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Reuters/Ipsos poll: Obama steady, Republicans get
higher marks on economy
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 12/7/2010 2:48:53 PM
Dec 7, 2010 15:48 EST
President Barack Obama’s job
approval rating held steady at 45
percent since late October despite
last month’s “shellacking” of
Democrats in the midterm
elections, a Reuters/Ipsos poll
conducted Dec. 2-5 showed.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
scored the highest favorability
rating on a list of prominent
officials and politicians, followed
by former Arkansas Governor
Mike Huckabee, a potential
Republican presidential
contender, and General David
Petraeus.
At the bottom of the list were
conservative commentator Rush
Urban Meyer Resigning From Florida. Again.
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Florida Gators head football
Limbaugh with the lowest
favorability rating, followed by
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid.
In 2012 wooing the independent
voter is going to be important for
candidates with 19 percent of
coach Urban Meyer will
reportedly resign today at 5:00
p.m. ET.
Meyer said the same thing before
last year's bowl game, then took a
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Americans identifying themselves
as independents.
When it came to confidence in
which party is better able to deal
with specific issues, Republicans
fared better than Democrats on
the economy, deficit, terrorism
and taxes, while Democrats were
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given higher marks on education
and the environment.
“Republicans are positioning
themselves well heading into the
2012 presidential
campaign,” Ipsos pollster Julia
Clark said.
Photo credit: Reuters/Larry
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conference)
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Health concerns have bother
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Washington Extra – Cold shoulder
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 12/7/2010 5:29:01 PM
It’s a chilly day in Washington,
and we’re not just talking about
the weather.
Democrats on Capitol Hill are
giving President Barack Obama
the cold shoulder after he blinked
first in the stand-off with
Republicans over extending tax
cuts.
“We will continue discussions
with the President and our Caucus
in the days ahead,” House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.
(Translation – House Democrats
are not on board with this yet.)
Another sign of which way the
wind is blowing: Republicans
have been uncharacteristically
silent since the compromise was
announced. As is often the case in
Washington, those who talk
loudest fear they are losing most,
and those who are quiet don’t
want to rock the boat that’s
headed their way.
Obama said he had no choice
because Republicans weren’t
going to budge from their “Holy
Grail” of tax cuts for the wealthy,
and it would be more difficult to
reach a deal in the next Congress
when they have more seats.
And then he proceeded to dish it
out.
Republicans were likened to
hostage-takers in the tax fight. “I
think it’s tempting not to
negotiate with hostage-takers,
unless the hostage gets harmed,”
Obama said. “In this case, the
hostage was the American people.
And I was not willing to see them
get harmed.”
For liberals who criticized
compromise, Obama’s message
was that nothing would ever get
accomplished by sticking to
hardened positions. “People will
have the satisfaction of having a
purist position and no victories for
the American people,” leaving
them able to feel “sanctimonious”
in the purity of their intentions,
but with nothing achieved, he
said.
Here are our top stories from
Washington today…
Democrats question Obama’s tax
deal
President Obama’s plans to
extend tax cuts for all Americans
ran into trouble when fellow
Democrats questioned whether he
had been too quick to compromise
with Republicans. While analysts
believe Congress will probably
approve the deal, Obama faced a
rift with many in his party who
worried about its impact on the
federal budget.
For more of this story by Kim
Dixon and Richard Cowan, read
here.
Obama’s tax deal a sign of more
compromise to come
President Obama’s tax deal is a
clear sign he will make policy
compromises that could boost his
chances of re-election in 2012
despite leftwing fury that he is
giving up too much. Obama
dropped his steadfast opposition
to allowing tax breaks for the
wealthy and made concessions,
bowing to the new political reality
after Republicans made big gains
in last month’s congressional
elections. Analysts said acting as
a bipartisan president should win
Obama support from the center.
For more of this analysis by
Patricia Zengerle, read here.
Testy Obama fires back at
Democrats over tax deal
A testy President Barack Obama
on Tuesday expressed frustration
at his own Democrats for
attacking him over his tax-cut
deal with Republicans, who he
called uncompromising “hostage
takers.” Obama found himself in
an unusual position a day after
sealing a major tax-cut agreement
— praised by Republican
opponents and denounced by
liberal Democrats who felt he
violated a pledge that helped get
him elected in 2008.
For more of this story by Steve
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For more of this analysis by
Lucia Mutikani, read here.
Fears of STDs sparked case
against WikiLeaks boss
The two Swedish women who
accuse WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange of sexual misconduct
were at first not seeking to bring
charges against him. They just
wanted to track him down and
persuade him to be tested for
sexually transmitted diseases,
according to several people in
contact with his entourage at the
time.
For more of this special report by
Mark Hosenball, read here.
Americans strongly oppose
proposed gas tax hike
Holland and Patricia Zengerle, Americans by a wide margin
read here. oppose a proposal to raise the
Tax deal to boost growth, U.S. gasoline tax by 15 cents a
buttress Fed policy gallon to help cut U.S. budget
The economy stands to get a deficits and support cutting the
much-needed boost from the tax federal work force, a Reuters/
d e a l s t r u c k b y t h e O b a m a Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday.
administration and Republican For more of this story by Donna
lawmakers, which could lift Smith, read here.
growth next year by as much as a Lawmaker eyes early-2011 votes
full percentage point. By putting on trade pacts
more money in consumers’ Republicans in the House of
pockets and curbing uncertainty Representatives want to work
about taxes, economists say the with President Obama to pass
plan should help breathe new life l o n g - d e l a y e d f r e e - t r a d e
into the sluggish recovery. It will agreements with South Korea,
also further swell an already Colombia and Panama in the first
bloated budget deficit. “In all six months of 2011. “There’s a lot
likelihood, the recovery would of discussions due obviously with
have made it through next year the White House and the Senate
w i t h o u t b a c k t r a c k i n g i n t o as well, but that is our goal,” said
recession, but this deal improves Representative Kevin Brady, a
those odds significantly,” said Texas Republican, in a speech at
Mark Zandi, chief economist at
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the Chamber of Commerce.
For more of this story by Doug
Palmer, read here.
Google nips Microsoft as
government moves to the cloud
Google won a federal
government contract last week
that the company hopes will give
it a boost over rival Microsoft as
they race to convert government
agencies to cloud computing.
Google and Unisys will transition
the GSA, which basically serves
as the back office for federal
agencies, to a secure cloud-based
platform that includes Google’s
Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Sites
applications. GSA is the first U.S.
federal agency to make an agency
-wide “move to the cloud.”
For more of this story by Jasmin
Melvin, read here.
Judge dismisses targeted-kill
program lawsuit
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit
seeking to halt the Obama
administration’s program to
capture or kill American citizens
who join militant groups abroad, a
case involving a Muslim cleric in
Yemen. The ruling was a defeat
for civil liberties groups that
brought the lawsuit on behalf of
the father of Muslim cleric Anwar
al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who
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joined al Qaeda in Yemen and has
been tied to plots against the
United States.
For more of this story by James
Vicini and Jeremy Pelofsky, read
here.
What we are blogging…
Rising above politics … in
Washington
President Obama seems to want
to rise above politics in the tax
debate. Good luck with that.
When he announced the White
House’s tentative tax deal with
Republicans, he said he had
agreed to compromise rather
than“play politics” at a time when
Americans want problems solved.
But whether voters are grateful
enough to reward his
thoughtfulness in 2012 is another
story.
For David Morgan’s full post,
read here.
Reuters/Ipsos poll: Obama
steady, Republicans get higher
marks on economy
President Obama’s approval
rating held steady at 45 percent
since late October despite last
month’s “shellacking” of
Democrats in the midterm
elections, a Reuters/Ipsos poll
showed. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton scored the highest
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of prominent officials and
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Arkansas Governor Mike
Huckabee, a potential Republican
presidential contender,
and General David Petraeus. At
the bottom of the list were
conservative commentator Rush
Limbaugh with the lowest
favorability rating, followed by
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid.
For Tabassum Zakaria’s full post,
read here.
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Seth Meyers to headline
annual WHCA dinner
Caren Bohan (Front Row
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Submitted at 12/8/2010 11:21:10 AM
Dec 8, 2010 12:21 EST
Drum roll please…
The White House
Correspondents’ Association has
lined up a headliner for its annual
fundraising dinner: “Saturday
Night Live” head writer and
performer Seth Meyers.
Meyers, who recently hosted the
2010 ESPY Awards on ESPN, is
anchor of SNL’s “Weekend
Update.”
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Here's Your MLB Offseason Transaction Tracker

Kevin Baumer and Dashiell • Declined 2011 team option for Kelly, Anthony Rizzo, and
Bennett (Business Insider) Adam LaRoche Reymond Fuentes
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:10:00 PM • Kris Benson files for free
agency Chicago Cubs
The Winter Meetings are upon us • Aaron Heilman files for free • Aramis Ramirez exercises
and there have already been a agency player option for 2011 for $14.6
flurry of MLB transactions as • Mike Hampton files for free million
planning for 2011 is already in agency • Xavier Nady files for free
full swing. • Rodrigo Lopez files for free agency
Here is an updated list of all agency • Signed Carlos Pena to a one-
roster moves — options, waivers, • Brandon Webb files for free year, $10 million deal
and free agent filings — that have agency
been made since the end of the • Signed Geoff Blum to a two- Chicago White Sox
World Series. year deal • Andruw Jones files for free
You can also bookmark this page • Traded Scott Allen to the New agency
and check back regularly as we'll York Yankees for Juan Miranda • Freddy Garcia files for free
continue to update this list • Acquired Zach Duke from the agency
throughout the coming weeks. Pittsburgh Pirates for a player to • Paul Konerko files for free
See any we missed? Send an be named agency
e m a i l t o • Signed Wily Mo Pena to a one- • Mark Kotsay files for free
• Traded Omar Infante and Mike
sportstips@businessinsider.com year, $675,000 deal agency
Dunn to the Florida Marlins for Boston Red Sox
The Latest: • Signed Zach Duke to a one- • A.J. Pierzynski files for free
Dan Uggla • Adrian Beltre declines player
Kansas City Royals sign Jeff year, $4.25 million deal agency
• Acquired Scott Linebrink from option for 2011, opts for free
Francoeur to a one-year, $2.5 • Traded Mark Reynolds to the • J.J. Putz files for free agency
the Chicago White Sox for Kyle agency
million deal Baltimore Orioles for David • Manny Ramirez files for free
Cofield • Declined 2011 team option for
Seattle Mariners sign Jack Cust Hernandez and Kam Mickolio agency
Bill Hall
to a one-year, $2.5 million deal • Signed Melvin Mora to a one- • Omar Vizquel files for free
Baltimore Orioles • Mike Lowell files for free
Chicago Cubs sign Carlos Pena year, $2.4 million deal agency
• Declined 2011 team option for agency
to a one-year, $10 million deal • Signed J.J. Putz to a two-year, • Traded Scott Linebrink to the
Mark Hendrickson • Victor Martinez files for free
New York Mets sign Ronny $10 million deal Atlanta Braves for Kyle Cofield
• Cesar Izturis files for free agency
Paulino to a one-year, $1.3 • Signed Adam Dunn to a four-
agency • Jason Varitek files for free
million deal Atlanta Braves year, $56 million deal
• Julio Lugo files for free agency agency
New York Mets sign D.J. • Declined 2011 team option for
• Kevin Millwood files for free • Picked up 2011 team option for
Carrasco to a two-year, $2.5 Rick Ankiel Cincinnati Reds
agency David Ortiz for $12.5 million
million deal • Declined 2011 team option for • Picked up 2011 team option for
• Corey Patterson files for free • Declined 2011 team option for
Pittsburgh Pirates sign Matt Diaz Kyle Farnsworth Bronson Arroyo for $11 million
agency Felipe Lopez
to a two-year, $4 million deal • Picked up 2011 team option for • Declined 2011 team option for
• Koji Uehara files for free • Traded Dustin Richardson to
Los Angeles Dodgers sign Tony Alex Gonzalez for $2.5 million Orlando Cabrera
agency the Florida Marlins for Andrew
Gwynn, Jr. to a one-year, $675k • Picked up 2011 team option for • Declined 2011 team option for
• Ty Wigginton files for free Miller
deal Omar Infante for $2.5 million Aaron Harang
agency • Claimed Taylor Buchholz off
Los Angeles Dodgers sign • Troy Glaus files for free agency • Willie Bloomquist files for free
• Acquired Mark Reynolds from waivers from the Toronto Blue
Vicente Padilla to a one-year, $2 • Eric Hinske files for free agency
the Arizona Diamondbacks for Jays
million deal agency David Hernandez and Kam • Acquired Adrian Gonzalez from HERE'S page 5
Arizona Diamondbacks • Derek Lee files for free agency Mickolio the San Diego Padres for Casey
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• Miguel Cairo files for free
agency
• Jim Edmonds files for free
agency
• Ramon Hernandez files for free
agency
• Michael Lincoln files for free
agency
• Arthur Rhodes files for free
agency
• Russ Springer files for free
agency
• Picked up 2011 team option for
Jonny Gomes for $1.75 million
• Re-signed Ramon Hernandez to
a one-year, $3 million deal
• Signed Bronson Arroyo to a
three-year, $35 million extension
Colorado Rockies
• Declined 2011 team option for
Jeff Francis
• Joe Beimel files for free agency
• Jorge de la Rosa files for free
agency
• Octavio Dotel files for free
agency
• Jason Giambi files for free
agency
• Melvin Mora files for free
agency
• Jay Payton files for free agency
• Traded Miguel Olivo to the
Toronto Blue Jays
• Released Manny Corpas
• Traded Clint Barmes to the
Houston Astros for Felipe Paulino
• Signed Jorge De La Rosa to a
three-year, $32 million deal
• Signed Troy Tulowitzki to a
seven-year, $134 million contract
extension
• Acquired Jose Lopez from the
Seattle Mariners for Chaz Roe
• Signed Ty Wigginton to a two-
year, $7.5 million deal
Detroit Tigers
• Declined 2011 team option for
Jhonny Peralta
• Jeremy Bonderman files for free
agency
• Johnny Damon files for free
agency
• Gerald Laird files for free
agency
• Magglio Ordonez files for free
agency
• Bobby Seay files for free
agency
• Signed Jhonny Peralta to a two-
year, $11.25 million deal
• Signed Joaquin Benoit to a
three-year, $16.5 million deal
• Signed Victor Martinez to a
four-year, $50 million deal
Florida Marlins
• Will Ohman files for free
agency
• Jorge Sosa files for free agency
• Chad Tracy files for free agency
• Traded Cameron Maybin to the
San Diego Padres for Ryan Webb
and Edward Mujica
• Traded Andrew Miller to the
Boston Red Sox for Dustin
Richardson
• Signed John Buck to a three-
year, $18 million deal
• Traded Dan Uggla to the
Atlanta Braves for Omar Infante
and Mike Dunn
• Signed Javier Vazquez to a one-
year deal worth between $6
million and $7 million
Houston Astros
• Geoff Blum files for free
agency
• Brian Moehler files for free
agency
• Traded Felipe Paulino to the
Colorado Rockies for Clint
Barmes
• Signed Nelson Figueroa to a
one-year, $900,000 deal
Kansas City Royals
• Bruce Chen files for free
agency
• Claimed Joaquin Arias off
waivers from the Mets
• Brian Bannister refuses minor
league assignment, becomes a
free agent
• Acquired Vin Mazzaro and
Jason Marks from the Oakland
Athletics for David DeJesus
• Signed Wilson Betemit to a one
-year, $1 million deal
• Signed Jeff Francoeur to a one-
year, $2.5 million deal
Los Angeles Angels
• Hideki Matsui files for free
agency
• Scot Shields files for free
agency
• Signed Hisanori Takahashi to a
two-year, $8 million deal
Los Angeles Dodgers
• Scott Podsednik declined
mutual option, opts for free
agency
• Brad Ausmus files for free
agency
• Rod Barajas files for free
agency
• Jay Gibbons files for free
agency
• Reed Johnson files for free
agency
• Hiroki Kuroda files for free
agency
• Vicente Padilla files for free
agency
• Jeff Weaver files for free
agency
• Re-signed Hiroki Kuroda to a
one-year, $12 million deal
• Signed Jon Garland to a one-
year, $5 million deal
• Signed Juan Uribe to a three-
year, $21 million deal
• Traded Ryan Theriot to the St.
Louis Cardinals for Blake
Hawksworth
• Signed Rod Barajas to a one-
year, $3.25 million deal
• Signed Tony Gwynn, Jr. to a
one-year, $675k deal
• Signed Vicente Padilla to a one
-year, $2 million deal
Milwaukee Brewers
• Declined 2011 team option for
Doug Davis
• Declined 2011 team option for
Trevor Hoffman
• Declined 2011 team option for
Gregg Zaun
• David Bush files for free
agency
• Chris Capuano files for free
agency
• Craig Counsell files for free
agency
• Traded Carlos Villanueva to the
Toronto Blue Jays for a player to
be named later
• Traded Brett Lawrie to the
Toronto Blue Jays for Shaun
Marcum
Minnesota Twins
• Jesse Crain files for free agency
• Randy Flores files for free
agency
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• Brian Fuentes files for free
agency
• Matt Guerrier files for free
agency
• Orlando Hudson files for free
agency
• Ron Mahay files for free agency
• Carl Pavano files for free
agency
• Nick Punto files for free agency
• Jon Rauch files for free agency
• Jim Thome files for free agency
New York Mets
• Picked up 2011 team option for
Jose Reyes for $11 million
• Henry Blanco files for free
agency
• Elmer Dessens files for free
agency
• Kelvim Escobar files for free
agency
• Pedro Feliciano files for free
agency
• Fernando Tatis files for free
agency
• Signed Ronny Paulino to a one-
year, $1.3 million deal
• Signed D.J. Carrasco to a two-
year, $2.5 million deal
New York Yankees
• Austin Kearns files for free
agency
• Derek Jeter files for free agency
• Chad Moeller files for free
agency
• Andy Pettitte files for free
agency
• Mariano Rivera files for free
agency
• Kerry Wood files for free
agency
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• Lance Berkman files for free
agency
• Nick Johnson files for free
agency
• Javier Vazquez files for free
agency
• Marcus Thames files for free
agency
• Traded Juan Miranda to the
Arizona Diamondbacks for Scott
Allen
• Re-signed Sergio Mitre to a one
-year, $900,000 deal
• Re-signed Derek Jeter to a three
-year, $51 million deal
• Re-signed Mariano Rivera to a
two-year, $30 million deal
Oakland Athletics
• Declined 2011 team option for
Eric Chavez
• Picked up 2011 team option for
Coco Crisp for $5.75 million
• Picked up 2011 team option for
Mark Ellis for $6 million
• Justin Duchscherer files for free
agency
• Ben Sheets files for free agency
• Acquired David DeJesus from
the Kansas City Royals
• Claimed Edwin Encarnacion off
waivers from the Toronto Blue
Jays
• Traded Rajai Davis to the
Toronto Blue Jays for Trystan
Magnuson and Danny Farquhar
• Re-signed Ryan Sweeney to a
one-year, $1.4 million deal
Philadelphia Phillies
• Jose Contreras files for free
agency
• Chad Durbin files for free
agency
• J.C. Romero files for free
agency Boston Red Sox for Casey Kelly, • Aaron Miles files for free for Vlad Guerrero
• Mike Sweeney files for free Anthony Rizzo, and Reymond agency • Jorge Cantu files for free
agency Fuentes • Brad Penny files for free agency agency
• Jayson Werth files for free • Signed Aaron Harang to a one- • Dennys Reyes files for free • Frank Francisco files for free
agency year, $3.5 million deal agency agency
• Signed Jose Contreras to a two- • Jeff Suppan files for free • Cristian Guzman files for free
year, $5.5 million deal San Francisco Giants agency agency
• Pat Burrell files for free agency • Jake Westbrook files for free • Cliff Lee files for free agency
Pittsburgh Pirates • Jose Guillen files for free agency • Bengie Molina files for free
• Chan Ho Park files for free agency • Randy Winn files for free agency
agency • Aubrey Huff files for free agency • Matt Treanor files for free
• Traded Zach Duke to the agency • Signed Jake Westbrook to a two agency
Arizona Diamondbacks for a • Guillermo Mota files for free -year, $16.5 million deal • Jeff Francoeur declined minor
player to be named agency • Traded Blake Hawksworth to league assignment and cleared
• Cut Lastings Milledge • Juan Uribe files for free agency the Los Angeles Dodgers for waives, becomes a free agent
• Signed Scott Olson to a one- • Signed Aubrey Huff to a two- Ryan Theriot • Signed Yorvit Torrealba to a
year, $1 million deal year, $22 million deal • Signed Lance Berkman to a one two-year, $6.25 million deal
• Signed Kevin Correia to a two- • Signed Miguel Tejada to a one- -year, $8 million deal • Frank Francisco accepted salary
year, $8 million deal year, $6.5 million deal arbitration offer
• Signed Matt Diaz to a two-year, • Re-signed Pat Burrell to a one- Tampa Bay Rays
$4 million deal year deal • Declined 2011 team option for Toronto Blue Jays
Dan Wheeler • John Buck files for free agency
San Diego Padres Seattle Mariners • Rocco Baldelli files for free • Scott Downs files for free
• Jon Garland declines player • Declined 2011 team option for agency agency
option for 2011, opts for free Erik Bedard • Grant Balfour files for free • Jason Frasor files for free
agency • Declined 2011 team option for agency agency
• Declined 2011 team option for Russ Branyan • Joaquin Benoit files for free • Lyle Overbay files for free
Chris Young • Josh Bard files for free agency agency agency
• Kevin Correia files for free • Chris Woodward files for free • Randy Choate files for free • Acquired Miguel Olivo from
agency agency agency the Colorado Rockies
• David Eckstein files for free • Jamey Wright files for free • Carl Crawford files for free • Traded Trystan Magnuson and
agency agency agency Danny Farquhar to the Oakland
• Jerry Hariston Jr. files for free • Re-signed Erik Bedard to a non- • Brad Hawpe files for free Athletics for Rajai Davis
agency guaranteed contract agency • Jason Frasor accepted salary
• Matt Stairs files for free agency • Traded Jose Lopez to the • Gabe Kapler files for free arbitration offer
• Miguel Tejada files for free Colorado Rockies for Chaz Roe agency • Acquired Carlos Villanueva
agency • Signed Jack Cust to a one-year, • Carlos Pena files for free from the Milwaukee Brewers for
• Yorvit Torrealba files for free $2.5 million deal agency a player to be named later
agency • Chad Qualls files for free • Traded Shaun Marcum to the
• Traded Ryan Webb and Edward St. Louis Cardinals agency Milwaukee Brewers for Brett
Mujica to the Florida Marlins for • Pedro Feliz files for free agency • Rafael Soriano files for free Lawrie
Cameron Maybin • Jason LaRue files for free agency
• Signed Chris Denorfia to a one- agency Washington Nationals
year, $800,000 deal • Mike MacDougal files for free Texas Rangers HERE'S page 11
• Traded Adrian Gonzalez to the agency • Declined 2011 mutual option
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How the Future of Big Tobacco Could Be Tiny Lithium Batteries

Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:21:58 PM

The tobacco mosaic virus is a

destructive beast infecting over a
hundred different species of
plants, including tomatoes. But it
may have a weird eco benefit:
Incorporated into lithium
batteries, it can increase storage
capacity ten times.
Scientists in the U.S. had already
worked out how to coat the tiny
rod-like cells of the virus with
conductive materials. But the
recent breakthrough has seen the
nanorods incorporated into battery
critical matter in battery design, for 10 months, and Amazon's they have now, only ten times world may find themselves
technology, with astonishingly
since it affects how much Kindles may only require smaller--freeing up designers to contributing something more
beneficial results. The tobacco
electrical energy the battery can charging once every year. create all sorts of practically positive to society, and the way
mosaic virus is a perfect candidate
hold, and TMV's benefits mean a Smartphones could have useful useful gadgets that would be we think about mobile technology
because it's the right size and
similar cell can hold up to ten call times extending up to a week, impossible at the moment. Micro- may change radically.
shape to aid construction of
times more charge than a more and as well as changing how we batteries are also possible, To read more news on this, and
battery electrodes, and it's self-
conventional one. think about our tech this could meaning rechargeable batteries similar stuff, keep up with my
replicating and self-assembling
This has all sorts of implications have an eco upshot--you'd could replace disposable ones in updates by following me, Kit
and can bind to metal.
for mobile technology. Imagine probably not leave your charger devices like hearing aids. Eaton, on Twitter.
The idea is that TMV nanorods
every lithium battery in every plugged in, sucking down If the scientists at the University
are bound to the electrodes in a
mobile device you own lasting up vampire power as much as it does of Maryland driving this research
lithium cell--without the need for
to ten times longer. That would right now. find a way to scale up the
any bonding agent--and
mean Apple's new MacBook Airs Alternatively, batteries could be invention to a commercial scale,
automagically increase the surface
could hang on in standby mode made with the same capacity that then tobacco growers around the
area of the electrode. This is a

Salesforce.com Strikes a $212 Million Deal for Heroku

Tom Taulli (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 2:00:00 PM
Filed under: salesforce.com inc
(CRM) With a market cap of
nearly $20 billion and a price-to-
earnings ratio at a nose bleed level
of 267, it certainly makes a lot of
sense for Salesforce.com ( CRM)
to get aggressive with
acquisitions. The company is
sitting on a growing pile of cash
and it needs to maintain its
competitive edge - which gets
increasingly difficult.
So this week, Saleforce.com
agreed to purchase Heroku for
$212 million. Haven't heard of
community, it is a popular
company. It is a cloud-computing
provider for Ruby, which allows
for the creation of web
applications. This is done by
creating a platform-as-a-service
infrastructure.
them? Well, in the programming Continue reading Salesforce.com
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Meet Sogol Samadi: The Hottest

European Banker Under 40
Katya Wachtel (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:09:00 PM

No surprise that as soon as E-

Financial published pics from
their 2010 Rising Stars party, we
checked out the talent.
18 slides in, we found her: Sogol
Samadi.
She works for Noster Capital- a
London-based hedge fund
launched by a former JP Morgan
New Materials Show T-
prop trader - and hails from
Australia.
Yes, we know the headline says
1000-Style Healing
David Zax (Fast Company) that mimics the natural healing
European banker and Samadi is
an Aussie; of course what we Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:34:43 PM processes found in bone.
mean is the hottest banker living How does it work? To heal
At last, the age-old dream of something, you have to be able
in Europe and working in the
She told Portfolio Magazine a of Slide 4, who is trying her best indestructible robot assassins may both to detect that it has been
European market.
few months ago, to fly under the radar but is be upon us. New science yields broken, and then you have to fix
She was there to support her
Hedge Funds are easy scape- clearly a bit of a stunner. materials that detect damage and it. The researchers, led by Henry
boss, Pedro de Noronha, the
goats as most people are not Other notable happenings at the repair themselves. Sodano, used something called
Founder of Noster Capital, who E
sophisticated enough to party: Remember how in Terminator 2, "shape-memory" polymers with
-Financial picked in their Top
comprehend their actions or to • This guy's sideburns whenever the T-1000 got shot, an embedded fiber-optic network.
100.
defend them. The truth of the • This guy(second from the left) sliced, or burned, he was able to The fiber-optic network both
She's a graduate of Macquarie
matter is that the HF industry looks too young to drive, let alone quickly heal himself? That was detects damage to the material and
University, and before Noster, she
survived the crisis and actually manage people's money back in 1991--what's taken so delivers heat to help toughen the
was in a Sales & Marketing Co-
once again proved that it is on • This (assumed husband and long to get there? When will our material once strained or cracked.
ordinator role at a Sydney-based
average a much better way of wife) have almost exactly the stuff--robots or otherwise--be able Once the fiber-optic system kicks
firm called Quinntessential.
investing than more plain vanilla same names: Feras Al-Chalabi to heal themselves? in to toughen the material, and the
Apparently she was very popular
solutions such as ETFs or Equity and Ferrie Al-Chalabi Very soon, according to shape-memory mechanism kicks
at Quinntessential, since her bio
Mutual Funds. researchers at Arizona State in to close a crack, the broken
says "clients have come to know
She's also a bit of social butterfly For all the pics and the E- University. In their recent paper, material returns to 96% of what
and love dealing with Sogol over
- snapped in photos at a Chelsea Financials 100 Rising Stars, go to "Autonomous Materials with the paper's authors call its "virgin
the past few years."
charity event for paralysis, and a E-Financial > Controlled Toughening and strength."
But the firm couldn't keep hold of
cosmetics launch in Sydney's Join the conversation about this Healing," they describe a material
her and she decamped to the UK
trendy Potts Point. story »
in 2009.
An honorable mention also goes
She also thinks hedge funds are
to this blonde in the background
the bomb!
E-reader News Edition Business/ 9

Air Force Envisions Insect-Sized Vehicles, Funds a "Virtual

Reality Tunnel for Fruit Flies"
David Zax (Fast Company) order to better understand how investigating how a tiny creature
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:32:22 PM fruit flies navigate, Straw quickly translates visual
basically forces the insects to play information into regulated flight,
Sometimes, basic science funded an immersive videogame of sorts. Straw's work "could inspire new
by the military is a bit out there. His lab has designed a virtual approaches to flight stabilization
Researchers are subjecting fruit reality environment for the flies, and navigation in future insect-
flies to "virtual reality tunnels," giving him complete control over sized vehicles for the military,"
which the Air Force thinks might the visual stimuli they're exposed AFOSR program manager
help inspire insect-sized military to. He and his fellow researchers Willard Larkin said.
vehicles. also developed a tracking system So in a small but significant way,
In a story that is surreal on so that locates a fly in 3-D "nearly those videogame-playing fruit
many levels, the Air Force is instantaneously." By tossing the flies are the forefathers of a
funding research involving fruit fruit flies in the VR tunnel, paranoia-inducing future where
flies and virtual reality tunnels, controlling what the flies see, and that fly buzzing around your ear
with an eye toward building tracking them precisely, Straw has could actually be a surveillance
"future insect-sized vehicles for an unprecedented sense of how height. Straw's team, by contrast, fuzzy and indistinct one--but that's drone.
the military." the flies use visual cues to has found that horizontal edges how basic science research works. [Image: Flickr user deltamike]
Andrew Straw, a Caltech scientist navigate. are the most important cue the The Air Force Office of Scientific
w h o s t u d i e s n e u r o n s a n d What he found was surprising. flies use. Research declares as its mission
behavior, is leading the research, Previously, it had been thought The arrow drawn between this "to discover, shape, and champion
supported by an Air Force Office that flies measured motion research and applicable military basic science that profoundly
of Scientific Research grant. In beneath them to regulate their technology is something of a impacts the future Air Force." By

Strong Assets Boost Sprott Resource (SCP)

Steven Halpern Continue reading Strong Assets
(BloggingStocks) Boost Sprott Resource (SCP)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:10:00 PM Strong Assets Boost Sprott
Resource (SCP) originally
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Adrian Day. frequently with new businesses remains undervalued. After more
of two years ago, Sprott
The money manager and editor of which it subsequently takes public possible acquisitions, Orion could
Resources ( SCP), a Toronto-
The Global Analyst explains, after nurturing them. increase in value and more shares
listed resource company, remains
"Sprott makes direct and indirect "One such is Orion Oil & Gas, of be spun off.
a strong buy, selling at a discount
10 Business/ E-reader News Edition

SpaceX's Falcon-Dragon Rocket Launches, Kicks Off the New

Commercial Space Biz
Kit Eaton (Fast Company) Space Shuttle program when it success of this first COTS1 flight.
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:25:41 PM retires next year, delivering cargo Thus far, all looks good. The
up to the ISS under $1.6 billion launch and ascent into orbit
SpaceX's latest Falcon 9 launch, worth of commercial contracts seemed flawless, and both the first
with a Dragon orbital module from NASA. This is also the first and second-stage separations went
aboard, is the first big step in the launch, orbit and re-entry of a well, leaving Dragon free to
next era of the U.S. space space capsule that's been built and perform its on-orbit checkouts.
business--President Obama's big o p e r a t e d b y a c o m m e r c i a l There appeared to be no
plan for commercial rocketry. company, rather than a uncommanded roll maneuvers,
SpaceX has just successfully g o v e r n m e n t . which affected the previous
launched its latest Falcon 9 rocket It's the COTS1 launch--a Falcon launch (although without
--an important event for the requirement imposed by NASA to damaging its mission).
fledgling rocket company all by ensure the Dragon vehicle can [youtube cNeev7dkdWw]
itself. But this launch is actually meet all the operational and safety 9, orbit Earth, transmit telemetry, the course of about five hours, To read more news on this, and
far more significant, since the requirements of a mission to the receive commands, demonstrate and around three orbits of Earth. similar stuff, keep up with my
payload was a Dragon capsule. space station. The requirements orbital maneuvering and thermal The next mission involves a fly- updates by following me, Kit
This is SpaceX's vehicle that will for Dragon for this flight are to control, re-enter the atmosphere by of the ISS and more advanced Eaton, on Twitter.
take over some of the duties of the "launch and separate from Falcon and recover [the] spacecraft" over check-outs, but it rests on the

Charles Krauthammer: The Professional Left Is Clueless, Obama

Is The Big Tax Deal Winner
Glynnis MacNicol (Business I think the professional left See Also:
Insider) misunderstands the president and • Keith Olbermann Is So Enraged
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:02:00 PM what he's achieved...look, in the About The Tax Deal He's
deal with McConnell over the tax Warning Obama May Face A
Obama is receiving support for cuts he won. He just got the left Primary Challenge (And Lose)
his tax compromise from an to agree to a near trillion dollar, a • Watch Jon Stewart's Takedown
unlikely corner (though, lord $900 billion second stimulus. All Of Ben Bernanke's 'Not Printing
k n o w s h e ' l l p r o b a b l y t a k e of it paid by Chinese money we Money' Claims
whatever he can get right now). borrow. None of it will be paid • Watch: Glenn Beck Provides
Conservative columnist Charles for, blowing a huge hole in the The Clearest Explanation Of
Krauthammer thinks Obama is the debt. And he did this without Julian Assange's Sex Charges
b i g v i c t o r i n t h i s w e e k ' s even calling it a stimulus....which We've Seen Yet
If his presidency ended today economy. That's a big
controversial tax deal. At least will be dispensed in the next two
he'd be remembered as a President achievement if you're a liberal.
from a 'liberal perspective.' years, which happen to be the two
who revolutionized American Vid below.
As Krauthammer tells it, the years in the run-up to Obama's
health care and essentially Join the conversation about this
professional left actually has no reelection.
nationalized 1/6 of the American story »
idea what's actually going on. [...]
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HERE'S Stanley Kauffmann
Corning Rises on continued from page 6

• Declined 2011 team option for See Also: on Films:

Improved LCD Forecast Adam Kennedy
• Miguel Batista files for free
Brent Archer (BloggingStocks) agency
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:50:00 PM
• Adam Dunn files for free
agency
• Sorry, The Yankees Aren't
Signing Baseball's Top Free
Revelations
Stanley Kauffmann (The New
Agent, Carl Crawford
Republic - All Feed)
• Baseball's 10 Most Intriguing
Free Agents Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:03:34 PM

Filed under: Forecasts, Good • Willie Harris files for free • Come On, Tim Lincecum's
n e w s , C o r n i n g I n c ( G L W ) , $19.02. So far today the stock has agency Lack Of Endorsements Have Kawasaki’s Rose
Options, Technical Analysis hit a low of $18.89 and a high of • Kevin Mench files for free Nothing To Do With Pot Menemsha Films
Corning ( GLW- option chain) $19.27. As of 12:15, GLW is agency Tiny Furniture
shares are rising today after the trading at $18.94 up 0.30 (1.6%). • Signed Jayson Werth to a seven IFC Films
company said this morning that it The chart for GLW looks bullish -year, $126 million deal
expects Q4 LCD glass market and S&P gives GLW a positive 4
volumes to be consistent with STARS (out of 5) buy ranking. Join the conversation about this
t h o s e f r o m Q 3 . P r e v i o u s l y Continue reading Corning Rises story »
Corning had forecast volumes to on Improved LCD Forecast
be flat or down slightly. If you Corning Rises on Improved LCD
think that the stock won't fall by Forecast originally appeared on
too much in the coming months, BloggingStocks on Wed, 08 Dec
Intel Netbook and Tablet
then now could be a good time to 2010 12:50:00 EST. Please see
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Closed Doors
Evan Selleck (SlashGear)
Short City: McGraw-Hill Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:18:37 PM

Joseph Lazzaro budget cutbacks. Translation: use Sometimes companies still like to
(BloggingStocks) existing textbooks longer, and do things under the radar. No
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:30:00 PM increase use of the used-book press release, and no public
market. announcement to be heard. Intel,
Filed under: McGraw-Hill Continue reading Short City: this time around, is the company
Companies (MHP), Stocks to Sell McGraw-Hill in question, and it looks like the has been, especially in regards to
Diversified publisher McGraw- Short City: McGraw-Hill chip maker is all set to make sure the Atom chip. Douglas L. Davis,
Hill Companies Inc. ( MHP) is originally appeared on that in the near future, they’ve got the current head of Intel’s
likely to face a challenging 2011. particularly those in poorer U.S. BloggingStocks on Wed, 08 Dec some buffer zones built against embedded and communications
M c G r a w - H i l l ' s e d u c a t i o n school districts, K-12 -- continue 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see the competition within the group.
segment will face an increasing to belt-tighten in every way our terms for use of feeds. netbook and tablet market. According to Intel spokesperson
sluggish textbook market, as possible, due to state and local Permalink| Email this| Comments The company is calling it simply Bill Kircos, it’s an obvious and
public school systems -- the netbook and tablet group. The measured step from Intel to make
point behind this brand new the netbook and tablet group a
business unit? To stave off the reality.
competition within those two [ via The New York Times]
markets, all the while making sure
that Intel stays as successful as it
12 Top News/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Elizabeth Edwards' legacy: toughness amid tragedy (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) knew tragedy and pain," President for her." version of her first memoir who joined daughter Cate.
Submitted at 12/8/2010 8:42:57 AM Barack Obama said in a Edwards shared her life struggles published in 2007. "I will die After her husband's political
statement. "Many others would in memoirs, and the events she much sooner than I want to." career imploded, Elizabeth
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – A son have turned inward; many others held to promote them attracted Her husband added to her Edwards returned to advocacy
dying young. A six-year battle in the face of such adversity women who confided how they suffering with an affair with work, pushing for universal health
with cancer. A humiliating would have given up. But through dealt with hair loss from videographer Rielle Hunter that care. She often wondered aloud
betrayal. all that she endured, Elizabeth treatments or how her words he publicly acknowledged in about the plight of those who
Americans knew Elizabeth revealed a kind of fortitude and helped them cope with lost 2008. Instead of playing a role in faced the same of kind of physical
Edwards in large part through her grace that will long remain a children. the final weeks of the presidential struggles she did but without her
tragedies, but more importantly, source of inspiration." Ellen Schoenfeld, a breast cancer race, which Edwards had quit personal wealth.
they knew her for the vitality and On Facebook, an Elizabeth survivor in New York, said after poor primary showings, he Glenn Bergenfield, a classmate of
determination she showed in Edwards fan page was inundated Edwards gave other people with and Elizabeth retreated almost both Elizabeth and John Edwards
dealing with them. Her cancer with posts a minute after her death cancer "the motivation to live entirely from public life. at the University of North
i n c u r a b l e a n d h e r f o r m e r - was announced. Many of those their lives the way they want to Hunter had a baby that John Carolina Law School, told CBS
presidential-candidate husband offering condolences mentioned live them," she said. "People Edwards insisted was not his until Elizabeth Edwards' legacy would
mired in a paternity scandal, she their own experiences with might think you need to change January 2010, when he be one of grace and patience in
did not shrink from public life but cancer, or those of their relatives. the way you live when you get a acknowledged he had fathered the the face of adversity.
shared her story and advocated for "People identified with her and diagnosis like that, but she wanted child. A week later, friends "Elizabeth was unafraid of
health care reform. saw how courageous she was to maintain a sense of normalcy, revealed that he and Elizabeth had anything that I ever saw,"
"We can look at that face of u n d e r e x t r e m e l y d i f f i c u l t for her kids and for herself, too. I separated. Bergenfield said. "She's faced into
courage and realize we can have circumstances," said Barbara think she just wanted to live as Still, John Edwards was with her the most horrendous thing that we
that, too," said Darlene Gardner, Chassin, a 62-year-old cancer normal a life as possible." when she died. can all think about, the loss of a
62, who runs a cancer support survivor from Phoenix, in an Elizabeth Edwards advised her "He loved Elizabeth," David child, and she's done it with
group and founded a store in Cary interview. "Also, she was fairly husband during his successful "Mudcat" Saunders, a political grace."
that provides wigs and other items realistic about her prognosis, and 1998 Senate campaign in North adviser and friend of the family. ___
for those with the disease. "It that's a good thing." Carolina and his presidential runs "You climb that many mountains Noveck reported from New York.
shows you that, in spite of Dr. Linda Vahdat, an oncologist in 2004 and 2008. Doctors found and you go through the deepest This entry passed through the
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at her North Carolina home Cornell Medical Center in New After treatments, doctors found makes for an incredible bond." our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
surrounded by her three children, York City, said Edwards' public her to be cancer-free, but in early In her book "Saving Graces," content-only/faq.php
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good. "They're sad," Vahdat said. "We are not in denial," Elizabeth accident at 16. She later had two
"In her life, Elizabeth Edwards "People have always been rooting Edwards wrote in an updated children, Emma Claire and Jack,

Video: Jake Gyllenhaal's Polite Gesture For Taylor Swift

PopSugar (PopSugar) New video of Jake Gyllenhaal for last-minute groceries. Check it
Submitted at 12/8/2010 10:19:33 AM and Taylor Swift from out on PopSugar Rush!
Thanksgiving shows the couple taking a stroll through Brooklyn
E-reader News Edition
Middle class falls short on retirement
funds (Reuters)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 7:50:31 AM
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The
average American has saved less
than 7 percent of his desired
retirement nest egg and will likely
have to keep working in
retirement to supplement his
income.
Middle-class Americans think
they need $300,000 to fund their
retirement, but on average have
only saved $20,000, according to
a survey released on Wednesday
by Wells Fargo & Co.
"Middle class" is defined as those
aged 30 to 69 with $40,000 to
$100,000 in household income or
$25,000 to $100,000 in investable
assets and those aged 25 to 29
with income or investable assets
of $25,000 to $100,000.
"Too many Americans have their
heads in the sand in the face of
obvious savings deficits," said
Laurie Nordquist, director of
Wells Fargo Institutional
Retirement Trust. "Barring a
Why You Are a Conformist and How
to Stop [Behavior]
Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 11:00:00 AM
Studies suggest that our brain is
soothed by conforming and looks making the act of conforming
at social disapproval as danger, more pleasant. Instead of simply
miracle, a winning lottery ticket
or a big inheritance, they're going
to be forced to dramatically cut
back their lifestyles after
retirement."
Even those fast approaching
retirement age are not well-
funded. Respondents aged 50 to
59 have saved an average of only
$29,000 for retirement.
Consequently, more than a third
of respondents believe they will
have to work during retirement in
order to afford the things they
want or just to make ends meet.
Many are also still relying on
Social Security to fill the gap,
though confidence in this funding
varies considerably by age.
Seventy-seven percent of
respondents aged 50 to 59 believe
that Social Security will
contribute to their retirement
income, while only 22 percent of
30-somethings thought there
would be enough left in the pot to
fund their retirement.
The vast majority of respondents
admitted they need help figuring
out how much money they need to
live on in retirement and picking
investments for their 401(k)s. But
in a negative twist for financial
advisers, more than two-thirds
said they were not willing to pay
for this advice.
This puts more responsibility on
employers to offer advice and
planning tools through their
workplace 401(k) plans, said
Nordquist.
"If people aren't willing to pay for
advice they are going to get a
more vanilla approach to
planning," she said. "But a simple
plan is better than no plan."
(Reporting by Helen Kearney,
editing by Matthew Lewis)
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New Taliban video shows
captured US soldier
(AFP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) and his capture was announced on
Submitted at 12/8/2010 11:39:47 AM June 30, 2009.
He has already appeared in three
DUBAI (AFP) – A Taliban video p r e v i o u s T a l i b a n v i d e o s ,
released on Tuesday appears to including one released in April
show US soldier Bowe Bergdahl, 2010 that showed him heavily
captured in Afghanistan in June bearded and wearing a US Army
2009, the IntelCenter monitoring jacket, pleading for his release.
group said on Wednesday. A Taliban spokesman at the end
"The video contains a brief of that video reiterated demands
portion of new footage of for "a limited number" of
someone that appears to be US prisoners to be released in
s o l d i e r B o w e B e r g d a h l , " a exchange for the soldier.
statement from IntelCenter said. Bergdahl was the first US soldier
Someone who appears to be to be captured in Afghanistan
Taliban commander Maulawi since the start of the US-led,
Sangin, who had threatened to kill NATO-backed military action to
Bergdahl in the weeks after his oust the hardline Taliban regime
capture, was also in the video, it in late 2001.
said. He said in an earlier video that he
The Pentagon said it was not was captured when he fell behind
clear when the video -- which h i s u n i t i n s o u t h e a s t e r n
shows a clean-shaven Bergdahl A f g h a n i s t a n .
with a close-cropped military There have been claims that he
haircut -- was made. has been taken to neighboring
"As we've said in the past when Pakistan, where the Taliban are
there have been similar types of also waging an insurgency, but
video released, we deplore the the militants have said they are
fact that the Taliban is using him keeping him in Afghanistan.
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14 News Wire/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

U.S. fiscal health worse than Europe's: China adviser

(Reuters: Top News) shift to the United States. At that He sits on the monetary policy reads, to me as a layman, as I find much weight in the
Submitted at 12/8/2010 5:40:57 AM time, U.S. Treasury bonds and the committee of the central bank but though Li is essentially saying “If assessment of Mr. Li that fiscal
dollar will experience does not have real influence on america wants space to stabalize, health of U.S. is worse than that
A customer counts U.S. dollar c o n s i d e r a b l e d e c l i n e s . " key decisions on interest rates and europe needs more instability.” of Europe. Moreover we find the
n o t e s a t a b a n k i n H a n o i U.S. Treasury prices fell sharply the yuan. All the while, China/BRIC sits as needful effort in Europe to
November 29, 2010. for a second day on Wednesday as ROBUST CHINA GROWTH quietly as possible and waits for a contain the crisis & plug its
Credit: Reuters/Kham the proposed tax deal sparked China's annual economic growth time when those 2.64 trillion in spread while U.S. is extending its
BEIJING| Wed Dec 8, 2010 concerns over the government's will exceed 9.5 percent in 2011 reserves could come in handy to tax cuts for two more years
6:40am EST ability to service its massive debt and will remain above 9 percent nations/investors tired of dealing unmindful of the fiscal crisis.
BEIJING(Reuters) - The U.S. b u r d e n . M o o d y ' s I n v e s t o r s through the coming decade, Li with usd or euro. breezinthru U.K. was the first European
dollar will be a safe investment Service said it is worried the tax told the forum. wrote: country for taking daring
for the next six to 12 months cuts could become permanent, The long-term growth outlook This article reminds me of the corrective measures. I do not find
because global markets are hurting U.S. finances and credit would be underpinned by the need story of the emperor who wore no anxiety for the fiscal deficit in
focused on the euro zone's ratings in the long run. to continue investing in clothes. It looks like Americans U.S. in relative proportion to the
troubles but America's fiscal In Europe, Ireland's parliament infrastructure, he said. will need to rely on China’s crisis and the present day leaders
health is worse than Europe's, an passed the first in a series of "China has a vast domestic honest criticism to get Congress have failed to prepare the
adviser to the Chinese central resolutions underpinning its 2011 demand that is untapped, and back on the path to fiscal sanity. countrymen for due share of
bank said on Wednesday. austerity budget on Tuesday, that's the fundamental difference Mr. Li is surely correct about the sacrifice needed as remedial
Li Daokui, an academic member marking the first step in a lengthy between China now and Japan in future of oil prices, even if one measure. Postponement of any
of the central bank's monetary approval process. But investors 1985," Li told a forum. does not fully subscribe to the problem is never the best
policy committee, said that U.S. are now worried that the region's In addition, China would have to Olduvai Theory. solution! I further agree with Mr.
bond prices and the dollar would debt crisis could engulf Portugal spend a lot on "low carbon" America has consumed the lion’s Li that as soon as Europe gets
fall when the European economic next, or Spain. industries, lending more support share of the world’s energy stabilized to some extent, U.S.
situation stabilized. China has a big stake in the for the economy, he said. production for decades. But now, will feel the most painful pinch.
"For now, market attention is still performance of dollar assets. The Li also predicted that global BRIC, particularly the massive This entry passed through the
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than in Europe. In one or two responsible for managing the wrote: eventually becomes impossible to
years, when the European debt reserves. This is an interesting attack, i process energy fast enough to
situation stabilizes, attention of Li was speaking on the sidelines think. Apart from the initial scare sustain all of the world’s
financial markets will definitely of a financial forum in Beijing. against american fiscal health this economies. vksaini wrote:

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U.S. tax deal edges forward despite doubts

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President Barack Obama holds a six months, as debt markets worry unemployment benefits, which our editors by using the report and creating a tidal wave of
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Press Briefing Room at the White and deepen the budget deficit. Obama also conceded to the comments do not represent think they would do if he tried to
House in Washington, December "This tax agreement is a disaster Republican demands on the estate those of Reuters. fight this tax bill and everyone
7, 2010. for the U.S. fiscal situation," said tax by proposing a 35 percent tax Comments (11) bkhjon wrote: lost the tax breaks along with
Credit: Reuters/Jim Young Howard Simons, strategist at with a $5 million individual Headline says “Democrats unemployment? Have the
By Kim Dixon and Richard Bianco Research in Chicago. exemption level. question Obama’s tax deal”. democrats ever won this type of
Cowan Obama's plan would extend all "There are a lot of Democrats I would phrase “Democrats fight? The democrats do not
WASHINGTON| Wed Dec 8, individual tax cuts expiring at unhappy with the tax deal. Biden question if Obama is really a understand how ill-informed and
2010 11:26am EST year end, in addition to renewing will have a lot of explaining to republican”. easily swayed the american public
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - A jobless benefits, a payroll tax do," a senior House Democratic Then again, what’s the difference is. The republicans have… Karl
plan by President Barack Obama credit and other measures. aide said. between dem and puke anyway? rove showed them that. I think he
to broadly extend tax cuts edged While drawing mostly praise House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has They are all the same. ginchinchili is doing what he has to do, pick
forward on Wednesday despite from Republicans, the mammoth voiced her concerns, particularly wrote: and choose his battles and live to
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Democrats and fear in bond Obama's fellow Democrats who wealthiest and weakening the this, then they aren’t the same as that the man cares for the poor
markets of long-term damage to complain that the president estate tax. the Republicans. If they can’t, and middle class of this country.
the economy. dropped his opposition to tax On Tuesday, Moody's Investors then you’re right. As for Obama, Does Boehner or McConnel come
Senate Democratic Leader Harry hikes for the wealthy and got too Service said U.S. finances could he just committed political across the same? No, but yet here
Reid said the proposal to extend little in return. suffer in the long run. suicide. Too bad. Now the they are looking at 2012.
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American Goes Undercover to Expose Nazi War Criminal

(Epoch Times | All headlines) Gould held a press conference told the Associated Press in a
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:10:31 PM Dec. 7 at the Marriott Marquis at telephone interview that he has
Times Square to release his not seen evidence of Frank having
WAR CRIMES: American data findings. ordered Jews to be killed. Zuroff
broker Mark Gould (R) unveils Eight days prior to his first said that several people signed the
video evidence which he says interview with Frank, Gould says document and “Frank’s job was
incriminates former Nazi colonel, he received a letter from the man just to verify that the language
97-year-old Dr. Bernhard Frank bearing his signature—a signature conformed with Nazi
(screen) as being guilty of that looked familiar. This led ideology—rather than actually
genocide during World War II. Gould to discover what he give any order for killing.”
(The Epoch Times) Intrigued by b e l i e v e s w a s a n i d e n t i c a l Gould, however, asserts that
the untold stories of Nazi crimes signature on documents dated July upon presenting his findings to
committed in World War II, Mark 28, 1941, containing requests academics in the field, many have
Gould, a 43-year-old American from Himmler ordering the killing validated his findings.
went on an unconventional of thousands of Jews. Holli Levitsky, the director of the
journey leading him to a man he Over a period of four years, Jewish Studies Program at Loyola
believes is a key Nazi war Gould conducted a number of Marymount University told The
criminal. video interviews with Frank in New York Times that upon
Gould, an information data which the former Nazi admitted reviewing Gould’s work, she
broker, says his journey was the signature on the documents believes he has “connected dots
inspired by finding a pistol was his. Gould says that as a themselves,” since they were first in which the murders of Jews that had previously been ignored
surrendered in 1945 by high- linguist, Frank was in charge of "interrupting the supply lines." were called for,” writes Walters and missed.”
ranking Nazi officer Hermann removing incriminating wording When asked what about the on the blog. In a release, Gould says he hopes
Göring at a gun show in from Nazi reports under women and children, Frank On Dec. 2, Gould personally to further develop an authoritative
California. Himmler’s command. shrugged his shoulders, says presented a lawsuit filed in U.S. database to aid researchers in
Posing as a well-off American “This is how history wouldn’t Gould. Federal Court in the District of combating Holocaust deniers.
neo-Nazi interested in Third r e m e m b e r t h e m . A n d h i s In his opinion, Gould thinks Columbia to Frank in Frankfurt, A part of Gould’s interviews with
Reich memorabilia, Gould set out [Frank’s] job was to take the Frank’s responsibility is immense. accusing him of genocide, torture, Frank can be seen at
for Germany in 2002. He went report and remove anything about “It’s immeasurable in my mind.” kidnapping, and crimes against www.pjinstitute.com/holocaust
underground and obtained a the killing of Jews, and only focus Guy Walters, blogger for The humanity. This entry passed through the
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eventually lead him to Bernhard SS in the field,” says Gould. books including "Berlin Games" Darshan-Leitner, says this civil your content and you're reading it
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Reich leader of the Nazi SS. carrying the July 28, 1941, order. blown out of proportion. Gould and Burton Bernstein, content-only/faq.php
Gould says when he started his “I put it in his hand and he Walters cites “Holocaust and brother of composer Leonard Five Filters featured site: So,
journey he was unaware of what admitted that he had signed it. I Genocide Studies, Volume I” in Bernstein, and invites heirs of Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing
his search would lead to. One had a ticket into his world now. saying the orders given on July 28 Holocaust victims from Eastern Again?.
figure he came across was Frank. He wanted credit badly for this." were only further instructions for Europe to join in becoming
Gould said he easily located him According to Gould, Frank previous orders given by Himmler plaintiffs in the case against
in a Frankfurt phone book, then showed no signs of remorse on July 19, and 22, 1941. Frank.
contacted him to set up an saying it was “necessary” and that “It should also be borne in mind Efraim Zuroff, a top Nazi hunter
interview. “the Jews had done this to that these orders are far from the for the Simon Wiesenthal Center
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Assange backers in cyber retaliation over arrest

(Reuters: Top News) retaliation for its blocking of originally leaked the documents, Mr Assange, reportedly,
Submitted at 12/8/2010 10:36:02 AM donations to the WikiLeaks not Assange, were legally liable informed the police in England
website. and the leaks raised questions from day 1 of his whereabouts in
A screen shot of a web browser "We are glad to tell you that over the "adequacy" of U.S. the UK. The accusations they
shows the WikiLeaks home page www.mastercard.com/ is down security. bring against him do not strike me
with a portrait of its founder and it's confirmed!" said an entry "Mr Assange is not himself as criminal or any misconduct to LeWeb Video: Rodrigo
Julian Assange in Lavigny, on the Twitter feed of a group responsible for the unauthorized speak of at all, and they won’t
December 4, 2010.
Sepúlveda Schulz On
calling itself AnonOps, which release of 250,000 documents even grant him bail. You have got
C r e d i t : R e u t e r s / V a l e n t i n says it fights against censorship from the U.S. diplomatic to be kidding. I have lived in the French Startups – They
Flauraud and "copywrong." communications network," Rudd UK for long enough to know that Are Getting Better
By Keith Weir "MasterCard is experiencing told Reuters in an interview. there are much worse things going Mike Butcher (TechCrunch)
LONDON| Wed Dec 8, 2010 heavy traffic on its external "The Americans are responsible on in that country which are never
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:58:02 PM
11:36am EST corporate website - for that," said Rudd, who had investigated at all.
LONDON(Reuters) - WikiLeaks M a s t e r C a r d . c o m - b u t t h i s been described in one leaked U.S. Or have we really come to the At Le Web I ran into Rodrigo
supporters apparently attacked the remains accessible," MasterCard cable as a "control freak." point where the American secret Sepúlveda Schulz, serial
w e b s i t e s o f t h e S w e d i s h said in a statement, adding CARRY ON service tells the English and the entrepreneur and now investor. I
prosecutor and MasterCard in consumer card transactions were WikiLeaks vowed it would Swedish what to do? asked him about the startup
retaliation over moves made by not affected. continue making public details of NEWSTIME2010 wrote: market in France, a market which
them against Julian Assange, who Assange spent the night in a the confidential U.S. cables. Only “I cold not care less” -Kevin Rudd – despite his reputation as a huge
h a s p u b l i s h e d s e c r e t U . S . British jail and will appear for a a fraction of them have been (about Wikileaks and U.S.) globe-trotter – he is intimately
diplomatic cables that have hearing on December 14. published so far. “I could not care less about this acquainted with, being based out
angered and embarrassed Assange, who has lived We welcome comments that ordinary condom case in Sweden” of Paris. What was interesting was
Washington. periodically in Sweden, was advance the story directly or with – Ture Sjolander catboss wrote: the extent to which he was quite
T h e S w e d i s h p r o s e c u t i o n accused this year of sexual relevant tangential information. When you don’t want to take down on the market, even as we
authority, whose arrest order for m i s c o n d u c t b y t w o f e m a l e We try to block comments that responsibility for your actions, or often hear from TechCrunch
Assange over accusations of Swedish WikiLeaks volunteers. use offensive language, all capital can’t drum up an excuse for them, France that there has been a lot
sexual offences led a British court The pair's lawyer said their claims letters or appear to be spam, and you can always blame something more startup activity in the last 18
t o r e m a n d t h e 3 9 - y e a r - o l d were not a politically motivated we review comments frequently on someone else. The good ole months. Unfortunately for these
WikiLeaks website founder in plot against Assange. to ensure they meet our standards. USA is always the prime target French startup heroes, the over-
custody, said it had reported the "It has nothing to do with If you see a comment that you for these goofballs. riding business culture of France
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Extra Pounds Linked to Death From All Causes
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Submitted at 12/8/2010 11:55:56 AM
OBESITY: The more heavyset
you are, the more likely you are to
die from heart attack, stroke, and
certain cancers, according to a
new study. (Jeff J. Mitchell/
GETTY IMAGES ) The more
heavyset you are, the more likely
you are to die from heart attack,
stroke, and certain cancers,
according to a new study.
Body Mass Index, or BMI, is a
number that roughly measures
how fat a person is. The new
research finds that deaths from all
causes go up as BMI increases.
Experts consider a BMI in the
range of about 19 to 25 as
representing normal weight, and
that’s about the range where the
death rate is lowest.
“So we found that the BMI
associated with the lowest risk of
death was between about 20 and
25, and that the risk of death
increased with increasing BMI,”
says Amy Berrington, of the U.S.
National Cancer Institute. “The
people in the highest BMI
category, which was over about
40, had a two-and-a-half times
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normal BMI range.”
Berrington is the lead author of a
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Age is also a factor. Berrington
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developing countries. That’s a
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elsewhere. Berrington says only
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“We certainly have other studies
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some existing evidence which
suggests that the relationship may
be different for other ethnic and
racial groups.”
Amy Berrington’s paper on the
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Unemployment Benefits, Tax Cuts

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Marshall Kirkpatrick
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Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:42:41 PM
" RSS is Dead", tech sage Steve
Gillmor said in May of 2009. I
know that's not true, because I
spend a lot of my work and my
leisure time reading RSS and
other forms of syndicated content
feeds.
If you're not familiar with Really
Simple Syndication (RSS) - it is,
in the simplest of terms, a
powerfully simple technology that
delivers new content from
multiple websites to one single
place you've subscribed to RSS
feeds from. RSS has not changed
the world in the ways its early
adherents hoped it would, but it
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There are a lot of repeat
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Flipboard
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Flipboard is a well-funded iPad
app that turns Twitter and other
streams of content into a beautiful
"customized magazine." Many
people have tried to go deep on
the visual impact of feed reading
on the iPad, but none have
embraced the possibilities as
gracefully as Flipboard.
You know how I use Flipboard?
I read my usual Twitter and
Facebook streams through it
sometimes, but it's the curated
topical Twitter lists that work best
on this service. I've got a Twitter
list of hundreds of geotechnology
pros that serve up incredible
topical links. The Twitter list of
anthropologists I grabbed from
Tlists? What a great magazine
they make every Sunday morning!
Web page pre-loading in the
background, integrated social
media sharing and commenting,
video, image collages - the user
experience is really hard to beat
and it's only getting better.
OPML import is the only thing
that the 15 of us in the world that
like to play with OPML files
could ask for more.
Not Dead Yet Factor: Some
people have the audacity to
complain that this magical
creature that turns links to their
website into shining, seductive,
glossy magazine pages for iPad
using readers to slide right down
into their websites... is violating
their copyrights! That's the
dumbest thing I've heard since
someone told me that the tens of
thousands of readers a Huffington
Post link to our site sends are
somehow a case of that site
stealing from us, too.
Postrank
Selected coverage: How to Build
a Social Media Cheat Sheet on
Any Topic
RSS overload getting you down?
Give Postrank a feed and it will
give you back a brighter day.
This service, which has been on
our best of list every year we've
written one about feeds, is
invaluable. You plug in a feed
and Postrank will score every
item in it based on the relative
social media engagement that
item has seen (comments,
inbound links, mentions on
Twitter and a lot more). Then,
you can subscribe to a filtered
feed of just the most-discussed
items on any feed.
We use Postrank about 15
different ways here at
ReadWriteWeb. It's awesomeness
cannot be surpassed. Watch this
space, you'll see us use it some
more ways in the coming weeks
and months.
Not Dead Yet Factor: Postrank's
main home page is now a
publisher analytics fancy service.
If you want to run other peoples'
feeds through it, like a
sophisticated strategic thinker
able to defer immediate
gratification for one technology
step in exchange for far greater
opportunities, then visit http://
postrank.com/main.
Notify.me
Selected coverage: Real Time as
a Service? Check Out What
Notify.me Is Working On
The battlefield of RSS to IM/
SMS/email delivery and alert
services is littered with bodies -
the field of battle between those
services and the cold reality of
monetization, that is. There are a
small number of people who
appreciate the delivery of a
substantial number of RSS feeds
within minutes of their
publication, but it's not an
insignificant number. It's services
like this that keep all the tech
blogs you read feeling fresh,
readers. Other people in other
fields are learning to appreciate
them as well.
Notify.me remains alive, despite
its own determination to die this
summer. The company is now
focused on selling advanced
services to large, paying
customers; it's expensive shooting
RSS feeds all over the web by IM
and SMS for free.
In July, 2010, the Notify.me team
threw up its hands and said it was
shutting down its free consumer
service. A minor cry for help
arose and thankfully, the company
changed its mind. It said it was
going to start charging people a
small amount of money. It
doesn't appear to have done so
and the messages are still coming.
Let me tell you what a service
like this is good for, outside a
journalist's immediate interest: I
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once led a workshop for non-
profit organizations where one
participant worked in
communications at a local
women's advocacy organization.
In that workshop, we grabbed the
RSS feed for the New York Times
and we ran it through a filter,
filtering for keywords related to
the field she worked in. We then
took that filtered feed and we put
it through Notify.me, setting it for
multiple forms of delivery.
The plan, then, was for her to get
an SMS whenever the New York
Times wrote a story related to
women's issues. She could take a
look at it, and if appropriate,
could call the local newspaper
people she knew. "I don't know if
you've heard," she could say (they
probably hadn't, so soon), "but
there's this story breaking on a
national level. If you're interested
in a local angle, our Executive
Director is an excellent source
and would be happy to get on the
phone with you if you like." The
reporter has been looking for
something to write about all day
and you lay a timely, high-quality
interviewee in their lap. Boom!
Now repeat a few times and what
have you got? You've got an
organization that people in your
area associate with the issue
because you're regularly cited as a
source in the local media -
because you were the first to
know.
Not Dead Yet Factor: It's not
dead yet. Someday it probably
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will be. Another service will have
to take its place, or we'll all have
to learn how to roll our own.
SuperFeedr
Selected coverage: The Dream
Team Quietly Gathering Behind
Real-Time Service SuperFeedr
You've got online content and
you want it in real time. You
want it in different formats. You
want it marked up with
geolocation data that corresponds
to place names occurring in free
text. You want it all and you
want it for a fair price. What does
it mean? Maybe you want
SuperFeedr. It's like FeedBurner
was for bloggers, but much more
developer-focused. The company
adds features all the time and
founder Julien Genestoux is one
of the most agile technologists
you'll find online.
Not Dead Yet Factor: Barely
born yet, but backed by
BetaWorks and Mark Cuban,
that's good for something. Plus
Genestoux builds features so fast
that he'll likely fit whatever need
real-time feed geeks find they
have, well into the future.
Google Reader
Selected coverage: Facebook
Could Become World's Leading
News Reader (Sorry Google)
If you read RSS feeds and you
know it, you probably use Google
Reader. It's ok. It's pretty good,
even. It's not that exciting, but it
serves a whole lot of people very
reliably and capably. It has
survived while everyone else has
not. This year we saw former
market-leader Bloglines and
former innovation leader
Newsgator Online close up their
RSS readers and send everyone to
Google Reader instead. Other
services use Google Reader as a
place to sync up.
Not Dead Yet Factor: Google
almost never kills anything, and
there have to be a lot of people
internally at the company who
depend on Google Reader, too.
Unless they've all given it up for
Twitter.
My6Sense
Selected coverage: My6Sense &
The Geek Who Rode His Blog to
the Edge of the World
You're on your phone and you
want something good to read?
They say that small screens lend
to high-quality recommendations
of well-targeted content - so why
would we read Twitter and
Facebook?
My6Sense is a mobile RSS
reader that syncs with your
Google Reader account (all of it,
not just the first one thousand
feeds like so many imitations!)
and then watches how you
interact with the items. It knows
when you are reading, it knows
when you've shared a link. It then
offers two views of all your
subscriptions: their most recent
posts and the My6Sense
recommended posts. The service
learns from your behavior over
time and offers a quality mobile
feed reading experience.
Not Dead Yet Factor: It's
probably a slow burn, the
company is focusing on
monetizing a commercial API.
That's a good business to be in.
Blekko
Selected coverage: How to Use
Blekko to Rock at Your Job
Blekko calls itself a search spam
killer but it's got a whole lot more
potential for the power user.
Blekko is a platform for
collaboratively edited vertical
custom search engines. It eats
OPML files, among other things,
and its outputs include RSS feeds.
You want a feed of updates from
10 key medical sites whenever
any news about a particular issue
is written about? Blekko can do
that. You want to track a
collection of blogs that cover a
particular topic and get a ping
when they write about one
company, one concept or one
keyword across all their blogs?
No problem. It's great.
A custom search engine creation
service with RSS feeds. That
deserves a place on this list.
Not Dead Yet Factor: It just
launched. When it launched, I
said it was too beautiful to live
long, but its CEO has been around
the block many times and tells me
he knows what he's doing.
Facebook
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Facebook's syndicated updates
from friends, families and media
organizations are the single most
important way that hundreds of
millions of people around the
world relate to the power of the
feed. The company tried to do a
lot this year, but it's hard to know
how drastic the users' experience
will end up being. None the less:
Facebook Places alone represents
the introduction of a radical new
type of knowledge into many
peoples' lives (where the people
you know are right now) - and it's
coming to them by feed.
OStatus
Selected coverage: Run Your
Own Twitter Clone: Status.net
Launches Public Beta
When you hear about Diaspora,
when you hear about Status.net,
OStatus is what's under the hood.
This open-source amalgamation
of communication technology
standards is like Twitter for
networks that are disconnected,
but interoperable. "People on
Different Networks Following
Each Other" is the OStatus slogan.
What does it mean?
Interoperability means social
networks compete on features, not
control over your friends, because
switching costs are removed. You
lose nothing if you switch
networks.
OStatus didn't take off like a
Tweeting rocket ship this year,
but it saw some continued growth,
development and attention.
Someday, maybe someday, the
asynchronous micro-messaging
that so many of us find so much
value in will break out of the
clutches of one single company
(wonderful as you are, dear
Twitter) and become a real
communication platform like the
telephone. That's probably as
crazy as imagining a time when
AT&T customers can call Verizon
customers though, isn't it?
Not Dead Yet Factor: It's not
dead yet.
Dapper
Selected coverage: How Yahoo's
Latest Acquisition Stole & Broke
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My Heart
Point and click on almost any
field on almost any Web page and
Dapper will give you an RSS
URL you can use to subscribe to
updates from that field, if and
when the content there changes.
It sounds like a simple thing, but
it's incredibly powerful.
Dapper has been one of my
favorite services for years and
was joined by Needlebase in the
DIY data extraction world that
has so much potential.
In recent years, the devil bought
Dapper's soul, turning it into a
semantic advertising platform in
order to monetize its core
technology. Then Yahoo bought
the whole company this Fall,
which will allow the core feed-
extraction tool to remain open, at
least for a while longer. To use
this incredible tool, you've just got
to sneak in through the back door
at Open.Dapper.net.
Not Dead Yet Factor: It's not
dead yet. Maybe more alive than
it's been in years, in fact.
Honorable mentions:
Yahoo Pipes- definitely not dead
yet. The company released an
experimental 2.0 version of this
wonderful spaghetti pipes tool for
RSS magic this year, but few
people noticed and the company
itself says its products aren't
production ready. YSQL is a
better bet, if you're comfortable
working with that. If not, well -
Pipes isn't dead yet.
Twitter- One of these days!
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Thin Film Solar Catching Up To Crystalline Panels On
Efficiency?
Lora Kolodny (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:21:38 PM
The National Renewable Energy
Labratory(NREL) recently tested
thin-film solar modules made by
MiaSolé, and verified that their
energy conversion efficiency rate
hit 15.7 percent, up from 14.3
percent last year.
The company boasted about the
number, and several news outlets
touted the results. Does it mean
the performance gap between thin
-film and crystalline solar
modules is closing? Could thin-
film take a bite out of the market
for crystalline panels in the U.S.,
soon?
Clean tech analysts and engineers
believe that thin-film solar is not
likely to catch up to crystalline in
terms of efficiency any time soon.
Neither will thin-film solar
modules steal market share from
crystalline in 2011, they predict.
Thin film solar modules are made
by a huge number of companies
today including: Abound Solar,
Best Solar, First Solar, Konica,
LG Electronics, MiaSolé,
PrimeStar Solar, Nanosolar, Sharp
and Uni-Solar. Not all thin-film
solar is created equal, however.
Today’s typical thin-film
modules look like sheets of glass
(image, below). Crystalline
modules also look like sheets of
glass but are thicker, and framed
in metal (image, top of post). Uni-
Solar’s thin-film modules,
interestingly, are flexible and
have a stick-on backing.
A senior analyst with Lux
Research, Ted Sullivan, points out
that there are a variety of thin-film
solar cells in production today:
MiaSolé uses copper indium
gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar
cells in their product; FirstSolar
uses cadmium telluride (CdTe)
cells, which are dominant sellers
in the U.S. thin-film solar market
today; while Konica and Sharp
use silicon cells.
Of all thin-film technologies,
CIGS modules demonstrate the
greatest energy conversion
efficiency, and power output per
square meter. CIGS cells require
less energy for production than
crystalline cells. Thin film in
general requires less expensive
semiconductor material, and
fewer process steps than it takes
to make crystalline modules,
according to NREL research.
Manufacturing costs keep the
price of thin-film modules
comparatively low, today. Solar
analyst Sullivan explained,
however, that thin-film solar
manufacturers face a different
challenge:
“There’s kind of a consistency
issue for all [thin-film] players.
Ideally, you want modules to be
produced identically, so there is
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says both technologies have their say to build a solar farm out in the
uses, even in a world where they desert, you could consider thin-
cost about the same. film because the modules cost less
GridPoint sells and installs per watt. That said, labor costs to
software, hardware and services install a higher number of
to help organizations switch to modules could offset the price
clean energy in any form that will difference, and crystalline might
work best for their facilities and make more sense.”
operations. Gardner says the On Monday, the world’s largest
no variation between each module company uses both thin-film and manufacturer of solar panels—
[especially once they're installed c r y s t a l l i n e s o l a r f o r c l i e n t SunTech Power Holdings Co. in
out in the field]. projects, but more crystalline so Wuxi, China— announced it
CIGS thin-film solar production far, including in power generating expects to have crystalline
is the most highly variable as it systems they’ve installed for modules that have 22 percent
involves four metal alloys and federal agencies, retailers and conversion efficiency out in the
processes where impurities and restaurant chains. market in the next three years.
other things can have a negative Gardner outlined some of the best That’s one more reason, Sullivan
impact on the resulting product.” uses and limitations of each suggests, crystalline panels will
MiaSolé’s 15.7 percent rating, he technology: remain dominant in 2011,
noted, is important because it “In a typical home installation, especially in applications where
illustrates that CIGS thin-film you’ll have a certain area, or space is limited. “Most of the thin
solar technology is comparable to amount of roof space where you -film technologies out there today
the current, low-end potential want to place solar panels. If will never get to silicon
energy of silicon polycrystalline there’s a limited space, you’ll crystalline efficiency, which has
panels. probably want crystalline to get just been around longer and is still
But thin-film solar manufacturers the most power per square foot. seeing improvements,” he
have to procure a greater variety Structure or aesthetics sometimes concluded.
of metals from sources far from dictate what you are able to CIGS panels image via:
the United States (mostly China install, though. We worked on one Department of Energy Solar
today) leading to market concerns project involving a roof that could Decathalon
over trade war potential, a n o t h a n d l e t h e w e i g h t o f Crystalline panels image via:
shortage of metals, and unfair c r y s t a l l i n e p a n e l s . Wayne National Forest
l a b o r a n d d a m a g i n g Or let’s say you’re building a CrunchBase Information MiaSolé
environmental practices of mines. skyscraper with a glass façade. If Suntech Power Information
Meanwhile, crystalline module you integrate thin-film type solar provided by CrunchBase
prices are coming down a bit as panels there, your building is now
production ramps worldwide. A generating power with the same
solar engineer at GridPoint in skin that was otherwise just glass.
Houston, Texas, John Gardner If you have near unlimited space,
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Lawmakers fret over Comcast-NBCU deal
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:29:07 PM
Two members of Congress are
having some doubts about the
proposed merger between
Comcast and NBC Universal.
Representatives Henry Waxman
(D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D
-Mass.) wrote letters to Federal
Communications Commission
Chairman Julius Genachowski,
citing potential issues that could
affect competition in the
television market, as well as with
how consumers are presented with
content.
The Washington Post first
reported on the letters.
"The proposed Comcast-NBCU
transaction would allow Comcast
to acquire an unprecedented
concentration of national
programming assets,"
Congressman Markey wrote to the
FCC. "The joint venture would
give Comcast the power, should it
choose to exercise it, to deny
programming to its cable,
satellite, or online competitors or
charge inflated prices for it."
Markey went on to say that he
would like to see the FCC, if it
approves the merger, require
"arbitration and standstill
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broadcast and national
programming." Arbitration would
be used if the newly formed
company faced arguments with
third parties over its programming
availability.
Markey went on to say that he
was concerned that the combined
company could "harm
independent networks,
particularly those that compete
against Comcast-owned channels,
by refusing to carry them on
reasonable terms or by affording
them channel placement that
seriously impedes their ability to
attract an audience." Markey
urged the FCC to "adopt general
conditions to safeguard
independent programmers" from
that possibility.
But Markey wasn't done. He said
that post-merger, there would be a
greater "likelihood" of Comcast
raising the price for standalone
broadband service in order to
push consumers to choose its
cable-broadband bundle. He said
that such a plan would potentially
make "cutting the cord" and
watching NBC Universal content
online "less financially attractive
to consumers, undermining
competition and choice." He
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asked the FCC to prohibit the
company "from favoring or
blocking access to lawful content"
on the Web.
Waxman expressed similar
concerns. In his letter to
Genachowski, Waxman said that
the approved merger could
"trigger significant changes in the
way consumers access video
programming, in the way
independent programmers
distribute their works, and in the
way all video distributors compete
for customers."
Comcast first announced its
intention to acquire a controlling
stake in NBC Universal last
December. The deal is estimated
at approximately $37 billion.
Since then, Comcast has been
facing scrutiny from several
parties over the deal.
In February, Senate and House
subcommittees traded shots with
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and
NBC Universal President and
CEO Jeff Zucker. Lawmakers
expressed concern that the merger
could have hurt competitors and
consumers, while allowing
Comcast and NBC Universal to
benefit.
"I worked for NBC for many
years," Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn)
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potential merger of Comcast and
NBC Universal."
Those hearings were followed up
by Rep. Rick Boucher, writing a
letter to the FCC in August urging
the agency to ensure that the
merger reflects the best interests
of consumers. He was especially
concerned about the possibility of
Comcast moving NBC content
that's already freely available
online to its TV Everywhere
service, which is available
exclusively to its subscribers.
However, Boucher, like
Waxman, believes the merger
should be approved by the FCC
this year.
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location as a platform! This year
had high hopes for Twitter's
technology. The year ended up
being about better up-time, a
prettier Web site and the
company's nascent ad sales
efforts.
Ogre translates spatial files into
GeoJSON using a command line
tool for use in JavaScript Web
apps. Awesome. Some people
are using this for sure, to set
proprietary geodata free. Too few
people, though.
OneSpot- This content
recommendation engine does a lot
of things, but my favorite thing it
does is look at any set of feeds
you give it and then suggest
thousands of other feeds it
believes are related. It's easy to
curate a few hundred top blogs in
any field that way.
That's our list - how does it
compare to yours? What's
coming down the line that you
think might shake things up in
RSS and syndication in 2011?
Let us know in comments.
Discuss
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Cisco wins more Greenpeace kudos

(CNET News.com) series of laws that could lead to included SAP and Panasonic,
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:50:37 PM the reduction of the country's each with 21 points. Oracle made
greenhouse gas emissions to 25 its debut on the list in last place
Cisco, once again, was the leader percent below what they were in with 12 points.
of the pack as Greenpeace 1990 by 2020. Officially, Greenpeace says that
r e l e a s e d i t s l a t e s t C o o l I T Google, which ranked fourth with it evaluated the IT companies
Leaderboard on Tuesday. 47 points, was also praised for based on the three categories of
The environmental watchdog publicly opposing Proposition 23, solutions, energy impact, and
group named Cisco, Ericsson, and a proposition to suspend the law advocacy. But those categories
Fujitsu, respectively, as the three already in place that mandates are then further broken down. The
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IT companies. Cisco received 70 California. Greenpeace, in fact, comprehensive yet easy-to-read
out of 100 possible points, while gave Google the highest rating chart (see below) that shows how
Ericsson received 57 points and when it came to environmental
Fujitsu 52 points. Greenpeace advocacy with 30 points, the most
praised Cisco for "making IT any company could achieve. But
each category is weighted.
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In-App Revenue Growth Forecast: Up
600% in 2011
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:10:54 PM
In-app purchases, in-app billing,
and virtual goods are emerging as
new, and potentially more
profitable, means of generating
revenue for mobile application
developers and publishers. A
report from October, for instance,
found that within social
networking applications and
games, in-app purchases have
actually taken over as the leading
source of revenue.
That trend will continue in 2011,
says mobile billing and analytics
firm Bango. According to its
recently released forecast, in-app
purchases will grow over 600%
next year.
Sponsor
In 2011, the use of in-app
charging will grow more than
600% to account for nearly 30%
of all mobile app payments, states
Bango on its company blog. The
company says it arrived at these
numbers based on end-of-year
trends from leading developers in
games, music and broadcasting
segments.
As with the prior report
(October's report was from
analytics firm Flurry, not Bango),
it seems that in-app purchases are
growing within a segment of
application categories. Perhaps
that list is slowly expanding
beyond games, but it's still not
accounting for all the application
types just yet. Where Do In-App
Purchases Make Sense?
Bango says it's working with
music and print publishers to
move beyond subscription-based
paywalls to implement new ways
to charge. Instead of regular
(monthly, weekly, etc.) fees,
developers are exploring other
options like charging per play
(music), per video or even per-
page (publishing).
In some cases, in-app purchases
make a lot of sense - virtual goods
within games, for example, as
we've already seen. Case in point:
Farmville's Director of Mobile,
Jen Herman, told the crowd at this
year's Open Mobile Summit that
90% of Farmville's revenue is
generated from in-app purchases.
But Bango also highlighted
another good example: one its
clients, a greeting card app, offers
the app download for free, but
sending photo postcards from
within the app is only available
for a fee.
In addition, says Bango,
"developers and publishers who
monetize regular use of the app–
streamed video and audio, games,
news and alerts – will most
readily capitalize on in-app
payment features."
This year, Bango only saw less
than 5% of payments billed
though its mobile payments
system as being of the "in-app"
variety, but this was more due to
technical limitations on the part of
app stores, it says. As stores ramp
up their offerings on this front,
we've been watching firms like
Boku, Zong, and others develop
in-app billing services of their
own. Many of these programs are
still in beta, but it's likely that next
year, as these services are opened
up to a wider audience of
developers, we'll quickly see the
impact of in-app purchases on
monetization efforts. Until then,
developers have plenty of other
methods to consider, including
advertising and paid applications,
and even "mobile wallet"
solutions like Sprint's, which lets
users pay for both physical and
virtual goods via their phones.
Discuss
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iPad 2 Will Have LCD,
Not AMOLED Display
Evan Selleck (SlashGear) them, Coretronic will be the main
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:55:21 PM supplier of the second generation
iPad’s Back Light Units, or
The rumors about the second BLUs. What that means, is that
generation iPad are still lingering, there won’t be any AMOLED
while people try to guess what d i s p l a y s i n t h e i P a d 2 , a s
features, and design elements, the AMOLED doesn’t require any
next tablet device from Apple will back lighting.
have. The obvious suggestions Furthermore, it’s already been
that the device will feature a USB suggested that Chimei Innolux
port, or front- and rear-facing and LG have been chosen to crank
cameras, along with the idea that out the LCD displays for the iPad
the next tablet will have a Retina 2. This news about the supplier
Display, has many people eager to for BLUs just drives home the
see what Apple unveils in the first potential fact that the next version
half of 2011. But, for those that of the iPad will feature an LCD
were hoping that the iPad 2 will panel. That does still leave some
have an AMOLED display, it room for that whole Retina
looks like those dreams have been Display rumor, though.
dashed. [ via DigiTimes]
At least, if this new report from
DigiTimes pans out. According to
26 Technology/ Politics-Left/
Antid0te: A More Secure Jailbreak on
the Horizon
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:43:00 PM
Of the many reasons people don't
jailbreak their iPhones(besides the
most obvious: "I don't see the
point"), is the concern that it will
affect the security of their phone.
That concern is not unfounded -
jailbreakers are even encouraged
to change the root password on
their phone, for example, to
thwart unwelcome attacks.
Security issues are present
because the current jailbreaking
methods, by their very nature,
diminish certain protections
Apple has put in place. However,
there's a new jailbreaking process
on the horizon aiming to change
that. The tool will be called
"antid0te" and its reveal is only
days away.
Sponsor
Coming Soon: A Jailbreak That
Adds ASLR
According to a report by The
Register, a security analyst by the
name of Stefan Esser, of the
German firm SektionEins, will
introduce a new jailbreaking
process that automatically
Against Rage
Frank Bidart (The New Republic
- All Feed)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:48:12 PM
He had not been denied the
world. Terrible
scenes that he clung to because
introduces the protection of
ASLR.
ASLR, short for Address Space
Layout Randomization, is a
security protection that
randomizes the memory locations
of where injected code is
executed. ASLR is baked into
Windows (Vista/7) and the new
Windows Phone 7, security
analyst Charlie Miller told The
Register, and it's available in a
more limited format in Mac OS
X. However, on iOS, the
operating system that powers the
iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, it
isn't present at all.
iPhone's current lack of ASLR
allowed security researchers at
this year's Pwn2Own hacking
contest to break into a fully
patched iPhone and hijack the
entire SMS database, including
deleted messages. The hack took
just 20 seconds.
Esser will be presenting his new,
more secure jailbreaking method
at the Power of Community
security conference on December
14th. He will also introduce a new
tool called "antid0te" which will
they taught him
the world will at last be buried Each human
with him. being’s story, he tells nobody, is regarding how much water you’ve [ via Electric Pig]
As well as the exhilarations. a boat
Now,
he thinks each new one will be starless blackness
the last one.
E-reader News Edition
simplify the jailbreaking process
for end users, much like the line
of current jailbreaking tools
(redsn0w, PwnageTool, limera1n,
etc.) do now.
For details on the current
jailbreak and how-to guide, click
here. Jailbreaking to Improve the
Security of Your iPhone?
Could it be that the new
jailbreaking process then, instead
of making phones less secure,
would actually improve their
security protections? That's i-dration Water Bottle Connects
certainly what it sounds like:
"With ASLR, an exploit to Your Smartphone, Tells You
mitigation is added that is not
available in factory iPhones and When You’re Thirsty
makes exploitation more Evan Selleck (SlashGear) far, as well as the temperature
difficult," reads the session and outside. As it collects the data, it
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:19:32 PM
speaker bio on the conference takes into account the personal
website. And it won't end there. While some may think that the health information you’ve input,
"This is only the first step," the
design of the bottle could be look as well as other vital stats, and
description reads, at again, the i-dration water bottle then sends that information back
"more mitigations and a full is certainly a good idea. Designed to the i-dration water bottle. Once
reactivation of the codesigning for those who need water on the there, a blue light will turn on if
protection are planed for the next
go, such as athletes, this new you need to get some more water
months." design concept shows that you into your system.
Discuss can not only connect anything to While it’s just a concept that’s
your smartphone in one way or still in design right now, the i-
another, but that doing so can help dration water bottle will actually
you overall health. make an appearance on the
The i-dration water bottle showroom floor of CES 2011. So,
connects to your smartphone via stay tuned as more details about
The last new page. The last sex. an application. When it does, it’s this interesting water bottle come
able to collect real-time data, to light early next year.
consumed throughout the day so
cutting through the night. As
E-reader News Edition Technology/ Culture/ 27

1000Memories Now Captures The HD Movies hit iTunes

Lives Of Departed Loved Ones In A UK
Dave Caolo (TUAW)
Single Glance Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:45:00 PM

Jason Kincaid (TechCrunch)

Good news for Apple fans in the
Submitted at 12/8/2010 11:31:10 AM UK: Apple has finally added HD
movies to the iTunes store. The
Wikipedia chronicles the lives of selection seems to be rather
plenty of the most important limited for now. MacRumors
figures to ever walk the Earth. notes that Twilight is among the
Unfortunately, for those countless more high-profile selections.
people who fail to discover an Pricing works like this: movies
element or pen a bestselling that sell for £9.99 in standard
novel, Wikipedia’s editors are definition are £12.99 in HD, while
quick to strike down biographies those priced at £6.99 for SD are
that anyone might try to write selling for £7.99 in HD. HD Movies hit iTunes UK
about them. And when they die, Until now, HD movies were only originally appeared on TUAW on
their stories — which may not be — photos, stories, and so on the departed’s life story — the available to rent in the UK. The Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:45:00 EST.
important to the public but are — were broken into different basic facts of where they grew up, Japanese market only received Please see our terms for use of
priceless to their family and categories, and you had to where they lived, their important movies in iTunes last month(SD feeds.
friends — have a habit of fading navigate between them. Now, relationships, as well as the key and HD) while in the U.S., Apple Permalink| Email this| Comments
with them. 1000memories thinks 1000Memories features a ‘quilt’ events in their lives. And there’s added HD movies to the iTunes
there’s a better way. view, which compiles this content a l s o a s e c t i o n o f ‘ q u i c k Store in March of 2009.
The site, which launched last into a single page, presenting an memories’. These sound silly
July, sets out with one big, entire life in a single glance. It — you just jot down random
important goal: helping family sounds like a simple change, but habits, favorite foods, and jokes
and friends cherish and share the it’s very effective.
Make a DIY Nightstand
that the deceased used to tell. But
memories of someone that’s Another new feature is the ability it makes it easier for everyone to
passed away. This week, the to tag people in photographs. This c o n t r i b u t e s o m e t h i n g , a n d Charging Station Lamp
company has launched some key m a y s o u n d a b i t ‘ s o c i a l oftentimes it’s these little things
new features to make this sharing networky’, but Adler says that it’s that bring back the best memories.
easier and more effective than been a top-requested feature. 1000Memories isn’t talking about
[DIY]
before. Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
After all, people tend to change in u s e r n u m b e r s y e t , b u t t h e
Founder Rudy Adler says that appearance as they age, and you company has grown a bit — it’s Submitted at 12/8/2010 10:30:00 AM
one of 1000Memories’s biggest may not recognize that the boy hired two full time employees, in
challenges has been to find a way standing next to your grandmother addition to its three founders. Charging stations, night stands,
to weave together the memories in a 50-year old photograph is in and lamps are all useful things,
C r u n c h B a s e I n f o r m a t i o n but combining them into one Here's a neat DIY creation that
that its users have shared to that fact your uncle. 1 0 0 0 M e m o r i e s I n f o r m a t i o n handy, multipurpose item saves
they really capture the lives of the Finally, the site has expanded its p r o v i d e d b y C r u n c h B a s e does just that. More »
departed. One of the problems biography section. Users can now you space and is just pretty cool.
before now was that various kinds co-edit a text area that serves as
of content people uploaded
28 Technology/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition

The Media Comes To The Defense Of

WikiLeaks At LeWeb: “The Leakers
Will Win”
MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 11:16:37 AM

Today during the Media Panel at

LeWeb ’10 in Paris, France, there
was one thing on everyones’
mind: WikiLeaks.
“ This is a turning point for the
Internet — it’s not just about
WikiLeaks anymore,” Weblogs
SL’s Julio Alonso said. ” What
happens to WikiLeaks will get
applied to others later on,” he
warned.
“ This is the first attempt at
censorship of the Internet by all
the governments of the planet,”
Wikio’s Pierre Chappaz added. “
Despite all the attacks, I’m
optimistic that the information
will survive,” he added.
When moderator Adrian Monck
asked if this would cast a shadow
on the United States in particular,
Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera said he
thought it already has in some
ways. Rivera noted that just the
tone of the crowd at LeWeb
proves that to some extent. He
also singled out U.S. Senator
Joseph Lieberman suggesting that
The New York Times could be a
target because of their publication
of some of the cables. “ It
underscores that there’s really no
essential difference between what
WikiLeaks is doing and what The
New York Times does,” he said.
Rivera said that is something to be
concerned about.
“ We’ve pushed the theory of
Internet censorship to the very
edge,” The Wall Street Journal
Europe’s Ben Rooney added.
“ We have to speak about what’s
happening,” Chappaz said. ” I’m
amazed by the silence of the
traditional media. This is a
systematic attack. We have to
explain to the traditional media.
The stakes are about the free
press,” he continued.
Alonso agreed. “ The first line of
defense is speaking about it,” he
said.
Rivera added that the leakers
aren’t going to lose this war. He
cited mirror sites, Twitter
accounts, Facebook messages,
and all kinds of things that keep
popping up to continue the data
spread. “ The leakers will win,”
he said.
The panel seemed fairly
convinced that even if P2P
networks had to replace DNS, the
information would indeed end up
winning.
“ The Internet is too strong.
They’ll have a hard time getting it
under control,” Chappaz wrapped
up the panel with. CrunchBase
Information WikiLeaks
Information provided by
CrunchBase
Byron Wien Calls For New Highs In
Stocks, After Getting 9 Out Of 10
Predictions Wrong In 2010 (SPY, TBT)
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:09:00 PM
Byron Wien, formerly of Morgan
Stanley and Pequot Capital
Management, has just called for
the S&P 500 to go to new records
in 2011.
Sounds great!
And Byron could use a nice
happy bull market, given that he
got an astounding 90% of his
predictions last year wrong.
Wien came out guns blazing at
the start of 2010, making a series
of predictions about U.S. and
global markets that have, well,
failed to come through.
Wien, who is now with
Blackstone, makes these top 10
predictions every year.
So how did he do in 2010,
prediction by prediction? Click
here to see his Wien's scorecard >
Join the conversation about this
story »
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TUAW TV Live today at 5 PM ET: Top 5 Ways Nature Has

Printers, iPad docks, and Office '11 Inspired Technology
Steven Sande (TUAW) (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) mimics the structure or function
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:00:00 PM Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:00:56 PM of a biological entity.
The results can be awe-inspiring
This afternoon on TUAW TV Engineers are in the business of or something people routinely
Live, I have some rather solving problems. It's their job to take for granted. But even the
fascinating demos to show you. find ways to achieve certain basic inventions wouldn't have
First, I'll be using a new HP outcomes. The problem might been possible if engineers hadn't
Photosmart C310a e-All-in-One involve finding a way to build a paid close attention to the way
printer to demonstrate how skyscraper that can withstand things work in nature. We'll take a
printing from an iPad or iPhone hurricane-force winds. Or it might look at five ways nature has
running iOS 4.2 is supposed to be to discover a method to deliver inspired the technology we rely
work. This printer is one of a a specific dosage of drugs to a upon, listed in no particular order.
handful that supports ePrint and single cell in the human body. This entry passed through the
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driver anywhere, or print anything solution, but also be able to study, content-only/faq.php
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interesting look at the future of that we can take advantage of it. Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing
Hint: it's fast. Damned fast. also participate through our chat
printing. There's a special word for this Again?.
Of course, we'll have some time tool. To watch and participate in
Next, I'll be demonstrating a new approach: biomimetics.
to talk about whatever else is new the show, just be sure to come
iPad dock with speakers, the Ultimately, the engineer's creation
in the world of Apple. Whether back to TUAW.com at about 4:55
PadDock 10 from SMK-Link. For
those who want to use their iPads
it's rumors of the iPad 2, the
competition or just chatting about
PM ET for full instructions on
how to join in on the fun.
Nude Breach
to show off media, the PadDock Jeffrey Rosen (The New choice: naked machines or blob
the coolest app you've ever used, TUAW TV Live today at 5 PM
10 is a useful docking station for Republic - All Feed) machines? The same researchers
we'll spare some time for your ET: Printers, iPad docks, and
viewing, listening, syncing and had developed both technologies,
input and comments. Office '11 originally appeared on Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:58:56 PM
charging your device. and both were equally effective at
If you've never watched TUAW TUAW on Wed, 08 Dec 2010
I also took advantage of a Cyber Eight years ago, officials at identifying contraband. But, as
TV Live, you're in for a treat. The 13:00:00 EST. Please see our
Monday sale to get a family pack Orlando International Airport first their nicknames suggest, the
show is about an hour long, and terms for use of feeds.
for Microsoft Office 2011 for began testing the millimeter-wave former displays graphic images of
you not only see streaming video Source| Permalink| Email this|
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and I'll show you some of the the center of a national uproar. scrambles the images into a non-
Apple technology, but you can
features of the new Office suite. The designers of the scanners at humiliating blob.
Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory offered U.S. officials a
30 Technology/ Culture/
Patents for multi-touch, iPad dock and MacBook Air
awarded to Apple
Steven Sande (TUAW)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:15:00 PM
Apple has been awarded several
patents by the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office, one of which
could be valuable ammunition in
the flood of intellectual property
lawsuits that has been swirling
around the company lately.
PatentlyApple is reporting that
Apple now holds the patents for
one of the primary elements of
multi-touch; two or more
controllers operating in a master/
slave configuration. Apple's
patent appears to indicate that the
company could be interested in
licensing the technology (found in
most multi-touch devices made by
Apple, including the iPad, iPod
touch, iPhone, and possibly the
Magic Mouse and Magic
Trackpad) to others, as they state
that it can be used in ATMs, point
of sale systems, e-ticket terminals,
and so on.
Apple also received a patent for
the hinged I/O port and housing
that was found on the original
MacBook Air models. Even
though that hinged port is not on
the most recent MacBook Airs, it
could be used in future products.
The company now has design
patents on the iPad dock, on the
Universal Dock and Dock Insert,
and that slick armband that the
company sells for the fifth-
generation iPod nano.
Patents for multi-touch, iPad
dock and MacBook Air awarded
to Apple originally appeared on
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Britney Spears Gets
in the Christmas
Spirit at Walmart
Lindsay Miller (PopSugar)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 11:00:00 AM
Britney Spears took care of more
holiday shopping with a stop at
Walmart, where she was spotted
checking out mini Christmas trees
and kids' clothes, following a trip
to the recording studio in LA
yesterday. If you're looking for
the perfect presents for your own
little ones and everyone else on
your list, check out our hundreds
of gift guides! Britney's back
home following a getaway to
Mexico with her boyfriend, Jason
Trawick, where the duo
celebrated her turning 29 last
week. They took off on the
getaway shortly after Britney shot
down rumors that Jason had been
abusive, and she said their quiet
vacation was the "best birthday"
of her life. The coming year is
also shaping up to be great for the
pop star with her new album due
out in March and a People's
Choice Award nomination to kick
things off.
To see more pictures of Britney
at Walmart, just read more.
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Top 5 Most Dangerous

Roads in the World
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) From the sand-strewn Trans-
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:00:56 PM Sahara Highway to the
forbiddingly rugged and winding
You don't hear the expression North Yungas Road in Bolivia,
that often anymore, but it used to you're strongly advised to take a
be common to describe a haggard, detour around these highways.
worn-out and/or dissipated person That is, unless you're a thrill-
as having a face like 7 miles of seeking adventurer. Or, like Balto
bad road. Or 20 miles. Or even 50 the hero dog, you're trying to get
if the person looked truly awful. diphtheria vaccine to some remote
But it would be really unkind to settlement.
compare somebody's appearance This entry passed through the
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particular routes seem to appear Five Filters featured site: So,
most often on travel experts' Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing
cautionary lists of the most Again?.
treacherous, often impassible and
death-defying roads on the planet.

InstapaperFeed: A Great Way to Pull Snooki Will Drop Inside

Good Reading Out of Twitter a Ball on New Year's Eve
Jean Bentley (TV Squad)
Marshall Kirkpatrick developers on top of Instapaper, Instapaper account. What a smart
Submitted at 12/8/2010 8:00:00 AM
(ReadWriteWeb) but it's an especially cool one I little hack!
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:40:44 PM think. Sponsor Filed under: TV News Anyone
Here's how it works. First, give InstapaperFeed was built by planning to ring in the new year in
Popularity isn't the best judge of InstapaperFeed access to your Kevin Marshall, the data hacker Times Square this year will have
quality, but it's not a bad place to accounts on both Instapaper and behind a ridiculous number of two countdowns to keep an eye
start - especially in a pinch. Twitter. Then the app will look at cool projects. All of those on. In addition to the traditional
Instapaper is a wonderful app that every link shared by someone projects are said to culminate in ball drop, MTV will host one of
captures online articles and stores you're following on Twitter, look the forthcoming KnowAbout.It. its own -- with a twist. 'Jersey will drop inside a ball on MTV's
them for clean offline reading on for the ones that link shortening Thanks, Kevin, for filling my Shore' star Nicole "Snooki" New Year's Eve special.
y o u r m o b i l e d e v i c e . service Bit.ly has clickthrough phone up with good things to read Polizzi will be holed up inside the Permalink| Email this| Linking
InstapaperFeed is one of many numbers for, and post the most - automatically! Discuss ball, the AP reports. Blogs| Comments
a p p s b u i l t b y i n d e p e n d e n t popular ones each day to your Yep, you read that right -- Snooki
32 Policy/ E-reader News Edition

Rep. Solarz Was a Leader Worth Remembering

(AEI.Org: Articles) who care about Congress. the Steve Solarz who was became a home away from home for the new Strategic Arms
Submitted at 12/7/2010 5:00:00 PM Then there are other losses. instrumental in saving Cambodia for dissident leaders from around Reduction Treaty. It is even
Former Rep. Steve Solarz (D- from the murderous excesses of the world who got short shrift harder to imagine a House
Rep. Solarz Was a Leader Worth N.Y.) died last week at age 70, the Khmer Rouge. elsewhere. As a consequence, to Member throwing himself into
Remembering after a four-year battle with Solarz was not a secretary of pick one example, Solarz peripatetic travel to every corner
This is the season for farewell esophageal cancer. While he State, a Senator or even the probably had better ties with the of the globe and trying to shape
addresses from many lawmakers received prominent obituaries in chairman of a powerful Kurdish leaders in Iraq than any events and outcomes in the world
leaving at the end of the 111th the Washington Post and the New committee. He was a rank-and- other American. without being shredded by cable
Congress. Some speeches, such as York Times, chances are many file House Member who, by the Solarz's shining moment, news and anonymously funded
those of Sen. Ted Kaufman (D- new and not-so-new Members of force of his personality, a perhaps, was on the House floor campaign attack machines, or
Del.) a few weeks back and of Congress who weren't around in remarkable work ethic, a political during the stirring debate over finding ways to build unlikely and
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) last the 18 years that Solarz served in savvy, an articulateness whether to authorize the use of persuasive partnerships across
week, are particularly poignant, the House, from 1975 to 1993, unmatched in contemporary force against Saddam Hussein every partisan and ideological
reflecting decades of dedication to were either unaware of his politics, a commitment to after his invasion of Kuwait, i.e., divide.
the Senate and reverence for its passing or paid little attention to democracy and human rights the first Gulf War. There were But it is not impossible to
traditions (if a touch too much it. As a start, they should go back mixed with hard-headed sense of dozens of emotional and imagine some new Members of
deference to its existing rules and and read those obituaries, and reality, and a willingness to work wrenching speeches as Members both parties persuaded by Solarz's
too little concern for how the then make a note to read his across the aisle to accomplish struggled with the decision about example to take some trips abroad
contemporary abuse of the norms wonderful book, "Journeys to War mutual goals, had a greater effect whether to send young Americans despite the predictable media
have distorted those traditions and and Peace: A Congressional on the world than most secretaries to war, and perhaps to death; at criticism of junkets and the
call for modest but meaningful Memoir," which will be published of State, Senators and chairmen of the time, there were predictions of equally predictable partisan flak,
tweaks in those rules). next year. powerful panels. potential mayhem in the desert. and to think about core values of
But their eloquence underscores He was a rank-and-file House Solarz traveled the world, but not When liberal Democrat Solarz freedom, human rights and
how elections, while bringing Member who had a greater effect with Congressional delegations; stood up and spoke in favor of the America's national interest as
necessary change for a democracy on the world than most secretaries he went alone. American embassy authorization, it was truly a transcending petty partisan
and reaffirming popular will, also of State, Senators and chairmen of personnel dreaded his arrival; they riveting moment. Everyone interests. At least I like to think it
result in the departure of some of powerful panels. would not have to arrange trips to stopped to listen. He was is not impossible. Norman J.
the most solid citizens of the I wrote a foreword for the book, the souk or the rug store, but powerful and eloquent, and he did Ornstein is a resident scholar at
Congressional village. The loss of in which I noted my striking would instead have to keep up as much as anyone to shape the AEI.
expertise, insight and institutional experiences on visits to the with 18-hour days choreographed outcome. There are few examples Photo Credit: Stock.xchng/
m e m o r y - - n o t t o m e n t i o n Philippines and Cambodia; in by Solarz to include meetings in which an individual lawmaker harrykeel
fundamental decency--that comes each case, when I met with with the foreign minister, the has any effect, much less one that This entry passed through the
w i t h t h e d e p a r t u r e s , s o m e academics, high government defense minister, the intelligence is consequential, from a speech on Full-Text RSS service — if this is
voluntary and some not, of people officials and others, I was asked chief and the key opposition the House floor. your content and you're reading it
such as Reps. John Spratt (D- frequently, "Do you know Steve figures. It is hard to imagine another on someone else's site, please read
S.C.), James Oberstar (D-Minn.) Solarz?" In the Philippines, When he scoped out situations Solarz emerging in a political our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
and Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) and actually, the question was, "Do and found corruption, abuse of system that is now so polarized content-only/faq.php
Sens. George Voinovich (R- y o u k n o w S t e v e S o l a r z power and worse, he used his that a powerful an opinion leaders Five Filters featured site: So,
Ohio), Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) and personally? He helped save my skills and connections to and statesmen like Sen. Dick Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing
Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), among country from dictatorship." In relentlessly push for change. Back Lugar (R-Ind.) cannot persuade Again?.
others, is painful to those of us Cambodia, it was whether I knew in Washington, D.C., his office his own party colleagues to vote
E-reader News Edition
While His Base Rages, Obama Faces Tax-Cut Reality
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 12/7/2010 5:00:00 PM
Reality strikes. President Obama
spurned the advice of columnists
Paul Krugman and Katrina
vanden Heuvel and agreed with
Republicans to extend the current
income tax rates--the so-called
Bush tax cuts--for another two
years.
He got a few things in return,
primarily extended unemployment
benefits for another 13 months,
and agreed as well to a 2 percent
cut in the Social Security payroll
tax.
But he recognized the reality that
in order to prevent a tax increase
on those with incomes under
$250,000 he had to prevent a tax
increase on those over that line as
well.
This has infuriated liberal
Democrats like outgoing Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., but they
share some of the blame
themselves. They probably could
have passed their version of the
tax bill earlier this year, before the
economic recovery stalled in the
spring.
But with the economy faltering,
there's a strong argument against
raising anyone's taxes--strong
John 14:6 (12-08-10)
(Verse of the Day)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 2:00:00 AM
Jesus answered, "I am the way
and the truth and the life. No one
comes to the Father except
through me."
enough to have persuaded many
congressional Democrats.
But that raises the question of
why the economy has been
growing at such a limp rate two
years into the Obama
administration.
Obama had to abandon his goal
of raising taxes on high earners
not because Republicans opposed
it but because not enough
Democrats supported it. Pelosi
couldn't summon up a majority on
the issue back in September, and
Harry Reid could get only 53 of
the needed 60 votes this month.
Democrats, not Republicans, are
responsible for extension of all
the "Bush tax cuts."
Still, Obama in his surly
statement Monday evening and
his unusually brief press
conference Tuesday afternoon
was at pains to attack
Republicans.
The president who first came to
national attention for expressing
respect for those with whom he
differed insisted that he was eager
to "fight" Republicans and
described them as "hostage
takers," with the American people
as hostages. Not much evidence
of civility.
And he addressed most of his
— John 14:6(NIV) Thoughts on
Today's Verse... I don't want to be
any more exclusive than Jesus.
But I do want to hear his voice.
He calls me to find the way to the
Father through him. I must also
know that others must know him
remarks to what last month's
election revealed as a narrow
segment of the nation's electorate,
the Democratic base.
Over the years I've noticed that
politicians tend to view the whole
nation through the prism of their
electoral base, even when they
know it's not typical. On Monday
and Tuesday, Obama seemed to
be aiming his remarks at the 13th
state senate district of Illinois,
which he designed and which is
about 60 percent black and 25
percent gentry liberal, not to the
political independents who
supported him and his party in
2008 and then went heavily
Republican last month.
Thus Obama lauded the health
care bill jammed through
Congress by Democratic leaders
and, addressing liberal complaints
that it lacked a public option, said
it could be expanded as Medicare
was. That might mollify liberal
Democrats but will repel
independents who opposed and
still oppose Obamacare by wide
margins.
Obama did argue that "tax breaks
for wealthy individuals" are
unpopular and would prove a
political liability for Republicans
in 2012. But for every poll
to find their way to the Father,
too. How can we not be more
passionate about those around us
who do not really know Jesus as
their Savior, Redeemer, Brother,
and Lord? How can the first four
books of our New Testament lie
supporting that proposition you
can find another going the other
way; it all depends on how the
question is worded.
The strongest part of the press
conference came when Obama
told liberal Democrats that robust
economic growth will make
everything easier. That's true:
Robust growth produces a boom
in revenues far beyond what
government statistical models
predict. In 1995 President Clinton
refused to even promise to
balance the budget, but the tech
boom generated enough revenue
to do so a few years later.
But that raises the question of
why the economy has been
growing at such a limp rate two
years into the Obama
administration. The specter of
higher taxes on high earners--
delayed now for two years, but
still threatened by the president--
surely has done something to
choke off growth.
So has uncertainty about the
extent and cost of the
administration's regulatory
policies--which are not limited by
the deal on taxes. Extension of
unemployment benefits, arguably
good policy at a time when jobs
are genuinely scarce, tends to
unread? My Prayer... Holy God
and Righteous Father, give me a
passion for Jesus and a heart that
knows him in word, deed, and
concern. In the name of Jesus,
your mighty Word, I pray. Amen.
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perpetuate unemployment as the
economy grows, by inducing
some workers to hold out for
higher-paying jobs.
The tax deal is certainly better for
the economy than political
gridlock over extending the tax
cuts. How much better is
uncertain.
But the Democratic base seems
more interested in expanding
government than in stimulating
the economy. They are bellowing
with rage not so much at Obama
but at the reality that he is
grudgingly acknowledging. They
had their time and now it's gone.
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Is the Political Class Economically Incompetent or are they
Simply Bought and Paid For?
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:31:00 AM
Inquiring minds are reading an
interesting article in Forbes by
writer Charles Kadlec regarding
the Economic Incompetence of
the Political Class. The sovereign
debt crisis now threatening
Europe, as well as major
American states and cities,
discloses the sheer incompetence
of a political class that has over-
promised, under-delivered and
squandered vast amounts of their
citizens' wealth.
Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal,
California, Illinois, Los Angeles
and Chicago are simply the poster
children for what happens when
elected officials engage in
reckless and irresponsible
management of their economies,
their banking system or their
respective government's public
finances.
California's budget deficit has
soared to $25 billion, or more
than 25% of total spending. And,
according to a recent study, the
City of Chicago's unfunded
pension liabilities total $45
billion, or more than $40,000 per
household.
Politicians may not be solely
responsible for this fiscal mess.
But they are responsible for using
borrowed money to pay for
current expenses until they had
borrowed more than they now
seem able to pay back.
The European strategy of
enabling more borrowing while
imposing austerity plans,
including higher tax rates, on
overly leveraged countries may
prove counterproductive.
Increasing tax rates slows growth,
reducing GDP, employment and
the tax base necessary to service
the debt.
At some point, there is a risk that
one or more European countries
may be unable to avoid a de facto,
if not de jure default on their debt,
requiring a complete
restructuring. And that creates the
risk that the European Central
Bank will be forced to bail out the
political class by buying that
country's sovereign debt and
devaluing the euro--hence the
current weakness of the European
currency.
The sovereign debt crisis now
encircling Europe may well prove
to be a preview of what lies ahead
for the political class in the U.S.
Like their European counterparts,
they may be participants in an end
-game in which capital markets
force a reassessment of debt-
financed government spending,
especially on transfer payments,
government pensions and wealth-
destroying investments in bridges
to nowhere, green energy and
other government boondoggles
with negative rates of return.
There is much more in the article
so you may wish to give it a
closer look. It's very rare for me to
completely agree with anyone but
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wrote that article was that Sanders
was the former San Diego Chief
of Police. Does that explain why
his "radical" for rescuing San
Diego exempts police and
firefighters from the pain? Does
that explain why Sanders, a
Republican mayor, wanted to
increase sales taxes to "save the
city"?
Why yes it does, and that is
called buying votes. And nearly
every city in the country is in
trouble for it.
Plunder!
Steve Greenhut's excellent book
Plunder! describes the process.
Here is my book review: Five
Thumbs Up for Steve Greenhut's
Plunder!
I do not have five thumbs, but if I
did, it would be all thumbs up for
Plunder! How Public Employee
Unions are Raiding Treasuries,
Controlling Our Lives and
Bankrupting the Nation by Steven
Greenhut.
Plunder! takes a look at the
perverse incentives that bring
together corrupt politicians and
public unions to rape taxpayers.
I find no faults in what Kadlec vast amounts of money into From the ever-growing
wrote. literally every election. Corrupt $100,000 pension club, to the
Here's the pertinent question: politicians go along. realities of unbelievable pay and
" W h y i s P o l i t i c a l C l a s s In most major cities the politicos benefits, to dispelling myths
Economically Incompetent ?" are in bed with the unions. In San propagated by the unions, to
The answer is actually very easy. Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders' p u b l i c u n i o n s c a r e t a c t i c s ,
N e a r l y e v e r y p o l i t i c i a n i s "Radical Idea" to Cut Costs, I overtime abuse, and pensions far
beholden to someone throwing asked if Sanders was a hero or a beyond the taxpayer's ability to
money into their campaign. liar? pay, Steven Greenhut covers it all,
For example: public unions feed What I did not know when I POLITICAL page 36
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in painful detail.
I say, "painful" because Plunder!
is meticulously researched,
extremely well documented, and
after reading the book you will
see how public unions are
robbing ordinary taxpayers,
including you, unless of course
you are part of the union mob.
Warmongers
The problem of course does not
stop with public unions. Anyone
opposed to warmongering is
labeled "soft on defense" by the
warmongering industries who
donate billions of dollars to
candidates who want "strong
defense".
Bankers
The financial industry does not
want reform and they will donate
billions to any candidate willing
to look the other way.
Former Treasury Secretary Hank
Paulson and current Treasury
Secretary Tim Geithner are both
beholden to Wall Street in
general, and Goldman Sachs in
particular. Geithner did not even
pay his taxes and the politicos in
power did not care.
Running List of Unpunished
Fraud, Coercion, Tax Evasion
I have a huge ongoing list of
fraud and coercion at the very top,
including Geithner, Bernanke,
and Paulson but nothing will ever
happen.
Please see FDIC Authorizes $1
Billion Lawsuits Against Failed-
Bank Executives; Token Search
for Low-Profile Scapegoats for
details.
The Big Compromise
When all the political hacks (the
worst politicians money can buy)
get together to vote on a
"compromise", no one ever gives
up anything. Somehow in these
compromises, more things we
cannot afford get tossed onto the
plate.
I am thoroughly disgusted with
the most recent "compromise"
that will add $900 billion to the
deficit over two years. Everyone
in Congress should know the bill
is fiscal insanity. Yet the
democrats and deficit-hawk
hypocrites will vote for it anyway.
The "compromise" is so
convoluted that I am wondering if
Ben Bernanke himself persuaded
the president to go for it.
Bernanke certainly has been
pushing for stimulus. He defended
his actions in a creampuff
interview on 60 Minutes that was
really nothing more than an
infomercial begging for more
stimulus.
Well Bernanke got what he
wanted, and if it blows up he will
get to blame Obama and Congress
for it.
Please see Lies, Half-Truths, and
100% Hubris on 60 Minutes;
Deficit-Chicken Republicans;
Middle-Class Crucifixion; Ron
Paul Needs Your Support for
details on the infomercial.
After everything blows sky high
we just may hear a statement like
this.
Dr. Mr. Speaker
In Dr. Mr. Speaker I asked
people to email incoming House
Speaker John Boehner about the
fiscal insanity of that $900 Billion
compromise. Here is a portion of
what I sent the speaker.
Dear Mr. Speaker
Polls show 75% of the citizens of
this country place a priority on
reducing the budget deficit.
Yet, somehow we see a
compromise proposal from
President Obama that goes back
against his promises to tame the
deficit.
We cannot afford this proposal.
You know, I know it, and the
public knows it. In fact, the only
group supportive of this alleged
“compromise” proposed by
President Obama is Congress.
Congress Thinks It's Time to
Party
To congress, the word
"compromise" does not mean
giving up anything you want.
Instead, it means giving the other
guy something you do not want
him to have.
The process is much like asking
a group of kids at a birthday party
if they want cherry pie, chocolate
cake, or fudge for desert and if
there is no consensus winner,
everyone gets a full slice of each,
with chocolate chip cookies
thrown in for good measure
because that’s what Cousin Susie
likes. It’s irrelevant whether or
not Cousin Susie is even at the
party.
I am thoroughly disgusted with
Congressional “compromises”
that look like a birthday party for
8-year olds. Yet that is exactly
what we saw in this
“compromise”.
Chocolate Chip Cookies for
Susie
Susie was not at the party.
Nonetheless, like a bolt out of the
blue, president Obama proposed
that kiddies get two additional
cookies not previously on the
menu.
1. A two percent payroll tax
reduction
2. A full, upfront deduction for
equipment purchases, in lieu of
depreciation
The deficit-busting problem is
the huge out-of-the-blue payroll
tax reduction coupled with the
"temporary" extension of income
tax reductions for everyone.
I am all in favor of cookies,
especially tax-cut cookies.
However, I want to know how
the deficit-hawk hypocrites on
both sides of the aisle intend to
pay for them. The answer is they
don't intend to, which of course is
what makes them deficit-hawk
hypocrites in the first place.
Overcoming Inertia
Inertia is difficult to overcome
because those who want free
handouts are the ones who donate
money and pack every school
board and town hall meeting in
the country. They can and will get
out the vote. Corrupt politicians
willing to pander to unions and
special interest groups go along.
The warmongers, homebuilders,
banks and every special interest
group in the country bribes
candidates via campaign
contributions.
The compromise vote goes
something like this: "You toss a
sweetener to the homebuilders
and I will toss a sweetener to your
defense contractor." With deals
like that, the campaign
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contributions keep pouring in.
Perhaps we should elect lobbyists
instead of Congressional
representatives. At least we would
know where people stood and
why.
Certainly we cannot expect any
Congressmen to read the bills, not
even the speaker. In regards to
healthcare legislation, Nancy
Pelosi actually said “ We have to
pass the bill so you can find out
what is in it”
Click on that link to see a nice
video of that proud moment.
Sadly, the only people who know
what's in these bills are the
lobbyists. They know because
they are the ones who actually
write the key provisions.
Three Classes of People
When it comes to making
changes, there are three classes of
people.
1. Those who try to make needed
changes
2. Those who don't
3. Those who recognize a need
for change but sit back and mock
others for trying
Sadly there are too many people
in groups two and three. Yet fight
on we must.
No Constituency for Honesty
Unfortunately, it's a very uphill
battle because there is no
constituency for honesty.
Someone who wants to cut
military spending and take on the
unions gets no money from
anyone.
Simply put, we have campaign
contribution system that rewards
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Dr. Mr. Speaker
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 12/7/2010 3:04:00 PM
Here are the Emails I sent to
House Speaker John Boehner.
The first is in regards to Ron Paul
and the chairmanship of the
Monetary Policy subcommittee.
Dear Mr. Speaker
As Speaker of the House, you
have a duty to watch out for all
citizens of the United States, not
just your own Ohio constituency
or the bank lobby.
As such I kindly ask you honor
the will of the people and appoint
Ron Paul as chairman of the
Monetary Policy subcommittee.
Thank you.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock Budget
Deficit Email
My second Email to House
Speaker John Boehner is
regarding the budget deficit.
Dear Mr. Speaker
Polls show 75% of the citizens of
this country place a priority on
reducing the budget deficit.
Yet, somehow we see a
compromise proposal from
President Obama that goes back
against his promises to tame the
deficit.
We cannot afford this proposal.
You know, I know it, and the
public knows it. In fact, the only
group supportive of this alleged
“compromise” proposed by
President Obama is Congress.
Congress Thinks It's Time to
Party
To congress, the word
"compromise" does not mean
giving up anything you want.
Instead, it means giving the other
guy something you do not want
him to have.
The process is much like asking a
group of kids at a birthday party if
they want cherry pie, chocolate
cake, or fudge for desert and if
there is no consensus winner,
everyone gets a full slice of each,
with chocolate chip cookies
thrown in for good measure
because that’s what Cousin Susie
likes. It’s irrelevant whether or
not Cousin Susie is even at the
party.
I am thoroughly disgusted with
Congressional “compromises”
that look like a birthday party for
8-year olds. Yet that is exactly
what we saw in this
“compromise”.
Chocolate Chip Cookies for
Susie
Susie was not at the party.
Nonetheless, like a bolt out of the
blue, president Obama proposed
that kiddies get two additional
cookies not previously on the
menu.
1. A two percent payroll tax
reduction
2. A full, upfront deduction for
equipment purchases, in lieu of
depreciation
The deficit-busting problem is
the huge out-of-the-blue payroll
tax reduction coupled with the
"temporary" extension of income
tax reductions for everyone.
I am all in favor of cookies,
especially tax-cut cookies.
However, I want to know how the
deficit-hawk hypocrites on both
sides of the aisle intend to pay for
them. The answer is they don't
intend to, which of course is what
makes them deficit-hawk
hypocrites in the first place.
The war-mongering will continue
and so will the earmarks and so
will a host of other things we
cannot afford and do not even
need.
But, hey, let's pig out. Cookies
are on the table.
Bond Market Revolt
Mr. Speaker, the bond market
reaction to the Fed’s QE policies
and to this disgrace of a budget
proposal was swift and severe. I
have a picture of it for you right
here.
That is what the bond market
thinks of Ben Bernanke’s plan to
spur inflation but hold down
treasury yields.
The ovals show today’s bond-
market reaction to the budget
deficit that Bernanke will no
doubt monetize as part of QE III
and QE IV when this round of
“quantitative easing” blows up in
his face.
Mr. Speaker Where is Your
Backbone?
We need genuine watchdog over
the Fed. You can and should do
that yourself by chairman of the
Monetary Policy subcommittee.
We also need backbones from
deficit-hawk hypocrites in both
parties who claim to be fiscal
conservatives yet they support this
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ludicrous compromise everyone
knows we cannot afford.
Finally, Mr. Speaker, you need
backbone as well. Please tell the
President and your party that you
insist on a genuine plan, not a
party for 8-year-olds who do not
know how to say no to more
cookies.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock Please
email House Speaker Boehner
Regarding Ron Paul to let him
know how you feel. That link will
put in a subject line of Ron Paul
for Monetary Policy
Chairmanship.
Please email House Speaker
Boehner Regarding the Budget.
The second link will put in a
subject line of $900 Billion
Budget Compromise.
Just click on the links and type
away to your heart's content. If
your browser does not interface
with email, then simply email
B o e h n e r a t
AsktheLeader@mail.house.gov
Send an Email a day until the
chairmanship is decided and this
Budget Compromise is scrapped.
Phone: (202) 225-4000
Fax: (202) 225-5117
Please phone, Fax, and email
today. Please forward to anyone
willing to email Boehner.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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Why Crude Oil Is Poised To Surge To Over $100/Barrel (XOM,

COP, CVX, USO, OIL)
Daniel Dicker (Money Game) see this move being led by the reaching 52-week highs, a
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:53:56 PM European market. It points to a continued rally in oil prices
general market move of rare and should translate into further gains
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) - Oil incredible strength. for these issues.
is looking like an unstoppable Another very rare disconnect that And they're relatively safe ways
beast, recently trading over $90 is pointing to higher prices is to play the move, too, as opposed
dollars a barrel. But there are how the dollar/oil trade has come to getting involved in futures
three market factors that are apart so completely recently. With markets or, UGH, the oil ETF's
telling me that this move is not a a dollar-denominated asset like like United States Oil Fund(
temporary one and will set the oil, we normally see the dollar USO) or the iPath oil index( OIL)
stage for a powerful follow- move in opposite directions to -- the worst investments in the
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Remember November 4? (GLD, UUP, A Closer Look at Jake

SPY) Gyllenhaal and Taylor
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Swift's Thanksgiving!
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:35:12 PM

Katie Henry (PopSugar)

The observation that PIMCO's
Total Return fund peaked on Submitted at 12/8/2010 10:01:30 AM

November 4 got us thinking about

that day, how weird it was, and
what's changed since then.
That was the day that our end-of-
day roundup was: Stocks Surge
And Everyone Is Terrified, and
we ran this picture -- >
Why the alarm? It was the day
after the Fed commenced QE, and
EVERYTHING went nuts. Stocks
exploded higher. Gold exploded
higher. Industrial and agricultural
commodities exploded higher.
Every currency but the dollar had
exploded higher.
For one day, the
hyperinflationistas were riding
high. Printing money really would
lead us on the path to Zimbabwe.
Well that was the peak of it.
Stocks have continued to move
higher, but everything else, not so
much. Gold is currently lower
than it was on that day. The dollar
is much higher against all
currencies. The agricultural
commodity boom has faded a bit.
Oh, and bonds: CRUSHED.
What was weird, was the delayed
reaction. The actual QE
announcement on November 3
didn't cause that much of a move.
It took a day for the late-comers
and armchair Fed economists to
come around and say: Oh,
Bernanke ramped up the printing
presses yesterday, so I'm going to
buy some gold today, or whatever
else they did. That should have
been a sign that this wasn't an
efficient market, but rather the
masses making an uninformed
bet.
Click here to read again our
November 4 wrapup >
Join the conversation about this
story »
The holidays tend to bring loved
ones together, and this
Thanksgiving Jake Gyllenhaal
brought Taylor Swift to visit his
sister Maggie's family in
Brooklyn! The romantic day
confirmed Jake and Taylor's
rumored relationship as the two done their best to dodge questions
strolled around Park Slope sipping about their blooming couple
on their famous maple lattes. status, but they can't deny the
Since then he's been busy smiles on their faces - click
promoting Love and Other Drugs through to see the pair spending
in Australia while she's traveling
Thanksgiving together! View
to promote her latest album, Slideshow ›
Speak Now. Jake and Taylor have

Oprah to Barbara Walters: 'I'm Not a Lesbian'

Jean Bentley (TV Squad) Walters in a new special set to air Number two, why would you Barbara Walters Special: Oprah,
Submitted at 12/8/2010 7:00:00 AM on ABC tomorrow night at 9PM want to hide it? That is not the The Next Chapter' with a clip of
ET. way I run my life." Winfrey talking about her long
Filed under: TV News The truth, "I'm not even kind of a lesbian," In this video from 'Good friendship with Gayle King.
once and for all: "I'm not a she continues. "And the reason Morning America' (via The Permalink| Email this| Linking
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interviewer extraordinaire Barbara means that somebody must think I'm lying. That's number one. teases Thursday's hourlong 'A
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Mastercard.com Taken Down by Pro-WikiLeaks
Forces
Ryan Singel (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:43:00 PM
Mastercard’s website became the
latest casualty in the showdown
between WikiLeaks and the U.S.
government, as supporters of
WikiLeaks’ release of secret U.S.
diplomatic cables flooded the
credit card company’s website
Wednesday morning with a
deluge of traffic. The attack is
revenge for the company’s
decision to cut off cardholders’
ability to donate to the
whistleblowing website.
The flood overwhelmed the site’s
servers, making it inaccessible to
the public.
Mastercard’s payment
infrastructure, which isn’t
publicly accessible on the web,
would not be affected by the
denial of service attack, which
was launched by an ever-shifting
group that goes by the name
Anonymous. The group already
attacked (and took down for
several hours) a Swiss bank that
froze an account belonging to
WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange. Anonymous is also
aiming at PayPal.com, an attack
which could, if successful, block
financial transactions, but so far
that site remains up.
Mastercard, Visa and PayPal
have all cut off WikiLeaks in the
past week, citing violations of
their “terms of service”
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charges in Sweden, which has the
organization scrambling to
operate. Assange is likely to fight
extradition.
Anonymous, which has its roots
in the uncensored crook of the The Men of ABC
4chan message boards, has a Daytime Reveal Their
history of such attacks, including
a recent campaign against the Holiday Traditions
record industry for attacking file TV Squad Staff (TV Squad)
sharing sites, mass infiltrating an Submitted at 12/8/2010 6:00:00 AM
online game for kids to protest its
stupidity and a long-running, Filed under: Celebrity Interviews,
earlier campaign against the Holiday TV It may be cold
Church of Scientology. outside, but this video featuring
The Scientology attacks were the hot men of ABC's soap operas
investigated by the FBI and at will leave you feeling warm and
agreements, but no such action information mostly by the media least one Anonymous member fuzzy.
has been taken against The New with a political agenda, fails to was jailed for his part in clogging We asked daytime hotties Trent
Y o r k T i m e s a n d o t h e r s e e a n d u n d e r s t a n d t h i s Scientology’s websites. Garrett (Asher) and Jordi Vilasuso
publications that are reprinting wrongdoing. Because of this, Few who are part of Anonymous (Griffin) from'All My Children';
and reporting on the cables. those who do the wrongdoing are actual “hackers,” and instead David Fumero (Cristian), David
The U.S. State Department has escape unpunished. Anonymous is join in the attacks by running Gregory (Robert), John-Paul
called the ongoing publication of here to ensure punishment does specialized software provided by Lavoisier (Rex) and Nic Robuck
the 250,000 diplomatic cables not go unserved to those who more technically adept members. (James) and from'One Life to
“illegal,” but no charges have deserve it. Instruction for what sites to target Live'; and Brandon Barash
been filed against the site. WikiLeaks itself has suffered and when are passed around (Johnny) and Chad Duell
P u b l i s h i n g g o v e r n m e n t from denial of service attacks online chat channels and websites, (Michael) from'General Hospital'
documents, even classified ones, since last Sunday, including one c r e a t i n g a s o r t o f o n l i n e about their favorite holidays and
is not explicitly illegal in the from a “patriotic” hacker. That’s i n s u r g e n c y . their family traditions
United States as it is in England. when the site began publishing Photo credit: Steve Rhode See what they had to say in this
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42 Culture/ Products/
Serpentine Swedish Setup Turns Freeways Into Power Plants
Keith Barry (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:43:00 PM
In the eyes of Swedish architect
and urban strategist Mans Tham,
the stretch of I-10 known as the
Santa Monica Freeway is an
achievement to be celebrated,
revered and covered in so many
solar panels that it looks like a
massive snake.
“The freeways themselves are
majestic structures, their size is
both inspiring and intimidating,”
Tham said. We could barely hear
him over the sound of Jane
Jacobs spinning in her grave.
Instead of condemning a
freeway’s effect on a city, Tham
embraces new uses for rights-of-
way. “I think it is very, very hard
to make a 10 lane freeway above
ground disappear,” he said.
“Better then to make it engaging
and beautiful and to add new
positive functions.”
Tham’s proposal, which he calls
“Serpents in Paradise,” draws
inspiration from both the Bible
and the lyrics of Axl Rose. In
Tham’s world, one of Los
Angeles’ famed highways can be
Have You Been Creeped Out Yet Today?
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:00:00 PM
(We're going to go ahead and say
this one's NSFW for a couple of
gross-looking drawings, but
otherwise you should be safe
unless you've got a particularly
turned into a monumental force of
public good, but only if it’s
covered in photovoltaic cells that
power the very city the freeway
bisects. The panels would shield
cars from weather and algae
ponds along the roadside would
act as a giant carbon sink. The
whole setup, in Tham’s words,
could “bring green tech jobs for
farming, harvesting and
processing to the very
squeamish IT department.)
If you're not familiar with the
blog Monster Brains, you should
check it out. If you like monsters
and scary images, that is. If you
don't it's probably the last place
you want to go. But if you DO
like monsters, and monster
neighborhoods that today are the
most disadvantaged by their
proximity to the freeway.”
“I think [the] most amazing
infrastructure of a city should be
made worth celebrating,” Tham
said. “My design does not shy
away from the monumental
impact these roads have and will
have on the cityscape but instead
add new functions and narratives
that are coherent with today’s
stories, head over to the most
recent post and read Junji Ito's
needs. By letting infrastructure be
a visually powerful part of the
city, inside and out, its citizens are
allowed to understand and cherish
the complexity of their daily
urban life.”
Plus, Tham says it’s better to
build solar arrays on top of a
roadway than to ruin an existing
desert. The entire paved surface of
the Santa Monica Freeway
between downtown LA and the
tale, Thing That Drifted Ashore.
It's got pretty much all you can
want in a monster comic: great
art, dramatic tension, and a
bizarrely-abrupt ending that
leaves you pretty unsatisfied.
Still, it's really nice to look at.
But we take no responsibility if
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coastline offers 10 million square
feet of space for solar panels,
which Tham estimates could
provide 115 MW — enough to
power the needs of a city like
Venice, CA.
“The possibility of producing
energy within the city is much
better than ruining a desert for a
solar farm and then losing energy
on expensive transmission lines,”
he said.
As for implementation, Tham
seems like he would be satisfied if
a city used his design as a starting
point to have a conversation about
infrastructure and energy. “The
land is there and I claim it is
underused,” he said. “This is not
THE solution but one of many
steps towards smarter cities.”
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SpaceX Launches Cargo Spacecraft Into Orbit

Jason Paur (Wired Top Stories) orbit and cheers could be heard orbit as well.
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:50:00 PM from the launch team. SpaceX says the Falcon 9 rocket
The SpaceX rocket and and Dragon spacecraft could
Space Exploration Systems spacecraft are designed to carry begin carrying cargo to the ISS as
successfully launched its Falcon 9 cargo and/or human payloads to early as next year. The company
rocket and Dragon spacecraft at the International Space Station as has a contract for at least 12
10:43AM EST this morning from part of the Commercial Orbital flights to the ISS and is also
Cape Canaveral in Florida into Transportation System that will capable of returning cargo from
low earth orbit. The launch marks replace the space shuttle. the station.
the second flight for a Falcon 9 Today’s COTS 1 test flight Images: SpaceX
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Dragon spacecraft had reached time a spacecraft capable of into orbit back in June. The carry five to seven passengers to

Watercooler: Our Grown-Up Christmas List for Glee

Damian Holbrook
(TVGuide.com: Breaking News)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:00:00 PM
Glee
In honor of Glee's sweetly stupid
Christmas episode last night —
and their winter break — we'd
like to offer our wishes for New
Directions in the new year.
• - A love interest for Mercedes.
• - More Santana.
• - Less hot hits of the '80s and
'90s.
• - More moments like that shot of
Artie walking. Heart. Swelling!
• - Fewer tribute episodes.
• - More actual story lines.
• - Fewer guest stars. (Unless
they're Kelsey Grammer and
David Hyde Pierce as Rachel's
fathers.)
• - A school board-enforced
merger between McKinley High
and Dalton Academy. This off-
campus Blaine-and-Kurt sitch
isn't working for us.
• - The slow and painful death of
Teri. That can be your next "very
special episode."
• - Dialogue for Tina that doesn't
involve being Asian or Mike
Chang's abs.
• - More Quinn.
• - An MRI for Brittany. There is
something really not right about a
girl who still believes in Santa,
but confuses him with black men,
a slender woman in green face-
paint and Coach Bieste.
• - Therapy for Finn. He's never
gonna get over his issues with
both ex-girlfriends cheating on
him with some Dr. Phil time, you
know?
• - A family meeting for Puck.
Something's going on with him.
• - A non-Bieber haricut for Sam.
• - A formal moratorium on
Rachel solos that involve cry-
singing.
And the list could go on and on.
What did you think of Glee's
Christmas episode? And what
would you wish for the gang?
Add 'em all in the comments
below.
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Community Cast Speculates on Show's Direction

David Kronke (TVGuide.com: received these responses: have worked at all. But it was
Breaking News) Donald Glover(Troy):"Wow! great that that was the reason
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:04:00 PM That's really cool! There's so because the writers were saying,
many things I love there — Lost, 'We don't have to think of a better
Community No Exit reference, which is a play reason for them to be there.'"
NBC's Community can often be I did — that is great! And we're Gillian Jacobs(Britta):"I really
seen more as a romp through a all realizing it — it's like No Exit like that. Did you ever watch that
postmodern funhouse than a in the sense that we're continuing show,'Til Death? There was a plot
standard-issue sitcom. The series to be in the sitcom because we line where one of the characters
has offered inspired parodies of can never leave anyway? Wow! became convinced that he was in
action flicks, zombie movies, That is dark! That's a great theory. a sitcom, and it became even
GoodFellas and Apollo 13 and My whole thing is at the end it more meta than our show, if you
featured a bizarre mash-up of turns out that some or maybe all can actually believe it. I think
Mean Girls and Robocop. More of us are just a part of Abed's Abed may be leading them
recently, it exploded the notion of head. (Note: This is reminiscent towards realizing that. I think the
the "bottle episode," TV-industry o f t h e s e r i e s f i n a l e o f S t . group has certainly become
jargon for shows shot with limited Elsewhere.) I think Danny (Pudi) familiar and comfortable with
budgets on existing sets with a can pull off something like that sitcom tropes and referencing
limited number of cast members and turn it on its head. He's actors, but I'm very proud of the stuff. It was more about Jack and themselves, not just Abed, and
to compensate for more costly always giving you some sitcom work we're doing." Locke or Sawyer and the love maybe because of him, we're
episodes. This week, it's serving trope and turning it on its head. I Alison Brie(Annie) and Danny triangle — we've got a good love starting to view this world in that
up an animated parody of the old, like your theory a lot." Pudi(Abed): triangle." way, as well. If that's really true,
cheesy Rankin-Bass holiday Yvette Nicole Brown(Shirley):"I Pudi (Laughing):"I've been told Brie:"Our love triangle can it's a surprise to me, but I'd also be
cartoons (airing Thursday at 8/ always liken them to live cartoon things like that recently, like involve many people. But I do fine with that."
7c). characters. I really believe that if they're all figments of Abed's think the writers and us have this Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine
All of this meta-posturing led us they ran into a wall or got shot by imagination." eye on what a sitcom is and taking now!
to a theory that wouldn't be out of a cannon, they would be fine. Brie:"Abed in a straight jacket." the stereotype and turning that This entry passed through the
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Sartre play No Exit. that don't feel sitcom-y. I don't about the characters. I didn't really thinking.' But then they take it
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Exclusive: James Franco Heads Back
to General Hospital
Michael Logan (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:10:00 PM
General Hospital, James Franco
James Franco couldn't be cooler
— and hotter — these days. The
guy has earned the reviews of a
lifetime for his performance in
127 Hours. He's considered a shoo
-in Academy Award nominee for
best actor. And he and Anne
Hathaway have been picked to co-
host the Oscar ceremony on
Sunday, February 27. But he's not
forgetting about General Hospital!
Franco, who twice appeared on
the ABC soap as a serial killer,
has agreed to return for a two-
episode stint airing the Friday
before the Oscar telecast and the
day after. It'll serve as a teaser for
a longer story arc he plans to do
on the serial later in 2011.
Credit the coup to GH executive
producer Jill Farren Phelps.
"When we realized James would
be in L.A. for the Oscars and all
the other awards shows, we asked
if he'd consider coming back and
doing a little something for us,"
Phelps says. "He was happy to do
it and requested that we use the
appearance to plug his next story.
He's also expressed an interest in
directing at GH. He's been really,
really good to us. Whatever James
wants, we'd love to make it
happen!"
So far details on Franco's
February gig are slim — Phelps
will only say that his psychopath
character, also named Franco, is
still obsessed with hunky mob
hitman Jason Morgan ( Steve
Burton). "Franco will remind
Jason and the audience that he's
still out there. We just haven't
seen or heard from him because
he's been terribly busy."
In an interview with TV Guide
Magazine last summer, Franco
said the intense memorization
required at GH prepared him for
his 127 Hours audition, in which
director Danny Boyle handed him
a lengthy monologue and asked
him to step outside for a few
minutes and learn it. "James has
been very gracious in crediting
us," notes Phelps. "Apparently,
we worked his memorization
muscle to the point where he was
able to blow Boyle out of the
water."
Mutual love affair aside, it's
rather stunning that Franco —
who is being inundated with
movie offers these days — still
has a jones for GH. "The more
you get to know James the less
surprised you are about what
excites him," Phelps says. "He is
fearless about doing what he
wants to do. I guess he must feel
there's still something to learn
here at GH. Maybe he's just doing
it for the fun." Adds the exec with
a laugh: "He certainly isn't doing
our show for the money!"
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What's On Tonight: 'Ghost Hunters'
Finale, 'Jamie Cooks Christmas,'
'American Ninja Warrior'
Rich Keller (TV Squad)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 6:30:00 AM
Filed under: TV Previews Here's
tonight's lineup of new shows and
events (all times Eastern). Check
your local TV listings for
additional information.
* = Series/Season Premiere
** = Series/Season Finale
# = New Day/Time
8:00 to 9:00
ABC:'The Middle' and'Better
With You'
G4:'American Ninja Warrior'
CBS:'Survivor: Nicaragua'
NatGeo:'Amish: Out of the Order'
FOX:'Human Targe t'
TLC:'Losing One of My Giant
NBC:'The Sing-Off'-- (120
Limbs'
minutes)
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the right technique, the Bunny Features:

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Dead Space 2 demo due December 21

Ludwig Kietzmann (Joystiq) interactive snippet will As Dead Space executive dropping scenarios. It's gonna be
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:00:00 PM reintroduce players to space producer Steve Papoutsis notes, awesome."
engineer Isaac Clarke as he "Releasing the demo five weeks Dead Space 2 demo due
EA will launch a single-player p e r f o r m s r o u t i n e c o n d u i t before launch will not only December 21 originally appeared
Dead Space 2 demo on Xbox Live m a i n t e n a n c e , d e s i g n s m o r e reconnect players with our hero on Joystiq on Wed, 08 Dec 2010
and PlayStation Network on efficient CO2 scrubbers and Isaac Clarke, but will also give 13:00:00 EST. Please see our
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Shoot The Monkey: Our Facebook That Joke's For The

Screaming Monkey Photo Contest English Majors: Woot
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 12/7/2010 2:30:00 PM
Facebook page so they can "Like"
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Weads The Wire
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal) Moor and not a U.S. citizen.
You like capes, right? And the photos that wooters have
monkeys, too. You love Woot, of posted.) Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:00:00 PM The man also claims some guard
course. And your relationship 4. If yours is the photo (or one of stole his wife's handkerchief.
with Facebook, while hard to Every week in this space, we’ll LOS ANGELES ( UPI) -- The
the photos) that the most people
define, certainly includes some take a look at the news and offer U.S. cable television network FX
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Martina Navratilova Battles Blizzards
on Kilimanjaro Climb: Day 3
Martina Navratilova (FanHouse to see more than a couple of
Main) meters ahead.
Submitted at 12/8/2010 10:08:00 AM After four hours of trekking, we
reached Mawenzi Tarn campsite,
Martina Navratilova is leading a situated right underneath the
group of 27 fundraisers to the dramatic and jagged spires of
summit of Africa's highest Mawenzi, in a protected hollow
mountain, Kilimanjaro, in and next to a tiny lake. There
Tanzania, to raise funds for the were supposed to be superb views
Laureus Sport for Good across the saddle to Kibo, but
Foundation, a charity helping the sadly we have not been able to
lives of over one million enjoy that.
disadvantaged youngsters After our lunch we were
worldwide through sports-based supposed to be going on an
projects. acclimatization walk where we
Here's the latest update from consolation. I brought my sun- went up and down the mountain
Martina as the team makes their block with me, but clearly that's to get a taste of an even higher

works way toward the summit via the not going to be needed. We have altitude, but we have had to
Rongai Route: sent a message down to out base cancel that. It would just be too
D A Y T H R E E : W e d n e s d a y camp to bring up thicker gloves, difficult and too dangerous.
(Scripting News)
December 8, 2010 hand warmers and more heavy Climbing high and then returning
Submitted at 12/8/2010 10:21:20 AM
Click here for Day One and here clothing. lower to sleep is an important part
Every day I push a bunch of links for Day Two. I was expecting it to be cold and of allowing our bodies to get used
through Twitter. I have this Mawenzi Tarn (4,330 meters) snowy, but not so soon. One thing to the altitude, but we are not
process fairly well streamlined. I Hi All, is clear -- it's going to add to the going to be able to do that now.
click on a bookmarklet, it grabs Well, no one prepared me for difficulty of the climb, but we are We have been playing charades to
the headline and URL and shoots this. As we headed for Mawenzi all in good spirits and the difficult keep our spirits up. It's not what I
it to an app on one of my servers. Tarn, we have had to fight our conditions have brought us even expected, but you have to get on
It shortens the URL and then way through blizzards and cope more together as a group. and cope with whatever you find.
sends it to twitter.com, where it current day's tweets-with-links are with unexpected bitter cold. The We should have been walking Don't forget to sponsor the team
all appears in my status box. I edit p u s h e d t o a p o s t o n snow is not settling on the ground, a b o v e t h e c l o u d - l i n e a t and help us reach our fundraising
it, and click the Tweet button and Protoblogger.com, which is a site thank goodness, but still the increasingly high altitude, but we target, at www.laureus.com/get-
off it goes. running on wordpress.com. The conditions are very difficult and really have no idea what is around involved/kili
Another app checks in with c o n n e c t i o n i s v e r y s i m p l e , unpleasant. us. There are no views, we are Thanks,
Twitter every five minutes to see through the MetaWeblog API. So The guides tell me this is most walking through thick mist unable Martina
if I've posted anything new and if now there's another way to get my unusual, but that is not much
it has a link in it. If it does, it is links, without going through
saved in a database. This database Twitter.
has been going since April 2009. The links have been available via
On Monday I added another RSS for quite some time.
element to the flow. Now the
50 Sports/ E-reader News Edition

NBA players union seeks end to age restriction in proposal to

owners
Chris Broussard (ESPN.com) hard salary cap and salary was given to the owners in July, way that would make it easier for The union also suggests the
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:49:44 PM reductions, is also willing to but it seems to have barely teams to make trades. league could give small markets a
negotiate a reduction in league registered with the owners, who Currently, in trades involving a larger share of the national
Updated: December 8, 2010, 1:49 revenue guarantees for players. have neither provided a team that is above the salary cap, revenue.
PM ET By Chris Broussard the union also proposes rule counterproposal nor backed off the traded players' salaries must Staunchly against a hard cap,
ESPN The Magazine changes that would provide more the demands they made in fall within 125 percent of one which would eliminate longtime
Archive flexibility for sign-and-trade February. The league also refused another. The union would like to collective bargaining staples such
The NBA owners aren't the only deals. to comment Wednesday on the at least double that percentage. as the Larry Bird exception, the
ones looking to alter the The age restriction, which details of the union's proposal. That would make it easier for cash union also noted that it wants to
landscape of the league over the requires a player to be at least 19 "Our proposal was designed to -strapped clubs to receive not only keep the mid-level
next several seasons through the years old during the calendar year move the negotiations forward, to financial relief by trading away exception but add a second mid-
league's collective bargaining of the draft as well as at least one be a win-win for both sides," the players with large contracts. level exception.
agreement. year removed from his high union source said. "We looked to The union suggests ending the In exchange, the players would
While the owners want to do school graduation class, has been address some of the owners' complicated "base-year give up the "bi-annual exception,"
away with the soft salary cap and in place since the 2005-2006 concerns and the proposal had compensation" rule that often which is currently worth $2
guaranteed contracts, the players season. A league spokesman elements that would benefit both makes it difficult to pull off million, and decrease the
hope to end the age restriction that refused to comment when asked sides. But the owners have sat on trades. maximum length of mid-level
forbids players from entering the Wednesday about the union's this for five months." "We want to keep the current contracts from five years to four
NBA directly out of high school. proposed change to the age While the union rejects the system in place, and address some years.
"We want to go back to the way it restriction. owners' demands for a hard cap, of the owners' concerns within the The players are also looking to
was," a source from the NBA The league did not address the an $800 million cut in salaries, a context of that system," the source shorten the time period (currently
Players Association said. "The age requirement specifically in the shortening of contract lengths, said. "We want to keep the soft seven days) that teams have to
p l a y e r s h a v e a l w a y s b e e n collective bargaining proposal it and an elimination of guaranteed cap we've had for 30 years and match offers for restricted free
philosophically opposed to it. The submitted to players in February. contracts, it is willing to negotiate keep salaries tied to revenues." agents, as well as gain better
vast majority of players feel a But Commissioner David Stern's a reduction in the percentage of In the past, the players have had pension benefits.
player should have the right to desire has long been to raise the league revenue players are no say in how the owners have The union has been anticipating a
make a living. If he has the talent minimum age to 20 rather than to guaranteed. shared their revenue among lockout for more than a year and
and wants to make money to help lower it. Players are currently guaranteed themselves. But with the owners has been advising its players
his family, he should have that While there are much larger 57 percent of basketball-related complaining about millions of regularly to save money in
r i g h t . I t ' s j u s t a m a t t e r o f issues separating the sides, the age income, and the players are dollars in annual losses, the union preparation for a work stoppage.
principle." restriction could become a willing to remove that guarantee. proposed in July that the league The players are ready to fight to
N B A P l a y e r s A s s o c i a t i o n bargaining chip in the stalemated No new figure was proposed by incorporate "meaningful revenue keep the key elements of the
executive director Billy Hunter negotiations between owners and the union, which is also open to sharing." current system, as evidenced by
sent an audio podcast detailing the players that appear headed toward considering adjustments to The players do not believe the the attendance of superstars such
union's proposal to every player a lockout next summer. revenue formulas for owners who burden for giving small-market as LeBron James, Dwyane Wade,
last week. The proposal, which Hunter said last month he's "99 build new arenas or significantly clubs financial relief should fall Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul
includes the end of the age percent sure" there will be a renovate existing ones. entirely upon them. Thus, they're at a negotiating meeting in
restriction, have been obtained by lockout, and a look at the The Players Association also proposing that the league share August.
ESPN.com and confirmed by a proposals of each side reveals proposed, according to the not only national revenue --such The players were galvanized in
union source. Hunter may have underestimated podcast, "enhanced trade and as television contracts, part after union representatives
In its proposal, the union, while the chances of a work stoppage. signing flexibility." Basically, it sponsorships and gate receipts -- NBA page 53
rejecting the owners' call for a The union's contract proposal wants to change the system in a but also local revenue as well.
E-reader News Edition Sports/ 51

Source: New York Yankees may target Carl Crawford and Cliff
Lee
Andrew Marchand (ESPN.com) has yet to materialize. is leaning toward, the Yankees What remains unclear, however, February 14, 2011 | Tampa
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:50:17 PM Braunecker said Wednesday that would gain some flexibility. Cliff is how far the Angels are willing 00
one club is no longer involved in Lee#33 SP to extend themselves financially The Yankees still have plenty of
Updated: December 8, 2010, 2:01 the Lee sweepstakes. He wouldn't Texas Rangers to keep Crawford away from the work to do this winter, but spring
PM ET By Andrew Marchand say which team had been 2010 STATS Red Sox, Yankees, Tigers and will be here before you know it!
ESPNNewYork.com eliminated. However, it's not the • GM 28 Rangers -- the other clubs still Yankees blog
Archive Texas Rangers, who met with • W 12 viewed as the main contenders for That desire comes with a
The New York Yankees think Braunecker for about 30 minutes • L9 Crawford. Cliff Lee In Photos disclaimer, though. "But how
they could have room in their on Wednesday. • BB 18 As the Yankees pursue Cliff Lee, many years?'' one source said.
budget to sign both left-handed The Los Angeles Angels have • K 185 ESPNNewYork.com looks back "How crazy was the Jayson Werth
pitcher Cliff Lee and outfielder also reached out to representatives • ERA 3.18 at the free-agent ace's stellar deal?''
Carl Crawford, a baseball official for the free-agent left-hander, a career. Asked about Crawford, Red Sox
with knowledge of the Yankees' source told ESPN.com's Jerry The Yankees haven't pressured Photo gallery general manager Theo Epstein
plans told ESPNNewYork.com. Crasnick. Pettitte in any way to make a If the price escalates -- in the said: "It's the same answer I gave
It is unclear if they first would "We've had productive meetings," decision. But they clearly would wake of Jayson Werth's seven- yesterday. Obviously we're in a
need to make a trade so they can said Braunecker, who added he like to know his plans one way or year, $126 million deal with new situation now after we've
remain within the $210 million or wasn't sure if he'd meet with the the other. Pettitte earned $11.75 Washington -- to eight years and made a major acquisition [trading
so budget. Carl Crawford#13 LF Rangers again before leaving million this season, and if he isn't $160 million or beyond, that for Adrian Gonzalez], but like I
Tampa Bay Rays Orlando either Wednesday night coming back, it would create both would be three years longer and at said, anything is possible, right?''
2010 STATS or early Thursday. "They're still in greater urgency for the Yankees least $70 million more than The exact number of years and
• GM 154 the mix." to sign Lee and provide more c u r r e n t A n g e l s o w n e r A r t e dollars Crawford is seeking hasn't
• HR 19 Earlier Wednesday, Braunecker payroll flexibility that could Moreno has ever paid for any been established yet. So for now,
• RBI 90 said his group knew more than motivate them to make a serious player. an official of one team involved
• R 110 they did on Tuesday in terms of run at signing Lee and Crawford. Torii Hunter's five-year, $90 said, "we've just got to let this
• OBP.356 negotiations involving Lee. The Angels also are targeting million contract three years ago play out a little bit."
• AVG.307 "We've eliminated a club and Crawford's services, and multiple made him the highest-paid Angel A baseball source told Crasnick
have zeroed in on a few things," sources who have been in contact of the Moreno era. And, as one the chances of Lee signing a
Yankees general manager Brian Braunecker said. with the Angels' front office told source put it, "Is Carl Crawford contract before the end of the
Cashman had a long meeting Lee remains the Yankees No. 1 Stark that Crawford remains the really worth $70 million more winter meetings are "doubtful."
Tuesday night with Crawford and target with Crawford representing team's No. 1 offseason priority -- than Torii Hunter? I don't see Andrew Marchand covers the
his representatives, a source told their fallback position. The by far. that." Yankees for ESPNNewYork.com.
ESPN The Magazine's Buster Yankees, though, have devised One source described Crawford But two years ago, the Angels did Information from ESPN The
Olney. scenarios in which they could add as the clear "focal point" of the offer Teixeira seven years, $160 Magazine's Buster Olney,
A d d i t i o n a l l y , C a s h m a n i s both. Angels. Another source said that million before he signed with the ESPN.com's Jayson Stark and
planning to deliver an offer to Two Decembers ago, the after talking with the Angels' Yankees. And that's an offer that Jerry Crasnick, ESPNDallas.com's
Lee's agent, Darek Braunecker, as Yankees snagged the market's top people, he was stunned by how Crawford's agents, Greg Genske Richard Durrett and
soon as Wednesday. two free agents when they c o n f i d e n t t h e y w e r e a b o u t and Brian Peters, clearly are well ESPNBoston.com's Gordon Edes
According to the baseball brought CC Sabathia and Mark eventually signing Crawford. aware of. and Joe McDonald was used in
official, the Yankees have no Teixeira to the Bronx. The way they spoke of him, the The Red Sox retain interest in this report.
plans to offer more than a six-year If Andy Pettitte retires, as a source said with a laugh, "it was Crawford, multiple club sources This entry passed through the
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outline of an offer to Crawford ESPN.com's Jayson Stark that he their team." It's Never Too Early
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Chicago White Sox agree to three-year, $37.5 million deal
Bruce Levine (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:49:18 PM
Updated: December 8, 2010, 1:59
PM ET By Bruce Levine and
Doug Padilla
ESPNChicago.com
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. --
The Chicago White Sox agreed to
a three-year, $37.5 million deal
Wednesday with free-agent first
baseman Paul Konerko.
“ going a different direction,"
We were very, very close to
going a different direction. And
I'm sure they were, as well. So for
it to come together at the end,
which a lot of times this is how
things get done, is a bit of good
fortune on both parts I think,
because I think he would have
looked awfully funny in another
uniform at this point.”-- White
Sox GM Ken Williams
The contract breaks down as
follows: $12 million in the first
year; $12 million, second year;
$6.5 million, third year; seven
years deferred at $1 million each.
"We have made no secret of the
fact that re-signing Paul Konerko
was our top offseason priority,"
White Sox general manger Ken
Williams said in a statement.
"Paul's value to the organization
on the field and in the clubhouse
can never be overstated. He is one
of the greatest players in franchise
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Williams said Tuesday that
negotiations were at a standstill,
prompting him to seriously start
considering other options.
But that standstill didn't last long.
Movement toward an agreement
started after a sushi dinner on
Tuesday, Williams said.
"We were very, very close to
Williams said. "And I'm sure they
were, as well.
"So for it to come together at the
end, which a lot of times this is
how things get done, is a bit of
good fortune on both parts I think,
because I think he would have
looked awfully funny in another
uniform at this point."
Konerko, who will be 35 on
Opening Day, is coming off one
of his best seasons, batting .312
with 39 home runs and 111 RBIs.
He has six 30-homer seasons and
has driven in 100-plus runs five
times in his 14-year career.
"Definitely to come back was
always [top] in my mind of what I
wanted to happen going back to
this offseason, but [also] years
ago," Konerko said. "Having said
that though, last offseason,
sometime right about now, I
began a year-long preparation for
the fact that it might not happen
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Konerko, who took less money to
return to the White Sox the last
time he was a free agent,
following their World Series
season in 2005, is 35 home runs
shy of 400 for his career.
"It was my goal at the end of the
last contract to come back when
my last contract expired, that
would give me 10 years-plus with
one team, and I thought that was
really cool -- not to mention a
chance to win while you're doing
it," Konerko said. "Now to sit
there and say it's going to be 15,
that's a nice round number, that's
intriguing as well. I was prepared,
and had options to do, other
things."
One of those options, apparently,
was heading to the Arizona
Diamondbacks.
"It definitely was a possibility and
definitely something that was
intriguing to me, not only because
of the things that would come
along with playing with a team
close to where I live, but because
I think that team is going to get a
lot better and are on their way
up," Konerko said. "It was a great
option to have. But it didn't work
out going that way. But I was
thrilled that they were interested
in me."
Konerko also appreciated the
way A.J. Pierzynski and Adam
Dunn deferred money in their new
deals to make room for Konerko.
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"It definitely says a lot about
those two guys," he said. "I'm sure
those contracts could have been
structured differently had they
wanted to."
Konerko, who praised the loyalty
of chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, said
when he first heard about the
signing of Dunn, he thought it
signaled the end of his Sox career.
"The funny thing is I was down in
Mexico, and I was lying down in
a chair, looking at the ocean,"
Konerko recalled, "and someone
sends me a text and says they just
signed Adam Dunn to the deal
that he signed to, and my first
thought was, 'OK, that was a fun
12 years. That's it. It was an either
him or me situation.'
"...Then I remembered Kenny
telling me at the end of the year,
'Listen, if we go after this next
year, we want to win it, I don't
want you or Adam, I want both of
you.' That was in my mind as well
where I was able to say, 'OK,
maybe they will make a push to
get both of us.' I think my agent
later that day had contacted
[assistant GM Rick Hahn] or
Kenny and said, 'OK, what's the
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It was a simple no or yes and it
was a yes, so I knew the dialogue
would be open. That took us into
this week.''
The Sox now will look to fortify
their bullpen after J.J. Putz signed
with the Diamondbacks, and
Bobby Jenks was non-tendered by
the Sox.
"So we've got some work cut out
for us, and we certainly I think are
at a point where we have got to
get a little creative, because we
are about tapped out right now,"
Williams said. "So we need to
either get creative or we need to
get a flood at the ticket counter
pretty quickly."
Bruce Levine covers baseball for
ESPNChicago.com and ESPN
1000. ESPNChicago.com White
Sox reporter Doug Padilla
contributed to this report.
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Will Shaquille O'Neal Finish His

Career in Turkey?
Matt Watson (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 11:10:00 AM

Filed under: Celtics, NBA

Rumors, ULEB Will Shaquille
O'Neal finish his career playing
alongside Allen Iverson in
Turkey? That's what Seref Yalcin,
the general manager of Besiktas
Cola Turka, the team that signed
Ndamukong Suh Fined Iverson in October, reportedly
told Turkish media outlet
Ajansspor.com.
$15,000 for Hit on Jay Yalcin claims he met with O'Neal
on a recent trip to the United
the chances are very high."
Yalcin's comments to
second year is a player's option.
And while European teams
Cutler States, and that the future Hall of
Famer told him, "I want to be a
Ajansppor.com were translated by
hoopsnotes.com.
generally can't afford to match
more lucrative NBA contracts,
Michael David Smith Although the fine is not a shock - champion this year with Boston. Technically speaking, there's O'Neal actually signed for the
(FanHouse Main) - fines for personal fouls are the But I'm coming to Turkey next nothing stopping O'Neal from veteran's minimum and is slated
Submitted at 12/8/2010 11:40:00 AM norm, especially when the player year." following in Iverson's footsteps. to earn just $1.399 million next
on the receiving end of the hit is a "Some people will still come out He signed a two-year contract season.
Filed under: Chicago Bears, quarterback -- it is a little hard for and said (say) 'Shaq won't come with the Boston Celtics, but the
Lions, NFC North the Lions to stomach, because to Turkey'," Yalcin added. "But
When Lions defensive tackle what actually transpired on the NBA
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Negro Leagues Museum Tries Hard to

Reinvent Itself
Terence Moore (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 9:33:00 AM

Filed under: Sports Business and

Media Satchel Paige was one of
the most dominant pitchers in the
Negro Leagues, and later starred
in the majors.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- I
couldn't find the glove.
Where was the glove?
Before leaving Atlanta, James
"Red" Moore (no relation) told me
to look for his old first baseman's
we went on and gave it to them.
Yeah, and it's the only thing we
Josh Gibson trading cards that
since the death of baseball saint Warren Spector says
really had left from back then." Buck O'Neil four years ago, his
glove when I got to the Negro
Leagues Baseball Museum. Said
So, moments after I walked into
the museum, I searched from
obsession inside of Kansas City's
18th & Vine district was going,
reviewers 'misunderstood'
Mary Moore of her 94-year-old
husband, who is among the fewer
than 130 players left from the
exhibit to exhibit, but the glove
wasn't there.
going, nearly gone.
Epic Mickey's camera
The doomsayers are correct, I Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
leagues, "Oh, lordy, Jesus, we thought. They swear on a stack of WARREN page 55
promised the glove to them, and Submitted at 12/8/2010 2:00:00 PM

Joyswag: Grasshopper Manufacture prize pack -- with NMH2

Hopper's Edition, OST & erotic comic
Christopher Grant (Joystiq)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:20:00 PM
Did you know you can add a
store to your Facebook page?
Neither did we ... but luckily for
the human race, the clever folks at
Grasshopper Manufacture did
know, and they used that
knowledge to add a store to the
official Grasshopper Manufacture Edition of No More Heroes 2( Joyswag: Grasshopper
Facebook page. detailed here) and the pre-order- Manufacture prize pack -- with
The only thing available for now only "Erotic Comic" to give away NMH2 Hopper's Edition, OST &
is a limited edition (only 1000 of to one of you, so that's precisely erotic comic originally appeared
these were made!) No More what we're going to do with this on Joystiq on Wed, 08 Dec 2010
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Though plenty of reviewers ( our
own included) were swept up by
the enchanting world of Epic
Mickey, its shoddy camera has
been pretty much universally
maligned. Creator Warren Spector
leaped to his team's defense while
speaking with MTV, saying,
"First, there has never been a
game that I couldn't break if you
give it to me for 30 seconds. I
mean, I will break a camera in any
game ever made. [ Ed.'s note:
Well, clearly.] Third-person
camera is way harder than I even
imagined it could be. It is the
hardest problem in video game
development. Everybody gets it
wrong. It's just a question of how
close to right do you get it."
Spector went on to say that the
issue stems from the fact that his
game isn't a pure platformer, so
the camera couldn't be tuned just
for that purpose. "If reviewers
want to give us a hard time about
it because they're
misunderstanding the game we
made, it's not for me to tell them
that they're wrong," he continued,
"absolutely not."
Listen, we love Warren Spector,
and Epic Mickey has plenty of
good points, for sure. But "We
tried to do something that was
crazy hard and it didn't work" is
not a suitable excuse -- unless
you're going house to house and
explaining the "right" way to play.
(P.S. If Spector does start doing
that, you probably shouldn't let
him near your cameras.)
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JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:40:00 PM
You'll learn two facts about
Batman in the brief Arkham City
teaser video offered exclusively
by MSN Games UK:
• Batman is sneaky
• Batman is good at fighting
These are important character
traits to reveal to people who have
never heard of Batman before,
which is apparently the target
audience for this video. Otherwise
-- if you know anything about
Batman at all, or if you were
looking for, say, gameplay
footage from Arkham City-- the
clip is less thrilling and more
workaday.
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Obama's Deal with GOP May Help Him Win Back Independents,
Poll Suggests
Bruce Drake (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 11:52:00 AM
Some political analysts are
viewing President Obama's
willingness to rankle Democratic
leaders and anger liberals by
striking a deal with Republicans
on extending the Bush-era tax
cuts as a bid to win back
independents in advance of the
2012 elections. A new Gallup poll
suggests that, politically, it may
indeed have been a good way of
moving towards that goal.
Liz Sidoti, who covers national
politics for the Associated Press,
saw Obama's strategy this way:
"The compromise portended more
likely to come as Obama courts
the fickle center of the electorate
and positions himself as the
pragmatic president many
independents want. . . . Enter
Obama's dealmaking with
Republicans and criticism of
Democrats, moves intended to try
to reclaim that swing-voting
territory as he casts himself as a
president who puts people above
politics."
The Gallup poll, conducted Dec.
3-6, said two-thirds of all
Americans backed the two key
elements in the compromise deal -
- extending the tax cuts for all and
extending unemployment
benefits.
Republicans and Democrats had
differing levels of enthusiasm for
each part of the deal. Eighty-five
percent of Republicans favored
extending the tax cuts but only 43
percent supported extension of
unemployment benefits. Eighty-
four percent of Democrats backed
extension of unemployment
benefits, while only 52 percent
backed extending the tax cuts.
By contrast, independents were
strongly in favor of both elements.
Sixty-seven percent backed
extension of the tax cuts and 71
percent supported extending
unemployment benefits.
"The White House reportedly
agreed to extend the Bush tax cuts
for all Americans partly to help
lure independents back to the
Democrats' fold by 2012," Gallup
said. "That reasoning seems
sound. By yielding on the tax
cuts, Obama extracted Republican
leaders' support for extending
unemployment benefits for the
long-term unemployed -- and
large majorities of independents
support both measures."
Liberal Democrats have been
vocal in their criticism of the deal
Obama made, and the Gallup poll
showed that only 39 percent of
them favored extending the tax
cuts, according to the Gallup poll.
Sixty-four percent of Democrats
who described themselves as
conservative or moderate
supported extension. A big
majority of moderate and liberal
Republicans backed both the tax
cut and unemployment benefit
extensions, but only 38 percent of
conservative supported the
extension of unemployment
benefits.
The deal was announced on Dec.
6, so Gallup was in the field with
this poll mostly before the
announcement. It framed its
question, along with questions on
a range of other issues, as part of
what it called a "referendum-
style" survey, asking Americans
how they would vote if they could
go to the polls and vote on each
issue like they do for a candidate.
The AP's Sidoti says that in
bidding for independents, Obama
is "essentially betting that
Democrats ultimately will fall in
line behind him -- and hoping that
no serious Democratic challenger
emerges, much less a serious third
-party candidate." (In
Wednesday's New York Times,
Matt Bai explored some of the
talk on the left about whether
someone should challenge Obama
for the nomination.)
A Pew Research Center poll, also
conducted just before
announcement of the deal with the
Republicans, tested sentiment
among Democrats and found that
while Obama got lukewarm marks
on the question of standing up for
the party's positions, most
Democrats did not believe he was
giving in too much to the
Republicans.
Fifty-four percent of Democrats
and Democratic leaners surveyed
Dec. 1-5 said Obama was doing a
good or excellent job in standing
up for traditional party positions
while 43 percent rated him only
fair or poor, with 2 percent
undecided.
The new Gallup poll did not
break down support for the tax cut
extension by those who favored it
for all and those who wanted to
extend the cuts but exclude high-
income earners. A USA/Today
Gallup poll conducted in mid-
November said 44 percent favored
extending the tax cuts but setting
limits on high-income earner,
while 40 percent backed
extending them for everyone, with
13 percent wanting to let the cuts
expire and 3 percent undecided.
In the Pew poll, 47 percent said
the tax cuts should be extended
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only for households with incomes
of less than $250,000, 33 percent
favored keeping all the cuts in
place and 14 percent would have
let the tax cuts expire, with 15
percent undecided. An alternate
proposal to set the income cutoff
at $1 million got less support.
A Bloomberg poll, conducted
Dec. 4-7, said 34 percent of those
surveyed wanted the tax cuts
extended for the middle-class but
not those earning $250,000 or
more, 19 percent favored
extending the cuts for everyone,
and 16 percent backed the idea of
permanent extension for the
middle class but only a two year
continuation for high-income
earners. Four percent were
undecided.
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Baltimore Man Accused in Terror
Bomb Plot
David Wood (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:58:00 PM
Chief Military Correspondent
In a second foiled terrorist
bombing incident, an American
Muslim was arrested Wednesday
for allegedly planning to blow up
a military recruitment and
induction center near Baltimore,
Justice Department officials said.
The Baltimore man, Antonio
Martinez, was said to be a U.S.
citizen who converted to Islam.
He had been under surveillance
for several months, and was
arrested when he tried to plant a
phony bomb given him by
undercover agents.
Justice Department spokesman
Dan Boyd said there had been "no
actual danger to the public, as the
explosives were inert and the
suspect had been carefully
monitored by law enforcement for
months.''
The office in Catonsville, Md.,
houses recruiters for the four
military services and is where
recruits first assemble to take
entrance exams and to be sworn in
before shipping out to boot camp
or basic training. There are
usually at least several dozen
people there, and on days when
inductions are scheduled there can
be several hundred.
Wednesday's arrest is the latest in
a series of sting operations
involving Muslims engaged in
attempted terrorist plots. In the
most recent case, a 19-year-old
Oregon man was arrested Nov. 26
on charges that he had attempted
to detonate a bomb at a Christmas
tree-lighting ceremony in
Portland.
Officials said Martinez had
posted numerous videos online
advocating violent jihad.
The alleged plot comes as senior
U.S. counterterrorism officials are
warning that it is impossible to
prevent such small-scale terrorist
attempts, especially those
involving only one person.
"We will not stop all the attacks,''
Michael Leiter, director of the
National Counter Intelligence
Center, said in a recent talk at the
Center for Strategic and
International Studies, a
Washington think tank. Leiter
said he has dedicated his career to
trying to prevent such attacks.
"Now, I want to be very, very
clear in this because some
comments in this vein have
previously brought the ire of
some. To say that we will not
successfully defend against all
attacks is certainly not to say that
we are not trying to stop all
attacks. We are. It is certainly not
to say that any attack is okay. If
there is an attack, it may well be
tragic. Innocent lives will be lost.
"In this era of this more
complicated threat and a more
diverse threat and lower-scale
attacks, to include individuals
who have been radicalized here in
the homeland, stopping all of the
attacks has become that much
harder,'' Leiter said.
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Report: Democrats Could
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2012
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After the 2010 drubbing,
Democrats seeking to regain
control of the House in 2012 may
have reason to be optimistic. The
Washington Post, reporting in part
2008.
on numbers from the Cook
However, before Democrats
Political Report, says that
begin popping champagne corks,
Democrats will “almost certainly”
the Fix notes the Democrats have
pick up seats in 2012 and that
a long way to go — especially
there is a “tough – though not
considering that Republicans hold
impossible” chance to retake the
such a strong hand at the state
majority.
redistricting level.
The two parties are basically
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Minnesota Governor Race: Mark Lynch: Obama Must
Dayton Wins as Republican Concedes Keep Moving to the
Tom Diemer (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:02:00 PM Center
Correspondent It took a recount,
but Republican Tom Emmer
conceded to Democrat Mark
Dayton in the Minnesota
governor's race Wednesday,
resolving the last disputed
governor's contest of the midterms
-- more than a month after
Election Day.
The recount did not substantially
alter Dayton's 9,000-vote election-
night margin, the AP reported.
"Minnesotans made their choice,
by however thin a margin, and we
respect that choice," Emmer said.
Emmer, a three-term member of
the state legislature, said he would
not pursue a court challenge to the
outcome. "I do not believe a delay
in the seating of the next governor
will unite us, or help us move the
state forward," he said.
For Dayton, 63, the victory
marked a comeback for a political
career that seemed at a halt in
2006 when he decided not to seek
reelection after a single term in
the U.S. Senate. The department
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Submitted at 12/8/2010 5:38:28 AM
Wednesday, 08 Dec 2010 11:38
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The tax deal that President
Barack Obama reached with
Republicans in Congress shows
that he can get things done if he’s
willing to move away from his
liberal views. And ace political
strategist Cameron Lynch writes
on Politico that the president
store heir ran for governor in race in Alaska. There, Republican better keep doing so if he wants to however, he needs to make
1998, but finished way back in the Joe Miller is fighting in court to have any success. decisions like these
Democratic field. This time he stop write-in candidate (and “President Obama appears, once commonplace, not abnormalities”.
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Cornyn: Obama Tax Deal Argentinean Burger
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(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 5:48:21 AM
Wednesday, 08 Dec 2010 11:48
AM
While President Barack Obama
gave in to Republican demands
over taxes, he hasn’t necessarily
changed his stripes. Some in
Washington still expect him to
cling to his liberal agenda.
Republican Texas Sen. John
Cornyn is one of them, The Hill
reports.
"President Obama's decision
yesterday to join with
Republicans in opposing the
largest tax increase in American
history was made not because he
had a sudden change in political
or economic philosophy," the
senator wrote in a letter to
supporters of the National
Republican Senatorial Committee.
Still, Cornyn called the deal
"genuinely a bipartisan proposal. I
hope it's the start of a new trend."
Taxes and spending will play a
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Anonymous Activist Hackers Attack Wikileaks's
Enemies, Bring Down MasterCard.com
(Popular Science - New
Technology, Science News,
The Future Now)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:50:05 PM
Anonymous When members of
Anonymous make their rare
appearances, they often wear
these masks, popularized by V for
Vendetta. Vincent Diamante
"Anonymous," a group of hackers
perhaps best known for their
attacks on the Church of
Scientology, have appointed
themselves the protectors of
Wikileaks. To that end, they've
begun a full-scale attack on those
who have harmed Wikileaks in
the past. This is no cute hacker's
mission--it's a full-on crusade that
has already taken down
Mastercard.com.
Several major companies have
made the operation of Wikileaks
much more difficult. Mastercard
and PayPal both blocked all
donations to the site, claiming
Wikileaks dabbles in "illegal
activities" (despite Wikileaks has
never been formally charged with
a crime). That's a major source of
revenue for Wikileaks, the
cessation of which is going to
prove a serious problem for
continued operation. Other targets
of the wrath of Anonymous
include Amazon, which briefly
hosted the site before booting
them due to concerns over terms
of service violations(including
proper ownership of stored
documents and possible security
concerns), the Swedish lawyer
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Holiday
Gift Guide
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Between working all day and
trying to find time to hangout with
friends, most guys don't have a
few extra hours to cruise the mall
for holiday gift ideas. That's why
MF did all the work for you. From
the latest fitness and gadget items
to the coolest stocking stuffers
and entertainment releases, we
searched high and low to bring
representing the women who are target's servers, often disabling Mastercard's recovery harder but you the ultimate holiday gift
accusing Julian Assange of sex them or shutting them down adding more traffic to the pile!) guide. You can even buy it all at
crimes, and the Swiss postal outright. To Anonymous, all of these the touch of a button, instead of
system's financial arm (which In this case, some 1,500 hackers companies have been pressured sweating your butt off in crowded
blocked Assange's accounts). o p e r a t i n g u n d e r t h e n a m e politically to cripple Wikileaks in stores. Consider it our gift to you.
Anonymous is not really a Anonymous decided to appoint any way they can. Though Choose from the categories
traditional group, a fact easily themselves the defenders of Amazon, for one, has denied it, below
divined from its name. There's no Wikileaks and Assange, flooding the group continues its attack, [on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and
leader, and no real organization. their targets with denial-of-service hoping to bring visibility to the more]
Instead, various hackers (who attacks. Some, like Amazon, f i g h t f o r t r a n s p a r e n c y a n d This entry passed through the
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-service attacks, which flood the there, they'll only be making
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Squishy Bio-Electronics Could Make Better

Implants and Brain-Machine Interface Controls
Rebecca Boyle (Popular device last week at the fall
Science - New Technology, meeting of the Materials Research
Science News, The Future Society in Boston.
Now)
The same research lab has
Submitted at 12/8/2010 11:52:16 AM previously worked with gallium- Japanese Venus Probe
Squishy Electronics Hyung-Jun indium alloys to build bendy
Koo and Ju-Hee So via IEEE antennae; it can bend and stretch Misses the Planet, May
Spectrum but return to its original shape Get Another Chance In
Wet, squishy quasi-liquid without breaking. This could Six Years
electronics could yield better make it more useful for future
implants that work with the wet, implants like artificial limbs - Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
squishy environment of the they would be less rigid and News, The Future Now)
human body, according to a new would not need to be isolated
study. from the body's inherent moisture. Submitted at 12/8/2010 10:04:40 AM

A pair of grad students at North So told IEEE Spectrum she Akatsuki Akihiro Ikeshita/JAXA
Carolina State University believes the alloys in this device A Japanese probe bound for
presented a paper last week would be compatible with human Venus has missed its orbit and
describing a quasi-liquid diode tissue. Eventually, they could be been seized by the sun's
whose electrodes are made of a of gallium oxide, which creates device's resistance, and a positive used to build bioelectronic circuits gravitational pull, in a major
gallium-indium alloy that is liquid resistance, as IEEE Spectrum v o l t a g e m a k e s i t t h i c k e r , b e t w e e n l i v i n g t i s s u e a n d setback for Japan's shoestring
a t r o o m t e m p e r a t u r e . T w o explains. The electrode with the producing greater resistance. computers, like brain-machine space program. The probe, called
hydrogel films are sandwiched alkaline substance suppresses the What's more, the device retains a interfaces that would control Akatsuki, isn't necessarily lost
between the electrodes - one is formation of this skin. So, memory of its resistance state artificial limbs or artificial neural however. JAXA officials are still
doped with an acid and the other applying voltage changes the the even after it is turned of, so it acts networks. in contact with the probe and may
holds an alkaline compound. thickness of this gallium oxide like a memristor, according to Ju- [ IEEE Spectrum] try to insert it into orbit around
The interface between the "skin" - negative voltage makes Hee So, a chemistry grad student JAPANESE page 62
electrodes develops a thin coating the oxide thinner, lowering the who presented a paper on the

Intel quietly forms netbook and tablet group to fend off

competition
Donald Melanson (Engadget) "netbook and tablet group." That's explained that "it makes sense for competition originally appeared
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:01:00 PM apparently been tasked with us to sharpen our focus on these on Engadget on Wed, 08 Dec
fending off competition in the friends of the PC, and Doug's 2010 13:01:00 EDT. Please see
There wasn't even so much as a netbook and tablet space, and experience running a similar and our terms for use of feeds.
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confirmed with Intel that the chip Atom processors -- it will be led to lead the group."
maker recently formed a new by the the current head of Intel's group, Douglas L. Davis. Intel Intel quietly forms netbook and
business unit dubbed simply the embedded and communications spokesman Bill Kircos further tablet group to fend off
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Updated: SpaceX Successfully Launches Its First Baking Like

Private Spaceship into Orbit and Brings it Home a Pro
Clay Dillow (Popular Science - Pacific Ocean later today. We'll (Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
New Technology, Science keep you updated on that progress
News, The Future Now) Cooking Light Test Kitchens'
here. In the meantime, soak up the
Submitted at 12/8/2010 10:54:12 AM historic launch below. Professional Jan Moon has baked
Falcon 9 Lifts Off with Dragon more cakes than she can count in
Update: At just after 2 p.m. EST,
The private spaceflight industry SpaceX's Dragon capsule the last decade. We asked her to
took another giant leap forward share a few well-tested tips on
splashed down in the Pacific after
today as privately-owned SpaceX, successfully completing reentry achieving great results every time.
with help from NASA, maneuvers and deploying its threeStart with the Right Equipment
successfully launched a Falcon 9 drag parachutes. The splashdown Good-quality cake pans are
rocket carrying its Dragon crew important. Choose aluminum pans
marks the first time a commercial
capsule into orbit from Kennedy entity has launched a spacecraftwith a dull finish since this metal
Space Center in Florida. Though into orbit and successfully absorbs and conducts heat
the crew capsule was unmanned brought the crew capsule safely efficiently. Avoid shiny pans,
for this maiden flight, the launch that shortly after liftoff the first propulsion. home. Congratulations to SpaceX which deflect heat, and dark metal
marks the first time a private stage transitioned beautifully into Dragon is now in orbit where it pans, which cause the outer edges
(and NASA) on a historic job well
spaceflight company has launched the Falcon9's second stage burn, will circle the Earth two or three done. of the cake to cook more quickly
a spaceship into orbit with the which put the Dragon into orbital times before reentering Earth's [ SPACE] than the center and overbrown,
intention of bringing it safely position. At that point, the Dragon atmosphere and, if all goes well, rendering the cake dry and tough.
back to Earth. capsule separated from the stage splashing down some 500 miles When preparing layer cakes, use a
SpaceX confirmed via Twitter two booster and initiated its own off the coast of Mexico in the pan with tall, straight sides.
According to Moon, three-inch
JAPANESE BAKING sides are best since the depth
continued from page 61 continued from page 62
allows the cake to rise to its
Venus when it passes near the was riding high on the recent maintain an elliptical orbit around cold spots in the oven, and maximum height.
planet again - in six years. success of its Hayabusa asteroid Venus ranging from just 190 compensate by rotating the cake A stand mixer is ideal for mixing
A c c o r d i n g t o J A X A , a n mission. Though troubled by miles above the surface to as far pans throughout the baking, if most cakes since the powerful
investigation is being launched glitches, Hayabusa managed to out as 50,000 miles, where it necessary. motor aerates the butter, sugar,
into the cause of the failure, but visit an asteroid and bring could study the planet's climate. Preheat the Oven and egg mixture, which in turn
initial assessments suggest that samples of asteroid dust back to And it still might. We'll update Preheat the oven so you can put helps the cake rise nicely while it
the mission handlers didn't' fire Earth, a feat never matched by you on Akatsuki's status in about the cake batter in as soon as it's bakes. A handheld mixer works
Akatsuki's engines for long any other space program. six years. ready. If it stands long after it's just fine, though you should mix
enough to place it in the proper But JAXA has never completed [ AP] mixed, the air in the batter (a the butter and sugar just a minute
orbiting position. Once it overshot an interplanetary mission, and six result of beating the butter and or two longer to incorporate as
the planet, the sun's gravity got a years is a long time to wait for a sugar, as well as the leavening) much air as the stand mixer does.
hold on the probe, pulling it into a second shot (Japan attempted a may escape, causing the final Your oven is another essential
sweeping orbit around the star. probe mission to Mars back in result to be tough and dense. c o m p o n e n t i n b a k i n g . I t ' s
For Japan, the failure is a 1998 but it was also riddled with Prepare the Pan(s) important to know the oven's true
crushing letdown as JAXA - problems and was abandoned a Next, prepare the pans. Simply temperature and know how it
which gets by on far smaller few years later). The $300 million coat them with cooking spray, and performs. Be aware of any hot or
budgets than the U.S. or the E.U. - Akatsuki probe was supposed to
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BAKING
continued from page 62
dust with a bit of flour. As the
cake bakes, the flour provides
traction to help the cake rise to its
full potential. It's often a good
idea to line the bottom of the pan
with wax paper as well, so the
cake doesn't tear when removed
from the pan. This is especially
true if the recipe calls for cake
flour, which is usually used in
delicate cakes. Cakes baked in
tube, Bundt, or other hard-to-line
specialty pans are exceptions to
this rule.
Mix the Batter
For best results, begin with
ingredients at approximately room
temperature (65° to 75°). Simply
leave eggs, butter, milk, and any
other refrigerated items out on the
kitchen counter for about 20
minutes while you measure and
gather all of the remaining
ingredients and equipment.
Softened butter accepts more air,
which is desirable for a moist and
light-textured cake. If you add
cold ingredients, such as eggs or
milk, later in the process, the
butter can seize (clump),
decreasing the volume of the
batter and inhibiting the
incorporation of the other
ingredients. Place the softened
butter and sugar in a large bowl,
and beat with an electric mixer
until thoroughly blended.
Measure flour carefully. This is
especially important in low-fat
baking because just a bit too much
or too little flour can have a
significant impact on the cake's
texture. If you don't have a
kitchen scale, it's best to lightly
spoon the flour into dry
measuring cups and level with a
knifenever scoop flour directly
from the canister with the
measuring cup. This packs flour
down and increases the amount in
the cup.
Combine flour with all of the dry
ingredients in a bowl, and stir
with a whisk to evenly disperse
any salt or leavening agent
(usually baking powder or baking
soda). With your electric mixer
speed on low, add the flour
mixture to the batter (the butter-
sugar mixture) alternately with
milk, beginning and ending with
the flour mixture. This procedure
allows the flour to be incorporated
into the batter thoroughly and
completely. But mix just until the
ingredients are combined. Once
liquid is added to the mixture, the
flour and liquid combine to form
glutena necessary element for the
cake's structure. Overmixing after
the flour is added increases the
amount of gluten and causes the
cake to be tough.
Bake the Cake
After it's mixed, place the batter
in the oven as quickly as possible
so the leavening will be fully
active.Avoid baking cakes on
different levels in the oven, if
possible, and place them at least
two inches apart in the oven and
two inches away from the oven
walls to promote even baking and
allow maximum air circulation.
(If you have to bake the layers on
different racks, rotate the pans
halfway through baking so they'll
cook evenly.)
Once the cakes are in the oven, if
possible, keep the oven door
closed tightly because the
temperature fluctuates each time
the door opens, and these
fluctuations can lead to a variety
of problems. If the temperature in
the oven drops, the cake will
probably bake a bit more slowly,
and it may sink in the center.
Then, as the oven reheats to the
required temperature, the edges of
the cake will be exposed to more
extreme temperatures and could
possibly result in a dry, tough
cake.
The best way to determine
doneness for most cakes is the
wooden pick test, performed after
the time specified in the recipe.
Insert a wooden pick in the center
of the cake. If it comes out clean,
the cake is done. If batter clings to
the pick, the cake needs to bake
one to three minutes longer. If
you see the sides of the cake
pulling away from the pan, this is
another sign of doneness.
Let It Cool
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Most cakes need to cool in the
pan on a wire rack for a few
minutes. If you try to remove a
cake from the pan too soon, it
may not be strong enough to hold
together. This is especially true of
cakes made with cake flour
because they are more delicate.
Turn the cake out of the pan after Video: Roberta
five to 10 minutes, remove the
wax paper, if necessary, and cool Mancino on
completely on a wire rack before
frosting, wrapping, or storing.
Bake Ahead, Save Time
Conan
(Mensfitness.com)
Cakes are ideal make-ahead
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time of year. You can bake the
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Simply thaw frozen cakes at room
Roberta Mancino the hottest
temperature. Moon often frosts
sports babe ever and now she's
cakes while they're still partially
everywhere. Yes, we'd like to
frozen since this helps prevent
think we had a little something to
stray crumbs from getting in the
do with that (you're welcome).
frosting, and she finds the cakes
With her recent appearances on
sturdier and easier to work with.
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Julianna Grimes Bottcher
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story over and over again.
When asked about the dangers
involved, Mancino said, "It's more
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dangersous for me to be here with
you." To which Conan replied,
"You bet it is."
And in this video from E:60,
Mancino admits to always being
concerned for her safety when
jumping. According to her
boyfriend, extreme sports legend
Jeb Corliss, she is not crazy. "I've
been with her when she's doing
very scary things and she does
them very well," says Corliss.
"She's very sane. She's not a crazy
person."
After breaking numerous
freestyle skydiving records and
conquering the art of base
jumping, Corliss and Mancino
have taken on proximity flying.
This entails donning a winged suit
(looking like a flying squirrel) and
flying as fast as you can and as
close to the side of a mountain as
you can.
Yeah, right ... who says they're
not crazy? Check it out.
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Liberal Exceptionalism
Submitted at 12/8/2010 3:00:52 AM
calls exceptionalism “[t]he theory is that his agenda will undermine
that Americans are better than distinctive and valuable national
T he debate between liberals and everybody else” and that “the traits. So, for example, further
conservatives has become, ever rules don’t apply to us.” Peter socializing health care will foster
more explicitly, a debate about Beinart says that Republicans are a culture of dependency,
American exceptionalism -- in thrall to “an anti-government entitlement, and centralization.
precisely as a National Review ideology premised on the lunatic The claim that Obama, too, is an
cover story predicted last spring. notion that America is the only exceptionalist rests on a different
Conservatives seek to defend that truly free and successful country (and incompatible)
exceptionalism from what they in the world.” misunderstanding of the concept.
regard as the threat posed to it by It is true that most Americans, The fact that he has from time to
the Obama administration’s and a disproportionate number of time suggested that America has
agenda. Liberals have not yet hit conservative Americans, consider “core values” that are
on a unified response to this this country to be the greatest “exceptional” and spoken warmly
charge, but their commentary nation in human history. But what of the Constitution and the
bears out our contention that these b e l i e v e r s i n A m e r i c a n Declaration of Independence does
days their attitude toward exceptionalism affirm is a not come close to demonstrating
American exceptionalism ranges different proposition: that there that he has any appreciation for
from discomfort to hostility. are distinctive features of what separates us from a social
#ad#This liberal commentary has American society and governance democracy. What matters is that
had three themes: that American -- of our creed and our culture -- his agenda would shrink that gap
exceptionalism is a ridiculous or that have contributed to our significantly.
dangerous idea; that President success. That view does not entail Kinsley ended his column by
Obama is just as supportive of it any obligation on the part of our defending liberals against a
as conservatives are (in which leaders to believe in our country’s mostly imagined slur. “If you
case, shouldn’t liberals who make superiority to other nations, let think your country is in danger,”
the first argument be denouncing alone to proclaim it constantly, as he asks, “how is it unpatriotic to
him?); and that conservatives are the liberal caricature of our view say so?” It isn’t unpatriotic. It
using exceptionalism to insinuate would have it. isn’t sinister. And it’s what we
that Obama is a foreigner. Nor do we deny that President have done. The Editors
The liberal case begins by Obama wishes the best, as he sees
confusing exceptionalism for it, for the American people and
jingoism. Thus Michael Kinsley seeks to bring it about. Our claim
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Julian Assange’s EgoLeaks
Submitted at 12/8/2010 11:00:21 AM
WikiLeaks is the journalistic
equivalent of the art world’s Piss
Christ— a product of the cynical
postmodern West.
J ulian Assange, the public face
of WikiLeaks, is, among many
things, cowardly. Courageousness
would involve meeting with
Iranian dissidents, Russian
journalists, Pakistani Christians,
or Chinese human-rights activists
-- and then releasing any
confidential information that they
might have about the torment
institutionalized by their
countries’ authoritarian regimes.
That would be risky to Assange,
however, since such governments
do not customarily go to court
against their leakers; they gulag
them -- or liquidate them.
So, instead, Assange navigates
through the European northwest
among the good-life elites whose
economic and security protocols
he does so much so undermine.
Being summoned to a trumped-up
Swedish hearing for being an
exploitative cad who fails to wear
a condom in his ephemeral hook-
ups is not the same thing as being
dragged into the basement of the
Pakistani intelligence service or
appearing in an orange jumpsuit
on an al-Qaeda execution video.
Why does not the peripatetic
Assange at least drive about, say,
the back roads of the Middle East,
Mexico, or Central Africa in his
quest for conduits to spread
cosmic truth and justice?
#ad#In truth, Assange is a sorry
product of the postmodern West.
He reminds us of the morality of
Western shock artists who freely
caricature Christianity on the
hallowed principle of free speech,
but, in a nano-second, censor
themselves when Islam might
provide an even larger target for
their cynical secular disdain.
WikiLeaks is the journalistic
equivalent of a Piss Christ
exhibition of the contemporary art
world -- a repellent reminder of
the cowardly selectivity of the
shock-jock huckster.
Julian Assange is without
principles. He seems to think
leaking confidential
communications proves that the
vast right-wing military-industrial
-financial complex is harming
either the most affluent, free
Western population in the history
of civilization or the globalized
world itself -- one that has done
more to eliminate poverty and
extend freedom in the last two
decades than had been done at any
other time in recorded history. We
know from Climategate that the
world’s green scientists are every
bit as conniving, petty, and mean-
spirited as any American
diplomat. I would like to see the
secret communications that buzz
back and forth among Hollywood
agents, producers, and financiers
to learn of the real criteria that led
to box-office bombs like Redacted
and Rendition being written, cast,
financed, and made. Maybe to
calibrate the level of sincerity and
honesty among our movers and
shakers, we can read the minutes
of Harvard or Yale tenure
committees, some correspondence
from the minions of George
Soros, or the communications of
the U.N. secretary general -- or,
better yet, the encrypted e-mail
transcripts of exchanges among
the WikiLeaks board. Apparently
Assange thinks that
confidentiality is trafficked only
among the suspicious Western
ruling classes, while dissidents
like himself are fueled instead by
“truth.” But if a man cannot be
honest with a woman during
intimacy, what can he be honest
about? -- whoops, one should not
rush to an Assange-like judgment
on the basis of gossip and
innuendo; one should wait until
the suspicious personage has had
his day in court.
#page#So Julian Assange is also a
juvenile. Like some warmed-over
let-it-all-hang-out Sixties
loudmouth, he seems to think that
transparency to the fullest is
honesty, without a clue that truth
is the final product that emerges
from a combination of self-
reflection, self-doubt, and
introspection. These diplomatic
cables contain raw gossip, half-
baked impressions, innuendos,
self-serving snideness, trial
balloons, and witticisms among
supposedly sober and judicious
diplomats. Yet entering such
confidential conversations in
mediis rebus short-circuits, rather
than enhances, the truth. In the
adult world, venting to others
does not necessarily translate into
duplicity; actions are often a
better indicator of veracity than
rumblings and musings. Only a
perpetual adolescent believes that
one has to be perfect in word and
thought to be good. The United
States no doubt is told all the time
by preening Gulf sheiks to hit
Iran, but that does not mean that
we or even they wish to reify such
braggadocio. So far the real truth
is our actions, which suggest that
we do not think it is wise to bomb
Iran.
#ad#Julian Assange is a narcissist.
Like all self-absorbed egos who
deny their selfishness, he protests
that he wished WikiLeaks to
remain an anonymously run,
collective effort -- while he
ensured that it most certainly
would not be, as he jetted the
globe, giving dozens of media
interviews, leveling threats,
pontificating about world leaders
who should resign, and promising
to drop embarrassing
megatonnage of gossip should he,
Julian Assange, ever be charged.
Julian Assange has more or less
ensured that WikiLeaks would be
synonymous with Julian Assange
and that he would be its man-of-
the-year face on Time magazine.
Like all narcissists, when
reminded that his recklessness
will lead to violence, mayhem,
and deaths, he dismisses such
dangers as insignificant in
comparison to the benevolence
that he bestows. Note how easily
a computer hacker with a criminal
record has established himself as
judge, jury, and executioner on
behalf of world truth. When he
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says, “I have become a lightning
rod,” he means, “I am the Lady
Gaga of leaking.”
His one mistake? Assange
unfortunately got his sweepstakes
trove from Bradley Manning
during the Obama administration.
Up until then, the global liberal
media culture had less of a
problem with WikiLeaks, since
government disclosures only
confirmed the nefarious nature of
reactionaries like George W.
Bush. But now in the age of
progressive governance, we are
learning that Secretary Clinton
spies, that President Obama’s
diplomats are jaded and cynical,
and that such disclosures have
hurt the presidency of a liberal
progressive. It is one thing to
canonize a Daniel Ellsberg or
transmogrify the serial deceiver
Joe Wilson into a victim of Dick
Cheney’s dark plots, but quite
another to deify a leaker whose
machinations will serve to
undermine the agenda of Barack
Obama. To paraphrase George
Orwell, Assange is learning that
all leaks are essential -- but some
leaks are more essential than
others.
— NRO contributor Victor Davis
Hanson is a senior fellow at the
Hoover Institution, the editor of
Makers of Ancient Strategy: From
the Persian Wars to the Fall of
Rome, and the author of The
Father of Us All: War and
History, Ancient and Modern.
Victor Davis Hanson
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From Cancun to Kyoto Ethanol: Let

Submitted at 12/8/2010 3:00:59 AM
cash the wealthy nations would
fork over to less-developed
themselves.” The news media and
diplomats from the developing
owners of coal and oil will not be
enthusiastic about this. One has to Protectionism
The U.N.’s climate summit is the nations. The Wall Street Journal world immediately pronounced free oneself from the illusion that
same thing all over again. accurately described the meeting
T he poet Edna St. Vincent- as the developing world’s “most
that Reagan had “isolated”
himself at Cancun, and blasted
international climate policy is
environmental policy. This has
Expire
Submitted at 12/8/2010 3:00:30 AM
Millay is reported to have quipped s p e c t a c u l a r r e a c h f o r t h e American intransigence. But the almost nothing to do with
that “history isn’t one damn thing A m e r i c a n w a l l e t . ” whole “North-South Dialogue” environmental policy anymore.” It’s high noon for ethanol
after another -- it’s the same damn The location of that hopeful proceeded to fade away. This Cancun meeting ought to subsidies and import tariffs, but
thing over and over again.” The summit? Cancun. The redistributionist impulse is end like the last one, with the not for the ethanol industry.
world is about to be reminded of But a funny thing happened on irrepressible, however, and was kleptocrats sent packing with A fter more than three decades,
this at the current international the way to the U.N.’s wealth reborn just a few years later with copies of the Collected Economic the U.S. ethanol blenders’ tax
climate-change summit, which is redistributionpalooza: Ronaldus the coming of the climate Wisdom of the Gipper as the best credit and the ethanol-import
grinding into its second week in Magnus showed up and stomped campaign. With the collapse last prescription for dealing with tariff that was put in place to
Cancun. It is worth recalling the on the whole thing. President year in Copenhagen of any treaty climate change (or any other offset it are set to expire at the end
back story to this increasingly Reagan told the kleptocrats: that caps greenhouse-gas development problem). of the year. The way things are
obvious farce. There is a propaganda campaign emissions, the U.N. movable feast Obviously, the Obama looking, we may finally be rid of
Back in the late 1970s and early in wide circulation that would is left with its old standby -- administration is congenitally these indefensible and parochial
1980s, the cosmopolitan elites have the world believe that wealth redistribution -- as the only opposed to embracing market distortions. The ethanol
were full of talk about something capitalist United States is the remaining item on the agenda for Reaganomics and is likely to sign tax credit alone costs taxpayers
called the “New International cause of world hunger and its next meeting, which is why it on to provide the billions in aid over $6 billion per year.
Economic Order,” which was poverty.#...#Others mistake is fitting the meeting is taking that were pledged tentatively last The expiration of these policies
facilitated by the “North-South compassion for development and place in Cancun. year in Copenhagen. But does will have little, if any, impact on
dialogue.” The premise of the claim massive transfers of wealth The climate campaigners don’t anyone believe, in this age of the U.S. ethanol industry, because
New International Economic somehow miraculously will even bother to disguise their main budget deficits and austerity, both the Renewable Fuel Standard
Order, as explained at the time by produce new well-being. And still agenda anymore. The German here and in Europe, that the requires Americans to consume an
W e s t G e r m a n y ’ s s o c i a l i s t others confuse development with newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung checks will actually get cut? increasing amount of biofuels
chancellor Willy Brandt, was that collectivism. observed two weeks ago: “The Unlikely, but that’s good news for each year. The demand for
there needed to be “a large-scale Reagan went on extol open next world climate summit in the climate campaign, because it ethanol will therefore not drop
t r a n s f e r o f r e s o u r c e s t o markets, private enterprise, Cancun is actually an economy assures that they’ll meet again significantly even when the
developing countries” and “a start individual initiative, low taxes, summit during which the somewhere next year, which is the current tax credit (45 cents per
of some major reforms in the and limited government as the distribution of the world’s ultimate diplomatic imperative. gallon) and tariff (54 cents per
international economic system,” true path to prosperity for the resources will be negotiated.” — Steven F. Hayward is a gallon) expire. As a mandate, the
including international regulatory developing world. The fastest- What prompted this conclusion resident scholar at the American standard acts as a built-in market
and perhaps even taxing authority. g r o w i n g n a t i o n s , R e a g a n was a candid admission from a Enterprise Institute and an adjunct for U.S. ethanol producers.
#ad#Naturally, the United Nations observed, are the ones that U.N. official closely involved professor at the John M. #ad#Still, Tea Party darlings Tom
was at the center of this crusade, provide the most economic with the climate negotiations, Ashbrook Center at Ashland Coburn (R., Okla.) and Jim
and the harebrains at Turtle Bay freedom to their people. The German economist Ottmar University. Steven F. Hayward DeMint (R., S.C.) rightly began
concocted a “North-South developing world, Fortune Edenhoffer: “But one must say pushing the ethanol issue
Summit” in the fall of 1981 where m a g a z i n e o b s e r v e d , i s clearly that we redistribute de immediately after the election as a
all the world’s leaders would “accustomed to lectur[ing] others, facto the world’s wealth by key test of whether congressional
gather to decide just how much n o t t o b e i n g l e c t u r e d a t climate policy. Obviously, the Republicans could get serious
about fiscal discipline. Last week,
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a bipartisan group of 17 senators,

Rich Trzupek (FrontPage judge for themselves, he rather
Magazine » FrontPage) led by the unlikely tandem of
wants them to agree with Julian Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) and
Submitted at 12/7/2010 10:45:10 PM Assange’s judgment and offer him John Kyl (R., Ariz.), signed on to
a deafening round of applause. a letter calling for an end to
Alleged sex offender and world- In what was perhaps the most ethanol price supports.
class narcissist Julian Assange egregious example of Assange’s The letter was countered by a
coined a phrase to describe the editorial bias, WikiLeaks’ statement from Sens. Chuck
practice of accepting and prejudices and duplicity were on Grassley (R., Iowa) and Kent
publishing stolen documents that full display in the video Conrad (R., N.D) declaring that
puts lives in danger and threatens “Collateral Murder.” Having the U.S. would suffer catastrophic
national security: “scientific obtained raw video of an job losses and domestic ethanol
journalism.” Having made engagement between a US Army production would plummet. Sen.
enemies from Washington to Apache helicopter and Iraqi Tom Harkin (D., Iowa)
Moscow and beyond, Assange is insurgents, Assange didn’t simply proclaimed, “They have to show
now in full martyr mode, air the raw video as received and me a valid economic reason why
portraying himself and his pals at let the viewer “judge for the 45 cents is not in the best
WikiLeaks as crusaders themselves.” Instead, as a story in interest of this country and our
courageously trying to make the The New Yorker detailed, economy.”
world a better place by delivering Assange and his cronies spent This argument is exactly
facts into the hands of ordinary
arguments still don’t hold up. Any documents and allow its readers hour upon hour going over the backwards: Harkin is unable to
people like you and me. Here’s
time a journalist or a media outlet to figure out who was reporting grainy black and white footage, demonstrate that the tax credit
how Assange described his brand
obtains information, it has to the news accurately? Of course deciding which portions to does anything but subsidize
of “journalism” in an op-ed piece
make editorial decisions about not. Had it done so, the deluge of publish, which to discard and how domestic gasoline consumption
published in The Australian
how to use that information. What information would have been too to best explain what the edited and exports of ethanol.
yesterday entitled “Don’t Shoot
stories do you highlight, and great for anyone to comprehend. footage they would release meant, Although tax credits by
the Messenger for Revealing
which get less attention? What Instead, WikiLeaks did what in order to deliver the message themselves encourage ethanol
Uncomfortable Truths”:
context do you provide and who journalists do: Assange and his they preferred. At no point did production, they drive down the
WikiLeaks coined a new type of
provides it? Where do you try to cronies made editorial decisions they consult with anyone who has cost of gasoline when a mandate
journalism: scientific journalism.
focus your audience’s attention? based on which cables, in their been in combat, in order to controls the price of ethanol. A
We work with other media outlets
Like every other media outlet, judgment, would have the most understand the context of the tax credit gives blenders the
to bring people the news, but also
WikiLeaks has to make such impact and create the biggest engagement or how it would have incentive to blend more gasoline
to prove it is true. Scientific
d e c i s i o n s ; d e c i s i o n s w h i c h buzz. They provided trusted looked to the crew of the Apache. than they would otherwise (and
journalism allows you to read a
inevitably involve the prejudices, partners like The New York Indeed, the title for the video they thereby derive more profits from
news story, then to click online to
judgment and knowledge-base of Times and The Guardian with chose presupposes a conclusion. the tax credit). This increases the
see the original document it is
the editors who make them. The selected cables that would create Huddled in their hideout in supply, and thus decreases the
based on. That way you can judge
proposition that WikiLeaks is blazing headlines. They decided Iceland, the last thing Assange price, of fuel. Because the ethanol
for yourself: Is the story true? Did
simply a resource for those which cables to release at their and his pals wanted was for market price is fixed by the
the journalist report it accurately?
interested in the truth does not o w n s i t e a n d t h e y o f f e r e d viewers to evaluate the veracity of mandate, when the fuel (ethanol
Even if we were to ignore the
hold up to any kind of scrutiny. commentary intended to steer WikiLeaks’ claims. They rather plus gasoline) price has to decline,
propriety of publishing illegally-
WikiLeaks says that it obtained their readers in a particular put in long hours of work in order it does so in the form of lower
obtained documents and the
m o r e t h a n 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 S t a t e direction when those readers to ensure that they produced a gasoline prices.
morality of putting lives at risk in
Department cables, for example. digested the contents. Assange product that would be fully Meanwhile, U.S. corn-ethanol
the name of a twisted form of
Did it simply release all of those doesn’t want his followers to consistent with their worldview. ETHANOL: page 70
journalistic purity, Assange’s
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The Mt. Carmel Inferno
Steven Plaut (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 12/7/2010 10:40:43 PM
Now send and gather all of Israel
to Me on Mount Carmel….Then
the fire of the Lord fell and
devoured the sacrifice and the
wood and the stones and the dust
and the water. — Kings I 18: 19,
38
“Carmel” means the orchard of
God in Hebrew.
The Bulgarian firefighters have
agreed to let me tag along with
them as they make their way up
the gullies in the Carmel Forest,
seeking out flames still burning
uncontrolled. I walk with Mikhail,
probably the only Bulgarian
firefighter on earth who speaks
Hebrew. He is also a medic, and
had earlier done some work in
Israel; long enough to pick up
basic Hebrew. He and the other
Bulgarian firefighters just came
down from the command center at
the University of Haifa. His
colleagues are amused that an
aging professor from the same
university wants to accompany
them. One tells Mikhail to
explain to me that he wants to
come back later to be a student in
my university. A religious couple
from Haifa comes out of the
bushes carrying large boxes of
sufganiyot, Hannuka cakes, and
distributes them to the
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evacuated. Friends and relatives
from around the country call and
offer us sanctuary if we need it. It
feels a lot like the summer of
2006, when Haifa was the target
of hundreds of rockets fired by
Hezb’Allah terrorists during the
Lebanese War. The man at the
meat counter in the supermarket
jokes with me; if the wind
changes direction he will be
December
holding a special sale on
barbecued chickens that never
even had to be put into the oven.
7, 1950
Robert Spencer (FrontPage
We are all sold out of Magazine » FrontPage)
marshmallows, he adds.
Submitted at 12/7/2010 10:35:28 PM
But it was hard to keep a sense of
humor in the midst of Israel’s Nine years after Pearl Harbor,
firefighters, thanking each of many posters on billboards in worst-ever natural disaster, one in World War II had been over for
t h e m p e r s o n a l l y w i t h a “ Russian. They are commanded by which over 40 Israelis died in the five years. The nation was strong
Spaseeba!” the Russian Deputy Minister for flames. Besides the bus full of and confident in the face of the
All around us the brush and trees National Emergencies, the same prison service cadets, the victims Cold War threat from the Soviets,
are smoking. Every gust of wind fellow who led the battle against included a 16-year old Haifa boy and was in the process of
stirs up ash. Countless fire- the forest fires around Moscow w h o h a d l o n g s e r v e d a s a magnanimously helping Germany
fighting planes circle overhead, last summer. The soft-spoken guy volunteer fireman with one of the and Japan rebuild.
interrupted by the circling giant is a giant, a Russian Paul Bunyon, brigades. He was overcome after Nine years after 9/11, and we are
American 747 that has just and seems capable of blowing out he rushed into the conflagration barely even at square one.
arrived. The command-and- forest fires with only his breath. with his colleagues. Another Consider, by way of comparison,
control center for the entire battle These were not the Hannuka victim was the Haifa Chief of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s
against the fires has been set up flames Israel was expecting. On Police, a courageous 52-year old speech to Congress the day after
on the University of Haifa the first day of the festival, the top woman, Ahuva Tomer, who died the Pearl Harbor attacks and the
campus. A parking lot there of Mount Carmel looked like one from burns. She was born in the U.S. in the age of Barack Hussein
c o n t a i n s s o m a n y R u s s i a n of those volcanoes you see on the USSR and came to Israel alone as Obama. The similarities — and
firefighters that a large Russian National Geographic Channel. an infant. But do not expect her the differences — are striking.
f l a g h a s b e e n r a i s e d . T h e The pillar of smoke could be seen courage and ordeal to arouse any Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Speech
firefighters are amazed when all from 50 miles away. Gusts of sympathy from radical feminists. to the U.S. Congress on
of the campus security staff speak wind bring ash and smoke into They are too busy cheering on the December 8th, 1941(as delivered)
and joke with them freely in Haifa. Residents of some streets Hamas terrorists. Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker,
Russian, and when they see so c l o s e s t t o t h e f l a m e s a r e Members of the Senate, of the
House of Representatives:
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a
date which will live in infamy –
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Iran (Not) So Far Away

Alan Adkisson (The Foundry: enormous network of financiers,
Conservative Policy News.) “public works” projects, and
Submitted at 12/8/2010 11:00:04 AM shady manufacturing and “gold”
mining industries in South and
Posted December 8th, 2010 at Central America thanks to the
12:00pm in American Leadership accomplice states of the
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For the first time in over a year,
Bolivarian Alliance, which is Will WikiLeaks
headed by Venezuelan strongman
Iran and the permanent members
of the U.N. Security Council,
Hugo Chavez.
Despite Obama’s promise of a “
Sink New
along with Germany (known as
the P5 + 1), held talks for the past
new beginning” in the region, his
Administration has done little to
START?
two days in Geneva over the Sally McNamara (The Foundry:
advance security in our Conservative Policy News.)
Islamic Republic’s shadowy hemisphere. Rather than pile hope
nuclear program. on talks that will just give Iran Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:00:31 PM

While Iran’s proliferation more time, the Obama

problems are certainly cause for Administration should act Posted December 8th, 2010 at
concern, we would do well to forcefully to eliminate Iran’s 1:00pm in American Leadership
monitor Iran’s growing presence nuclear and weapons development Print This Post
in our own hemisphere. And you programs and ensure that more is The Wikileaks revelations have
don’t have to look hard to find done to deter Iranian operations in been described as the “9/11 of
evidence of Iran’s nefarious Latin America. The threat is too diplomacy”. One not-so-secret
dealings. revelation, however, is news that
[R]ecent years have witnessed an access points along the border, close to ignore. the Obama Administration
• Venezuela has allowed Iran increased presence in Latin including underground drug Alan Adkisson is currently a
access to a gold mine in the America, particularly Venezuela.” tunnels. member of the Young Leaders doesn’t hold the transatlantic
Roraima basin. That gold mine, • The threat is on our immediate • IRGC members in Latin P r o g r a m a t t h e H e r i t a g e alliance in particularly high
however, is very near what might southern border, too. Governor A m e r i c a a r e s u s p e c t e d o f Foundation. For more information regard. For Obama, America’s
be one of the world’s largest R i c k P e r r y ( R – T X ) h a s recruiting student and government on interning at Heritage, please European allies are like pawns on
deposits of uranium. Nearby highlighted the operational c a d r e s f o r “ d i p l o m a t i c visit: http://www.heritage.org/ a chess board—to be arm twisted
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capabilities around the world. … states: “As a former member of
the Danish Parliament, I know
better than to tell U.S. senators
what to do.” Then he goes on to
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DECEMBER
continued from page 68
the United States of America was
suddenly and deliberately
attacked by naval and air forces of
the Empire of Japan.
And on September 11, 2001 — a
date which will likewise live in
infamy — the United States of
America was suddenly and
deliberately attacked by the forces
of the global Islamic jihad.
The United States was at peace
with that nation, and, at the
solicitation of Japan, was still in
conversation with its government
and its Emperor looking toward
the maintenance of peace in the
Pacific. [...]
The United States was at peace
with the warriors of Islam, and
considers itself to be at peace with
them still, and has undertaken
numerous efforts to mollify
Muslims and convince them that
it has no quarrel with Islam or
with Muslims at all.
It will be recorded that the
distance of Hawaii from Japan
makes it obvious that the attack
was deliberately planned many
days or even weeks ago. During
the intervening time, the Japanese
government has deliberately
sought to deceive the United
States by false statements and
expressions of hope for continued
peace. [...]
It will be recorded that the
doctrines of jihad in Islam and the
statements of jihad terrorists
worldwide make it obvious that
the attack was deliberately
planned as a jihad attack. During
the ensuing nine years, Islamic
spokesmen have deliberately
sought to deceive the United
States by false statements and
expressions of hope for continued
peace.
Yesterday, the Japanese
government also launched an
attack against Malaya.
Last night, Japanese forces
attacked Hong Kong.
Last night, Japanese forces
attacked Guam.
Last night, Japanese forces
attacked the Philippine Islands.
Last night, the Japanese attacked
Wake Island.
This morning, the Japanese
attacked Midway Island.
Japan has, therefore, undertaken
a surprise offensive extending
throughout the Pacific area. The
facts of yesterday and today speak
for themselves. The People of the
United States have already formed
their opinions and well understand
the implications to the very life
and safety of our nation.
Islamic jihad forces are currently
operating in Indonesia, the
Philippines, Thailand, India,
Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq,
Israel, Nigeria, Chechnya, and
elsewhere. The jihadists have,
therefore, undertaken an offensive
extending throughout the world.
The facts of 9/11 and today speak
for themselves. Yet the People of
the United States largely remain
unequipped to form their opinions
and understand the implications to
the very life and safety of our
nation, for neither government nor
media is telling them the truth
about the nature of the threat.
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production is at an all-time high
of 38 million gallons a day (13.9
billion gallons a year), with
exports exceeding even Brazil’s.
Corn prices are near their record
highs, and food-price-inflation
concerns are rising. It is time for
lawmakers to adjust to these new
realities.
Redundancy and high costs are
contributing to politicians’
reluctance to extend the tax credit
-- as is the growing uncertainty
over the claimed environmental
benefits and the bad publicity that
accompanied the perception that
biofuels were a primary culprit of
the 2008 commodity price spike.
The waning public support in the
U.S. for biofuel subsidies is
taking many forms. A broad
coalition of organizations,
including value-added agricultural
industries, environmental groups,
and some in the oil industry, is
lobbying strongly against
extension of the tax credit and
tariff. This in the face of divisions
within the ethanol lobby, where
some argue tax credits are no
longer necessary while others
propose a shift to a production tax
credit, which would be paid to
ethanol producers instead of fuel
blenders.
If the economic rationale for the
ethanol-import tariff is to offset
the tax credit, then the tariff
should expire along with the tax
credit. Letting the tariff expire can
provide more competition in the
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ethanol market and allow more
environmentally friendly ethanol
onto the market -- such as
Brazilian sugarcane ethanol. The
primary reason sugarcane ethanol
is, by far, the world’s lowest-
carbon-intensity biofuel produced
on a commercial scale is that one
obtains twice the amount of
ethanol per land unit from
sugarcane as from corn.
Furthermore, sugarcane is not a
staple food crop and, unlike corn,
has only an indirect effect on food
prices. It is better for Brazil to
produce ethanol and the U.S. to
produce corn.
Brazil ended subsidies for
ethanol over ten years ago and
eliminated its ethanol tariff early
this year. The U.S. should
reciprocate. As the world’s top
producers of ethanol, the U.S. and
Brazil should collaborate in
building an open and global
biofuels marketplace for clean,
renewable energy.
The best thing President Obama
and Congress could do for ethanol
policy this year is nothing -- let
the tax credit and tariff expire.
— Harry de Gorter is a professor
at Cornell University and a
visiting fellow at the Cato
Institute, where Jerry Taylor is a
senior fellow. Harry de Gorter
Jerry Taylor
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Wikileaks Contradicts Obama
Administration on Iran
Alan M. Dershowitz (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 12/7/2010 10:43:44 PM
The recent disclosures by
Wikileaks prove that the Obama
Administration, and its water
carrier J Street, were dead wrong
in repeatedly asserting that the
only way to get Arab support for
tough policies toward Iran’s
nuclear weapons program is for
Israel to end the occupation of the
West Bank. There are good
reasons for Israel to reach an
agreement with the Palestinians
leading to a two state solution, but
garnering Arab support against
Iran is not one of them. The
Wikileaks proved beyond any
doubt that Israel’s Arab
neighbors have a strong,
independent basis for wanting to
stop Iran from becoming a nuclear
weapons power.
The recently released cables
establish that Saudi Arabia was
pushing the United States to
bomb Iranian nuclear sites; these
cables never mentioned the
Israeli Palestinian conflict. Nor
were the Saudis alone in calling
for the United States to cut off the
“head of the snake.” Other Arab
nations were banging the drum for
a military attack as well. Indeed
there is evidence that the Saudis
and Israelis—who have no
diplomatic relations—have
discussed military options against
their common enemy.
Ever since the Obama
Administration tried to put
pressure on Israel by linking the
end of the occupation to Iran, I
have pointed out the absurdity of
this linkage. But General David
Petraeus, Secretary of State
Robert Gates and Vice President
Joe Biden have all insisted that
the continuing occupation has
made Arab states less willing to
cooperate with the United States
in preventing Iran from
developing nuclear bombs. This
party line view has been parroted,
as usual, by various
representatives of J Street.
Not only has this linkage never
been true, but we now know that
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tell the Senate exactly what to defence capabilities quantitatively
do—to ratify New START. And
his primary reasoning for this
or qualitatively.” Although the
Administration is refuting this
support? That New START will claim, it is refusing to release the
lead to a second treaty of greater negotiating record of the U.S.-
importance of Europe—namely, Russian deliberations for the
on tactical nuclear weapons in Senate to review, making it
Europe. difficult for Senators to fully asses
It is impossible, not to mention whether the Treaty is in fact in the
ridiculous, to ask U.S. senators to U.S. interest and that of its allies
support New START for the or not.
purposes of achieving another When the new Senate
treaty at some point in the reconstitutes in January there will
unidentified future which may or be plenty of time for the Foreign
may not be important to Relations Committee to
America’s cousins across the reconsider the matter and
Atlantic. The U.S. Constitution investigate exactly whether the
only empowers the Senate to offer Treaty genuinely does serve U.S.
its advice on and consent to this and allied interests. It is worth
particular treaty. waiting these few short weeks for
The Senate is right to be the newly-elected Senate to
the Obama Administration has
concerned about New START. execute its constitutionally-
long been aware that the Arabs
The Russians have indicated that mandated duty to genuinely offer
states are as anxious as Israel
the treaty imposes significant its advice and consent on such an
about Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
limitations on U.S. ballistic important issue—and with the full
This information was contained
missile defenses—and therefore facts before it.
in diplomatic cables that date
on NATO’s proposed missile This entry passed through the
back months, if not years. Why
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then would the Obama
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Russian Federation and the United content-only/faq.php
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Bush Administration, which also
Reduction and Limitation of Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing
mislead the public when it came
Strategic Offensive Arms signed Again?.
to Iran by releasing the National
in Prague on April 8, 2010, can
Security Estimate in November
operate and be viable only if the
2007 that falsely concluded that
United States of America refrains
Iran had abandoned its nuclear
from developing its missile
weapons program.
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Reagan Recovery vs. Obama Recovery in Pictures

Conn Carroll (The Foundry: especially when the presidents to 9.8%. campaign trail in 2008:“I think
Conservative Policy News.) that preside over them have So why was the Reagan when you spread the wealth
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:00:41 PM diametrically opposed Recovery so strong and why is the around, it’s good for everybody.”
philosophies about what Obama Recovery so weak? As the still-unemployment rates
Posted December 8th, 2010 at government can or should do. But These policies reflect the shows, even with a recovering
2:00pm in Ongoing Priorities a s R o n a l d R e a g a n o n c e different governing philosophies economy, President Obama’s
Print This Post said:“Shouldn’t we expect of these two presidents. In his wealth-distribution efforts are not
According to The National government to read the score to us First Inaugural Address, President good for anybody.
Bureau of Economic Research, once in a while?” Reagan said:“In this present This entry passed through the
the Great Recession began in As the chart to the right shows, crisis, government is not the Full-Text RSS service — if this is
D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 7 , l a s t e d 1 8 the stark reality is that the solution to our problem; your content and you're reading it
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The last recession that lasted this President Barack Obama has been the days ahead, I will propose our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
long began in July 1981, lasted much weaker than the recovery removing the roadblocks that have content-only/faq.php
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November 1982. At this stage of the Reagan u n d e r t h e O b a m a r e c o v e r y productivity.” Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing
No two recessions are the same. recovery, unemployment had President Obama, however, sees Again?.
unemployment has actually risen
And no two recoveries are going fallen more than three full points, a much larger role for the federal
almost a half a percent from 9.4%
to be exactly the same either … from 10.8% to 7.7%. By contrast, government. As he said on the

Salesforce Unleashes 5 New Platforms for Rapid Cloud App

Development
Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable!) Salesforce Force.com platform. common IT challenges. discussed by Benioff in today’s
Submitted at 12/8/2010 11:15:02 AM The new services speak to Appforce: A platform for morning keynote session. We’ll
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Does “TRON: Legacy” Deliver the Goods? [MOVIE REVIEW]

Zachary Sniderman
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 12:22:22 PM

TRON: Legacy is one of those

rare movies that manages to do
justice to its source material
without being a slave to it. The
film carefully and dramatically
balances soaring neon landscapes
with enough electro riffs and
techno-philosophy to keep happy
both mainstream audiences and its
niche core.
Legacy picks up in 1989, seven
years after the original TRON
ends. Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges),
a gifted computer programmer,
has managed to become CEO of a
major software company,
ENCOM, after unexpectedly
entering and dismantling the
company’s computer mainframe Where are the light cycles? The conspicuously absent. Aside from balancing a father-son reunion everything you could want from a
from the inside. Having acquired flying orange aircraft? This early some brief smartphone hacking story. five-on-five LightCycle battle,
a taste for the digital world, Kevin exposition reads as just that: and a plethora of touchscreens, These elements and some complete with neon explosions,
continues to revisit the mainframe necessary but dull exposition, a “technology” survives as an stunning set-piece moments criss-crossing bands, and high-
in the hopes of using it to solve prelude to what audiences paid to abstract concept in the film. There crowd out some of the allegorical speed craftiness. The LightCycle
and innovate in the name of see. Sam thankfully gets sucked is no mention of modern video elements of the original film concept is even expanded to a
science. And then he disappears. into the digital world in search of games or consoles like the PS3 or where the computer world stood “Light Jet” battle featuring the
The audience is left staring at his his father after receiving a Xbox and there really isn’t any as a proxy for the real-world same, deadly streams of light in
7-year-old son Sam who, 20 years serendipitous text from his dad’s discussion of computers. The film behaviors and personalities that mid-air. Although it loses the
later (played by Garrett Hedlund), old arcade. veers, favorably, towards more created it. Instead, TRON: Legacy sense of speed, it shows that
holds the majority share of his This is where the fun starts, and general but ultimately more focuses on how Sam comes to Legacy is at least trying to push
father’s company. A motorcycle not just because the palette turns interesting themes of technology grips with his dad’s long absence, the theme rather than recycle old
riding recluse, Sam literally lives to black and neon. The trip to the in absentia. the discovery of a new form of tropes just to milk some holiday
under a bridge while the current digital world allows the film to Anyone who has seen the trailers life, played by the naïve but cash. These high-powered chases
CEO makes quips about shilling open up both visually and knows that there is a CGI-ed electric Olivia Wilde, and how all and fights help to buy some time
consumers on new, annual conceptually. In between the truly version of a young Kevin, circa three of them can get out of dodge and space for scenes of over-acted
software without making gorgeous machines, wires, and 1989, that interacts with the as quickly as possible. pain or under-acted tech mumbo-
improvements. Not the dream programs that populate the over- present-day Kevin (both voiced Those set-pieces are mostly what jumbo, like Kevin’s loose
Kevin had in mind. saturated world of TRON are by Jeff Bridges). Without ruining have been selling the film from a explanation of what “Isomorphs”
All of this feels like a long build- brief ruminations on computer how this comes about, the movie PR standpoint, and they are worth are.
up to the impressive visuals that politics and theory. tackles Asimov-level questions of every penny. A five-on-five
early trailers have been boasting. DOES page 75
Actual technology, however, is purpose and logic while also LightCycle battle captures
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The writing sometimes lands
perfectly or completely misfires.
Honest scenes like Sam’s first
dinner with his dad ditch the
highfalutin’ for standard dad
questions about Sam’s girlfriend,
dog and job. It’s a nice
counterpoint to the tech themes
and pulsing turquoise landscape
behind them. Meanwhile, Bridges
delivers sharp lines like “Sam,
really. You’re messing with my
‘zen’ thing,” in a “dude” meets
“dad” way after Sam loses his
bike and nearly gets them all
killed. This is juxtaposed against
Sam’s limp description of the sun,
an emotional high point, as
“warm, radiant, beautiful.”
The soundtrack, assembled by
French electro-stars Daft Punk, is
mostly a hit. Their characteristic
blips and industrial grind are a
great fit for the digital realm. And
the soundtrack does fit the mood,
punctuating the action when it
needs it but given the band’s
stature, fame, and lack of an
album since 2005, their
minimalism might be a little
disappointing for fans wanting to
hear a new Daft Punk album
rather than a film soundtrack.
The film is beautiful, and to see it
in motion does the design work
more justice than words. The
digitally younger version of
Bridges, achieved through CGI, is
a great approximation of a human
but the graphics still look a little
gummy and false when contrasted
against actual humans. This isn’t a
problem in the digital world but
it’s a little uncanny in the opening
scenes when “young” Kevin is
supposed to look as real as his
family.
The real visual star is the
mainframe world, even if much of
the designs and even some of the
scenes are faithful — albeit
impressive — updates from the
original film. Fans might also pick
up on some parallel film
structures and motifs, but they
successfully land on the side of
homage rather than laziness.
Some scenes were filmed in 3D,
allowing the vistas to breathe with
added depth. Even the plain-old
2D renditions shimmer and snake
with electricity and energy. It is a
vibrant world that manages not to
subsume the character drama and
high-minded (sometimes too
much so) tech-philosophy.
TRON: Legacy, for all its
trappings and stars, is about a son
taking his father’s place. That the
film can balance this human
drama against its pulsing cities
and striking colors is a testament
to Joseph Kosinski, TRON:
Legacy’s skillful director.
TRON: Legacy may not sweep
the Oscars but it is a tremendously
good time: A beautiful film that
offers enough emotion to keep
you interested and enough
philosophy to actually make you
think. The plot has holes,
especially if you aren’t familiar
with the original film (how can
Kevin manipulate the
mainframe?) and the acting isn’t
always perfect, but that version of
“perfection” is exactly the point
of TRON. Nothing, not even the
digital world, can be perfect. This
film does, however, serve as a
fitting, sometimes remarkable,
legacy for TRON fans.
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Foursquare Surpasses 5 Million Users European carriers want content

Ben Parr (Mashable!) Crowley was also grilled by companies and smartphone
LeWeb and Seesmic founder Loic
Submitted at 12/8/2010 10:39:40 AM
Le Meur on rumored acquisition makers to pay network usage fees
It’s official: Foursquare has 5 offers from Facebook and Yahoo Nilay Patel (Engadget)
million users, increasing its user earlier this year. He essentially
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:22:00 PM
base by a factor of 10 in just nine confirmed that Facebook made an
months. acquisition offer for the company How do you start a net neutrality
The revelation was made by and hinted that another party debate without ever saying "net
Foursquare co-founder and CEO (most likely Yahoo) made a $140 neutrality?" If you're a European
Dennis Crowley on the stage of that Foursquare had surpassed the million bid for Foursquare as wireless carrier like France
the LeWeb Conference in Paris. 5 million user mark. Those well. Telecom, Telecom Italia,
He noted that the geosocial reports were based on Foursquare More About: dennis crowley, Telefonica, or Vodafone, you do
service surpassed the 5 million having more than 5 million user foursquare, LeWeb, LeWeb 2010 it by just getting straight to the
mark late last week. IDs, not actual users though. For more Mobile coverage: point: you say companies like
Compare that milestone to March Here’s what Foursquare told us • Follow Mashable Mobile on wanting more cash to even out the
Google, Apple, and Facebook books as they invest in next-gen
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company announced it had more “Though there are over 5 million • Become a Fan on Facebook networks. "It's necessary to put in
network access because their place a system of payments by
than half a million users. In user IDs in the foursquare • Subscribe to the Mobile channel devices and services use too much
April, it surpassed 1 million and community, our user IDs don’t • Download our free apps for service providers as a function of
bandwidth. Yep, that's a straight- their use," says France Telecom
has been on fire ever since. Now necessarily match up to our actual Android, iPhone and iPad up network neutrality issue, but
the company has 5 million users, number of user accounts. That CEO Stephane Richard, while
the carriers are framing it like it's Telefonica CEO Cesar Alierta
more than 10 times it had in said, we do expect to hit 5 million an accounting problem -- and
March. next week.” they're not being shy about EUROPEAN page 77
Early last week it was reported

Quadrocopters enter the Flying Machine Arena, must bounce a

ping-pong ball to survive (video)
Tim Stevens (Engadget) scientists. One such new ability is ping-pong ball to survive (video)
Submitted at 12/8/2010 2:17:00 PM juggling balls -- well, one ball, originally appeared on Engadget
anyway. This particular on Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:17:00
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where quadrocopters can learn involved table tennis, so hopefully opponent. survive (video)
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says that Google and Yahoo's free
use of his network is a "tragedy"
that "can't continue." (No, we're
not making this up.)
In addition to shaking down
service providers and device
makers, European carriers are
also following AT&T and
Verizon to tiered data plans --
France Telecom is will move
from unlimited pricing to
something "more sophisticated,"
and the other networks expected
to follow. What's most interesting
to us is that the carriers are
appearing to conflate bandwidth-
heavy services like Facebook and
YouTube with devices that
customers use to access those
services -- does it really make any
sense to charge Apple or Google a
fee for making good phones that
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encourage more network use, on
top of charging users for tiered
data? That's an unexpected -- and
unfortunate -- twist on the
standard net neutrality debate,
and we're not so sure we want to
see where it's going. Read the
whole article at the source link,
it's a good one.
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Honeycomb tablets, Chrome
OS laptops, and eBooks to boot
Ross Miller (Engadget) hardware, and a giant plunge into
Submitted at 12/8/2010 1:45:00 PM the growing e-book market -- and
that isn't everything. We've done
We gotta hand it to Google: if its our best to condense all the days'
goal was to own the technology highlights into something easier to
news cycle for 48 hours, mission digest, so read on for a recap on
accomplished. The Mountain all things Google!
View-based company spent the Continue reading Google's big
first two days this week laying out week: Nexus S, Honeycomb
p r e t t y m u c h e v e r y b i g tablets, Chrome OS laptops, and
announcement it possibly could: a eBooks to boot
new flagship phone coming next Google's big week: Nexus S,
week (the Nexus S), a new Honeycomb tablets, Chrome OS
Android build (2.3 Gingerbread), laptops, and eBooks to boot
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