U.S. and China open talks to help steady economic ties

The United States and China open a high-level meeting on Monday intended to steady their vast and sometimes tense economic relationship, but North Korea threatened to emerge as a point of diplomatic contention. Any feuding over Chinese exchange rate policies, however, appeared likely to be kept out of the limelight.
China's main official newspaper, the People's Daily, stressed that any change was up to Beijing itself to decide based on national needs, and U.S. officials so far have not said publicly the yuan would be a top agenda item.
The two countries are holding a two-day Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) in Beijing, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said they would cover many of the commercial and foreign policy issues that have sometimes created rifts between the world's biggest and third biggest economies.
But she appeared eager to play down the tensions that unsettled ties in the first months of 2010, when Beijing denounced U.S. criticism of its Internet censorship, Washington's arms sales to Taiwan, and President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled leader.
"We want to take what is a positive relationship and make it more so. It's strong but it can be stronger," Clinton said in excerpts of an interview with Phoenix Television, a Hong Kong-based broadcaster, aired late on Sunday.
She said the issues up for discussion included bilateral economic ties, Iran and also North Korea, which faces international condemnation after South Korea said the North torpedoed its warship, the Cheonan, in late March.
South Korea said on Sunday it would take the case to the United Nations Security Council. Speaking in Tokyo on Friday, Clinton said the international community could not allow the Cheonan's sinking, which killed 46 sailors, to go "unanswered."
China is the sole major backer of North Korea, and has not publicly criticized Pyongyang over the sinking, instead issuing broad calls for restraint. Earlier this month, China hosted the North's leader, Kim Jong-il, on a visit.
Beijing's reluctance to censure its neighbor may become a point of division with Washington.
"We want China to know the seriousness of how we view the situation," said a U.S. official, who spoke on Sunday on condition he not be named. "We want them to take some steps in the international (arena) to underscore ... that."
The U.S.-China talks are also expected to cover Iran, which the United States accuses of pursuing nuclear weapons. Iran denies this.
Clinton on Sunday pressed senior Chinese officials to agree on a list of people and Iranian entities whose assets could be frozen in a fresh U.N. Security Council resolution against Iran.
QUIET DISCUSSION OF YUAN
For now, contention over China's yuan exchange rate policies appears unlikely to break out in public at the talks.
Beijing officials have said they want only "quiet discussion" of U.S. complaints the Chinese currency is held too low in value, giving Chinese manufacturers an unfair advantage.
The Obama administration so far appears willing to go along in the hope a quieter approach will give Beijing more political space to let its currency appreciate.
China's main official newspaper, the People's Daily, on Monday repeated the government's position that a rise in the yuan would not help the U.S. economy anyway.
"Appreciation of renminbi will not solve the imbalance in China-U.S. trade and it will not solve U.S. employment problems," said a commentary in the paper.
The renminbi is another name for the yuan.
"China is advancing reform of the renminbi exchange rate formation mechanism based on its own economic development needs."
The annual U.S. trade deficit with China fell to $226.8 billion in 2009, down from a record $268.0 billion in 2008. But the Obama administration is keen to lift exports, and the deficit remains a point of friction with Beijing.
U.S. officials have sought to concentrate attention on policies they claim may unfairly impede U.S. companies hunting for customers in China.

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Leading Role: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer, Bobbin BergstromDirector: David Shore


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House, also known as House, M.D., is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004.
Dr. House often clashes with his boss, hospital administrator and Dean of Medicine Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), and his diagnostic team, because many of his hypotheses about patients' illnesses are based on subtle or controversial insights. House's only true friend is Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), head of the Department of Oncology. During the first three seasons, House's diagnostic team consists of Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), and Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps). At the end of the third season, this team disbands. Rejoined by Foreman, House gradually selects three new team members: Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley (Olivia Wilde), Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson), and Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn); the latter was written out of the series toward the end of season five. Chase and Cameron continue to appear in different roles at the hospital until early in season six. Cameron then leaves the show, and Chase returns to the diagnostic team.

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Lakers focused on Suns, not Celts

It didn't take long for Los Angeles Lakers fans to start anticipating a rematch of the 2008 NBA Finals. A "We want Boston! We want Boston!" chant echoed throughout Staples Center late in the Lakers 128-107 Game 1 win over Phoenix, a day after the Celtics beat the Orlando Magic to go up 1-0 in the East finals.
"I have zero reaction to that," Kobe Bryant said Monday when asked about the chant.
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The chants got even louder Wednesday when L.A. was on its way to a 2-0 series lead, following in the footsteps of the Celtics who were already up 2-0 after completely stealing away Orlando's home-court advantage.
"I didn't understand it [at the time], I'm sorry, I'm not that good [at paying attention to cheers during the game] to understand it," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said on Friday after Lakers practice. "But after the game I was disappointed when I heard it was [going on]."
Jackson refused to speculate about how Phoenix's up-and-down style might not be the best preparation for Boston's grind-it-out game should the Lakers meet the Celtics in the Finals.
"We can't worry about anything besides this one right now," Jackson said. "We're just playing to see what happens here. Who knows whether we can survive this series or not?"
Bryant said that the team was "focusing on the moment" while Jackson quipped that the fans were just "hopeful" for more home games.
The Lakers have won three out of four regular season meetings against the Celtics since losing Game 6 of the Finals by 39 points in 2008, but historically have not fared well when matched up with the C's for the championship. The Celtics and Lakers have played each other in the Finals 11 times and Los Angeles has won just twice, in 1987 and 1985.
Six of the nine Finals losses for the Lakers came during an eight-year span from 1962-69 and out of those six, Boston beat L.A. in a Game 7 three times to win the series.

Brothers and Sisters Seasons 1-4 DVD Boxset


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Leading Role: Dave Annable,Calista Flockhart,Balthazar Getty,Rachel Griffiths,Sarah Jane MorrisRon RifkinDirector: Jon Robin Baitz


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Brothers and Sisters premiered on ABC on September 24, 2006 after Desperate Housewives and airs Sundays. The current acting ensemble includes Sally Field, Rachel Griffiths, Calista Flockhart, Balthazar Getty, Matthew Rhys, Dave Annable, Ron Rifkin, Rob Lowe, Luke Macfarlane, Emily VanCamp and Patricia Wettig. Sally Field won the 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Nora Walker. Rachel Griffiths was also nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

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Facing a Rift, U.S. Spy Chief to Step Down

Dennis C. Blair, whose often tumultuous tenure as director of national intelligence was marked by frequent clashes with White House officials and other spy chiefs in America’s still fractured intelligence apparatus, announced Thursday that he was resigning.
His exit after little more than a year comes as the White House is facing thorny decisions about Iran’s nuclear program, the future of Afghanistan and the spread of militancy from Pakistan’s tribal areas. It also fuels new doubts about the success, and wisdom, of the major intelligence overhaul in 2004 that created the spymaster position.
The White House did not announce Thursday who would succeed Mr. Blair, but a senior administration official said the likely candidate was James R. Clapper Jr., a retired Air Force lieutenant general and the Pentagon’s top intelligence official. Mr. Blair’s replacement will be the fourth intelligence director in five years.
The departure of Mr. Blair, a retired admiral, had been rumored for months, but was made official when President Obama called him Thursday and asked him to step down.
Mr. Blair’s relationship with the White House was rocky since the start of the Obama administration, and he fought a rear-guard action against efforts by the Central Intelligence Agency to cut down the size and power of the national intelligence director’s staff. He is the first high-ranking member of the Obama national security team to depart.
Mr. Blair’s departure could strengthen the hand of the C.I.A operatives, who have bristled at directives from Mr. Blair’s office. In recent months, Mr. Blair has been outspoken about reining in the C.I.A.’s covert activities, citing their propensity to backfire and tarnish America’s image.
The administration has largely embraced the C.I.A. operations, especially the agency’s campaign to kill militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas with drone aircraft.
Born out of the intelligence debacle before the Iraq war, the intelligence director’s post was intended to force greater cooperation within a hidebound intelligence bureaucracy, and to ensure that America’s spies were better equipped to prevent a repeat of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Yet most intelligence experts agree that the job has been troubled from the start, having little actual power over the operations and budget of a sprawling intelligence infrastructure that the Pentagon and C.I.A. still dominate. The vast majority of America’s annual intelligence budget, nearly $50 billion, is spent on spy satellites and high-tech listening devices under Pentagon control.
In a statement released Thursday evening, Mr. Blair praised intelligence operatives for working “tirelessly to provide intelligence support for two wars and to prevent an attack on our homeland.”
In a statement Thursday, Mr. Obama praised Mr. Blair for “a remarkable record of service to the United States,” and said he had “served with great integrity, intellect, and commitment to our country and the values that we hold dear.”
Officials said that Mr. Obama called Mr. Blair on Thursday to ask for his resignation, but that the two men had several discussions in person about the subject this week. Their relationship has been characterized as professional but not close, and some administration officials said Mr. Blair often felt cut out of discussions about important security matters.
Tensions among the White House, the intelligence director and Congressional oversight committees escalated after a young Nigerian man nearly detonated a bomb on a trans-Atlantic flight on Dec. 25. White House officials openly criticized Mr. Blair and his staff for a litany of missed signals that could have prevented the man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, from boarding the plane.
They laid particular blame on the National Counterterrorism Center, one agency that Mr. Blair supervises. A report released this week by the Senate Intelligence Committee was particularly critical of the NCTC’s failures to piece together the information that could have put Mr. Abdulmutallab on a “no-fly” list.
American officials said that Mr. Blair had also angered the White House in recent months by pushing for closer intelligence ties to France, an arrangement opposed by Mr. Obama.
Some intelligence experts and Republican lawmakers say they believe that the White House has tried to micromanage America’s spy agencies, and there was a particularly tense relationship between Mr. Blair and John O. Brennan, the White House counterterrorism director.
But Mr. Blair also fought battles inside the intelligence ranks. Last summer, he clashed with Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, over the appointment of the senior American spies overseas. Mr. Panetta went so far as to issue a memorandum to C.I.A. operatives telling them to disregard a directive that Mr. Blair had sent a day earlier.
Mr. Blair, a Navy officer for decades, considered Mr. Panetta’s move an act of insubordination, intelligence officials said.

Smallville Seasons 1-9 DVD Boxset


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Name:Smallville
Season:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
TV Series Release Date:16 October 2001
Aspect Ratio:1.78: 1
Sound Mix: Stereo
Language:English With Removable Subtitles
Format:Support Both NTSC and PAL
Discs:58 pcs

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Leading Role: Tom Welling, Allison Mack, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Annette O'Toole, John Glover, John Schneider, Erica DuranceDirector: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
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Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The television series was initially broadcast by The WB, premiering on October 16, 2001. After its fifth season, The WB and UPN merged to form The CW, which is the current broadcaster for the show in the United States.The longest-running comic book based series in television history, Smallville began its ninth season on September 25, 2009,and was renewed for its tenth and final season on March 4, 2010.The series follows the adventures of Clark Kent (Tom Welling), who resides in the fictional town of Smallville, Kansas, during the years before he becomes Superman. The first four seasons focused on Clark and his friends' high school years. Since season five, the show has ventured into more adult settings, eventually focusing on his career at the Daily Planet, as well as introducing other DC comic book superheroes and villains.

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Sunken S. Korean warship overshadows Clinton Asia tour

North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean warship is set to dominate US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Asian tour after she leaves Washington on Thursday.
The culmination of the investigation into the corvette Cheonan's sinking has thrust its way to the top of Clinton's program, originally intended to center on the US-China economic and strategic dialogue in Beijing on May 24-25.
"The evidence points overwhelmingly to the conclusion that the torpedo was fired by a North Korean submarine," the team said in its report on the March 26 sinking that split the 1,200-tonne corvette in half near the two Koreas' disputed border.
"There is no other plausible explanation."
Kurt Campbell, the top US diplomat for Asia, said "a central issue of discussion" for Clinton's talks with Chinese officials will be "their assessments of developments in North Korea and their reaction to the report."
The ship's sinking is expected to be taken before the UN Security Council.
"One of the reasons Secretary Clinton is traveling to the region, to both Japan and South Korea, is to articulate and put in place a set of responses" to the investigation's findings, Campbell said of the chief US diplomat's fifth trip to Asia since taking office more than a year ago.
The responses could be presented on May 26 in Seoul, the last stop on Clinton's nearly week-long tour that will also take her to Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing.
The United States "strongly supports" the investigation's conclusions and "has a deep, enduring and profound (interest) in the maintenance of peace and stability on the Korean peninsula," he said.
According to South Korean media, South Korea could announce joint naval maneuvers in the Yellow Sea, where the ship was sunk.
When she arrives in Tokyo on Friday, Clinton will discuss the sunken ship and the future of the US base at Futenma during talks with her Japanese counterpart Katsuya Okada and Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
In Shanghai, she will spend most of Saturday visiting the US and Chinese pavilions at the World Expo.
The US pavilion tops the list of national displays Chinese visitors want to see, according to market research by Millward Brown.
That represents a major turnaround from just a year ago, when the United States looked like it would be an Expo no-show.
When it signed up for the event in July, it was among the last of the 192 participating countries to do so -- and only raised enough funds last month to meet its 61-million-dollar operating budget.
Part of the problem was that US law prohibits Expo pavilions from being taxpayer-funded without a special act of Congress.
On Monday, Washington and Beijing will open their second session of the economic and strategic dialogue, an innovation reflecting the importance that US President Barack Obama's administration attaches to its relationship with China.
Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will head a delegation of nearly 200 people who will discuss for two and a half days subjects of mutual interest: the economy, Iran's nuclear ambitions, efforts to stabilize Afghanistan and Pakistan, climate change and energy.
The start of the year was marked by disputes between the two giants over US arms sales to Taiwan, a reception at the White House for Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and US pressure for China to strengthen its currency, the yuan.
Ma Zhaoxu, the Chinese foreign ministry's spokesman, said US-Chinese relations have improved recently thanks to efforts from both sides.
China overcame months of reluctance this week when it joined the United States and other major powers in supporting a draft resolution to impose tougher sanctions against Iran.

Without A Trace Seasons 1-7 DVD Boxset


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Category:Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Name:Without A Trace (D9)
Season:1 2 3 4 5 6 7
TV Series Release Date:26 September 2002
Aspect Ratio:1.78: 1
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Language:English With Removable Subtitles
Format:Support Both NTSC and PAL
Discs:21 pcs
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Leading Role: Anthony LaPaglia, Poppy Montgomery, Enrique Murciano, Eric Close, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Roselyn SanchezDirector: Hank Steinberg

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Without a Trace is an American television drama which originally ran on CBS from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009. The series is set in New York City and is about a fictitious full-time FBI missing persons unit.As any detective can tell you, investigating missing property or deaths is comparatively easy compared to elusive missing people. However in New York City, there is a special unit of the FBI that is designed to find them. Using the vast resources of their bureau, the team, lead by Agent Jack Malone, race against time in the tight 72 hour window after a disappearance while hope for a recovery is still typically possible. www.dvdorderonline.com

7 Militants Killed in NATO Base Attack in Afghanistan

NATO says seven militants were killed and five troops wounded in an attack by Taliban insurgents on Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.A NATO spokesman says militants launched their attack early Wednesday using rockets, small arms and grenades. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, with a spokesman alleging that 20 suicide bombers carried out the assault. Bagram is one of the largest bases in Afghanistan, lying just 50 kilometers north of Kabul.Wednesday's violence comes a day after the Taliban launched an attack on a NATO convoy in Kabul, killing at least 18 people, including six NATO soldiers -- five Americans and one Canadian.Taliban militants have increased attacks over the past 12 months as the U.S. prepares for a major operation to drive the group from their stronghold in southern Kandahar province. In Tuesday's attack, a suicide bomber detonated a van full of explosives near several government buildings during Tuesday's rush hour in the capital. The blast destroyed more than a dozen military and civilian vehicles, including a bus.Afghan officials say 12 civilians were killed and at least 47 others wounded in the blast, including women and children.The White House and NATO condemned Tuesday's attack. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance remains committed to its mission to protect the Afghan people and strengthen Afghanistan's ability to resist terrorism.Afghan President Hamid Karzai also condemned the attack, the deadliest against foreign troops in Kabul since six Italian soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing last September.

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Leading Role: Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, B.J. Novak, Leslie David Baker, Brian Baumgartner, Angela Kinsey, Phyllis Smith, Kate Flannery, Mindy Kaling, Paul Lieberstein, Creed Bratton, Oscar Nuñez, Melora Hardin, Ed Helms, David Denman, Craig Robinson, Rashida JonesDirector: Greg Daniels, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
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Deal Follows All-Nighters in Minnesota

As Sunday turned into Monday, lawmakers in Minnesota were still at their desks, rumpled and bleary-eyed, dozing off at times.
The cause of the all-nighter was all too familiar in state legislatures in a time of shrunken revenues: a budget deficit to fill to keep the state’s business going. But there was an added ingredient keeping this Democratic-led Legislature awake: a standoff with Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a Republican, who is in his final year as governor and is widely viewed as a presidential possibility.
On Saturday, Mr. Pawlenty departed early from the state’s traditional opening events of the fishing season up north (he first caught four fish) and returned to St. Paul, the capital, where negotiations went on and on and some lawmakers and aides said they had not slept in days.
Some Democrats had once hoped for a tax increase. Then, a few weeks ago, the projected budget gap worsened to about $3 billion, when the State Supreme Court ruled that Mr. Pawlenty had overstepped his bounds in making earlier, unilateral cuts (known in St. Paul as “unallotment”) to a nutrition program.
In the end, lawmakers missed an official deadline of Sunday midnight and talked on into a special session on Monday. When all was said and done, the Legislature approved most of Mr. Pawlenty’s earlier cuts and delayed a question of significant payments to school districts.
On one central and divisive question of health care coverage, lawmakers agreed to let Mr. Pawlenty — and later his successor — decide whether to extend Medicaid coverage to more poor Minnesotans, a notion that some Republicans have mocked as Obamacare and that Mr. Pawlenty has indicated he considers a bad idea.
So, in a way, despite all of the hours of talk, some of the largest questions were pushed off to next year, after Minnesotans choose a new governor and the politics simmer down.
Before anyone went home to bed, the candidates for governor, including some of the sleepy lawmakers, were issuing promises for and against the Medicaid plan. And some analysts were estimating that the deficit lawmakers might face when they began considering a new budget, come January 2011, would be about $5 billion.

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Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Language:English With Removable Subtitles
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Leading Role: Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne, Eric Millegan, Tamara TaylorDirector: Hart Hanson
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US says BP move to curb oil leak 'no solution'

The US has said the success of a move by oil giant BP to curb a leak in the Gulf of Mexico is "not clear" and the technique provides "no solution".
It was responding to BP's move to siphon oil from the leaking well head to a tanker on the surface.
A government statement said it would not rest until the leak was permanently sealed and the spill cleaned up.
BP executive Kent Wells earlier said the siphoning process was "working extremely well".
This was the third attempt it had made to insert a long narrow tube into the leaking pipe, using underwater robots.
It is thought that BP's 6in-wide (15cm) tube and stopper could capture more than three-quarters of the leak, although a smaller spill nearby also has to be contained.
Mr Wells said on Sunday at the firm's US headquarters in Houston, Texas, that over the next few days the company planned to slowly increase the amount of oil and gas flowing through the pipe to the tanker.
Commitments
But a joint statement by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said the latest technique was "not a solution to the problem and it is not yet clear how successful it may be". It added: "We will not rest until BP permanently seals the well head, the spill is cleaned up, and the communities and natural resources of the Gulf Coast are restored and made whole."
It was the second strong statement to BP by the government officials on the current crisis.
Earlier they sent a letter saying they wanted to be sure BP would honour commitments not to limit costs to a US statutory cap of $75m (£50m).
BP responded by saying it had already made clear its position on paying damages for the disaster.
It said last week the cap was irrelevant and it would settle all legitimate damages claims.
"What they are requesting in the letter is absolutely consistent with all our public statements on the matter," said BP spokesman David Nicholas on Sunday.
Lurking slicks
Earlier, scientists said they had found vast underwater plumes of oil, one 10 miles (16km) long and a mile wide.

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Language:English With Removable Subtitles
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