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Where disaster and compensation intersect you’ll find Kenneth

Feinberg
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row tries to develop consensus with too).
Washington) the companies. "I'm the pay "It's altogether different. In the
Submitted at 4/29/2010 12:12:31 PM mediator, I'm the negotiator." Zapruder case it was a
Although with his next breath fascinating issue: what is the
You can call him mediator, or he does acknowledge having the market value of that grainy 8
you can call him negotiator, but power. "I must say the statute millimeter original black-and-
don't call him pay czar. ultimately gives me final white film of the Kennedy
Kenneth Feinberg says he authority so if you don't work assassination, not as a
doesn't like the shorthand title something out I'm obligated by commercial vehicle but as a
that's used to describe his role as law to make the decision. But historical artifact?" he said.
the administration's supervisor I'm not looking to impose my After a three-day arbitration the
of compensation practices at will on these companies." determination was $16 million.
firms that received money under But one of the wonders of "And you can go over and see
the government's Troubled Feinberg is that he seems to end that 8 millimeter film, sitting
Asset Relief Program. up in the middle of the there in a humidor glass-
"A very unfortunate term," he c r o s s r o a d s o f m o n e y a n d enclosed case and you marvel
said at the Reuters Global disaster, sometimes trying to that that piece of celluloid is
at that intersection? involved," Feinberg said.
Financial Regulation Summit. make unthinkable equations as worth $16 million, but it's part
"That's a question for a And how does supervising
"Pay czar implies that I'm when he had to determine of American history," he says.
psychiatrist and a political compensation at government
issuing some sort of imperial payments to the families of Photo credit: Reuters/Jason
scientist I guess. It just so bailed-out firms compare with
edicts, arbitrary edicts on pay, S e p t e m b e r 1 1 v i c t i m s o r Reed (Feinberg at Reuters
happens in the last decade there putting a price on the Zapruder
without regard to consensus or distributions from a fund setup Summit)
have been some thorny public film of the assassination of
the input of the beneficiaries of in the aftermath of the Virginia
policy problems where one way President John F. Kennedy?
these decisions." Tech shootings. or another I've been asked to get (Yes he was involved in that
Au contraire. Feinberg says he So why does he keep ending up

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take Alan Greenspan and Captain of pensions and pay misery
Titanic
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 4/29/2010 1:24:40 PM
Phil Angelides, Financial Crisis
Inquiry Commission chairman,
says he'd rather see some taking
of responsibility than hear
another "I'm sorry."
"Personally I don't see my role
as ... to obtain apologies. What I
don't hear is a sense of
responsibility and self-
assessment about what occurred.
There seems to be a disconnect
between the practices that
people undertook and the
financial collapse," he said at
the Reuters Global Financial
Regulation Summit.
"I'm struck by the extent to
which all fingers point away
generally from the person
testifying," Angelides said.
And it's not just Wall Street
executives that he's talking
about.
"When Alan Greenspan came in
front of us he said he'd been 70
percent right, 30 percent wrong.
Well, you know, the captain of
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age from an average ago of 53 participation in a three-year
to 67, a three-year wage freeze package.
and cuts in public sector pay are The Greek debt crisis escalated
understood to be among the to panic levels this week after its
austerity measures agreed to by g o v e r n m e n t b o n d s w e r e
the Greek Government in downgraded to junk status,
exchange for a €24 billion (£21 sending markets and the euro
billion) rescue package. spiralling downwards. Figures
The measures include severe have shown that the Greek
cuts in Civil Service wages, national debt is bigger than its
with public servants losing their GDP.
the Titanic was probably 99 conscious decision to turn his “13th and 14th” months’ salary George Papandreou, the Prime
percent right and one percent back, one of the two. I mean, and pension entitlements, a Minister, said that he expected
wrong. It's the enormity of the there's two answers, and neither reduction of state benefits and the aid to be agreed within days
mistake that matters," he said. are particularly good ones," tax increases on alcohol and but warned that Greece faced a
(He is of course referring to the Angelides said. tobacco to help cut the deficit. battle for survival. “We will do
former chairman of the Federal (OUCH! If he throws punches in Final details were still being whatever it takes to save the
Reserve who could do no wrong the commission report like he decided last night with officials country,” he said.
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Live updates: Louisiana oil spill disaster
(World News from Times
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Submitted at 4/30/2010 8:10:31 AM
3.06pm
BP Plc will clean up an oil spill
from one of its wells in the Gulf
of Mexico and compensate
those affected, its Chief
Executive said, accepting that
the disaster could hit plans to
open new areas off the U.S.
coast to drilling.
“We are taking full
responsibility for the spill and
we will clean it up and where
people can present legitimate
claims for damages we will
honour them. We are going to
be very, very aggressive in all of
that,” Tony Hayward said.
President Barack Obama has
proposed opening offshore areas
of the U.S., where oil
exploration is currently barred,
to drilling.
Oil executives fear the oil slick
will scupper these plans.
Mr Hayward said it was only
right that the accident should
influence the debate but added
that he hoped an effective
response would reassure people
about the risks.
“There may be an industry issue
around what may or may not be
opened,” he said.
“It would be bizarre to say it
shouldn’t influence the debate.
How the debate will come out, I
think ultimately will be judged
by the success we have in
dealing with this incident”.
3.01pm
The Earth Observatory at Nasa
has these images of the spill
from space.
2.58pm
Top ten worst oil spills
2.53pm
How fast is the oil coming
ashore?
The National Ocean Service
says
When an oil spill happens, it
spreads very rapidly unless it is
contained by something (like a
boom or a boat slip in a harbor).
The lighter (less dense) the oil,
the faster it spreads out to form
a very thin sheen. For example,
gasoline spreads faster than a
heavy black oil, such as #6 fuel
oil.
Faster currents and winds can
make oil spread faster.
Temperature can sometimes
make a difference in how fast an
oil spreads. Colder oil is more
viscous (doesn't flow as well)
and spreads more slowly.
If it gets cold enough, oil
doesn't flow like a fluid
anymore, but acts more like a
solid (like tar or silly putty). We
have to remember that when
responding to oil spills in arctic
areas.
But under most conditions,
within a very short period of
time (minutes to a few hours for
large spills), even very heavy oil
has usually spread out enough
that it is about as thin as a coat
of paint on the wall.
2.44pm
The US Coast Guard has some
dramatic footage of the rig
alight.
2.19pm
From Associated Press
Two Air Force planes have
been sent to Mississippi and are
awaiting orders to start
dumping chemicals on the oil
spill threatening the Gulf Coast.
Master Sgt. Bob Barko Jr. said
Friday that two C-130s specially
modified for aerial spraying
were sent [on] Thursday from
the Youngstown Air Reserve
Station in Ohio.
Air Force spokesman Maj.
David Faggard at the Pentagon
says the planes stand ready in
case they're needed to spray oil-
dispersing chemicals.
The Navy also has sent
equipment for the cleanup.
Pentagon officials are talking
with the Department of
Homeland Security to figure out
what other help the military can
provide.
2.15pm
President Obama has said that
he will use "every available
resource including the
department of defence" to deal
with the spill.
2.01pm
The Delta National Wildlife
Refuge, home to thousands of
species of fish and fowl, is in
the line of sight of the spill.
Along with other national
parks.
The most commonly observed
species include American
kestrels, northern harriers, red-
tailed hawks and turkey
vultures. Black vultures,
Cooper's hawks, merlins, red-
shouldered hawks and sharp-
shinned hawks have also been
seen on the refuge. Ospreys are
common winter visitors to the
refuge.
Untold numbers of passerine
birds (songbirds) utilize the
refuge as a resting and staging
area during the spring and fall
migrations. Deer are frequently
observed by the refuge staff on
the natural pass banks,
manmade spoil banks, and the
marshes associated with these
features. Swamp rabbits are
found over much of the refuge,
and populations appear to be
stable
1.59pm
Greenpeace warns that a large
part of the country's wetlands
are in danger.
All efforts to stem the flow
have so far failed. Weather
forecasters are warning that
changing winds could drive the
slick ashore by Friday night.
The Louisiana coast, which has
around 40% of the nation's
wetlands - key spawning
grounds for countless fish and
bird species - will be hardest hit.
1.50pm
There are reports of traces of
oil on the coast of Louisiana.
Earlier fishermen were given
special dispensation to begin
harvesting shrimp before the
slick destroys their catch.
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1.45pm
The Wall Street Journal
reports: The U.S. Navy said it
will send more than 12
additional miles of inflatable oil
booms to the Gulf, as well as
seven towable skimming
systems and 50 contractors with
experience operating the
equipment, according to military
officials at the Pentagon.
The Navy is making two large
facilities available to the Coast
Guard personnel and BP-
employed contractors who are
currently taking the lead in
fighting the spill. Military
officials said the booms and
skimmers were being sent to a
Naval construction base in
Gulfport, Miss. The Navy also
opened its air base in Pensacola,
Fla., to the effort.
Booms work by scooping oil
off the water. But there are
doubts they will be able to cope
with the massive influx.
1.37pm
Storms are threatening to hit the
coast which could push tide
waters higher than normal
through the weekend, the
National Weather Service
warned.
1.29pm
The White House said today
that new domestic offshore oil
drilling will be on hold until the
investigation of the Gulf of
Mexico disaster is complete.
David Axelrod, White House
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iPhone apps make up 21% of Gameloft sales in 1Q

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Submitted at 4/30/2010 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: iPhone Gameloft's
emphasis on iThings seems to
be paying off. The French
developer, one of the world's
biggest publishers of games for
mobiles, says iPhone apps
accounted for 21% of its sales in
the first quarter of 2010. That's a
decent percentage considering
that, for all of 2009, iPhone
games only represented 14% of
the company's sales.
While Gameloft still makes
noise about other phones and
platforms, including those from
Palm, Samsung, Nokia and
company had cut back on originally appeared on The
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Weather hurts Gulf oil fight; new drilling on hold (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 8:51:08 AM
MOUTH OF THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER – Oil
from a massive spill in the Gulf
of Mexico oozed into
Louisiana's ecologically rich
wetlands Friday as storms
threatened to frustrate desperate
protection efforts. The White
House put a hold on any new
offshore oil projects until the rig
disaster that caused the spill is
explained.
Crews in boats patrolled coastal
marshes early Friday looking for
areas where the oil has flowed
in, the Coast Guard said.
The National Weather Service
predicted winds, high tides and
waves through Sunday that
could push oil deep into the
inlets, ponds and lakes that line
the boot of southeast Louisiana.
Seas of 6 to 7 feet were pushing
tides several feet above normal
toward the coast, compounded
by thunderstorms expected in
the area Friday.
Crews are unable to skim oil
from the surface or burn it off
for the next couple of days
because of the weather, Coast
Guard Rear Adm. Sally Brice-
O'Hara said on ABC's "Good
Morning America."
Related
• Gulf spill spells uncertainty
for new drilling AP
• Axelrod: No new drilling until
answers on accident AP
• Air Force sends planes to help
with Gulf oil spill AP
• Oil spill: What is the threat to
Gulf of Mexico seafood? CSM
• How much is 4.2 million
gallons of oil? LiveScience
• Rig explosion dirties BP's
green image AP
• BP shares dip, recover ground
amid oil disaster AP
Waves may also wash over
booms strung out just off
shorelines to stop the oil, said
Tom McKenzie, a spokesman
for U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, which is hoping booms
will keep oil off the Chandeleur
Islands, part of a national
wildlife refuge.
"The challenge is, are they
going to hold up in any kind of
serious weather," McKenzie
said. "And if there's oil, will the
oil overcome the barriers even
though they're ... executed
well?"
A top adviser to President
Barack Obama said Friday that
no new oil drilling would be
allowed until authorities learn
what caused the explosion of the
rig Deepwater Horizon. David
Axelrod told ABC's "Good
Morning America" that "no
additional drilling has been
authorized and none will until
we find out what has happened
here." Obama recently lifted a
drilling moratorium for many
offshore areas, including the
Atlantic and Gulf areas.
Two Air Force C-130s were
sent to Mississippi and awaited
orders to start dumping
chemicals on the oil spill. The
Navy also sent equipment for
the cleanup and Pentagon
officials were talking with the
Department of Homeland
Security to figure out what other
help the military could give.
The leak from a blown-out well
a mile underwater is five times
bigger than first believed. Faint
fingers of oily sheen began
reaching the Mississippi River
delta late Thursday, lapping the
Louisiana shoreline in long, thin
lines. Thicker oil was farther
offshore. Officials have said
they would do everything to
keep the Mississippi River open
to traffic.
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The Coast Guard defended the
federal response so far. Asked
on all three network television
morning shows Friday whether
the government has done
enough to push oil company BP
PLC to plug the underwater leak
and protect the coast, Brice-
O'Hara said the response led by
the Coast Guard has been rapid,
sustained and has adapted as the
threat grew since a drill rig
exploded and sank last week,
causing the seafloor spill.
The oil slick could become the
nation's worst environmental
disaster in decades, threatening
to eclipse even the Exxon
Valdez in scope. It imperils
hundreds of species of fish,
birds and other wildlife along
the Gulf Coast, one of the
world's richest seafood grounds,
teeming with shrimp, oysters
and other marine life.
"It is of grave concern," David
Kennedy of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, told The
Associated Press about the spill.
"I am frightened. This is a very,
very big thing. And the efforts
that are going to be required to
do anything about it, especially
if it continues on, are just mind-
boggling."
Oil clumps seabirds' feathers,
leaving them without insulation
— and when they preen, they
swallow it. Prolonged contact
with the skin can cause burns,
said Nils Warnock, a spill
recovery supervisor with the
California Oiled Wildlife Care
Network at the University of
California-Davis. Oil swallowed
by animals can cause anemia,
hemorrhaging and other
problems, said Jay Holcomb,
executive director of the
International Bird Rescue
Research Center in California.
The spewing oil — about
210,000 gallons a day — comes
from a well drilled by the rig
Deepwater Horizon, which
exploded in flames April 20 and
sank two days later. BP was
operating the rig that was owned
by Transocean Ltd. The Coast
Guard is working with BP to
deploy floating booms,
skimmers and chemical
dispersants, and set controlled
fires to burn the oil off the
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water's surface.
The leak from the ocean floor
proved to be far bigger than
initially reported, contributing to
a growing sense among some in
Louisiana that the government
failed them again, just as it did
during Hurricane Katrina in
2005. President Obama
dispatched Cabinet officials to
deal with the crisis.
Cade Thomas, a fishing guide
in Venice, worried that his
livelihood will be destroyed. He
said he did not know whether to
blame the Coast Guard, the
government or BP.
"They lied to us. They came out
and said it was leaking 1,000
barrels when I think they knew
it was more. And they weren't
proactive," he said. "As soon as
it blew up, they should have
started wrapping it with booms."
BP shares continued falling
early Friday. Shares were down
2 percent in early trading on the
London Stock Exchange, a day
after dropping 7 percent in
London. In New York on
Thursday, BP shares fell $4.78
to close at $52.56, taking the fall
in the company's market value
to about $25 billion since the
explosion.
Government officials said the
well 40 miles offshore is
spewing about 5,000 barrels, or
200,000 gallons, a day into the
gulf.
At that rate, the spill could
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Miss him? Bush's reputation might be ready for a rebound

(McClatchy Newspapers)
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Submitted at 4/29/2010 4:49:00 PM and the weapons of mass Committee Chairman Tim unfold, a former president such known and for partisans on both
destruction that Bush cited in Kaine said his party would as Bush can influence his post- sides to leave the stage.
WASHINGTON — Is George ordering the invasion never campaign against Bush this fall White House standing by how "You can't begin to really assess
W. Bush about to start a were found — democracy does even though the former he acts and how well he makes a presidency with any sort of
political comeback? appear to be taking hold, the president wasn't on the ballot, his case. objectivity until they've been out
Written off as one of the worst U.S. is on track to withdraw blaming him for the recession Bush insiders say that his of office for years," said Steven
presidents in U.S. history when combat troops by August and that started on his watch — refusal to join in the Obama- Schier, a political scientist at
he left office, the 63-year-old even Democratic Vice President rather than the Democrats who bashing that's prevalent in his Carleton College in Minnesota.
Bush has been keeping a low Joe Biden now calls the war in controlled Congress starting in party probably endears him to "It will be 30 years before we
profile, fading from view as the Iraq a success. 2007 — because "presidential many Americans, particularly can accurately assess the Bush
country turned its attention to "I am very optimistic about leadership sets the tone." when compared with that from presidency."
his successor, President Barack Iraq," Biden said recently. Republicans see it differently. former Vice President Dick "We aren't going to have a really
Obama. "You're going to see a stable Sen. John Cornyn, R- Texas , Cheney , "By contrast, it makes good perspective for a while,"
Now, some events might be government in Iraq that is thinks that the Bush comeback President Bush look good," said Bert Rockman , a
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eclipse the worst oil spill in U.S.
history — the 11 million gallons
that leaked from the grounded
tanker Exxon Valdez in Alaska's
Prince William Sound in 1989
— in the three months it could
take to drill a relief well and
plug the gushing well 5,000 feet
underwater on the sea floor.
Ultimately, the spill could grow
much larger than the Valdez
because Gulf of Mexico wells
tap deposits that hold many
times more oil than a single
tanker.
BP has requested more
resources from the Defense
Department, especially
underwater equipment that
might be better than what is
commercially available. A BP
executive said the corporation
would "take help from anyone."
That includes fishermen who
could be hired to help deploy
containment boom.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal
declared a state of emergency so
officials could begin preparing
for the oil's impact. He also
asked the federal government if
he could call up 6,000 National
Guard troops to help.
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Mendeley Throws Open the Doors to Academic Data

Curt Hopkins (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 4/29/2010 10:30:00 PM
Innovations in communications
software and websites can be
quite exciting. After the dust
dies down, however, it's really
not clear how much more
information has been made
available, how much more
people can communicate, how
much more thinking has been
enabled.
London-based Mendeley's
offering up an Open API and
making a vast catalog of
academic publications
searchable, well, that might
make the cut.
Sponsor
Mendeley is a popular
academic and scientific research
cross-platform management
tool, usable both desktop and
online. The tool automatically
extracts bibliographic data from
a user's document library and
stores that information, and the
papers and studies it helps
builds, on their computer or on
the cloud. It is that information
that is now available with its
API and on its search.
Prior to making the API catch-
as-catch-can, Mendeley is
asking researchers and
developers to send in proposals
by May 14 and will announce
who among them will have
immediate access on May 21.
The quantities of data in
aggregate (the API also offers
you your own data) and the
varieties in type of research,
from cancer studies to the
influence of the Iroquois
Confederacy on early American
democracy, beggars the
imagination. On a more
practical level, Jason Hoyt, the
company's Research Director,
writing on the Mendeley blog,
pointed out the number of
features that company gets
requests for are too many to
handle. Perhaps developers,
both general and niche, will
invent some interesting tools.
in ranking your results. We have
also taken care to prevent
artificial enhancement of the
results, i.e. gaming the
readership. Over time, we hope
The catalog has basic search to refine this algorithm by
starting today, but Hoyt said the t a k i n g i n t o a c c o u n t o t h e r
c o m p a n y a l r e a d y h a s a n measures of quality such as the
advanced search function ready reputation of who you trust and
that will be implemented in two follow on Mendeley."
weeks. Although the combination of
Hoyt promises the relational Open API and search should in
elements of Mendeley will be itself be a powerful source of
expressed in its search results. information, inside academe and
" A n a l g o r i t h m c a l l e d out, it might also inspire
'ReaderRank'...will adjust results academic publishers, who are
based on the level of readership n o t o r i o u s s t i n g y w i t h
for an article. This doesn't mean information, to loosen their
the most read articles will stranglehold on knowledge.
always appear at the top, only Discuss
that it is an additional measure
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Germany sees private sector helping Greece

(Reuters: Top News) euros, which investors hope will prevent the Greece crisis turning parliament. countries.
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:26:49 AM stop the debt crisis from sinking into a danger for the euro -- but "The measures we must take, "It is about safeguarding the
other fragile EU economies. at the same time to fight which are economic measures, overall financial stability of the
ATHENS(Reuters) - European But it faces a battle with unions speculation," he said. are necessary for our country's euro zone," he said, adding it
banks will contribute to a multi- who have been angered by the The German government will protection, for our future, for us would "prevent further possible
billion euro Greek bailout, scale of the cutbacks. meet on Monday to give to be able to stand on our feet." effects of contagion."
Germany said on Friday, as A senior banking source told approval to a draft law on German politicians have said Economists said euro zone
talks to secure European Union Reuters that Deutsche Bank AG providing loans to Athens. The the aid package could be worth states could end up footing a bill
and IMF aid to Athens in return C h i e f E x e c u t i v e J o s e f government will then try to push 100-120 billion euros ($133-160 of half a trillion euros ($650
for draconian budget cuts edged Ackermann, at the request of the law through the lower house billion) over three years, against billion) to save several nations if
toward a deal. Germany's finance minister, was of the German parliament by an original plan for 45 billion they failed to engineer a Greek
Germany| Greece helping coordinate German Friday. euros of aid in 2010. bailout that calmed markets.
Negotiations on the aid package private sector efforts to support WHAT ABOUT THE Euro zone finance ministers Markets have worried that
c o u l d b e w r a p p e d u p b y the rescue package. LONGER TERM? will meet on Sunday to discuss nations like Portugal and Spain -
S a t u r d a y , t h e E u r o p e a n The consortium has already Despite the good short-term Greece and held a preliminary - whose debts were downgraded
Commission said, and private pledged to contribute between 1 prospects for euro zone conference call on Friday, by ratings agencies this week --
sector involvement could make billion euros ($1.3 billion) and 2 approval, there are still serious French Foreign Minister could be threatened unless they
it easier for EU governments to billion, which could involve doubts over whether European Bernard Kouchner told Reuters. tackle their deficits swiftly.
persuade skeptical taxpayers to buying Greek government debt, governments will sustain their Ratings agency Moody's Portugal's main opposition
rescue Greece from its debt although no formal agreement commitment to Greece over the downgraded nine Greek banks leader, Pedro Passos Coelho,
crisis. has been struck, the source said. longer term, especially if Greece on Friday, briefly pushing their said his Social Democratic Party
German Vice Chancellor Guido The hope is that once the fails to meet its budget cut shares into negative territory (PSD) supports the
Westerwelle compared the need markets see the private sector is targets. after they rallied as much as 7.7 government's austerity plan and
for private sector support for t a k i n g t h e G r e e k r e s c u e Social unrest could prevent percent earlier on hopes of a hopes to agree a pact that may
Athens with Berlin's plans for a seriously, other companies may socialist Prime Minister George quick deal. allow a cut of this year's budget
l e v y o n b a n k s t o p r o t e c t follow, helping to stabilize Papandreou's government from Those hopes helped push up gap by an additional 1
taxpayers from future financial nervous markets. pushing through the planned global equities on Friday. In percentage point.
crises. Although political barriers austerity measures, and Greek morning trade in New York, the His comments were likely to
"I expect that, just as in remain, the rescue package is unions have called a series of euro had risen 0.8 percent to reassure investors concerned
Germany banks will participate likely to win the unanimous strikes in protest at the cuts. stand at $1.3335. The spread about Lisbon's ability to tackle
in the consequences of the approval required from euro Unions say the International between Greek and German 10- its deficit.
economic and financial crisis zone countries for it to go ahead. Monetary Fund asked Athens to year government bond yields In Spain, unemployment rose to
through the famous bank levy Germany had expressed deep raise sales taxes, scrap bonuses narrowed. a record high above 20 percent
that we agreed upon in the reservations about bankrolling a amounting to two extra months But the euro was still on track in the first quarter, stifling
government, so also in Europe profligate Greece because pay in the public sector and to fall some 1.3 percent for the attempts to recover from
banks will want to make their Athens misled partners over its accept a three-year pay freeze. month and concerns remained recession, but Economy
contribution and will do so," catastrophic finances. But Papandreou said the measures over euro zone debts. Minister Elena Salgado said
Westerwelle said. Finance Minister Wolfgang were vital to securing aid. NO CONTAGION Spanish debt was under control
Greece is preparing severe S c h a e u b l e s a i d o n F r i d a y "Many talk about red lines. The European Commission and Madrid would not have to
austerity measures to cut around supporting Greece was vital to only red line is the country's President Jose Manuel Barroso seek aid.
24 billion euros of budget deficit all euro members. interest. Today the top priority said on Friday the Greek rescue "Our debt is clean, and we will
and unlock European Union and "And that's why it's important -- is the survival of the nation. package will prevent the crisis GERMANY page 13
IMF aid of up to 120 billion not only to help Greece to This is the red line," he told from spilling over to other
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Massive oil spill in Gulf of Mexico heads to shore

(Reuters: Top News) put a hold on politically although the Coast Guard was troops to help. try to help it plug the ruptured
Submitted at 4/30/2010 8:51:11 AM sensitive plans to expand awaiting fresh information from Homeland Security Secretary well.
offshore U.S. oil drilling. He its aircraft and vessels. Napolitano declared it "a spill of Eleven workers are missing and
VENICE, Louisiana(Reuters) - unveiled plans in March for a THREAT TO FOUR STATES national significance," meaning presumed dead after the rig
A massive oil spill in the Gulf of limited expansion, in part to try The escalating threat has that federal resources from other exploded 11 days ago.
Mexico washed up to wildlife to win Republican support for deepened fears of severe regions could be used to fight it. PAUSE IN DRILLING?
refuges and seafood grounds on climate change legislation. damage to fisheries, wildlife Shrimp fishermen in Louisiana There are signs the spill may be
the Louisiana coast on Friday, The White House said on refuges and tourism in have filed a class-action lawsuit worse than one in 1969 off
as authorities struggled to avert Friday that no new drilling Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama against BP, Swiss-based rig Santa Barbara, California, which
what could become one of the would be allowed until a review and Florida. company Transocean Ltd, prompted a moratorium on oil
worst U.S. ecological disasters. was conducted of the oil spill, So far, efforts to stop the flow Halliburton and Cameron, and gas drilling off the Pacific
U.S.| Green Business| COP15 which happened after an of oil have failed. If unchecked, accusing them of negligence. and Atlantic coasts -- a ban
With leading edges of the huge offshore rig exploded and sunk it will take about 50 days for the None of the companies had an Obama has said he wants to
slick lapping up to outlying last week. leak to eclipse the 1989 Exxon immediate comment on the modify.
marshes and waterways on the Obama has pledged to "use Valdez spill in Alaska, the worst lawsuit. Bill Nelson, a Democratic
fringes of the Mississippi Delta, every single available resource," U.S. oil spill on record that sent The Navy said it was supplying senator from Florida, said he
the U.S. Coast Guard prepared including the U.S. military, to 10.8 million gallons (49 million the Coast Guard with inflatable was filing a bill to temporarily
protective booms along the contain the 120-mile (193-km) liters) of crude oil into Prince booms and seven skimming prohibit the administration from
coast in Louisiana and other at- wide slick, while making clear William Sound. systems. expanding offshore drilling,
risk states in a desperate bid to that London-based BP, the The Gulf Coast and its In Mobile, Alabama, U.S. Coast citing the risk of a potential
prevent oil from soiling the majority owner of the ruptured marshlands are home to Guard Captain Steve Poulin, "environmental and economic
shore. well, was responsible for the hundreds of species of wildlife, said authorities were preparing disaster" from the latest spill.
"We continue to bring every cost of the clean-up. including manatees, sea turtles for "shoreline impact", although Underwater robots failed to
asset to bear to fight this spill," The spill has pounded BP's about to nest, dolphins, it was not possible to predict activate a cutoff valve on the
Coast Guard Rear Admiral Sally share price and those of other porpoises, whales, otters, exactly when. ocean floor to stop the leak and
Brice-O'Hara told CNN. companies involved in the pelicans and other birds. The "We have a booming strategy BP is now hoping to cover the
At President Barack Obama's project. wetlands are also a stopover for for coastal Mississippi, Alabama well with a giant inverted funnel
urgent request, Department of As alarm over possible millions of migrating birds now and the Florida Panhandle," that would capture the oil at the
Homeland Security Secretary contamination spread along the transiting through the area. Poulin said. sea floor and channel it directly
Janet Napolitano, Interior U.S. Gulf Coast, the Louisiana The Gulf is also one of the BP and the Coast Guard have to a tanker ship at the surface.
Secretary Ken Salazar and Department of Health said world's most fertile seafood mounted what the company But that will take four weeks to
E n v i r o n m e n t a l P r o t e c t i o n residents in coastal cities, grounds, teeming with shrimp, called the largest oil spill put in place, by which stage
Agency Administrator Lisa including New Orleans, were oysters, mussels, crabs and fish. containment operation in over 150,000 barrels could have
Jackson were due to fly over the likely smelling the sulfurous It supports a $1.8 billion history, involving dozens of been spilled.
affected Gulf area on Friday to odor from the spill. industry second only to Alaska. ships and aircraft. If the funnel does not work, BP
assess the situation. The last flight by a Coast Guard Louisiana Governor Bobby BP admitted struggling to will have to rely on stemming
The leak from a blown-out oil plane on Thursday had situated Jindal, whose state is still control the spill, which is 5,000 the flow by drilling a relief well,
well on the ocean floor off the thin surface "rainbow sheen" recovering from the ravages of feet under the sea off which would take two to three
Louisiana is pouring out crude of the slick just 10 meters (33 Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Louisiana's coast, and appealed months.
oil at a rate of up to 5,000 feet) from the Pass-a-Loutre declared a state of emergency for help. It has asked the The White House said Obama
barrels (210,000 gallons or wildlife reserve in Louisiana. It and asked the Defense Pentagon for access to military had been briefed on how the
955,000 liters) a day. seemed inevitable that some of Department for funds to deploy imaging technology and MASSIVE page 12
The accident forced Obama to the oil would reach shore, up to 6,000 National Guard remotely operated vehicles to
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Consumers step up spending, bolstering growth
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:21:05 AM
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The
U.S. economy expanded at a 3.2
percent annual rate in the first
quarter as consumers stepped up
spending, the strongest sign yet
a sustainable recovery is taking
hold.
While growth slowed from the
fourth quarter's rapid 5.6 percent
pace and was a touch weaker
than economists expected, the
details of the report from the
Commerce Department on
Friday were fairly upbeat.
Consumer spending, which
normally accounts for about 70
percent of U.S. economic
activity, added nearly 2.6
percentage points to U.S. gross
domestic product last quarter,
the biggest contribution since
the fourth quarter of 2006.
"Once you take a quick look
under the hood you see some
very positive signs there," said
Ward McCarthy, chief financial
economist at Jefferies & Co. in
New York. "This is just the
latest piece of evidence to
suggest that the recovery is
sustainable."
Still, markets showed some
disappointment. U.S. stock
markets were lower, while
prices for U.S. government debt
edged up. The dollar was little
changed.
Analysts had expected GDP,
which measures total goods and
services output within U.S.
borders, to grow at a 3.4 percent
rate in the first three months of
2010.
The economy has now grown
for three straight quarters,
although it still has a lot of lost
ground to make up after its
deepest and longest recession
since the 1930s.
The report showed consumer
spending rose at a 3.6 percent
rate in the January-March
period, more than double the 1.6
percent pace in the fourth
quarter and the biggest gain
since the first quarter of 2007.
"Retail sales are up, people are
spending money," said Michael
Woolfolk, senior currency
strategist at BNY Mellon in
New York. "We're seeing the
beginning of the process of a
broad-based recovery."
The United States has emerged
from recession more swiftly
than Europe or Japan. Euro zone
first-quarter GDP data is due in
mid-May and is expected to
show annualized growth of
roughly 0.8 percent. Japan,
which has been struggling with
deflation, does not report its
data until later in May.
Analysts said the welcome but
moderate pace of U.S. growth
meant the Federal Reserve could
bide its time before raising
benchmark interest rates from
their current levels near zero,
particularly with unemployment
hovering near 10 percent.
The U.S. central bank on
Wednesday noted activity had
strengthened in recent weeks
and that the labor market was
starting to improve. Still, it said
it expects a modest recovery and
renewed its vow to keep rates
low for an extended period.
BUSINESSES RESTOCK
SHELVES
Business inventories increased
$31.1 billion in the first quarter,
adding 1.57 percentage points to
GDP, as businesses restocked to
meet firming demand. It was the
first increase in inventories
since the first quarter of 2008.
Businesses also continued to
spend on software and
equipment, though a bit less
vigorously than in the prior
quarter, boding well for the
economic recovery.
"If they are spending on
equipment already, it shows a
lot of confidence for the future
hiring which supports consumer
spending. If we continue to have
employment growth, we will
have a good year," said Kurt
Karl, head of economic research
at Swiss Re in New York.
Last month the economy
enjoyed the strongest jobs
growth in three years as private
employers stepped up hiring.
New home construction was a
drag on growth in the first
quarter after two quarters of
gains. Residential investment
contracted at a 10.9 percent rate.
Business spending on structures
subtracted from GDP for a sixth
straight quarter.
Export growth slowed sharply
to a 5.8 percent pace in the first
quarter from a 22.8 percent rate
in the prior period, while
imports rose at an 8.9 percent
rate. That left a trade deficit that
chipped off 0.61 percentage
point from GDP.
A separate report from the U.S.
Labor Department showed
employment costs rose 0.6
percent in the first quarter as
benefit costs posted their biggest
gain since the second quarter of
2002. Wages advanced just 0.4
percent.
Other reports showed business
activity in both New York city
and Chicago grew in April,
providing additional signs the
economy's recovery was
growing more durable.
T h e T h o m s o n
Reuters/University of
Michigan's Surveys of
Consumers showed sentiment
falling in April from March as
consumers saw the recovery as
well under way, but slow.
However, their view on how the
economy will look 12 months
from now improved from the
prior month.
(Additional reporting by Chris
Reese in New York; Editing by
Andrea Ricci)
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slick may interfere with
shipping channels, which it said
could affect tankers delivering
petroleum to the U.S. market.
While the Mississippi is a
major export route for U.S.
grains and the region is a
significant importer of crude oil,
there were no reports of
disruptions.
Shares in BP and Transocean
continued to fall on Friday as
investors feared a significantly
higher cleanup cost. BP is down
around 12 percent and
Transocean down nearly 15
percent since the rig explosion
on April 20.
The Louisiana Offshore Oil
Port, which handles more than
one million barrels a day of
crude imports and is connected
by pipeline to the biggest U.S.
refining region, said it did not
expect any effect on its
operations, which remained
normal.
(Additional reporting by Joshua
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New York and Kelli Dugan in
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not have to ask for help," she
said.
The Greek talks are being
closely watched for details on
whether the aid will start in time
for Greece to refinance an 8.5-
billion-euro bond coming due
on May 19 and if the deal will
be big enough to handle Athens'
300-billion-euro debt pile.
The planned austerity measures
include cuts aimed at Greece's
system of public wage
allowances, which often include
generous extra pay for activities
such as using computers or
getting to work on time.
These are primarily meant to
Google Attempts to Explain Its Spy Cars. Again.
Curt Hopkins (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 4/29/2010 9:30:00 PM
On its European Public Policy
Blog (yeah, there's one), Google
spent some column-inches
explaining how and why it runs
around in special cars spying on
you in the shower. Officially
known as the "Google Street
View Cars," they zip about
gathering, "photos, local WiFi
network data and 3-D building
imagery."
Here is how Google's Global
Privacy Counsel, Peter
Fleischer, laid out the
company's use of the various
types of information.
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The State Of Web Development Ripped Apart In 25 Tweets

By One Man
MG Siegler (TechCrunch) plugin because the standards like me away from it? “Evil” innovate differently, users pick
Submitted at 4/30/2010 2:19:24 AM were so weak. proprietary tech is blowing the the best one, later W3C
Also, I am looking at you, web away. standardizes what users chose,
There are few people who developers who bitch whenever I want desperately to be a web losing browsers conform.
know the ins and outs of the a browser offers “non-standard” developer again, but if I have to The core of Hewitt’s argument.
web as well as Joe Hewitt. For but innovative APIs. wait until 2020 for browsers to Web technologies aren’t moving
the past decade, he’s had his Browser makers need to go nuts do what Cocoa can do in 2010, I fast enough, and why should he
hands deep in everything from with non-standard APIs and let won’t wait. have to use a less powerful
Netscape, to AOL, to Firefox, to the W3C standardize later. The “‘Evil’ proprietary tech is language to conform to web
Facebook (where he currently Waiting for the committee to blowing the web away” quote is standards? Again, he hopes that
works). Hewitt also knows a innovate is suicide. pretty compelling (I’m still browsers will start to innovate
thing or two about the iPhone. So basically, Hewitt’s take is kicking myself for not using it and force the W3C to conform
He’s the one who first built that Flash (and all plug-ins) only in the headline). Again, Hewitt’s to them.
Facebook’s excellent iPhone exists because the W3C(the @jeff_lamarche Oh c’mon. point here is that the web is @joseph_wanja I love what
web app (before there were g o v e r n i n g b o d y f o r w e b Aside from ActiveX, Microsoft nowhere near where non-web Cocoa can do, I just don’t like C
native apps on the iPhone), and s t a n d a r d s ) i s t o o s l o w t o moved the web forward faster technologies like Cocoa are — -based languages for UI
then the native app — which is f o r m a l i z e a n d a p p r o v e from 96-00 than any other and won’t be for a decade. programming.
one of the best apps on the innovative new technologies. He browser maker has. @KuraFire Did Microsoft The reason why Hewitt doesn’t
platform. So when he rants urges browser-makers to break I don’t know why MS patent their non-standard just stick with Cocoa if he finds
about something (as he does away from the W3C constraints abandoned IE, but I do know html/javascript/css extensions, it superior to web-based
from time-to-time), people and start going crazy with new that web developers were preventing other browsers from languages.
listen. And today he went on APIs. begging them to stop innovating implementing them? @eston Users might be aware of
one such rant. He then comes in defense of and just follow the committee. @johnfoliot True, they [w3c] their choices if more developers
Following Apple CEO Steve Microsoft, the company that Hewitt’s take here is that the don’t dictate, but developers wrote browser-specific sites.
Jobs’ post about Flash this once all-but destroyed (through antitrust action against shame others who use non- Developers really pick the
morning, Hewitt went on what just about everyone Microsoft halted innovation in standard APIs. That’s the winner.
Twitter and started going off including the U.S. government Internet Explorer. In 1996, when problem. An urging for developers to
with some of this thoughts. I thinks were unsavory means) Hewitt says IE innovation really He wonders here why some of take action to reverse the trend.
asked Hewitt if I could recap the company Hewitt started his started, that browser didn’t even Microsoft’s standards weren’t @JamesWatch IE6 was fucking
them; his response, “ sure, why career at (Netscape). have 10% share of the market, adopted by the W3C? Then amazing in 2000. It’s not fair to
not.” Hewitt, some may recall, 10 years ago we bullied while Netscape had nearly 90%. blames the web developers for compare it to modern browsers.
quit iPhone development over M i c r o s o f t i n t o s t o p p i n g As an underdog, IE had to shaming other developers who A word of caution for those
his distaste for some App Store innovation on IE so the W3C innovate. Until, of course, they use tech not sanctioned by the who bash IE6 — remember
policies. Today, seeing a wave could take over. How’d that took over the web, and then governing body. what it was like when it came
of anti-Flash talk on Twitter work out? Microsoft inexplicably all-but I am ranting because I want to out.
spurred by Jobs’ post, Hewitt For those too young to abandoned the product. drop Cocoa and go back to the @joseph_wanja unfortunately I
started out: remember, IE was innovating Hewitt then turns to the rise of web, but I am upset about how would recommend Cocoa
Redirect your hatred of Flash to like crazy from 4.0 -6.0, right up the app stores (including, yes, much power I have to give up to [rather than web languages] at
the W3C, whose embarrassingly until the DOJ and web standards the App Store). do that.
slow pace forced devs to use a commies intervened. Why are app stores threatening How it should go: browsers STATE page 20
the web and luring developers
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Favorite Mobile Apps of RWW Staff

Richard MacManus • Tweetie app!) • Other: TripIt & Chipotle.
(ReadWriteWeb) • Woopra • Desktop And the RWW app of course!!
Submitted at 4/29/2010 10:35:00 PM • Flicks (movies) • iMahjong (Actually I use it every day to
• Art share my stories on
Every now and then we publish • Words With Friends Frederic Lardinois Twitter/Facebook easily).
the favorite mobile apps or sites • WorldMate • Instapaper
of the ReadWriteWeb staff. The • NYTimes • Reeder Audrey Watters
last time we did this was • The Onion • Gowalla I like mobile apps that allow me
November 2009, however with • Tweetie to move easily between iphone
our Mobile Summit just around Marshall Kirkpatrick • Tweetie • WorldMate and laptop, so Evernote and
the corner we wanted to give • Facebook • Brizzly • Boxcar RememberTheMilk. Also
you an updated list. We're all • Portland Business Journal • TweetDeck • PicPosterous Marvel and ComiXology's
early adopters of mobile • Cinch • Siri • NYTimes comics apps. And the Kindle
technology here at • Gowalla • Flickr app for when I need words to go
ReadWriteWeb, so have a scan • Tweetie • Bump Mike Melanson(iPhone) with my picture books. :)
of our favorite apps and see • NYT • Phone Flicks • Facebook Abraham Hyatt
what catches your eye. • WSJ • Pandora • Tweetdeck Goodreads, Stanza, Thompson
We'd also love to know your • Rachel Maddow • Foursquare (why am I doing • Evernote Reuters, ReadItLater, NYT,
current favorites, because that's • Yelp this?) • Public Radio Echofon, CameraPlus, Words
a great way to keep our finger • Pandora • WhiteNoise (baby app) • Gowalla With Friends, RWW, Pandora
on the pulse. Please note your • SimpleMindX (mind • Instapaper • Google Maps Sean Ammirati
favorite mobile apps or sites in mapping) • NYT • Boxcar Twitterific, RWW App,
the comments. • AroundMe • Yelp • MapMyRide (when I'm out Encamp, Kindle, Zipcar App
Sponsor • Instapaper • Google Maps riding) Elyssa Pallai
Join us at the ReadWriteWeb • Shazam • Amazon • Pandora Where's Wally - entertainment
Mobile Summit on May 7, in • AppsFire • Babies R Us • ReadItLater for children of every age.
Mountain View, CA, to discuss • BaseBall '10 • Notifications Jared Smith("The Lone
the hottest mobile apps and the • Etsy Addict • iScrobble Alex Williams Blackberrier")
latest mobile trends. If you're in • Newser • Pandora • Twitter for BlackBerry
town for the Web 2.0 Expo that • Crop For Free iPad: • Twitdroid official app--direct message
week, our Mobile Summit is the • The Guardian • Google Reader (web app) • Facebook push via the BlackBerry system
day after. We'd love to see you • Plancast • NYT • Google Maps is an awful nice touch
there! Register here. • Mobile Safari Mobile • BBC • The Hangover ("for weekend • Seesmic for BlackBerry--fills
Richard MacManus(iPhone) web apps: Techmeme, • NPR m i n d l e s s l a u g h s w i t h t h e a big gap in the official Twitter
• ReadWriteWeb iPhone App MediaGazer, Quora, • USA Today teenage son.") client by letting me support
(of course) EveryBlock • Netflix multiple accounts; probably the
• Diamedic • AP News Chris Cameron program that's easiest on my
• Evernote Sarah Perez • ABC Player • Social: Foursquare, Tweetie, resources aside from the official
• Insight (Basecamp app) iPhone: • Instapaper Facebook. client
• Google Voice • Google Reader (web app) • Pandora • Games: Words With Friends • MyKite--still my go-to to
• Google Reader • Facebook • Twitterific & Charadium. check in on Brightkite on
• Shazam • WeatherBug • StreamToMe • Photography: AutoStitch, FAVORITE page 16
• Facebook • Flashlight • Facebook (web shortcut! no TiltShiftGen & ColorSplash.
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Opera Software Acquires Email Service Provider continued from page 15

BlackBerry
FastMail.FM (Updated) • Rowmote (I use it on an iPod
touch)--extremely inexpensive
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch) interoperable standards. and powerful alternative to the
Submitted at 4/30/2010 4:15:03 AM
Apple Remote for controlling a
Since the release of Opera 4 in
2000, Opera’s desktop browser Mac.
The Norwegian software has included its own innovative• RadarScope (on iPod touch)--
company has yet to make any e-mail client. Following this still the best mobile radar viewer
announcements of its own, but acquisition, Opera will be ableon any platform.
Opera has acquired email to offer a consistent e-mail
service provider FastMail.FM, experience across all products. See also: POLL: Which
according to a message posted wish to NOT transfer their acquisition this year – it had Opera currently has more than Location-Based Mobile App Do
on the latter’s company blog. accounts over to Opera have to earlier spent$8 million in cash to 50 million users of its desktop You Use Now? Discuss
The terms of the agreements are go into settings and indicate just buy mobile advertising startup browser and more than 55
not disclosed, but the Australia- that. Not acting upon the email AdMarvel. million users of Opera Mini, a
based company in a notice said the company sent out to its users Update: the official release just mobile Web browser that works
it will continue to run its email or actively accepting the transfer hit our inbox: on almost all handsets available
service, which has been in will result in Opera assuming Oslo, Norway – April 30, 2010 today.
operation for over 10 years. control over the mailbox and the – O p e r a S o f t w a r e t o d a y “The newest generation of Web
Here’s the announcement: account registration details. announced that it has acquired users will discover the Web
Some exciting changes will be As to the reason for selling, Web-based e-mail provider through a mobile device. Having
occurring with FastMail.FM. FastMail says the market was FastMail.fm. The acquisition w o r l d - c l a s s m e s s a g i n g
FastMail.FM has been acquired getting increasingly competitive will enable Opera to expand its capability alongside a rich and
b y O p e r a S o f t w a r e , t h e and that Opera’s expertise in current messaging product compelling Web experience is
developers of the Opera web web browsers and especially the portfolio and deliver cross- essential. By combining forces,
browser. For more information mobile market would help the platform messaging to a wide Opera and FastMail.fm can offer
a b o u t O p e r a , p l e a s e v i s i t company grow and take on the range of devices, including messaging on any device. This
www.opera.com. next big challenges in running computers, mobile phones, TVs will enhance the value Opera
Wax.fm Catalogs
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FastMail.FM u s e r s . Some FastMail.FM staff will be Headquartered in Australia, assisting our operator partners in
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email service you’ve known for already been working with and reliability. The company O f f i c e r , O p e r a S o f t w a r e . Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
o v e r 1 0 y e a r s . W e ’ l l b e Opera’s technical teams to already offers some of the most CrunchBase Information Opera
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technical teams, expertise and develop new products. It will be platforms for consumers and by CrunchBase If you're a fan of keeping your
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FastMail has included a FAQ, a site focused on cataloging
in which it says that users who This is Opera’s second a n d s u p p o r t f o r o p e n ,
vinyl records old and new and
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them. More »
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IMVU’s Virtual Cash Cow: Doubling Revenues, Focused On

Gaming (Video)
Evelyn Rusli (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 8:00:06 AM

Just three years ago, IMVU was

burning cash at a rate of half a
million per month and still not
profitable. The 3D virtual world,
where souped-up avatars run
amok, was gaining users but not
on a path to sustainability.
Fast forward to 2010, IMVU is
increasing its staff by 50%
(going from 60 to 90
employees) and is on track to
double sales this year.
Currently, the company is at an
annual revenue run rate of$40
million— and according to CEO
Cary Rosenzweig the Palo Alto
based company should hit a$60
million annual revenue run rate
by the end of this year. For the
last two years, revenues have
roughly doubled from $11
million in 2008 to $22 million in
2009 and now $40-plus million forth. And especially for cards at outlets like Target and million items including pet social networks and bogged
in 2010. That’s a lot of real someone who’s new, just Wal-Mart and offering SMS dragons, clothes, and new down by the recession.
world dough for a company coming in, they were a little bit payments abroad. The payments eyebrows. A normal payment is However, strangely, both
whose fortune is based on confused, in fact many of them change alone, according to $19.95 for 20,000 credits— to Second Life and IMVU have
virtual currency and an endless weren’t even sure that they Rosenzweig, has accounted for give you an idea of how far that thrived this past year, Second
factory of avatar accessories. could buy virtual goods. The roughly 30% of all growth. goes in IMVU land: something Life logged a record first quarter
The key in 2007, Rosenzweig second thing is we had a lot of Like its closest competitor, described as a vampire corset with user-to-user transactions up
says, was a basic two-prong users who had money in their Second Life, IMVU is a 3D outfit will run you 699 credits. 30% to $160 million.
strategy: simplify the service pockets and they wanted to buy world where avatars congregate, In recent years, many virtual Looking ahead, IMVU’s CEO
and concentrate on creating new virtual goods but we weren’t chat in a variety of settings and worlds have receded (like says the next stage of growth
payment options. providing mechanisms to do it. make new connections. The There.com, which hit the will be driven by three catalysts:
“Before, a lot of the activity was Because at that time we offered company makes the bulk of its deadpool March 2010 and the company’s expansion into
both on the IMVU website and credit cards and Pay Pal.”(See profits from users buying credits shares a mutual co-founder with several new languages, the
then we had a downloaded client Video Above) for IMVU’s virtual catalog, a IMVU, Will Harvey),
and our users had to go back and IMVU started selling pre-paid digital warehouse of some 4 overshadowed by traditional IMVU’S page 19
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Palo Alto Researchers Create Tool for Dealing with Twitter's

"Information Overload"
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 10:09:40 AM

Researchers at the Palo Alto

Research Center(PARC) are
developing a new Twitter client
application that aims to derive
meaning from the next-ending
influx of tweets. The
application, called "Eddi,"
automatically groups tweets for
you into topics mentioned either
explicitly or, unlike most
Twitter clients that also provide
topic browsing, implicitly. The
end result is a Twitter app you
can use to quickly find the
popular discussions within your
own personal Twitter stream,
either by search, tag cloud,
timeline or category list. It even
suggests tweets you might be
interested in reading, helping
you sort the signal from the The tool, Eddi, a Twitter client Popular Ones Science and Artificial effort to surface web pages
noise. application named after the idea The idea of browsing Twitter Intelligence Lab at MIT who is related to the tweet in question.
Sponsor of eddies in a stream, has the by topic is not unique - plenty of involved with the project, This helps the system to
Project "Eddi" barebones look of something Twitter apps do the same, as explained, the sheer volume of appropriately categorize the
Ed Chi, area manager and built by data researchers as does Twitter's own search tweets provides a lot of tweets into topics.
principal scientist for the opposed to web designers. But interface at search.twitter.com. information for an algorithm to Recommendation Engine
Augmented Social Cognition its user interface isn't the most But the problem with most of use. What's harder is to figure The second aspect to the system
Research Group at PARC, told important aspect - it's the these systems is that they rely out are the topics attached to is a recommendation engine that
MIT's Technology Review that algorithms behind the facade on keywords or hashtags - the tweets that are more unique. ranks tweets by how interesting
the way people use Twitter is that are its standout feature. latter being the annotations "The essence of the approach is they are to you. To determine
that they "dip in" to the Twitter In order to filter Twitter's preceded by the pound sign (#) to coerce a tweet to look more this, Eddi's algorithms look at
stream from time to time, but content, Eddi provides two which users add to their tweets like a search query and then get your own tweets and
don't want to consume it all at tools: a topic browser that shows to make them searchable. a search engine to tell us more," interactions with other Twitter
once. The Eddi Project was tweets broken down into When there is a major event, says Bernstein. After cleaning users.
created so that those brief dips categories and a such as the Icelandic volcano up the tweet, the tool feeds them The new system will go live on
into Twitter are more valuable recommendation engine. Twitter eruption, Michael Bernstein, a into Yahoo's Build your Own
to the end users. Topics - And Not Just the researcher at the Computer Search Service interface in an PALO page 19
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Messenger Connect: A New API Strategy for
Microsoft to Build its Own Social Graph
Alex Williams
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 4/29/2010 9:21:03 PM
The new Windows Live
Messenger Steve Ballmer
previewed in Brazil today
represents again how a loosely
joined ecosystem is developing
in the cloud computing world.
They are growing through a
network of service providers
connected through open API's.
Windows Live Messenger
represents a re-emergence of a
veteran Web product, revitalized
by a loosely coupled network
that is fostering a new
ecosystem of open, connected
communities. What it provides
is Microsoft new opportunity to
develop its own social graph by
connecting with social networks
and third-party services.
Sponsor
It's demonstrative of a new
wave of platforms that seem to
emerge with each passing week.
Google Apps Marketplace,
VMforce, SnapLogic - the list
IMVU’S
continued from page 17
debut of a Mac product (and
possibly an iPad client) later this
year and a shift to gaming that
will be tied to a more aggressive
Facebook campaign. IMVU has
been late to Zuckerberg’s
party— the company’s only
goes on.
But it's also an example of a
much deeper movement that you
see as a common thread in both
new and old service providers.
These are newer companies like
ZenDesk that are finding a place
in the SaaS ecosystem. And
there are older ones such as
Hoovers that are playing on the
emergence of open systems and
the social Web to re-architect
and create their own social
CRM communities.
What all these companies have
in common is a renewed priority
on engagement across multiple
networks through platforms,
SaaS providers and data
services. Messenger Connect
In Sau Paulo, Ballmer
previewed an upgrade to its
instant messaging service. Its
one of the most significant
upgrades the service has seen in
a while. Ballmer focused on the
social aspects of the service
which allows users to create a
centralized hub for their various
social networks. For example,
footprint on the site is a
relatively young profile page.
Rosenzweig says the gaming
component is critical to the long
term strategy. He estimates that
the domestic virtual world
market is worth roughly in the
the service will support
Facebook Chat, allowing people
to connect to Facebook from
within the Microsoft Connect
environment.
In Amsterdam, Microsoft
developers unveiled Messenger
Connect, the new API service
that connects to Windows Live
Messenger.
From the Inside Windows Live
blog:"Messenger Connect brings
the individual APIs we've had
for a long time (Windows Live
ID, Contacts API, Messenger
Web Toolkit, etc.) together in a
single API that's based on
industry standards and
specifications (OAuth WRAP,
ActivityStrea.ms,
PortableContacts) and adds a
number of new scenarios."
The new Messenger Connect
hundreds of millions, becoming
a real player in gaming unlocks
a multi-billion dollar market.
Gaming and by extension
Facebook are also critical to
fostering user loyalty, which has
been one of IMVU’s
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PALO
continued from page 18
the web for public testing
sometime this summer. In the
meantime, you can sign up for
provides developer partners with another of PARC's experimental
three big things: Twitter recommendation
• Create a user profile and e n g i n e s , t h i s o n e c a l l e d
social graph: Allows users to ZeroZero88. Information on
sign in and access friends lists. sign up is here.
• A web-oriented architecture Discuss
that exposes a RESTful
interface. This provides
developers with easier technical
integration with the service.
• Social distribution of the chat
service: Real-time chat and the
integration of Message Connect
services into third-party sites.
We'll write more about
ZenDesk and Hoover's in a later
post. They are part of continuing
thread we will see in the market
as open API's proliferate.
But for now, the moves by
companies like Microsoft show
that a loosely coupled
ecosystem is growing fast and
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significant trends in 2010.
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bristles Arrington
outsiders opining on
weaknesses. As of today, the
company has 2 million active
users, just 4% of its 50 million
registered users.
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what Yahoo should be doing
and not doing. An example –
just a couple of days ago, when
asked about our post saying that
Yahoo shouldn’t buy
Foursquare, she told
TechCrunch EU editor Mike
Butcher“I think it’s very easy
for people to talk about what
somebody else should do, but
when confronted about it
themselves they look at it a little
differently.”
Along with lots of swearing,
that’s been her key message
since day one. Her first day on
the job, in January 2009, she
said“It’s been too crazy. People
outside Yahoo deciding what
Yahoo should do, shouldn’t do.
That’s got to stop.”
But that didn’t stop her from
giving out a little advice of her
own yesterday. Her target? That
one-trick pony Google. Says
Bartz to the BBC:
Google is going to have a
problem because Google is only
known for search…It is only
half our business; it’s 99.9% of
their business. They’ve got to
find other things to do…Google
has to grow a company the size
of Yahoo every year to be
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The rules: Keep it clean, and
stay on the subject or we might
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interesting.
An interesting argument. But
even if all of Google’s non
search endeavors are ignored,
like Apps, Android, Chrome,
YouTube, etc., they still beat her
test.
In the last year, Google’s share
price has gone from about
$393/share to $532/share. That’s
about $44 billion in market cap
gain. Yahoo’s market cap,
including those fat Asian assets,
stands at a little under $24
billion today.
By my math, Google grew by
almost two Yahoo’s in the last
twelve months. And my guess is
they aren’t sweating growing
one or two more Yahoo’s in the
next twelve months, either.
Bartz also isn’t afraid of
Facebook dominating all that
social stuff:
“They certainly are taking
people’s attention and time,” she
said. “But what is kind of wrong
about the conversation is that
social just means Facebook.
“Social is interaction. Social is
commenting on news stories.
It’s blogging. It’s sharing
photos. “So there are social
capabilities running throughout
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all of our sites, including
Twitter feeds and Facebook
feeds.”
I actually wonder if Bartz has
ever visited Facebook. She
certainly doesn’t understand
what the core of Facebook is all
about. And I don’t see a whole
lot of social going on at Yahoo,
and the stuff I do see is being
brought in from as Bartz says,
Facebook and Twitter.
The yelling and the rhetoric are
entertaining, certainly. And
trashing competitors that are
crushing you is probably
cathartic. But Rome is burning,
and words won’t put out that
fire. So pass the bong, Carol,
because I want some of
whatever it is that you’re
smoking. We can watch Rome
burn together and laugh and
laugh about how uninteresting
Google and Facebook are.
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this point. Wish I didn’t have to
say that.
Cocoa, while not perfect, is
better than web languages.
@michaelvillar So launch a
different browser. Not a big
deal. Know what is a big deal?
Having to buy a different phone
for each app store.
An interesting point. Hewitt is
saying that while it may seem
like a hassle to have the web
coded for different browsers, it’s
much more of a hassle to have
apps coded for different phones.
@jjathman I’m not justifying
ActiveX, but the
html/css/javascript side of IE
which at one time was state of
the art.
Again, more defense of IE back
in the day.
From here, Hewitt goes into a
series of thoughts on web vs.
native apps.
@ppk Yes, exactly. I’d rather
developers had forced users to
launch different browsers
instead of making watered down
x-browser sites.
@ppk That’s sort of what is
happening with mobile web vs.
native mobile apps, except app
stores don’t extend the browser,
they replace it.
@slauriat “best viewed in X”
was not as bad as “buy another
phone”, which is what we got
for letting the web go to shit so
apps could rise.
@ppk As someone who has
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tried to do both cutting edge
native and web iPhone apps,
iPhone Safari is a joke
compared to iPhone Cocoa.
App stores replace the web,
simply because their languages
are better, in Hewitt’s mind.
And it’s our own fault for letting
the web go to shit, and letting
this happen. His last tweet is
particularly powerful: Hewitt
does have a lot of experience on
both sides, and considers iPhone
Safari to be a “joke” compared
to what you can do natively.
This is a sentiment a lot of
developers whisper about, but
seldom say publicly.
Finally, Hewitt qualifies some
of his statements a bit.
I’ve been hard on Flash, but we
should all thank
Macromedia/Adobe for 10 years
of picking up the slack of the
W3C, Microsoft, and Mozilla.
And really, how screwed would
we be if the WebKit team
weren’t so god damn
competent? Ok, signing off
now, thanks for listening. :)
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Direct-drive turbines to propel offshore wind

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:00:27 AM
With projected growth in
offshore wind farms, turbine
makers are adopting direct-drive
generators, a technology which
could help address concerns
over cost and reliability of
offshore wind.
Siemens Energy last week said
that its first direct-drive turbine
is now available for both
onshore and offshore
applications. The company has
been testing a prototype since
last year and the results have
been good, according to the
company.
Inside the nacelle of Siemens' 3
megawatt direct-drive wind
turbine.(Credit: Siemens
Energy)
Rated at three megawatts of
capacity, the SWT-3.0-101 is a
lower height and weight than
Siemens' 2.3 megawatt machine
and has half the number of parts.
It more compact than generators
that use a gearbox and is
efficient at low wind speeds.
In a traditional wind turbine, a
gearbox and a rotor are
a utility-scale turbine rated at
2.2 megawatts.
Another company entering the
field is Boulder Wind Power,
notes Technology Review. That
company was founded by
researchers at the National
Renewable Energy Laboratories
who studied gearboxes and
Amazing Photos
predicted that many will fail Of The Deepwater
before their anticipated life.
Although there are technical Oil Explosion
advantages to direct-drive Courtney Comstock (The
turbines, using permanent Money Game)
magnets rather than copper coils
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:27:00 AM
and gearboxes does pose a
materials problem. Permanent A source with connections in
connected to a generator to get a General Electric, too, is magnets require rare earth the Gulf energy scene has
flow of current. The Siemens pursuing direct-drive turbines metals, most of which are forwarded us some amazing,
direct-drive technology has a s p e c i f i c a l l y f o r o f f s h o r e sourced in China, and there are movie-like pictures of the
permanent magnet attached to applications in Europe. GE last growing concerns over the deepwater oil explosion.
t h e r o t o r w h i c h c o n n e c t s year purchased ScanWind, a availability of supply. Seriously, they look like
d i r e c t l y t o a g e n e r a t o r , Norwegian company which Five Filters featured article: something out of a Bruckheimer
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Nissan Leaf projected to be in the New Chrome fires up

black geolocation ability
(CNET News.com) will start in California, Arizona, mass adoption." (CNET News.com) not in a prompt, you can disable
Submitted at 4/30/2010 7:44:36 AM Washington, Tennessee, and Nissan is counting on electric Submitted at 4/30/2010 7:39:59 AM it for good. Every time I get on
Oregon. The automaker also is cars to help it close the gap on the map from work or home, I
Nissan Motor is on track to launching the car in Japan and rivals led by Toyota Motor and Ya Sayed Mahmoud :) ususaly want to go somewhere
book 25,000 U.S. orders for its Europe in late 2010. its gasoline-electric Prius, the I believe we should be more a r o u n d o r s e a r c h i n t h e
Leaf electric vehicle by year's Production of the Leaf will start world's most popular hybrid. appreciative to what google surrounding area, isn't it great
end and will be making money in Japan and later at plants in the Federal tax credits of $7,500 offers. First, gmail is the best that this can be the default
on the green car, the carmaker United States and the United will cut the Leaf's retail price to free mail around, they told you b e h a v i o r ? T h e y a r e n o t
said Thursday. Kingdom. $25,280--about 10 percent more Yes there will be ads, just like b r e a c h i n g y o u r p r i v a c y
Nissan has taken 8,000 U.S. Leaf sales will be capacity than the $23,000 starting price any other 'Free' system, they Mahmoud they are asking your
reservations for the hatchback, restrained in the first two years for a Prius. Federal tax credits keep it very non-intrusive and permission nicely if you want to
set to go on sale in the United until the U.S. plant comes on have been phased out for the relevant to your life; so it's as leverage a more convenient
States in December, since it line, Perry said. Prius. win win as it gets, any other free 'Free' way to use their services.
started taking orders on April The five-passenger car will be State incentives could cut the mail system will spit ads in your Finaly, I'm not sure how super
20, Mark Perry, Nissan's North the first fully electric car cost further. In California, the face just like watching TV and unappreciative the community
America director of product launched by a major automaker. top U.S. alternative car market, getting ads on Liquor during a have been, again these are 'F R
planning and strategy, told It is designed to provide a 100 credits could reduce the Leaf football match which is a lose - E E' services, do you expect
Reuters on the sidelines of an mile range on a full charge and price to $20,280. lose scenario. If you really don't them to pay you money as well,
industry conference. is priced at $32,780 not Five Filters featured article: like their ads or features, then and not ask to politely push
"We are on a double-time including federal tax credits or The Art of Looking Prime you can either pay them $50 a some relevant ads... let me know
march" for launch, Perry said. other incentives. Ministerial - The 2010 UK year and use gmail with no ads, what you think....
"We are on our way to have "We are making money at the General Election. Available or pay for any other service. But Five Filters featured article:
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Friday Poll: What's your stance in the Flash fight?

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 8:00:00 AM
quote: "That's misinformation
at it's best"
speaking of "misinformation"
flash using H264 has just now
happened recently, it took them
years to adopt, THAT is the
problem, adobe is slow and
buggy when coming out with
updates, and saying HTML5 is a
container, is laughable at best,
what do you think Flash is? do
you think HTML5 can not use
H264? where in the world did
you think Flash copied it from?
flash is already obsolete you
just don't know it yet, not
because if finally came out with
H264, or that it finally has a
beta out that helps support
mobile touch devices, but
because IT IS SO SLOW WITH
IT's updates.... that is it's killer,
that is why open source projects
are already overtaking it... that
is why Youtube and facebook Ministerial - The 2010 UK
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are these sites using the newer
tech? hello????
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The App Store Now Counts 4,870 iPad Apps
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 8:36:43 AM
App store analytics startup
Distimo has taken a deep look at
Apple’s App Store today. The
number of iPad apps are
growing rapidly since the
release of the device nearly a
month ago, with the App Store
now counting 4,870 iPad apps.
That’s a 32.7% increase in apps
over the past two weeks. To
break down the stat further,
there are now 3,437 iPad-
specific apps, with 1,433
universal apps that work on both
the iPad and iPhone. You can
download the report here.
Unsurprisingly, the largest
application category on the iPad
is Games with 1,577 titles
(32%), followed by
Entertainment and Books with
455 and 396 titles, respectively.
From the launch of the iPad,
gaming apps dominated the iPad
Content company raises $2 million to develop for iPad
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 4/30/2010 11:00:00 AM
Filed under: iPad Thinking
Screen Media is a content
platform developer, putting
together a content delivery
system designed to bring
information to "millions of
connected screens worldwide."
Now, it seems that many of
App Store.
In terms of pricing, the iPad is
still seeing the majority of its
nearly 5000 apps as paid
offerings. Of the 186,414
applications in the Apple App
Store for iPhone, 73% are paid,
while 80% of the 4,870
applications in the Apple App
those screens might be iPads.
TechCrunch reports that they've
raised a whopping $2 million
just to switch their development
aim to the iPad. They currently
have an iPad app up and running
in the store, and they've got a
number of other investment
sources already. However,
according to the report, this Of course, in the larger scheme
money is specifically for the of things, this is small potatoes.
iPad.
Store for iPad are paid. An
application in the Apple App
Store for iPhone costs $3.82 on
average, as opposed to $4.67 in
the Apple App Store for iPad.
In fact, on the Apple App Store
for iPad, Medical and Finance
applications are the most
expensive at $42.11 and $18.48
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on average, respectively. This is
significantly more than the
average price for applications in
these categories on the Apple
App Store for iPhone ($10.74
and $5.74).
Steve Jobs wrote in a post
yesterday that there are now Use Virtual Desktops
200,000 apps in the app store,
but Distimo evaluated these to Create Instant
numbers as of April 26, which Focus [Focus]
could account for the Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
discrepancy in the number of
total apps. Of course, we expect Submitted at 4/30/2010 7:00:00 AM
the app store to continue to
If you have a ton of
grow steadily as developers
applications and files open but
flock to the platform. In fact,
you want to focus on a single
there are still any major apps
thing without the hassle of
missing from the iPad, such as
shutting the rest of the apps and
those for Facebook and
files down, use a virtual
Foursquare.
desktop. More »
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App Store Distimo Information
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A content channel is pretty TUAW Content company raises
useless unless it's delivering $2 million to develop for iPad
content that people actually originally appeared on The
want, and $2 million is loose Unofficial Apple Weblog
change for some of the larger (TUAW) on Fri, 30 Apr 2010
content companies. This is a 11:00:00 EST. Please see our
significant investment in terms terms for use of feeds.
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Patent: Invisible button

on future MacBook Pros
Megan Lavey (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:00:00 AM

Filed under: Macbook Pro

AppleInsider has the story of a

Bye-bye, Lala: Apple-owned patent application that would

turn any place on the aluminum
shell of a MacBook Pro into a
streaming service to shut down disappearing input space by
utilizing invisible backlit holes.
Michael Rose (The Unofficial music in your Lala collection thoughtful. The application describes an
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) through May 31, 2010. Any As we bid farewell to the Lala input device made of the same
Submitted at 4/30/2010 10:30:00 AM mp3 songs purchased and of yesterday, what's coming for material as the computer
downloaded from Lala will the streaming-enabled iTunes of housing, so when not in use, it
Filed under: Music continue to play as part of your tomorrow? Check out our past disappears. Light, combined
It's a long-familiar story: local music library. You can Lala posts for the rest of the with a capacitive sensor, would button, a display when the
i n n o v a t i v e s t a r t - u p g a i n s continue to purchase mp3 songs story. enable it to work. The patent computer lid is closed, Wi-Fi
traction, gets major search deal, through May 31st using your Thanks to everyone who sent example showing this in action signal/battery indicators and
earns attention from bigger wallet balance or other payment this in. displays a control wheel that's more.
companies, is gobbled up... and methods." No new purchases [H/T to Ars Technica] similar to the iPod's. [via Techcrunch]
then takes down the primary can be made at this point and the TUAW Bye-bye, Lala: Apple- Comparisons are made in the TUAW Patent: Invisible button
service that got it so much buzz service is no longer accepting owned streaming service to shut patent to the iPhone's on future MacBook Pros
in the first place. Google signups. Outstanding credit down originally appeared on touchscreen surface and its originally appeared on The
acquisitions Etherpad and balances on the site will be The Unofficial Apple Weblog drawbacks -- mainly the seams Unofficial Apple Weblog
Jotspot, welcome your new club transferred to iTunes store (TUAW) on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 and the fragility. Indeed, (TUAW) on Fri, 30 Apr 2010
member from the Apple side: credit, and loyal users are due a 10:30:00 EST. Please see our something made of aluminum 09:00:00 EST. Please see our
Lala is shutting down its bonus: "In appreciation of your terms for use of feeds. would be a lot tougher and not terms for use of feeds.
streaming and music purchase support, you will receive a Read| Permalink| Email this| look as tacked-on as plastic or Read| Permalink| Email this|
operation on May 31. credit in the amount of your Comments rubber. Comments
Lala's site notes that users "will Lala web song purchases for use Other uses for such a device
be able to access and play all on Apple's iTunes Store." How would be a trackpad, external

Street Chic: New York

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Hanvon suffers the tablet

TUAW's Daily App: Space Miner: curse, delays multitouch B10,
Space Ore Bust talks up cheaper F10 model
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial various parts of your space ore Ore Bust is going on sale for
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Tim Stevens (Engadget) talking about its H10 model,
business. just 99 cents for a limited time
And while the gameplay is tight to help promote the Venan Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:31:00 AM which uses a 1.6GHz Atom
Submitted at 4/30/2010 8:00:00 AM
and fun, the best part of Space Arcade's upcoming second Z530 processor and lacks the
Filed under: App Store Space Miner (in my humble opinion) is game, the strangely titled Manufacturers just can't seem multitouch of the B10, instead
Miner: Space Ore Bust is a the brilliant and hilarious script. Ninjatown: Trees of Doom. At to figure out this whole tablet offering a stylus-based
terrific game for the iPhone -- Not only does the story of the that price, it's worth a purchase deal. The poor things get electromagnetic panel like the
it's an arcade game that's game give you great reasons to just to play through the tutorial. delayed, canceled, or just make WISEreader. Cost is said to be
basically a one-stick shooter, keep going out there and Definitely be sure to grab it. you fear that you've been ripped "much less" than the B10, which
where you move a ship around a blasting ore, but it's legitimately TUAW TUAW's Daily App: off. Hanvon's TouchPad B10 is estimated to cost around $877
2D field (rendered in colorful creative and funny. Chicago Space Miner: Space Ore Bust hasn't suffered the worst of -- a figure that hopefully won't
3D), collecting asteroid ore and poet and performer Robbie Q. originally appeared on The those fates, but it is going to be get any larger in the coming
taking down alien robots. But Telfer is listed in the credits as Unofficial Apple Weblog a little later than planned. The weeks.
though the basic premise of the story editor, and that really paid (TUAW) on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 last we heard they were due to Hanvon suffers the tablet curse,
game is quite simple, there's off for the game -- some of the 08:00:00 EST. Please see our ship on March 25, but according delays multitouch B10, talks up
actually a lot of depth that dialogue is just perfect. terms for use of feeds. to jkkmobile the devices have cheaper F10 model originally
builds up over time, as you So yes, the game is worth a buy Permalink| Email this| just entered volume production appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30
navigate around various zones, even at the normal $4.99 price -- Comments and will instead ship to Chinese Apr 2010 09:31:00 EST. Please
and upgrade your ship, your ore but wait, there's more. Starting buyers sometime toward the end see our terms for use of feeds.
collector, and all of the other tomorrow, Space Miner: Space of May, while Europeans (and Permalink| jkkmobile| Email
maybe lowly Americans) won't this| Comments
see theirs until June.
Meanwhile, Hanvon is also
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BallP bowling ball 'bot puts your Snack Smart: I'm All
sense of balance to shame (video) About the Chocolate
Joseph L. Flatley (Engadget) lot less intrusive than CMU's WomansDay.com Editors enough, a small study showed
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:57:00 AM Ballbot-- our previous favorite (Daily Woman's Day Blog) that a little bit of dark chocolate
robot butler (yes, in the end it all Submitted at 4/29/2010 2:00:56 PM can help curb appetite.) Two of
We've seen robots play Soccer, comes down to who can get us a my favorites are Green&Black's
Tennis, and Battle Ball, and now cold one the fastest). Video after My name is Amy, I'm a health o r g a n i c b i t t e r s w e e t d a r k
Dr. Masaaki Kumagai, director the break. editor and I eat dark chocolate chocolate that's 70% cocoa and
of Tohoku Gakuin University's Continue reading BallP every day. Yes, every day! And D o v e S i l k y S m o o t h D a r k
Robot Development bowling ball 'bot puts your no, I'm not overweight. I always Chocolate that comes in 190-
Engineering Laboratory, brings sense of balance to shame keep a small (no more than 190 calorie bars that are neatly
us BallP (or Ball Inverted (video) calories) bar of dark (at least divided into five squares.
Pendulum): a 20-inch, 16.5- BallP bowling ball 'bot puts 60% cocoa) chocolate around. - A m y B r i g h t f i e l d , H e a l t h
pound robot that derives its your sense of balance to shame When I get that craving for D i r e c t o r
name from the bowling ball that (video) originally appeared on something sweet, I break off a Five Filters featured article:
it balances on. Using three omni Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 piece. Often I'll have it as my The Art of Looking Prime
-directional wheels, the robot a l l o w s t h e t h i n g t o c a r r y 09:57:00 EST. Please see our mid-morning snack, and in fact, Ministerial - The 2010 UK
can stand still, move in any equipment -- either on its own, t e r m s f o r u s e o f f e e d s . I've found that it helps tide me General Election. Available
direction, and pivot along its or with the help of a human Permalink| IEEE Spectrum| over when I know I'll be eating tools: PDF Newspaper, Full
vertical axis. A combination of operator (sort of like a high-tech Email this| Comments a late lunch. (And coincidentally Text RSS, Term Extraction.
motors, micro-step controllers, wheel barrow). If anything, it's a
gyroscopes, and accelerometers

HP Slate killed? Rumor mill says 'yes'

Laura June (Engadget) Slate -- which was officially hear something more concrete.
Submitted at 4/30/2010 10:46:00 AM unveiled in January by Steve HP Slate killed? Rumor mill
Ballmer himself -- had a says 'yes' originally appeared on
Last night TechCrunch reported rumored price of $549, and was Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010
that, according to an unnamed supposedly launching in June. 10:46:00 EST. Please see our
"source briefed on the matter," So, what should we make of all terms for use of feeds.
HP had stopped development of this? Well, there's probably Permalink| TechCrunch| Email
the Slate in its tracks, killing off some major chaos over at HP this| Comments
the project entirely. Why? Well, with the news of the Palm coming out of the company right realm of possibility to us. We've
according to the source, HP isn't acquisition, so we wouldn't be now. On the other hand, HP reached out to HP for comment,
thrilled with Windows 7's surprised to hear some shaky -- killing off the project doesn't but they've yet to get back to us.
performance on the tablet. The or even incorrect -- information sound completely out of the We'll let you know when we
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It's a Boy and a Girl for

Mark McGrath and
Fiancée
(TVGuide.com: Breaking
News)
'FlashForward' -
Submitted at 4/29/2010 6:46:00 PM
'Goodbye Yellow
Mark McGrath
Brick Road' Recap
Mark McGrath and his fiancée Jason Hughes (TV Squad)
welcomed twins — a boy and a Submitted at 4/30/2010 10:45:00 AM
girl — Thursday in Los
Angeles, People reports. (S01E18) Dyson Frost is a bad
Son Lydon Edward arrived man. He's been doing stuff
first, weighing 5 pounds, 7 related to the flashforwards for
years now. The whole situation
Samsung announces ounces, followed by 4-pound, 8-
ounce daughter Hartley Grace.
Mark McGrath engaged and
is far more complicated than we
ever imagined, and yet almost
pasty white Limited expecting twins
"We are so lucky," the 42-year-
everyone we've met who's a part
of whatever was behind the
old Sugar Ray singer told global incident seems to be a
Edition NX10 People. "I don't think you can
prepare for the love we are
of love."
McGrath hits the road with
reluctant participant.
Certainly Gabriel ( James
Tim Stevens (Engadget) the Limited Edition will set you feeling." Callis) was reluctant to be as
back, but has indicated it'll McGrath and Carin Kingsland, Sugar Ray in June and will host
Submitted at 4/30/2010 10:19:00 AM
Don't Forget the Lyrics! next involved as he was. It's not clear
launch on May 7 in Korea, the 37, got engaged on New Year's what his mental state was before
Some cameras just beg to be Netherlands, China, Taiwan, Eve after dating on and off for fall on Fox.
Five Filters featured article: the blackout, though we know
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Dancing's Tony Dovolani: Motivating a Demoralized Kate

Was the Hardest Part
(TVGuide.com: Breaking don't have anything to say to country's turned into, that Dancing's Derek Hough: I have
News) those people because I don't saddens me. to top last season's mambo head
Submitted at 4/29/2010 9:22:00 PM waste my energy on them. TVGuide.com: In your last -bob
Those people are going to hate rehearsal package, you said you TVGuide.com: We never saw
Tony Dovolani, Dancing With no matter what. Dancing is have to motivate her every day any of that, though. Does it
The Stars something that's so beautiful. and it's exhausting. What did bother you your fun moments
Tony Dovolani didn't get the Kate was a perfect example of you mean by that? weren't included?
Kate Gosselin hate before their a n e v e r y d a y p e r s o n w h o Dovolani: It's because of Dovolani: Well, that's why I'm
Dancing with the Stars time wondered what it would be like everything she has to read about a dance teacher; I'm not a
started — and he still doesn't. "I to be on Dancing with the Stars herself every single day. producer, but obviously our
really just do not understand and she tried it. She was Dancing was supposed to be a show is successful for a reason.
why people pick on someone challenged, but so what? So is positive experience for her, and Those producers are doing an
they don't know and someone everybody else in their own it seems like everybody put a incredible job. They brought
who is doing the best she could way. Do you think everybody bull's-eye on her and started drama. Everybody was talking
do to provide for her kids. It's who walks into the studio is a shooting. That demoralizes about the show, so they did their
truly amazing to me that more great dancer? No, if they were, everybody no matter who you job. The truth be told, the
people pay attention to the then studios wouldn't exist. are. How am I supposed to hardest part of teaching her was
negative comments," he tells You're supposed to learn. regret. Everybody's walked out motivate her when she looks at keeping her motivated because
TVGuide.com. "If they really Dancing's Tony Dovolani: of rehearsal, but no one had said me and goes, "Every media of all these things that everyone
t a k e t h e t i m e t o h a t e o n What's with all the Kate hate? "I quit." I said "I quit." I quit for outlet hates me." I have to give was saying about her. She was
somebody else, I wonder what TVGuide.com: There were a the day! [ Laughs] I didn't look her props. She's an incredible demoralized. Every 15 minutes,
their lives are like." Contrary to ton of reports and cover stories upset. It was like, "Let me relax mom and she's an example for somebody would send her a new
reports claiming otherwise (and about you hating her and for a little bit." Then I came single moms out there. She article that was written about her
his infamous rehearsal walkout), wishing you were off the show. back and said, "Let's do this handles herself to the best of her in a bad way. You have no
the pro says he and Gosselin got Dovolani: Why would I ever again." Ten seasons, we've had ability because she's constantly choice but to read it because you
along famously on Dancing with want to be off the show? I love someone walk out almost every under fire by everybody. ... want to know what is being said
the Stars— and still do. Find out our show. I love being able to episode, and no one has made a People hang on every word she about you so you can protect
what else Dovolani had to say to teach. I love being able to show big deal out of it until now. Now says. I experienced that for the yourself when questions come
Gosselin's haters, what the that I can take somebody who's they're making a big deal first time when [reporters] up in interviews. I don't blame
hardest part of teaching the never taken a dance step in her because it's Kate Gosselin? would ask me questions in a her. I would look at her and go,
mom of eight was and his picks life and teach her to dance. I had C'mon! It's sad because this is provoking way to get me to say "I'm so sorry you have to read
for the final three. to teach her how to walk in the s o m e b o d y w h o j u s t w e n t something negative about her. I that." When tabloids took my
TVGuide.com: There are a lot first lesson! Kate and I get along through a publicized divorce. don't have anything negative to words and twisted it, I told her,
of viewers who wanted Kate to wonderfully. Her ex-husband's in the media; say about her. I had a great time "I have no idea what you deal
get eliminated earlier, like the TVGuide.com: Your walkout she's in the media. Their kids teaching her. Whatever drama with!" Being followed by
first week. How does that make during rehearsal didn't help have to read all kinds of stories you saw on TV, that's exactly paparazzi so you're afraid to
you feel? things. What happened there? about their parents. While she's how long it lasted. Five minutes, play with your kids in your yard
Tony Dovolani: Why would Dovolani: That was a five- down, people are still kicking that's it. We laughed until I had because God forbid you make a
they want that? That's just mean. minute clip that I wish I could her? I just don't think that is her in stitches. She was on the
I don't even understand. ... I have back. That's one thing I DANCING'S page 29
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serious face and people
misconstrue that as you being a
mean mom? What parent hasn't
had a serious face in front of
their kid at one point or another?
TVGuide.com: Maks said he
thinks Kate resisted you. Do you
feel that way?
Dovolani: No. Every couple has
struggles and everybody resists
in the early weeks because
you're doing something
completely new with someone
you just met. Maks
[Chmerkovskiy] and Erin
[Andrews] had some issues, so
did Derek [Hough] and Nicole
[Scherzinger]. We don't know
anything about the other person,
so of course there's going to be
resistance. You just have to earn
trust and learn to trust, and
eventually, Kate started doing
better. Her tango was good.
Even though they picked the
foxtrot apart, she did a good job.
TVGuide.com: Have you been
keeping in touch?
Dovolani: Pretty much every
other day we're on the phone
with each other. I ask how she's
doing, how the kids are doing.
'The Vampire Diaries' - 'Blood Brothers' Recap
Jane Boursaw (TV Squad)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:38:00 AM played into this episode of'The
(S01E20) "You're back on some flashbacks that revealed
Bambi blood, and I'm a badass more of the Salvatore brothers'
big brother again. All is right in backstory and why Damon hates
the world." - Damon to Stefan
A jealous brother, an evil uncle, really, if he hated him that m u c h , h e w o u l d n ' t h a v e
She asks about all the meetings
I've been taking. ... The timing
hasn't worked out, but we are
going to have a playdate
because I want our kids to meet
and her kids are just adorable.
My daughter and her kids would
just have a blast.
Read Maks' Dancing blog
TVGuide.com: What are you
going to perform on the finale?
Dovolani: We don't know yet.
The producers are going to have
a meeting with me in a couple
days to let me know what we're
dancing. It'll just be fun to have
her around again because she
was a lot of fun to be around. I
just want to see her smile
because when she smiles, she
lights up a room.
TVGuide.com: What are you
predictions for the rest of the
season?
Dovolani: I can probably
predict the final, but as far as
winning, I have no idea. I think
the final would be Nicole, Erin
and Evan [Lysacek]. That would
be a very entertaining final
three. ... [Maks] is my best
buddy, so of course I'm pulling
and a trusting girlfriend all
Vampire Diaries.' We also got
Stefan so much. Although,
for him. I want one of us to win!
[ Laughs] Derek's already won!
So Anna [Trebunskaya] or
Maks.
TVGuide.com: You're doing
some acting now?
Dovolani: Yeah, I'm taking
some meetings for a few things.
I'm really excited. ... People are
starting to realize that I have
acting experience. It sets me a
little apart because I've actually
studied it. I'm kind of glad
they're trying to recognize that.
We're working out which
direction we want to go. As long
as I'm performing and providing
entertainment, that's all I care
about. I'm not afraid to make
fun of myself.
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Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 10:15:00 AM
In another step towards
competing with the ubiquitous
iPhone and other smartphone
operating systems, Google will
be introducing television-based
software in May that will run
Google Android. The software
is said to open up television, set-
top boxes and devices to more
content from the Internet.
Google is essentially trying to towards the eventual merger of
develop a television set your home television and
operating system. It will be computer systems. If Google
tough to make it work, since can succeed in this, Android
many of the television could become a major player in
manufacturers will likely be operating systems, competing
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Submitted at 4/29/2010 8:43:00 PM
Rielle Hunter, The Oprah
Winfrey Show
In her first TV interview since
John Edwards claimed paternity
of her 2-year-old daughter,
Rielle Hunter told Oprah
Winfrey she is not a home
wrecker.
"It is not my experience that a
third party wrecks a home,"
Hunter said on The Oprah
Winfrey Show Thursday. "I
believe the problems exist
before a third party comes into
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Oprah Winfrey lands TV
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"A lot of people bought into the
myth of the marriage. I mean,
the Edwards marriage as being a
storybook story and it was so
perfect and so wonderful," she
said. "He wanted to be with me,
and their marriage had problems
for many, many years."
In her sit-down with Winfrey,
the 46-year-old Hunter recalled
meeting the former presidential
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Five TV Weddings That SAC Capital Made $100 Million
Didn't Happen Yesterday On The Dendreon Trade
Jane Boursaw (TV Squad)
(DNDN)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 10:03:00 AM
If you love bridal shows and
haven't checked out'Say Yes to
the Dress' yet, now is a perfect
opportunity. The reality series
returns Friday, April 30, 9PM
ET on TLC, and it's all about the
inner workings of Kleinfeld
Bridal, a premiere bridal salon
whose goal is to make every
bride completely happy with her
wardrobe for the big day.
In honor of the show's return,
I've compiled a few TV
weddings that didn't happen for
various reasons. Maybe if the
brides had gone to Kleinfeld
Bridal, things would have turned
out differently ... or not.
For top TV weddings that
actually did happen, check out
Memorable TV Weddings. Jim
and Pam, Niles and Daphne, and
Wise Words: Move Your Feet
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Submitted at 4/30/2010 6:30:00 AM
Here's a little bit of inspiration
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Luke and Laura made the list.
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Courtney Comstock (The
Money Game)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 8:47:47 AM
Yesterday one desk at SAC Cap
made $100 million.
Hours after the FDA approved
a new prostate cancer drug,
Provenge, yesterday, shares of
Dendreon spiked. The news was
fantastic for SAC Cap, which
reported a 5.5% stake in the
pharmaceutical company on
April 2.
The SEC 13G filing means that
the firm owned 7,369,801 in the
Dendreon Corp as of 10 days
before April 2. the max they could have made. is a conservative estimate.
So let's just say SAC bought No one is required to report a Makes those 62% who said
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Moody's Just Downgraded A Slew

Of Greek Banks
Gus Lubin (The Money Game)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 8:40:00 AM

Moody's just dropped ratings

on nine Greek banks(note: we
originally reported that 11 banks
were downgraded)
From Moody's:
Moody’s Investors Service has
today downgraded the bank
financial strength ratings
(BFSRs) as well as the deposit
and debt ratings of nine Greek
banks to reflect their weakening
stand-alone financial strength
and the anticipated additional
pressures stemming from the
country’s challenged economic
prospects. The banks’ deposit
and debt ratings remain on
review for possible downgrade
and will be concluded at the
same time as Moody’s ongoing
review of the country’s
sovereign rating, which serves
as a reference point with which
to impute bank rating uplift as a
Open a File Browser from the
Command Prompt [Command Line]
Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 6:30:00 AM
Even if you're a command-line
devotee, sometimes it's just way
result of possible systemic
support.
The banks affected by today’s
rating action are: National Bank
of Greece, EFG Eurobank
Ergasias SA, Alpha Bank AE,
Piraeus Bank, Emporiki Bank
of Greece, Agricultural Bank of
Greece, General Bank of
Greece, Marfin Egnatia Bank
and Attica Bank.
easier to use the mouse and a
The country's A3 sovereign Goldman Sachs Is Getting
bond is still under review, but
you can guess where that's
going. S&P made the
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April 30, 1939: The Future Arrives at New York World's Fair
Chris Baker (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 4/29/2010 11:00:00 PM

1939: The New York World’s

Fair opens in Flushing Meadow
Park. It will give visitors a
glimpse of “the world of
tomorrow” and shape industrial
design, pop culture and the way
the future would envision the
future.
The fair ran two seasons, from
1939 to 1940. The most
memorable exhibit was the
General Motors Pavilion, and
the most memorable feature in
the General Motors Pavilion
was a ride called the Futurama.
People stood in line for hours to
ride it and experience the
exciting possibilities of life in
the distant future — the year
1960.
The Futurama ride carried fair
visitors past tiny, realistic
landscapes while a narrator
described the world of
tomorrow. The effect was like
catching a glimpse of the future
from the window of an airplane.
As you might expect from a ride
sponsored by GM, the focus was
on what roadways and
them just sucks you in. manufacturers had exhibited at GM’s ride presented a utopia says Howland.
transportation might look like in
The 1939 Futurama had two fairs to show how they made forged by urban planning. “There wasn’t an interstate
20 years.
other factors that compounded their products. Sophisticated highways ran freeway system in 1939. Not
“Detailed miniatures are always
the fascination: first, a promise Then the Futurama came along through rural farmland and many people owned a car. They
compelling,” says Dan
of personal car ownership (and and said, Here is how the future eventually moved into carefully staggered out of the fair like a
Howland, editor of the Journal
after the Great Depression that will feel. The 1939 audience ordered futuristic cities. “You cargo cult and built an imperfect
of Ride Theory. “It doesn’t
sounded pretty good), and wasn’t used to having a have to understand that the version of this incredible
matter whether they are
second, a grand vision of the company selling optimism, and audience had never even
dollhouses or model trains or APRIL page 34
future. Up until the Futurama, it made their hearts sing.” considered a future like this,”
it’s Legoland, something about
34 Culture/
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continued from page 33
vision.”
The Futurama wasn’t so much
about the cars GM intended to
build. Visitors were told about
certain features these future cars
might have — such as radio
controls that help them maintain
proper distance from each other
— but the vehicles themselves
were so tiny that they could
barely be distinguished.
What the Futurama ride was
really selling was a highway
system — a taxpayer-funded
highway system. “I think the
best take on it was in E. L.
Doctorow’s novel World’s
Fair,” says Howland. “A family
exits the ride, and the father
says, ‘General Motors is telling
us what they expect from us:
We must build them the
highways so they can sell us the
cars.’”
The original Futurama left an
indelible imprint on popular
culture, visible in everything
from the art design in sci-fi
films to forward-looking
marketing campaigns to the
widespread use of the suffix-
arama.
It’s no wonder that when New
York hosted another World’s
Fair in 1964, a second Futurama
exhibit was mounted. The
original Futurama had presented
the brave new world of 1960.
Many of the predictions had
already been disproven by the
time Futurama II debuted.
“This is always a recurring
problem — the times catch up
with science fiction visions,”
says Howland. “That’s why
Steampunk is so popular,
because it can’t become
obsolete. But the Futurama,
man, that was Dieselpunk!”
Futurama II looked even further
into the future, presenting
predictions of a time that most
fair visitors won’t live to see. In
this world, mankind had
dominion over the entire
universe. Six-wheeled moon
buggies (pictured above) moved
easily over the lunar surface,
ritzy hotels had been built deep
beneath the ocean, tree-
devouring machinery carved
highways through jungles.
The point of view wasn’t quite
as distanced as the original
Futurama. The far-fetched
vehicles were much larger, and
they were piloted by tiny human
puppets. The overall look was
strikingly similar to the campy
TV show Thunderbirds, which
premiered as the 1964-1965
World’s Fair was closing.
At the end of the first Futurama
exhibit, fair visitors were given
a pin. At the end of the second,
it was a pocket tab, but the
simple message was the same: I
HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE.
It’s easy to laugh at the
datedness and the overoptimism
of these futurist exhibits. But we
should resist the urge to dismiss
them.
“These things aren’t just
quaint,” says Cory Doctorow, a
Boing Boing contributor and
science fiction writer. “They’re
a caution and an inspiration.
They show us just how faulty
our intuition about the future use
of new inventions can be. Most
of this stuff was utterly plausible
when the rides opened, and it’s
only in hindsight that we can see
how weirdly wrong they got it.”
“It’s an inspiration too, though,”
Doctorow adds. “They show us
that we’re pretty good at
figuring out what’s going to be
important to the future, but not
why. Networks are important,
but not for videophones. Space
is important — for weather
satellites, Google Earth, spying,
GPS. But not colonizing — at
least not so far.”
Howland points out that we
might be better off if we’d
followed the designs of the
original Futurama to the letter.
“The designer, Norman Bel
Geddes, did a lot of research on
how to build technological
solutions to traffic problems,”
says Howland.
“And he did it decades before
the problems even manifested
themselves. Unfortunately,
nobody paid any attention to the
problems Geddes anticipated, so
we ended up with all these
fantastic freeways and they’re
all gridlocked by 5 p.m. every
weeknight. If we lived in the
Futurama, we’d be home by
now.”
Adapted from an article that
appeared on Wired.com Nov.
27, 2007.
Photo: Daniel Salo
See Also:
• Photo Gallery: 1939’s ‘World
of Tomorrow’ Shaped Our
Today
• ‘Futurama’ Is Back! Grab a
Can of Slurm and Settle In
• Aug. 3, 1803: Crystal Palace
Architect Born
• April 30, 1897: J.J. Thomson
Announces the Electron … Sort
Of
• April 30, 1916: Information
Theory, Who’s Your Daddy?
• April 30, 1945: New
Generation U-Boat Too Little,
Too Late
• Feb, 11, 1939: Lise Meitner,
‘Our Madame Curie’
• May 14, 1939: A 5-Year-Old
Becomes Youngest Mother on
Record
• June 19, 1939: Dreaded ALS
Gets a New Name
• Sept. 1, 1939: Wehrmacht
Puts the Blitz in Krieg
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On Tuesday’s season premiere
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as Whitney hustled to prepare
for her debut runway collection
at Bryant Park. During the
fashion show, Whitney’s own
light, easy, pastel-colored outfit
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Alt Text: Chimps Mourn Like Humans, Maybe a Bit Too

Much
Lore Sjöberg
(Wired Top Stories)
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“Chimpanzees mourn their dead

like humans do, research finds”
— Los Angeles Times headline
---
Eechee hadn’t been gone for
more than an hour and everyone
was already arguing over his
stuff. Cheecha claimed that
Eechee promised her his
favorite termite-poking stick
when she was protecting him
from that leopard a couple of
weeks ago, and Chirree was
having none of it.
“I happen to remember hearing
a very familiar screech from
inside the hollow tree when the
leopard came around, and I
know the hollow tree isn’t
anywhere near Eechee’s nest,”
she said.
“I imagine you would know
where the hollow tree is,”
replied Cheecha. “That is where
you go to pick lice off it fell to me to make funeral hooted a couple of times. It who never seemed to be around one chimp ever really checked
Grungrun’s mate, isn’t it?” arrangements. Nobody actually would have been nice if when Eechee needed a in on him, made sure he was
So that’s how Cheecha ended asked, of course — they just all someone else offered to pitch in grooming but showed up getting enough grubs to eat,
up with claw marks on her face assumed that I’d handle it, the with the hooting duties, but they scratching pointedly just as made sure to sit on the side with
and Chirree ended up missing a same way I handle it every time were too busy arguing over who everyone else was fully his one good eye when hanging
few patches of hair — a few we see a snake in the area, or got to claim Eechee’s foraging groomed. out with him.
more patches of hair, if I’m like when the big nesting tree spot and “secret” stash of From all the fighting and noise, Guess who? Was it Cheecha,
being honest — and Eechee fell over. Not a word of fermented berries. you’d think that Eechee was a who now has the termite stick
hadn’t been dead for more than gratitude, not a piece of fruit or Old wounds got opened freshly beloved and treasured member and is suggesting that Eechee’s
an hour. a hint of ritual submissiveness. as troop members reminded of the troop. But to be honest, favorite sunning spot should be
I’ve always been considered the Luckily, chimp funerals aren’t each other who borrowed this was the most attention reserved for her from now on?
responsible one in the troop, so much to speak of. I just sat by nesting materials from Eechee anyone paid to him since the ALT page 37
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happiness? funeral-hooting.
This is why I keep suggesting
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to provide for himself, Lore
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) more conducive to long-term an otherwise monotonous and that we all file end-of-life Sjöberg eventually overcame
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:00:00 AM happiness: exercise. cubicle-centric daily existence. directives, but that would these handicaps to become a
When we walk, run, bike or But is there a direct link require both a writing system primate, a Primarch and a
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you may have attempted to physical exercise, we generally happiness? We know that mortality, neither of which have See Also:
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of ways: eating, logging hours anxious. People who are in poor improve the sleep patterns of troop in spite of my efforts. • Alt Text: Going Green Into
in front of the television, or physical condition are certainly insomniacs, as well as lower In the end, Eechee was really Death's Eternal Blackness
increasing your use of tobacco, no strangers to happiness, and their anxiety [source: American the only thing keeping me with • Alt Text: Ashes to Caches —
alcohol or drugs (both legal and one study of Stanford University Academy of Sleep Medicine]. this troop. I’ve been checking Cremation Services for Dead
illegal). All of these represent student-athletes found that Studies on rats indicate that out the strange tall hairless Geeks
attempts to take your mind off happiness for this group was exercise mimics the effects of creatures that keep hiding at the
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Dinner Diary: Roast Chicken Breast Tool: Electric Lock Pick
and Steamed Artichokes
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Submitted at 4/29/2010 3:00:00 PM
Today, purely by chance, I
present two feats of culinary
acrobatics that once intimidated
me but now appear beautifully
simple: roasting a chicken breast
and steaming a whole artichoke.
I found a reliable source on how
to do each ( here and here) and
ended up with a simple meal
that made me very happy.
First the artichokes. Clearly
these things are not going to win
any beauty contests, particularly
not after they've been cooked.
But every time I eat one of these
prickly-looking things, I am
amazed. The first bite, I'm kind
of confused. Why would anyone
bother with this? As I work my
way through, however, the
leaves get more tender and
sweeter with each layer. By the
time I scrape my teeth against
the inside of the last few leaves,
a pile of discarded ones
testifying to the work I've put in,
they're melting in my mouth. I
scrape the hairy part off the
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down for 3 minutes in a hot personnel tension tool to turn the lock
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what's left, the payoff. preheated 450-degree oven. It lock with everything from a don’t think the SouthOrd pick is
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either. You trim about the top chicken to reach an internal most of these rudimentary burglar: It sounds like gears
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En Garde! Taking Up Swordplay

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Submitted at 4/29/2010 4:38:24 PM
With Clash of the Titans now in
theaters and Russell Crowe’s
Robin Hood opening May14th,
swordplay is becoming all the
rage in Hollywood. Taking full
advantage of the moment, the
Manhattan Fencing Center is
offering free beginner lessons to
promote the sport. One of only
four sports to be featured at
every modern Olympic games,
the discipline stresses balance
and coordination while
promoting strategic thinking.
Eager to find out more, I headed
to the front terrace of the New
York Public Library where the
free classes are held every
Friday at 1pm through June
25th.
Under the watchful eyes of the
library’s resident lions, Patience
and Fortitude, genial instructors
separated the participants into
that requires it’s own
wardrobe!)
Starting with steps, then lunges,
each participant learned the
fundamental footwork and
positions to begin. Next they
were handed a sabre and taught
appropriate handling. By the end
of the hour the fencers were
engaging each other in one on
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A top adviser to President
Barack Obama says no new oil
drilling will be authorized until
authorities learn what caused the
explosion of the rig Deepwater
Horizon.
David Axelrod also defended
the administration's response to
the April 20 accident, saying
"we had the Coast Guard in
almost immediately."
He deflected comparisons with
the government's slow response
to Hurricane Katrina in 2005,
telling ABC's "Good Morning
America" that such speculation
"is always the case in
Washington whenever
something like this happens."
Obama recently lifted a drilling
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Friday "no additional drilling
has been authorized and none
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Submitted at 4/29/2010 11:00:00 PM
Hope in a Scattering Time: A
Life of Christopher Lasch
By Eric Miller
(Eerdmans, 394 pp., $32)
In a moving tribute to
Christopher Lasch written
shortly after his death in 1994,
Dale Vree, a Catholic convert
and the editor of the New
Oxford Review, wrote that
“Calvinism was his true
theological inspiration.” Lasch
was certainly not one of the
faithful. “Even before I took so
rashly to writing about religion,”
he once scribbled to himself, “it
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was an embarrassment to admit
that I had none.” Yet despite his
skepticism, the crucial idea
associated with Calvinism since
the sixteenth century—an
insistence on the complete and
utter depravity of the human
race—fit Lasch’s increasingly
dark vision of human purpose
almost to perfection. “Calvinism
(via Perry Miller) was my
downfall,” he wrote to an
inquiring Barbara Ehrenreich in
an undated letter. “Or was it
Luther’s commentary on Paul’s
epistle to the Romans, taught to
me by Sidney Ahlstrom? Some
ancestral throwback to some
distant German past? Or just
orneriness and perversity? I kept
it under wraps for years, but it
was bound to come out in the
end.”
If Lasch’s peculiar form of
secular Calvinism was a
throwback to his family’s past,
it must have been a distant one.
Lasch was born to Robert and
Zora Schaupp Lasch in Omaha,
Nebraska in 1932. Although
descended from Midwestern
Lutherans on her father’s side,
Zora “had not a spark of
religious faith,” as she described
herself in her unpublished
autobiography. A feminist and a
rebel, she was very much a
product of the Roaring
Twenties, Nebraska-style. After
receiving her doctorate in
philosophy from Bryn Mawr,
she returned to the state
university in Lincoln but was
denied permission to teach
ethics because of her
commitment to naturalism. She
included among her
acquaintances John Dewey and
Bertrand Russell. The only thing
she had in common with the
fundamentalist William
Jennings Bryan was her home
state.
Robert came from an even
more agnostic background than
his wife. His parents did not
attend church, and although they
enrolled their son briefly in
Sunday school, before long, as
Robert put it, “the pretense of
piety was gratefully dropped.”
He spent his life in the field of
journalism and his politics in the
service of the left. A
Midwestern progressive
committed to social justice at
home and skeptical of the
projection of American power
abroad, he won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1966 for his antiwar
editorials published in the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch. Robert
outlived Kit, as his son would
always be known. Doing so
enabled him to communicate his
displeasure toward Kit’s
preoccupation with religious
themes. “You must be back
from your vacation by now,” he
wrote him in 1990, “the biggest
question of it being: ‘What in
God’s name were you doing at a
conference on theology?’”
Robert found it difficult enough
to accept Kit’s increasing
cultural conservatism. The son’s
interest in religious questions
left the father baffled.
Kit Lasch died at the age of
sixty-two, and so we will never
know whether he would have
eventually gone all the way and
joined a church; chances are he
was too much of an iconoclast
for that. It hardly matters,
though, for when it came to the
form and content of the
jeremiad, the prophetic tradition
of reminding us ferociously of
our fallen state, there was no
greater master during his
lifetime. It seems appropriate
that the first full-length
biography of this major critic of
American society and American
culture should be written by a
historian who teaches at a
Christian college—Geneva, near
Pittsburgh—named after
Calvin’s hometown. And Eric
Miller’s fine book has been
published by Eerdmans, a press
founded by a Christian
Reformed Church immigrant
from Holland and located in
Grand Rapids, Michigan, the
epicenter of Calvinist America.
Compared with an era that
produced Reinhold Niebuhr and
Paul Tillich, America in the past
few decades, for all its God talk,
has lacked major theologians
capable of attracting a
widespread readership. The
Lord works in mysterious ways,
and if religious truths can be
discussed in the general culture
and even make it into
presidential speeches, one can
hear these devout thinkers
saying to themselves: does it
really not matter that the person
pronouncing them is without
confessional commitments of
his own?
Lasch was controversial when
he lived, and he remains subject
to strong and divided opinion
long after his death. The fact
that he combined a respect for
Freud with a love of the Puritans
is the least of it. He became a
radical just as a new radicalism
in America was about to be
born, but he would always have
an ambivalent relationship with
the younger leftists who came
after him. His populistic
sensibilities became stronger
over time, but so did his ties to
the elite worlds of academia and
opinion journalism. His
appreciation for the common
man was married to a disdain
for mass culture. Lasch was a
pioneer historian of the family,
but feminists hated—that is not
too strong a term—his nostalgia
for the nuclear one. It is
common to say, as Miller does
in his biography, that Lasch
simply did not fit into the
traditional categories of left and
right. But that is because Lasch
really did not fit anywhere. He
was a genuine American
original.
So Lasch is owed his due and
Miller is the right person to
provide it. Although at times a
bit heavy-handed in its
insistence on the religious
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themes in Lasch’s work,
Miller’s biography is as
thorough as it is thoughtful. This
is anything but a quickly written
effort to explore the relationship
between a thinker and his times.
Miller has not only dug deeply,
he has also pondered carefully.
Lasch’s writings always
fascinated me: I looked forward
to each of his books, expecting
to encounter a writer willing to
discuss the most serious of
themes in ways that resonated
among large numbers of his
fellow citizens—and a writer
who would provoke me into
flabbergasting disagreement in
the process. I never met the
man, but thanks to this book I
now feel that I have. I could not
be more grateful to Miller for
facilitating the introduction.
Some people are born to be
writers, and Lasch was one of
them. His parents made their
living with words, and had
many connections to famous
writers: before she married
Robert, Zora had lived with
Willa Cather’s sister and found
the famous novelist “rather
patronizing, certainly not
conducive to any warm regard
on my part.” Kit Lasch, too,
lived in proximity with
literature: for three years he
roomed at Harvard with John
Updike, another chronicler of
the American obsessions with
sex, social class, ambition, and
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JEREMIAH,
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faith. Lasch would never be as
good a literary critic as he was a
social critic. “I think his stuff
lacks perception and doesn’t go
very deep,” he reported to his
parents about Updike. “He is
primarily a humorist. As he
himself admits, he is probably a
hack. At least he has more of a
hack in him than a profound
artist.” It was by no means
obvious that a child of the
populist Midwest would choose
the most prestigious private
university in the country for his
education, but Lasch was too
precocious for any Big Ten
school. His mentors at Harvard
were quick to discern his talent:
Donald Meyer, his tutor there,
compared discovering Lasch
among his students to Leo
Durocher learning that Willie
Mays would be his center
fielder.
Lasch went directly to
Columbia University, the best
department in American history
at that time, to pursue his
doctorate. Meyer’s role at
Harvard was assumed at
Columbia by William E.
Leuchtenburg. But the real
influence on Lasch would prove
to be the man to whom he would
so often be compared: Richard
Hofstadter. For Lasch,
Columbia was a tougher nut to
crack: he failed his first attempt
at his qualifying examinations
for the doctorate. But his skills
were recognized and before long
he was on his way, teaching at
Williams and completing with
astonishing speed the
dissertation that resulted in his
first book, American Liberals
and the Russian Revolution.
Rejected by the University of
Chicago Press, it was eventually
published by Columbia in 1962.
It printed 1,500 copies, and 807
were sold by 1964. The only
royalty check that Lasch
received for the book was for
$23.73. But Lasch followed
three years later with The New
Radicalism in America, the
breakthrough book that
established him, while still in
his thirties, as one of the most
promising historians in the
country.
Both books inaugurated his
lifelong argument with
liberalism. The dissertation
relied heavily on George F.
Kennan and Reinhold Niebuhr
to attack liberals for their naïve
belief that men such as Lenin,
Trotsky, and Stalin were
somehow on the side of virtue;
already in his early work one
can see in Lasch the skepticism
toward progress that would
mark his later writings. The
New Radicalism in America
took a somewhat different tack,
but sailed in the same direction.
Here Lasch wrote brief
biographical portraits of the
leading intellectuals of the
1920s and 1930s, such as Mabel
Dodge Luhan, Lincoln Steffens,
and Randolph Bourne. He chose
them, he said, because they put
culture and not politics at the
center of their concerns. While
Lasch found much to admire in
them, he also worried that in
cutting themselves off from
their country they downplayed
the intellect in favor of the latest
crusade. It was a work of
history, but Lasch brought it up
to his own era with scathing
comments about such figures as
Norman Mailer and the liberals
around the Kennedy White
House. “You will be interested
to know,” Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
wrote Richard Rovere, “that a
smart aleck kid named
Christopher Lasch (son of Bob
Lasch of the St. Louis Post-
Dispatch), exposes us both in a
new book called The New
Radicalism in America.” Unlike
our age of Limbaugh, Lasch’s
book appeared at a time when
no one hated liberals more than
leftists. Lasch, at that time, led
the way.
As if to return to his
Midwestern roots, Lasch’s first
major teaching positions were at
the University of Iowa and
Northwestern. Eventually he
settled at the University of
Rochester, joining the faculty in
1970 and remaining there until
his death. Miller, who is
stronger on the intellectual
trajectory of Lasch’s work than
on the details of his personal
life, explores in fascinating
fashion his complex relationship
with Eugene Genovese, who
recruited Lasch to Rochester.
Both men were the same age,
and shared (at the time) the
same Marxist politics, and
would move eventually to the
right. But in his temperament
Genovese strongly resembled
the Russian Marxists about
whom Lasch had warned in his
first book. Steely and suspicious
whatever his political views,
Genovese persuaded Lasch that
the two of them could build an
outstanding history department
at Rochester together. It never
worked out. The idea of running
a department democratically
was, in Genovese’s view,
laughable. Supported by an
administration that wanted no
trouble, Genovese not only
drove away some of Rochester’s
stars, such as Herbert Gutman,
he also froze Lasch’s salary
during the terrible inflationary
years of the mid-1970s—and
this in spite of Lasch’s
increasing fame. Meanwhile
Lasch recruited top students,
many of whom would go on to
write well-received books of
their own, and simply waited
out Genovese, who eventually
moved to Georgia.
As Lasch tried, in the 1970s, to
give structure to his reservations
about liberalism, he assigned a
prominent place to Freud as well
as Marx. The latter provided an
emphasis on the tensions
between social classes that
would always characterize
Lasch’s writings, even when
they took on their most
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conservative coloration. The
former gave Lasch a reason for
being sensitive to ulterior
motives: if well-meaning
liberals could become apologists
for totalitarian tyranny, then the
views of anyone could produce
results quite different from those
intended. It was all the rage to
combine Marx and Freud during
the 1960s and 1970s, and Lasch
found himself reading
philosophers from the Frankfurt
School such as Adorno and
Horkheimer, who were trying to
do the same thing.
The insights that Lasch gleaned
from both Marx and Freud
helped to shape the arguments in
the trilogy that would make him
something of a household name:
Haven in a Heartless
World(1977), The Culture of
Narcissism(1979), and The
Minimal Self(1984). “I’ve
written something that is
guaranteed to bore and possibly
offend almost every class of
reader,” Lasch wrote to his
friend Gerald Graff about Haven
in a Heartless World. His editor
at Knopf, Ashbel Green, agreed
with the boredom part: Knopf
rejected the manuscript even
though a book on the family
from Lasch had been under
contract. Finally accepted by
Basic Books, it proved to be
something of a publishing
sensation. Praised by George
Gilder in National Review as
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“shrewd and brilliant,” the book
infuriated New Leftists and
especially feminists.
Lasch’s purpose in this book
was not to blame women for the
collapse of the traditional
family; he was still enough of a
Marxist to point his finger at
capitalism and its apologists for
America’s high divorce rates
and unhappy children. But he
also left no doubt that in his
view feminism was, if not the
cause, then at least the symptom
of family decline. Social critics
thrive because so much is wrong
with society that one can always
find targets aplenty. The case
against Lasch was not that his
targets were innocent, but that
his indictments were selective.
Those to the left of Lasch asked:
why blame people whose
primary commitments were to
greater equality and autonomy?
But for Lasch, calling attention
to the role of the advocates of
personal liberation was precisely
the point. As gloomy as Lasch’s
analysis was, he seemed to take
special pleasure in going after
those whose views were shaped
by the 1960s, and the latter had
no trouble detecting his animus.
With The Culture of
Narcissism, also rejected by
Knopf, Lasch broke out of
debates within academic circles
to make his mark on national
politics. Time and Newsweek
wrote about it. People featured
Lasch along with Olivia Newton
-John. Within four months of
publication, 45,000 copies were
sold. Not nearly as much a work
of intellectual history as his
previous books, this book
explored such concerns as
aging, schooling, advertising,
managerialism, and even sports,
the last of which received a
chapter of its own. (Lasch was
not a funny man, but this
chapter included what I regard
as his best witticism: his
definition of sport as “the
utmost concentration of
purpose, on behalf of activities
utterly useless.”) This was the
perfect book for its time. It was
morbidly clever, brilliantly on
target, idiosyncratically
compelling. It deserved its status
as a best seller and lifted (for a
time) the prospects for all
serious nonfiction writers to
reach larger audiences. Allan
Bloom, among others, would
follow where Lasch had led.
The most historically
significant readers of The
Culture of Narcissism proved to
be Jody Powell and Patrick
Caddell, who were working in
the Carter White House. Much
has been written about Jimmy
Carter’s “malaise” speech and
Lasch’s role in it (including a
recent book by Kevin Mattson, “
What the Heck Are You Up To,
Mr. President”),andMiller’s
treatment of the episode is
somewhat disappointing. He
faithfully records Lasch’s
unhappiness with the speech.
Although he could hardly help
noticing how much Carter had
borrowed from him, Lasch felt
that “the ideas were torn out of
context and came across as
moral denunciations of
selfishness,” and he fired off a
seven-page memo to Caddell
outlining his concerns. (In 1980,
Lasch would vote for the
hopeless campaign of Barry
Commoner.) Miller takes
Lasch’s side in all this, but it is
not difficult to imagine hard-
boiled political pros coming to
the conclusion that Lasch,
having made his contribution,
was too unreliable and needed to
be dumped. That’s how politics
works. A chronicler of fads
should know when his time has
passed. Anyway, intellectuals,
even “public intellectuals,” do
not do their finest work for
politicians.
It was certainly a boon for the
republic of letters that any
ambitions Lasch may have had
for direct political influence
were quashed. Miller correctly
points out that Lasch was at his
best when he wrote as a member
in good standing of the
intellectual class directing his
fire against people very much
like himself. I am not sure how
much Americans in general
benefited from Lasch’s secular
sermons, but those who toil in
the vineyard of ideas
unquestionably did. The years in
which Lasch’s trilogy appeared
were accompanied by
significant intellectual posturing
in America: an irresponsible and
jargon-filled form of
postmodernism began to
dominate the humanities,
leaving a romantic and reckless
neoconservatism to take over
the White House. Agree or
disagree with Lasch, he
sustained a fierce integrity and
love of argument at a time when
all too much thinking was
becoming calcified and
doctrinaire. (He appeared often
in these pages in those years.)
The further removed from
politics Lasch was, the richer
were his thoughts. “Neither the
Right nor the Left addresses the
overwhelming question of our
time, the question of limits,” he
wrote in the London Daily
Telegraph in 1986, adding that
“the problems confronting us
are cultural and spiritual rather
than political.” In those few
words Lasch outlined the course
his intellectual trajectory would
take in the remaining years of
his life.
The True and Only Heaven,
Lasch’s longest and most
serious book, appeared in 1991,
and addressed head-on the
question of limits. The title was
lifted from Hawthorne, and
signified the extent to which
Lasch had chosen to write in the
spirit of Puritan New England.
The book defies summation:
Lasch took on so many thinkers
from so many eras—the
Scotsmen Adam Smith and
Thomas Carlyle, the founders of
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this magazine, Dr. Spock, the
anti-busing activist Louise Day
Hicks—as to leave readers
gasping at the sheer chutzpah of
his ambition. But underlying it
all was a deep transformation in
Lasch’s own thinking. Marx and
Freud were out, populism and
Calvinism were in. And if the
former combination led to the
Frankfurt School and Wilhelm
Reich, the latter enabled Lasch
to finally come to terms with
Richard Hofstadter. “I’ve come
to see Hofstadter as a latter-day
version of H.L. Mencken
endlessly belaboring the
‘booboisie,’” Lasch wrote to his
former student (and now
professor of history at
Columbia) Casey Blake. It was
a shrewd if cruel comment.
Hofstadter was the
quintessential New York
intellectual, appreciative of
modernity, skeptical of religion,
in love with cosmopolis. Lasch,
by now the anti-Hofstadter,
turned all that on its head. For
all their differences, populists
and Calvinists were both
suspicious of progress, which is
why Lasch loved them both.
“It is almost impossible to read
True and Only Heaven,
especially at a fifteen-year
remove from its publication,”
Miller writes, “and not see in it
a work of profound
scholarship.” He is right. Those
fifteen years have brought us,
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The TNR Primer: Thailand

Seyward Darby (The New International's Benjamin rural, poor areas in Thailand's again when the former PM's Bangkok.
Republic - All Feed) Zawacki, who works in northeast, and they claim to be allies won new elections. Today, And then, there are smaller
Submitted at 4/29/2010 11:00:00 PM Thailand. What's more, there are pro-democracy. Pointing to the although they have gathered in groups: no colors, who call
rumors of a dangerous divide 2006 coup and insisting the Bangkok's historic district to themselves Civilians Protecting
B a n g k o k i s i n c h a o s . between the government and current government is contest the red shirts, they the Country and want the
Thousands of anti-government parts of its security forces, and illegitimate, they want describe themselves as more pro government to restore order, and
protesters (called "red shirts") s o m e s a y t e r r o r i s t s h a v e parliament to dissolve and for -monarchy than pro- blue shirts, who have appeared
have settled into the streets of infiltrated the protests. And all new elections to be held. Many government. Indeed, they wear recently in the southern city of
the Thai capital and are living in of this is set against a backdrop also profess loyalty to yellow in honor of King Pattaya, armed with sticks and
an organized camp that offers in which the Thai monarchy, Thaksin—indeed, the former Bhumibol Adulyadej. clubs and wearing shirts that say
free food, toilets, and even once a stabilizing force in PM is reportedly paying red Bhumibol Adulyadej is the "Protect the Institution," which
makeshift hair salons. On April national politics, is slowly shirt leaders and regularly most revered person in many people assume refers to
1 0 , g o v e r n m e n t f o r c e s deteriorating—raising fears delivers encouraging messages Thailand—a father figure to his the monarchy. Red shirts say
a t t e m p t e d t o d i s p e r s e t h e about what's in store for the to the protesters via satellite. country during his 64 years on blue shirts are military thugs,
crowds, spurring street clashes Southeast Asian country. Abhisit Vejjajiva is the current the throne. (You can end up in but the government denies the
that killed 25 people. On April Here, TNR tries to make sense prime minister of Thailand. He jail for saying anything negative accusation.
22, grenade explosions rattled of the bedlam. came to power in 2008, after about Bhumibol or his family.) What are the roots of the crisis?
the city, wounding more than 80 Who are the major court rulings banned Thaksin's While technically a figurehead, The current protests are just the
p e o p l e , i n c l u d i n g f o u r players—and what do they allies—who regained power the king is crucial to national latest in a series of them that
foreigners. And, on Wednesday, want? briefly after the coup—from politics, playing an important stems back to Thaksin's tenure
clashes between protesters and Thaksin Shinawatra was elected politics. Abhisit enjoys support role, for instance, in as PM. Thaksin was elected in
Thai troops left one soldier prime minister of Thailand in in Thailand's south and among transitioning Thailand from a 2001 on a populist platform,
d e a d . P r o t e s t e r s a r e n o w 2001. Following accusations of its middle and upper economic military dictatorship to a promising cheap health care,
blocking traffic into Bangkok c o r r u p t i o n , T h a k s i n w a s classes. He has said he wants to democracy in 1992. But the king debt relief, and a shift of power
and forcing the closure of malls deposed in a military coup in compromise with protesters and is now 82, and he's been away from Thailand's elite. He
and hotels. And there are signs September 2006. Although restore order—but he has also hospitalized for several months. was supported by people in
that a government crackdown living in exile (often in Dubai, said he won't give in to "threats, He has spoken only once during poor, rural areas, but his
might be imminent. "It is clear though he is technically now a violence, intimidation, and this most recent crisis, opponents, including many in
the protesters are not gathering citizen of Montenegro), he has weapons." Zawacki of Amnesty addressing the nation on the old political guard, accused
peacefully. We will not be remained influential in Thai International says that, during Monday night—but he did not him of corruption, pointing to
lenient with these people any politics. Considered the driving the current crisis, Abhisit's mention the protests directly. the massive wealth he had
more," deputy prime minister f o r c e b e h i n d t h e c u r r e n t government has shut down at The military and police are also accumulated in the
Suthep Thuangsuban said on protests, Thaksin would like to least 400 websites deemed central to the crisis. Though telecommunications sector. (He
Tuesday. return to Thailand to regain the politically dangerous. technically loyal to Abhisit, also restricted the country's
But the crisis isn't a simple power and money he lost after Yellow shirts are protesters there are factions that reportedly media and permitted
d i c h o t o m y o f g o v e r n m e n t the coup. who have gathered to oppose the side with Thaksin (who used to extrajudicial killings in a "war
versus protesters. There are Red shirts are the protesters red shirts. Officially, they are be a police lieutenant) and the on drugs," among other human
multiple factions involved—and who have now been in Bangkok part of the People's Alliance for red shirts. Indeed, there have rights abuses he committed.)
it's hard to distinguish the good f o r a l m o s t s e v e n w e e k s . Democracy (PAD), an anti- been reports of "watermelon When his family claimed $1.9
guys from the bad. "It's difficult Officially, they are part of the Thaksin political party. The soldiers" (who wear green billion in a 2006 telecom deal,
to point the finger in any one United Front for Democracy protested against Thaksin in uniforms but are "red on the street protests erupted—and, a
direction. It's easy to point it in Against Dictatorship (UDD), a 2006, declared victory after the inside") and "tomatoes" (red TNR page 47
many directions," says Amnesty political party. Many are from coup, and took to the streets through and through) patrolling
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Morning Bell: An Appetite for Real Immigration Reform

Rory Cooper (The Foundry: Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed in family members, the total
Conservative Policy News.) saying: “If there is going to be number of those eligible for
Submitted at 4/30/2010 8:40:09 AM any movement in this regard, it citizenship through amnesty
will require presidential could then be 17 to 22 million
In a very rare visit to the press l e a d e r s h i p . ” individuals.
c a b i n o f A i r F o r c e O n e Effective reforms can be done While Senate Democrats pay
yesterday, President Barack in a responsible and deliberate lip service to border security,
Obama told reporters that the manner through discrete steps this proposal lacks meaningful
White House will not be leading rather than another bloated bill metrics for determining “when”
any immigration reform efforts that hides from the American the border is secure. It relies on
in 2010. Obama said: “…I’ve people what Washington is an unelected commission to
been working Congress pretty trying to do to gain even more determine whether we are safe
hard. So I know, there may not power and authority over its and secure.
be an appetite immediately to citizens. What is required is a And maybe most troubling is
dive into another controversial step-by-step approach, not an ill the call for a biometric national
issue.” Obama went on to assert - c o n c e i v e d “ f r a m e w o r k ” id card, thinly disguised as a
that energy taxes were a higher disguised as “comprehensive” more robust Social Security
priority, and that the election in reform. card. Reid and Schumer are
November would make tackling An appropriate solution would ignoring many legitimate on-
immigration tough. reject amnesty; apply going or proposed efforts
Apparently, Majority Leader appropriate security to the including E-Verify, Social
Harry Reid didn’t heed the border; work as a partner with Security no-match verification
President’s advice. Several Mexico in helping them address and information sharing, and
hours later, Reid, Senator Chuck economic and civil society REAL ID in favor of an
Schumer (D-NY) and their r e f o r m a n d c o m b a t i n g expansive and expensive
c o l l e a g u e s f r o m t h e l e f t transnational crime; enforce program of questionable value
introduced an immigration workplace and immigration laws as an appropriate enforcement
reform framework that on the in partnership with state and tool.
surface is identical to the l o c a l g o v e r n m e n t s ; p i l o t There are better alternatives:
legislation America rejected in effective temporary worker • We need a temporary worker
2007. When you dig down, it programs that help employers program. One that is in fact
may be worse. get the employees they need to temporary, market-oriented and
Of course, once introduced, help grow the economy; and prosperity of the nation. It is citizenship to all who claim they feasible. A balanced and well-
President Obama issued a reform our visa, immigration another example of government were in the United States at time constructed program would
statement that his administration and citizenship services. taking the short term view of of enactment of this proposal provide an additional option or
would take “ an active role” The Reid-Schumer plan does long-term problems. could cover 11 to 15 million legal temporary workers, while
toward ironing out the details. not accomplish these goals. The Reid-Schumer framework people and overwhelm our diminishing the incentives for
This confusing flip-flopping Their proposal adds a lot more puts an emphasis on amnesty, borders with people looking to illegal entry. Congress must
f r o m t h e W h i t e H o u s e i s government and bureaucracy with empty promises of border take part. And forgiving such ensure it resolves issues of
i n d i c a t i v e o f h o w t h e (and government spending) security. Granting amnesty, violations would increase the family status, require bilateral
administration has treated while doing little to actually access to welfare and likelihood that these laws be agreements, include triggers,
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among other treasures, the blog;
and while I appreciate the
energy and the combativeness of
today’s form of intellectual
debate, turning back to Lasch’s
magnum opus reminds one that
progress in the way ideas are
conveyed is just as much a
mixed blessing as progress in
the ideas that are conveyed.
Who cannot love Lasch’s
combination of learning,
passion, stylistic flair,
engagement with the largest of
themes, and fearless hectoring?
And at such length? I can think
of no writer today who
combines erudition with passion
the way Lasch did.
In February 1992, thirteen
months after The True and Only
Heaven appeared, Lasch learned
that he had cancer. Although he
would continue to write (some
books were published
posthumously), his life’s work
was done. Over a thirty-year
span, he had published eight
major books, any one of which
would have constituted a
significant achievement. It is
fitting that he died much as he
thought. “I despise the cowardly
clinging to life, purely for the
sake of life, that seems so
deeply ingrained in the
American temperament,” he told
one of his doctors. Like Hume,
who on philosophical grounds
refused to be converted on his
deathbed, Lasch was willing to
apply his living insights to his
dying days. The last word on his
life should be left to his father.
“You have a staggering record
of accomplishment in a
worthwhile calling” is how
Robert said goodbye to his son.
“You do not need a divinely
fashioned grand design to justify
your life.”
Eric Miller deals mostly with
Lasch’s life. What about his
legacy? On that question, we
cannot let the religious thinkers
who adopted him have the last
word. Of Lasch’s verve and
reach, there can be no doubt. Of
his relevance to the years that
followed, the matter remains
open.
The issue that preoccupied his
critics even when Lasch was in
his prime was whether his anger
led him to exaggerations that
made his conclusions
untrustworthy. The passage of
time, I believe, validates those
critics more than Lasch. Miller
faithfully gives the criticisms.
Mark Edmundson, for example,
characterized The True and
Only Heaven as “little more
than a bitter screed against
liberal yuppies, a highbrow
version of what the popular
press has been working at
sporadically over the past
decade.... The only passages that
hum with any kind of life—even
if it’s a rather repugnant
life—are passages of
denunciation in which Lasch
chains himself up on the rock
and derides the objects of his
current rancor.” Such were the
pyrotechnics that Lasch could
provoke. Edmundson gives
Lasch too little credit for his
insights into intellectual history,
but he is right about the tone.
No matter what the subject,
Lasch saw nothing but decline.
There are only a limited
number of ways one can
improve on Increase Mather,
and by the end of his life Lasch
had run out of them. Miller’s
biography shows that Lasch
never seemed to understand the
effects of his own venom. It was
not just that he felt
misunderstood by Jimmy Carter.
Lasch loved to attack, but he
always seemed surprised that
the objects of his attack fought
back. In his own mind, he was
the courageous teller of truths
that no one wanted to hear; and
so his critics must have been
engaged in a prolonged effort at
denial, at misreading him as a
way to escape their
responsibility for the damage
that their own ideas had caused.
“If you talk about the growing
tensions that so often seem to
characterize relations between
men and women, it’s assumed
that you want women to return
to the kitchen,” Lasch
complained to friends. But
whether or not he wanted
women confined to cooking, he
clearly wanted to make it more
difficult for them to divorce
their husbands or to pay as
much attention to their careers
as to their children. Perhaps
Lasch’s feminist critics sensed
in Haven in a Heartless World
the attitudes that Lasch would
later express in a Harper’s
forum. When asked how the Bill
of Rights should be rewritten to
account for the contemporary
condition, he responded with a
proposed article that included
this: “No state shall pass laws
authorizing divorce for any but
the weightiest reasons. In the
case of couples with children
under the age of twenty-one,
divorce is hereby forbidden.”
Feminists, Lasch wrote to
another friend, “willfully and
maliciously distorted” his
thinking. To me it seems that
they understood his views pretty
well.
From the vantage point of
today, it is possible to detect an
even more serious flaw in
Lasch’s choice of targets. Lasch
was engaged in an endless war
against the leftism of the 1960s
when the true enemy of
American traditionalism would
turn out to be the radical
right—one of the persistent
objects of Hofstadter’s
attention—that came to power
after his death. To be sure,
Lasch was absolutely right in
insisting upon the narcissistic
strain in American culture. But
what public figure today can
possibly compete with Sarah
Palin for the title of the most
narcissistic personality of our
times? (Lasch would no doubt
respond by describing Palin’s
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prominence as an ironic
consequence of feminism’s
influence.) Compared to the
catastrophic irresponsibility of
Wall Street practices, or
Republican nostalgia for the
Confederacy, or the blatant
unconstitutionality of much of
the Bush and Cheney years, the
harm done to the United States
by left-wing elitists in the 1970s
begins to pale. Lasch confused
the counterculture with
permanent revolution. The
extremes that provoked him
were quickly recognized, even
by some of their protagonists, as
overheated and dangerous, and
the radicalism of the 1970s
eventually receded or corrected
itself. But the reactionary
conservatism that we witness
today, by contrast, will never
learn to say it is sorry.
All of which leads to Lasch’s
single most important
miscalculation. From start to
finish, his enemy was
liberalism. What was implicit in
his first books became explicit
to the point of caricature in his
later writings. The liberal order,
he wrote in 1983, “should have
collapsed a long time ago,”
because it could not propose a
“theory of the good society” and
was therefore doomed to
become “a politics of mass
media.” Blaming liberals for
Ronald Reagan was little
different, or more plausible,
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few months later, while Thaksin
was out of the country, the
military seized control of the
government. Today, if he
returned to Thailand, Thaksin
would face a two-year jail
sentence.
His allies won post-coup
elections, triggering more
protests by yellow shirts, who
even seized Bangkok's airports
in 2008. Court rulings led to the
ouster of two successive pro-
Thaksin prime ministers
(including Thaksin's brother-in-
law) and paved the way for
Abhisit's elevation. Yet
Thaksin's supporters—many of
whom he paid from
afar—quickly regrouped. In
April 2009, red shirts staged
protests in Bangkok and even
forced the cancellation of a
summit of the Association of
South-East Asian Nations
(ASEAN), which was set to be
held in southern Thailand. They
gained momentum in the
following months, leading
directly to the current crisis.
Other than a new government,
what do the red shirts want?
On top of their calls for
elections, the red shirts want a
restoration of health and
education polices that benefitted
the poor under Thaksin. They
also have grievances about the
Thai judiciary, which moved
against Thaksin and his
supporters but has stalled on
action against PAD leaders
(such as those who seized the
airports in 2008) and other pro-
government figures who have
reportedly broken national laws.
And they have demanded
investigations into violence and
threats against protesters in
2009 and 2010.
But, on a base level, many red
shirts, particularly among the
leadership, would also like to
see Thaksin return to his home
country without retribution.
"The leaders are just power-
seeking," one human rights
advocate in Thailand told me.
"They want the economic spoils.
They'd love to bring Thaksin
back."
What's the king got to do with
it?
In a word, everything. On the
one hand, he is being used: The
government and the yellow
shirts are now accusing the red
shirts of plotting against the
monarchy (read: committing
treason), which, considering
Thailand's strict laws on
defamation and threats to the
king, could be used as a
rationale for a crackdown. A
government official has even
provided journalists with a
conspiracy diagram linking red
shirt leaders, including Thaksin,
with other opposition figures,
media, and activists.
But, on a deeper level, there is
widespread fear about the
monarchy's line of
succession—and it's influencing
the current crisis. Crown Prince
Vajiralongkorn will become
king when Bhumibol dies, and
it's no secret that the Thais don't
like him. He allegedly leads a
lurid and bizarre personal life.
(As The Economist reported in
March, "A video circulated
widely in 2007 showed his third
wife, known as the 'royal
consort', at a formal dinner with
the prince in a titillating state of
undress. Diplomats say Prince
Vajiralongkorn is unpredictable
to the point of eccentricity:
lavishing attention on his pet
poodle Fu Fu, for example, who
has military rank and, on
occasion, sits among guests at
gala dinners.”) And, in 2002,
there were reports that he had
business ties with Thaksin. I
was told in my interviews that
Vajiralongkorn may now be
cozying up to Thaksin and the
red shirts. If there is a division
of opinion within the monarchy
over who should run the
government, it could widen
when Bhumibol is no longer on
the throne.
With the king aging quickly
and the Thai government
simultaneously spiraling toward
upheaval, the monarchy's
stability is very much part of the
political conversation about
Thailand's future. "This is
coming right at a time when
there is a weakness," one
Thailand analyst said. "There's
not a sea anchor."
Are there really "terrorists"
involved?
The government has said the
April 10 violence and the April
22 grenade explosions were
carried out by"terrorists that the
government has always been
wanting to get rid off," who
mixed in among the protesters
and wore black clothing.
Meanwhile, red shirts have
insisted that they are
nonviolent—and certainly not
supporters of terrorism.
Yet blaming terrorists for the
situation could prove beneficial
to either (or both) the
government and the red shirts.
On the one hand, the
government could use the
alleged involvement of terrorists
as a pretext for a crackdown. On
the other hand, the red shirts can
deny responsibility for any
violence—although reports
indicate that rogue army officers
who support Thaksin have
trained para-military rangers to
protect the protesters. "Behind
the scenes, if you peeled it back,
both sides are probably involved
in some intimidation," one
Thailand analyst told me.
Is civil war a real possibility?
I was in Thailand in the
summer of 2006, teaching in the
south, and I heard few
rumblings of the anti-Thaksin
movement, other than what I
read in Bangkok newspapers.
Similarly, people in
Thailand—even in parts of
Bangkok—said in recent weeks
that life was moving along
mostly as usual. Yet, as violence
has flared and fears of a
47
crackdown have grown, civil
war has seemed increasingly
plausible. And protests have
spread from Bangkok to
northern cities like Chiang Mai
and Udon Thani, and to
southern locales like Pattaya.
There is a red-yellow divide
that already splits the country.
"The Democrat Party [which
controls the government] has
traditionally been a party of the
south and has a strong base in
that region that is really wall-to-
wall," says Phil Robertson,
deputy director of Human
Rights Watch's Asia Division.
"Up in the northeast, we are
seeing increasingly wall-to-wall
red shirts." Yet sources I spoke
to said all-out civil war is
unlikely. After all, serious
unrest would further threaten
Thailand's people or economy,
which could be bad for all sides
of the conflict. (According to
Reuters, the Federation of Thai
Tourism Associations says the
country's critical tourist industry
lost more than $300 million in
March, and it projected a steeper
drop in April.) What's more,
because Thailand has the
region's second-largest economy
and is a key member of
ASEAN, neighboring countries
will likely "close ranks behind
the Thai government" and urge
stability, according to
Robertson. (Cambodia would be
the likely exception; last year,
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48 Politics/
Standing Eight
Abbas Milani (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 4/29/2010 11:00:00 PM
The last few months have seen
a disquieting lull in news of
political dissent from Iran. On
the surface, at least,
Ahmadinejad’s government
seems to have outlasted the
furor that erupted in the wake of
last June’s election. Does this
mean that the Green Movement
is dead?
Not necessarily. Given the
sheer number of people who
have been arrested and tortured
(political inmates at Iran’s most
notorious prison just sent an
incredible letter to several grand
ayatollahs, detailing sexual,
physical, and mental torture), it
would be understandable if the
Green Movement’s leaders had
fallen completely silent. But
they have continued to speak
out. Mir Hossein Mousavi, for
one, has evinced no signs of
buckling under to the regime.
Ten days ago, he met with other
Green Movement leaders and
said that while the “path to
victory” would be “long and
arduous,” he encouraged
everyone to persevere. Then,
this past Sunday, while meeting
with veterans of the Iran-Iraq
war, he said that the country’s
current rulers were in breach of
both the constitution and the
tenets of Islam. And he blasted
those in the regime who dismiss
all critics as lackeys of Zionism.
Meanwhile, Mousavi’s wife,
Zahra Rahnavard, has recently
become increasingly unabashed
in her criticisms of the regime.
Last Thursday, during a meeting
with families of political
prisoners, she spoke defiantly of
a “police state” in Iran and of
“freedom fighters,” denouncing
the regime that has “arrested
them, tortured them, used harsh
interrogation techniques against
them, sewn their lips, and hung
them to die.” She ended the
meeting by demanding
“freedom for all political
prisoners” and freedom “from
the big prison that is Iran.” On
Monday, she mocked the
government’s international
conduct by asking, “What honor
is there in making Burkina Faso,
Zimbabwe, or China the crown
glory” of the country’s foreign
policy?
For his part, reform leader
Mehdi Karroubi declared a
couple weeks ago in an
interview with Der Spiegel that
“despotism” and fear have not
worked and that “the status quo
is untenable,” adding that he and
the Green Movement have
asked the government for
permission to hold a
demonstration on the
anniversary of last June’s
election—and that, beneath the
apparent calm, there is a society
on the verge of eruption. And,
just this Tuesday, Karroubi and
Mousavi met and together called
on the government to allow
them to hold the June rally.
Beyond the leadership of the
Green Movement, there are
additional signs of fissures
within Iran’s governing elite. On
Ahmadinejad’s trip to the city of
Qom earlier this month,
according to one report,
virtually every major ayatollah
refused to meet with
him—despite direct pressure
from Supreme Leader Ali
Khamenei himself. The Qom
ayatollahs provide the
theological legitimacy for the
regime and their support is
essential for any president’s
success. While none publicly
explained their reasons for
refusing to meet Ahmadinejad,
the symbolism was hard to miss.
In addition, former president
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani,
a pragmatist who has long
positioned himself between the
reformers and the hardliners,
still seems to be betting that the
Green Movement has a future.
Despite the fact that the regime
has issued an arrest warrant for
one of his sons (now in Europe)
and that court proceedings have
begun against one of his
daughters (an unabashed
supporter of the Green
Movement, also in Europe at the
moment), he still has yet to
accept Khamenei’s
invitation—issued repeatedly in
the weeks after the June
election—to join the fold.
(Khamenei’s cronies
subsequently echoed this
entreaty, sometimes naming
Rafsanjani directly, sometimes
merely alluding to him.) In
characteristic fashion,
Rafsanjani has continued to
send ambiguous messages. On
the one hand, he recently made
appearances both with
Khamenei and Ahmadinejad. At
the same time, in one of the last
sessions of the Expediency
Council—a key government
committee that Rafsanjani has
led for years—he and Mohsen
Rezai, who was commander of
the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps for 18 years, co-
sponsored a resolution calling
for an end to the role of the
Guardian Council in vetting
candidates. This is one of the
main demands of the Green
Movement. The resolution
would have to clear many
hurdles before becoming law,
but the mere fact of its passage
was a direct challenge to the
authority of Khamenei.
Of course, the one thing that
matters most—the question of
whether there remains a mass
public appetite for protest and
resistance—is also the most
difficult thing to know. There is
no doubt in my mind that
Iranians remain hungry for
democracy; the question is
whether there are enough people
who will be willing to once
again take to the barricades in
the near future. Still, the fact
that the Green Movement’s
leaders are not backing down is
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an indication that they at least
think their public is still behind
them. That seems reason enough
to conclude that popular support
for the Green Movement
persists.
This, of course, is not
something the regime and its
apologists are eager to hear. To
them, the Green Movement was
a series of intermittent
explosions. Recently, a Friday
Prayer leader in Tehran called
last year’s post-election events a
“political earthquake.” (He also
said that women refusing to
fully cover themselves would
cause a literal earthquake.) But
it is more accurate to see the
Iranian democratic movement as
rooted in a long-term structural
malaise—in deep tensions and
fissures in the body politic; in
the rapidly failing economic
fabric of society; in the fact that
20 to 30 million Iranians have
Internet access; and in an overall
dissatisfaction among Iranians,
particularly women and the
young, with their lack of
personal and political freedom.
This reading of the Green
Movement explains why it has
not yet disappeared. And why it
probably won’t anytime soon.
Abbas Milani is a contributing
editor at The New Republic and
the Hamid and Christina
Moghadam Director of Iranian
Studies at Stanford, where he is
the co-director of the Iran
STANDING page 52
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Puerto Rican Statehood – Don’t Rig the Election

Brian Darling (The Foundry: should become fully to have its present form of Another provision that rigs the Commission, “on November 7,
Conservative Policy News.) independent from the United political status. process in favor of statehood is 1950- The Hawai‘i State
Submitted at 4/29/2010 5:59:18 PM States;” 2.Puerto Rico should have a the fact that Puerto Rican born Constitution is approved by the
2.“Sovereignty in Association different political status.” citizens will be allowed to vote people with a vote of 82,788 to
H.R. 2499, the Puerto Rico with the United States: Puerto If a majority votes for in this election without a 27,109.”
D e m o c r a c y A c t , c o n t a i n s Rico and the United States “continue to have its present residency requirement. If a It is possible to win statehood
language that will rig the s h o u l d f o r m a p o l i t i c a l form of political status,” then Puerto Rican national is born in with a mere 34% of the vote
election in favor of Puerto Rican association between sovereign Puerto Rico can schedule votes the Commonwealth, then moves deviating from the Alaska and
statehood. I have written a more nations that will not be subject every 8 years until they get a to the states, that individual Hawaii precedents.
comprehensive post titled “ to the Territorial Clause of the majority for Option 2. If a would be allowed to vote in Congressman Doc Hastings (R-
Puerto Rico Democracy Act – United States Constitution;” majority chooses Option 1, then Puerto Rico and the state they WA) argues that “H.R. 2499
Legislation Biased in Favor of and, they would be voting to say as a reside. This is unfair and deviates strongly from the
Statehood” on why this 3. “Statehood: Puerto Rico Commonwealth. It is odd that common sense dictates that precedent and process used to
legislation is biased in favor of should be admitted as a State of the Commonwealth of Puerto Puerto Rican nationals living in admit Alaska and Hawaii as
statehood. The Senate is the the Union.” Rico would be empowered to the United States are more likely states. If a Congressionally-
next stop for this legislation, and This vote is rigged. The Puerto schedule elections every 8 years to vote for statehood than an sanctioned plebiscite is sought
it will be interesting to see if Rican people have rejected until they can pass the change individual who has resided in first in a manner directly
Senate Majority Leader Harry statehood on three occasions. option. Puerto Rico their whole life. contrary to the Alaska and
Reid (D-NV) tries to bring up The first vote was in 1967 when If a majority of Puerto Ricans This process parts from the Hawaii precedent, as H.R. 2499
the bill this year. One important the people of Puerto Rico chose vote for “a different political examples of Alaska and Hawaii. does, then understanding of
point of contention is the fact to continue as a Commonwealth status,” then there will be a According to the Alaska what statehood would mean to
that this process is far different (60%) over the other choices of second vote, a plebiscite, to poll Historical Society, “in 1955, the Puerto Rico and the existing 50
from the pathways of Alaska s t a t e h o o d ( 3 9 % ) o r Puerto Ricans on the new status territorial legislature passed states – but that is not at all
and Hawaii to statehood. independence (1%). In the two including “Independence,” legislation authorizing a happening in the House.”
As I wrote on the Foundry: other votes, in 1993 and 1998, “Sovereignty in Association constitutional convention. Statehood may be the choice of
The legislation contains many the people of Puerto Rico with the United States,” or Alaskan voters elected fifty-five a majority of Puerto Ricans and
questionable provisions. First, rejected statehood by closer “Statehood.” This provides a delegates from across the the process should be fixed so
the legislation sets up a voting margins. The obvious question false choice. This bifurcated territory. They met at the that the precedent set over 50
process rigged for success. The is: why would we expect this vote is intended to University of Alaska in years ago is followed. A simple
legislation sets up a preliminary vote to be different? We expect disenfranchise those voters who Fairbanks in November 1955 to plurality of Puerto Rican voters
vote and the voters are given it to be different because the choose to remain a write a constitution for the is not enough to prove that the
two options. If a majority of proponents of statehood have set Commonwealth in the first vote, proposed state. Alaskans voted residents of Puerto Rico really
Puerto Ricans vote in favor of up a false choice in the voting because they are not given the approval of the constitution in want statehood.
changing the status of the process. option “Commonwealth” in the April 1956. The new Five Filters featured article:
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico According to H.R. 2499, the second vote. It is possible for constitution was to take effect The Art of Looking Prime
to “a different political status,” Puerto Rican people will get to 49% of the voters to choose to when and if Congress granted Ministerial - The 2010 UK
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provide economic incentives, for freedom and prosperity. We bailouts.” WE do! Spiff if we cannot secure all of our
contain caps and resists are a self selected class of • Amidst the debate on financial • David, Washington State on borders.
unwieldy government excess. people who see greater regulatory reform, Senators April 30th, 2010 at 9:40am said: • Mari G. MacGregor,
• We must remember the opportunity available through Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Kirsten As much as I agree with the Minneapolis, MN. on April
American economy. No solution smaller government, economic Gillibrand (D-NY) will head to article I feeel that we are still 30th, 2010 at 9:40am said: Good
in this debate comes without an freedom, religious and social Park Avenue this weekend for just blowing smoke if we do not Policy Proposals, BUT ALSO
economic impact, whether tolerance and a shared big ticket Wall Street find a way to enforce the laws INCLUDE: ending anchor baby
through increased government responsibility of security and fundraisers. and regulations on businesses citizenship, and chain migration.
services, unemployment or safety. It is no surprise that • Last night, The House of that knowingly hire and use Guest workers must be
states shouldering unfunded people from other nations would Representatives voted 223-169 illegal immigrants. Until there subsidized by employers, not by
mandates. Our immigration yearn for what we may to pass a bill allowing Puerto is a real concern within those taxpayer entitlements. These are
policy should encourage a sometimes take for granted. Rico to vote on its relationship businesses that it will hit where the primary magnets drawing
growing economy, not expand Reforming our broken with the United States. The it hurts, their bank accounts, we foreigners to U.S. We cannot be
the welfare state as we know it. immigration system should not measure now heads to the will not see real reform. the retirement center for the
Congress must consider these set aside these aspirations, but Senate. • Dr. Michael J. Oldham, World. Assimilation and the
fiscal costs and benefits. embrace them. • President Obama and Vice Gambrills, MD 21054 on April Rule of Law must be the
• Above all, our first priority is Quick Hits: President Biden have both 30th, 2010 at 9:40am said: I primary goal.
national security. No other • Congressmen Darrell Issa (R- interviewed Appeals Court agree with what you advocate. • J.C. Hughes, Texas on April
reforms are possible without a CA) and Jim Jordan (R-OH) Judge Sidney Thomas of the Question: What ever happened 30th, 2010 at 9:40am said: Good
complete, and strict, security sent General Motors CEO Ed nation’s most liberal court, the to the money Congress comment Spiff. My exact
apparatus. From the point of Whitacre a letter accusing him 9th Circuit in San Francisco, for authorized and appropriated to thought regarding Puerto Rican
origin, to transit, to the border,of running “false the Supreme Court opening. build a secure fence on the statehood. They’d be getting the
to within the United States – we advertisements” that “ constitute border? If we cannot act on the losing end of the deal.
require a system of protection a lie to the American people.” Tags: amnesty, biometric, fence, how can we believe that
that has gone needed for too GM has been running ads that border security, Chuck our government will act on You can follow any responses
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bill, saying the worst provisions 9:40am said: I wonder if these people who meet specific
We are a nation of immigrants. remain in the legislation and “It “illegals” realize that if they entrance criteria placed at a site
The Statue of Liberty stands as a will lead to job losses, lost become US citizens that they to be determined (not unlike Elis
testament to our desire to create opportunities for businesses to will HAVE to pay all the taxes Island) to allow legal entry?
an environment welcoming to productively invest in the future, WE pay, and be subject to the After all, we are at war and we
all men and women who yearn a n d i t w i l l e n s u r e f u t u r e whims of a corrupt Congress, as simply cannot secure our nation
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Entertainers Speak Out on Ariz. Immigration Law

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) going to take this lying down," ordinances can trigger police detain suspected illegal Republican Gov. Rick Perry
Submitted at 4/30/2010 4:49:06 AM singer Linda Ronstadt, a Tucson questioning on immigration immigrants before they're said such a law would be wrong
native, said at a news status. convicted. for his state because it has a
A backlash against a new conference on a lawsuit planned The law's sponsor, Republican In filing his suit, Escobar, tradition of rejecting harsh anti-
Arizona law cracking down on by the American Civil Liberties Sen. Russell Pearce, argued that there's no way for immigrant policies.
i l l e g a l i m m i g r a t i o n i s Union, the Mexican American characterized those changes as officers to confirm a person's Supporters of the new law also
broadening from the political to Legal Defense and Educational clarifications "just to take away immigration status without were vocal outside Arizona.
the sports and entertainment F u n d a n d t h e N a t i o n a l the silly arguments and the impeding investigations, and A group of conservative state
arenas with lawsuits filed, I m m i g r a t i o n L a w C e n t e r . games, the dishonesty that's that the new law violates lawmakers in Oklahoma said
singers denouncing the measure Colombian singer Shakira been played." constitutional rights. Tucson they plan to introduce a bill
and protesters gathering at an visited Phoenix to meet the Some Latin national also police said Escobar acted on his similar to Arizona's. In Texas,
Arizona Diamondbacks baseball city's police chief and mayor entered the debate. own. Rep. Debbie Riddle, a
game. amid her concerns the measure In Mexico City, Mayor Marcelo Separately, a Phoenix police Republican, said she will
A court suit from 15-year would violate human and civil Ebrard announced he would try officer filed a lawsuit arguing introduce a measure similar to
Tucson police veteran Martin rights. to join lawsuits seeking to he'll be sued whether he the Arizona law in the January
Escobar was one of three filed "It goes against all human overturn the law, with a enforces the law or not, either legislative session. And
Thursday, less than a week after dignity." she said. statement from his office calling for violating civil rights or for Republicans running for
Republican Gov. Jan Brewer At the Billboard Latin Music the measure "a planned refusing to enforce it. governor in Colorado and
signed the bill that critics claim Awards ceremony in Puerto Apartheid against Mexicans." At least three Arizona cities — Minnesota expressed support for
is unconstitutional and fear will Rico, singer Ricky Martin And officials in El Salvador Phoenix, Flagstaff and Tucson the crackdown.
lead to racial profiling. denounced the law, too, saying urged countrymen to avoid — are considering legal action ——
U.S. Attorney General Eric it "makes no sense." traveling to Arizona, according to block the law. Associated Press writers Mark
Holder has said the federal While divisive debate over the to the Foreign Ministry. In About 40 immigrant rights Carlson and Amanda Lee Myers
government may challenge the law swirled nationwide, Arizona Nicaragua, officials called on activists gathered outside contributed to this report.
law, which requires local and lawmakers Thursday approved the Organization of American Wrigley Field in Chicago © Copyright 2010 The
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immigration status if there's enforcement to question people to safeguard the rights of the Diamondbacks. A small plane be published, broadcast,
reason to suspect they're in the about their immigration status if Hispanic population." toting a banner criticizing the rewritten or redistributed.
country illegally, and which there's reason to suspect they're The National Coalition of law circled the stadium. A Cubs Five Filters featured article:
makes it a state crime to be in in the country illegally, and Latino Clergy and Christian spokesman declined to The Art of Looking Prime
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Brewer and other backers say the United States illegally. sought an injunction preventing manager A.J. Hinch said the General Election. Available
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growing anxiety over crime the basis for questioning by regulation of national borders, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter said
related to illegal immigration. police and specifying that and that Arizona's law violates he would veto a new law like
"Mexican-Americans are not possible violations of local civil due process rights by letting the one in Arizona, while Texas
52 Politics/ E-reader News Edition

Side Effects: The Beginning of the End for FSAs Florida Democrat
Richard Sherwood (The dental procedure is in the offing
Says Crist Switch
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News.)
— like Lasik surgery, braces or Is His Gain
long-needed tooth implants or
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Submitted at 4/29/2010 5:00:05 PM caps — you may want to
“If you like your current health schedule these treatments while Submitted at 4/29/2010 4:32:11 PM

coverage, you can keep it.” It you can still pay for a big chunk
was a key promise of of the out-of-pocket expenses Florida Democrat Kendrick
Obamacare. with pre-tax dollars.” Meek says he is now in a
But the new law gives It’s enough to make you "commanding position" to win
government a say in everything wonder: If it’s smart to take Florida's open Senate seat after
from the benefits you carry to care of your medical needs Republican Gov. Charlie Crist
the treatment you receive. And before Obamacare kicks in, said he was going to run as an
that means very real changes to maybe you’d be better off independent.
existing coverage. One of those without Obamacare at all. Crist's Thursday announcement
many changes derive from new Rick Sherwood currently is a sets up a likely three-way race
restrictions on flexible spending York Times outlined recently, The New York Times gives the member of the Young Leaders between Crist, Republican
accounts(FSAs). favorite Marco Rubio and Meek,
Obamacare sends FSA users an example of the Laskin family, P r o g r a m a t t h e H e r i t a g e the likely Democratic nominee.
FSAs allow users to put aside irresponsible message: stock up who use every penny of their F o u n d a t i o n . F o r m o r e
pre-tax dollars for out-of-pocket now before the law takes full $4,000 FSA each year to pay for information on interning at Meek, a congressman from
health expenditures such as co- effect. Miami, has stayed quiet as Crist
the prescription medication, H e r i t a g e , p l e a s e v i s i t : and Rubio fought bitterly over
pays, deductibles, eyeglasses, B e g i n n i n g i n 2 0 1 3 , n e w o v e r - t h e - c o u n t e r d r u g s , http://www.heritage.org/About/I
and dental work. Typically, it regulations will prohibit FSA vitamins, and doctor visits nternships-Young-Leaders/The- the GOP nomination in recent
cuts out-of-pocket costs by expenditures on certain health needed to control chronic Heritage-Foundation-Internship- months.
around 20 percent. FSAs are aids, such as over-the-counter illness. Under the new law, they Program Meek said Crist will have a
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than blaming feminists for
family decline. Focused on the
left in which he had grown up
and come to political maturity,
Lasch turned to populism in his
final books just as conservatives
discovered how to turn popular
anger into a maelstrom of
negativity. So it must be
affirmed that against the
ignorant conspiratorialism of
today’s right, liberalism’s theory
of the good society, however
thin, looks downright robust.
“His public invective in the mid-
eighties against
liberalism—which he certainly
hoped was not resurgent—was
as harsh as ever,” Miller points
out. “He rarely gave either the
political tradition or movement
any sort of blessing.” Had Lasch
been less misanthropic, he might
have been more perceptive.
Miller identifies so strongly
with his subject that he accepts
Lasch’s judgment that he was
crucified on a cross of
misunderstanding. He finds
Lasch’s critics smug and
condescending. They treated
him, Miller concludes, “as
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length—a quirky and dangerous
fellow who at some point along
the way had taken a frightening
wrong turn.” The problem is
that Lasch did take a wrong
turn—and it was precisely the
turn toward secular Calvinism
that Miller praises. It is one
thing to admire Jonathan
Edwards and to lament the fact
that we no longer take theology
seriously—I myself love to
assign Edwards to my students;
but a historian, of all people,
should have recognized that
however valuable an
appreciation of our depraved
nature may have been in one
era, it may cause significant
injury in another. Yes,
progressive history—the idea
that each era is better than the
one that precedes it—clearly
fails to do justice to the sheer
contingency of human life. But
so does Lasch’s insistence that
everything is for the worst in
this worst of all possible worlds.
In the end even Miller, who is
so admiring of Lasch, feels that
something did not quite hold
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“Lasch,” he concludes, needed
“a more full, complete, rich
tradition than ‘populism,’ one
that extended well beyond the
public political sphere to touch
and form mind and heart.” But
Lasch confounded his faithful
admirers just as he did his leftist
critics; he knew about the realm
of God to which Miller alludes
and did not want any part of
it—at least for himself. The
great diagnostician of our
rootlessness never found his
own roots. Lasch did not like
modernity, but he was
modernity’s child. We must be
thankful that we live in a society
sufficiently mobile, alienated,
elitist, and skeptical to have
produced such a man.
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Thaksin became an economic
adviser to Thailand's eastern
neighbor.)
So, if not civil war, what
happens next?
It's impossible to say who the
winner (or winners) of the crisis
should be, considering that all
sides have factions with less
than good or democratic
intentions. The government may
try to forcibly end the protests,
and the resulting bloodshed
might deliver the wake-up call
needed for the rivaling factions
to negotiate a solution to the
crisis. Such a compromise,
sources said, whether arrived at
peaceably or after violence,
would need to involve a promise
for new elections, as well as
guarantees that both sides would
shun intimidation during voting
and respect the outcomes of the
process.
Right now, though, any
timetable for this happening is
hazy. "It changes from day to
day," one human rights advocate
told me. "I've had to change my
tune. … I thought, 'The
government can't survive.' I
thought it was only a matter of
days." Yet the government
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remains in charge, even as the
red shirts burrow deeper into
Bangkok.
And, even if a compromise is
finally reached, experts I spoke
to said it would just be a Band-
Aid on the broader problem of
what happens as Thailand's
customary political elite lose
power and less traditional
groups gain it. Most critically,
when the king dies, a period of
mourning will likely be
followed by a political battle to
determine who should control
the country. "I don't hazard to
guess how it will end," one
source told me. "It's going to be
a gradual process whereby they
are going to lose—the yellows,
the government, the monarchy.
… I don't pretend that it's not
going to be really ugly."
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Outside the Beltway: The Day the
Happy Meal Died
Mike Brownfield (The
Foundry: Conservative Policy
News.)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:30:11 AM
There might be 14,000 things to
be happy about, but there is one
less reason in Santa Clara
County, California: the
government there voted to ban
toys in Happy Meals.
Toys that come in those
delightfully colored boxes filled
cheeseburgers and fries that
have brought joy to millions of
children will go the way of
bottled water and salt, trans fat
and soda pop, all of which have
fallen victim to regulation-
happy local governments.
The reason? No, it’s not
because the toys are unsafe. It’s
not because they’re filled with
lead or cause choking. It’s
because, well, they’re an
effective way for businesses to
legally market their products.
The Los Angeles Times reports:
This ordinance prevents
restaurants from preying on
childrens’ love of toys” to sell
high-calorie, unhealthful food,
said [Santa Clara County]
Supervisor Ken Yeager, who
sponsored the measure. “This
ordinance breaks the link
between unhealthy food and
prizes.”
Proponents of the ban argue
that using toys to promote the
sale of high-calorie kids meals
lure children toward eating
unhealthy food, leading to
obesity. But as Supervisor
Donald Gage says, “If you can’t
control a 3-year-old child for a
toy, God save you when they get
to be teenagers.”
And that’s an important point.
In Santa Clara County, the local
government has assumed the
mantle of a nanny state,
presumed that parents are
unable to make choices for their
children, and restricted
businesses’ ability to market to
customers.
Santa Clara County isn’t alone
in attempting to enact absurd
regulations over food
consumption. The New York
State Assembly is considering a
bill that would prohibit “the use
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anyone’s guess what the toy
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Microsoft Gets Steve Jobs' Back, Decrees H.264 as Its Video
Web Standard
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:48:01 AM
What? Microsoft and Apple
seeing almost eye-to-eye on
something? Yes...it's true and
concerns a bit of a hot topic on
the Web at the mo: Video
standards. After Jobs' Adobe
take-down, MS has said it'll
only support H.264 video in
Internet Explorer.
Microsoft's blog posting on this
matter it's almost as frank as
Steve Jobs' open letter of
yesterday. Noting that there's
been "a lot of talk" about this on
the Web, MS is taking the
chance to "talk about" its point
of view, which is this: "The
future of the Web is HTML5
[...] In its HTML5 support, IE9
will support playback of H.264
video only." That's the boiled
down summary, but it's
essentially the important part of
this news: In its next version
tweak to adopt HTML5 coding
standards in IE, MS will support
in-browser playback of only
those videos encoded in MPEG
LA's H.264 video format.
For those of you who're
scratching your heads, H.264 is
just another way of "wrapping"
video data so that it can be
Business/ 55
accessed and played in browsers world wasn't using it for fun and
(or dedicated media players, for professional purposes at the
that matter) much like Flash time. Things are different now,
videos work currently. It's a and since some are promoting
freely accessible format that's video as the real driver for next-
currently license-free and gen Web paradigms
Apple's been promoting it for (particularly when combined
ages, partly through in-built with some sort of social
H.264 support inside iTunes. networking and live user video
Unlike Flash, though, H.264 can up-linking) the issue is very
be supported directly in the important indeed. Yet with big
browser code itself, meaning it players like Apple, Google and
doesn't need a proprietary plug- now MS weighing in on the side
in like Flash does, which has of H.264 in HTML5, it looks
important implications for the like many of the big decisions
future of open Web standards, have already been made. And
and possibly security and you know what? As a typical
reliability too. Web user, you'll probably never
MS actually mentions all of this notice the impact of this
t h a t F l a s h r e m a i n s a n even more confusing rights
in the posting, even going so far kerfuffle: Except that soon your
"important" way of delivering situations surrounding its use.
as to echo Steve Job's browser may be a bit more
content to today's Web users. Some commenters have already
sentiments about Flash: "Flash stable when playing video, and
Just maybe not tomorrow's expressed outrage that MS is
does have some issues, you may see fewer requests to
ones... "forcing" a Web standard on its
particularly around reliability, "update your Flash plug-in."
Because this move by MS is users, and that this standard is
security, and performance." To keep up with this news
surprisingly bold. H.264 is a H.264 in particular--at the
That'll stir up some righteous follow me, Kit Eaton, on
freely accessible standard, just expense of supporting any other
anger among Flash proponents Twitter. That QR code on the
not an entirely open one (there video standards in-browser.
(and it's one in the eye for left will even take your
a r e s o m e q u e s t i o n s a b o u t The battle about Web video
Adobe itself, who yesterday smartphone to my Twitter feed.
whether its owners MPEG LA slightly echoes some of the early
intimated that if there's And if you really liked this
will require licensing fees to use debates about which graphics
performance issues with Flash story, you can re-tweet too.
it to encode video from 2016 code standard to support for
on Macs, then it's likely to do
onwards) and it's not the only Web pages (JPEG, TIFF, PNG
with the OS itself). MS doesn't
one out there: Opera and Firefox and so on.) The main difference
quite slam the door on Adobe,
p r o m o t e t h e O G G v i d e o being that the Web was in its
though, noting that it still will
standard, which MS implies has infancy then, and the entire
"work closely with Adobe" and
56 Business/ E-reader News Edition

What Will an Electric Vehicle-Ready Smart Grid Infrastructure

Look Like?
Ariel Schwartz (Fast before they're prepared for the adopters, explained Pedro upgraded wiring and circuitry hours so they don't overtax the
Company) impending onslaught of energy- Pizarro, the executive vice that can handle all the excess grid? Of the 700 customers who
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:44:25 AM sucking vehicles--and they president of Power Operations pressure on the grid from EVs. participated in a recent SoCal
might not all be ready in time. for Southern California Edison. SoCal Edison is also working Edison survey on the matter,
It's 2020. You drive your plug- One utility that thinks it will: "If you have a block with three with cities, auto manufacturers, half of respondents said that
in hybrid electric car home at 6 Southern California Edison. The or four Priuses, that's probably and car dealerships to assess the they wouldn't be willing to
p.m., plug it in, let it charge via utility covers a massive swath of an early adopter neighborhood," potential impact of EVs. "We charge off-peak. Even if that's
the solar panels on your roof or land that includes 5 million he said. SoCal Edison is in the will be prepared even if high- just because the respondents
the wind power coming from the meters, 14 million residents. By midst of surveying its customers end predictions are correct," don't realize how much money
grid, and you leave it charging 2020, the utility's customers to find out which ones plan on Pizarro said. But there are still they could save, its a problem.
until the morning. Sounds could have up to 1 million EVs buying EVs early. The zip codes kinks to work out--for example, "We have a big job ahead in
simple enough, right? It's not. on the road. But SoCal Edison is with the highest amount of early how can the utility incentivize WHAT page 58
Utilities have a long way to go already gearing up for the early adopters will likely receive customers to charge at off-peak
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Deutsche Bank Converts Horrid '80s Towers Into Horrid '80s

Eco-Towers
Suzanne LaBarre (Fast they are all of these things. No, Is that really something to write
Company) they're a triumph of new over home about? Turns out, it
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:18:03 AM old, their glassy tubes having would've been less expensive to
risen in 1983 on the site of a build anew. Much less
Deutsche Bank is set to become gorgeous, ill-fated 19th-century expensive, according to project
carbon neutral, starting with the palace. The shape, an abstract manager Nils Noack.
world's first LEED Platinum take on Deutsche Bank's logo, Rejiggering the old mechanical
retrofitted skyscrapers. Too bad dispatches a message of raw self systems isn't cheap, nor is
they're so damn ugly. -absorption, and the mirror ripping off the old facade and
We've all heard the refrain: The facade commemorates vanity in replacing it with highly
greenest buildings are the ones the age of Gordon Gekko. insulated, triple-paned glass.
that already exist. But what if a They're a monument to the Other banks have used green
building is so hideous, so bland, excesses of a supposedly building to rebrand,
so utterly devoid of beauty that, bygone era. occasionally to unremarkable
green or not, it's an affront to the Except now they're green. This ends, but hey, at least they tried
very conceit of architecture? fall, Deutsche Bank will unveil something new. Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank's Frankfurt its grand marketing offensive slash energy consumption in Famous architect ( Mario will tell you that it likes the
headquarters are just such a retrofit, complete with a new half, and by 2013, the bank Bellini): check. Local eco-cred ( look of its headquarters, thank
building. Actually, a pair of energy-efficient facade; smart claims it'll be carbon neutral, German Sustainable Building you very much. They're
buildings, two 509-foot-tall elevators; and windows that though the specifics remain Council cert): check. The bank "iconic." (And Gekkoian.)
towers of gorgonian ugly. It isn't actually open, which is rare in a unclear. gets to boast that it's on track to
that they're too stocky or too skyscraper and pretty cool for For the time being, the bank being the world's first LEED
shiny or too awkward, though employees. The efforts will has covered all its PR bases. Platinum renovated skyscraper.

Quarterly Earnings: Eastman Kodak and Kellogg

Steven Mallas tell you this: EK was anything Continue reading Quarterly
(BloggingStocks) but up. The stock closed off Earnings: Eastman Kodak and
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:00:00 AM 16.9% by the end of the session. Kellogg
Volume was exceptionally high. Quarterly Earnings: Eastman
Filed under: Earnings Reports, But does this mean Kodak is a Kodak and Kellogg originally
Kellogg Co (K), General Mills buy or a sell? appeared on BloggingStocks on
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Dan Nosowitz (Fast
is Eastman Kodak ( EK), but I'll bearish on the company because forward-looking potential. Company)
HP'sREPORTED
Slate has received
page 58 the
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:30:05 AM
most buzz of any so-called iPad
58 Business/
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continued from page 57
competitor (keeping in mind the
irony and/or painful realization
that we're playing into Steve
Jobs's hands, since the Slate was
announced well before the
iPad), but it had essentially a
different philosophy. The iPad is
a scaled-up smartphone; it runs
a mobile operating system,
complete with mobile apps
(iPhone OS), as well as a mobile
(albeit high-speed) processor
(Apple A4, rumored to appear in
the next iPhone). The HP Slate,
on the other hand, is a scaled-
down laptop; it runs a full-bore
operating system (Windows 7),
complete with PC software, as
well as a full-sized (albeit low-
power) processor (Intel Atom,
the standard netbook processor).
But that was also the source of
the Slate's mystique--
everything the iPad couldn't do,
the Slate could. Flash video
WHAT
continued from page 56
communication," Pizarro said.
Most utilities aren't nearly as
prepared as SoCal Edison. "A
very small number of utilities
are taking practical steps,"
explained Allan Schurr, VP
Strategy, Energy & Utilities at
IBM. According to Schurr,
many utilities don't know what
people's driving patterns will be-
-will drivers upgrade their
garages to be EV-ready, for
example, or will they go to
(including Hulu)? No problem.
USB-in? HDMI-out? Slate had
it, iPad didn't. That came with
trade-offs; the Slate's battery life
was projected at half the iPad's,
and nobody has much
confidence that Windows 7
would be as good a mobile,
touch-based operating system as
iPhone OS. Every previous
tablet has been a scaled-down
computer, and none have
achieved mainstream success.
So maybe it's not that surprising
that, as Techcrunch is reporting,
HP may have killed off the
project. Apple is proving that a
scaled-up mobile OS is the path
to a successful tablet, and what
do you know, HP just happened
to purchase a well-regarded
touch-based mobile OS in
Palm's WebOS. This is exactly
what we'd hoped would happen-
-a WebOS tablet would have a
public charge spots? Utilities
will have to keep track of where
charge spots are located and
make sure they know where the
highest electricity loads will be.
For its part, IBM offers a
readiness assessment service
that helps utilities figure out
their smart grid weak spots.
On the whole, though, the
technology coming down the
pipeline is promising--utilities
just need to keep a close eye on
lot of advantages over the iPad
(notably the best mobile
multitasking out there).
This is all unconfirmed--I fired
off an email to HP, but they
haven't gotten back to me yet. In
the meantime, let's hope HP
really is axing the Slate in favor
of a WebOS tablet. Maybe some
collective thought power will
convince the company to go for
it.
Dan Nosowitz, the author of
this post, can be followed on
Twitter, corresponded with via
email, and stalked in San
Francisco (no link for that one--
you'll have to do the legwork
yourself).
the auto industry. "The
interesting thing is that the pace
of new change to the grid isn't in
control of the utility," Schurr
said. "It's driven by
automakers."
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Price/Sales Value
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YouTube Redesigns Video Appearance, Looks Way Better
Than Before
Dan Nosowitz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:25:52 AM
Yesterday, YouTube launched a
redesigned look for their video
player, a much cleaner and more
modern-looking interface. The
big change is the shrunken and
altered timeline, showing your
chronological position in a
video. Instead of a big red in-
your-face bar, it's now a
collapsible, thin line that only
enlarges to allow for movement
when you mouse over it. When
Consumers Drive GDP Expansion
Mark Fightmaster
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:45:00 AM
Filed under: Before the Bell,
Economic Data The Commerce
Department announced Friday
morning that the economy grew
at a 3.2% rate during the first
quarter of 2010, below
expectations that called for the
GDP to increase 3.4%.
Consumer spending increased at
the fastest pace in the past three
years, serving as the impetus for
you move your cursor away
from the video, the controls
seem to melt into the
background--really they're just
fading from gray to a lighter
gray, but it's a nice effect.
Besides that, the volume is now
horizontal instead of vertical
(better, I suppose, since it
doesn't block any part of the
video now), and, well, that's
about it.
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YouTube still isn't the best-
looking streamer around. I'd
give that award to either Hulu or
the GDP growth.
Consumer spending increased
at a 3.6% annual rate, with
business investments in
equipment and software
increasing at a pace of 13.4%. In
Vimeo. But it's definitely an
improvement, and it's nowhere
near the bottom of the barrel (I'd
have to give that Golden
Raspberry stinker award to
the past year, the GDP has
increased 2.5% driven by a
5.6% increase in the fourth
quarter.
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MTV's buggy and super ugly
interface--the only time it works
perfectly is when it's showing an
overly long commercial break
while I'm trying to catch up on
Apple Tries to
Trademark App Icons
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 3:34:34 AM
Apple has filed trademark
motions for its official iPhone
and iPad app icons with
minutely detailed descriptions.
Here’s the description for the
MobileMe iDisk, for instance:
“The mark consists of a
rectangle with rounded corners
depicting a stylized white cloud
on a blue background.”
Descriptions are accompanied
by large image files of the icons.
As for trying to trademark
mobile app icons in the first
place, let’s put it like this: If
59
The Real World/Road Rules
Challenge). It's part of a new
effort to simplify the oft-busy
YouTube video page, which is a
considerable but worthwhile
effort.
Dan Nosowitz, the author of
this post, can be followed on
Twitter, corresponded with via
email, and stalked in San
Francisco (no link for that one--
you'll have to do the legwork
yourself).
Apple gets the trademark, then
we guess it makes sense.
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Wynn Resorts Trades Oprah’s national "No Phone Zone

Higher Following Better- Day"
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Michael Fowlkes Submitted at 4/30/2010 1:59:59 AM The “No Phone Zone Day” is seven states, plus the District of
(BloggingStocks) backed by a number of Columbia, prohibit drivers from
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Weekend warrior chronicles: Dad assembles a giant backyard
gym set
Artemis Dibenedetto
(Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 1:59:59 AM
Weekend warrior chronicles:
Dad assembles a giant backyard
gym set
This spring, my six-year-old
son has been asking for a swing
set for the backyard. Now that
his little brother is nearly two, I
figured I’d look into getting one.
We often go to a town
playground on the weekends,
but I figured a backyard playset
would allow them to get some
fresh air and burn off some
energy after school, and before
dinner, on weekdays. I began
the hunt.
I started on the Internet at
Google Maps: Swing sets near
my ZIP code. I quickly found
two stores within 10 minutes of
my house, Timbergyms and
Easter Jungle Gym. Great! I
could “swing” by and see what
they had, and even let my kids
try them out. Both stores were
very similar—they had wooden
swing sets on display, offered
free delivery and even free set-
up for some models, and my
kids loved them! One problem:
the base-model sets started at
about $1,700 and prices steadily
rose from there! Want to replace
a cloth roof with a wooden one?
That’s extra. Want a swing seat
appropriate for your two-year-
old? That’s extra. At this rate,
the sets quickly added up to
about $4,000 and more!
Suddenly the short ride to our
town’s playground seemed like
a better option.
I went back home and started
cutting a hiking trail in the
woods in the back yard. Maybe
my kids wouldn’t mind playing
on a rock or climbing a tree?
But in the end, I still wanted a
playset. But where could I find a
cheaper model?
I had a brainstorm: Let’s check
Walmart! I headed there with
my six year old and finally
found them: a couple of closed
boxes that promised to become
wooden swing sets. They ranged
from $400-600, and the most
expensive one had a wooden
roof—something you’d only get
at the other places for the price
of a small used car. After about
a half-hour of searching for a
sales clerk, I discovered that
Walmart couldn’t even supply
me a picture of what these sets
looked like once assembled.
They suggested I look on the
Internet. I went home.
On Walmart’s Web site, the
sets looked nice. But I also
checked Sam’s Club’s site and
found the Taj Ma-play-scape I
had been looking for: The
Highlander! This thing had four
levels, a picnic table, a wooden
roof, and more for $998. A big
bonus for me was that each
ladder leading to the four levels
was actually very small, making
it easier for my two-year-old to
navigate. The user reviews for it
were great, but they did mention
the assembly time: 20 to 40
hours to put it together. That’s
right, 20 to 40 HOURS. With
two kids, and two parents
working, that seems kind of like
a big commitment for our
family. I found several
companies that assemble these
things, but a quoted fee of $600
seemed a bit high. I decided to
try it myself. After all, my six-
year-old loves projects—and
what a project it would be.
Armed with a pickup truck, I
headed off to Sam’s Club. With
not much more effort than it
takes to buy a 96-pack of toilet
paper (well, maybe a little
more), I soon had nearly 800
lbs. of lumber in four huge
boxes, as well as a big slide,
piled into the back of the truck.
Game on! After all, I thought,
I’m an engineer, how hard could
this be? Did I mention there
were literally hundreds of
boards in those boxes that
mostly looked the same? The
good news is that my six-year-
old was a great help finding the
boards I needed and put washers
on the bolts. After four hours, I
had already erected the base. I
felt l like I’m building an Amish
barn.
Thoughts so far? It is a pretty
incredible kit. I doubt I could
even buy all the wood I needed
for the thousand dollars the kit
cost me. I haven’t found a single
split board or an incorrectly pre-
drilled hole, and all the boards
are marked. To be honest, I’d
really like to leave work now
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and continue the build. I doubt it
is as sturdy as the big-dollar
playscapes, but I have a feeling
it will be just right for my two
kids. (Learn about the
importance of padding
underneath any outdoor play
equipment, and see
the Consumer Product Safety
Commission’s home playground
safety guidelines.)
Follow-up. After about 21
hours of labor, and with some
help from my Dad and my boys,
I am very happy with the
purchase. I really had a lot of
fun assembling the kit, and my
kids can't get enough of the
playscape. In fact, the television
hasn't gone on once since we
assembled it.
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Spurs Beat Mavericks, Take Series
Tom Ziller (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 4/29/2010 6:16:00 PM
Filed under: Mavericks, Spurs,
Playoffs The mighty San
Antonio Spurs have vanquished
the latest incarnation of their
eternal rival, the Dallas
Mavericks. By the score of 97-
87, the 7th-seeded Spurs
upended the favored Mavericks
in six games, winning again in
San Antonio. It marks the third
time since 2001 the Spurs have
eliminated the Mavericks in the
postseason, with the series going
the other way last season. The
Spurs will now face the winner
of the Suns-Blazers series.
San Antonio took a stunning 22
-point first half lead, with
vicious Spurs defense (surprise,
surprise!) limiting Dallas to just
eight points in the first quarter.
The Mavericks roared back,
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NFL Risks Racial Mess
Spurs throughout his career,
Nowitzki has averaged more
than 30 points.) Caron Butler
if 'Fins GM Skates
Jay Mariotti (FanHouse Main)
also had a strong night with 25
points, and usually ignored Submitted at 4/29/2010 6:56:00 PM
rookie Rodrigue Beaubois came
Filed under: NFL"Are you anti-
off the bench like a lightning
Semitic?"
bolt with 15.
The editor asked the question
Despite all that, the Spurs
and then stared me down,
controlled the play. You might
convinced I was guilty, all
not believe this, but Richard
because a sports-franchise
Jefferson and Antonio McDyess
owner didn't like me and
actually did a credible job
sometimes pressured the
defending Nowitzki. Jefferson
newspaper into intimidating me.
worked hard to deny Dirk the
trailing by just 13 at the half and ball in the post, especially late, In another meeting in his office,
even taking a brief third quarter and McDyess kept a hand in the the same editor forearm-
lead, but S.A. held the Mavs off, German's face. But, as he did in shivered me into a wall as I tried
and held on to reign victorious. Game 1, Nowitzki hit any to leave the room and escape his
T h e S p u r s w i t h s t o o d a number of tough buckets, wrath. These incidents happened investigate a young man's life
via behind-the-scenes phone
predictably great effort from fueling the Mavericks' runs. On several years ago at the
Dallas talisman Dirk Nowitzki, the other end, the Spurs kept hopelessly chaotic Chicago Sun- calls and legwork.
It's quite another to ask Bryant -
who read the script and put out things balanced, passed the ball Times, and I relate them now
33 points in the losing effort. (In beautifully and hit shots. because I, too, have had a Dez - face to face, human being to
human being -- if his mother
elimination games against the Bryant experience.
My guess is, you have as well. was a prostitute.
Like many NFL prospects, Jeff Ireland, general manager of
Bryant (right) has a tumultuous
family history, including a
the Dolphins and a veteran NFL
executive who should know
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Pavelski Scores 2,
Sharks Take Game 1
Without Marleau
Adam Gretz (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 4/29/2010 7:45:00 PM

Filed under: Sharks, Red

NFL's Despicable 'Interview' Process
Kevin Blackistone (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 4/29/2010 6:30:00 PM
Filed under: NFL
A little over two years ago, a
couple of professors produced a
paper published in an academic
magazine called Journal of
Contemporary Ethnography that
was titled "Artificially
Restricted Labor Markets and
Worker Dignity in Professional
Football."
I don't recall what they said
about the pool from which the
NFL pulls its proletariat. But I
was suddenly reminded this
week of what they found about
the common decency the league
affords its prospective players:
very little.
"Our analysis of players'
experiences point to three
primary themes," BYU
professor Mikaela Dufur and
Western Washington professor
Seth Feinberg wrote in October
2007. "[One] workers feel
exploited, manipulated,
dehumanized, and mistreated ...
[two] potential hires cope with
this invasive evaluation by
identifying with management or
through a hope of signing a
substantial employment contract
... and [three] workers believe
that the sorting process is not an
accurate assessment of an
employee's potential
productivity but feel they have
no alternative entry to the labor
market and are therefore
powerless to protest such
requirements."
In other words, Dolphins GM
Jeff Ireland, like every other
GM in the NFL, felt he could
ask potential draft pick Dez
Bryant(above) whatever he
wanted, and Bryant, like every
other young man hoping to
make it in the league, felt he had
no option but to swallow his
pride and answer.
Wings, NHL Playoffs Like
many of his San Jose
teammates, Joe Pavelski's 2009
postseason was rather
forgettable as he managed just
one assist in the Sharks'
stunning first-round exit to the
No. 8 seed Anaheim Ducks. It's
been the exact opposite story for
Pavelski and Co. this year, and
thanks to his two-goal effort
during a 4-3 win against Detroit
on Thursday, he's now tied for
the playoff lead with seven
goals, which is already a career
postseason-high for the 25-year-
old center.
Pavelski scored a pair of power
play goals, including the game-
winner, as San Jose took an
early lead in its Western
Conference Semifinal series
with the reigning Western
Conference champs. He opened
the scoring nine minutes into the
first period when he ripped a
shot from between the circles,
setting the stage for a two-
minute offensive explosion that
saw the Sharks score three goals
against Detroit goaltender
Jimmy Howard, giving them an
early 3-0 lead. The Wings
managed to cut the deficit to a
single goal in the second period
thanks to tallies from Dan
Cleary and Johan Franzen, but
couldn't get any closer.
Sharks Lead Series, 1-0
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Blazers May Be Gone, but GM
Kevin Pritchard Should Stay
Sam Amick (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 12:00:00 AM
Filed under: Suns, Trail
Blazers, Playoffs PORTLAND,
Ore. -- The dead man walking
couldn't have looked more alive
on Thursday night.
Kevin Pritchard was being
Kevin Pritchard again, the
Portland general manager
mingling on the Rose Garden
floor while wondering like the
rest of the Rip City residents
whether his team had one last
punch in store.
True to their fighting form, they
did.
So spirited was their 99-90 loss
to Phoenix that the home crowd
stood until the end as if the
outcome was reversed, an
insurmountable deficit and the
end to a torturously-terrific
season greeted in the final
seconds with the pulsating "Let's
go Blazers!" chant. The Blazers
faithful were as feverish as ever,
hailing this character-filled crew
that endured more than 300
games missed due to injury in
the regular season and pushed
these Suns far more than was
reasonable to expect.
And as the sold-out venue was
awash in a Blazers love affair
that seemed unthinkable just
four years ago, there was nary a
local thought on the Jail Blazers
days of old. The sagging
attendance. The constant Blazer
presence on the police blotter.
The kind of infamy that rarely
gets rectified so soon.
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Be on the lookout for
APB June 29
JC Fletcher (Joystiq) accomplishments, according to
EA: " APB provides avenues for
Submitted at 4/30/2010 10:56:00 AM
accomplished gamers or creators
Attention, all units: EA will t o e a r n r e w a r d s f o r t h e i r
release Realtime Worlds' cops- creativity and subsidize their
and-robbers MMO APB on PC ongoing costs with their in-
in North America on June 29, in game efforts."
mainland Europe on July 1 and Pre-order incentives, which
in the UK on July 2. should be offered by all major
The initial $50 game purchase, retailers, include access to the
either through retail or by demo and early access to the full
download, will include 50 hours game, plus an assortment of
of playtime, as well as bonus cars, clothing and
"unlimited time" in APB's so- c h a r a c t e r E m o t e s .
called social districts, where Gallery: APB
players can customize, chat and Be on the lookout for APB June
trade. When the 50 hours are up, 29 originally appeared on
players have the option to Joystiq on Fri, 30 Apr 2010
purchase 20 more hours for $7, 10:56:00 EST. Please see our
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Capcom ships 1 million

Super Street Fighter IV
copies for initial retail
run
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:57:00 AM

Puzzle Agent revealed, Man 'beats' Bejeweled 2 Clearly anticipating a hit in its
updated fighter, Capcom has
Telltale's Scoggins after playing for 3 years sent out one million copies of
Super Street Fighter IV to
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) the first person to ever "beat" retailers around the world in the
mystery solved Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:28:00 AM Bejeweled 2. That's one way of first shipment of the game. The
looking at it, we suppose. budget-priced title was released
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) iPhone and iPad, places you in W e a d m i r e a l l f o r m s o f Another way of looking at it is in North America and Japan
Submitted at 4/30/2010 10:25:00 AM the shoes of "the Agent," who's dedication -- even the absolutely to say that everyone else who's earlier this week and is in stores
called to solve a mystery in the insane forms. A California steel ever played Bejeweled 2 is a today in Europe. The next step?
After very little nose-to-the- Fargo-esque town of Scoggins, contractor named Mike Leyde quitter. Yeah, that's right. Why Sell all these copies.
grindstone sleuthing, Telltale M i n n e s o t a . W h a t a r e t h e recently displayed one such type don't you follow through with Capcom has put all-time
has revealed the answer to the specifics of this mystery, you of persistence by playing a something for once in your life? shipments of Street Fighter
Mystery of Scoggins Erasers: ask? We have no idea, but based single round of his casual game Sheesh. console games at more than 28
Puzzle Agent. IGN was recently on Telltale's lineage, we're of choice, Bejeweled 2, for Continue reading Man 'beats' million units worldwide, as of
s h o w n t h i s f i r s t g a m e i n guessing it's going to be pretty 2,205 hours and 51 minutes over Bejeweled 2 after playing for 3 March 31, 2010 (so not counting
Telltale's new "Pilot Program" -- wacky, and perhaps even a little the course of three years. In that years the initial SSFIV shipment). The
a series of one-off games that bit zany. There might even be time, he collected 4,872,229 Man 'beats' Bejeweled 2 after publisher did not clarify how
could be expanded into larger some hare-brained hijinks, if g e m s , e a r n i n g t h e g a m e ' s playing for 3 years originally many of those copies were
franchises depending on fan we're lucky. h i g h e s t c a l c u l a b l e s c o r e , appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 30 upgraded re-releases of Street
reception. Considering Puzzle P u z z l e A g e n t r e v e a l e d , 2,147,483,647, at which point Apr 2010 09:28:00 EST. Please Fighter games.
A g e n t a p p a r e n t l y m i x e s Telltale's Scoggins mystery the score display got really see our terms for use of feeds. Capcom ships 1 million Super
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Success Story: Jim Murphy

(Mensfitness.com) pump only about 8% of his face," he remembers.
Submitted at 4/30/2010 4:00:00 AM blood. The doctors thought Today, Murphy's the same guy
Murphy, then just 25, should he was before his old heart
This strongman always had have died. "They told me that started to fail him, except for the
heart. Just not a healthy one. l i f t i n g i n t h e g y m w a s scar on his chest and a new low-
The transplant he underwent completely out of the question sodium diet. He's returned to
Call of Duty: Black Ops barely slowed him down.
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and that I just had to rest," he
says.
work at his family's fire-
prevention business, and he's
Handfuls of pills lowered his grateful to be back working out
set for Nov. 9, 2010 JIM MURPHY
Hometown: Lynnfield, Mass.
blood pressure and slowed his
heart rate,
in the gym as well. "Every time
I look in the mirror and see the
Ludwig Kietzmann (Joystiq) about as much these days). Age: 29 but the meds left Murphy so scar," he says, "I just think
Submitted at 4/30/2010 7:33:00 AM Aside from its title and what Weight: 215 lbs groggy, he slept up to 18 hours a 'miracle.'"
appears to be a release date -- Height: 5' 11" day. He had a pacemaker Jim's Tip: Be Your Own Man
Your ability to recognize November 9th, 2010 -- Black Jim Murphy pulled a 65,000- implanted, but his condition "I don't want to be normal.
insanely popular brands has Ops remains enshrouded in pound dump truck, completed worsened. Murphy needed a When I think of myself, or when
likely meshed with your ability m y s t e r y a n d s o m e w h a t an 895-pound deadlift, and won new heart. other people think of me, I don't
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What's missing in realtime
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 4/29/2010 10:20:36 AM
I was at breakfast this morning
with a friend from the tech
industry, and the subject got
around to Facebook vs Google,
and the way Twitter is kind of in
the middle of the two giants.
I've felt for a long time that
Twitter should have welcomed
federation early-on, when the
competition wasn't so fierce.
While it wasn't a slam-dunk, I
thought there was a decent
chance our Twitter log-ins could
be the default username for
many other sites on the net.
Now Facebook is making a
strong bid to be that, and if
Twitter were to try that now it
would likely be seen as too-little
-too-late.
Then my friend, who asked not
to be named, wondered why
WordPress isn't in the same
place as Twitter. I answered
with an analogy -- Twitter is
riding a bicycle on Interstate 95,
and Facebook and Google are
two semis about to have a head-
on collision. Twitter may not be
directly competing with either
of them, and Google probably
doesn't care much about Twitter
one way or another, but the
collision is going to do some
serious damage to all who are in
the vicinity. WordPress isn't
riding a bike and they are
nowhere near the freeway.
Picture Matt sitting on the beach
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It sure feels this way but then I
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And if WordPress is on the
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umbrellas, how can Ev and Biz
get some of that action? Then I
figured it out.
Two bits (and they may be very
hard for Twitter to do):
1. I don't mind hosting sites on
wordpress.com because I know
if I ever want to get them off I
can run them on my own server.
I need to be able to do that with
Twitter (or Tumblr for that
matter). In other words, there
must be an open source, easily
installable Twitter that's the
same thing that twitter.com is
running, so I can just move my
presence there and not skip a
beat. People are going to say I
can do that with Identi.ca, but I
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much better too, but Twitter
hardly does it at all. This is
something Ev should
understand, as one of the early
blogging tool vendors, he
should remember how important
a role designers played in the
evolution of blogging. Given
that Twitter and the other
services in this space (e.g.
Facebook) don't allow the user
any control over the HTML of
their presence, it should be easy
to improve this. But I want
power over everything. More
important, I want designers to
have power over everything so I
can use the product of their
work.
So in summary: I need to be
able to isntall my own Twitter
and move my presence to my
can't -- when I move my own server, easily. And I need
WordPress blog my domain control over the look and feel of
points to the new location and my site. Those two things would
all my links still work. To really do enough to shake up the
trust Twitter, they have to market and give Twitter a new
enable competition at this level. way forward and make what
2. I must be able to completely Facebook and Google do in their
control the look and feel of my battle-of-the-titans-to-death
presence. This is something mostly irrlevant to them.
Matt & Company could do
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Respect, blasphemy and violence
Mollie (GetReligion)
Submitted at 4/29/2010 5:41:09 PM
We looked at some of the
coverage of the Comedy
Central’s censorship of the
South Park program. South Park
has long shown offensive
images of Jesus and other non-
Muslim religious figures. It has
also attempted to show
inoffensive “images of
Muhammad” but been censored
by the network — and other
media covering the issue — out
of fears of violence. I put
“images of Muhammad” in
quotes because their most recent
censored images were actually
of a bear and a taxi-cab (that
Muhammad was supposedly
inside).
Anyway, it’s not the blasphemy
that’s in question. South Park
creators Matt Stone and Trey
Parker love to blaspheme all
religions. This is why they, for
instance, think it’s funny to
depict Americans, President
Bush and Jesus defecating on
each other and the American
flag. Blasphemy is sort of what
they do.
It’s the violence and the threat
of violence and the censorship
that results in that. Good
coverage would look at the
difference in core values of the
clashing cultures and different
religions in question. And that,
of course, is the story few
people want to cover.
A good opportunity to explore
the issues came when a young
illustrator came up with an “I
am Spartacus” idea of having
everyone draw Muhammad one
day. It took off — beyond the
artist’s wildest expectations, I
guess. Here’s the Los Angeles
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showing many objects — from a
cup of coffee to a box of pasta
to a tomato — all claiming to be
the likeness of Muhammad.
Such depictions are radioactive
as many Muslims believe that
Islamic teachings forbid
showing images of Muhammad.
First off, I’d like to thank the
Los Angeles Times for putting a
“many” in front of Muslims to
note that not all Muslims believe
that Islamic teachings forbid
showing images of Muhammad.
Muslims are most definitely not
unanimous in their belief that
any physical representation of
Muhammad is blasphemous.
The 15th century image with
this post shows Muhammad
visiting Paradise while riding
Buraq, accompanied by the
Angel Gabriel. Below them,
riding camels, are some of the
fabled houris of Paradise — the
“virgins” promised to heroes
and martyrs. This image is
entitled Miraj Nama, and is
housed in the Bibliotheque
Nationale, Paris. Go here for
more Muslim physical
representations of Muhammad
that are supposedly not allowed.
Actually, I’m totally unsure
where the breakdown is on
whether or not to depict
Times: That is until they realized it Muhammad, what the key
The outcry from Comedy m i g h t b e c o n t r o v e r s i a l , doctrinal points are, or how
Central’s decision to censor an a p p a r e n t l y . many or what type of Muslims
episode of South Park with In declaring May 20th to be are on which side. I think that
depictions of Muhammad last “Everybody Draw Muhammad would make a fascinating story.
week led a cartoonist and a Day,” Seattle artist Molly Norris RESPECT, page 73
Facebook user to fight back. created a poster-like cartoon
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Instruments of worship warfare

tmatt (GetReligion) in what was called a public
Submitted at 4/29/2010 2:57:15 PM mutual confession.
Yes, it was that controversial
Here is a sticky question: What that music instruments were
is a reporter supposed to do used in worship services. That
when writing a story about a leads us to the passage that
religious group that does not see raises some interesting questions
itself as a denomination and about history, vocabulary and
strives not to use traditional newspaper style.
(remember that word) language Henderson served as pulpit
to describe itself and much of its minister at Quail for 9 1/2 years.
work? Do you use the traditional He and elder Steve Hopkins
terms and explain that the group both said that he and the elders
being covered does not use them agreed on starting a new
or do you use the group’s worship service using musical
unique terms, knowing that instruments in 2008. It was a
you’ll need to translate them for break from Church of Christ
readers? tradition. Most Church of Christ
We are talking about the congregations do not use
Church of Christ, specifically musical instruments during
the movement that is best church services, believing there
known for the fact that its is no precedent for it in the New
churches do not use musical Testament.
instruments in worship. Yes, Henderson saw it as a way to
this is the crew in which our offer something different,
own Bobby Ross Jr. is a leader was around called the Churches m i n i s t e r i s a n e v a n g e l i s t , Henderson was back in the particularly for the church’s
and editor. He had to opt out of of Christ the “West Texas addressed by members as pulpit at Quail Springs Church young people. The change
commenting on the following Churches of Christ” because Brother. The ministers do not of Christ — this time on a c a u s e d a n u p r o a r i n t h e
story for obvious reasons. His their churches are almost as use clergy titles. Do not precede mission of peace. Churches of Christ, especially
decision may have something to common in this region as 7-11s their names by a title. …” Through the urging of several after a story about it ran in
do with an expression among (and even more common than Now, with all of that said, here church members, Henderson J a n u a r y 2 0 0 8 i n T h e
t h e v a r i o u s c h u r c h e s o n Southern Baptist churches and, is the top of this report from The a n d t h e c h u r c h ’ s e l d e r s O k l a h o m a n .
this“Restoration” or “Stone folks, that’s saying something in Oklahoman, ripped from the participated in a mediation As I hinted earlier, the key
C a m p b e l l ” b r a n c h o f t h e Texas). front lines of the worship wars, program offered by Billings, word that will raise some
American Protestant tree: “We This is a colorful and unique which are especially symbolic in M o n t . - b a s e d P e a c e m a k e r eyebrows is “tradition,” as in
don’t have bishops. We have ( t h a t ’ s a c o m p l i m e n t ) a Church of Christ context: Ministries. The mediation “church tradition.”
editors.” movement. You can get a sense A local minister who helped meetings in February were The problem is that, instead of
Another thing to mention: I of that in its Associated Press launch a controversial worship described by several men “tradition,” many people in a
grew up as the son of a Southern Stylebook reference, which service with musical instruments involved as “difficult,” but they Church of Christ context would
Baptist minister in Wichita states in part: resigned last year after his resulted in an outpouring of see that as “Tradition,” which is
Falls, Texas, right on the edge “ E a c h l o c a l c h u r c h i s relationship with the church’s repentance and forgiveness from a word that is associated with
o f W e s t T e x a s a n d t h e autonomous and operates under elders had deteriorated. both Henderson and the elders. INSTRUMENTS page 74
Panhandle. Most of the people I a governing board of elders. The Recently, however, Mark … Specific wrongs were aired
72 Religion/ E-reader News Edition

‘Mushy’ millennials in the news

Bobby (GetReligion) it’s pretty big news, right? Rainer, president of LifeWay The survey also drew notice in interesting local reports,
Submitted at 4/29/2010 1:13:29 PM Yes, if you’re USA Today Christian Resources. In the the religion press, from the including one by a Pittsburgh
religion beat specialist Cathy group’s survey of 1,200 18- to Christian Post to World television station and another by
Honk if you’ve heard the Lynn Grossman, whose story on 29-year-olds, 72% say they’re Magazine. I’ve also heard that a Georgia newspaper.
phrase “more spiritual than the survey made Page 1-A this “really more spiritual than Katie Couric and Glenn Beck Why the lack of coverage? Did
religious.” That, not“WWJD,” week: religious.” referenced it, but I didn’t see USA Today get the scoop and
appears to be the mantra of Most young adults today don’t Among the 65% who call those reports. Did you? scare off the other media? (That
today’s young people, even pray, don’t worship and don’t themselves Christian, “many But in general, this story doesn’t seem to happen on other
those who call themselves read the Bible, a major survey are either mushy Christians or doesn’t seem to have caught fire big stories, wink, wink.)
Christian. The movement has by a Christian research firm Christians in name only,” Rainer in the media. I don’t find any Is this latest survey too similar
significant ramifications for shows. says. “Most are just indifferent. other national media coverage in to other recent findings,
Christianity — and religion in If the trends continue, “the The more precisely you try to Google News (think including a study earlier this
general — in the United States. Millennial generation will see measure their Christianity, the Washington Post, New York year by the Pew Forum on
So when a major survey comes churches closing as quickly as fewer you find committed to the Times, Associated Press, et al). I
along that confirms the trend, GM dealerships,” says Thom faith.” did come across a few ‘MUSHY’ page 73
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RESPECT,
continued from page 70
Chicago Tribune religion
reporter Manya Brachear
approached the story by asking
her paper’s cartoonist Scott
Stantis for his thoughts. Here’s a
snippet from the interview:
Seeker: Do you have a set of
rules that govern what/who you
draw and when? In other words,
are certain people or historical
figures off limits or is everyone
fair game? Do you ever poke
fun at people who have passed
away or do you have rules about
that?
SS: Under certain conditions I
can see drawing anyone or any
body.
Seeker: What are your thoughts
about the reaction to the South
Park depiction of the Prophet
Muhammad? Do you think it’s
overblown or could it lead to a
productive conversation about
respect?
SS: Any time you threaten
violence you lose the argument.
I can second guess Comedy
Central’s decision to edit the
South Park episode but I can see
where they would not want to
put themselves in harm’s way.
In terms of respect, I have to
giggle at the notion that a faith
that is so insecure that its icon
cannot be held up to even
depiction has a lot of internal
work to do.
A good discussion ensues in the
comments (how often can you
say that on the interwebs!?). But
again, this isn’t really a debate
about respect. Christian and
Jewish symbols and figures are
disrespected by cartoonists or
other media figures every day
that ends with a y. So this isn’t
really a debate about how to
show proper respect to religious
figures. This is really a debate
about whether fear of violence is
the only reason to back away
from disrespectful speech.
I’ve been sick and under the
weather all week so perhaps this
has been covered better by
mainstream reporters, but the
only place I even saw a
discussion of this issue was in
Ross Douthat’s New York
Times column. Read the whole
thing, but here is a snippet:
In ours, though, even Parker’s
and Stone’s wildest outrages
often just blur into the scenery.
In a country where the latest hit
movie, “Kick-Ass,” features an
11-year-old girl spitting
obscenities and gutting bad guys
while dressed in pedophile-bait
outfits, there isn’t much room
for real transgression. Our
culture has few taboos that can’t
be violated, and our
establishment has largely given
up on setting standards in the
first place.
Except where Islam is
concerned. There, the standards
are established under threat of
violence, and accepted out of a
mix of self-preservation and self
-loathing.
This is what decadence looks
like: a frantic coarseness that
“bravely” trashes its own values
and traditions, and then
knuckles under swiftly to
totalitarianism and brute force.
He sort of took the ball and
scored three touchdowns with it
— but I’d settle for a simple
discussion on establishing
standards under threat of
violence. How does that affect
our culture, how does that affect
Muslims in Muslim countries,
how does affect Muslims living
in countries that are not
predominantly Muslim? How
does that affect Muslim art?
How does that affect art critical
of Islam? Where are we seeing
this issue played out? What are
the hidden costs of decisions
such as those made by Comedy
Central — and countless other
publishing houses and art
venues that don’t even wait for
the death threats to pull books,
productions, etc.?
Brachear has also used her blog
to provide a forum for other
voices in the depiction of
Muhammad controversy. Here’s
Hesham Hassaballa saying he
was bothered by the cartoon but
more bothered by the Muslim
extremist response to the
cartoon and Ahmed Rehab
saying he thought the
controversy was contrived. And
there’s an agnostic defender of
the First Amendment in there
for good measure, too.
The Washington Post’s comic
blog also took up the issue,
noting that 17 Pulitzer Prize-
winning cartoonists had signed a
petition expressing outrage at
the threats made against Parker
and Stone.
Blogs are great (hey, we’re a
blog, too!) but how about some
more substantive coverage of
the issue — and the long-term
concerns that need addressing.
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‘MUSHY’
continued from page 72
Religion & Public Life? Is it
that a Baptist organization
commissioned the survey? Is it
the loss of so many Godbeat
pros?
I don’t know.
But this survey and the place of
millennials in the modern
American religious landscape
seem to merit wider attention.
Grossman’s story did an
excellent job of framing the
issue through the lens of experts
such as Lifeway’s Rainer. But
plenty of ground remains to be
plowed, including putting a
better face on these “mushy”
millennials.
“More spiritual than religious”
is one of those phrases that
makes sense when you hear it.
But reflect on it a big more and
you find yourself going, “Huh?
What exactly does that mean?”
Religion writer Peter Smith of
the Louisville Courier-Journal
tackled that exact question in an
enlightening piece last month—
even before the release of the
LifeWay survey. Smith cited an
in-depth Bowling Green State
University study:
Those who self-identified as
“spiritual” — whether they were
also “religious” — were more
likely to have been “hurt by
clergy”; to have higher levels of
education and income; and to
take part in mystical and group
spiritual experiences.
And those who identify as
‘MUSHY’ page 74
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INSTRUMENTS
continued from page 71
Catholic, Orthodox and,
perhaps, Anglican churches.
Tradition is, in other words, a
fighting word that is linked to
some of the very liturgical and
doctrinal questions that are at
the heart of this movement’s
fervent belief that its
independent congregations are
helping “restore” the church to
the purity of its early roots,
before the advent of what it sees
as man-made “Traditions” that
have hurt the faith.
But is “doctrine” a better word?
Doctrine might sound, well, like
these churches have a creed or a
catechism. Would it be better to
say that this is the movement’s
“interpretation” of scripture?
That, however, would imply that
‘MUSHY’
continued from page 73
“spiritual” and who reject
“religion” are less likely to pray
and hold orthodox beliefs and
more likely to be agnostic.
Such trends alarm Christians
who emphasize Jesus as the only
source of truth and salvation.
“‘Spiritual’ has, in some sense,
come to mean ‘my own personal
religion with my own individual
creed,’” said Timothy Paul
Jones, associate professor of
leadership and church ministry
at Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary.
Now, that reference to
“Christians who emphasize
Jesus as the only source of truth
and salvation” made me smile.
Church of Christ is a body that
makes that kind of decision for
its autonomous congregations.
Notice that the story says that
“most” Church of Christ
congregations do not use
instruments in worship.
This is very important issue for
these churches. Trust me on
that.
More than a decade ago, a man
I shall identify only as an
intellectual who is active in the
Church of Christ told me that, in
the circles he runs in, it doesn’t
really matter if someone
believes in the Virgin Birth, the
Second Coming or maybe even
the Resurrection of Jesus Christ,
“as long as you believe that the
Bible says you can’t play a
“Are there any other kind of
Christians?” I asked myself.
Alas, I know the answer …
But back on topic: Have you
seen any other major
mainstream coverage of the
LifeWay survey? Do you agree
that there’s a religion ghost in
the lack of headlines? Is it time
for the media to get spiritual?
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piano in church.” That’s
overstating matters things, to
say the least. But reporters and
editors in the Southwest have to
find a way to deal with style
issues of this kind.
OK, folks in Church of Christ
pews and pulpits: What think
ye? What word was The
Oklahoman supposed to have
used in this case?
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Remember Microsoft’s
Courier? Well, You Can
Forget About It
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 5:03:39 AM
Microsoft’s Courier was
supposed to be the tablet of the
future, Microsoft’s answer (and
challenger) to Apple’s iPad,
with two screens, multi-touch
support, camera and a bunch of
other goodies.
But now, close on the heels of a
rumor that HP might be giving
up on a Windows 7-powered
tablet, we know that Courier
wasn’t meant to be. With its
demise the inevitable truth
comes out: All those devices
that were supposed to “kill” the
iPad now have to be rethought
and redesigned, because no one
was really sure what Apple
planned to do with the iPad.
Sure, it now seems obvious (it’s
a big iPhone, duh), but history
repeats: When iPhone came out,
it took the competition years to
catch up.
It’s simple, really. Although
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Windows 7 has touch support,
no version of Windows was
really designed to offer an
experience similar to the iPad.
Now, it’s back to the drawing
board for companies that
planned to release an iPad killer.
For HP, the drawing board will
probably be webOS; for others,
it may be Android. Still, once
again it might take some time
until the competition catches up
with the iPad.
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What Twitter’s New Ad Model Could Mean for Small
Business
Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
Submitted at 4/30/2010 9:38:07 AM
This post originally appeared
on the American Express OPEN
Forum, where Mashable
regularly contributes articles
about leveraging social media
and technology in small
business.
Twitter has finally answered a
big piece of the long running
question of how it plans to make
money. At Ad Age’s Digital
Conference in New York, the
company revealed “Promoted
Tweets,” an advertising system
that will allow businesses to
have their tweets highlighted in
search results, and eventually, in
the Twitter stream and third-
party applications.
The platform is currently being
piloted by a number of big
brands – it’s not yet self-serve
like Google AdWords or
Facebook’s advertising
offerings. Nonetheless, there’s
much to be excited about, and
looking at Promoted Tweets in
light of other recent
developments at Twitter, there’s
a ton of potential for what the
platform could one day mean for
small businesses. What It Is
Thousands of companies –
large and small – are already on
Twitter. Promoted Tweets
introduces a way for these
businesses to gain extra
exposure for their messages. For
example, if you own a coffee
shop, when a user searches for
“coffee” on Twitter, you’ll
conceivably be able to have a
tweet from your business sit
atop the results.
However, these ads shouldn’t
be thought of like traditional
forms of online advertising, like
a banner or even a text link in
search, but rather an extension
of what you’re already doing on
Twitter. Promoted Tweets will
sink or swim – quite literally –
based on the response they get
from users.
In a system that Twitter is
calling “resonance,” ads will be
judged based on how users
engage with them, through
actions like replies, retweets and
clicks. If an ad doesn’t get
enough engagement, it will be
removed from the system.
The key to making effective use
of Promoted Tweets, then, will
be to create the same type of
engaging messages you already
do organically on your account,
investing some money into the
system when you have a
particular tweet that you’d like
to give an extra push. Location
Currently, big global brands
like Best Buy, Starbucks and
JetBlue are testing Promoted
Tweets. However, for the
platform to be useful to small
businesses – especially those
that are primarily brick-and-
mortar – you’ll need the ability
to target Promoted Tweets based
on location. While Twitter
hasn’t yet announced this
capability, there’s reason to
believe it will eventually be part
of the platform.
Twitter has already made its
“trending topics” feature
location-based, so you can see
what people in your city are
talking about. The
microblogging service now also
lets users attach their location to
every tweet, and its advanced
search features let users filter to
find tweets near them. As its
location features continue to
evolve and gain adoption,
expect them to become a part of
the Promoted Tweets platform.
Mobile
Until recently, applications for
using Twitter on mobile phones
were all developed by third-
parties. But in April, the
company releases its own
BlackBerry app, acquired the
company that makes
Tweetie(which will become
Twitter for iPhone), and
announced plans for an Android
application. Expect these
applications to be GPS-enabled
– meaning they’ll know a user’s
location – and in turn create an
opportunity for businesses to
target Promoted Tweets based
on a user’s whereabouts. More
to Come
We’re still at the dawn of
Twitter’s monetization plans.
Until Promoted Tweets are
available to more advertisers
and become a part of the Twitter
stream, the impact of the
platform will be fairly limited in
the small business realm.
Nonetheless, there’s plenty of
reason to believe that Twitter’s
Social Media/ 75
ad model could evolve into a
staple of the small business
online marketing mix, creating
an unprecedented opportunity to
communicate with current and
potential nearby customers in
real-time.
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More business resources from
Mashable:
- How Companies Should
Approach the New Twitter
Advertising Model
- How One Small Biz Turned
Their Company Retreat Into
Social Media Success
- Growing Your Business: 5
Tips From the Founder of
Foursquare
- 5 Essential Apps for Your
Business’s Facebook Fan Page
- HOW TO: Implement a Social
Media Business Strategy
Tags: advertising, business,
Promoted Tweets, small
business, social media, social
media marketing, twitter
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Turn Your iPad into a Moving

Landscape with Magic Window
Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!) to the latest Microsoft
Submitted at 4/29/2010 11:59:19 PM development tools, as well as
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