Two women claiming to be mistresses of golf Tiger Woods and reality TV bike enthusiast Jesse James are in discussions to host a new reality TV show about celebrities who cheat on their spouses, TMZ reported Monday.
The show — working under the title Celebrity Cheaters — aims to “catch celebrity cheaters with their pants down” and will be produced by Bobby Goldstein, the man behind the original reality show Cheaters, where jilted lovers spy on their partners to uncover proof of infidelity.
[JURIST] Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday signed into law the 18th Amendment bill, limiting presidential powers expanded under former military leader Pervez Musharraf. Under the amendment, which effectively reduces the role of the president to a figurehead, the vast majority of the president’s powers will be transferred to the office of the prime minister. The president will no longer have the power to appoint heads of the armed forces, dissolve the parliament or dismiss the prime minister. In addition, the president may only enact emergency rule after parliamentary approval. Both the National Assembly and the Senate unanimously passed the amendment bill earlier this month.
The introduction of the bill comes amid controversy over reopening corruption investigations against Zardari. Earlier this month, Pakistan’s attorney general Anwar Mansoor announced his resignation over controversy surrounding a Supreme Court order to investigate corruption allegations against Zardari. Last month, Swiss authorities denied a request from Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau, refusing to reopen a corruption investigation against Zardari. Aides to Zardari believe that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution, even after the Supreme Court overturned an amnesty law implemented by Musharraf. The amnesty was signed by Musharraf as part of a power-sharing accord allowing former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto to return to the country despite corruption charges she had faced.
Demand Media, the company some have criticized as an automated “content factory” because it uses algorithms to produce content that might appeal to advertisers, is widely rumored to be heading for an initial public stock offering that could value the 4-year-old startup at more than $1 billion. Has all that talk gone to CEO Richard Rosenblatt’s head? Some of his recent tweets — as well as some news about a couple of high-profile additions to the Demand board of directors — suggest that he might be going a little Hollywood. One of the new faces in the boardroom, for example, is Peter Guber, the former head of Polygram and former chairman of Sony Pictures, who gave us blockbusters such as “Batman” and “Flashdance.”
So what does a former movie studio chief bring to a venture like Demand Media? The company does video production through its Demand Studios unit, but its focus is primarily on short pieces that can either get quick hits on YouTube or instructional videos that fit with its content at sites such as eHow.com — how to replace a toilet, and so on. Not exactly Hollywood-style entertainment (Demand also has a written-content arm that produces hundreds of stories a day, and owns a media-publishing tool called Pluck). In a press release issued by Demand announcing his appointment, Guber says:
As someone who’s always understood the power of the narrative for attracting audiences, I believe Demand Media has discovered a new and largely untapped story telling platform on the web. As part of its Board, I look forward to helping unlock this value and drive innovation online, using the insight and experience I bring from the entertainment industry.
But as paidContent noticed, the connection with Guber goes a little further than just a seat on the board: Rosenblatt also mentions on Twitter that he and Guber had breakfast on Sunday, followed by a tennis game with the Hollywood mogul, as well as someone named Semel — likely former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, also a Hollywood studio veteran.
Rosenblatt also mentions in recent tweets that he had dinner with film producer Brian Grazer and comedy legend Rob Reiner at Nobu the night before (Nobu is a famous Hollywood hangout), and promises to “get Brian on Twitter tomorrow.” The Demand CEO also apparently spent at least part of the evening debating the value of the iPad with former supermodel Cindy Crawford (he adds later that “cindy did not like the iPAD and i did; she thought just a big iphone with no service; i think convenient and travelable”). The socializing may not be all that surprising, considering Demand is based in Los Angeles, but it still seems like an odd pairing, that of the company that’s commoditizing media from all angles and the old media veterans whose margins are rapidly dwindling as a result of that same process.
Previous articles about Demand have mentioned the CEO’s penchant for hanging out with stars and starlets such as former bikini model and “Dancing with the Stars” emcee Brooke Burke, as well as Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. Both also have connections to Demand — Burke’s site Modern Mom uses content produced by Demand Studios, and her partner in the company is Lisa Rosenblatt (Richard’s wife), while Armstrong is an investor in Demand, which provides content for his Livestrong.com site.
Is any of this going to help Demand Media ring up a billion-dollar IPO, or create a sustainable business from its automated content-generation process? That’s hard to say. But it sure sounds like a fun life for the company’s CEO. And just to show that he’s not all play and no work, Rosenblatt notes on Twitter that “silly people keep saying demand media is ‘reviled;’ NO ONE who knows us has ever said that so its odd that it keeps showing up,” and adds later that “100mm people/month love our properties, 7,000 freelancers/month love making a living; oh yeah, and our 450 branded partners love our tools.”
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It’s D-Day.
Or at least that’s what CCM, the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, says it is for municipal mandate relief.
Mayors, first selectmen, and some legislators have been banging the drum against unfunded mandates for years. Some in the legislature have not heard the sound. As such, CCM returns to the state Capitol each year to argue for relief.
Substitute House bill 5255 would “allow towns to set their own fee levels for certain services to cover administrative costs” and “relieve towns from the requirement to remove and store the possessions of evicted residential tenants,” according to CCM.
It would also “change property tax laws governing telecommunication towers and eliminate the requirement that towns post minutes on their websites – the minutes would still be available for public inspection.”
“It’s time for the state to deliver on mandates relief, and the finance committee can jump start this effort by reporting out” the bill, said James Finley, CCM’s CEO and chief lobbyist at the Capitol.
I’ve confessed before that my enthusiasm for gardening usually dies on the vine long before the first cucumbers of summer are ready to harvest. I’m always looking for easy ways to satisfy my green thumb and, of course, ways to get the most broccolis for my gardening buck. That’s why I’m a big fan of growing perennial vegetables in my garden — plant them once, and enjoy the fruits (well, actually, vegetables) of your labors for years to come.
I’ll always remember when the UPS man delivered a mysterious, rather dirty looking box to our new home the first spring we lived here. The box was carefully packed with damp sphagnum moss, the packaging material of choice for shipping the sacred Yeager Roots, a housewarming gift from my parent.
Other families pass down jewelry or antique furniture, but for the Yeager clan, the holy triumvirates of family heirlooms are root starts of asparagus, horseradish, and rhubarb. They are the direct descendants of the original Yeager Roots, dating back at least to my great-grandparents, and — family legend has it — much, much further. After all, my great-great-grandmother was a Lungfish (that was her maiden name, not her species, mind you). But I digress.
Although — unlike fruits — there aren’t too many vegetables that are perennials, many of the ones that do exist grow in a wide range of climates and, once established, are low-maintenance enough even for a lazy gardener like me. They’re also among the healthiest veggies for you, and they’re generally inexpensive to purchase, if you don’t come from a family with its own royal roots line. Here are my personal eight great perennial vegetables:
* Asparagus: Grows best in full sun and non-soggy, somewhat sandy soil. I like it cut into one-inch pieces and stir fried raw with sesame oil and a little sliced ginger (top with toasted sesame seeds). Or, brush with olive oil and crushed garlic and grill whole spears on the bar-b.
* Bamboo Shoots: We have a good sized stand of bamboo that was on the property when we moved here, so I guess bamboo will be my contribution to the lineage of Yeager Roots. Not all varieties of bamboo shoots are edible (or tasty), so do your homework first. We boil ours to remove the bitterness, then sauté them in butter and a little sherry or sweet vermouth for flavor. Also, be advised that many varieties of bamboo are highly invasive and can be toxic if eaten in large amounts.
* Bunching Onions: This is a variety of onion that grows in clumps and multiplies on its own, and they are hardy in the ground even in fairly cold climates. The bulbs themselves are fairly small and pinkish in color (at least the ones I grow). I like to pickle them as something a little unusual for the relish tray…or in the martini glass.
* Garlic: As the saying goes, “If your lover doesn’t like garlic, get a new lover.” Garlic is a healthful perennial, although it’s often grown and harvested as an annual. Here’s how to keep it coming back every year. I like to rub a whole head of unpeeled garlic with olive oil, wrap it in aluminum foil, and stick it in the oven or on the grill for an hour or so when I’m cooking something else; squirt the warm, creamy pulp of each clove onto a cracker or piece of bread for a heavenly appetizer.
* Horseradish: As long as you harvest just the side roots, horseradish taproots will continue to produce a new harvest every year. To use as a condiment, clean and peel roots; cut into small chunks, and grind in a blender or food processor with a little water to the desired consistency. Add 1/2 teaspoon of salt for each cup of blended horseradish, and 2 or 3 tablespoons of white vinegar; seal and store in the refrigerator.
* Kale and Collard Greens: Perennial varieties will grow in many climates, and are among the healthiest of all vegetables. I eat greens at least once a week, and find that the secret is to not overcook them. Chop greens into half-inch strips and plunge into a pot of boiling, salted water for 10-15 minutes; remove and dress with butter/olive oil, vinegar/lemon juice and salt or feta cheese. And you thought you didn’t like greens.
* Radicchio: Think you can’t grow any perennial vegetables in your garden? Don’t be radicchio! Seriously, radicchio (aka “Italian chicory”) will come back every year in most climates if you don’t dig it up for blanching, as some chefs do. I like to add young, raw leaves to spice up a tossed salad, or grill older bunches (brushed with olive oil) to remove some of the bitterness.
* Rhubarb: Prefers colder climates, well-drained soil, and part-shade. Strawberry-rhubarb pie is hard to beat, but I also like to make rhubarb sauce instead of apple sauce: Cook two cups of inch-long pieces of cut up rhubarb stems in one-half cup of water until totally broken down, then add sugar and cinnamon to taste.
Jeff Yeager is the author of the book The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Road Map to True Riches and the forthcoming The Cheapskate Next Door. His Website is www.UltimateCheapskate.com. Follow Jeff Yeager on Twitter and Friend Jeff on Facebook
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Tyler Cowen looks at Christina Romer’s take on the current unemployment problem, and comes away unimpressed. It relies too heavily on aggregate demand shocks. Yet job creation has been especially low, and it’s hard to get there from a purely AD shock. He says:
Yet the nominal wages on those jobs-to-be are not constrained by previous contracts or agreements. Tell stories as you may, but it’s hard for me to see that as exclusively an AD problem.
I wonder what is the behavioral postulate for how long all these unemployed workers are all staring jobs in the face yet persistently stubborn about their appropriate nominal wage. I’m all for behavioral economics, but I don’t buy the necessary story here.
I’m not sure you need this to get stickiness. Employers might be reluctant to hire new people at dramatically lower wages than their current employees; such differentials rarely go undiscovered, and they tend to produce big headaches for management.
Still, I broadly concur with Tyler and Arnold Kling: I don’t think you can explain this all by falling aggregate demand. Consider that, as Romer notes, unemployment is about 1.7 percentage points higher than can normally be explained by the change in GDP. That doesn’t sound like so much. But it’s really quite a lot. If you assume that the natural rate of unemployment is probably somewhere around 5.3%, that means the total shift has only been 4.4 percentage points. In other words, almost 40% of our currently elevated unemployment rate comes from something other than the decline in GDP.
Moreover, we know that there are large sectors that require structural readjustment: autos and construction. Those workers are geographically and skill-constrained. To think that the current level of unemployment is all about aggregate demand, you have to think that there are lots of jobs into which those displaced workers could easily transition. But if you own a house in the Detroit era, or have a spouse who still has a job, this is just clearly not the case.
Despite expectations of a big, widespread follow-on selloff it hasn’t really happened.
The Dow has been hugging the flatline all day. The S&P 500 is down a bit more, but it’s the NASDAQ that’s really getting whooped, down about 1%.
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Unlike other forms of motorsport, the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Unlimited Class carries no restrictions and gives teams and racers to create any kind of race car they want to conquer the mountain. That mean it doesn’t matter what type of tires your car wears, how much it weight, or how much horsepower it pushes out from its engine.
Meet Rhys Millen and Hyundai’s new Genesis PM580, a modern Le Mans style car with a target weight of just 1,850 pounds. Power comes from a 4.1L Hyundai Lambda turbocharged V6 making 750-hp. However, the team feels that to have a competitive power-to-weight ratio, they will have to detune the engine to produce 675-hp
“We are building a car for today’s road,” said Millen “The car will have a sleek aerodynamic body, the grip of Toyo Proxy tires and the power and durability of a Hyundai engine. This is the package I need to break the record.”
The Hyundai Genesis PM580 will feature a carbon fiber aerodynamic body with an active rear wing. The wing will create less drag in the straight-aways and more stability in cornering and braking. The car will also carry an active center differential, which will allow a 10 to 100 percent torque split to the front wheels.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Chromoly frame and roll cage
Two Quaife differentials
Weismann semi-automatic AWD transmission
Tilton Racing clutch
3.8-liter Lambda V6 engine stroked to 4.1-liters
HKS T04Z turbocharger
Bar and plate intercooler
Custom RMR stainless exhaust manifolds
Carbon fiber Brembo brakes and pads
17-inch HRE wheels
275/40 Toyo rear tires
RMR customer carbon fiber body with front and rear diffusers
Active wing by Aeromotions
– By: Kap Shah
ThickButtons Keyboard is designed to make it easier to type on a touchscreen by dynamically changing the size of keys based on what key you are likely to press next. Keys that the software thinks you are going to press next become larger, while unlikely keys are shrunk to a smaller size that depends on how many keys in the same row are expanded. The concept is great, but in reality this keyboard can make typing more difficult.
Typing on this keyboard will take a degree of getting used to as is the case with every keyboard. There are three enlargement options for the keys that the software thinks you will press next. When using the smallest size the keys stay closest to their original places. When using the medium or large setting, the keys move around a lot. This can be a problem when typing if the keyboard lags significantly. You may see a key, and start to move your finger over to it just as your other finger finishes pressing another key. Once your finger gets to the new key the software has made its prediction and changed the key sizes. The increase in key sizes causes some keys to get pushed left or right. After this happens your finger may hit the wrong key, because the key has moved completely to a new position.
ThickButtons requires access to your SMS, MMS, contact data, and user defined dictionary. The keyboard looks at this information in order to make more accurate guesses at what words you are probably going to type. Contacts and SMS dictionaries can be turned off in the settings menu. The keyboard settings also offer the standard options of vibrate on key press, sound on key press, auto-capitalization, quick fixes, word suggestions, and auto-complete.
Pros:
Cons:
What’s next:
Since release the developers have received a variety of feedback that has inspired them to develop a feature that will allow fast Android typists to easily type on ThickButtons.
Final verdict:
The typing on this keyboard is responsive. This keyboard will take some getting used to, but it is definitely worth checking out. If you can get used to it then you may drastically reduce your errors when typing.
Developer: BrightSide Software
Version: 0.6.3
Reviewed on: Motorola Droid v2.0.1 and 2.1-update1
Note: This review was submitted by Kevin Shreffler as part of our app review contest.
Não é de hoje que sabemos que a indústria de carros chinesa não parece ter muita criatividade, depois de mostrarem a cópia do Mini Cooper (Lifan Hatch), agora mostram mais uma obra interessante, que se assemelha muito ao Fiat Uno.
O nome do carango é Haval, fabricado pela chinesa Great Wall e possui linhas extremamente parecidas com as do Fiat Uno. A versão mostrada na foto é a “Adventure” do Haval, e o mais curioso de tudo isso é que até mesmo a cor verde é a mesma cor do Novo Uno Way.
O carro terá um motor 1.3 de 83 cavalos, airbag duplo, freios ABS, rodas de liga leve e revestimento interno em couro. Seu lançamento está previsto para o Salão de Pequim, quase na mesma data em que o Uno será lançado no Brasil.
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The World Resources Institute (WRI) has named Kirsty Jenkinson as director of its Markets & Enterprise Program.
Jenkinson joins WRI today after serving as director of Governance & Sustainable Investment at F&C Asset Management in the United Kingdom since 2001. Before then, she was an executive director in Fixed Income Research for part of her six years employed by Goldman Sachs.
WRI President Jonathan Lash said, “Kirsty is at the forefront of analyzing how global financial markets are impacted by environmental, social, and governance issues. She helped her team’s business grow significantly at F&C despite the global financial crisis, and now we’re looking forward to having her lead our team.”
Jenkinson added, “I firmly believe that the private sector can play a pivotal role in addressing the world’s environmental and social challenges while stimulating economic development. I am extremely motivated to help achieve this through the work we can do at WRI.”
WRI’s primary work in its Markets & Enterprise Program includes:
– ENVEST: An initiative to further investors’ understanding of the financial implications of environmental trends.
– New Ventures: A program to develop and help capitalize sustainable small and medium-scale enterprises in key emerging markets.
Apple’s aloofness is world famous. The company doesn’t exactly buddy up to the media like Microsoft does, and it doesn’t keep a running dialogue with the public like Google does. It communicates directly with only a handful of reputable media outlets, and uses a predictable routine of product launches where it can address the public in measured doses.
One of these doses is Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) expected to take place on June 28, 2010. In 2007, this was the event that Apple used to debut the original iPhone and its availability on AT&T. Then in 2008, Apple used WWDC to unveil the iPhone 3G. In 2009, it was used to unveil the 3G S. It is essentially Apple’s annual “iPhone event.”
So with WWDC just a few weeks away, an interesting “leak” of the next version of the iPhone has turned up on the popular gadget blogs Gizmodo and Engadget.
Apparently, this fourth generation iPhone prototype disguised as an iPhone 3G S was found in a San Jose, California bar, and according to blogger John Gruber, Apple wants it back.
Of course, the authenticity of the whole story is in question because these blogs are privileged enough to have advance knowledge of Apple’s products and could have known about this update, but were legally bound to nondisclosure. Frequently, these sites use unauthorized leaks as a loophole to talk about a product they already know about, but cannot break themselves.
The model has a slightly smaller screen than the iPhone 3G S and weighs 3 grams more. The edges are all much more severe than previous iPhone models, making it flatter and thinner overall. Reportedly, it has a front-facing video camera in addition to an improved rear-mounted camera with a flash, a micro SIM port, a noise-canceling mic, redesigned power and mute buttons, a larger battery and smaller internal components.
The storage capacity has not yet leaked, and the phone has not yet been shown running. If this is what the fourth generation iPhone will look like, it is only a moderate change in design for the handset; but one which makes it look more like the HTC HD2 and EVO 4G.
Good news for cricket fans: YouTube is making the semifinal and final matches of this year’s Indian Premier League cricket tournament available live for all viewers, including those in the U.S. The IPL’s final four matches of the season, which begin on Wednesday and culminate with the championship match on April 25, will be streamed live on YouTube’s IPL channel at youtube.com/ipl.
As part of a multiyear agreement with the IPL that YouTube struck in January, the online video site has been streaming the entire season of IPL cricket matches live — for all markets except the U.S. If cricket fans here wanted to view the action live, they had to sign up for subscription-based online sports site Willow.tv and pay $60 to stream the games in real time.
Despite this, YouTube saw massive demand for on-demand viewing of the IPL matches in the U.S., as matches became available here 15 minutes after the live streams concluded. Even without the availability of live streams, the U.S. ranked second in the world (behind India) in terms of number of subscribers to the IPL channel, as well as rating, commenting on and favoriting videos. As a result of the enthusiasm by U.S. viewers, YouTube opened up the last four matches for viewing live.
The inaugural season of the IPL on YouTube — the video-sharing site’s first foray into streaming a sporting event live — appears to be a success. Over the first 55 matches of the IPL season, YouTube says it’s received more than 40 million views across the globe, and that’s before the beginning of the playoff matchups. With the availability of live streams in the U.S., we can expect plenty more viewers tuning in for the final four matchups. A schedule is available on the IPL web site here.
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Telephone networks were originally optimized for voice, not the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth-hogging video. But while networks have adapted and are addressing consumers needs, the revenue-cost structure for video primarily benefits application and content providers, not service providers, which squeeze out most of their revenue through cost-cutting measures. But as demand increases, service providers can’t just keep raising network capacity because overall maintenance and management costs rise with it.
A more dynamic solution is Alcatel-Lucent’s High Leverage Network. No need to give everyone the same level of service if they’re not using it; better to dynamically allocate bandwidth depending on the service (voice, video or data) and when/where it’s needed. The aim is to maintain quality of service for any given application while reducing cost.
With the High Leverage Network, bandwidth scaling doesn’t have to be viewed as a cost center but an opportunity to build out more business. Think of it this way: If customers are demanding more, then they’re spending more time on your system. And if they’re on your system, then they’re in your store. Improve that relationship by capturing real-time information such as presence, location and their ever-changing preferences. In turn use that information to upsell them on higher-value customized offerings.
That’s just a sampling. Remember, service providers aren’t relegated to just selling their pipe. There are so more opportunities. To learn more about those opportunities, read Teleconomics: Doing More with Less: The Key to Sustainable Business Models (PDF) for Telecommunications.
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Seventeen Harvard University faculty members are among the 229 leaders in the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs, and the nonprofit sector who have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The new fellows and foreign honorary members announced today (April 19) join one of the world’s most prestigious honorary societies. A center for independent policy research, the academy celebrates the 230th anniversary of its founding this year.
Included in this year’s class are:
David A. Weitz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
James Michael Moran, Donald H. Menzel Professor of Astrophysics; chair, Department of Astronomy
Evelyn L. Hu, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering
David Haig, George Putnam Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Catherine Elizabeth Snow, Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education
Edward Ludwig Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics; director, Taubman Center for State and Local Government; director, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston
Marc Shell, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature; professor of English
Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin
Neil Levine, Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Harvey Gallagher Cox Jr., Hollis Research Professor of Divinity
Ronald Anthony DePinho, director, Belfer Institute for Applied Cancer Science; professor of medicine
Carol C. Nadelson, professor of psychiatry
Harvey Cantor, Baruj Benacerraf Professor of Pathology
Bruce D. Walker, professor of medicine
Jack Landman Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law
Gerald L. Neuman, J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law
Fred M. Winston, John Emory Andrus Professor of Genetics
A complete list of the 2010 class of new members is available. The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on Oct. 9, at the academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.
The scholars, scientists, jurists, writers, artists, civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders include winners of the Nobel, Pulitzer, and Shaw prizes; MacArthur and Guggenheim fellows; and Grammy, Tony, and Oscar Award winners.
Scientists among the new fellows include astronomer Geoffrey Marcy, who discovered more than half of the currently known extrasolar planets; chemist Joseph Francisco, whose research revolutionized our understanding of chemical processes in the atmosphere; Evelyn Hu, a pioneer in the fabrication of nanoscale electronic and photonic devices; Chung Law, whose research on combustion has implications for new classes of transportation fuels; Microsoft’s chief software architect Ray Ozzie, creator of Lotus Notes; Christopher Field, whose research in global ecology has helped in the assessment and understanding of climate change; Timothy Ley, who led the group that sequenced the first human cancer genome; and physician-scientist Olufunmilayo Olopade, whose revolutionary findings on the genetics of breast cancer were translated into interventions for women around the world.
Social scientists include Nobel laureate economist Myron Scholes; demographer and U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves; archaeologist Kathryn Bard, who has conducted pathbreaking excavations in Egypt; Edward Glaeser, whose empirical study of urban economics has helped explain housing bubbles in U.S. cities; environmental geographer Ruth DeFries, who uses satellite-imaging to help map and understand the environmental effects of agriculture and urbanization; and legal scholar and Lewis Powell biographer John Jeffries Jr.
In the humanities and arts, new members include theologian Harvey Cox Jr.; Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel Howe; Middle East historian Ervand Abrahamian; philosopher Christopher Peacocke; novelist Marilynne Robinson; installation and conceptual artist Dan Graham; Suzanne Farrell, former New York City Ballet principal dancer and founder of her own ballet company at the Kennedy Center; actors John Lithgow and Denzel Washington; director Francis Ford Coppola; violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo; jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins; and baritone Thomas Hampson.
Among those elected to the academy from public affairs are U.S. special envoy to North Korea Stephen Bosworth; the archivist of the United States, David Ferriero; National Endowment for the Humanities chair James Leach; and G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Business leaders in the 2010 class of new members include Roger Ferguson Jr., president and CEO of financial services company TIAA–CREF; Marjorie Scardino, CEO of international media company Pearson PLC; and Samuel Palmisano, chairman and CEO of IBM.
Higher education and foundation leaders in the new class are Joseph Aoun (Northeastern University); Gene Block (University of California, Los Angeles); Scott Cowen (Tulane University) John DeGioia (Georgetown University); Susan Desmond-Hellmann (University of California, San Francisco); Robert Gallucci (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation); John Jenkins (University of Notre Dame); Jim Yong Kim (Dartmouth College); Morton Schapiro (Northwestern University); and Luis Ubiñas (Ford Foundation).
The academy also elected foreign honorary members from Australia, Canada, Finland, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. They include the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams; Israeli high-energy physicist and advocate for Middle East cooperation Haim Harari; Australian Academy of Science president, Kurt Lambeck, whose geophysical research elucidates changes in climate and sea levels; Michel Mayor, director of Switzerland’s Geneva Observatory; Linda Partridge, specialist in the biology of aging; Spain’s former minister of education and science, José María Maravall Herrero, who is credited with democratizing the Spanish educational system; British filmmaker and playwright Mike Leigh; Japanese architect Toyo Ito; Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen; and Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, India’s largest conglomerate.
Established in 1780 by John Adams and other founders of the nation, the academy undertakes studies of complex and emerging problems. Its membership of scholars and practitioners from many disciplines and professions gives it a unique capacity to conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary, long-term policy research. Current projects focus on science and technology; global security; social policy and American institutions; the humanities and culture; and education.
“We are pleased to welcome these distinguished individuals into the Academy,” said Leslie Berlowitz, chief executive officer and William T. Golden Chair. “We look forward to drawing on their knowledge and expertise to provide practical policy solutions to the pressing issues of the day.”
“The men and women we elect today are true pathbreakers who have made unique contributions to their fields, and to the world,” said academy chair Louis W. Cabot. “The academy honors them and their work, and they, in turn, honor us.”
Since its founding by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other scholar-patriots, the academy has elected leading “thinkers and doers” from each generation, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin in the 18th century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 19th, and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the 20th. The current membership includes more than 250 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.
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Last week, we learned that Rhys Millen has been busy preparing a new unlimited class challenger to try to recapture the overall Pikes Peak Hill Climb record that his father held for over a decade. At the time, all we knew was that it would be Hyundai powered, and we assumed that it would bear at least a vague resemblance to a Genesis Coupe.
Instead, these first official renderings suggest that the Rhys Millen Racing Hyundai Genesis PM580 looks more like a Le Mans prototype than some of the cartoonish looking Suzuki or Toyota racersdriven by Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima or Rod Millen – let alone one of the more traditional open-wheel buggies that long dominated the Peak.
The PM580 uses a steel tube frame chassis wrapped in a carbon fiber skin. A turbocharged 4.1-liter Hyundai V6 producing up to 750 horsepower will put power down through an active all-wheel-drive system. The rear wing also has active trimming out on the straights to reduce drag, and it can tip up to generate additional downforce in the corners. Millen’s goal is to set the first ever sub-10 minute time for the 12.42 mile “Run to the Clouds.” Since you’ve got until June 27 until the green flag drops, why not check out the high-res gallery of renderings below and the official press release after the jump?
[Source: Hyundai]
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I’m very excited to announce that in just a few weeks’ time The Primal Blueprint Cookbook will begin shipping! Since the release of The Primal Blueprint last year countless readers have encouraged me to write and publish a cookbook. Not one to disappoint, I teamed up with professional chef Jennifer Meier to put together the definitive Primal recipe book. This perfect companion to The Primal Blueprint includes over 100 all-new (never before seen on MDA), mouth-watering recipes with easy-to-follow instructions and nearly 400 brilliant, full-color, glossy photographs to guide and inspire you to cooking and eating Primally.
To mark this occasion and to thank loyal Mark’s Daily Apple readers I’ve put together a special 72-hour limited-time pre-order offer for you. Continue reading to learn why you should pre-order your copy of The Primal Blueprint Cookbook today!
Pre-order The Primal Blueprint Cookbook in the next 72 hours (offer expires at 10 am PST, Thursday, April 22) and you’ll save 6 bucks off the regular retail price.
Released just a few weeks ago this 24×30 inch PB Poster (click the thumbnail to zoom in) illustrates the core Primal Blueprint fitness, diet and lifestyle behaviors, with sections devoted to the 10 Laws, the Primal Blueprint Fitness Pyramid, Food Pyramid and Carbohydrate Curve.
You can get one for FREE by pre-ordering a copy of The Primal Blueprint Cookbook within the next 72 hours (offer expires at 10 am PST, Thursday, April 22).
Pre-order soon to ensure your first edition, hardcover copy will contain my John Hangrok (I know, a stretch…).
Shipping and handling is a pain, isn’t it? If you pre-order now, you can avoid the shipping costs and get the book for a flat fee. (Disclaimer: Free shipping to US customers only. Reduced shipping and handling (only $5.99) for all international orders.)
With years of Primal recipe blog posts behind us we’ve gained some valuable insight into how to create simple meals that taste great and are good for you. We took this experience to the kitchen and then spent innumerable hours designing, testing and distilling the best that Primal Blueprint meals have to offer. With chapters devoted to each of the following categories we’re sure there is something for everyone: Meat, Offal, Fowl, Seafood, Vegetables, Eggs, Primal Substitutes, Marinades, Sauces and Dressings, Desserts, Beverages. The book includes delicious recipes like Roasted Leg of Lamb with Herbs and Garlic, Salmon Chowder with Coconut Milk, Tomatoes Stuffed with Ground Bison and Eggs, and Baked Chocolate Custard to name just a few.
And to be clear, The Primal Blueprint Cookbook is not the same as the Reader-Created Primal Recipe Book. The PB Cookbook is filled with exclusive, never before seen recipes, while the Reader-Created Cookbook will be comprised of recipes featured on MDA and likely won’t be available for at least 6 months.
You’re ready to lose weight, get fit, and improve your health, but you don’t know where to begin! This book tells you exactly what to eat and how to prepare it in easy-to-follow instructions and with step-by-step photos. No more guesswork needed. Just flip open the book for Primal-certified breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes.
Until now, high-quality, full-color cookbooks written for the growing Primal/paleo communities have been difficult to come by. Where else can you find grain-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, high-fat/low-carb recipes that would make Grok proud? If a cookbook without pasta, bread, rice and beans makes sense to you (and even if it doesn’t!), this book is for you.
Just try the recipes for a month and I’m sure you’ll be hooked. If you don’t notice an appreciable improvement in body composition and health, or don’t find this to be the best Primal/paleo/low-carb cookbook on the market return it and I’ll refund your money. Just one taste of any recipe and I’m absolutely certain you’ll love it.
The Primal Blueprint Cookbook is scheduled to begin shipping in May, and will not be available in stores or online retailers (including Amazon.com) for several months. You can only get it from PrimalNutrition.com. So grab your copy today to avoid the wait, and to get the official early adopter badge. (Disclaimer: The early adopter badge doesn’t really exist. Reference to the early adopter badge was only inserted for the purpose of eliciting a few chuckles. Please don’t email me about not receiving an early adopter badge with your cookbook.)
Even before the release of The Primal Blueprint last year I was receiving requests for a cookbook. Once I announced my intentions to write one, every week people would ask me when it would be available. Well, it’s nearly here. Jennifer and I spent many long nights writing the best book about Primal food we could. Now it’s all yours.
So pre-order today and get a first edition, hardcover, autographed copy of The Primal Blueprint Cookbook at 20% off the cover price with a FREE Primal Blueprint Poster and FREE shipping and handling. Thanks, everyone, and Grok on!
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So, for years now, the USTR has fought as hard as possible to keep ACTA a secret, while pretending otherwise. It’s insisted that ACTA wasn’t secret while at the same time refusing to release details of what’s in the document, claiming that it was a national security issue. Later, when confronted about it, the USTR claimed that others would leave the negotiating table if the text was made public. However, as more and more info leaked about ACTA, it became quite clear that it was really the US that was behind the level of secrecy. Of course, as time went on, more and more of the document leaked, the whole “secrecy” angle got pretty silly.
So it’s almost laughable to see the USTR say on Friday that now is finally the time to release a draft — as if everyone who didn’t already want to see it hadn’t seen it.
Overall, therefore, there was a general sense from this session that negotiations have now advanced to a point where making a draft text available to the public will help the process of reaching a final agreement. For that reason, and based on the specific momentum coming out of this meeting, participants have reached unanimous agreement that the time is right for making available to the public the consolidated text coming out of these discussions, which will reflect the substantial progress made at this round.
Yes. That or the massive public rebuke the USTR has been receiving from almost every quarter on this particular agreement. The full document gets “released” on Wednesday, and we expect it to be… well, pretty much like what was leaked last month.
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WASHINGTON–Oprah Winfrey biographer Kitty Kelley, who lives here, hits Oprah’s town on Monday for a series of interviews and book signings.
Her sked:
–CBS-2 “Monsters and Money” WBBM-TV 6:15am
–“Don Wade & Roma” WLS Radio-890AM 7:00am
–“Mancow Muller Show” 8:00-9:00am
–WGN-TV 9 Midday News 11:30AM
–ABC-7 Noon WLS-TV
[Borders Book Signing 12:30-2:00, 150 North State St]
–Chicago Tonight WTTW-TV 4pm
[Borders Book Signing 7-9pm, 1500 16th Street
