2012-07-31

Fwd: on your own


From: larry.r.trout

'I agree with David Frum that the most toxic part of the speech is Barack Obama talking about the sources of success:

 

I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.

 

Really? The president is always struck by people who take credit for their own successes? Obviously, every successful outcome in life -- and every failed one -- arises from a combination of internal and external factors. But the president's tone when he said this, amused by the very idea of people taking credit for their achievements, was off-putting.

 

Frum mostly talks about why this statement irks rich people, but I believe it resonates badly with people at all income levels. Lots of people -- most, I hope -- are proud of something they've achieved in their lives and feel like that achievement owes much to their own hard work and talents. You don't have to make over $250,000 a year to be annoyed when the president mocks people for taking credit for their achievements.

 

And it's an especially jarring statement because of what it's used to justify -- higher taxes, with the implication being that they are called for because people do not deserve their own pre-tax wealth. People are rightly unnerved by an argument that amounts to "we can tax you because you didn't deserve this anyway." Faced with such an argument, defending your own contribution to your success isn't just a point of pride -- it's an argument you must make to defend the principle that you are entitled to your own private property.'

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-30/why-you-didn-t-build-that-resonates.html

 

FW: Happy Birthday

batteries

 

Google and others are starting to use Soldi Oxide fuels cells to power their data centers

 

‘For decades, experts have agreed that solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) hold the greatest potential of any fuel cell technology. With low cost ceramic materials, and extremely high electrical efficiencies, SOFCs can deliver attractive economics without relying on CHP. But until now, there were significant technical challenges inhibiting the commercialization of this promising new technology. SOFCs operate at extremely high temperature (typically above 800°C). This high temperature gives them extremely high electrical efficiencies, and fuel flexibility, both of which contribute to better economics, but it also creates engineering challenges.

 

Bloom has solved these engineering challenges. With breakthroughs in materials science, and revolutionary new design, Bloom's SOFC technology is a cost effective, all-electric solution.

 

Over a century in the making, fuel cells are finally clean, reliable, and most importantly, affordable.’

 

http://www.bloomenergy.com/fuel-cell/solid-oxide/

 

 

2012-07-30

Fwd: methane microbes/Solar from any semi

From: larry.r.trout

'Microbes that convert electricity into methane gas could become an important source of renewable energy, according to scientists from Stanford and Pennsylvania State universities.

 

Researchers at both campuses are raising colonies of microorganisms, called methanogens, which have the remarkable ability to turn electrical energy into pure methane -- the key ingredient in natural gas. The scientists' goal is to create large microbial factories that will transform clean electricity from solar, wind or nuclear power into renewable methane fuel and other valuable chemical compounds for industry.'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120727144534.htm

 

 

'A technology that would enable low-cost, high efficiency solar cells to be made from virtually any semiconductor material has been developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley. This technology opens the door to the use of plentiful, relatively inexpensive semiconductors, such as the promising metal oxides, sulfides and phosphides, that have been considered unsuitable for solar cells because it is so difficult to taylor their properties by chemical means.

 

"It's time we put bad materials to good use," says physicist Alex Zettl, who led this research along with colleague Feng Wang. "Our technology allows us to sidestep the difficulty in chemically tailoring many earth abundant, non-toxic semiconductors and instead tailor these materials simply by applying an electric field."'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120726180307.htm

 

 

Paul Ryan’s Influence on the G.O.P. : The New Yorker

http://m.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/06/120806fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all

on your own

From: larry.r.trout

'Is Liz Warren so far left that even Barack Obama needs to distance himself from her?

 

Last week saw the president backing away from his anti-free market tirade that, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that."

 

The president now claims that his words were taken out of context. But it is clear from the entirety of the speech that Obama's finger-wagging lecture was deliberately cribbed from Warren's earlier "nobody got rich on his own" rant.

 

Warren's remarks, delivered in 2011, were a deeply ideological defense of redistributive economics.

 

"You built a factory out there? Good for you," Warren said dismissively. "But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate."

 

And so, the Harvard professor concluded, those who own businesses owe it to "the rest of us" to pay up. "Part of the underlying social contract," Warren said, "is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward."

 

Although conservatives attacked Warren's remarks as anti-capitalist, many liberals embraced the feisty law professor's call to redistribute wealth. Including, it seems, the president.

 

It is not surprising that Warren's ideological clarion call resonated with Obama.

 

Her words reinforced the anti-business predisposition of a president who, as a young man, told his mother that he regarded his entry-level corporate job as "working for the enemy."

 

Her words echoed his world-view that government is the engine of economic growth and that the private sector exists for the purpose of maintaining a robust public sector.

 

And her words backed up his call for higher taxes and his decision to spend billions on government projects and so-called shovel-ready jobs.

 

Obama's remarks were not — as Jon Stewart has claimed — "a slight grammatical misstep." On the contrary, they were a well-thought out tip of the hat to Warren and her Ivy League notions that nobody succeeds without government and, therefore, successful people need to "give back" more to the government than they are already giving.

 

The president may have hoped that, combined with his desperate attacks on Bain Capital, his Warren-esque comments would lend intellectual coherence to his policy agenda and generate class resentment toward his wealthier opponent.

 

But Obama, the Harvard Law grad, forgot that the rest of the country isn't Cambridge. And while Massachusetts academics might appreciate this rhetoric, middle-America does not.

 

In fact, Obama may have just awoken a sleeping giant. From coast to coast, contractors, shopkeepers, farmers and restaurant owners — many of them swing voters — now realize that when Obama speaks disparagingly about the "rich," he is talking not just about venture capitalists. He is talking about them.'

 

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/20220730warrens_stock_should_be_falling_leftist_posturing_exceeds_obamas/

 

2012-07-25

Ron Paul's 'Audit the Fed' bill passes the House

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/ron-pauls-audit-fed-bill-passes-house/story?id=16855319#.UBBVdCxYLNR

 

 

2012-07-19

You didn't build that

From: larry.r.trout@

'The video features Jack Gilchrist, owner of Gilchrist Metal Fabricating Company, and shows him getting ready for work at dawn while Obama's words play in the background.

 

"If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. ... I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart," the president says, as the ad shows Gilchrist saying goodbye to his family and heading off to work. "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

 

The ad then cuts to an incredulous Gilchrist, who asks: "My father's hands didn't build this company? My hands didn't build this company? My son's hands aren't building this company? Did somebody else take out the loan on my father's house to finance the equipment? Did somebody else make payroll every week or figure out where it's coming from?

 

"President Obama, you're killing us out here. Through hard work and a little bit of luck, we built this business. Why are you demonizing us for it? We are the solution, not the problem."'

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/19/romney-hammers-didnt-build-that-in-new-web-ad/

 

2012-07-18

Fwd: Senkaku Islands


'The United States is closely monitoring the political and diplomatic struggle over the Pinnacle Islands. Historically, US involvement in the area is extensive. The islands were occupied by the United States from the end of World War II until 1972, when they were "returned" to Japanese control. Both China and Taiwan dismissed this transfer of authority as a violation of Chinese sovereignty.

 

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stopped in Japan on her way to the recent ASEAN meeting in Cambodia. She inquired about Japanese plans to "nationalize" the islands, with apparent concern for Sino-Japanese relations. She then met with the Chinese foreign minister at the sidelines of the ASEAN summit, with Clinton stressing that the US won't "take sides in disputes about territorial or maritime boundaries". [5]

 

This is a pointed change in tone from earlier that week, when a State Department official said that the US would be required to come to Japan's aid in case of attack by a third party on the disputed Islands: "The Senkakus would fall within the scope of Article 5 of the 1960 US-Japan Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security because the Senkaku Islands have been under the administrative control of the government of Japan since they were returned as part of the reversion of Okinawa in 1972," said the unnamed official. [5]

 

Article Five of the 1960 US-Japan Treaty is essentially a mutual-defense clause. It is a cornerstone of US Asia policy, cementing the alliance between the US and Japan. However, its application in case of skirmishes over the Pinnacle Islands could lead to disastrous consequences.

 

The US neither wants to appear as an ineffective ally, nor to risk World War III over a small maritime clash. Clinton's efforts to reach out to the Japanese and Chinese governments, as well as her claims that the US does not favor one territorial claimant over another, are part of a concerted effort to disuse a potential powder keg.'

 

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NG18Ad01.html

 




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2012-07-16

Giuliani: Obama is 'an unsuccessful person'

http://online.wsj.com/article/AP36db4c501e1e4c26bb7536d4206aadbf.html

Fructose metabolism

Metabolism

 

Excess fructose consumption has been hypothesized to be a cause of insulin resistance, obesity,[41] elevated LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, leading to metabolic syndrome.[42] In preliminary research, fructose consumption was correlated with obesity.[43][44] A study in mice showed that a high fructose intake may increase adiposity.[45]

 

One study concluded that fructose "produced significantly higher fasting plasma triacylglycerol values than did the glucose diet in men" and "...if plasma triacylglycerols are a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, then diets high in fructose may be undesirable".[50]

 

Fructose is a reducing sugar, as are all monosaccharides. The spontaneous chemical reaction of simple sugar molecules binding to proteins is known as glycation. Showing potential cause of skin and bone damage in a rat model of diabetes, investigators suggested "that long-term fructose consumption negatively affects the aging process."[51]

 

Liver function

 

While a few other tissues (e.g., sperm cells[59] and some intestinal cells) do use fructose directly, fructose is metabolized primarily in the liver.[60]

 

Compared with consumption of high glucose beverages, drinking high fructose beverages with meals results in lower circulating insulin and leptin levels, and higher ghrelin levels after the meal.[61] Since leptin and insulin decrease appetite and ghrelin increases appetite, some researchers suspect that eating large amounts of fructose increases the likelihood of weight gain.[62]

 

Excessive fructose consumption may contribute to the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.[63]

 

Gout

 

A 2008 study found a substantial risk of incident gout associated with the consumption of fructose or fructose rich foods.[64] Cases of gout have risen in recent years, despite commonly being thought of as a Victorian disease, and it is suspected that the fructose found in soft drinks (e.g., carbonated beverages) and other sweetened drinks is the reason for this.[65][66]

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose#Potential_health_effects

2012-07-14

Roger Ebert on the Higgs Boson

"Every second at the Large Hadron Collider, enough data is generated to fill more than 1,000 one-terabyte hard drives -- more than the information in all the world's libraries. The logistics of filtering and analyzing the data to find the Higgs particle peeking out under a mountain of noise, not to mention running the most complex machine humans have ever built, is itself a triumph of technology and computational wizardry of unprecedented magnitude."

"My childhood question remains unanswered: "Why is there something and not nothing?" No scientist at Geneva, to my knowledge, has asked why there is a Higgs boson and not a Higgs boson? But they now know that there is something and not nothing, and they have seen it and identified it and named it and it is as they thought it would be. That is an enormous discovery to come during our lifetimes...

I don't understand the Higgs boson in the way a theoretical physicist does. What I know is that inside that mountain on the Swiss-French border, they went looking for something and they found it. They will keep on looking for centuries after we are dead. Maybe someday they will find God. Wouldn't that be a gas? Whatever they find, they will find more and more and more. It's not turtles all the way down."***

Roger Ebert   


*** This is a reference to a Stephen Hawking story:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

2012-07-13

In Rory Staunton’s Fight for His Life, Signs That Went Unheeded - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/nyregion/in-rory-stauntons-fight-for-his-life-signs-that-went-unheeded.html?pagewanted=all

Romney, RNC react to Obama's comments on his biggest mistake

http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?pageType=politics&catid=57471459&feed_id=3&videofeed=39

In Germany, Ruling Over Circumcision Sows Anxiety and Confusion

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/world/europe/in-germany-ruling-over-circumcision-sows-anxiety-and-confusion.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Jerusalem Post - Breaking News

http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=277405



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MI6 chief Sir John Sawers: 'We foiled Iranian nuclear weapons bid' - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/9396360/MI6-chief-Sir-John-Sawers-We-foiled-Iranian-nuclear-weapons-bid.html

Europe: When losing money makes sense - Jul. 13, 2012

This can't be good...

http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/13/investing/euro-bond-yields-negative/

Zimmerman claims judge is biased, wants him replaced

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/07/zimmerman-claims-judge-is-biased-wants-him-replaced/

China Slows Despite Aggressive Stimulus - Businessweek

http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-13/china-slows-despite-aggressive-stimulus

Green Mile actor Michael Clarke Duncan hospitalized

http://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/idINBRE86C0UP20120713?irpc=932

2012-07-12

Fwd: Sanctions at the Genius Bar


iPad sales, rooftop farms, Mormon money: 10 commute reads

Yelp reviews: Can you trust them? Some firms game the system

 

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-yelp-reviews-20120704,0,1099294,full.story

 

IDC and Gartner: PC market flattened out in Q2 while Apple, ASUS and Lenovo remain the stars

 

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/12/idc-and-gartner-pc-market-flattened-out-in-q2-2012/

 

Gabriel García Márquez’s writing career ended by dementia

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/07/gabriel-garcia-marquez-career-dementia?newsfeed=true

 

To Find Fields to Farm in New York City, Just Look Up

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/nyregion/in-rooftop-farming-new-york-city-emerges-as-a-leader.html

 

Forget Christmastime, iPad Sales This Spring Could Break Record

 

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/07/forget-christmastime-ipad-sales-this-spring-could-break-record

 

How the Mormons Make Money

 

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-10/how-the-mormons-make-money#p1

 

Obama Sinks to Historic Lows Among Blue-Collar Men

 

http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/07/from-bad-to-worse-with-bluecol.php

Fwd: Taliban


From: larry.r.trout

'One of the Taliban's most senior commanders has admitted the insurgents cannot win the war in Afghanistan and that capturing Kabul is "a very distant prospect", obliging them to seek a settlement with other political forces in the country.

 

In a startlingly frank interview in Thursday's New Statesman, the commander – described as a Taliban veteran, a confidant of the leadership, and a former Guantánamo inmate – also uses the strongest language yet from a senior figure to distance the Afghan rebels from al-Qaida.

 

"At least 70% of the Taliban are angry at al-Qaida. Our people consider al-Qaida to be a plague that was sent down to us by the heavens," the commander says. "To tell the truth, I was relieved at the death of Osama [bin Laden]. Through his policies, he destroyed Afghanistan. If he really believed in jihad he should have gone to Saudi Arabia and done jihad there, rather than wrecking our country…

 

 

As a result, he says that the Taliban has had to shelve its dream of re-establishing the Islamic emirate it set up when it was in power from 1996 to 2001. "Any side involved in a conflict like this has decided to fight for power. If they fall short of achieving national power, they have to settle for functioning as an organized party within the country," he admits."'

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/11/taliban-commander-interview-afghanistan-al-qaida

 

'The fugitive leader of the Taliban, who is one of the most wanted men in the world, could hold power if enough people voted for him, the Afghan president said.

 

His comments were the latest in a series of overtures from Mr Karzai to the insurgent movement which is at war with his government and its Nato backers.

 

He told a news conference: "I repeat my call on all Afghans, those who aren't the puppets of others and have (only) issues with us at home – they're welcome for any talks," the AFP news agency reported.

 

"Mullah Mohammad Omar can come inside Afghanistan anywhere he wants to. He can open political office for himself but he should leave the gun.

 

"He along with his friends can come and create his political party, do politics, become a candidate himself for the elections. If people voted for him, good for him, he can take the leadership in his hand." Mr Karzai routinely refers to the Taliban as his brothers and calls on them to join talks and renounce violence.'

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9395688/Mullah-Omar-could-be-Afghan-president-Hamid-Karzai-says.html

 

 

Fwd: Fair Share

From: larry.r.trout

'"You got the top 2 percent paying almost half of all income taxes. Is that fair?"  Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz…

 

IRS figures show the top 1 percent of earners take home 16.9 percent of the nation's total income, but pay 36.7 percent of the nation's income taxes.

 

The top 5 percent take home a little more than 31 percent of total income but pay almost 59 percent of all income taxes.

 

And the top 10 percent earn just over 43 percent of the total income but  pay more than 70 percent of all income taxes.

 

"How are you going to make it fairer? If they pay 75 percent?," asks Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute. "If they pay 90 percent? If they pay all of it? Will that finally be fair?"

 

As it now stands, 90 percent of all Americans pay only 30 percent of all income taxes…

 

The president does not mention another factor in the fairness equation -- close to half of American workers  pay no federal income taxes at all…

 

And Kyl notes, "people who do not share in the sacrifice of paying taxes have little direct incentive to care whether the government is spending and taxing too much."

 

The administration often points to the ultra wealthy who sometimes pay lower rates because they have a lot of deductions. But the averages for all groups paint a more accurate picture.

 

The top 1 percent, for instance, pay an average tax rate of more than 24 percent. The top 5 percent -- a tax rate of a little more than 20 percent. The top 10 percent -- about 18 percent.

 

For the bottom 50 percent of taxpayers, the average rate is 1.85 percent.'

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/11/obama-camp-focuses-on-answering-what-fair-share-taxes-looks-like/?test=latestnews

 

2012-07-11

Re: God Particle

This should not be called the God particle.  It should be called "The mother of all ..."

Maybe the Higgs Boson is dark matter ...


larry.r.trout wrote:

'They found the "God-Particle."

 

That was the headline in many of America's news media. It turns out that the name actually derives from substituting "God-particle" for "goddamn particle," the original name some scientists had given the elusive particle. But the media adopted the former nomenclature…

 

So, sincere congratulations to the physicists and other scientists who discovered the Higgs boson. We now think we have uncovered the force or the matter that gives us the four percent of the universe that we can observe (96 percent of the universe consists of "dark matter," about which scientists know almost nothing).'

 

 

2012-07-04

Wildfire: Guns Blamed for Fires


This year, officials believe target shooting or other firearms use sparked at least 21 wildfires in Utah and nearly a dozen in Idaho. Shooting is also believed to have caused fires in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico.

 

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/07/03/wildfire-guns-blamed-for-fires/

 

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Utah-set-to-ban-target-shooting-for-fire-season-3675217.php

'Amazing Spider-Man' is off to a solid (if less than amazing) start - latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-spiderman-opening-20120705,0,3547118.story

Bergen: Drones decimating Taliban in Pakistan

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/03/opinion/bergen-drones-taliban-pakistan/index.html

Vanishing dust belt around star baffles scientists - Tech

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/48073142/ns/technology_and_science-space/

Palestinian Leader Approves Arafat Autopsy - WSJ.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304550004577507174128273562.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

How to Replace Obamacare > Publications > National Affairs

Of course, government health-care programs and policies are largely responsible for these rising costs in the first place. To begin, the design of Medicare is terribly flawed: Because the program pays providers of care based on the volume of their services, it creates a massive incentive for inefficiency and overuse. And because Medicare is the biggest payer in most health-care markets in America, that incentive badly distorts the economics of the entire sector. Furthermore, the Medicaid program inflates costs by (among other policies) having states control how the program is run while the federal government pays most of the bills. The result is that neither party has both the incentive and ability to keep costs in check.

The third driver is the tax exclusion for employer-provided insurance: The federal government does not count the amount that employers spend on health insurance for their employees toward workers' taxable income. This tax exclusion inflates costs by effectively rewarding higher-premium plans and by encouraging employer-purchased insurance, thereby preventing a real consumer market in coverage. The people who use the insurance (workers) are not the people who buy it (employers); many Americans thus have no idea how much is spent for the health care they receive. As a result, there is no clear relationship between cost and value, without which there can be no real prices, no real incentives for efficiency and quality, and thus no limitations on the growth of costs.



Ann Coulter: On July 4, remember: We are not French

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/07/04/ann-coulter-on-july-4-remember-we-are-not-french/

The Higgs boson made simple

What good is it?

Particle physicists try to avoid forecasting the applications of an experimental advance before the actual advance is confirmed, but in the past, advances on a par with the discovery of the Higgs boson have had lots of beneficial applications, and some that are more questionable. The rise of nuclear power and nuclear weaponry is a prime example of that double-edged sword.

 

The discovery of antimatter is what made medical PET scanning possible, and antimatter propulsion could eventually play a part in interstellar travel, just like on "Star Trek." Particle accelerators have opened the way to medical treatments such as proton eye therapy — as well as advances in materials science, thanks to neutron scattering.

 

It's conceivable that the discoveries made at the Large Hadron Collider will eventually point to new sources of energy, Michio Kaku, a physicist at City College of New York, told me during a discussion of the LHC's promise and peril. And if the discovery of the Higgs leads to fresh insights into the fabric of the universe, it's conceivable that we could take advantage of the as-yet-unknown weave of that fabric for communication or transportation. Who knows? Maybe this is how "Star Trek" gets its start.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/03/12547980-the-higgs-boson-made-simple

http://m.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/w-boson-higgs/

http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2012/07/higgs-boson-anticipation/

 

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/higgs-leaked-video

 

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/higgs-boson-breaks-physics

2012-07-03

The Higgs boson made simple

What good is it?

Particle physicists try to avoid forecasting the applications of an experimental advance before the actual advance is confirmed, but in the past, advances on a par with the discovery of the Higgs boson have had lots of beneficial applications, and some that are more questionable. The rise of nuclear power and nuclear weaponry is a prime example of that double-edged sword.

 

The discovery of antimatter is what made medical PET scanning possible, and antimatter propulsion could eventually play a part in interstellar travel, just like on "Star Trek." Particle accelerators have opened the way to medical treatments such as proton eye therapy — as well as advances in materials science, thanks to neutron scattering.

 

It's conceivable that the discoveries made at the Large Hadron Collider will eventually point to new sources of energy, Michio Kaku, a physicist at City College of New York, told me during a discussion of the LHC's promise and peril. And if the discovery of the Higgs leads to fresh insights into the fabric of the universe, it's conceivable that we could take advantage of the as-yet-unknown weave of that fabric for communication or transportation. Who knows? Maybe this is how "Star Trek" gets its start.

'The Amazing Spider-Man': What the Critics are Saying

http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/news/amazing-spider-man-critics-reviews-emma-stone-344637

What Finding the Higgs-Boson Means

http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2012/07/higgs-boson-anticipation/

 

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/higgs-leaked-video

 

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/higgs-boson-breaks-physics

Wildfire: Guns Blamed for Fires

This year, officials believe target shooting or other firearms use sparked at least 21 wildfires in Utah and nearly a dozen in Idaho. Shooting is also believed to have caused fires in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico.

 

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/07/03/wildfire-guns-blamed-for-fires/

 

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Utah-set-to-ban-target-shooting-for-fire-season-3675217.php

2012-07-01

Fwd: Calories, Carbs, Fats


From: larry.r.trout




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John Coffey

http://www.entertainmentjourney.com

Apple planning biggest change to iTunes since 2003 - chicagotribune.com

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/technology/chi-apple-planning-biggest-change-to-itunes-since-2003-20120628,0,3114669.story

"Walking Dead" showrunner reveals how it doesn't end - chicagotribune.com

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-walkingdead-qabre85q1s6-20120627,0,4224114.story

Phillips: "The most patriotic film you could possibly see over the Fourth of July weekend is..." -- chicagotribune.com

http://www.chicagotribune.com/videogallery/70731847/Entertainment/Phillips-The-most-patriotic-film-you-could-possibly-see-over-the-Fourth-of-July-weekend-is

China Auctions Oil leases in disputed waters

 

Hope for Quitters? Scientists Devise a New Nicotine Vaccine

http://healthland.time.com/2012/06/28/hope-for-quitters-scientists-devise-a-new-nicotine-vaccine/