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On Friday, ABC's The View invited Phil Lempert, the self-anointed supermarket “guru,” to talk about high fructose corn syrup. Sound like a recipe for disaster? We thought so. We pointed out a few months ago that Lempert, despite his apparent expertise, completely botched a video by telling consumers that a candy wafer was reformulated to remove high fructose corn syrup — even though it never contained the corn sugar in the first place.

So with that in mind, we tuned in. Challenged off the bat by his hosts about whether high fructose corn syrup is more fattening than sugar, Lempert said bluntly, “No.” So far, so good. But then Whoopie broke out this whopper:

Goldberg: But when [high fructose corn syrup] took hold here, did we not see an increase in size in people?

Lempert: No question. If you look at the obesity rates before this, it was about 15 percent. Now 66 percent of us are either overweight or obese.

Phil is trying to play both sides, but this is an old game. The theory that high fructose corn syrup is more fattening than table sugar originates from an editorial (not peer-reviewed research) in the 2004 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. One of its co-authors has since fully recanted, saying “we were wrong in our speculations about high fructose corn syrup about their link to weight.” In fact, high fructose corn syrup is just like table sugar, which comes from sugar beet or sugarcane. The two sugars are nutritionally identical and have the same sweetness.

Lempert also cites a recent Princeton study as one piece among the “lots of research on both sides.” The “guru” ought to get caught up on his reading. Even calorie maven Marion Nestle (among others) has been openly skeptical of that research’s conclusions which, once again, speculate about high fructose corn syrup and weight gain.

On the whole, there’s far more solid research showing that high fructose corn syrup is nutritionally the same as table sugar than there is showing the opposite. (The American Medical Association has taken the all-sugars-are-created-equal position since 2008.)

For show, “guru” Phil gave the View ladies several taste-tests of products that use high fructose corn syrup and those that don’t. But right before one cookie taste-test, he revealed which one was the “bad” cookie. Predictably, Joy Behar reacted in melodramatic disgust.

That’s not exactly a scientific method—in fact, the technical name for it is “farce.” We don’t expect professional chatterboxes to look at the science, but Phil Lempert ought to know better. When food companies remove it and start using table sugar, it’s just a marketing ploy. Let’s hope the guru eventually ditches his dunce cap.

On Friday, ABC's The View invited Phil Lempert, the self-anointed supermarket “guru,” to talk about high fructose corn syrup. Sound like a recipe for disaster? We thought so. We pointed out a few months ago that Lempert, despite his apparent expertise, completely botched a video by telling consumers that a candy wafer was reformulated to remove high fructose corn syrup — even though it never contained corn sugar in the first place.

So with that in mind, we tuned in. Challenged off the bat by his hosts about whether high fructose corn syrup is more fattening than sugar, Lempert said bluntly, “No.” So far, so good. But then Whoopie broke out this whopper:

Goldberg: But when [high fructose corn syrup] took hold here, did we not see an increase in size in people?

Lempert: No question. If you look at the obesity rates before this, it was about 15 percent. Now 66 of us are either overweight or obese.

Phil is trying to play both sides, but this is an old game. The theory that high fructose corn syrup is more fattening than table sugar originates from an editorial (not peer-reviewed research) in the 2004 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. One of its co-authors has since fully recanted, saying “we were wrong in our speculations about high fructose corn syrup about their link to weight.” In fact, high fructose corn syrup is just like table sugar, which comes from sugar beet or sugarcane. The two sugars are nutritionally identical and have the same sweetness.

Lempert also cites a recent Princeton study as one piece among the “lots of research on both sides.” The “guru” ought to get caught up on his reading. Even calorie maven Marion Nestle (among others) has been openly skeptical of that research’s conclusions which, once again, speculate about high fructose corn syrup and weight gain.

On the whole, there’s far more solid research showing that high fructose corn syrup is nutritionally the same as table sugar than there is showing the opposite. (The American Medical Association has taken the all-sugars-are-created-equal position since 2008.)

For show, “guru” Phil gave the View ladies several taste-tests of products that use high fructose corn syrup and those that don’t. But right before one cookie taste-test, he revealed which one was the “bad” cookie. Predictably, Joy Behar reacted in melodramatic disgust.

That’s not exactly a scientific method—in fact, the technical name for it is “farce.” We don’t expect professional chatterboxes to look at the science, but Phil Lempert ought to know better. When food companies remove it and start using table sugar, it’s just a marketing ploy. Let’s hope the guru eventually ditches his dunce cap.

Composites and Extensive Use of Riveted Aluminum to Reduce Mass
Canadian Auto Press

Land Rover produces some luxuriously appointed sport utility vehicles, but with that luxury comes excessive weight. And with that weight comes gas guzzling fuel economy. BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen solve the problem with clean diesels while Porsche is now producing a hybrid version of its Cayenne SUV, but the best solution, along with engine technology, is reducing overall mass and improve aerodynamics.

Next Range Rover to Lose Weight and Achieve 7 L/100km!

When the next generation Range Rover appears in 2012 it is expected to loose weight dramatically and show up with smoother surfaces to make it slipperier through the wind. First off, while expected to debut with the general shape intact in order to preserve the model’s long-running character, it will be reduced in height, while its blunt nose should be refined to allow for better wind flow.

Expect a riveted aluminum body structure to make an entrance too, of similar design to the Jaguar XJ. Additionally, composite body panels will replace metals along with other weight saving techniques to reduce the SUV’s mass by some 450 kilos (992 pounds), a goal that will benefit the Range Rover in fuel economy, emissions plus on- and off-road ability.

Also expected is the new 3.0-litre turbo-diesel V6 offered in the Jaguar XF and XJ in European markets, reducing CO2 emissions from 300+ grams / km to less than 200 g/km, while fuel economy should near the 7.0 L/100km mark. Land Rover would be smart to offer this drivetrain in North America, and look to Jeep’s Grand Cherokee and, prior to that, Liberty diesel sales as an example of how clean diesel technology is received in the US and Canada. Even more enticing would be a diesel hybrid, expected two years after the new Range Rover launches.

Likely new build technologies and powertrains will make their ways into the entire Land Rover lineup, reducing the brand’s overall CAFE rating in the US, and similar rating systems throughout the world, while offering more competitive products in all segments.

Congratulations are in order for the Boy Scouts, who have figured out a cool way to combine the old with the new using a “geocaching badge” for Scouts. More »

Okay, I have tried, but pronouncing this one eludes me…I think it needs a new name. (Simply “Kull” might do.) This eruption, though not the largest volcanic event in recent history, has certainly had a huge impact on air travel. Initially, there were even fears of (I’ve always wanted to use this word in a sentence) pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis from breathing the silica dust. But the last I heard was that not that much was making it to the ground in high enough concentrations to worry about.

The New York Times has some amazing video, relayed from British TV 4, which is absolutely a must-see. It is some of the closest scenes yet, though the video clearly shows some crazies in a helicopter very close to the plume. I want to see night shots, with the lightning!

Will they resume flights soon? I guess it’s too early to say, but what if it keeps spewing for a long time, like it did from 1821-1823? (After which nearby Katla went off.)

Could it disrupt the climate? I am going to guess that this is a possibility, given that Mt. Pinatubo’s eruption in 1991 cooled the planet by a fraction of a degree.

Before reality stardom came knocking, Jersey Shore’s Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino was in quite a financial pickle: The well-chiseled personal trainer filed for unemployment benefits last October.

On the unemployment form – filed in The Sitch’s native of New York State last October 25, just a month before Jersey Shore was unleashed on an unsuspecting world — he claimed that his last job was as a waiter in Florida and noted that he became unemployed the previous July. However times have changed dramatically for Mike in the last few months — he now earns $10,000 per episode for the second season of the smash MTV series that made him one of reality TV’s most recognizable stars.

Just goes to show how drastically things can change for the better in a short period of time.

Mike is busy filming the second season of Jersey Shore in Miami.

Brian Leslie of Wallingford, a state prosecutor who now is one of Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s 10 new nominees for Superior Court judgeships, was passed over for a promotion in 2002 and later began “subverting” the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the chief state’s attorney’s office, according to sworn testimony in a 2005 deposition by Deputy Chief State’s Attorney Paul Murray.
 
Courant columnist Kevin Rennie made that disclosure, and called Leslie’s judicial nomination into question, in his Sunday Courant column – which can be read by clicking here.
 
Leslie, who declined making any comment to Rennie for the column,  is up for a confirmation hearing before the legislature’s judiciary committee Friday at 10 a.m. in the Legislative Office Building in Hartford.
 
Rennie reported on problems Leslie had because of his prosecution of a Stamford ophthalmologist, Richard Weber, who was arrested in 2002 on a charge of making false Medicaid claims. The case, which Weber’s lawyer called a “travesty,” was dismissed in 2003.  Weber sued the state over his prosecution and won a $725,000 payment in 2008 to compensate him, Rennie reported.

The negative comments from Murray about Leslie’s actions were included in a deposition transcript that was among documents from the Weber lawsuit file that Rennie reviewed.
 
Rennie also has his own blog site, called Daily Ructions, on which he posted a separate item Sunday about Leslie. The Daily Ructions item, which can be read by clicking here, includes links to a four-part copy of Leslie’s 2005 deposition in the Weber lawsuit.

Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Aston Martin, UK, Luxury

It’s just six years old, but Britons have lived with it long enough to declare the Aston Martin DB9 their favorite car of the past 25 years. Great Britain’s drivers were asked to choose their favorite car from a list of 30 rides going back to 1985 and fully ten percent of them chose Aston’s middle-child coupe, said to be “synonymous with James Bond” even though he never drove one. Germany rounded out the podium spots with the Volkswagen Golf at number two, and the (Anglo-SaxonGerman) Mini at number three.

You can follow the jump for the press release on the survey. Or you can have a look at the DB9 Volante in the high-res gallery below and see if you can figure out why its hardtop sibling took home the trophy.

[Source: Direct Line]

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I like my waffles to be nice and fluffy, with a crisp exterior and a moist interior. I think that this texture is the best for holding up to melted butter and maple syrup. That said, there are times when a heartier waffle is a good choice, as it is on a chilly spring morning when you want something satisfying to start your day. Or just for the variety and a change of pace.

I don’t usually put nuts in my waffles, so these Toasted Almond Waffles are definitely a chance of pace. They’re nice and nutty, with a good overall flavor and texture to them. There is oatmeal and almond meal – a.k.a. ground almonds – in the waffle batter. Both contribute to the nutty flavor. Having a lot of ground almonds alone could make the waffles a little dense, but this small amount doesn’t make them too heavy. I also chopped up some toasted almonds and mixed them into the batter, for texture and flavor. That little crunch you get when you take a bite is great!

These waffles will cook up just like any other waffle you put through your waffle iron, although you will need a waffle iron to make these. Serve with a sprinkling of toasted almonds and powdered sugar, or drizzle them with syrup and melted butter.

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CBS has a report that the Atlantic ocean may have an equivalent to the pacific ocean gyre – “Plastic Soup” Found in Atlantic Ocean.

Researchers are warning of a new blight on the ocean: a swirl of confetti-like plastic debris stretching over thousands of square miles in a remote expanse of the Atlantic Ocean.

The floating garbage – hard to spot from the surface and spun together by a vortex of currents – was documented by two groups of scientists who trawled the sea between scenic Bermuda and Portugal’s mid-Atlantic Azores islands.

The studies describe a soup of micro-particles similar to the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a phenomenon discovered a decade ago between Hawaii and California that researchers say is likely to exist in other places around the globe.

“We found the great Atlantic garbage patch,” said Anna Cummins, who collected plastic samples on a sailing voyage in February.

The debris is harmful for fish, sea mammals – and at the top of the food chain, potentially humans – even though much of the plastic has broken into such tiny pieces they are nearly invisible.

Since there is no realistic way of cleaning the oceans, advocates say the key is to keep more plastic out by raising awareness and, wherever possible, challenging a throwaway culture that uses non-biodegradable materials for disposable products.

Having seen “sewable computing” at the MIT Media Center firsthand, I can say something like Ping clothing will exist someday soon. If wearable, always-on computing gets you hot and bothered, read on, because Ping clothing promises to do that, constantly. More »

Earth Day Network is organizing a huge event on the Mall in Washington DC on April 25. The goal is to demand tough, effective climate legislation and a swift transition away from 19th century energy sources.

“So what?” you may be asking yourself. There have been a lot of climate rallies over the last 25 years and Congress still hasn’t managed to pass a law. Why should I come to this one?

Let me count the ways….

Our guest blogger today is the legendary Denis Hayes, national coordinator for the first Earth Day in 1970.

Hayes was director of the federal Solar Energy Research Institute (1979 to 1981) and is now president of the Bullitt Foundation and international chair of Earth Day 2010.

You can get all the information you want about the Sunday rally — as well as other actions you can take — by clicking on the Earth Day Network website.

In general, I haven’t been someone who pushes rallies.  But the Tea Partiers have gotten an absurd amount of media attention for relatively tiny rallies.  Back in September, they claimed they had a million attendees at a DC rally that in fact had perhaps 60,000 to 70,000.  Remember that overhyped Tea Party rally in DC last week where they ludicrously asked The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley to speak (see “Irony-gate 2: Modern day Tea Partiers outsource denial to Lord Monckton — a British peer!“)?  The speakers claimed they had 25,000 attendees, but even the Wall Street Journal reported, “we estimate that the number was less than half of that, at best.”

This Sunday, let’s leave those numbers in the dust.  Here’s Hayes on all the reasons that you should come:

Size

Past climate rallies have generally run from a few dozen people to a couple thousand. On Sunday, April 25, energy and climate activists from New England to the Carolinas will gather together to find new friends and allies at largest climate rally ever. We are coming together to move beyond education; to demand change; and to make it clear there will be political consequences of Congress doesn’t act.

Inspiration and Direction.

You will hear from:
Climate scientists like James Hansen, and Stephen Schneider.
EPA chief (and heroine!) Lisa Jackson & CEQ Chair Nancy Sutley
Cultural leaders like James Cameron (Avatar; Titanic) and Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale; The Blind Assassin)
Top business executives from Siemens, Phillips, UL, Future Friendly & SunEdison
Top labor leaders, including the President of the AFL-CIO and Secretary of the SEIU.
Progressive activists, including Jesse Jackson, Lydia Camarillo, & Hilary Shelton
Climate policy gurus like Joe Romm, Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, & Rafael Fantauzzi
Spiritual leaders, including Rev. Theresa Thames, Rev. Richard Cizik, & Rabbi Warren Stone
Athletes like Dhani Jones, Aaron Peirsol, & Billy Demong
Environmentalists like Bobby Kennedy & Phillipe Cousteau

Entertainment

In between the speakers we will hear from some of the most committed artists in the nation, including Sting, John Legend, The Roots, Willie Colon, Passion Pit, Bob Weir, Jimmy Cliff, Joss Stone, Booker T, The Honor Society, Mavis Staples…

Intensity

In 1970, I told huge Earth Day crowds in Washington, DC, Chicago, and New York: “We won’t appeal anymore to the conscience of institutions because institutions have no conscience. If we want them to do what is right, we must make them do what is right. We will use proxy fights, lawsuits, demonstration, research, boycotts, and—above all—ballots…. If we let this become just a fad, it will be our last fad.”

Earth Day organizers created a Dirty Dozen campaign that made “the environment” a voting issue in the 1970 elections. One of the seven Congressmen we defeated that fall was George Fallon, chairman of the House Public Works Committee: the “pork” committee. THAT got their attention. If Chairman Fallon was vulnerable, everyone in politics was vulnerable.

Over the next three years, despite fierce opposition from the most powerful vested interests in the land, Congress passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and a half-dozen other far-reaching laws that have utterly transformed the way America does business.

Now we must do it again.

What Is The Goal?

Humanity must swiftly abandon dirty energy sources and switch to safe, clean, decentralized, renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and geothermal. The world, led by America, must abandon the appallingly inefficient way it uses energy and swiftly embrace the most efficient new housing, transport, and industrial processes that exist. We Americans must slash our politically risky and economically catastrophic dependence on the oil wealth of nations that don’t like us very much.

A necessary—though not sufficient—common denominator is to establish a price on carbon that reflects the costs of climate disruption, blowing the tops off mountains, and acidifying the world’s oceans. We must place a firm cap with no loopholes on the amount of carbon fuels we consume each year and ratchet that cap down at a prescribed rate every year in the future until we hit something very close to zero.

Only a federal law can accomplish this goal.

If this were easy, we would have begun a quarter century ago. The junk science, climate-denying interest groups are rich, powerful, and ruthless. But sooner or later they will lose.

Sooner is better

They will lose for the same reason that IBM and Control Data lost to Microsoft, Apple and Dell. They will lose for the same reason that Ma Bell—the most powerful monopoly in the world—lost to cellular upstarts and Internet-telephony. They lost because their thinking was anchored in the past instead of envisioning the future

The junk science, climate-disruption-denying interest groups will lose because 19th century answers won’t solve 21st century problems.

Come to the Mall

At some point, this climate-disrupting madness has to start to stop. Come to the Mall between the Capitol Building and the White House on Sunday, April 25. Bring your spouse, your parents, your kids, your neighbors, your friends, your co-workers, your congregation, your bowling league. Vote with your bodies on April 25th at the largest climate rally ever.

And put our political leaders on notice that you will vote with your ballot a few months later!

Come to the mall.  Let’s show the Tea Partiers and the media and the general public what a real crowd looks like.  And I promise I won’t give a policy wonk speech!

Led by Berkeley, California, at the end of 2009, college towns are among the fastest cities in the US, according to Akamai’s The State of the Internet report. In order to qualify, Akamai put a filter of a minimum of 50,000 unique IP addresses. Chapel Hill (North Carolina), Stanford (California), Durham (North Carolina) and Ithaca (New York) made up the top five cities in the US.

US might not rank top in most broadband categories, but it was interesting to note that Berkeley, Chapel Hill and Stanford are the top three fastest cities in the world, followed by Masan (South Korea) and Oxford (Great Britain.) San Francisco and other Bay Area cities are no where to be found on the top 100 cities list, and neither is New York. US towns/cities that play host to colleges and universities are well represented in the global top 100 cities list — once again showing the importance of educational institutions and networks to the overall evolution of the Internet.

When Akamai source data based on the number of unique IP addresses seen by Akamai, New York City was the fastest city with average speed of 5.139 Mbps, followed by San Diego, Oakland, Las Vegas and Baltimore. San Francisco didn’t make the top ten. Delaware is the fastest state in the Union — 7.6 Mbps, a jump of 5.2 percent from the third quarter. The increase in the number of mobile connections also brought down the average Internet connection speeds. Overall, 31 states saw average connection speeds increase in the fourth quarter – up from 25 the prior quarter. Notable gains included South Dakota’s 18 percent jump to 4.5 Mbps.

The FiOS Effect.

It is interesting to see how much of a positive impact Verizon’s FiOS has had on the broadband situation. A break down of top ten states shows that whenever available, more and more people are opting for higher broadband speeds. The presence of fiber-based FiOS has pushed rival cable companies to upgrade their networks and offer higher tier services. You can see that reflected in the speed breakdown as shown by this chart.

Back to work!

First, let’s note that the S&P is down about 4 points in early futures trading. Of course there’s still nearly 15 hours before the market officially opens, so… a lot could happen before then.

The pound is really getting slammed, and it’s speculated that it’s the result of some combination of election polls and the investigation of Goldman Sachs (GS).

Meanwhile, the news is going to be dominated by two things: The volcano (still crippling European air travel) and Goldman Sachs.

Also note, Goldman earnings come Tuesday. That should be interesting.

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It’s a fairly boring Sunday evening and we thought we’d make it a little exciting by showing you some new pictures of the 2011 Audi RS5. You can thank us in the comments section below. Enjoy.

Click here for pricing on the 2010 Audi A5.

Hit the jump for the updated high-res image gallery.

Refresher: Power for the 2011 Audi RS5 comes from a 4.2L naturally aspirated V8 making 450-hp and a maximum torque of 317 lb-ft. Mated to a standard 7-speed S tronic, the 2011 RS5 goes from 0-62 mph in 4.6 seconds with a top speed of 155 mph (electronically governed).

2011 Audi RS5:

– By: Omar Rana

Internet as we know it is not only getting bigger and faster, but it is also becoming more mobile with more and more people accessing Internet-based services from their smartphones. These are some of the key findings of Akamai’s The State of the Internet report for the fourth quarter of 2009. The report uses data collected from Akamai’s global content delivery network to draw conclusions that are good representation of the Internet.

A Bigger Internet

Upon looking through the report, I saw that during the last three months of 2009, nearly 4.7 percent more unique IP addresses were connecting to Akamai’s network. At the end of 2009, there were about 465 million IP addresses from 234 countries vs 401 million at the end 2008 and 312 million at the end of 2007. US and China account for nearly 40 percent of the total 465 million unique IP addresses. What that tells us — more people around the world are using the Internet.

Planet Mobile

The rapid growth in the unique IP addresses is going to decline mostly because of the law of large numbers. In addition, many service providers including mobile carriers are using network address translation (NAT) and proxy/gateway technology to cope with the exhaustion of the IPv4 addresses. I bet as we start to see more and more “connected” devices, there will be a burst in the number of unique IP address. Ericsson recently forecasted 50 billion connected devices by 2020.

Akamai studied 109 mobile providers and found that over 40 had average measured connection speeds of over 1 Mbps in the fourth quarter, while 11 had broadband-level connectivity — which Akamai defines at speeds of 2 Mbps or greater. Austria currently is home to the fastest mobile broadband provider — 3.2 Mbps while Russian Federation is fractionally lower followed by Italy and Poland.

Interestingly in the US, it seems Clearwire (Sprint) is doing a great job of holding the mantle of a wireless broadband leader. According to Akamai, “data for a leading WIMAX network provider in the United States – at an average measured connection speed of approximately 1.8 Mbps, they place within the top 20 mobile providers globally. This provider showed a quarterly speed gain of 11.5%, and a yearly gain of 5%.”

Faster Faster Broadband

Ironically the growing popularity of mobile phones is bringing down the global average connection speeds, despite substantial network and speed upgrades in many countries. A good case in point is South Korea where a launch of the Apple’s iPhone in November 2009 was so successful that it brought down the average connectivity speed by 24 percent. Now remember this is South Korea — home to some of the fastest broadband connections anywhere in the planet.

“As the average observed connection speed for this mobile provider was a fraction of that observed from wireline connections in South Korea, we believe that this launch was likely responsible for the significant drop in South Korea’s average observed connection speed in the fourth quarter,” Akamai report notes.

That said, the Internet got a lot faster. Even though the total broadband connections to Akamai’s network grew only 1.6 percent, now nearly one-fifth of the connections to Akamai’s network had speeds of 5 Mbps or more, up 6 percent from the Q3 3009. In the US, nearly 25 percent of connections now are 5 Mbps. For further break down check out the chart which breaks down the top markets and speed shares.

I think it is most interesting to see the share in the ultra-broadband: 25 Mbps or more. The rollout of FTTx/DOCSIS 3.0 technology-based networks is only going to increase and that will have a long term implication on all types of web services and service providers. Tiny countries like Switzerland, Monaco, Slovakia and Croatia are seeing massive broadband adoption.

President Obama’s principal military advisor said Sunday that all options are the table for dealing with the Iran nuclear threat and if the President calls for military action, the U.S. is prepared.

At a forum at Columbia University in New York, Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff stressed, however, that “use of the military should be the last option” should diplomatic engagement and sanctions fail, because any attack against Iran would entail serious “known and unknown consequences.”

Responding to press reports that Defense Secretary Robert Gates has warned in a memo to top White House officials that the U.S. lacks an effective policy for dealing with Iran, Admiral Mullen said, “We at the Pentagon, we plan for contingencies all the time and certainly there are [military] options which exist.” He said he has worried about a nuclear armed Iran for a long time because of President Ahmadinejad’s unbridled threats against Israel and “worry that other countries in the region will then seek to, actually, I know they will seek nuclear weapons, as well.”

When asked whether giving more time to diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis put the U.S. military at a disadvantage in maximizing any potential strike against Iran, Admiral Mullen said, “it is being taken into consideration in the decision calculus, if you will, to strike.” He said that clearly there is “not much decision space to work in,” because Iran “having a weapon and striking [against Iran] generate consequences that are unpredictable.”

Howard Lovy wrote:

TechTown, a Detroit business incubator, has received an $800,000 grant from The Kresge Foundation to renovate the former Dalgleish Cadillac dealership on Cass Avenue into TechTwo, which will house more incubator space. The grant gives up to $650,000 for the renovation. The Kresge Foundation, which supports nonprofits in Metro Detroit, gave $1.5 million to TechTown in 2007 to support the now-full TechTown One building near the campus of Wayne State University.

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