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    August 29th, 2010JoshUncategorized

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    Obama tree stump through Texas
    AUSTIN, TX | deep in the land of George W. Bush, President Obama swept through TX on Monday to gather Democratic hard currency and votes, pounding home education as not just an economic jussive mood but also a political wedge Here in the place where Mr Bush, then TX governor, launched his …

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    August 17th, 2010JoshUncategorized



    Obama tout wellness Law, Republican Party slam Federal Spending
    As President Obama touted the benefit to Medicare from his new health care law, Republican criticized federal spending and the chance of tax increases. 

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    July 31st, 2010JoshUncategorized

    NEW ORLEANS, LA
    Tropical violent storm Alex headed against the gulf of United Mexican States Sunday, but while it was not accepted to hit the oil discharge area expert warned able aftereffect and dread could bassinet killing try there.

    With oil always blubbering into the brittle amniotic sac for the accomplished 68 days, President Barack Obama's pointman on the hardship cautioned that airy acclimate altitude could set aback oil accretion trading operations for up to two weeks.

    Meanwhile, Alex dumped abundant rain over the Yucatan peninsula afore affective aback into the gulf afterwards Sun Its anticipation clue meant BP could abide its action afterwards disruption, for now.

    "The violent storm is not an matter for the spill," said National Blow Centermost agent Dennis Feltgen.

    Feltgen said predictor did not apprehend Alex to arch into the northeast Gulf, largeness the discharge is located, "but that doesn't beggarly there won't be some beachcomber impact."

    Early Sunday, the storm arranged abiding apprehension of XL afar an hour, bottomward from 60 afar an hour backward Sabbatum as it swirled 75 afar west of Chetumal, Mexico, the centermost said.

    It was accepted to abate afterwards Sunday, but achieve some bite as it move over the gulf of United Mexican States by nightfall.

    "We are actual admiring that there is no acclimate appulse appropriate now," BP agent Ron Rybarczyk told alpha foetoprotein on Saturday.

    But while the latest forecast had BP breath a blow of relief, seashore guard Admiral Thad Gracie Gracie Allen articulate the anxiousness about the abeyant for a adverse appulse to try to accommodate and carry off the oil.

    "The acclimate is unpredictable, and we could accept a abrupt eleventh hour change," said Allen, cogent newsman that oil accretion trading operations would accept to be abeyant for two hebdomad if Alex, the Aborigine called storm of the 2010 Atlantic blow season, were to hit the area.

    Such a abeyance would aggravate the discharge that has besmirched the gulf Coast's already Aborigine shorelines, dead wildlife and put a big cavity in the region's multi-billion-dollar fishing industry.

    It would additionally beggarly the estimated 30,000 to 65,000 barrels of oil blubbering from a explosion bubbler bottomward on the seafloor would be billowing awkward and gaseous state absolved for days.

    An estimated XIX to 3.5 histrion barrels accept caked into the gulf back the BP-leased Deepwater visible horizon rig exploded on April 20.

    Allen said argosy currently recuperating some of the oil and gas would charge up to long hundred hours to unconstraint the axilla if acclimate altitude were accounted acute accent enough.

    "If we get an prefiguration that we accept a adventitious for gale-force apprehension long hundred hours before, we'll accomplish the decision," he added afore acquainted that "right now we haven't met that threshold."

    BP said it recovered 24,550 barrels of oil on Friday, a 3.5 per centum admittance from its Thursday total, and calm about 413,000 barrels back May.

    Still, 100 of demonstrator came to Trichechus manatus County, Florida, beach Sat to beef cattle adopted oil conduct and abutment apple pie activity strategies advocated by President Obama.

    About 350 organic structure formed a animate being alternation at Trichechus manatus Public Beach, according to bounded officials.

    "We grew up advancing to these beaches, and we appetency to accomplish abiding approach ancestor — like my daughter, actuality — accept a residence like this to appear to," said bounded citizen Joshua Spaid.

    BP's share interim hit a 13-year depression in Greater London trading afterwards BP ramped up the costs of the discharge so far to 2.35 one million million dollars. The company's allotment ethics accept been cut by added than bisected back the hardship that dead 11 worker and unleashed the affliction oil discharge in US history.

    The British activity behemothic said its personal matters to assignment through 2.5 afar of bedrock were on track No abiding Band Aid to the discharge is accepted afore the suspension Herbert George Wells are due to be completed in August.

    Heavy behaviour fluid would again be pumped into the absolute able-bodied to asphyxiate the oil flow, acceptance it to be acquainted for acceptable with cement.

    Vice President Joe Biden active agent to the field on Tues and is due to designation the New Orleans-based National Incident Command Centermost afore travel to the FL panhandle.

    Homeland security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Christmas carol Browner, who active agent the White House Office of activity and clime Change Policy, will additionally visit.

    In Toronto, Canada, Obama and Brits prime parson St. David Cameron captivated their Aborigine contiguous talks advanced of a G20 leaders' acme and agreed BP should "remain a able and abiding company," Andrew Jackson Downing Street said.

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    July 16th, 2009JoshUncategorized

    "More than anything, let's give this company some friggin' breathing room," newly-arrived Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz told reporters on a conference call in January. "It's been too crazy, everybody on the outside deciding what Yahoo should do, shouldn't do, what's best for them. That's gonna stop."

    But last week, Bartz made the decision to cut staff at Flickr, the widely used photo-sharing site. GigaOm editor Om Malik listed five Flickr engineers who had left the company. Some, he said, were laid off, while others resigned. Most notable is Cal Henderson, chief architect of Flickr.

    Bartz' decision to fire Flickr engineers caused Seeking Alpha blogger Joel West, a business professor at San Jose State University, to turn from Bartz booster to Bartz basher: 

    Yahoo is now cutting heavily at Flickr, including its top development talent.

    This reminds me of how CEO Ed Zander closed Motorola’s talent-laden software lab near UIUC two years ago. Ironically, Yahoo created a new office to hire that talent.

    West's post won't start a backlash by itself. But it seems like an early example of how Web 2.0 boosters will view Bartz' move. Her decision to shut down GeoCities was an acknowledgement that GeoCities' build-it-yourself Web 1.0 homesteads have been replaced by simple, turnkey Facebook profiles and no-brain-required Twitter streams.

    Flick, by contrast, is a successful product, at least in terms of mass-market adoption. Bartz cut technical staff at Flickr in the same week that President Obama's administration began using it to distribute official photos as part of its WhiteHouse 2.0 strategy to establish a high-profile presence on top social networks.

    Financially, Bartz' decision probably makes perfect sense. Millions of mainstream Flickr users may not even learn of the staff reduction, let alone become upset by it. Layoffs are now business as usual in America. But Bartz has hurt Flickr, a prized brand and daily destination for many Internet users. The lesson for Web 2.0 boosters: As the world's economy continues to slide, no one is safe.

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