
some fruit for dessert and a
salad on the side and it's a well-
rounded meal. You could easily
change this up with a different
kind of cheese (Swiss would be
kind of classic but I don't think
it melts very well) or use mango
chutney instead of mustard.
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Greek government ready to "walk alone" on

austerity
(Reuters: Top News) Thursday on the bill, which died of smoke inhalation at the had reached the most critical
Submitted at 5/6/2010 7:55:26 AM foresees 30 billion euros ($40 height of the Wednesday march. point in its post-war history.
billion) of new deficit-cutting More than 50 people were "Whether we self-destruct, go
ATHENS(Reuters) - Greece's measures, including drastic injured in Wednesday's clashes bust in other words, depends on
government told parliament on reductions to public sector and 25 have been arrested for our leadership but also on all of
T h u r s d a y t h e r e w a s n o bonuses which will sharply attacking police and damaging us," the paper said. Kate Hudson Is
alternative to the deep budget reduce take-home pay for a fifth shops. Center-left newspaper
cuts in its austerity bill and of the workforce. "DEVOURING EACH Eleftherotypia called the public Spotted on the Set of
vowed to press ahead with it The main conservative and OTHER" reaction predictable and Something Borrowed
despite opposition from other leftist opposition parties have While people in the streets inevitable, forecasting more PopSugar (PopSugar)
parties and violent protests. said they will vote against the denounced the deaths as a unrest in the months to come.
World| Greece bill, which should not get in the tragedy, nobody was in a mood Despite the risks, University of Submitted at 5/6/2010 7:00:00 AM

Speaking to lawmakers a day way of its passage but has to rein in the protests against Athens professor Kostas Ifantis
Kate Hudson showed off one
after some 50,000 Greeks doomed government hopes of government plans. predicted that the government
shoulder in her animal print shirt
marched in Athens and a petrol establishing a broad political "There were many people in the would stick with the measures,
yesterday before heading into
b o m b a t t a c k k i l l e d t h r e e consensus for the measures. streets yesterday, but there which are being pushed through
hair, makeup, and wardrobe and
workers in a bank, Finance Greece's main public and should be even more. Everyone in exchange for 110 billion
emerging in all black on the
Minister G e o r g e private sector unions, whose should come out to prevent euros in aid from the EU and
NYC set of Something
Papaconstantinou made clear the strikes on Wednesday grounded these measures becoming law," IMF.
Borrowed yesterday. She's been
government had no intention of flights, shut shops and brought said Avgoustinos Tertopoulos, "What can they do, scrap the
hard at work on the movie,
backing down from its three- public transport to a standstill, 58, a mail courier. "The death of whole program?" he said. "I
though she took Monday
year plan to radically reform the plan to demonstrate in front of three young people, of a don't think so. They have no
evening off to attend the
country's broken economy. parliament on Thursday pregnant woman, was a tragedy. choice, there is no choice."
Costume Institute Gala. Her
"We will press ahead, even if e v e n i n g . It has nothing to do with the (Additional reporting by George
nighttime schedule has been
we have to walk alone, without Shop owners were repairing protests." Georgiopoulos; writing by Noah
quite busy with other star-
the backing of other parties," he broken windows on Thursday Thanassis Nazaris, an elderly Barkin; editing by Andrew
studded events and an
said. and plumes of smoke were still shop owner, said he expected Roche)
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read more.
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Faisal Shahzad ‘carried out dry run’ before Times

Square attack
(World News from Times Shahzad discovered he had left arrest “a conspiracy”. Mohammad Rehan, a friend of
Online) the keys for the getaway vehicle The 30-year-old Pakistani- Shahzad, who was detained on
Submitted at 5/6/2010 6:50:03 AM inside the explosive laden car, American could have links to Tuesday after leaving the Bat’ha
the official said. both the Pakistani Taleban and Mosque in Karachi. Other
The man accused of attempting He was forced to travel by a Kashmiri Islamist group, associates, including Mr
to use a weapon of mass public transport after leaving officials said today. Shahzad’s father-in-law, have The Keyboard
destruction in Times Square Times Square and returned on The United States has asked also been detained in Karachi. Shortcuts of Ubuntu
carried out a dry run days before Sunday May 2 to retrieve the Pakistan for help in The United States has also
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Faisal Shahzad, who is in Shahzad used the black vehicle request for urgent and specific Washington Post reported,
Submitted at 5/6/2010 5:30:00 AM
c u s t o d y i n N e w Y o r k o n to drive to John F. Kennedy assistance to be presented by quoting a Pakistani official who
terrorism and weapons charges, a i r p o r t w h e r e h e w a s the end of the week. said their whereabouts are still The free Ubuntu Linux
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district on April 28 in the Mr Shahzad, 30, admitted to close to Jaish-e-Muhammad, a belongings from their Peshawar documentation, but curiously
vehicle that days later he would rigging the Pathfinder SUV with group fighting Indian forces in home on Tuesday night and missing are the changes to
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May 1 was hampered when Mr Shahzad’s father, has called the The official was referring to

Capellas to lead Cisco-EMC cloud venture

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:23:37 AM
Michael Capellas, former CEO
of Compaq, MCI, and First
Data, has a new gig: front man
for the Virtual Computing
Environment coalition.
Capellas, who is 55, has also
been appointed to the
"complementary role" of CEO
of Acadia, a joint venture of
Cisco Systems and EMC with
investment from Intel and
VMware, the companies said
Wednesday. Acadia has been
created to support the coalition.
In a nutshell, Acadia is aimed at
next-generation data centers
designed to deliver private cloud
infrastructure. The goal is to
give customers the advantages
of one throat to choke in terms
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Mumbai attacks: Mohammad Ajmal HelloWallet Nabs $3.6 Million

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Kasab, sole-surviving terrorist, For Personal Finance Software
sentenced to death Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
(World News from Times singled out soft targets popular “It was not a simple crime of Submitted at 5/6/2010 5:56:39 AM

Online) with foreigners: two luxury murder or intent to murder.” HelloWallet, personal finance
Submitted at 5/6/2010 4:47:41 AM hotels, a backpacker bar and a Kasab and his colleagues, the software, has raised $3.6 million users set and reach specific
Jewish prayer centre. judge added, had been trained in Series A funding, from financial short- and long-term
The sole gunman to be taken Kasab helped to conduct the and equipped by the Pakistan- Grotech Ventures and AOL co- goals for important life
alive during the 2008 Mumbai bloodiest episode of the 60-hour based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist founder Steve Case and his wife milestones including buying a
terror attack was sentenced to siege of south Mumbai: the faction. Jean. The company, which home, saving for retirement,
death today for his role in an slaughter of 52 people at Before announcing the death launched in March of this year, reducing debt safely, and saving
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dead and shocked the world. Mumbai’s main train station. had anything to say. Kasab, financial advisors to the masses HelloWallet stores tuition
T h e j u d g e s e n t e n c e d "He should be hanged by the who wore a traditional white through partnerships with information for nearly every
Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, 22, to neck until he is dead," the judge, kurta, said nothing and gave a companies and organizations. college and university across the
death by hanging on four M.L. Tahaliyani, said. "I don't dismissive gesture with his Currently, HelloWallet reaches country, and models the tuition
counts: murder, abetting and find any case for a lesser hands.“ more than 3.5 million people. out to a users’ expected
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Man who turned pigs’ guts into
blood thinner tops China’s rich list
(World News from Times
Online)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 6:40:29 AM
A pharmaceutical researcher
who discovered a way to harvest
blood thinner from pig’s
intestines has become the richest
man in China.
Li Li rose to the top slot of
China’s rich list today as shares
in his Shenzhen Hepalink
Pharmaceutical Co were listed
on China’s Nasdaq-style market
for start-ups.
Looking overwhelmed by the
extraordinary investor interest in
his firm, Mr Li made a rare
public appearance to strike the
gong marking the start of trade
this morning in the southern
boomtown of Shenzhen.
The price of the shares rose 27
per cent on their first day of
trading in an issue underwritten
by Goldman Sachs, swelling the
wealth of Mr Li and his wife
and business partner, Li Tan, to
$7.8 billion (£5.2 billion).
That ensured the couple, who
own a 72 per cent stake in
Hepalink, comfortably overtook
the $5.1 billion fortune of Wang
Chuanfu, chairman of the
hugely successful car
manufacturer BYD.
Hepalink shares traded as high
as 188 yuan (£18), a record for a
Chinese stock. This values the
company at about $10.5 billion.
Mr Li owns about 40 per cent
of the company and his wife
holds 32 per cent.
Interest was fuelled by the fact
that Hepalink is the only
Chinese company accredited by
the US Food and Drug
Administration to export heparin
– a blood thinner harvested from
pigs’ intestines and used in
kidney dialysis and many types
of surgery.
Little is known about Li Li and
Li Tan, both of whom refused
interviews in the run-up to the
listing.
What is known is that both
were born in 1964 and
graduated from Sichuan
University in southwestern
China with degrees in chemistry
in 1987.
World News/ Technology/ 21
Found footage: Android
tablet prototype running
Mr Li first worked for a state-
owned meat processing plant in
the provincial capital until 1992,
(and crashing) Flash
Chris Rawson (The Unofficial Flash," the browser crashes.
leaving to become chief Apple Weblog (TUAW))
executive of a biotechnology "Whoops," the reviewer says,
firm. Submitted at 5/5/2010 10:00:00 PM gamely trying to carry on with
After failed attempts to co- his review in spite of the crash.
Filed under: Found Footage, [Never mind that he's demoing
operate with state-owned firms,
iPad Flash by playing a YouTube
the couple set up Hepalink in
Adobe is showing off Android- video, which of course the iPad
1998 to produce heparin using a
based prototype tablets at the does just as well. -Ed.]
procedure that Mr Li had been
Web 2.0 conference in San As an interesting side note, the
perfecting for 25 years.
Francisco. Zedomax has a pretty same reviewer says that these
True to his modest image, Mr
gushing review of Flash's Android tablets are "basically a
Li told one newspaper before
performance on these tablets, giant Android phone." So, if you
the listing: “My success is really
calling it "rather incredible hate the iPad because "it's just a
due to this great era.”
technology." There's no mention b i g i P o d t o u c h , " p l e a s e
The Southern Metropolis Daily
of how the battery life in these remember that, in the interest of
ran reports on the company’s
prototype tablets suffers while not sounding like a fanboy, you
rags-to-riches story last week,
playing Flash video, though. In a r e o b l i g a t e d t o h a t e t h e
including one under the
his " Thoughts on Flash," Steve Android tablet (whenever it
headline: “Processing pig
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intestines fares better than
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Air France crash: black box recorders Guzzle Turns Out 2.0
located
(World News from Times
Online)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 4:28:25 AM
Air accident investigators have
located the black box flight
recorders from an Air France
plane which crashed into the
deep ocean last June - but say
they will probably never be
brought to surface.
The aircraft ditched in a remote
corner of the Atlantic when it
was caught in a storm on its
way from Rio De Janerio to
Paris. All 228 people on board
died.
The black box recorders have
now been tracked down “with a
margin of error” of three
nautical miles.
France’s Bureau d'Enquêtes et
d'Analyses, BEA, which looks
into air crashes, said it made the
breakthrough after a further
analysis of sonar data gathered
during an initial search of the
crash area last year when the
GPS Power-Up: USAF Gets Ready for New Sense of Place
Mario Aguilar (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 6:00:00 PM
Photo courtesy: Boeing
The global positioning system
works fine if you’re trying to
persuade your phone to point
you to the nearest bar or
recorders were still emitting
signals.
“The BEA was told yesterday ...
that the black box recorders
have been tracked down by the
defence ministry thanks to data
from the first phase of the
probe, and a further perimeter
for searches has been set up,”
said a BEA spokeswoman.
The cause of the crash is not
known but despite this
breakthrough it is unlikely that
the boxes will be brought to the
surface.
General Christian Baptiste, the
deputy defence ministry
spokesman, said: “This does
not mean we are going to
retrieve the black boxes,
because they are not giving off
a signal any more and the zone
where they are is very rugged
terrain.”
Two sophisticated salvage
vessels, using miniature
submarines, have been scouring
a 3,000-square-km area to try to
untangle a freeway interchange.
But it’s not exactly accurate —
GPS can be off by 15 feet or
more, and the signal degrades
when confronted with tall
buildings and trees. It even gets
screwed up by the slightest
electromagnetic interference,
like stray radio waves or storms
locate the flight recorders of the
Airbus A330 plane.
Earlier this week, the BEA said
it would extend a deep-sea
search for the wreck of the
plane and that the new search
would cover a broader expanse
of ocean.
Speculation about the cause of
the crash has focused on
possible icing of the aircraft’s
speed sensors, which appeared
to give inconsistent readings
seconds before the plane
vanished.
However, investigators need to
recover the flight recorders to
confirm or deny that theory.
The French Navy started a new
operation on Monday to find the
black boxes.
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Hopefully this will soon be a
distant memory. In May the Air
Force will begin launching the
so-called IIF generation of GPS
satellites, which will eventually
replace half the existing armada.
The new birds each transmit
three civilian GPS signals —
Curt Hopkins (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 11:17:00 PM
Paris-based Lemonchik has
announced Version 2.0 of their
topic-by-topic aggregator,
Guzzle. Do you...dig?
Guzzle's new backend, Nibble,
has been rewritten from scratch.
Nibble receives PubSubHubbub
notifications and every story is
automatically processed with
Reuters Calais technology,
adding rich semantic encoding
information. There's also a new
user interface, categories and
archives and a magazine-like
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its sorry.
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we’ve typically been making do
with just one for years —
including a military-strength
transmission that should enable
autopilots to land with zero
visibility. A three-signal world
will mean always-on GPS that’s
accurate to within 3 feet, even
indoors and in concrete urban
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a thing called Guzzle by an
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place like Paris and you
expected cocktails. A sidecar,
perhaps, in a space-age bachelor
pad set in an alley off the place
de la Bastille.
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you’ll be able to geolocate your
stool.
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The Age Of Facebook: Excerpts From The New Book By
David Kirkpatrick
Michael Arrington
(TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 6:55:48 AM
The long awaited book about
the first few years of Facebook
is almost over. You can pre-
order David Kirckpatrick’s The
Facebook Effect: The Inside
Story of the Company That Is
Connecting the World for the
Kindle here and in hardcover
here.
In the meantime, Fortune has
access to two excerpts from the
book, and this stuff is solid gold.
The first is here, the second is
here. We’ve reprinted the
excerpts below with permission.
I would summarize the best
parts for you but, really, the
whole thing is the best part.
Kirkpatrick clearly got very
deep access to Mark Zuckerberg
and other Facebook execs, as
well as relevant outsiders. He
details Mark’s constant need to
fend off venture capitalists and
suitors, the raucous early days
of the company (including a
lawsuit by a very angry owner
of a trashed house), and a whole
lot more. Much of this has
never been written about before.
I will be interviewing
Kirkpatrick about the book at a
Commonwealth Club event on
June 23 in San Francisco. You
can get tickets to that event
here(they’re just $20). Excerpt
1: The Early Days
In the first week of his
sophomore year at Harvard,
Mark Zuckerberg cobbled
together an internet software
program he called Course
Match. The idea was to help
students pick classes based on
who else was taking them. If a
cute girl sat next to you in
Topology, you could look up
next semester’s Differential
Geometry course to see if she
had enrolled in that as well.
Hundreds of students
immediately started using it.
His next project, in October, he
called Facemash. Its purpose:
figure out who was the hottest
person on campus. He invited
users to compare two different
faces of the same sex and say
which one was hotter. A journal
he kept at the time, which for
some reason he posted along
with the software, suggests
Zuckerberg got into this jag
while upset about a girl.
“______ is a bitch. I need to
think of something to take my
mind off her,” he wrote, adding,
“I’m a little intoxicated, not
gonna lie.” By the time the
program launched, he had
dropped the idea of also
comparing students to farm
animals. “Another Beck’s is in
order,” Zuckerberg wrote as he
continued his Facemash
chronicles. By the time he
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feature that has no specific declare, one hand held behind
purpose… So mess around with his back, lunging forward with
it, because you’re not getting an this foil. Often the sword would
explanation from us.” get uncomfortably close to
At the end of the school year, people’s faces. “I’m the
Zuckerberg and his cohort personality type where that
moved their fledgling operation would get me sometimes,” says
to a four-bedroom sublet house co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.
in Palo Alto, Calif., which “It was a pretty small room.”
became a combination home Later Moskovitz and the others
and office. Zuckerberg slept banned fencing from the house.
later than most — he seldom got The house at 819 La Jennifer
to work in the equipment- Way, with a resident population
jammed dining room before of seven guys, felt like a dorm.
afternoon. His typical garb in Some people — female and
the office was pajama bottoms male — stopped by for days and
and a T-shirt. When the just hung around. Stanford
software code-writing got University was only a mile
returned to his room from a intense, he was a taskmaster. If away, so the housemates would
meeting the next day, his laptop someone got hungry and wanted announce parties using a
was so bogged down with to go out for fast food, recalls a Facebook feature that enabled
Facemash users that it was frequent visitor, “Mark would, them to target specific schools.
freezing up. like, pound the table and just They were mobbed by Stanford
When he launched Facebook say, ‘No! We’re in lockdown! students and townies. Hanging
the following February (initially No one leaves the table until out by the pool was a major
called thefacebook.com), it was we’re done with this thing.” activity, and broken glass would
a rudimentary site, but flirting Zuckerberg was determined to simply be swept into the water.
on Facebook quickly became a keep this ship moving forward, One housemate strung a wire
sort of art form. One feature — and he was more than happy to from the top of the chimney to a
the poke — made doing so be the captain. spot on a telephone pole beyond
absurdly easy. Poking was a Not infrequently, he acted like the pool. With a pulley, he
particular fascination in those he was captain of a pirate ship. turned it into a zip line, so
d a y s , e v e n a m o n g t h e Among the few possessions he partiers could ride down the
s u p p o s e d l y s o p h i s t i c a t e d had brought to Silicon Valley wire and drop into the pool with
students of Harvard. What did a with him were his fencing a massive splash. (When the
poke mean? Its indeterminate paraphernalia, which he left owners finally returned in the
message was one of its appeals. lying in a pile. Often he’d grab fall, they were shocked. In a
Zuckerberg posted an insouciant his foil and start swinging it later court case, the owners
answer on the site: “We thought through the air. “Okay, we’ve
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described the house as “in total
disarray and very dirty.”)
The house’s cultural mascot
was Tom Cruise, who had camp
appeal because he was “not a
very cool character,” recalls a
housemate. Pretty soon the
resident nerds were naming their
computer servers after
characters in Tom Cruise
movies: “‘Where’s that script
running?’ ‘It’s running on
Maverick.’ ‘Well, run it instead
on Iceman, I need Maverick to
test this feature.’” Zuckerberg,
who had loved studying the
classics, had a way of
punctuating a conversation by
suddenly pronouncing, “Now
you know who you’re fighting!”
It was a quote from one of his
favorite movies, Troy, which he
had seen on his 20th birthday.
Incongruous movie quotes gave
Zuckerberg, who could
otherwise lapse into long
periods of silence, tremendous
pleasure. He also inserted them
in the site. Whenever you
searched for something in those
days there was a little box below
the results that had tiny type that
said, “I don’t even know what a
quail looks like.” It’s a
throwaway line from The
Wedding Crashers. Another
quote that appeared there was a
Tom Cruise line from Top Gun:
“Too close for missiles.
Switching to guns.” The quotes
came to encapsulate, in the
fashion of schoolboy in-jokes,
the spirit of the company —
playful, combative, and despite
the technical sophistication, a bit
juvenile. Students at colleges
around the U.S. spent hours
arguing about the significance
of these inscrutable epigrams.
As the Facebook boys started
dealing increasingly with real
business professionals, a
reputation for rambunctiousness
spread throughout the valley.
“It’s Lord of the Flies over
there,” one executive told an
executive recruiter. Zuckerberg
had to be careful which business
card he handed out at meetings.
He had two sets. One simply
identified him as “CEO.” The
other: “I’m CEO…bitch!”
One of the crew’s edgiest
pranks in those days was a
presentation made to the blue-
chip venture-capital firm
Sequoia Capital, known in the
Valley for a certain
humorlessness. Sequoia
éminence grise and consummate
power player Michael Moritz
had been on Plaxo’s board.
Parker saw him as having
contributed to his downfall.
“There was no way we were
ever going to take money from
Sequoia, given what they’d done
to me,” says Parker. The firm
wanted to invest in Facebook, so
as a joke the boys offered to
pitch the partners a Zuckerberg
side project called Wirehog, a
peer-to-peer file-sharing
program.
Zuckerberg and another partner
showed up deliberately late for
an 8 a.m. meeting, in their
pajamas. They didn’t even make
a pitch for Wirehog. Zuckerberg
showed a PowerPoint
presentation David Letterman-
style: “The Top Ten Reasons
You Should Not Invest in
Wirehog.” It started out almost
seriously. “The number 10
reason not to invest in Wirehog:
we have no revenue.” Number
9: “We will probably get sued
by the music industry.” By the
final few points it was
unashamedly rude. Number 3:
“We showed up at your office
late in our pajamas.” Number 2:
“Because Sean Parker is
involved.” And the number one
reason Sequoia should not
invest in Wirehog: “We’re only
here because [a Sequoia partner]
told us to come.” The partners
seemed to listen respectfully,
recalls Zuckerberg, who says he
now regrets the incident. “I
assume we really offended them
and now I feel really bad about
that.”
Facebook’s final fling of
sophomoric adventures came in
late 2006, when the company
was starting to get billion-dollar
takeover offers from major
corporations. For its holiday
party that December, the entire
company, now about 150
people, took buses to the Great
America Theme Park in nearby
Santa Clara. From the minute
people got on the buses they
started drinking. By the time
they arrived at the park many
were already drunk. Facebook’s
employees celebrated a
successful year on the park’s
thrill rides that spun, dropped,
twisted and inverted them. On
the way home an employee
threw up in an air vent of one of
the buses. The company had to
pay several thousand dollars to
repair the damage.
It was, in a way, Facebook’s
last gasp of amateurism. The
company had 12 million active
users. It had passed the point
where it could be run like a
dorm-room project. Excerpt 2:
The Early Days
The Viacom executive figured
he’d impress the kid with a ride
on the company jet, but clearly
it was the youth who was in the
driver’s seat. Of all the suitors
courting Mark Zuckerberg in the
fall of 2005, one of the most
enterprising was Michael Wolf,
president of Viacom’s MTV
Networks. He had heard college
students in MTV’s focus groups
talking incessantly about the
new site, and he was determined
to snag it for his parent
company. But first he had to
“friend” Zuckerberg. Wolf had
figured out that the best way to
reach the Facebook leader was
to instant-message him, so he
IM’d Zuckerberg periodically to
say he planned to be in Palo
Alto — whether it was true or
not — and suggest a dinner. If
Zuckerberg agreed, Wolf would
fly out. But as the end of the
year approached, Wolf got in
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touch with a better offer. He was
planning to be in San Francisco
with the Viacom corporate jet,
he claimed. Would Mark like a
ride back to New York for the
holidays?
Zuckerberg took Wolf’s bait.
Since Viacom’s corporate
planes were in fact unavailable,
Wolf chartered a top-of-the-line
Gulfstream V for the trip from
the San Francisco airport to
Westchester County Airport,
near Zuckerberg’s parents’
home in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
Wolf flew out that morning
from New York on American
Airlines. The MTV executive
was waiting aboard the G5 as if
it were the most normal thing in
the world when Zuckerberg
arrived, late, about 5:30 p.m.
Then, as Wolf had shrewdly
planned, they spent five
uninterrupted hours together
aboard the plane. He was
resolved to find a way for
Viacom to buy Facebook.
For much of the trip, however,
the 21-year-old was in control of
the conversation. He
interrogated Wolf about MTV’s
business. How did companies
like Viacom make their money?
How much did MTV charge for
advertising? How do you build
your audience?
During the trip Zuckerberg took
to admiring the G5. “This plane
is amazing,” he said.
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piece of the company to us,”
Wolf replied. “Then you can
have one for yourself.”
Wolf invited his guest to sit in
the jump seat in the cockpit as
the powerful jet landed at
Westchester. When it pulled up
to the private aviation terminal,
two cars were waiting. One was
Wolf’s corporate sedan to drive
him into the city. The other was
the Zuckerberg family minivan,
from which Mark’s parents
emerged. They beamed and
gave their son a big hug. It was
as if he were merely coming
home from a semester at
college.
The MTV president kept up his
pursuit after the holidays, flying
to Palo Alto in January with an
elaborate PowerPoint
presentation and again the next
month with a more personal
appeal. He and Zuckerberg were
becoming chums. They took a
long walk around the palmy,
well-groomed streets and
stopped by Zuckerberg’s one-
bedroom apartment. The place
was messy, with a mattress on
the floor, piles of books, a
bamboo mat, and a lamp. Then
they headed for dinner at a
nearby restaurant. Wolf popped
the same question he’d asked on
the plane. “Why don’t you just
sell to us?” he asked. “You’d be
very wealthy.”
“You just saw my apartment,”
Zuckerberg replied. “I don’t
really need any money. And
anyway, I don’t think I’m ever
going to have an idea this good
again.” Viacom would try
money nonetheless, with a cash
offer of $800 million and
provisions that could make it
worth as much as $1.5 billion.
But like many other suitors, the
Viacom executives discovered
they were dealing with a
formidable character. If his
invention’s early appeal was at a
freshman level, exploiting the
desire of college students to
check each other out, his
professed ambition was much
higher: to change the world.
Zuckerberg’s financing needs
were far from his mind when he
launched the site on Feb. 4,
2004, from his dorm suite at
Harvard. Zuckerberg, a code
writer since middle school, had
arrived at Harvard equipped
with his own computer and a
giant whiteboard, the geek’s
consummate brainstorming tool.
He built the site using free, open
-source software like the
MySQL database and fueled his
late-night coding sessions with
plenty of Beck’s and Red Bull.
A month before the site
launched, Zuckerberg paid $35
to register the web address
thefacebook.com (the name was
later shortened) and started
paying $85 a month to a web-
hosting company. But the
infectious appeal of the service
went beyond what anyone
expected. At the end of the
semester, when the user base
had reached 100,000 students at
30 schools, a well-connected
classmate took Zuckerberg
around Manhattan to meet with
potential investors. At one of
those meetings a financier
offered Zuckerberg $10 million
on the spot for the company.
Mark had just turned 20. His
company was four months old.
He didn’t for a minute think
seriously about accepting.
Instead, Zuckerberg decided to
relocate his company for the
summer to the promised land of
technology, Palo Alto.
Searching Craigslist, he found a
four-bedroom house to sublet as
an office and bunkhouse, and
persuaded roommate Dustin
Moskovitz to give up a summer
computer-lab job at Harvard to
become essentially his chief
operating officer. Keeping
Facebook running, which meant
constantly adding more servers,
was starting to cost real money.
Zuckerberg spent about $20,000
in the first few weeks in Palo
Alto, using money he had saved
from programming jobs. But
clearly much more cash would
soon be necessary.
A block away in Palo Alto,
Internet wunderkind Sean
Parker was stressed out. It was a
hot afternoon, and the skinny
blond 24-year-old hated doing
physical work. But his lease was
up and he was short on cash. So
there he was in June 2004 on the
sidewalk in front of his
girlfriend’s family’s house,
unloading boxes from the white
BMW he had bought when
times were flush. When he
noticed a group of boys heading
toward him, he stiffened. His
boxes contained expensive
computer gear. He didn’t like
the look of these kids — all
wearing sweatshirts with hoods
up despite the heat. He thought
they had a menacing air, but the
shortest one walked right up.
“Sean,” the guy said. “It’s Mark,
Mark Zuckerberg.” Suddenly it
all snapped into place. This was
the guy he had met at dinner in
New York City two months
earlier, the kid who had treated
him like a legend for his role in
helping Shawn Fanning launch
Napster. Later Parker co-
founded another Internet
company, Plaxo, a contact-info-
management venture that had
raised millions of dollars from
investors. Lately Parker had run
into trouble with his backers,
who found him brilliant but
unreliable. Yet to these 20-year-
olds, Parker was an industry
sophisticate.
Over dinner in Palo Alto,
Zuckerberg witnessed firsthand
the denouement of Parker’s
battle with his Plaxo backers.
While Zuckerberg was
introducing Parker more fully to
his Harvard chums, Parker got a
call from his lawyer. The news
was bad. The Plaxo board was
not only kicking him out of the
company but also refusing to
allow about half of his
remaining shares in the
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company to vest. Parker was
enraged. He was getting
screwed. The Facebook boys
listened in awe and dismay.
“VCs sound scary,” Zuckerberg
recalls thinking. It was a
formative moment. Feeling for
his friend, and thinking he might
learn much from Parker,
Zuckerberg invited him to move
into the house with them. By
September, Zuckerberg was
calling him the company’s
president. Besides his sage
advice, Parker came in handy
for one other corporate role: The
boys relied on him to buy the
alcohol for house parties, since
he was the only one in the group
over 21.
As the fall semester of 2004
loomed, the company was on
the verge of a crisis. Over the
summer membership had almost
doubled, to 200,000. That was
good and bad. “We were just
lucky it wasn’t completely
bringing down the architecture,”
says Moskovitz. Zuckerberg and
Moskovitz had decided not to
return to Harvard that fall so
that they could focus on the
company. But now they needed
money. At this point a Silicon
Valley startup would typically
solicit venture capitalists to
make a cash infusion in return
for a very big chunk of the
company, as much as a third.
Zuckerberg didn’t want to give
up that much control.
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Parker called his friend Reid
Hoffman, the founder of
LinkedIn and a key member of
an important Silicon Valley
subculture — the wealthy
former leaders of PayPal.
Hoffman arranged for Parker
and Zuckerberg to meet with
PayPal’s onetime CEO Peter
Thiel, now a private investor.
When the Facebook boys made
their presentation (Zuckerberg
in his usual Adidas flip-flops),
Thiel was impressed, especially
with what was happening at
colleges where Facebook was
newly introduced. Within days it
typically captured almost the
entire student body.
Thiel then made what may be
one of the great investments of
all time. He agreed to lend
$500,000, which would convert
into a 10.2% stake in the
company, giving the company a
valuation of $4.9 million. That
was lower than other offers, but
Zuckerberg was pleased to have
found an investor who seemed
to trust him. The extent of
Thiel’s early advice to
Zuckerberg: “Just don’t fuck it
up.” Thiel sold a large amount
of his stock in 2009; his
remaining shares are worth
several hundred million dollars.
During the fall, the originally
static Facebook had already
started evolving into the
revolutionary medium it is today
by adding new features like “the
wall,” which allowed anyone to
write on a friend’s profile.
Membership reached 500,000
by October, and it was soon
clear that even Thiel’s money
wasn’t enough to pay for the
company’s growing
infrastructure. But Zuckerberg
remained deeply wary of Silicon
Valley moneymen. Their
thinking was short-term, he felt.
His was epic.
Through a classmate whose
father worked at the Washington
Post Co., Zuckerberg had struck
up a friendship with CEO
Donald Graham, a member of
the family that has controlled
the Washington Post since the
1930s. Graham, who was
immersed in building the
company’s own web businesses,
recalls being immediately taken.
“I thought it was a simply
stunning business idea,” he says,
and made Zuckerberg an
investment offer more
spontaneously than any he has
made before or since.
Zuckerberg was impressed with
how different Graham was from
a bloodthirsty VC. “I was just
blown away by the difference in
culture — that it’s just such a
long-term focus there. I was just
like, ‘Wow, I want to be more
like this guy.’ And that’s when I
seriously started thinking about
doing another [investment]
round.”
As soon as word got out that
Facebook was contemplating an
investment, the Silicon Valley
greed machine kicked into high
gear. By February, 12 venture
capital firms, four major tech
companies, and the Post
company were pursuing an
investing deal. Viacom suddenly
expressed interest in buying the
company outright for $75
million, which would have put
about $35 million in
Zuckerberg’s pocket for a year’s
work. But he had no interest in
selling. The Post offer came in
at $6 million for 10%
ownership, valuing the company
at $60 million. Ron Conway, a
veteran investor who was
advising Parker, told him, “My
God! Take it! Close that
sucker!” After a bit more
haggling, a deal seemed to be
done. Until another party
entered the picture.
The Accel Partners VC firm
was looking for a bigger score.
After making its mark in the
1990s with a series of software
and telecom investments, the
Palo Alto firm had missed out
on social-media opportunities.
Kevin Efrusy, a junior member
of the Accel team, had heard
about Facebook from a Stanford
University grad student
interning at Accel and started
making overtures. Parker
declined to return his phone
calls at first, thinking the VC
firm had lost its mojo. Finally,
on April Fool’s Day, 2005,
Efrusy decided to just walk over
to Facebook’s office. The two
executives he encountered,
Moskovitz and Matt Cohler (a
recruit from LinkedIn), were
struggling to assemble office
furniture from Ikea.
Moskovitz’s head was bleeding
from hitting a piece of furniture,
and Cohler’s pants were torn
after getting caught on a nail.
But their presentation of the
business was brilliant, Efrusy
recalls. Four days later Efrusy
again walked down University
Avenue to Facebook’s office,
barged into a meeting, and
slapped a term sheet on the
table. It topped the Washington
Post terms by far, a $10 million
investment valuing Facebook at
$80 million. (The deal
eventually reached $12.7
million and a valuation of just
under $98 million.) After Efrusy
left, the young entrepreneurs
looked at one another in
jubilation. Eighty million?
Amazing! “But what about the
Post?” Zuckerberg asked.
Nobody had a good answer.
That night Accel’s co-
managing partner, Jim Breyer, a
Silicon Valley heavyweight
who’s also a director of Wal-
Mart, hosted a dinner for
Facebook’s leaders at the
elegant Village Pub near Palo
Alto. The Pub is known for its
wine list, and Breyer, a
connoisseur, ordered a $400
bottle of Quilceda Creek
Cabernet. Zuckerberg, still only
20, ordered a Sprite. Breyer was
doing everything he could to
loosen Zuckerberg up. But
Zuckerberg remained
uncomfortable about something.
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Then he started to tune out, Matt
Cohler noticed.
Zuckerberg went to the
bathroom and didn’t return for a
surprisingly long time. Cohler
got up to see if everything was
okay. There, on the floor of the
men’s room with his head down,
was Zuckerberg. And he was
crying. “Through his tears he
was saying, ‘This is wrong. I
can’t do this. I gave my word!’ ”
recalls Cohler. “He was just
crying his eyes out, bawling. So
I said, ‘Why don’t you just call
Don up and ask him what he
thinks?’ ” Zuckerberg took a
while to compose himself and
returned to the table.
The next morning he did call
Graham. “Don, I haven’t talked
to you since we agreed on terms,
and since then I’ve had a much
higher offer from a venture
capital firm out here. And I feel
I have a moral dilemma,”
Zuckerberg began.
Graham was disappointed, but
he was also impressed. “I just
thought to myself, ‘Wow, for 20
years old, that is impressive —
he’s not calling to tell me he’s
taking the other guy’s money.
He’s calling me to talk it out.’ ”
Graham knew that even his first
offer was very high for a
company so tiny and so young.
“Mark, does the money matter
to you?” Graham asked.
Zuckerberg said it did. It could,
he went on, be the one thing that
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Requires a Village: A Quest for Payment Data Portability

Mike Kirkwood feet: Payment Processing Authorization for managing the sharing of
(ReadWriteWeb) Landscape In the most basic form, sensitive information. The
Submitted at 5/6/2010 1:15:00 AM BrainTree is a payment merchants (through gateways) Optional Transaction Fields:
gateway that is part of the would receive portability in this Authentication and Details
In this post, we'll explore the payments landscape. Here, we proposed standard. That is the These optional fields above
tug-of-war landscape of the see where the gateway (in this goal of the team at BrainTree (name, address, phone number,
payments industry through the case BrainTree) fits in the and others that support this open what was purchased) are not
l e n s o f p a y m e n t g a t e w a y ecosystem. approach to industry required to enable transaction
Braintree. For purposes of security and competition. authorization in its base form.
The company has initiated a liability, the merchant calls and which of those fields are At this stage, it consists of However, considering
Credit Card Data Portability services that transact, but don't considered required and programs for merchants and consumer rights and privacy
Standard, starting with a small s t o r e i n f o r m a t i o n o n t h e optional. Here is the list he payment processors to announce they are in a way the most
g r o u p f o r m e r c h a n t s a n d transaction. In processing this shared below: their intention to support sensitive. For example, if each
payment processors that intend information the gateway is portability of credit card field was populated with
to "meet in the middle" and shielding the merchant from • Payment information authorization information. detailed text, values from a list,
provide both security and change in the payment system • Credit Card Number Required For merchants it suggests they or microsyntax, we could easily
portability of the sensitive credit and technology framework by • Expiration Date Required ask these questions when see valuable consumer level
card authorization used by offering front end services to • Amount Required negotiating a contract with a data involved in the transaction
merchants to bill for services. websites that connect to back- • CVV Optional- While not payment processor and gateway. between parties.
Today, for some parties in the end (and PCI compliant) back required, sending the CVV may One are in the specification that
ecosystem, this data is locked up ends. help with approval percentages. • Does your organization might be nice is a focus on
with payment providers due For reasons of liability and data • Name Optional adhere to the Credit Card Data customers and rights of
good faith efforts to achieve compliance, many merchants • Address Optional- Merchants Portability Standard? customers to have a say in how
compliance, but what has and gateways have agreed to get rewarded with lower • What is required of us to this information is stored,
h a p p e n e d i s v e n d o r l o c k allow the payment processor processing rates if they include receive the sensitive data we forwarded, and retained.
centered around personal data. " h o l d " t h e d a t a f o r t h e the billing address, so while it's process and/or store with you? We took a few moments to
Sponsor consumer. This practice has not required, merchants have a • What is the process of consult some of the folks at the
In a not-so-distant m-commerce created a sense of lock and big incentive to send it. receiving the data and how long DataPortability Project (similar
post, Sarah Perez covered some causes merchants to restart • Phone Number Optional does it take? name, broader scope) to weigh
o f t h e " t o w e r o f b a b e l " transactions with consumers by • Order Information Optional • Are there fees associated with in. Connecting Dots: Start of
c h a l l e n g e s t h a t o c c u r f o r speaking with them manually. • Customer Number Optional releasing the data to us? Data Portability.Org Working
developers when dealing with It is in this process where • Product / Service Optional • What data will be released Group
payment processes for mobile customers can leak out by • Etc. Optional and is there a time limit? We had a chance to ask Elias
payments. opting out, or not confirming the • Where can I get a copy of the Bizannes, member of the
In the organic information continued transaction. Out of this list there is an terms? DataPortability Project his take
economy that has been built in BrainTree points out that this is interesting mix, both on whether these credit cards fit
our world, we find sometimes effectively holding consumers transactional and conversational In addition to these questions into the vision of data
things that should be simple are data hostage. Scope of the Data on what is going on with our for merchants, the Credit Card portability.
not. To help us understand the scope credit cards. Portability site includes We found the DataPortability
Here, we explore the concept of o f t h e p o r t a b i l i t y b e i n g Yes, indeed, (especially if suggestions for payment Project supportive about all
Data Portability means and requested, asked the team at you're in Vegas) transactions processors on how they can types of data portability efforts.
where a dialog is taking place in BrainTree to share the data can tell a story. The Required setup infrastructure needed to REQUIRES page 31
the payments industry. 30,000 fields that fall under this model Fields: Transaction meet required PCI requirements
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could prevent Facebook from
going into the red or having to
borrow money. “Mark, I’ll
release you from your moral
dilemma,” said Graham. “Go
ahead and take their money and
develop the company, and all
the best.” For Zuckerberg it was
a huge relief. And it further
increased his respect and
admiration for Graham.
(Zuckerberg eventually asked
the publisher to take a seat on
the Facebook board.)
Facebook entered a new kind of
boom phase, hiring staff, adding
new features like photo sharing,
and attracting millions more
users. But Facebook was not yet
a real business, especially given
Zuckerberg’s disdain for
intrusive advertising, so it was
burning quickly through its
capital at the rate of about $6
million a year. That failed to
discourage the delegates from
corporate America, who
continued to enhance their
temptations. Zuckerberg kept
huddling with the moguls,
which gave rise to grumbling at
Facebook, especially among the
growing number of executives
whom Silicon Valley recruiter
Robin Reed was bringing
onboard. What did all these
meetings mean, they wondered?
Zuckerberg wasn’t bothering to
explain his thinking. He thought
of these meetings as a learning
process. Reed had become a
close observer of all the
unhappiness, partly because she
had one of the only private
offices at the company.
Zuckerberg wouldn’t listen,
Facebook staffers said.
Zuckerberg should be replaced.
Zuckerberg didn’t know what he
wanted to do with the company.
Finally Reed reached the end of
her rope. “The team was almost
ready to mutiny,” says Reed.
She arranged to meet with
Zuckerberg on his way back
from an East Coast meeting. But
his plane was delayed, so when
they finally met it was at 2:30
a.m. in the neon glow of a diner.
Reed unleashed her frustration.
“Mark, nobody knows what’s
going on. If you want to sell
your company, then stop dicking
around and say you want a
billion dollars. If it’s 2 billion,
say that. If you don’t want to
sell, then say that!”
“I don’t want to sell the
company,” Zuckerberg
answered.
“Then stop taking all these
meetings! You’re sending the
wrong message.” Then she
unleashed her final barrage.
“You’d better take CEO lessons
or this isn’t going to work out
for you!”
“So now you’re finally being
straight with me,” Zuckerberg
replied, turning more animated.
“This is the first time I feel like
you’re telling me what you
really think.” Over the next few
weeks Reed noticed a distinct
change in Zuckerberg. For one
thing, he did agree to start
seeing an executive coach to get
lessons on how to be an
effective leader. The week after
the confrontation he called the
entire staff together for
Facebook’s first all-hands
meeting.
While the talks with Viacom
eventually fell apart over the
structure of the deals, other
offers kept coming and reached
numbers that Zuckerberg had
trouble dismissing out of hand.
In July 2006, Yahoo CEO Terry
Semel offered to buy Facebook
for $1 billion cash. Zuckerberg
seemed more than relieved a
few weeks later when Yahoo, its
stock suffering, reduced its offer
to $850 million. As soon as he
heard, a grinning Zuckerberg
strode over to Moskovitz’s desk
a few feet away and gave a big
high-five. The deal was off.
As all this was underway,
executives at other media and
tech firms were starting to ask if
they ought to buy Facebook.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
had flown to Palo Alto to visit
his young counterpart twice. As
Zuckerberg is wont to do, he
took Ballmer on a long walk.
Zuckerberg told Ballmer that
Facebook was raising money at
a $15 billion valuation. But
Ballmer had come with
something more sweeping in
mind. “Why don’t we just buy
you for $15 billion?” he replied,
according to a very
knowledgeable source.
Zuckerberg was unmoved even
by this offer. “I don’t want to
sell the company unless I can
keep control,” said Zuckerberg,
as he always did in such
situations. Ballmer took this
reply as a sort of challenge. He
went back to Microsoft’s
headquarters and concocted a
plan intended to acquire
Facebook in stages over a period
of years to enable Zuckerberg to
keep calling the shots. But
Zuckerberg rejected all the
overtures. What Ballmer finally
agreed to instead was an
advertising deal that included a
provision for Microsoft to pay a
huge amount, $240 million, for
a sliver of Facebook, 1.6%.
Microsoft’s investment gave
Facebook an implied value of
$15 billion.
Since then the company has
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reached another level of
dominance, where the most
passionate buyers are likely to
be the public when the company
eventually launches an IPO.
Facebook expects to become
profitable this year and bring in
close to $2 billion in revenues.
Zuckerberg owns about 24% of
the stock, which puts his stake at
almost $5 billion. But he seems
in no rush for an IPO or the next
big thing. After all, what would
he do all day? “Unless I feel like
I’m working on the most
important problem I can help
with, then I’m not going to feel
good about how I’m spending
my time,” he says. “And that’s
what this company is.” The
ultimate payday is not a priority.
Changing the world is.
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Former MySpace security chief starts company
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:00:00 AM
After four years as chief
security officer at MySpace,
Hemanshu Nigam is leaving his
full-time job to start a new firm
that advises companies on how
to handle safety, security, and
privacy. Nigam, who will
continue to advise MySpace and
its parent company News Corp.,
hopes to bring his expertise to
start-ups, existing Internet
companies, and even
governments seeking to better
understand how to avoid
Internet-related problems.
Hemanshu Nigam(Credit:
MySpace)
A former sex-crimes prosecutor
with the U.S. Justice
Department, Nigam also served
as director of consumer security
outreach at Microsoft and was
as an enforcement officer at the
Motion Picture Association of
America.
During his tenure at MySpace,
Nigam was widely credited with
helping the company shed its
image as a dangerous place for
kids. For years MySpace was
under pressure from a variety of
GQueues is A Google-Oriented Task Manager [Task Manager]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 4:00:00 AM
By itself, task manager
fronts including Connecticut and
North Carolina attorneys general
Richard Blumenthal and Roy
Cooper, who claimed that the
site was a haven for child
predators. In 2008 MySpace
signed an accord with 49 state
attorneys general that lead to the
creation of the Internet Safety
Technology Task Force which,
in January 2009, issued a report
that the threat of predators was
less than some had feared. I was
a member of that task force.
Nigam's new company, SSP
Blue, will focus on safety,
security, and privacy by helping
companies deal with issues
including international hackers,
online child predators, and
identity thieves.
Nigam said his advice to
companies is to "develop a
holistic approach."
He said that while he was full
time at MySpace, he would field
questions from other companies
with the blessing of his bosses.
"Safety, security, and privacy is
something that none of us
should be competing on," he
said.
"People go online to enjoy and
have a good experience...they
GQueues is pretty handy—a list
-oriented task manager with sub
-tasks, due dates, assignments,
tagging, and other neat features. But its integration with Google
don't go online to have trouble
so, in many ways, companies
have an incentive to provide
safety, security, and privacy to
their users. It's expected by
users and by advertisers," he
said.
Unsolicited advice for
Facebook
I asked Nigam if he had any
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advice for Facebook (which is
not a client) in terms of its
current privacy issues. "Many of
these issues would not happen if
you thought about privacy or
even safety and security
holistically," said Nigam. He
also said that if he were advising
Facebook he would tell them
that "things that matter in the
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privacy world are transparency
and control. How much
information are you collecting
and what types of control are
you giving your users to decide
what happens to that
information?" He would also
advise them to be transparent.
"Are you setting default settings
that your users know about, and
are you offering tools that your
users are aware they can use to
control what's public and what
isn't?"
(Disclosure: MySpace and
Facebook are supporters of
ConnectSafely.org, a non-profit
Internet safety organization I
help operate)
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Seeker Nails Hacker Pr0n

Roi Carthy (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 2:42:09 AM

Do SQL injections turn you on?

How about double SQL
injections? If the answer is
‘yes’, then
1): Good luck with your dating
life
2) Boy are you in some luck!
A new of breed of security
product called Seeker produces
some vivid hacker pr0n in the
form of a video (see above) of
how it broke and exploited
every nook and cranny of your
unsecure code. Yes, I’m going
to say it, Seeker might be the
Seymore Butts of security
products!
Kidding aside, Seeker seems be
packing pretty fearsome
application security technology.
The company behind it is an
Israeli white hat hacking shop developers, to QA staff, to team automatically creates a step-by- hooking into the process enumeration, insecure redirects,
called Hacktics. These guys do leaders. It’s for this reason that step exploit video for each executing the application, and source code disclosure, insecure
work for startups, banks, telcos, Seeker points to real business vulnerability it identifies and performing step-by-step analysis storage of sensitive data (such as
governments, and homeland threats rather than just technical exploits, making it easier for the of the executed code. The Credit cards, CVVs, SSNs),
security agencies. Their team issues. developer to manually attacks themselves are generated cookie poisoning and plenty
members hold very high This is where a two particular reproduce errors before and dynamically based on a ‘Smart more.
security clearances due to their product features stand out. after fixing the code. Video is Attack Tree,’ a long list of rules Currently supported are Java
prior and current service records Seeker produces screenshots also quite an effective method for mutating attacks based both and .NET code analysis, using
in the IDF (Israeli Defense (see below) that allow testers to for non-security users to on how the application reacts to any database if no stored
Force). It’s safe to say these see the vulnerabilities in the understand the actual threats and them, and the actual application procedures are used. For stored
guys know a thing or two about context of the actual application potential exploits. Just imagine code. procedures, Seeker supports
application security. functionality they relate to, being able to show management The product supports an orgy of Microsoft SQL and Oracle.
Seeker was designed for use by rather than getting just technical or external developers such a vulnerabilities, including: SQL PHP, as well as support for
individuals that are part of the information based on URLs. video. Pretty effective stuff. injection, XML/XPath injection, MySQL stored procedures, will
development organization which The screenshots also contain Seeker’s methodology is to directory traversal, cross-site be rolled out in a few months.
do not necessarily possess screenshots showing how the perform runtime analysis of scripting, parameter tampering, Seeker is currently
security knowledge, or even application handled each attack. code executed in order to forceful browsing, malicious headquartered in Israel, with
deep technical knowledge. The second stand-out feature is identify security flaws in the c o n t e n t u p l o a d , $3M in funding under its belt.
These can range from ‘Exploit Videos’. Seeker application. This is done by username/password
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Facebook's New Policies Make
Harassment Easy
Curt Hopkins (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 11:00:00 PM
North Africa has become a
testing ground for a new sort of
online harassment, and
ReadWriteWeb is in the middle
of it. Groups of Islamists are
using the proliferation of
Facebook's public pages to
single out users they consider
ideologically unorthodox (a
broad category indeed by their
definition) and then using
Facebook's public ban process
to stop their mouths.
Once a target is identified,
groups of allied Facebook users
report the target as defying
terms of service. Once a certain
number of users mark a profile
to be blocked, Facebook
automatically does so. How do
we know? Because our French
editor, Fabrice Epelboin was
one such target.
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Epelboin published a translation
of a post by Jillian York that
identified this phenomenon.
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Epelboin summed it up."(A)
group was created on Facebook
(in Arabic) for the sole purpose
of reporting, and thus having
removed, Facebook profiles of
atheist Arabs. The group, which
appears to have also been
removed, was entitled 'Facebook
pesticide' and its sole purpose
was to 'identity Atheists /
Agnostic / anti-religion in the
Arab world and specifically in
Tunisia ...' Once identified, the
group members would then
attempt to report such users."
Although the post by York was
modestly received in the
original, in the RWW
translation, it was very popular
and attracted over 200
comments. One of the
commenters on this post was
"Hannibal," the apparent leader
of a group who banded together
to block Epelboin's Facebook
profile. If he had not been been
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representative, he would have
automatically been banned, as
others have."All of this started
when groups and fanpages
became public," Epelboin said,
"allowing those guys to make
some list of profiles to be
harassed on Facebook, taking
advantage of a loophole in
Facebook's crowd-sourced
moderation process when it
comes to banning profiles: if a
few dozen members alert
Facebook about one profile as
being a fake, it is automatically
deactivated."
Facebook has been informed of
this situation. They've been
quick to console but slow to act.
This policy remains in place.
We hate to say we told you so,
but, you know. We told you so.
As of posting time, the press
representatives from Facebook
have not responded questions
we sent on this issue.
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The group is is welcoming the
Credit Card Data Portability
effort to join as a workgroup in
the project.
As this happens, it is likely that
an increasingly broader voice
and view into the issues
surrounding the importance of
data portability to businesses
and consumers alike will form.
One of the active
DataPortability Project efforts is
focusing on Terms of Service.
A team, led by Stephen
Greenburg is focused on the
portability of personal
information offered and agreed
to when agreeing to use
different web sites.
We can see a direct tie-in to
these efforts. Where business is
conducted on the web, whether
transactional (Visa), learning
(Google), or social (Facebook),
consumer rights to a basic set of
patterns around portability could
center around the consumer and
the agreements accepted at point
of entry into a new site.
Summary
The case of credit card
portability shows that industry
privacy and liability can create
significant boundaries between
parties sharing data. This can
create information lock and
become a fertile ground for
vendor lock in an ecosystem.
In a service-orientated world
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we look to simplifying
processes for everything. In
payments, the flash point is
recurring payments and finding
a balance for the many
businesses that doesn't increase
exposure for customers. The
current state of affairs in the
credit card ecosystem is a big
challenge to building seamless
apps between merchants and
consumers.
In many ways, it seems much
more challenging than the
problems of "end to end control"
that Apple tends to demonstrate
in its business. Perhaps because
Apple thinks of model driven
architecture and wants to have
no surprises in the user
experience, it has set constraints
on how applications perform.
So far, the credit card data
portability effort seems like it is
off to a good start. It is working
on expanding its team, focusing
on quick wins, and keeping it
simple.
Does your gateway or payment
processor support data
portability?
What would it take for you to
insist?
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Demotix Introduces Video, Redesign

Curt Hopkins (ReadWriteWeb) media power. CEO Turi Munthe Munthe told us. (Horseshoes
Submitted at 5/5/2010 10:00:00 PM was a policy analyst with a high and hand-grenades, Turi.)
media profile prior to launching Other larger-scale citizen
Today, one year-old Demotix, the company. His partner, COO journalism sites, such as
t h e L o n d o n - b a s e d c i t i z e n Jonathan Tepper, worked in NowPublic and AllVoices also Touch Bionics i-LIMB Pulse,
journalism site, has introduced finance at SAC Capital, Lehman feature video. It is hard to say if
video to its popular photo- Brothers and Bank of America it's been used to good effect, and the Bluetooth bionic hand,
centric site. prior to throwing in his lot with impossible to say whether
Demotix, the winner of a Media Munthe. From the outset the
Guardian Innovation Award, has idea was to both honor the
Demotix will. makes your meaty one obsolete
In keeping with its heightened Tim Stevens (Engadget)
placed its crowd-sourced photos individual contributor and to up to 90kg (about 200lbs),
profile and success, Demotix
on the front pages of traditional leverage their past lives to raise Submitted at 5/6/2010 9:32:00 AM which is a lot more than our
has also launched a new look,
media organizations from Le the profile of this new "street crippled carpal tunnels can
more saturated and uptown. It
Let's say you got in a fight with manage these days. The Pulse
Monde to the New York Times wire" as they called it. looks like a Web version of that
your dad. You said some things, starts shipping to would-be
to BBC News Online. Although Munthe said the site now moment when a young turk gets
he said some things, and then he chosen ones on June 1 -- just in
there have always been articles features 3,000 active photo- made partner and winds up on
cut your hand off. Don't go all time for Father's Day.
as well, it is the photostream contributors in 190 countries Savile Row for his first bespoke
emo: Touch Bionics has a new Gallery: Touch Bionics i-LIMB
that has proven to be Demotix's and a photostream of 200,000 suit. A window-pane preview
product that will have you Pulse
bread and butter. Video, like images. shows the latest video,
overthrowing empires again in Continue reading Touch
photos, may prove capable of Demotix's first video is an surrounded by feature stories,
no time. A successor to the Bionics i-LIMB Pulse, the
speaking across more borders interview Munthe did with and postage-stamp rows below
company's revolutionary i- Bluetooth bionic hand, makes
than words. Kazakh journalist Ekaterina are broken out into geographic
LIMB Hand, the i-LIMB Pulse your meaty one obsolete
Sponsor Belyaeva of Vzglad Newspaper sections. All in all, a fairly
is a more streamlined version Touch Bionics i-LIMB Pulse,
With an emphasis on both in Almaty. The two attended "a handsome attempt. Citizen
meant to look more natural, also the Bluetooth bionic hand,
citizen-reporter safety and monster regime-backed fluff journalists in areas both nearby
offered in two sizes, and comes makes your meaty one obsolete
remuneration, Demotix started fest: the Eurasia Media Forum." and far-flung deserve to feel like
complete with Bluetooth that originally appeared on Engadget
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8coupons Geolocates Your Savings
Curt Hopkins (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 10:30:00 PM
For an average Joe, one of the
short-comings of coupons, and
of coupon sites, is the
motivation necessary to page
through, search, burrow and
worry your way through large
offerings to find something of
use to you. 8coupons is trying to
address this concern by
marrying its offerings to
geolocation.
When I enter my location -
Eugene, Oregon - the coupons
available for my use populate an
interactive local map. I can get a
free burrito at Chipotle's, a deal
at Walgreen's, a "green phone"
for $10 at T-Mobile and a break
on Nutri-Dog at Petco.
Sponsor
National coupons good
anywhere are also featured and a
series of tabs across the top let
you drill down to areas of
interest like services, beauty and
spa offerings or entertainment.
Click through a coupon and you
find not only the offering but a
Best of 2010
(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
Coarsely chopped almonds, two
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cane syrup help give Upside-
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r i c h f l a v o r
and our highest rating. "Easy
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list of every person or group that If nothing else, the site gives a
has posted an offering and a link
that takes you to the details of
defined sense of community to
the lonely job of clipping
How to create your own
the deal and the action point.
The site takes advantage of
coupons and saving cash.
The site is fairly robust.
Micro SIM card using a
community input to put deals up
or down in the mix. "Is this a
Nationally, the company says it
currently has 194,720 deals chef knife and some scissors
real deal?" you're asked at each nationwide. These deals come in Vladislav Savov (Engadget) bulkier original ones are
coupon, and vote either plus or from a multitude of source, not electrically identical, so there's
Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:42:00 AM
minus. least among them a 150,000- no threat of harm by using them
It strikes me that there is member coupon community. We told you you could shave interchangeably, though we
nonetheless a lot of clicking one Merchants can also sign up and
down your old and busted SIM can't say the same thing about
needs to do to find the buried use on-site tools to create and
cards and turn them into minty the tools that get you there. As
treasure. Perhaps that's part of disburse coupons. Major coupon
fresh Micro SIMs, didn't we? always, we advise trying to rope
the hunt for a coupon lover. For groups like Valpak, MoneyAn industrious Londoner by the someone else into doing the
this average Joe it's a bit Mailer and Red Plum partner
name of John Benson has gone work for you -- less chance of
tedious. Another element that with the site. Finally, a group of
and proven that concept with the hurting yourself that way. Hit
might make it more usable to about 20 regional deal blogs,
help of some cutting implements the source for more.
such as we would be mobile like Chicago's Fantabulously
and an original Micro SIM to [Thanks, Brandon]
versions of each, or most, or at Frugal, NYC Recession Diary
use as a reference. His saintly How to create your own Micro
least some of these coupons. If and New Orleans on the Cheap
patience resulted in his being SIM card using a chef knife and
such a thing exists here I'm pitch in. Discuss able to negotiate the Vodafone some scissors originally
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TUAW's Daily App: John Enock's
Quaso
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:00:00 AM
Filed under: iPhone We've been
spotlighting a lot of quick and
easy action games in our Daily
App feature lately, so here's
something a little more cerebral.
Quaso is a new kind of
Crossword-style puzzle game,
except that instead of guessing
words, you're trying to figure
out numbers in math equations.
The game was created by an
English mathematics teacher
named John Enock, and has
been brought to the iPhone by a
developer as John Enock's
Quaso, now available on the
App Store for free.
Here's how it works. For every
crossword line on the board,
you're given a set of math
equations with the numbers
missing. There's one total
number for every puzzle (say,
6), and then for each equation,
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you need to figure out how
another set of numbers fits in to
complete the clue and make the
equation equal to the total
number. In other words, given
the clue(*+*) x (*-*), and the
answer of 6, you'd eventually
work out that the numbers
should be (1+2) x (5-3), and
then put 1, 2, 5, and 3 in each
than 20 minutes to cook!
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spot on the answer. But that
answer line has to match up to
any that it intersects with, so
you may need to switch the
numbers around -- (2+1) instead
of (1+2) -- for it all to work.
It's fiendishly clever, and it
really puts your brain to work,
especially if (like me) you're not
that great at casual math. But
there are a ton of puzzles to
work through, and then you can
even buy a puzzle pack via in-
app purchase for more.
Especially at the current price of
free, Quaso is a mathematical
brain teaser that you shouldn't
miss.
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Euro Bank CDS Go
Vertical (BNP, FIA)
Gregory White (The Money
Game)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:28:20 AM
Major European banks are
feeling the pressure from the
Greek crisis and starting to show
significant signs of market
worry in their CDS. BNP
Paribas, which has seen its CDS
dramatically rise throughout
April, announced$6.4 billion in
exposure to the Greek market
this morning.
From CMA Datavision:
Non-German European auto
makers have seen their CDS
spreads widen as well, with the
Italian giant Fiat and French
manufacturer Renault showing
dramatic increases.
E-reader News Edition
From CMA Datavision:
Airlines, which have been put
under stress by the profit-
sucking Iceland volcano ash
crisis, have too seen their CDS
rise as a response to market
worries. Notably British
Airways, which recently merged
with Iberian Airways, has seen a
large widening as their key
London hubs were shut for
several days during the heights
of the crisis.
From CMA Datavision:
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Clearwire WiMAX to cover 120 million prospective HTC

EVO 4G owners by end of year
Thomas Ricker (Engadget)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:13:00 AM
With the HTC EVO dual-mode
3G/4G handset launching this
summer (and nearly ready for
pre-order) with built-in hotspot
capability, we've got a pretty
good idea what all you US
Americans are wondering: is
WiMAX available in my city?
Well, buried inside the
Clearwire financials is mention
of the 19 additional cities
scheduled for WiMAXing this
summer, joining the 32 markets
(pictured above) and 41 million
people already served by its 4G
network offering 3Mbps to
6Mbps average downloads with
an occasional 10Mbps peak:
Clearwire also today announced
plans to launch 4G mobile
broadband service in 19
additional cities this summer,
including previously announced
markets Kansas City, KS; St.
Louis, MO; Salt Lake City, UT,
and the core area of
Washington, D.C. and newly
announced markets Nashville,
TN; Daytona, Orlando and
Tampa, FL; Rochester and
Syracuse, NY; Merced,
Modesto, Stockton, and Visalia,
CA; Wilmington, DE; Grand
Rapids, MI; Eugene, OR; and
Yakima and Tri-Cities, WA.
Things will get really interesting
later in 2010 when Clearwire
and Sprint take their 4G mobile
broadband network to New
York City, Los Angeles, Boston,
Denver, Minneapolis, the San
Francisco Bay Area, Miami,
Cincinnati, Cleveland and
Pittsburgh for a 120 million
person strong data footprint.
LTE who?
Clearwire WiMAX to cover
120 million prospective HTC
EVO 4G owners by end of year
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MyTown updates to version 3.1, adds collectibles and social

features
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial then use to customize the possibly primed for a
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) properties you "own"), as well partnership. We'll have to wait
Submitted at 5/6/2010 9:00:00 AM as more social features. You can and see what happens.
now browse through the top TUAW MyTown updates to
Filed under: iPhone MyTown is trending properties, see your version 3.1, adds collectibles
one of the hottest things going most frequent check-ins, and and social features originally
on the App Store right now in browse through where your appeared on The Unofficial
terms of social apps. As we friends are going out to and Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu,
mentioned in the interview with checking-in from. 06 May 2010 09:00:00 EST.
CEO Keith Lee a while back, Additionally, Booyah tells us Please see our terms for use of
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the app, which introduces more average player of the game kind of usage stats that Rule splash screen, odds are that
collectible rewards earned by spends "more than an hour a day Ngmoco's Neil Young would the two companies are at least
checking-in to certain local, real within the app." That's kind of drool over. Considering that sharing notes and, at most,
life locations (which you can incredible, but if it's true, that's
36 Technology/ Economy/
Lower Merion, PA school district
denouement: cleared of spying
charges
Laura June (Engadget)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 9:08:00 AM
The long, intense saga over in
Lower Merion, Pennsylvania --
in which lawsuits were filed
alleging that the school district
used students' laptops to spy on
them -- may be nearing its end.
The class action suit was filed
back in February claiming that
the school district had made use
of "unauthorized, inappropriate
and indiscriminate remote
activation" of webcams in
laptops issued to students," with
the school countering that it had
some security features that
allowed the laptops to be
tracked in case of loss or theft,
but that those features hadn't
been used to track students in
any way. The case got more
complicated of course, with
webcam usage allegations, as
well as evidence that plenty of
photos had been captured by the
spy-crazy school district. Well,
now an attorney hired by the
school district says a report's
been released that says there is
no evidence of spying on the
part of the school district, after
all. It's all pretty boring after all
the hubbub, and it turns out to
be likely that the school was just
tracking the laptop (which
wasn't actually a school-issued
laptop, but a loaner given to a
student while his actual unit was
repaired) in order to get it back
over outstanding insurance fees.
Nothing too exciting here, but if
you're interested in the rest of
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Retail Sales Confirm That Wall Street Got
WAY Too Optimistic About The Recovery
(GAP, ARO, COST, DDS, ANF, HOTT)
Vincent Fernando, CFA (The same store sales expectations vs.
Money Game) 9 meeting or beating
Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:40:44 AM expectations.
13 companies have reported
After March same store retail negative year over year SSS,
sales (SSS) rose by a 9.1% year while only 9 reported growth.
over year thanks to an early Standout outperformers have
Easter, analysts had far more b e e n G a p ( G A P ) a n d
the story, hit up those source subdued expectations of 1.7% A e r o p o s t a l e ( A R O ) :
links. growth for April according to While some ugly misses have
Lower Merion, PA school Reuters. come out for Costco (COST),
district denouement: cleared of Yet the majority of retailers Dillards (DDS), Abercrombie
s p y i n g c h a r g e s o r i g i n a l l y who have reported so far have (ANF), and Hot Topic (HOTT):
appeared on Engadget on Thu, missed these lower expectations. Don't miss: 10 things that could
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Enter to win a copy of Fruit Ninja
from TUAW and Halfbrick Studios
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 5/5/2010 11:00:00 PM
Filed under: Deals I wrote
about Fruit Ninja last week, and
since then it's been very popular
on the App Store. Creators
Halfbrick Studios tell us it's sold
quite well so far. The game's
simple, but well-polished and a
lot of pick-up-and-play fun. It's
only $1, so there's no reason not
to go over and get it yourself.
Just in case you haven't, though,
Halfbrick has sent us a few
promo codes for the game to
give away to five lucky TUAW
commenters.
Want to win a copy of Fruit
Ninja?
Here are the rules:
• Open to legal US residents of
the 50 United States and the
District of Columbia who are 18
and older.
• To enter, leave a comment on
this post telling us what kind of
fruit you like slashing most.
• The comment must be left
before midnight EST on
Thursday, May 6th, 2010.
• You may enter only once.
• 5 winners will be selected in a
random drawing.
• Prize: A promo code
redeemable for a copy of Fruit
Ninja (Value: US$0.99 )
• Click Here for complete
Official Rules.
Good luck to everyone who
enters!
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Last-Minute Mother’s
Day Gifts
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
Blogs)
Vosges Haute Chocolate, I’m
Submitted at 5/5/2010 6:48:52 PM willing to explore my
adventurous side. My personal
Still haven’t gotten your mom a favorite is the Exotic Truffle
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however, make sure it’s worth paprika, and ginger, to name a
the wait. Here, my top three few).
picks for Mother’s Day (mom, I 3. Beauty Salves. I don’t know
hope you’re not reading this). what your mom’s purse looks
—Emily Hebert like but despite the fact that my
1. Spa Gift Certificate. After brother and I are grown, my
taking care of you as a kid, mom mom continues to carry a
deserves a little taking care of multipocket bag chock-full of
too. And a soothing spa items for every possible
treatment is just the right situation: Kleenex, gum, Band-
medicine! I wish my mom lived Aids, paper, pen—you name it,
in New York or Miami, because she has it. The one thing that’s
I’d book her an appointment at not a given? Hand lotion. She’s
the Setai Club Spa in a second. I always running out! Enter
went to the recently opened Jurlique Rose Hand Cream, an
NYC location last weekend and all-natural moisturizing must.
got the best deep tissue massage A d d t h e b r a n d ’ s I n t e n s e
ever. Not that I needed it—as I Recovery Mask to the mix, and
sipped green tea in the waiting you’ve got the new Rebecca
lounge surrounded by Zen- Taylor Jurlique combo(available
inducing music, I felt my stress through the end of the month).
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2. Unique Sweets. I’m a Plain Lounge, courtesy of The Setai
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38 Technology/ Culture/
Former US Labor Secretary on
antitrust investigation: "Hands off
Apple"
Chris Rawson (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:00:00 PM
Filed under: iPhone If you want
a preview of how this
nonsensical antitrust
investigation against Apple is
going to play out, look no
farther than Robert Reich, US
Secretary of Labor during the
Clinton administration. Reich
has written in defense of Apple
regarding the possibly
forthcoming antitrust
investigations. He notes that the
investigations are taking place
because o f Apple's disallowing
of third-party programming
tools like Flash CS5 when
writing apps for the iPhone.
"What's wrong with that?"
Reich asks. "Apple says it's
necessary to maintain quality. If
consumers disagree they can
buy platforms elsewhere."
Ditch The Morning Drag by Creating a New Routine [Habits]
Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 6:30:00 AM
If you've been dragging
An expert in US labor law, who
was once the secretary in charge
of labor policy in the US, sees
no problem with Apple's
practices regarding development
for its platform. Case closed,
Adobe. Thanks for playing.
Read on to find out why this
investigation started in the first
place.
yourself out of bed lately it
might be time to reboot your
morning routine and introduce a
new morning ritual—or
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Secretary on antitrust
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Top 5 Myths About
Apple
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
1997 -- as the company was in
the midst of a steep decline
Like many other successful tech [source: The Apple Museum].
companies, Apple, Inc. is a That decline may have been
myth magnet. There's a simple fortuitous, as no one saw the
reason for this: The Cupertino, iMac coming. No one predicted
C a l i f . - b a s e d c o m p a n y i s the revolutionary impact of the
shrouded in secrecy. The press iPod and iPhone, either. As a
and Internet message boards are r e s u l t o f t h e s e i n s a n e l y
rife with rumors about Apple's successful products, Apple
next big product release -- a f a i t h f u l a w a i t t h e a n n u a l
secret guarded more closely MacWorld conference as if
than the plot twists contained in Steve Jobs were a divine oracle
the next Dan Brown novel. instead of an extremely savvy
The mystique surrounding the businessman with a limited
company is both justified and wardrobe.
hard-earned. Apple was founded For all of Apple's rock-star
in 1976 and found success status in the tech world, there's
quickly with the invention of the still a lot that we don't know
Apple I personal computer (PC). about the company. Here, we'll
However, it was the advent of debunk five myths about Apple,
the Macintosh in 1984 (and the in no particular order. Mystery
classic television commercial solved -- or is it?
that launched it) that would Five Filters featured article:
make Apple famous. It wouldn't The Art of Looking Prime
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Apple's Seamlessly Embedded Heart Ryan Phillippe Takes a

Rate Monitor could turn the iPhone Break From Revealing
into a new-age mood ring
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 7:44:00 AM
Nike is making millions from
its Apple-friendly wares,
designed to turned technophiles
into fitness freaks. Imagine the
possibilities if the iPhone could
not only track your running
stride but also monitor your
heart rate while doing it. That's
one of a suite of potential uses
for this patent app from Apple, a
Seamlessly Embedded Heart
Rate Monitor. The design is for
a series of electrodes that are,
well, seamlessly embedded into
the shell of a given device in
All
such a way that they are "not
visibly or haptically
distinguishable on the device."
The device could then, with a
touch, measure heart-rate,
uniquely identify a user, and
even "determine the user's mood
from the cardiac signals." Just
imagine the new flood of EKG-
related apps: iPalpitate, Murmur
Maker, Cardiac Arrest... the
possibilities are endless.
[Thanks, Staska]
Apple's Seamlessly Embedded
Heart Rate Monitor could turn
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3.6% in Q1, which was well
ahead of the 2.4% expected
growth. Unit labor costs also fell
1.6%, which was substantially
different to the 0.6% gain
expected.
BLS:
Nonfarm business sector labor
productivity increased at a 3.6
percent annual rate during the
first quarter of 2010, the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported today, with output
rising 4.4 percent and hours
worked rising 0.8 percent. (All
quarterly percent changes in this
release are seasonally adjusted
annual rates.) From the first
quarter of 2009 to the first
quarter of 2010, output
increased 3.1 percent while
hours fell 3.0 percent, yielding
an increase in productivity of
6.3 percent (tables A and 2).
This gain in productivity from
the same quarter a year ago was
the largest since output per hour
increased 7.0 percent over the
four-quarter period ending in the
first quarter of 1962.
...
Unit labor costs in nonfarm
businesses fell 1.6 percent in the
first quarter of 2010, as the 3.6
percent increase in productivity
outpaced a 1.9 percent gain in
hourly compensation. Unit
labor costs fell 3.7 percent over
the last four quarters, as the 6.3
percent increase in productivity
outpaced a 2.3 percent rise in
hourly compensation (tables A
and 2).
...
Manufacturing sector
productivity grew 2.5 percent in
the first quarter of 2010, as
output rose 7.5 percent and
hours worked increased 4.9
percent, the first increase in
hours since the second quarter
of 2007. Gains in productivity,
output, and hours were each
larger in the durable goods
sector than in the nondurable
goods sector (tables A, 3, 4 and
5). Unit labor costs in
manufacturing declined 3.7
percent in the first quarter of
2010 and fell 6.1 percent over
the last four quarters. The four-
quarter decline was the largest
in the series, which begins in the
first quarter of 1988.
...
Fourth quarter and annual 2009
measures of productivity and
costs were announced for the
nonfinancial corporate sector
(tables C and 6). Output per
employee hour rose 8.2 percent
for the fourth quarter of 2009 as
output and hours rose 8.5
percent and 0.3 percent,
respectively.
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Submitted at 5/5/2010 6:20:00 PM
When it blasts into theaters this
week, Iron Man 2 kicks off a
summer movie season
dominated not by superheroes or
well-known sci-fi brands but by
fresh characters that might
launch cinematic franchises of
their own.
The most intriguing films
headed for theaters over the next
four months promise a number
of captivating concepts. You
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Jolie as a sexy CIA spy or
Michael Cera as a bass-playing
nerd, right? And the Guillermo
Del Toro-produced, DNA-
themed freak show Splice could
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There's Only One Kind Of Bailout
That Works, And That's A Dumb
Bailout (AIG, GS)
Joe Weisenthal (The Money
Game)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:23:19 AM
In his morning note, RBS
strategist Tim Ash makes an
important observation regarding
the ongoing crisis in Europe,
and how it differs from past
crisis.
In many respects it reminds me
of the run up to the April 2009
G20 London
summit, when Emerging
Europe was in the eye of the
storm and clearly in crisis.
The G20 London summit
turned sentiment because G20
states agreed to give
the IMF the firepower to tackle
the problem. The Fund dolled
out money first and
asked questions later. My sense
is that Europe needs to follow a
similar strategy.
Decisive action is now
required, but I worry that
Europe is simply unable to act
quickly enough. The
developing cycle/spiral needs
turning, and very, very fast.
Ash's comments are smart, but
are coming a little late. Europe
decided to ask questions first,
and then only drib out the cash
slowly (if at all-- Greece has yet
to receive a penny). Now it's too
late to put the genie back in the
bottle.
Ash could also include the US'
bank bailout, which "worked"
because the government
basically decided: We're going
to give the banks gobs and gobs
of cash in every way possible
(direct investments, preferred
stock investments, cheap
money, AIG (AIG) as a conduit
to Goldman Sachs (GS), etc.),
and then we'll ask questions
later. Remember, the initial
TARP proposal was just one
page, which basically said: Give
us lots of cash to do whatever
we want with.
If Bernanke and Paulson had
taken the Europe approach, and
demanded the banks offer
extensive details about what
exactly they were going to do
with their money, it probably
wouldn't have worked.
The problem, there, though is
that blank-check bailouts are
basically immoral, taking cash
from one party and giving it to
another party, and that's why
we're asking a lot of questions
now (in the form of SEC
charges and extensive hearings).
But if it's going to work, that's
probably the way it has to be.
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May 6, 1953: The Heart-Machine Age Begins

Alexis Madrigal (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 11:00:00 PM

1953: Philadelphia surgeon

John H. Gibbon Jr. performs the
first successful human-heart
surgery assisted by a heart-lung
machine.
For 26 minutes, Gibbon
unhooked his patient’s heart
from its usual vascular networks
and plugged the 18-year-old
woman’s arteries and veins into
a machine that oxygenated and
pumped blood. The operation
was the first to use a machine to
temporarily duplicate the
functions of the
cardiopulmonary system.
It confirmed what many had
suspected: Some aspects of
living are as mechanical as a
Model T.
The machine he used contained
four primary components: “a
venuous reservoir, an
oxygenator, a temperature
regulator for extracorporeal
blood and an arterial pump.”
The idea was quite literally to
take blood out, push oxygen gas
into it, and send it back out, so of heart surgery.” Before the headlined, “ Machine Hearts.” into the 1980s. their experimental animals was
that the machine could keep machine, the Times noted, the But with the new machine, “the The surgery was the over 80 percent. They
feeding the body while the surgeon had to operate on the heart was virtually dry, so that culmination of more than 20 persevered, though, and
surgeons did their work on the beating heart as it went about its the operating surgeon could see years of work by Gibbon and his eventually came up with the
biological heart. business of pumping blood. what he was doing.” wife Mary. Working on dogs right processes to simulate the
News of the operation ran in “The surgeon must grope and Under those circumstances, and cats, they designed, body’s heart and lungs. Or at
The New York Times and other rely on some mysterious power Gibbon was able to patch the engineered and troubleshot the least processes good enough to
major newspapers. Jefferson of divination born of his small congenital hole in the early versions of the machines try out in human beings and
Medical Hospital officials knowledge of anatomy and woman’s heart with no that would eventually be used in thereby interest the rest of the
trumpeted the achievement as physiology and his experience,” problems. The woman open-heart surgery.
MAY page 43
opening “ new vistas in the field the Times wrote in an article recovered and reportedly lived At first, the mortality rate for
E-reader News Edition Culture/ 43
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Stories) The Kindler This software-slinging sailor is l a b o r a t o r y . T h a t e v e n t • April 13, 1953: Bond Starts
Submitted at 5/5/2010 6:00:00 PM Jeff Bezos, chair and CEO of all about CRM: Clobbering stimulated investigators to move Shaking Things Up, Stirring His
Amazon.com Ruthless Miscreants. ahead at an almost frantic pace.” Fans
Illustration: Daniel Krall Net worth: Catchphrase: remarked Denton Cooley, • April 25, 1953: Riddle of
America’s Cup racing, angel $12.3 billion “My databases? Unbreakable. surgeon-in-chief of the Texas DNA's Architecture Finally
investing, philanthropy — tech By night: Your bones? Not.” Heart Institute in 1997. “Today, Solved
billionaires pursue such boring B y - t h e - b o o k h e r o h a s a The Superpoke open-heart procedures are • May 15, 1953: Cookin' Up
hobbies. Why can’t they be like p a t e n t e d o n e - p u n c h t h u g - Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of accomplished regularly with low Some Primordial Soup
Tony Stark, who uses his vast a p p r e h e n s i o n s y s t e m . Facebook risk, and extracorporeal • May 18, 1953: Jackie
fortune (estimated at $7.9 Catchphrase: Net worth: circulation is used not only for Cochran, First Woman to Break
billion) and tech know-how to “Congratulations, you qualify $4 billion cardiac conditions but for the Sound Barrier
become the superpowered do- for free shipping … to jail!” By night: diverse other conditions.” • May 29, 1953: Mt. Everest
gooder Iron Man? Here are a The Feature Creep Scans malefactors’ oversharing The successful operation did, in Conquered by Beekeeper, Local
few caped crusaders we’d like to Bill Gates, chair of Microsoft wall posts for details of fiendish fact, usher in a new era of Climber
see our favorite rich nerds Net worth: plots. cardiopulmonary surgery. • June 2, 1953: Coronation
transform into. $53 billion Catchphrase: Source: The New York Times, Shown on Global Kluge TV
The G-Men By night: “Status update: Your jaw is now Texas Heart Institute Journal • June 30, 1953: Corvette Adds
Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Doggedly pursues scofflaws, in a relationship with my fist!” Photos: 1) First version of the Some Fiber, Flair to American
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$35 billion (combined) Catchphrase: Ministerial - The 2010 UK used in the historic 1953 'We've Got the H-Bomb, Too'
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44 Culture/
Jessica Simpson Busts
Out a Sleek Black Look
For NYC Meetings
Molly (PopSugar)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:00:00 AM
Jessica Simpson was in sexy
businesswoman attire as she
stepped out of her hotel in NYC
yesterday. She was off to
meetings with her Macy's team
for all her many eponymous
lines, and afterward she
celebrated Cinco de Mayo with
dinner at Dos Caminos. Jessica
had her iPad to play with during
recent travels, which brought
her from LA to DC, back to
California, and East again in the
past week. When she was in
Washington for the White
House Correspondents' Dinner,
Jessica allegedly shared an
awkward run-in with her ex
Tony Romo who brought his
girlfriend Candice Crawford to
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Submitted at 5/6/2010 5:00:00 AM
High-quality fish is a must for
the event. According to Jessica
she's "feeling out" her own
romantic situations at the
moment and almost a year after
their split, her relationship with
Tony Romo already feels like
forever ago.
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more.
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sushi with raw fish. Food writer
Mark Bittman offers, as a
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What Sites Future Employers

Are Checking When Looking
at You [Job Search]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 6:00:00 AM

As part of a Data Privacy Day

report, Microsoft commissioned
a study of over 1,200 hiring and
recruitment managers. In one
segment, they asked what kinds
of sites they considered in Employment- Job Search-
researching applicants online. B usiness and Economy-
The short answer: almost O ceania- Australia
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Newsweek’s Circulation Now at

Snack Smart: McParfait 1966 Level (Newsmax - Inside Cover) weekly magazine space. Meacham “said that he was
WomansDay.com Editors at just 160 calories and 2 grams
(Daily Woman's Day Blog) Submitted at 5/6/2010 3:47:48 AM Key items from the Times considering putting together
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I try to stay away from fast on the dollar menu.
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'Joe the Plumber' Elected to GOP

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would be hurt economically by thinks gays are "queer" and said
Joe the Plumber is plunging an Obama presidency. he won't allow them near his
into party politics. Mr. Wurzelbacher has since children.
Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher, written a book, spoken at "I've had some friends that are
who was hailed by Republican conservative gatherings and actually homosexual. And, I
John McCain's presidential spent a few weeks as a war mean, they know where I stand,
campaign in 2008, won one of correspondent in the Gaza Strip. and they know that I wouldn't
nearly 400 seats on the local He's resisted calls to run for have them anywhere near my
Republican Party committee in Congress and has criticized children," he said. "But at the
Ohio's Lucas County. Democrats and Republicans same time, they're people, and
But don't call him Joe the alike. He's also taken shots at they're going to do their thing."
Politician just yet. Mr. McCain, confessing in his He also said that too many
The group he'll serve on meets book that he did not want him as Republicans use God "to invoke
only a few times a year to elect the Republican presidential sympathy or invoke
the county chairman and sets the nominee. righteousness, but they don't
party agenda. Mr. Wurzelbacher Mr. Wurzelbacher remains an stay the course."
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comment was left with him rally last month in Cincinnati be published, broadcast,
Wednesday. when he told the crowd not to rewritten or redistributed.
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Merely Mortal
Terrence Holt (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 5:17:17 PM
I still remember him. He was,
between gulps of oxygen, a
compulsive raconteur. Drawn
largely from the Korean war,
most of his stories were
elaborate jokes that, obliquely,
appallingly, reflected on his
current situation: Surrounded at
Chosin Reservoir, his toes
freezing off, “We fought our
way out. Know why? Ran out of
smokes!” Then he would laugh,
going blue before managing to
begin, like Scheherazade,
another tale. He dreaded being
alone.
Except several times a day,
when someone would find his
oxygen line trailing out of his
room into the adjacent stairwell.
The light spilling in through the
opening door would catch him,
carefully alternating puffs on the
oxygen with a lit cigarette. “Are
you crazy?” I said the first time
I found him there. “Do you want
to go up in smoke?” “Doc,” he
husked, taking a last drag as
deeply as he could. “Bit late to
be. Worrying ’bout that.”
It was hard not to admire him.
Which was why, one morning,
three days before he died, it took
me a while to realize he was
crying. “Doc,” he croaked, as I
fiddled with his oxygen valve.
“Isn’t there. Anything. You can.
Do?” I was puzzled by this.
What did he have in mind?
“Can’t you. Get me. A lung
transplant?” And then, his face
crumpled as sobs fought for
possession of his airway.
The rest of that day and the
next, every time I walked into
his room, he asked me the same
question. Bringing it up
reminded both of us that I’d
seen him cry, but he was past
caring. After a while, I stopped
trying to explain: The long,
careful process of selection, the
cold logic of the transplant
committee. It felt cruel to go on
about it. It was clear he wasn’t
listening: The question had
become another kind of story,
something to keep me there a
little longer.
On the morning he died, as they
wheeled his bed out of the room
toward the intensive care unit, I
realized I wasn’t thinking
realistically about his chances. I
was thinking instead,
fantastically, “If only we could
get him a lung transplant.”
If our long, evasive encounter
with mortality teaches us
anything, it is the power of
denial. Harder to understand is
what shapes that
denial—something I have come
to think of as the medical
imaginary. We expect medicine
to do the impossible. How else
do we account for a man who
can smoke himself to death and
still believe, to the last minute,
in the possibility of rescue? This
fantasy of medicine’s
omnipotence takes a variety of
forms: wishful, fearful, angry,
even vengeful. The power and
persistence of such fantasies
suggests a source deep in the
human psyche, in beliefs mere
knowledge cannot shake.
Medicine is all about
knowledge, but there are things
we cannot—or will not—know.
Much of this knowledge we
gain, if we ever do, through
tragedy. It was such a tragedy
that culminated, a few years
ago, in a U.S. appeals court
decision. A young woman was
dying of cancer. Her only hope,
her doctors said, was an
experimental compound. It was
not yet approved for treating
cancer; it hadn’t been tested for
effectiveness, or even completed
safety trials. But the patient,
judged unfit for enrollment in
the trials, was denied the last
hope she, and medicine, could
imagine. Her survivors, aided by
an advocacy group, felt that a
wrong had been done to a
“young cancer victim who
perished because she was not
able to access an experimental
cancer drug.” Seeking to spare
others this fate, they sued the
Food and Drug Administration,
arguing that its procedures
violated a right of access to
“effective drugs.” The court,
hearing the case on appeal, held
otherwise.
It is impossible, at this distance,
to apprehend fully the grief that
found expression in that suit, or
how the court’s opinion must
have added to its weight. Yet the
substance in question was not an
“effective drug”—at the time,
there was no evidence of effect
at all. And, even though it has
since been found “effective,”
what does that mean? It means
that patients receiving it live, on
average, 81 days longer than
otherwise. The drug does not
cure.
Eighty-one days of life can be
an enormous gift. To a grieving
family, the loss of those days is
a wound that never heals. But
false hope is no gift. It spares no
one any grief. It seems to me
crueler in the end, an unwitting
kind of torture, to draw out hope
where there is none. To me, the
most important lesson this
tragedy can teach is in the
margins: that the imaginary
found its voice not in the
grieving family (why should
grief have patience with the
law?), but in the medical
establishment, which also
clutched at hope where there
was none. As doctors, we should
know better. But, apparently,
none of us does.
The medical imaginary
magnifies the power of
medicine not only to help, but
also to harm. Consider a brief
notice that appeared recently in
The Lancet, retracting an article
published over a decade earlier.
The article described children
who started showing signs of
autism shortly after
immunization against measles,
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mumps, and rubella. Although
the original article flatly denied
any claim of causal connection,
in the aftermath of its
publication, statements by the
lead investigator were widely
interpreted in the media as
suggesting otherwise. Some
parents understandably avoided
vaccinating their children. Over
the following decade, the
incidence of measles in England
increased by over 2,000 percent,
producing one or two
preventable deaths each year—a
small number, one could say,
except such grief knows no
scale.
The Lancet withdrew the
article, but the fears it stirred
went viral long ago. Vaccines
have always been controversial:
Witness James Gillray’s 1802
print (seen below) mocking the
rhetoric of “ye anti-vaccine
Society.” The depiction of the
vaccination’s grotesque results
refers comically to the source
(pus from a cowpox blister) of
the smallpox vaccine. These
images satirize the fears that
surrounded this new, untested
medical technology, fears that
still echo in the nightmares
conjured by genetic engineering.
But they resonate back in time
as well. The framed picture
hanging in the background
shows the Children of Israel
worshipping the Golden Calf.
The printmaker’s choice of a
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The Government We Deserve
Howard Jacobson (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 3:06:49 PM
If an election is a battle for the
soul of a country, the question
one's left asking after this
election is whether Britain in
2010 has a soul to battle over.
Where were the big ideas?
Where was the conviction of
high purpose? Where was the
heart?
The Tories trumpeted “change,”
which is hardly a purpose, and
alluded intermittently to “the
great society,” a concept that
amounted to no more than
letting people do what
government no longer had the
stomach or the cash for. The
Liberal Democrats rode in with
some success on the Tories'
“change” ticket, since they
could be said to be offering a
change from both parties, but
their only justification for
change was “fairness”—a
smaller, more querulous thing
than justice. And New Labour
forgot what it was for entirely,
campaigning desperately at the
last merely to keep the other
parties out. Better the devil you
know than the devil you don't.
Not exactly a big idea.
So what has this election been
about?
Television, is one answer. This
is the year British politics went
presidential, the three party
leaders—Cameron for the
Conservatives, Clegg for the
Liberal Democrats, and Gordon
B r o w n f o r N e w
Labour—agreeing for the first
time to a series of televised
debates. It would be no
exaggeration to say that these
debates seized the attention of
the country as little else has
since Tony Blair smiled the
Tories out of power in 1997.
What they showed us of our
political leaders that we hadn't
seen already is hard to say.
Perhaps the simple gladiatorial
nature of the debates, the three
of them toe-to-toe, no matter
how many ground rules
restricting combat had been laid
down, energized us. Perhaps we
were relieved to seem them
answering one another rather
than the inquisitors of the
media, who have grown as
predictable as those they
inquisition. Or, most likely, the
debates picked up where
Britain's Got Talent and the X-
Factor left off: We were doing
what television has accustomed
us to do, scrutinizing contestants
for their likeability.
Weighing in with a likeability
factor not everyone knew he
had, Nick Clegg became an
instant star, dulling not only
Gordon Brown, which, by his
own admission, isn't hard to do,
but also dulling the would-be
glossy Cameron too, and
thereby throwing the contest for
change wide open. We should
have seen this coming. It had
been clear for a long time, both
from polls and the tenor of
public conversation, that
although the country was weary
after 13 years of New
Labour—two unpopular wars,
the scandals involving MPs and
their expenses, the meltdown of
the banks and the ever-widening
gap between rich and poor—it
couldn't get itself excited by the
Conservatives. Same old same
old to replace same old same old
doesn't get the pulses racing.
Enter Nick Clegg. He looked
good on television, and that was
enough, in a medium which isn't
friendly to ideas, to start the
country thinking that it could
make a change without that
change having to be too drastic.
Clegg was a break from Labour
but not a break too far. And not
a break too far from Cameron
either, both Clegg and Cameron
being ex-public school boys
possessed of that born-to-govern
air which we thought had
vanished from British political
life but which has made a
surprise return, not impossibly
as a reaction against the
grasping entrepreneurial spirit of
the new money men. Perhaps
without realizing it, the British
are slowly crawling back to the
old idea that a member of the
landed gentry has less reason to
be greedy than, for example, a
Tony Blair, and will therefore
serve us more disinterestedly.
The charm debates saw Gordon
Brown off, anyway.
Intellectually, he ran away with
at least two of them, but
television is cruel to intellect.
Throughout this campaign
Brown was ill-served by his
advisors, who tried to make a
grinning Malvolio of him, when
his strength is a cold,
disapproving clarity. "This may
have the feel of a TV popularity
contest," he unwisely conceded
in the third debate, so "if it's all
about style and P.R. count me
out." Since it was all about style
and P.R—hadn't Blair made
New Labour all about style and
P.R.?—that amounted to a
technical knockout delivered by
himself. You don't monkey
about with television. You
accept its rules or you stay well
clear of it.
By the time of that third debate,
Brown was already a wounded
man, again partly as a result of
an act of self-harming, this time
his failure to check whether his
microphone was off when he
called a woman we'd just seen
him Brown-nosing on television
"bigoted." Known thereafter as
Bigotgate, this incident roused
the British press to levels of
sanctimoniousness and
hypocrisy unusual even by its
standards. If soul had been
lacking from the campaign so
far, here finally it was: pretend
blue-collar Britain outraged by
this elitist attack on one of its
own.
The issue was immigration, a
touchy subject in Britain at any
time, but especially vexed in
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places where the Polish
population is high and job
prospects are low. The woman
whom Brown called a bigot
instantly became another
Boadicea for daring to say what
every true born Brit was
thinking. Her actual question
was, "All these Eastern
Euopeans what are coming in,
where are they flocking from?"
Some commentators went so far
as to call this small-minded
complaint magnificent in its
baffled oratory, the eloquence of
an ordinary person speaking out
of her ordinary pain. In fact,
bigotry is a perfectly good word
for it. But you cannot call the
people pig ignorant, no matter
how pig ignorant they are. And
rather than stick to his guns,
Brown recognised his blunder
and set about Brown-nosing her
again.
Much of the small-talk of this
election has been about
numbers, the unfairness of our
“first past the post” electoral
system which can put a party
with the smaller popular vote in
power. But Bigotgate was the
moment to despair over the very
principle of democracy itself.
“The people stink,” Bill Maher
said in an interview with Larry
King a couple of months ago,
when Obama's health care plans
were stuck fast in the mud of
uneducated populism. In fact, it
probably isn't the people
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Five Reasons the UK General Election Matters to the United
States
Nile Gardiner (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 3:00:34 PM
British voters go to the polls on
Thursday in the tightest political
race in the UK in a generation.
Several opinion polls have
indicated the strong possibility
of a hung parliament, with a
Conservative minority
government led by David
Cameron as prime minister. In
order to guarantee passage of
legislation under this scenario,
the Conservatives would be
forced to negotiate with other
political parties, significantly
weakening the government’s
power. Other polls,
concentrating on key marginal
seats, have pointed to a small
Conservative majority, which
would give Cameron, if elected,
a far stronger mandate to lead
on his own.
Here are five key reasons why
the United States and American
foreign policy may be directly
affected by the outcome of this
week’s election in
Washington’s closest ally on the
world stage.
1. The British Economy
Britain is facing a massive
deficit crisis, which the next
government will have to deal
with. Unless the UK implements
huge cuts in public spending, it
could eventually face a Greek-
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style economic meltdown. The The Iranian nuclear threat is
U.S. and British economies are likely to be the top foreign
closely interlinked through policy issue confronting the
investment stock worth over United States and Great Britain
$800 billion, with about a over the next two years. The
million American jobs Conservatives are notably more
depending on British companies hawkish than the other major
and vice versa. UK direct parties on Iran, and have made
investment accounts for a fifth it clear they will support the use
of all foreign direct investment of force if necessary against
in the U.S. A hung parliament Iran’s nuclear facilities. David
this Friday, which is a distinct Cameron is likely to seek a
possibility, would make it prominent leadership role for
significantly more difficult to Britain on the world stage on the
bring about much needed Iranian nuclear question. In
economic reform in Britain, and contrast, the Liberals are
would have an immediately adamantly opposed to any
negative effect on the world’s military action against Tehran,
two biggest financial markets in and have been almost
m e d i a . I f G o r d o n B r o w n three main parties are against an
London and New York. completely silent on the Iranian
survives as prime minister, there immediate withdrawal of forces,
2. The “Special Relationship” issue. Prime Minister Gordon
is little likelihood of a recovery despite strong public opposition
Under Gordon Brown and Brown has been relatively low
in the “special relationship,” to the war. However, a hung
Barack Obama, the Anglo- key on Iran, unlike his French
with significant tensions and a parliament with a minority
American “special relationship” counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy,
distinct lack of chemistry government in place would
has reached its lowest point on a and if he remains in Downing
between the PM and his U.S. m a k e a f i r m l o n g - t e r m
political level since the Suez Street he is unlikely to play a
counterpart. If left-wing Liberal commitment to the war a far
Crisis of 1956. Rebuilding it leading role in addressing the
leader Nick Clegg plays a role more difficult proposition for
will be a priority for a Iranian threat.
i n t h e n e x t B r i t i s h the public. In addition, if the
Conservative government, and 5. The War on Terror
administration, he will press Liberal Democrats have any
David Cameron is likely to seek The British election will have
strongly for a pro-European role or influence in the next
a strong partnership with the important implications for the
approach, which downplays the government, they are likely to
White House, even though UK’s national security strategy.
alliance with Washington as press for a more rapid exit
President Obama has been The Conservatives are likely to
well as the broader transatlantic strategy for Afghanistan. It is
indifferent, and at times even back most aspects of the U.S.-
alliance. also important to note that
hostile, towards Britain. It led war on terror, and of the
3. The War in Afghanistan NATO is not even mentioned in
remains to be seen of course three British parties they are by
Britain has 10,000 troops the Liberal party manifesto, a
whether the Obama far the most committed to
fighting in Afghanistan, and is c l e a r s i g n o f w h e r e t h e i r
administration will shift this addressing the threat of Islamist
the largest contributor to the thinking lies on the Afghan
stance, which has come under
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increasing fire in the British
United States. At present, all 4. The Iranian Nuclear Crisis
50 Politics/
Roughed Up by the PC Police
Michelle Cottle (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 11:00:00 PM
Catching up on the political
chat shows last week, I
stumbled across Sarah Palin and
Sean Hannity enthusing about
Arizona’s hot new immigration
law. Unsurprisingly, both Fox
Newsies approve of HB 2162,
which requires police to check
the immigration status of
anyone “stop[ped], detain[ed],
or arrest[ed]” whom they
suspect is here illegally. Both
also scoff at “the left’s”
concerns that the measure will
result in racial profiling. Touting
fellow conservative Byron
York’s Washington Examiner
column about how the
“carefully crafted” law
explicitly forbids focusing
solely on race or ethnicity,
Hannity blamed hysterical libs
and cynical journalists for
misrepresenting the measure and
fomenting discontent. Palin
could not have agreed more.
Assuring viewers that “there is
no ability or opportunity in there
for the racial profiling,” she
scolded both “the lamestream
media” and, more pointedly, the
Obama administration for
“perpetuating this myth that
racial profiling is a part of this
law.”
Listening to the exchange, all I
could think was: What a bunch
of chicken-shit, PC wimps.
Since when did conservatives in
this country get squeamish
about racial profiling? I realize
many people find the practice
constitutionally indefensible.
But conservatives, God love
‘em, usually spurn such
squeamishness.
Indeed, post-9-11,
conservatives have touted racial
and ethnic profiling as the
greatest homeland security tool
since waterboarding. Not only
do they embrace it, but they also
decry the dearth of aggressive
profiling as a sign of the PC
madness crippling this nation.
For years after the attacks, you
could not open a newspaper or
flip on the television without
seeing some revved-up
conservative hyperventilating
about how airport screeners
needed to be given a more
sensible mandate: strip search
anyone who looked like he’d
ever tasted a falafel and stop
harassing our fair-haired
daughters and dangerously frail
grandmothers.
Channeling all this energy,
New York Representative Peter
King, then chairman of the
House Homeland Security
Committee, proposed a measure
in 2006 that would have
subjected anyone of South
Asian or Middle Eastern descent
to increased airport screening.
We all know what enemies of
the state look like, goes the
argument; if libs would stop
wringing their hands about
constitutional niceties, we could
get around to making this a
much safer nation.
Now, I’m content to let the
experts haggle over profiling’s
efficacy and constitutionality.
This is a long and storied debate
(before Islamist terrorists, the
focus was on African-American
men), and far be it from me to
relitigate it in the course of a
single column. But seeing as
how the right has staked out
such a bold pro-profiling
position, why back away from it
now?
Surely most conservatives don’t
actually believe “there is no
ability or opportunity for
profiling” in Arizona. Doesn’t
that seem a touch naive for the
cold-eyed Daddy Party?
Regardless of how carefully
crafted the law’s language, its
messy, real-world application
won’t crack the door to profiling
so much as remove the door
from its hinges and vaporize the
sucker. Just ask a black kid
cruising through a white
neighborhood at night how little
it takes to get stopped for
looking “suspicious.”
But let’s assume conservatives
do think profiling is off the table
in this case. Why then aren’t
they furious? I mean, if ever
there was a homeland security
issue where racial profiling
made sense, this would seem to
be it. Islamic terrorists have
been known to throw an
occasional curveball into the
mix (Jose Padilla: ethnic Puerto
Rican; Richard Reid: of
Jamaican descent; Jihad Jane:
garden-variety crazy white
woman). By contrast, the
Mexican illegals driving
Arizonans round the bend are,
by definition, Mexican. And in
the frenzy to round ‘em up and
ship ‘em back, demanding
documentation from frail, pasty-
faced grandmas would be even
more absurd at a DUI
checkpoint in Nogales than in a
security line at JFK. If
essentially 100 percent of
people impacted by this law
don’t belong to a single ethnic
minority, we’re talking about a
waste of law enforcement
resources.
So why get touchy about
profiling now? Who can say?
Maybe the more colorful
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elements of the Tea Party have
the entire right wing edgy about
being labeled racist. Or perhaps
even conservative Republicans
are loath to admit their
willingness to trample the rights
of all Latinos—just in case the
GOP ever wants to try and win
back that demographic. Or
maybe Palin still has a note
scribbled on her palm from her
days on the McCain campaign:
Profiling Bad. Whatever the
cause, the panicky rush by some
on the right not just to distance
this law from profiling but also
to imply that they regard the
practice itself as distasteful
(how dare Obama suggest such
a thing is possible!), is
pathetic—uncharacteristically
so.
One of the more admirable
qualities of the conservative
movement is members’ usual
willingness to stick by their
principals even at the risk of
looking extreme. But with this
Arizona business, Palin et al
look suspiciously like they’re
struggling to have it both ways.
That may not qualify as political
correctness exactly, but it
definitely smacks of political
cowardice.
Michelle Cottle is a senior
editor of The New Republic.
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The Reverse Katrina
E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 11:00:00 PM
WASHINGTON—Ever heard
the one about the guy who hated
government until a deregulated
Wall Street crashed, an oil spill
devastated the Gulf of Mexico, a
coal mine collapsed, and some
good police work stopped a
terrorist attack?
Rarely has the news of the day
run so counter to the spin on the
news of the day. It's hard to
argue that the difficulties we
confront were caused by an
excessively powerful "big"
government. Rather, most of
them arose from the
government's failure to do its
job in the first place.
The central tasks of democratic
government, after all, typically
involve standing up for the
many against the few, the less
powerful against the more
powerful. Government is
supposed to make sure that
corporations are properly
supervised when they turn
public resources (the
environment in the Gulf of
Mexico, for example) into
private gain. It is charged with
protecting those with weaker
bargaining positions (coal
miners, for example) against the
harm that those in stronger
bargaining positions might
inflict.
Its duty is to keep the private
economy running smoothly by
preventing fraud, shady dealing
and forms of self-interested
behavior that threaten the entire
system. And yes, it's supposed
to keep us safe from physical
harm, as it did in New York
City.
Especially in the economic
sphere, government in recent
years failed to carry out too
many of these basic functions.
That explains why this
moment's anti-government
feeling reflects two entirely
different strains of thinking.
Public attention has largely
gone to the strain exemplified
by the tea party movement,
opposition to government
bailouts and an absolute hatred
of Congress. This is the old-
fashioned, garden-variety
conservatism that somewhere
between a fifth and a third of
Americans have long subscribed
to. These are the citizens you
see on television at the anti-
Obama rallies, the members of
Congress who give speeches
denouncing "overregulation,"
and the think tankers who insist
that the private sector always
performs more efficiently and
effectively than "government
bureaucrats."
Their views were definitively
summarized many years ago by
former House Majority Leader
Dick Armey, now a tea party
friend, who declared: "The
market is rational and the
government is dumb." Because
they have always thought and
voted the same way, partisans of
this view do not account for
shifts in opinion, let alone swing
elections.
The more important and
dynamic force behind the
current disillusionment with
government comes instead from
those who actually believe it can
and should be effective. They do
not think that the market is
automatically rational or that the
government has to be dumb.
They are not fed up with
government because their
ideology or philosophy tells
them to be, but because they
don't think government has been
doing a proper job of promoting
prosperity, equity and fair-
dealing.
So far, the Obama
administration has missed the
opportunity to demonstrate to
such voters how it is changing
the way government works.
How is its approach to writing
and enforcing regulations
different from what was done
before? How is its management
of the agencies different? How
are its priorities different? What
specific past failures is it
addressing?
As Al Gore understood when
he embarked on his "reinventing
government" project for
President Clinton, such an
undertaking is more essential for
liberals and progressives than
for conservatives. Conservative
ideas generally gain ground
when government is discredited.
But progressives who insist on
government's constructive role
can't succeed unless they
persuade voters that public
agencies are up to the missions
they undertake.
Starting with the newly urgent
threat of domestic terrorism and
the environmental disaster in the
Gulf, the administration does
not lack for obvious challenges
to which it must respond
effectively. Competence is the
antidote to the electorate's sick
feeling about public authority.
But President Obama must also
press on with the defense of
government he offered in his
recent University of Michigan
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commencement address. And he
has a new piece of evidence that
will help him make his case that
government in a free society is
not a distant force, but rather
something that all of us
influence and shape.
We need to remind ourselves
that a bomb could have
devastated Times Square in the
absence of the most basic form
of cooperation between an
observant merchant and a
responsible police officer.
This is what happens when
government is seen as being in
partnership with democratic
citizens. And there's nothing
dumb about it.
E.J. Dionne's e-mail address is
ejdionne(at)washpost.com.
E.J. Dionne, Jr. is the author of
the recently published Souled
Out: Reclaiming Faith and
Politics After the Religious
Right. He is a Washington Post
columnist, a senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution, and a
professor at Georgetown
University.
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Tom Price: Obama Lacks Anti-Terrorism Strategy
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 5:21:49 PM
Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., says
President Obama’s terrorism
policy is sorely lacking.
Times Square terrorist Faisal
Shahzad’s ability to board a
plane in New York City despite
having been placed on the
government’s no-fly list proves
the point, Price explained on
Newsmax.TV.
“On this and so many other
things I see the administration
pointing fingers more than
working to solve the challenge,”
said Price, who is chairman of
the Republican Study
Committee, a caucus of House
conservatives.
“Our thanks go out to the New
York City Police Department
and the FBI. What incredible
work they did to make certain
this individual was
apprehended.”
The White House deserves no
such praise, Price says.
“This administration isn’t doing
all that we must to make certain
that these kinds of activities
don’t occur,” he explained.
Story continues below.
“What we need is a strategy
going forward. What are we
doing to make certain the
American people are absolutely
as safe as can be? I haven’t seen
that kind of resolve put forward
by this administration. That’s
what people across this land are
crying out for.”
The White House also has
mishandled the Gulf of Mexico
oil spill, Price says.
“My sense right now is that they
didn’t” act quickly enough, he
said. “The action of the
administration initially was to
belittle what happened in the
Gulf, but also to not have the
people they needed on the
ground.”
BP has taken responsibility for
the disaster, just as it ought to
have, Price says.
He hopes the accident doesn’t
derail offshore drilling for oil
and gas.
“It can and should be done in a
responsible way. There are more
safeguards that should be put in
place,” Price said.
But the bigger issue is creating
an overall energy policy.
“Are we going to allow onshore
exploration, allow clean coal
technology, expand nuclear
capacity? Are we going to
utilize oil shale technology
that’s used in other nations in an
environmentally responsible
way?
There’s a fundamental problem
with giving hundreds of billions
of dollars to energy producing
nations that hate us, Price points
out.
He ripped into Democrats’
plans for financial regulation.
“The strategy we see coming out
of the White House is all
politics and power and no
reasonable policy.”
The proposals in Congress
would ensure future bailouts,
Price says.
“We believe that ought to never
happen again,” he pointed out.
“Democrats believe it should be
enshrined into law.”
The Democrats also have failed
to control the government-
backed mortgage agencies
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
he notes.
“We believe they ought to be
reined in, decreased in their
power,” Price said.
“The Democrats believe they
ought to be unleashed, given
unlimited power. They believe
the taxpayer ought to be on the
hook for whatever Fannie and
Freddie want to do.”
Republicans believe in
responsible regulation.
“Democrats believe the
regulatory scheme simply needs
to be oppressive to avoid risk,”
Price said.
“I always remind my friends on
the other side of the aisle that if
there’s no risk, then there’s no
reward. Are we going to allow
an economic system that allows
for risk and opportunity, or are
we going to have a very
oppressive economic system
that results in no American
dreams being realized?”
Price doesn’t understand the
recent federal court decision that
declared the National Day of
Prayer unconstitutional.
“The vast majority of
Americans are scratching their
heads and saying, what’s going
on?”
The big problem as far as
religion goes is that the White
House doesn’t recognize
American exceptionalism or its
Judeo-Christian roots, Price
maintains.
“I find that to be unconscionable
and offensive,” he said. “One of
the reasons we’re great is that
we’ve been founded upon and
adhere to Judeo-Christian
principles.”
Price lambastes the new
healthcare law, which isn’t a
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surprise given that he was a
practicing doctor before coming
to Congress.
“It doesn’t work for the federal
government, patients or doctors.
The bill needs to be repealed.”
What’s needed is reform that
will give Americans insurance
coverage, solving portability
and pre-existing condition
issues.
True healthcare reform would
ensure that medical decisions
are made between patients and
their doctors, rather than by
bureaucrats, Price says.
And the lawsuit abuse issue
must be addressed.
“You can’t be serious about
healthcare reform if you’re not
serious about lawsuit abuse
reform, and the law signed by
the president does absolutely
nothing about it.”
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Morning Bell: Fannie and Freddie Failure Forever
Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:29:16 AM
Yesterday, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-
CT) told reporters about his
financial regulation bill, “We’ve
ended the ‘too big to fail’
debate. So no longer do I expect
any argument to be made that
this bill exposes the American
taxpayer.” Really. Someone
might want to tell Sen. Dodd
that in other news yesterday,
Freddie Mac announced that it
lost another $6.7 billion in the
first quarter of 2010 and
therefore needed another $10.6
billion in cash from U.S.
taxpayers. Since formally
nationalizing Freddie in 2008,
the federal government has
already spent $50.7 billion
bringing the Freddie bailout
total to $61.3 billion so far.
Combined with Fannie Mae’s
raid on the Treasury, the
Congressional Budget Office
estimates that the American
people will spend $389 billion
bailing out the two Government
Sponsored Entities by 2019. So
much for American taxpayers
no longer being exposed to “too
big to fail.”
In fact, nothing in the Dodd bill
does anything to reform Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac. This
despite the fact that Fannie and
Freddie were key components in
causing the very financial crises
Dodd claims his bill will forever
prevent. Fannie and Freddie
were both created for the
specific purpose of making it
easier for Americans to buy
more expensive housing.
Starting in 1993, political forces
pushed Fannie and Freddie to
loosen their once strict loan
purchasing requirements. By
1996, regulations required that
40% of all Fannie and Freddie-
bought loans must come from
individuals with below median
incomes. In 1995, Fannie and
Freddie began buying subprime
securities originally bought and
bundled by private firms. One of
these firms was Countrywide
Financial who, thanks to their
status as Fannie Mae’s biggest
customer, delivered investors a
23,000% return between 1985
and 2003. By 2004, Fannie and
Freddie were purchasing $175
billion worth of subprime
securities per year from
Countrywide and their
brethren… a 44% share of the
entire market. There are other
factors that helped contribute to
the 2008 financial crisis, but
Fannie and Freddie’s use of
their “too big to fail” status to
create and grow the subprime
security market was essential.
But Sen. Dodd, who received
V.I.P. treatment from
Countrywide CEO Angelo
Mozilo, never saw any problem
with Fannie and Freddie. On
July 13, 2008, Senator Dodd
said on national television, “To
suggest somehow that [Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac] are in
trouble is simply not accurate.”
Less than two months later the
bailouts of Fannie and Freddie
began. Keep these facts in mind
when Dodd says his bill solves
the “too big to fail” problem.
The problems with the Dodd
bill go beyond its failure to let
Fannie and Freddie wither into
extinction. While Dodd has
agreed to get rid of the $50
billion bailout fund, the
underlying bailout authority still
remains. Now taxpayers are
expected to front the
government money while firms
are liquidated. But the
irresponsible creditors who let
those firms borrow money
irresponsibly would still be
eligible for taxpayer bailouts.
According to The Washington
Post, “a failing firm would be
forced to pay back the
government any money they
received above what they would
have gotten under a bankruptcy
proceeding.” But how does the
government know what
creditors would have got if the
company went into bankruptcy?
Why not just strengthen the
existing bankruptcy system and
actually allow these too big to
fail firms to, ya know, fail?
But Dodd and the Obama
administration would never
allow that. It would defeat the
whole purpose this financial
regulation bill, which is to
transfer as much power to the
federal government as possible.
Never mind that these are the
same government regulators
who failed to see the last crisis
coming.
Quick Hits:
• Protesters objecting to the cuts
in government wages and
pensions necessary to secure
$141 billion in loans for Greece
from the European Union and
the International Monetary Fund
turned violent yesterday.
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• The European commission
forecasts that the United
Kingdom’s budget deficit is set
to surpass Greece’s as worst in
the European Union.
• Celebrating Cinco de Mayo at
the White House, President
Barack Obama promised to
press for amnesty for illegal
immigrants this year.
• The Federal Communications
Commission announced
yesterday that for the first time
in its history, the federal
government will try to regulate
the Internet.
• Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and
Joe Lieberman (I-CT) plan to
use the BP oil spill to push their
energy tax bill next week.
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terrorism in the UK, which has

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) financial companies such as imperfect but necessary rescue borrowing funds from rival a direct impact on U.S. national
Submitted at 5/6/2010 4:06:29 AM PIMCO and GE Capital that that spared the U.S. financial firms was sound under the security as well. David
provide capital for loans to market from total collapse. crimped credit market Cameron has pledged to outlaw
Treasury Secretary Timothy consumers and small businesses. "Many more Americans would conditions at the time, they said. some Islamist groups operating
Geithner says a root cause of the When rumors spread in 2008 be without their homes, their The role of federal regulators in Britain such as Hitzb ut-
financial crisis was Congress' that Bear Stearns was teetering, jobs, their businesses, their also is key in the panel's autopsy Tahrir. On the opposite side of
f a i l u r e t o g i v e r e g u l a t o r s these companies started what savings and their way of life," of the financial disaster and the the political spectrum, Nick
authority to curb risk in a former Bear Stearns executives he said in testimony prepared huge Wall Street investment Clegg is strongly opposed to the
system of institutions operating described Wednesday as a "run for that hearing. banks. The Securities and war on terror, and has accused
outside rules for traditional on the bank," drawing so much While losses have been Exchange Commission's his own country of complicity in
banks. of its capital that it could not staggering, "that suffering oversight of the firms — some the “torture” of terror suspects.
Geithner is testifying at a survive. would have been far more rotting from within from piled- Neither the Liberals nor Labour
hearing Thursday of a special Then-Treasury Secretary profound and disturbing" had up securities tied to subprime have made the fight against
panel investigating the crisis and P a u l s o n a n d G e i t h n e r , a s the government not intervened, mortgages — was criticized by terrorism a priority issue in their
this so-called "shadow" banking president of the Federal Reserve Paulson said. lawmakers and investor manifestos, and have almost
system. As president of the New Bank of New York, engineered In addition to Geithner and advocates both during and after completely ignored it as a
York Federal Reserve in 2008, Bear's rescue. The New York Paulson, the meltdown probe the crisis. campaign issue. If the Liberals
he was one of the key architects Fed put up a $29 billion federal will hear Thursday from leaders Wednesday's hearing marked play a key role in the next
of the government's response to backstop to limit JPMorgan's of key players in the shadow Cayne's first public appearance government, especially on
the crisis and the federal bailout. future losses on Bear Stearns' banking system including senior in the aftermath of the crisis. national security, there may be
Geithner says in his prepared bad investments. executives from GE Capital and Cayne was a flamboyant significant, negative
testimony that the financial Bear Stearns was the first Wall asset managers PIMCO and character who led Bear Stearns implications for Britain’s
overhaul legislation now before Street bank to blow up. Its State Street. — a firm known for its go- intelligence services and their
Congress would close the gaps d e m i s e f o r e s h a d o w e d t h e In its first day of hearings on against-the-grain scrappiness — ability to collaborate with their
to give regulators needed cascading financial meltdown in shadow banking Wednesday, for 15 years. American counterparts.
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painting of a cow is anything

Overseas
Curtis Dubay (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 4:20:37 PM
The United States has the
second highest corporate tax
rate of any of the 30 countries in
the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development
(OECD) – a collection of the
most economically developed
countries in the world. The
federal rate is 35 percent. Add
on the average state corporate
income tax and United States
businesses pay a top rate over
39 percent. This is just below
Japan which has a rate slightly
over 39.5 percent.
The average corporate income
tax rate in the OECD is about 25
percent. The United States’ rate
is almost 15 percentage points
higher. Of the 30 countries in
the OECD, 27 of them have cut
their corporate income tax rates
since 2000. By standing still, the
United States has fallen behind.
The top marginal tax rate is the
tax rate a business will pay on
new investment, so it is an
important determinant for
businesses when they make
decisions about where to locate
new facilities. The high U.S.
corporate income tax rate is
driving jobs overseas as
businesses work to remain as
competitive as possible in the
global marketplace. It doesn’t
help that the United States is the
only country in the world that
taxes its businesses on the
income they earn in foreign
countries. Every other country
only taxes businesses on the
income earned within their
borders. A reduction of the
corporate income tax rate down
to at least the average 25 percent
rate in the OECD is long
overdue.
Liberals have long argued that a
rate cut is not necessary because
the effective corporate income
tax rate in the United States
(calculated by dividing the
amount businesses pay in taxes
by their income) is comparable
to the effective rate in other
countries. They claim that all
the credits, deductions and
exemptions available to
businesses drive the effective
rate down and therefore the
marginal rate is unimportant.
This argument has just been
shattered in new study by the
Cato Institute. The study found
that while it is true that credits,
deduction and exemptions lower
the effective tax rate, it turns out
the effective corporate tax rate
in the United States is still
considerably higher than
international averages. The
effective corporate income tax
rate in the United States is 35
percent. This is significantly
higher than the average of the G
-7 countries (29 percent), the
average in the OECD (20
percent), and the average of 80
developed nations (18 percent).
There is no way anyone can
argue against cutting the rate.
There is bipartisan
acknowledgement in Congress
that the corporate income tax
rate must be lowered; Cato’s
compelling new evidence
shows the need for Congress to
act soon before more jobs are
lost to foreign countries more
welcoming to new investment.
Additionally, a lower corporate
income tax rate would also raise
the United States’ standing in
the Heritage Foundation’s Index
of Economic Freedom. In 2010,
The United States fell out of the
group of “free” countries and for
the first time is the land of the
“mostly free”. A lower
corporate income tax rate would
go a long way to restoring the
United States to its rightful
standing among free nations.
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but casual. But why this cow?
The picture tells the old tale of
impatient mankind forsaking the
Law and its Giver for its own
profane technologies, a tale in
which technology courts
disaster. The story gets told
again and again because of
something we keep forgetting.
In the cultural imagination,
disease speaks in ways that
medicine, its understanding
burdened by facts, struggles to
contradict. When Boston
physician Zabdiel Boylston
offered vaccinations during an
early eighteenth-century
smallpox epidemic, the town’s
leading doctor, Edinburgh-
trained William Douglass, led a
protest that denounced him for
“an encroachment on the
prerogatives of Jehovah, whose
right it is to wound and smite.”
Interpreted under the ancient
laws by which nervous cultures
still fence off the human from
the animal, injecting a healthy
body with cow pus could only
be an abomination. The
imagination recoiled, as it still
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A Snake Oil Sales Pitch for President Obama’s
Bank Tax
Mike Brownfield (The
Foundry: Conservative Policy
News.)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 4:00:51 PM
It must not be easy being
Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner, these days.
His latest task is to sell a
skeptical Congress on the
Obama Administration’s $90
billion bank tax with something
of a convoluted snake oil sales
pitch. He tried to make his
argument to the Senate Finance
Committee on Tuesday.
You see, Geithner explained,
“Banks should bear the costs for
bank failure,” and the tax is
really a “too-big-to-fail tax”
designed to recoup funds used to
bail out banks under the
Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Unfortunately for Geithner, that
went over about as well as
trying to sell a ketchup popsicle
to a woman in white gloves.
And with good reason.
Here’s why. The banks who
received bailout funds already
repaid the government, so the
very premise of the tax is null
and void. Then there’s the fact
that those who haven’t repaid
their bailout funds – Fanny Mae,
Freddie Mac, General Motors
and Chrysler – don’t have to pay
the tax. And the worst feature?
Consumers will bear the brunt
of the tax, according to the
Congressional Budget Office.
This isn’t to say that Geithner
didn’t come armed with answers
to some of these critiques.
Why don’t Fannie and Freddie
have to pay the tax, Sen. Orrin
Hatch (R-UT) asked? Geithner
said that since they’ve been
taken over by the government,
taxing them would be “one hand
of government paying another.”
(That means, then, that there’s a
de facto advantage to being
publicly-owned in Obama’s
America.)
And what about GM and
Chrysler? Geithner said they
aren’t being taxed because they
didn’t cause the economic crisis,
but were merely victims.
Geithner’s logic fails, though,
because consumers will be the
ones paying the bank tax. Aren’t
they innocent victims, too?
Geithner said, “This is a simple
and fair principle: banks, not the
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themselves who stink, but those
who interpret them to
themselves. Certainly the fourth
taxpayer, should pay for bank estate has acquitted itself badly
failures.” No matter how many throughout this election, seizing
times he says it, the fact remains enthusiastically on popular
that banks have already repaid prejudice, going out of its way
the American people, and under to discredit Clegg the moment
the bank tax, it is the taxpayers he appeared a threat, and issuing
who will pay. thundering warnings of the
G o o d l u c k s e l l i n g t h o s e moral and financial catastrophe
popsicles. that awaits a hung parliament.
T a g s : b a i l o u t , b a n k t a x , As for the people, with hardly
Chrysler, Fannie Mae, Freddie any time left before polling,
Mac, GM, TARP, Timothy almost half the country still
Geithner, troubled asset relief claims it’s yet to make its mind
program One Response to “A up. Indecision is a respectable
Snake Oil Sales Pitch for political position. It, too, is
President Obama’s Bank Tax” entitled to representation. So if a
• Gary Wise on May 5th, 2010 bit of this and a bit of that is
a t 5 : 0 0 p m s a i d : S o m e d a y what the country wants, because
taxpayers will realize that any no party is offering a package,
time business has to pay more let alone a vision, enough of us
for something, such as materials can feel wholehearted about,
o r a d d e d t a x e s t o t h e then a hung, tentative, and
govenment, the price of the suspenseful parliament will be
product goes up by passing the the truest reflection of its state
increased cost of doing business of mind.
to the public. Economics 101. Howard Jacobson is the author,
College grad, don’t think so, most recently, of The Act of
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does.
And likely always will.
Medicine has always drawn its
own meaning from the struggle
to hold that last vital line, the
one separating the quick from
the dead. But that struggle
leaves medicine contaminated,
its meaning drawn from both
sides of that line. We know our
doctor is not only death’s
opponent; he will also someday
be its herald—and, perhaps,
something worse. In Gillray’s
print, vaccination turns people
into monsters. Fed by both hope
and fear, our imagination
endows medicine with a power
over life and death it could
never actually possess. Except
in the imagination: what none of
us, not even doctors, ever
entirely escapes.
Medicine has its own
nightmares, not least of which is
its inadequacy to an impossible
task. The most practiced
'Modern Family' - 'Airport 2010' Recap
Jason Hughes (TV Squad)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 3:37:00 AM
Filed under: Recaps(S01E22)
Only'Modern Family' could pull
off having a set-up episode for
their big Hawaiian vacation and
physician eventually succumbs.
Timor mortis conturbat me: The
fear of death unhinges us all.
Which may be why, in our
politics, as they apply to
medicine, we have been so long
paralyzed. The struggle to make
health care universally available
is over a century old, but what
conturbs that struggle is far
older. The hand of the
imaginary in politics is
unusually strong: There are no
prices to be paid, no promise too
extravagant, no conspiracy too
unlikely—and legislation is
always subject to interpretation.
If we ever reach a day when we
are no longer fighting over how
to pay for medical care, the
battle will shift to what we
should pay for: cloning, genetic
remodeling, pharmaceutical
alterations of personality. The
list is as inexhaustible as our
capacity to see in medicine the
embodiment of our darkest
have it succeed in its own right.
The episode explored the comic
misadventures that every sitcom
explores when a trip is planned.
They managed to find a clever
way to play up familiar topics
by playing around with time.
fears—or merely the solution to
our mortal state.
Before this prospect, we will
always stand in the grip of the
imaginary, like that one patient
as he still haunts my memory:
Gasping for breath, he holds up
his cigarette, bright in the cloud
of oxygen sustaining them both,
and wishes fire would burn and
not consume.
Terrence Holt practices
medicine and teaches at the
University of North Carolina-
Chapel Hill. Information that
could identify patients described
in this essay has been altered to
protect their privacy. Any
resemblance with actual
individuals, living or dead, is
accidental.
That way we could experience
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"You know a box of chicken
ain't gonna resolve this." -
Wallace to Raylan on their
hostage situation
The running joke about Raylan
blowing away some poor perp events surrounding this gripping
per episode can finally be put to episode not only set up another
rest. interesting cliffhanger, but it
Raylan went out of his way to also opened up the psyche of a
spare the life of a man man who has a much deeper
determined to let himself die. mind than his cowboy hat can
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Private Practice: Are Addison and
Sam Meant to Be?
(TVGuide.com: Breaking
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Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:59:00 PM
Taye Diggs, Kate Walsh
Addison Forbes Montgomery (
Kate Walsh) has had quite the
revolving door of men on
Private Practice, though
executive producer Shonda
Rhimes says it's all for good
purpose: "We're bringing her on
a journey to get a chance to have
a happy ending."
So, is the happy ending with
Pete ( Tim Daly), with whom
Addison has been playing house
this season, or Sam ( Taye
Diggs), whose pining has sent
him into an angry tailspin?
Private Practice exclusive: Who
is getting engaged and will it
stick?
Although Addison has been in a
relationship with Pete for the
better part of Season 3, "it's
really about the baby," Walsh
tells TVGuide.com. "The baby
is like the little carrot that's
being dangled in front of
Addison. She's super torn, but
her affection is really about that
baby."
Her affection also springs from
her need to avoid being with
Sam, says Walsh. "That tension
with Sam is still there and
lingering. It's always there, like
avoiding the forbidden fruit."
"There will always be that kind
of tension between these two
characters just because of their
history," adds Diggs, noting that
he's been having fun playing the
awkward moments with Walsh.
"If you're in love with someone
and see they're with someone
else and playing family, it can
get to you. Even though Sam
has his own family, he feels like
he's on the outside."
And Sam certainly has been on
the outside this season, with
Pete playing "a really good
boyfriend to Addison," says
Daly, adding she still has strong
feelings for Sam "and it's a big
mess."
Private Practice's custody
hearing will tear the practice
apart
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Allyssa Lee (TV Squad)
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Filed under: TV News It's
shaping up to be quite a busy
summer for the USA -- the USA
Network, that is.
According to the Wrap, the
basic cable network has
arranged for last summer's
hit'White Collar' to premiere its
second season on Tue., Jul. 13.
The show will move up an hour
as a crook who arranges to team
to 9PM so it can serve as a lead-
up his criminal mind with the
in to USA's newest original
Addison's love life may be feds in order to fellow crooks
series, 'Covert Affairs,' which
complicated now, but Rhimes and secure his freedom.
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future. "I would love to see her
in a healthy relationship," she
says.
"She might put one foot down
on the road to happiness," adds
Walsh. "Like she dips her toes
in the happiness pool, so
hopefully in the fall she'll be full
-on swimming in happiness."
Who should be Addison's
swimming partner next season:
Pete or Sam?
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an Affair with Jesse James Out of
"Boredom"
(TVGuide.com: Breaking person in America"
News) "I feel bad for her. I do," she
Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:16:00 AM said. "[But] they slept with nine
dogs in the bed ... she liked to
Michelle "Bombshell" McGee sleep with all the dogs in the
Michelle "Bombshell" McGee bed."
says she carried on an 11-month Bullock, 45, filed for divorce
-long affair with Jesse James out from James last month.
of "boredom." Sandra Bullock files for
"Had nothing better to do," she divorce, adopts baby boy
told Howard Stern on his Sirius Though she believed James and
XM radio show Wednesday. "It
was a sexual thing. I also wished
Bullock were already separated,
the tattoo model said she never
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it was a relationship — but I
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because the most she ever got
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Michelle "Bombshell" McGee
apologizes to Sandra Bullock
out of their affair was a T-shirt
he gave her that "had wolves on
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David Hasselhoff, Bob Saget and How Consumer Reports

Tony Danza Head to A&E for New tests baby strollers
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Series (Consumer Reports)
latter test involves placing each
stroller in different orientations
on a platform whose angle is
(TVGuide.com: Breaking A&E will also put the spotlight Submitted at 5/6/2010 1:59:59 AM

News) gradually increased to 20

on Twisted Sister's Dee Snider How Consumer Reports tests degrees, unless the stroller slides
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Growing Up Twisted. Consumer Reports tests comprises a significant part of
David Hasselhoff And following the success of strollers for ease of use, the score.
A&E is calling on David Intervention, A&E has ordered maneuverability, and safety. Stroller safety is assessed
Hasselhoff, Bob Saget and Tony the spinoff Intervention in Here are some specifics: primarily by applying ASTM
Danza for celebrity reality Depth: One Man in Rehab. It Ease of use scores take into F833-09, a voluntary industry
series, according to The follows sober companions' account such factors as how standard. Tests cover the
Hollywood Reporter. struggle to stay clean months easy it is to fold and unfold the efficacy and integrity of the
The cable channel has ordered after an invention. I'm Heavy, a stroller, lift and carry it, engage restraining system; occupant
an untitled project featuring companion series to the brakes, adjust the harness retention; passive containment;
Hasselhoff as he tries to help his Intervention, will chronicle and backrest, remove and install unintended folding or release of
two daughters break into the overeating patients going a car seat (in applicable models) an attached car seat during an
recording industry. The 10- through a six-month treatment and access the basket. impact, and hand and finger
episode season will air in the program. Maneuverability is evaluated on entrapment points while the
fall. Among scripted plans, the cable a test-course created by our stroller is in the normal
David Hasselhoff in discussions for the first time since his failed channel intends to develop engineers. The course measures operating position. We then go
for new reality show daytime chat fest for the series Robin Cook's 1977 thriller, a stroller's maneuverability beyond the voluntary standard
Strange Days with Bob Saget Teach: Tony Danza. The series, Coma. when going uphill and downhill; and perform a Consumers Union
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Is James Gandolfini Returning to
HBO?
(TVGuide.com: Breaking
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Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:48:00 PM
James Gandolfini
James Gandolfini may be
returning to HBO, Variety
reports — this time, in a
comedy.
The 48-year-old actor is an
executive producer on the pay
channel's planned adaptation of
the French Canadian series Taxi
22. It's being developed as a
possible acting vehicle for the
Emmy winner, his first TV role
since The Sopranos abruptly
faded to black in 2007.
Check out photos from The
Sopranos
Gandolfini would star as a
politically incorrect New York
cab driver in the half-hour
series. Dave Flebotte, most
recently of Desperate
Housewives and Sherri, is
writing and executive-producing
the project.
Gandolfini won widespread
acclaim, including three
Emmys, for his performance as
mobster Tony Soprano. The
Sopranos, which ran on HBO
from 1999 to 2007, helped
shepherd in a new era in TV
dramas and is considered one of
the best TV series of all time.
Since the series, Gandolfini has
produced the HBO documentary
Happy Mothers Day,
here's a computer virus
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Submitted at 5/6/2010 3:59:59 AM
Happy Mothers Day, here's a
computer virus If you receive an
e-card from someone for
Mother’s Day, don’t just blindly
open it. If you do, you could get
an unexpected surprise.
Scammers frequently have used
bogus e-card messages to spread
computer viruses and other
malware. Such messages
contain holiday-related subject
lines but include nasty
attachments or hyperlinks. For
Alive Day Memories: Home example, in 2008, the FBI
From Iraq and starred in Tony- warned that e-card emails were
winning play Gods of Carnage. being used to spread the Storm
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appear as though they’re from
legitimate e-card sites. It’s best
to verify the sender.
And make sure your computer
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software. If you need an
antivirus program, download the
free Alvira AntiVir Personal, a
top-rated antivirus program,
according to our latest tests
featured in the June issue of
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Tips for the giver If you’re
sending a card, stick to well-
known sites. Check the site’s
privacy policy for assurances
that e-mail addresses are
safeguarded and are not sold or
traded.
And if you're really stumped on
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from the Federal Trade
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Mom can use to safeguard her
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won’t come off as heartfelt as
one from Hallmark. But at least
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When Headaches Beget Headaches; Plus, “Best Buy” for
Treating Migraines
Press Room (Consumer
Reports)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 2:59:59 AM
When Headaches Beget
Headaches; Plus, “Best Buy” for
Treating Migraines
Money Saving Strategies for
Prescription Drugs
YONKERS, NY — People
suffering from chronic
headaches can easily fall prey to
“rebound headaches,” overdoing
it with non-prescription pain
relievers such as aspirin,
ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB,
and generics), and naproxen
(Aleve and generics), in addition
to certain prescription pain
medications, including drugs to
treat migraines. Current
estimates indicate that one in
four adults exceeds the
recommended dosage on
nonprescription pain
medications and, according to a
recent Consumer Reports online
survey of 47,283 subscribers,
even more people (31 percent)
fess up to not carefully
following the directions on the
label.
“It’s not uncommon for people
to experience medication-
overuse headaches,” said Orly
Avitzur, M.D., medical adviser,
Consumer Reports Health, and a
practicing neurologist. The
same online survey by
Consumer Reports suggests that
people don’t consider
nonprescription pain medication
to be as “serious” as prescription
drugs. “It often comes as a
surprise to my patients when I
tell them that overuse of an over
-the-counter medication such as
ibuprofen or aspirin may be
causing their headaches. We all
keep these OTCs in our
medicine cabinets and I think
many of us are so accustomed to
them that we may underestimate
the risk of overmedicating,”
added Dr. Avitzur.
According to another recent
Consumer Reports survey of
more than 6,000 subscribers, 73
percent said they kept
acetaminophen (Tylenol and
generics) in their medicine
cabinets, and the same percent
kept ibuprofen on hand, while
69 percent had aspirin in their
medicine cabinets.
A new Consumer Reports Best
Buy Drugs report recommends
seeing a doctor if you suffer
from chronic headaches or
migraines, which afflict nearly
20 percent of women and 6
percent of men. The report,
available for free online at
www.ConsumerReportsHealth.o
rg/BestBuyDrugs, helps
consumers differentiate between
the most common tension-type
headache and the less common
cluster headaches and
migraines, which can be
incapacitating. Migraines are a
leading cause of absenteeism
and decreased work
productivity, exacting a higher
price to society than other
chronic conditions including
asthma, depression, diabetes,
and heart disease.
The report provides a detailed
evaluation of a group of drugs
called the triptans, which have
become the most commonly
prescribed remedy for migraine
patients when an attack occurs.
While doctors are unclear how
they work, the drugs are known
to affect how the nervous
system handles serotonin, which
is involved in pain processing.
Consumer Reports Best Buy
Drugs, a public information
project, uses comparative
effectiveness research to
compare the safety,
effectiveness and cost of drugs
for more than 20 common
medical conditions. For this
report, Consumer Reports BBD
looked at more than 1,600 peer-
reviewed studies and from there
focused on 98 studies that
directly compared one triptan
with another or with other
migraine medications or a
placebo.
“Before considering a
prescription medication, such as
a triptan, I advise patients to
remove as many offending
triggers as possible to manage or
prevent migraines. Typical
triggers include certain foods
like chocolate and cheese; red
wine; dehydration; getting too
little sleep; and skipping meals,”
said Dr. Avitzur, who
recommends keeping a daily
diary to help track down triggers
over time.
When that doesn’t work, and
when over-the-counter pain
remedies haven’t helped
sufficiently, some people find
relief with prescription
medications. As a class, triptans
can be expensive: a single dose
ranges in cost from $21 to $157,
depending on the dosage and the
form the medication comes in
(tablets, nasal spray, or
injection). For people with
frequent migraines, the cost of
multiple doses of a triptan drug
can add up and may even pose a
barrier to treatment. The
generic version of sumatriptan, a
Consumer Reports Best Buy
Drug, can save migraine
sufferers hundreds of dollars
annually if their migraines are
serious enough to warrant the
use of a triptan. Sumatriptan is
currently the only triptan
available as a generic, making it
the least expensive in the
category. Because it is the
oldest triptan on the market,
sumatriptan has a long
established safety profile.
A month’s supply of
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sumatriptan (assuming a 25 mg
dose taken two times a month)
can cost $48, whereas the same
dosage of the branded version,
Imitrex, can cost $78. For
consumers, switching to generic
sumatriptan could represent a
savings of $360 over the course
of a year. Triptans are generally
safe medications when used
appropriately and prescribed for
the correct patients, but they
should not be taken by people
with certain conditions and risk
factors for heart disease and
stroke. Triptans have several
significant limitations, including
side effects such as dizziness,
fatigue, and, sleepiness. And,
like many headache drugs, they
can cause “rebound
headaches”—migraines that are
brought on by repeated use or
overuse of the drug itself.
Triptans are just one of several
classes of drugs with an
unusually high price tag.
Consumer Reports BBD helps
consumers get the best value for
their health care dollars by
identifying “Best Buys” based
on safety, efficacy, and cost.
Consider the following cost
saving tips:
MONEY SAVING
STRATEGIES FOR
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
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• First check our free CR Best
Buy Drug reports to find out
whether generics are more cost-
effective for treating your
condition than drugs available
as brand name only. Then ask
your physician or pharmacist
about switching to those or other
generic versions of the drugs
you need.• Let your doctor
know that cost is an issue for
you. Many people are reluctant
to discuss the cost of their
medicine with their doctor, and
studies have found that doctors
do not routinely take the price of
medication into consideration
when they prescribe. Also,
discuss the option of pill
splitting, an effective cost
saving measure for some types
of medications.• Ask for the
cheapest form. We have found
that prices of the same drug
might vary substantially
depending on whether it’s a
capsule or tablet.• Keep in mind
that older drugs are often just as
good. The evidence is now
convincing that many older
drugs available as low cost
generics are as good as, or better
than, the pricey new ones
coming on the market.• Know
that drugs within a class or
group aren’t always different.
Drug makers argue that each
drug is unique and that each
person may respond differently
to it. That’s true, but it’s also
true that in some classes of
medicines, there are several
drugs that achieve pretty much
the same results for most
people. In other words, your
doctor can substitute one for
another.• If you have health
insurance, you can find out
which drugs are covered by your
pharmacy benefits manager
(PFB). The PFB determines
which drugs that are covered
and may have a special
relationship with a given
pharmacy.• Consider a loyalty
card. Whether you’re insured or
not, look into a pharmacy
discount card which can save
you as much as 10 to 20
percent.• Shop around. A recent
report about drugstore savings
by Consumer Reports found that
large discount stores like Costco
and Walmart are now competing
for your prescription business.
Prices can vary so it’s best to
shop around.• Ask your
pharmacist to match lower
prices. Many independent
pharmacies will match prices
found at the large, big-box retail
stores. It makes sense, too, if
you want to stick with one
pharmacy, which can reduce the
chance of taking incompatible
drugs. Wherever you buy drugs,
note all the medications and
supplements you take so that the
pharmacist can check for
potential interactions.
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Reserves Rally Suns to
2-0 Series Lead
Sam Amick (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 1:44:00 AM
Filed under: Spurs, Suns, NBA
Playoffs PHOENIX -- Before
these last few days, the only talk
of border patrol when it came to
the Phoenix Suns was their
opponent's inability to defend
their shooters from beyond the
arc.
San Antonio coach Gregg
Popovich called them "the best
three-point shooting team ever,"
a claim that was nearly
supported by the history books
as their 41.2 percent mark for limited value as a free agent last
the season was the second summer, he went to work
highest all time. changing his game.
The leader of that pack wasn't The result? He made the Suns
usual suspect Steve Nash, but look like hoops geniuses by
offseason signee Channing Frye. burying 172 of 392 attempts,
Yes, that Channing Frye, the ranking fourth in the league in
one who had buried all of 20 total converted attempts and
three-pointers in his first four sixth in percentage (43.9) after
seasons in the league. signing a two-year, $3.8 million
In what was one of the most deal with Phoenix. But that
dramatic player transformations much-needed element of his
in recent memory, Frye became game had gone missing so far in
one of the league's preeminent this postseason.
three-point threats. After seeing Until Wednesday night.
limited time in Portland last
season and looking to up his
64 Products/ Sports/ Food/ E-reader News Edition

Daily electronics deals Bob Arum Arrives In

Paul Eng (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 5:54:30 AM
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Milton Bradley asks Seattle Mariners management for help

ESPN.com news services himself. Bradley responded that is an extremely important step bike which led to his sudden she'd come home, get the mail.
(ESPN.com) someone had to say something for him as a young man," release. And his thoughts on She'd get in the same chair with
Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:06:23 AM and that if Wakamatsu wouldn't, Zduriencik said. Milton Bradley. the bills. She'd put in one pile
then he would. Bradley is batting .214 with two More Podcasts » the bills she could pay. In
SEATTLE -- Milton Bradley, According to the source, a few home runs and 12 RBIs in 21 "He's going through some things another pile she'd put the ones
baseball's self-described bad minutes later Bradley walked games. in his life right now that are very she couldn't pay. Bill collectors
guy, has asked his Seattle back over to the skipper and Wakamatsu called him in last personal and very emotional," would call. I saw her fall asleep
Mariners for help in dealing said, "I'm packing my stuff. I'm month after he flipped off a fan Zduriencik said. "We firmly in that chair.
w i t h w h a t m a n a g e r D o n out of here." Then he left. during a game in Texas in the believe that we manage people "I saw that every day. That was
Wakamatsu says is "emotional Bradley sent ESPN's Colleen midst of a 1-for-21 start. Also first. Certainly we are about my motivation," to reach the
stress" from personal issues. Dominguez a message saying, last month, the slumping slugger winning baseball games ... but major leagues.
W a k a m a t s u a n d g e n e r a l "Any reports that I said I'm admitted to Wakamatsu he feels most important is the employees Then, Bradley -- who recently
manager Jack Zduriencik said packing up and leaving are 100 enormous pressure to produce in that work with us. We will join complained that no one ever
Wednesday that their fiery percent fabricated." Seattle. together and help him receive asks him where he's from, what
slugger is out indefinitely until Bradley added, "I'm with an His final strikeout Tuesday the assistance that he needs." he's about -- shrugged. With a
h e r e c e i v e s a n o u t s i d e organization of people that I came looking at a pitch down Two hours earlier, Bradley previously buzzing student body
assessment and a plan to address trust have my best interest in the middle with the bases loaded revealed yet another emotional nearly silent and teachers
his issues. mind and have never passed in what became Seattle's fourth side. watching intently, Bradley said
Caple: Bradley's Quest For judgment. I'm a human being consecutive loss. Joined by fellow speakers through glistening eyes: "I'm
Help first to them." He told the Mariners' leaders, Wakamatsu, Ichiro Suzuki, Ken kind of getting a little emotional
Milton Bradley didn't blame Wednesday morning, Bradley and then his teammates in a Griffey Jr. and Mike Sweeney, right now, because this is my
anybody else this time. Instead called Wakamatsu to ask for a clubhouse meeting later, that his Bradley stood before students heart."
he stood up, pointed at himself face-to-face meeting with him issues have put him in a position and teachers at Lakeridge Then he waved his hand over
and asked for help, writes Jim and Zduriencik. The 32-year-old where he can't compete the way Elementary school in south the kids.
Caple. Story then arrived at Safeco Field and he expects, and that "it's been a Seattle and openly discussed "The whole world's ahead of
" I t ' s c o m e t o a h e a d , " told the leaders of his eighth long time coming." what motivates him. you," Bradley said. "Someone in
Zduriencik said. team in 10 seasons, "I need your Zduriencik said he spoke to The man who in March told here might change the world.
A day earlier, Bradley became help." Bradley's agent and "they are The Associated Press he was Motivation is what's most
angry for striking out twice and “ happy and are on board with baseball's Kanye West important."
Wakamatsu removed him from I'm with an organization of this." interrupted himself at one point As Bradley sat down, Sweeney
a close game in the sixth inning people that I trust have my best Ryan Langerhans, called up because he was getting hugged him. The five-time All-
because the manager thought he interest in mind and have never from Triple A on Tuesday, was overcome with emotions during Star then gave Bradley's back a
wasn't fit to play anymore. passed judgment. I'm a human in Wednesday's lineup for an impassioned five-minute talk comforting pat. The slugger
Bradley left the stadium soon being first to them.”-- Milton Bradley in left field against to students on the Mariners' smiled.
after. Several Mariners players Bradley Tampa Bay. The Mariners are annual education day. After the school event,
described his mindset Tuesday It was a startling admission exploring roster options to "I grew up in Long Beach, Sweeney said the Mariners are
night as "not good." from a player who publicly possibly deactivate Bradley for Calif., me and my mother," going to help Bradley.
A source told 710 ESPN Radio blamed Chicago's fans and a short time. Bradley said softly through a "The way we're going to do that
Seattle Bradley yelled at the media for running him out of The Doug Gottlieb Show microphone while in front of a is just, to love on him,"
umpire from the bench before that city following his failed Former Mariners OF Eric stage in the school's lunchroom. Sweeney said. "His track record
being told by Wakamatsu to season with the Cubs in 2009. Byrnes talks about his crazy last "She worked in a grocery store, shows he's had some ups and
cool it. Wakamatsu said that he "The fact he has stood up and at bat, failing on a squeeze play, checking out groceries every MILTON page 69
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Byfuglien's hat trick helps Hawks past Canucks

Associated Press them last season, Byfulgien was being called, we have to do the against Vancouver, Byfuglien crowd after his second goal, was
(ESPN.com) the biggest factor in putting same thing on the other side to took his usual position in front back in the spotlight -- and on
Submitted at 5/6/2010 7:46:45 AM Chicago ahead in the series for at least get it even up as far as of the net on the power play and top of Luongo -- for the third.
the first time. advantages are concerned," said made the Canucks pay. Luongo was in position to make
Byfuglien's hat trick propels Moved back up front and onto Luongo, who finished with 30 Pointless in his first eight the save before Byfuglien
Blackhawks to 2-1 series lead the top line after playing defense saves. "We have to get some playoff games, he lifted in a pushed him into the net, but the
V A N C O U V E R , B r i t i s h in Game 2, the 6-foot-4, 257- traffic." power-play rebound with 3:13 goal -- orginally given to Kane -
Columbia -- Chicago forward pound Byfuglien went hard to Kris Versteeg opened the left in the first period after - was upheld after a video
Dustin Byfulgien was all over the net all night, tucking in scoring 5:19 in as the Toews won a faceoff cleanly review.
t h e V a n c o u v e r C a n u c k s , power-play rebounds in the first Blackhawks picked up where and Luongo bobbled Duncan Byfuglien doesn't think he is
creating havoc in the crease and and second periods. He was they left off with a third-period Keith's unscreened shot from the getting Luongo off his game,
on the score sheet. credited with his third goal with comeback in Game 2. point. but he admitted that seeing the
Byfuglien banged in a pair of 6:02 left after pushing Roberto "We built a lot of confidence in Hansen pulled the Canucks goalie talking to the officials
p o w e r - p l a y r e b o u n d s a n d Luongo into his net, leaving the Game 2, but we knew it didn't within a goal midway through could mean he is getting close.
completed his hat trick in the goalie upset and the Canucks mean much if we didn't come the second, but Burrows took an "He doesn't like to talk too
t h i r d p e r i o d t o l i f t t h e pledging retaliation. and keep playing the same unsportsmanlike conduct much, but he's not afraid to,"
Blackhawks to a 5-2 win over "I think so," Byfulgien said way," said Chicago captain penalty 2 minutes later. Byfuglien said. "When he does,
the Canucks and a 2-1 lead in when asked if he was throwing Jonathan Toews, who had three Byfuglien then lifted in another I think it means you are getting
t h e W e s t e r n C o n f e r e n c e the Canucks off their game. assists. "We did a lot of good rebound after Toews drove to into his head, I guess," he said.
semifinal series on Wednesday "They've got to worry about me things and put them on their the net along the goal line. Game notes
night. coming and worry about getting heels for the most part." "Big Buff, he's doing what he's To make room for Byfuglien,
Greenberg: Believers hit." Jannik Hansen and Alex got to do, he's crashing," Toews Chicago scratched Vancouver
The Blackhawks gave fans a The Canucks seemed most Burrows scored for the Canucks, said. "When there is a puck race native Troy Brouwer, who
scare with a Game 1 loss against w o r r i e d a b o u t c l e a r i n g who will try to even the series or a battle, their players scored 22 goals in the regular
the Canucks, but they've roared Byfuglien out of Luongo's face. when they host Game 4 on definitely know he's there and season but was pointless in eight
back, writes ESPN- Byfuglien doesn't expect that to Friday night. Vancouver will give him a little more respect, so playoff games. D Jordan
Chicago.com's Jon Greenberg. happen. have to do a better job on its good for whoever is playing Hendry, who played Game 1 but
Story Byfuglien Bounces Back special teams and against with him. Just try to make plays sat out Game 2, took Byfuglien's
• Check out the Blackhawks Dustin Byfuglien rebounded Byfuglien. and get pucks to the net and you place on the third defense
blog from a eight-game scoreless "We're going to have to do a saw what happens." pairing alongside Brent Sopel.
• Hawks-Canucks series page streak to begin these playoffs better job of protecting the front Burrows made up for the ... Fourth line Vancouver C
"He was in the middle of with a hat trick on Wednesday. of our net," Canucks coach undisciplined penalty by Ryan Johnson returned after
everything," said Marian Hossa, It was the sixth Hawks' hat trick Alain Vigneault said. "At the snapping a wrist shot from the missing a month because of a
who scored 7:45 into the third in the playoffs since 1990. same time, we know what's slot under Niemi's blocker off broken foot, but the shot-
period to give Chicago a 4-2 "No, I don't think so," he said. being allowed and permitted on the rush with 54 seconds left in blocking, penalty-killing
lead. "He's dominating in the If not, Luongo would like to see the ice in front of the nets and the period. But any hope of specialist was on the ice for the
c o r n e r s , i n t h e p h y s i c a l his teammates at least make life we have to do the same thing." Vancouver adding to an NHL- first goal. He also lost the
department and I think he was just as difficult for his Chicago Byfuglien started the series on leading 13 third-period faceoff cleanly to Toews on the
frustrating their team." counterpart. Antti Niemi made the fourth line and moved to comebacks ended when Hossa second. Speedy rookie Michael
Dismissed by the Canucks 16 of his 31 saves in the first defense in Game 2, but he beat Shane O'Brien to a rebound Grabner, who scored in Game 1
before the series as a non-factor period, but didn't have to fight shifted to the top line with for an easy goal at 7:45. but played just 4:19 in Game 2,
despite scoring two of his three through nearly as much traffic. Toews and Patrick Kane. But as Byfuglien, who skated along BYFUGLIEN'S page 68
career playoff goals against "If they do it on us and its not he did in last year's series the end boards taunting the
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Bruins top Flyers to take 3-0 lead in East semis

Associated Press Bruins can complete the sweep think if we play the same way our guys responded well," Julien they lead a best-of-seven series
(ESPN.com) in Philadelphia on Friday night. Friday night, we will be fine." said. "If anything, I thought it 3-0.
Submitted at 5/6/2010 1:56:42 AM Fast Facts The Flyers' first home playoff was a real gutsy effort on our The Flyers, playing without
• The Bruins have won seven of game since April 20 had an part." injured forwards Jeff Carter and
Wheeler, Satan, Recchi help their last eight playoff games, unusual vibe from the start. The Bruins were outshot by a 2- Simon Gagne, failed on all four
Bruins go up 3-0 on Flyers including four straight. There were large patches of to-1 margin most of the game. power-play opportunities.
P H I L A D E L P H I A - - T h e • Danny Briere's point streak empty seats -- mostly in the The Flyers had plenty of open Boucher stopped 16 shots and
Boston Bruins are one win away ended at four games. upper deck -- and the normally looks, but they couldn't convert appears doomed in his bid to
from a surprising trip to the • Mike Richards was also held rocking crowd of 20,000-plus any rebounds against Rask. lead the Flyers to the Eastern
Eastern Conference finals that off the score sheet after having was quiet from the opening Rask stopped all 15 shots in the Conference finals as he did as a
has been 18 years in the making. at least one point in 10 of his faceoff. second period, including two rookie 10 years ago.
McDonald: All Together Now previous 11 postseason games. Perhaps they sensed something. Philadelphia chances on the "We really needed this game,
The Bruins aren't at full -- ESPN Stats & Information The Flyers gave their fans a power play. The Bruins defense and now we've got a big hole,"
strength, but they still have the "It was just one of those games quick jolt, scoring first when did a fantastic job of shot Boucher said. "Now it starts.
Flyers on the ropes in this series, when you see a lot of shots, you Asham flipped the puck under a blocking in front. Game 4. We've got to try and
writes ESPNBoston.com's Joe feel comfortable, you're not sliding Rask's glove only 2:32 "Guys are willing to do get that game."
McDonald. Story making any extra moves and in. It did more than give the whatever it takes. Our guys feel Hard to believe now this is the
• Check out the Bruins blog you're standing there and Flyers the first lead of the game the importance of blocking same Bruins team that lost 10
Blake Wheeler and Miroslav everything seems to hit you," -- it was their first lead of the shots," Julien said. straight games in one stretch this
Satan scored 94 seconds apart to Rask said. series. Unlike the Flyers, Boston was season. They didn't clinch a
stun the Philadelphia Flyers on Wheeler and Satan scored in And their last one of the night. able to convert at least one playoff berth until their next-to-
their home ice and get Boston the first period to wipe out the The Bruins took over from power-play chance. Recchi, a last game.
rolling in Game 3. Tuukka Rask Flyers' early lead, and the there, even as injuries forced former Flyers star, scored his None of that matters now.
took over from there and made Bruins never looked back. They center David Krejci and Adam 54th career playoff goal to make Game notes
all the huge saves. won the first two games of the McQuaid out of the game. it 3-1. The Flyers are 31-31 in Game
Mark Recchi and Patrice series at home -- and the Bruins Krejci was leveled on a crushing The Bruins never gave the 3s. ... The Flyers have never
Bergeron also scored for Boston might not play in Boston again hit from Flyers captain Mike Flyers a chance to get going in won a playoff series when
in a 4-1 win over the Flyers that until the conference finals. Richards that actually led to the first period. The Flyers trailing 0-2 and returning home
l i f t e d t h e B r u i n s t o a Arron Asham scored for the Boston's go-ahead goal. seemed to overcome their to play Games 3 and 4. ... The
commanding 3-0 lead in the Flyers. Philadelphia has never The loose puck was corralled faceoff woes when they won Bruins have a 30-12 career mark
Eastern semifinal series on won a series when trailing 3-0 by Milan Lucic, who got it to one, only to quickly lose the when winning Game 3 of a best-
Wednesday night. (0-6). Only two NHL teams Satan for his fifth goal of the puck in the corner. Wheeler of-seven series.
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Pacman Jones is humble, Mike Zimmer of

Cincinnati Bengals says
ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:25:14 AM
Cornerback Adam "Pacman"
Jones reportedly is close to a
deal to play for the Cincinnati
Bengals this season. The team's
defensive coordinator said he
doesn't believe Jones will be a
distraction for the defending
AFC North champions.
"We've got a bunch of strong
character guys on defense,"
Mike Zimmer told The Dallas
Morning News. "I'm not going
to let this kid screw up our
chemistry. I don't think he will.
He looked me in the eye and
shook my hand and said,
'Coach, I just want to play.' He
seems very humble. He seems to
understand."
“ representatives told the
I'm not going to let this kid
screw up our chemistry. I don't
think he will. He looked me in
the eye and shook my hand and
said, 'Coach, I just want to play.'
He seems very humble. He
seems to understand.”-- Mike
Zimmer on Pacman Jones
A league source told the NFL
Network that one of Jones'
BYFUGLIEN'S
continued from page 66
representatives, Ray Savage,
had several conversations with
the Bengals during the
cornerback's visit with
Cincinnati on Tuesday, and the
sides have the nucleus of a
multiyear deal in place.
Savage and the Bengals expect
to put the details to paper this
week, according to the NFL
Network, and Jones should join
the team's offseason program
Monday.
A contract hasn't been signed as
of Thursday, however. The
Cincinnati Enquirer reported
that Jones and the Bengals are
still negotiating performance
incentives and conduct clauses
in the contract.
"There's no deal until there is
something signed on paper,"
Tom Hunter, another of Jones'
newspaper.
Jones hasn't played in the NFL
since 2008, after being released
by the Dallas Cowboys.
Bengals defensive tackle Tank
Johnson told the team's website
that Jones told him he is going
to sign with Cincinnati and "he's
ecstatic."
AFC North blog
ESPN.com's James Walker
writes about all things AFC
North in his division blog.
• Blog network: NFL Nation
Johnson was a teammate of
Jones' with the Cowboys in
2008. That season, Jones was
suspended for six games and
later released. Jones has been
suspended for the entire 2007
season while he was a member
of the Tennessee Titans.
However, Johnson said Jones
has changed since.
"I know he's settled down,"
Johnson said Wednesday,
according to Bengals.com. "I
think you have to settle down. I
think he would have been dead
by now if he didn't settle down.
That's the honest to god truth."
Johnson also has had off-field
troubles and served a past eight-
game suspension. But he's
turned his life and career around
with the Bengals and credits
Zimmer.
"I think Zim will be good for
him; all he has to do is listen to
Zim," Johnson said, according
to Bengals.com. "I can talk to
Zim. Adam needs to listen to
Zim. There is a difference there.
I've earned the right to talk to
Zim and Adam has not earned
the right to open his mouth to
Zim. He needs to listen to all the
wise things Zim has to say and
soak it all in like a sponge and
go from there."
If he signs with the Bengals,
Jones will provide depth for an
already talented secondary.
The Bengals have one of the
best cornerback tandems in the
league in Johnathan Joseph and
Leon Hall, who had six
interceptions apiece last season.
The defense finished fourth in
the league, one of the main
reasons Cincinnati won the AFC
North with a 10-6 record.
Cincinnati drafted cornerback
Brandon Ghee from Wake
Forest in the third round last
month, looking for depth at the
position.
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Filed under: Canucks, Capitals,
NHL Playoffs
Dustin Byfuglien spent a good
portion of the season on
defense, filling the void as the
Chicago Blackhawks persevered
through injured blue liners.
In Game 3 of the second-round
series on Tuesday, Byfuglien
spent much of the night planted
in front of the net of the host
Vancouver Canucks as he netted
a hat trick -- his first points of
the playoffs -- in a 5-2
Blackhawks victory at GM
Place.
"That's my job to be in position
and make them work around
me," Byfuglien told reporters
after Chicago built a 2-1 lead in
the best-of-seven series.
Vancouver goalie Roberto
Luongo certainly didn't have an
answer.
The first two goals came on the
power play as Luongo allowed
rebounds that Byfuglien directed
into the net. His final goal --
which was also the game's final
with six minutes left in
regulation -- was the most
controversial as it appeared he
shoved Luongo into the net
along with the puck.
Blackhawks Lead Series, 2-1
Blackhawks 5, Canucks 2:
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"That's something out of our
control," said Luongo, who
finished with 30 saves.
"Obviously, it's disappointing.
... You try the best you can.
What else can you do? What
else are you going to do? Once
it's called, it's called. You can't
and get him to click the way he
did in Texas [in 2008, Bradley's
All-Star season].
"He's a beautiful man, with a
beautiful heart."
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argue with that. You are trying
to do your best to hold your
ground. It's impossible."
The call was subject to a video
review, although not for goalie
interference. A replay showed
that the puck went off of
Canucks defenseman Alexander
Edler's skate and was not kicked
in by Chicago.

Joe Johnson Must Raise His Play for Hawks and Himself
Tim Povtak (FanHouse Main) start playing like it. taken them into this best-of- against the Magic.
Submitted at 5/5/2010 10:15:00 PM Both he, and the Atlanta seven, second-round Eastern "I'm responsible when we play
Hawks, are running out of time. Conference matchup against the like this. I'll take that. I'm the
Filed under: Hawks, Magic, And at this point, he is nowhere Orlando Magic. one who's supposed to do
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Johnson really expects to be unquestioned leader of the mediocre Milwaukee in the first practice. "If I can't play any
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70 Gaming/ E-reader News Edition

UFC Undisputed's
Chuck Liddell tells
us what it takes
Mike Schramm (Joystiq)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 1:00:00 AM

StarCraft 2 and Admittedly, Chuck Liddell is

our second favorite "Iceman" --
Bobby Drake's mutant powers

THQ CEO cautiously Battle.net to integrate and frosty quips make him
slightly more endearing to video

optimistic about 3D Facebook features game nerds like us. But the UFC
fighter has his charms as well.
Not only is he the winning
Richard Mitchell (Joystiq) It's worth noting that the press
coach on this season of The
gaming Submitted at 5/5/2010 11:30:00 PM release refers to the friend
finding feature as "the first step
Just when you thought your in integration," so it sounds like
Ultimate Fighter reality show,
but here he is in a promo video
Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) more importantly and probably for the upcoming UFC
a little further out, is the install masterful Zerg Rushes couldn't there will be more Facebook
Submitted at 5/6/2010 9:30:00 AM Undisputed 2010 game,
base of 3D-equipped TV sets or get any more social -- you are features added over time. As
schooling all of us pushovers on
[Image Credit: Frank Reese] monitors." reaching out and obliterating long as we're not flooded with
what it takes to win in the
T H Q C E O B r i a n F a r r e l l Farrell doesn't believe 3D will someone, after all -- Blizzard status updates every time
Octagon.
mentioned during an earnings be "meaningful for a couple has announced that the new someone gets "pwned," we're all
[Spoiler: You have to get real
call call yesterday that the years." The company will Battle.net and StarCraft 2 will for it.
angry and beat up that
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Canabalt(and we see you there
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jerks), Adam Atomic has
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Canabalt: Typing Tutor Edition
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Is NYC the next tech mecca?
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Submitted at 5/6/2010 6:46:39 AM
Whether or not NYC is the next
tech mecca, my moving here is
not a reflection on that, one way
or the other. I am here for
mostly personal reasons. It's
where I grew up. It feels like it's
where I belong right now, so
this is where I am.
But people ask me the question
all the time, and I've had enough
time to think about it.
First point, if we believe NYC
is the next tech mecca, is it wise,
on NYC's behalf, to boast about
it?
In business I like to follow the
example of San Francisco 49ers
coach Bill Walsh, one of the
winningest coaches in history,
and also one of the most modest.
If you asked Coach Walsh did
he think his team would clobber
the Dolphins or the Bengals in
the Super Bowl, he would tell
you the other guys were the best
team to ever take the field in the
history of the sport. The Niners
would be lucky to score a single
touchdown against such a
formidable opponent. They do
the same thing in politics,
always set the expectation a
notch below reality. We should
do this in tech too. Let the other
guy do the blustering. Make
sure your team and its
supporters know that victory is
going to be hard. The other guy
wouldn't have gotten so far if he
wasn't great. Let the other guy
know he has your respect.
Maybe he'll relax.
Now, with that in mind -- it
pays to read Matt Mireles's
piece that explains why Silicon
Valley is still the place for
bright entrepreneurs with a
world-changing idea to build a
team and get financing. He's
probably right about that. But it
may not be the best place to
incubate the next layer of
technology, in fact it almost
certainly isn't.
I have some experience with
that, because in 1979, as a bright
young person probably a lot like
Matt, I moved west from
Madison to Mountain View to
seek fame and fortune as a
software entrepreneur. The road
was a lot rougher than I thought
it would be, but within ten years
I had founded a company and
participated in an IPO and
realized the dream that a lot of
people still have today, which I
think is good.
But here's the important part of
my story, that's relevant to
whether or not Silicon Valley is
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MBAs with pyramid schemes. about competing with Silicon
Gotta say the VCs typically Valley. They do what they do
went for the MBAs. The era of very well for a reason.
the engineer, if it wasn't over, We should be thinking about
was certainly waning. how we can work with Silicon
But even then, everyone Valley, when the time is right.
thought the future of the tech In other words, I don't think
world was being hatched in we're going to stop taking
Silicon Valley. The only planes to SFO anytime soon.
problem was, with the benefit of What we can do here, though, is
hindsight, the future of the tech iterate on the vision for the next
world was actually being level of tech, which I feel
hatched in Switzerland. intuitively involves the
And before that, the seminal humanities and media, as much
the place to be, right now, to product of the tech industry, as it will involve memory,
participate in the next level of VisiCalc, was being hatched in batteries and input devices.
change. Cambridge, MA. When we need financing, we
When I started my second And in the next implosion, the can turn to local sources, or we
company, in 1988, also in r e b o o t i n g t e c h w a s b e i n g can get on that plane and teach
Silicon Valley -- the industry developed by curmudgeons who the investors of the west coast
was approaching a level of didn't look like MBAs and sure how to come to JFK, which they
maturity that, in tech, warns of a didn't sound like them, so the all want to do anyway. I think
looming implosion. I was too bright guys of the Valley missed there are enough people here
young and inexperienced to it. (I'm talking about blogging now with the right idea so that
know this, but the signs were and social media, of course.) the chance of booting up the
everywhere. A few years before So Silicon Valley may be the next level is pretty good. It is
if you had a good idea, you place you bring your revolution, not in any way a certainty --
could ship a product, promote it, once it's fully hatched, but the there are plenty of other
build a user base, and find revolution itself is (apparently) geographies with a lot going for
liquidity. Now the dominant hatched elsewhere. them.
companies had grown so big So that says to me that NYC, So the answer to question is --
they were starting to choke the with its incredibly huge pool of no NYC is not the next tech
e c o s y s t e m . A n d t h e fresh talent, which is its mecca. But it could be.
e n t r e p r e n e u r s w h o w e r e advantage -- this is the largest
showing up were less the bright- metro area in the United States,
eyed engineers with big ideas, and one of the largest in the
and more of the carpetbagging world -- shouldn't be thinking
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Brooklyn Lawyer to Enter Brain Scan as Court
Evidence for Client's Veracity
Jeremy Hsu (Popular Science
- New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 3:00:59 PM
Lie Down No Lie MRI scans
brain activity with fMRI to
identify deceit patterns. Graham
Blair The case could represent a
legal precedent for sorting out
truth from falsehood in a court
of law
Brain scans may become
accepted evidence in a civil trial
for the first time, if a Brooklyn
lawyer gets his way, Wired
reports.The case could set a
legal precedent for allowing
brain scans as evidence to
determine whether or not a
person is telling the truth.
The lawyer, David Levin,
represents a woman who claims
that she no longer received good
assignments from a temp agency
after she complained of sexual
harassment at a job site. A
coworker at the temp agency
claimed he heard a supervisor
say the woman should not be
placed on jobs because of the
complaint.
That prompted Levin to have
the coworker undergo a
functional magnetic-resonance
imaging (fMRI) brain scan by
the company Cephos, which
claims to provide scientific
validation of whether someone
is telling the truth. Now the
proposed evidence will test the
New York standards for
scientific evidence in courts --
known as the Frye standard --
which typically requires the
evidence to be considered
reliable among the broader
scientific community.
Both Cephos and another
company called No Lie MRI
have marketed their brain scans
as lie detectors since 2007. They
report accuracy rates from 75
percent to 98 percent under lab
conditions, but many
neuroscientists remain skeptical
of, or outright opposed to, using
Science/ Social Media/
brain scan technology in court.
We reported earlier on a
Cephos-funded fMRI study at
the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center,
which tested people who
participated in a mock crime
within the experiment. The test
caught guilty parties, but also
sometimes netted innocents who
were telling the truth.
Last year, an Illinois court
allowed an expert to describe
the fMRI brain scan of man
accused of murdering a 10-year-
old-girl. But that was presented
as evidence of the man's mental
illness during the sentencing
phase of the trial, whereas the
new Brooklyn case would be a
legal first for determining truth-
telling.
We'll be sure to keep an eye on
whether this battleground
between science and the law
translates into wider use of brain
scans or not. If it does pass
muster with the Frye standard,
expect even more debate over
the use of brain scans as direct
mind readers in the future.
[via Wired]
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FixPix Does Amazing
Things With iPhone’s
Tilt Sensor
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 4:59:10 AM
Yes, we’ve seen many games
that make use of iPhone’s tilt
sensor, but FixPix somehow
manages to make it look fresh
with a simple, yet visually
stunning game.
The game is actually a 3D
puzzle; by tilting the phone, you
must align two superimposed
images so that the overall
picture makes sense. The fact
that the graphics consists of
beautiful pixel art, courtesy of
eBoy, makes the experience
even better.
The game will be available for
iPhone & iPod touch soon, but
you can check out a neat video
preview below.
[ FixPix via Kotaku via Fast
Company]
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Inhalable Measles Vaccine Set to Debut in First
Human Trials
Jeremy Hsu (Popular Science
- New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 4:28:38 PM
Inhalable Vaccine Get your
daily dose here University of
Colorado Snort a dose of
prevention for measles or other
diseases
Future vaccination against
measles, tuberculosis or even
cervical cancer might be as
simple as huffing from a plastic
sack. Scientists have refined a
powdered inhalable vaccine that
is slated to undergo human
clinical trials for preventing
measles later this year in India.
The inhalable vaccine bypasses
the need for icky needles by
mixing liquid carbon dioxide
with weakened measles virus.
That process creates
microscopic bubbles and
droplets which dry out and
become an inhalable powder.
Patients can then inhale their
protection through a plastic
nozzle similar to the neck of a
plastic water bottle.
Making the breakthrough
required researchers at the
University of Colorado at
Boulder to develop a mixing
device known as the Carbon
Dioxide Assisted Nebulization
with a Bubble Dryer, or CAN-
BD. The device mixes two
streams of fluid and then rapidly
expands them to atmospheric
pressure, before mixing in warm
nitrogen to try the tiny bubbles
and droplets.
"One of our primary goals of
this project is to get rid of
needles and syringes, because
they frighten some people, they
hurt, they can transmit diseases
and there are issues with needle
disposal," said Robert Sievers, a
biochemist at CU Boulder. His
innovation also represents a cost
-effective method, at just 26
cents per dose, or about the cost
of an injectable vaccine.
The no-needles approach has
proved popular elsewhere.
Australian scientists have
developed a postage stamp-sized
vaccine patches that can deliver
a tiny but effective dose through
the skin.
A first focus on measles makes
sense, given that the inhalable
vaccine goes directly to the
lungs where measles typically
attacks. But trypanophobes can
also keep their fingers crossed
for an inhalable treatment which
delivers antibiotic particles for
treating tuberculosis, or an
inhalable treatment for the
papilloma virus which causes
cervical cancer.
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System Stores Wind and
Solar Power in the Form
of Natural Gas, to Fit
Neatly Into Existing
Infrastructure
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 2:16:12 PM
It's abundantly clear that we
need to get off fossil fuels for
various reasons (try Googling
"oil spill"), but our
infrastructures are far better
tuned for the hydrocarbon fuels
of the past century than the
renewables of the next. So why
don't we just make fuels that
work in our existing technology
from renewable energy? A
German-Austrian research
collaboration has engineered a
means to turn electricity from
wind a solar resources into
carbon-neutral natural gas that
can be stored and deployed
within existing natural gas
infrastructure.
The process hopes to create the
storage capacity for renewable
power sources that they so
sorely lack. When the wind is
blowing and the sun is shining,
excess power is siphoned off
and used to split water through
electrolysis. But rather than
storing the hydrogen gas for use
in fuel cells -- technology that,
while potentially game-
changing, is not widely
employed -- a simple chemical
reaction between hydrogen and
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A Single Molecule Computes Thousands of

Times Faster than Your PC
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 3:50:04 PM
Computing with Iodine
A demo of a quantum
calculation carried out by
Japanese researchers has yielded
some pretty mind-blowing
results: a single molecule can
perform a complex calculation
thousands of times faster than a
conventional computer.
A proof-of-principle test run of
a discrete Fourier transform -- a
common calculation using
spectral analysis and data
is then run through an excited But don't trade in your computers working.
compression, among other
iodine molecule whose atomic conventional computing power Still, the very fact that
things -- performed with a single
elements are oscillating at just yet. Like other quantum researchers were able to pull off
iodine molecule transpired very
known intervals and picked up information platforms, a calculation at such speeds
well, putting all the molecules in
by a receiver on the other side. molecular computing is in its shows just how big of an impact
your PC to shame.
The entire process takes just a infancy; we understand some of molecular calculations could
Using quantum interference -
few tens of femtoseconds (that's its mechanisms, but it's difficult have on the science of
the vibrations of the atoms
a quadrillionth of a second). So to execute and there are still a computing.
themselves - the team was able
we're not just talking faster data lot of unknowns. Further, [ Science Daily]
to run the complete discrete
flow or processing here; these researchers aren't quite sure how
Fourier transform extremely
are speeds that are physically they could integrate such
quickly by encoding the inputs
impossible on any kind of technology into something that
into an optically tailored
conventional electronic device. works the way we're used to our
vibrational wave packet which
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carbon dioxide is used to
generate CH4, or a synthetic
version of methane.
That methane can be stored in
existing natural gas facilities for
use when renewable fuel
sources are having an off day.
Those supplies could also be
used as a heat source during
cold winters or burn in natural
gas powered car engines. The
synthetic methane does release
carbon emissions into the air,
but since the CO 2 used to make
the synthetic methane is pulled
from the atmosphere rather than
the ground, the process only
returns the carbon it initially
pulled out.
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And keep in mind this is
envisioned as a backup storage
system rather than a shift to a
natural gas economy. On
breezy, sunny days the synthetic
methane stays in its tanks and
the world turns on carbon-free
power. The team has a demo
plant up and running in
Stuttgart, and a larger double-
digit megawatt system is
planned by 2012.
[ Fraunhofer]
Gallery: Inside the
Pavilions of Expo 2010
John Mahoney (Popular here.
Science - New Technology, Launch the gallery by clicking
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rest of our World Expo coverage
Submitted at 5/5/2010 1:34:40 PM from Shanghai here:
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Times Square: The old question, ‘Why?’

tmatt (GetReligion) And so forth and so on.
Submitted at 5/5/2010 10:41:53 AM Never mind. It’s time for the
big questions:
As it turns out, the Times Many details surrounding
Square bomb may not have been Shahzad’s alleged attempt to
set by someone who was mad bomb Times Square are hard to
about Obamacare. reconcile. Why would someone
As it turns out, the alleged links who spent a decade pursuing
between the attempted bombing U.S. citizenship seek to bomb an
and the Pakistani Taliban — American landmark and flee the
which CBS initially called not country within a year of being
credible — may have been real. naturalized? How could
So once again, journalists are someone with a degree in
playing catch up on a story that computers, who authorities say
pivots on some of the central, admitted receiving bomb-
haunting questions of this era: making training in Pakistan,
Why does this happen? Where is assemble such an
the line between moderate and unsophisticated and
non-violent forms of Islam and unsuccessful device?
the radicalized forms that But the most elusive question
embrace (and even mandate) about Shahzad — a man with no
violence against infidels and known history of violence or
even other Muslims that are connection to militant Islam —
labeled as blasphemers? How do is the same one that often
reporters find this line without surfaces in terrorism plots:
asking questions about doctrine Why?
and practice? Now, reporters Greg Miller and
That’s the subject lurking Mary Beth Sheridan do appear
behind the opening paragraphs to have asked some faith-based
of this A1 Washington Post questions when talking with
story, one of the first that I have people who knew Shahzad and
seen that dares ask any religious his family, such as former
questions about this event. family that neighbors often saw propane and a used car. r e n o u n c e a n d a b j u r e a l l neighbor Mary Ann Galich:
Before he was accused of playing outside was suddenly OK, I’ll ask. What precisely is allegiance and fidelity to any Shahzad’s wife, Huma Mian,
building a bomb, Faisal Shahzad gone. an “American life”? What are its foreign prince, potentate, state, often wore a veil and a robe, as
had disassembled his American When Shahzad resurfaced in crucial elements? It looks like a or sovereignty of whom or did the family’s female friends,
life. the United States in February, it suburban home in Connecticut, which I have heretofore been a Galich said. Shahzad wore suits
In June, he abruptly quit his job appears to have been with a new a wife and two kids are the subject or citizen; or casual American standards
as a financial analyst. The three- p u r p o s e . H e i g n o r e d t h e crucial ingredients. Then again, * that I will support and defend such as khakis. … In photos on
bedroom, two-plus-bath house f o r e c l o s u r e f i l i n g s o f h i s it might have something to do the Constitution and laws of the social networking Web sites,
he shared with his wife and two mortgage lender, and, according with: United States of America Shahzad gazes at the camera
children in Shelton, Conn., was to authorities, spent his money I hereby declare, on oath, against all enemies, foreign and TIMES page 81
put on the market. The young on a prepaid cellphone, tanks of * that I absolutely and entirely domestic. …
78 Religion/
‘Long gone,’ but not soon forgotten
Bobby (GetReligion)
Submitted at 5/6/2010 6:00:52 AM
To those who love baseball, it
is more than a game. F. Scott
Fitzgerald famously called it
“the faith of 50 million people,”
as Daniel Burke noted in a
recent Religion News Service
feature:
It follows a seasonal calendar
— begun this year on Easter
Sunday — and builds towards a
crowning moment. Its players
perform priestly rituals, its
history abounds with tales of
mythic heroes, and its fans study
and argue arcana with the
intensity of Talmudic scholars.
Sadly, baseball has lost one of
its true saints: Ernie Harwell,
the longtime voice of the Detroit
Tigers.
Despite his love of the game,
Harwell put his faith not in
baseball, but in Jesus Christ. In
his final months, Harwell, 92,
made no secret of his strong
Christian faith and his belief that
God had a better home waiting
for him. In an October 2009
video interview with Mitch
Albom that accompanies this
post, Harwell talked about his
spring-training conversion at a
1961 Billy Graham Easter
crusade in Bartow, Fla.:
“That’s what made the big
change. I surrendered my life
completely, and now whatever
he (God) wants suits me fine. …
It’s a great blessing that he has
given to me that in my final
days, I can really know where
I’m going, whose arms I’m
going to end up in and what a
great, great thing heaven will
be.”
As you’d expect, both Detroit
newspapers devoted extensive
space Wednesday to Harwell’s
death, with plenty of colorful
baseball anecdotes and warm
personal tributes.
But how’d they fare on the faith
angle?
Well, the Detroit Free Press
didn’t exactly strike out. But the
big part of the bat came
nowhere close to the ball, either.
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Let’s call it a weak infield fly.
Up high in its nearly 3,900-
word main obituary, the Free
Press references Harwell’s faith:
“I’m ready to face what comes,”
he said at the time. “Whether
it’s a long time or a short time
is all right with me because it’s
up to my Lord and savior.”
In the ensuing months, in an
emotional farewell ceremony at
Comerica Park, in his columns
for the Free Press and in
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Surveying the damage

Sarah Pulliam Bailey church to look bad. Had a
(GetReligion) woman been pope, she wouldn’t
Submitted at 5/5/2010 1:30:49 PM have allowed it. She would have
strung up these guys herself.”
I have mixed feelings about These quotes are kind of lame
newspapers conducting their and serve as padding for the set
own polls. On on hand, it seems narrative, but the poll itself
too easy: conduct a poll, reveals some interesting
interpret the data and you have a numbers. Almost 80 percent of
story. On the other hand, it survey respondents said that
allows them to quickly pounce their financial contributions to
on a story in the news that the Catholic Church have stayed
scholars might not touch for the same and 82 percent say
several years. media reports have had no effect
Often these newspaper surveys on Mass attendance.
miss the potential religion angle For GetReligion readers,
or variable, but I’ve seen at least perhaps the most interesting
three compelling religion- number comes out of the news
related polls to consider this media treatment of the Catholic
week. Church. Compared to the way
First, let’s look at The New the media treated other
York Times poll of 412 religions, 64 percent of
American Catholics’ views on respondents said that they have
the Church. The data is been harder on the Catholic
interesting, but I’m not sure why Church, 3 percent said they have
it took five reporters to been easier, 30 percent said they
interview three people to fit the have been the same, 4 percent
narrative they found in the had no opinion. Are you
survey: surprised by these numbers?
Betsy Conrath, who is 60 and a Remember, this is media
retired weather broadcaster in perception, which is interesting
Spokane, Wash., said in a to evaluate.
follow-up interview: “They are Next, we have USA Today,
not going to cover up any more which released a poll related to
and hope and pray it will just go the National Day of Prayer.
away. Now that the pope has a One group was asked if they
handle on it, things will change. favored or opposed the National
in West Point, Iowa, who they’re going to have to do the Orfordville, Wis., said in a
“I have been totally saddened by Day of Prayer or if it “doesn’t
worked for a chemical company best they can to fix the problem. follow-up interview: “The
all of this,” Ms. Conrath said, matter.”
and a state prison, said: “Since I think before, maybe, they sexual abuse issue goes back to
“but I’m still very much a About 57% of adults favor it,
the news came out and was thought it wouldn’t get out.” the Vatican. They allowed it to
Catholic and have not lost my and 38% shrugged it off. Only
spread around in all the …Mary Dunham, a 64-year-old be covered up for so long
faith in my religion.” SURVEYING page 81
newspapers, they got the idea quilter and crafter in because they didn’t want the
Norbert Wellman, 71, a retiree
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Anglicans and/or Episcopalians?
Mollie (GetReligion)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 3:29:32 PM
Church splits, as anyone who’s
ever been unlucky enough to
endure one can tell you, are
difficult. Writing about them is
difficult, too. The point of
disagreement leading to a break
might not be the same for
everyone. Different causes get
lumped together. Personalities
are wounded. It can be a mess.
The Oregonian attempted to
write about a recent
congregational split at St.
Matthew’s Episcopal Parish.
The story isn’t bad, but it does
have some errors:
For the second week, two dozen
people gathered in the wood and
brick building on Northeast
Prescott Street that has been
their home for 55 years. An hour
later, almost 100 of their former
brothers and sisters in Christ,
who recently declared
themselves Anglicans,
worshiped in rented space at
Mt.Tabor Seventh-day
Adventist Church. The storm
that has battered the Episcopal
Church in the United States has
touched down in Portland.
“Brother and sister in Christ” is
not a term that Christians use
just for members of a given
congregation. Typically, that
term is used to describe anyone
else who is a baptized member
of the church. So unless both
parishes have written off the
other group as heathens, that’s
not quite the best phrase to use.
And about the Anglican
business. This is tricky, sure, but
both groups would consider
themselves Anglican. The
Anglican Communion includes
the Episcopal Church in the
United States. If you’re an
Episcopalian, you’re an
Anglican. But as the other group
shows, being Anglican doesn’t
necessarily mean you’re a
member of the Episcopal
Church in the United States —
even if you’re geographically
located in the United States.
Moving on:
Since the Episcopal Church in
the United States decided in
2003 to accept the election of its
first openly gay bishop, the
denomination has been rocked
with disagreements over biblical
authority. With a reputation as a
conservative congregation, St.
Matthew’s had for 66 years
included people who read the
Bible almost literally and others
who interpreted it from more
liberal points of view. But over
time, that range grew
problematic. On March 21, a
majority of St. Matthew’s
members voted to leave the
church.
Well, not just since 2003, of
course — but for decades prior
to that. The denomination has
been dealing with disagreements
over biblical authority for at
least 30 years, if not longer than
that. The identification of the
2003 consecration of Bishop
Gene Robinson is important, but
the story goes back further than
that. And what does “almost
literally” mean? That phrase is
meaningless enough to warrant
a better description.
Still, the story is nice. It shows
how different groups are
reaching out to the
congregation. It gives glimpses
of the different worship services
last Sunday. It puts the split in
larger context, both for Oregon
and North America. I didn’t
realize, for instance, that the
Anglican Church in North
America (founded last year)
already had 805 congregations
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always been expressed. But it
seems that the national church is
reassessing its understanding,
redefining it in some ways.” The
“bonds of affection” that have
held the Episcopal communion
together have been stretched to
the breaking point, he said.
And even though the Episcopal
bishop declined to be
interviewed for the story, the
reporter worked to include his
perspective as well. And that
from a member of the
continuing congregation:
Before the Episcopalian
service, Toodie Butts, a member
of St. Matthew’s for more than
40 years, said the separation has
been heart-wrenching. She said
she didn’t attend the year’s
worth of Bible studies and small
group meetings that Humphrey
said led to the March vote.
“I didn’t want to leave,” she
as members. And it gives said. “This is my church. They
members and clergy from both just decided to go, and I’ve
sides ample space to put forth never known exactly why. I was
their side of the story. In all here last week, and I’m afraid I
cases, the quotes seemed well blubbered through the whole
chosen and thoughtful: service. Hopefully, some of
[The Rev. David] Humphrey’s them will come back.”
words hinted at the division It’s a sad story, as all stories
within St. Matthew’s Episcopal about splits are bound to be.
Parish, where he had been rector And yet the reporter handled the
since 2004 before resigning last story delicately and fairly,
month. allowing people to speak about
“We are a historic, orthodox, their motivations and hopes and
traditional church with a biblical balancing those perspectives
understanding of the faith,” with other helpful information.
Humphrey said in an interview Five Filters featured article:
last week. “We believe we are
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interviews with national media,
Harwell referred to death as his
next great adventure, a gift
handed down by God.
“I’ve had so many great ones,”
he said. “It’s been a terrific
life.”
But that’s it. The end. There’s
no mention of Harwell’s
conversion experience back in
‘61. No discussion of the role
faith played in his life. The only
other reference to God is this
quote from his final broadcast in
2002:
He wrapped up the address and
55 years as a major league
broadcaster by saying, “I thank
you very much, and God bless
all of you.”
Interestingly enough, Harwell
also said something else that
day, but this didn’t make the
story:
“Now, God has a new adventure
for me, and I’m ready to move
on.”
As part of its package on
Harwell’s death, the Free Press
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makes other quick references (in
columns by Albom and
Rochelle Riley) to Harwell’s
faith, but nothing substantial.
Meanwhile, let’s be blunt and
say that The Detroit News
missed the religion angle
altogether, as best I can tell. As
Harwell would put it, “They
stood there like the house by the
side of the road and watched
that one go by.” Seriously, the
News’ main obituary has more
than 1,700 words — not a one
of them “God,” “Jesus,”
“Christian,” “faith” or “heaven.”
We get tributes like this:
Upon learning of Harwell’s
death, Tigers owner Mike Ilitch
said:
“Ernie Harwell was the most
popular sports figure in the state
of Michigan. He was so
genuine in everything that he
did — from his legendary
broadcasting to the way he
treated the fans and everyone
around him. He was truly a
gentleman in every sense of the
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with a trimmed beard and tight-
lipped smile. In one, he wears a
tan blazer and poses in front of a
gothic cathedral — presumably
in New York City — embracing
his wife.
Huma Mian wears a scarf and
jeans in the photo, her tight curls
uncovered. Her whereabouts are
unclear now, amid reports that
she and the children are in
Pakistan. She used to update her
word. Ernie has a special place
in the hearts of all Detroit
Tigers’ fans and the memories
he created for so many of us
will never be forgotten.”
That’s wonderful. But was
there something inside of
Harwell that made him such a
gentleman? Was there a reason
he was so genuine? Could it —
just possibly — have something
to do with his faith?
By contrast, I was pleased to
see ESPN highlight Harwell’s
faith in a significant way.
In a video accompanying its
obituary, ESPN notes that
Harwell started each season by
referencing a Bible verse — a
passage from Song of Solomon:
For, lo, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the
earth;
The time of the singing of birds
is come,
And the voice of the turtle is
heard in our land.
ESPN includes an AP quote
Facebook account frequently.
Under “activities,” she lists the
laments of a young mother:
“changing diapers, feeding milk,
wiping drools, being sleep
deprived.”
Of course, superficial details
may not matter.
In the past, it seemed that
members of sleeper cells were
trained to avoid visible signs of
devout faith and practice, to
from Harwell on his faith in
“God and Jesus” and links to a
December 2009 feature on how
Harwell’s spirituality provided
peace as his friends and fans
said goodbye. That feature ends
this way:
“I have great faith that heaven’s
there and I’ll see my brothers
and my mom and dad when I
get there,” Harwell says. “I
think it’s better than here. I
think God always has the best
for us.
“I just have faith. It’s just there.
It’s not any big deal.”
No, it’s a real big deal, an
important part of who Harwell
was. Coverage of his life — and
death — should reflect that.
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blend in. So Huma Mian is
veiled some of the time and not
at others. What does that mean?
Was this before or after her
husband returned from what is
alleged to have been a pivotal
trip to Pakistan for terrorist
training? Did the details of their
life and faith change at that
time? Before?
Meanwhile, there are
biographical details that suggest
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4.5% opposed it.
For most 18- to 29-year-olds, it
could be the National Day of
Whatever — 59% said it
doesn’t matter.
Those who most strongly favor
it were Republicans (76%);
women 50 and older (71%); and
Midwesterners (71%) or
Southerners (63%).
In case you forgot, the National
Day of Prayer is tomorrow, so
the poll should give other
reporters some numbers to jump
off of if they’re looking for
angles. Personally, I was
surprised only about 5 percent
of respondents oppose the day.
Finally, the Washington Post
did a general news poll that
included questions religion news
observers will find interesting.
First, they asked whether
respondents preferred the next
Supreme Court nominee to be
Protestant, and 83 percent of
respondents said it was not a
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family roots that may, or may
not, be important. The 30-year-
old Shahzad, the story tells us,
was “from Pabbi, the main town
of the Nowshera district in the
northwest, near Peshawar, a city
at the edge of the tribal region
where al-Qaeda and other
militant groups now hide.” His
father was in the Pakistani
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factor, while 70 percent
preferred someone with
experience. The survey also
asked whether respondents think
Roe v. Wade should be
overturned; 59 respondents said
no while 38 percent said yes.
About 35 percent of evangelical
respondents said they identify
with the tea party, when
Quinnipiac University’s poll in
March found that one in five
evangelicals identify with that
movement.
Remember when we have
several narratives going on
about whether evangelicals were
joining in with the tea party
business? Unofficially, I haven’t
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military.
Then there are the details about
his erratic behavior and bomb-
focused work once Shahzad
returned to the United States. It
seems clear that he returned
with a mission. But was it a
mission that he welcomed?
Once again, why did a bright,
educated computer professional
build such a crude and flawed
bomb?
At this stage we still have a
story containing a huge gap, a
gap between the citizenship oath
and the smoking SUV in Times
Square. If Shahzad did this,
why? If he was reluctant to do
this act, what was the lever that
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seen much excitement or up and ask. However, reporters
activity in conservative
Christian political action groups,
can fall into the trap of sticking
with the obvious narrative.
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though James Dobson did praise
Rand Paul for identifying with
Reporters are often looking for
concrete data to indicate what Portal of Old [VIDEO]
the tea party movement. people believe. Surveys are one Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
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data to consider at the grassroots least one religion variable can
level. be revealing. Yahoo launched a new$85
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numbers for people who reveal Ministerial - The 2010 UK destination for all your online
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more than a box and a button
because if, for example, you Text RSS, Term Extraction. Make Yahoo your home page.”
came years after Yahoo. The
find people who are sticking Their first target: Google.
web portal of old, with news,
with Catholic Church even if The ad from the campaign,
links and search all in one place,
they disagree with it, a survey embedded below, starts by
is far from dead (and Yahoo is
can’t tell you why; you can call showing a site much like
improving on the concept by
Google, consisting of a search
box and little else. When you
adding access to numerous
online services, such as
look at this homepage, the ad
was pulled to force him to do it? Facebook, to its site), but most
claims, “nothing looks back at
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you. You come to this place so
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“At Yahoo, we have a different
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idea. Your homepage isn’t
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things. But Google’s idea of
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For teams who use Facebook
and Twitter for business or
organizations purposes,
HootSuite has rolled out a slew
of new features for assigning
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and sharing tasks.
HootSuite’s Assignment
function lets managers assign a
Twitter update to any team
member, along with annotations
if needed. The team member can
mark the message resolved, and
the manager can monitor
assign tasks to team members
and share content in columns
across groups is “ideally suited
for support desks, customer
service groups, project teams
and dynamic workplaces,”
according to a release from
Hootsuite last night. The
and MySpace capabilities— a
Apple Patent Could See
surefire path to the hearts of
marketers and recording artist Heart Rate Monitors in
promoters. You can use
HootSuite from your Android
phone; you can use it to update
iPhones
your WordPress blog. Clearly, Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
this team is focused on making a Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:46:49 AM

progress and keep records of
campaigns.
Shared columns allow teams to
simultaneously view data
commonly used for social media
marketing. HootSuite’s
shareable columns can be used
to monitor keywords, track
conversations around a vertical
or monitor @replies and DMs.
Messages from columns can be
assigned, and any changes a
column creator makes to a
column are seen by other team
members, as well.
The new tools also include the
ability to send status updates via
email and share collections of
drafted messages. The ability to
Earthquake Rattles Peru, Tweets
company hopes the new features
will allow teams to be more
efficient and their brand
messaging more consistent.
Features are available now in
the web-based version of
HootSuite.
We’ve noticed HootSuite
cranking out major upgrades
consistently over the past
several months. In terms of team
collaboration and CRM social
media tools, this company
seems to be en fuego. Last
week, HootSuite added
Facebook support and
geolocation features to its
iPhone app. A month ago,
HootSuite integrated Foursquare
robust and competitive
application in a very crowded
space.
What do you think of these
upgrades? If you use social
media tools as a marketer, are
HootSuite’s tools appropriate to
the tasks you need to
accomplish within your team?
For more social media
coverage, follow Mashable
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A new patent application by
Apple describes an “integrated
sensor for detecting a user’s
cardiac activity” embedded into
an electronic device –
presumably an iPhone, iPad or
iPod Touch. The sensor, as
Apple describes it, could be
completely hidden from view,
and the “electrical signals
generated by the user can be
transmitted from the user’s skin
through the electronic device
housing to the leads.”
Then, using these signals, the
electronic device can “identify
or authenticate the user and
perform an operation based on
the identity of the user. In some
embodiments, the electronic
device can determine the user’s
mood from the cardiac signals
red as I grab it, softly uttering
the words “What’s the matter?
Why are you angry, Stan?” I do,
however, have to admit that the
idea sounds interesting,
especially when you think what
Apple has been able to
accomplish by adding some
simple sensors, such as the
accelerometer, to its
smartphone. Check out the
patent application here.
For more Apple coverage,
follow Mashable Apple on
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iphone, ipod
Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!) have also been reported so far. I’m not particularly fond of the
Submitted at 5/6/2010 1:18:24 AM W h e t h e r t h e r e w e r e a n y idea of my iPhone glowing all
casualties remains unknown, but
A 6.5- or 6.4-magnitude only moderate damage has been
earthquake has just hit parts of seen so far. The epicenter of the
Peru and Chile, and tweets are quake was 25 miles west of
flooding in from news sources Tacna, and it occurred at 10:42
and folks who were affected by p.m.
the quake.
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We have also heard that some
people living near the Peruvian
coast have evacuated their
homes due to fear of a tsunami.
Folks are using Twitter to share
first aid information, including
diagrams for treating fractures,
and expressing feelings of
concern for affected Peruvians.
We will update as more
information becomes available.
We’re seeing an marked spike
in the use of social media to
spread news, find help and
express condolences during and
after natural disasters.
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Following the earthquake in
Haiti several months ago,
pictures swept across Twitter.
The same happened following a
Mexicali earthquake last month
and recent flooding in the
American South.
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