In weekly address, GOP says Obama "demonizes" domestic energy

(CBS News) This Memorial Day, both President Obama and the Republicans dedicated their weekly address to American service members; however, the Republican address focused mostly on their plan for the economy.

Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.), who represents Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley, said the "blessing of liberty" should be honored, "that is why helping to create jobs and grow our economy will continue to be Republicans' focus in the weeks and months ahead."

The two-term member of Congress said the Republican plan for economic growth "emphasizes long-term growth" and not "short-term stimulus."

Central to the Republican's economic plan is developing American oil and gas production, including the construction of the XL Keystone pipeline.

"The President demonizes home grown energy and pursues tax policies that advantage foreign energy over domestic," Jenkins said.

Meanwhile in his short weekly address,?President Obama said the U.S. needs to "serve" service members who return home with healthcare and access to education.

"We have to serve them and their families as well as they have served us: by making sure that they get the healthcare and benefits they need; by caring for our wounded warriors and supporting our military families; and by giving veterans the chance to go to college, find a good job, and enjoy the freedom that they risked everything to protect," the president said.

The president and first lady Michelle Obama are spending Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery and with Vietnam veterans at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to mark the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War.


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Lisa Allender Writes

So the past few posts have been a bit, uh, depressing in tone....so, here's what I've been up to, and hopefully, this will be seen as what it IS: an attempt to jump back into life, head-first.A diving-into, as it were... Wednesday, I attended a truly boffo reading at Bound To Be Read Books, which I chronicled here, and on Facebook. Editors of that Anthology, "A Face To Meet The Faces", a collection of persona poetry, are Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz. I was shored-up that night, and later, at the ironically-cheerful dinner and swing-dance club, named "The Graveyard" in East Atlanta Village, I felt even better. We chose no cocktails for us, just iced tea and good grub, thank you. And great company. Thursday turned into an all-afternoon-into-evening-photo-shoot with eternal friend, Coral McGhee, who needed new shots to submit for a new film being lensed in Atlanta. Long-time dear friend, (Videographer/filmmaker/director) Alan Wright supplied the photography skills, I held the reflector, and Coral? Well, she had to look gorgeous. Which happens to be incredibly easy for her, because she IS. The pics turned out great...I learned just tonight via her Facebook announcement, that she has been selected for a small role in the aforementioned "new film"!!!Yaaaay!!! On Friday, I met up with the delightful Crystal Rast, a poet and novelist I seldom get to see. Because besides being a poet/novelist, she's also a writer of "white papers" (that's corporate-speak for writing papers for business execs), and she's also a professor, a graduate student working on her Master's in Creative Writing, and,in her most important role...she's also Tristan's mom. We met at Bahama Breeze, the 'burbs answer to a staycation: the setting is tropical, and the drinks are strong.After a few "Pineapple-Coconut Martinis" (that was this past Friday's designated Happy Hour Drink of the Day)you might begin to believe you're actually IN the islands...We were there several hours, enjoying a few appetizers (please note: the appetizers are HALF-PRICE every WEEKDAY from 4:00-6:00 PM) and more than a few drinks.(her:Pinot Grigio me:the aforementioned Rum cocktails) After hours of noshing on flatbreads with salsa and goat-cheese, coconut shrimp, and crab-stacks (the very best of the various appetizers)and downing drinks, we headed for the corner Starbucks, where we drank strong coffee, and wrote. Here's to writing. Peace, kids.

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Fishing for the sportsman | Chris Golfs

Active people will know how many different kinds of sports are out there. One that a lot of people forget about is sport fishing.If you are looking for sport fishing a place to start fishing as a sport, the Fraser River is a good place to try. Let us take a closer look.

As with other kinds of sports, sport fishing competitions are held all over the world both on the ocean and on the various rivers and lakes. If there were no competitions then fishing would just be a hobby instead of a sport.

As you read earlier on in this post, the Fraser River is a great place to do a little sport fishing. There are a variety of fish in that river which are able to present a challenge to those who decide to fish there. Make sure that you cover up with plenty of sunscreen, that sun reflecting off the water can be cruel and you do not want to burn your skin to a crisp.

Some people think that sport fishing is a great excuse for people to spend a lot of time outdoors away from their daily responsibilities. Fishing on the Fraser River can be quite a challenge though. It all depends on how big a fish you are aiming to catch. The bigger the fish the harder you are going to have to work to get it in to be weighed.

If you are planning a visit to the Fraser river area make sure that you book some time on the river with a fishing guide. You will be hooked on fishing from then on out! It is a good idea to have a guide though as they will be able to help you find the right spot in the river to fish and help you choose the right kind of bait for the fish you want to catch.

Sport fishing can be both relaxing and challenging. It is really something that every person should try.You will enjoy it more sport fishing if you make sure that you have a guide to help you with making certain you catch your fish though.

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Samsung Announces The Galaxy Ace Duos Smartphone

Samsung recently announced the new Android powered Galaxy Ace Duos smartphone. As the name suggest, it is a dual-SIM Android smartphone. The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos is the dual-SIM variant of the highly popular Samsung Galaxy Ace. This handset allows the users to manage their work and personal lives with one smartphone. It runs on the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating System. However, this device might get the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update in the near future. Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos owners, keep your fingers crossed!

JK Shin, President and Head of IT & Mobile Communications Division at Samsung, said:
?With Dual SIM convenience, enhanced connectivity, and performance features, the GALAXY Ace Duos delivers a sleek design and incredible features intended to provide consumers with a smartphone that meets their hidden needs. We continue to listen to our customers and lead them to a life extraordinary by expanding our GALAXY smart device range, which continues to gain traction as one of the most recognized and popular mobile brands in the world.?

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Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos features a 3.5 inch touchscreen display, sporting a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels, 832 MHz Processor, Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating System, Samsung Touchwiz UI, 5 megapixel rear-facing camera with auto-focus, single shot, smile shot and panorama shot, VGA video recording and playback, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, 3G Connectivity and much more.

Other features include a 3.5 mm headset jack, music player with SoundAlive, FM Radio with RDS, stereo speaker, Samsung ChatON, Samsung Social Hub, USB 2.0, Bluetooth 3.0, Swype, Document Viewer, A-GPS, Google Play Store, 512 MB RAM, 3 GB internal memory, Micro SD card slot, 32 GB expandable memory, up to 520 hrs of stand-by time, up to 390 mins of talk-time and a 1300 mAh battery.

This handset measures 112.74 x 61.5 x 11.5 mm and weighs just 122g. Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos will be available from June starting in Russia, followed by Europe, CIS, Latin America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, Middle East, Africa and China. The price of this device will be announced soon. Stay tuned for more updates!

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Apple looking to hire engineers at Israel R&D facility

We've heard that Apple intends to step up hiring at a new research center in Israel, and here is more evidence of that effort. Two new job listings have appeared on Apple's site for physical design engineers in Haifa, Israel, showing that Apple is getting serious about building out its new R&D center.

These engineers will work on designs for "system-on-a-chip" implementations. Which, of course, is exactly the kind of technology that Apple is so good at stuffing into tiny mobile devices. The open positions are high level placements, with job requirements that expect to see these SoC designs from beginning to end. It'll probably take Apple a while to fill these positions with the right people, so we likely won't see actual chips come out of these facilities for a while. But the company clearly has an eye forward to making the site there an important one for Apple's future devices.

Apple looking to hire engineers at Israel R&D facility originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 25 May 2012 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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How Can We Cope with the Dirty Water from Fracking?

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Advanced membranes, unusual solvents and new drilling processes could clean up and recycle a growing flood of contaminated water


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The nation's oil and gas wells produce at least nine billion liters of contaminated water per day, according to an Argonne National Laboratory report. And that is an underestimate of the amount of brine, fracking fluid and other contaminated water that flows back up a well along with the natural gas or oil, because it is based on incomplete data from state governments gathered in 2007.

The volume will only get larger, too: oil and gas producers use at least 7.5 million liters of water per well to fracture subterranean formations and release entrapped hydrocarbon fuels, a practice that has grown in the U.S. by at least 48 percent per year in the last five years, according to the Energy Information Administration. The rise is quickest in places such as the oil-bearing Bakken Formation in North Dakota or the natural gas-rich Marcellus Shale underlying parts of New York State, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

The problem is that the large volumes of water that flow back to the surface along with the oil or gas are laced with everything from naturally radioactive minerals to proprietary chemicals. And there are not a lot of cost-effective options for treating it, other than dumping it down a deep well. But as certain states that are experiencing drought begin to restrict industrial water usage, fossil-fuel companies are experimenting with traditional and untraditional water treatment chemistries and technologies to try to clean this dirty water?or limit its use in the first place.

Recycling is not enough
The first option is to reuse wastewater in whatever ways possible. For fracking, "to the extent possible, fracturing fluid is recovered and recycled for reuse in future fracturing operations," says Reid Porter, a spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute, an industry group. "Recycling of flow-back water reduces demand for freshwater and reduces the need for disposal of wastewater."

But that water still has to be cleaned before it is reused, otherwise it loses the ability to do its subterranean dirty work. Simply dumping it improperly is not an option, because the high levels of salts and minerals will poison a river, stream or aquifer or it will render land incapable of supporting life for generations, like the salt pans of Utah or the ancient farm fields of Carthage salted by the Roman army. The cleansing technologies employed range from high-tech membranes that selectively filter out specific contaminants to the crude solution of boiling away the water, leaving scales of salts and other minerals behind on the walls of the boiler.

"Most of what we get out of the water are salts and a low-level of organics" (hydrocarbons and other contaminating carbon-based molecules), explains environmental engineer Steve Hopper, executive vice president of the industrial business group at Veolia Water, which is helping oil and gas companies cope with such "produced" water. "We have an example in California where we treated the water until it was so pure we had to add minerals back into it to be able to discharge it." The problem, thus far, has been cost, although Hopper argues Veolia's technologies add only "5 percent" to the cost of a given well.

A diversity of waters
To add to the challenge of sheer volume, the water produced by each oil and gas well is often different?with varying levels of acidity, saltiness or types of contaminants, whether dissolved hydrocarbons or heavy metals leached from the surrounding rock.

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Junior Dos Santos is a nice guy

Yahoo has a heartwarming little story about Junior Dos Santos bringing a family from the favelas with him to Vegas for this weekend?s fight. Their nine year old boy Breno Luis Ferreira de Carvalho is a regular at Junior?s gym and asked if he could come. So Dos Santos, that lovable lug, agreed to take them. But while Breno might be rich in last names, he is amazingly poor in most other areas:

The family is so poor they not only didn?t have the required travel documents, they didn?t own luggage. They live in a tiny apartment that measures about 16 feet by 23 feet, covered by a thin corrugated metal roof.

When the decision was made to bring them along, someone had to find them. No one knew for sure where they lived. Sophia Ribeiro, a producer for the TV show, went into the favela with a bodyguard, carrying a photo of Breno Ferreira.

?It is an extremely dangerous area,? she said. ?There is so much crime there, and you could never go there without a bodyguard.? It?s not unusual to see children, some not much older than Breno, carrying weapons. It is, Dorea said, all part of the drug trade.
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Ferreira, though, doesn?t have a concept of the world outside the favela. He didn?t grasp the concept of a television camera. When he spoke in Portuguese to Ezra Edelman, the American producer for the TV show, he was puzzled when Edelman didn?t answer. Edelman doesn?t speak Portuguese and didn?t understand him, but Ferreira wasn?t aware languages other than Portuguese existed.

Junior?s team better keep a close eye on this kid. He?s liable to try and feed a carrot to a bus and get run down.

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SanDisk Ultra 32GB Flash Drive

Flash drives have become as ubiquitous as cell phones, and the large number of them out in the wild has caused most distinguishing characteristics to melt away. This is certainly true of the SanDisk Ultra (32GB), which boasts only average features and durability along with a decent capacity and an attractive, svelte design. Although it doesn't protect your data with government-grade security like the Editors' Choice Kingston DataTraveler Locker+ (8GB, $14 street, 4 stars), considering what this USB 2.0?only does offer, it's reasonably priced at $84.99 direct, although other capacities of 8GB ($32.99 direct), 16GB ($54.99 direct), and 64GB ($144.99 direct) are available as well.

Design
The SanDisk Ultra ?bears a striking resemblance to a finger, specifically one severed at the second joint, a similarity reinforced by the underside of the front, which sports the same sloped concavity as a fingertip while sitting directly beneath what looks like a fingernail. It also doesn't help that, in keeping with the red-black color scheme of the flash drive, the retractable USB plug on the back of the drive (i.e., the severed section) sports a crimson flourish. (I don't have a macabre obsession with limbs, honest.)

Body parts aside, the retractable USB plug (which also flashes when in use) is a plus as it lets you carry around the drive without worrying about losing a protective cap. At the same time, however, you can't simply toss the SanDisk Ultra into your bag. Unlike the Corsair Flash Voyager GT (32 GB) ($64.99 direct, 4 stars) or the Kingston DataTraveler R500 ($200 street, 3.5 stars), its plastic enclosure isn't rugged enough to withstand the bumps and bruises of a backpack full of textbooks. It would be wiser to stick it in your pocket or, thanks to the hole in the tip of the drive, on your keychain. On the plus side, the design means that the SanDisk Ultra is slim enough to use without blocking adjacent USB ports.

If purchased directly from SanDisk, the drive comes with a steep price tag; the 32GB model sells for $2.66 per gigabyte, considerably higher than both the Corsair Flash Voyager GT ?and the Kingston DataTraveler R500, as well as the Verbatim Store 'n' Go Pro USB Flash Drive (64GB) ($117 street, 4 stars). However, the SanDisk Ultra is available for $22.40 on Amazon, or 70 cents per gigabyte.

Features and Performance
The SanDisk Ultra (32GB) was a slow performer in our timed file transfer tests. Though SanDisk claims the drive has a write speed of 10MBps, it clocked in at 6.52MBps, although it exceeded the advertised read speed of 15MBps by performing at 21.21MBps. Still, the SanDisk Ultra is squarely at the bottom of the pack compared with other USB 2.0 flash drives. It was outpaced by both the Verbatim Store 'n' Go Pro (12MBps write, 22MBps read) and the Kingston DataTraveler R500 (21MBps write, 30MBps read). If speed is your highest priority, you'd be better off with the Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 Generation 2 (32GB) ($80 street, 4 stars), a USB 2.0 drive that also yielded much quicker performance over USB 2.0 (32.1MBps read, 28MBps write).

Preinstalled software on the SanDisk Ultra takes up a little over 60MB of space, though none of it is critical for the drive's operation and can accordingly be deleted. Included is Club SanDisk, a forgettable software suite that includes an eBay toolbar for Internet Explorer 8; a 60-day trial of McAfee; the RoboForm password manager; and GoToMyPC, a mobile access point for your PC or Mac. Also included on the drive is SanDisk's software encryption program, Secure Access, which lets you store your files in a "vault," or a password-protected folder.

Although it's not the flashiest of flash drives, its high capacity and thin profile make the SanDisk Ultra (32GB) a fine choice for everyday use. If the protection that the Editors' Choice Kingston DataTraveler Locker+ ?provides isn't absolutely imperative and ruggedness and speed aren't your top priorities, then it gets a (fully attached) thumbs up.

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