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nation by winning the state’s jobs and the need to improve Republican plant. Republicans,
Democratic Senate primary education, referred to the Filed under: Analyst Reports,
in turn, accused Democrats of
produced headlines again on Republican incumbent as “my Technical Analysis, DJIA
being unfair to a political
Sunday. Technical analysts look for chart
opponent,” and declared himself newcomer.
Alvin Greene made what’s the best man for the job. patterns that may predict further
Lifelong Manning resident
believed to be his first campaign The speech was “short on time price changes. One such analyst
Jerry Johnson raised issue with for Dow 8,400. However, if it
appearance — ever — speaking a n d s h o r t o n s p e c i f i c s , ” is Daryl Guppy, who in a CNBC
the “condescending” tone of exceeds his target, he then
to an audience in his hometown according to a CNN reporter article has analyzed similarities
questions directed at Greene projects Dow 7,500 in 2010.
of Manning, South Carolina. who said it was slated to run 20 between the chart patterns
during a CNN interview just
Greene attracted an audience of minutes, but was clocked at 7 following the 1929 stock market
after the primary election. Continue reading Dow Could
about 300 people and national minutes. crash and the crash of 2008.
Johnson conceded the candidate Fall to 7,500 if 10,600 Is Not
media eager to hear what he had Greene got a polite reception at Here is his analysis:
is a man “shrouded in mystery” Breached, Analyst Says
to say. the event hosted by the local but thinks people still want to
As far as anyone knows, chapter of the NAACP. Two • In 1929, the market fell 49% Dow Could Fall to 7,500 if
hear his message.
Greene did not make any audience members told CNN from its high. In 2008, the drop 10,600 Is Not Breached, Analyst
“He did lift a veil today,” Says originally appeared on
speeches during the primary t h e y w a n t e d t o s e e f o r was 52%
Johnson said. He left open the
campaign. And, except for a few themselves what the candidate • Following the 1929 crash, the BloggingStocks on Mon, 19 Jul
question of who will get his vote
interviews, the unemployed was about because they didn’t market recovered 46%. After the 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see
in November.
Army veteran, has had little to think he had gotten a “fair 2008 crash the market rose 69% our terms for use of feeds. Read|
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say since his surprise win last shake” in the media. • Following the 1930 recovery, P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s |
Page (Ooutside a polling
month. the next leg down following the C o m m e n t s
There were questions about location in Portland, Maine,
Greene, who faces veteran how a jobless man could come rebound exceeded targets by Technical Analysis- Dow Jones
Nov. 3, 2009) Industrial Average- Business-
28%
• If this is the next leg down in Stock market- Investing
the current market, he is looking
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Hedge Fund Operator
Mum’s the word on Clinton family wedding Spencer Greenberg Gets
Interview By CNBC
JoAnne Allen (Front Row Clinton shared that she and
Washington) Chelsea’s father were both And Boy Is It Awkward
Submitted at 7/19/2010 12:22:33 AM looking forward to the Gregory White (Business
ceremony and were very happy Insider)
“My lips are sealed… I’m under about it.
Submitted at 7/19/2010 10:15:15 AM
strict orders not to talk about it,” With no leaks from MOTB,
Secretary of State Hillary NBC’s Andrea Mitchell We wrote about Spencer
Clinton revealed in an NBC wrapped up by asking whether Greenberg of Rebellion
interview. we should assume the former Research last week, and this
The “it” she’s referring to is not president would not be morning he spoke with CNBC
a state secret. “It” is the officiating at the wedding? this morning about his hedge
upcoming wedding of Chelsea “You should assume that if he fund that utilizes machine
Clinton, the daughter of the makes it down the aisle in one learning to make predictions
secretary of state and former piece that’s a major about the market.
President Bill Clinton. accomplishment,” Clinton said • 0:45 We use machine
The publicity-shy Chelsea and laughing. “He’s going to be so learning…to make predictions.
fiance Marc Mezvinsky are emotional, as am I.” • 0:55 Mark Haines, CNBC
getting married at the end of the Photo Credit: REUTERS/Kevin host, mentions a "neural
month. Plans for the wedding Lamarque (Clinton, with network."
are a closely guarded secret. daughter Chelsea, at
article on Sunday shed little Valley region of New York and • 1:10 Haines, "So it gets
And mother is following orders confirmation hearing to become
light on the subject. An the guest list probably numbers presumably smarter as it goes
— no details divulged here. secretary of state, Jan. 13, 2009)
unidentified Clinton family in the hundreds. along?"
“It is her’s and it is a family REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
friend told the newspaper that To those who are still waiting • 1:30 The decisions are made
wedding and the people coming (Clinton, with her husband
Chelsea ” just wants to have a for an invitation, give up. It’s by the artificial intelligence.
are her friends and people that former President Clinton and
wedding.” not going to happen, MOTB • 1:35 Mark Haines asks, "So
have been meaningful in her daughter Chelsea, at
This much is known (or at least said using more diplomatic what do you do?"
life,” the mother of the bride ceremonial swearing in at the
reported): Chelsea and Marc language.
(MOTB) disclosed during a State Department, Feb, 2, 2009.)
Mezvinsky are getting married “We love you all, but this is her This interview continues to get
break from diplomacy on a visit
at the end of the month, most wedding,” Mrs. Clinton said in more awkward, all the while
to Pakistan.
likely somewhere in the Hudson the interview. Erin Burnett ignores the whole
A lengthy New York Times
thing.
Join the conversation about this
Even As The Dollar Sells Off, Gold Is Near The story »
over the world. in the first place? You need a underestimate the power of • Anything that is blocking us jabba, well, that's because
At the risk of summarizing virtual bulletin board: a place actually talking to another or we are concerned about remote development is hard. It
mercilessly (and perhaps too for announcements, weekly human being. I know, I know, This doesn't have to be (and in takes discipline to make it all
much), I'll boil down Miguel's team reports, and meeting the whole reason we got into fact shouldn't be) a long report. work, certainly more discipline
advice the best I can. There are summaries. This is where a this programming thing was to The briefer the better, but do try than piling a bunch of
three tools you'll need in place if classic old-school mailing list avoid talking to other people, to capture all the useful programmers into the same
you plan to grow a large-ish and comes in handy. We're using but bear with me here. You can't highlights. Mail this to the cubicle farm. But when you
still functional remote team: Google Groups and although it's be face to face on a remote team mailing list every Monday like imagine what this kind of
• Real time chat When your old school in spades, it works without flying 6 plus hours, and clockwork. Now, how many intellectual work -- not just
team member lives in Brazil, plenty well for this. You can get who the heck has that kind of "teams" you have is up to you; I programming, but anything
you can't exactly walk by his the emails as they arrive, or time? I've got work I need to getdon't think this needs to be done where you're working in mostly
desk to ask him a quick view the archived list via the done! Well, the next best thing at the individual developer level, thought-stuff -- will be like in
question, or bug him about web interface. One word of to hopping on a plane is to fire but you could. ten, twenty, even thirty years …
something in his recent checkin. caution, however. Every time up Skype and have a little voice • Meeting minutes Any time don't you think it will look a lot
Nope. You need a way to you see something arrive in your chat. Easy peasy. All that human you conduct what you would like what happens every day
casually ping your fellow inbox from the mailing list you nuance which is totally lost in consider to be a "meeting" with right now on Stack Overflow?
remote team members and get a better believe, in your heart of faceless ASCII characters (yes, someone else, take minutes! That is, a programmer in Brazil
response back quickly. This hearts, that it contains useful even with our old pal*) will That is, write down what helping a programmer in New
should be low friction and information. The minute the come roaring back if you happened in bullet point form, Jersey solve a problem?
available to all remote mailing list becomes just regularly schedule voice chats. Iso those remote team members If I have learned anything from
developers at all times. IM, IRC, another "whenever I have time recommend at least once a week who couldn't be there can Stack Overflow it is that the
some web based tool, laser to read that stuff", noise engine, at an absolute minimum; they benefit from -- or at least hear world of programming is truly
beams, smoke signals, carrier or distraction from work … don't have to be long meetings, about -- whatever happened. global. I am honored to meet
pigeon, two tin cans and a you've let someone cry wolf too but it sure helps in Again, this doesn't have to be these brilliant programmers
string: whatever. As long as much, and ruined it. So be very understanding the human being long, and if you find taking from every corner of the world,
everyone really uses it. We're careful. Noisy, argumentative, behind all those awesome meeting minutes onerous then even if only in a small way
currently experimenting with or useless things posted to the checkins. you're probably doing it wrong. through a website. Nothing is
Campfire, but whatever floats mailing list should be A simple bulleted list of more exciting for me than the
your boat and you can get your punishable by death. Or Nobody hates meetings and sentences should suffice. We prospect of adding international
team to consistently use, will noogies. process claptrap more than I do, don't need to know every little members to the Stack Overflow
work. Chat is the most essential • Voice and video chat As but there is a certain amount of detail, just the big picture stuff: team. The development of Stack
and omnipresent form of much as I love ASCII, process you'll need to keep a who was there? What topics Overflow should be reflective of
communication you have when sometimes faceless ASCII bunch of loosely connected were discussed? What decisions what Stack Overflow is: an
working remotely, so you need characters just aren't enough to remote teams and developers in were made? What are the next international effort of like-
to make absolutely sure it's capture the full intentions and sync. steps? minded -- and dare I say totally
functioning before going any feelings of the human being • Monday team status reports awesome-- programmers. I wish
further. behind them. When you find E v e r y M o n d a y , a s i n Both of the above should, of I could hire each and every one
• Persistent mailing list Sure, yourself sending kilobytes of somebody's-got-a-case-of-the, course, be mailed out to the of you. OK, maybe I'm a little
your remote team may know the ASCII back and forth, and still each team should produce a m a i l i n g l i s t a s t h e y a r e biased. But to me, that's how
details of their project, but what are unsatisfied that you're brief, summarized rundown of: completed so everyone can be awesome the Stack Overflow
about all the other work going communicating, you should • What we did last week notified. You do have a mailing community is.
on? How do they find out about instill a reflexive habit of "going • What we're planning to do this list, right? Of course you do!
that stuff or even know it exists voice" on your team. Never week If this seems like a lot of jibba- HOW page 7
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data, explaining how Apple tests out of the context of his home Apple's message. One of against-the-world narrative has I believe remote development
its reception in state-of-the-art presentation, it still makes his first slides read: "We want to helped motivate and induce a represents the future of work. If
$100 million facilities; how the sense," says Zarrella. Apple has make all our users happy." Mid- cult-like passion among fans, we have to spend a little time
iPhone 4 has a record low return certainly perfected its slide way through the conference, and thus, when Jobs gives a figuring out how this stuff
rate of 1.7%, far below the 6% design. Jobs only uses succinct Jobs flashed a slide about the presentation, it helps to have the works, and maybe even make
rate for the 3GS; and how the phrases, and even his slide with antenna issue affecting only a audience ready to spread the some mistakes along the way,
antenna issue will cause less the most words contained just fraction of users. Soon, a word, help the cause, and make it's worth it. As far as I'm
than a 1% increase in dropped- under 30, by my count--and that message dissolved at the it go viral. concerned, the future is now.
calls from previous iPhone was the summary of his whole bottom: "We care about every But, of course, not every Why wait?
iterations. Think about it: presentation. "No bullet points," user." A few slides later: "We company is like Apple. Jeff Atwood is the co-founder
Releasing pictures of their$100- prescribes Zarrella. "Basically love our users." Then "We love "We're not all Steve Jobs," of Stack Overflow. This post
million-testing facilities was you want to have one-thought our users" appeared again on the admits Zarrella. "Jobs has the was originally published on his
entirely unnecessary, but it gave per slide." next slide. And the next. And luxury of being able to always blog, and it is re-published here
fans something new--and it Zarrella found during his study the next. "We love our users, we break news. As a marketer or a with permission.
supported Apple's central that audience members don't love them," Jobs concluded. presenter, it can be hard to Join the conversation about this
argument. have time to make note of or "We do this because we love our always have breaking news that story »
And this criteria also heavily tweet about every detail, even users." Get it? "We love making everybody cares about." See Also:
relates to reputation and Internet the information they find most our users happy," he said again "But there is a slightly, more- • Why You Should Never
-ego. "Many people said they interesting. "What Steve Jobs and again. subtle version of novelty. You Found A Startup With A
would tweet about presentations does so well is pacing his Evangelize! A number of don't always have to break Remote Team
because they knew it would presentation," argues Zarrella. respondents in Zarrella's survey news, but you can say things or • 6 Tips For Managing A
boost their personal reputation," "He puts in pauses for dramatic said they shared a presentation show content in a way that Remote Staff
says Zarrella, who found that effect, but he also maintains or tweeted and blogged about it people haven't heard or seen • How To Successfully Manage
close to 10% of respondents excitement, passion, and energy, because they cared about the before," he recommends. A Virtual Workforce
were motivated by their rep. even while pacing enough to cause. "They wanted to spread To hear more of Dan Zarrella's
"They said stuff like: I want to allow the audience to live-blog the word--essentially, it's some tips on perfecting your
be the first source of news, or I or tweet about it." form of evangelism," explains presentation skills, check out his
want to look smart, or, as one Repetition, Repetition, Zarrella. "Apple is known for, if book and be sure to tune into a
person said, I want to impress Repetition This point may feel nothing else, having rabid, rabid live Webinar he'll be giving on
my followers." This is obvious, but it's one that Apple evangelistic fans." Part of the the topic August 19.
absolutely the case for Apple has made an art. Jobs is reason Apple has earned this [Images via Engadget]
news--just look at Gizmodo. constantly taking time to devoted fan-base though,
Forget bullet points--perfect summarize his points, even if he according to Zarrella, is because
your slide design"His slide hasn't made too many. But it's of its "Us-vs-Them" narrative.
design is image, and then text, not just a summary, there's an "In the 80s it was Apple against
which is not only short and intended-redundancy to his IBM," he says, "and in the 90s,
quotable, but even if it's taken presentations that helps drive against Microsoft." This Apple-
Hulu Plus on PS3: The Best Hulu Experience for Your TV,
Period
Dan Nosowitz (Fast fee for Hulu Plus, the PS3 app is
Company) in a "preview period," whatever
Submitted at 7/19/2010 9:57:18 AM that means, which requires a
PlayStation Plus subscription.
Hulu was always available to That subscription runs anywhere
be streamed to a TV, but that from $18 for three months to
often required either a hacked $50 per year, on top of the $10
set-top box or a cumbersome per month. Sony says that
home theater PC. Hulu even requirement will fade away once
blocked their service from being the "preview period" is up, but
used by software like Boxee who knows when that'll be. So if
(though Boxee did finagle a way you don't have a PlayStation
around that, somewhat Plus subscription, you might
awkwardly). But Hulu Plus, find the service too expensive
played through a PlayStation 3, right now.
is here, and it's the first 100% All in all, it sounds really
usable way to get Hulu on your promising. Hulu Plus will be
TV. invading all of our living rooms
Interestingly, Sony's like Blu-ray decks or TVs the interface is pretty and easy fault, it's just where streaming soon--and if it looks like this,
PlayStation 3 is the first device themselves, will have embedded to navigate. All the options video is right now. There are we're in for a whole lot of
of any sort to be able to Hulu. So it's a good test case to we're used to on the PC version also little hiccups with the Arrested Development
officially play Hulu Plus on a see how solid the Hulu-on-TV make it intact over to the PS3, volume consistency--it's a much marathons.
TV--the iOS versions are experience really is. including sharing, rating, and bigger deal when the volume is Dan Nosowitz, the author of
portable only, and can't be Mark Wilson of Gizmodo subscribing. louder in a commercial than in a this post, can be followed on
outputted to larger screens. reviewed the app, and found it Of course, there are always show when you're pumping the Twitter, corresponded with via
Thanks to an exclusivity excellent, calling it a "rich, some flaws. Hulu's video sound through a massive email, and stalked in San
agreement, the PS3 is the only polished media app." It's quality, even at its best, isn't speaker system. Francisco (no link for that one--
game console that'll get Hulu lightning fast, the PS3 controller going to blow any minds. That's Then there's the cost. In you'll have to do the legwork
Plus capability this year--and makes an excellent remote, and not really Hulu's (or the PS3's) addition to the $10 per month yourself).
who knows when other devices,
from a company focused on careful selection of materials three companies are clearly a bit
Obama urges Republicans
connecting people, we prioritize
antenna performance over
and their use in the mechanical
design.
pissed off that Apple dragged
them into its own screw-up,
help pass jobless aid
physical design if they are ever HTC, makers of leading especially since none of the (Reuters: Top News) an Editorial Handbook which
in conflict. Android phones like the Evo manufacturers called out by Submitted at 7/19/2010 10:10:08 AM requires fair presentation and
In general, antenna 4G, Google Nexus One, and Apple have endured this kind of disclosure of relevant interests.
performance of a mobile device/ Droid Incredible, spoke to controversy. Thomson Reuters is the world's NYSE and AMEX quotes
phone may be affected with a Pocket Lint, saying its own Dan Nosowitz, the author of largest international multimedia delayed by at least 20 minutes.
tight grip, depending on how the complaint rates for the HTC this post, can be followed on news agency, providing Nasdaq delayed by at least 15
device is held. That's why Nokia Droid Eris's antenna are lower Twitter, corresponded with via investing news, world news, minutes. For a complete list of
designs our phones to ensure than the numbers Apple email, and stalked in San business news, technology exchanges and delays, please
acceptable performance in all reported in Friday's press Francisco (no link for that one-- news, headline news, small click here.
real life cases, for example conference--only 0.16%. you'll have to do the legwork business news, news alerts, Five Filters featured article:
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New Survey Confirms Shoddy U.S. Broadband China's Blue Chips
Nick Saint (Business Insider) most of Western Europe, US Steven Halpern
Submitted at 7/19/2010 10:11:14 AM infrastructure is uneven, and the (BloggingStocks)
gap with respect to Asian Submitted at 7/19/2010 10:30:00 AM
The United States has lost the economies and even Sweden
top spot in Nokia Siemens and the Netherlands remains Filed under: International
Networks' annual broadband substantial." Markets, China, Newsletters,
development index, the Join the conversation about this ETF Investing"Everyone knows
Connectivity Scorecard, to story » about China's outlandish growth
Sweden. See Also: in exports. That's no secret. But,
The Connectivity Scorecard is, • Google And Others Respond almost totally under the radar,
as Stacey Higginbotham reports To FCC's Broadband Plan China is transforming itself
for GigaOM, a favorite measure • The FCC's New Broadband from a world-class exporter into
of the telecom industry, since it helps its economy. So while the U.S. broadband is far less Plan Explained In 7 Minutes one of the world's biggest
paints the America in a United States has less and advanced than that of leading • The National Broadband Plan importers," says Alexander
particularly favorable light. slower broadband than many countries. Despite ranking the Green.
The Scorecard looks not just at Asian and European countries, it United States second, the report The editor of The Oxford
broadband infrastructure, but was the top rated country on the states: "While it has Communique explains, "Indeed,
also at how a country uses its Scorecard until this year. significantly more fiber and
broadband, and how much that But as this chart emphasizes, DOCSIS 3.07 deployment than XINHAU page 13
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AIG Settles Fraud continued from page 12
LONDON/HOUSTON
Connie Madon blue-chip stocks Below, we Exchange-traded fund- Blue
(BloggingStocks) (Reuters) – Investors fretted
review the fund and 14 reasons chip- FTSE/Xinhua China 25 about possible seepage from
Submitted at 7/19/2010 9:30:00 AM to remain bullish on the Chinese Index Fund- China- BP's capped Gulf of Mexico
stock market. BloggingStocks well on Monday and speculation
Filed under: Scandals, Amer Continue reading Xinhau China grew about assets the company
Intl Group (AIG) Class action 25 (FXI): Investing in China's may sell to pay multibillion
suits of three Ohio pension Blue Chips dollar costs for its oil spill.
funds against AIG ( AIG) have Xinhau China 25 (FXI):
been settled for$725 million. office. INVESTORS page 14
Investing in China's Blue Chips
The charges against the Continue reading AIG Settles
insurance giant included fraud, Fraud Charges for $725 Million
accounting violations and stock-
price manipulation. "The
AIG Settles Fraud Charges for
$725 Million originally
Wide-eyed primate caught on camera
settlement resolves allegations
of American International
Group's wide-ranging fraud
appeared on BloggingStocks on
Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:30:00 for first time (AFP)
EST. Please see our terms for (Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) But field researchers, working biologist at the ZSL, said their
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2005 . . . and brings total Email this| Comments London, managed to track down divided up for farming and
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shareholders to over $1 billion," I n s u r a n c e - O h i o - F r a u d - primate so rare it was thought to forests of central Sri Lanka. "very cute" animals from their
according to a statement from Attorney general be extinct has been caught on In a world first, they were able partners.
the Ohio Attorney General's camera in the forests of Sri to take pictures of an adult male "The forest has now been
Lanka for the first time, slender loris sitting on a tree fragmented into a series of small
Create an Exit Strategy to scientists said Monday.
The Horton Plains slender loris
branch.
The field team was able to
islands," Turner told BBC radio.
"They can't move to one
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which can grow up to 17
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the first time that has ever been
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future persistence of the
species."
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BP shares, which have been Griffith, oil analyst at Evolution event that is necessary." canvassing shareholders about a leak.
rallying over the past three Securities, adding that would She added: "Nobody wants to restructuring that could include But Doug Suttles, BP's chief
weeks, slipped 2.6 percent after likely be continued volatility. do that. Absolutely not... Clearly a breakup of its businesses, the operating officer, said the
the top U.S. government spill "The only thing that really we want this to end but we don't Sunday Times reported. company now hopes to keep the
official said that engineers had matters is the relief well. If the want to enter into a situation The paper said options included damaged well shut until the
detected seepage, raising fears relief well doesn't work, they where we have uncontrolled selling the group's refineries and relief well is completed in
of problems with the cap that will have a massive problem," leaks all over the Gulf floor." petrol stations, scaling back its August and the leak is sealed off
stopped oil spewing into the he said. IN THE CROSSHAIRS U.S. operations and ramping up with heavy drilling mud and
water nearly three months after National Incident Commander BP's role in the disaster and in-house engineering instead of cement.
a rig explosion. Admiral Thad Allen said in a speculation about any influence outsourcing. "We're hopeful that if the
A BP spokesman said the seep statement that he had sent a the British oil giant may have BP's talks to sell half its stake encouraging signs continue that
was detected by its engineers letter to BP stating there were a had over the release of the in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oil we'll be able to continue the
but it was unclear whether the number of unanswered Lockerbie bomber from a field to Apache Corp stalled integrity test all the way to the
source was the blown-out well, questions about the monitoring Scottish prison last year are sure twice over the weekend, raising point that we get the well
adding that seeps were a natural systems it committed to as a to be discussed when British doubts about whether the deal killed," he told reporters before
phenomenon in the Gulf. condition of the U.S. Prime Minister David Cameron will be completed, Bloomberg Allen issued his statement.
The company said in a government extending the well meets Obama in Washington reported, citing a person with "Clearly we don't want to
statement that it had spent $3.95 integrity test. this week. knowledge of the matter. BP reanimate flow into the Gulf if
billion so far on efforts to tackle He listed detection of a seep BP has confirmed that it declined to comment. we don't have to."
the well and that it aimed to near the well and the possible lobbied the UK government in Shares are off 39 percent since Suttles' statement could indicate
permanently kill the well in the observation of methane over the late 2007 over a prisoner the spill began despite a rally diverging viewpoints between
first half of August. well. He said he had authorized transfer agreement with Libya from lows hit on June 25. The BP and the U.S. government on
It said it continued to run an BP to continue the integrity tests but said it was not involved in recovery had been prompted by plans for the well integrity test.
integrity test on the well, on for another 24 hours. talks on the release of Abdel speculation of asset sales and It prompted Allen -- who will
which it placed a cap last week The BP spokesman said that if a Basset al-Megrahi, convicted of sovereign wealth fund interest ultimately make the final call on
that appeared to seal the well seep is confirmed from the well, the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am and hopes for the capping of the the test -- to issue a statement
and that pressure continued to the cap will be lifted and oil flight. well. that "nothing had changed" in
rise. flowed to the surface. British foreign secretary ANOMALIES IN RESPONSE the joint plan.
BP choked off the flow a mile The worst oil spill in U.S. William Hague said on Saturday U.S. authorities probing the Billy Nungesser, president of
under the water's surface with a history has caused an economic that there was no evidence BP spill are looking into why Plaquemines Parish in
cap on Thursday, marking the and environmental disaster in had any connection with al- workers missed signs of an Louisiana, said the new cap was
first time oil has not spewed five states along the Gulf Coast, Megrahi's release. impending explosion and have good news after a three-month
since an April 20 explosion on hurt President Barack Obama's Cameron's visit comes at a time drawn up a list of more than 20 losing battle to try to clean up
an offshore rig killed 11 approval ratings and when U.S. lawmakers are anomalies in the crew's response oil hitting fragile marshlands as
workers. complicated traditionally close considering a range of new rules to them, the Wall Street Journal more lapped ashore.
Analysts said investors were ties with Britain. that could require tougher safety reported. "We're very optimistic,"
concerned about reports of the Carol Browner, Obama's top regulations on offshore drilling The current plan had been for Nungesser told the "Fox News
seepage, though any updates on energy adviser, said in an or bar companies like BP from BP to resume siphoning the oil Sunday" program. "We see light
a more permanent relief well to interview on ABC's Good new offshore exploration leases. after the completion of the at the end of the tunnel. It's a
kill the leaking well were more Morning America program: "If The company, which has been pressure tests on the well, which very long tunnel but today we're
important. anything changes we can move in the crosshairs of U.S. extends 2.5 miles under the making progress."
"There's been a lot of punting rapidly to open parts of the cap politicians since the spill began seabed, to judge if it is able to
around the stock," said Richard and release the pressure in the on April 20, has started withstand the process to seal the INVESTORS page 16
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Oil cap kept shut despite seep near ruptured well (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) becoming even worse and test could worsen the overall The apparent disagreement It could also mean more oil
Submitted at 7/19/2010 9:13:38 AM harder to fix. An underground situation. began to sprout Saturday when than expected poured into the
leak could let oil and gas escape Both Allen and BP have said Allen said the cap would Gulf of Mexico since the BP-
NEW ORLEANS – The federal uncontrolled through bedrock they don't know how long the eventually be hooked up to a leased Deepwater Horizon rig
government Monday allowed and mud. trial run will continue. mile-long pipe to pump the exploded April 20, killing 11
BP to keep the cap shut tight on "When seeps are detected, you Browner said Allen's extension crude to ships on the surface. people and touching off one of
its busted Gulf of Mexico oil a r e d i r e c t e d t o m a r s h a l went until Monday afternoon. But early the next day, BP chief America's worst environment
well for another day despite a resources, quickly investigate, She said on ABC's "Good operating officer Doug Suttles crises.
seep in the sea floor after the and report findings to the Morning America" that said the cap should stay clamped To plug the well, BP is drilling
company promised to watch government in no more than monitoring was crucial to make shut to keep in the oil until relief two relief wells, one of them as
closely for signs of new leaks four hours. I direct you to sure the trapped oil doesn't wells are finished. a backup. The company said
underground. provide me a written procedure break out of its pipe. The government's plan would work on the first one was far
The Obama administration's for opening the choke valve as "Clearly we want this to end. ease pressure on the fragile well, enough along that officials
point man for the spill, retired quickly as possible without But we don't want to enter into a but would require up to three expect to reach the broken well's
Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, damaging the well should situation where we have more days of oil spilling into the casing, or pipes, deep
s a i d e a r l y M o n d a y t h a t hydrocarbon seepage near the uncontrolled leaks all over the Gulf. underground by late this month.
government scientists had gotten well head be confirmed," Allen Gulf floor," Browner told ABC. But the company very much The subsequent job of jamming
the answers they wanted about said in a letter to BP Managing BP PLC said Monday that the wants to avoid a repeat of the the well with mud and cement
how BP is monitoring the Director Bob Dudley. cost of dealing with the oil spill live underwater video that could take days or a few weeks.
seabed around the mile-deep When asked about the seep and has now reached nearly $4 showed millions of gallons of It will take months, or possibly
well, which has stopped gushing the monitoring, BP spokesman billion. The company said it has oil spewing from the blown well years for the Gulf to recover,
oil into the water since the Mark Salt would only say that made payments totaling $207 for weeks. though cleanup efforts
experimental cap was closed "we continue to work very million to settle individual "I can see why they're pushing continued and improvements in
Thursday. closely with all government claims for damages from the for keeping the cap on and shut the water could be seen in the
Late Sunday, Allen said a seep scientists on this." spill along the southern coast of in until the relief well is in days since the oil stopped
was detected near the ruptured Early Monday, Allen issued a the United States. To date, place," said Daniel Keeney, flowing. Somewhere between
oil well and demanded in a statement saying there had been almost 116,000 claims have president of a Dallas-based 94 million and 184 million
sharply worded letter that BP an overnight conference call been submitted and more than public relations firm. gallons have spilled into the
step up monitoring of the ocean between the federal science 67,500 payments have been The government wants to Gulf, according to government
floor. Allen didn't say what was team and BP. made, totaling $207 million. eliminate any chance of making estimates.
coming from the seep. White "During the conversation, the With the newly installed cap matters worse, while BP is loath ___
House energy adviser Carol federal science team got the keeping oil from BP's fractured to lose the momentum it gained Weber reported from Houston.
Browner told the CBS "Early answers they were seeking and well out of the Gulf during a the moment it finally halted the Associated Press writer Jay
Show" the seep was found less the commitment from BP to trial run, this weekend offered a leak, Keeney said. Reeves in Orange Beach, Ala.,
than two miles from the well meet their monitoring and chance for the oil company and "They want to project being on Tom Strong in Washington, AP
site. notification obligations," Allen government to gloat over their the same team, but they have video journalist Haven Daley in
The concern all along — since said. shared success — the first real different end results that benefit Biloxi, Miss., and Robert Barr
pressure readings on the cap He said BP could continue victory in fighting the spill. each," he said. in London contributed to this
weren't as high as expected — testing the cap, meaning keeping Instead, the two sides have spent But scientists are still report.
was a leak elsewhere in the well it shut, only if the company the past two days disagreeing concerned about pressure Five Filters featured article:
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The aircraft promises greater
t h r i l l i n g h o r d e s o f e a g e r Speaking to reporters later in Store Like me, maybe you're not
fuel efficiency and its
planespotters who came out to London, Jim Albaugh, chief big into Japanese literature other
lightweight materials and
see the breakthrough carbon- e x e c u t i v e o f B o e i n g than some graphic novels. When
innovative design have captured
composite plane. I read this story, I had no idea
Commercial Airplanes, the imagination of the industry.
A media circus ensued as reiterated that caution, saying who Ryu Murakami was until I
Yet flight testing has been
Boeing executives, including Boeing still hopes to achieve its read that his list of works
going more slowly than
CEO Jim McNerney, emerged year-end goal but deliveries includes Audition. Audition, in
expected after the twin-engined
smiling from the plane, though could move to next year. case you don't know, was
passenger plane made an
McNerney did not actually fly to GO FLYING adapted to film by Takashi
inaugural flight last December --
England with the plane, instead Speaking after landing the Miike; it's one of the most Store (like Alice in Wonderland,
which itself was the subject of
getting on board after landing. plane, test pilot Mike Bryan told uncomfortable and graphic for example), this title will have
frenetic global media coverage.
Social media was active with r e p o r t e r s t h a t l a n d i n g o n horror movies that I've ever a multimedia aspect to it. So, it's
Deliveries of the long-range
blow-by-blow coverage of the Farnborough's "short" runway seen, ... but I digress. not necessarily something that
passenger jet to the first
arrival, pointing to the intense a f t e r t h e n i n e - h o u r f l i g h t Murakami's latest work, titled could even work with traditional
Japanese customer have been
interest in the plane not only reminded him of his time A Singing Whale, is set to make publication.
delayed by more than two years
within the business but also in landing on aircraft carriers in the its debut solely on the iPad; it I just hope that A Singing
due to production problems.
the flight-enthusiast community. Navy. But he was full of praise will involve no other publishers Whale isn't in the same vein as
(Writing by Ben Berkowitz,
The 787 is expected to take the for the plane, which he flew at all. It will appear on the Audition, or that multimedia
Editing by Jeremy Laurence and
s p o t l i g h t a t n e x t w e e k ' s from Seattle with 16 crew and a Japanese App Store at around experience will be very, very
David Holmes)
Farnborough Airshow. Last- full compliment of flight-testing US $17, and thirty percent of nightmare inducing. Just
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The one-notch downgrade to Some of the euro zone's anything that we don't know which might indicate that we're
To make a short story shorter:
Aa2, which came a day ahead of toughest spending cuts last year already," said Martin Mansergh, much closer to a bottom in
for the last three days, I’ve been
a scheduled sale of up to 1.5 gave Ireland a brief respite from Ireland's minister of state for ratings. ...This is something
one of but a handful of people
billion euros of Irish debt, put the market assault on peripheral finance. "We all know that which in the end should turn out
carrying around a handset
Moody's on par with rival euro members, but its fiscal banking and real estate are not to be supportive for Irish bonds
running Microsoft’s unreleased
agency Standard and Poor's AA rectitude has been all but going to be sources of growth." and (euro zone) peripherals as
Windows Phone 7 operating
rating and still one notch above overshadowed by fresh rounds The IMF last week said Dublin well."
system. This specific handset
Fitch. of bad news on the banking would not meet a European The spread of Irish 10-year
isn’t one that’s ever intended for
Moody's also changed its front. Union-agreed deadline to reduce bonds against their German
release, and, while it’s looking
outlook to stable from negative. The cost of bailing out its budget deficit to 3 percent of equivalent widened on Monday
pretty close to done, the build
The downgrade, which a nationalized Anglo Irish Bank gross domestic product (GDP) to 300 basis points, their highest
running on the handset is by no
minister said provided no last year gave Ireland a budget by 2014, also citing threats to since July 2.
means finalized.
surprises but which weakened deficit of 14 percent per gross Ireland's growth target. (Additional reporting by Padraic
With these bits in mind along
the euro versus the dollar and hit domestic product, the highest in While the Irish public has so far Halpin; editing by John
with my new personal policy of
European stocks, prefaced a sale Europe, which could rise to 20 grudgingly accepted fiscal Stonestreet)
not reviewing big-ticket items
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Windows Phone 7 in its nascent
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state.
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primarily on providing a 3D models, themes and more. top stories from the past few animation originally appeared
Currently, Freemarket has over Facebook privacy back the way
marketplace for remote workers. months have broken out as viral on The Unofficial Apple you like inside the social
Freelancer.com now caters to a five thousand items of content videos. In this case, the Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 19
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Nextel Direct Connect will go Kellan Lutz stuck by girlfriend
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Saturday to celebrate her twenty
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Otherwise well-adjusted trauma or "stressor" that, as policies of diagnosis and disease to experience a life-threatening morph into a lasting disability is
individuals were believed to be DSM described it, would "evoke in an especially clear light," situation directly or be a close unknown.
at small risk of suffering more significant symptoms of distress writes combat veteran and witness to a ghastly accident or Americans are deeply moved
than a transient stress reaction in almost everyone." Rape, sociologist Wilbur Scott in his atrocity. Experiencing "intense by the men and women who
once they were removed from combat, torture and fires were detailed 1993 account "The fear, helplessness, or horror" fight our wars. We have an
the front. those deemed to fall, as the Politics of Readjustment: after watching the Sept. 11 incalculable moral debt, as
In 1917, the British DSM III required, "generally Vietnam Veterans Since the terrorist attacks on television, Abraham Lincoln said, "to care
neuroanatomist Grafton Elliot outside the range of usual War." PTSD is in DSM, Mr. for example, could qualify an for him who shall have borne
Smith and the psychologist Tom human experience." Thus, while Scott writes, "because a core of individual for PTSD. the battle." Yet rather than
Pear challenged this view, the stress was unusual, the psychiatrists and Vietnam There is pitched debate among broaden the definition of PTSD,
attributing the cause more to the development of PTSD in its veterans worked conscientiously trauma experts as to whether a it would do our veterans better
experiences and less on those wake was not. and deliberately for years to put stressor should be defined as to ensure they first receive
who suffered them. No longer were prolonged it there . . . at issue was the whatever traumatizes a person. quality treatment and
"Psychoneurosis may be traumatic reactions viewed as a question of what constitutes a True, a person might feel rehabilitation before applying
produced in almost anyone if reflection of constitutional normal reaction or experience of "traumatized" by, say, a minor for disability status. Otherwise,
only his environment be made vulnerability. They became soldiers to combat." Thus, by car accident--but to say that a how can we assess their
'difficult' enough for him," they instead a natural process of the time PTSD was incorporated fender-bender counts as trauma prospects for meaningful
wrote in their book "Shell Shock adaptation to extreme stress. into the official psychiatric alongside such horrors as recovery no matter their
and Its Lessons." This triggered The influence of individual lexicon, it bore a hybrid legacy-- concentration camps, rape or the diagnosis?
a feisty debate within British differences shaping response to part political artifact of the Bataan Death March is to dilute The new regulations announced
military psychiatry, and crisis gave way to the profound antiwar movement, part the concept. "A great deal rides by Mr. Shinseki take the
eventually the two sides came to impact of the trauma, with its legitimate diagnosis. on how we define the concept of definition of PTSD further than
agree that both the soldier's leveling effect on all human While the major symptoms of traumatic stressor, says Harvard any of his predecessors surely
predisposition to stress and his response. PTSD are fairly straightforward- psychologist Richard J. imagined.
exposure to hostilities If the pendulum swung too far, -re-experiencing, anxiety and McNally, author of Sally Satel is a resident scholar
contributed to breakdown. By obliterating the role of an avoidance--what counted as a "Remembering Trauma." In the at AEI.
World War II, then, military individual's own characteristics traumatic experience turned out civilian realm, Mr. McNally Photo credit: U.S. Army/
psychiatrists believed that even in the development of the to be a moving target in says, "the more we broaden the Department of Defense
the bravest and fittest soldier condition, it served a political subsequent editions of the DSM. category of traumatic stressors, Five Filters featured article:
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point," as the saying went. newly minted diagnosis of of a traumatic experience. The stressor itself and the more Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available
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(rather than the narrower Post- and psyche to the fundamentally in 1994, the range of servicemen and women,
Vietnam Syndrome) as an traumatic nature of war." "traumatic" events was anticipatory fear of being in
official diagnosis in the third Messrs. Shatan and Lifton expanded to include hearing harm's way can turn into a
edition of its Diagnostic and clearly saw PTSD as a normal about the unexpected death of a crippling stress reaction. But
Statistical Manual. response. "The placement of loved one or receiving a fatal how often symptoms fail to
A patient could be diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder in diagnosis such as terminal dissipate after separation from
with PTSD if he experienced a [the DSM] allows us to see the cancer. No longer did one need the military and subsequently
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Abelson in the Sunday, July 17 plans must offer, but also the many cases, keeping networks will have to meet standards
edition of the New York Times, premiums they can charge. At small won't provide enough developed to make sure patients If you're wondering whether
titled, "Insurers Push Plans first premiums are fixed through leverage. Health plans will go have enough choice of doctors your router really needs a reset,
Limiting Patient Choice of political jawboning, but more one step further and purchase and hospitals." Good luck or if you want a second opinion
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to choose from, with large co- c o s t s a n d t h e i r r e v e n u e s coverage. As Ms. Abelson resident fellow at AEI. reach a site, according to one
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.... next three to seven years. Act for more on the insanity of levels of military spending,
If the Fed and Congress drag Tax and Stimulate is No “At the same time, it’s not prevailing wage laws). reduced the massive budget
this out, which at this point Solution enough to do it on the spending Government needs to provide deficit, and simultaneously
seems likely, we will see a My sole criticism of Roubini side,” said Roubini, favoring a the most services at the least helped cities and states get out
severe "L" or "WW" shaped does not concern his statements value-added sales tax. “The cost, not rape taxpayers for the of their hole, even if there were
recession playing out over regarding the recession or the deficit cap is so large in the U.S. sole benefit of public unions and some temporary safety-net
several (or more) years. severity of it, but rather his that eventually we need to have corrupt politicians. provisions Austrian types like
Please bear in mind that Keynesian tax-and-spend raises in revenues, and we have There are many structural myself do not particularly care
flashback is not a criticism of solutions for curing it. to do that in non- distortionary defects but those are a few of for.
predictions anyone made in With that backdrop, please ways.” the obvious ones. We cannot What I want to see is a net
2008. consider Roubini Says Obama I simply do not accept tax-and- possibly begin to "recover" until major step in the right direction,
Moreover, the fat lady still has Should Address Nation as spend approaches. Instead, I we first address those major because the ideal approach will
not sung. Perhaps by some Adults favor the common sense structural problems. never fly.
miracle we have a weak U- “We have to recognize that approaches: stop wasting money VAT?! Mike "Mish" Shedlock
shaped recession that looks and Americans are adults,” Roubini and stop digging deeper holes. Interestingly, I support the idea h t t p : / /
feels much worse. said during a radio interview Things that Need to Happen of a VAT (in theory) but not for globaleconomicanalysis.blogspo
Finally, I believe Roubini laid with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Absurd levels of military raising revenue. Rather, I t.com
out a recession case as to how Surveillance. “Then we have to spending MUST stop before we support policies that encourage Click Here To Scroll Thru My
this would play out nearly as speak to them straightforward bankrupt ourselves. The US is saving. A low flat tax in Recent Post List Mike
good as anyone. about the risks and challenges wasting Trillions of dollars conjunction with a low VAT "Mish" Shedlock is a registered
Where to from Here? that we have, rather than kicking attempting to be the world's (except on medicine and grocery investment advisor
As always, the key question I the can down the road.” Had policeman. store food), would do just that. representative for SitkaPacific
keep asking and more Roubini stopped right there I We MUST do something about My fear is that once unleashed, Capital Management. Sitka
importantly addressing is: would have been applauding public union wages and pension VAT would be punitive. The Pacific is an asset management
"Where to from here?" loudly. Unfortunately the article promises that cannot be met. remedy is a balanced budget firm whose goal is strong
I wholeheartedly endorse this goes on to say ... Moreover, as I have pointed out amendment. performance and low volatility,
statement from Roubini. In the short run, Roubini said, on many occasions, US Tax If people had to pay for the war regardless of market direction.
" as the optimists’ delusional the economy needs to maintain policy allows deferral of taxes in Iraq and Afghanistan with V i s i t h t t p : / /
hopes for a rapid V-shaped federal fiscal stimulus to rescue on corporate profits held increased taxes, there would not www.sitkapacific.com/
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advanced world will be at best and local governments from conjunction with global wage were blatantly stupid policies learn more about wealth
in a long U-shaped recovery..." bankruptcy. Failure to provide arbitrage, practically begs that increased US enemies while management and capital
Indeed, I have made similar, if debt relief will reduce corporations to move jobs and wasting money. preservation strategies of Sitka
not even more dire sounding consumption and force essential profits overseas. If we want to increase stimulus Pacific.
statements many times, some of cuts on spending in areas such Please see Bleak Outlook for or social safety net spending as
them recently. For example: as education and public safety, Small Businesses and Job Roubini seems to want and
according to Roubini. Creation; Where Obama Went Krugman definitely wants, I
• Wednesday, July 14, 2010: When the domestic economy Wrong, and What to do About It could accept that IF two-for-one
Expect Second-Half Housing gains footing from federal for details. we reduce military spending,
and Durable Goods Crash spending, Roubini said, the In regards to public spending, AND we revoke Davis-Bacon.
• Tuesday, July 13, 2010: Are government will have to reverse Davis-Bacon, prevailing wage Simply put, I would gladly
w e " T r e n d i n g T o w a r d s course, reducing the debt laws MUST go. (Please see settle out of court for any
Deflation" or in It? through fiscal austerity for the Thoughts on the Davis Bacon policies that reduced insane
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reorganized as a response to 9/ intelligence community would surveillance architecture? organization had never produced our mission and our
11 might now be in danger, not even disclose just how many Contractors are often able to one shred of information that commitment to keeping
however.) contractors it employs, for take a piece of the job with less helped me prosecute three America safe will remain
Still, in compiling all this instance, until the Post did so. red tape getting in the way. wars!” he said loudly, leaning steadfast, whether they are
information, there’s a risk that That secrecy has concealed — Except that the information over the table during an reflected in the day’s news or
the Post provides a hostile barely — how inextricable the produced in Top Secret America interview. not.
foreign power looking to contractors are from the has questionable ability to Um, three wars? Only in Top In other words: we’re doing just
infiltrate the U.S. security intelligence community. Take thwart, capture or kill terrorists. Secret America… great, and pinching pennies, too.
apparatus now has an online Bill Black, who ended his nearly Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab UPDATE: Acting Director of Now stop looking at that
yellow pages for sending out his -40 year career with the made his way onto Northwest National Intelligence David database.
resume. Ironically, the very National Security Agency in Airlines Flight 253, and only Gompert just released a wet- Photo: Wikimedia
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consume, adding uncertain company could revamp NSA’s years, like arresting Najibullah an environment that limits the • Number of Intel Contractors
value to the amount of software. Long story short: Zazi before, an indictment amount of information we can Kept Secret
information already public. And several years and a billion alleges, he could place suicide share. However, the fact is, the • Spooks-for-Hire Slurp Up Spy
the spigot — contained in dollars later, the only thing the bombers in the New York City men and women of the Cash, Brains
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either politically sacrosanct or indictment of a whistleblower that the closest thing the nation improved our operations, Brace For Post Expose
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Homecoming
Elizabeth D. Samet (The New posting pictures of each stage: Thesiger, and Rory Stewart, Joel the armor to which they have figuring out what to wear,
Republic - All Feed) stymied in midtown Manhattan confessed that he had once grown accustomed. “I don’t accustomed to being in rooms
Submitted at 7/18/2010 11:00:00 PM traffic; in front of the Walter envied “their proximity to ‘real want to be one of those guys,” where, in important ways,
Reed Army Medical Center in life’ and getting to have ‘real Pete had insisted at the bar, as everyone looked the same, he
A text message instructed me to Washington, D.C.; looking a experiences’. ... Now,” he we contemplated his past and arrived to discover, “all at once I
report to a midtown Manhattan little tired under a historic reported from Iraq, “I feel I get whatever lies ahead. was decidedly an individual. …
sports bar, where I would find marker informing us that the to live the life of meaningful As he was preparing to leave I could have shown up with a
the members of the expedition state of Ohio has been, among decisions again.” the Army, Joel shared with me beard. I could have long hair
recharging before the next day’s other things, home to eight U.S. To the untrained ear, this might the urge he felt to make his next and put my hands in my
exertions. I was meeting two of presidents; sunbaked and sound like naive boyish career as meaningful as his first: pockets. All the little things …
them for the first time, yet, even smiling in the high altitude enthusiasm: war as the ultimate “Friday marks my last day in the added to a larger whole: you’re
over the din, conversation was beside a sign marked adventure. But it isn’t. With its Army, and I hope I can someday on your own now. … It was a
natural and easy. Dan, lean and “Continental Divide.” clearly delineated units and find a career grounded as very lonely morning.”
earnest, spoke of his last On the most basic level, Dan, chains of command, the Army closely to purpose and duty as And so, it seemed entirely
assignment in the Army and Pete, and Joel are riding to raise cultivates a deep sense of the military.” But the rules of natural, to me anyway, that,
added, with that distant, intense money for wounded soldiers responsibility in those who are engagement back home are before embracing this new life,
gaze I’ve now seen many times, returning to civilian life. The paying attention. Joel, like so different. Soon after his return, Joel decided he needed to
that his old unit had recently importance of this cause to many of his fellow soldiers, Joel wrote that he was figuring bicycle across the country with
deployed again. “But,” he combat veterans with friends discovered authentic experience out how to live the “temporary some friends who would
looked me in the eye, “I’m and classmates among the war’s in making “meaningful life” that will be his until he understand all of this without
doing this.” casualties is obvious. But, for decisions” on which others rely. begins law school in the fall. He ever having to say a word about
“This” is a more than 4,000- this trio of riders, the trip has I think it is a mistake to assume found himself at his “Home of it.
mile bicycle ride—from Maine other less, tangible motivations. that the intensity of wartime Record,” Abilene, Texas, Coming home can make a
to Southern California—that It marks their passage from a service derives purely from a occupying his old room, leafing soldier want to hit the road.
will take most of the summer. highly regimented mode of soldier’s proximity to danger through his English textbooks, Sometimes the goal is to return
The cyclists, Dan, Pete, and living to one whose outlines are and death. It seems more and staring at his biography on to war, but, more often, it is
Joel, all graduated from West not yet clear. After almost a properly to owe to the fact that the wall—diploma, simply to keep moving, to
Point in 2005. Among them, decade in uniform—cadet gray relationships forged in the commissioning certificate, embark on another journey.
they have five combat tours in then Army green—the three context of such heightened proclamations, photographs Popular culture tends to
Iraq or Afghanistan; all three men find themselves on the cusp stimulation—connections first from his Army football games. pathologize this instinct.
have just left the Army. Dan of new lives, even as they are established in training through a “I sit,” he wrote to me, “in a Witness Martin Sheen’s
will attend business school in still trying to make sense of the shared imagining of museum of myself in another demoralized Lieutenant Willard
the fall, and Joel law school, old. hardship—have a force and life—THAT other life.” in the opening moments of
while Pete remains undecided I’ve known Joel since he clarity more difficult to realize The realization that he had left Apocalypse Now, holed up in a
about what’s next. When we studied English with me at West in everyday life. Once they the Army “hit” Joel twice: once Saigon hotel room, kissing with
met up in New York, they had Point. On his second tour in rejoin the ranks of civilians, when he got his final goodbye the end of a lit cigarette a photo
just finished day five of the ride. Iraq, he was struck anew by the soldiers can find themselves gift and a handshake from the of his wife and pondering the
In the weeks since, I’ve been energizing sense of “focus” and forever searching for that same NCO with whom he had worked emptiness of home as the
keeping up with their progress the “no-nonsense feeling of quality of experience elsewhere, most closely; and again, weeks snapshot sizzles: “When I was
through intermittent texting and purpose that takes over.” attracted to a life of risk, later, at a reception for here, I wanted to be there. When
by reading their blog. As I write, Meditating on the narratives of perhaps, or prey to nostalgic prospective students at his law I was there, all I could think of
they have just made it over the travelers in the Middle East such longings, unless they figure out school. Having spent an HOMECOMING page 56
Rockies. And they've been as T. E. Lawrence, Wilfred a way to meet the world without inordinate amount of time
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Dr. Ryan Vaughan, PhD (no, complications that arise when themselves a smidgen of self- with you ... but what the hell, I
seriously) (TV Squad) the power struggle within the worth. You know: Every kid's still might" vibe that is
Submitted at 7/19/2010 1:30:00 AM world's oldest profession is dream. developing between Darby and
turned on its ear and dropped on Ray and Jessica's kids (Darby Damon, they are proving to be
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was getting back into the former student now Pete said, “Yeah, that’s the way
Spencer Pratt: "I'm a
jungle.” It’s an old story of
course. In antiquity, we find
commanding a company in
Afghanistan, where he spends
I always remember it.”
Ulysses and his comrades set Fame Whore and I'll
Homer’s Odysseus, who reaches his share of nights in a foxhole, sail again because they could
home after a decade of war and
another of wandering, returning
captured the paradox this way:
“I can’t decide if I want to live
not bear to stay home. Joel, Dan,
and Pete strike me as voyagers
Never Grow Out of It"
to a difficult reunion with his here and do this forever or leave of a different kind. Their epic Robyn Ross (TVGuide.com:
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family. Happiness is clouded by and never come back.” On the journey, bridging as it does the
a prophecy: If Odysseus wants other end of the spectrum, a community of warriors they Submitted at 7/19/2010 9:29:00 AM
to die peacefully one day, an old veteran general told me that have left behind and the civilian
man in his bed, he must embark coming home, joyful as it is, society they are poised to join, Spencer Pratt
on another trek to find a nation nevertheless carries with it an seems, instead, a way of Spencer Pratt is blaming his
ignorant of the sea and, once enduring “sadness … in learning how to come home. obsession with fame for the
there, bury an oar in tribute to knowing that this was the most Elizabeth D. Samet is a breakup of his marriage to Heidi
Poseidon. Tennyson, perhaps significant time of your life. professor of English at the U.S.Montag.
unwilling to believe that the And that’s not to denigrate Military Academy and the "I want every kind of press,"
warrior-wanderer could bear the marriage, or babies, or author of Soldier’s Heart: Pratt tells People. "There's no
“still hearth” of home, provided grandbabies, or events … but it Reading Literature Through way my love for fame and her
a different ending to the story, is to say that one knows that you Peace and War at West Point. love for puppies will ever work
one of perpetual adventure: “I might never contribute fully like The opinions she expresses here out successfully," he says.
am a part of all that I have met,” this again.” are her own and do not Heidi Montag files for legal
his Ulysses explains, “Yet all In the New York City sports necessarily reflect those of theseparation
experience is an arch bar, as the national anthem Military Academy, the The couple announced their
wherethrough / Gleams that blared from one of the Department of the Army, or the separation in June 2010. They Pratt, who was most recently
untravelled world whose margin televisions broadcasting the Department of Defense. were married in April 2009 seen crashing the Hills finale
fades / For ever and for ever NBA Finals, Dan, Pete, and Joel For more TNR, become a fan during their run on MTV's The after-party, now calls himself an
when I move.” looked at one another and on Facebook and follow us on Hills,. artist. "I have an easel and
This restlessness, the smiled at their instinct, even Twitter. Although many have called the everything. I'm going for an art
disconcerting sense that “here,” here, to come to attention, as split yet another Speidi stunt, show and a gallery."
no matter the delight that they have done automatically the 26-year-old says the breakup Do you believe a word Spencer
homecoming brings, is not for so many years. When the is for real. "We love each other, Pratt says?
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of them? you'd heard anything about the progressed, I've found that I've three weeks of performing he contestants or competing against
Question: ABC's Boston Med Ziva character being phased out. gotten used to the format (how proved himself quite capable at his peers, it would be an
on ABC is the best show on TV. — Elaine great was it to get that surprise contemporary and, of course, exceptional showcase for his
It is thoughtful, provocative and Matt Roush: I'm sure that's not appearance by Katee?) and am hip hop.) talents.
heartfelt. Is it just a summer the case. The story as the series enjoying the show as much as Since Nigel's recent comments Question: I thoroughly enjoyed
replacement, or might it become was building toward its season ever—that is, until it was on the show to Jose and Robert the season 2 premiere of White
a permanent fixture on ABC? — climax happened to focus confirmed that Alex had to leave proved he spends a fair amount Collar; however, I noticed a
Laurie heavily on Gibbs, who is after the competition due to his of time trolling the Internet to (lens?) distortion every time
Matt Roush: Isn't this series all the franchise. Ziva is an heartbreaking injury. [This came find out what fans are saying, if Tiffani Thiessen was on-screen.
terrific? A true highlight of the indispensable part of that in before the bad news about you print this question, I will Do you know what's up with
summer. But for now, that's all ensemble, though, and while it's Ashley.] I've read reports that consider this advice passed on to that? Also wanted to get your
there is, an eight-week run true women aren't faring Alex will be invited straight to him and hope that he takes it. I take (and any news, if you
culminating in a gripping final particularly well on some of the the Las Vegas round next also hope he read Katherine's please) on the new season of
episode on August 12 dealing CBS procedurals next season, season. And from the interviews question in a recent Ask Matt Warehouse 13. — Christen
with a face transplant. This is and NCIS' own track record is a I've read with Alex himself, it column regarding doing a whole Matt Roush: In these first
the same format ABC News bit spotty, I wouldn't lose any appears as though, at least at the all-star season. That would be episodes of White Collar,
used in a 2008 series, Hopkins, sleep over her immediate future. moment, he has every intention awesome, and it would give they're shooting around her
which won a Peabody Award. Question: Is there any word on of coming back. But some fans Alex the chance to compete, pregnancy, so that's what you
Camera crews spent four whether or not the Marty Deeks feel it would be cruel to make which he so desperately wants may have noticed. (Don't
months following the staff and character will be returning to Alex go through the grueling to do. Unfortunately, given his remember a distortion in my
patients in three Boston NCIS: Los Angeles? I'm a die- audition process for a third time, track record, I have a sinking advance non-HD screener, but I
hospitals to capture these hard traditional NCIS fan and I and others are saying it would feeling destiny just doesn't want do remember being aware they
stories, but it was always admit I was skeptical when the be unfair to the next batch of him on this show. — Erin were clearly going to extremes
conceived as a limited-run Los Angeles crew hit the scene, contestants to have to compete Matt Roush: The injuries this to keep her baby bump from
project. Which isn't to say there but I really enjoy it and two of against someone who's already season are very upsetting, I showing.) Regarding Warehouse
won't be a follow-up series, but my favorite episodes were the had several weeks experience in agree. And Alex in particular, 13, look for two new recurring
probably not on a full-time ones with Deeks. It reminded the finals and has created such a given his past challenges in characters to be introduced in
basis. me of the change from Sasha passionate fan base. So here's joining the show, seems this week's episode: Paula
Question: Maybe it's me, but in Alexander to Cote De Pablo on my solution: bring Alex back as especially snakebit. I like the Garces, as a local veterinarian in
the last several NCIS episodes NCIS: a change for the better. I an all-star next year. This way idea of catapulting him "Univille" (the warehouse's
of the just-completed season, mean Sasha was great, but Cote his fans would get to enjoy him immediately to all-star status; if setting) who catches Pete's eye,
Ziva's role seemed brought a new fresh angle and for a whole season without he wants to compete again, I and Nolan Gerard Funk as
marginalized. It almost seemed it's the same with the Deeks having to worry about him guess I'm OK with that, too. He another local who bonds with
as if now that she wasn't a character. I love the added getting voted off early. And will come in with an advantage, Claudia. The first week of
Mossad agent, what were they dimension he brought to the adding a ballet expert to the all- but at least he won't have to face August features a cross-over
going to do with her. And when team. — Joy star rotation would open the Kent in the finals next year if he with Eureka, as Fargo and
you consider NCIS' track record Matt Roush: Good news. Not show up to letting more ballet makes it that far. But this show Claudia cross-pollinate each
with female characters (Kate, only will Deeks be back next dancers like Melissa into the has already done amazing things other's shows. And look for
Paula Cassidy, Jenny, Agent season, but Eric Christian Olsen competition and giving them a for Alex's future career, you'd more of Jaime Murray as H.G.
Lee, the Louise Lombard returns as a guest star in the chance to compete in their own have to think, so getting the title Wells as the season progresses,
character from NCIS: LA), season opener. style with a partner who can is almost irrelevant. If he were along with other guest stars
female agents have been Question: As this season of So hold his own. (Alex needn't be to come back as an all-star,
expendable. I was wondering if You Think You Can Dance has limited to ballet, either. In his whether aiding the new ASK page 60
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including Lindsay Wagner, Matt Roush: Because the a landscape that definitely owned stations signed a two-
Rene Auberjonois and, in show's new and there's so much needed it. Her warmth, humor year deal to carry it. The
another recurring role, Tia buzz regarding this year's new and compassion are perfect, and cancellation was a business
Carrere. crop of cable series, I looked it's obvious from comments I've decision and hardly a surprise.
Question: I'm sure I'm not alone into this. (For the record, I am seen on her show's website that Unfortunately, it never made
in extolling the virtues of the not a music expert and am not many viewers feel the same much of a dent in the ratings,
wonderfully written, traditionally the go-to guy for way. What surprises me the especially compared to Ellen
marvelously acted Friday Night this sort of info.) According to most is, in the past few months, DeGeneres' show, which it's the
Lights. I am in shock that the USA, the primary songs from the number of viewers who say closest to in tone. It may just be
powers-that-be at NBC actually the pilot were "The Dog Days they recently found the show by a case that Ellen owns the
had the smarts to air the new are Over" by Florence and the accident because they didn't daytime niche devoted to light
season after it was on Direct Machine (from the skydiving even know she had one, due to comedic talk and there isn't
TV. Is there any chance that sequence) and "Before it the local stations not promoting much room for another. I'd love
there will be a new season after Breaks" by Brandi Carlisle at it, and are startled to learn it's to see Bonnie try to resurrect
this one? — Barbara the end of the episode. been canceled. There's no this format on a
Matt Roush: As a matter of Question: I watched and excuse for not promoting a demographically compatible
'Will & Grace' Producers
fact, Friday Night Lights is just enjoyed the series Merlin when show, especially one that was as cable outlet, where the Sign on as 'Love Bites'
wrapping its fifth and final it was on NBC last summer. I good as Bonnie's. She, her crew expectations aren't as high. But Showrunners
season, which will begin airing was terribly disappointed when I and her show—and her for now, it's just another lost Kim Potts (TV Squad)
on DirecTV in the fall and will realized it had aired a second viewers—deserved better. Is this opportunity.
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show up at later on NBC. After season on Syfy. Luckily, I the fault of Warner Bros.' That's all for now. Keep
that, though, it will be time to watched an all-day marathon promotion department, laziness sending in those questions, add
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leave Dillon for good. But we and saw the second season in its on the part of the stations, or comments below if you wish,
producers Jon Kinnally and
got to stay there much longer entirety. I loved it. Are there what? — Lee and in the meantime, follow me
Tracy Poust know a thing or two
than anyone expected. Thanks, plans to bring it back for a third Matt Roush: It's a shame this on Twitter
about romance and relationships
DirecTV, for rescuing this season? — Nellie one didn't catch on, but I'm not Subscribe to TV Guide
on a TV comedy, and the 'Will
gem—and thanks again, Emmy Matt Roush: A third season of sure there's any single entity to Magazine now!
& Grace' veterans will bring that
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with Universal Media Studios.
names of the songs from the most daytime shows. I don't pretty delightful and natural
The duo, who ran the last two
first night show? There are lots believe WB-T realized what a host. According to trade reports,
seasons of 'Will & Grace,' also
of questions posted asking about gem they had in this program. the reason her show lasted even
co-wrote and produced 'Ugly
the great music. — Sandy Hers was a breath of fresh air in this long was because NBC-
Betty' at ABC for four seasons.
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Michael Jordan led the Chicago an opportunity these kids have "There would have been
Bulls to six titles. And while he today. In all honesty, I was something honorable about
had Scottie Pippen, there is little trying to beat those guys." staying in Cleveland and trying
question the Bulls were Jordan's James, who played his first to win it as 'The Man' ...
team. seven seasons with his home LeBron, if he would've in
“ state Cleveland Cavaliers, was Cleveland, and if he could've
There's no way, with hindsight, part of one of the most got a championship there, it
I would've ever called up Larry, celebrated free agent classes in would have been over the top
called up Magic and said, 'Hey, history this summer. He met for his legacy, just one in
look, let's get together and play with the Cavs, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland. No matter how many
on one team.'”-- Michael Jordan Los Angeles Clippers, Miami he wins in Miami, it clearly is
So what does Jordan, one of the Heat, New York Knicks and Dwyane Wade's team."
best-ever in the NBA, think of
LeBron James joining with All-
Stars Dwyane Wade and Chris
New Jersey Nets.
James let the world know he
was taking his talents to South
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Mick Elliott (FanHouse Main) the 352-yard par 4 ninth hole
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playing in a celebrity golf earlier in the week. "This clearly feet for a eagle. Birdie was all
Filed under: British Open but guaranteed.
tournament in Nevada. "But takes him out of the
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- As The two players spent the day
that's ... things are different. I conversation. He can win as
Louis Oosthuizen stepped to the chatting like vacation buddies as
tee box on the ninth hole they walked the fairways, but
Sunday afternoon in the final this time not a word was
round of the British Open, it e x c h a n g e d . N e v e r t h e l e s s ,
seemed the inevitable might Casey's message had been
finally have arrived. delivered loud and clear: Game
The 27-year-old South African, on.
with one career European Tour Just not for very long.
win, had held the lead at St. Oosthuizen not only answered
Andrews since Friday's second the challenge, he responded with
round, but minutes earlier had an atomic elbow, also hitting
suffered his first bogey in 25 driver and launching his ball
holes. Oosthuizen's advantage high, hard and straight at green,
was still three strokes over landing the shot 10 feet inside
nearest challenger Englishman Casey's.
Paul Casey, but his playing
partner had driven the green on
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Toasty iStock shuttle, McNutt says, astronauts seems like a perfect ending to
Of all the bodies in our solar could fly to within 1.3 million the entire iPhone 4 saga.
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coolest part of the star, it burns would begin to cook. "I would about the rise and fall of iPhone
at about 9,940°F, hot enough to advise turning away from the 4 goes from weird to slightly
incinerate just about any sun well before that point," disturbing and then completely
material. As such, there are no McNutt says. Much hotter than crazy in only two minutes.
plans to send a manned mission that, the shields would fail Lightsaber fights, evil powers,
in its direction anytime soon altogether, and the vehicle and Steve Jobs as an evil
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conflicts between being a watched Godfrey coach one of “It was an overwhelming manager, another woman in her is where Ann says she refers
Christian and an abortion the residents she trains through feeling — a brutally visceral 60s, weren’t sure if they would some women who call Ray’s
provider. The idea a “a Christian a surgical abortion for a 22-year response — heartfelt and stay. “We didn’t want a young office.
can also be an abortion -old college student who was unmediated by my training or doctor with attitude,” Ann said. Oh please. We’re repeatedly
provider” is put out there like a six weeks pregnant, we went to my feminist pro-choice “We’re too old for that. But we told in this article that abortions
defiant statement of fact, not a the clinic’s utility room. The politics,” she wrote. “It was one gave him a chance. And he has are completely safe — though
rather dicey proposition. Of resident floated the pregnancy of the more raw moments in my exceeded our expectations for some inexplicable reason it’s
course, one can also be tissue in a glass dish of water, life.” wildly. I thank God every day, casually mentioned performing
murderer and a Christian — but for a routine check. Amid the [snip] because he’s so good with the this supposedly safe surgical
that doesn’t make it compatible uterine tissue was a gestational When Harris’s article was the patients. I’m just blessed. Other procedure adds about $10-
with Christian teaching. What sac about the size of a dime subject of a workshop at one of than the little termination thing $15,000 a year to a doctor’s
Bazelon’s doing here reminds surrounded by millimeters-long the Family Planning — ” she made a small box with malpractice insurance. But the
me of an old Soviet proverb — white villi, the fronds that later Fellowship’s annual meetings, her fingers and then moved her real cause for concern is that
“If you see a Bulgarian on the help form the placenta. Sunni remembers the difficult hands to her left, as if to set the women at crisis pregnancy
street, beat him up. He will How exactly does one meet emotions that came to the box aside. centers will might be given
know why.” Apparently “halfway” on abortion? I’m surface, and also the concern Ann reassures herself that Ray misleading information about
Christians who don’t embrace curious to know. But despite about how the article had been is never casual about abortion. the procedure! That’s to say
abortion are obviously inferior being actually in the doctor’s depicted in the anti-abortion “He makes the women think nothing of the fact the debate
beings, and no need bothering to office in question, Bazelon press, its most graphic passages about it longer, to make sure around crisis pregnancy centers
explain to them why. doesn’t talk to any of the people quoted as evidence of hypocrisy they know this is something and health risks of abortion is a
Okay, think I’m being in the office made uneasy by and folly. “We want to bring you have to live with forever.” politically correct minefield.
hyperbolic? Let’s move on — performing abortion procedures. this discussion more to the She also told me something Ray I’ll leave you with one final
and be warned this next bit is a Why not? Here’s another ball forefront,” Sunni says. “But it’s hadn’t mentioned. “If a patient headscratcher:
tad graphic: quite obviously dropped for fear a bit dangerous. Because calls and she’s not sure, I ask, Ray, who is in his 30s, is an
As Godfrey came to know the it might upset the narrative: people can misconstrue what we ‘Have you looked into other OB-GYN in upstate New York
nurses and front-desk staff at her These gradated choices are a mean.” things?’ I say, ‘Come in and who learned to do abortions
primary-care clinic, she learned delicate subject within the field. Again, heavy moral issues that let’s talk.’ I tell her that if during his residency. As a
that some of them flatly opposed The abortion providers I talked are given the inch-deep adoption might be a difficult teenager, Ray (who asked that I
abortion. They’ve come around, to are intensely grateful to the treatment, for the sake that it situation, there is other help use only his middle name) saw
she says, out of mutual doctors who are willing to might be “misconstrued.” out there. I may refer her to a his brother’s fear when he got
professionalism. She doesn’t handle difficult late-second- Hmmm. But fear not gentle crisis pregnancy center” — an his girlfriend pregnant. Race
object when nurses don’t want trimester cases. But they also reader, late in the piece after anti-abortion organization that also mattered in Ray’s decision
to assist her, and she tries to see the moral complexities up being introduced to probably a counsels pregnant women to to become a provider; he is
meet them halfway by doing close. Two years ago, a young dozen pro-abortion medical keep their babies. In 2006, African-American. “We utilize
abortions only up to nine weeks professor at the University of doctors, we finally speak with a Congressional investigators the service a lot, but publicly
of pregnancy. The early Michigan named Lisa Harris somewhat conflicted pro-life found that most federally we don’t really support it,” he
threshold means that no one on wrote an academic article about nurse who works for a doctor financed crisis pregnancy said of the local black
staff has to contend with performing an 18-week abortion who performs abortions: centers they contacted gave out community.
recognizable fetal parts. “It was while she was 18 weeks When I talked to Ann — Ray wrong information like tying …and that’s all were given
a way of being respectful, pregnant. Harris described offered her his office chair while abortion to breast cancer or about this race-and-abortion
because I know that not grasping the fetus’s leg with her he saw a patient — she said infertility or mental illness. Yet bombshell. In New York city,
everyone agrees with me and forceps, feeling a kick in her that when Ray took over the as part of the compromise
what I do,” she says. After I own uterus and starting to cry. practice, she and the office between doctor and nurse, that THERE’S page 78
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Foursquare’s Co-founder
Dennis Crowley claims the
company is in talks with major
companies in the search space,
including giants such as Google,
Microsoft and Yahoo.
“Our data generates hugely
interesting trends which would
enrich search,” Crowley said to
Telegraph. “We can anonymise
data and use it to show venues
which are trending at that
moment. Twitter helped the
world and the search engines
know what people are talking
about. Foursquare would allow connections with Google a user base of about 2 million
people to search for the types of reaching back to 2005, when he members, things are looking
place people are going to – and sold the text messaging app good for the NYC-based
where is trending – not what.” Dodgeball to the search company. Reviews: Bing,
This reminds us of Twitter’s company. Dodgeball, Foursquare, Google,
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Microsoft, which brought despite being pitted against Twitter, Yelp
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