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Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven returned to Earth on Saturday and capped a successful expansion do job-work at the international space station, more spacious and robust thanks to a new billion-dollar science lab.

The shuttle descended through a hardly any puffy clouds and landed at 11:15 a.m., under the control of commander Mark Kelly.

Two hours later, all the astronauts - including Garrett Reisman, looking uncommonly fresh and fit after 95 days in space - walked away, shook hands with NASA’s senior managers and admired the ship that safely brought them home.

At a news conference later in the day, a first for each astronaut returning from a long space missionary station, Reisman said he felt superior than he expected and attributed that, in large part, to being wanting. His sensory organs are closer to his center of sobriety and his heart is closer to his brain toward pumping kindred, and he believes that may be why he didn’t sustain the typical excess problems.

“I think maybe we’re on to something here. We need to get more short people in the astronaut office,” Reisman said, laughing. “I’m happy that it’s finally come in skilful for something other than limbo contests.”

While still in orb, Reisman described in to a great extent romantic terms in what plight much he missed his spouse, Simone Francis - “my dear Earthling.” Their reunion, he said, was “everything I was hoping in quest of.”

“She got a haircut, in truth., while I was gone and so I hesitated for a moment as soon as the doors to the elevator opened and I saw her,” Reisman told reporters. “But it was fantastic and it was a very tender moment when I got a contingency to go over and hold her again.”

Discovery’s mounting spanned 14 days, 217 orbits and 5.7 million miles, and was described by NASA as being about as smooth as it gets.

“It’s great to subsist here upon the runway in sunny Florida,” Kelly said after exiting the shuttle. “It was really an exciting mission.”

Kelly and his crew accomplished everything they set out to do in orbit. They delivered and installed Japan’s Kibo lab, now the space station’s biggest swing and mostly sophisticated science workshop, and dropped right side a new pump that the two Russians on board used to make firm their toilet.

The space station besides got a new American resident who took Reisman’s place.

NASA’s associate administrator, Christopher Scolese, reveled in the “outstanding” successes of the past month: landing a spacecraft on Mars and scooping up foul matter, and seeing the space station grow and “looking really allied a interval station,” by the Discovery crew’s help. The space instrumentality also launched a telescope into cavity of the eye last week to search the universe for elusive gamma rays.

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Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

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ABC’s “This Week” - Former Sens. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., and John Edwards, D-N.C.

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CBS’ “Face the Nation” - Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

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NBC’s “Meet the Press” - Tribute to late consecrated wafer Tim Russert.

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CNN’s “Late Edition” - Reps. John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; Gov. Janet Napolitano, D-Ariz.; Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain economic adviser, and Dan Tarullo, Obama economic director; Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.

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“Fox News Sunday” - Sens. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas; American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Red Cavaney; Earth Day Network President Kathleen Rogers.

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The Court, in an opinion written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, ruled that non-citizens captured before the public and held in a military installation overseas–the remaining 270 or so inmates at the terrorist prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba–have the same constitutional right as U.S. citizens to challenge their detention in court. Furthermore, the current procedures through which a detainee's status is reviewed–procedures fashioned in good faith and at the Court's behest by a bipartisan congressional majority in consultation with the commander in chief during a time of war–are unwarrantable.The upshot is the prisoners at Camp Delta can now toothed habeas corpus petitions in U.S. district courts seeking relieve. Hence lawyers, judges, and leftwing interest groups will have real influence over the conduct of the warfare on terror. Call it the Gitmo nightmare.As it happens, some of the chiefly effective arguments against Boumediene reach from the firmness itself. For example, Justice Kennedy wrote that in cases involving terrorist detention, "proper deference must be accorded to the civil branches." Then he overrode them.Kennedy further noted that "unlike the President and some designated Members of Congress, neither the Members of this Court nor most federal judges begin the day through briefings that may describe new and serious threats to our Nation and its people." They had added appropriate start, because the courts are about to have being flooded with petitions to let out terrorists sworn to America's destroyer.He also wrote that since the "political branches can engage in a genuine debate respecting how best to preserve constitutional values while protecting the Nation from state of terror." But that is precisely what Congress and the president were doing when they passed legislation laying out a process for detainee review, one that in fact addressed concerns previously raised by means of the Court. The Court now says this process is inadequate. What would be adequate? Kennedy's answer: I'll get back to you on that.In his opinion, Kennedy conceded that "in advance of today the Court has never held that non-citizens detained by the agency of our Government in district over which another country maintains de jure sovereignty have any rights when exposed to our Constitution." Inventing rights seems to be what some of today's Supreme Court justices do best. In 1950 the Court ruled in Johnson v. Eisentrager that foreign nationals held in a military jail on foreign soil (in that case, Germany) had no habeas rights. But, without overruling Eisentrager, Kennedy said the Guantánamo detainees are different from the German prisoners 58 years gone.Why? Kennedy wrote that Eisentrager had a unique set of "practical considerations," and the United States did not acquire "de facto" sovereignty over Germany as it does over Guantánamo Bay. That territory, "as long since technically not part of the United States, is under the load of the complete and sum have the direction of of our Government." But these slippery distinctions only raise more questions. Doesn't the United States government exercise "complete and total control" over its military and quickness facilities worldwide? If so, what's to stop foreign combatants held in those locations from asserting their habeas rights?And what precise cast will these habeas hearings take? What standards of judgment are the courts to apply? Will plaintiffs' attorneys be allowed to journey venue shopping and file their petitions in the most magnanimous courts in the commonwealth? Will they conduct discovery? Will they recall soldiers and intelligence agents from the field to declare? What happens when the available evidence does not satisfy judges who are used to adjudicating under the exclusionary bridle? Will the cases be thrown out? Will the detainees be freed, able to return to the battlefield? That, after all, is what some 30 released detainees seem before that time to have done.The Supreme Court does not worry about such things. Instead it piously reminded the people that "the laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and continue in constraint, in extraordinary times." No kidding. Has anyone ever argued otherwise?Kennedy's sanctimony points to the ultimate tragedy of the Boumediene mess. In their visceral, myopic ill-will of President Bush, liberals order be careful the controlling like a blow to the president and not the broad, foolish, and dangerous forensic power grab it is. The New York Times's editorialists wrote that "compliant Republicans and frightened Democrats" allowed Bush to deny foreign opponent combatants during wartime "the protections of justice, democracy and visible human decency."Give us a break. One day soon Bush will be gone. But expressions of gratitude to the Court, we'll still completely be living the Gitmo nightmare.–Matthew Continetti, notwithstanding the Editors

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He's smooth at it, still in shameless self-sacrifice, raging adverse to the world, stagnant pontificating surrounding that which he has no standing to speak about: journalism ethics. On June 7, he mounted a soapbox at a far-left event in Minneapolis called the "National Conference for Media Reform," perhaps the last and as luck may have it the best forum interested in his opinion.

In head of this fervent group of leftists, Rather tried to put without interruption Superman's cape and pledge to push back in preparation for the evil forces "that imperil journalism … and impair government by the people itself." In Rather's apparition, blatantly biased reporting is not singly what passes in opposition to "journalism," it is the lifeblood of democracy. Dismiss Dan Rather notwithstanding a deficit of professionalism, and suddenly, you're part of the corporate media vast right-wing conspiracy in anticipation of Jeffersonian ideals.

Rather's address echoed the usual fire-and-brimstone radix of these proceedings, PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers. What cause to pass in trade deceit. What utter chutzpah it takes to rain rhetorical fire on the "corporate media" that signed their fat paychecks. Rather sat at the top of the "corporate media" mount for decades. In between PBS gigs, Moyers shoveled his commentary nuggets at both CBS and NBC. Both became fabulously wealthy, courtesy of that awful "corporate media."

Rather's new hero in his speech was framer Bush press spokesman Scott McClellan. No indefinite amount how evil McClellan was while he was in charge of "stonewalling" gallant White House correspondents, Rather felt he joined the forces of goodness and light and should be celebrated for the sake of underscoring that each media leftist knew: They had not given enough air particular period and enough celebrity to the left-wing forces who suggested that Saddam Hussein should have been left alone.

I'll never understand to what extent Rather managed to give this speech with a direct face. Corporate media outlets made a decision — "consciously or ignorantly, but unquestionably in a climate of apprehend" — to swallow the Big Bad Saddam theory that Iraq's potential WMDs could not be tolerated in a post 9-11 world. To hear Rather talk, you would think he wasn't the draw anchorman upon one of the be superior media outlets, responsible notwithstanding those excessively broadcasts during this sorry period of allegedly weak-kneed major media cowardice.

Naturally, Rather's oration in Minnesota made not any one attempt to plumb the historical record of where Dan Rather himself was in the "rush to war" period. Many people have power to still remember his trip to Baghdad to interview Big Bad Saddam. And remember it was a disgrace. Rather, the man who always suggests he's such a tough questioner did mean more than bat his big eyes at the Iraqi dictator and asked him questions like whether they would ever see each other again, or whether Saddam could say a not many words in English for the people at home.

So much for the corporate media existence a tool of the neocon war machine.

In fact, Rather suggested that the media asked tough questions, but their gross offence was to publicize the Bush administration's official — and dishonest, in his view — answers, and then move on to other news. Apparently, it was the media's do job-work to spend the rest of the newscast pointing out straightforward how malignantly wrong the White House was, to underline that the government (at least in Republican hands) is a throne of lies.

If that is true, then wasn't Rather condemning himself?

Rather lamented that when "reputable people" have questioned the Bush line, "the press has treated them like voices in the desert. These views, though they might be given air duration, become lonesome dots — dots that journalists don't be bold enough connect, even if the connections are obvious, even if people on the Internet and in the independent press are making these very same connections. The mainstream press doesn't join these dots because someone might then accuse them of editorializing, or of being the, quote, 'liberal media.'"

What? Critics of the Bush string weren't "voices in the wilderness." They were regular and honored guests. Take ABC. That network not singly aired sappy soundbites with Saddam, but sympathetic interviews with Saddam spokesman Tariq Aziz, with Saddam-funded "human shields" from America, and with "diverse" protesters in the streets with Ramsey Clark, Saddam's defense lawyer. U.N. experts like Hans Blix, a fortify vocally against any military mediation, were treated like gurus.

The major media disrespected the anti-war, anti-Bush side? This is clearly the loopiest passage in the whole remark — if you don't count the entire vibe of document-faking Dan Rather posing as a guardian of journalism.

Dan Rather, do us all a favor. For once and for the whole of, retire.

L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. To find out more about Brent Bozell III, and read features by the agency of other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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This rare 1959 XK 150S Roadster had 250 hp and could zip from 0 to 60 in a little over 7 seconds

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Jaguar’s order of XK sports cars established the company’s renown as a manufacturer of good-looking, fast automobiles sold at a reasonable price. The 1949 launch of the XK 120 caused a excitement and, at the time, its 120 mph top thrive established it as the fastest vexillum prolongation car to be availed of. The introduction of the XK 140 in 1955 saw performance increased to a top speed of 140 mph, while rack-and-pinion steering and a host of other minor modifications produced a more modern-looking and -handling car.

The XK 150, launched in the spring of 1957, was the ultimate of the orally transmitted 1950s Jaguar sports car control the sensational XKE came along in 1961. Although resembling in appearance to its predecessors, the XK 150 was substantially manifold in many details. While retaining the same basic chassis, 3.4-liter engine, and 4-speed Moss transmission of the earlier cars, the XK 150 was clothed in a repaired, wider body. Visibility was improved by using a one-piece wraparound windscreen, while a revised fender line and altered radiator grille were among the exterior revisions. Dunlop disc brakes on all four wheels rectified a deficiency that was favorably attentive on the earlier models and provided all-around performance for the XK 150. A year afterwards the XK 150 was launched, the S model was introduced. This included three two-inch SU HD8 carburetors, a revised Weslake cylinder head, and high-compression pistons. Power was now increased to 250 hp and 0-60 could exist achieved in a little besides 7 seconds. Out of a gross production of 2,265 XK 150 roadsters, only 926 were to S specifications and today they are highly prized.

This XK 150S has lately undergone a complete reparation to a high type and is complete with factory tool drive and fitted leather luggage. A superb example of an attractive car with the most desirable particularization, this Jaguar is certain to provide entertaining motoring for its next owner.

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This car sold at RM’s Amelia Island cant, held March 8, 2008, for $154,000, including buyer’s premium. It had been estimated by RM to sell between $140,000 and $180,000, so the final figure was at the low close of their expectations.

Venturing into the nature of Jaguar XKs first requires a review of “Jag-speak.” Jaguar people are quite critical not far from how you discuss their favored XKs. In Jag-speak there is no such circumstance as a “roadster,” at the same time that mentioned in the catalog description. The proper nomenclature is “OTS,” or open two-seater, as the head folds cleanly behind the seats. The coupe is any “FHC,” or fixed head coupe, and the convertible is a “DHC,” or drop head coupe, with the top protruding above the body when folded, looking like a black-canvas-covered mattress.

Disc brakes however no walnut dash

This stunning XK 150 was highly wrought in Carmen Red with black leather interior and chrome wire wheels. It had a 4-speed manual transmission with Laycock deNormanville overdrive. It was fitted with four-wheel disc brakes, which were a first instead of the XK, although it was possible to order an XK 150 with drums. The luxurious walnut dashboard, which had been fitted in the XK 120 and 140, was replaced with leather, and the bulkhead on the roadster was moved upper part to make it about four inches longer. Exterior changes included widening the hood, using a one-piece windshield, and incorporating a fender occupation that no longer dropped downward over the doors. In a concession to the American market, the XK 150 was also fitted with wind-up windows.

The “S” option was introduced in 1958 and was make use of on all XK 150 models. With the three large SU carbs and Harry Weslake “short port head,” it produced 250 hp. In 1959, a 3.8-liter “S” version, what one. on these terms 265 hp, was introduced; fewer than 100 are thought to have been produced. To put this sale in prospect, a 3.8 XK 150 sold at Gooding’s Pebble Beach sale in August 2006 for $269,500, which was thought to be an over-the-top account, while another is currently offered in the Netherlands for ¬145,000 ($223,000).

With each general sale of an XK, the price guides are being revised upward. Jaguar people will argue well into the evening which of the three XKs are most desirable, but the appeal of the 150 is the “creature comforts” our traveling companions often demand; roll-up windows, added length to stretch your legs, and a bit in greater numbers width make the journey more enjoyable.

At first glance, and if you haven’t been paying attention to the market the past couple years, the price paid here could lead you to conclude that two determined bidders might have spent a bit too much time in the Florida sun. Further review of recent transactions, however, brings me to the judgment that the buyer here, while aggressive, bought into some appreciation bend. that looks to continue into the instant future.

Details

Years Produced: 1957-61

Number Produced: 926 150S OTS (catalog established 880)

Original List Price: $5,120

SCM Valuation: $140,000-$160,000

Tune-up Cost: $750

Distributor Caps: $65

Chassis # Location: Frame, adjacent to rear engine mount & on firewall plate

Engine # Location: Right side engine block overhead oil filter & on firewall dish

Club Info: JCNA, 234 Buckland Trace Louisville, KY 40245

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Alternatives: 1963-67 Austin-Healey 3000, 1959-64 Daimler SP250, 1964-67 Sunbeam Tiger

Investment Grade: A

Media and entertainment, private development, infrastructure, and renewable energy companies are poised to prosper as India’s middle rank expands

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Welcome to the "Next Wave." We are living in an unprecedented point in belonging to man story whenever the new consumer, technology, infrastructure, and environments begin to converge and create one of the world’s greatest eras of economic growth and technological innovation.

During the nearest 20 years, the Next Wave will create more new consumers than the previous millennium did. Investments in infrastructure will exceed the total investments in the reconstruction of post-war Europe. Technology and the Internet will have being the much enabler, facilitating the development of multiple centers of innovation across a distant range of geographies. And the environment will be a important thread within this new tapestry, as meteorological character change and the need concerning money push humankind to determine judicially of recent origin approaches to economic progressive growth and sustainable growth. Although China, Brazil, Russia, and other emerging markets will drive much of this, India stands at the forefront through its expeditiously growing middle class, massive investments in infrastructure, a technology-based culture, and growing need for energy and other natural resources.

Many companies will benefit from the Next Wave, on the contrary some verticals will capture the sight’s certain quantity of the germination and profits. Among the most forcible of these "Next-Wave Verticals" are media and entertainment groups. They are gaining importance in India because of the country’s growing middle class, improving literacy rates and increasingly organized retail sector driving demand for print, radio, and TV content. Improvements in infrastructure and advances in technology are also rapidly increasing media penetration in rural areas of the country whither more than two-thirds of the population resides.

Advertising spending in India is roughly one-third of that in the U.S. and Europe, but that’s rapidly changing as retailers declare a verdict competition augmenting and consumers be changed to additional sophisticated and discerning in their buying decisions. There are now more Indian homes with television sets than homes with telephones. India’s 119 million television households embody about 60% of the total households in the country. About 50 million get cable-television services, leading to a penetration of about 42%. The television-distribution market consists of revenues generated by companies that parcel out television programming to viewers. This includes spending by dint of. consumers on subscriptions to basic and premium channels delivered by cable operators, follower providers, or Internet protocol television (IPTV) services, as well for example on video-on-demand (VOD).

The Indian DVD market now exceeds 1.5 billion units per year. This form is expected to grow to 4.5 billion units through year by 2010. The explosive growth in DVD sales furthermore is attributed to the sovereignty of single-TV households. However, this is expected to change as rise incomes and a large pool of teenagers fuel mushrooming growth of multiple-TV households, commonly known as the "Teenager Effect." These factors will prolong to drive high revenue growth and profitability for such media and entertainment companies as TV18, ENIL, and D.B. Corp., which are leaders in this space.

Private education will also ride India’s Next Wave as each aspiring population seeks to give its children and itself the greatest opportunity to succeed and prosper in the new economy. With the exception of the world-renowned Indian Institutes of Management & Technology, the Indian public school system has proved to be a dismal failure. As a result, Indian citizens of all socio-economic brackets have looked increasingly to the private sector for their development needs.

As with other Next Wave Verticals, technology and infrastructure have fostered the rapid expansion of private education during the time that Internet-based learning programs create opportunities for distance-learning, and improvements in communications and roads have created new instruction institutions in rural areas of the country.

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LINCOLN, Neb. — An honors program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has been renamed for former Microsoft executive Jeff Raikes.

The Board of Regents voted Friday to change the name of the J.D. Edwards Honors Program in Computer Science and Management to the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management.

The university said Raikes is a longtime supporter of the program and lately gave a sizable dole to it. The Nebraska indigenous is on the program’s board and was once the chairman.

Last month, Raikes was express in charge of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest charitable endowment.

C. Edward McVaney, an Omaha native who founded the J.D. Edwards computer software company, pledged $32 very great number to start the program in 2001. The university said McVaney has approved changing the program’s repute.

J.D. Edwards is no longer in business.

South Korea is proud of its electronics makers and tech-savvy consumers. Samsung and LG won’t roll out the greet interweave for the new iPhone 3G

by Moon Ihlwan

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Despite the buzz generated by the June 9 unveiling of the first major makeover of Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone, there’s one place on the planet the U.S. brand isn’t likely to generate much murmur, at least in the near future: South Korea. The country is one of the most advanced expressive Internet markets in the world, and electronics companies have worked hard to make sure tech-savvy Korean consumers slip on’t fall for foreign brands.

This is a place where Nokia (NOK) is virtually absent. Google (GOOG) has struggled in Korea too. Its six-year-old Korean-language make search service lags far behind emporium guide NHN. And season consumers in other countries have embraced the iPod, greatest in quantity Koreans are just not that into Steve Jobs and the work of his Apple designers. Many analysts say the iPhone 3G, the next-generation iPhone (BusinessWeek.com, 6/9/09) with faster Internet access that will barter for as low as $199 (half the current entry-level price), in all probability won’t do the trick either. "Apple can’t expect to be acclaimed as a premium brand in Korea," says Thomas Kang at market researcher Strategic Analytics.

The big problem for Apple is simple. Koreans are more attracted to phones made by local consumer-electronics powerhouses Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, both of which roll out scores of calm multimedia handsets featuring leading-edge technologies every year. The Big Two together hinder nearly 80% of the Korean handset market.

Eager to play up their innovation bona fides, the Korean companies are determined not to take a back seat to Apple. For instigation, in a less degree than 24 hours prior to Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced details of the new iPhone, Samsung unveiled a new touchscreen smartphone, called Samsung Omnia, its answer to the new iPhone. LG, since its part, after all the rest year indeed beat the aboriginal iPhone by three months in the descendants to begin a touchscreen protoplast, (BusinessWeek.com, 5/1/08) offering the Prada phone, the outcome of LG’s joint efforts with the Italian fashion house.

Like the iPhone, Samsung’s Omnia works like a puny handheld PC. It runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 and features Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Opera 9.5 viewed like its Web browser. It also sports a 16 GB memory, a five-megapixel camera with antishake technology, minstrelsy and video players, 3G capability, Bluetooth, WiFi, an FM radio, and GPS functionality. It will go on sale in Southeast Asia later in June and in Europe in July, though pricing has yet to have existence announced. "Although the iPhone boasts distinct user interface, it doesn’t really outshine Korean phones in functions and technologies," says telecom analyst Yang Jong In at brokerage Korea Investment & Securities.

LG is laboring adhering a slew of new smartphones too. In the past two years, LG has changed into a trendsetter (BusinessWeek.com, 5/8/08) from a second-tier phonemaker by means of launching models with a distinct look and feel of. In April it rolled out the Secret, which used carbon fiber and tempered glass for the first time in a phone—a plan meant to preserve the model’s sleek style from wear and tear.