Chicago takes home robust 2-0 series lead

Blackhawks followed their own script to the letter Tuesday night and also borrowed a bit from the Sharks' game plan.

They did almost everything right, outplayed San Jose in most facets, and, with a 4-2 victory at HP Pavilion, the road-emperor Blackhawks took a robust 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven Western Conference finals, with the series now heading back to Chicago for Games 3 and 4

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2010/05/19/SPE11DGOJQ.DTL&o=0

European Stock-Index Futures Drop on German Short-Selling Ban

May 19 (Bloomberg) -- European stock-index futures slid after Germany’s ban on some bets against government bonds and financial institutions sparked investor concern that regulation will increase. U.S. futures and Asian equities fell.

Financial shares may decline after German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government rattled investors by raising concerns they won’t be able to hedge their European holdings or sell assets as the region’s debt crisis worsens. Bayerische Motoren Werke AG may drop after BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research downgraded the world’s largest luxury-car maker.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-19/european-stock-index-futures-drop-on-german-short-selling-ban.html

Wizards get No. 1 pick in NBA draft

Washington moved up from the No. 5 spot to earn the top pick in next month's draft, in which it likely will choose between Kentucky freshman John Wall and national player of the year Evan Turner of Ohio State.
The Philadelphia 76ers, another disappointment this season, moved up from the sixth spot to grab the No। 2 pick. The New Jersey Nets continued the run of failure by teams with the best chance of winning, falling to the third
http://www.freep.com/article/20100519/SPORTS03/5190344/1051/SPORTS/Wizards-get-No.-1-pick-in-NBA-draft

Study: Postpartum depression affects fathers too

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Assn।, found that 10.4% of men experienced serious depression at some point between his partner's first trimester and one year after childbirth, more than double the depression rate for men in general. American men were more likely to experience prenatal or postpartum depression compared with men in other countries, 14.1% in the U.S. compared with 8.2% internationally.

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/mentalhealth/la-sci-postpartum-fathers-20100519,0,3479195.story

WASHINGTON — Federal investigators are looking at a farm in Yuma, Ariz., as a possible source of a widespread E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce, according to the distributor.

Freshway Foods of Sidney, Ohio, said Thursday it recalled lettuce sold in 23 states and the District of Columbia because of a possible link to an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 19 people — three with life-threatening illness.

College students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Ohio State in Columbus and Daemen College in Amherst, N.Y., are among those affected by the outbreak, according to health departments in those states.

Vice president Devon Beer said Freshway Foods worked with the Food and Drug Administration to trace the contaminated lettuce to a Yuma grower, whom he did not identify।

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hEnc00D5YgQjLxbZqLLkjOw_fwzgD9FI4HN80

The Worst Cities for Jobs

In this least good year in decades someone has to sit at the bottom. For the most part, the denizens are made up of "usual suspects" from the long-devastated Rust Belt region around the Great Lakes. But as in last year's survey, there's also a fair-sized contingent of former hot spots that now seem to resemble something closer to black holes.

Two sectors have particularly suffered worst from the recession, according to a recent study by the New America Foundation: construction, where employment has dropped by nearly 25%
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/worst-cities-jobs/story?id=10510368

U.S., Britain issue Mumbai warnings

New Delhi, India (CNN) -- The U.S. Embassy and the British Foreign Office warned their citizens about the possibility of terror attacks in India.

"There are increased indications that terrorists are planning imminent attacks in New Delhi," the U।S. alert said Saturday. "Terrorists have targeted places in the past where U.S. citizens or Westerners are known to congregate or visit."
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/05/02/india.terror/index.html?hpt=T2

Cameroon panic as elephants escape Dja Faunal Reserve

Wildlife officials in Cameroon are hunting for scores of elephants, who escaped from a nature reserve, sparking panic in nearby villages.

The elephants wandered out of the Dja Faunal Reserve - a World Heritage site - and trampled over houses and fields.

A wildlife official told the BBC that the elephants had fled after being attacked by poachers.

The reserve's curator blamed locals for the poaching and said they were responsible for their own misfortune.

But Cameroon's wildlife director Tabi Philipe Tako-Eta told the BBC's Randy Jo Sa'ah that he was trying to get the law changed so that local people could get compensation for the damage caused by the marauding elephants.

The Dja Reserve was set up in 1950 and became a World Heritage site in 1987।

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8651620.stm

Oil slick closes on U.S. coast, BP pressed to act

VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) – A huge wind-driven oil slick bore down on the U.S. Gulf coast on Sunday, threatening an environmental catastrophe, and the Obama administration heaped pressure on BP Plc to halt the uncontrolled spill from its ruptured Gulf of Mexico well.

Since the explosion and sinking last week of the Deepwater Horizon rig, a disaster scenario has emerged with hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil spewing unchecked into the Gulf and moving inexorably northward to the coast.

The spreading black tide threatens wildlife, beaches and one of the world's most fertile fishing grounds in an area stretching across four states, from Louisiana to Florida.

President Barack Obama, seeking to deflect criticism that his government was slow in responding to what looks like the biggest oil spill in U।S. history, was traveling on Sunday morning to Louisiana.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100502/ts_nm/us_usa_rig_leak

Does Online Banking Need its Own iPad App?

First Apple came out with the iPhone and it changed the landscape for mobile devices. People began to see the power of TIME (technology, information, media, and entertainment) converging in a device that could fit in their pocket.

Developers latched onto the popularity and now there is pretty much an application that will do anything from calculating nutritional values at fast food restaurants,
http://www.pcworld.com/article/195380/does_online_banking_need_its_own_ipad_app.html