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Mindboggling in Massachusetts Coach sells off on a

By Tabassum Zakaria (Front
Row Washington) decent quarter
Submitted at 1/19/2010 8:18:49 PM
By Steven Mallas
(BloggingStocks)
The Republicans are coming,
the Republicans are coming… to Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:40:00 PM

Massachusetts.
The Senate seat comfortably
held by Edward Kennedy for
nearly half a century has gone to
Republican Scott Brown.
We can only imagine what the
late “Liberal Lion” of the Senate
would have thought if he were
still alive.
D e m o c r a t s
politely congratulated Brown,
who defeated Democrat Martha
Coakley, knowing full well that
the dynamics have
changed. Democrats no longer
have a 60-vote filibuster-proof
Senate — and that can affect
their plans for healthcare reform.
Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid made clear he wanted to
make sure procedure was
followed to seat Brown. “We
welcome Scott Brown to the
Senate and will move to seat him
as soon as the proper paperwork
has been received.”
(We’re not implying anything
but anyone who has worked in
Washington knows that
paperwork can mysteriously
arrive or not as convenient).
Brown made clear he is in a rush
to take his place among the 100
senators in Washington. “I’m
ready to go to Washington
without delay,” he said in his
victory speech.
Can the Democrats somehow
ram healthcare legislation
through Congress and to
President Barack Obama to sign
into law before Mr. Brown goes
to Washington?
If they can’t, Brown has made
clear that he won’t be helping the
Democrats in their quest for
healthcare reform: ”It will raise
taxes, it will hurt Medicare, it
will destroy jobs and run our
nation deeper into debt,” the
newest Senator (to be) said.
Why do you think
Massachusetts chose Republican
in this election?
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Coach Inc (COH) Coach ( COH)
is a mystery to me today. I
thought the numbers from its
latest quarter were pretty good.
And yet, the stock sells off. That
alone is not so mysterious; heck,
it happens all the time. What
makes it so strange for me is I've
covered so many other retailers
that post awful numbers and then
go on to see a big bid. Hey, that's
the market, right?
Anyway, Coach said total sales
increased 11% in the second
quarter. North American same-
store sales advanced over 3%.
Earnings came in at 75 cents per
share, 8 cents better than last
ADVERTISEMENT:
year's income stat. Earnings.com
says Wall Street was looking for
72 cents per share.
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ACLU gives Obama mixed first year Obama bills under threat
rights grade after Massachusetts loss
By Michelle Nichols (Front By Ewen MacAskill (World protest against what is seen as
Row Washington) news and comment from the too much federal spending
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) already.
Submitted at 1/19/2010 3:34:18 PM
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:35:20 AM Another bill planned for this
U.S. President Barack Obama year would see reform of Wall
has taken some bold steps on End of Democrats' super- Street, in what Obama described
civil rights during his first year majority in Senate means more as "the most ambitious overhaul
in office, such as ordering an end than just proposed healthcare of the financial system since the
to torture and the closure of the reform might not make it into Great Depression". That would
Guantanamo Bay military prison, law be a populist measure and
but his overall record is mixed, The end of the Democrats' Republicans may support some
the American Civil Liberties Senate super-majority poses parts.
Union said on Tuesday. major problems for Barack The president last year promised
The civil rights group said Obama in the year ahead. Obama he would start work this year on
Obama had acted on more than a had hoped that once healthcare immigration reform, a campaign
third of 145 recommendations it was out of the way, he could promise, which would open the
made to him when he was administration has fallen short by the ACLU said Obama had not p u r s u e o t h e r p a r t s o f a n way to citizenship for the
elected. The recommendations allowing some of the (George a c t e d on any o f ambitious domestic agenda. That estimated 12 million to 20
focused on steps the president W.) Bush administration’s most i t s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s . now looks unlikely. million illegal immigrants living
could take on his own without a t r o u b l e s o m e p r a c t i c e s t o For more Reuters political One of the first casualties will in the US. That now looks dead.
vote by Congress. continue and by failing to take coverage, click here be a climate change bill, one the • Barack Obama
“The Obama administration has steps that would restore some Photo credit: Reuters/Kevin Senate had been sceptical about • Obama administration
made some significant strides very fundamental rights and Lamarque (Obama addresses e v e n b e f o r e t h e l o s s o f • Democrats
toward restoring civil liberties values to American life,” he said. closing session of the Jobs and Massachusetts. The Democratic • Republicans
and the rule of law,” said ACLU On issues such as spying on Economic Growth Forum at the leadership in the House said • United States
Executive Director Anthony A m e r i c a n s , m o n i t o r i n g o f White House December 3, 2009) today it did not accept the bill • US politics
Romero in a statement. activists and terrorism watchlists, was dead but some parts might
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An Epic 22-Minute Behind-the-Scenes of Avatar [Movies]

By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 1:20:00 PM
We've all heard allusions to
Cameron's massive sets, motion
cap system and 3D/virtual Hit up about 16 minutes in to way into filmmaking. [ Sci Fi
cameras used to create Avatar, see CGI characters layered into Wire]
but this 22-minute clip actually live action scenes in real
shows us these techniques. (So time—which is essentially
don't watch this video if you don't want the magic spoiled): augmented reality making its
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Hillary Clinton to take on world's internet censors
By Tania Branigan, Mark Tran
(World news and comment
from the Guardian |
guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:35:14 AM
Secretary of state's speech
comes in light of Google's
response to Chinese cyber attack
Hillary Clinton will challenge
the world's internet censors
tomorrow in a speech -delivered
barely a week after Google's
announcement that it is no longer
willing to censor results on its
Chinese service.
Speaking in Washington, the US
-secretary of state will announce
a policy to increase access to an
uncensored internet for people in
other countries, her innovation
adviser said.
"She will lay out policy to ensure
that our centuries-long traditions
are -preserved in the 21st
century," Alec Ross said during
an online discussion today.
"Internet freedom is not just
about freedom of expression, but
about what kind of world we live
in. Is it about one knowledge [in
common] or about access to
information based on where you
live?"
Ross said the speech was not
about China as such but was a
broader exploration of internet
freedom, said to be based on
discussions under way before
Google's decision emerged.
But it will inevitably be seen in
the light of last week's statement
by the internet giant and the
swift support it received from the
US government.
Google said it reached its
-decision -following a Chinese-
originated -cyber attack which
targeted human rights -activists'
email accounts as well as
intellectual property.
The US will issue a formal
request for China to respond to
Google's claims.
But Ross said: "The state
department is not the foreign
policy arm of Google."
China has said it "resolutely
opposes" hacking and has itself
suffered. Today, Ma Zhaoxu, a
foreign ministry spokesman, said
foreign companies should abide
by the country's laws, adding:
"Google is no exception."
Last week, Ross told Reuters
-that censorship existed "from
the Caucasus to China to Iran to
Cuba and elsewhere" and that
Clinton's speech would set out
plans to increase access for those
affected.
Some of those who have
discussed the issue with officials
hope the speech could contain
support for circumvention
technologies and discussion of
how ethical standards for
companies could be established.
During his visit to China in
November, Barack Obama
described himself as "a big
supporter of non-censorship" in a
meeting with students.
Clinton is expected to go further
in her speech, not only because it
is delivered on home turf.
Sam duPont of Washington-
based NDN, which has published
papers by Ross, said officials
were concerned about a growing
global trend of internet control.
"I think increasingly we can see
internet freedom and access to
the internet as a basic right on a
par with freedom of speech and
assembly," he said.
"I think the state department is
coming around to that view, and
I think that's what we will hear."
DuPont, a policy analyst for the
global mobile technology
programme, added: "In the past
year, the state department has
broken a lot of new ground in
integrating technology with
everything they do, from
diplomacy to economic
development."
But on circumvention
technologies, he said he thought
the state department "will tread
lightly when it comes to helping
foreign people defy their
governments".
Sophie Richardson, the Asia
advocacy director for Human
Rights Watch in New York,
urged Clinton to take a "tough,
unambiguous position on
censorship in China", saying
Google had made it easy for the
administration.
"If the administration fails to
seize that opportunity, it will be a
gaffe on a par with Clinton's
comments that human rights
should not interfere with other
issues [in relations with China],"
she added.
But Rebecca Mackinnon, a
fellow with the Open Society
Institute, who is currently
writing a book on the internet
and censorship said: "The wrong
message ... would be something
to the effect of: 'Never fear,
netizens of China, America is
here to free you!'"
In a blog posting, she called for
an acknowledgement of the
challenge which "all
governments and most
companies" face in deciding how
to handle the net.
"Right now, the world's
democracies are arguing fiercely
within and -sometimes amongst
themselves about where the right
balance point should be in the
internet age," she said.
"Wouldn't it be just so wonderful
if the United States could take
the lead in being honest rather
than acting like the Lone Ranger
on a white horse?"
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• Internet
• Google
• China
• Freedom of Speech
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Caterpillar
Is
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Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:00:00 PM
Filed under: Caterpillar (CAT),
Stocks to Buy The U.S. and
global economies are starting to
recover, and that's good news for
Caterpillar ( CAT), hence I'm
reiterating my buy rating for the
company's shares, first
recommended on April 13, 2009
at a price of $33.02. If you
bought CAT in April 2009,
you're up a smart 75%.
Look for the rebound in
construction and agriculture
equipment to continue in the year
ahead as the economy
strengthens and as fiscal stimulus
-related infrastructure spending
around the world continues.
Caterpillar's solid cost controls
add to the positive mix.
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Goldman likely to pay out $20bn in salary and
bonuses
By Jill Treanor, Andrew Clark
(World news and comment
from the Guardian |
guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:30:37 AM
• Remuneration for Wall Street
bankers set to exceed $65bn
• Morgan Stanley sets aside
$14.4bn pot for staff
• Bank of America makes $2.2bn
loss
US investment bank Goldman
Sachs is expected to reveal a pay
and bonus pot of $20bn
(£12.3bn) for 2009 tomorrow,
reigniting the row over City pay
and taking the total amount being
paid out by Wall Street
financiers to more than $65bn.
Goldman has made sure to
report after its rivals in an
attempt to deflect public
attention from its profits and
bonuses, which are forecast to
top more than $600,000 per
person on average.
The Wall Street firm's 32,000
staff are also being forced to wait
until next week to discover the
size of their individual payouts–
in contrast to rivals at JP Morgan
and Morgan Stanley, who began
learning the size and structure of
their bonuses today.
Employees at Morgan Stanley,
which revealed today it had set
aside $14.4bn for pay and
bonuses in 2009 despite showing
a net loss, were told they would
be paid in a variety of ways,
including "three-year
performance stock units for
senior executives, equity subject
to market risk that vests over
three years, and deferred awards
subject to clawback".
Morgan Stanley's new chief
executive, James Gorman, will
receive his bonus in deferred
compensation rather than cash
while members of the operating
committee will receive about
75% of their year-end pay via
deferred methods.
Figures reported so far by Wall
Street's -biggest players – JP
Morgan, Morgan Stanley,
Citigroup, Bank of America –
show they are ready to hand out
salaries and bonuses of more
than $45bn for 2009. That rises
to $65bn on the assumption that
Goldman's compensation costs
are $20bn. If payments to all
staff working in bank branches
and other businesses are
included, the total tops $100bn.
The chancellor's 50% tax on
bonuses of more than £25,000
has had an influence on many of
the banks. Morgan Stanley said
the cost of the tax would be
"shared significantly" among its
staff and not be borne entirely by
its 7,000 employees in the City.
Morgan Stanley used 62% of its
revenues to pay employees in
2009, the highest ratio in more
than a decade, and the $14.4bn
set aside for pay was a 31% rise
in on last year because of the
recruitment of extra staff. The
ratio drops to 50% if certain
charges incurred by the bank are
excluded.
Morgan Stanley reported a net
loss for the year, although this
becomes a profit of $1.15bn for
2009 on a continued--operations
basis, compared to an $807m
loss for 2008, as its traders,
clients and investors capitalised
on a revival in equity and debt
markets.
Bank of America, which fell
into the red with an annual loss
of $2.2bn despite a recovery in
the fortunes of its Wall Street
brokerage Merrill Lynch,
incurred a total bonus and salary
bill of $31bn. It does not split
this figure up into subtotals for
each of its divisions, but its
investment banking arm has
enjoyed a dramatic improvement
-following the near-meltdown in
the financial system last year.
Bank of America's global
markets division, which includes
Merrill Lynch, which it acquired
just over a year ago, swung from
a $4.9bn loss to a $7.2bn surplus,
aided by a rapid, aggressive
recovery in shares and debt
markets.
But other of its businesses fared
less well. In a sign of ongoing
recession-related stress among its
customers, Bank of America
revealed a $5.6bn loss at its
global credit cards division as
bankruptcies soared and
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money for repayments.
Bank of America's newly
appointed chief executive Brian
Moynihan, who took over from
widely criticised Ken Lewis at
the beginning of the month, said Timken Co. (TKR):
there were positive indications An old-fashioned
on the horizon: "As we look at
2010, we are encouraged by American industrial
signs the economy is improving,
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But he added: "That said,
to Buy
economic conditions remain
"Old-fashioned American
fragile and we expect high
industrial companies that are
unemployment levels to
poised to benefit from growing
continue, creating an ongoing
international markets will be
drag on consumer spending and
good investments in 2010,"
growth."
explains Daniel Frishberg,
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The host of Bizradio and editor
• Morgan Stanley
of The MoneyMan Report adds,
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"Our latest buy recommendation
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Democrats may be in despair at Scott Brown's
victory but it's not the end
By Michael Tomasky (World
news and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:03:07 AM
Barack Obama can still keep his
legislative programme on track -
remember Bill Clinton
Is it all finished? The great new
golden age of American
-liberalism, ushered in by the
most inspiring politician millions
of Americans had seen since who
knew when – kaput, just like
that, snuffed out after a mere
single year?
One certainly is hearing a lot of
this in Washington. Republican
Scott Brown's stunning victory in
the Massachusetts Senate race
has hit liberals like an arctic
wind that augurs darkness and
-desolation. Is all hope lost, as
Elvis -Costello once asked us?
It is for now. But it isn't for
good.
The pessimistic way – which is
to say, the way that comes most
naturally to American liberals
and Democrats – is that
everything is in tatters. Here's the
case. Because of a complex
procedural rule, bills must have
the support of a super-majority
of 60 (out of 100) to get through
the Senate. The Democrats had
60. The day when Scott Brown is
sworn in, they will not.
The Republicans have shown no
signs of giving Barack Obama a
single vote on any matter of
prominence. Brown's -victory
will most assuredly not make the
Republicans more likely to seek
compromise with the White
House. Ergo, the Democratic
agenda is jammed in the Senate.
No second stimulus bill, which
many have been hoping for, to
inject more money into the
economy. No "cap-and-trade"
legislation to address climate
change. No -immigration reform,
which some in the administration
have unfathomably been talking
up lately, which would help with
Latino voters but would really
incite the angry white right.
Nothing big.
Then there's the House of
-Representatives – a smaller
problem, but a problem still. The
Democrats hold a 78-seat
advantage in the lower house.
But 49 Democrats represent
districts which John McCain
carried last year, and another
eight or 10 live in fear of a GOP
tsunami. They were already
afraid of voting for a "liberal
agenda". Tuesday's result did not
decrease their anxiety.
The stakes are not merely
legislative, but, for liberals,
psychological. People weren't
thinking much about things such
as Senate procedural rules a year
ago. They have found the brutish
reality monstrously depressing.
If they in some sense give up on
politics, Obama may well be
doomed.
But there is a more optimistic
-scenario. First, healthcare still
passes in some shape or form. It
is possible, and Democratic
leaders are furiously taking the
temperatures of jittery legislators
this week.
Then, once that's out of the way,
Obama and the congressional
Democrats need to focus solely
on the economy. This need not
take the form of moving either to
the left or to the centre, which is
the form this recriminatory
debate usually takes after a
Democratic loss. It can
encompass both.
For moderates and
independents, Obama should
make gestures toward reducing
the deficit and cutting spending.
And yet, he should "go populist"
on some matters as well. His
proposed Wall Street tax is the
best example of the kind of thing
on which the White House has to
put itself on the side of Main
Street frustration and let the
Republicans put themselves on
the side of the big banks if they
want to. He can do both if he
picks his fights intelligently. And
as the economic clouds lift, he
will benefit.
Forlorn Democrats should take
heart that we can rarely predict
how these things will play out. In
April 1995, in the wake of an
immeasurably worse -drubbing
than Obama absorbed -Tuesday,
Bill Clinton had to assert at a
press conference that he was still
-relevant. By the following
spring, of his re-election year,
the economy was humming, the
Republicans had committed
hubris and it was clear he'd win.
For those who think the dream
is over, the proper response is:
politics is not a dream to begin
with. It's hard work. And it rarely
goes the way one expects it to
go. Tuesday was proof enough of
that.
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Infographic: Which
Communities Are
Slipping the Economic
Hardship Chokehold?
By Maccabee Montandon
(Fast Company)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 12:44:03 PM
To your growing list of indices,
please add one more: The
Economic Hardship Index. The
above caption gives you the nuts
and bolts on how the Index is
measured and what it means for
the likes of you, me, baby
boomers, the nation's farmers,
Mormons, the young and
educated, and just about
everybody else. In short, the EHI
tracks changes in the economy
that actually mean something to
most people's everyday lives. If
your interest is piqued and you'd
like to dig a little deeper into the
numbers, we recommend you
head here to do just that.
Infographic: Rob Vargas
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Yemeni troops target al-Qaida after pressure from

US
By Ian Black (World news and Anwar al-Awlaqi, the US- allow US prosecution of those al-Qaida alone, with US financial
comment from the Guardian | Yemeni cleric suspected of links associated with it, or who help and intelligence support.
guardian.co.uk) with the alleged Detroit bomber, provide assistance to it. The administration is considering
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:49:46 AM the Nigerian student Umar Western concerns about Yemen giving the Pentagon expanded Wi-Fire long-range
Farouk Abdulmutallab, has said were again underlined today with powers to train and equip
Yemeni government forces kept meanwhile that he has no news of the suspension of Yemeni forces including special
WiFi adapter gets
up military pressure on al-Qaida intention of surrendering to the Yemenia flights between Sana'a counter-terrorism units updated Mac software
today, bombing the home and government. and London pending changes to controlled by the interior By Donald Melanson
farm of one of the group's Abdulilah Sheaya, a Yemeni security arrangements. Tim ministry. "We do not have (Engadget)
l e a d e r s h o u r s a f t e r t h e journalist and expert on al-Qaida, Torlot, Britain's ambassador to [military] boots on the ground
organisation's Arabian peninsula said Awlaqi had not held any Yemen, described al-Qaida as [in Yemen] and we have no Submitted at 1/20/2010 12:48:00 PM

branch was formally subjected to talks with the authorities or tribal posing "a severe threat". But intention … of having boots on We didn't run into too many
US and UN sanctions. intermediaries as had been there had been excellent co- the ground," an official told the problems with the existing Mac
Officials in Sana'a confirmed claimed. "He denied that there operation with the Yemeni Washington Post. "But we want software for the Wi-Fire WiFi
that air raids had targeted Ayad are any negotiations and insists authorities, he said. to make sure that we have the range extender in our brief time
al-Shabwani, one of six fighters he will not surrender," Sheaya The Yemen situation will be expertise and capabilities that with the device, but it looks like
the government first claimed to told the Guardian. discussed at a conference can work with the Yemenis to hField Technologies has decided
have killed last week. Reports US officials have accused convened by the UK in London provide them with the to make Mac users' lives a bit
from Marib province tonight said Awlaqi of having links with next week. It will examine the wherewithal and the capacity easier nonetheless, with it now
there had been four attacks and Major Nidal Malik Hasan, country's chronic economic that they need." releasing an updated version for
q u o t e d t r i b a l s o u r c e s a s suspected of shooting dead 13 problems and seek ways to • Yemen OS X. Among other things,
confirming Shabwani's death. people at a Texas military base improve relations between • Al-Qaida version 2.0 now finally includes
Offensive actions against al- in November. Awlaqi is in international donors and the • United States an icon that sits in the menu bar
Qaida in the Arabian peninsula hiding. Sana'a government. "The • Global terrorism for easy access, and fully
(Aqap) have intensified under Aqap and its two senior leaders solutions to Yemen's problems • UK security and terrorism revamped connection manager
US pressure since the Christmas were added to the UN list of go far beyond the security that sports a decidedly more
Day attempt to bomb an airliner terrorist organisations one day arena," Torlot said. The meeting, Ian Black Apple-like appearance.
over Detroit. Western diplomats after the US state department set to last for just two hours, guardian.co.uk© Guardian Unfortunately, you'll still have to
say Yemeni authorities are now took the same step. The move would be "short and strategic". News & Media Limited 2010 | wait a bit for an 802.11n
showing more resolve to combat was necessary because Aqap was President Barack Obama has Use of this content is subject to upgrade, but the software update
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have been sent to three provinces the groups that had previously to Yemen for fear of provoking a Feeds download right now.
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iPhone 4.0 Rumor Round-Up

By Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:08:56 PM

Among the blizzard of rumors

about the Apple tablet, one fact
stood out for iPhone fans: Apple
is rumored to be revealing the
new software next week too, and
it might hint at the hardware.
We've rounded up the iPhone 4.0
rumors for you.
The biggest and juiciest rumors
came yesterday courtesy of
BoyGeniusReport, who'd learned
a number of alleged "facts" about
the iPhone 4.0 code from one of
their "trusty Apple contacts."
Whether or not this contact is as
trustworthy as BGR claims is a
mystery, of course, but the most
headline-inspiring rumors says
the iPhone 4.0 firmware will be
bringing multitasking to Apple's
prize smartphone for the first
time.
This is a bit of creative thinking that it doesn't degrade the user interesting, since Apple's been But what of the hardware? If Apple may even announce that a
based on the Apple contact's experience. If, as other rumors incrementally working on this some of these rumors are true, it Verizon version is due in June at
statement that there'll be "a few are suggesting, iPhone OS 4.0 is issue, recently adding a seems likely that the new OS next week's event--and it
new ways" to run tasks in the also the backbone of the Apple management tool to iTunes and will only run on the iPhone 3G certainly would be a headline-
background, but it certainly tablet, then multitasking powers adding the spotlight function to and 3G S and the upcoming stealer.
seems to point at multitasking would seem pretty likely (since make finding apps easier. But iPhone 2010 version--largely Oh, and then there's this bizarre
powers. Of course Apple has it's extremely possible the tablet now that apps are so popular, because the original iPhone's leaked image, which purports to
always maintained that will run a more capable Apple needs a paradigm shift. processor won't be able to cope, be the glass faceplate for the
multitasking is irrelevant, and it processor, and will have Remembering that Apple's also whereas the 2010 version Apple tablet, snapped by an
eats both CPU resources and significantly bigger battery recently filed patents for certainly will. Apart from this insider at its manufacturer's site.
battery life, but that hasn't capacity.) dynamic home screen icons, this deduction, there's precious few Looking at it, I suggest it's
stopped a vocal element in the BGR's source also hinted that rumor gets even more appealing. rumors about the iPhone 2010 highly unlikely it's for the tablet:
iPhone's geeky audience from multitouch gestures will be BGR's rumors conclude with the itself though, except for a single Those corners have too severe a
clamoring for it. It's certainly implemented across the entire enigmatic suggestion that Apple suggestion from analyst Peter radius, and the button and
possible that Apple has now OS (again chiming nicely with employees are "excited" by the Misek that Apple's got much earphone slit look incredibly
optimized the iPhone OS to the tablet rumors) and that there are new OS which makes the iPhone further with a CDMA Verizon similar to the existing iPhone's. I
point it could consider enabling "many" changes to the UI and more like a computer and less compatible iPhone than had been
some form of multitasking-- device navigation. That's like a phone. thought. Mizek is suggesting that IPHONE page 8
under very strict conditions so
8 Business/ Tech/
Ben & Jerry's Board Member Terry Mollner on
the Sweetness of a Values-Led Business
By Pierre Ferrari (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 12:41:56 PM
This blog is part of our Inspired
Ethonomics series. Pierre is an
Investor, Director, and VP of
Marketing for Guayaki Yerba
Mate and will be profiling
businesses with a triple-bottom
line agenda.
As we continue to explore the
socially responsible business
space by meeting and talking
with some of the leading
thinkers, we will see how certain
themes keep surfacing. One
obstacle to the development of
large values led business is the
issue of growth capital. Over the
past 2-3 decades, few investors
have been willing to apparently
lower their expected financial
returns for the perceived risk of
investing in triple bottom line
(that's people, planet, profit)
companies.
The number of investors willing
to be "patient" with their
investees is growing but remains
very small relative the broader
community. My estimate is less
than a $1 billion over the past 10
years has been deployed toward
triple-bottom-line businesses.
This has had two obvious effects.
The virtuous companies have
been starved of capital, which
has limited their growth and
impact. This has pushed many of
them, including Ben and Jerry's,
to sell to larger companies--
Unilever, in the case of Ben and
Jerry's. An interesting Harvard
working paper on all this is titled
"Can the virtuous mouse and the
wealthy elephant live happily
ever after?" (No. 09-047, James
E. Austin and Herman B.
Leonard).
Terry Mollner, chair of the
board Calvert Foundation, has
been involved in developing
capital sources that are indeed in
harmony with values led
businesses and recognize that the
highest priority for those
businesses is the good of all. I
talked with him about this
perplexing issue and he discusses
an organization that is at the
leading edge of this issue. What
do you think? What else could
we develop? How do we make
sure our newest ethical
enterprises find a way to become
global players with their values
and practices intact. How else
can we change the world for the
better?
(Image: Annualized Total
Returns After Fees via HIP
Investor)
Pierre Ferrari is an investor,
director and VP of Marketing for
Guayakí Yerba Mate, a company
that combines scaled
reforestation in South America,
the reparation of many small
communities and the marketing
of Guayakí Yerba Mate. From
1995 on, Pierre focused his
energies on a variety of social
issues ranging from International
Relief and Development,
Conscientious Commerce, and
Emerging Markets. He is
president of "Hot Fudge" social
venture capital fund, a
community development venture
capital fund whose purpose is to
use venture capital to create jobs,
entrepreneurial capacity and
wealth that advance the
livelihoods and wealth
opportunities of low-income
people and the economies of
distressed communities.
Pierre holds a Masters degree in
Economics from The University
of Cambridge and a MBA from
Harvard Business School. He has
two sons, married to Kimberly,
in awe of two stepdaughters,
reads voraciously, and enjoys
golf.
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IPHONE
continued from page 7
think this may be an iPhone 2010
front glass, and the fact that the
earphone slit and button are
pushed slightly toward the edge
of the device implies a bigger
screen, which is almost certainly
something we'll see this year. As
for that tiny pinhole, dare we
ponder on a front-facing
Webcam?
[Via BGR, Barrons,
TheMacObserver; Concept
image via MobileWhack]
Sneak peek at
tasty new Zagat
for iPhone 3.0
By Jessica Dolcourt
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 1/19/2010 5:07:00 PM
We got a sneak peek at Zagat
3.0 for iPhone, which will have
augmented reality, an offline
mode, and the capability to write
reviews.
Originally posted at iPhone
Atlas
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Boxee Joins the Big League: Announces Paid
Content Net TV Plans
By Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:07:53 PM
Boxee is clearly on a charge at
the moment: After announcing
an amazingly-designed set-top
box last month, it's just revealed
plans to launch a paid TV service
that'll arrive in the Summer.
In its blog posting on the matter
Boxee makes it totally clear why
it's proceeding with this plan:
"Users want to see more content"
and simultaneously "content
owners want to be paid for what
they produce." If Boxee is to
expand its broadcasting
repertoire, it obviously has to
cast its net wider--and Boxee
sees no conflict between offering
more TV shows and movies and
paying the providers for the
privilege. It signifies that the
US Steel Rockets Higher
By Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 3:00:00 PM
Filed under: Stocks to Buy As
expected, US Steel ( X) has
surged with news of the global
economic recovery, and I'm
obviously reiterating my buy
rating for the company's shares,
first recommended on April 15,
2009 at a price of $27.61.
If you bought US Steel in April
upstart, disruptive broadcasting
system has truly grown up.
To that end, the Boxee Payment
Platform, which will offer one-
touch show purchasing, will
arrive in the Summer. And to
ally any fears among its fans that
Boxee will be joining the same
2009, you're up an eye-opening
125%. If you didn't catch the
April 2009 entry point, don't fret:
there's more upside ahead with
Business/ Gadgets/ Tech/
per-view, this should translate to
lower prices to the consumer--
unless they are determined to
scrape as much cash up as they
can.
But some words further down in
the blog posting are even more
intriguing: Boxee notes "It's our
belief that the Internet is ready to
become the 4th method of
distribution for broadcast &
premium content." That means
the company is strongly
positioning itself on the same
level of importance as cable,
sort of overcharging game as the s a t e l l i t e , a n d I P T V - - a n d
traditional media channels, potentially in a stronger position
Boxee is promising its revenue as it's leveraging Net technology,
sharing scheme will be "lower which is possibly more future-
than the 30% charged by many proof.
app stores." Though it's up to the [Via Boxee]
providers how much they charge,
including subscription and pay-
Microsoft,
Citigroup back
X.
Continue reading US Steel finance app Bundle
Rockets Higher By Caroline McCarthy
US Steel Rockets Higher (Webware.com)
originally appeared on
Submitted at 1/19/2010 9:01:00 PM
BloggingStocks on Wed, 20 Jan
2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see Like pretty visualizations? This
our terms for use of feeds. new start-up pulls spending data
Permalink| Email this| into Flash animations so that you
Comments can see who's spending what
where.
Originally posted at The Social
9
Star Wars Death
Star Fathead coming
in February for $100
By Doug Aamoth
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:30:00 AM
There you go, right on the living
room wall. A big, fat Death Star.
I’d personally cut off all the fluff
at the bottom there. It’s the
Death Star. Not the Death Star,
sponsored by Star Wars and a
couple Fathead logos. It’s not
some stadium with naming rights
and all that.
The dimensions of the “high-
grade vinyl” decal are a
whopping 42W x 42H. And if
your living room looks like that
– nice furniture, etc. – and you
actually stick this thing up on the
wall in there then you, my friend,
are someone I’d park myself next
to at a dinner party. And if
you’re married, well, hold on to
that spouse of yours as if you’re
waterskiing barefoot.
Death Star Fathead Wall
Graphic[StarWarsShop.com via
OhGizmo!]
10 Business/ Gadgets/ Tech/ E-reader News Edition

TruTouch 2000 promises

to detect intoxication
with a finger scan
By Donald Melanson
(Engadget)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:16:00 PM

TruTouch Technologies has

been working on various non-
invasive means to detect
intoxication for quite a while
now (like the rather elaborate the test results are legit. No
TruTouch Guardian pictured at timeline for an actual
right), but it looks like it's set to deployment of the device just

As More Use "Twitter for Credit simplify things even further with
its new TruTouch 2000 device,
yet, but it looks like TruTouch
has its eye on applications far
beyond the expected law
which has apparently passed
Cards" Service, Retailers Getting though clinical tests with flying
colors. Like the Guardian, the
enforcement uses -- including
even vehicle safety systems, and
"Alcohol Point-Of-Sale Liability
Blippy With It TruTouch 2000 uses near
infrared light to detect possible Reduction Systems."
TruTouch 2000 promises to
By Ben Paynter (Fast The sales pioneers are online become increasingly important intoxication, but it's apparently detect intoxication with a finger
Company) deal makers like Woot, Groupon, for wallet-watchers already able to do that by simply scan originally appeared on
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:43:41 AM
and Overstock.com. (Overstock obsessed with tracking the scanning your finger instead of Engadget on Wed, 20 Jan 2010
already tried to get on this Joneses of their peers on Bundle. your entire forearm. Quite the 14:16:00 EST. Please see our
Blippy's $1.6 million grab for bandwagon back when Facebook It used to be that companies leap, to be sure, but TruTouch terms for use of feeds.
new venture capital that we mis-launched their own creepy would tell you they'd beat any says that the device is able to Permalink| Business Wire| Email
covered last week appears to be opt-out chart spending service, deal you could find. That 'produce accurate results in less this| Comments
p a y i n g o f f . T h e c o m p a n y B e a c o n , i n 2 0 0 8 . ) T h e s e actually means something now than 15 seconds," and that it
announced three new deals with companies will likely have to that you can analyze the entire packs a built-in biometric
o n l i n e r e t a i l e r s y e s t e r d a y , give up any hidden price fixes-- market and their price point with identification system to ensure
making it clear that while buyers the ability to charge customers a mouse click.
might want to crowdsource their different things for the same [Via TechCrunch]
spending habits to find great service based on shifting time or
Skyfire shoots off Symbian
I m a g e :
deals, retailers see any potential inventory demands. So what do http://www.flickr.com/photos/cut
drip drops as less important than they gain? How about consumer ey5// CC BY-SA 2.0
browser update
the inevitable boom that comes trust that they will probably be By Jessica Dolcourt browser gets a new look and
with being first in on the next offering equal deals to everyone.
(Webware.com) smooth scrolling.
social media hotness. That level playing field will Submitted at 1/20/2010 9:00:00 AM
Originally posted at The
Download Blog
The latest Skyfire mobile
E-reader News Edition Gadgets/ Tech/ 11

BumpTop 3D Physics-Based Desktop Now BumpTop brings

Available on Mac, With Multitouch [Software]
By John Herrman (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:19:14 PM
BumpTop's been bumping
kicking around for a few months
on Windows, and even made a
cameo in HP's newest touch
tablets. Today, it arrives on what
feels like its natural home: OS X.
The BumpTop concept is the
same as it is in Windows, which
is to say it's a 3D sandbox of a
regular desktop. Icons can be
placed on the floor—the main
desktop surface—or any one of
its four walls, which can be
viewed from the top down, or
head on. Icons can be stacked,
literally, into piles which can
then be previewed in a variety of
ways, and interact with one
another as solid objects would. If
you throw one, it has
momentum. If you throw one
into another one, they collide.
Execution on Mac feels a bit
smoother than on PC, mainly
because the multitouch gestures,
first seen in the Windows 7
version, work so well with
MacBooks' glass trackpads. The
metaphor is fun, if not
immediately practical, and the
performance penalty is
minimal—my install idles at
3D, physics to
Mac desktop
around 1% CPU use and 90MB By Rafe Needleman
of RAM after a few minutes of (Webware.com)
use.
Submitted at 1/20/2010 5:00:00 AM
You can try BumpTop for free,
while a $30 Pro version adds Is this the desktop of the future,
multitouch support, instant or just a toy?
search and a few extra gestures. Originally posted at Rafe's
As an interesting tech demo it's Radar
definitely worth a download, and
for what it's worth it blends into
my computer habits pretty well,
to the point that I forget about it
until I run into my desktop
(which to be honest, doesn't
happen a whole lot), only to be
pleasantly, if slightly, surprised.
But $30? That feels little steep
for what amounts to giving a
single folder in your OS a
makeover. [ BumpTop]

Eureka's EMP cannon destined for the Marines? (video)

By Joseph L. Flatley mounted on aircraft or a squad cannon destined for the Marines?
(Engadget) car) is nowhere near ready for (video)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 1:34:00 PM
prime time -- but when has that Eureka's EMP cannon destined
stopped the Pentagon from for the Marines? (video)
Marines serving overseas have a sinking tons of money into originally appeared on Engadget
low-tech, time-tested way of something? And the USAF isn't on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:34:00
s t o p p i n g c a r s t h a t i g n o r e the only organization getting EST. Please see our terms for
checkpoints -- namely, a .50- i n v o l v e d : a c c o r d i n g t o use of feeds. Permalink The
caliber slug to the engine block. Flightglobal, the Marine Corps is Register| Eureka Aerospace|
Still, that hasn't prevented getting its own demo of the 55lb anything manufactured before slugs in modern peacekeeping Email this| Comments
companies like Boeing and device (which can disable cars the mid-1970s) won't be harmed missions after all. Video after the
Eureka Aerospace from pouring up to 200 meters away) next by the weapon, meaning that break.
t o n s o f m o n e y i n t o E M P month at Dahlgren naval warfare there still may be a place for lead Continue reading Eureka's EMP
research. The cannon (whether center. Vintage autos (really
12 Gadgets/ Politics/
CrunchDeals: Buy two, Video: HP has itself a
get one free Xbox 360 Wall of Touch
Platinum Hits at Best Buy
By Doug Aamoth
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:30:00 AM
Fresh off the Twitter… um…
trolley. Sphere? Obelisk? River?
Whatever it is that carries twats
around. Best Buy is running a
buy two, get one free deal on
Xbox 360 Platinum Hits games.
Included:
• Resident Evil 5
• WWE SmackDown vs. Raw
2007
• Mortal Kombat vs. DC
Universe
• Grand Theft Auto IV
• Fallout 3
• Dead Rising
• Army of Two
• Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
• Star Wars: The Force
Unleashed
• Battlefield: Bad Company
• Halo 3
• Fable II
• Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis
Collection
• Assassin’s Creed
How Big Is the Apple Tablet? [Sizemodo]
By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 1:40:00 PM
If the most popular rumor is
true, and the Apple Tablet finally
• Street Fighter IV
• Forza Motorsport 2
• Gears of War Two-Disc
Edition
• Midnight Club: Lost Angeles
Complete Edition
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• Halo Wars
• BioShock
• Rockstar Table Tennis
Enjoy, please.
[via Major Nelson on Twitter]
has a 10.1-inch display, here's
how it will compare with the
iPhone and the Newton
MessagePad 2000. Clearly, it
won't fit in your pocket. Not
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Scott Brown
Wins in
Massachusetts
By Nicholas Deleon
(CrunchGear)
displays, stitched them together,
then overlaid a “touch”
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 1/19/2010 6:43:17 PM
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:00:44 AM
technology, um, overlay. It
works using cameras, sorta like Republican Scott Brown has
What to make of HP’s “Wall of Microsoft’s Project Natal. defeated Democrat Martha
Touch”? The Wall Street Journal Don’t expect to see one of these Coakley in Massachusetts,
has a nifty little write-up of the in your living room any time running on a platform driven by
technology, and comes away like soon. For now, HP is aiming the populist resentment, with a main
it just shook hands with Brock wall at places of business, like plank of “killing” health
Lesnar’s doctors. “Thank you so airports, where they could use a insurance reform.
much, doctor!” The fact is, big, hulking touch display.
despite the fact that you don’t Here’s a thought: which
actually touch the Wall of technology will Hollywood
Touch, the idea of touchscreen embrace more, 3D or touch?
interfaces is no longer foreign Imagine being able to “touch”
and exotic. We’re several years the fabric of a character’s jacket
a f t e r J e f f H a n ’ s b i g and have them react, etc. No, I
demonstration, plus there was can’t imagine, stop trying to
that iPhone thing. make me.
The video explains what’s going
on here. HP took a series of
History's Five Dumbest Apple Tablet
Rumors [Apple]
By John Herrman (Gizmodo) which rumors are true, we can
Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:20:00 PM definitely say which, over the
past decade, were just plain
Days away from the supposed dumb.
launch of the Apple tablet, we While we can't say for sure If you think galleries are dumb,
know almost nothing about it. too, click here for a single page.
image above to see the high
definition version.
Oh Phil. [ Gizmodo's Tablet
Coverage]
even Phil's pocket. Click the
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Thanko’s Micro Sport Motorola launching 20-
MP3 Player weighs just 30 Android phones in
8g (video) 2010
By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:01:44 AM
Thanko, the Tokyo-based maker
of all things USB, sometimes
produces gadgets that aren’t
silly. Today, the company
announced the Micro Sport MP3
Player[JP] that’s supposed to be
especially suitable for people
who want to listen to music
while doing sports. The only
drawback is that the thing
doesn’t look to be designed for
this purpose at all (but maybe
that’s just me). Integrating one
earbud into the main unit might
lead to problems.
The device features 4GB of
memory, weighs just 8g and
supports MP3 and WMA files.
Charge the battery (which takes
an hour) and you can listen to
music for four hours
continuously. You can connect
the Micro Sport player to your
Windows PC or Mac via USB
2.0. Thanko says the player is
one of the smallest and lightest
of its kind.
Thanko already started selling
the player in Japan. If you are
interested in getting the device,
head over to Geek Stuff 4 U
where you can get it for$87.78.
This is Thanko’s (Japanese)
promo video for the player:
Gadgets/ 13
Electric Ferry
Requires a Boatload
of Batteries [Boats]
By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:05:00 PM
The Zero Emission Electric
Propulsion Ship is a 100-foot,
800-person ferry that sucks no
diesel. Instead, the boat operates
from a huge bay of lithium ion
batteries, all while looking
vaguely like it's going to kill you
and your family.
Just how many batteries are we
By Nilay Patel (Engadget) already pretty close: off the tops talking about? Between 200 and
of our heads we've heard of the
Submitted at 1/20/2010 1:11:00 PM 300 times the amount you'd find
Shadow, the Devour, the in an electric car—all for a fuel
Some interesting tidbits came Backflip, the Ruth, and several capacity of only about 50 miles.
out of Motorola's DEXT launch others destined for China-- rather For now, what you see here is
in Singapore today -- CNET impressive for a company that just a prototype. Manufacturers
Asia had a chance to sit down was on the brink of collapse just at IHI Marine United hope to
with Moto's Asia Pacific VP a short while ago. No wonder it's commercialize the machine by
Spiro Nikolakopoulos, who said reconsidering that spinoff, eh? 2015 with the hopes that battery
that the company would launch [Thanks, Hiro] prices will be more economical. [
between 20 to 30 Android Motorola launching 20-30 Fareastgizmos via technabob]
phones globally in 2010. Spiro A n d r o i d p h o n e s i n 2 0 1 0
also said that not every phone originally appeared on Engadget
would make it to every market, on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:11:00
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the CLIQ and the DEXT as one
model. Just by our count, Moto's
14 Gadgets/ Politics/ Tech News/
HTC Bravo gettin' overexposed in
the wild?
By Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:39:00 PM
As breathtakingly bad as the
picture is, what we're looking at
here could very well be the first
shot of HTC's upcoming Bravo
in the wild -- the industrial
design lines up nicely with what
we've seen in the company's
leaked roadmap, anyway, and
that funky little optical pad in the
center perfectly matches the
component that you can clearly
see on the Legend render. It's
said to be "near identical" to the
Nexus One-- which makes sense
Sony Ericsson Kurara accidentally announced early, now
known as “Vivaz”
By Greg Kumparak
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:17:24 AM
Don't you just hate it when some
big dumb press release company
Massachusetts Open
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 1/19/2010 1:39:11 PM
The Massachusetts election is
going down to the wire. Here’s a
considering that we thought the
Nexus One was the Bravo for a
while -- so the big draws here
would have to be the removal of
the trackball (we're not
spills the beans on your top
secret product long before you
intended? Wait, you've never
experienced that? Well, neither
have we. We were just trying to, readers or something. Sony
you know, connect with our
thread to discuss it.
(I’m typing this on my iPhone in
an airport, so excuse the
terseness.)
complaining) and the Sense UI
covering up Android 2.1's
default look. If 3 Sweden knew
what it was talking about, this
thing could be on shelves this
quarter... so watch your back,
MOTOROI.
HTC Bravo gettin' overexposed
in the wild? originally appeared
on Engadget on Wed, 20 Jan
2010 14:39:00 EST. Please see
our terms for use of feeds.
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Obama Supports $675K File
Sharing Verdict
By David Kravets (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:22:00 AM
The Obama administration is
supporting $675,000 in damages
a jury levied against a Boston
student in a lawsuit brought by
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Toyota Sees Robotic Nurses in
Your Lonely Final Years
By Daniel Bartz (Wired Top
Stories)
health care crisis and aging
population coming to Japan. It
Submitted at 1/20/2010 5:00:00 AM
sees a future where
manufacturing robotic workers is
Before Toyota made cars, it the hot new industry and
made robots. It’s making them “autonomation” takes on a whole
again, and wants to use them in a new meaning. And the first place
most unusual place. Looking we might see these robots is in
ahead at the second half of this hospitals.
century, Toyota sees a mounting
Google Releases New Hi-Res Satellite
Images of Haiti
By Betsy Mason (Wired Top Google has released new high-
Stories) resolution satellite images of
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:00:00 AM
Haiti to aid relief organizations.
Ericsson, on the other hand, has scheduling, it's now about as
felt that burn. Just today, in fact! official as things get.
We'd already heard rumors and
tales of an 8 megapixel Symbian
phone called the Sony Ericsson
Kurara; thanks to some mis-
the Recording Industry
Association of America. In July,
a jury dinged Joel Tenenbaum
for file sharing 30 songs, and he
is now challenging that award as
unlawfully excessive.
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Chuck vs. Sanctuary smackdown: Which product tie in wins?
By Erica Sadun (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 1/20/2010 1:30:00 PM
Filed under: App Review Two
shows. Two iPhone tie ins. One
TUAW fighting ring. Two will
enter; one will leave. Whose
cuisine will reign supreme? No
wait, that's Iron Chef. Anyway,
which show's tie in will take the
crown and walk away with the
"Worth Downloading" title?
Let's have a quick look.
In the left corner, wearing the
black and white NerdHerd-
colored shorts is Chuck. The
well-loved (yet criminally
underwatched) NBC show
Chuck is now entering its third
season. Its ongoing story is about
a friendly IT guy who has been
sucked into the world of
international intrigue.
Chuck a character-driven
comedy/action show that should
be on everyone's must-watch list.
Its hero, Chuck Bartowski,
works "undercover" (so to speak)
at a BuyMore store, a large box
chain modeled on Best Buy.
Torn between his public and
secret life, the show somehow
manages to balance Chuck's
emotional growth with the kind
of spy-centered action you'd
expect from a high concept series
like this. If you're not watching
this, start. Really. No, I mean it.
Go set your TiVo now.
The "Chuck Me Out" iPhone
app [ iTunes link] is available for
free on App Store. It provides a
simple photo overlay game. You
select an existing photo or snap a
new one the built-in iPhone
camera. You then select a show-
themed overlay, and mail, tweet,
or plant a facebook with the
result. With "Chuck Me Out",
you can create NerdHerd (think
"Geek Squad") ID tags,
backstage all-access passes for
the fictional rock group Jeffster,
or you can just substitute faces
into cast-member poses. Overall
fun factor? Kind of meh, except
for the super fanatical
Chuckaholic who might get more
than a single chuckle. (See what
I did there? Yes, that pun was
totally intended.)
The interface gets a solid Randy
-from-Idol "it's awright." For
example, the icon choice for
"insert a picture" is a camera,
making you wonder how to use a
picture from your current photo
album. (Answer? A pop-up
menu appears after tapping the
camera. You then choose the
source for your image.) Minor
fail that could easily be improved
in a future update. The sliding
row of photo templates is, on the
other hand, a nice touch.
The overall functionality is
pretty limited and the product
branding is, as you can see from
the screen shot here, extreme. If
you want to stick your face (or
your loved ones' faces) into NBC
advertisements, well, there's now
an app for that. But realistically,
I'm not sure why this app would
remain on anyone's phone for
more than a day or two. TUAW
gives "Chuck Me Out" two NSA
Agent John Casey grunts out of
ten.
In the right corner, wearing the
fur-covered monster-style shorts
is Sanctuary. Sanctuary airs on
Tech/ 15
goddess Kali. Later, he
performed a Bollywood dance
number for said ancient giant
undersea spider to prove his love
and affection, while Dr. Beckett
from Stargate turned into a fish.
Seriously, folks, I cannot make
this up.
More of a hit-or-miss
proposition than Chuck,
Sanctuary offers some great
character actors (in the form of
Bigfoot, Jack the Ripper, Nicola
Tesla, and the local werewolf)
and a production staff ripped
from the greater Stargate
franchise. It's about a group of
people who instead of protecting
the world from monsters, protect
the monsters from the world.
Its best moments occur when the
show steps away from its
formulaic monster-of-the-week
scenario (sometimes it's the
humans that are the monsters,
sometimes it's the monsters that
are the monsters, and it's just a
given that all persons, regardless
of species, are monsters if they
hold administrative positions)
and focuses on the growth of the
main characters. (Meh, who am I
kidding? Sanctuary folk, would
you please just give us more
Tesla/Druitt/Henry/Bigfoot?
Thankyouverymuch.) The show's
uneven but it's made its way onto
my DVR season pass. It's been
SyFy. It just had its second renewed for a 20 episode season
season finale last weekend, next year, along with the other
where we got to see a guy strip SyFy Stargate franchise: Stargate
naked in order to jump into a
jacuzzi with an ancient giant CHUCK page 21
undersea spider posing as the
16 Tech/ Tech News/ E-reader News Edition

NYTimes.com readers ponder how much they'll pay

(CNET News.com) Web." subscribers for access to its especially if they know that their the Times gets it right.
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:42:00 AM For anyone who's been content via an iPhone app. dollars are supporting the actual Executives alluded to fluidity in
following the dwindling fortunes Needleman rejected this notion, journalism they're reading. their pricing model, and that,
So, what we all knew was of the Times over the last few properly, given that he already The counter-argument, on the "they could not yet answer
coming has now finally been years, this decision shouldn't pays for a Journal subscription. other hand, is that by fundamental questions about the
announced, and no, I'm not come as a big surprise. The paper Charge me once, fine. Charge me implementing charges, the Times plan, like how much it would
talking about a tablet from has built one of the largest and twice, shame on you. will kill itself, and we'll all lose. cost or what the limit would be
Apple. most impressive online Back to the Times, however, it That would be a tragedy, and one on free reading. They stressed
I'm talking about the New York operations in the business, yet seemed like the Bill Kellers and that, when we're honest with that the amount of free access
Times and the paper of record's hasn't been able to make it work Arthur Sulzbergers of the world ourselves, has a not-so- could change with time, in
announcement Wednesday that it financially. We've been told, in probably didn't have a lot of insignificant chance of coming response to economic conditions
h a s d e c i d e d t o b e g i n fact, that the Times is losing choice in changing their model. true. and reader demand."
implementing some form of fee money by the truck load, and They needed to do something, But let's say the metered model This is worrisome. As a
for frequent online readers next that the future of its print edition though it's been clear that even is the way to go. The question is, consumer, what you want is
year. is by no means guaranteed. inside their shiny new how much will people be willing some sort of certainty. Sure,
As my colleague Larry Dignan So, it seemed inevitable that the headquarters at Times Square in to pay? It's clear from the Times' prices change over time, but do
over at ZDNet wrote earlier Times would resort to, once Manhattan, there was little announcement that even you really want to buy a product
today, NYTimes.com users will again, charging for some form of agreement on what course to internally, they have no real idea when you're not even sure how
be able to read a small number of access to its content. It has tried chart. what the answer is. Officially, all much of it you're going to get for
articles for free each month, but that before, but eventually And so, finally, they settled on they're saying is that more details your money next week?
will have to pony up if they decided to go all free. The this metered model. Fine. will be available soon, but that So, here's hoping that the Times'
exceed that cap. problem now, of course, is that The truth is, in spite of my sounds like press release-speak executives do a great job of
The Times, itself, puts it this readers who have gotten used to general desire not to pay for for "We have no clue." crunching their numbers and
w a y , " T h e n e w a p p r o a c h , free access may reject having to online news, I would probably be For me, NYTimes.com access is figure out precisely what the
referred to as the metered model, pay. It's all about expectations. willing to fork over a few dollars important. I check the site daily, right model is.
will offer users free access to a The Wall Street Journal has each month for unlimited access usually multiple times. In In the meantime, my question to
set number of articles per month famously not had too much to NYTimes.com, and I suspect addition to a small number of you is: How much would you
and then charge users once they trouble charging for its content many others will, too. other sites, it is an essential part pay for this?
exceed that number. This will online, but only because it began Certainly not everyone will, and of my daily reading. And for Five Filters featured article:
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business. It will also provide the asked to pay for the same content charges take effect next year. But month, though I'd not be as
necessary flexibility to keep an twice is not likely to engender a lot of people will decide it's happy about it. More than that,
appropriate ratio between free much pleasure on the part of the worth it to pay something in and I'd have to reconsider
and paid content and stay Journal's readers. As he reported, order to keep on reading as much whether it was worth it.
connected to a search-driven the paper decided to charge even as they want on the site, What's most important is that
Man Buried in Haiti Rubble Uses iPhone to Treat Wounds, Survive
By Brian X. Chen (Wired Top A U.S. filmmaker, who nearly survive.
Stories) died in a Haiti earthquake, used a
first-aid iPhone app to help him
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The Similarity Between ACTA And Chinese
Internet Censorship
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:46:00 AM
To be fair, it may have been
Bono who first made the
connection explicit, but others
are beginning to notice that there
are some worrisome parallels
between what is being pushed
via ACTA and other methods
and ongoing internet censorship
in China. The latest, as pointed
out by the EFF, is writer Rebecca
MacKinnon, who walks you
through the way in which
Chinese censorship is based on
the same faulty principle as
ACTA's push for secondary
liability for ISPs.
Let's take a step back to explain
this. We've discussed, in the
past, that the way China operates
its "Great Firewall" is not by
explicitly banning anything.
Instead, it simply puts liability
on third parties such as ISPs and
says they'll take the blame and
face the consequences for any
"bad stuff" that is allowed
through to Chinese users. As
MacKinnon notes, this is really
"intermediary liability," or
(obviously enough) putting the
liability for actions on an
intermediary to force them to try
to curb the behavior of end users.
In this way, the Chinese
government can claim that it
doesn't censor the internet and
there's no such thing as a "Great
Firewall," because it doesn't exist
as a single thing. It's just that the
government will punish ISPs
who don't block "bad stuff."
But this "intermediary liability"
is a big deal, because under any
common sense approach to
things, you should never blame
an third party/intermediary for
the actions of end users. And
yet, that's exactly what the
entertainment industry has been
pushing. One of the key
components being pushed for the
internet section of ACTA is the
idea of expanding "secondary
liability" or "contributory
copyright infringement" or
whatever they want to call it. In
reality, it's the same intermediary
liability that China uses to have
ISPs censor content. The idea is
that if you put the liability for
file sharing on ISPs, then they
will be forced to figure out ways
to stop it -- just like ISPs in
China are forced to create their
own censorship campaigns.
And, of course, this isn't even
hypothetical. We've got some
real world examples. That's
because much of the early
language in ACTA was modeled
on the"free trade" agreement that
the US pressured South Korea
into signing. That included such
intermediary liability for ISPs
when it came to copyright
infringement, and guess what
happened? First, the country felt
it needed to start kicking people
off the internet based on a "three
strikes" plan, just to satisfy the
treaty. Then service providers
quickly started banning all sorts
of activities, including any music
uploads and many video uploads.
After all, it's not worth it for the
service providers to be liable, so
they block the ability to upload
all sorts of content. And, of
course, with such liability there,
others went even further, with
some service providers even
banning advertisements for any
kind of website that could allow
copyright infringement, because
of the fear that, via such
intermediary liability, they may
get blamed just for allowing an
advertisement that pointed to a
site that could be used for
copyright infringement.
When you look at the details, it's
incredibly similar to the way in
which China crafted its Great
Firewall. Impose such
secondary liability that puts the
responsibility on a third party,
and and watch those third parties
basically lock down all sorts of
additional things, just to be safe.
Of course, the old school
entertainment industry doesn't
mind, because preventing you
from communicating isn't their
problem. They don't see the
internet as a communications
platform anyway. They're
hoping it's the next broadcast
medium, and clearing the decks
via a Great Firewall an
intermediary liability system
works right into those plans.
The more you look at the details,
the more it looks like the
entertainment industry is doing
everything possible to encircle
the internet to make it appear
more like a broadcast
entertainment medium, rather
than a communications medium.
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China Plans To Scan
Text Messages For
Unhealthy Content...
Five Years After
Announcing The Same
Thing
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:40:00 AM
Apparently, it's time for reruns.
The NY Times is reporting that
China is now planning to start
scanning text messages for
"unhealthy content," which is
defined as including any of
various (secret) keywords
supplied by the police. Now,
given the recent ramp up in
attention paid to China's
censorship efforts, this might be
interesting... if it hadn't been
announced five years ago. This
is what the NY Times wants us
to pay for? I guess if they block
off their content behind a
paywall, no one would be able to
search the archives of the NY
Times to find out that that great
paper had covered the story five
years ago itself (though, a couple
months after we wrote about it).
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Amazon ups author royalty for Kindle, matching
Apple
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:57:00 AM
In what may be a preemptive
strike against the strong
possibility that Apple will reveal
a slate-style device on January
27, Amazon has said it will up
the royalty for authors and
publishers who use the Kindle
Digital Text Platform (DTP) to
70 percent of the list price of
their e-books. That's a big jump
from its current 35 percent
royalty rate and not
coincidentally, the same number
Apple doles out to developers
who sell their apps in Apple's
App Store.
Starting on June 30, Amazon
says that for each Kindle book
sold, authors and publishers who
select the new 70 percent royalty
option will receive 70 percent of
the list price, minus delivery
costs. This new option will be in
addition to and will not replace
the existing DTP standard
royalty option, which is set at a
65-35 split, with 65 percent
And now, another exciting episode of Martha Stewart: Pole
Dancer
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 1:00:00 PM
All of you people searching for
"Martha Stewart" and "pole
going to Amazon.
Amazon didn't have any
comment about whether the new
pricing was a response to Apple's
royalty program for its App
Store, which offers thousands of
e-books as self-contained apps
along with e-reader apps from
Amazon (Kindle Reader,
Stanza), Barnes & Noble, and
other e-book stores. But it did
say that delivery costs will be
based on file size and pricing
will be 15 cents per megabyte.
"At today's median DTP file size
of 368KB, delivery costs would
be less than $0.06 per unit sold,"
the news release notes. "This
new program can thus enable
authors and publishers to make
more money on every sale. For
example, on an $8.99 book an
author would make $3.15 with
the standard option, and $6.25
with the new 70 percent option."
The announcement also sets
some parameters around the 70
percent royalty option. To
qualify, books must satisfy the
following set of requirements:
dancing" on Google finally have
the video you've been looking
for. She took to the pole (a
sentence I hope I never have to
type again) on her syndicated
• The author or publisher-
supplied list price must be
between $2.99 and $9.99.
• This list price must be at least
20 percent below the lowest
physical list price for the
physical book.
• The title is made available for
sale in all geographies for which
the author or publisher has
rights.
• The title will be included in a
broad set of features in the
Kindle Store, such as text-to-
speech. This list of features will
grow over time as Amazon
continues to add more
functionality to Kindle and the
Kindle Store.
• Under this royalty option,
books must be offered at or
below price parity with the
competition, including physical
book prices. Amazon will
provide tools to automate that
process, and the 70 percent
royalty will be calculated off the
sales price.
• The 70 percent royalty option
show. And yes, that's L.A. Law's
Sheila Kelley with Martha. She
instructs people on how to do
this exercise (and she's married
to The West Wing's Richard
is for in-copyright works and is
unavailable for works published
before 1923 (aka public-domain
books). At launch, the 70 percent
royalty option will only be
available for books sold in the
United States.
It's worth highlighting Amazon's
comment that the "list of features
will grow over time as Amazon
continues to add more
functionality to Kindle and the
Kindle Store." We have no idea
what those features will be--nor
would Amazon comment on
them--but one could speculate on
the possibility of additional
interactive features that might
come into play on more
powerful, feature-rich e-readers
such as a PC, iPhone/iPod
Touch, the aforementioned
Apple slate, or even a new
Kindle.
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Craig Ferguson has the
outtakes from Morgan
Freeman and The CBS
Evening News
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 3:02:00 PM
If you haven't heard (a lot of
people don't watch the network
newscasts, after all), Morgan
Freeman has replaced Walter
Cronkite as the voice of The
CBS Evening News. Last night,
Craig Ferguson played the
outtakes from Freeman's intro to
the show. It could be an
impersonator, but it sounds like
Freeman.
[via TV Newser]
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'The View''s Elisabeth
Thwapr Brings Mobile-to-Mobile Video-Sharing Hasselbeck on Swapping
Jobs with Husband
to Any Phone (ETonline - Breaking News)
By Christina Warren which makes it hard for us to Thwapr is opening up its public Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:06:00 AM
(Mashable!) share photos. beta today, but the company
Even among smartphones, the already has some big plans. Not Elisabeth Hasselbeck proves it's
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:36:43 AM
different video standards can only is Thwapr deep in not a man's world after all.
Thwapr, a mobile-to-mobile create a problem for users. Sure, development on an iPhone app, "The View" co-host traded
video-sharing program that YouTube is supported on more but it is also looking at ways that places with her husband Tim for
launches its public beta today, is and more mobile devices, but it’s people can respond directly to a day at the ESPN offices,
focused on creating an easy-to- not universal. Thwapr’s Solution thwaps by placing orders. Think where she sat behind the desk on
use cross-platform solution for Thwapr is a free service that about the possibilities of "NFL Live" and joined Jay
sharing photos and videos with addresses these issues. Utilizing the person. You can upload using marrying something like a Harris on "SportsCenter," the
other people, regardless of what SMS messaging and e-mail, you e-mail, and on devices that lack e Thwapr video of what’s going on network reports.
type of phone they use. can send video and photos to -mail support, MMS. I did a with Haiti with the ability to She told ESPN: "It was nice to
The Problem With Current almost anyone with a cell phone. number of real-time demos with donate by responding to a ... walk in his shoes for the day.
Options Thwapr supports more than 170 Thwapr’s CTO yesterday and I Thwap. It's something I watch all the
The problem with current different devices on carriers in was impressed with the speed Thwapr is also looking at geo- time and to see the behind-the-
mobile-to-mobile video- or t h e U . S . a n d C a n a d a with which I could both send and location so that advertisers can scenes and how everything
photo-sharing options is that they (international countries are r e c e i v e v i d e o o r p h o t o s . do sponsored thwaps to local operates, it's eye-opening. When
d o n ’ t w o r k r e l i a b l y w i t h coming soon). Simplicity and Cross-platform Is users, which opens up all kind of you are in your own comfort
different platforms. Sure, I can Here’s how it works: A friend Key cool possibilities. A movie zone, you get used to the flow of
s e n d a n M M S m e s s a g e t o can send you a picture or a video The key to Thwapr is that it theater could send thwaps to the day. Here the learning curve
practically anyone, but that photo using Thwapr. You get notified works with so many different subscribed users with a new is really, really steep, but it's
is often tied directly to my by an SMS message that gives platforms. You can use it on a movie trailer and you could pre- been a lot of fun and everyone
phone. If I switch devices or lose you a link. That link will take BlackBerry, an iPhone, an order tickets in response. has been great to me. I definitely
my phone, my photos are gone you to a site that has been tested Android device, and the new Sharing video via mobile underestimated all that Tim has
too. across mobile browsers and then Nokia N900 and Palm devices devices is only going to get to know and get out in a short
The other big problem is that it will display the photo or (from the old Palm OS and bigger, but cross-compatibility is period of time on-air, and I give
although services like TwitPic encode the video (on the fly) in a webOS). You’re notified that key. This is why Thwapr is so him a lot of credit."
exist, they focus mostly on format optimized for your your upload is complete via SMS exciting.
smartphones. My mom still has mobile device. or e-mail (you can choose how Tags: mobile video, thwapr
an old Motorola Razr. She can You can then respond to that you want to be notified) and you
actually record and view video, message, or “thwap” by either can add users to your friends list
but obviously she can’t get a entering a comment or sending to easily send stuff their way.
TwitPic-compatible application, your own photo or video back to Future Plans

Twit Pic: Kendra Wilkinson's Baby Hank

(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 9:20:00 AM
Cute kid alert! Reality star
Kendra Wilkinson took to her
Twitter account to post a pic of
her baby boy.
Dressed from head-to-toe in
Nike attire, Kendra's infant son,
Hank Baskett, Jr., slept like a
baby while his adoring mom
took a twit pic of him.
Little Hank has grown since the
last picture his mom posted of
him back in December. Kendra's
baby son was born on December
11, weighing in at 9 lbs. 5 oz.
This is the first baby for the
reality star and her hubby, NFL
player Hank Baskett.
20 Tech/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition

Microsoft and Intuit partner up in the cloud 'Real Housewife

(CNET News.com) customers want to interact with
of New York' to
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:35:00 AM Azure and there are natural fits--
such as this relationship with
Pose for Playboy
Intuit IPP + Windows Intuit that have immediate (ETonline - Breaking News)
Azure(Credit: Intuit) benefits for customers. There Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:30:00 AM
Intuit and Microsoft announced will be more efforts on these
Wednesday that the two natural-fit scenarios. The ladies of "The Real
companies plan to integrate the This announcement does make Housewives of New York" are
capabilities of their cloud me wonder at what point sure to have a tell-all season
services platforms, the Intuit Microsoft will consider internal when they return to TV, but one
Partner Platform(IPP) and or enterprise cloud deployments, cast mate is already planning to
Windows Azure platform, to which seem like a very obvious bare it all for the cover of
build solutions for small way to not only utilize the Azure Playboy.
businesses. Azure will become a technology but to provide a new Former model and 41-year-old
"preferred platform" for small- deployment option that isn't tied mother of two Kelly Bensimon is
business application to specific servers, but rather to a gearing up to strip down for the
development as part of the pool of resources (which March issue of the magazine
relationship. ultimately can be internal or with a six-page nude pictorial on
According to Kim Akers, looking to build new and more applications in the ecosystem. external). the inside. Kelly's ex-husband,
general manager of Partner compelling applications and Microsoft has some serious For well over a year I've been renowned photographer Gilles
Evangelism at Microsoft, there channels to sell your products. m o t i v a t i o n t o g e t m o r e suggesting that Microsoft needs Bensimon, will be doing the
are three constituencies that With this integration developers d e v e l o p e r s o n t h e A z u r e to take advantage of it's massive shoot.
benefit from this partnership: can build richer applications platform and Intuit's products are developer base to make any real Kelly isn't the first New York
• Developers working on Azure much faster. Functions like a logical step to more adoption. progress with Azure. While this housewife to pose nude. Her cast
apps can take advantage of the billing and the marketplace It seems likely that Microsoft deal with Intuit is still a bit of a mate Bethenny Frankel bared it
IPP--gaining access to the function also help to make will continue to take these types baby step, there are many other all for PETA's "I'd Rather Go
features and promotion in the developers' lives easier with of smaller steps into the cloud-- applications, both online and off, Naked Than Wear Fur" ad
marketplace. features like single sign-on." m o r e p a r t n e r i n g w i t h that could use Azure for a variety campaign.
• Channel partners have a way According to Alex Chriss, independent software vendors of purposes. This bodes well not
to offer broader applications to director of IPP, the technology that have developer communities just for Microsoft but for the
their small-business customers. took just a few months to build --rather than jumping whole-hog cloud in general.
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integration. "From the developer the SDK to integrate between the Akers told me that Microsoft
perspective you are always d e s k t o p , c l o u d , a n d o t h e r now better understands how
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CHUCK
continued from page 15
Universe. (That's the one with
Hamish McBegbie as the lead
psychotic scientist.)
Sanctuary's App Store entrant is
"Sanctuary and Beyond" [
iTunes link]. Unlike the Chuck
app, it will set you back $0.99.
Rated 12+, S&B offers
"exclusive video clips", which
are basically exactly the same
extras you'll find on the
Sanctuary Season 1 DVD. I'm
afraid I'm going to be a little
harsh here, but this app is a
serious contender for worst App
Store app ever made. It's got a
horrible interface, bad design
values, and from the bottom up
(looking at the app bundle on a
jailbroken system), it's just been
thrown together. Badly.
The name of the app that
underlies "Sanctuary and
Beyond"? It's "Metranome.app".
Presumably it was put together
by the Canadian-based
Metranome company, who didn't
bother naming the application to
match the branding for its client.
The application works like this.
You press a download arrow.
And then you wait. Without any
status indicators at all. Until
videos fully download.
Rare Tiger Spotted at Sex Rehab [Photo Evidence]
By Richard Lawson (Gawker)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:16:00 PM
Benoit was right! Pictures have
You just sit there with the app
sitting on your iPhone, and the
iPhone sitting on a desk. You
leave it open. And wait. And
wait. And wait. Until the videos
download.
While you do that, there are any
number of utterly and completely
useless buttons that make no
sense and don't help you do
anything. For example, there's a
search button. That lets you
search through, well, nothing.
There's an options button that
offers less than useful settings.
There's a help button that...well,
you get the idea.
If you do actually finish sitting
around and waiting, eventually, a
number of videos will download
to your iPhone. And then you
can watch them. On a teeny tiny
screen. Without the ability to use
Apple's video out capabilities.
Because you cannot then save or
move them to your built-in
albums. Whatever.
So here's what I recommend. Go
ahead and jailbreak your system
and install ssh. (Dont' forget to
change your password from
"alpine"). SFTP into the mobile
user folder and locate the
application folder that holds the
emerged of golfing great Tiger
Woods at Gentle Path, a
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
rehabilitation facility, where he's
Metranome.app, and from there
into Documents/media. Just ftp
the mp4 videos to your PC or
Mac and watch them there. It
will be far more satisfying and
may even justify the buck you
spent to buy the app.
Alternatively, just buy the DVDs
(or get them from your local
library) and watch them in high
def on your big screen TV.
TUAW gives "Beyond
Sanctuary" its first ever score of
Negative Five Werewolf IT
techs. We simply cannot
recommend this app for
purchase.
And, oh yeah, Chuck wins.
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in wins? originally appeared on
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NY Times Takes Up The Case Of
Sherlock Holmes And The Lost
Public Domain... But Gets It Wrong
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) properties involving the detective
Submitted at 1/20/2010 8:10:00 AM "definitely should" be licensed
by the Conan Doyle estate.
You may recall that last month Lellenberg would say that,
we had an interesting discussion because Lellenberg is the literary
h e r e o v e r w h e t h e r o r n o t agent for the Arthur Conan
Sherlock Holmes was in the Doyle estate, and wants you to
public domain. The answer was b e l i e v e t h a t . B u t , a s w e
not entirely clear, because you discussed last time, it's not true.
get different answers from All of the Sherlock Holmes
different people. However, it books except one have now
looks like the NY Times is on entered the public domain. And,
the case, and has a an article yes, this creates quite a mess.
looking into the ownership of Sir But, in theory, anyone who
Arthur Conan Doyle's creation. created a work based solely on
Unfortunately, I believe the NY the public domain works, and
Times gets it wrong. which is not based on or derived
While the article does detail the from that last work, should, in
amazingly convoluted history fact, be legit without a license.
over who owned the copyrights T h a t d o e s n ' t m e a n t h a t
( a n d t h e v a r i o u s d i s p u t e s Lellenberg (or some of the others
associated with those rights), it who claim rights over Holmes)
gets a bunch of things wrong and wouldn't sue, but it's not correct
(oddly) never seems to talk to to claim that Holmes is still
any copyright lawyers. While c o m p l e t e l y c o v e r e d b y
the article does note that Holmes copyright. The fact that the vast
is public domain in the UK, it majority of his books are very
makes a blanket statement that much in the public domain is a
Holmes is still covered by rather important fact -- and
c o p y r i g h t i n t h e U S : M r . totally ignored by the NY Times
Lellenberg said that Sherlock article.
Holmes remains under copyright Permalink| Comments| Email
protection in the United States This Story
through 2023, and that any new
a sex addiction. Hattiesburg is a
profoundly unsexy place, so
seems like a good choice.
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Facebook App Notifications Moving When Declining To Enforce Your

Intellectual Property Rights
to Your E-mail Inbox Strengthens Your Market Position
By Jennifer Van Grove push by Facebook is huge in
(Mashable!) By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) conspicuously refrained from
terms of connecting directly with
their application users, Submitted at 1/20/2010 6:57:00 AM attacking rivals on copyright or
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:56:20 AM
something that most have only patent infringement issues in
Starting today Facebook been able to do indirectly up Over the years we've shown b o t h t h e i P o d a n d i P h o n e
developers can opt to until now. Essentially Facebook many examples of times when it markets, outside of defensive
communicate with users directly will no longer serve as the makes much more business sense measures it has taken against
via e-mail, replacing the need for middleman between you and not to enforce your intellectual patent challenges from Creative
application-to-user notifications, your users. property rights, but reader Jerry a n d m o r e r e c e n t l y N o k i a .
which the social networks plans authorization. For sites that leverage Facebook L e i c h t e r s e n d s i n a n o t h e r Competing in the market has
to eliminate. Here’s how it looks if the Connect as an alternative login, example. It discusses how Apple historically worked out much
T h e n e w i n i t i a t i v e w a s developer chooses to make e- i t ’ s a l s o a n i m p o r t a n t is benefiting from not going after more successfully for Apple than
announced this morning and will mail sharing optional: development that will help you those who copy its iPhone UI, trying to compete in court. I
go live today. Developers can And if the application requires s t o r e n e w m e m b e r e - m a i l s u g g e s t i n g t h a t A p p l e ' s think it's a good point -- and
n o w r e q u e s t u s e r e - m a i l your e-mail address: addresses, or the proxied aggressiveness in such lawsuits accurate that Apple is better off
addresses during the initial Given that Facebook wants to Facebook e-mail address, for with PCs helped Microsoft win not enforcing its IP, and that
authorization process (which m a k e f u l l t r a n s i t i o n f r o m future contact. the personal computer war in the Microsoft was helped by Apple's
they can make optional or application-to-user notifications As for Facebook application 80s and 90s: The more different mistake last time around, but I
r e q u i r e d ) , F a c e b o o k w i l l t o d i r e c t - t o - u s e r e - m a i l users, some of you might not competitors Apple faces in doubt that's why Apple isn't
extensively promote the feature communication, it plans to relish the idea of sharing your e- smartphones, the better it fares. doing it this time around. My
on every application page users promote the change extensively. mail address, but Facebook has One major reason why Apple guess is that the reason it didn't
visit, and users can either share As an application user, you’ll built-in a number of safe guards lost its pioneering position in bother this time was because it
their actual e-mail address or a start to see dialog boxes at the should you not only wish to g r a p h i c a l d e s k t o p P C s t o lost so badly when it tried to go
Facebook proxied e-mail address top of every application canvas reject sharing your e-mail or do Microsoft in the 90s was related after Microsoft for copying the
for anonymity. How it Works page you visit. You’ll see these so anonymously. They’re also to the company's efforts to stamp "Windows" look and feel. Still,
On the surface, user e-mail for the next three months or holding developers to the CAN- out rivals in "look and feel" it is a good example where
sharing is just another extended t h r o u g h t h r e e i n d e p e n d e n t SPAM Act and requiring that lawsuits during the late 80s that sometimes it really does help to
permission that application users s e s s i o n s w i t h a s i n g l e they pledge not to sell your info shut down windowing products have more people recognize your
will be able to allow (or not) a p p l i c a t i o n . to third-parties. from HP and GEM, leaving u s e r i n t e r f a c e - - e v e n i f
during the authorization process. You’ll probably get pretty Tags: facebook, facebook Microsoft free rein to consolidate sometimes they're using it from
For the user, this means that the familiar with dialogs that look a p p l i c a t i o n , f a c e b o o k a competitive-free monopoly someone else.
process will flow similar to other similar to this: notifications, social media juggernaut around its own Permalink| Comments| Email
application requests that they can What It Means Windows product. This Story
a c c e p t o r r e j e c t d u r i n g For developers, the big e-mail In this decade, Apple has

Brock Lesnar: Recovery 'a Miracle,' Ready for Mir-Carwin Winner

By Michael David Smith Filed under: UFC, News
(Fanhouse Main) UFC heavyweight champion
Submitted at 1/20/2010 3:22:00 AM
Brock Lesnar said Wednesday
that he has had a miraculous
and that he will face the winner Lesnar's Health Issue, Recovery
of the upcoming Frank Mir vs.
Shane Carwin fight this summer.
recovery from a serious illness, More: Timeline of Brock
E-reader News Edition Tech/ Entertainment/ 23

Microsoft to release patch for IE hole Linja Zax 2.0 brings 3D

on Thursday scrolling to your pocket
(CNET News.com) "It addresses the vulnerability guidance related to reports of (CNET News.com) Here's what it looks like:
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:21:00 AM related to recent attacks against proof of concept code that Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:41:00 AM The idea of tilting or pitching
Google and a small subset of bypasses the Data Encryption content within a display is by no
Microsoft said on Wednesday corporations, as well as several Protection that can mitigate Remember Linja Zax? Probably means new. On the desktop it's
that it will release on Thursday a other vulnerabilities. Once against attacks. not, but the technology, which been available in a number of
patch to fix the latest hole in applied, customers are protected For an attack to be emerged around this time last applications and browser add-
Internet Explorer which was against the known attacks that accomplished, an attacker would year as a gesture-based ons. But in recent years, it's
used in the China-based attack have been widely publicized," have to lure an IE user to a Web alternative to multitouch can begun to make a lot more sense
on Google. Bryant said. "We recommend site hosting malware that was now be found on Nokia's N900 on mobile devices where there is
The company plans to release that customers install the update written to exploit the hole in the browser. It can also be found less screen real estate to go
the patch as close to 10 a.m. PST as soon as it is available. For browser. This could be done by within the specifications of around. This can be seen most
on Thursday as possible and host customers using automatic using social engineering and Mozilla's mobile Fennec recently within Google's Android
a public Webcast at 1 p.m. PST, u p d a t e s , t h i s u p d a t e w i l l including a link to the malicious browser, although it has not yet 2.1 software, which has a gallery
a c c o r d i n g t o t h e s e c u r i t y automatically be applied once it site in an e-mail that looks like it been implemented. app that uses technology from
advisory. is released." is coming from someone familiar Linja Zax's latest trick is to re- Cooliris. However, unlike what
Microsoft continues to see Vulnerable software is IE 6 on or contains important imagine how users scroll around Linja Designs has shown off, it's
limited attacks and has only seen Microsoft Windows 2000 and IE information. a page. Where most touch-based based less on finger interaction
evidence of successful attacks 6, 7, and 8 on supported editions Microsoft had announced on browsers simply move the Web as much as the way you're
against Internet Explorer 6, of Windows XP, Windows Tuesday that it would release the page, map tile, or image around holding the phone.
according to Jerry Bryant, senior Server 2003, Windows Vista, out-of-band patch before the next as if it were a piece of paper on a Linja Zax 2.0 remains a concept,
security program manager at Windows Server 2008, Windows Patch Tuesday in February. table, Linja Zax now gives your whereas version 1.0 can be
Microsoft. 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2, Updated 11:46 a.m. PST with screen a 3D tilt. installed as an add-on to Firefox
"This is a standard cumulative Microsoft said. background on how an attack This ever so slight change in browsers. As mentioned before,
update, accelerated from our Microsoft also updated its could be accomplished. perspective gives users a much its circular finger zooming
regularly scheduled February s e c u r i t y a d v i s o r y o n t h e Five Filters featured article: farther field of view to see both gestures can also be found on the
release, for Internet Explorer vulnerability to include technical Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: how much more room there is to embedded browser that ships on
with an aggregate severity rating details to address additional PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, go in any one direction, as well the Nokia N900.
o f C r i t i c a l , " h e s a i d i n a products that may be affected by Term Extraction. as a broader view on a small Five Filters featured article:
statement. this vulnerability and to provide screen. Linja Design, the makers Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
of Linja Zax promise that it's 50 PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
percent better than viewing the Term Extraction.
content with the current standard.

'Lost' Star Josh Holloway Endorses the Power of Cool

(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:54:00 AM
The shirtless and sexy "Lost"
star Josh Holloway is back on
the island!
Holloway, who plays Sawyer on
the hit ABC show, made a splash
on the shores of Hawaii as he
posed for Cool Water's new
men's fragrance Davidoff. "What
makes a Cool Water man cool is
mainly confidence and a
willingness to be a part of the
elements that surround us on this
planet," Holloway says of the
brand. "I'm really proud to be
representing Cool Water and of
the image that we've come up February 2.
with. ... The power of cool is
back!"
Holloway and the cast of "Lost"
return to TV for the final season
of the show on Tuesday,
24 Tech/ E-reader News Edition

Earthquake survivor
says iPhone helped save
Did The Automobile Dehumanize his life
Walking? No? Then Does Google By Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))

Dehumanize Intelligence? Submitted at 1/20/2010 12:30:00 PM

Filed under: Odds and ends,

By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) But not to Nick Carr, calculator to figure out iPhone Here's a remarkable story
Submitted at 1/20/2010 9:29:00 AM apparently. To him, this means something isn't really a problem coming out of the horrendous
that people are becoming at all. And, much more tragedy in Haiti. Colorado
Kevin sent over one of Nick "intellectually dehumanized." importantly, it means that I can Springs resident Dan Woolley
Carr's latest ramblings, attacking And this is a bad, bad thing: do much more complex was at a Port-au-Prince hotel you; if you want more clinical
Google and its VP Marissa Truth is self-created through mathematical calculations as when that tremendous information and CPR help, the
Mayer for saying: "It's not what l a b o r , t h r o u g h t h e h a r d , well. The same is true of earthquake struck, trapping him free WebMD Mobile [ iTunes
you know, it's what you can find inefficient, unscripted work of Google. Sure, we may not with a compound fracture in his link] or CPR Hero [ iTunes link]
out." That statement is a little the mind, through the indirection remember little bits of leg and a laceration on his head. may deserve a spot on your
too bland to actually catch on, of dream and reverie. What information here or there, but we Fortunately for Dan, he had his phone. There's also a podcast to
but is hardly a new idea. In fact, matters is what cannot be can more easily bring together a iPhone and a medical app with help you learn the techniques of
we've argued that this is the case rendered as code. Google can much, much, much larger corpus him (plus a lot of luck), which he CPR for child and adult rescue.
for many years. If you have g i v e y o u e v e r y t h i n g b u t of information, and synthesize used to successfully diagnose It's an amazing story of survival,
regular access to a vast computer meaning. But this presupposes that in a useful way in our brains. and treat his injuries. and we wish Dan and everyone
network that lets you find stuff, all sorts of incorrect things -- There is no rule that you should Using the light from his iPhone's affected the best. If you're
you can actually have your such as the idea that what only use what's stored directly in screen, Dan examined his looking for a way to support the
biological brain focus on more information you don't store in your mind to think about things. wounds and identified the extent relief efforts, you can do your
important things, rather than your brain can't be used for The calculator didn't of the damage using the part -- and get some great
cramming it with things you can sussing out meaning. It reminds dehumanize math. The unnamed app. From there, he software to boot -- today at Indie
easily find out. In fact, with me of the people who insisted, automobile didn't dehumanize looked up the appropriate first Relief or Mac Bundle Box.
various studies suggesting the years ago, that calculators would walking. And Google, most aid techniques and applied them [Via MacDailyNews]
real key to intelligence is better destroy everyone's ability to do certainly, has not dehumanized with pieces of his own clothing. TUAW Earthquake survivor
forgetting rather than better basic math, and that this would intelligence. It's only enabled it Later, as he waited to be rescued, says iPhone helped save his life
remembering, you could argue inevitably lead to the downfall of to do much, much more. he diagnosed shock, again using originally appeared on The
that not having to remember society. Sure, I may not totally Permalink| Comments| Email that medical app. Unofficial Apple Weblog
certain things can be of great remember my times tables, but This Story First aid apps are well (TUAW) on Wed, 20 Jan 2010
benefit. being able to quickly use a represented on the App Store, 12:30:00 EST. Please see our
and might prove crucial in an terms for use of feeds.
emergency. The US Army First Read| Permalink| Email this|
Aid Manual [$1.99, iTunes link] Comments
and Survival Guide [$1.99,
iTunes link] may be suitable for
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Chinese counterfeit iPhone workshop iPhone Sega Genesis

raided
By Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:30:00 AM
Filed under: Hardware, iPhone
Emulator Is Totally
Official largest provider) announcing
100,000 units sold between the
October, 2009 launch and
By Samuel Axon (Mashable!)
December, 2009. China Unicom
represents some 144 million Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:20:59 AM

It's well known that China has a users.

significant black market
problem, especially when it
comes to electronics, including
the iPhone. Earlier this week,
Chinese officials reported raiding
a factory in Huaqiangbei,
Shenzhen in Southern China,
where they seized 1,000
counterfeit iPhones and arrested
28 workers, according to
Shenzhen Daily.* The factory
was allegedly operated under the
name Chuanglida
Communication Tech Co.
The cost of a counterfeit iPhone
isn't clear, but estimates put them
at 500 yuan (approximately
Canucks Take Their Act on the Road ...
for 14 Straight Games
By Christopher Botta
(Fanhouse Main)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 5:00:00 AM
Filed under: Canucks Between
Jan. 28 and March 10, Canucks
and Team Sweden forwards
Daniel and Henrik Sedin will road trip in NHL history, divided
s l e e p a t t h e i r r e s p e c t i v e by the Winter Olympics.
Vancouver homes for two nights.
This is a result of the longest
US$74 as of this writing). Legit
iPhones sell for 5,000 yuan. The
report notes that Apple is
sending staff to Shenzhen to
learn more about the case.
Last month, Apple gained
control of the "i-phone"
trademark in China after a long
dispute with manufacturer
Hanwang Technology who held
the trademark for a device they
briefly sold in 2003. Official
iPhone sales in China have been
disappointing, with China
Unicom (the country's 2nd
[Via iPhone Savior]
* Note: The Shenzhen Daily site
is down as of this writing. The
link included above is the
Google Cache version whereas
the source link below links to the
original site.
TUAW Chinese counterfeit
iPhone workshop raided
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China tells banks
to halt lending
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 3:04:11 AM
By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing
and Sundeep Tucker in Hong
Kong
Published: January 20 2010
05:43 | Last updated: January 20
2010 11:04
Five Filters featured article:
Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
Term Extraction.
A completely legit Sega Genesis
emulator for the iPhone and iPod
touch will hit the Apple App
Store this February, according to
Gizmodo.
It will be free with one game (
Space Harrier II), but you’ll be
able to buy more games within
the app for $5.99 and under.
Sonic the Hedgehog, Shining
Force, Golden Axe and Ecco the
Dolphin will be among the first
games available.
Sonic the Hedgehog and other
Sega games have been available
as independent downloads in the
App Store for months. The idea
here is to bring it all together into
one app, making things easier to
manage. The app will also give
Sega the chance to tempt you
into buying more games every
time you load up Space Harrier
II.
Game emulators allow you to
use software intended for another
device on your phone. They’ve
been popular on personal
computers for a very long time,
but the questionable legality of
the unofficial copies of the
games has given Apple pause
about allowing these things into
the App Store in the past. This
Genesis emulator (called
Ultimate Genesis) was built by
Sega itself, and it will play only
games Sega makes available in
its store. Sorry, but you won’t be
able to import those 1,000
Genesis ROMs you downloaded
on your PC or Mac.
Unofficial emulators that can
play those ROMs are still out
there, but you’ll have to jailbreak
your phone to use them because
they’re not available through the
App Store.
Ultimate Genesis isn’t the first
game emulator for the iPhone; a
Commodore 64 app hit the
virtual shelves last year.
Tags: apple, apple app store,
emulator, iphone, sega, sega
genesis, sega ultimate genesis,
video games
26 Tech/ Sports/
Beta beat: Backup your Blu-ray discs It's Wednesday, time for
with MakeMKV
By Aron Trimble (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:30:00 PM
Filed under: Software, Video,
Beta Beat You know that it's
possible to backup your CDs
with iTunes and your DVDs with
Handbrake, but what about that
new Blu-ray disc (BD) you just
received during the holidays?
Macworld has a good write-up of
a beta utility called MakeMKV
that will rip both DVDs and BDs
to perfect quality MKV format.
Bare in mind that this will
require having a connected or
internal Blu-ray drive that can
read said discs. This is currently
a bit of a novelty in most Macs
being that Steve Jobs considers
the whole thing a " bag of hurt."
However, if your system meets
the hardware requirements,
Backchecking with ... Ryan Malone
By Christopher Botta
(Fanhouse Main)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 6:15:00 AM
Filed under: Lightning We get
to know NHL players with some
quick questions. Today we meet
Tampa Bay's 6-4 power forward
another TUAW TV Live
broadcast at 5 PM ET
you're ready to go off on your
first Blu-ray ripping journey
without the typical mess
involved.
Macworld's test resulted in a file
nearly 32 GB in size as
compared to the original 35 GB
on the physical BD. While this is
useful for those of you with a
farm of terabyte-sized drives at
your disposal, for others, a lower
quality backup is acceptable. If
Ryan Malone.
space is a concern, or you want
to put a copy on your Apple TV,
it's possible to use previously-
mentioned Handbrake or Video
Monkey to transcode into a
lower quality (but still excellent)
file.
MakeMKV is available now for
free while in beta. The Blu-ray
ripping functionality is only free
while the software is in beta so
grab it while you can. Once the
beta period ends, only the DVD-
ripping will be free.
[via Macworld]
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Blu-ray discs with MakeMKV
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By Steven Sande (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:30:00 AM
Filed under: Video, Podcasting
Not only is it Wednesday, but it's
just one week -- seven short days
-- until Apple announces
something. We don't know what
• Original Mac marketing videos
the announcement is all about,
• A quick app review or two
but we know where and when it
• Michael Grothaus' second
will happen.
article on what you want in
So, while we bounce off the
iPhone OS 4.0
walls in fanboy anticipation, you
• Upcoming announcements on
can burn off some of that excess
Monday (financial) and
energy by joining your host
Wednesday
Steve Sande for what is
becoming a Wednesday
And of course, any topic you
tradition: TUAW TV Live.
bring up in the live chat is fair
It's free, it's fun, and it's live! All
game as well. See you this
you need to do is come back here
to TUAW at about 5 PM ET (2 afternoon!
PM PT) and there will be a TUAW It's Wednesday, time for
special post with information another TUAW TV Live
about watching or participating broadcast at 5 PM ET originally
in the show. We use Ustream to appeared on The Unofficial
do our live broadcast, and you Apple Weblog (TUAW) on
can watch existing episodes of Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:30:00 EST.
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Haiti Earthquake Sign of the End Times: The 100

cheesiest movie
Survivor: “My iPhone Pants on the Ground T- quotes of all-time
Saved My Life” Shirts Hit eBay (Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:29:00 AM

By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!) By Brenna Ehrlich

Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:55:25 AM
Apple’s iconic smartphone has
been known to win hearts and
minds, but can it also save lives?
Apparently it can, according to
this story from NBC Miami.
American Dan Woolley of
Colorado Springs was caught in
the collapse of the Hotel
Montana in Port-au-Prince after
the Haiti earthquake struck last
week. He used a medical
application he had downloaded
and the light from his iPhone to
diagnose and treat injuries to his
foot and head, and to help
prevent going into shock.
He also used the phone’s camera
to map his surroundings and
identify a safer location to await
rescue, which followed 65 hours
(Mashable!) Nothing spoils a perfectly
mediocre movie like a huge
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:49:27 AM
helping of cheese. Nope, not a
It has come to this:“Pants on the plate full of gouda—a script line
Ground” merch. When, oh when, delivered with such a thick
will this meme leave us in coating of Velveeta, an audience
peace? can't help but to chuckle.
General Larry Platt’s rendition Prepare for a giggle and a
after the earthquake. Woolley is of original jam “Pants on the wide selection of “Pants on the grimace with the 100 cheesiest
now recovering at Jackson G r o u n d ” ( s u n g d u r i n g t h e Ground” Ts. Andrea Reiher over movie quotes ever uttered on the
Memorial Hospital in Miami. requisite audition episode of at Zap2it wonders if Platt is big screen:
It’s an amazing story that American Idol) has officially s e e i n g a n y d o u g h i n t h e Grab the popcorn and indulge in
underscores both Woolley’s become the first viral hit of 2010, aftermath of his performance, tons of movie news.
r e s o u r c e f u l n e s s a n d t h e with shout-outs from the late- and I have to reiterate her Permalink| Leave a comment »
transformative power of those night circuit to the locker room. question. Come on people, if
handheld computers in our But, as we all know, there’s you’re going to beat this meme
pockets — which can perhaps really no way to capitalize on a into bloody oblivion, at least use
even have the power to save a meme unless you 1). Get a book its visibility to help Platt, who
life. deal, 2). Sell T-shirts. could certainly use the cash.
[via TUAW] And that’s just what a cadre of Tags: american idol, business,
Tags: haiti, iphone, iphone apps, enterprising folks are doing on humor, larry platt, money, pants
medical eBay, where you can now find a of the ground, web video

And Now, the Blame Game

(Little Green Footballs) Two rival camps quickly received from national hers alone; “If the Coakley shake their hands, a Disastrous
Submitted at 1/20/2010 8:04:44 AM emerged: Coakley’s campaign Democrats. One senior party campaign did have money trip to Washington DC and a
(and consultant — in particular official dismissed the memo as a troubles perhaps it was because terrible debate performance,”
Chris Cillizza has a piece on the pollster Celinda Lake) versus “pack of lies” and — in a memo the candidate and campaign went read the memo. The simple fact
Democratic blame game in full national Democrats. From a rebutting the Coakley memo — on hiatus/vacation for the last 10 — as we noted last night — is
force in Massachusetts. Coakley campaign adviser came made several points including: 1) days of December,” read the that everyone from the White
Less than 24 hours removed a s t r o n g l y w o r d e d m e m o , National Democrats had memo. 3) “Remember — the House to the Democratic
from state Attorney General arguing that she had consistently contacted the campaign on Jan. 2 most notable events of the last Senatorial Campaign Committee
Martha Coakley’s (D) stunning raised concern about voter asking what could be done to week had nothing to do with the to the Coakley campaign
loss in the Massachusetts Senate apathy in advance of the special help and didn’t hear back for national Democratic Party — it deserves their share of blame.
race, Democrats were at daggers- e l e c t i o n a n d a s k e d f o r four days. 2) The money was: Schilling is a Yankee,
drawn over whose fault it was. fundraising help that she never problems were Coakley’s and telling voters she didn’t need to
28 Politics/ E-reader News Edition

Ghost Story
By Thomas B. Edsall (The circumstances), his push for Alone, offers an interpretation of They suggest that the populace, by 11 percentage points, while
New Republic - All Feed) health care reform stands above what is going on. In 2007, especially the white populace, is the share of increasingly
Submitted at 1/19/2010 10:49:53 PM
the rest. He simply failed to Putnam published “E Pluribus on a psychic hair trigger. The progressive white college
anticipate the animosity that his Unum: Diversity and demographic transformation of graduate voters has risen by four
The victory of Scott Brown in proposal to cover the uninsured Community in the Twenty-first the country and the birth of points. But the share of white-
the fight for Ted Kennedy’s and to subsidize health care for Century,” a study that reaches multicultural America have made working class voters, who have
Senate seat shines a light on a the poor would generate. conclusions painful to those this group extremely status remained conservative in their
trend in American politics that The harsh reality is many voters committed to diversity and anxious—an anxiety that the orientation, has plummeted by
o u g h t t o d e e p l y t r o u b l e consider the health care bill a equality: “New evidence from recession obviously heightens. 15 points.” It was the dawn of an
progressives. multibillion-dollar transfer of the US suggests that in ethnically They are in a mood, to borrow enlightened political era, he
When Barack Obama ran for taxpayer money to the uninsured, diverse neighborhoods residents Putnam’s phrase, to “hunker explained: “A new progressive
president in 2008, he decisively a p o p u l a t i o n of all races tend to 'hunker down.” America is on the rise.”
demonstrated that he was not disproportionately, although by down.' Trust (even of one's own And it is precisely this anxiety Since those heady days,
bound by Democratic orthodoxy. no means exclusively, made up race) is lower, altruism and that is such an impediment to however, the Democratic
H e c a l l e d f o r m e r i t p a y , of the poor, African Americans, community cooperation rarer, empathy. They view themselves realignment has stalled. By every
expanding charter schools, and Latinos, single parents, and the friends fewer.” as only marginally better off than polling measure the party is
firing incompetent teachers. He l o n g - t e r m u n e m p l o y e d . He continues: “[I]nhabitants of those they perceive as the losing ground. Obama’s
supported President Bush’s faith- Providing medical care to this diverse communities tend to recipients of new government favorability ratings continue a
based initiatives providing population is an explicit goal of withdraw from collective life, to benefits. They look at health care steady downward trend. These
federal money to religious the legislation, and a worthy distrust their neighbors, reform and worry that they have movements are not the result of
charities. He endorsed the goal, but political suicide in the regardless of the color of their little or nothing to gain and much restored public esteem for the
S u p r e m e C o u r t ' s d e c i s i o n current environment. skin, to withdraw even from to lose. In the end, Democrats Republican Party. The stature of
overturning a handgun ban in the As everyone knows, the United close friends, to expect the worst failed to tailor their salesmanship the GOP remains low, with its
nation’s capital, while faulting States is undergoing a profound from their community and its of health care reform to allay the favorability ratings still 11 points
the Court’s opposition to the demographic transformation. leaders, to volunteer less, give qualms of these voters, of the behind those of the Democratic
d e a t h p e n a l t y f o r c h i l d Non-Hispanic whites are likely less to charity and work on white working class. Party.
rape.(Click here to read Jonathan to become a minority by the year community projects less often, to What this suggests is that many In practice, the decline of
Cohn's open letter to nervous and 2042. This shift underlies the register to vote less, to agitate for analyses of the elections of 2006 Democratic fortunes coincides
frustrated House Democrats.) theory of a Democratic social reform more, but have less and 2008 only saw part of the with the growing perception that
Once in office, however, Obama realignment: Pro-Democratic faith that they can actually make picture. To many Democrats Obama’s three primary
failed to sustain his carefully groups are growing while the pro a difference, and to huddle (and even some Republicans), legislative initiatives--health care
calibrated positioning. And then -Republican white population is unhappily in front of the the country appeared to be on the reform, cap-and-trade, and
he compounded this failing. declining. television. Note that this pattern verge of a realignment driven by increased regulation of the
White, middle-class voters There is evidence, however, that encompasses attitudes and demography. This view was financial sector--have failed to
ceased to think of him as a trends that have recently boosted behavior, bridging and bonding most persuasively articulated by improve the daily lives of most
protector of their interests. There Democratic prospects may also social capital, public and private Ruy Teixeira last March in a voters, voters who are impacted
was the bank bailout and his be a key factor in undermining connections. Diversity, at least in report for the Center for by the worst economy in 70
concessions to Wall Street on the capacity of the population for the short run, seems to bring out American Progress. years. At a time when many
financial reform. While empathy, and, thus, its the turtle in all of us.” From 1988 to 2008, Teixeira voters are frightened by
expanding his political capital on receptivity to programs like Putnam’s findings offer critical wrote, the importance of unprecedented deficits, the threat
health care reform, he failed to health care reform. insight into the explosive growth moderate and low-income white of escalating health care costs
make a dent in unemployment. Robert Putnam, a Harvard of the Tea Party movement and voters had steadily diminished:
But of all these political sociologist and author of the the strikingly sudden collapse of “The minority share of voters in GHOST page 29
miscalculations (and unfortunate influential 2000 book, Bowling support for the Democratic Party. presidential elections has risen
E-reader News Edition Politics/ Popular News/ 29

Does He Feel Your Pain?

By John B. Judis (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 1/19/2010 11:08:39 PM
Bill Clinton didn’t know he was
in big trouble until the very eve
of the November 1994 election.
Barack Obama knows now,
barely a year into his presidency.
While the party loyalists can
blame Martha Coakley’s defeat
on her ignorance of Red Sox
baseball, it was clearly a
Carolina outfit that picked up
Brown’s surge early in the
month, 20 percent of the
respondents who voted for
Obama in 2008 said they’d vote
for Brown. Among those voters,
only 22 percent approved of
Obama’s presidency, and only
13 percent backed his health care
plan.(Click here to read Thomas
B. Edsall: "Why Health Care is
the Graveyard of Democratic
Dreams.")
what she could have done better-
-the answer to that can fill pages
of unhappy anecdotes about
campaign mishaps--but why
Obama’s popularity is so low
that a Democrat could lose
Massachusetts. A conservative
Republican Senate candidate
winning Massachusetts, which
Obama carried by 62 percent to
36 percent in 2008, is
comparable to a liberal Democrat
carrying Utah.
lost ground--and where the
Democrats have lost ground--is
primarily among white working
and middle-class voters and
senior citizens.
The Suffolk University poll in
Massachusetts, which like the
PPP poll, was pretty much on
The food court dilemma:
target in the final result, singled How to choose where to
out two white working-class eat [Flowchart]
towns, Gardner and Fitchburg, as
(Holy Kaw!)
bellwethers. Obama won
Gardner, where Democrats hold Submitted at 1/19/2010 9:20:29 PM

message to the president and his
party. Yes, a less inept candidate
might have beaten Scott Brown,
but if Obama and his program
had been more popular in
Massachusetts, even Coakley
could have won--and by ten
points or more.
There were no network exits
polls, only a limited sample by
Rasmussen, but some of the polls
taken beforehand bear out
Obama’s role in Coakley’s
defeat. In the final January 17
poll by Public Policy Polling, a
Democratic-leaning North
GHOST
continued from page 28
In fact, the percent of 2008
Obama voters who were backing
Brown almost perfectly matched
the percentage who were
dissatisfied with Obama’s health
care plan, which Brown himself
singled out for criticism in his
campaign. According to the
Rasmussen exit sample, 52
percent of Brown voters rated
health care as their top issue--a
clear indication that they were
viewing the election in national
and not merely state terms.
The most important question
raised by Coakley’s loss is not
If you believe some of the blogs,
the Democrats lost
Massachusetts, and Obama’s
approval is plummeting
nationwide, because he alienated
his left-wing base. Perhaps that
does account for an absence of
turnout among young voters in
the Virginia gubernatorial or
Massachusetts Senate races, but
the polls have not shown
growing dissatisfaction among
young, minority, or liberal voters
--the three voting blocs that
accounted for Obama’s strongest
support in 2008. Where he has
a three-to-one registrations edge,
by 59 percent to 31 percent in
2008. Brown won it by 56
percent to 42 percent. Obama
won Fitchburg, with a similar
Democratic edge, by
60 percent to 38 percent in 2008.
Brown won it by 59 percent to
40 percent. That suggests a fairly
dramatic shift among white
working class voters.
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and the likelihood of tax
increases to pay for all this--
Obama is being perceived as
governing like a “tax and spend
liberal.”
The Pew Center has been
tracking key public attitudes
toward Obama and found that
over the year the percentage of
voters saying he listens to
liberals in his party more than
moderates grew by 9 points,
from 34 percent to 43 percent,
while the percentage saying he
listens more to the moderate
wing fell by 13 points, from 44
percent to 31 percent.
And, so now a Democratic Party
that seemed poised for electoral
greatness has reverted back to
the debilitating political
condition that ailed it during the
1970s and 1980s. It is
increasingly perceived as too
liberal. It must convince the
white working class that it will
protect its interests—not just
those of the very rich and very
poor. Electoral success blinded
the party to these nagging
problems. Festering old
perceptions have come back with
a fury. That’s why Scott Brown
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agenda.
Thomas B. Edsall is the political
editor of the Huffington Post.
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'Tea Party Leader': The GOP Never
Calls Me Back
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 1/19/2010 2:56:26 PM
Dale Robertson is in the
Washington Times again,
described as a “leading figure” in
the tea party movement:‘Tea
party’ activists feel slighted by
GOP.
Leading figures in the
burgeoning “tea party”
movement complain they are
being ignored by the Republican
National Committee, despite
having already shown their clout
in taking down moderate
Republicans in a New York
special House race and the
Florida Republican Party
hierarchy.
“I have called into the RNC
many times, and they still
haven’t called me back,” said
Dale Robertson, head of
TeaParty.org, which he claims
has upwards of 7 million
members. “I’ve called them, lots
of times. I called them this
morning. I called them
yesterday. It’s like they ignore
you as they try to figure out a
strategy on how to defeat you.”
Here’s Robertson at the
February 27, 2009 Houston Tea
Party. Now why in the world
would the GOP fail to return his
calls? It’s a real head-scratcher.
The last time I posted a link to a
Washington Times article about
Robertson, I got several insult-
laced emails outraged that I
described him as a “tea party
leader,” saying that he had
nothing to do with the Houston
tea party groups, and demanding
that I post a correction. And now
here he is again in the far right
Washington Times, touted as one
of the main leaders of the
E-reader News Edition
GoogleSharing
Anonymizes Your Google
Experience [Downloads]
By Jason Fitzpatrick GoogleSharing doesn't work for
(Lifehacker) services you're logged into—it
teabaggers, and boasting that his Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:00:00 AM would have no effect on your
group has 7 million members. GMail session since you've
Don’t bother emailing again, Firefox: Google offers a host of willingly identified yourself to
folks; if you can’t control your really awesome services, but Google. For using Google
own message, to the point where more than a few people are services that don't require a login
t h e W a s h i n g t o n T i m e s i s freaked out by how much h o w e v e r i t p e r f o r m s a s
promoting this idiot as your information Google can gather. promised. GoogleSharing can
leader, I’m not going to accept GoogleSharing anonymizes your a l s o f u n c t i o n a s a p r o x y
any of the blame for it. Google activities and keeps the manager, allowing you to add
This kind of thing is why the tea big G out of your business. additional non-GoogleSharing
party “movement” is such a bad GoogleSharing is a Firefox proxies to use during your
joke. extension that routes all your b r o w s i n g session.
Google interactions through G o o g l e S h a r i n g i s a f r e e
proxy that taps into a swarm of extension and works wherever
Google identities—each query Firefox does.
you perform through the main Have your own tips or tricks for
search engine, Google Books, or a n o n y m i z i n g y o u r w e b
other Google services is sent browsing? Let's hear about it in
through one of the random t h e c o m m e n t s .
identities. GoogleSharing[via The Register]
As you would expect,
E-reader News Edition
Get to Know the Lay of the Land for
a Better Chance of Success at Your
Job [Career]
By Lisa Hoover (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:00:00 AM
Everyone wants to make a good
impression on their first day at a
new job. Career blog Work
Awesome suggests learning the
landscape of your workplace like
the back of your hand for better
chances of success, new job or
not.
Image by peretzpup.
Blogger Bob Bessette says it's
best to listen more than you talk,
especially during those first
crucial few days. You can learn a
lot more about the climate and
culture of the company that way
than you can from any employee
handbook or orientation.
Naturally, you also want to
make it a point to learn your co-
workers' names, but Bessette
says you should take that a step
farther and also get acquainted
with the company's organization
chart and where
everyone—especially you—fits
into it.
China and eurozone fears hit risk appetite
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:50:19 AM
By Jamie Chisholm, Global
Tech Tips/ Economy/ 31
Airline Fees Chart Highlights
Charges for Checked Bags, Meals,
and Other Airline Amenities [Travel]
By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) breaking down the extra prices
Learn the Landscape. First of tips in the post, so you'll want to for checking your first bag and
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:30:00 AM
all, you should get a copy of the head over there to check them second bag, for grabbing a snack
org chart from Human Resources out—definitely some great E v e n i f y o u s e c u r e a n or meal on your flight, and
and make it a point to learn it. reminders for first-time job inexpensive plane ticket these f i n a l l y f o r a n y a d d i t i o n a l
Knowing who reports to whom, seekers or anyone dealing with days, you've still got plenty of c h a r g e a b l e s e r v i c e s o r
will help you become familiar new-job jitters. What memorablepricey checked-bag and other a e x c e p t i o n s .
with all of the players in the first-day-of-work experiences la carte fees to worry about. The chart covers all the major
organization. Knowing where to have you had? Share them in theTravel site Orbitz offers a U.S. airlines along with several
go to get help will be essential, comments. 5 Tips for the Brand comprehensive chart rounding international, so it's certainly
not only to a new employee, but New Employee[Work Awesome] up these fees for 25+ airlines. worth a bookmark until the next
to a seasoned one. Photo by lrargerich. time you're pricing tickets. Got
Bessette's got a few other good Next time you're considering your own strategies for keeping
prices for a ticket, fire up this it cheap when you fly? (Carry-on
handy chart to keep an eye on the only!) Let's hear them in the
Markets Commentator Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: hidden charges that may be comments. Will I be charged a
Published: January 20 2010 PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, tacked on for the airlines you're f e e f o r c h e c k e d b a g s a n d
08:28 | Last updated: January 20 Term Extraction. looking at. The exhaustive chart m e a l s ? [ O r b i t z v i a E r i n
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32 Tech Tips/ Game/
Circle Dock Arranges Your Shortcuts in a Mouse-
Centered Application Dock [Downloads]
By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 12:00:00 PM
Windows: Sure you could use
the start menu or even install an
application launcher like
Launchy but you'd be missing
out on the rotating eye candy and
application management of
Circle Dock.
We first covered Circle Dock
when it appeared out of of a
Donation Coder contest two
years ago. Since then it has
undergone quite a few revisions
and is more polished than ever.
One of the initial complaints
about Circle Dock was the lack
The Tactical Wallet Is a Wallet and Swiss Army
Knife Rolled into One [Stuff We Like]
By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:30:00 AM
Sure the Tactical Wallet holds
your credit cards, license, cash,
and other wallet-y items. It also
packs a built-in compass,
tweezers, toothpick, pen, glass
breaker, and two hidden
compartments. It's like if
MacGyver made a wallet.
Unfortunately MacGyver's not
the most ergonomic designer.
For many, the Tactical wallet
E-reader News Edition
Persona 3 Portable
coming to North
America on July 6
By Andrew Yoon (Joystiq)
rotation speed, and transparency
of the circle as well as what hot Submitted at 1/20/2010 1:30:00 PM
keys and mouse combos will
summon it and interact with it. Atlus is bringing an English-
You can reorder icons, swap language version of Persona 3
them out—don't think the default Portable to the US. The PSP
icon for an app is sexy enough version of Persona 3 isn't a direct
for your new circle launcher? port of the original PS2 RPG.
You can grab a new one and Instead, it streamlines the
replace it—and rearrange them experience for handheld play and
by drag and drop. adds a new playable female
Circle Dock is freeware, character, with her own "Social
o f c o m p r e h e n s i v e h e l p immediately after the installation Windows only. Have a novel Links, special events, and unique
file—even in the beginning the s o y o u c a n d i g r i g h t i n t o application launcher? Let's hear romantic opportunities." In
application did a lot but it wasn't tweaking settings. You can about it in the comments. Circle addition, P3P adds a few cameos
always clear on how you could tweak just about everything in Dock from Persona 4, and introduces
g e t i t t o d o w h a t y o u Circle Dock short of tweaking five difficulty settings, ranging
wanted—the new release has a into being Square Dock. from "beginner" to "maniac."
huge help file that launches You can alter the size, shape, The battle system has also
drastically changed, with players
able to directly control
teammates.
The UMD version will be
available at retail on July 6th,
with a PSN version expected
Oh yeah, and it's not exactly soon after. Check out the box art
cheap, at $125. If you're cool after the break.
with the size, weight, and price, Gallery: Persona 3 Portable
however, the wallet-as-multi-tool Continue reading Persona 3
idea is functional and fun. Our P o r t a b l e c o m i n g t o N o r t h
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-wallet for more comfort and N o r t h A m e r i c a o n J u l y 6
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Amazon Prepares for the Arrival of the
Israel's Venture Funding Falls Off A Apple Tablet: Gives Authors and Publishers
Cliff In 2009 a Bigger Royalty Cut for E-Books
By Frederic Lardinois
By Chris Cameron venture firms tend to favor mid- (ReadWriteWeb)
(ReadWriteWeb) become available for U.S.
stage funding over seed funding publishers on January 27.
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:22:51 AM
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:40:00 AM
by a great margin. In the fourth This is an interesting move by
quarter of 2009, mid-stage Amazon just announced that it is Amazon. A 70% royalty has
American startups are not alone companies accounted for over now offering publishers and become the standard among
when it comes to the well of half of the funding, while seed authors a new 70% royalty numerous industries, including
venture funding drying up. A companies gained just 4% of the option. Publishers and authors Apple's App Store. Of course,
recent report by the Israel fourth quarter of 2009, the total. who choose this option will Apple is rumored to open up its
Venture Capital Research Center average financing round was just We recently reported that the receive 70% of the list price own e-book store when (if?) it
has found that funding in Israel $2.2 million, down from $3.61 fourth quarter showed hope for from sales their e-books in the l a u n c h e s t h e A p p l e
fell drastically to $1.12 billion in million during the same period in American startups, both in Kindle store. In order to qualify tablet/iPad/iSlate. According to
2009, nearly half the amount 2008. mergers and acquisitions and for this option, publishers have the latest rumors, Apple is
from the previous year. The 46% Sponsor venture funding. For to turn on the text-to-speech currently talking to a number of
decrease marks the lowest By sector, life sciences saw the comparison, the United States feature and make the e-book U.S. publishers in order to bring
funding numbers since 2003 and most growth took the lion's share saw over $20 billion in venture available in all geographies for these publisher's e-books into the
ends Israel's streak of three of the money up from 15% in funding for 2461 deals in 2009, which the author or publisher has iTunes store or into a new Apple
c o n s e c u t i v e y e a r s w i t h 2 0 0 8 t o 2 4 % i n 2 0 0 9 . an average of nearly $8.5 million rights. In addition, publishers e-book store.
increasing number of companies S e m i c o n d u c t o r s i n I s r a e l per deal. also have to sell the e-book for at Publishers have long been
and funding dollars. continued a downward trend, With venture funding seemingly least 20% below the price of the unhappy with Amazon's decision
The numbers are a sign of the falling from 15% of the funding drying up in Israel, the United physical book and can't charge to keep e-book prices low by
worldwide economic stress that in 2008 to just 8% in 2009, its States could see an influx of more than $9.99 for the Kindle s u b s i d i z i n g t h e m . G i v i n g
is affecting countries large and lowest share since 2001. The foreign entrepreneurs coming to edition. publishers a higher cut of the
small across the globe. While internet and communications American for venture funds. Of Sponsor royalties as long as they fulfill
funding plummeted between sectors held steady at 13% and course, this could be expedited As Amazon notes in today's Amazon's requirements looks
2008 and 2009, the number of 20% respectively, but they are by the creation of a startup visa press release, publishers and like a concession to these
companies funded only fell nowhere near their numbers from program, a topic we wrote about authors who choose the standard publishers. If Amazon expects to
roughly 7% from 483 to 447, 2000 when they combined for earlier this month. royalty option would only make see competition from Apple in
which means less money is being almost 70% of the total funding. Photo by Flickr user. Discuss about $3.15 from every sale of the near future, then this move
given to each company. In the As reflected in the report, Israeli an e-book that sells for $8.99. would make even more sense.
Now, with the 70% option, these Discuss
publishers would make $6.25.
The 70% royalty option will

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34 Tech News/ E-reader News Edition

Everybody Wants a Piece of the Newsgator Acquires

Mobile Advertising Market - Opera Tomoye - Deepening
Acquires AdMarvel Sharepoint Ties
By Frederic Lardinois market through the AdMob By Alex Williams
(ReadWriteWeb) acquisition. The company's own (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:50:08 AM
AdSense/AdWords program Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:32:21 AM
offers mobile solutions, but the
It seems like everybody is popularity of AdSense and Newsgator has acquired
scrambling to secure a piece of AdMarvel CEO described the AdWords hasn't really translated Tomoye, a social networking
the mobile advertising market i P h o n e a s " a n a m a z i n g l y into success in the mobile space platform for Sharepoint. The
these days. Google is still sorting innovative platform." Opera yet. Apple's acquisition of acqusition makes Newagator one
out the details of its AdMob hasn't announced any plans to Quattro is a curious move, as of the largest enterprise into Outlook. In recent years,
acquisition, but barring any bring its browser to the iPhone. advertising isn't exactly one of collaboration companies in the Newsgator has transformed into
regulatory snafus, the acquisition When we talked to Opera's Apple's core competencies. Enterprise 2.0 space and a collaboration provider. its
should go through in the next former CEO Jon von Tetzchner For Opera this move makes positions it as a vendor with the focus is on Sharepoint. Microsoft
few months. Apple acquired the in December, he noted that the sense, though. Just like Apple deepest ties to the Sharepoint seems to look kindly on
relatively unknown mobile c o m p a n y w a s n ' t a v e r s e t o hopes to profit directly from the environment. Newsgator as a partner. In
advertising network Quattro launching a browser on the iPhone apps and mobile sites that Details of the deal were not contrast, companies like Jive,
earlier this month. Today, Opera iPhone, but Apple's App Store use Quattro, Opera will be able disclosed. The acquisition buoys that integrate with Sharepoint,
announced that it has acquired approval process was holding the to profit from sites that use Newsgator's reputation as an are seen more as competitors.
AdMarvel, a San Mateo-based company back from even trying AdMarvel. Neither Apple nor enterprise collaboration provider, The acquisition appears to give
mobile advertising company. to get an app into the store for Opera are traditional advertising almost exclusively for the Newsgator deeper social
Sponsor the time being. It is worth noting, companies, but both clearly Sharepoint platform. networking capabilities but
According to Opera's new CEO though, that Opera does offer an b e l i e v e t h a t t h e m o b i l e Sponsor perhaps more so gives it a
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people access the web through R e v e n u e S t r e a m s T h r o u g h g r o w t h a n d t h a t t h e y c a n million paying users, which it world.
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AdMarvel, Opera and the iPhone There can be little doubt that streams by dipping their toes into social computing vendor. It's a Its most significant installation is
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Do you know what tablet
computers and jetpacks have in
common? It’s not a kerosene-
burning jet engine strapped to
your back, though Adobe Flash
on a MacBook can feel like your
pants are on fire. The shared
problem is that the present reality
of future technologies always
seems to disappoint, often
resulting in products never
coming to market.
It’s called vaporware, and that
would include the long-rumored
Apple tablet. That tablet, like
other Apple products that
actually exist, has been getting
all the attention as of late, and
that’s a shame. There are a
number of other existentially-
challenged tablets not out there
right now. Here are my top five,
ranked by the likelihood they
will remain in the ether for all
time.#5 CrunchPad/JooJoo
Michael Arrington’s CrunchPad
was supposed to be “a dead
simple tablet for $200,” but has
ended up as a combo $500
webpad and Silicon Valley legal
drama. Arrington’s partners,
FusionGarage, dumped him and
claimed ownership of the
renamed JooJoo, which means
“magical device” in “African.”
Note to FusionGarage: “African”
is not a language.
Overhyped by Popular
Mechanics as one of the “most
brilliant” products of 2009,
there’s really nothing magical
about JooJoo’s specs: 2.4
pounds, 12” display, 4GB SSD,
Wi-Fi, camera, up to five hours
of battery life. The OS runs a
customized Ubuntu and WebKit
browser. It’s the ‘browser as the
OS’ concept, similar to what
Google’s doing with
Chromium/Chrome, but without
the backing of a company worth
$200 billion.
Despite perpetually shipping in
“8 to 10 weeks” since early
December, and the uncertainty of
litigation, JooJoo probably will
ship in early 2010. That earns it
fifth place among vaporware
tablets today.#4 Freescale
Smartbook
Nothing says vaporware like “
reference design,” and that’s the
Freescale Smartbook. The
former Mac PowerPC fabricator
showed off a tablet
prototype—another vaporware
synonym—at CES. Freescale
claimed the tablet could be made
for $200 and reach market by
summer, easy to say when you’re
not doing the making.
The Smartbook is built around a
7” display and weighs less than a
pound. Internal specifications
include a 1 GHz ARM CPU,
512MB RAM, 4 to 64GB
storage, microSD slot, Wi-Fi, 3G
modem option, and camera. All-
day battery life is promised.
There’s also an optional
keyboard and docking station
that when combined with the
giant bezel makes the screen
look minuscule. The operating
system demonstrated at CES is
custom Linux, but doesn’t
appear much customized for
touch.
Unlike the CrunchPad, the
Smartbook probably won’t even
make it to the perpetually
shipping phase of the vaporware
life cycle, but at least one has
been built.#3 OLPC XO-3
The One Laptop Per Child
(OLPC) organization has
provided the world’s poorest
children more than a million
computers and counting, and the
XO-3 will never be one of them,
but then it doesn’t have to. “We
don’t necessarily need to build
it,” OLPC founder Nicholas
Negroponte told Forbes. “We
just need to threaten to build it.”
With a design goal like that, how
can you fail?
Hypothetically available in 2012
for $75, the XO-3 “will feature a
new design using a single sheet
of flexible plastic and will be
unbreakable and without holes in
it.” The page-sized display, 8.5
by 11 inches, will have “both
reflective and LCD capabilities,”
making it viewable in the sun
and as an e-reader. Internally, the
XO-3 supposedly will have an
ARM CPU running at 8 GHz,
though Negroponte admits that’s
a “provocative” target. You
think? People in the Star Trek
reboot don’t have kit like this, so
yeah, provocative works as well
as vaporware.#2 Microsoft
Courier
In 2001, Bill Gates introduced
the Tablet PC to the world, and
nearly a decade later Steve
Ballmer did it again, but not with
this device. Instead, a wildly
gesticulating Ballmer claimed
the “Slate PC” moniker at CES,
showing off a nameless, nothing-
new tablet from HP that will be
available sometime this year, not
that anyone cared. People wanted
Courier.
That’s the name of this device,
as first reported by Gizmodo in
September. The booklet—so
much for Slate PC—has two 7”
displays connected by a hinge,
multi-touch and stylus input,
camera on back, maybe inductive
charging for power. The OS
appears to be designed for the
device, so it’s not a Windows 7
tablet, and there are plenty of
applications designed for it, so
it’s not Windows 7 tablet. No
word on battery life, price, or
availability, except that it’s
supposed to be in the “late
prototype” stage of development,
which makes one wonder why
Courier wasn’t at CES.
Just watching the concept video
for Courier, how could one not
declare Microsoft the winner in
E-reader News Edition
the Battle of the Vaporware
Tablets? Because once again
Apple has been there and done
that.#1 Apple Knowledge
Navigator
Even twenty years later, the
Apple Knowledge Navigator
concept reigns supreme among
vaporware tablets. Opening the
booklet reveals a pair of magical
panels that appear to merge into
a single display, that display
having speakers on the sides,
web camera and data card slot on
the top. Nice touch how it tilts
upward for typing, but touch is
almost an afterthought.
Most of the machine-human
interaction is done via a bow-tie
wearing “agent,” or AI, through
voice. This is vaporware at its
finest, not just a demo, but like
living in alternate reality, just
like Apple in the late ‘80s under
John Sculley. We will see
whether Apple under Steve Jobs,
who killed Apple’s first tablet,
the Newton, can do better. Don’t
expect talking heads in mock-
turtlenecks, but it would be
unwise to bet against the real
Apple tablet in 2010.
Related GigaOM Pro Research:
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Finally Upon Us?
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7 for 7: To Keyboard or Not to Keyboard, That is the Question

By Patrick Hunt typist on the iPhone is to suspend iPod touch, the tablet may only
(TheAppleBlog) your disbelief that you’ll make hold a portion of your songs,
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:00:24 AM
mistakes, and just keep typing. movies, pictures and other
The same keyboard on a larger media, meaning it will need to
This is the first in a series of 7 screen, whether still small or connect for syncing. A dock for
posts in the 7 days prior to scaled up, wouldn’t work nearly syncing that doubles as a
Apple’s January 27 media event as well. The biggest problem keyboard, with Jon Ives’ design
in which I explore various would be holding the tablet and panache, would be an excellent
possibilities for an Apple Tablet typing at the same time. If the way to meet core needs while
a n d o t h e r p o t e n t i a l form factor is anything like most also extending the functionality
announcements. suspect it will be, the weight and of the device.
The world is expecting Apple to balance of the tablet would make Given all of these options, I’m
announce a new tablet, or slate, such input impossible, requiring expecting three things: a variant
style computer on January 27. users to instead hold it with one of the software user interface that
Most predictions peg the device hand and hunt-and-peck to type further limits users need to input
as essentially an iPod touch with with the other. Current Lines of text even more than the iPhone
a 10 screen. But simply scaling Thought already does; an advanced multi-
Mac OS X Mobile to a larger Perhaps the most obvious touch user interface that is
screen size isn’t likely, as the solution would be to split the optimized for five-finger input;
operating system that currently onscreen keyboard and push it to touch gestures for text input and drive mass adoption. A and the option to use a
powers iPhone and iPod touch the edges, allowing users to hold overall control, this method is Hardware Solution keyboard–possibly a new
models is optimized for their the device and type with their reminiscent of Microsoft Surface However, a hardware keyboard keyboard that doubles as a
specific screens. The question thumbs. A similar approach was and Minority Report. designed specifically for the dock–when necessary. The next-
arises, then, as to how users will used with a number of ultra- Unlike the iPhone and iPod tablet and doubles as a dock generation multi-touch
input text into the Apple tablet. mobile PCs (UMPCs), such as touch, Apple could also allow might fit the bill. Given Apple’s capabilities that Apple has
The iPhone keyboard works the Samsung Q1. This doesn’t the tablet to work with hardware apparent cloud ambitions patented and developed are
well for several reasons. The strike me as particularly elegant keyboards, either via Bluetooth (building a data center in North likely too advanced for many of
device is small enough that you or particularly Apple, but it or USB connections. The current Carolina, purchasing LaLa, etc.) today’s computer users. I expect
can type with just one hand could work, and might be the Apple wireless keyboard would and cost concerns, the tablet is the tablet multi-touch user
while holding the phone with the easiest solution technically. make a perfect companion for likely to have a small amount of interface to follow a similar path
s a m e h a n d . T h e k e y s a r e Another option is an altogether times when touch input isn’t onboard storage compared to of increasing complexity and
surprisingly large, even in different keyboard interface sufficient, with the touchscreen laptops. Chances are that Apple capability over several years as
p o r t r a i t m o d e , a n d A p p l e purposefully designed for five- display eliminating the need to will view the tablet as a cloud the trackpad and Magic Mouse
technology makes keys invisibly finger typing with one hand. also have a mouse. Using a computing device, or one of have.
larger based on likely letter Users could hold the device in traditional keyboard also strikes several satellites orbiting around Related GigaOM Pro Research:
combinations. Auto-correction one hand, and quickly type with me as very inelegant and un- a full Mac serving as the digital Rumored Apple Tablet:
works well enough that the a l l f i n g e r s o f t h e o t h e r . Apple, but may be needed to media hub. Like the iPhone or Opportunities Too Big to Ignore
easiest way to become a fast Combined with advanced multi-
38 Apple/ Fashion/ E-reader News Edition

Bing On the iPhone? BusinessWeek Thinks So:

Report
By Darrell Etherington platform access is the smart
(TheAppleBlog) move for Apple from a business
Submitted at 1/20/2010 9:40:58 AM
perspective. But what about us
lowly end users? What effect
Maybe I am too set in my ways, would the dissolution of the
but I never even really tried Google/Apple relationship have
using Bing all that much when it on consumers? Shop Rue La La's Joe
was released. I also found it too First of all, don’t worry. Apple
busy. Sure, I’m all for beautiful won’t pull the plug on anything
Zee-Curated Make
sweeping nature photography, until it’s confident there won’t be Better Boutique
but not on my search page. So I result of these talks. it the force to be reckoned with any adverse effects on the user
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
stuck with Google, without even It’s a move that makes sense for in mobile advertising. Seems experience side of things. If the Blog)
really looking into the real both Apple and Microsoft. Once Google took it right out from Bing default switch is coming,
working differences between the bitter rivals, the two are now under Apple, too. Finally, it it’ll be an opening salvo, a way Submitted at 1/20/2010 5:30:00 AM

two. both facing a major threat from partnered with HTC to create the to taste consumer tolerance for
Instead of a full-closet makeover
According to a new report by Google in the lucrative growing Nexus One, and set up its own change, not the first step in an for 2010, ELLE’s Creative
BusinessWeek, though, I might m o b i l e s p a c e . M i c r o s o f t mobile store that could change inevitable overhaul. Director suggests revamping (not
have another chance to become basically looks dead in the water the way cell phones are bought If small changes don’t generate re-doing). To that end, Joe Zee
more familiar with Microsoft’s thanks to the incredibly stale the world over, if things progress the kind of waves that turn over has curated an exclusive sale for
search engine offering thanks to Windows Mobile 6.5 and always according to plan. boats, then we could see other, Rue La La called the"Make
a deal between the Windows- just-over-the-horizon Windows When Apple first created the more drastic shifts. The next Better Boutique", f illed with un-
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companies are said to be in still a leader in the mobile Google made sense. Both were change will be with the built-in and statement accessories.
negotiations to arrange the industry, and doesn’t show any c h a l l e n g i n g t h e m i g h t o f Maps app. We’ve seen rumors Expect to find everything from a
replacement of Google with Bing signs of slowing in the near established players in the field, that Apple is working on its own boy-meets-girl Theory blazer to
as the default search engine on future, Google has begun to take like Microsoft, which at that time in-house solution, and that could a neon ruffled Catherine
the iPhone platform. The New steps that could lead to mobile h a d n ’ t d e s c e n d e d i n t o well take over duties. If Apple Malandrino mini (shown below).
Mobile Landscape market domination. Google’s irrelevance, and BlackBerry, does go this way, expect to see
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though BusinessWeek’s sources an iPhone OS competitor that’s does seem to be falling off, navigation into the app itself, so —Violet Moon Gayn or
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E-reader News Edition Apple/ Entertainment/ Popular News/ 39

Apple’s Tablet is Good News for the e-Reader

Market, Even if it Isn’t Real
By Darrell Etherington Why would I think that? Let’s functionality to Kindle and the
(TheAppleBlog) look at the numbers. Up until Kindle Store.
Submitted at 1/20/2010 12:04:38 PM
now, Amazon’s profit sharing • Under this royalty option,
model has been, shall we say, books must be offered at or
The effect of Apple’s still less than kind to the people who below price parity with
s p e c u l a t i v e t a b l e t o n t h e provide its digital books. The competition, including physical
electronics industry continues to n e w m o d e l g i v e s c o n t e n t book prices. Amazon will
amaze me. Not only has it providers 70 percent of the total provide tools to automate that
prompted countless computer revenue derived from sales,
makers to join the fray and while Amazon would keep only
process, and the 70 percent
royalty will be calculated off the
SimplyHired
release their own slate devices, 30 percent. Sound familiar?
but now it’s affecting e-book That’s exactly Apple’s formula
sales price.
makes job
pricing policies over at the for App Store revenue sharing.
biggest player in that fledgling U n d e r A m a z o n ’ s p r e v i o u s
Whether or not a war really is
coming, Amazon clearly doesn’t search social
market. model, providers received just want to be left behind. And the (Holy Kaw!)
Amazon announced today that it about half the cut they’ll now be bottom line is that’s great news Submitted at 1/19/2010 9:43:00 PM
will now be offering a much getting. Pretty aggressive, if you 20 percent below the lowest for us consumers. Amazon’s
more financially attractive deal ask me. physical list price for the revenue sharing model has been SimplyHired is making job
for publishers providing content The deal isn’t automatic for physical book one of the major barriers in search social with the redesign of
for its Kindle platform. Maybe it e v e r y b o o k s o l d t h r o u g h • The title is made available for getting more content available its web site. As an example, this
has just reached a profitability Amazon’s Kindle store, though. sale in all geographies for which for the platform, and now that is the result for social media jobs
milestone in terms of the cost of There are a few criteria providers the author or publisher has rights they’re feeling the heat from in California. (Disclosure:
Kindle unit construction that have to meet. Here’s how it • The title will be included in a Apple, be it real or imagined, the Garage Technology Ventures is
allows it to shift the burden away breaks down, according to broad set of features in the floodgates are open. an investor in SimplyHired.)
from content providers, but I’d AppleInsider: Kindle Store, such as text-to- Related GigaOM Pro Research: More career tips.
hazard a guess the move has • The author or publisher- speech. This list of features will Rumored Apple Tablet: Permalink| Leave a comment »
m o r e t o d o w i t h A p p l e ’ s supplied list price must be grow over time as Amazon Opportunities Too Big to Ignore
impending announcement next between $2.99 and $9.99 continues to add more
week. • This list price must be at least

Adam Lambert Reaches Out to the People of Haiti

(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 9:15:00 AM
In the wake of the devastating
earthquake last week that left
Haiti in ruins, ET and The Red
Cross are teaming up with the
Hollywood community to lend
support to the major crisis in
Haiti and now best-selling singer
Adam Lambert has come
exclusively to the ET stage to
help in the effort.
"The people of Haiti need your
help," Lambert says. "The
images are heartbreaking, the
loss of life devastating, but
tonight you can help the people
of Haiti. Give whatever you can.
Your contributions can help end
the unimaginable suffering. Do
something that will change a life,
do something that will make a
difference. Don't just let the
images on television fade to
black."
How you can help: Financial
donations can be made at
www.redcross.org, 1-800-
REDCROSS or 1-800-257-7575
(Spanish) or mail your donation
to the American Red Cross, P.O.
Box 37243, Washington, D.C.
20013 or to your local American
Red Cross chapter. The public
can also help by texting "Haiti"
to 90999 to send a $10 donation
to the Red Cross, through an
effort backed by the U.S. State
Department. Funds will go to
support American Red Cross
relief efforts in Haiti.
40 Tech Blog/ TV/ E-reader News Edition

Math and the new journalism WGA to honor Curb

(Scripting News)
Submitted at 1/19/2010 12:15:35 PM
figure out what the first instance
of Journalism 0.0 looks like.
Let's start with something we
Your Enthusiasm's
Last week I wrote a piece called
Year Zero for Journalism.
Doc Searls, ever the phrase-
know to be true.
1. There are fewer paid reporters Larry David
in Journalism 0.0 than there were By Allison Waldman (TV
turner, called it Journalism 0.0. in the past. Squad)
Jay and I call our podcast I think any reporter who has
Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:00:00 PM
Rebooting The News. been laid off in the last couple of
Year Zero. 0.0. Rebooting. years, and there are a lot of them, If you're one of the millions, nay
Thinking of the new in terms of many of whom are very smart billions, who's laughed at the
the old is not productive. people, can see that, pretty antics of Jerry, George, Elaine
Wondering how we will clearly. Today there are a lot and Kramer or if you can't pick
continue to do what-we-always- fewer people working in up an order of kung pao shrimp
have-done is not going to get us newsrooms than there were in without wondering if they
closer to the future way of the past. shorted you on the number of
journalism. Now does that mean there will shrimp, then you -- my friend --
So.. What does this new be fewer people doing are a Larry David fan. The brain
journalism look like? journalism? behind Seinfeld and Curb Your
Let's figure it out! I hope not! Enthusiasm, David has a unique
I was a math major, so I spent a Why? Because we have an ever- comic view of the world and on
few years in my early adulthood increasing appetite for new February 20, the Writers Guild
learning how to find true things information, i.e. news. of America is giving Larry David
about conceptual spaces. As you Do you think that appetite will a Lifetime Achievement Award. hour. Twenty years later,
advance through math the world go un-filled? (I don't.) The actual award is called the Seinfeld is embedded in the
your thoughts occupy gets moment of truth was during an So if Postulate #1 is true, and Paddy Chayevsky Laurel award psyche of pop culture. Not bad
stranger and more and more exam when I had to prove a there will be fewer paid reporters for television, and Larry has for a nothing kind of show.
unlike the space our bodies theorem and I had no idea how in the new journalism, where most definitely earned the Continue reading WGA to
occupy. Turns out that was good to do it. So I just started out with will the new reporters come recognition. Seinfeld remains a honor Curb Your Enthusiasm's
training for a mind that has to something I thought was true, from? masterpiece of character and Larry David
grasp things like journalism with that seemed to be on the path, That's the question that's been comedy with or without a plot. Filed under: Other Comedy
a completely different set of and proved that. Then I proved on my mind for the last decade, The very nothingness of Seinfeld Shows, TV Royalty, OpEd,
rules. another thing, and another, and since I wrote How To Make made it historic television. It was Video, Curb Your Enthusiasm,
I remember taking a class in finally I could see how the pieces Money On The Internet. That a show that NBC nearly canceled Awards, Reality-Free
summer school in a subject fit together and was able to prove was almost exactly ten years ago. because the suits didn't get it Permalink| Email this| |
called Real Analysis, that's on the theorem. It was a shining Where will they come from? (what a shock!), then went on to Comments
the road to Topology. It was one moment for me, because I was Where? become America's favorite half-
of the hardest classes I took, and the only student in the class who Stay tuned for the next
I got a good grade, at least for solved the problem. So of course i n s t a l l m e n t .
me (I was far from one of the I never forgot how I did it.
best students in my class). The So let's try the same approach to
E-reader News Edition TV/ Sports/ Fashion/ 41

Push to become a Sources: Oakland Raiders reached

television series out to Stanford's Jim Harbaugh
By Brad Trechak (TV Squad) By Adam Schefter there's an opening. I never have. More Podcasts »
Submitted at 1/20/2010 12:00:00 PM
(ESPN.com) I'm in the same fraternity," Oakland has been seeking
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:35:14 AM
Fassel, who is the head coach of someone who could work with
Remember the movie Push? the Las Vegas Locomotives of and develop former No. 1 overall
Don't feel bad. Nobody else does The Oakland Raiders have the UFL, said. pick JaMarcus Russell.
either. However, that hasn't spoken to Stanford head coach Tom Cable's status as Oakland's Cable's job security is in
stopped Summit Entertainment Jim Harbaugh about becoming coach remains uncertain at best. question after he went 5-11 in his
from revamping the movie into a their head coach, sources inside He was scheduled to meet with first full season as coach and
television series. and outside the organization said, owner Al Davis last week, but failed to develop Russell into a
David Hayter, the scriptwriter but Harbaugh did not express the meeting did not take place. legitimate NFL quarterback.
behind the Watchmen movie and interest in the job. The future of Cable and his staff Cable is 9-19 since replacing
two of the X-Men films, will be The Raiders also have spoken remains up in the air until that Lane Kiffin early in the 2008
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First Look: The Freebie

By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 7:58:22 AM
I loved Mark Duplass in indie
bromance Humpday( check out
my Q&A with director Lynn
Shelton). So I’m pleased to
report that The Freebie, which
features Duplass and wife Katie
Aselton as executive producers
(Aselton is also its writer and
director), will premiere at
Sundance next week. Here, get a
first look at the poster for the
film, which stars Aselton and
Dax Shepard as a sexually
frustrated couple who attempts to
sustain their relationship by
giving each other “one night
off.” And be sure to pick up the
February issue of ELLE for an
interview with Duplass and
Aselton in our ode to modern
romance.
—Erin Clements
Follow ELLE on Twitter.
Become our Facebook fan!
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Documents: Wyclef Jean Launched His Personal Charity with
Other People's Money [Philanthropy]
By John Cook (Gawker)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:45:19 PM
Wyclef Jean has defended the
financial irregularities of his
foundation Yele Haiti by arguing
he started it with his own money.
However internal documents
obtained by Gawker reveal that
the former Fugee made no
contribution during its first year.
In defending his foundation at a
press conference earlier this
week against accusations that it
has a history of mismanaging
funds, Jean said, "I started the
charity with my own funds."
Earlier, in a YouTube video,
Jean claimed, "I myself have put
$1 million inside my own
foundation."
Jean has aggressively raised
funds for Yele Haiti since the
earthquake last week, urging
people to give to the organization
through a texting campaign in
t e l e v i s i o n
appearances—including a visit to
Oprah today. Yele is one of five
nonprofits that will split the
proceeds of a telethon organized
by George Clooney to be
broadcast on Friday. While Yele
hasn't released its fundraising
totals since the earthquake, its
president has stated a target of $1
million a day from texts.
Together with the proceeds of
the telethon, it stands to
potentially raise tens of millions
of dollars.
The documents, which include
internal emails and detailed
financial statements for 2005 —
the year Yele was founded —
show the internal chaos that has
afflicted the organization since
its founding. Its first executive
director, Sanjay Rawal, resigned
in October 2005 because, his
resignation letter stated, "the
sense of entitlement" and "lack
of financial commitment from
the board"—which consisted at
the time of Jean, his cousin Jerry
Duplessis, and SAC Capital
Advisers trader Seth
Kanegis—were "suffocating"
Yele Haiti. Another e-mail
obtained by Gawker, written by
Yele's current executive director
Hugh Locke in 2007, announced
that both Locke and his deputy
were resigning due to a ethical
and business concerns that had
caused a "crisis" at Yele Haiti.
We asked Locke last night in an
interview if he could provide
details on precisely when, and in
what increments, Jean made his
$1 million in donations. He
replied, "I honestly don't know
how to break that out, and I'm
not interested in doing so." But
Locke insisted that Yele was
founded with Jean's money, and
that Jean has indeed put more
than $1 million in Yele's
operations broadly speaking,
even if the donations aren't
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channeled officially through the
charity—"sometimes he'll buy a
kid in the slums a scooter, and
that's a Yele contribution," Lock
said.
But according to Rawal's
resignation e-mail and the
detailed financial statements,
Jean made no contribution
whatsoever to Yele Haiti from its
founding in January 2005
through November of that year.
The financial statements show
that Yele received a total of
$680,409.24 to its U.S. bank
account from December 2004 to
November 2005. Among the
donations are $10,000 from
Russell Simmons, $2,000 from
Ed Bradley, and $1,000 from
Paul Simon. But while the
records show that Duplessis
made one $2,000 donation and
Kanegis loaned Yele $26,000,
they don't show a single
contribution from Jean. They do,
however, show payments
totaling $18,696 to Refugee
Camp Entertainment, a record
label co-owned by Jean, for
"band salary and expenses"
related to performances at two
fundraisers. They also show a
payment of $22,750 to Jean's
production company, Platinum
Sounds, as reimbursement for
fees Platinum fronted for a
fundraiser.
In his October 2005 resignation
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letter, Rawal, who had co-
founded Yele with Jean, was
painfully blunt in accusing Jean
and his fellow board members of
failing to contribute to the
charity while using it to pay their
own expenses, benefiting from
the PR Yele Haiti generated for
them, and directing "hundreds of
thousands of dollars to business
needs" at the expense of the
foundation:
The board has never invested
into Yele. True, the board has
given to Haiti, but why continue
giving to Haiti in such a
haphazard manner when one's
own foundation is suffering from
lack of funds?
[snip]
With three wealthy directors,
Yéle's entire operating expenses
could be funded by a one time
annual commitment from each
Director. With that $150,000, the
entire amount raised from
outside sources could have been
funneled to projects. Again,
donations are TAX
DEDUCTIBLE!!!!!
Does anyone realize that if the
Board had invested into Yele we
never would have had to do any
fundraisers? We could have, but
only to raise funds for projects.
Staff would have been paid AND
the music studio would have
been built for the children!
[snip]
Some board members may
consider their business
contributions to Haiti as part of
their giving, which is fine. This
only hurt me personally as I saw
hundreds of thousands of dollars
going to business needs and
nothing going to the charity,
when it seemed that part of
Wyclef's new PR strategy
focuses on his charitable
endeavors. I felt Yéle was being
suffocated.
[snip]
I feel it is an excellent time for
the board members of Yele to
shed their sense of entitlement.
Stop thinking that Yele will pay
you back for the money you put
into Haiti. You must ask yourself
why you are doing all of this. To
be paid back? I do not think that
is why you are doing any of this.
In addition to decrying Jean,
Duplessis, and Kanegis' failure
to pony up for Yele Haiti, Rawal
took them to task for drawing
away much-needed funds by
billing their expenses to the
charity:
When a person runs a
foundation, people need to leave
their sense of entitlement at the
door. When Bill Gates goes to a
charity event, he does not bill his
hotel to his charity. Having the
charity pick up the tab for a wife
being picked up at the airport is
appalling.
And Rawal noted that Yele
Haiti's successful PR campaign
had been a boon to Jean's career
and commercial enterprises:
It has also been clear that the
foundation is very valuable to
Wyclef's image and hence if
leveraged very profitable to his
career. Through the foundation's
activities, he has received
coverage in publications from
which he has been absent for
years, including People
Magazine, US Weekly, InTouch,
Celebrity Living and Star. True,
he is in urban gossip rags but his
last mention in People was from
early 2004.
We called Rawal to ask him if
he was specifically addressing
Jean in his letter, which you can
read in full here. "I was the
executive director, and I was
talking about the leadership of
Yele," he said. "It's implied that I
was talking about the board, and
Jean is on the board. Wyclef has
a big heart, and he regularly gave
money to Haitians that he met, to
pay for things like funeral
expenses or what have you. But
at that early stage, Yele hadn't
become the conduit for his
personal giving. It wasn't the
case when I was there."
Yele Haiti has two
branches—an American charity
and a Haitian arm. The American
operation, which must make its
tax returns publicly available,
exists largely to raise funds and
send them to the Haitian arm,
about which no financial
information has been made
public. Multiple sources familiar
with Yele's operations say that
while Jean, as Rawal stated in his
letter, did spend money directly
in Haiti on Yele's programs, it
was haphazard and didn't
constitute Yele's start-up capital.
That came in the form of an
$800,000 donation in 2005,
sources say, from Comcel, a
Haitian cell phone company. The
Comcel donation, earmarked for
primary school scholarships,
went directly to Yele's Haitian
operation, bypassing the
American charity altogether.
That fact is confirmed by the
detailed financial statements,
which show no expenditures
whatsoever on programs. In
other words, while Yele Haiti's
Haitian branch was operational
and spent money in Haiti in
2005, it was funded directly by
Comcel, and none of the
$680,000 Yele Haiti's American
operation received in 2005 went
to Haiti. In fact, the statements
show that a total of $108,168
was wired on three separate
occasions that year from Yele
Haiti's Haitian operation to the
American charity's account. The
Haitian charity was subsidizing
the American one.
But Yele Haiti's 2005 American
tax return tells drastically
different story: It claims more
than $320,000 spent on
"Program Service Expenses" in
Haiti, including food
distribution, trash clean-up, and
scholarships. Rawal, who was
Yele's executive director during
that time, says the 2005
return—which was filed last
August, four years late—appears
to be in error. "I'm not an
accountant," he says, "but those
funds didn't come out of New
York. To my recollection, all of
the money for those programs
came from Haiti and was kept in
Haiti." Asked directly if Yele
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Haiti's American operation sent
$320,000 to Haiti in 2005 for
trash clean-up, scholarships, and
food distribution as the return
claims, Rawal said, "No."
The apparent chaos at Yele Haiti
didn't end in 2005. According to
a March 2007 e-mail written by
Hugh Locke, the foundation's
current executive director, Yele
was in a "crisis" in 2007 that
caused Locke and his deputy
Cinthia Thebaud to resign on the
same day (Locke has obviously
since returned to the
organization). According to the e
-mail, which is marked
"CONFIDENTIAL" and can be
read in full here, Thebaud
resigned because of unspecified
ethical concerns about Yele's
Haitian operation:
Cinthia stated that her reason for
resigning as deputy executive
director (but not her Board
position) was that in "trying to
structure Yele Haiti's
administration in Haiti I had to
face internal barriers which go
against my professional ethics."
Locke resigned, the letter says,
because he had "reached the
limits of the personal, financial
and business sacrifices that both
I and my wife April are able to
make on behalf of Yele Haiti —
all of which were brought into
sharp relief by Cinthia's
resignation." The letter, which
was e-mailed to a group of Yele
Haiti staffers, announced an
emergency meeting in New York
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44 Entertainment/
Obama Turns Ordinary Man into Celebrity Magnet [Press
Release Of The Day]
By Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:28:08 PM
Tom was just like you: an
ordinary schmoe from Jersey,
with a kid and a job in banking
and a pronounced inability to
attract celebrities into his general
vicinity. Until one day when he
met Barack Obama, became
magnetized, and proceeded to
attract celebrities, in much the
same way a magnet attracts
metal. Moments ago, Tom sent
out this lengthy press release,
informing the world of his
strange and wondrous saga of
celebrity attraction. We want you
to read it all. It is just that
important.
N.J. Banker becoming a star
after meeting President Obama
Meeting President Obama has
brought good fortune to a N.J.
father and daughter.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Press Release) – Januuary 20th,
2010 – A N.J. banker by day and
a celebrity magnet by night, Tom
Murro is rubbing shoulders with
the rich and famous after just one
lucky meeting with President
Barack Obama on Martha's
Vineyard one summer day last
year.
Call it luck or just being at the
right place at the right time.
Murro has curiously received
more than his share of 15
minutes of fame. In the span of
four months since his random
meeting of the president, Murro,
has a list of roughly 40
celebrities he has met, crediting
it to his meeting with Obama.
"It's really opened doors," said
Murro. "I mean, I'm just a
regular Bergen County guy and
then all of a sudden I'm meeting
all these stars and my daughter
got to go behind the scenes on
Sesame Street to meet the
puppeteers, which is unheard of."
He was recently spotted earlier
last month on the red carpet at
the Gotham International Film
Awards in New York City
interviewing some of the A-list
celebs, all thanks to that one
photo he took with the president.
"I don't really know how it all
happened," explained Murro.
"It's so weird, but when I asked
if I could attend they said, 'sure'
and actually gave me a spot on
the red carpet after seeing my
photo with Obama."
He was even luckier when they
allowed him free access to the
celebrities in front of the velvet
rope, while the other reporters
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us and stayed around for a while
to talk and take photos.
Grateful for giving him the
opportunity to meet the
president, Murro is sending Lee
a signed copy of the photo of
Jackie Robinson stealing home
and winning the 1955 World
Series by Yogi Berra himself, as
we know Jackie was called safe
that day but Yogi has had a
were behind and away from Murro's mini-celebrity status difference of opinion. Lee is a
them. started at Farm Neck Golf Club die-hard New York Yankees fan.
Starting to build a reputation, on the Vineyard, where Obama After speaking to Berra's son
Murro interviewed a slew of was vacationing last August. about his whole story with the
stars as "the celebrity magnet" Murro, who used to live year president and Lee, Berra signed a
reporter, which has inspired him round on the island, was also on copy of the photo for Lee and
to create his own Web site - vacation but this time around it one for the president too! – Yogi
www.celebritymagnet.com. changed his life. shared his feelings of that day,
"The really cool thing was, I He and his daughter Lauren, 11, both of which said the same
lucked out again – I've had like bumped into Spike Lee – who thing, "He was out.!!
four months of this crazy luck," was sitting on a bench waiting Maybe someone from the
said Murro. "I was in front of the for Obama – and started a Whitehouse can help Tom and
rope but all the other seasoned conversation with the film his daughter get this delivered!
reporters were behind the rope. I director. Though Murro has met some of
had full access to every celebrity The Secret Service eventually the high-profile stars he has
that went out. It was an amazing came over to clear the area as the always dreamed of and some
experience and I had tons of fun president approached the hole. where more notable than others,
doing it." Lee invited Murro and his like when Daniel Craig offered
Looks Tom has started an daughter to his place nearby, Tom his Rolex after his recent
unlikely career as a celebrity where he was going to watch the Broadway play. – "only because
correspondent for his newly president finish his game. Murro I'm a guy and I love James
f o r m e d w e b s i t e described the next series of Bond," ''What a thrill! explained
C e l e b r i t y m a g n e t . c o m . events as an "intense and Murro – but he still can't shake
S o m e o f h i s m e m o r a b l e amazing moment." that moment of meeting with
moments were with Natalie "Instead of passing us, the Obama.
Portman, who he described as president pulled up [on his golf " T h e p r e s i d e n t w a s s o
"beautiful" and "every man's c a r t ] a n d a p p r o a c h e d u s , " c h a r i s m a t i c a n d r e a l l y
dream," as well as hilarious exclaimed Murro. "I had to personable," remembered Murro.
c o m e d i a n C h r i s R o c k a n d control my organs and try not to
personable Rosie Perez. pass out! The president greeted OBAMA page 46
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Happy Birthday, Barack Obama Administration! [A Look
Back]
By Pareene (Gawker)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:31:21 PM
Barack Obama was sworn in as
our first foreign-born Muslim
President one year ago today. He
gave a pretty nice speech that
everyone has already forgotten.
It is too bad he was already a
huge failure, one week in!
Before he was inaugurated he
said a lot of things about
bipartisanship and "changing the
tone" in Washington that no one
really believed and some stuff
like "closing Guantanamo" and
"ending Don't Ask Don't Tell"
that, weirdly, people did believe.
(And, to be fair, he attempted to
do one of those things but was
stymied by the Republican
Superminority. The other thing
he still promises to do.
Eventually. Arguably he could've
"sold" the first thing better but
people who constantly make that
argument about how a thing
should've been "sold" after the
fact should always be considered
suspect.)
His "Bush Tax Cut" (which was
passed through this crazy thing
called reconciliation, where you
only need 51 votes) was the
stimulus, which was not as sexy
as a tax cut. (His 9/11 was
apparently a guy who failed to
detonate some explosives in his
underpants who was then
promptly caught and arrested and
is awaiting trial.) But the
stimulus was another thing, too:
a legislative victory that led to
the very first examples of
concern trolls bemoaning how
Liberal and Bad this president
was!
On January 20 of 2009, Peggy
Noonan thought Barack Obama
was very nice. His speech was
"serious and solid" and
"moderate" and "sober." A week
later Peggy was upset that the
stimulus passed without any
Republican votes, and she said,
"most everyone knows it isn't a
good bill." In reality, a slim
majority of Americans supported
the bill. And it "wasn't a good
bill" because it was watered
down to attract Republican
support. But Republican support
never materialized because it is
makes no political sense for them
to support anything Barack
Obama does. Also this was the
blueprint for the entire first year
basically, wasn't it?
Now, one year later, Peggy
wrote essentially the exact same
column as that January 2009 one.
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This time it is not about
"stimulus." It is about health
care. Once again, a moderate bill
full of compromises to positions
formerly held by Republicans
has been tarred as a far-left
boondoggle and the GOP
opposition to the bill is sort of
acknowledged to be inevitable
political grandstanding but
generally explained as if it was a
matter of principle.
And, last Friday, Peggy wrote a
column about how Obama is
"disconnected" from the
American people, because he
focuses on health care while
people are worried a) about jobs
and b) about government
spending. The president is no
longer as sober and serious and
moderate as he was a year ago.
How sad.
Shortly before Barack Obama's
inauguration, David Brooks was
blessing the incoming president
as the end of identity politics and
claiming he would attempt to
fundamentally restore balance to
the American government. A
week later he was complaining
about the stimulus. Today he
says it is time to abandon health
care altogether. Obama is too
pragmatic! Attempting to do
things about the things that are
wrong with the nation? Ugh! No
one wants that! The David
Brooks who, a year ago, said the
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To Know the Jersey Shore Kids Is to Hate the Show [Shore

Thing]
By Brian Moylan (Gawker) same as they did in the most
Submitted at 1/20/2010 3:03:13 PM important sociological
experiment of our time is only
Now that Snooki, The Situation, going to make their reputation
and crew have leaped off the stronger. After all, if it wasn't for
screen and into our real lives the drunken punches and messy
with public and club hookups, ShamWOWW would
appearances, are reports of their just be another trashy girl with
wanton ways going to screw up fake titties and bad extensions.
MTV's newest hit? Maybe. The thing they should really be
Just about daily we're hearing worried about is overexposure.
about cast members behaving With the season finale tomorrow
badly in clubs, being obnoxious (complete with a reunion special
on planes, and cancelling and prequel with footage from
scheduled appearances. It's one audition tapes) if Jersey Shore
thing to watch them fist pump, wants to stay as strong in season
get drunk, and brawl on the two, it's time for everyone to stay
television, but what happens quiet for a little while. After
when that translates into real we've all had a chance to touch
life? Snooki's poof at a local nightclub
Like any emerging pseudo- and have The Situation try to get
media trained well enough to thing to watch a skirmish at reported, everyone is shocked
celebrities, they are now in the our phone number in the VIP
really change their behavior. Bamboo on MTV, but it's and outraged and the backlash
"discovery" phase with these lounge, the mystique will be
That, combined with the ego another thing altogether to have against their newly minted
seven youngsters. We're still gone and we'll be ready to trap
inflation of sudden flame, is a to sit next to the screaming crew reality creations starts fast and
learning about all these boys and some new animals in our reality
deadly cocktail that will lead o n a c r o s s - c o u n t r y , e a r l y furious.
girls, and we're excited about television zoo.
these already trouble-prone morning flight. That does not But are the Jersey Shore kids
every little bit of information we As for getting attitude from DJ
creatures into the realm of sound like fun at all. After all, immune to this kind of backlash?
can glean about them. This is Paulie Diss in public (and you
shockingly bad behavior, all of most people still think they're After all, they've only ever tried
usually the best phase for the can in New York this weekend)
which will be shoved down our better than the Jersey Shore kids, to sell themselves as cheap,
tabloids. Every little move they that makes a much better story
drooling gobs. so to be publicly maligned by drunken whores who like to
make is news and people are than getting the clap from him.
Their misadventures are going them is a special type of slight. party and brawl. Reading about
starting to notice the guidos out After all, what more would you
to get tired very quickly. It's one Usually when these things get them behaving in real life the
in public, but they haven't been expect?
OBAMA
continued from page 44

"He treated us as equals and that
made me feel really comfortable.
He was really cool."
Though the Banking business
has been slow due to the
economy, Murro said he's glad
he has some off time to spend
with his family plus mix and
mingle with the A-listers, but is
still baffled about his amazing
string of luck.
"I don't know if it will run out
soon," said Murro about his long
-running luck. "But each week,
something new happens."
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nation needed responsible,
serious decisions and a renewed
commitment to making tough
sacrifices and blah blah
reasonable Republican blah, this
David Brooks now says that
Obama should not have done
anything about "finance, health,
energy, automobiles and
transportation, housing, and
education" because sometimes
his actions poll poorly.
(Maureen Dowd's column today
is about Gavin Newsom, for
some reason?)
Anyway! Here is Obama's first
year Report Card, from us: on
every major issue he should've
started from a position further to
"the left" (or "the way people
who pay attention to policy
instead of politics agree would
be the better, more effective way
to do things") so that the
eventual caving to "political
realities" would've been slightly
less painful, and we would've
ended up with marginally better
bills and probably the exact same
complaints of over-reach and
"socialism" (and probably the
same complaints of being a
spineless sell-out from The Left).
Also he should fire Geithner but
he can't do that because he would
never be able to get Geithner's
replacement confirmed, no
matter who the replacement is.
Also Max Baucus basically
destroyed Obama's first year
single-handedly, we hope that
dude is proud of himself and his
boyfriend Chuck Grassley.
to resolve the crisis—to which
Jean had offered to fly all the
participants on a private jet—and
urged the staffers to keep up
appearances:
There are certain things that
need to proceed on an interem
basis in Haiti without signalling
to those beyond those receiving
this e-mail that we are in this
situation.
Multiple sources familiar with
Yele's operations have told
Gawker that Locke has
repeatedly fronted expenses for
Yele fundraising events and
concerts and was at one point
owed $120,000, which likely
explains the "personal, financial
and business sacrifices" that
caused him to resign. In an
interview last night, conducted
before we obtained Locke's e-
mail, we asked Locke about
those debts and whether he'd
ever resigned over them. "I don't
know," he said. "I'd have to look
it up. I've fronted a lot of money
for a lot of things, and been
repaid for every expense. I've
never threatened to quit."
We contacted Yele Haiti's
publicist for detailed comment,
and haven't received a reponse.
Reached on his cell phone,
Locke said, "I'm happy to chat,
but only if you go through our
publicist."
Convert to Remain
Free of Parents
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 4:20:08 AM
COLUMBUS, Ohio A
runaway teenage girl from Ohio
who converted from Islam to
Christianity has reached a court
settlement that allows her to
remain free of her Muslim
parents.
The agreement Tuesday says
that 17-year-old Rifqa Bary will
stay in a foster home under state
custody in Columbus until she
turns 18 in August. After that,
she'll be an adult and free to live
where she chooses.
Bary's attorney read a statement
in Franklin County Juvenile
Court, saying that the girl and
her parents love and respect each
other and will try to resolve their

For Prime Out Loud! differences through counseling.

By Bethlehem Shoals contract, and whether or not the
(Fanhouse Main) Wizards would have their
Submitted at 1/20/2010 3:34:00 AM
lawyers on speed-dial if this
huge deal weren't attached to a
Filed under: Mavericks, Suns, chronic injury risk. The question
Wizards Amidst all the cries of is, at age 28, how much value is
sin, sinner, and "like the trailer left in Gilbert Arenas? Injuries
f o r L e g i o n , " t h e r e ' s b e e n aside, the Wizards just might
p r e c i o u s l i t t l e t a l k o f t h e have invested too much, for too
basketball side of the Gilbert long, in a player who even under
Arenas situation. I refer not to the healthiest circumstances
the brewing snooze-fest over would be declining soon.
what will happen with Gil's Last week, Kevin Pelton of
Basketball Prospectus performed
a thorough investigation of these
SLIDESHOW: Christian
concerns. His articles should be C o n v e r t F e a r s F a m i l y
digested in full. But the upshot is Bary ran away to Florida last
that scoring guards of Gil's ilk summer, saying she feared her
peak soon and decline rapidly. father would harm or kill her for
Combined with Dave Berri's leaving Islam.
recent proclamation that NBA Her father denied the claim, and
prime, lone believed to strike a law enforcement investigation
around 27, in fact arrives at 24 found no credible threats to the
and then drops off from there. girl.
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UConn Considers New Home, Perhaps Without Calhoun

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Tritto details the potential At ESPN, Jerry Crasnick Yet, instead of being sanctioned
Submitted at 1/20/2010 8:57:17 AM financial boon to Missouri that profiles Zduriencik. “Time will or suspended, rogue coaches are
would come with a move from tell whether Zduriencik’s landing lucrative coaching
There’s no such thing as “too the Big 12 to the Big Ten. offseason is the precursor to a positions at new institutions —
big to fail” in college sports, In the Cleveland Plain Dealer, 2010 executive of the year while the schools and players left
which explains why athletic Bill Livingston argues that award,” Crasnick writes. “But behind suffer sanctions and loss
conferences appear likely to a d d i n g t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f he’s definitely made life of postseason opportunities.”
continue their growth trend. In a Connecticut to the conference interesting in Seattle.”* * * Give up? Your aggrieved sports
decade, it wouldn’t be surprising would bring with it some great surpassingly intense coach.* * * College basketball is a cyclical pundit is U.S. Secretary of
to see a hypertrophic Big East benefits of its own. “Luring Baseball was awash in re-signed thing, and it’s also — as Education Arne Duncan, in a
featuring Gonzaga and New UConn from the Big East would players on Tuesday, as teams anything powered by 19-year- column on the sadly
Mexico State, for instance, or a give the Big Ten a very big sought to avoid salary arbitration olds should be — wildly compromised state of college
Conference USA featuring a footprint in the television market with as many arbitration-eligible unpredictable. But even given football and basketball at The
couple of Canadian universities. bonanza of the Northeast,” players as possible. But with all the normal season-to-season Huffington Post. Once you get
But there is something especially L i v i n g s t o n writes. due respect to Reggie Willits’s fluctuations, the spectacular wall past the stumbling block that this
jarring about the much-discussed “Competitively, adding UConn raise from the Angels, the news -to-wall lameness of the Pac-10’s is a column about big-time
p r o s p e c t o f t h e B i g T e n would have the approximate that Seattle Mariners mega-ace men’s hoops teams this season is college sports and the NBA’s
expanding. The addition of a effect in basketball of adding Felix Hernandez re-upped with pretty stunning. Again, it “one-and-done” policy, it’s a
12th school — Missouri and North Carolina. It would be the M’s for five years and happens, but as the Journal’s very interesting read, with some
Connecticut are among the greater, if you factor in UConn’s roughly $80 million stole the Darren Everson writes, “no novel ideas, notably on the
names that have been mentioned dominant women’s team.” show. Seattle is now guaranteed major conference has gone aforementioned one-and-done
— would allow the conference UConn basketball, of course, is five more seasons from one of through what the Pac-10 is policy. Can’t wait to see what
that already has outgrown its more or less synonymous with the best 23-year-old pitchers in enduring right now.” FCC chairman Julius
name to add a championship coach Jim Calhoun, who has recent memory, and the legend “Since 1985, none of the current Genachowski has to say about
game in football and balance its coached more games than any of new Seattle GM Jack major conferences — the ACC, the NFL’s instant-replay rule.* *
member schools’ schedules other active Division I coach. Zduriencik continues to grow. Big 12, Big East, Big Ten and *
somewhat. But it’s hard not to But Calhoun won’t be on the Zduriencik is in his second SEC being the others — has An All-American at Clemson
wonder what that addition would sidelines over the next 10 days: season as Seattle’s GM, but has failed to have at least two teams University and a disappointment
subtract from one of the most He’s taking a leave of absence yet to make a deal that didn’t participate in the NCAA men’s during his first three years in the
iconic organizations in college from the team, reportedly for earn an instant A-plus from the tournament,” Everson writes. “In NFL, defensive end Gaines
sports. Associated Press If stress-related reasons. In the baseball cognoscenti. “In 2008, each of the past three seasons, Adams was still seen as
UConn makes a big move, Jim Hartford Courant, Jeff Jacobs the Mariners paid about $51m the Pac-10 has landed six something of a work in progress
Calhoun might not come along. ponders the 67-year-old’s reason for Richie Sexson, Jose Vidro, tournament spots. But as of now, as a pass rusher. Few doubted his
The Big Ten hasn’t expanded for taking his brief leave. “We Carlos Silva, Jarrod Washburn, the Pac-10 is in such poor shape talent for the game and
since it added Penn State back in have always known Calhoun and Miguel Batista,” Lookout that there’s a chance only the teammates spoke highly of him
1990, but nothing is permanent would go all 15 rounds, but what Landing’s Jeff Sullivan reminds conference champion will go — as a person, but Adams just
in college sports. While Notre we never knew was when fate Mariners fans. “Now our long- a fate that ordinarily befalls didn’t produce as expected
Dame makes the most sense would ring the bell on the 15th,” term contracts belong to Felix conferences like the Southland during his two years in Tampa
geographically, school officials Jacobs writes. “Is this it? Or will Hernandez, Franklin Gutierrez, and Ohio Valley.”* * * Bay nor, in 2009, his first season
turned down the Big Ten’s his love of coaching supersede Ichiro, Milton Bradley, Chone Quick, who wrote these words? in Chicago. Adams died on
invitation in 1999 and have everything?” Figgins, Jack Wilson, and Dustin “If the number of players Sunday of cardiac arrest (which
preemptively asked not to be re- At the blog Storming the Floor, Ackley. I think that means we’re arrested each year on a team
i n v i t e d t h i s r o u n d . I n t h e Jacob E. Osterhout offers a doing better.” exceeds the team GPA, that UCONN page 52
Sporting News, Christopher warily affectionate take on the program needs a house-cleaning.
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Australian Open: Justine Henin, Kim Clijsters, Svetlana

Kuznetsova advance to third round
By ESPN.com news services - only three tournaments back Complete results way how to go -- I've done it No. 4 Caroline Wozniacki of
(ESPN.com) from two years in retirement, Need the scores from any match twice," Kuznetsova said of her Denmark, who lost the U.S.
Submitted at 1/20/2010 8:17:50 AM
during which she married and played in today's Australian chances of winning a major. Open final to Clijsters, had a 6-4,
had a child -- that inspired Open? Results She's never gone past the 6-2 first-round win over
Del Potro Wins Marathon, Henin, her fellow Belgian, to "My attitude doesn't change quarterfinals in Melbourne. Canada's Aleksandra Wozniak.
Henin Advances Del Potro Wins return to the tour. because now I'm seen as one of No. 2 Safina had a 6-3, 6-4 win In other first-round matches
Marathon, Henin Advances Against Dementieva, Henin had the favorites," said Clijsters, who over Barbora Zahlavova carried over to Wednesday from
MELBOURNE, Australia -- a match point at 5-4 and 40-30 is 20-3 in her comeback. "To me, Strycova -- saving four break the rain-interrupted opening
Justine Henin, granted a wild- b u t n e t t e d a f o r e h a n d . that doesn't mean anything." points in the last game before days, No. 7 Victoria Azarenka of
card spot at the Australian Open, D e m e n t i e v a p r o d u c e d Her next opponent will be No. serving it out. Belarus beat French wild card
advanced in her Grand Slam consecutive backhand winners to 19 Nadia Petrova, one of the Safina has held the No. 1 Stephanie Cohen-Aloro 6-2, 6-0;
comeback with a 7-5, 7-6 (6) win even the second set. Russian women already into the ranking but never won a major. No. 9 Vera Zvonareva beat
over reigning Olympic champion Henin again had a chance to third round. Petrova is joined by She next plays Britain's Elena Kristina Kucova of Slovakia 6-2,
Elena Dementieva. serve for the match but was French Open champion Svetlana Baltacha, who has already 6-0; and No. 16 Li Na of China,
Henin, a seven-time Grand Slam broken, with Dementieva forcing Kuznetsova, last year's equaled her best run at the a quarterfinalist at the U.S.
singles champion, produced the a tiebreaker and then leading 3-1. Australian Open runner-up season's first major by reaching Open, beat New Zealander
biggest win of her return after 20 The Russian also had a set point Dinara Safina and Maria the third round with a 6-2, 7-5 Marina Erakovic 6-2, 6-0.
months in retirement with a 7-5, in the tiebreaker before Henin Kirilenko. win over No. 30 Kateryna No. 22 Daniela Hantuchova of
7-6 (6) defeat of fifth-seeded won three straight points to Third-ranked Kuznetsova was Bondarenko. Slovakia and No. 29 Shahar Peer
Dementieva in the night match finish it off in 2 hours, 50 first into the third round when No. 16 Yanina Wickmayer, a of Israel also advanced.
on Rod Laver Arena, the center minutes. she beat Anastasia Belgian who didn't get a seeding Serena and Venus Williams won
court. Henin said the appreciative Pavlyuchenkova 6-2, 6-2. here because her suspension for a in doubles, starting the defense
"It was very emotional for me on crowd and the scope of her win Kuznetsova broke World Anti-Doping Agency of their Australian title with a 6-
the court at the end because there made her happy she returned to Pavlyuchenkova's serve twice to "whereabouts rule" violation 1, 6-1 win.
was so much intensity," Henin the sport. start and got on top of most hadn't been overturned before Information from The
said. "It's magical to win this "The crowd gave me so much, so rallies with a strong forehand and entries closed, reached the third- Associated Press was used in this
kind of match in this kind of respectful at the end. That's why had 27 winners; Pavlyuchenkova round with a 7-6 (2), 6-1 win report.
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champion Kim Clijsters, who Brisbane International final win at the 2004 U.S. Open -- has Sandra Zahlavova of the Czech
scored a 6-3, 6-3 win over nearly two weeks ago, with a chance to reach the No. 1 Republic.
T a m a r i n e T a n a s u g a r n o f Clijsters winning a close three- ranking for the first time if she China's Zheng Jie won 2-6, 6-2,
Thailand. set match in Henin's first official takes the Australian Open title. 6-3 over No. 24 Maria Jose
It was Clijsters' U.S. Open title - tournament in her comeback. "Yes, definitely, I know all the Martinez Sanchez of Spain.
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Judge allows Mike Leach's lawsuit against Texas
Tech Red Raiders to move forward
By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:47:02 AM
LUBBOCK, Texas -- A judge
ruled Wednesday that fired
Texas Tech coach Mike Leach's
lawsuit against the university can
go forward, but not as quickly as
his attorneys wanted.
State District Judge William
Sowder denied a motion by
Leach's attorneys to speed up
taking depositions from school
administrators and obtaining
documents relevant to the case.
"I see no reason to give Mr.
Leach any special treatment in
this case," the judge told the
court. "So this case will take an
ordinary course of action."
Leach's attorneys said Sowder's
denial doesn't jeopardize their
case.
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"We're pleased with the court's
decision today," attorney Ted
Liggett said after the hearing.
The university fired Leach on
Dec. 30, two days after it
suspended him amid allegations
he mistreated a player with a
concussion. His suit includes
allegations of libel and slander,
breach of contract and violation
of Texas' Whistleblower Act.
Leach has denied he mistreated
the player, sophomore receiver
Adam James. The player said his
coach twice ordered him to stand
for hours while confined in a
dark place during practice.
Sowder also ruled that the state's
motion to dismiss the case on
grounds of sovereign immunity -
- which means a state agency or
entity cannot be sued without
permission from the Texas
legislature or without a waiver
based on a defendant's conduct --
will be taken up at a later date.
Daniel Perkins, a lawyer with
the state attorney general's
office, which is representing the
university, declined to comment
after the hearing and deferred
comment to his office.
Leach attorney Paul Dobrowski
told the judge that the coach
"cannot get a job" due to the
actions of the university.
The attorney general's office, in
an e-mail from spokesman Jerry
Strickland, said because of the
pending litigation it had no
comment "other than what was
addressed in court."
Sowder ordered the university to
retain or preserve all documents
and e-mails related to Leach's
firing.
Perkins told Sowder he believed
the seven claims in Leach's suit
were an attempt "to pile on"
accusations against the school
and that the judge could rule on
their motion to dismiss the case.
"Based on their own arguments
you have everything you need"
to take up the school's motion to
dismiss on sovereign immunity
grounds, he said.
Leach attorney Paul Dobrowski
told the judge Wednesday that
the coach "cannot get a job" due
to the actions of the university.
"They don't want any discovery
whatsoever," Dobrowski told
Sowder.
With allegations of player
mistreatment hanging over his
head, Leach has been left out of
discussions for openings at USC,
Tennessee, East Carolina and
South Florida, Dobrowski has
said. Leach's agent attempted to
set up interviews at the schools,
he has said.
Dobrowski said that it was "not
asking for the moon" to allow
speedy depositions of university
and athletic department
administrators; James; his father,
Craig James, an ESPN analyst
and former NFL player; and a
school attorney involved in
investigating the mistreatment
allegation.
"We're simply asking for what
they have in their possession. ...
and certainly do not constitute a
fishing expedition," Dobrowski
told the judge.
He also said the university
wanted to "twist" the facts in
their favor, and "that's not right."
In announcing his rulings,
Sowder told Leach's attorneys
that he had "real issues" with six
of the seven claims in Leach's
suit.
"I think we all know what we're
dealing with is a waiver of
conduct on the breach of
contract" claim, Sowder said
The school began an
investigation Dec. 20 and
suspended Leach eight days
later. On Dec. 29 Leach's
attorney filed for a temporary
restraining order to allow Leach
to coach in the Alamo Bowl on
Jan. 2, and a judge set a hearing
for Dec. 30.
Before the two sides made it
into the courtroom to argue the
restraining order the university
fired Leach with cause, meaning
the university believes it does not
owe any of the money left on
Leach's five-year, $12.7 million
contract.
Liggett said after the hearing
that he wasn't prepared to
comment on whether the school
has made overtures toward
settlement talks.
"We're not prepared to make a
statement on that," he said.
"We're always ready to listen."
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Homecoming
Dance Gang Rape
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 9:56:07 AM
RICHMOND, Calif.
Authorities have arrested a
seventh suspect in the gang rape
of a teenage girl outside a high
school homecoming dance in
Northern California.
Richmond police Sgt. Bisa
French said 43-year-old John
Crane Jr. walked into the police
station and turned himself in
without incident Tuesday
evening.
French said Crane was being
held on $100,000 bail on
suspicion of felony sexual
assault.
Investigators identified Crane
last week as a suspect in the Oct.
24 sexual assault of a 16-year-
old girl outside Richmond High
School. Police describe him as
an ex-con with a history of
violent crime.
Six other males ages 15 to 21
have pleaded not guilty in
connection with the rape and
related charges.
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Geoff Ogilvy: Tiger Woods should talk before
playing golf
By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:34:24 AM
Reports: Woods At Sex Rehab
Clinic Reports: Woods At Sex
Rehab Clinic
ABU DHABI, United Arab
Emirates -- Tiger Woods should
come out and answer his critics
in public before making his
return to tournament golf,
Australian Geoff Ogilvy said on
Wednesday.
Woods, who is taking an
indefinite break from playing,
has been in hiding since
admitting last month he had
cheated on his wife.
"Tiger should actually come out
in public before, and not at a golf
tournament," Ogilvy told
reporters on the eve of the Abu
Dhabi Championship.
"One, out of respect for all the
other golfers, and two, to diffuse
the circus part of it before he
actually gets to a golf
tournament. I don't believe a lot
of tournaments want all the
tabloid media floating around.
"It would be nice if he came out
away from a golf tournament.
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When he does come back to golf
it would still be a bit crazy but
that tabloid edge might be gone."
Woods is receiving treatment at
a sex rehabilitation clinic in
Mississippi, Benoit Denizet-
Lewis, author of a book titled
"America Anonymous: Eight
Addicts in Search of a Life" and
himself a recovering sex addict,
wrote on his personal blog
Monday, citing an unnamed
source.
Last week, Radar Online and
Jackson, Miss., television
stations WJTV and WLBT
reported through sources that
Woods was at the Hattiesburg
clinic.
Officials at the clinic have not
confirmed that Woods is there,
and ESPN independently has not
been able to confirm that Woods
is at the clinic.
Ogilvy said Woods may opt to
choose the media-controlled
atmosphere of the Masters in
April for his comeback.
"The least amount of circus he
could face would be if he went to
Augusta first, as that would be
the most controlled environment
he could be in," Ogilvy said.
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"But then if he truly wants to win
at Augusta he's going to want to
play before then. Whenever he
returns, it's going to be a big day.
“
Tiger should actually come out
in public before, and not at a golf
tournament. One, out of respect
for all the other golfers, and two,
to diffuse the circus part of it
before he actually gets to a golf
tournament. I don't believe a lot
of tournaments want all the
tabloid media floating around.”--
Geoff Ogilvy
"The first press conference he
does is going to be a crazy one.
A lot of people who have been
afraid to ask questions for 10 or
12 years won't be quite as
hesitant to ask questions as they
used to be and Tiger is going to
have to answer questions."
Ogilvy, a former U.S. Open
champion, said the other
competitors would probably
want to avoid playing alongside
Woods on his return because of
the massive amount of attention
it would create.
"At a golf tournament it's going
to be crazy whatever happens
and there's going to be a lot of
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stuff going on inside the ropes
when he comes back," he said.
"It would probably not be ideal
to have to play with him."
When Woods does return to the
PGA Tour, Ogilvy said the
The best and
American will get back to his
best. worst places
"Tiger has always impressed
when he had had lots going on to get dumped
around him with expectation, (Holy Kaw!)
pressure and crazy stuff," said
Submitted at 1/20/2010 9:37:00 AM
Ogilvy, who won the 2006 U.S.
Open at Winged Foot.
Getting the old heave-ho from
As for his own game, Ogilvy
your significant other can sting a
said he was brimming with
little more this time of year with
confidence after retaining his
Valentine’s Day right around the
SBS Championship title in
corner and at least two more
Hawaii two weeks ago.
months of cold weather. But, if
"Winning early in a new season
you land on the lonely side of a
... is pretty high on your priority
breakup, try to strategically
list," he said."It's a big boost."
decide where the dumping with
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Carlton Fisk rips Mark McGwire, calls his
defense of his home run totals 'a crock'
By ESPNBoston.com
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:42:50 AM
Hall of Fame catcher Carlton
Fisk became the latest former
player to level criticism at
admitted steroids user Mark
McGwire. And in the same
interview with the Chicago
Tribune, Fisk also had strong
words for Roger Clemens.
“ you take the length of time that
Try having your knees operated
on and catching for 30 years. Do
you think you feel good when
you go out there? [McGwire]
had to stand around and play first
base. So excuuuuuse me.”-- Hall
of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk
Fisk, who caught 2,226 games
spanning 24 seasons for the
Boston Red Sox and then the
Chicago White Sox, said
McGwire's insistence that
steroids did not help him total
583 career home runs is "a
crock."
"[McGwire] says, 'Well, it
doesn't help eye-and-hand
Do I eat it? Dropped food flowchart
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:28:55 AM
Who hasn’t experienced that
moment of sheer horror as you
watch, seemingly in slow
coordination.' Well, of course it
does," Fisk told the Tribune for
Wednesday's editions. "It allows
you more acuity physically and
mentally and optically. You are
going to be stronger and you are
going to be better.
"Some of these numbers that are
out there are really warped.
Should they be considered? You
saw how McGwire was viewed
in the Hall of Fame voting. If
[steroid users] use that stuff and
subtract 15 or 20 home runs a
year for those guys, where are
their numbers then?"
As part of his admission to
using steroids throughout the
1990s, McGwire said last week
he believes steroids did not
inflate his home run totals and
that he took them to heal faster
from injuries, which allowed him
to remain in the lineup.
"That's a crock," Fisk told the
Tribune. "There's a reason they
call it performance-enhancing
drugs. That's what it does --
performance enhancement. You
motion, your delicious chocolate
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floor? Then, it’s crucial decision
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Luckily, the clever foodies over
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can be good, but it's going to
make you better. You can be
average, but it is going to make
you good. If you are below
average, it is going to make you
average. Some guys who went
that route got their five-year, $35
million contracts and now are off
into the sunset somewhere.
Because once they can't use
[steroids] anymore, they can't
play anymore."
"Try having your knees operated
on and catching for 30 years,"
Fisk added. "Do you think you
feel good when you go out there?
[McGwire] had to stand around
and play first base. So
excuuuuuse me."
Fisk's outrage wasn't aimed
solely at McGwire. He also was
critical of seven-time Cy Young
winner Clemens, who has been
accused of using PEDs. The
former trainer of the 353-game
winner has said he injected
Clemens with steroids and HGH
over a period of several years, a
claim Clemens has vehemently
denied.
dropped food flowchart that will
"The reason he got let go from
the Red Sox [after the 1996
season] was because he was
starting to break down," Fisk told
the Tribune. "His last couple of
years in Boston just weren't very
productive, a la 'The Rocket.'
Then all of a sudden he goes to
Toronto and he wants to show
somebody something. Then he
gets two consecutive Cy Young
Awards [in '97 and '98]. Come
on, give me a bucket.
"It's obvious to players. You
notice that stuff. You know how
hard it is to play the game. You
know how hard it is to be
productive at any age, but
especially at an older age. You
see guys who are as productive
later on as they were early [in
their careers]. It offends guys
that stayed clean."
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Obama affirms
healthcare
plans
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:22:55 AM
The Obama administration on
Wednesday promised to press
ahead with healthcare reform in
spite of an electoral setback in
Massachusetts partly driven by
anger over the Democratic
agenda.
Republican Scott Brown’s
victory over Democrat Martha
Coakley in the race to replace the
late Senator Ted Kennedy in a
Democratic stronghold, sent a
chilling message to the president
a year after his inauguration: that
voters blame him for economic
woes and link him with
discredited Wall Street.
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probably owed something to an
enlarged heart), stopping a career
and a life that was just getting
started. “At 26, this is what
Gaines Adams was left with:
warm words from people who
knew him, countered by cold
numbers on an NFL stat sheet,”
ESPN’s Melissa Isaacson writes.
“I’ll take the warm words.”* * *
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Bobby Valentine was, in many
ways, the ideal manager for the
New York Mets. During his six-
plus seasons with the team,
Valentine won a pennant and
posted a .534 winning
percentage, but just as
importantly he managed to keep
things entertaining regardless of
the teams he sent out onto the
field. Valentine’s flair for the
dramatic and deep-seated
irreverence wouldn’t necessarily
be the first attributes one would
look for in hiring an American
manager for Japan’s Nippon
Professional Baseball, but
Johnny Damon Has Pondered
Retiring
By Tom Fornelli (Fanhouse
Main)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 4:14:00 AM
Filed under: Yankees, MLB
Rumors, MLB Free Agency It
seems that reality is finally
starting to set in for Johnny
Damon. The Yankees won the
World Series over two months
ago, and we're a month away
from the beginning of spring
training, and Johnny is still
sitting at home waiting for
somebody to offer him a
contract. He had told Yankees
general manager Brian Cashman
Valentine won a Japan Series
with the formerly moribund
Chiba Lotte Marines in 2005, his
first season as the team’s
manager, and quickly became an
iconic figure in Japanese
baseball. Then, seemingly
without warning, Valentine was
a lame duck, and a persona non
grata in the organization that
he’d turned around.
In the Japan Times, the very
awesome Robert Whiting offers
the first of a four-part series on
the rapid rise and fall of Bobby
V. in Japan. If you’ve read
Whiting’s canonic “ You Gotta
that unless he was prepared to
make Damon a $13 million offer
for 2010, don't even bother
making the call.
Well, it seems that other general
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Have Wa“, which still stands as
the book on Japanese baseball,
you already know that this will
be a fun read.
– Tip of the Fix cap to reader
Karen Okupniak.
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world of sports? Don’t keep it to
yourself — write to us at
dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll
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David at droth11@gmail.com.
Pair of Metal Gear
Solid: Peace Walker
bundles coming to Japan
By David Hinkle (Joystiq)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:30:00 PM
36,980 yen ($405). You'll be
able to grab either (or both, if
managers got the message too, you're Richie Rich), when the
and none of them are picking up Konami is looking to release a game releases on March 18.
the phone. pair of new Metal Gear Solid: There hasn't been mention of
So Damon's options are limited, Peace Walker bundles in Japan. any kind of custom bundle for
and when the Giants announced There will be two options: an the U.S., but considering past
they had signed Bengie Molina expensive bundle featuring a bundles, we'd say it's a safe bet
on Monday, it took away one of custom PSP-3000 emblazoned to go ahead and assume one is
them. That leaves the Braves and with skulls, a copy of the game, coming our way. Commence
Yankees as Damon's most likely a carrying case and a cleaning Operation Finger Cross ... now!
landing places, provided he eases cloth -- all together costing Source- 1UP
up on his salary demand. His 26,980 yen ($296). Then there's Source- Image of cheaper
only other option is retirement, an even more expensive bundle bundle at Kotaku
and apparently he's kicked that that features everything in the Pair of Metal Gear Solid: Peace
idea around in his head. first bundle, but also tosses in a Walker bundles coming to Japan
custom strap, an original PSP originally appeared on Joystiq on
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Spencer: Project Natal launch NPD: Wii Play is best

'fraught with risk' for Microsoft selling 'game' of all time
By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) with risk." statement about Peter Molyneux.
Much as he did in our interview, "Haha! Working with Peter is
Submitted at 1/20/2010 1:15:00 PM
Spencer equated Natal
S p e a k i n g t o E u r o g a m e r , integration with Live integration,
amazing, he's a very creative,
inspirational person. Sometimes
in the US
Microsoft Game Studios head suggesting that it will eventually it's like riding a bull with no By David Hinkle (Joystiq) has invaded. Taking second
Phil Spencer responded to be ubiquitous. "At the beginning saddle, and sometimes it's like Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:00:00 PM place is Guitar Hero III, the first
criticism that Microsoft takes of Live it was all about sports, reading a great novel, but it's a game to earn$1 billion in
fewer risks than Sony in first- racing and shooting games," fun experience." Look for Peter If there's a statistic measuring revenue, followed by Grand
p a r t y d e v e l o p m e n t b y Spencer said. "Now if you found Molyneux's Literodeo among the how well a game sold, you're Theft Auto: San Andreas. The
referencing Project Natal-- "if a game that didn't have some Project Natal launch lineup. likely to find Wii Play lingering others in the top ten are generally
there isn't risk in Natal then I kind of Live functionality it Spencer: Project Natal launch in it somewhere. It's not only expected, including Activision's
don't know what's keeping me up would seem like it wasn't a 'fraught with risk' for Microsoft been the best-selling game of other$1 billion earner, Modern
at night." complete game. I think Natal is originally appeared on Joystiq on 2009, but also just recently made Warfare 2(notable because,
"We're trying to build a set of likely to get there as well." That Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:15:00 EST. itself known as the top seller for damn, that was fast!), along with
new games, new experiences that is somewhat at odds with Aaron Please see our terms for use of the last decade. Now, according a pair of other Call of Duty
will have the same quality Greenberg's statement that Natal feeds. to NPD data (via GameSpot), the games. Head over to GameSpot
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said, "but really entice both "completely unique, brand-new Comments claimed another throne: top- NPD: Wii Play is best selling
existing 360 customers and new experiences." selling non-PC US game ever. 'game' of all time in the US
people. It's a huge challenge, a And, as a bonus, he also found It's a pretty prestigious list and originally appeared on Joystiq on
huge investment and it's fraught t i m e t o m a k e o n e w a c k y while no exact figures are listed Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:00:00 EST.
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Strong aftershock rattles Haiti
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Rescuers applaud as the children
are pulled alive from the ruins
A strong aftershock has rocked
Haiti, sending screaming people
running into the streets, eight
days after another quake
devastated the country.
The extent of the damage is not
yet known. The magnitude 6.1
tremor struck west of Port-au-
Prince at 0603 local time (1103
GMT).
An estimated 200,000 people
died in last Tuesday's quake and
another 1.5 million were made
homeless.
Despite an international aid
operation, supplies are slow to
reach survivors.
However, international teams
are still rescuing people alive
from the rubble, including a 69-
year-old woman pulled from the
ruins of a church in the capital.
The US military has defended
its handling of the rescue
operation, as aid groups
complained of long delays in
getting vital supplies of food,
water and medicine.
Haitian President Rene Preval
said aid delivery was the main
problem now.
Help came "very fast," Mr
Preval told a French radio
station. "When it arrives, the
question is: where are the trucks
to transport it, where are the
depots?"
Fresh panic
The US Geological Survey said
Wednesday's tremor was centred
35 miles (56km) north-west of
the capital. It struck at a depth of
6.2 miles (9.9km), but was too
far inland to generate any
tsunamis in the Caribbean.
Some buildings already
weakened by last week's quake
collapsed and wails of terror
filled the air as frightened
survivors poured out of unstable
buildings, a BBC correspondent
in the region said.
Although some aid has started to
reach desperate survivors,
hundreds of thousands are still
without food or water, a full
week after the disaster.
Medicins Sans Frontieres
(Doctors Without Borders) said
its cargo plane with 12 tonnes of
medical supplies had been turned
away from the congested Port-au
-Prince airport three times since
Sunday. It said five patients died
from lack of the supplies it
carried.
"We were forced to buy a saw in
the market to continue
amputations," the group's Loris
de Filippi told the Reuters news
agency in Cite Soleil.
But the US military has
defended its efforts in the face of
vast logistical challenges.
"We're doing everything in our
power to speed aid to Haiti as
fast as humanly possible," said
Gen Douglas Fraser, head of US
Southern Command.
He said they plan to start using
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teams from Turkey and France.
Television pictures showed her
smiling and singing as she was
carried to safety.
The United Nations said early
on Wednesday that 121 people
had been rescued by
international teams since the 12
January earthquake - an extra 31
people on Tuesday.
Aid challenges
In a bid to speed up the delivery
of aid and stem looting and
violence, US troops have stepped
up their presence in the quake-
ravaged country.
Haiti was extremely poor even
before the earthquake, and this
disaster has now broken all the
basic services, like phones and
electricity.
But Haitians are resilient.
two other airports, at Jacmel in
Everywhere there are volunteers
Haiti and San Isidro in the
filling some of the gaps created
neighbouring Dominican
by the slow arrival of
Republic, in the coming days.
international aid.
Amazing rescues
A company which sells drinking
One full week after the
water is distributing it free to
magnitude seven quake
people living in a school
devastated the country, search-
compound.
and-rescue teams were emerging
A Haitian Jesuit priest has
from the ruins with unbelievable
mobilised local relief workers
success stories.
and international doctors to work
Ena Zizi, 69, was rescued from
together in a rural region just
the wreckage of the residence of
outside the capital.
Haiti's Roman Catholic
In a slum area, a volunteer first-
archbishop on Monday, a day
aider dressed the wounds of a
before crews recovered the body
girl who had been trapped in
of the archbishop himself,
rubble.
Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot.
These largely unsung heroes
Another survivor, 25-year-old
know they can't replace the big
Lozama Hotteline, was rescued
from beneath a collapsed
supermarket with the help of STRONG page 65
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Brown: Mass. victory sends 'very powerful message' (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) prospects in midterm elections further Senate action until then. as their greeter to mark the end a directive Wednesday aimed at
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:45:38 AM this year. Even when the Obama said he agreed. " The of Obama's first year as stopping government contracts
economy is not bad, the party Senate certainly shouldn't try to president. She brought the family from going to tax-delinquent
BOSTON – Republican Scott h o l d i n g t h e W h i t e H o u s e jam anything through until Scott dog, Bo, to the Blue Room. She companies. "We need to insist on
Brown, fresh from a stunning h i s t o r i c a l l y l o s e s s e a t s i n Brown is seated. People in chatted with guests and hugged the same sense of responsibility
Massachusetts Senate victory m i d t e r m s . Massachusetts spoke. He's got to many of them as they filed in. in Washington that so many of
that shook the power balance on "If there's anybody in this be part of the process," the Obama himself grimly faced a you strive to uphold in your own
C a p i t o l H i l l , d e c l a r e d building that doesn't tell you they president told ABC. need to regroup in a White lives, in your own families and
Wednesday that his election had are more worried about elections The president suggested the House shaken by the realization in your own businesses," Obama
sent a "very powerful message" today, you should absolutely slap same forces that elected Brown of what a difference a year made. said.
t h a t v o t e r s a r e w e a r y o f them," Democratic Sen. Claire "swept me into office" in 2008. In addition to searching for Sen. John McCain of Arizona,
backroom deals and Washington McCaskill of Missouri told People are frustrated "not just ways to salvage the health care Obama's Republican presidential
business-as-usual. reporters at the Capitol. "Of because of what's happened in overhaul, the Democratic Party rival in 2008, likened Brown's
Democrats scrambled to explain c o u r s e e v e r y b o d y i s m o r e the last year or two years, but also faced a need to determine win to the Revolutionary War's
t h e l o s s , w h i c h i m p e r i l s worried about elections. Are you what's happened over the last how to assuage an angry "shot heard 'round the world" in
P r e s i d e n t B a r a c k O b a m a ' s kidding? It's what this place eight years." electorate, and particularly Concord, Mass., in April 1775.
agenda for health care and other thrives on." White House spokesman Robert attract independent voters who McCain said the message was
hard-fought domestic issues. Brown, in his first meeting with Gibbs told reporters at his daily have fled to the GOP after a year clear: "No more business as
Republicans greeted their victory reporters after the special briefing, "That anger is now of Wall Street bailouts, economic usual in Washington. Stop this
with clear glee. election, portrayed his victory as pointed at us because we're in stimulus spending and enormous unsavory sausage-making
"The president ought to take this less a referendum on Obama or charge. And rightly so." budget deficits. process."
as a message to recalibrate how the president's health care Gibbs said Obama would There was a sense that if Brown, 50, will finish
he wants to govern, and if he proposal and more of a sign that address the Massachusetts results Republicans could win in one of Kennedy's unexpired term,
wants to govern from the middle people are tired of Washington "and what they mean" in his the country's most traditionally facing re-election in 2012.
we'll meet him there," said politics and dealmaking. State of the Union address next liberal states, Massachusetts, Senate Majority Leader Harry
Senate Republican leader Mitch He said his victory sends "a very Wednesday. they could probably win Reid pledged to seat Brown
McConnell of Kentucky. powerful message that business- Brown's victory gives anywhere. immediately, a hasty retreat from
Obama said the Massachusetts as-usual is just not going to be Republicans 41 votes in the 100- "I think every state is now in pre-election Democratic threats
vote reflected the mood around the way we do it." member Senate, upending the play, absolutely," said Sen. to delay his swearing-in until
the country. "People are angry, "I think it's important that we hit Democrats' ability to stop Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. after the health bill passed.
and they're frustrated," he said in the ground running," Brown said. filibusters and other delaying Brown rode a wave of voter ___
an interview with ABC News. He said he would pay a courtesy tactics. anger to defeat Democrat Martha Sidoti reported from
D e m o c r a t s s t i l l e x e r c i s e call to the nation's capital on Brown said that, while he Coakley, the attorney general Washington. Associated Press
majority control over both the Thursday. planned to caucus with who had been considered a writers Tom Raum, Beth Fouhy,
House and Senate. But Tuesday's "Game's over. Let's get to work," Republicans, "I'm not beholden surefire winner until just days Suzanne Gamboa, Mark Smith
GOP upset to win the seat long he added. It was not clear how to anybody." ago. Her loss signaled big and Steve LeBlanc contributed to
held by the late Sen. Edward quickly he would be sworn in, Democrats were licking their political problems for Obama this report.
K e n n e d y — f o l l o w i n g but Democratic Sen. Jim Webb wounds and demonstrating that and the Democratic Party this Five Filters featured article:
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challenges for Democratic probably means there will be no lady Michelle Obama showed up with Washington, Obama signed
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Obama warns Senate on healthcare
(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:23:28 AM
US President Barack Obama has
warned Democrats not to "jam"
healthcare reforms through the
Senate after a Republican won a
seat in Massachusetts.
Mr Obama told ABC News any
vote should wait until Scott
Brown had taken up his seat, and
lawmakers should seek to
"coalesce" around parts they
agreed on.
Mr Brown will be
Massachusetts' first Republican
senator since 1972.
His victory means the
Republicans now have enough
votes in the Senate to block the
Democrats' healthcare plans.
Earlier, the president's senior
adviser, David Axelrod, said he
would take the defeat into
account, but would stick to his
agenda.
"We'll have to think through this
next year from the standpoint of
tactics but in substance the
mission can't change," he said.
The BBC's Paul Adams, in
Boston, says it is a humiliating
defeat for the Democrats,
robbing them of their filibuster-
proof 60-seat majority, and a
deeply unwelcome anniversary
present for President Obama
exactly one year after his
inauguration.
Our correspondent adds that it is
one of the biggest political upsets
in years - in a seat held for
almost half a century by Edward
Kennedy, a Democratic Party
colossus, who died last year.
The Democrats' leader in the
House of Representatives, Steny
Hoyer, said party leaders were
trying to determine which parts
of the healthcare bill could still
be passed in the Senate, Reuters
news agency said.
He added that another key piece
of legislation, the cap-and-trade
bill, was not dead, but parts
aimed at increasing energy
independence were more likely
to pass than those aimed at
reducing carbon emissions.
'Voter disenchantment'
Senator-elect Brown told
journalists his victory sent the
message that "people are tired of
business as usual in Washington
politics", and vowed to get to
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swept me into office."
"People are angry and they are
frustrated. Not just because what
has happened in the last year or
two years, but what's happened
over the last eight years."
Mr Obama said he wanted to
make clear that any plans by
Democrats for a Senate vote on
the reform plan before Mr Scott
took up his seat were "off the
table".
"The Senate certainly shouldn't
try to jam anything through until
Scott Brown is seated," he
added.
"The people of Massachusetts
spoke. He has got to be part of
that process."
The president said it was
important for Americans to
understand that core elements of
work as soon as possible. "I just focused on what I did,
the bill such as cost containment
Please turn on JavaScript. Media which is to talk about the issues -
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"I would advise that we try to
Scott Brown: "The main thing plan," he told NBC.
move quickly to coalesce around
they want is good government "We already have 98% of our
those elements of the package
back" people insured here already in
that people agree on," he said.
H e s a i d h e w o u l d g o t o Massachusetts, so we do not
However, the Republican party
Washington on Thursday with need the plan that's being pushed
chairman, Michael Steele, said
the hope of taking up his seat. upon us," he added.
Americans were breathing a
"The campaign is over now, and But he denied he was intent on
"sigh of relief" over healthcare.
we have to focus on solving derailing the reforms.
"People across the country are
problems," he said. "I never said I was going to do
saying: 'Slow it down,'" he said,
Earlier Mr Brown, 50, told e v e r y t h i n g I c a n t o s t o p
quoted by the Associated Press.
NBC's Today show he did not h e a l t h c a r e , " h e s a i d .
Sen Robert Menendez, head of
think the vote was a referendum "I believe everybody should have
the Senate Democrats' campaign
on President Obama's first year healthcare, it's just a question of
committee, said he had "no
in power. how we do it."
interest in sugar-coating" the
He said voters had "enjoyed the Asked for his assessment of the
result.
message" he pushed while Republican victory a year after
"There is a lot of anxiety in the
campaigning, including his taking office, President Obama
c r i t i c i s m o f M r O b a m a ' s told ABC: "The same thing that
healthcare plans. swept Scott Brown into office OBAMA page 66
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Evacuations before
Motive a mystery in Va. shootings that killed 8 3rd Calif storm in
(AP) a row (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Appomattox Regional Jail and of the worst mass killings in enforcing a perimeter around a
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:36:03 AM had not been charged. Virginia, probably since the swath of woods that was 2 miles Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:05:54 AM

Police did not identify the dead, Virginia Tech tragedy in April of long and 1,000 yards wide.
APPOMATTOX, Va. – A man but rumors flew around the 2007." The house where most of the LOS ANGELES – Hundreds of
suspected of shooting eight county, which has about 14,500 Appomattox County court bodies were found is located on a people living below fire-stripped
people to death surrendered residents. Appomattox County records show a concealed gravel road, with woods and mountains were under orders to
Wednesday after spending the Schools Superintendent Dorinda weapons permit was issued to a farm fields surrounding it. On leave their homes Wednesday as
night in dense woods, but Grasty said she did not have the Christopher Bryan Speight three Wednesday morning, police had another Pacific storm churned
authorities did not reveal what list of confirmed victims but times between 1999 and last the road blocked about 100 yards toward Southern California on
prompted the killings. expects the school system will be year. The issue dates match the from the house. the heels of powerful systems
Christopher Bryan Speight, 39, affected. Schools had planned to five-year renewal period for The drama began around noon that have flooded coastal
was wearing a bulletproof vest stay closed for the day before the concealed handgun permits Tuesday when deputies communities, spawned a tornado
but had no weapons when he gunman surrendered, but the flag under Virginia law. responded to an emergency call and killed two people.
turned himself in to police was at half-staff in front of Authorities earlier said Speight about an injured man along the Los Angeles County and city
around 7:10 a.m., Sheriff O. A p p o m a t t o x C o u n t y H i g h had a high-powered rifle and side of a narrow country road. authorities issued mandatory
Wilson Staples said. Authorities School and Grasty said crisis Staples said investigators believe A deputy who answered the evacuation orders in advance,
say he fired at a state police teams will be available when he had weapons training based emergency call heard more saying residents of more than
helicopter, rupturing its gas tank students return Thursday. on the weapons found in his gunshots and soon the area, 600 homes would have to be out
and forcing it to land, but no one Staples said bomb technicians home, though they have no about 3 miles from the state by 9 a.m., just ahead of the
on board was hurt. and bomb-sniffing dogs were information to indicate he was in police district headquarters, was storm's expected midday arrival.
Staples said Wednesday that sent to the house because the military. filled with law enforcement from The homes are in communities
Speight lived in the home where authorities believed explosive Speight's uncle, Jack Giglio of all over, with more than 100 in the foothills and canyons
three bodies were found inside devices may have been planted Tampa, Fla., said his nephew responding. below the rugged San Gabriel
and four outside. The eighth in and around it. was a deer hunter, though as far ___ Mountains, where more than 250
victim, who was found barely The drama that started around as he knew Speight did not have Associated Press Writer Larry square miles of forest burned
alive on the road just outside the noon Tuesday paralyzed the rural any specialized weapons O'Dell in Appomattox and Harry away last summer, and public
house, died at the hospital. area about 100 miles southwest training. R. Weber in Atlanta contributed safety officials warned that
Authorities have not said how of Richmond that is best known "We're shocked, of course," to this report. basins designed to capture debris
Speight was related to the as the place where Confederate Giglio said. "I'm not aware of (This version CORRECTS day -laden runoff were full after two
victims. Police spokeswoman Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered any problems with him. It's kind that students will return to school days of storms.
Corrine Geller also would not to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant of out of the blue. We're still to Thursday, sted Wednesday.) Slippery slopes weren't confined
say what Speight said when he to end the Civil War. Police with trying to pick up facts too." Five Filters featured article: to the burn areas. Early
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when officers put him in a doors locked. Speight's mother, who died of The National Weather Service
sheriff's car at state police "This is a horrific tragedy," brain cancer. said the new storm would pack
headquarters later Wednesday. Geller said at a news conference State police backed by other 60 mph gusts along the Southern
H e w a s b e i n g t a k e n t o Wednesday. "It's definitely one agencies spent Wednesday night California coast and valleys, and
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Ice storm snarls traffic in nation's midsection (AP) in Los Angeles
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) with "crash after crash," even much of a problem in Cass warning remained in effect for
Submitted at 1/20/2010 11:41:34 AM though road crews were out County, but drivers had to the state into Thursday morning. Ahead of 3rd Storm
sanding streets. South Dakota proceed slowly — if they could Iowa had already endured three (FOXNews.com)
DES MOINES, Iowa – A storm authorities were advising against even get into their ice-coated major snow storms this winter, Submitted at 1/20/2010 9:35:42 AM
brought freezing rain and ice to driving along interstates 29 and cars. and there was still more than 2
the nation's midsection on 90. "You can't hardly get your car feet of snow on the ground in LOS ANGELES Hundreds of
Wednesday, causing widespread A 23-year-old man, Bradley doors open, I know that." he some areas. people living below fire-stripped
power outages and forcing Deutsch of Luverne, Minn., was said. "We've had our share of winter, mountains were under orders to
school closures in several states, killed after his vehicle rolled in a Several northeast Nebraska that's for sure. I think everybody leave their homes Wednesday as
and contributing to at least one ditch off Interstate 90 near school districts canceled classes is ready for springtime" said another Pacific storm churned
traffic fatality in South Dakota. Brandon, along the state's border or started them late on meteorologist Kenny Podrazik of toward Southern California on
Ice up to a 1/2-inch thick coated with Minnesota, the Minnehaha Wednesday, but police said the the weather service in Johnston. the heels of powerful systems
parts of western and northern County sheriff's office said. state had avoided the traffic Temperatures were expected to that have flooded coastal
I o w a , t u r n i n g s t r e e t s a n d Iowa's two largest utilities said accidents being reported remain below freezing into communities, spawned a tornado
sidewalks into near skating rinks. thousands of customers were elsewhere. Friday and to warm up over the and killed one person.
Dave Nerad, a store manager at without power Wednesday Dixon County Sheriff Dean weekend. Los Angeles County and city
the Active Endeavors in Iowa morning as temperatures hovered Chase said people in his county Temperatures on Saturday were authorities issued mandatory
C i t y , s a i d h e h a d s e v e r a l just below the freezing mark. either stayed home or slowed forecast to be in the lower 40s — evacuation orders in advance,
customers waiting at the door MidAmerican Energy had about down for safety, so he didn't with more rain, which could saying residents of more than
when he opened at 10 a.m. 16,000 customers without power, have any serious accidents to potentially cause flooding as the 600 homes would have to be out
"They came in looking for Yak with most in Des Moines, Fort investigate Wednesday. snow melts. by 9 a.m., just ahead of the
Trax, stabilizers, anything that's Dodge and in western Iowa from Nebraska State Patrol ___ storm's expected midday arrival.
going to keep them upright on Sioux City to Council Bluffs. spokeswoman Deb Collins said Associated Press writers Nelson The homes are in communities
the ice," Nerad said, referring to Alliant Energy reported outages she was unaware of any fatal Lampe in Omaha, Neb., and in the foothills and canyons
t h e s t e e l - b o t t o m e d s h o e in northwest Iowa, central and accidents. Patrick Condon in Minneapolis below the rugged San Gabriel
attachments. southern Iowa. In Illinois, dozens of accidents contributed to this report. Mountains, where more than 250
Todd Heitkamp, a National In southwest Iowa, most of were reported on icy roads in the (This version CORRECTS that square miles of forest burned
Weather Service meteorologist in A t l a n t i c , w h i c h h a s 7 , 2 0 0 central part of the state on Luverne is in Minnesota, not away last summer, and public
Sioux Falls, S.D., said driving residents, was without power. Wednesday, and several western South Dakota.) safety officials warned that
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conditions in parts of Minnesota town without power. We're on a The National Weather Service said the new storm would pack
and Illinois. generator here at the courthouse said the freezing rain was to 60 mph gusts along the Southern
Sioux Falls police Sgt. David right now," he said. continue in Iowa into early California coast and valleys and
Erickson said they were dealing Westering said traveling wasn't Thursday, and an ice storm up to 80 mph at higher
elevations, while dropping rain at
up to 1 1/2 inches per hour.
Up to 5 inches of rain was
forecast through the day for

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Virginia shootings man surrenders

(BBC News | Americas | Police are searching the area When a deputy arrived at the worst mass killings in Virginia's
World Edition) where he was hiding overnight scene, he heard gunfire and history, "probably the worst
Submitted at 1/20/2010 9:17:15 AM
for a high-powered rifle they called for back-up. since the Virginia Tech killings
believe he used to shoot at a The injured man was taken to in 2007", when a student shot 32
A man suspected of shooting helicopter which had been called hospital where he died of his people .
dead eight people in rural to the scene. wounds. Are you in Virginia? Have you
Virginia has given himself up The helicopter's fuel tanks were Police from across the state been affected by the incidents
after a manhunt in which a US hit by four bullets, forcing it to were brought into the densely today? Send us your comments,
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Bomb teams are searching the A sheriff said he believed that miles (160km) south-west of Send your pictures and video to
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man's house and surrounding the house. Guard helicopter with thermal a large file you can upload here.
woods. Mr Speight has been taken to imaging equipment were used to At no time should you endanger
Police said medical examiners A p p o m a t t o x r e g i o n a l j a i l , search the woods. yourself or others, take any
would try to identify the victims p e n d i n g c h a r g e s . Mr Speight is the co-owner of unnecessary risks or infringe any
once the area has been secured. A spokesman for Virginia's the house in Snapps Mill Road, laws.
The suspect is reported to have governor said the suspect was where the first reported victim Read the terms and conditions
been personally acquainted with being debriefed and was being was found. The BBC may edit your
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The man, named as Christopher motive for the shooting was still land next to the house. be published. Your comments
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need any medical attention. middle of a road. Ferguson said it was one of the
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Police Nab Suspect in Deadly Virginia Shooting

Spree
(FOXNews.com) "There is a probability such Geller called Tuesday's Police refused to speculate on a
Submitted at 1/20/2010 8:20:30 AM devices do exist," Staples said, massacre "one of the worst mass motive. Molnar gave no
adding that Speight lived at the killings" in the state since 2007 background on the suspect,
The man who police say shot home where the murders took — when 32 people were killed saying not much was known
and killed eight people in a rural place. during a shooting rampage on about him.
Virginia home is in police State police spokeswoman the campus of Virginia Tech in Speight was not listed as an
c u s t o d y , s t a t e o f f i c i a l s Corinne Geller said Speight was Blacksburg, Va. offender on the Virginia
announced Wednesday. "acquainted" with the victims, The drama unfolded around Department of Corrections Web
C h r i s t o p h e r S p e i g h t , 3 9 , but did not release their names or noon on Tuesday when a victim site and a search for his name on
surrendered to authorities at t h e s u s p e c t ' s p o s s i b l e was spotted barely alive along the Appomattox County courts
approximately 7:10 a.m. r e l a t i o n s h i p t o t h e m . the side of a narrow, undivided site came up with no matches.
Wednesday, Appamattox County "The next step is to confirm the country road. The county contains about
Sheriff O. Wilson Staples told identity of the victims," she said. A deputy who answered the 15,000 residents and is best
reporters. Speight, who was wearing a emergency call heard gunshots known as the place where
Police say Speight fatally shot b u l l e t - p r o o f v e s t w h e n h e and soon the area about 3 miles Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee
eight people at a house in surrendered to authorities, was from the state police district surrendered to Union Gen.
Appomattox County, Va., on transported to Appomattox headquarters was filled with law Ulysses S. Grant to end the Civil
Tuesday and forced down a County Jail, Geller added. He enforcement from nearby War.
police helicopter after shooting was not carrying any weapons municipalities, with more than Click for coverage from
its fuel tank. when taken into custody 100 responding. The injured man MyFoxDC.com
Police found three bodies inside W e d n e s d a y . died on the way to the hospital, The Associated Press
the home and four other victims Investigators used dogs and heat said state police Sgt. Thomas contributed to this report.
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and police dogs have been Richmond. out, police said. One or more
s c o u r i n g t h e c r i m e s c e n e Local officials agreed to close rounds struck the helicopter,
Wednesday to ensure there are four schools that serve about forcing it down, but no police
no explosives on the premises. 2,000 students as a precaution. were injured.
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up to 80 mph at higher
elevations, while dropping rain at
up to 1 1/2 inches per hour.
Up to 5 inches of rain was
forecast through the day for
some mountain areas, forecasters
said.
Warnings for coastal flooding,
gales, snow and high surf were
posted up and down the state, but
the concern was extreme in
Southern California, where vast
areas scorched by wildfires in the
past two years have left
landscapes denuded of
vegetation that would normally
capture or slow runoff.
The foothills northeast of Los
Angeles already have received
almost 5 inches of rain since
Sunday, Department of Public
Works Director Gail Farber said.
County Fire Chief P. Michael
Freeman begged residents to
heed their evacuation orders. He
said public safety officials are
racing against Mother Nature.
"And if she wins the race there's
no way we can assure that
firefighters, as well-equipped
and as trained as they are, will be
able to get into your
neighborhood and make
rescues," Freeman said.
Residents were told to be
prepared to be away from their
homes for as many as five days.
In the foothills of La Canada
Flintridge, just northeast of Los
Angeles, County Public Works
crews used bulldozers and
shovels to move mud out of cul-
de-sacs. The storm left fist-sized
rocks strewn across a winding,
canyon road.
One resident, Gary Stibal, had
lined his backyard with sandbags
a couple of feet high to divert the
floodwater. His hard work kept
out the rocks and debris on
Tuesday, but Stibal, whose home
was threatened by one of last
year's wildfires, said he was
worried that water from the third
storm would reach his home.
"The ground is really saturated
right now from the two storms
we had come through yesterday
and today, so I'm really
concerned," he said as he
surveyed his work.
The storm did serious damage
Tuesday, crushing a woman to
death under a fallen tree,
flooding coastal neighborhoods
and leaving thousands without
power as lightning and tornados
surged ashore with fierce winds
in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles
County beach towns and areas of
Orange and San Diego counties.
San Diego sheriff's Lt. Mike
Munsey said a woman was killed
when a eucalyptus tree with a 10
-foot diameter trunk crushed her
trailer and a neighbor's in a
mobile home park near El Cajon.
On Monday, a man was killed in
southern Kern County when a
tree fell on his home near Frazier
Park.
In San Pedro, a working class
neighborhood near the Port of
Los Angeles, several blocks were
flooded with about six feet of
water when storm drains clogged
with debris. Police said 16
people were displaced from
flooded homes.
Jerry Bazan spent the afternoon
sweeping several inches of water
out of his living room, where
toys, sodden clothing and
furniture were strewn about and
a thick layer of mud coated the
floor. The water rose quickly in
his apartment and some of it was
contaminated with sewage.
"It was a heavy downpour, and
the drainage system was
clogged," he said. "There was
nowhere for the water to go, and
it just rose up."
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some mountain areas, forecasters
said.
Warnings for coastal flooding,
gales, snow and high surf were
posted up and down the state, but
the concern was extreme in
Southern California, where vast
areas scorched by wildfires in the
past two years have left
landscapes denuded of
vegetation that would normally
capture or slow runoff.
The foothills northeast of Los
Angeles already have received
almost 5 inches of rain since
Sunday, Department of Public
Works Director Gail Farber said.
County Fire Chief P. Michael
Freeman begged residents to
heed their evacuation orders. He
said public safety officials are
racing against Mother Nature.
"And if she wins the race there's
no way we can assure that
firefighters, as well-equipped
and as trained as they are, will be
EVACUATIONS page 65

Mexico jail 'gang fight' kills 23

(BBC News | Americas | Puente was quoted by the prison was "now back under cartels in recent months. declared war on the illegal
World Edition) Associated Press as saying she control". The drugs trade in the region is narcotic organisations in Mexico,
Submitted at 1/20/2010 9:38:20 AM
did not know the cause of the Ms Puente said some people had controlled by the Sinaloa cartel, deploying 40,000 troops to fight
fighting. also been injured in the brawl, reportedly led by Mexico's most- the cartels.
At least 23 inmates have been Thousands of people have been which was ended by prison wanted man, Joaquin "El Chapo" Print Sponsor
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Reuters news agency reported. R e u t e r s . the scene of clashes between the rivalries.
But prison spokeswoman Carla He said the situation in the rival Gulf and Sinaloa drug President Felipe Calderon has
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continued from page 64
able to get into your
neighborhood and make
rescues," Freeman said.
Residents were told to be
prepared to be away from their
homes for as many as five days.
In the foothills of La Canada
Flintridge, just northeast of Los
Angeles, County Public Works
crews used bulldozers and
shovels to move mud out of cul-
de-sacs. The storm left fist-sized
rocks strewn across a winding,
canyon road.
One resident, Gary Stibal, had
lined his backyard with sandbags
a couple of feet high to divert the
floodwater. His hard work kept
out the rocks and debris on
Tuesday, but Stibal, whose home
was threatened by one of last
year's wildfires, said he was
worried that water from the third
storm would reach his home.
"The ground is really saturated
right now from the two storms
we had come through yesterday
New York Times website to charge
(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 8:24:43 AM
The New York Times has
announced that it is to charge for
full access to its website from
2011, the latest newspaper to
move in that direction.
It said it will introduce a
metered system, allowing readers
free access to a limited number
of articles, before charging for
additional content.
and today, so I'm really
concerned," he said as he
surveyed his work.
The storm did serious damage
Tuesday, crushing a woman to
death with a fallen tree, flooding
coastal neighborhoods and
leaving thousands without power
as lightning and tornados surged
ashore with fierce winds in Santa
Barbara, Los Angeles County
beach towns and areas of Orange
and San Diego counties.
San Diego sheriff's Lt. Mike
Munsey said a woman was killed
when a eucalyptus tree with a 10
-foot diameter trunk crushed her
trailer and a neighbor's in a
mobile home park near El Cajon.
On Monday, a man was killed
near Bakersfield when a tree fell
on his home.
In San Pedro, a working class
neighborhood near the Port of
Los Angeles, several blocks were
flooded with about six feet of
water when storm drains clogged
A similar online payment model
has been introduced by the UK's
Financial Times.
Rupert Murdoch's News
Corporation has also said it plans
to start charging for access to its
online newspapers.
News Corporation's titles
include the Sun and Times in the
UK, as well as the New York
Post in the US.
Risk to advertising
The New York Times has yet to
say how many stories will be
with debris. Police said 16
people were displaced from
flooded homes.
Jerry Bazan spent the afternoon
sweeping several inches of water
out of his living room, where
toys, sodden clothing and
furniture were strewn about and
a thick layer of mud coated the
floor. The water rose quickly in
his apartment and some of it was
contaminated with sewage.
"It was a heavy downpour, and
the drainage system was
clogged," he said. "There was
nowhere for the water to go, and
it just rose up."
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available free and what it will
charge to read more.
It previously charged for access
to its website back in 1996, but
abandoned it after failing to build
up sufficient subscription
numbers.
Media analysts say this is the
fundamental problem for
newspapers thinking of charging
for their online content - and that
advertising revenues could fall as
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continued from page 57
foreign aid agencies, but they're
doing what they can to fill the
gaps.
US Black Hawk helicopters
swooped down on the grounds of
Haiti's wrecked presidential
palace on Tuesday, dropping
scores of US troops who moved
to secure a nearby hospital and
set up aid distribution points.
US Army Maj Gen Daniel
Allyn, the deputy commander for
relief operations in Haiti, said the
military had delivered 400,000
bottles of water and 300,000
food rations since last Tuesday's
earthquake.
He said the number of US
troops would grow to 10,000 in
the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, the UN Security
Council voted to temporarily
boost its peacekeeping forces by
3,500 personnel. UN officials
said they would accompany US
troops as they delivered supplies.
While military escorts are still
needed to deliver relief supplies,
the United Nations said fears of
violence and looting had eased.
Improved security
"The overall security situation in
Port-au-Prince remains stable,
with limited, localised violence
and looting occurring," the UN
Office for Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs said.
So far, feared infectious diseases
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have not shown up, although
many injured faced the
immediate threats of tetanus and
gangrene, and hospitals are
overwhelmed.
The Pentagon said a navy
hospital ship, the USNS
Comfort, had received its first
Haitian patients, even as it was
still heading towards Haiti.
US Defence Secretary Robert
Gates said the military is sending
additional ships to help with
earthquake recovery in Haiti,
including one that could remove
debris blocking the main port.
The World Food Programme
said it was planning to bring in
10,000 gallons (40,000 litres) of
diesel a day from the
neighbouring Dominican
Republic as Haitian fuel supplies
dried up.
Haitian officials say the death
toll from the quake was likely to
be between 100,000 and
200,000, and that 75,000 bodies
had already been buried in mass
graves.
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country right now," he added.
"Americans are understandably
impatient."
'Senator Beefcake'
The Republican beat
Democratic rival and
Massachusetts attorney general
Martha Coakley by 52% to 47%.
Dubbed Senator Beefcake in the
US media, Mr Brown is a lawyer
and former model who posed
almost naked for Cosmopolitan
magazine in the 1980s while in
law school.
President Obama had
campaigned personally on behalf
of Ms Coakley.
Analysts say the race should
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a result.
The New York Times is already
struggling to make a profit.
Its parent group, the New York
Times Company, made a loss of
$35.6m (£22m) between July
and September of last year.
This came as advertising
revenue across its newspaper
portfolio fell 30% from a year
earlier.
have been an easy win for her,
but a lacklustre campaign
allowed Mr Brown to seize on
voter discontent and overtake her
in the final stretch.
Correspondents say the vote
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The result comes amid opinion
polls showing nearly half of
Americans think President
Obama is not delivering on his
major campaign promises.
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It was the third major loss for
Democrats in state-wide
elections since he became
president: Republicans won
governors' seats in Virginia and
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Ads Drive Web Traffic
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for spots to reverberate beyond
the game, the freebie strategy
employed by Denny's appears to
be a grand slam. But many
marketers have more pedestrian
goals: Driving viewers to their
Web sites. And a new Nielsen
report shows some had notable
success last year, with significant
lifts in traffic the day after the
Feb. 1 game.
One finding bears little need for
exhaustive research:
GoDaddy.com saw a 112% lift in
Web traffic (unique visitors)
during those 24 hours, more than
any other advertiser.
The company's two provocative
Super Bowl spots, featuring race
car driver Danica Patrick,
directed viewers to
GoDaddy.com to view the spots'
culminations. Unique visitors
were an estimated 1.2 million for
the day.
Job search sites Monster (70%)
and CareerBuilder (61%) also
saw big jumps, just trailing
GoDaddy. Again, profound
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analysis may not be needed: The
spots came during the depth of
the recession. CareerBuilder day-
after traffic was 2 million,
Monster at 831,000.
Hulu saw a 59% jump in traffic
with its Alec Baldwin-starring
spot. That lift may have been a
function of simple awareness
building, with the message that
episodes of TV shows are
available free and on-demand
with a few clicks of a mouse.
Traffic was 1.8 million the day
after the game.
Overall, Nielsen said the
average leap in Web traffic for
Super Bowl advertisers on Feb.
2, the day after game, was up an
average of 63%.
Denny's, of course, used its spot
not to drive Web hits, but store
traffic. Its ad told people a free
Grand Slam breakfast would be
available to all visitors two days
after the game. There was hardly
a need for Web activity -- all the
info was right on screen.
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Art.view: Masters and mistresses
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Submitted at 1/20/2010 3:21:13 AM
Art.view The first major test of
the art market in 2010
Jan 20th 2010
From Economist.com
DEALERS in European pictures
by artists long dead are
accustomed to being eclipsed by
sales of young contemporary
upstarts. They take their revenge
during economic recessions; Old
Masters hold up better in times
of crisis and uncertainty, and
especially during periods of
inflation.
In 2008 the two main auction
houses, Christie’s and Sotheby’s,
sold just under $700m worth of
Old Master paintings. Last year,
with the art market in freefall,
sales totalled $468.8m.
Sotheby’s, which has the larger
share of the Old Master market,
saw a bigger year-on-year fall:
36%. It would have been helpful
to have been able to analyse the
sector over a longer period, but
both auction houses have been
shaking up what they call Old
Masters. In 2008 this category
started including early British
paintings, 19th-century European
pictures and even some
antiquities. Most analysts feel,
though, that the contraction in
the Old Master market in 2009
was smaller than expected,
particularly when compared to
what happened in the
contemporary sector.
Old Master sales are driven far
more by supply than by demand.
Artists who lived centuries ago
are not going to produce any
more work. Museums rarely sell
their holdings and almost never
let go of top-quality pieces. So
the Old Master market is fed
largely by private collectors.
When markets are riding high,
some can be persuaded to sell.
But when times are rough, why
not sit and wait? After all, Old
Masters tend to be long-term
holdings, handed down from
generation to generation—what
difference can it make to wait
another year? Prices might go
up.
In January 2008 Sotheby’s
offered 345 pictures in its
Important Old Master sale in
New York. The following year,
after the collapse of Lehman
Brothers and in the midst of the
bank bail-out, the same sale had
shrunk to 223 paintings. But the
second half of 2009 saw stability
return to the art market. Rising
prices renewed confidence for
sellers and buyers.
So what will the first big sale of
2010—Sotheby's Old Master
auctions, from January 27th to
29th in New York—tell us about
the market today? At first glance,
it doesn’t look too good: the
number of paintings on offer at
the main sale has fallen again, to
a tight 202 lots.
But the figures are worth taking
apart. In 2008 just under 60% of
the 345 pictures on offer found a
buyer. In 2009 the sale was
smaller and only half the
paintings sold, but the average
price achieved per lot was far
higher: $546,000 per picture in
2009 compared with $373,000 a
year earlier.
Regardless of the slump, there is
still plenty of money about.
Buyers have become more
choosy, but they are prepared to
pay top dollar for the best
because the supply of rare, top-
quality work is very limited.
Sotheby’s charm offensive on
sellers this year has yielded good
results. The main sale on January
28th includes some lovely
pictures, and many of the
estimates are far from
outrageous.
The pre-sale press reports have
been dominated by two works,
both of them expensive. One is a
portrait of a woman that was
once believed to have been
painted by Leonardo da Vinci.
Called “La Belle Ferronnière”, it
was the subject of an
acrimonious lawsuit in 1920
between a newly married couple
from Kansas City, who had been
given the picture as a wedding
present and were hoping to cash
in on the da Vinci attribution,
and the pre-eminent dealer of the
time, Sir Joseph Duveen, who
pronounced it a fake without
ever having seen it. Chemical
analysis now shows Duveen was
right. The picture was probably
painted in France in the early
18th century, about 200 hundred
years after Leonardo died. It is
not an attractive painting, and its
early notoriety does nothing to
improve it. Quite why anyone
would pay $300,000-500,000,
the estimate Sotheby’s has put
on the picture, is a mystery.
The second painting to be in the
news is a massive work by a
Dutch artist, Hendrick Goltzius,
called “Jupiter and Antiope”
(pictured above). It was bought
by Hitler’s right-hand man,
Marshall Hermann Göring, from
its Jewish owner in a distressed
sale in the middle of the second
world war, and is being sold by
the heirs of the original Jewish
owner, Abraham Adelsberger,
after a long but successful
restitution claim. Goltzius is an
important painter and the work is
huge. But the imagery is
unfashionable and the picture
less than beautiful, which makes
the $8m-12m estimate Sotheby’s
has placed on it seem rather
ambitious.
By contrast, many of the other
pictures on offer would be well
worth a second look. A newly
rediscovered early work by a
French master, Jean Honoré
Fragonard, of a toddler holding
out its arms, is a jewel. At
$250,000-350,000, the price is
high when measured per square
inch (it is a tiny painting on
copper), but the pleasure it
affords is unending. Another
child, this one a boy not much
older, in a smart green coat with
raspberry velvet collar, painted
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by Francis Cotes, a British 18th-
century academician, has a
poignancy that pulls you back to
it time after time. At $80,000-
120,000, it would be a bargain.
A mysterious and beguiling
depiction of Saint Dorothy, a
virgin martyr, by an earlier
Spanish painter, Francisco de
Zurbarán, is the image Sotheby’s
has chosen for the cover of the
catalogue. The drapery of her red
dress and green shawl are
sumptuous, and the subject, with
her head tilted and her lips
slightly parted, has a trace of
sauciness that makes her
especially attractive. The picture
belonged to a great private
Spanish collection until the mid-
1920s, when it was sent to New
York. It has been consigned by
Mrs Wendell Cherry, the widow
of the founder of Humana, a
health-care company, who
bought it in 1998. Few of
Zurbarán’s glorious portraits of
female saints remain in private
hands. The $3m-4m is quite
ambitious; chances are it could
be had for less. But with
inflation on the rise, collectors
may convince themselves that it
is a worthy investment. Readers'
comments
The Economist welcomes your
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American banks: Good news, bad news
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Submitted at 1/20/2010 5:15:19 AM
American banks American
banks declare their latest, mixed,
results
Jan 20th 2010 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print
edition
POLITICIANS tend to tar all
bankers with the same brush.
The results unveiled this week by
America’s financial giants were,
however, far from uniform.
Citigroup and Bank of America
(BofA) posted thumping
quarterly losses. Morgan Stanley
eked out a modest gain. Wells
Fargo and JPMorgan Chase
made healthy profits. Goldman
Sachs is expected to report a
glittering set of numbers later
this week.
The differences were partly
down to one-off hits. Citi, for
instance, had to swallow $6.2
billion in after-tax charges
related to repayment of its
federal bail-out funds. Behind
the noise, however, some trends
are emerging. Loan losses appear
to be stabilising. For some, the
worst may even be over. At
BofA, America’s biggest lender,
net write-offs fell by 13% in the
fourth quarter, the first decrease
in nearly four years. Across the
industry credit-card
delinquencies are flattening out.
Nevertheless, the mood is
cautious. In a call with analysts,
Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase’s
boss, hinted at the possibility of
a double-dip recession. Even if
the recovery continues, loan
losses could remain high for
some time. They lingered at peak
rates for six quarters in the 1991-
92 downturn, says Chris Whalen
of Institutional Risk Analytics.
One uncertainty is mortgage
modification: banks may yet be
forced to reduce the principal
owed on some loans.
The outlook is cloudy in
investment banking, too. Merger
advice is picking up smartly, but
capital-markets revenues fell in
the fourth quarter, thanks to a big
drop in fees from fixed income,
currencies and commodities
(FICC), previously the heart of
the rebound.
This decline was partly
seasonal. After a great year,
many investors reduced activity
in the fourth quarter to preserve
profits. But it may presage a
longer slowdown. The bid-offer
spreads that banks earn on trades
are falling from artificially high
levels. Analysts at Citigroup
expect FICC revenues, an
estimated $190 billion in 2009,
to be 15-20% lower this year. A
further 15% of the pie could be
lost if most over-the-counter
derivatives migrate to exchanges.
In absolute terms, any shrinkage
is likely to hit hardest at
Goldman, the market leader in
FICC, unless it can continue to
grow its share beyond the current
14% level.
Banks face other headwinds.
The lacklustre economic
recovery will keep loan demand
weak. Tougher rules on capital
will hurt banks’ return on equity,
as will restrictions on credit-card
practices. JPMorgan Chase
expects America’s new card act
to cost it $500m in annual
profit—though it may be cheered
that plans for a new financial
consumer-protection agency
seem to be in disarray. Banks
must also swallow painful
accounting adjustments.
Bringing securitised assets back
on its balance-sheet will erode
Citi’s core capital by 1.4
percentage points.
Punitive taxes will bite, too.
Writing in the Financial Times,
Mohamed El-Erian, head of
Pimco, a fund manager,
suggested that Barack Obama’s
plan to recover bail-out costs
through an annual levy on large
financial firms “marks the
beginning of the era of banks
being targeted for selective
incremental taxation in advanced
economies.” Congress may yet
raise the tax above the 0.15% of
liabilities proposed, he added.
The chances of further taxes will
rise if bonuses continue to
inflame tempers. Banks have
made what they consider to be
big changes to their pay
structures. JPMorgan will hand
its investment bankers just 11%
of the revenue they generated in
the last three months of 2009, a
quarter of the norm; Citi has
capped cash bonuses at
$100,000. But this is unlikely to
calm public fury, which could
flare up again when Goldman
announces its bonus pool.
On top of all this, banks face the
gradual withdrawal of
extraordinary government
support. The industry’s attention
is turning to interest-rate risk.
Rate cuts in 2007-08 greatly
steepened the yield curve,
handing banks a huge profit
boost. As and when short-term
rates start to rise again, banks’
net interest margins (the
difference between their interest
income and funding costs) will
come under pressure. These are
already being squeezed as some
firms restructure their balance-
sheets: Citi’s margin tumbled
from 2.95% to 2.65% in the
fourth quarter. Over the past
three years, America’s banks
have gone from feast to famine
and (for some) back again. The
future lies somewhere in
between. Readers' comments
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appeal
(The Economist: News
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Submitted at 1/19/2010 6:18:17 PM
The Massachusetts Senate race
A stunning Republican victory in
a Senate race in Massachusetts
deals a blow to Barack Obama
Jan 20th 2010 | NEW YORK
From Economist.com
IT WAS a sign of how bad
Democratic expectations were
for the Senate race in
Massachusetts that the knives
were out even before the polls
had closed. The election, in a
state where Democrats heavily
outnumber Republicans (and
independents account for around
half of the electorate), was held
to replace Ted Kennedy, a
Democratic stalwart who died
last year. Mr Kennedy's last
legislative priority had been to
push for a health-care bill. Now
Scott Brown, a Republican
former model, will replace him,
having won by a five-point
margin. This gives the
Republicans 41 seats in the
Senate, enough for a filibuster to
block legislation.
Martha Coakley, the Democratic
candidate, was uninspired and
dull. Mr Brown’s surge in the
polls came when she was on
holiday, believing there was little
chance she could lose. She made
several gaffes on the campaign,
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at one point implying that she
had better things to do than
meeting voters in the cold, later
failing to recognise a legendary
pitcher for the local Boston Red
Sox baseball team. Her lacklustre
style, against an energetic Mr
Brown, failed to impress a
grumpy electorate in an anti-
incumbent mood.
The election is an extremely
serious blow to the agenda of
Barack Obama. He made a late
swing through Massachusetts to
stump for Ms Coakley, but failed
to help. His ability to pull
Democrats out of the fires of
voter anger is now in question.
The White House blames Ms
Coakley. Mr Obama’s most
senior political adviser, David
Axelrod, said even before
election day had ended,
somewhat testily, that the White
House had done everything that
the Coakley campaign had asked.
Now the fate of the health-care
bill is in doubt. Mr Brown
opposes the federal bill, although
he supported a similar one in
Massachusetts, a law now in
effect that (like the federal bill)
requires individuals to buy
insurance. Mr Brown says that
different conditions apply in
different states and the federal
bill will cost too much. As the
other Republicans are united in
opposition to the bill, they would
have enough votes to block it.
That is, however, only if it
returns to the chamber. The
Senate has already passed one
version of the bill. The House of
Representatives has passed
another one with a more left-
wing bent, including a public-
insurance programme.
Democrats are now hoping to
press the House merely to pass
the Senate’s version of the
legislation. This would go down
badly with many of the House’s
more left-wing Democrats. But
the alternative, it seems, is no
bill or a far weaker one.
If health-care reform still has a
chance of passing in some form,
two other big domestic measures
seem in greater doubt. One
version of a cap-and-trade bill
for limiting emissions of
greenhouse gases passed the
House last year and another is
making its way through the
Senate. But it is unpopular
among voters, especially in the
downturn. A mooted
immigration reform that would
regularise the status of millions
who are in America illegally has
even less chance of passage in a
country feeling grouchy and
vulnerable.
Days before the election some
Democrats were saying that their
party needed a slap to get its
fighting spirit up. Republicans
may not cruise to big victories in
November’s mid-term elections
simply by filibustering
everything the president sends to
the Senate in the next ten
months, but the win in
Massachusetts is a big boost for
the party. Mr Obama remains
reasonably well liked—his job-
approval ratings hover at around
50%. But many Obama
supporters voted for Mr Brown,
which bodes ill for the
Democrats in November.
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(MediaPost | Media News) generate more than 26.8 million
monthly page views.
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:00:03 AM
Elliott says the mission is to
Three respected publications, u n d e r s c o r e m o r e t h a n
representing various political c i r c u l a t i o n . I t s g o a l i s t o
views, have formed the Opinion emphasize that the combined
L e a d e r N e t w o r k t o h e l p group targets a diverse audience
advertisers reach their readership that "ranks either No. 1 or 2 in
with great efficiency. reaching key influencers in
The Nation, National Review important policy categories."
and The Christian Science The Nation, which aims at
M o n i t o r , w h i c h t a r g e t t h e liberal, progressive readers, was
political left, right and center founded in 1865. The Christian
audiences, respectively, have Science Monitor boasts a 100-
joined forces to build revenues year history; it has won seven
during economically pressed P u l i t z e r P r i z e s a n d m a n y
times. overseas awards. By contrast,
The Opinion Leader Network T h e N a t i o n a l R e v i e w , t h e
allows marketers the opportunity youngest of the three, was
t o p u r c h a s e p r i n t , o n l i n e founded in 1955 by author
advertising with one media buy. William F. Buckley Jr., and
According to Jim Elliott, t a r g e t s a R e p u b l i c a n ,
president of the James G. Elliott c o n s e r v a t i v e r e a d e r s h i p .
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Submitted at 1/20/2010 8:58:51 AM versatile app can also With Mike Pardee
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Every time I ask today's
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fascinating as Mike Pardee's,
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senior vice president of research
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offering authors and publishers a authors and publishers must meet available for books sold in the unlike existing Kindle models, would they be?
bigger cut of book sales on its several criteria. U.S., initially. some of the new gadgets slated Mike Pardee: I think one that is
Kindle e-reader — but with The book’s list price must fall Amazon has plenty of reason for for release this year promise on the top of my list is the
strings attached aimed at keeping between $2.99 and $9.99 and be wanting to keep a lid on e-book features such as colour screens concept of viewer engagement
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years, it seems to have become
less of a topic of conversation.
And yet I was at a conference
recently and the words
"engagement" and "engagement
with consumers" came up
inevitably in every second
speech. But there really doesn't
seem to be a lot of research in
this area, and I think it has a lot
of application, particularly for
our type of network that is very
directed and focused.
CW: So in terms of engagement
research, what have you been
doing to prove the value of your
networks' engagement index
among consumers?
MP: Well we've been working
with the Simmons MME: that's
the primary way we have been
doing it. Also online there are a
number of measures -- not just
page views, but time spent and
visits, so forth. So we have been
looking at least at both
behavioral and attitudinal
engagement.
CW: Have you been finding that
agencies are responsive to this
type of research?
MediaDailyNews: The Local Currency Debate
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:30:09 AM
Despite some agency claims to
the contrary, Nielsen's decision
to replace the local Live program
data stream with Live + Same
Day ratings is a major step
forward for local audience
measurement and should be
MP: I think in a general sense
they are. Each upfront we go out
with an engagement story and it
seems to get a good reception.
But, it's sort of a play on words
and I don't find them getting as
engaged with engagement as
they did maybe three or four
years ago.
CW: Do you think maybe it's
still engagement, but it is called
something else. Like ROI?
MP: I think you probably put
your finger on it. I think that
there is so much focus on the
return on investment. We have
done several projects recently
where we've looked to see if the
needle has moved at all in terms
of product purchase.
That is a really hard thing to do.
It takes massive sales and ad
budgets to move the needle, and
you have to place it pretty much
on one network or on one Web
site to really isolate it. But there
is a lot of interest in that. We've
done some clever projects with
clients on that.
Another thing that has turned
out to be kind of interesting is
welcomed by the advertising
community.
Assertions that L+SD ratings
will overstate program ratings
while driving up costs are based
on erroneous assumptions that do
not hold up under scrutiny.
Consider this: according to our
calculations, including same-day
DVR playback could potentially
looking at search and using
search as an indirect measure of
impact to see whether a
campaign generates spikes in
search. We've also been doing
that.
CW: In talking about set-top-
box data, Scripps was one of the
networks early on to start to look
into it. What do you see as the
future of set-top-box data?
MP: It's really hard to know
what is going to happen with set-
top-box data right now.
Obviously the access to the data
needs to open up. There are a
number of vendors who seem
capable of processing it and
putting out decent reports. We've
looked at a couple of them and
subscribe to one of them right
now. But it's going to take a lot
more if it's going to become a
mainstream currency. We find it
very useful, particularly for
looking at the ad breaks and
what happens during the ad
breaks -- but we've turned some
of our attention elsewhere,
because we could only take it so
far without having a larger
overstate commercial viewing by
about 4%. Meanwhile, the
standard error on the same data
is 36%. That means that any
possible change caused by DVRs
is far below the swings that
naturally occur in Nielsen's
audience projections.
Well aware that viewing
behavior shifts over time, Magna
universe of information.
CW: What are the challenges
that set-top-box data needs to
overcome in order for you to feel
that it is on the road to becoming
a standardized metric?
MP: Well, there is the quantity
issue. Early on it became clear to
us that there needs to be several
millions of set top boxes for it to
have the kind of statistical
stability for second-by-second
analysis. And I think the issue of
not having demographics is a
serious one. Some sort of
integration of set tops with panel
data probably is essential if it is
going to become currency. Right
now that mechanism doesn't
exist.
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plans to perform this analysis on
an on-going basis to identify any
changes in DVR playback
patterns.
We have also heard assertions
that Live Program ratings should
remain the local currency
because at the national level, it is
the closest available proxy to
Average Commercial Minute
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telecasts we analyzed, proving
that the Live stream is no longer
the closest substitute for C3.
Using a comprehensive data set
provided by Nielsen, Magna has
gauged the level of potential
ratings overstatement caused by
the switch. The analysis consists
of program and commercial
ratings for both data streams in
21 LPM markets, 10
demographics and 138 prime-
time programs for a total of
115,920 data points.
Our analysis shows that while
certain programs may see a
bump, the relationship between
program and commercial
viewing would barely change.
The differences would be so
small, in fact, that it would be
nearly impossible to tell if the
cause is the new data stream or
simple statistical bounce.
Even if we assume there will be
across-the-board ratings
increases, there are too many
variables in the buying process
to project a universal price
MEDIADAILYNEWS: page 72
(C3) ratings. While that may
have been true two years ago,
increased DVR penetration has
changed the landscape.
Additionally, Live + Same Day
Program ratings were closer to
C3 than Live Program Ratings
were in more than half of the
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increase. Let's not forget the role especially given the variability
of negotiation. that already exists in the
Put simply, the way people view numbers.
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audience. Rejecting the Live +
Same Day program data stream
because it might marginally
overstate commercial viewing is
a head-in-the-sand approach,
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Amazon on Wednesday outlined

a new royalty option for its
Kindle platform where authors
and publishers can get 70 percent
of list price net of delivery costs.
There are a few catches in the
royalty package, but Amazon
appears to be throwing authors
and publishers and e-book bone
in an effort to keep prices down.

The goal: Amazon is getting a

jump on any looming Kindle
threat from Apple and a bevy of
other companies entering the e-
reader race. The company said
that the 70 percent royalty option
is in addition to the existing
program for the Kindle Digital
Text Platform (DTP). The latest
royalty option will be available
June 30. For Amazon the royalty
could solve a few issues. First, it
can placate publishers and
authors who are worried about
their revenue stream in the age of
e-books. There's a worry that
Amazon could get too much
clout and dictate pricing to
publishers. In addition, it's hard
not to notice the timing here.
Amazon is rolling out a new
royalty program exactly a week
before Apple is set to unveil its
expected tablet effort. Whether
Apple's gadget is called the
Apple Tablet, iTablet, iSlate or
whatever it's going to be a threat
to Amazon's Kindle.
Simply put, it makes a lot of
sense for Amazon to throw
authors and publishers a bone
while the likes of Harper Collin
s, which the Wall Street Journal
reported is talking to Apple, and
others hang out with Steve Jobs
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