Sirius XM says Liberty's Maffei is new chairman

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Sirius XM Radio Inc. said Thursday that Gregory Maffei of Liberty Media has replaced Eddy Hartenstein as chairman of the satellite radio company's board of directors.

Sirius XM disclosed Wednesday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that Maffei became chairman this month. Maffei, 52, is Liberty Media president and CEO. The change comes three months after the Liberty acquired majority control in Sirius XM and regulators approved the transfer of Sirius XM's broadcast licenses to Liberty.

Maffei has been on the Sirius XM board since March 2009. Hartenstein, 62, was the company's non-executive chairman since November 2009, and he still has a seat on the board. He is also the publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times.

Liberty Media is run by cable magnate John Malone. It bought a 40 percent stake in Sirius XM in 2009 after agreeing to lend the company $530 million, saving the company from near bankruptcy. It gradually acquired more of Sirius after that.

Sirius XM directors Leon Black, Lawrence Gilberti, and Jack Shaw resigned from the board after Liberty Media gained majority control. That allowed Liberty to gain control of the board of directors. Former CEO Mel Karmazin left the company in December ahead of the takeover. Mark Carleton, Robin Pringle, Charles Tanabe and Sirius XM CEO James Meyer were subsequently appointed to the board.

The company said Wednesday that Tanabe won't stand for election to a full one-year term. Malone, who has been on the board since April 2009, also won't run for a new term. Sirius XM said it nominated David Zaslav and Malone's son Evan, to fill those seats on the board.

Zaslav, 53, is president and CEO of media company Discovery Communications. Evan Malone, 42, has been a director of Liberty Media since August 2008. He also works as an engineering consultant.

There are 13 positions on Sirius XM's board. Shareholders will vote on the nominees at the company's annual meeting on May 21.

Shares of Sirius XM edged up 2 cents to $3.15 in afternoon trading.

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Liberty Property Trust Hosts First Quarter 2013 Results Conference Call

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MALVERN, Pa., April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Liberty Property Trust will host its first quarter results conference call on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at 1:00 P.M., ET. The call can be accessed by dialing (855) 277-7530 and entering the passcode 37210714. The conference call will also be available live at http://www.libertyproperty.comin the "Investor Relations" section of the site. Liberty will issue a press release detailing results the same day before the market opens.

If you are unable to join the conference call, you may access the archived webcast, also in the Investor Relations section of the web site. In addition, a recording will be available telephonically until May 23, 2013 by dialing (855) 859-2056 and using the passcode 37210714.

Liberty Property Trust (LRY) is a leader in commercial real estate, serving customers in the United States and United Kingdom, through the development, acquisition, ownership and management of superior office and industrial properties. Liberty's 81 million square foot portfolio consists of 650 properties providing office, distribution and light manufacturing facilities to 1,800 tenants.

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Liberty Interactive Corporation Announces First Quarter Earnings Release and Conference Call

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ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Liberty Interactive Corporation (Nasdaq: LINTA, LINTB, LVNTA, LVNTB) will release its first quarter earnings on Wednesday, May 8that 11:45 a.m. (ET). Greg Maffei, Liberty Interactive Corporations President and CEO, will host the call. During the call, Mr. Maffeiwill discuss the company's financial performance and outlook.

Please call Premiere Conferencing at (888) 337-8192 or (719) 325-2243 at least 10 minutes prior to the call. Callers will need to be on a touch-tone telephone to ask questions. The conference administrator will provide instructions on how to use the polling feature.

Replays of the conference call can be accessed through 11:45 a.m. (ET) on May 15th, by dialing (888) 203-1112 or (719) 457-0820 plus the passcode 9345991.

In addition, the first quarter earnings conference call will be broadcast live via the Internet. All interested participants should visit the Liberty Interactive Corporation website at http://www.libertyinteractive.com/events to register for the web cast. Links to the press release and replays of the call will also be available on the Liberty Interactive Corporation website. The conference call and related materials will be archived on the website for one year.

About Liberty Interactive Corporation

Liberty Interactive Corporation operates and owns interests in a broad range of digital commerce businesses. Those interests are currently attributed to two tracking stock groups: Liberty Interactive Group and Liberty Ventures Group. The Liberty Interactive Group (Nasdaq: LINTA, LINTB) is primarily focused on digital commerce and consists of Liberty Interactive Corporations subsidiaries Backcountry.com, Bodybuilding.com, Celebrate Interactive (including Evite and Liberty Advertising), CommerceHub, MotoSport, Provide Commerce, QVC and Right Start, and Liberty Interactive Corporations interests in HSN and Lockerz. The Liberty Ventures Group (Nasdaq: LVNTA, LVNTB) consists of Liberty Interactive Corporations interests in TripAdvisor, Expedia, Interval Leisure Group, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, Tree.com (Lending Tree), AOL and various green energy investments.

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Burke free to consider Libertarian options

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The son of New Approach was given a supplementary entry for the Investec Derby just before he made his debut on Tuesday.

Karl Burke, whose wife Elaine trains the colt, immediately named the York's Group Two trial on May 16 as the target for the half-brother to Godolphin's Group winner Prince Siegfried.

It is possible Libertarian may run again to give him more experience, but opportunities are limited with the bet365 Classic Trial at Sandown on April 26 seen as the only realistic option.

"He's come out of it great, we're happy with him, " said Burke.

"I'm not sure what we do with him next. He's in the Dante and that's probably where he should go.

"He was so green at Pontefract, you'd like to think you could get another run into him.

"The owner is looking at another race for him and the only race he can really go for is the Group Three at Sandown on April 26, which would give us time to go for the Dante, but I'm not sure if that's the right thing to do."

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Is Bitcoin just a libertarian fantasy?

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The digital currency's wild fluctuations in value have skeptics saying "I told you so"

Bitcoin has been on a wild ride this week. The once-underground digital currency peaked in value at $266 per virtual coin, and then plunged to $105, causing one of the biggest Bitcoin exchanges, Mt.Gox, to temporarily halt trading.

The fact that prices eventually leveled out is proof to some that Bitcoin is a resilient, feasible form of currency. To others, like Slate's Eric Posner, however, the last week shows that it's nothing more than a libertarian fantasy. (Confused? Check out our Bitcoin explainer here.)

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Bitcoin appeals to tech-savvy libertarians, Posner argues, because of its anonymity and lack of oversight:

Fundamentally,Bitcoinunites futuristic left-wing internet anarchism the fantasy that the web can provide the conditions for agovernmentlesssociety with the cave-dwelling right-wing libertarianism ofgoldbugswho think a stable money supply can be established without government involvement. It is proof for both that government is not needed for much, or at all. [Slate]

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Libertarians wouldn't necessarily disagree. (You can, in fact, currentlymakedonations to the Libertarian Party in Bitcoins.)In Libertarian News, Michael Suede defends the recent fluctuations:

There were some banking panics that took place prior to 1933 (much like the Bitcoin exchange panics we see today), but the only times America experienced a major depression under the gold standard were the periods when the central bank monkeyed with the money supply (something that wouldnt be possible under a 100 percent reserve privately run gold standard). [Libertarian News]

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Large Ice Islands from Lake Erie Floating down Niagara River Spring Thaw March 2013 – Video

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(Canary Islands) El Hierro Update, 9 Earthquakes, Largest Quake Today 3.0 : 4/8/2013 – Video

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Unbeliveable Cockpit view – Faroe Islands – AVRO – Landing ILS30 – Very nice scenery – [WATCH IN HD] – Video

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'Fantastic' first for Faroe Islands

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"It feels absolutely fantastic," Faroe Islands coach Jn Pauli Olsen said after they made progress from the FIFA Women's World Cup preliminary round the first time one of their national teams have ever gone through a stage at any level.

In Vilnius for Group B in their maiden World Cup entry, they drew 3-3 with fellow debutants Montenegro, Heidi Sevdal equalising twice, before the Faroes beat hosts Lithuania 1-0 and Georgia 2-1 to win the section. They now await the qualifying group stage draw on Tuesday, where they will learn their five top-level opponents for a year of home and away games starting in September.

"We have trained for this for half a year," Olsen said. "It's absolutely fantastic that we have succeeded." He was confident after holding a strong Montenegro side. "Already after that match, we had high hopes of making progress," Olsen added.

In the third and decisive match against Georgia, where a draw was all his charges needed, the tactics were first and foremost to keep a clean sheet, the coach said. "And then we knew that over 90 minutes we would get our chances on the counterattack. And we did, so I think it went as planned."

Sevdal scored four of the Faroes' six goals and made the other two adding to her superb start to the domestic season where she has seven goals from two HB Trshavn matches so far. Olsen described her as "a fantastic player" and went on: "We have been good at getting her in positions where she gets to run one-on-one against other players, and there she is extremely strong. I think she has played a fantastic tournament together with many others."

Also standing out in the Faroe Islands team is the unique mother and daughter combination of Bra and Eydvr Klakstein. The 19-year-old Eydvr shone, named player of the match against Montenegro, and Olsen said: "She really made the breakthrough."

After Tuesday's draw, they will take on top-tier opposition for the first time, with Germany among their possible rivals. "You want to meet the big ones," Olsen said. "That's where it's best to be."

Heavy defeats will be taken in his stride. "If you want to play football at a high level, you'll have to take that," the coach explained. "But we will be doing our very best to get as good results as possible."

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KSA has 1,300 islands with no inhabitants

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The Saudi Geological Survey (SGS) revealed that there are more than 1,300 Saudi islands scattered along the Kingdoms coastline in the Red Sea and the Arabia Gulf, across 3,800 kilometers. The continental shelf led to the formation of a variety of small and large islands, situation above sea level in the formation of rocks. These islands differ in origin and composition, however the vast majority are coral, while the remaining are desert, continental and volcanic islands. Most of the islands along the Saudi coastline are flat, while some islands in the Red Sea are above sea level with highlands such as Tiran Island at 581 meters above sea level, Sanafir and Yabua islands at 112 meters above sea level. The director of the SGS said that the majority of those 1300 islands are uninhabited due to their tough natural composition and climatic conditions as well as the lack of economic resources, with the exception of Farasan, Sajid Islands and Qummah Islands in Red Sea, in addition to Tarout, Abu Ali and Qannah Islands in the Arabian Gulf, which are inhabited by a small population size.

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Little Bay Islands prepares for new resettlement vote

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The town council on Little Bay Islands has started preparing the paperwork for a new vote on resettlement.

The push to relocate the 70 residents of the town is picking up steam, thanks in large part to the provincial budget.

In March, the province increased the amount of money it would offer to families who wanted to relocate to larger areas from $100,000 to $270,000.

"Before, they were saying 'no, we wasn't going, we wasn't going,' " said Dennis Budgell, a Little Bay Islands councillor.

"But when the government come up with this new amount of money, they said 'at least now we goes, we got money to go and buy a new home somewhere else.'

"I can understand that. I can understand the people who don't want to leave, too."

The remaining residents of Little Bay Islands are mostly seniors, with only a handful of people in the community working. And there is only one child in the local school.

The town is accessible only by ferry, which makes for many lonely crossings.

"You go outdoors now, you can walk this town all you like, and you won't see nobody," said Budgell. "No one on the roads, no young people left, nothing."

Budgell spearheaded an effort for resettlement in 2011, after the community's fish plant closed.

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Austria Finance Minister: G-20 Should Tackle Real Tax Havens Like Cayman Islands, Delaware

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Pursuing real tax havens such as Caribbean Islands and the U.S. state of Delaware at the level of the Group of 20 countries is more important than criticizing Austria, which will push back to protect its banking secrecy laws, Austrian finance minister Maria Fekter said Friday.

"The G-20 never, never accepted the information exchange [for bank accounts] and they never did any step to close the money laundering in all the islands, like the Cayman islands, the Virgin islands or [in] the U.S. in Delaware," she told reporters at a meeting of European Union finance ministers in Dublin.

It isn't acceptable putting "pressure on small countries and their traditions, even on those countries who are fulfilling all the OECD standards," she said, referring to the standards of the grouping of industrialized countries the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Austria "never has, and never will," be on a blacklist as a tax haven, she said, hitting back at critics as her country becomes increasingly isolated in a EU drive to clamp down on tax evasion and fraud.

Five countries including the U.K., France and Germany, have pushed the issue of bank secrecy to the top of the EU economic agenda as governments struggle to find cash. They've written to the European Commission pressing for a broader agreement on finding tax evaders by automatically exchanging information about accounts.

"We do not want automatic exchange of account data, like these five powers are calling for, it's not just names and account numbers, but also bank balances," she said. "That alone, that all account transactions would be exchanged, means I stand firm once more--we will not go into this data cemetery."

Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan, said earlier he hopes to "commence the conversation" on Europe tightening the rules on tax information exchange during the informal meeting here. Ireland is hosting the talks in its role as holder of the EU's rotating presidency. Mr. Noonan said the discussion would look at how measures on tax information exchange "can be further formalized."

Ms. Fekter said that while Austria does not have a problem with certain exchanges under specific conditions, the ideas are currently far too vague.

"Where we will push back, is where the impact on our position regarding data exchange and banking secrecy is not clearly defined," she said. "The formulation here is not clear enough... Luxembourg is criticizing that and so are we."

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Storm Surges, Rising Seas Could Doom Pacific Islands This Century

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Atolls and other low-lying islands in the Pacific Ocean may not slip under the waves but they will likely become uninhabitable due to overwashing waves

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U.S. protectorates like the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia can also expect to become increasingly uninhabitable. Pictured: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. Image: Flickr/Matt Kieffer

As ice caps melt and sea levels rise, islands around the world could eventually become completely submerged, like real-world cities of Atlantis.

Scientists have determined that the tides could consume low-lying islands in the next 50 to 150 years. But they'll become uninhabitable well before they're underwater, and that day might not be in the too distant future.

A study by the U.S. Geological Survey released yesterday finds that the two northwestern Hawaiian atolls of Midway and Laysan and Pacific islands like them could become inundated and unfit to live on during this century.

A fierce storm in 2008 drew researchers' attention to the issue of overwash, where ocean water comes ashore, damages property and natural resources but doesn't permanently submerge the island. On islands that are less than a thousand feet long and where fresh water turns brackish less than a dozen feet deep, overwash can have a crippling effect.

"If you have an overwash event, all of a sudden, you're salinating that fresh water; you basically kill the agriculture due to salt loading, and if you get [salt concentrations] over a few parts per thousand, it's no longer fit for human consumption," said Curt Storlazzi, a research oceanographer at the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center and lead author of the study.

"You may have an island, but without fresh water and agriculture, you can't live there, anyway," he added. "It's like, do you care that in 100 years your house will be underwater? Or do you care that in 20 or 30 years ocean water is going to come through the side of your house a couple times every year?"

Not drowned, but uninhabitable To measure sea-level rise, scientists have historically used passive "bathtub" models that flood a given area in a concentric range. To better understand the effects of overwash, USGS used dynamic modeling that takes into account storm winds and wave activity coupled with sea-level rise of between 0.5 and 2 meters (1.6 and 6.5 feet).

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San Juan Islands high on everyone's list

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FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash.

Washington's San Juan Islands are among the hottest items in the world of recreational travel this year.

In recent months, standouts among the 28 islands and some 400 more rocks and pinnacles southwest of Bellingham have been in the international spotlight by making:

- Lonely Planet's list of Top 10 U.S. Destinations for 2013.

- TripAdvisor's acclaim for San Juan Island as "the best island in America."

- TripAdvisor's Traveler's Choice Award for San Juan Island as the fourth-best island in the world (behind Ambergris Cay in Belize, St. John in the Virgin Islands, and Bora Bora).

-Topping it off just two weeks ago, President Barack Obama signed an executive order designating San Juan Islands National Monument.

The order will give permanent protection to treasured spots in the archipelago, primarily 1,000 acres of island sites managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, who'd visited the islands several times before Obama's decision, joined Sen. Maria Cantwell on April 1 for the dedication in Anacortes, the most common jump-off to the four main islands served by Washington State Ferries.

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