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The Apple iPad for International markets will be launching on May 28th but due to all the heavy pre-ordering of the device it has already sold out so if you were late to the pre-order party then it only means you will have to wait a full ten days after launch before you can get yours thats 10 days fall on June 7th.Apple didnt release how many pre-orders they got but if it all went away in just 2 days then I guess we all can agree the numbers are probably staggering. If you want yo

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You know how much install space you’ll need on your PS3 for Disney’s upcoming racer, Split/Second? You’d be surprised. Reports from all over the Internet say that it’s going to be twice the size needed for Metal

After months of preparations, Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) held a press conference in Washington, D.C., last week to unveil their new energy and climate bill, known as the American Power Act.

The proposal would establish a cap on carbon emissions from utilities, introduce a fee on transportation fuels, and offer incentives for the expansion of nuclear power and offshore oil drilling. The future of that last provision, however, is currently unknown due to the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico last month.

In fact, in order to appeal to potential critics the bill includes a caveat that would allow states to veto offshore drilling within 75 miles of their coast, according to media reports.

President Obama has welcomed the legislative proposal, saying "Americans know what’s at stake by continuing our dependence on fossil fuels."

He added that "the challenges we face are reason to redouble our efforts to reform our nation’s energy policies."

However, the bill’s political prospects have already been marred by the defection of one of its former sponsors. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), said last week that the attempts to pass a comprehensive immigration reform this year are likely to prevent an energy and climate bill from passing by the end of 2010.

In the wake of the attempted bombing in New York City’s Times Square earlier this month there have been signals from the Obama administration that it would seek a new law to loosen the requirement that terrorism suspects be informed of their constitutional rights during interrogation.

Attorney General Eric Holder alluded to this during a string of appearances on network news shows on Sunday morning, and it has civil and human rights defenders up in arms.

For example, the nation’s top civil rights organization, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said the proposal, if it became legislation, would undermine the Miranda requirement that was ruled to be a constitutional right by the United States Supreme Court.

Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office Laura W. Murphy expressed her disappointment at what she saw was Holder’s suggestion that Americans should choose between their freedoms and security.

Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the ACLU, added that "legislation that significantly undermined Miranda would be unconstitutional, as Mr. Holder should know as well as anyone. The Miranda requirement is rooted in the Fifth Amendment."

On May 1, Faisal Shahzad, a U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, allegedly tried to blow up a car packed with explosives in the middle of Times Square in New York City. The attempt was unsuccessful and Shahzad was apprehended two days later as he was trying to leave the country on a a flight from JFK airport to Dubai.

The price of gold continues to hover at record levels after reaching an all-time high of $1,245.40 an ounce on May 11.

Commentators believe that the recent volatility of the stock market is prompting investors to flee to the safety of precious metals, driving their prices up.

In addition, Europe’s ongoing debt crisis—and the nearly $1 trillion rescue package—have been stoking inflation fears and doubts about the pace of global economic recovery.

While high gold prices may appear to make it less attractive for new investors to convert their currency into precious metals, some analysts—such as Jeffrey Nichols, managing director of American Precious Metals Advisors and senior economic adviser to Rosland Capital—are predicting the prices will continue their upward trend, hitting $1,500 an ounce by the end of 2010, quoted by CNN.

For those who would like to make the investment, TheStreet.com, an investors’ website, says physical gold can be bought at various prices and in various forms, including coins, bars and jewelry. It says American Buffalo, American Eagle and St. Gaudens are among the most popular gold coins.

Moreover, gold can be stored in bank safety deposit boxes or at home. Some companies allow investors to store gold with them as well as trade the metal on the market.

With very little notice the United States Senate voted 96 to 0 last week to require the Government Accountability Office to audit the Federal Reserve’s emergency actions during and after the 2008 financial crisis.

The measure was an amendment to legislation to overhaul the financial regulatory system and was proposed by socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). It was a watered down version of Sanders’ original provision that would have subjected the Fed to continuing audits of its routine operations.

It’s also weaker than the House-approved version that passed late last year which authorized audits of every item on the Fed’s balance sheet. The two bills will have to be reconciled later and one of its sponsors in the House, Representative Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), is confident the stronger version will prevail in conference. The bill’s original sponsor, Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) isn’t so sure.

We can only hope Grayson is right. The White House, the Fed and most Senators opposed the stronger version but agreed to the weaker version. That means they feel it doesn’t have any teeth. As evidence, an amendment by Senator David Vitter (R-La.) that would have mirrored the House language failed on a 62 to 37 vote. Sanders and six Democrats joined 30 Republicans in favor. (As an aside: Liberals, read that last sentence again and answer—who is it that is the party of the banksters? Still not sure? Then what about President Obama’s trip to New York May 13 to raise money for the Democrat party from Wall Street “fat cats” at $15,000, $30,000 and $50,000 a plate?)

You may remember that back in 2008 the fraud the biggest banksters had been pulling off began to unravel. Their scheme of playing both sides against the middle—selling off their debt falsely sold as safe bets while placing side bets they would collapse—fell apart. But it was good while it lasted because in the beginning they profited both ways.

So President George W. Bush abandoned free market principals to save the free market system. Big banksters Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson—Bush’s Fed chairman and Treasury secretary—convinced him to loot the U.S. Treasury to pay off their buddies at the other big banks. The result was the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), a $700 billion bailout of the financial institutions.

Bernanke, as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 2004, said in a speech, “we are in a new era, where economic volatility has been permanently eliminated.” It seems he missed on that prediction.

As for Paulson, prior to being named Treasury secretary he was the CEO of Goldman Sachs. Coincidently, Goldman Sachs got $10 billion in TARP funds.

With Bernanke’s incompetent pronouncements and Paulson’s ties to Goldman Sachs, you had the foxes guarding the henhouse… and one of them had no clue. And President Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is no better. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York he worked with Paulson to bail out American International Group (AIG)—the firm that paid bonuses of about $165 million to its executives—and together the two decided to let Lehman Brothers fail.

Since the bailouts some in Congress have been trying to learn from the Fed who got what and when did they get it. So far all they’ve gotten is silence.

And that’s what the audit bill is all about; trying to pry the lid off the secret Fed.

But you must understand what the Fed is. It is neither Federal (part of the U.S. Government) nor does it hold reserves, writes G. Edward Griffin in his book, The Creature from Jekyll Island.

It was formed by six conspirators who met in secret in 1910 on Jekyll Island, Ga., writes Antony C. Sutton in his book, The Federal Reserve Conspiracy. Those men were Senator Nelson Aldrich (father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and a representative of the Standard Oil crowd); German banker Paul Warburg, of the German bankers MM Warburg of Hamburg and Kuhn Loeb in the U.S.; Henry P. Davison, partner in J.P. Morgan and Chairman of Bankers Trust Company; Benjamin Strong, vice president of Banker’s Trust; Frank Vanderlip, chairman of National City Bank; and Charles D. Norton, president of First National Bank.

The Fed is a corporation, but it is unlike any other corporation in America. It pays no taxes. Its articles of incorporation are not filed in any state. There is no list of its stockholders anywhere, according the book, They Own It All (Including You).

Since its inception it has operated in secret. The only information that ever comes out is whatever the Fed chairman wants to reveal when he sits before Congress. If you’ve ever watched that dance on C-Span you know Congress never gets real answers.

But, despite its secrecy, it controls the money in the United States. It decides the interest rates banks pay… which ultimately decides the interest rates you pay. It decides how much money is printed… which devalues your savings and investments. It also decides which businesses survive—AIG—and which businesses fail—Lehman Brothers.

This is not a free market system. It’s a system of theft and destruction.

Women with type-2 diabetes may be able to improve their heart health by consuming a diet rich in bran, according to a new Harvard School of Public Health study.

For the research, lead author Lu Qi and his colleagues analyzed the medical data and food frequency questionnaires of 7,822 diabetic women who took part in the Nurses’ Health Study, which began in 1976. During the 26 years of the study, a total of 852 deaths had occurred, including 295 cardiovascular-related fatalities.

After adjusting for risk factors, the investigators found that women who consumed the highest levels of bran had a 55 percent lower risk of death from all causes and a 64 percent reduced risk of a heart-related mortality than those who consumed the smallest amounts of the whole grain component.

Although the survey only included women, Qi noted that he believes diabetic men will receive the same benefit from adding more bran into the diet.

"We do recommend that, when people with diabetes choose a grain product, they should choose a whole-grain product," Stephanie Dunbar, director of clinical affairs at the American Diabetes Association, told Health Day News. "It should be brown rice instead of white rice, whole-wheat bread rather than white bread."

“Aaaarrrttt! Art is obviously one of the Three R’s”

–artist Peter William Brown

Stebbins School was host to many visitors this year, the most welcome of which were the visiting artists Barb Short and Deland Anderson. Both artists were part of the New Visions grant, from the Alaska State Council on the Arts, which is designed to increase arts education across the district. The three year project will focus on professional development for staff, curriculum writing, leadership training and bringing Alaskan Teaching Artists to work with students.

Barb Short instructed the Stebbins young artists on elements of the color wheel and media through lessons designed by Project ARTiculate. Students revealed their artistic prowess through zen doodling, water color resist projects, and color wheel stories.  Deland Anderson explained elements of aboriginal art from New Zealand, and showed students how to work with an adaptation  of this dot art.  Art projects revealed the students’ interpretation of their own landscapes of Steven’s Hill and the tundra alive with berries. Mr. Anderson even entertained the classes with performances on a digeridoo.

Greg Johnson, District Director of Curriculum and Instruction, states that,
“ Research and common sense have shown that the arts can inspire and motivate students like no other subject, and teach them critical and creative thinking, problem solving, and expressive communication skills.”

Reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic—and now ARRRRRT!. Thank you, Bering Strait School District, for giving us that all important fourth “r”!

Mark Wahlberg is developing a gender-swapping, all-female version of his hit HBO series Entourage, TV industry tattles tell The Hollywood Reporter.

Entourage follows four friends from Queens, New York and their transition to Hollywood when one of them, played by Adrien Grenier, hits it big as a movie star. The series has become such a smash that Wahlberg, who executive produces the show, is now developing a spinoff featuring a group of four female friends living in the City of Angels.

Entourage — which features Jeremy Piven, Jerry Ferrera, and Kevin Dillon — kicks off its seventh season on HBO next month.

Today, Ohio State received it’s eleventh verbal commitment for the 2011 class, welcoming Centerville Lineman Michael Bennett.

Mr. Bennett is a 6′ 3″ offensive and defensive lineman, although many project him to be a defensive force for Ohio State.

A target with national attention, he held offers from Nebraska, Michigan (although, who doesn’t?), Alabama, Florida, Notre Dame, and West Virginia, among others. Ohio State’s main competition was with Northwestern, as his desire was to be at a school with an excellent medical program.

He boasts impressive quickness off the ball, as well as a “seek and destroy” mentality. Mr. Bennett was all GWOC as a junior, and joins a litany of Elks who have gone on to play in the Scarlet and Gray.

For the detractors who point to Ohio State’s history of unsuccessful recruiting in the trenches, the 2011 class should answer questions: of the eleven current verbals, eight are linemen and one is a tight end.  Great start to a great class.

Here’s the Scouting Ohio video-

Welcome to the family, Mr. Bennett!

Tonight’s must-read comes from Ambrose-Evans Pritchard at The Telegraph who offers some clear views on why the EU’s big shock & awe rescue plan is not having its desired result — why it hasn’t fully instilled confidence.

Part of it is this whole insistent on the part of leaders that the goal was to go after a “wolfpack” of speculators. That screams willful ignorance of the real, structural problems at hand (even if it is just rhetorical).

Then there are continuing concerns about the bailout mechanism.

Beyond that, the Europe is losing the Germans.

This is interesting:

Chancellor Angela Merkel has put the best face on a deal that has so damaged her leadership. “If the euro fails, then Europe fails and the idea of European unity fails,” she said. Too late, I think. The German nation is moving on. I was struck by a piece in the Frankfurter Allgemeine proposing a new “hard currency” made up of Germany, Austria, Benelux, Finland, the Czech Republic, and Poland, but without France. The piece entitled The Alternative says deflation policies may push Greece to the brink of “civil war” and concludes that Europe would better off if it abandoned the attempt to hold together two incompatible halves. “It can be done,” the piece says.

That (at least some) Germans see France as part of the other half is telling. (And if anyone can point to a version of the FAZ article (which is behind a paywall), we’d be appreciative.

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The U.S. EPA is working on new rules for the disposal of coal fly ash, which is the stuff left over when coal is burned at power plants.  And not a moment too soon!  For the past few weeks attention has been focused on British Petroleum’s devastating oil spill, but it wasn’t too long ago that a manmade lake holding 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash slurry gave way in Tennessee and released a flood of coal ash that smashed through 300 acres of rural neighborhoods and into the Emory River.

Cleanup for the Tennessee disaster alone is estimated to total about $1.2 billion over the next few years and with about 900 other coal ash landfills and liquid impoundments peppered across the U.S., that’s a lot of expensive accidents waiting to happen.  The race is on for EPA to establish some kind of order in what has been a regulatory free-for-all.

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LEECHBURG, PA – Tim Burns, the Republican candidate for U.S. Representative in Pennsylvania’s 12th district, told the lunch crowd at Kings Restaurant Sunday afternoon that he never intended to get into politics and his candidacy is a referendum on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Obama administration.

“I think we need people from outside the government, people with common sense business principles that can go to Washington and make decisions in the best interest of the country and the district. Not in the best interest of advancing their career,” Burns said in a interview with Fox News.

Burns accuses his Democratic opponent Mark Critz of pandering to the administration, saying “Nancy Pelosi is holding fundraisers for him, the Vice President Joe Biden was here and Bill Clinton is coming to the district so this is extremely important because people know that a vote for Mark Critz is a vote for the Pelosi-Obama agenda.” Burns also received his share of star power support when Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts campaigned for him on Friday.

“We made over 50,000 calls yesterday,” Burns told a group of local supporters, explaining that his support was coming from beyond the district, gathering significant national attention.

Burns only recently got into politics and was embraced by the Tea Party movement. He considers himself a quintessential conservative but relates to the Tea Party message, “the common theme I see running through the Tea Party are people who love this country and want to preserve this country for future generations and by that definition I certainly am.”

Burns was accompanied Sunday by his two sons, Brock, age 14, and Trent, age 12, who shook hands with voters along with their father. On Tuesday Burns hopes to win the late Representative John Murtha’s House seat, which has been in the hands of the Democrats for more than thirty years.

Ghost — the hit film which starred Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore as young lovers separated by a deadly robbery gone wrong — set for a Japanese remake more than 20 years after it first impressed American moviegoers.

The film, which won two Academy Awards including a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Whoopi Goldberg, is heading back to the big screen with an all-Japanese cast. According to TokyoGraph News, Paramount Pictures and Japanese film studio Shochiku will join forces to produce and distribute the Ghost remake — under the direction of lensman Taro Otani — for theatrical release overseas.

The project will begin filming in June and is slated for release next fall.

Com uma volta de 00s40.9434 pelas 2,5 milhas do circuito de Indianápolis, Ana Beatriz Figueiredo (Ipiranga /Lubrizol /Monange /Bardahl) encerrou o segundo treino de orientação de estreantes da corrida 500 Milhas de Indianápolis, a Indy 500, realizado neste domingo, com o quarto tempo. “Passamos pelo rookie orientation test e agora vamos começar a trabalhar para melhorar o carro”, diz a pilota. A chuva que encurtou o primeiro treino de estreantes, no sábado, também modificou a programação de domingo. Os novatos entraram na pista às 12 horas de Brasília, ao invés de às 15, como previsto, mas acabaram ficando uma hora a menos do que as quatro programadas.

A organização resolveu adiantar o treino dos veteranos, iniciado às 15 horas de Brasília. Como Ana Beatriz já havia sido aprovada no teste de orientação dos rookies, ela também entrou na pista com eles, e foi a estreante mais rápida da sessão.
Logo no início, fez nove voltas, a melhor em 00s40.5945. Bia, como é conhecida no Brasil, voltaria à pista no final do treino, mas, como mais uma vez voltou a chover, o trabalho foi encerrado cerca de meia hora antes do previsto, e a brasileira terminou na 22ª posição entre os 34 dos 37 pilotos inscritos que participaram do ensaio.

“Na realidade, os tempos deste fim de semana de nada valem. Foram apenas resultados dos meus primeiros contatos com o circuito de Indianápolis pilotando um Fórmula Indy. Já começamos a desenvolver algumas modificações e agora teremos todas as tardes de segunda a sexta-feira próximas trabalhando para tirar o máximo do carro”, comenta a pilota da Dreyer & Reinbold Racing.

O mais rápido do treino dos estreantes foi Jay Howard (0s40.3970) e o mais rápido do treino dos veteranos foi Helio Castroneves (0s39.6395).

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The Slow and Easy Way To Vegetarianism

Take it slow and easy.Thats a good motto for learning a new skill or going through a big life transition.When you decide to explore becoming a vegetarian, it is very easy to get scared off by what appears to be a difficult road ahead.But the truth is, there is an easy way and a hard way to become a vegetarian.So in keeping with our motto of the day of “make it easy on yourself”, lets discuss vegetarianism the easy way.

First of all along with learning a new way to eat, you are also giving up something you probably have loved to eat for years.So to reduce the difficulty in going through this transition, don’t try to accomplish the entire transition in one day.

We have a mistaken concept about vegetarians that the conversion is instantaneous as though one day the person was eating all the meat he or she could find and in a flash they became a robe wearing, mantra singing vegetarian.But that is complete myth.Most successful vegetarians found there way into the discipline in stages and gave up meat slowly.

You might take on your vegetarian transition one meal at a time.First give up eggs and bacon for breakfast and switch to grain cereals or pancakes.Don’t try to give up cheese and milk at first.

Select specific items you will eliminate from specific meals and just accomplish that for a week or so.Then once you have conquered that step, add lunch and then much later add dinner.And don’t throw your hands up and give up if you have a moment of weakness and have a hamburger one day. You wont be drummed out of the vegetarian society for one mistake in your program. Just get back with it and keep on keeping on.

Find ways to see some success by being reasonable and sensible about how you approach your meal planning.If one of your goals for switching to a meatless diet is to lose weight, don’t substitute sugars and sweats for the meat.If you find yourself eating without meat but each day you have a big bowl of fruit drowned in sugary additives, you won’t lose the weight and you might mistakenly think your program failed you. Think about what you eat so you don’t sabotage your own diet.

One of the things that scares a lot of people away from trying vegetarianism is the idea of having to learn to eat exotic and expensive new foods such as tofu, and tempeh.So make it easy on yourself and eat the foods you know.

By doing your shopping in your own grocery store and buying more food from the produce section than the meat section, you will be working with foods like carrots, onions, garlic, broccoli, celery and cabbage and that familiarity will make the transition to becoming a vegetarian easier to take.Also by shopping where you are comfortable and eating “normal” foods, you eliminate the sensation that you are joining some bizarre cult.

Now make it fun. Yes it can be fun to be a vegetarian. You can start shopping at farmer’s markets instead at the boring grocery store and select very fresh produce and vegetables for your next cooking experiment. Not only are outdoor markets more fun, you will find them cheaper so instead of seeing your food budget go up because of becoming a vegetarian, it goes down.

Then by working as a family to find fun vegetarian recipes and working together to make them, everybody gets in on the act discovering how delicious vegetarian meals can be. And when you are having fun, you may forget entirely that you dreaded this transition. Before long, you are a vegetarian and it didn’t hurt a bit!

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Is there anything I can do to get my local grocery stores to stock more vegetarian options?

Would it do any good to talk to the manager of large chain grocery stores? I was at the store tonight and I looked for my favorite vegetarian vegetable soup by Campbells, and the store didn’t even carry it. They had that slot replaced with one of their store brand soups. I mean, come on, there were about 100 meat-based soups, and the one they choose not to stock is the only vegetarian option? Grrr. Also, I’ve been trying to find different varieties of dairy-free sorbet, but the only one they carry at the two largest grocery stores here is raspberry. These are big stores, too.
So, my question is, should I talk to the manager or would that be pointless?

Usually if you put in a request for something the grocer (customer service) will order it for you. I have been thinking lately that if we all (veg*ns) made it a point to ask our favorite local grocery stores to stock certain veg*n products they just might catch on that there is a niche for these foods.

I would like to add that a grocery store that I use to go to before I moved has recently added a little section just off from produce (non perishable items like soup, etc…) that is exclusively vegetarian. I was thrilled to see this and I hope to see more and more stores adopt this trend. The store I am talking about is Dillons and they are owned by Kroger.

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Vegetarian Stores is a post from the Vegetarian Vitamins Guide blog where you can find suggestions and advice from vegetarians and vegans on vegetarian diets, supplements, vitamins and overall nutrition.

Mortgage risk and reward – Financial experts say variable-rate mortgages save money, but still half of all homeowners choose the lock-in option. Good article, worth a read.

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For the first time in recent memory, Justin Bieber is no longer a Trending Topic on Twitter.

Justin-related topics have trended nearly every day for weeks thanks to the teen star’s legion of devoted fans — but that could be about to change thanks to a new programming update that will revolutionize the way the site determine’s the day’s hottest topics. According to Mashable.com, the site has changed the algorithm that determines the Trending Topics — often indicated by a special hashtagged word or phrase – being talked about across Twitter.

“We have tweaked our worldwide trending topic algorithm to better capture the most emergent trends being talked about on Twitter right now,” site managers say of the change. But pop’s own banged sensation is calling the popular microblogging networking site out over the update, which he believes was implemented to silence the shouts of his fans.

“I heard you changed your system to stop my fans from making trending topics?? Really?? Where is the love??” Justin Tweeted to @Twitter on Saturday.

For its part, Twitter says the change is just business.

“@justinbieber the TT tweak is nothing personal. It was long planned & better shows what is emerging right now,” @Twitter wrote in response to Bieber’s remarks.

Twitter chiefs then directed the “Baby” crooner to this page explaining the Trending Topics takedown.