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Zimmerman defence posts video account of shootings - BBC News

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George Zimmerman returned at the scene of the shooting Lawyers for a Florida neighbourhood watchman who killed an unarmed black teenager have released a video of him giving his account to police at the scene of the shooting. In the clip, George Zimmerman says he pulled his gun and shot Trayvon Martin as the teen tried to get his weapon. On Wednesday, the police chief in the Orlando suburb of Sanford was fired for his handling of the investigation. February's shooting spurred a debate on racial profiling that divided the US. Mr Zimmerman faces seconddegree murder charges over the 17-year-old's death. [unable to retrieve full-text content]
The 28-year-old appears in the video, taken the day after the shooting, with two butterfly bandages on the back of his head and another on his nose.'Slamming and slamming' He re-enacts a fight with Martin, saying the teenager was "slamming and slamming" his head on the sidewalk. "It felt like my head was going to explode," he says, adding that Martin covered his mouth when he started screaming for help. In the video, Mr Zimmerman tells police a fight ensued when Martin confronted him. His defence team has used a website to post information favourable to their case and to attract donations for his legal costs. On Wednesday, Sanford city fired police chief Bill Lee, who announced in March he was [unable to retrieve full-text content]
temporarily stepping aside. Florida police did not arrest Mr Zimmerman for six weeks after the shooting because he said he opened fire in self-defence. Under Florida's the state's controversial "stand your ground" law, the use of lethal force is allowed if a person feels seriously under threat. [unable to retrieve full-text content]
perjury charge alleging she knowingly made false statements about the couple's finances during a hearing. Previously released recordings show Mr Zimmerman telling a police dispatcher he thought Martin looked suspicious. The teenager, who was a visitor to the area, was walking back home from a nearby convenience store when the fatal confrontation happened. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is Also on Wednesday, police your content and you're reading it released, the teenager's father, on someone else's site, please read reporting his son missing the the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentmorning after the shooting. only/faq.php#publishers. Five Mr Zimmerman is back in prison Filters recommends: Donate to after his bail was revoked. A Wikileaks. Florida judge ruled that he had misled the court about his finances. The accused's wife faces a
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Spain borrowing costs soar as EU ponders bank aid

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By Paul Day and Jan Strupczewski MADRID/LUXEMBOURG| Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:31am EDT (Reuters) - Spain's medium-term borrowing costs spiraled to a euro -era record at an auction on Thursday, hours before an independent audit was due to reveal how big a capital hole in Spanish banks needs to be filled by a euro zone bailout. Euro zone finance ministers will discuss later in the day how to channel up to 100 billion euros ($126 billion) in rescue loans to Spanish lenders weighed down by bad loans from a burst property bubble. Many in the markets see the package as a mere prelude to a full program for the Spanish state. Spain's financial weakness is in focus a week before a European Union summit tackles long-term plans for closer fiscal and banking union in an effort to strengthen the euro's foundations, after bailouts for Greece, Ireland and Portugal failed to end a 2-1/2-year old debt crisis. To pave the way for that, the leaders of Germany, Italy, France and Spain will meet in Rome on Friday. Madrid sold 2.2 billion euros in medium-term bonds and attracted
strong demand. But yields on 5year paper rose to a 15-year high of 6.07 percent, a level regarded by analysts as unaffordable for any prolonged period. The runaway Spanish yields contrasted with a French auction in which the yield on 5-year benchmark paper hit an all-time low of 1.43 percent. "The first worry is can they (Spain) fund from the markets? They raised 2.2 billion versus a 2 billion target, so they can raise the money," said Achilleas Georgolopoulos, a strategist at Lloyds in London. "Then the (question is), are the yields threatening for the medium term? And yes, clearly they are much higher than the previous auction ... But still they can continue for a few months to fund at these levels." Two independent auditors are due to deliver a report to the Spanish government later on Thursday on the recapitalization needs of the banking sector following last month's sudden nationalization of Bankia, the fourth biggest lender. Economy Minister Luis de Guindos will present the findings to euro zone colleagues meeting in Luxembourg from 1200 EDT. Banking sources believe the report will say the lenders need to raise a further 60-70 billion euros.
However, a formal request for assistance may only come on Friday when Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti. "NO DEBT MUTUALISATION" The finance ministers will discuss which of the euro zone's rescue funds - the temporary European Financial Stability Fund or the permanent European Stability Mechanism - will lend Spain the money. This matters to investors because ESM loans would be senior to other Spanish borrowing, meaning private bondholders would face first losses in any debt writedown. The ministers are also expected to ponder the next steps with Greece, following the formation of a coalition of mainstream parties committed to the country's 130 billion euro EU/IMF bailout but determined to renegotiate some of the terms. Athens will ask lenders for two more years to hit fiscal targets and an extension to unemployment benefits as it seeks to soften the punishing terms of the bailout saving the country from bankruptcy, a party official said. Greek officials have said this would entail an extra 16-20 billion euros in foreign funding. It
sets up a showdown with Greece's euro zone partners, in particular paymaster Germany, which have offered modifications but no radical re-write of the conditions attached to the lifeline agreed in March. "We can always discuss conditions of the loan. But let us not forget one thing: This is not one-way development aid," Luxembourg Finance Minister Luc Frieden told Reuters Insider television. RESCUE FUND TO THE RESCUE? The German government and opposition reached a deal on growth that will allow parliament to approve the euro zone's permanent bailout scheme next week, but Germany's top court may delay the rescue fund's start date scheduled for July 1, saying it needed time to study the treaty. The ESM cannot go into effect without approval by Europe's biggest economy. Ratification also requires the signature of the president and a nod from the constitutional court in Karlsruhe. The euro zone ministers may also consider a suggestion by Monti, made on the sidelines of this week's G20 summit, to use the euro zone's rescue funds to buy the bonds of Spain and Italy in the secondary market to bring down their borrowing costs.
Merkel has played down the idea, which investors said might be counter-productive unless the ECB stepped in decisively in support. Any cash injection would come with strings attached, equivalent to the sort of bailout programs that Italy and Spain are trying to avoid because of the stigma attached. "Right now we have no requests to buy via the EFSF/ESM, Spanish or Italian bonds," Frieden said. But he added: "We have funds available if necessary to help those countries in need ... We will do whatever is necessary to make sure that this zone, which is in trouble, will remain in the medium and long term a stable monetary union." Given the limited capacity of the temporary EFSF and planned permanent ESM rescue funds, with at most 500 billion euros available, a senior EU source said such intervention would make sense only if the ESM had a banking license enabling it to borrow from the ECB. Germany has so far opposed that idea. The parliamentary floor leader of Merkel's conservatives appeared to dash French and southern European hopes of nudging Berlin SPAIN page 7
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Manufacturing growth slows, labor market struggling

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People participate in a job fair in New York June 11, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Eric Thayer By Lucia Mutikani and Steven C. Johnson WASHINGTON| Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:15am EDT (Reuters) - Manufacturing grew in June at its slowest pace in 11 months and hiring in the sector slowed as overseas demand for U.S. products waned, an industry survey showed on Thursday. The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits was also little changed last week, according to the U.S. Labor Department. Financial information firm Markit said its U.S. "flash" manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index fell to 52.9 from 54.0 in May. The June reading was the lowest since last July although it stayed above 50, indicating expansion in activity. For the second straight month, weaker demand from Europe and large emerging markets such as China dented sales. Markit said U.S. manufacturers reported the second largest decline in new export orders since September 2009. The index's new orders component fell to 54.1 from 54.6.
Manufacturing has been one of the strongest links in an otherwise frail U.S. economic recovery, but Markit said weaker overseas demand may be starting to slow hiring in the sector. The employment component fell in June to 53.1, reflecting the weakest rate of hiring in eight months. It stood at 54.3 at the end of May. "The impact of weak sales on employment is a key concern," said Markit chief economist Chris Williamson. "The close fit of the survey data with non-farm payroll number suggests that the official (employment) data for June will show a further weakening of the labor market." Job growth in the United States slowed sharply for a third consecutive month in May and the unemployment rate rose for the first time in nearly a year. The "flash," or preliminary reading, is based on replies from about 85 percent of the U.S. manufacturers surveyed. Markit's final reading will be released on the first business day of the following month. The Institute for Supply Management, which publishes a separate monthly manufacturing survey, releases its June index on July 2. ISM's May index showed slower growth in the sector despite a sharp rise in new orders.
JOBLESS CLAIMS SHOW US L A B O R M A R K E T S T R U G G L I N G In other data on Thursday, the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits was little changed last week, according to government data on Thursday that suggested the labor market was struggling to regain momentum. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits slipped 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 387,000, the Labor Department said. The prior week's figure was revised up to 389,000 from the previously reported 386,000. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims falling to 380,000 last week. The four-week moving average for new claims, considered a better measure of labor market trends, increased 3,500 to 386,250 - the highest level since early December. The claims data covered the survey week for June's nonfarm payrolls and the report pointed to little or no improvement on the paltry 69,000 jobs added in May. Claims rose 15,000 between the May and June survey periods. "This confirms the weak labor market we have. I suspect we would see a modest rebound in payrolls in June but it would still be below 150,000. It's going to be another month of sub-par jobs
data," said Sam Bullard, a senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities in Charlotte, North Carolina. U.S. stock index futures were little changed on the data, while Treasury debt prices slightly trimmed earlier gains. The euro pared losses versus the dollar. Labor market weakness prompted the Federal Reserve on Wednesday to ease monetary policy further by extending a program to re-weight bonds it already holds toward longer maturities to hold down borrowing costs. The so-called Operation Twist, which was due to expire this month and will now run through the end of the year, was expanded by $267 billion. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. central bank had considerable scope to take further action and that a lack of sustained progress in the labor market would require it. Much of the recent weakness in the labor market has been due to a decline in hiring, rather than increased layoffs. Data on Tuesday showed job openings dropped to a five-month low in April, spread across all sectors of the economy. There are no jobs for more than two out of every three unemployed Americans.
New applications for unemployment benefits have barely budged since April. A Labor Department official said there was nothing unusual in the state-level data and only claims for New Jersey had been estimated. The number of people still receiving benefits under regular state programs after an initial week of aid was unchanged at 3.30 million in the week ended June 9. The number of people on extended benefits fell 24,638 to 110,864 in the week ended June 2, the latest week for which data is available, as more states lost eligibility for extended benefits for the long-term unemployed. Only six states and the District of Columbia were offering extended benefits during that period. Economists expect that as more people fall off the unemployment benefit rolls, that will push down the jobless rate as they are forced to take up jobs they would not normally have considered or drop out of the labor force. A total of 5.83 million people were claiming unemployment benefits during the week ending June 2 under all programs, down 1,164 from the previous week. (Editing by Clive McKeef) MANUFACTURING page 5
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President Obama's decision to assert executive privilege over Fast and Furious documents moments before contempt proceedings began against Attorney General Eric Holder did what might have seemed impossible -- raised even more questions about the botched gunwalking operation. Republicans already are seeking more than 70,000 additional documents to answer their existing questions. The executive privilege claim opened up a new avenue of probing. The immediate question was whether the documents contained information so damaging that the president was willing to risk the bad PR by moving to lock them down. GOP lawmakers also repeatedly suggested that the White House tipped its hand, and acknowledged being involved in Fast and Furious discussions by asserting privilege over the documents in question. "He's either part of it or he's not,"
Rep. Trey Gowdy, a feisty Republican lawmaker from South Carolina, challenged during Wednesday's committee meeting on Holder. "If (Obama's) part of it, then we've had a series of witnesses that have misled this
committee. And if he's not part of it, then he's got no business asserting executive privilege." House Speaker John Boehner's spokesman also said the move "implies" the White House was involved in the operation itself or
the coverup. Following up, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sent a letter to Obama Wednesday asking for a "more precise description" of the executive privilege claim. He asked whether Obama was
extending the claim to documents pertaining to "communications with you," or to Justice Department communications separate from the White House. EXECUTIVE page 5
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asserted executive privilege as its reason for withholding some of the documents requested by the U.S. Attorney General Eric Republican-controlled House of Holder listens to a question as he Representatives' Oversight and t e s t i f i e s b e f o r e t h e S e n a t e Government Reform Committee. Judiciary Committee on Capitol It set up yet another confrontation Hill in Washington June 12, 2012. between Democratic President Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst Barack Obama and the House, COPENHAGEN| Thu Jun 21, intensifying the bitter partisanship 2012 7:27am EDT that has prevailed in Washington (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric since just after Obama took office. Holder on Thursday dismissed as The botched operation was meant u n w a r r a n t e d a v o t e b y a to help law enforcement agents congressional committee to follow the flow of guns from charge him with contempt of Arizona into Mexico, but they lost C o n g r e s s a f t e r t h e O b a m a track of many of the weapons, a d m i n i s t r a t i o n w i t h h e l d which later were involved in documents related to a failed gun- crimes. running investigation. Holder told a news conference he "The action that the committee remained optimistic the conflict took yesterday was unwarranted, with the committee could still be unnecessary and unprecedented," resolved on the basis of the he said after meeting European administration's proposal. Union justice officials in the "We put before the committee a Danish capital. proposal that would have allowed The contempt move comes after for the resolution of that matter t h e O b a m a a d m i n i s t r a t i o n consistent with the way in which
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The White House and Justice Department, though, downplayed the potential implications of the executive privilege claim. Justice Department officials noted that the assertion does not these have been resolved in the have to pertain to communications past, through negotiation," he involving the president or White said. House staff. Any "deliberative "I think that the possibility still communications" among officials exists that it can happen in that in the Executive Branch, they way," he said. "The House said, could be covered. leadership has to consider now In other words, they argued that what they will do, so we'll see just because Obama is locking how it works out." down the documents doesn't mean In theory, an official charged he had anything to do with the with contempt could be punished Fast and Furious discussions. with a fine or jail, but no one Executive privilege has been expects it to come to that. Weeks invoked 24 times since the or months of controversy feeding presidency of Ronald Reagan. into the presidential election This was Obama's first time campaign is the more likely result. asserting it. (Reporting by John Acher; Republican lawmakers, who so Editing by Alison Williams, far have been given 7,600 Susan Heavey and David documents, are looking Brunnstrom) specifically for information from This entry passed through the February 2011 and beyond that Full-Text RSS service if this is follow a Justice Department letter your content and you're reading it which erroneously claimed the on someone else's site, please read department did not allow guns to the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content"walk" across the Mexico border. only/faq.php#publishers. Five The department later retracted Filters recommends: Donate to that claim. Wikileaks. After the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted Wednesday to hold Holder in contempt of Congress, committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., told Fox News there's still time to avert a floor vote on the contempt resolution. Republicans could abandon the vote if they receive documents
which they feel satisfy the subpoena. Holder is not considered held in contempt unless and until the full House votes. Both the White House and Justice Department slammed the committee vote Wednesday as political. Holder, in Denmark, reportedly called the move "unwarranted, unnecessary and unprecedented." Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Related Stories House panel backs contempt for Holder, Issa says floor vote can still be avoided Share This Article Newsletter Signup Sign up for free e-mail news alerts from FoxNews.com and FoxBusiness.com. Newsletter Signup This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Video of Karen Klein, elderly school bus monitor, being Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:39:34 AM verbally abused goes viral, sparks Play CBS News Video charity (CBS News) Karen Klein wasn't Klein, who drove a bus for 20 having the best of days when she years, kept her cool. But she told was recently bullied by a bus full C B S a f f i l i a t e W R O C o n e of students from Greece, N.Y. comment really hurt. The middle school students In the video, a student is heard teased, taunted and threatened the saying, "But you don't have a 68-year-old school bus monitor. family because they all killed The incident was caught on video, themselves because they didn't posted on YouTube, and instantly want to be near you." went viral -outraging viewers. "Something about me being so fat The students, between ages 12 and ugly your kids probably and 13, can be heard heckling should commit suicide," Klein Klein - calling her "a troll" and told WROC. "I don't think they asking aloud why there's water knew my son had....I wanted to running down her face. punch them is what I wanted to "I'm crying," Klein said on the do. So that's why I laid back, tried video. "Unless you don't have to ignore it. Because I really something nice to say, don't say wanted to hurt them, you know? anything at all." You can't do that!"
A family friend started a fund to send Klein on vacation, with a modest goal of $5,000. But as word spread online, the fund exploded. So far, it's raised more than $140,000 and is still growing. Klein said she doesn't want the students to be criminally charged. But she wouldn't mind seeing them grounded all summer. And if nothing else, she just wants a simple apology. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Greece's newly appointed Prime Minister Antonis Samaras (C), Leader of the Democratic Left party Fotis Kouvelis (2ndL), Greece's National Bank chairman Vassilis Rapanos (L), and leader of Socialist PASOK party Evangelos Venizelos (AFP Photo / Louisa Gouiamaki) The new Greek Government is due to ask international lenders for a two year extension on the bailout terms in order to balance between public demands for a softer austerity policy and pressure from the Troika. -The document calling for two more years to the 2014 deadline for Greece to reduce its budget deficit to 2.1% from 9.3% in 2011 was agreed between officials of the coalition government including the conservative New Democracy party, which won a majority on Sunday, and its allies, the PASOK socialists and Democratic Left, Reuters reports. The government reportedly plans
to renegotiate a 22% cut of the minimum wage of 750 euro as well as to extend the payment of jobless benefits to two years from one. Meanwhile the line-up of the new government is expected to be unveiled later on Thursday, while New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras was sworn in on Wednesday as Greece's new Prime Minister after meeting with President Karolos Papoulias. The country faces challenges while discussing possible term breaks as its main lender Germany is resisting any changes in the bailout terms. The new government is feeling growing public pressure against the harsh austerity terms, including pension cuts and lay-offs. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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towards common euro area debt issuance, saying there would be no mutualisation of debt in Europe. On Friday, finance ministers of the 27-nation EU will take their first stab at starting to forge a banking union, seen as a crucial step to support troubled lenders and the euro. Germany is happy to give the ECB more power to supervise cross-border banks but has so far balked at a joint deposit guarantee to deter bank runs or a resolution fund to deal with failing banks. (Additional reporting by Leigh Thomas in Paris, Nigel Davies
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Pilot who defected Syria on Mi25 fighter jet granted asylum in Jordan Jordan has granted asylum to a Syrian pilot who deffected from his country on a fighter jet. -The Russian-made MiG-21 landed at the King Hussein Air Base in Mafraq, a northern Jordanian town near the Syrian border. A spokesman for the rebel Free Syrian Army, Ahmad Kassem, said the plane had
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The Playoff System That College Football Is About To Adopt Could Be An Utter Disaster
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as separating No. 4 from No. 5, whereas it would be much easier to differentiate the top-10 or topSubmitted at 6/21/2012 9:08:47 AM 20 from the rest. The BCS could approve a four- Take a look at how the BCS t e a m p l a y o f f n e x t w e e k , rankings looked over the last two appeasing fans who feel the years, just after conference current BCS model of selecting championship week (when a the two best teams in the nation is committee would select the four an unfair and controversial task. teams for a playoff, under the Well, selecting the top-four teams proposed new model): won't be any less unfair or 2011: controversial. 1. LSU The BCS is setting itself up for 2. Alabama more criticism by the time the 3. Oklahoma State 2014 season rolls around. 4. Stanford Given the overall strength of 5. Oregon college football, there will always 6. Arkansas be at least four teams with very 7. Boise State good records, and there will likely be a few teams from small Retrospectively, LSU and conferences with outstanding Alabama were clearly the top two records (see: Boise State over the teams in the nation and deserved last six years, TCU in 2010 or to be in the national championship Utah in 2004 or 2008). game. After those two, however, Even with a playoff, all the same the argument that a four-team debates about how to value wins playoff would have done the rest in a power conference over wins of the nation justice doesn't hold. in mid-major conference, or if one Oklahoma State and Stanford loss in the SEC is still better to a faced off in a closely contested perfect season in the Big East, Fiesta Bowl that neither team remain. looked particularly impressive in. The fact is, separating No. 2 from Oregon put up 621 yards of No. 3 in the nation is just as hard offense in a Rose Bowl win over
Wisconsin. Arkansas rolled over Kansas State in the Cotton Bowl and Boise State beat Arizona State by 32 points in the MAACO Bowl. Given how each team performed in their respective bowl games, it is impossible to say that Oklahoma State or Stanford the two teams that would have been included in a four-team playoff would have definitely beaten Oregon, Arkansas or Boise State in a playoff game.
2010: 1. Auburn 2. Oregon 3. TCU 4. Stanford 5. Wisconsin 6. Ohio State 7. Oklahoma 2010 seems like a year that would fit a four-team playoff, but the impressive finishes by No. 6 Ohio State and No. 7 Oklahoma bring in some doubt.
Auburn beat Oregon in a thrilling national championship game, while TCU edged Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl and Stanford annihilated Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl. Ohio State paid the price for an October loss on the road at Wisconsin, but won every game after that and rode Terrell Pryor to a Sugar Bowl win over Arkansas. Oklahoma ended its season on a five-game winning streak and crushed UConn in the Fiesta Bowl. Boise State, which was No. 10 in the BCS ranking at the time, would have gone undefeated if not for a overtime loss on the road to another ranked team in November. Until a wide range of teams is given a shot to prove their worth at the end of the season, the college football world will always be bickering over the national championship. Please follow Sports Page on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story
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The Colorado Rockies were 16 games under .500 and had given up the most runs in baseball, by a lot, so they tried something different. The experiment: A four-man starting rotation with each starter on a 75 pitch limit. After the pitch limit is reached, the Rockies turn the ball over to a set of longer relievers to ease the strain on a bullpen and rotation that's been affected by injury. In the final innings they go to their set-up men and closer. "I felt we had to do something
non-conventional," Tracy told the Denver Post."I was given the opportunity to tweak this. We are going to see what transpires as we move forward." Though it wasn't announced until Wednesday, the plan essentially
began on Tuesday when Josh Outman was lifted after 72 pitches. Last night, the first official night of the experiment, starting pitcher Alex White was taken out after exactly 75 pitches and Jeremy
Guthrie, now in the bullpen, pitched three scoreless innings of relief. They also plan on using former starter Guillermo Moscoso in relief and will turn Josh Roenicke, a reliever, into a starter. The Rockies still lost 7-6, but it's refreshing to see a new approach for a team that's struggling so mightily anyway. Will any other team adopt this? Probably not. But it'll sure be fun to watch while the team tries it. Please follow Sports Page on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story
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WPP Will Spend 10 Nepal's Crisis Times More With Google Has Region on Than Facebook This Year Edge
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WPP CEO Martin Sorrell sat down with The Guardian at Cannes and reiterated his concerns over Facebook, while giving few details into the world's largest advertising firm's spending plans for 2012. "I believe Facebook is the best or one of the best branding mechanisms in the world but I don't think it is necessarily an advertising medium." said Sorrell. Sorrell once again said WPP plans to spend about $400 million on Facebook this year, double what it spent in 2011. But even WPP acknowledges doubling spending still doesn't it bring it to any major level for a company that spends $65 billion annually, or almost one third of all ad agency spending.
The Guardian quoted one WPP senior exec saying, "The $400m on Facebook might look big but it is pretty small change, entry level spending for WPP." Sorrell said WPP plans to spend $2 billion with Google this year, up from $1.6 billion this past year. WPP's spending accounts for roughly 5% of the revenue for both companies.
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Less than a month after Nepals Constituent Assembly was dissolved following its failure to draft a new constitution despite three extensions, the countrys largest and ruling Maoist party split this week. Discord and delay have characterized the countrys ongoing peace process since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Accord between the government and Maoist rebels in November 2006. They have now led to a political crisis that has disillusioned citizens and made neighboring India and China edgy. The split in the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-
Maoist is expected to exacerbate Nepals already bumpy transition from a Hindu monarchy to a democracy. While interparty disagreements on whether Nepal should adopt an ethnic federalism and keep its parliamentary system of government resulted in the dissolution of the constituent assembly on May 28, the Maoist split now reveals faultlines within the ruling party. ... This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Crater at Moon's south pole is laced with ice, says Nasa

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Nasa astronomers believe that a crater located on the Moon's
south pole is laced with ice, based on surprising data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft. Shackleton crater is more than
three kilometres deep and about
20 kilometres wide. Due to the By: Mark Brown, Edited by: meagre tilt of the lunar spin axis, Duncan Geere Continue reading... the interior of this south pole crater is permanently dark and extremely cold.
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The Big 'IF': Despite Contempt Vote, Holder Still Can Avoid House Action
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Eric Holder facing full House contempt vote Congressional panel votes to hold AG in contempt Rep. Ryan: Holder brought this upon himself A House panel voted Wednesday in favor of holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, a move that inflamed partisan rancor on Capitol Hill and sets up the possibility of legal action against the attorney general himself. Holder has not yet been formally held in contempt of Congress. The full House would still need to approve the resolution in order for that to happen --Rep. Issa, RCalif., suggested the vote can be avoided if the attorney general turns over more emails and memos about the botched antigunrunning operation Fast and Furious. Sources say other House Republican officials are also willing end to a potential constitutional confrontation if the documents are released. But the 23-17 party-line vote on
the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee marked a significant turn in lawmakers' 16-month investigation into operation Fast and Furious. With the vote, Republicans on the committee signaled they had exhausted all other means to extract sought-
after documents from the Justice Department -- though Democrats had insisted there was still an opportunity to sort out the mess without a contempt vote. "We and the American people need answers sooner, not later," said Issa, chairman of the committee.
GOP House leadership has given Issa the green light to proceed how he sees fit, sources told Fox News, which suggests the vote would reach the House floor. Issa pressed ahead with the vote Wednesday despite an eleventhhour move by President Obama to assert executive privilege over the
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hunt" and Republicans stepped up their criticism of Holder's "stonewalling" over the Fast and Furious probe. Even for Washington, the tone at the hearing was decidedly bitter and accusatory. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., shouted while rattling off his complaints against the Justice Department. On the other side, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., ranking Democrat on the committee, offered an impassioned defense of the attorney general even as he and other Democrats acknowledged Fast and Furious was severely flawed. "I don't think he's hiding a damn thing," Cummings said of Holder shortly before the contempt vote. Democrats roundly voiced disappointment with the proceedings, describing them as politically motivated and avoidable. They pleaded with Issa to seriously consider Obama's executive privilege claim -- the first Obama has asserted -- while some said Holder was being punished for withholding internal documents he shouldn't be turning over anyway. Republicans praised Issa for pressing ahead, describing the vote as entirely unavoidable considering the department's alleged refusal to cooperate. They frequently invoked the name of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry -Fast and Furious-linked guns were found at the scene of Terry's murder in 2010. And Issa indicated he was waiting for a
more detailed explanation from the White House, and a letter from Obama himself, before even considering changing course based on the executive privilege claim. Issa also accused the Justice Department of trying to compel the committee to close its investigation in exchange for documents it hasn't yet seen. "I can't accept that deal. No other committee chairman would," he said. But Cummings fired back that Holder never made such a demand -- a Justice official also refuted Issa's claim -- and said the attorney general had come to the committee in "good faith" to try and work out an agreement. Cummings said the contempt vote has "diminished" the prestige of the panel. "For the past year, you've been holding the attorney general to an impossible standard," he said, addressing Issa. "Mr. Chairman, it did not have to be this way. It really didn't." Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., added that she was "horrified" by the panel's looming vote, calling it a "political witch hunt" and accusing Republicans of "overruling" the president. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was first informed of the president's decision to assert executive privilege over the disputed Fast and Furious documents in a letter Wednesday morning, shortly before the contempt vote was scheduled.
Issa said the committee's staff was evaluating the letter but described the move as too little, too late, as he and other GOP lawmakers questioned the basis for the assertion. "This untimely assertion by the Justice Department falls short of any reason to delay today's proceedings," Issa said. The committee, while voting down several Democratic amendments to the resolution, later approved a GOP amendment designating Obama's executive privilege claim as inappropriate. The move by Holder and Obama to lock down some requested documents only complicates the fight between the legislative and executive branches over the botched anti-gunrunning operation. After Holder made the request to Obama via letter on Tuesday, Deputy Attorney General James Cole wrote to Issa on Wednesday informing him that the president had granted the request. "We regret that we have arrived at this point, after the many steps we have taken to address the committee's concerns and to accommodate the committee's legitimate oversight interests regarding Operation Fast and Furious," Cole wrote. "Although we are deeply disappointed that the committee appears intent on proceeding with a contempt vote, the department remains willing to work with the committee to reach a mutually satisfactory resolution of the outstanding issues." Obama's decision pertains to
documents from February 2011 and afterward examining how Justice officials learned about the Fast and Furious probe. Holder, in his letter to Obama requesting he assert executive privilege, said those documents pertain to the "deliberative process" on how to respond to congressional and media inquiries. In a statement released late Wednesday, Holder accused Issa of rejecting all efforts to "reach a reasonable accommodation." "Instead, he has chosen to use his authority to take an extraordinary, unprecedented and entirely unnecessary action, intended to provoke an avoidable conflict between Congress and the Executive Branch," Holder said. "This divisive action does not help us fix the problems that led to this operation or previous ones and it does nothing to make any of our law enforcement agents safer. It's an election-year tactic intended to distract attention -- and, as a result -- has deflected critical resources from fulfilling what remains my top priority at the Department of Justice: Protecting the American people." Holder said claims that his department was unresponsive are "untrue." White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer also called the vote "a politically motivated, taxpayer-funded election-year fishing expedition." But Issa countered with a statement asserting the vote was
"not the outcome I had hoped for." He said it "would not have occurred had Attorney General Eric Holder actually produced the subpoenaed documents he said he could provide." Wednesday's developments follow a flurry of activity Tuesday, as Holder tried to negotiate a way to avert the contempt proceedings. Issa had earlier indicated a willingness to postpone the vote after Holder indicated a willingness to make compromises and supply some documents in response to House Republicans' subpoena. But Issa told reporters after a roughly 20-minute meeting with Holder on Tuesday that the attorney general instead briefed them on the documents in lieu of delivering them. Issa told Fox News that Holder didn't provide "anything in writing." Issa further said during the committee meeting Wednesday that the purpose of the probe "has never been to hold the attorney general in contempt." He said the committee had an aide on Capitol Hill all night in the hope that the Justice Department might send over documents to the panel. The failed Fast and Furious operation attempted selling thousands of guns to arms dealers along the U.S.-Mexico border to trace them to leaders of drug cartels. However, many of them showed up at crime scenes. Congressional investigators have been trying to BIG page 17
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Spain borrowing costs soar as EU ponders bank aid

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By Paul Day and Jan Strupczewski MADRID/LUXEMBOURG| Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:31am EDT (Reuters) - Spain's medium-term borrowing costs spiraled to a euro -era record at an auction on Thursday, hours before an independent audit was due to reveal how big a capital hole in Spanish banks needs to be filled by a euro zone bailout. Euro zone finance ministers will discuss later in the day how to channel up to 100 billion euros ($126 billion) in rescue loans to Spanish lenders weighed down by bad loans from a burst property bubble. Many in the markets see the package as a mere prelude to a full program for the Spanish state. Spain's financial weakness is in focus a week before a European Union summit tackles long-term plans for closer fiscal and banking union in an effort to strengthen the euro's foundations, after bailouts for Greece, Ireland and Portugal failed to end a 2-1/2-year old debt crisis. To pave the way for that, the leaders of Germany, Italy, France and Spain will meet in Rome on Friday. Madrid sold 2.2 billion euros in medium-term bonds and attracted
strong demand. But yields on 5year paper rose to a 15-year high of 6.07 percent, a level regarded by analysts as unaffordable for any prolonged period. The runaway Spanish yields contrasted with a French auction in which the yield on 5-year benchmark paper hit an all-time low of 1.43 percent. "The first worry is can they (Spain) fund from the markets? They raised 2.2 billion versus a 2 billion target, so they can raise the money," said Achilleas Georgolopoulos, a strategist at Lloyds in London. "Then the (question is), are the yields threatening for the medium term? And yes, clearly they are much higher than the previous auction ... But still they can continue for a few months to fund at these levels." Two independent auditors are due to deliver a report to the Spanish government later on Thursday on the recapitalization needs of the banking sector following last month's sudden nationalization of Bankia, the fourth biggest lender. Economy Minister Luis de Guindos will present the findings to euro zone colleagues meeting in Luxembourg from 1200 EDT. Banking sources believe the report will say the lenders need to raise a further 60-70 billion euros.
However, a formal request for assistance may only come on Friday when Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti. "NO DEBT MUTUALISATION" The finance ministers will discuss which of the euro zone's rescue funds - the temporary European Financial Stability Fund or the permanent European Stability Mechanism - will lend Spain the money. This matters to investors because ESM loans would be senior to other Spanish borrowing, meaning private bondholders would face first losses in any debt writedown. The ministers are also expected to ponder the next steps with Greece, following the formation of a coalition of mainstream parties committed to the country's 130 billion euro EU/IMF bailout but determined to renegotiate some of the terms. Athens will ask lenders for two more years to hit fiscal targets and an extension to unemployment benefits as it seeks to soften the punishing terms of the bailout saving the country from bankruptcy, a party official said. Greek officials have said this would entail an extra 16-20 billion euros in foreign funding. It
sets up a showdown with Greece's euro zone partners, in particular paymaster Germany, which have offered modifications but no radical re-write of the conditions attached to the lifeline agreed in March. "We can always discuss conditions of the loan. But let us not forget one thing: This is not one-way development aid," Luxembourg Finance Minister Luc Frieden told Reuters Insider television. RESCUE FUND TO THE RESCUE? The German government and opposition reached a deal on growth that will allow parliament to approve the euro zone's permanent bailout scheme next week, but Germany's top court may delay the rescue fund's start date scheduled for July 1, saying it needed time to study the treaty. The ESM cannot go into effect without approval by Europe's biggest economy. Ratification also requires the signature of the president and a nod from the constitutional court in Karlsruhe. The euro zone ministers may also consider a suggestion by Monti, made on the sidelines of this week's G20 summit, to use the euro zone's rescue funds to buy the bonds of Spain and Italy in the secondary market to bring down their borrowing costs.
Merkel has played down the idea, which investors said might be counter-productive unless the ECB stepped in decisively in support. Any cash injection would come with strings attached, equivalent to the sort of bailout programs that Italy and Spain are trying to avoid because of the stigma attached. "Right now we have no requests to buy via the EFSF/ESM, Spanish or Italian bonds," Frieden said. But he added: "We have funds available if necessary to help those countries in need ... We will do whatever is necessary to make sure that this zone, which is in trouble, will remain in the medium and long term a stable monetary union." Given the limited capacity of the temporary EFSF and planned permanent ESM rescue funds, with at most 500 billion euros available, a senior EU source said such intervention would make sense only if the ESM had a banking license enabling it to borrow from the ECB. Germany has so far opposed that idea. The parliamentary floor leader of Merkel's conservatives appeared to dash French and southern European hopes of nudging Berlin SPAIN page 18
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Peacock Pride: NBC Silent About 'Wawagate' Furor

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They are editing at will and it doesnt matter that they are caught. My guess is that they will continue to do it, Bozell added. It's hard to believe the Peacock Former MSNBC anchor David is proud of its latest tape-editing Shuster said the network should gaffe. have owned up to its mistake. "Covering up Wawa video is bad Three days after one of its for accuracy," said Shuster, who highest-profile news anchors was guest hosting for Bill Press played manipulated video that on MSNBC competitor Current made Mitt Romney appear out of TV. "Digging in their heels, they touch with everyday voters, NBC have made this, instead of a oneofficials seem content to let the day story, a three-day story," he controversy die down without an said. apology or explanation. Writing in Investor's Business Other than issuing a terse, one- Daily, Andrew Malcolm recalled sentence statement late Tuesday similar distortions aimed at Dan afternoon, NBC has virtually Quayle and President George ignored what the blogosphere Bush. d u b b e d W a w a g a t e . T h e "The repetitive media meme for carefully-edited segment, aired on Republicans is 'out of touch,'" Monday's edition of "Andrea Malcolm wrote. "Well, this may M i t c h e l l R e p o r t s , " s p l i c e d be the best/worst one yet." together a Romney speech, Still, the network declined to making it appear that he was c o m m e n t o n W e d n e s d a y , expressing genuine amazement at apparently standing on a Tuesday a convenience store's use of s t a t e m e n t d e n y i n g a n y technology to take sandwich w r o n g d o i n g . o r d e r s . I n r e a l i t y , h e w a s "MSNBC did not edit anything facetiously comparing the tech- out of order or out of sequence savvy private sector to the clumsy and at no time did we intend to government bureaucracy. deceive our viewers," NBC All standards have gone out the spokeswoman Lauren Skowronski window, said Brent Bozell, said in a written statement president of the Media Research provided to FoxNews.com. Center, which compared the Romney's comment came on a edited MSNBC clip to unedited Pennsylvania campaign stop in video of the rally on YouTube. which he discussed ordering a
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sandwich at convenience chain Wawa. Its amazing," Romney said, as the Pennsylvania crowd appeared to laugh. Then viewers saw Romney say, "You have a touchtone keypad, and you touch that, touch this, go pay the cashier, theres your sandwich. Its amazing. They are editing at will and it doesnt matter that they are caught. My guess is that they [NBC News] will continue to do it." - -Brent Bozell After the clip, Mitchell and MSNBC contributor Chris Cillizza laughed out loud as Romney seemed to be in awe of the touchscreen menu board. What Romney actually was referring to as amazing was explained in the rest of the video that originally didnt make it to air. Viewers didn't see or hear was nearly three minutes of Romney discussing the nightmare of paperwork faced by an optometrist trying to get a change of address completed. He expressed mock amazement at Wawa's efficiency to underscore how the private sector often runs circles around the clumsy bureaucracy. "We went to Wawas and it was instructive to me, because I saw
the difference between the private sector and the governmental sector. People who work in government are good people and I respect what they do, but you see, the challenge with government is that it doesnt have competition, Romney said in a portion edited out of the segment. On the original broadcast, Mitchell compared Romneys gaffe to an old perceived campaign flub by George Bush Sr., who supposedly marveled at a supermarket scanner at a grocers' convention during his failed 1992 re-election bid. Even though Bush was actually impressed not by an ordinary scanner, but by a then state-of-the-art device that could weigh food and read damaged bar codes, the anecdote was reported by The New York Times and offered as evidence that Bush was out of touch with everyday Americans. Its so unnecessary. So trite to make the comparison to Bush 41 and the scanner gaffe, Bozell said, Officials for the Romney Campaign declined to comment on the matter. Requests for comment to multiple officials at MSNBC and parent company NBC Universal were not immediately returned. Wawagate is not the first time NBC has caught flack for their
news coverage in recent months. Last August, Ed Schultz of MSNBC played an edited clip in which then-presidential candidate Rick Perry described the national debt as a big black cloud that hangs over America to make it sound like a racial dig at President Obama. Schultz later apologized. And in March, NBC was caught editing the audio of George Zimmerman's 911 call as he watched Trayvon Martin in the minutes before he fatally shot the Florida teen. On a tape edited and played on the Today show, Zimmerman was heard calling Martin suspicious and volunteering that he was black. But the full, unedited tape showed that Zimmerman only mentioned Martins race when asked by the dispatcher. The result made it sound like Zimmerman was racially profiling Martin. The network fired three people after getting widespread criticism. Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Share This Article Newsletter Signup Sign up for free e-mail news PEACOCK page 18
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Manufacturing growth slows, labor market struggling

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People participate in a job fair in New York June 11, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Eric Thayer By Lucia Mutikani and Steven C. Johnson WASHINGTON| Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:15am EDT (Reuters) - Manufacturing grew in June at its slowest pace in 11 months and hiring in the sector slowed as overseas demand for U.S. products waned, an industry survey showed on Thursday. The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits was also little changed last week, according to the U.S. Labor Department. Financial information firm Markit said its U.S. "flash" manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index fell to 52.9 from 54.0 in May. The June reading was the lowest since last July although it stayed above 50, indicating expansion in activity. For the second straight month, weaker demand from Europe and large emerging markets such as China dented sales. Markit said U.S. manufacturers reported the second largest decline in new export orders since September 2009. The index's new orders component fell to 54.1 from 54.6.
Manufacturing has been one of the strongest links in an otherwise frail U.S. economic recovery, but Markit said weaker overseas demand may be starting to slow hiring in the sector. The employment component fell in June to 53.1, reflecting the weakest rate of hiring in eight months. It stood at 54.3 at the end of May. "The impact of weak sales on employment is a key concern," said Markit chief economist Chris Williamson. "The close fit of the survey data with non-farm payroll number suggests that the official (employment) data for June will show a further weakening of the labor market." Job growth in the United States slowed sharply for a third consecutive month in May and the unemployment rate rose for the first time in nearly a year. The "flash," or preliminary reading, is based on replies from about 85 percent of the U.S. manufacturers surveyed. Markit's final reading will be released on the first business day of the following month. The Institute for Supply Management, which publishes a separate monthly manufacturing survey, releases its June index on July 2. ISM's May index showed slower growth in the sector despite a sharp rise in new orders.
JOBLESS CLAIMS SHOW US L A B O R M A R K E T S T R U G G L I N G In other data on Thursday, the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits was little changed last week, according to government data on Thursday that suggested the labor market was struggling to regain momentum. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits slipped 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 387,000, the Labor Department said. The prior week's figure was revised up to 389,000 from the previously reported 386,000. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims falling to 380,000 last week. The four-week moving average for new claims, considered a better measure of labor market trends, increased 3,500 to 386,250 - the highest level since early December. The claims data covered the survey week for June's nonfarm payrolls and the report pointed to little or no improvement on the paltry 69,000 jobs added in May. Claims rose 15,000 between the May and June survey periods. "This confirms the weak labor market we have. I suspect we would see a modest rebound in payrolls in June but it would still be below 150,000. It's going to be another month of sub-par jobs
data," said Sam Bullard, a senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities in Charlotte, North Carolina. U.S. stock index futures were little changed on the data, while Treasury debt prices slightly trimmed earlier gains. The euro pared losses versus the dollar. Labor market weakness prompted the Federal Reserve on Wednesday to ease monetary policy further by extending a program to re-weight bonds it already holds toward longer maturities to hold down borrowing costs. The so-called Operation Twist, which was due to expire this month and will now run through the end of the year, was expanded by $267 billion. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. central bank had considerable scope to take further action and that a lack of sustained progress in the labor market would require it. Much of the recent weakness in the labor market has been due to a decline in hiring, rather than increased layoffs. Data on Tuesday showed job openings dropped to a five-month low in April, spread across all sectors of the economy. There are no jobs for more than two out of every three unemployed Americans.
New applications for unemployment benefits have barely budged since April. A Labor Department official said there was nothing unusual in the state-level data and only claims for New Jersey had been estimated. The number of people still receiving benefits under regular state programs after an initial week of aid was unchanged at 3.30 million in the week ended June 9. The number of people on extended benefits fell 24,638 to 110,864 in the week ended June 2, the latest week for which data is available, as more states lost eligibility for extended benefits for the long-term unemployed. Only six states and the District of Columbia were offering extended benefits during that period. Economists expect that as more people fall off the unemployment benefit rolls, that will push down the jobless rate as they are forced to take up jobs they would not normally have considered or drop out of the labor force. A total of 5.83 million people were claiming unemployment benefits during the week ending June 2 under all programs, down 1,164 from the previous week. (Editing by Clive McKeef) MANUFACTURING page 18
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Great Whites Taking a Bite Out of Cape Cod?

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A great white shark could be seen of the side of a research vessel of Cape Cod last year. Although no great white sharks have been sighted, researches say they have evidence to believe they're out there. MyFoxBoston.com Cue the Jaws theme. Just before vacationers and locals had enough time to lay out their beach towels and apply sun block, researchers near Cape Cod, Mass., warned swimmers to be on the lookout for great white sharks. There have been no great white sightings, but earlier this month scientists received radio signals from two sharks looming off the coast of Chatham, Mass. These sharks, along with six others, were tagged by researchers last summer to help study their migratory habits. To add to scientists earlier suspicions, an injured seal with large gashes on its torso was spotted floating in nearby waters. Great whites are famous for their
appetite for seals and theres nothing short of a seal buffet at the tip of the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, which is east of Chatham. The Chatham harbormaster told MyFoxBoston.com that he has been monitoring the situation, but says theres no immediate danger for swimmers. Stuart Smith, the harbormaster, said nearby Nantucket Sound beaches never had a shark detected. He said the focus is mainly on the beaches that sit along the ocean. In past years, beaches in the vicinity have been closed due to shark sightings. Last year alone, there were 35 great white shark sightings off Cape Cod. So researchers have decided to begin studying their habits. For example, these signals were picked up by strategically placed acoustic receivers last week, Cape CodOnline.com reported. These receivers were designed to enable researchers to determine when sharks enter or leave the waters. "The more tags we put out, hopefully the more we will be able to start seeing patterns and preferences in what these sharks
determine if and when high-level Justice officials knew about problems with the operation. After a day in which their son's name was repeatedly invoked, Terry's parents Josephine and like, and where they like to be," Kent Terry also released a John Chisolm, a shark biologist, statement Wednesday afternoon told MyFoxBoston.com. expressing disappointment with The Boston Herald reported that the administration's latest actions. researchers will be collecting "Attorney General Eric Holder's more data from buoys weekly and refusal to fully disclose the will be studying the information documents associated with further. Operation Fast and Furious and Click for more from President Obama's assertion of MyFoxBoston.com executive privilege serves to Click for more from compound this tragedy. It denies CapeCodOnline.com the Terry family and the Print American people the truth," they Email said. Share The Department of Justice has Comments adamantly defended its response. Recommend Holder said Issa rejected what he Tweet thought was "an extraordinary offer." Share This Article Newsletter Issa had demanded to see a trove Signup of documents on the controversial Sign up for free e-mail news Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, alerts from FoxNews.com and Firearms and Explosives FoxBusiness.com. Newsletter operation. He also wants to know Signup who prepared a now-retracted This entry passed through the letter from Feb. 4, 2011, in which Full-Text RSS service if this is the department claimed the U.S. your content and you're reading it did not knowingly help smuggle on someone else's site, please read guns to Mexico, including those the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentfound where Terry was killed. only/faq.php#publishers. Five The Associates Press contributed Filters recommends: Donate to to this report. Wikileaks. Print Email Share Comments
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Holder says contempt citation unwarranted

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towards common euro area debt issuance, saying there would be no mutualisation of debt in Europe. On Friday, finance ministers of the 27-nation EU will take their first stab at starting to forge a banking union, seen as a crucial step to support troubled lenders and the euro. Germany is happy to give the ECB more power to supervise cross-border banks but has so far balked at a joint deposit guarantee to deter bank runs or a resolution fund to deal with failing banks. (Additional reporting by Leigh Thomas in Paris, Nigel Davies
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Special Report Panel on Fast and Furious

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IIT Delhi rejects govt's Julian Assange: Foreign plan, to conduct own Office awaits decision from Ecuador - The Guardian test - IBNLive.com
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The Guardian Julian Assange: Foreign Office awaits decision from Ecuador The Guardian The Foreign Office says it expects a decision by Ecuador on Thursday on the fate of Julian Assange, who has taken refuge in the country's embassy in London and asked for political asylum to avoid extradition to Sweden. A
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The child sex abuse case that shook Penn State University and led to the ouster of beloved football coach Joe Paterno will soon be in the hands of a jury.
Gove 'O-Level' plan sparks uproar - Financial Times

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Moody's poised to downgrade UK banks

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The ratings agency Moody's is expected to downgrade some of Britain's biggest banks as early as this evening, as part of a broader
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Apple patents revealed for security, imaging, flash memory

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Apple is again trying to keep the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office busy with several new patents just revealed today. One patent dubbed"Securing the Implementation of a Cryptographic Process using Key Expansion" covers a method of improving the security behind encryption keys, as documented
by PatentlyApple. Another patent, known as"SpatioTemporal Color Luminance Dithering Techniques" addresses a way for dithering an image, or scattering their pixels, by tweaking the overall luminance. And a third patent called"Systems and Methods for Streaming Compressed Files via a Non-Volatile Memory" points to a way for non-volatile memory to decompress and directly stream
media files. Though perhaps not too sexy on the surface, these patents expose some of the many details that drive Apple's products. "These are the kinds of patents that take care of all the tiniest of details behind Apple's most popular products, processes and manufacturing," PatentlyApple explained. "They might not represent the visionary side of Apple, but they sure keep the
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WNYCs Radiolab Makes Mobile Debut With New iOS And Android Apps
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and short, a section that aggregates news from the Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:15:20 AM Radiolab website, and perhaps WNYCs Radiolab has garnered most intriguingly, the Make plenty of acclaim since its first section. shows went on the air back in From here, users get can involved 2002, and now thousands of fans with the show by responding to (including myself) tend to champ requests put out by the Radiolab at the bit in anticipation of hearing crew. Some of the live requests J a d A b u m r a d a n d R o b e r t are recurring necessities the Krulwich geek out on some new shows guests and participants are topic. often asked to record the shows Radiolab co-host Abumrad told credits and now users can pitch in me recently that a majority of with their own rendition but Radiolab listeners get their fix the potential exists to do much from podcasts, and in an effort to more. put their own stamp on the mobile In recent months, the shows staff Radiolab experience, WNYC has has reached out to listeners to just released the official Radiolab provide their own input on topics app for iOS and Android. like whether or not tic-tac-toe is a The app, it must be said, is universal game and what the terribly handsome. Users are general walking speed is like in plopped down at a desk and as different cities across the globe. they begin to swipe down, they Theyve also launched a Remix break through a nearby window project in which theyve made and begin to traverse the Radiolab their audio assets and tracks world. The trip is one that takes available to listeners to mess with, time to fully scroll through, in hopes that their content though a handy indicator nestled combined with user imagination along the right side of the screen and ingenuity will lead yield some keeps track of your progress. interesting results. Its not a Continuing to swipe through the stretch to imagine that the app will eventually lead users to Radiolab team will eventually its different sections an area come to use the Make section as a where they can listen to (and way to crowdsource unique download) every Radiolab show information and perspectives from
their users. Were in a stage now in the lifecycle of the show where its all about experimenting, Abumrad said. Now that we have a sound and a set of ideas that are the core of the show, we want to emphasize that again. Crowdsourcing is going to be one small aspect of that, trying to figure out how to answer questions like Who are you? Abumrad admits that right now, the Make section is sort of limited in scope; aside from recording the credits, users can also upload pictures of their favorite colors and submit audio of wild cheering. All of the uploaded sound recordings are pushed to Radiolabs SoundCloud account, and if users are feeling particularly brave, they can share their recordings on their own SoundCloud accounts to boot. Long-time listeners can attest that Radiolab has an aural character all its own, and the process of translating the shows sense of scientific whimsy and wonder into a visual experience was nothing to sneeze at. As such, the app is packed with in-jokes and Easter eggs for the true fanboy to search for, so Radiolab devotees will have plenty of minutiae to search
out once theyve gotten their fill of Jad and Roberts voices. And of course, as an app for a public radio show, they had to include a way for users to financially support the show in this case, people can donate from the socalled Pledge Cow. For those that would rather skip all the visual flair and head straight for the content, a shortcut button sits in the bottom right corner that allows people to jump directly from section to section. We spent months trying to craft an experience in the spirit of the show, said Tom Hjelm, New York Public Radios Chief Digital Officer. Weve tried to make it as easy as possible to find stuff, but also to create this coherent journey with its own incidental pleasures. Hes not kidding Radiolab first started soliciting ideas and suggestions for what to implement in a mobile app over a year ago, though the finished product certainly seems to have benefited from all that effort. The Radiolab app is now live in the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store for $2.99.
Video: Surface intro and iPad intro compared

Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 9:00:00 AM
Microsoft introduced its Surface tablet earlier this week and the comparisons to the iPad are only beginning. As pointed out by John Gruber of Daring Fireball, one clever side-by-side is this one from ReadWriteWeb that looks at the unveiling of the Surface tablet and compares it to Steve Jobs's introduction of the iPad. [Via Daring Fireball] Video: Surface intro and iPad intro compared originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Startup Accelerator Fail: Most Graduates Go Nowhere

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questions. Have you heard of this accelerator? Would you invest in a startup from its program? Again, Submitted at 6/21/2012 9:01:00 AM he came up empty. A good Startup accelerators continue to chunk of accelerators did not grow in popularity. There are now register on any of the criteria, more than 200 around the world Gilani says. attracting twice as many So he added more criteria, applicants as they did just two including the amount of equity an years ago. But theres a dirty little accelerator takes and the size of secet: A lot of accelerators are just its alumni network. Finally he had spinning their wheels. enough data to come up with a Last year, Aziz Gilani, a director ranking. At the top: TechStars, Y at Houston venture capital firm Combinator and Excelerate Labs. DFJ Mercury, ran a study of 29 (Disclosure: Gilanis firm is an North American accelerators for i n v e s t o r i n T e c h S t a r s a n d the Kauffman Fellows Program. Excelerate.) An Accelerator He found that 45% of them Quality Gap produced not a single graduate Rather than say there are too who went on to raise venture many programs, I would say there funding. Aziz Ahmed Gilani Not is a quality gap, Gilani says. Enough Exits to Evaluate Some accelerators are run by But wait, it gets worse. The experienced entrepreneurs who original goal of Gilanis study have deep ties to funding sources was to evaluate accelerators based and have sold companies before. on the number of exits achieved And those programs have done by their graduates. That aim very well. proved to be delusional, he Heres how accelerators typically says. There were not enough w o r k . T h e y r u n 1 2 - w e e k exits to evaluate. The only two programs to get startups quickly a c c e l e r a t o r s t h a t h a d a n y from concept to product. They m e a n i n g f u l e x i t s w e r e Y offer seed money and mentoring Combinator and TechStars. in exchange for equity, normally But wait, it gets worse. Hoping to about 7%. Programs culminate in find some standard by which to a d e m o d a y , d u r i n g w h i c h judge accelerators, Gilani added a graduates pitch their startups to third criterion, VC perceptions. investors. His team assembled a panel of 10 Experienced entrepreneurs who VCs and asked them a series of can get funding on their own have
Will it help you form partnerships with other companies or accelerate your growth? Does it have proven mentors who will help you get traction? If the answers are no, its probably best to steer your startup in another direction. Niche Focus Gilani expects the accelerator trend to move toward industryfocused programs - an accelerator for the cloud, for example, or energy - and he says smart startups will gravitate to accelerators with expertise in their target field. Avoid those accelerators that have been established recently with a spray and pray strategy to graduate a lot of startups and hope one of them hits it big. The best accelerators know their business takes more careful nurturing. You could say this has been a gold rush with no gold, Gilani says. It takes years for companies to get traction and get an exit, so if youre trying to optimize for making money now youll make some pretty terrible decisions. I would be very wary of any accelerator that thinks it will make money in the short term.
European Parliament's trade committee votes to reject Acta

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to question whether its worth giving up 7% equity to join one of these programs, Gilani says. If youve never done a startup before, I think a top program is a no-brainer. If you can get in, you should do it. (TechStars and Y Combinator typically sift through some 1,500 applications for a handful of spots each session.) Three Questions for the Second Tier But what about a second-tier or third-tier accelerator? When youre a young startup and you dont have a lot of cash, you have one currency, your equity, Gilani says. So treat an accelerator like any other service provider. Be rigorous in your diligence. Or make the decision not to join one. Ask three questions of your accelerator: Will it help you get follow-on funding?
The European Parliament's International Trade committee (Inta) has voted to reject the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta), by 19 votes to 12. It's a key decision, because this committee strongly influences the wider parliament. Acta is, as we explained in our guide, an "international agreement that aims to create international standards on intellectual property rights enforcement." By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere Continue reading...
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Google Struggles to Plug Leaky YouTube

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SwiftKey Counters Swype With A Smarter Version, Makes An In-Road Into Healthcare Market
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joining sites like Hulu and Netflix in offering cable-quality original altogether. Google's Motivations Submitted at 6/21/2012 7:07:00 AM Google has good reasons for programming of its own. If doing this. First, it would like to Google expects to work with Years have passed since Google avoid lawsuits like the $1 billion c o n t e n t p r o d u c e r s , i t m u s t was an idealistic upstart that action filed by Viacom in 2007. persuade them that it's willing to vowed to do no evil. Now it's an The media conglomerate, which fight to protect their property. immense public company with owns Comedy Central, MTV and YouTube's Prospects diverse interests to protect. And Paramount Pictures, initially lost Can Google succeed in thwarting that's what it was doing when it its case against Google. However, unauthorized duplication of the threatened to sue websites that a federal judge revived the suit video clips it dispenses? Probably enable users to download audio earlier this year. not. After all, in addition to sites tracks from YouTube videos. Thus far, the courts have ruled such as youtube-mp3, there are Lawyers representing Google that the "safe harbor" provision of any number of other methods for recently sent a threatening letter to the Digital Milenium Copyright grabbing content from YouTube, youtube-mp3.org and music- Act protects YouTube and sites including the use of browser clips.net, two of many sites that l i k e i t f r o m l i a b i l i t y f o r plugins and manual efforts that allow visitors to freely download infringements of user-supplied allow users to find the original audio files lifted from YouTube content. Google is even less likely URL of the source video. And for videos. These activities violate to be held responsible for the e v e r y c o p y i n g t o o l G o o g l e YouTube's terms of service, the actions of third parties that manages to squash, three more are letter claimed. In response, operate outside of the company's likely to pop up. Google blocked the sites' access jurisdiction entirely. But the question of whether to YouTube. Google can plug YouTube's leaks The second reason is that Google Google's action is in line with the desperately needs to maintain is beside the point. The company company's earlier efforts to good relationships with the isn't out to eliminate unauthorized protect the intellectual property it content providers who keep downloading all together, but distributes. In recent years, YouTube brimming with video rather to curtail this activity as Google has proudly touted anti- clips. much as possible. Its actions send piracy measures with respect to YouTube is growing from a user- a message reassuring content both YouTube and its search g e n e r a t e d v i d e o s i t e i n t o partners that Google is looking results. This case is different something that Google hopes will after their interests, and to wouldthough, in that the search giant is one day compete with television b e d e v e l o p e r s o f Y o u T u b e r e a c h i n g b e y o n d i t s o w n networks for viewers. In addition scraping technology that the properties and demanding that to striking content deals with company means business. other companies change their major providers, YouTube is functionality or shut down
theme. There are now an additional seven languages (Korean, Estonian, Farsi, Swype recently announced the Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian and newest version of its smart Serbian), bringing the total up to keyboard, and now competitor 42. SwiftKey is launching its new Swiftkey works by understanding S w i f t k e y 3 v e r s i o n . T h i s what you intend to type by the artificially intelligent keyboard context of what you are writing. It predicts what you are going to both corrects words and suggests type based on what you start to the next word. The app can be type and what it already knows synced with your email, Tweets, about your writing. Alternative and Facebook status updates to products include Slideit, Thumb better learn your style and Keyboard and Smart Keyboard, vocabulary. As a result the but the market seems to be turning company estimates its saved its into a face-off fight between users over 65 billion keystrokes. Swype and Swiftkey. Yesterday Swypes owner Swiftkey has also released a Nuance updated the software with custom version for the medical t h e f i r m s D r a g o n s p e e c h i n d u s t r y c a l l e d S w i f t K e y recognition functions, letting Healthcare, allowing health care users dictate text rather than type professionals take better and it. The ability to dictate, rather faster notes on tablets. This is than type, words may help it in their first entry into enterprise and Asia where some languages with has attracted four US medical n o n - R o m a n a l p h a b e t s h a v e clients so far. thousands of characters. Nuance Swiftkey 3 is now on Google bought Swype in October for Play with a temporary half-price $102.5m. offer. There is a bigger space bar, Swiftkeys Ruth Barnett told me a dedicated comma key, new While voice can be handy for themes, smarter punctuation and dictating letters, it is a different special character prediction. There proposition if youre in front of a is also better support for Android patient. Its easier to tap away and backup which means it wont lose have your next words accurately your database of learned phrases. p r e d i c t e d t h a n t o r e p e a t It also has two new themes everything a patient tells you into Cobalt, to match SwiftKeys a voice app while theyre sitting new look and feel, and an Ice there twiddling their thumbs. Cream Sandwich-styled Holo
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Get Norton 360 6.0 3-user Europe's copyright bill ACTA on last edition for free
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the ECJ ruling comes through in a year or two's time, even if the Parliament rejects the treaty at a The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade plenary vote on 4 July. Agreement, or ACTA, has been "This was not an anti-intellectual r e j e c t e d b y t h e E u r o p e a n property vote. This was a vote Parliament's trade committee, the against the contents of ACTA," opinion of which is a major Martin said in a press conference influence on the wider parliament. after the vote. INTA supported rapporteur Read more of " ACTA almost David Martin's rejection of ACTA dead after latest body blow from this morning by 19 votes to 12. Europe" at ZDNet UK. Minutes before, the committee This entry passed through the also voted 19-12 to ignore Full-Text RSS service if this is European Commission calls to your content and you're reading it p o s t p o n e v o t i n g u n t i l t h e on someone else's site, please read European Court of Justice has the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentdecided on ACTA's legality. only/faq.php#publishers. Five Trade commissioner Karel De Filters recommends: Donate to Gucht said late last night that he Wikileaks. would still ask the Parliament to reconsider ratifying ACTA when
Debt crisis: live

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evening as part of a broader credit downgrade of some of the world's major banks amid rising worries over global growth.
Moody's is expected to downgrade some of Britain's biggest banks as early as this
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Galaxy S III hits T-Mobile USA today: AT&T and Verizon must wait
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:55:31 AM
Samsungs much-anticipated Galaxy S III has finally arrived in the US, though its not quite the simultaneous multi-carrier gush we were hoping for. T-Mobile USA is the only place to pick up the Galaxy S III today, with the handset priced from $279.99 for the 16GB version with a new, two -year agreement. Both blue and white versions are offered, and theres the 32GB model again, in both colors and with a new, two-year agreement for $329.99. The handset differs from its European counterpart in that it uses Qualcomms dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 chipset and supports up to 42Mbps HSPA+, network depending, though if you hold out a little longer therell be LTE variants arriving on other US carriers. AT&T and Verizon are among the operators which will be offering LTE Galaxy S III
models. Verizons will be $199.99 with a new, two-year agreement for the 16GB version (and $249.99 for the 32GB), set to begin shipping on July 11, while AT&Ts will be priced the same and ship from around June 25. Samsung Galaxy S III S Beam demo: As for accessories, Samsung says the Universal Multimedia
USA carriers at once Verizon Galaxy S III pre-orders start June 6th T-Mobile USA selling Galaxy S III from June 21st US Cellular Galaxy S III preorders begin June 12th The Galaxy S III is Samsung's coming-of-age Galaxy S III LTE hits Verizon July 5th Samsung TecTiles hands-on with Galaxy S III Samsung Galaxy S III USA carrier prices and dates collected T-Mobile's Samsung Galaxy S III priced, launching in two phases Desktop Dock, Spare Battery Transparent Blue and Clear), Samsung Galaxy S III Review Charging System, Universal the C-Pen, and the HDTV Smart [AT&T & T-Mobile] V e h i c l e N a v i g a t i o n M o u n t , Adapter (with 11 Pin Adapter a n d P r o t e c t i v e F l i p C o v e r Tip). The AllShare Cash Hub and Galaxy S III hits T-Mobile USA (available in Pebble Blue, Marble Premium Audio Dock will arrive today: AT&T and Verizon must White, Light Blue, Green & Pink) in the coming weeks. wait is written by Chris Davies& are all available from today, along All the details on the AT&T and originally posted on SlashGear. with the Protective Cover (in T-Mobile versions in our full 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All Transparent Blue, Transparent review. Story Timeline right reserved. Pink, Opaque Blue & Opaque Samsung Galaxy S III Review Green), Ultra Slim Cover (in Galaxy S III announced for five
Quiz: Hooray for Hula Hoops

Submitted at 6/21/2012 9:00:56 AM
There's much more to the hula hoop than meets the eye. More than a childhood toy or a
backyard prop, the hoop is a cultural artifact that has rolled along through much of human history. So step right up, grab a hoop and put your knowledge to the test!
Earn a point for every right
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How to Keep Facebook from Recognizing Your Face

Antone Gonsalves (ReadWriteWeb)
before applying facial-recognition technology. Facebook had been using the Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:02:00 AM Israeli startups technology for Now that Facebook has bought some time, but the buyout was facial recognition vendor announced Monday. Actually Face.com, many users are worried owning Face.com is expected to that the giant social network will lead Facebook to more deeply use the technology to infringe on integrate the technology into its their privacy. While you cant services. The Increasing stop Facebook from grabbing the Importance of Pictures facial-recognition data, there are For Facebook, a picture seems to ways to limit the services use of be worth far more than a thousand mean you can opt out of Facebook words. Before its initial public that information. Security vendor Sophos has using the data it has collected on offering in May, Facebook told posted step-by-step instructions your appearance, Simple Steps potential investors in regulatory T h e s t e p s a r e f a i r l y filings that photos were expected on how to prevent Facebook from straightforward. using that facial-recognition data to add value to the company. Simply go to timeline and The Face.com acquistion is only to suggest to other users that they tag their pictures with your name. tagging in the privacy settings, the latest attempt to make the While Facebook users cant stop click on edit settings and then most of how they are used on the the company from gathering the select no one on the option site. Two months ago, Facebook information, the privacy settings who sees tag suggestions when paid $1 billion for Instagram, a in their accounts lets them pull in photos that look like you are service for easily sharing photos the reins and take some control uploaded. Press OK, and you by mobile phone. over which photos bear their are done. But just because Facebook thinks This opt out procedure reflects pictures are important doesnt names. This doesnt mean that Facebook Facebooks general approach necessarily mean that you have to wont learn about what you look when it comes to privacy. Users let it do anything it wants with like and associate it with your typically have to opt out of your image. You own your face, likes and friendships, writes sharing personal information, as Facebook doesnt. Graham Cluley, senior technology o p p o s e d t o b e i n g a s k e d consultant at Sophos, in the beforehand. By comparison, companys blog. But it does Google+ asks users for permission
Wired 2012: first speakers announced

Wired.co.uk Staff
Ahmed, founder of digital agency AKQA; digital marketer Stefan Olander, who is responsible for After our inaugural event in m a n y o f N i k e ' s i n n o v a t i v e 2011, Wired 2012 returns in campaigns; Mona Eltahawy, an October as a two-day conference a w a r d - w i n n i g n c o l u m n i s t celebrating the ideas, innovations covering Arab and Muslim issues; and people reshaping our world. designer and architect Thomas We can officially announce that Heatherwick; former head chef of the first round of speakers at El Bulli Ferran Adri; artist Wired 2012 -- organised in A l e x a M e a d e ; C a m b r i d g e association with Telefnica -- will professor of developmental include: Troy Carter, manager of psychopathology Simon BaronLady Gaga and Founder and CEO Cohen and Maria Popova, editor of Atom Factory; David Karp, of Brain Pickings. founder and CEO of Tumblr; Lily By: Wired.co.uk Staff, Continue C o l e , m o d e l , a c t r e s s a n d reading... sustainability champion; Ajaz
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Better, Stronger, Faster: Tumblr 3.0 For iPhone Has Arrived
China Manufacturing PMI 7-Month Low, Sharpest Decline in New Export Orders Since March 2009
noreply@blogger.com (Mike Mish Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 6/20/2012 11:20:00 PM
The global economy continues to slow led by Europe and China. Sarah Perez (TechCrunch) At the bottom are buttons for the But the biggest change in terms T h e H S B C F l a s h C h i n a Dashboard, Tags, your profile and of Tumblrs overall vision, Manufacturing PMI is at a 7Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:44:41 AM the Post button. (Watch the however, has to be the tags area. m o n t h l o w . M o r e o v e r Ah, theres nothing like the sweet transition as you tap the compose Its no longer about you and your manufacturers report the sharpest smell of highly-anticipated app button from another screen likes (those are under your decline in new export orders since updates in the morning. As CEO Tumblr even got the details right, p r o f i l e n o w ) i t s a b o u t March 2009. David Karp promised at last here.) discovery. The tags area is kind of Key points weeks F.ounders conference, the T h e r e a r e s e v e r a l o t h e r odd, though. Theres just a search new version of Tumblrs iOS app improvements as well, including box and photos below. It feels Flash China Manufacturing has now arrived. And its a doozy. support for Spotify, high-res very experimental. Without any PMI at 48.1 (48.4 in May). 7(I mean that in a very good way). images, and offline access. That context, why would I click on a month low. The app is completely redesigned, last one means you can post, like, photo of a manatee, for example, Flash China Manufacturing a lot faster, and offers a ton of reply and reblog when you dont or a photo of a golden gun on a Output Index at 49.1 (49.7 in new features ranging from Spotify have an Internet connection the pink background? Even in my May). 3-month low. s u p p o r t t o g e s t u r e - b a s e d changes will sync once youre Reddit Pics app, theres at least a shortcuts. back online. caption to pique your interest. It Summary The first thing youll notice, of Also new are gesture-based would make more sense if these Note that inventories of finished course, upon logging in, is a shortcuts for things like launching photos were overlaid with a small goods are up, everything else is radically different new post the camera (swipe the compose tag, given that theyre being down. It's time to admit the global s c r e e n . W h i l e t h e a p p h a d button up) and text posts (swipe highlighted like this. economy is in recession. The US previously featured colorful icons the compose button left). These Tags notwithstanding, overall, is there too, or soon will be. for things like text, photo, are the kind of things that arent Tumblr has delivered great update Mike "Mish" Shedlock audio, and video, etc., the must-haves, but rather nice for what had been a stagnant app h t t p : / / new post screen has gone for a flourishes that give the app some for far too long. Well worth the globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. black background with richer, flair. And the screens load fast download. com bolder icons. It almost gives faster than, say, launching the Click Here To Scroll Thru My Tumblrs iOS app an Android-like c a m e r a f r o m t h e i P h o n e s Recent Post List Mike feel, to be honest. lockscreen, for example. "Mish" Shedlock is a registered
investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
Xstrata puts copper project up for sale

Garry White (Finance News Business news from the UK and world)
Mining giant Xstrata has put its stake in a Papua New Guinea mine up for sale after a slide in the copper price.
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Senator Charles Schumer asks Apple to consider privacy with new Maps
Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:00:00 AM
Apple and Google are rushing to bring 3D aerial views to their respective mapping solutions. While many view this as a good thing, some people like Senator Charles Schumer of New York are concerned about privacy and security issues that arise when people are photographed from the sky without their consent. As reported by MacObserver, Schumer sent an open letter to both Google and Apple asking them to notify residents before a planned flyover by their jets. The senator is uneasy with aerial highresolution photography that
potentially could capture private moments of people in their backyards. He writes, People on Long Island or in Buffalo have a reasonable expectation of privacy when they decide to have a barbeque on their
events. Besides notifying residents of a flyover, Schumer also asked the companies to blur images of people, allow people to opt-out from having their property shown online and to work with law enforcement and local governments to make sure sensitive infrastructure details are removed from the maps. Senator Charles Schumer asks Apple to consider privacy with new Maps originally appeared on back deck and would prefer to TUAW - The Unofficial Apple retain the option of deciding Weblog on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 w h e t h e r t h e y s h o u l d b e 08:00:00 EST. Please see our photographed on their property. terms for use of feeds. They should not fear that your Source| Permalink| Email this| planes will be overhead taking Comments detailed pictures of their private
How to Prep for a Presentation [Public Speaking]

Clay Johnson (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 7:00:00 AM
When I started writing my book, I knew that authors generally make more money from speaking than they do from royalties, so I wanted my talks on the Information Diet to be great. Before I first started my speaking tour for the Information Diet, I watched a lot of great speakers give great talks, and asked them how they gave such great talks. The universal answer is always: "I lock myself in my hotel room the night before and rehearse." More
5 Reasons Not to Buy a Hybrid

buy one? Well, as it turns out, hybrid Submitted at 6/21/2012 9:00:56 AM vehicles aren't exactly for Yeah, you read that title right: everyone. Not yet, anyway. Five reasons to not buy a hybrid Even though hybrid cars have car-- so, are we crazy? Maybe a been on the market since the late little bit. But don't all those 1990s, and you can't swing a Hollywood stars drive hybrids? hemp satchel without striking a Isn't that a good enough reason to Toyota Prius these days, there are
still a few quirks to consider when putting a hybrid vehicle on your shopping list. The reasons for wanting a hybrid are many -- saving the environment, making fewer stops at the gas station, feeling good about your green self -- but not every reason will pan out in the
long run. While hybrids continue to be super trendy, there may be better, greener, and more efficient alternatives out there. Take a look at these five reasons to not buy a hybrid vehicle and see if any of them put the brakes on your low-emissions lust. This entry passed through the
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xPrintServer Home makes iOS hard-copies easy

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:30:44 AM
late last year with a home-friendly version, hooking up to a USB printer and your router, and Paperless may well be the future, allowing you to wirelessly print but its not the present, and from your tablet or phone. g e t t i n g p h y s i c a l c o p i e s o f Manufacturers Lantronix say the documents on your iPhone or iPad Home Edition is optimized for c a n b e a r e c i p e f o r USB printers of the sort most frustration. The new xPrintServer home users will have, rather than Home Edition builds on the the enterprise range the original original xPrintServer launched model catered for. There are no
printer and waiting a while for it to be automatically recognized. Although theres only one USB printer port, the xPrintServer can actually handle up to eight: youll need to supply your own USB hub, however. It can also handle up to two network printers and an unlimited number of iOS clients. drivers or installations required, The xPrintServer Home Edition only a case of plugging in the is up for pre-order now, priced at
$99.95, and is expected to ship in 3-4 weeks. Theres a list of supported printers here. xPrintServer Home makes iOS hard-copies easy is written by Chris Davies& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
PlayStation Store disabled in South Korea pending new law

Ben Kersey (SlashGear)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:14:50 AM
Blizzard has run into trouble in South Korea in the past with certain game content coming under scrutiny, but now it looks like Sony is the latest to tangle with the law. The company has had to take down the PlayStation Store in South Korea due to the
new Game Industry Promotion Act. Starting from July 1st, it will be illegal for online services to ask those under the age of 18 to verify their account with a real name or date of birth. As a result, Sony has removed access to the PlayStation Store in South Korea so that it can comply with the new law. Gamers need not worry about this affecting the
PlayStation Network, with full multiplayer capabilities still in
place, but additional content will be unable to be purchased or downloaded until Sony rectifies the situation. It looks like the move only affect PlayStation 3 users, however, as the PS Vita and PSP stores will remain open. Still, losing access to content for an undetermined amount of time is never a good thing. Stay strong, friends.
[ via Joystiq] PlayStation Store disabled in South Korea pending new law is written by Ben Kersey& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
How to pronounce Uranus [video]

(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:56:00 AM
C.G.P. Grey has a problem that science teachers everywhere
share: How to pronounce Uranus without setting the class off into a fit of giggles and snickers, therein distracting them from learning about this fascinating planet?
Well, good luck with that.
Here, he examines the history of Laughing Squid. this most unfortunate name and Snickering about space. what could have been, but, alas, Permalink| Leave a comment thats all behind us now. Full story at YouTube via
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MacBook Pro with Retina display running three external monitors

Submitted at 6/21/2012 10:00:00 AM
OWC posted up a photo that is every Mac user's dream. The photo shows a MacBook Pro with Retina Display powering not one, not two, but three external displays in addition to the notebook's own monitor. OWC lists the attached computers which includes the Retina display on the MBP set at its "best for Retina" setting; two 2560 x 1440 iMacs connected via the Thunderbolt
and the Thunderbolt/DisplayPort; and a 1920 x 1200 LG monitor connected via HDMI. OWC says the performance was smooth and claims "moving
images and media didn't create any lag." They also say they "were able to play video on all four displays simultaneously." As noted by MacRumors, Apple's
support site confirms that the Retina MacBook Pro is capable of supporting one monitor on the HDMI port and two on Thunderbolt, but it's impressive to see such a setup in action. [Via MacRumors] MacBook Pro with Retina display running three external monitors originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
DISASTER: PHILLY FED REPORT COLLAPSES TO -16.6

Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 9:00:00 AM
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FHFA House Price Index Rises 0.8% Beating Expectations (ITB, XHB)
Mamta Badkar (Money Game)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:44:00 AM
Headline: The FHFA house price index climbed 0.8 percent monthover-month in April. Last month's number was revised down to a 1.6 percent gain. The U.S. index is 17.6 percent below its April 2007 peak. The monthly HPI Index is now at the same level it was in May 2004.
Expectations: The Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA) House Price Index (HPI) for April will be out at 10 a.m. ET. Analysis: The FHFA's house price index (HPI) jumped 1.8 percent month-over-month in March and 2.7percent year-overyear. insurance premiums in April It is believed that scheduled caused a surge in mortgage increases in FHFA mortgage
applications in March. So April numbers are expected to rise a more muted 0.6 percent. Given the recent uptick in home prices markets will be watching these numbers closely for signs that home prices are in fact recovering. The HPI covers covers singlefamily housing, using data from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Here's a look at the FHFA HPI
chart from November 2010 April 2012: Don't Miss: The 3 Most Important Factors Driving Home Prices > Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story
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DISASTER:
UPDATE: The number is out and it's very bad. A reading of -16.6 is WAY below the expected 0.0 reading, and it's well below the -5.5 number. Not good. Here's the rull report Manufacturing firms responding to the Business Outlook Survey indicated weaker business conditions this month. The surveys diffusion index of current activity fell to -16.6 from a reading of -5.8 in May, its second consecutive negative reading. The surveys indicators of future activity remained positive and improved slightly. Indicators for new orders, shipments, and average work hours were also negative this month, suggesting overall declines in business. Indexes for current unfilled orders and delivery times both registered negative readings again this month, suggesting lower levels of unfilled orders and faster deliveries. In the special question this month, firms were asked about their expected spending on new plant and equipment over the next six to 12 months relative to actual
spending in the past six to 12 months. Special Question Almost 32 percent of firms expect to increase their spending on new plant and equipment in 2012, compared to 34.7 percent in November 2011, the last time this question was asked. Almost 20 percent of firms expect to decrease spending this year, compared to 33 percent in November. Forty-two percent of firms expect spending to remain unchanged in 2012, up from 25 percent in November.
Philadelphia helps formulate and implement monetary policy, supervises banks and bank and savings and loan holding companies, and provides financial services to depository institutions and the federal government. It is one of the 12 regional Reserve Banks that, together with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the Federal Reserve System. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank serves eastern Pennsylvania, This survey, which was started in s o u t h e r n N e w J e r s e y , a n d 1968, gathers information on the D e l a w a r e . manufacturing industry in the -------------Labor Market Third Federal Reserve District The Philadelphia Fed Firms responses suggest steady covering eastern Pennsylvania, Manufacturing Report is one of employment but shorter hours. s o u t h e r n N e w J e r s e y , a n d the most widely-watched regional The current employment index Delaware. The survey asks about Fed economic surveys there is. increased 3 points. the current pace of business in the The June number comes out Fourteen percent of the firms participants' plants and their today, and analysts are expecting r e p o r t e d a n i n c r e a s e i n future expectations of business. a 0.0 reading, which would employment; 12 percent reported To arrange an interview, contact actually be an improvement from declines. Katherine Dibling, the Banks the -5.8 reading from May. The index for the average public affairs specialist, at (215) We'll have the number here LIVE workweek was lower this month, 574-4119. The next Business at 10:00 AM. decreasing 14 points. It is the Outlook Survey will be released Please follow Money Game on t h i r d c o n s e c u t i v e n e g a t i v e at 10 a.m., Thursday, July 19, Twitter and Facebook. reading. 2012, and will be made available Join the conversation about this o n o u r w e b s i t e a n d o v e r story Prices Businesswire. The aggregate Indexes for prices paid and historical data series is also prices received both decreased available on the Banks website. and were negative this month, The Federal Reserve Bank of
suggesting that price pressures have moderated notably. Nearly 16 percent of the firms reported lower prices for inputs this month; 13 percent reported increases. Firms also reported that the prices received for their own products fell. For the second consecutive month, more firms reported a decrease in product prices (17 percent) than reported an increase (10 percent).
Kristen Stewart Takes Off From Down Under

Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 6:39:10 AM
Kristen Stewart wrapped up her Australian tour and was seen departing from Sydney's airport today. She's been Down Under for a few days for the latest leg of her Snow White and the Huntsman press tour, alongside leading man, and native Aussie, Chris Hemsworth. Kristen and Chris premiered SWATH in Sydney, then took care of a few more promotional obligations. There was also time for Kristen's scenic photo shoot, which saw her posing just in front of the iconic Sydney Opera House. While Kristen took care of business abroad, her boyfriend Robert Pattinson held down the fort in LA. Robert went to a Metric concert in LA last night with a group of friends. View Slideshow
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Philly Fed Craters

Tyler Durden
Submitted at 6/21/2012 9:10:29 AM
One word to explain the Philly Fed which just printed at -16.6, or the weakest since August 2011, on expectations of an unchanged print: abysmal. Basically every subcomponent of the index was negative except for number of employees, although luckily we already know that US jobs (even part-time ones) are collapsing too. In short: if this horrendous print does not boost stocks higher, nothing can. Oh and the market continues to be bathed in hopium. While the current conditions cratered, the 6 month forward looking index... rose. From the Survey: Indicators Suggest Decreases in Activity The surveys broadest measure of manufacturing conditions, the diffusion index of current activity, fell from a reading of ?5.8 in May
to ?16.6, its second consecutive negative reading (see Chart 1). Nearly 40 percent of the firms reported declines in activity this month, exceeding the 22 percent that reported increases in activity. Indexes for new orders and shipments also showed notable declines, falling 18 and 20 points, respectively. Indexes for current unfilled orders and delivery times
both registered negative readings again this month, suggesting lower levels of unfilled orders and faster deliveries. Firms responses suggest steady employment this month but shorter hours. The percentage of firms reporting higher employment (14 percent) edged out the percentage reporting lower employment (12 percent). The
moderated notably. The prices paid index fell to ?2.8, its first negative reading since July 2009. Nearly 16 percent of firms reported declines in input prices; 13 percent reported increases. Firms also reported that the prices received for their own products fell: For the second consecutive month, more firms reported a decrease in product prices (17 percent) than reported an increase (10 percent). More here. Average: Your rating: None Average: 5( 1 vote) This entry passed through the c u r r e n t e m p l o y m e n t i n d e x Full-Text RSS service if this is increased 3 points this month. your content and you're reading it Firms indicated fewer hours on someone else's site, please read worked this month: the average the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentworkweek index decreased 14 only/faq.php#publishers. Five points and posted its third Filters recommends: Donate to consecutive negative reading. Wikileaks. Indexes for prices paid and prices received both decreased and were negative this month, suggesting that price pressures have
Cute Candids Celebrities Shared This Week

Brittney Stephens (PopSugar)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 6:18:58 AM
It was a fun week on social media, with celebrities dressing up, goofing off, and getting into costume for the cameras. Mariah
Carey discovered her dog's new favorite snack, while Joe Manganiello traded his signature six-pack abs for a fake beer belly. Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato got silly on the set of The X glimpse of what Brooklyn Decker Factor, and we got a surprising
would look like as a dude. Click through now to see the week's cutest celebrity candids, and don't forget to follow PopSugar on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram! View Slideshow
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The Euro Bailout Fund (Which Does Not Exist) Is Being Delayed, As Germany Fires Back Against Broke Europe
Tyler Durden
Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:52:24 AM
Overnight, the WSJ had an interesting article starting with "Italy, France and Spain are trying to take a united stand against Germany in finding new ways to fight the euro-zone debt crisis." This merely confirms what Greece has been trying to tell us for months: that beggars can be choosers. Well, turns out they can't, because at the end of the day, the only thing that does matter is the Golden Rule as Mark Grant reminded us earlier. Which is why trying to force Germany to do anything will backfire massively - as a reminder: it is in Germany interest to keep Europe weak, the EURUSD low, and the periphery on the edge of insolvency(just memorize the bolded sentence - it is all you need to know about Europe). Case in point: " Germany's
constitutional court said on Thursday it will need time to study the euro zone's permanent bailout mechanism after its expected approval in the German parliament next Friday, which could delay its scheduled start date on July 1." In other words, the bailout fund on which Europe's entire rescue dreams lie (and which will gladly subordinate European creditors) and which still does not exist, is now being delayed. You are welcome Europe. Love, Germany. From Reuters: Angela Merkel's government and the centre-left opposition reached a deal on economic growth measures on Thursday which should enable parliament to ratify Merkel's fiscal pact and the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) on June 29. The ESM cannot come into effect without ratification by Germany, the biggest economy in the euro
zone. But a spokeswoman for the top court said the ESM is so complex it expects head of state Joachim Gauck to delay his signature of the text approved by parliament until the court has had time to study it. And all it takes is for some of Germany's more vocal media outlets to grasp that Germany's claims on the Eurozone are now being diluted even more courtesy of the ECB accepting any collateral, before the so-called deal, pre-delay, falls apart. Average: Your rating: None Average: 5( 4 votes) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
What Does Oil Know That Stocks Don't?

Tyler Durden
reality than the earnings/multiple picture painted by the nominal price of US equities. We know With West Texas Intermediate that bad is good when it comes to crude oil trading with an $80 the front-running of Bernanke's handle, near two year lows, while print button but wouldn't bad stocks remain within a few being good raise the USDpercent of their four-year highs, nominal price of oil also? one has to question just what it is Average: that stocks believe about our Your rating: None Average: 5( 5 bright new future of growth and votes) demand that the all-important This entry passed through the energy markets do not. Between Full-Text RSS service if this is Europe's recession, last night's your content and you're reading it d i s m a l C h i n a P M I , a n d a on someone else's site, please read significantly trending rise in US the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentunemployment claims, it seems only/faq.php#publishers. Five more likely that the global Filters recommends: Donate to demand picture painted by the oil Wikileaks. market is a better reflection of
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Existing Home Sales MISS EXPECTATIONS, Fall 1.5% To 4.55M (Exp. -1.1% To 4.57M)
Eric Platt (Money Game)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 9:00:00 AM
UPDATE: Existing home sales fell at a greater pace than expected in May, down 1.5 percent to an annual pace of 4.55 million sales, new data out of the National Association of Realtors shows. Click here for updates > The NAR attributed the decline to tight supply of lower-priced homes, particularly in the West. "The slight pullback in monthly home sales is more likely due to supply constraints rather than softening demand. The normal seasonal upturn in inventory did not occur this spring," Lawrence Yun, NAR Chief Economist, said. Below, key numbers from the report: First time buyers accounted for 34 percent of May purchases, down from 35 percent in April All-cash sales declined 1 percentage point to 28 percent in May Investors purchased 17 percent of homes in May Single family home sales fell 1 percent to 4.05 million units Existing condo and co-op sales
Kobra puts classic photographs through the kaleidoscope

(Holy Kaw!)
declined 5.7 percent to 500,000 units Sales fell 4.8 percent in the Northeast Sales increased 1.0 percent in the Midwest Sales fell 0.6 percent in the South Sales fell 3.4 percent in the West ORIGINAL: Minutes away from the final data point of the day: Existing Home
Sales. Economists polled by Bloomberg expect sales to cool slightly from April's pace, falling 1.1 percent to an annual pace of 4.57 million units. The announcement from the National Association of Realtors is expected at 10:00 a.m. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story
Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:53:00 AM
Ted Turner definitely could have taken some artistic notes from Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra when he started colorizing classic films, though a movie version of such an explosion of color might have induced a number of nervous breakdowns when applied to Its a Wonderful Life. New Yorks Chelsea neighborhood is the home of this gorgeous mural, and according to Kuriositas:
His aim is to preserve the historical aspect and to evoke a certain cultural memory which evokes certain emotions. Other parts of this significant piece of street art include interpretations of other images from the city's past. We hope well soon see more of his incredible work livening up walls across the United States. Full story at Eduardo Kobra via Kuriositas. Painting the town with memories. Permalink| Leave a comment
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Inside Minority Report's 'Idea Summit,' Visionaries Saw the Future

Wired Staff (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 5:30:00 AM
Minority Report's surprisingly accurate vision of the future got roughed out during an "idea summit" convened by director Steven Spielberg. The year was 1999, and Steven Spielberg was preparing to turn Philip K. Dicks short story The Minority Report into a $100 million action movie starring Tom Cruise. There was just one problem: The story was set in the undated future, and the director had no idea what that future should look like. He wanted the world of the movie to be different from our own, but he also wanted to avoid the exaggerated and often dystopian speculation that plagued most science fiction. See also: How Accurate Were Minority Report s Technology Pre-Cogs? Instead, he wanted his film to be a realistic depiction of how things might actually look in 50 years. So Spielberg convened an ad hoc think tank: He invited a small group of the foremost thinkers in science and technology, along with a handful of people involved with the movie, to hang out for a weekend and talk about the future. The script hadnt been written at would go on to become visual We really do operate computers that point, yet many of the touchpoints in a movie that turned by gesture, live in a world with discussions from that weekend out to be remarkably prescient: self-driving cars, and have police
departments that predict crime hot spots. (So far, though, no jetpacks.)
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Minority Reports June 21 release, Wired spoke to more than a dozen people who were at the so -called idea summit that delved deep into the future. As participant Joel Garreau recalls, I dont think many of us knew what the fuck we were getting ourselves into. Joel Garreau (principal of consulting firm The Garreau Group, in 1999 a reporter at the Washington Post): The number of people who claim to have been part of that think tank would fill Yankee Stadium. Peter Schwartz (futurist, cofounder of scenario-planning firm Global Business Network): I had worked with [executive producer] Walter Parkes, who was running DreamWorks, on a number of films first War Games, then Sneakers, then Deep Impact. Walter called me and said, Would you do this again for us? But now its a bigger deal. The problem was that, if you read the short story, theres no world. It just takes place in an undefined future. Neil Gershenfeld (computer scientist, head of MITs Center for Bits and Atoms): The movie people were shocked that the science people would want to talk to them; the scientists were shocked that the movie people would want to talk to them. Schwartz: I then had a meeting with [the Spielberg camp] to come up with a kind of initial intellectual agenda. We had everybody read the short story. Garreau: How often do you get to
hang out with Steven Spielberg? We all caved. Alex McDowell (production designer, Minority Report): It was two full days at the Shutters Hotel in Santa Monica. Jaron Lanier (computer scientist, virtual reality pioneer): We pretended to be a conference of dental technicians or something boring. Douglas Coupland (novelist, author of Generation X and Microserfs): We sat around a big U-shaped table like that scene in 2001 in that conference room on the moon. Garreau: I dont think many of us knew what the fuck we were getting ourselves into. Schwartz: We would ask questions: What about advertising? What about transportation? What about newspapers? What about food? Stewart Brand (editor of Whole Earth Catalog): They had graphic artists there who could immediately draw things that were being described. Harald Belker (automotive designer): We were supposed to just watch and listen and see what people had to say. Coupland: It was a big deal back then to have that real-time feedback. Schwartz: What about weapons? Surveillance how did it work? One that moved very quickly was the gesture control of computers. That really began with Jaron. There was pretty quick agreement about what you saw onscreen. Lanier: We were doing these
glove technologies that could be combined with displays. That was totally commonplace during that time as a demo thing not as a consumer product. My recollection is that I brought in a working one. I could just pack one in the trunk. Coupland: I put together a whole book for it a 2080 style book. We were told it was 2080, but then it ended up being 2050. Shaun Jones (biomedical researcher, first director of DARPAs Unconventional Coutnermeasures program): They may have actually changed the date while we were there. Coupland:[Reading from the book] Domesticated zebras, an eye wash that changes eye color, bamboo bred to grow hexagonally for more structural support These are some of the brightest people in the country and theyre helping us make a movie. Scott Frank (screenwriter, Minority Report): These are some of the brightest people in the country and theyre helping us make a movie. I couldnt get over it. Lanier: You could see the relief of the scriptwriters: My god, were actually getting to use our brains. Jones: There was no shortage of megalomania, although there was good reason for it. McDowell: Neil Gershenfeld had a huge influence on us. He came in and said, Nothing in my research has ever prompted me to study this, but since youre asking
about pre-cognition, I think I know how to solve it. Gershenfeld: I described EPR correlation Einstein Podolsky Rosen. This is, at heart, the weirdest thing in quantum mechanics: dealing with entanglement. What I suggested was that you would entangle the pre-cogs with the city that theres an EPR source and you emit correlated photons and they entangle the brains of the precogs with the city around them as a way to get the perception. Schwartz: He and Steven riffed back and forth on the scene which, in fact, was precisely what ended up on screen. Lanier: There wasnt a hint of irony in his passion for it. Spielberg was completely there, trying to pass as one of us. And I think succeeding pretty well. Brand: He is a charming, witty, friendly, open, intellectually curious guy not at all pompous or self-important. Hes very easy to engage with, and a very likeable person. Coupland: There was a bit of everyone trying to please the teacher, offering more up-to-date information, but it was very goodnatured and highly competitive. Peter Calthorpe (architect, urban planner): I had a big interest in going there and saying to Spielberg, Dont make everything look like a science fiction novel. Garreau: They had DC and the Mall with all these high-rises around it. And Im like, You dont understand. Washington is
not California with more neckties, and its sure as shit not New York. McDowell: People from DC were saying that you cant build anything higher than the Capitol building, and youll never be allowed to, even in 50 years time. So we moved all of our architecture across the Potomac River and developed a vertical city, although there was a lot of resistance to that from the group. Garreau: I know you urbanists love to think differently, but dream on. They needed the highrises for the chase scenes. Schwartz: Steven wanted to make it very realistic, but there were a couple of things he really wanted that were not realistic. The most obvious was the jet packs. But the director gets what he wants! McDowell: There was a guy from Darpa who was ultimately the most useful because we were dealing with weaponry and police tactics. He was the kind of guy who would say, If I told you that, Id have to kill you. Jones: At the time I was working for the US governments science fiction agency, running several programs. I think I was useful because my job wasnt only to envision the future. Coupland:[still reading from book] Bootleg trafficking of white particle board ceiling tiles from the 1990s, swans bred with super-short necks so we dont feel guilty killing them McDowell: We kept coming INSIDE page 41
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Outgoing SBC Head Calls on Southern Baptists to Repent of Theological Idolatry

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June 20, 2012| 10:24 am (Photo: The Christian Post/ Katherine Phan) Bryant Wright delivers his last address as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. In his last message as SBC president, Bryant Wright denounced the pride that was creeping in as Southern Baptists debate the doctrine of salvation and election. "If we pride ourselves more on being a traditional Southern Baptist or more on being a Calvinist or a Reformed theologian than we are thankful that we are Christ-centered and biblically-based, then it is time to repent of theological idolatry." He further expressed his concern that Southern Baptists were becoming "so engaged in trying to correct one another's view" that they were getting off track of their main mission. "The devil is standing over to the side because we have taken our focus over what Christ tells us our clear mission is and that is the Great Commission and he is going to be laughing, and he's going to be mocking and he's going to be rejoicing that we're no longer interested in rescuing
captives that God calls us to rescue with the Gospel," the Marietta, Ga.-pastor warned. His remarks come weeks after the release of a statement by a group of Southern Baptists rejecting what they see as a push by New Calvinists to have their views adopted. Follow us
Hundreds have signed "A Statement of the Traditional Southern Baptist Understanding of God's Plan of Salvation," affirming a certain set of beliefs on the doctrine of salvation and denying Calvinist views, including the belief that "Christ died only for the sins of those who will be saved."
While some have welcomed the longstanding debate, others have called the document divisive and argued that it hurts the church's witness. Only a minority of Southern Baptists are Calvinists, but a new study shows Calvinism is on the rise. According to a LifeWay
Research survey released Tuesday, 16 percent of Southern Baptist pastors say they are fivepoint Calvinists, up from 10 percent in 2006. The survey also revealed that 61 percent are concerned about the impact of Calvinism in the SBC. OUTGOING page 42
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Special Ops Commander Sacked After Tiltrotor Crash

David Axe (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:58:00 AM
An Air Force Osprey refuels during training. Photo: Air Force The head of the Air Forces Osprey tiltrotor squadron has reportedly been fired following the near-fatal crash of one of the units aircraft on June 13. The commander of the 8th Special Operations Squadron was relieved because of a loss of confidence in his ability to effectively command the unit, Col. James Slife, 1st Special Operations Wing chief, told Inside Defense(subscription required). Slife did not give the squadron commanders name, but an Air Force press release identifies him as Lt. Col. Matt Glover of Austin, Texas. Glover assumed command of the flying branchs first Osprey squadron in May last year. His goal, he said at the time, was to grow and improve the CV-22 force, using the designation for the Air Force version of the tiltrotor. The challenges of the 8th Special Operations Squadrons demanding mission require new leadership to maintain the highest levels of precision, Slife told Inside Defense. The implication is that the Air Force is attributing the crash to squadron procedures or the readiness level of its
aircrews. The 1st Special Operations Wings public affairs office did not answer a phone call on Thursday morning. An email to the office also went unanswered. If confirmed, Glovers sacking would make him at least the second tiltrotor commander relieved of duty since the controversial hybrid aircraft, made by Bell and Boeing, entered testing in the 1990s. In 2001 the
Marine Corps commandant fired Lt. Col. Odin Lieberman, head of the Corps Osprey training squadron, after Lieberman was accused of falsifying maintenance records in order to mask the tiltrotors design flaws. An early version of the V-22, which takes off and lands like a helicopter but cruises like an airplane, crashed four times during testing between 1991 and 2000, killing 30 people. Since
entering frontline service in 2009, three of the Air Forces roughly 20 V-22s have been destroyed or badly damaged in accidents at the cost of four lives. Likewise, in the last 10 years the Marines fleet of some 200 Ospreys has suffered around a dozen major accidents resulting in several destroyed aircraft and no fewer than three deaths. The Marines, who tout the Osprey as their safest tactical
rotorcraft, have used semantic games and fudged statistics to obscure the V-22s true safety record. The V-22s rotating engine nacelles are notoriously complex, its engines hot and over-powered and its aerodynamic qualities unforgiving compared to a traditional aircraft. Still, Glovers firing at first might seem to absolve the CV-22 of any SPECIAL page 41
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#Warlord: Chechnya's Boss-for-Life Joins Twitter

Robert Beckhusen (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 5:30:00 AM
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, right, alongside former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in June, 2010. Photo: Press and Information Office of President of Russia Twitter is where you hang out with friends and meet new people. Now you can hang out with brutal pro-Kremlin warlord Ramzan Kadyrov. According to Russian news wire RIA Novosti, the Chechen president created a Twitter account Wednesday after meeting with Dmitry Medvedev, Russias prime minister and former president. ( Medvedev is an advocate of social media.) Kadyrov only sent two tweets the first day under the handle@RKadyrov. The first announced that Kadyrov was preparing to meet with young people, with no word on the results. Several hours later, Kadyrov announced he was taking questions. Kadyrov also apparently had a problem with Twitter impostors. A statement from the Chechen government said the account is official, and has nothing to do with other accounts in social networks attributed to the head of
the Chechen Republic. It could also be an attempt to rebrand an image tainted by allegations of widespread human rights abuses, including using death squads to carry out abductions, torture and the killing of dissidents. Chechnya is also particularly mean to women, and Kadyrovs public persona is less than desirable. Hes known for his taste (or lack of) in fast cars and gold pistols. His 35th birthday party was held on a floating stage on the River Sunzha,
reported The Telegraph, with ceremonies featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Hilary Swank. Grozny the Chechen capital that was bombed nearly flat in two wars with Russia but has since seen a construction boom was bedecked with portraits of a smiling Mr Kadyrov. Kadyrov had experimented with blogging. He kept up a LiveJournal account until last July, where he wrote posts about soccer, reconstructing battlescared buildings in the capital and
expanding the Chechen birth rate. In one post from last year, Kadyrov noticed a Twitter imposter, though with good intentions. Yes, he writes about Twitter, I am going to start. When? Later. He must have been preoccupied. The war in Chechnya, which began as a conflict between separatists and Moscow, then later morphed into a war between separatists and Islamists against a pro-Kremlin regime controlled by the Kadyrov clan,
was only declared over by Russias National Antiterrorism Committee in 2009. Though the region continued to be marred by killings. Last Friday, Kadyrov was the target of a suspected assassination plot that ended when two militants carrying firearms and explosives were reportedly killed by Chechen police while entering Grozny from a nearby forest. The militants were said to be carrying o u t o r d e r s from separatist leader Doku Umarov. Though there are questions the two militants may have just been on a routine mission. Maybe someone should ask Kadyrov about that. Kadyrov is already up to around 6,000 followers, but it looks like only a few people have fielded him questions. A Moscow blogger asked, Why do [Russians] relate to you better than you do for us? No response. Itd be worth checking in later to see how many questions come from Chechens themselves. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five #WARLORD: page 41
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across this with the futurists who would say, Well, you know in 50 years, your pets will be mutants. Youll be able to do a hybrid between a cat and a dog. And Steven kept saying, Its too scifi, the audience will never believe it.Being a futurist was still a viable vocation then. John Underkoffler (MIT Media Lab alum, founder of Oblong Industries): A lot of people had very disparate points of view. Remember, it was the late 90s, just before the bubble burst. Being a futurist was still a viable vocation then. Jones: I had some chats with Joel Garreau, probably lamenting the lack of adequate alcohol. Schwartz: Afterward, I took the notes and wrote up what was called The Bible basically the details of the history of that world. This was something for the art directors, the special effects people, the scriptwriter. Underkoffler: We always try to imbue every moment, every
object, every prop with at least that first level of believability: Could this thing work in principle? In some pieces we went really deep. Gershenfeld: Once the movie started shooting, there was an amusing moment where people were scurrying around on one of the sets. Spielberg stopped filming to ask what all those people were doing. Nobody had an answer. So there was the quick job of inventing descriptions for what the people were doing. Schwartz: In the movie, this guy is on the subway and his newspaper goes from one headline to the other. If you look at whats on before the change, it says, Mechanical Nano Technology Triumphs. Its a little tribute to Eric Drexler, who wasnt there, but was the real inventor of nano science.Ninetynine percent ended up on the idea room floor. Underkoffler: Ninety-nine percent ended up on the idea room
floor, stuff like paparazzi bots with cameras that would fly to crime scenes and jostle for access. Belker: We showed a car to Spielberg and he said, There are no buttons! Well, of course not its supposed to be voice activated. OK, so what will the actor do in the car? We had to add buttons. You think of everything, but you forget that youre making a movie. Garreau: They cherry-picked from a very large amount of weird shit. Schwartz: The honest truth is that when I talk to people about the film, the thing that they remember is not the plot, its the world. Brand: I dare say some of the people that worked on Kinect at Microsoft saw the film.[ Editor's note: Jaron Lanier, as a researcher at Microsoft Labs, worked on the Kinect.] Calthorpe: When entertainment frames the future, it becomes a little bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Schwartz: Steven and I talked specifically about creating a new set of vernacular images of the future. Before then, the only images that anybody ever referred to were either Blade Runner or 2001. It was a very dark vision. Our goal was to get on screen a really amazing vision of the future that people would talk about. We achieved that overwhelmingly. Interviews by Christina Bonnington, Carina Chocano, Elise Craig, Bryan Gardiner, Rachel Swaby and Amber Williams. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Use Your Android Phone as a Full Fledged Web Server [Video]

Thorin Klosowski (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 6:30:00 AM
If you happen to have an old Android phone sitting around collecting dust, XDA TV shows off one potentially cool use for it: a completely portable web server you can store and serve up data from no matter where you are. More
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Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks. warplanes malfunction. The flying branch tried to pin the 2010 fatal crash of an F-22 Raptor stealth fighter on the pilot, Capt. Jeffrey Haney, even though the accident was clearly related to the F-22s ongoing oxygen-system woes. When a CV-22 crashed in Afghanistan in 2010, killing four occupants, the lead investigator Brig. Gen Donald Harvel initially attributed the incident in part to engine failure. But Harvel said the Air Force brass leaned on him to blame the pilots, instead. With 37 people dead and at least two careers shattered, the controversial V-22, through mechanical failure or otherwise, continues to wreak havoc on its passengers, crews and commanders. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
fault in the June 13 crash, which left the aircraft on its back and burning in a field north of Hurlburt Field, a major Special Operations Forces flying base. Slife told Inside Defense that the cause of the accident remains unknown, but added that there was no reason to suspect a design flaw. But the Air Force has a history of blaming people even when its
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Popular Atheist Blogger Announces Conversion to Catholicism

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June 19, 2012| 1:33 pm Previously, Leah Libresco maintained a blog on the Patheos blogging network's Atheist Portal. But on the day of her announcement her blog, which is now titled "Unequally Yoked: A geeky convert picks fights in good faith," moved to the network's Catholic Channel. According to her blog post from Monday, as an atheist she couldn't fully explain where human's obtained their understanding of moral law, despite the many nontheistic theories that are out there. The day before Palm Sunday, she says, she got into a discussion with a Christian friend, who asked her what she believed was the source of moral law. After some thought, she realized that morality comes from neither evolution nor philosophy, but from God. "I believed that the Moral Law wasn't just a Platonic truth, abstract and distant," she wrote. "It turns out I actually believed it was some kind of Person, as well as Truth. And there was one religion that seemed like the most promising way to reach back to
Wright, who leads Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, had planned to address the debate during his message at the SBC Annual Meeting in New Orleans months ago before the "Traditional Southern Baptist" document went public. "The Holy Spirit convicted me that living Truth. I asked my push and work through and that this elephant in the room friend what he suggest we do reason, argue every point, but needed to be addressed," he said now, and we prayed the night accept that there will always be Tuesday. "Little did I know that office of the Liturgy of the Hours limits to what you will be able to everyone would be talking about together (I've kept up with that resolve...And some things will the elephant by the time the since)." never be resolved, not this side of convention came around." Libresco, who is currently heaven. I have accepted that a few He recognized that Calvinism or enrolled in Rite of Christian things will remain unknown and Reformed theology is "hot," Initiation of Adults (RCIA) unknowable, and in doing so particularly among younger classes at a parish in Washington r e n d e r e d e v e r y t h i n g e l s e Southern Baptists. But he also D.C., also says she has been comprehensible. It was the best pointed out that differences on the writing in a "crypto-Catholic d e a l I e v e r m a d e , " w r o t e doctrine of election and salvation style" on her blog for the last McDonald on his "God and the have existed for thousands of years and will continue to exist. month and a half. Machine" blog. Follow us S i n c e h e r a n n o u n c e m e n t , With that, he asked for "a bit of But believing in God is just the Libresco has thanked those who humility" among Calvinists and beginning for her, because she have offered her support and says for the end of judgmentalism from still questions the Church's view she is working to respond to the "traditional" Southern Baptists. on certain issues, including its questions and comments of those "Any time there is pride, whether stance on homosexuality. who don't understand or are angry it is spiritual pride or intellectual "This post isn't the final word on o v e r h e r c o n v e r s i o n . S h e pride or theological pride, it is my conversion," she wrote. "I'm a p p r e c i a t e s " a r g u m e n t a t i v e always a sin," Wright asserted. sure there's a lot more explaining comments," she says, and is "An attitude of superiority with and arguing to do, so be a little welcoming the opportunity to those who may disagree with the finer aspects of theological beliefs charitable in your read of this post answer her critics. and try to give me a little time to This entry passed through the is never going to build up the expand my ideas over the next Full-Text RSS service if this is Church of Jesus Christ." few weeks." your content and you're reading it Addressing the latter group, he A fellow Patheos Catholic on someone else's site, please read Channel blogger, Thomas L. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentMcDonald, says his journey to the only/faq.php#publishers. Five faith was similar to Libresco's, Filters recommends: Donate to and he also had some reservations Wikileaks. about certain Christian teachings when he first became a believer. "My advice to Leah would be:
continued his rebuke, saying "judgmentalism quickly moves into slander," and warned against breaking the Ninth Commandment on false witness. "It is time to show some respect to those with differing views when it comes to election and salvation," he stressed. Wright urged pastors to agree to disagree and reminded them that Jesus Christ and the Great Commission should be the central focus. "Let us understand that these two views on election and salvation can co-exist as long as we stay Christ-centered and biblicallybased in our theology." Wright served as president of the SBC for two years and will be succeeded by the denomination's first African-American president, Fred Luter. Luter was elected unanimously Tuesday. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Niagara Falls High Wire Walker's Religious Remarks Censored?

Robert Pattinson Treats Himself to a Night Out on the Town

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Submitted at 6/21/2012 6:22:15 AM
June 18, 2012| 5:10 pm Wallenda was given a microphone while performing his stunt as part of the live ABC television program special "Megastunts: Highwire Over Niagara Falls." During the stunt, Wallenda who is the first person to walk across Niagara Falls on high wire frequently mentioned God and Jesus, such as one line where he stated "Praise You, Father God! Praise You Jesus!" However, in an ABC News live blog written up by Ali Gazan, no mentions or acknowledgements were made of these remarks. Gazan's live blog posted updates starting at 9:00 PM Eastern Time, with a countdown until the tightrope walk was to begin, and concluded around 11:00 PM. During the posts, Gazan wrote updates on what was taking place as well as quotes from Wallenda and others. One update did mention the Wallenda family praying together for the safety of Nik. The comments section for the live blog included expression of disappointment that Wallenda's
religious remarks made during and after his historic stunt were omitted. "How come this blog leaves out the part about him praising Jesus? All the details are complete, except this is noticeably left out. Are you that uncomfortable typing the name of Christ?" wrote a commenter identified as "Country Girl." "Really nothing mentioning the numerous times he praised Jesus or Lord and Savior and not a word is spoken about it. What the heck is up with that???," posted "Nancy Wilson." Follow us Wallenda's high wire walk across Niagara Falls was a major ratings success for the network. According to a press release, the "Megastunts" live program had approximately 13.1 million viewers. "With coverage of daredevil Nik Wallenda's historic high wire walk directly over the precipice at Niagara Falls, ABC won Friday evening by huge margins over its nearest competitors with Total Viewers, Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54," read the ABC News release. "In fact, ABC's Megastunts:
Highwire Over Niagara Falls stood as the most-watched nonsports summertime (Memorial Day-Labor Day) telecast on the major networks since at least 2006." In a press conference after completing his stunt on live television, Wallenda explained the importance of faith in his life. "Faith plays a huge role in what I do. I believe that God has opened many doors for me in my life and this is one of them," said Wallenda, adding that "Praise God here I am in one piece." "To inspire people around the world that again the impossible is not so impossible if you set your mind to it and reach for your goals." Nik Wallenda is the greatgrandson of Karl Wallenda, a noted funambulist who frequently performed without a safety net. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Robert Pattinson had a night out in LA with friends yesterday at the El Rey Theatre. He and his pals were there to check out a show from the Canadian indie band Metric. Rob let loose after a big day for Twilight fans - the Breaking Dawn Part 2 trailer just came out, in honor of Robert's character Edward Cullen's 111th birthday. The clip shows Edward adjusting to life with his new vampire wife, Kristen Stewart's Bella Swan, and their final battle against the Volturi. The piece is getting people excited for the Twilight series's end with Breaking Dawn Part 2's release on Nov. 16. It seems Rob had to
celebrate the release without girlfriend Kristen Stewart. She's been off in Australia promoting Snow White and the Huntsman, but was seen at the airport in Sydney heading home today. View Slideshow
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The artificial pancreas that could defeat diabetes

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Submitted at 6/21/2012 9:00:00 AM
Photo: Aki Hnninen Type 1 diabetes is at best a huge nuisance and at worst a constant threat of death for up to 3 million Americans whose pancreases don't produce insulin. Technology has improved the life of some diabetics, with insulin pumps replacing manual injections and glucose monitors that keep constant watch of diabetics' blood -sugar levels, reducing the need for finger-pricks. Yet diabetics are still required to frequently monitor and adjust their insulin levels. Now one company, Animas Corp., has completed the first successful human trial of a made-for-market artificial pancreas that takes care of everything automatically. Are we on the verge of relegating type 1
diabetes to an easily manageable condition? Here's a look at the quest to ease the lives of diabetics: How does an artificial pancreas work? The replacement pancreas ties together an insulin pump, a
on individualized algorithms, and regulates levels accordingly, but the company hopes its artificial pancreas will soon be operated by smartphone, or a processor in the insulin pump. Rival artificial pancreases that are in development one from Boston and Harvard unversities, and the other from the University of Virginia and an international consortium of researchers already operate by smartphone. How did the HHM work in the field? The artificial pancreas worked glucose monitor, and a computer very well, but the trial only had 13 system that automatically adjusts subjects, lasted about 20 hours, insulin levels, creating a "closed- and took place under constant l o o p " s y s t e m . A n i m a s ' medical supervision at a hospital. Hypoglycemia-Hyperglycemia Full story at The Week. Minimizer (HHM) currently uses All the top stories from The a laptop to predict how much Week. insulin a patient will need, based Permalink| Leave a comment
Launch Center Pro Is a Simple Way to Launch Specific Actions Within iPhone Apps Quickly [Video]
Thorin Klosowski (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 6:00:00 AM
iPhone: The first iteration of Launch Center was a handy way to add shortcuts to Notification Center, but with the release of Launch Center Pro, the focus changes to a way to launch app specific actions from one specific home screen. More
Last two days of Irish Open are first European Tour sellout
Submitted at 6/21/2012 6:39:50 AM
(Reuters) - The European Tour has had to close ticket sales for an event for the first time after the final two rounds of next week's
Irish Open were sold out. The tournament's return to Royal Portrush for the first time since 1947 has attracted a field including world number two Rory McIlroy and fellow Northern Irishmen Darren Clarke and Graeme McDowell. Triple major
champion Padraig Harrington and U.S. PGA winner Keegan Bradley are also due to take part in the June 28-July 1 event in County Antrim. "We are preparing for a crowd around the 100,000 mark for the week... ...
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Egypt delays runoff result as protests loom

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"The generals' relentless expansion of their authority to detain and try civilians now goes O f f i c i a l s h a v e p o s t p o n e d far beyond their powers under declaring a winner in Egypt's Hosni Mubarak," Joe Stork, HRW disputed presidential election, Middle East director, said in a sending political tensions soaring statement as the country awaits its first new "These decrees are the latest leader in three decades. indication yet that there won't be a Adding to the confusion and meaningful handover to civilian uncertainty on Wednesday were rule on June 30," Stork added. conflicting reports about the On Wednesday night, thousands health of Hosni Mubarak, who is o f M u s l i m B r o t h e r h o o d serving a life sentence for failing supporters, along with some to stop the killing of protesters in secular youth revolutionary the uprising that ousted him last groups, camped out in Cairo's year. Tahrir Square, the birthplace of At one point on Tuesday, he was l a s t y e a r ' s u p r i s i n g , a n d said to be near death, while some denounced the military, trying to believed the report was a pretext push back against a series of by sympathetic allies of Mubarak power grabs by the generals last to transfer him out of prison to a week. m o r e c o m f o r t a b l e f a c i l i t y . The Election Commission did not Egyptians elect first new president say when it would announce the in post-Mubarak era winner of the runoff between the Last weekend's runoff election Muslim Brotherhood's candidate, was long touted as a landmark Mohammed Morsi, and Mubarak's moment, the choice of Egypt's former prime minister, Ahmed first civilian president to take over Shafik. the generals who have ruled since Both candidates claim they won, Mubarak's removal on February and the commission was supposed 11, 2011. to declare the top vote-getter on Instead, it has turned into a Thursday. c o n f r o n t a t i o n b e t w e e n t h e But its secretary-general, Hatem I s l a m i s t s o f t h e M u s l i m Begato, told the state newspaper Brotherhood and the entrenched Al-Ahram that the winner would e l e m e n t s o f M u b a r a k ' s o l d be announced on Saturday or regime, including the military. Sunday. On Thursday, Human Rights Allegations of fraud Watch (HRW) said it held The commission said the concerns over the military's announcement was postponed commitment to hand over power because a panel of judges must to civilian rule. look into about 400 complaints of
control of the budget. They will dominate the security system after reshaping a key National Defense Council to keep it under their control. The generals will also oversee the process of writing Egypt's new constitution. The Brotherhood had raised alarm when it and other Islamists tried to pack an earlier attempt to form an assembly to write a constitution with their members, giving them the strongest voice in writing it. The assembly was dissolved by a court order. Allies of the military, Mubarakvoting fraud submitted by both A group of independent jurists e r a o f f i c i a l s a n d s e c u l a r campaigns, including lawyers for known as the Judges For Egypt opponents of Islamists also hold Shafik claiming fraud in 14 of said Morsi was the winner, with a s w a y i n t h e j u d i c i a r y , t h e Egypt's 27 provinces. s i m i l a r p r o p o r t i o n t o t h e prosecutor's office and the The lawyers said ballots sent to Brotherhood's count. But Shafik's election commission. The resulting standoff has polling centers were already campaign accused the group of marked for Morsi. b e i n g a f f i l i a t e d w i t h t h e worried Washington, which has long had close ties to Egypt's Morsi's lawyers accused Shafik B r o t h e r h o o d . of buying votes and being Foreign and local election military and provides it around involved in forging lists of monitors say the runoff was not $1bn a year in aid. Secretary of State Hillary registered voters to include marked by enough serious or soldiers, who are barred from large-scale irregularities to Rodham Clinton said the US expects the military to "support voting, and names of the dead. question its validity. the democratic transition, to The Brotherhood says it is being Power play t a r g e t e d b y a n o r g a n i s e d In a series of swift moves last recede by turning over authority". campaign to keep it out of the week, the generals cornered for "The military has to assume an presidency, and that even if Morsi themselves sweeping powers that appropriate role, which is not to is declared the victor, he will face effectively subordinate the next try to interfere with, dominate or deep resistance that will make it president and severely limit his s u b v e r t t h e c o n s t i t u t i o n a l impossible for him to govern. capability for independent action. a u t h o r i t y , " s h e s a i d . After two days of voting that A c o u r t o r d e r d i s s o l v e d Privately, US officials expressed ended on Sunday, the group parliament, which was led by the concern that a Shafik victory declared Morsi won 52 per cent of Brotherhood, and the military could have dangerous fallout, the vote. Shafiq's camp on issued a constitutional declaration w i t h p r o t e s t s a n d e n s u i n g Monday announced he had won that makes the generals the EGYPT page 46 51.5 per cent of the vote. nation's legislators and gives them
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Bali bombmaker sentenced to 20 years in jail

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He was accused of illegal weapons possession, concealing terrorist acts, immigration An Indonesia court has sentenced violations and premeditated U m a r P a t e k , d u b b e d murder. the "Demolition Man", to 20 years Earlier, the court had been told in jail, finding him guilty on all t h a t his role had six charges related to his role in b e e n c o m p a r a t i v e l y m i n o r . the 2002 Bali bombings. Patek had argued he never agreed Patek, 45, was accused of w i t h t h e b o m b a t t a c k a n d assembling explosives for twin apologised for the first time to the suicide bombings on a bar and a victims and their families. nightclub in Bali that killed 202 "I feel sorry for the mistakes I've people, including 88 Australians, made. Actually, I never agreed and church attacks in Jakarta on with that action [bombing in Christmas Eve in 2000 that killed Bali]. I accept on the basis of 19. Islamic law that the action I took The West Jakarta district court in the bombing was wrong," he opened the session at around said in May. 9:20am on Thursday (0220GMT) Before his arrest, Patek was the with about 100 journalists, many most-wanted "terrorism" suspect Australian, crammed into a small in Indonesia and the US and had a 12-seater section to hear Patek's $1m bounty on his head. fate four months after the trial After more than eight years on began. the run, he was arrested in the About 300 police were guarding Pakistani town of Abbottabad in the courtroom and four snipers J a n u a r y 2 0 1 1 , w h e r e U S s t o o d a t o p n e i g h b o u r i n g commandos killed al-Qaeda buildings, West Jakarta police leader Osama bin Laden four chief Widodo told the AFP news months later. He was extradited to agency. Indonesia in August. State prosecutors had sought a 'Expert' bombmaker life sentence for Patek, dubbed Patek had testified that he played "Demolition Man" by local media. a minor role in assembling the
explosives, saying he mixed only 50kg of chemicals out of a tonne, and denied having any bombmaking expertise. But US FBI special agent Frank Pellegrino testified in April that Patek was well known as an expert bombmaker among fighters in the region. Pellegrino said the FBI had collected evidence that Patek planned to kill US troops and suggested he went to Abbottabad to meet bin Laden before his arrest, a claim Patek has repeatedly denied. Patek is the last suspect detained in Indonesia to be tried for the attacks. "Indonesians and the international community have long waited for this case to be over," prosecutor Bambang Suharyadi said last month. The 2002 Bali bombings triggered a crackdown in Indonesia, focused on weakening the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) network blamed for the bombings. Anti-terrorism squads trained by Australian and US police have conducted bloody raids, killing Dulmatin and Noordin
Mohammed Top, suspected of helping orchestrate the attacks, and Malaysian Azahari Husin, an alleged bombmaker. Indonesia also executed three men in 2008 - Imam Samudra, and brothers Amrozi bin Nurhasyim and Ali Ghufron, known as Mukhlas - for playing major roles on the ground in the operation. Several others have been jailed, including bombmaker Ali Imron, who was given a life sentence for helping build and deliver bombs. The only suspect yet to be tried is Riduan Isamuddin, known as Hambali, who allegedly helped orchestrate the attacks and has been detained at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay since 2006, accused of having financial links to al-Qaeda. 554 This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
instability that could lead the military to take even stronger measures. While the Brotherhood and secular revolutionary groups have denounced the military's moves, some Egyptian liberals see the steps as a way to prevent an Islamist takeover by the 82-yearold Muslim Brotherhood, or ensure that its hold on power is difficult and temporary. 900 This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Syrian pilot defects after landing in Jordan

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NYC Restaurant Selling $1K Pizza With Six Kinds Of Caviar On It

Mary Beth Quirk (The Consumerist)
The pilot of a Syrian MiG 21 fighter jet who flew his plane to Jordan has asked for political asylum on landing, Jordanian Minister of State for Information Samih al-Maaytah said. "He requested political asylum in Jordan. He is being debriefed at the moment," Maaytah said on Thursday. Syrian state television named the pilot as Colonel Hassan Mari Hamada, saying communications were lost with his plane while he was on a training mission near the border with Jordan. "The plane landed at King Hussein Airbase at 11am (0800 GMT)," a Jordanian security source said, referring to a military airport 80km northeast of the capital Amman. "This Syrian airforce Russianmade Mig warplane landed at one of the military bases in the northeast of the country in the governorate of Al Mafraq which is close to the border with Syria," Al Jazeera's Nisreen elShamayleh reported from the Jordanian capital Amman. "The pilot has defected and requested political asylum in
Jordan. "What we still don't know is if there are other defectors or other passengers with him on the plane and this is also going to pose a really serious threat for the Jordanian government which needs to think about what it's going to do about having this Syrian warplane on Jordanian soil," Shamayleh said. "It is a fairly advanced warplane and now it is a liability for the Jordanian authorities." Shamayleh said it was as yet unclear what would be done about the pilot and plane. She added that there were concerns about having Syrian defectors on Jordanian soil. "Once they enter the borders there are extensive background checks run on them," our correspondent said. "And authorities have decided to keep them in a secluded military base. They do not want them to interact with the
other refugee's because this poses a threat for Jordan which has dramatically beefed up its border security. "It is worried that army defectors inside the country who are refugees will try and smuggle weapons into Syria somehow from the Jordanian border." Syrian activists said Thursday's development was the first defection involving an aircraft since the start of a 15-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. 371 This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
pleasing joy and the profit to be had on such a thing somewhere in there as well and it's still pretty Submitted at 6/21/2012 9:00:00 AM astounding. Some nights all you want is a We wonder what kind of gemnice simple slice of cheese-laden, encrusted box one might get if tomato sauce-slathered pizza. And you ask to take your leftover then maybe, if you're the kind caviar pizza home. Lifestyles of with a fancy hitch in your the rich and famous, everybody. britches, there are the times when For some reason we doubt that all you want is to pay $1,000 for a Nino's is in touch with the p i z z a w i t h a t o n o f f a n c y American Pizza Community ingredients on it. regarding their fight against We all get satisfaction from our calorie counts on menu boards. food in different ways, but at $1,000 pizza at Nino's Restaurant Nino's Restaurant in New York in New York City/a> [Yahoo! City, the Bellisima Pizza offers News] happiness in the form of $820 This entry passed through the worth of caviar (six different Full-Text RSS service if this is kinds, you see), and then about your content and you're reading it $180 for other ingredients, on someone else's site, please read including the makings for dough the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentand some Maine lobster sprinkled only/faq.php#publishers. Five on top. Filters recommends: Donate to Factor in the labor involved in Wikileaks. crafting such a piece of mouth-
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RCA 720p Digital Best Buy Sells Me Exciting New Geek Squad Camcorder Anti-Warranty
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Submitted at 6/21/2012 12:01:01 AM
Laura Northrup (The Consumerist)
tell me if they could get the part, I tried calling Westinghouse, since it is under the manufacturer's Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:38:27 AM warranty. Well, they may What is an extended warranty? advertise that they are open until We were under the impression 7pm CST, but in fact I sat on hold that it is a plan that extends the with the message that "all agents original manufacturer's warranty, were busy" well past 7pm CST. paying for repairs in the case that I tried the "live chat" option only a consumer product is defective in to be told that no agents were some way that is not the owner's currently logged on. I filled out fault. That's what Pam thought, their online service request form too, and she purchased one for the and was notified someone would new Westinghouse TV that she be in touch in 2-3 business days. bought from Best Buy. When the When I called their main number, set broke downsix months into from a second phone, I was told a four-year Geek Squad service the person I needed to speak with plan, naturallyshe tried to get had already gone home for the both Best Buy and Westinghouse day. to repair the set, but no one carries Out of desperation I called the t h e p a r t s h e n e e d s , a n d Best Buy main number and asked Westinghouse isn't picking up the to speak with a customer focus phone. Literally. and satisfaction agent. Which I She writes: spent 8 minutes holding to speak I purchased a Westinghouse TV 6 with. When I finally got someone months ago from Best Buy. Last on the line I learned Best Buy has night the AC Adapter shorted out. no rep with Westinghouse, and After speaking with the store I the woman was calling the same bought the TV in who could not 1800 number I was currently on supply me with the part, Geek hold with. Not surprising that no Squad who could neither supply one answered for her, either. the part or send a tech to do a I purchased the 4 year extended trouble call, speaking with best warranty. Now I feel like I was Buy's third party parts department bamboozled out of that $100. Partstore, who not only didn't Only Geek Squad can fix my TV, have the part, but couldn't even but Geek Squad can never come
to my house (something they left out in their warranty sales pitch). And considering that no one from Best Buy seems capable of getting parts from the manufacturer of my TV, I wonder if I will be getting a new TV every 6 months. All I can say with certainty is that I will not be using Best Buy for a big-ticket electronic device, and I certainly will not be purchasing ANYTHING manufactured by Westinghouse ever again. What a mess. Look into the fine print of the Geek Squad contract. Are there any provisions for what happens if they can't fix something? It's too late for a chargeback, but there are other options. The first place to look would be your credit card company, if you purchased the TV with a credit card: they may offer additional warranty protection that would provide a refund or replacement TV, not just a non-repair. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
One-Click Wonder For the last time, Sherrie, its not like I meant to share that video with the entire world! Yes, I know I promised you that it would just be for us and that no one else would ever see it. But I dont know what to tell you. IT WAS AN ACCIDENT. If you want to blame anyone, blame the RCA Digital Camcorders one-click sharing option. With just a simple slip of the index finger, the video went up on YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo and Flickr. Oh. And also to my entire email address book. Yes. Your mom included. Sorry. But hey! Look on the bright side. At least we look really good. The picture is great. I told you that the web quality mode would pay off one day. And you were totally
right about recording in the highspeed sports mode. The erm action, if you will, is quite crisp and clear. Sure, the 2-inch LCD display is good, but it doesnt really do me any justice, if you know what I mean. Heh heh. Oh, very funny. Yes I know theres a 2x digital zoom, but its not like I need it. Wait, are you saying you think I need it? You know what? Forget it. We can just hook up the HDMI to my HDTV and watch it on the big screen WHERE IT BELONGS.
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Fun Reads For Father's Day: 'Fifty Shades Of Grey'

Laura Northrup (The Consumerist)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:00:00 AM
James, Heat on brink of a title - YAHOO!

BRIAN MAHONEY (- Bing News)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:23:09 AM
Fifty Shades of Grey, a current bestseller that's lightly rewritten Twilight fanfiction the erotic tale of an office relationship gone terribly, terribly right, might make an appropriate gift for some
people. A friend who shares your love of popular fiction. Your favorite librarian. Your grandmother. We're pretty sure it wouldn't make an appropriate Father's Day gift, though, no matter what this Target display says. To be fair, no one said who would find the read fun.
Thanks to Suzanne for sending in the photo.
MIAMI (AP) The only thing that can stop LeBron James' championship coronation is another Thunder comeback. LeBron is on LeBrink, a victory JAMES, page 50
U.S. Open champ Simpson to skip British Open - Baltimore Sun

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due date in late July. Simpson theoretically could play the Submitted at 6/21/2012 1:27:58 AM British Open on July 19-22 and Webb Simpson will pass on a get back from Royal Lytham & chance to become the seventh St. Annes in time for the birth but man to win the U.S. Open and would risk being unable to return British Open in the same year, quickly in the event of early labor. confirming Wednesday he will Their first child, 16-month-old stay with wife Dowd to await the James, arrived before his due birth of their second child. date. The Simpsons have "After winning it's certainly a discussed inducing labor a week little bit harder to not go," early to allow Webb to play in the Simpson told reporters at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational on Travelers Championship. "But in Aug. 2-5. the grand scheme of life, it's a Coming to America: After decision I know I'll always be resisting the idea for years, Lee happy I made." Westwood is making plans to join Dowd Simpson is entering her h i s f e l l o w B r i t s w h o h a v e final month of pregnancy with a established a full-time presence in
Florida. Westwood, 39, told British media of his intent to move across the Atlantic at year's end in the aftermath of his tie for 10th in the U.S. Open a finish that increased his career total to 14 top -10s in majors with no victories. "There are a number of reasons," Westwood told reporters, "but the main one is I haven't got that much time left at the top, and I want to give myself the best chance of staying there as long as I can." All indications point to the Jupiter area, the game's new hot spot that has attracted Tiger Woods, Dustin Johnson, Ernie Els
and Rickie Fowler of late. Els, Johnson and Luke Donald are members of the Bear's Club in Jupiter. Tap-ins: Royal Troon has been named the site of the 2016 British Open, its ninth turn as host. The claret jug's last visit came in 2004, when Todd Hamilton outlasted Els in a four-hole playoff. Charl Schwartzel won't be seen again until Royal Lytham, planning four weeks off to rest a torn stomach muscle. Last year's Masters champion came close to withdrawing at Olympic but stuck it out and tied for 38th. To no one's surprise, Woods has committed to the WGC-
Bridgestone field. He's a seventime winner at Firestone Country Club. The Principal Charity Classic has retained its sponsor for three more years, but the Champions Tour event in Iowa needs a new home. Glen Oaks Country Club notified officials this week it no longer wants to host. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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from winning his first NBA title. Appearing relaxed Wednesday, he said he has recovered well from the cramping issues that knocked him out of Game 4. He apologized for his performance in last year's NBA Finals and what he called his immaturity toward fans and media afterward. He appears completely different now, more comfortable on and off the court and seeming to have figured out everything it takes to become a champion. He's almost there, but won't think about it until his Miami Heat have picked up one more victory. ''As crazy as it sounds, I haven't got caught up in it,'' James said. ''I won't get caught up in it because I'm not going to let, you know the human nature is to automatically think about after we win it, what are we going to do. I'm not there. I won't get there until those zeros hit and I see that we won. ''I'm the leader of this team, and I'm not comfortable right now. I'm comfortable in my game, but I'm not going to be comfortable until we seal this thing.'' The Heat have three cracks at it, starting with Game 5 on Thursday on their home floor. No team has overcome a 3-1 deficit in the finals, but the Thunder already wiped out one big hole just one round ago in the Western Conference finals. ''I've been down 0-2 against San Antonio and everybody said it was over then, and we won,'' Kevin Durant said. ''But it's over with. That's old. It's a new series.
We've got to be ready to come out here and try to get this Game 5 tomorrow. We'll see what happens. We're not going to give up. We're going to keep fighting to the end and hopefully we can take this thing back to the crib.'' The series was hyped as a JamesDurant matchup, the league's MVP against its runner-up and scoring champion, the winner earning the right to be called best player in the game. They are fairly even in the box score but James is far ahead in the only place that matters to them: the scoreboard. And somewhat surprisingly, he's gotten more help from supporting players, from Shane Battier's 17 points in Game 2 to Mario Chalmers' 25 points in Game 4, including a huge basket after James was forced from the game for good. Meanwhile, Durant has watched Sixth Man of the Year James Harden miss 16 of his 20 shots in Miami. ''You know, everyone was excited to finally get an opportunity to see two of the best players go head to head, myself and KD, but for me personally, it's not a head-to-head battle,'' James said. ''When I go out on the floor, I do want to dominate the guy in front of me, but this is a team game, and I have all the trust in my teammates, and I try to do everything that needs to be done individually to help our team win.'' He couldn't do it in either of his first two finals appearances, his Cleveland Cavaliers getting swept
by the Spurs in 2007and the Heat losing to Dallas in six games last year. James joined the Heat in 2010 after Miami convinced him that he would have enough help to win a championship - more specifically, that he wouldn't have to carry the load by himself, like he did so many times in Cleveland over his first seven seasons. The Heat were keeping Dwyane Wade, adding Chris Bosh and filling out the roster with a mix that would be best described as unconventional. If that axiom - more options are better - needed proof, Game 4 provided it. James could not finish the game, though he returned after the first wave of cramps hit and delivered a tiebreaking 3-pointer. With James watching the final minute, Wade and Chalmers helped close out the Thunder, Miami winning 104-98 to move one win from the franchise's second championship. ''This team, I think we understand that the moment is the biggest thing,'' Wade said. ''We're excited about the possibility of playing better, doing things better defensively, but also offensively. We don't feel like we've played our best game yet, and we feel that's still to come.'' Oklahoma City's losses in the last three games were by four, six and six points. A play here, a bounce there, this series might look a whole lot different. And that's why the Western Conference champions are conceding nothing, especially since things seemed
pretty bleak when they were behind 2-0 against a San Antonio team that had won 20 in a row. They went on to become the 15th NBA team to come back from that deficit. ''You know, this group of guys never give up, regardless of what happens,'' said Russell Westbrook, who scored 43 points in Game 4. ''We've been through many different situations throughout this playoffs. Just another task for us. We've just got to be ready to play for the next game.'' So will James. He was his usual self in practice Wednesday, laughing with teammates while shooting a few free throws, looking at ease. And most important to Miami, he was moving without too much pain. James had to be carried off the court in the fourth quarter of Game 4, unable to walk to the bench. A lot of fluids and rest later, some of the bounce was back in his step on Wednesday. ''I feel a lot better than I did last night. That's clear,'' James said. ''I'm still a little (sore) because of the muscles just kind of being at an intense level, very tight. I'm still sore. I was able to get some treatment last night. I was able to get some treatment this morning. ... And also with the game being basically at midnight tomorrow night, I have all day tomorrow, too, to prepare. I should be fine by tomorrow night.'' It's a 9 p.m. tipoff, actually, but the point is made. By Thursday night, James will be ready for the championship stage.
And so will his team. What started on Christmas Day in Dallas, watching the Mavericks hoist the banner that will forever commemorate their championship celebration on Miami's home floor last year, could end as the perfect turnaround story for the Heat. Or, it could be the start of another Thunder turnaround. A victory would force a Game 6 back in Oklahoma City, where they are 91 this postseason. That celebration that James wouldn't consider Wednesday would become no sure thing if the Heat have to try to win it on the road. ''Game 5 is a Game 7 for us, you know, and it's a must-win for them,'' James said. ''But it's a must win for us, too, and as a leader of this team, I'll approach it that way, and hopefully I won't have to be dealing with cramps tomorrow night.'' --Follow Brian Mahoney on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ Briancmahoney After years of dodging a playoff, college football is close to abandoning the bowl system to crown a champ. New plan. http://t.co/iaknIXL0 RT @ KevinI: Here's my#boxing blog post on the WBO review of the @ MannyPacquiao@ Timbradleyjr fight http://t.co/ W32QUJdb@ YahooSports Manny Pacquiao wants a rematch with Timothy Bradley after a panel unanimously favored Pacman in a video review. http:// t.co/4VMCVSTJ JAMES, page 51
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Photos: Artist LeRoy Neiman Passes Away At 91 - Denver Post

Submitted at 6/20/2012 10:22:32 PM
Team Ninja's Hayashi says 'no plans' for Dead Journey, Flower and or Alive 5 character DLC Flow PS3 bundle
David Hinkle (Joystiq)
ESPN Photos: Artist LeRoy Neiman Passes Away At 91 Denver Post LeRoy Neiman, the artist best known for evoking the kinetic energy of the world's biggest sporting events, died Wednesday at age 91. LeRoy Neiman Dies: The Paintings That Defined His Amazing... International Business Times all 565 news articles
would need to balance the game? It gets that much harder to get it right, and it's already very Don't expect any supplementary difficult to get right." character DLC for Dead or Alive Hayashi also doesn't like the idea 5. Depending on how you feel of different players with different about Freddy Krueger surprises, character rosters. "It's a similar this could be an important thing to if certain people have all revelation. these characters and others don't. T e a m N i n j a h e a d Y o s u k e It makes it an unfair game, and we Hayashi says there are no plans to don't think that's the right way to offer post-launch character DLC go for fighting games." in Dead or Alive 5. In fact, he Team Ninja's Hayashi says 'no thinks the practice wreaks havoc plans' for Dead or Alive 5 on the balance of the game - c h a r a c t e r D L C o r i g i n a l l y essential in any good fighter. appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 20 "Even with over 20 characters Jun 2012 23:59:00 EST. Please that's still a real challenge," see our terms for use of feeds. Hayashi tells Videogamer. "If we Permalink| Email this| Comments had 50, how much more time
Submitted at 6/20/2012 11:59:00 PM
listed for late summer

Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 9:30:00 AM
The most excellent Journey concluded the developer's threegame deal with Sony and now thatgamecompany confirmed thatgamecompany is moving early this morning that a disc- toward unknown horizons in selfbased Journey collector's edition, publishing. which will include Flow and Update: Added full statement Flower, is a thing for PlayStation from company after the break. 3, but "can't say anything more." Continue reading Journey, That's okay, we'll let retailers do Flower and Flow PS3 bundle a little more of the talking: both listed for late summer GameFly and Play-Asia list the Journey, Flower and Flow PS3 compilation with an August bundle listed for late summer r e l e a s e d a t e . T h e r e i s n o originally appeared on Joystiq on speculation on price at this time. Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:30:00 EST. None of thatgamecompany's Please see our terms for use of PlayStation Network PS3 titles feeds. were previously available on disc, Permalink| Email this| Comments but Flow was available on PSP.
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Real-Life Lightsaber Doubles as Bug Zapper [VIDEO]

Neha Prakash (Mashable!)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:11:11 AM
Nintendo Direct Inside Twitters New returns tonight at San Francisco Headquarters [PICS] midnight
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Nintendo 3DS, Wii and Nintendo DS products," so don't expect to hear any surprises about the Wii It's two weeks after E3, so U. Do expect to see a different naturally Nintendo has more r o o m i n N i n t e n d o ' s K y o t o announcements to make (just as it h e a d q u a r t e r s . did two days before E3). As has Nintendo Direct returns tonight at become the company's custom, midnight originally appeared on it'll host a "Nintendo Direct" Joystiq on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 video, streaming from Nintendo's 10:00:00 EST. Please see our site, tonight at 12am EST. terms for use of feeds. According to a brief blurb from Permalink| Email this| Comments Nintendo, the video will be "about
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Someone has finally come up with a way to fight off the bugs of the Empire a lightsaber. Caleb Kraft, senior editor of the tech blog Hack a Day, wrapped a toy lightsaber in pest-electrifying fine mesh and an electrical cord to transform the Jedi Knights' weapon of choice into a coldAllegra Tepper (Mashable!) space, but very little about their blooded bug killer. (We'd imagine n e w o f f i c e s c a n b e c a l l e d he also had to channel the force.) Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:28:00 AM Unfortunately, the lightsaber common. 1. 1355 Market Street The space features a yoga studio, w o n ' t l i g h t u p l i k e L u k e Click here to view this gallery. a rooftop garden and an Skywalker's. Changes are afoot at Twitter. arcadeessential elements in any Kraft says it only took him 20 First, the company introduced a productive workplace, really. And minutes to build. The lightsaber new logo, and now it's moving in of course, in keeping with its can annihilate any pesky fly to new digs in the Mid-Market avian motif, there are lots of (clearly commissioned by Darth Vader) that gets in your way. neighborhood of San Francisco. images of birds. Local photographer Troy Holden SEE ALSO: Artist Turns New Watch the video above to see how the lightsaber was built. stopped in to snap some beautiful Twitter Logo Into Po Would you shots of the new office, which Continue reading... take up three floors at 1355 M o r e A b o u t : g a l l e r y , Continue reading... Market Street. From what we can headquarters, San Francisco-San More About: bugs, Gadgets, tell, Twitter may be big on Jose, trending, Twitter, twitter Hack A Day, lightsaber, Newsy, Star Wars, Video offering employees common headquarters
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Morning Bell: President Obamas Fast and Furious Scandal Grows

Rory Cooper (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 7:58:59 AM
On the night of December 15, 2010, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot and killed by an untraceable assault weapon that was deliberately handed to Mexican drug lords by U.S. officials via Operation Fast and Furious. Ever since, the Terry family and Americans across the nation have asked how this could have happened. And ever since, Attorney General Eric Holder has stonewalled Congress in its attempts to find these answers. Yesterday, President Obama joined this stonewalling effort, asserting executive privilege over many of the documents about the operation that Congress had subpoenaed but still had not received. Executive privilege is legitimate when properly invoked. But even then, the Supreme Court has maintained that it is not absolute. The Department of Justice (DOJ) must provide a compelling rationale for each assertion. Shielding wrongdoing has never been a qualifying rationale. Heritage legal expert and former Department of Justice counsel Todd Gaziano explains: First, the Supreme Court in United States v. Nixon(1974) held
that executive privilege cannot be invoked at all if the purpose is to shield wrongdoing. The courts held that [President] Nixons purported invocation of executive privilege was illegitimate, in part, for that reason. There is reason to suspect that this might be the case in the Fast and Furious cover-up and stonewalling effort. Congress needs to get to the bottom of that question to prevent an illegal invocation of executive privilege and further abuses of power. That will require an index of the withheld documents and an explanation of why each of them is covered by executive privilegeand more. It is now up to Congress to ascertain the specific reasoning for executive privilege with every withheld document. Even in the unlikely case it is determined that this was a proper invocation of executive privilege, the administration is still not off the hook to inform Congress of what they know. Gaziano explains further: [T]he President is required when invoking executive privilege to try to accommodate the other branches legitimate information needs in some other way. For example, it does not harm executive power for the President to selectively waive executive privilege in most instances, even
if it hurts him politically by exposing a terrible policy failure or wrongdoing among his staff. T h e h i s t o r y o f executivecongressional relations is filled with accommodations and waivers of privilege. In contrast to voluntary waivers of privilege, Watergate demonstrates that wrongful invocations of privilege can seriously damage the office of the presidency when Congress and the courts impose new constraints on the Presidents discretion or power (some rightful and some not). President Obama now owns the Fast and Furious scandal. It is entirely up to him whether he wants to live up to the transparency promises he made four years ago, or further develop a shroud of secrecy that would make President Richard Nixon blush. If the stonewalling continues, and the privilege is not waived, it will be up to the American people and the media to demand the reasoning for the cover-up. It is also time for the media to begin responsibly covering this scandal. For more than 16 months, only a handful of reporters have appropriately researched the facts and sought answers. Most members of the national media would not even acknowledge the existence of the
scandal. Reportedly, NBC Nightly News ran its first story on the scandal just this past Tuesday. The national media must now follow the lead of their colleagues CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson or Townhalls Katie Pavlich and investigate the specific facts and details of the operation and administration involvement. Attkisson, as you may remember, was screamed and cussed at by White House spokesman Eric Schultz in October for asking questions about Operation Fast and Furious. Answers must be demanded. When was the first time President Obama was briefed on this operation? Given his previous conflicting testimony, when in fact did Attorney General Eric Holder become involved? What exactly did he know and when did he know it? Despite the fact that Mexico was left in the dark by the Obama administration, this was still an international operation. If Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must approve the Keystone pipeline, wouldnt she also be consulted on this cross-border operation? Liberals will try and pretend this operation that began in mid-2009 is connected to former President George W. Bushs administration. The media should challenge this
false assertion. Operation Wide Receiver in 2006 did not remotely resemble Fast and Furious, as National Reviews Andrew McCarthy has ably examined. Mexico helped coordinate it, and there was traceable controlled delivery. Even Holder admitted in testimony that you cannot equate the two. We will also hear that this is election-year politics. The problem with that refrain is that this investigation has been ongoing since early 2011, well before campaign season started. It has been Attorney General Holders evasiveness that has dragged this process closer to Election Day. If it were not for conservative media outlets, bloggers, a few dogged reporters and the steadfastness of House Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), this troubling scandal would have been buried long ago. A brave American border agent is dead. At least 200 Mexicans have been slaughtered with these weapons. Drug violence on the border remains unabated. Now, President Obama is attempting to conceal the facts of what happened. This is an opportunity for Congress and the media to MORNING page 59
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Andrew Sullivan complained yesterday that I had engaged in a McCarthyite attack on Ron Paul by writing the following: A politician isnt answerable for the antics of every one of his supporters. But theres surely a reason, isnt there, that racists, anti-Semites, 9/11 Truthers, and Holocaust deniers are so strongly attracted to the Paul campaign. They hear something. They continue to hear it too, no matter how firmly Ron Pauls more mainstream supporters clamp their hands over their own ears. Andrews riposte: Notice how pure the smear is, enabled and not diminished by the first sentence. Notice the key concept of Beltway ideological policemen: there is a mainstream and a non-mainstream. Dabble with the latter at your peril. Since David has perished by the cult of the mainstream, its odd he should deploy it against others. But to throw in Holocaust denial and 9/11 Truthers for good measure! Really. And notice how particularly cheap and easy it is to use such tactics against a libertarian. The traditional left is often based on collective associations, building a movement out of oppressed groups and their grievances, whether it be class or race or even
sexual orientation. Libertarianism is the opposite. Its about dis associating. When you listen to Paul saying he will not turn anyone away from supporting his platform regardless of their motives or beliefs, you are hearing a reflection of his libertarianism, not his bigotry. He will accept support from any quarter and compared with the corporate money flowing into the other candidates coffers, he is about as independent as a presidential candidate can be. Because he is a radical individualist, he doesnt even understand why he should somehow explain the belief of others, or justify their support. You should ask them, not him. This kind of gotcha-association game is particularly easy because libertarians favor liberty above all, and that will necessarily mean liberty for bigots as well as others. A principled belief in states rights will doubtless lead to more racist and homophobic policies in many states but also, of course, more enlightened and successful inclusive states like Oregon or New York or Massachusetts or California. A rejection of statism might lead to more discrimination in the private sector. But it doesnt mandate it. And it need not encourage it. A noninterventionist foreign policy will allow evil to triumph elsewhere in
the world, because it believes its none of our business or too riddled with unintended consequences to try extirpating. That may be right or wrong, but it is not an approval of the evil of Assad or Ahmedinejad or the North Korean junta. And again, it is actually much deeper an American tradition than permanent warfare. But if you can trot out David Duke or Ayatollah Khamenei as potential Paul supporters, you have a very easy, cheap and essentially McCarthyite target. It saddens me that this kind of tactic works. I still believe that the newsletters, because they were in Pauls name, require a clearer explanation from Paul than the muddled ones he has given. He should not be left off the hook. And his proposals deserve a thorough vetting and discussion. But there is something awry when a candidate is assessed not on his arguments and proposals but on the shadiness and ugliness of some of his fringe supporters. Ron Pauls supporters ask that their candidate not be judged by his associates. Or by the people he chose to employ. Or by the newsletters he published. Or by the book he wrote. Or by the way he earned the largest part of his living when out of office in the 1990s. Or by his purchase of the mailing list of the Holocaust-
denying Liberty Lobby. Or by the radio shows he chooses to appear on. Or by his strategic decision to reach out to racist voters. Or by the conspiracy theories to which he lends credence, from government creation of AIDS to Israeli culpability for the 1993 bombing to a putative 9/11 coverup. And here I thought that libertarianism was a doctrine of personal responsibility? May Ron Paul at least be judged by the words he has spoken with his own mouth within the current campaign? The supporters say no again. When Ron Paul tells an interviewer that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made race relations worse, were not supposed to consider what he might mean by better. When Ron Paul warns that a border fence would be used to prevent fleeing American citizens from exiting the country, were not supposed to conclude that hes a paranoid crank. Andrew deploys what might be called the ontological defense of Ron Paul, as follows: 1) Ron Paul is a libertarian. 2) Libertarians espouse individualism. 3) Racism is a form of antiindividualism. 4) Therefore Ron Paul cannot be a racist. That is a demonstration of what
might be called the deductive method of reasoning. But theres another way to study reality: induction. Like this: 1) Ron Paul has again and again exploited bigotry, paranoia, and hate as fundraising devices. 2) Ron Paul is a libertarian. 3) So yes, I guess it is possible for a libertarian to do that. Heres my question for Ron Paul supporters: why the denial of the undeniable? Perhaps you like Pauls message of legalized marijuana? Why not just say so? You dont think its important to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons? Argue it forthrightly. If you regard Social Security and Medicare as literally the moral equivalents of slavery, go ahead, make your case. But all this excuse-making, special pleading and jiggering of the rules of evidence so as to exculpate Ron Paul from the record of his whole political life? For what? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Fast and Furious Goes Nuclear

Arnold Ahlert (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
Congress investigation into Fast and Furious, Attorney General Holder continues to stonewall. Submitted at 6/20/2012 11:35:11 PM Today, the Administration took To order the Freedom Centers the extraordinary step of exerting new pamphlet, Ten Reasons to e x e c u t i v e p r i v i l e g e o v e r I m p e a c h E r i c H o l d e r , b y documents that the Attorney D e p a r t m e n t o f J u s t i c e General had already agreed to whistleblower J. Christian Adams, provide to Congress. Fast and click here. Furious was a reckless operation The Fast and Furious gunwalking that led to the death of an scandal, largely downplayed by American border agent, and the the mainstream media for months, American people deserve to know c a n n o l o n g b e c o n t a i n e d . the facts to ensure that nothing President Barack Obama granted like this ever happens again. an eleventh hour written request While we had hoped it would not by his embattled Attorney General come to this, unless the Attorney E r i c H o l d e r a n d i n v o k e d General reevaluates his choice executive privilege, withholding a n d s u p p l i e s t h e p r o m i s e d documents and communications documents, the House will vote to by administration officials that hold him in contempt next week. occurred after Feb. 4, 2011. Those If, however, Attorney General c o m m u n i c a t i o n s h a v e b e e n Holder produces these documents subpoenaed by House Committee prior to the scheduled vote, we on Oversight and Government w i l l g i v e t h e O v e r s i g h t Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R- Committee an opportunity to CA), who had warned Mr. Holder review in hopes of resolving this that he would be held in contempt issue. of Congress for refusing to turn For more than a year, Mr. Issa them over. On Wednesday, Issa g a v e M r . H o l d e r e v e r y made good on his promise. The o p p o r t u n i t y t o p r o v i d e t h e Committee approved a resolution information. Yet a 20-minute 23-17 along party lines, holding meeting Tuesday night produced the Attorney General in contempt n o t h i n g i n t h e w a y o f a n of Congress. The ruling will now agreement. Mr. Holder reportedly go to the full House for a vote. insisted he would be willing to House Speaker John Boehner (R- brief the committee on documents OH) and Majority Leader Eric d e t a i l i n g w h a t t h e J u s t i c e C a n t o r ( R - V A ) i s s u e d a n Department knew about the immediate statement: program. He also agreed to turn Despite being given multiple over some of the additional opportunities to provide the documents Issa wanted. In return d o c u m e n t s n e c e s s a r y f o r Mr. Issa would have to drop the
evolved and continued. Bad policy is bad policy, regardless of how many administrations carried it out. Ironically, the only document produced yesterday by the Department appears to show that senior officials in the Attorney Generals own Department were strategizing about how to keep gunwalking in both Wide Receiver and Fast and Furious under wraps. Under wraps has now taken on a whole new meaning. Yesterday morning Deputy Attorney General James Cole sent a letter to Mr. Issa. I write now to inform you contempt effort. Issa didnt bite, forced to make a second retraction that the President has asserted saying he wanted to see the regarding Mr. Holders claim in a executive privilege over the d o c u m e n t s b e f o r e d e c i d i n g hearing last week that his Bush relevant post-February 4, 2011, whether or not to proceed with the a d m i n i s t r a t i o n p r e d e c e s s o r , documents, it read. Thus, for the contempt vote. A t t o r n e y G e n e r a l M i c h a e l time being, the release of the Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) Mukasey, had been briefed about subpoenaed documents has been and other Democrats claimed Mr. a gunwalking program called effectively prevented by the H o l d e r n e v e r m a d e s u c h a Operation Wide Receiver. The White House. demand, further contending that DOJ is now saying Mr. Holder Yet the exercise of executive the AG had come to the meeting inadvertently made that claim to privilege also brings a whole new in good faith in the attempt to the Committee. That Mr. Holder dimension to the scandal. The reach an agreement. Issa counter inadvertently made it while Supreme Court has concluded that that Mr. Holder briefed the under oath is apparently irrelevant executive privilege pertains to committee instead of providing Sen. Charles Grassley (R- communications directly with the the requested documents. Issa told IA) the ranking Republican on the president. Thus, its invocation Fox News that Holder didnt Senate Judiciary Committee who inexorably leads to one of two provide anything in writing. started the Fast and Furious conclusions: either the president February 4th is critical because a investigation eighteen months himself is involved with Fast and letter written by the Justice ago, minced no words regarding Furious, or his administration Department (DOJ) on that date these so-called errors. In his intends to challenge the scope of contended that there had never eagerness to blame the previous 1974 Supreme Court decision been a gunwalking program, an administration, Attorney General limiting executive power. assertion the DOJ was forced to Holder got his facts wrong, Sen. Grassley illuminated that withdraw in November when it Grassley wrote. And his tactic r e a l i t y . T h e a s s e r t i o n o f didnt square with the facts in the didnt bring us any closer to FAST page 57 case. Yesterday, the DOJ was understanding how a bad policy
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Religious Freedom: Why Americans Are Celebrating and Defending It Now

Ryan Messmore (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 7:00:40 AM
Today marks the beginning of the Fortnight of Freedom. This two -week period culminating on July 4 is a time to celebrate and defend Americas first freedom, religious liberty. Why make special effort to
celebrate religious freedom now? Because religious freedom is a key pillar of the kind of life we enjoy in America, recognizing the dignity of human persons and our obligations to a higher power than civil government. This is why the Founders embraced freedom of religion as an essential condition of a free and democratic society. Religious liberty means we can
worship freely without fear of the government raiding our homes, threatening our loved ones, or otherwise penalizing us for our beliefs. In America, we can enter and leave faith communities without fear of violent persecution. More than just being free to worship, though, religious liberty means we can practice our faith
publicly in numerous ways, many of which we often take for granted. Regardless of our religious affiliation, were free to make arguments in the public square and to run for political office. Were free to read, write, and publish books about our religious beliefs. Were free to operate businesses according to our deepest convictions. We can
educate our children according to the traditions of our faith, and we can observe the holidays and customs of those traditions. And were free to support charitable causes and organizations that are motivated and guided by religious commitments. Religious freedom protects our RELIGIOUS page 59
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How to Reform Food Stampsand Improve the Farm Bill

Rachel Sheffield (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 9:00:15 AM
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The farm bill is currently making its way through the Senate amidst heated debate. But dont let the title fool you. Nearly 80 percentof the bills spending goes toward the nations fastest growing welfare program: food stamps. Since 2000, the cost of food stamps (now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) has nearly quadrupled, with much of that growth taking place over the last four years. But as large as the program is, its only part of a federal welfare system consisting of roughly 70 programs costing taxpayers nearly $1 trillion annually. Earlier this month, Senators Rand Paul (RKY) and Jim Inhofe (ROK) introduced an amendment to the farm bill (subsequently voted down) to scale back the skyrocketing costs of food stampscosts that have outpaced the increase in participation rates. Senator Jeff Sessions (RAL) introduced
another amendment (also voted down) that would eliminate loopholes that allow states to boost their food stamp roles. Stemming the rising cost of the food stamps program and eliminating loopholes are both crucial steps in restoring fiscal sanity to the program. But such reforms must be coupled with those that promote personal responsibility through work. Food stamps is an old and fossilized program, say The Heritage Foundations Robert Rector and Katherine Bradley in a forthcoming paper. Aside from enormous increases in cost, food stamps has remained basically unchanged since its creation in the 1960s. It remains a program that discourages work, rewards idleness, and promotes long-term dependence. The best course of action to reduce spending, explain Rector and Bradley, would be to roll back food stamp spending to prerecession levels once the economy recovers, or by 2013. In subsequent years, the maximum allocation to states should grow no faster than inflation and population growth, although
temporary increases above that maximum could be permitted in periods of high unemployment, they add. Additionally, instead of recruiting participants, as current policies encourage, there should be an effort to return food stamp caseloads to normal, pre-recession levels or to the even lower levels that occurred during the Clinton presidency. When the program began in the 1960s, roughly one in 20 Americans participated. Today, that number is about one in seven. Part of the recent growth in program participation is due to policies that make it easier for individuals to enroll in the program and remain on the rolls. Application loopholes that permit food stamp recipients to bypass income and asset tests, note Rector and Bradley, contribute to this problem and should be eliminated. Perhaps most critical to reform is restructuring food stamps to a program that encourages selfreliance through work. Going forward, all able-bodied recipients should be required to work, prepare for work, or at least look
for a job as a condition of receiving aid. Additionally, reforms that require participants to receive a drug test prior to receiving aid are an important step in promoting greater personal responsibility among recipients. The welfare reforms of 1996, which inserted work requirements into the largest cash assistance welfare program, succeeded in helping individuals move from welfare to work. As a result, millions of Americans left welfare for jobs, and the child poverty rate dropped substantially. The food stamps program can similarly be transformed into one that helps individuals transition back to selfreliance. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
executive privilege raises monumental questions, he contended. How can the president assert executive privilege if there was no White House involvement? How can the president exert executive privilege over documents hes supposedly never seen? Is something very big being hidden to go to this extreme? The contempt citation is an important procedural mechanism in our system of checks and balances, he added.
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Carrying Water for Jihad at The Nation

Robert Spencer (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
Verse of the Day - 2 Samuel 6:21

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issue is preceded by the smearing of critics of Islamic supremacism by Hamas-linked CAIR, the Submitted at 6/20/2012 11:37:20 PM Marxist retreads at FAIR, and the The Lefts flagship publication, Islamic supremacist-infiltrated the Nation, has devoted its latest Center for American Progress. i s s u e t o I s l a m o p h o b i a , The only innovation in the demonstrating yet again the Nations gutter attack on those lengths to which American who have had the temerity to progressives will go in order to stand up for the human rights run interference for their Islamic trampled on in the Islamic world supremacist charges. is the new low achieved by Max The Nations fondness for the Blumenthal in his hit piece on enemies of America and the West philanthropist Nina Rosenwald, is nothing new. Over a period of who has given a large part of her fifty years, its record is consistent: fortune to efforts to defend T h e N a t i o n s u p p o r t e d freedom. Communism through the Stalin As David Horowitz and I show in and post-Stalin eras, and even our pamphlet, Islamophobia: offered comradely support to Thoughtcrime of the Totalitarian Maoism and Castroism. Thus its F u t u r e , t h e v e r y t e r m new role as shill for Islamic Islamophobia is an invention of supremacists and the Muslim the Muslim Brotherhood designed Brotherhood is really not new at to intimidate and discredit its all. Throughout its post-World critics. FBI statistics show that War II history, the Nation has there is actually no serious always had a soft spot for problem of Islamophobia. In totalitarians who trample on fact, many anti-Muslim hate human rights, while claiming to crimes have been faked by the be the foremost defender of those very organizations CAIR in rights. particular that cry wolf every On the other hand, the Nation is a time an Islamic terrorist is J o h n n y - c o m e - l a t e l y t o t h e fingered. As a matter of hard Islamophobia game. Its special statistical fact, Jews are eight
times more likely than Muslims to be the victims of hate attacks. Meanwhile, Islamic jihadists continue to penetrate our borders and operate in the United States. Recent jihad plotters include Naser Abdo, the would-be second Fort Hood jihad mass murderer; Khalid Aldawsari, the would-be jihad mass murderer in Lubbock, Texas; Muhammad Hussain, the would-be jihad bomber in Baltimore; Mohamed Mohamud, the would-be jihad bomber in Portland; Nidal Hasan, the successful Fort Hood jihad massmurderer; Faisal Shahzad, the
would-be Times Square jihad mass-murderer; Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, the Arkansas military recruiting station jihad murderer; Naveed Haq, the jihad mass murderer at the Jewish Community Center in Seattle; Mohammed Reza TaheriAzar, the would-be jihad mass murderer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh, who hatched a jihad plot to blow up a Manhattan synagogue; and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would -be Christmas airplane jihad bomber. Nonetheless, as far as the Nation is concerned, any attention paid to the Islamic jihad against the West is a manifestation of bigotry Islamophobia. Genuine bigotry and persecution of innocent people is never excusable, which is why the Nations special issue is so repellent. To dismiss concerns about jihad and smear those who oppose it is sinister in the same way that the American progressives who worked for the Soviet Union and thus betrayed their country were sinister.
... I will celebrate before the LORD. 2 Samuel 6:21 Thoughts on Today's Verse... David was ridiculed for his exuberance as he rejoiced with dancing at the Ark of the Covenant's return home. He refused, however, to be deterred by such criticism. This was a great day. His God was the only great and true God. He would celebrate before the Lord! My Prayer... Lord God Almighty, full of grace and mercy, awesome in power and holiness, you are my joy, my hope, and my future. I rejoice in you as the only One, and only thing, worthy of all glory, honor, and praise. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. The Thoughts and Prayer on Today's Verse are written by Phil Ware. You can email questions or comments to phil@heartlight.org. 1998-2012, Heartlight, Inc. Verseoftheday.com is part of the Heartlight Network. All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House.
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ability to live according to our deepest beliefs. It means we dont have to hide who we are and what we stand for. If you appreciate the ability to worship freely where you choose, to teach your children what you think is true, and to remain true to your convictions in your place of work, you have reason to celebrate the Fortnight of Freedom. Why make special effort to defend religious freedom now? Simply put, because recent policy actions of the Obama Administrationand in particular the Obamacare anti-conscience mandatehave undermined religious freedom in a striking and unprecedented way. The mandate upsets the kind of freedoms that Americans enjoy. It imposes a fine on faith by penalizing employers who choose to follow certain teachings of their church. Even though half of Americans report being pro-life, the mandate would punish employers who refuse to provide group health insurance covering abortion-inducing drugs. Policies like the mandate imperil religious identity; they encourage individuals and organizations to suppress who they are and what they stand for. By threatening
their core sense of identity and inspiration, such policies undermine the ability to serve God and others freely and effectively. After all, its often a groups religious faith that makes it so effective in serving people in need. Moreover, the mandate sets a bad precedent with the narrowest definition in federal law to date of what groups qualify for a religious exemption. To qualify, an organization must hire and serve only members of its own faith. This means that most churches are protected, but religious hospitals, schools, soup kitchens, and other ministries are not. Finally, the anti-conscience mandate attempts to remake civil societyincluding religious institutionsin the governments image by forcing them to adopt its values. By exercising this kind of role, the Administration places the federal government at the center of societys focus and expectations. It claims responsibility for more and more of Americans needs, and it asksand demandsmore and more from citizensincluding money, authority, and trust. In so doing, the HHS mandate, and Obamacare in general, directs to
Caesar that which belongs to God. If you think its wrong for the government to force employers to violate their consciences or to tell religious schools and hospitals that they arent religious enough to be exempt because they serve anyone in need or to treat access to free morning after pills as a more basic freedom than freedom of religion, then you have reason to defend this bedrock liberty during the Fortnight for Freedom. Its not too late to talk to your pastor about the Fortnight for Freedom. Join hundreds of other congregations across the country by ringing a church bell (or hand bells) on July 4 at noon Eastern time. For more information about how you can let religious freedom ring, see the Heritage Factsheet on this issue. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
demand sunlight. Quick Hits: The Obama administration distributed $9 billion in economic stimulus funds to solar and wind projects in 2009-11 that reportedly created, as the end result, only 910 direct jobs, at approximately$9.8 million per job, reports CNSNews. Mitt Romney is scheduled to address the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials today on immigration and other topics. In New York state, the legislature is debating how widely to release teacher evaluations. Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) has proposed blocking teacher evaluations from public view. ABC gives a rundown of the decisions still expected from the Supreme Court before it ends its
term. Today is the first day of the Fortnight for Freedom, a drive to celebrate religious freedom leading up to July 4. Heritage has 12 ways you can get involved in your community during the next two weeks. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Washington Backs Islamists as Sinai and Gaza Explode

P. David Hornik (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
Submitted at 6/20/2012 11:31:22 PM
The Los Angeles Times reports that the Obama administration is deeply concerned by the Egyptian military regimes having seized powers so as to prevent a Muslim Brotherhood takeover of the country. Pentagon press secretary George Little said that Weurge the [military] to relinquish power to civilian-elected authorities. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that We are particularly concerned by decisions that appear to prolong the militarys hold on power. As the report notes, the military regimes move is aimed at preventing the Brotherhoods presidential candidate Mohamed Morsiif he has indeed been electedfrom declaring war without the agreement of the ruling generals. In other words, its a move aimed at preventing an Egyptian attack on Israel, the total collapse of
time by the likes of Obama and Thomas Friedmanin February last year. He was also referring to a military flare-up over the past few days that has seen scores of rockets fired into Israel from Gaza. The flare-up began, however, south of Gaza on Monday when terroristsGaza-based but of Al Qaeda provenancetried to breach the fence Israel has been building along its southern, Sinai border with Egypt to keep out terrorists, smugglers, and illegal labor migrants. And it is since Mubaraks fall Israeli-Egyptian peace, and a How differently the situation is that the situation in Sinai has gone drastic regional destabilization. viewed in Israel is revealed by, t o s e e d a s t h i s t r a c t o f The generals are not acting for instance, veteran military landwhich figured in the 1979 against the Islamists because analyst Alex Fishman, who wrote: Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty as a theyre wonderful people who This is no longer the same peacekeeping buffer zonehas love Israel and the West. They Egypt. It is no longer the same been taken over by both Bedouin are, however, sane pragmatists border, the peace treaty is dying, and international-terror gangs, who do not want Egypt, with its and we better start to change our sometimes working in tandem, as the central regime in Cairo has its severe economic problems, to be way of thinking. dragged into a ruinous conflict. Fishman was referring to how hands full trying to quell anarchy And for their efforts, the generals much the situation has already closer to home. have the Obama administration up deteriorated since the fall of in arms and crying foul. Hosni Mubarakhailed at the
Datel wireless controllers borked by Xbox 360 update, patch coming soon
Steve Dent (Engadget)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 9:37:00 AM
Woke up to a buggy Datel wireless controller? Don't worry, you didn't overdo that Street Fighter session last night. A June 20th Xbox update has caused issues with some of the company's controllers including the TurboFire 2 and Wildfire 2. Microsoft's support site claimed the controller maker had posted a fix, although currently there's only a note saying that a patch is "still being tested." It also advises to check regularly, so feel free to click the source links below as often as you want for more info. Datel wireless controllers borked by Xbox 360 update, patch coming soon originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Xbox Support, Code Junkies| Email this| Comments
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'Few dared to hope for this moment' David Cameron meets Aung San Suu Kyi
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"He too has shown considerable courage in leading the latest reforms," he said. The Burmese pro-democracy The Nobel peace laureate l e a d e r ' s v i s i t w a s " a g r e a t previously met the Prime Minister moment, that few expected and in April when he became the first few dared to hope for", the Prime western leader to visit Burma Minister said as they stood side by following the decision by the side at a Number 10 press country's military leaders to allow conference. her and her party to stand in "Over these years you have been a parliamentary elections. symbol of courage and of hope for On that occasion, Ms Suu Kyi our people and for your people responded to his offer to visit and around the world," he said. Britain with a cautious "Perhaps". "Your example has inspired She had not left Burma in 24 people across the world and it's years, fearing that she would not inspired people here in Britain be allowed to return if she did. too. This entry passed through the "So it's an honour to have you Full-Text RSS service if this is here today, and in Parliament your content and you're reading it where you will speak shortly." on someone else's site, please read Mr Cameron said Britain would the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentbe a "staunch" supporter of only/faq.php#publishers. Five Burma's steps towards democracy Filters recommends: Donate to and confirmed that he had also Wikileaks. invited President Thein Sein to visit the UK.
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Doctors' strike sees one in ten procedures and appointments rescheduled

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the action. At Wye Valley NHS Trust, eight of 37 operations were rescheduled A quarter of GP surgeries are a n d 5 2 o f 5 9 7 o u t p a t i e n t operating a reduced service due to appointments were called off. BMA members participating in Hull and East Yorkshire the day of action, the Department Hospitals NHS Trust said 14 of Health said. operations and 146 outpatient Doctors up and down the country appointments were cancelled due are participating in their first day to the action. The Trust usually of action in 37 years in protest performs 306 operations a day o v e r t h e G o v e r n m e n t ' s and sees around 461 outpatients. controversial pension reforms. NHS Hospitals in Nottingham The figures, which are early saw seven of 140 operations indications of the effect the action cancelled. is having across England, show In Dudley, all 53 GP practices that there are varying levels of remained open. Five practices participation around the country. confirmed they would be taking In some places up to a quarter of part in the action. GP surgeries are affected by the At the Medway NHS Foundation action. But in other areas "only a T r u s t , n o o p e r a t i o n s w e r e handful" of doctors are taking c a n c e l l e d . part. In Kent and Medway, there is at Across London, 90% of hospitals least one GP taking part in the are working normally, an NHS action at 77 of the 273 practices in London spokesman said. the area. Hospitals in the capital have had There were 331 outpatient to reschedule about 490 appointments cancelled in operations and reschedule 3,200 hospitals in Barking, Havering outpatient appointments. and Redbridge. While 843 There are 17% of GP practices outpatient appointments are going providing a reduced service as a ahead as planned. result of the action. In Leeds, very "few doctors" O f t h e 5 0 0 G P s i n N H S declared they would be taking Bedfordshire and Luton, 94 took part, a spokeswoman for Leeds part in the action, affecting 25% Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust of practices in the county. said. In Herefordshire, four out of 25 Of 44 outpatient clinics due to be practices had GPs taking part in held at the Mid Staffordshire NHS
Trust, only nine clinics have been affected. Colchester General Hospital and Essex County Hospital have rescheduled 13 non-emergency appointments. This equates to about one eighth of the total number of non-emergency operations. Of 1,200 outpatient appointments, 160 were rebooked for another day. University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust said that 27 operations had been cancelled. On a normal Thursday, 420 non-emergency surgeries would take place. A spokeswoman said that 118 of 4,200 outpatient appointments were postponed. The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust said that just nine planned operations have been rescheduled and about 100 outpatient appointments were called off. In the south west of England no GP surgeries were closed, with 671 of 1,821 having at least one member of staff taking part in the action. A spokesman for NHS South of England said 468 of 5,000 non-urgent operations were rebooked for another date. Almost 3,500 outpatient appointments were affected compared with an average 47,000 outpatient attendances daily, the spokesman said. In NHS Cumbria 38 GP surgeries
out of 81 had someone taking part. Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said: "In the run up to these strikes our objective has been to minimise disruption for patients. We asked doctors to recognise that their quarrel was not with patients but with the Government. "I am pleased that a significant majority of doctors have done just that and maintained services for their patients. "But let us not forget that the consequence of the BMA's decision to ask doctors to go on strike has been that thousands of patients who expected to have an operation or an appointment today have been inconvenienced or distressed by delay to their care. "It is extremely regrettable if any patients have suffered unnecessarily. We will do everything we can to ensure that those patients get their treatment as soon as possible. I call on the BMA to commit to further cooperation to enable patients to have their rescheduled operations and appointments as soon as possible." The BMA reluctantly announced the action last month after it accused ministers of pressing ahead with "totally unjustified" increases in pension contributions and a later retirement age for doctors, even though a deal on
pensions was agreed four years ago. All non-urgent work would be postponed, the BMA said, adding that although the action will be disruptive, doctors will ensure patient safety is protected. Doctors will see anyone who is ill, or who believes they are ill, but will not do paperwork. Accident and emergency departments and maternity services are running as normal, and tests for critical conditions such as cancer are still available. But some non-emergency hospital clinics, outpatient appointments and planned surgery may have been be postponed. GP practices remain open but some may have postponed routine appointments which can be rearranged for another day. According to Mr Lansley, the planned action could see up to 30,000 operations cancelled, 58,000 diagnostic tests postponed and 200,000 outpatient appointments rescheduled. Up to 1.25 million GP appointments will be pushed into the days and weeks following the action, he said. The last time doctors took action was in 1975, when consultants suspended goodwill activities and worked to contract over a DOCTORS' page 63
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NatWest and RBS customers face account balance and online service failures
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West Sussex, told the BBC his tax credit payment had not been paid into his NatWest account. The banking group apologised to "We, like many other low-income its customers for the problems, families, live from week to week which began yesterday, and said it and the Child Tax Credit weekly is working hard to fix them. payment is a lifeline on which we RBS could not say exactly how rely," he said. many people have been affected A spokeswoman for UK by the issues but said it hoped to Payments Administration, which resolve the problems as soon as oversees payments generally, said possible. the problem was not a central one Ulster Bank customers have also and therefore it did not appear to been affected. have affected other banks. Angry customers vented their However, people expecting frustration on Twitter, with one p a y m e n t s f r o m p e o p l e o r saying: "I can't access money paid businesses which bank with into NatWest today due to tech N a t W e s t a n d R B S c o u l d problem. encounter delays due to the "My daughter may lose her school technical issues at their end, she club place if I don't pay. Sort it said. out!" She said: "We don't know exactly Another NatWest customer wrote what the issue is yet. We don't on the Twitter website that she t h i n k i t i s ( a f f e c t i n g ) a l l felt "let down" by the bank as her p a y m e n t s . " wages had not yet appeared in her A statement from RBS said: "We account. are currently experiencing Bob Spearman, from Petworth, technical issues which mean that a
number of customer account balances have not yet been updated and some of our online services are temporarily unavailable. "We are working hard to fix this and hope to have the problem resolved as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience caused to our customers." Last week RBS and NatWest, which has more than 7.5 million personal banking customers, launched a mobile banking app enabling people to take money from an ATM by making a request on their mobile phone. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Can Obama make an executive-privilege claim stick?

Ed Morrissey (Hot Air Top Picks)
quoting from US v Espy, a Clinton-era case: Not every person who plays a Submitted at 6/21/2012 7:41:29 AM role in the development of posted at 8:41 am on June 21, presidential advice, no matter how 2012 by Ed Morrissey remote and removed from the This is actually two questions, President, can qualify for the both equally important, thanks to privilege. In particular, the t h e c a l e n d a r . W i l l B a r a c k privilege should not extend to Obamas claims of executive staff outside the White House in privilege work legally, and will it e x e c u t i v e b r a n c h a g e n c i e s . work politically? Were more Instead, the privilege should apply likely to find the answer to the only to communications authored second question before we find or solicited and received by those the answer to the first, as the members of an immediate White presidential election will arrive House advisors staff who have before any definitive court ruling b r o a d a n d s i g n i f i c a n t on the action yesterday from responsibility for investigation Obama and Attorney General Eric and formulating the advice to be Holder. In my column for The given the President on the Fiscal Times, I predict that particular matter to which the Obama will lose on both counts: communications relate. Only A Congressional Research communications at that level are Service analysis from 2008 makes close enough to the President to t h e n e e d f o r p r e s i d e n t i a l be revelatory of his deliberations involvement in a claim of CAN page 64 executive privilege quite clear,
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or to pose a risk to the candor of his advisers. Therefore, the Obama administration cant claim executive privilege for actions that dont involve the President, or his immediate staff in advising the President. The claim of privilege appears a tacit admission that previous claims that Obama and his White House staff were unaware of Operation Fast and Furious and uninvolved in it were false. That opens up potential criminal charges for anyone who testified differently under oath for perjury and obstruction of justice the end results of most executive-branch scandals, most famously in Watergate. By asserting executive privilege, the Obama administration has made it clear that they fear the exposure of ATF and Department of Justice documentation, and that Obama himself has some connection to the papers. The question that arises has more than a whiff of Watergate to it: what did the President know, and when did he know it? Thanks to the claim of executive privilege, the media will no longer be able to ignore the deadly outcomes of Operation Fast and Furious, and the timing of this scandal could ensure that Obama wont have the ability to call on executive privilege after January. My good friend and targetshooting partner John Hinderaker says that Espy is more complicated than that, but still believes that Obamas assertion of privilege is frivolous:
Holders letter is a remarkable document. Viewed from a strictly technical standpoint, it is a terrible piece of legal work. Its arguments are weak at best; in some cases, they are so frivolous as to invite the imposition of sanctions if they were asserted in court. I will explain why momentarily, but first this observation: if an opposing party requests documents that plainly are protected by a privilege, a lawyer will routinely assert the privilege, on principle, even though there is nothing hurtful to his case in those documents. On the other hand, a lawyer will not assert a lousy claim of privilege unless he badly wants to keep the documents in question out of the opponents hands because of their damaging nature. If I am correct that the administrations assertion of executive privilege is baseless, it is reasonable to infer that the documents, if made public, would be highly damaging to President Obama, Attorney General Holder, or other senior administration officials. [T]he case that is most directly pertinent to Holders assertion of executive privilege is In re Sealed Case (Espy), 121 F.3d 729 (D.C. Circuit 1997), which, along with Judicial Watch v. Department of Justice, 365 F.3d 1108 (D.C. Cir. 2008), cites and relies upon Espy, contains the most up to date judicial exposition of the doctrine of executive privilege. Unbelievably, Holders letter never cites or mentions the Espy case. If a first-year associate
wrote a memorandum for me in which he failed even to mention the most significant case, I would fire him. But Holders letter completely fails to acknowledge what a weak reed the deliberative process privilege is in the circumstances of this case. In Espy, the court said: The deliberative process privilege does not shield documents that simply state or explain a decision the government has already made or protect material that is purely factual. The deliberative process privilege is a qualified privilege and can be overcome by a sufficient showing of need. For example, where there is reason to believe the documents sought may shed light on government misconduct, the privilege is routinely denied, on the grounds that shielding internal government deliberations in this context does not serve the publics interest in honest, effective government. As John notes, Darrell Issa narrowed his document request in the subpoena in question to issues and documents relating to false testimony given by DoJ officials in Congress. That is specific to government misconduct, which also means Espy applies and the privilege doesnt exist, especially the deliberative process brand of privilege. Former DoJ attorney J. Christian Adams declares the assertion of privilege flat-out illegal, quoting from a statement by former House Judiciary Chair James
Sensenbrenner, speaking about Espy(cited as Sealed Case) as well: It continued: Moreover, the privilege disappears altogether when there is any reason to believe government misconduct occurred. In Re: Sealed Case, 121 F.3d 746 (D.C. Cir. June 17, 1997, No. 96-3124). The First Circuit agreed. It found that, where there is reason to believe the documents sought may shed light on government misconduct, the privilege is routinely denied, on the grounds that shielding internal government deliberations in this context does not serve the publics interest in honest, effective government. Texaco Puerto Rico, Inc. v. Department of Consumer Affairs, 60 F.3d 867, 885 (1 st Cir. 1995); see also In re Comptroller of the Currency, 967 F.2d at 634 (the privilege may be overridden where necessary to shed light on alleged government malfeasance.) The Department literally asserted this privilege in the face of Congressional contempt proceedings. It clearly cannot argue that there is no reason to believe that government misconduct occurred. The assertion of the privilege was therefore illegal. Clearly, Obama wont win the legal argument. What about the political argument? The White House is certainly trying to shrug this off as a partisan election strategy on the part of House Republicans, but the connection
of Operation Fast and Furious to the deaths of two American lawenforcement officers makes that a very risky strategy. Until the assertion of privilege, most of the media had ignored the story but asserting executive privilege, especially on the 40th anniversary of Watergate, has forced everyone to start reporting on OF&F. The Washington Post lays out the risk in its analysis: On Wednesday, his role had changed, but the debate was the same: Republican were asking what exactly Obama was trying to hide by invoking his right to executive privilege for the first time. The administration is refusing to turn over documents related to the Justice Departments Fast and Furious operation, which involved the flow of illegal guns to Mexico. A House committee on Wednesday voted to find Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over the documents. The answers to his critics questions could have broad implications for Obama five months before voters decide whether to grant him a second term. The expected protracted legal dispute has the potential to embarrass and distract the White House during the heart of the reelection campaign. Obamas assertion of privilege quickly became fodder for his political opponents, who have latched onto the Fast and Furious scandal to CAN page 66
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Four-week jobless claim average hits new high in 2012

Ed Morrissey (Hot Air Top Picks)
an increase of 5,250 from the preceding weeks revised average of 3,288,500. Submitted at 6/21/2012 9:01:57 AM Reuters, however, notices posted at 10:01 am on June 21, s o m e t h i n g a b i t m o r e 2012 by Ed Morrissey newsworthy and since I pick on T h e n e w s t o d a y f r o m t h e them over their reporting on this Department of Labor wasnt series, its only fair to give them terribly dramatic, in and of itself. credit for this (emphasis mine): Once again, weekly initial jobless The number of Americans filing claims dipped, but only because new claims for unemployment the previous weeks dip got benefits was little changed last adjusted upwards for the 4,786th week, according to government week out of 4,787: data on Thursday that suggested In the week ending June 16, the the labor market was struggling to advance figure for seasonally regain momentum. adjusted initial claims was Initial claims for state 387,000, a decrease of 2,000 from unemployment benefits slipped the previous weeks revised figure 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted of 389,000. The 4-week moving 387,000, the Labor Department average was 386,250, an increase said. The prior weeks figure was of 3,500 from the previous weeks revised up to 389,000 from the revised average of 382,750. previously reported 386,000. The advance seasonally adjusted Economists polled by Reuters insured unemployment rate was had forecast claims falling to 2.6 percent for the week ending 380,000 last week. The four-week June 9, unchanged from the prior moving average for new claims, weeks unrevised rate. considered a better measure of T h e a d v a n c e n u m b e r f o r labor market trends, increased seasonally adjusted insured 3,500 to 386,250 the highest unemployment during the week level since early December. ending June 9 was 3,299,000, Now, you may wonder how we unchanged from the preceding got to the highest 4-week average weeks revised level. The 4-week of initial jobless claims for the moving average was 3,293,750, year, when nearly every week the
DoL reports a decline in the number of jobless claims from the week before. A lot of us are wondering the same thing about the initial estimates, which always have to get raised the next week. There is something amiss in the methodology, and its easy to assume its malicious, but in the end it doesnt do much to help or hinder anyone. Its the four-week average that most economists use anyway. Clearly, using that measure, the coming jobs report for June is not going to improve much over May. The Fed also seems to think so, and theyre twisting the night (and day) away to try to wring a little more short-term growth out of the moribund economy: Federal Reserve officials extended their efforts to boost the sluggish U.S. economy and said they were ready to do more if necessary to spur job growth. They acted despite worries inside and outside the Fed that the central bank already has done all it can do to invigorate the disappointing economic recovery. The Fed said Wednesday it would extend through the end of the year a program known as Operation Twist, which aims to
drive down long-term interest rates and reduce borrowing costs for businesses and households. Under the program, the Fed sells short-term securities and uses the proceeds to buy longer-term securities. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke made clear in a news conference after the policy makers meeting that he is prepared to take further action if he doesnt see progress on bringing down unemployment, which was 8.2% in May. They wont be the only ones twisting, either. If the June jobs report shows another sub-par or worse month, Obamas private sector is doing fine and Tom Vilsacks the economy has turned the corner remarks are going to get used as clubs against the administration all summer long. And at this point, not even Reuters can claim that such a result would be unexpected. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Facebook adding 'Like' to Open Graph, will connect the internet in approval
Daniel Cooper (Engadget)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 9:19:00 AM
Facebook is bringing its " like" functionality to Open Graph that'll enable developers to add the action to their applications. Press the heart-shaped button and it'll trigger an alert on the site, voicing your approval for your friend's most awesome Instagram snap, amongst other things. As with the desktop version, likes will be collated in your news feed, but only once you've authorized the third-party app to access it. Facebook adding 'Like' to Open Graph, will connect the internet in approval originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Facebook| Email this| Comments
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The Olympic Committee just messed with the wrong old ladies
Jazz Shaw (Hot Air Top Picks)
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But now the USOC may have taken on a battle which they may come to regret. Theyve thrown Submitted at 6/21/2012 8:21:30 AM down the legal gauntlet in front of posted at 9:21 am on June 21, Ravelry. Now, in case youve 2012 by Jazz Shaw never heard of Ravelry and if, Normally when you see the word like many of us, you spend all Olympics around Hot Gas these your time focused on government days, you expect to see the word and politics, you probably havent Dressage following in close you may be wondering what it order. Not so today. The US is. Its an online social network O l y m p i c C o m m i t t e e h a s for people interested in wait established a long and well- for it.. knitting, sewing and other deserved reputation for jealously related crafts. guarding their name, symbols and Lest you think this is some c o p y r i g h t p e r i m e t e r s a n d backwater story with no place aggressively going after anyone h e r e , R a v e l r y i s n t s o m e they perceive as trying to make a collection of a half dozen old buck off their corporate brand. In grannies in their parlors. They are fact, the Wall St. Journal ran a one of the top ten largest social lengthy piece during the last networks, boasting more than two summer Olympics which details million registered members and the various scofflaws they have daily traffic which regularly shut down, including, but not matches or sometimes vastly limited to: exceeds that of Hot Air. And The Ferret Olympics (now while you dont normally expect a called the Ferret Agility Trials) group of knitters to take up The Nose Olympics (now the pitchforks and torches and go Nose Aerobics) occupy something or throw tea The Rat Olympics (Xtreme Rat bags in the Potomac, now theyre Challenge) ticked off. Olympets (National Pet Games) If you mess with the Olympics trademark, a cloud of legal hurt
will descend on you faster than Tyson Gay in the Mens 100 meters. Case in point: The U.S. Olympic Committee has sent a cease and desist letter to a knitting -based social network for hosting a knitting olympics. Now, knitters are in revolt. 2012 was to be the third year that the knitting social network Ravelryyes, this exists and is surprisingly popularhosted a Ravelympics, a knitting competition for users that includes events like an afghan marathon, and scarf hockey. Knitters were supposed to compete in their events while watching the actual Games on TV. But that was before the U.S. Olympics Committee got wind of it and sent Ravelry a cease & desist, for making a mockery of the Games with their needlework. That article covers some of the basic facts, but gets quite a few more wrong. It seems nobody at Ravelry was making money off the Olympic brand, nor were they mocking the games. They were encouraging their members to watch the games and knit at the same time, challenging
themselves to exceed their personal best for the most projects finished while the games went on. They also make another ironic statement toward the end. The USOC is demanding Ravelry change the name to the Ravelry Games, but we say: Why not make knitting an Olympic sport instead? Pair up knitting a baby sweater with target shooting and make it the summer version of the biathlon. Those would be some Nike ads. Why is that ironic? Because knitting actually was an Olympic event at one time. Be that as it may, Ravelry is largely though not entirely composed of ladies ladies who habitually carry sharp pointy things. And now theyre angry. So who is conducting the war on women now? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
accuse the president of trying to avoid congressional scrutiny. Even if Obama can convince people that partisan politics is driving the confrontation, most people will want to get to the bottom of how an ATF operation contributed to the deaths of two Americans and hundreds of Mexicans while arming drug cartels. Bloomberg News editorial today gripes about the partisanship on both sides, for example, but also says that the Oversight Committee is right, and the documents need to be released: Democrats say efforts by the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over a botched gun- sting operation are a partisan stunt. They are right about the politics. The committee is nevertheless right on the merits. Holder should turn over the Justice Department documents Congress has demanded. Heres why. The controversy stems from a misguided effort to stem the flow of U.S. weapons to Mexican drug cartels. Starting under the George W. Bush administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allowed thousands of guns to be bought by so-called straw purchasers in the U.S. The agency then attempted to track the firearms as they found their way into the hands of Mexican traffickers. CAN page 67
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Operation Fast and Furious, initiated in 2009, was the largest and last of these gunwalking stings, involving more than 2,000 firearms. It was a monumental failure: Only about a third of the guns have been recovered, and two weapons involved were found where U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was fatally shot on Dec. 14, 2010. The only way to salvage something positive from this fiasco is to investigate what went wrong and learn from the mistakes. Instead, the Justice Department seems intent on burying the past. The DoJs refusal to cooperate,
especially on a probe of false testimony given by government officials to Congress, makes it clear that the administration thinks it has something to hide from Obama on down. He might get a day or two of sympathy about having to deal with big meanie Republicans, but the hundreds of deaths that occurred in this operation and the dishonesty from Obamas administration during the probe will erode that very, very quickly. Both sides of this arguments are losers, and the White House would probably be better served by tossing Holder and his crew under the bus and releasing
everything in a single Fridaynight document dump this week. If they do that now, whatever embarrassing materials that do arise have a few months to lose their sting before the election. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Minority Report at 10: a look at technology from today to 2054

Donald Melanson (Engadget)
Submitted at 6/21/2012 10:00:00 AM
Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, based on the Philip K. Dick short story, opened in North American theaters 10 years ago today. It was preceded by the director's A.I. a year earlier, which was famously a pet project of Stanley Kubrick's for decades prior, and was followed up by Spielberg's version of War of the Worlds a couple of years later. Together, they formed an unofficial trilogy of sorts that represented a turn to darker science fiction for a director noted
interaction would be more natural than ever, advertising would be everywhere and more personalized, and smart cars would deliver us to our smart homes. Today, it's almost as common for a new technology to be described as Minority Reportlike as it is to be described as Star Trek-like. That was hardly just the result of good luck. Continue reading Minority for his more optimistic excursions Runner. touchstone. For all its bleakness, Report at 10: a look at technology into the genre. Of the three, That reputation has largely held the future of Minority Report was from today to 2054 Minority Report was the best- up in the decade since (while one that we could recognize, and Minority Report at 10: a look at received out of the gate, both as a A.I.'s has grown quite a bit), one that we were reaching technology from today to 2054 film and as a detailed vision of the during which time it's also towards -- at least when it came to MINORITY page 67 near-future unlike any since Blade become a sort of technological the technology. Human-computer

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