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Toshiba Unveils First Solar-Powered E-Reader neutral from sell and ABB ( ABB)
to buy from neutral at Sterne
Agee.
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company) a six inch e-Ink display, WiFi and you live in Japan, of course).
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:58:21 AM 3G connectivity, a stylus, 2 The company's move into solar-
Analyst Downgrades
gigabytes of storage, and support powered e-readers comes just a
Move over, Kindle, iPad, and for an SD card that holds up to • American Eagle ( AEO) to
year after Toshiba established its
Nook. A new e-reader is inching 3,000 books. But the one detail neutral from buy at SunTrust.
photovoltaic systems business,
in on your market. Toshiba's black that really makes the e-reader • Tenet Healthcare ( THC) to
which is working on solar powere
and white Biblio Leaf is the first stand out is the small solar cell market perform from outperform
generating systems for utilities
solar-powered e-reader. The attached to its base. Toshiba hasn't at Wells Fargo.
and businesses. Eventually,
catch: for the moment, at least, it's revealed how long the cell takes Toshiba hopes to move into the
only available in Japan. Continue reading Analyst Calls:
to charge, but we imagine it isn't and costs $20 per month with a solar-powered EV charging
The Biblio Leaf has decent stats, particularly quick. AEO, BK, HTGC, KFN, PLD,
3G service contract from TDDI (if market as well.
according to TFTS--it comes with Toshiba's e-reader is free upfront STT, SVU, THC, VPHM ...
Analyst Calls: AEO, BK, HTGC,
KFN, PLD, STT, SVU, THC,
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WASHINGTON(Reuters) - plan that will decide how troops Barbara. that Gay rights are equal to civil
President Barack Obama on will be educated about the new "This is a political obstruction by rights which they are not because As we all know, high-fiving went
Wednesday signed a landmark policy and make decisions about the service chiefs. Bottom line is one is simply a lifestyle choice out of fashion because it wasn’t
law to allow gays and lesbians to disciplinary procedures, benefits that military could repeal ban does this mean that polygamy will loud enough; kids experimented
serve openly in the U.S. military or the status of those fired for tomorrow if it wanted to, but be allowed in the military? When with gunpowder and methane gas,
for the first time, but it could be violating "Don't Ask" in the past, that's not going to happen," he does it stop? If your sexual but it all proved far too unstable.
many months before a move some said Colonel David Lapan, a said. preference is a civil right then Happily Eli Skipp has stepped in
top officers warn may endanger Pentagon spokesman. The recent working group report isn’t all sexual preferences with her DIY “exploding high-
troops will finally take effect. The plan may take a cue from the did make suggestions about protected? Who is to say whether five glove”: it doesn’t actually
The Pentagon is drafting new Pentagon's recent working group communicating the new rules and it’s right or wrong, who has the explode, just use an Arduino, a
rules following the repeal of the report, which recommended educating troops, but Pentagon right to say a pedophile is wrong, force-sensor and a loudspeaker to
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, against separate bathroom and officials say more study is it is wrong, but with this type of make explosion noises whenever
which Congress passed this shower facilities for gay soldiers required. thinking you can see where it can you high-five someone.
month, to cheers from opponents and said some benefits, like free Obama promised the government go. Video demo after the cut
of a long-standing policy that legal assistance, could be made would not be "dragging our feet to This entry passed through the In fact, you can replace the
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been nothing like that. There’s not “You can prepare a pitch to the Ashes home is an incredible
Skype Is Down
(Epoch Times | All headlines) are working non-stop to get things
been anything close to it.” hopefully suit the home side. That opportunity for the team.
Pitch Tampering is what we try and do in England “I don’t know what ticket sales Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:14:57 AM back to normal – thanks for your
Leading into the much in certain cases. There is no are like, but it could be potentially continued patience."
anticipated Boxing Day Test, reason I would expect Australia around 400,000 people watching Skype, popular Internet phone At peak times, Skype has up to
reports of preparing a green MCG not to do it.” the five days. That is so exciting. and instant messaging program, 23 million users online from
pitch to suit the host nation had Fourth Test—MCG “I’ve played a little bit and I get seems to be down for millions of around the world, according to
seen a knee-jerk reaction by Australia's Mitchell Johnson was goosebumps thinking about it. users as of Wednesday morning. Skype's website. Yet at 1 p.m.
English media crying foul. involved in verbal barbs during “Everyone in the team, including As users lose their ability to EST, only 6.2 million users are on
A greener pitch means that fast the Third Ashes Test. (Hamish the management, and the communica te through Skype, Skype, as seen from a New York
bowlers and seamers will get Blair/Getty Images) Pieterson, Australians are really looking they are turn ing to Twitter by the City IP address.
more swing from the ball than a who was the hero at the Adelaide forward to what should be a great throusands to tweet about it: Founded in 2003, Skype has
spin bowler would on a drier Oval when he scored his career- week’s cricket if the sun shines. "Skype is down. God help us all," become increasingly popular for
one—suiting the Australian pace- best 227 and captured the crucial Any day of Test cricket is tweeted user@ coribald at 12:45 enabling its users to make free
bowling attack that had great wicket of Michael Clarke on the amazing, but if you get 100,000 p.m. EST. video and voice calls, send instant
success in Perth. last day before stumps on Day watching you on a particular day, " Skype is down! R.I.P.," tweeted messages, and share files with
The tendency of a host’s curator Four, had a shocker in Perth. A you’re pretty pleased.” another user,@ EmiliWansley. other users. Some users also use
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TV service is launching next due to a "use it or lose it" push increase in video traffic in 2010 - involving both free and paid-for
up 60% this year, it's saying. For all the crazy stories you've
year? from the FCC, which was content to help push consumer heard about China, the world's
Sponsor attempting to reclaim 120 MHz of iPhone, Android and iPad devices adoption.
have contributed to this growth, biggest country is going to keep
The consortium includes 12 spectrum for mobile broadband That being said, there are also blowing your mind.
broadcasters: Fox, NBC, Belo, services. The broadcasters with traffic up 22% since April on several challenges MCV must
iPhone, up 200% on Android and The speed and size of economic
Cox Media, E.W. Scripps, decided instead to keep the overcome. It needs to get operator development going in China right
Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst spectrum and launch the mobile up 325% on iPad. Is MCV Really commitment to integrate with
Happening? now has never happened before.
Television, ION Television, TV venture, saying that it would cellular networks, and it needs to In just ten years, a small emerging
Media General, Meredith, Post- lead to additional revenue streams Consumers may wonder whether be able to offer handset subsidies,
or not this announcement means a market has transformed into a
Newsweek Stations and Raycom and would help alleviate the strain mobile billing and produce geopolitical bruiser that can go
Media. on carriers' mobile networks, whole lot at this point. Burned by nationwide marketing campaigns.
previous attempts at mobile TV toe-to-toe with Ben Bernanke.
The markets MCV has already clogged by delivering In fact, mobile operator support Like it or not, China plays a
announced are New York, Los mobile video. efforts (see, for example, for MCV is key, without it, the
Qualcomm's now closing FLO TV critical role in the global economy
Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, The Burden of Mobile Video initiative will probably not from here out. Let's hope it hope
San Francisco, Dallas, Mobile video usage has grown service), there's a bit of " I'll survive. So for now, cautious
believe it when I see it" sentiment doesn't crash. Click here to have
Washington D.C., Atlanta, substantially over recent months, excitement only - but when you your mind blown >
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Portland, Cincinnati, Greenville, this year, for example, Cisco For what it's worth, the analysts permission to shout"hooray for
West Palm Beach, Birmingham pegged mobile data traffic at 40 at iSuppli are somewhat bullish mobile TV!"
and Knoxville. About MCV exabytes for 2010 (one exabyte = on the possibilities for MCV, Image credits: DVICE,
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a group calling itself Pearl (Pearl mobile data traffic would be First, the technology it uses
Mobile DTV Company, LLC). video. (ATSC M/H) is cheaper than
That's actually the same group of This morning, new data from others (DVB-H or MediaFLO, the
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Screenshot by Don Reisinger/ Needleman had been experiencing everything from HDTVs to
CNET) outage issues this morning, but computers to Flowbee Haircut Prior to his arrest, WikiLeaks
Skype appears to be suffering an said that his service was soon Systems. Don is a member of the spokesperson Julian Assange
outage. restored. CNET Blog Network, posting at hinted that the next batch of
Twitter users around the globe Skype wrote in an e-mail to The Digital Home. He is not an documents released would not be
are taking to the social network to CNET this morning that it's employee of CNET. Disclosure. secret government information,
report that Skype is down for "assessing the matter now and its This entry passed through the but rather would implicate a
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Updated at 9:18 a.m. PT to In a defensive move, Bank of leader in enterprise brand
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If you have a question or up domains for its senior registrant for the
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can submit it here. However, including their names along with Of course, it seems unlikely that
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While the pay is a pretty good competitive," which means its loan default rate was more than graduation and labor market
deal for the university presidents, students ranked in the top 10%- twice the average rate of its peers. prospects--should figure into
what about for their students? 20% in high school. Weak results compensation as well. In view of
To find the answer, I compared Truly stunning, though, is that in In Barron's "most competitive" these findings, it seems unlikely
these top-paid presidents with two 2008, Touro paid its president, category, about half the that student results count much.
measures of student success: 1) Bernard Lander, a total universities whose presidents At a time when tuition increases
the graduation rate of students compensation of $4.8 million reached the $1 million-plus are out of control, it's an added
who obtain a bachelor's degree in (about three times higher than the threshold lagged behind their insult that students are
six years, and 2) the percentage of average of all school presidents peers. While the president of the underwriting the big salaries for Sorry, People, Nothing
borrowers who default on their making more than $1 million). University of Miami was paid less college presidents who aren't Will Keep You From
student loans within two years of Yet Touro's six-year graduation than average for the group of 30 delivering results. Trustees must
graduating or dropping out. The rate was only 57%, eight (a paltry $1.18 million), her exert better oversight. Students Getting a Cold [Health
graduation rate is as fundamental percentage points lower than the school's graduation rate was 13 and their families deserve better. Watch]
a measure of success as there is. average performance of all four- points lower than others in the Mark Schneider is a visiting Brian Moylan (Lifehacker)
The default rate is one of the only year colleges in the "very same Barron's group. In addition, scholar at AEI.
Submitted at 12/22/2010 8:58:00 AM
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this isn't the case. year lagged behind their peers. good football team and moving a
A $4.8 million payday
One school--Touro College in
New York-- stood out. The
The University of Tulsa, for
instance, paid its president $1.6
million, though the school's
school up in the much-hated, but
much-watched, U.S. News and
World Report rankings all figure
Avandia
college is classified in Barron's
magazine's exhaustive Profiles of
graduation rate was 12 percentage
points lower than the average of
into these calculations.
Nonetheless, student success-- and FDA
American Colleges as "very its peer institutions. Its student measured by both a timely
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FDA's request. FDA halted the freed from the strict REMS Again?. Diego. Those cities are definitely
trial because of doubts about imposed in the United States and bankrupt, they just have not It know it's ridiculous, but I have
whether it would yield useful could even be restored to the E.U. admitted it yet. The first major a very hard time paying for
software. I love being thrifty, but
results or was even feasible in the market. In any case, this episode TEN page 33 the bias that I (and I suspect many
face of safety concerns about is revealing much about the of you) have against paying for
apps could is rarely worth it.
5 Largest Diamond Heists Here's why. More »
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) or so, a team of thieves gets away window the very same that was exactly do some of the most
with a diamond heist. A heist is stolen from the Antwerp Diamond famous diamonds in the world
TEN
Submitted at 12/22/2010 9:00:56 AM continued from page 33
no mere robbery. It's a feat of Center in 2003 and laundered disappear while under 24-hour
city to go bankrupt will cause a
Judging by the raging success of patience and engineering that through middlemen until it was surveillance without a trace?
huge stir in the municipal bond
diamond thieves in Hollywood yields some of the biggest payouts clean enough for a legitimate That's exactly what happened in
market. Best to avoid Munis
movies, one might think walking in history. The weird thing is, it's jeweler to give it a second glance? The Hague in 2002.
completely.
away with millions in diamonds is hard to tell if the thieves ever see We'll probably never know. But This entry passed through the
2. Sovereign Debt Crisis Hits
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things return to normal and they
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can deal with things more calmly
the real world, of course, slipping floorboards of an abandoned the biggest diamond heists in content-only/faq.php
in 2013. The markets will not
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whatever horrendous deal Prime
But such heists do work have them on display in they stole and what happened in
Minister Brian Cowen agrees to.
occasionally and happen pretty underground lairs? Or is that the aftermath. Each heist in this
Portugal and Spain will need
frequently. Every couple of years diamond in the jewelry store's article is the stuff of legend. How
bailouts. The surprise play in
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Fatally Flawed "End the Fed" Proposal from Rep. Kucinich would
Allow Congress to Print Money into Existence for Essentially
Anything
noreply@blogger.com (Michael monetary system of the United I saw this bill a few days ago law. I'm Stunned Too All things considered, and in
Shedlock) (Mish's Global States, retire public debt and thinking it was so insane no one Denninger is not the only one spite of horrendous flaws, it may
Economic Trend Analysis) reduce the cost of public could possibly stand up in favor who is stunned. I am stunned that be a plus that someone has
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:25:00 AM investment, and for other public of it. I was sadly mistaken. anyone could support this actually submitted a bill in
Representative Dennis Kucinich purposes. I am hoping Karl Denninger's preposterous idea, assuming they Congress to end Fractional
has introduced a bill to end the To enable the Federal excuse is he failed to read the read it and are sober. Reserve Lending. Now all we to
Fed. Unfortunately his proposal Government to invest or lend new entire bill. Otherwise I am at a Neither sound money nor the free do is throw away the entire rest of
grants Congress ability to create money into circulation as loss to explain Dennis Kucinich: market comes from printing the bill and let Ron Paul draft a
money at will for virtually any authorized by Congress and to Delete The Fed money into existence. Arguably proper bill ending FRL as the
purpose. Kucinich specifically provide means for public I'm stunned. the only thing worse than the Fed central idea.
mentions full employment, investment in capital Really. printing money out of thin air is Fractional Reserve Lending Is
stabilizing social security, and to infrastructure. Dennis Kucinich, which many Congress printing money out of Fraud
"lend new money into circulation SEC. 201. ENTRY OF U.S. people have (properly) labeled as thin air for the purpose of full There are two easy to read, and
as authorized by Congress and to MONEY INTO CIRCULATION. one step removed from a employment and/or any other free online books that make the
provide means for public The Secretary shall cause United communist in the past, and who absurd ideas Congress has. case.
investment in capital States Money to enter into has a reputation as having a hard- The last thing we need, the very
infrastructure". circulation by and through any of core left slant in his politics, has last thing we need is Congress • What Has Government Done to
In other words Kucinich want the following means: just written up and introduced a lending money into existence to Our Money?
Congress to have the power to Any origination or disbursement bill that will fundamentally pay the bills or to do anything it • The Case Against the Fed
print money into existence for any of funds to accomplish Federal restore the free market - for real - wants for any reason. Those
reason it wants. Here are a few expenditures authorized and to banking and credit. looking for hyperinflation can Here are hardcopy versions you
snips from Kucinich's End the Fed appropriated by an Act of the We're about to find out if people find the roots of it in that bill. can order.
Bill that show what I mean. IN Congress. like Ron and Rand Paul really Kucinich did mention abolish
T H E H O U S E O F Any disbursement to retire stand for what they claim, or if fractional reserve banking, in a • The Case Against The Fed by
REPRESENTATIVES Mr. outstanding instruments of they're empty suits. If they do, clumsily worded paragraph Murray Rothbard
KUCINICH introduced the indebtedness of the Federal then I expect to see them on the difficult to interpret precisely. A • What Has Government Done
following bill Government or the Secretary of Tee Vee within hours demanding second paragraph was more To Our Money by Murray
To create a full employment the Treasury as such instruments passage of this bill, and joining precise "fractional reserve lending Rothbard
economy as a matter of national become due. with Mr. Kucinich in making sure is ended". • End The Fed by Ron Paul
economic defense; to provide for Any exercise of "lender of last that it is immediately reintroduced I am 100% in favor of
public investment in capital resort" emergency authorities in the new Congress - and passed. eliminating fractional reserve If you haven't read them, read
infrastructure; to provide for under the emergency procedures If that does not happen then these lending. them. If you have read them, read
reducing the cost of public specified in section 305. two claimants of a demand for Ironically, Denninger once them again. Then meet with your
investment; to retire public debt; Any other means, and for any "sound money" have been challenged me on that score, legislative representatives and get
to stabilize the Social Security other purpose explicitly immediately and permanently defending the practice. Please see them to read the books. Better
retirement system; to restore the authorized by an Act of the exposed as FRAUDS, as will any Fractional Reserve Lending yet, buy them a hardcopy so you
authority of Congress to create Congress that becomes law after so-called "Tea Party" members of Constitutes Fraud for the debate. can be sure of it.
and regulate money, modernize the effective date of this Act. Congress. Hopefully Denninger has
and provide stability for the Support for the Bill This is a bill that must become changed his mind. FATALLY page 37
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Europe will be Italy, a country not 5. China Overheats, Multiple nothing mattered in 2010, and Relative Performance Examples US treasuries are now in no-
on anyone's front burner. Italy Rate Hikes Coming optimism for equities is at On a relative but not absolute man's-land dependent on the order
will come under intense credit China, everyone's favorite extreme levels. I have no targets basis I like the US. On a currency of things and the reactions of
market pressure, and when it does promised land, has a hard landing. other than a suggestion this is an adjusted basis I especially like foreign central banks as the crisis
the whole Eurozone comes China will grow at perhaps 5-6% extremely poor time to invest in Japan. Here is a hypothetical plays out. Seasonally, treasuries
unglued. Europe's banks are but that is nowhere near as much darn near anything. example: Should foreign equities are generally weak until June
insolvent and ECB president Jean- as China wants, or the world 9. Decoupling in Reverse drop 20% and the US dollar (think tax purposes). However,
Claude Trichet will have a choice, expects. Tightening in China will I do not think any countries strengthen 10% the loss to US there are so many factors now,
haircuts or massive printing. crack its property bubble and decouple in 2011, including investors would be 30%. Should including Fed purchases, it is hard
3. Cutbacks in US Cities and more importantly pressure China. However, on a relative Foreign investors buy US equities to estimate.
States commodities. The longer China basis, the US could. Europe is a and face a loss of 20% and a 10% 2010 was a lull in the global
With Republican governors holds off in tightening, the harder basket case, China is overheating, rise in the dollar, they would see a economic crisis. Don't expect
holding a majority of the landing. Australia is headed for recession, 10% loss. US investors of course 2011 to be the same. Something,
governorships, with Republicans 6. Property Bubble Bursts Wide the UK is going nowhere, and 2.0- would see the full 20% loss. Japan indeed many things, are likely to
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will increasingly outsource every this will be the year that strengthen because of the net decide to print its way out of this
contract they can. something matters. Certainly effect of all the above issues. mess.
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of an ancient lake or river. I loved. For Hitchcock, though, there evidence of his providential care and amphibians, and the
Hitchcock was deeply inspired by These creatures here seem were more than just scientific of the creatures he has made, do discovery of a fossil feather in
the varied assemblage of birds discontented, sad: lessons to be learned from the these modifications of structure 1860 from Solnhofen, Germany,
that had once lived in the They hate each other and they tracks. What he saw in the fossil and function present! Did the did nothing to change this
Connecticut Valley, and he hate the world, record spoke of God’s same unvarying forms of quandry. Found in the Jurassic-
attempted to do justice to his I can not, will not, live in such a benevolence, and he expounded organization meet us in every aged limestone of a quarry mined
fascination in the anonymously spot. upon this belief as a variety of climate and condition, for stone to make lithographic
published poem “The Sandstone I freeze, I starve, I die: with joy I Congregationalist pastor and we might well doubt whether the plates, the delicate fossil was
Bird.” In the geologist’s verse, sink, professor of natural theology at Author of Nature was also a acquired by the German
science is placed in the guise of a To my sweet slumbers with the Amherst. (Part of his inspiration Providential Father. But his paleontologist Christian Erich
sorceress who conjures up the noble dead. for collecting so many tracks was parental care shines forth Hermann von Meyer. In 1861 he
most majestic of the primeval The sullen bird was then to build a testament to God’s illustriously in these anomalous named it Archaeopteryx
birds: swallowed up by the earth, glorious works in nature.) He was forms of sandstone days, and lithographica, the “ancient feather
Bird of sandstone era, wake! leaving the geologist with no astonished by the vast array of awakens the delightful confidence from the lithographic limestone.”
From thy deep dark prison break. evidence to prove what he had stupendous creatures that crawled, that in like manner he will consult Not long after von Meyer
Spread thy wings upon our air, seen. Hitchcock was in a similar swam, flew, and dashed over the and provide for the wants of described the feather, another
Show thy huge strong talons here: bind. No skeleton had been found surface of the earth in time individuals. nearby limestone quarry produced
Let them print the muddy shore to reveal the true form of his immemorial. Though facts from If God provided for birds that an enigmatic skeleton. The
As they did in days of yore. birds. Storks and herons provided the geological strata were shaking could neither sow nor reap their jumbled creature had a long bony
Pre-adamic bird, whose sway fair analogs, but even the largest the foundations of a literal own food surely He would have tail but was surrounded by feather
Ruled creation in thy day, of the living wading birds was interpretation of Genesis, also cared for the enormous impressions; it was as much a
Come obedient to my word, puny compared to the birds that Hitchcock attempted to bridge the avians of old (and even more so reptile as it was a bird. Rather
Stand before Creation’s Lord. made the largest fossil tracks. gap between geology and the human “lords of creation”). than going straight to a museum,
So restored, Hitchcock’s fictional Without skeletons, Hitchcock theology as the Bridgewater Hitchcock believed that only God however, the specimen was given
bird could only lament the dismal could only guess what they Treatises had in England. In his could have so perfectly fitted to the local physician Karl
state of the modern world. The looked like. Ichnology of New England organisms to their surroundings, Häberlein in exchange for medical
earth was cold and the impressive At the same time that Hitchcock Hitchcock concluded: but this view of nature crumbled services.
giants it knew so well were all was researching the Connecticut And how marvellous the changes as naturalists increasingly tried to Rumors of the specimen began to
gone. Even the trees were so Valley tracks, Richard Owen was which this Valley has undergone understand nature on its own circulate among naturalists, but
Lilliputian that the dinosaur “ examining a strange chunk of in its inhabitants! Nor was it a terms and not as a moral lesson. Häberlein would not part with it
Iguanodon could scarce here find bone from New Zealand. It was change without reason. We are apt Charles Darwin’s 1859 treatise easily. He stipulated that the fossil
a meal!” The haughty bird could said to have belonged to an to speak of these ancient races as slammed the door shut on the would only be sold along with the
not stand the sight of what had enormous eagle, but Owen took it monstrous, so unlike existing concept of natural theology as rest of his fossil collection, raising
become of its home. to be part of the femur of a organisms as to belong to another science, which Hitchcock the cost beyond the reach of many
. . . all proclaims the world well gargantuan, ostrichlike bird he and quite different system of life. subscribed to, but this new prospective buyers. Richard Owen
nigh worn out, called Dinornis(commonly known But they were only wise and perspective on life’s history raised and George Robert Waterhouse,
Her vital warmth departing and as the moa). From the osteological benevolent adaptations to the new questions. certain that Archaeopteryx would
her tribes, scrap he reconstructed an entire changing condition of our globe. Birds were so different from bring prestige to the British
Organic, all degenerate, puny skeleton, and it was later proven One common type runs through other vertebrates that they Museum, were able to convince
soon, to be correct when more remains all the present and the past appeared to be perched on their the trustees of the institution to
In nature’s icy grave to sink of the flightless birds were found. systems of life, modified only to own lonely branch in the tree of forward £700 for the fossil (or
forever. Owen had raised a giant bird from meet exigencies, and identifying life. How could they have what the museum would normally
Sure ’tis a place for punishment the dead, and it provided the the same infinitely wise and evolved? Hitchcock’s tracks have spent on new fossil
designed, perfect proxy for the sandstone benevolent Being as the Author of hinted that true birds had been DINOSAUR page 42
And not the beauteous happy spot birds. all. And what an interesting present nearly as long as reptiles
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acquisitions over the course of Archaeopteryx. This diagnosis wrote of Archaeopteryx, “shows explained through the concept of
two years). By November 1862 allowed Owen to make a more forcibly than this how little “persistent types.”
the fossil was in London. particular prediction. The head of we as yet know of the former Throughout the fossil record
Some German naturalists were Archaeopteryx was missing, but inhabitants of the world.” Even as there seemed to be little
upset that the slab had been Owen reasoned that “by the law it hinted at a connection, evolutionary change; crocodiles
expatriated to England, but the of correlation we infer that the Archaeopteryx was too weak to looked like crocodiles no matter
august University of Munich mouth was devoid of lips, and unequivocally bridge the gap what strata they came from.
professor Johann Andreas Wagner was a beak-like instrument fitted between reptiles and birds by Instead of being evidence against
had opposed efforts to acquire for preening the plumage of itself. The necessary evidence evolution, however, Huxley Future Podcast
Archaeopteryx for his college. He Archaeopteryx.” would be supplied by the proposed that the persistent forms
was sure it was not all it seemed. While some naturalists felt that anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley. were echoes of evolutionary Party: What We'll
Although Häberlein tried to Owen’s description was rather Huxley began his scientific changes that had occurred in a Be Watching in 2011
restrict access to the specimen crude, the news of the fossil was career in 1846 by studying marine time so distant that it was not
Maureen Ryan (TV Squad)
amid rumors it was a fake, a welcome among evolutionists. In invertebrates while serving as an recorded in the rock. If most of
verbal report and sketch of the an 1863 letter to Darwin the fossil assistant surgeon aboard the HMS evolution happened during “non- Submitted at 12/22/2010 5:45:00 AM
fossil reached Wagner, who mammal expert Hugh Falconer Rattlesnake. His work was well geologic time,” then the inability
argued that rather than a bird, it beamed, received by other naturalists, and of naturalists to explain the origin Filed under: Reality-Free, Stay
was a kind of reptile he called Had the Solenhofen quarries been when he returned to England in of major groups of animals with Tuned As 2010 winds down, my
Griphosaurus, or “riddle reptile.” commissioned — by august 1850 he was set to establish fossil evidence became a moot fellow podcaster Ryan McGee
Wagner’s fears over evolution command — to turn out a strange himself among the scientific elite. point. The caprices of geology and I set our sights on the new
had spurred his impulsive being à la Darwin — it could not Like the man who would become kept them out of science’s reach. year and the TV that will arrive
description. Archaeopteryx have executed the behest more his rival, Richard Owen, Huxley Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 View All then.
sounded like just the type of handsomely — than in the was most concerned with the This entry passed through the In this week's Talking TV with
transitional form that would throw Archaeopteryx. underpinnings of anatomical Full-Text RSS service — if this is Ryan and Ryan podcast, we
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evolutionary theories, and hear more about the “wondrous work in pious rhetoric, Huxley’s on someone else's site, please read are really looking forward to in
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publications before his death. confirmation of his evolutionary to Darwin’s theory of evolution in Five Filters featured site: So, comprehensive look at all the new
Owen’s description of the fossil ideas. In the fourth edition of On the first place. While Huxley Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing and returning shows that will
was read before the Royal Society the Origin of Species published in disagreed with Darwin on some Again?. grace our screens next year,
in 1863. He appraised it as the “by 1866, Darwin primarily used key points, natural selection was merely a conversation about some
-fossil-remains-oldest-known Archaeopteryx and Hitchcock’s the best mechanism yet proposed of the programs we're intrigued by
feathered Vertebrate.” More than tracks — by now thought to have for evolutionary change. For for one reason or another. We also
that, the fossil was most certainly been made by dinosaurs — to natural selection to make sense, segued into a discussion of
a bird despite its reptilian illustrate that the fossil record still however, the absence of graded whether any show can really fill
characteristics, and Owen upheld had secrets to divulge. “Hardly transitions in the fossil record had the 'Lost'-sized holes in our
von Meyer’s original name any recent discovery,” Darwin to be accounted for, which Huxley brains.
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one of the most interesting story about post-war Britain, rock way nations treated their Jewish Novels and Stories by Shirley used recycled or recyclable
settings for a novel I’ve seen. It and roll, love affairs, and musical minorities became a barometer of Jackson cardboard tubing for structural
has a vaguely futuristic tint: the obsessions. If that’s not enough civilization in the nineteenth Jackson's belated and much- skeletons. Subsequently, he went
poor live in hot, packed favelas for you, Richards throws in a century, before the rise of deserved induction into the on to produce elegant and thought
while the wealthy cruise overhead recipe for bangers and mash. ideological anti-Semitism Library of America was one of the -provoking designs for all manner
in helicopters, flitting between - Chloë Schama, Assistant changed Montefiore's Europe important literary events of the of architectural programs in all
skyscrapers and their weekend Managing Editor beyond recognition. year. The revelation of this manner of architectural materials.
countryside retreats. This is a Making Toast by Roger - Adam Kirsch, Senior Editor collection, for me, was the New Yorkers may remember his
funny, artful story that works well Rosenblatt Mourning Diary by Roland juxtaposition of Jackson's well- celebrated Nomadic Museum, a
as both a portrait of a man and of As usual, I stuck firmly to Barthes known psychological horror novel traveling museum in which
a city, as Ludo straddles two nineteenth-century literature this I love this sad, gentle, intelligent The Haunting of Hill House with disused shipping containers, steel
halves of a metropolis sharply year, but one of the contemporary little book of grieving written in her humorous short stories about wire, and cardboard tubing were
divided by class. Even as the plot gems that stood out was Roger October 1977 after Barthes’ her life as a wife and mother, assembled into a breathtaking
ultimately settles itself a bit too Rosenblatt’s Making Toast. The mother died. Though called a signaling the dark undercurrents exhibition space that evoked the
tidily, Scudamore’s clever book is everything a memoir diary, it’s more like a long lyric beneath domestic life. otherworldliness of a gothic
handling of personal and urban should be—sweet and poignant, sequence giving an intimate X-ray - Ruth Franklin, Senior Editor cathedral. If Ban’s not a finalist
identity makes this an excellent but not sappy or overreaching. A of loss. The excellent translator, Shigeru Ban: Complete Works, for this year’s Pritzker Prize, he
read. chronicle of the months following Richard Howard, has given us a 1985-2010 by Philip Jodido should be.
- Laura Bennett, Assistant his daughter’s unexpected death, fragmentary masterpiece. Philip Jodido is one of the most - Sarah Goldhagen, Architecture
Literary Editor Rosenblatt eloquently expresses - Henri Cole, Poetry Editor prolific authors of architecture Critic
Life by Keith Richards the out-of-time emotions that Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross picture-book compendiums, and Silver Roses by Rachel
I like the Rolling Stones, but I accompany a devastating loss. It’s Of all the novels I read this year, he is also among the most Wetzsteon
love this book. It’s a guilty- a quick read that leaves a lasting this was the one that I read most reliable. This book, magnificently Silver Roses is the fourth and
pleasure read, sure, but not an mark. eagerly, consuming it in eager produced by the art book presumably last collection of
empty one as it’s full to the brim - Hillary Kelly, Assistant Editor gulps, dismissing other publisher Taschen, tops my list poems by the late Rachel
with tales of Richards’s grim and Moses Montefiore: Jewish obligations. (And, yes, I did read less because of Jodido’s writing, Wetzsteon, TNR’s former poetry
gritty childhood, the rough and Liberator, Imperial Hero by the famously readable Freedom.) incisive but honing close to editor, and it contains some of her
tumble early years, the Abigail Green Adam Ross’s debut novel starts building descriptions and best writing. These deftly formal
phenomenal later success of the In writing the biography of with a murder and has been called biographical narrative, than its lyrics about melancholy,
Stones. (He wrote “Satisfaction” Moses Montefiore—the Victorian a thriller, but it’s as much about subject, the Japanese architect loneliness, and hope are always
in his sleep! Read the book and philanthropist whose missions on love and marriage as it is about Shigeru Ban. Ban’s justly intelligent and always moving—a
you’ll see what I mean.) But the behalf of persecuted Jews took violent events, and there is deserved international celebrity reminder of how much was lost
real gems of Life are not the him to Damascus, Morocco, nothing conventional about its rests on elegant formal with her passing.
predictable components of such Romania, and beyond—Abigail structure or language, which draw innovation, often in unusual and - Adam Kirsch, Senior Editor
an act of self-commemoration, but Green has also written an from real-life crime, video games, sustainable materials, So Much for That by Lionel
the surprising and moving important new chapter in modern and M. C. Escher. At times, the demonstrating his profound Shriver
moments that are interspersed Jewish history. Green shows how twists and turns are a bit fanciful, conviction that architecture can be The latest novel from this
along the way: the shock and Montefiore's role as ambassador- but this was a novel that excited artistically inspiring while devastatingly smart writer is
horror of losing a son; the at-large for Jewish causes me far more often than it meeting the real world needs of nominally about health
crushing drag of drug addiction; catalyzed a new, international disappointed me. It’s a people, even of the most needy. insurance—a man winds up losing
strange scenes from Long Island, Jewish consciousness, and how remarkable book that achieves Ban entered the international his life savings after his wife is
where Richards stationed his his many trips to Palestine helped some spectacular highs. I will be limelight with his disaster relief diagnosed with a rare and virulent
young son and his aging father in create the conditions for the birth following this writer. emergency housing for the United cancer. But it's actually a novel of
mansion far too large for these of Zionism. In no small part - Chloë Schama, Assistant Nations High Commissioner for EDITORS' page 49
two lost boys. In the end, it’s a thanks to Montefiore's efforts, the Managing Editor Refugees in Rwanda, where he
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Ed Kilgore (The New Republic - upper-income tax cuts, but keep the unions out. And if we cuts and cuts in government smaller employers, and also wants
All Feed) actually cutting taxes for the rich become a no--corporate-income- services, and speaks somewhat to give a state tax break that will
Submitted at 12/21/2010 11:00:00 PM while slashing services and tax state as well, we will become dismissively of “advocates for the encourage people to snap up those
raising taxes on the poor and a magnet for businesses to come poor and elderly [who] stress that hardy conservative pet rocks,
The last few months of 2010 middle class. All this is happening to South Carolina. And that means those groups spend a higher health savings accounts. Walker is
have been illuminating when it at a crucial time, since the most more jobs for our citizens, more percentage of their income on facing a two-year, $3 billion
comes to the priorities of the dire fiscal conditions in decades con-tracts for our small goods and services that would be budget shortfall. Ohio Governor-
Republican Party. By jumping at are about get vastly worse, as busi-nesses, and more growth for taxed under the Republicans’ elect John Kasich, who, like
the Obama-McConnell tax deal, federal stimulus dollars run out. our economy. scenario.” And Florida’s state Walker, turned down federal high
Republicans underscored the fact One of the GOP’s biggest 2010 It’s hard to imagine a more budget situation may be even -speed rail money, is pushing to
that protecting the marginal tax rock stars, Governor-elect Nikki enthusiastic endorsement of the worse than South Carolina’s and restore a previously delayed state
rates of high earners—not Haley of South Carolina, is an old moonlight-and-magnolias Georgia’s—education costs for income-tax cut, even though his
reducing the federal deficit, and especially instructive example: approach of making lower Haitian refugees are a major new two-year budget shortfall is about
not even denying Obama During the campaign, Haley came business costs—including taxes, problem—but Governor-elect $8 billion.
legislative success—is their out for abolition of the state wages, and all those inconvenient Rick Scott is committed to both This is what Americans got when
party’s primary focus at the corporate-income tax. Facing an regulations aimed at protecting the elimination of corporate taxes they voted for the Tea Party.
federal level. It says something enormous and chronic state the workforce or the and major reductions in property When the last comparable wave
that most conservatives who budget shortfall, she breezily environment—the sole strategy taxes that support local schools. of state-level Republicans took
opposed the tax deal did so on the suggested that her tax cut might for economic development, at the This trend is by no means office, in 1994, it happened to
grounds that it was not permanent, be paid for by eliminating a expense of other public and confined to the South. Newly coincide with the beginning of the
or that it did not completely recently enacted state sales-tax private goods. elected Michigan Governor Rick long boom of the ‘90s, which
eliminate the estate tax. As ever, exemption for food purchases, A similar thing is happening next Snyder is insistently pushing for allowed GOP officeholders to
to paraphrase Dick Cheney, because the exemption “didn’t door in Georgia, where outgoing reductions in business taxes, make popular tax cuts without
Republicans seem to think deficits create one job.” This statement, Republican Governor Sonny which would double the state’s reducing popular spending. Not
don’t matter. which seems to imply that eating Perdue created a heavily loaded current $1.5 billion budget this time: Across the country,
Yet that’s not the half of it. For a is an economically useless fiscal commission tasked with shortfall. In Pennsylvania, Republicans are assuring that
true litmus test of the lengths activity, takes conservative addressing the state’s massive Governor-elect Tom Corbett is budget adjustments will be real
Republicans will and will not go disdain for consumption as a budget gap. (Incoming determined to cut corporate taxes and painful for everybody but the
to in order defend the incomes of growth generator to new heights. Republican Governor Nathan by nearly one-third while rich.
the very rich, you have to look to Instead of trying to keep food on Deal is expected to embrace the increasing business deductions. Click here to subscribe to TNR
the states, where budget deficits South Carolinians’ tables and report.) It suggests “redirecting Wisconsin Governor-elect Scott and follow us on Facebook and
are generally not allowed. There, consumer demand high, Haley is the state’s taxing emphasis to Walker, who made headlines by Twitter.
a new crop of Republican betting on a tax code tilted to what people buy and the services turning down $810 million in
governors and lawmakers—huge “producers” and “job creators.” they use rather than the income federal money for a high-speed
numbers of which rode to power As Haley spokesman Rob they earn,” meaning adoption of a rail connection between
on the Tea Party wave—are Godfrey recently explained: higher sales tax, paired with Milwaukee and Madison, has
focused not just on preserving We are a right-to-work state. We corporate and upper-income tax pledged to cut corporate taxes for
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bewilderment with current newspapers in order to construct there, as a shadowy text. the news and the advertisements.
events? Could drawing on a the counter-realities of their Among the drawings at Eykyn What does it mean to find this
n e w s p a p e r o r a collages, and there have been Maclean is one that Giacometti dreamy, mystical bird emerging
magazine—sometimes in an many theories as to the made of Braque immediately after from the pages of a newspaper? Is
easygoing, even comic spirit—be significance that these press the old master’s death in 1963. the juxtaposition of the newspaper
his way of coming to terms with clippings have in Cubist collage. Braque’s handsome head is an and the bird a juxtaposition of the
the unfathomableness of the wide It has been argued that if one pays isolated profile, totally real and ordinary and the transcendent?
world? Is this Giacometti’s way, close attention to the journalistic totally hieratic, as particular as a And could it be that Giacometti’s
'Skating With the Stars'
in twentieth-century Paris, of stories Picasso incorporates in his study by Ingres and as generalized drawings have some similar Finale Recap: Season 1
cultivating his own garden, with work, one finds a reflection of as a figure in an Egyptian tomb. meaning, if not for him, then Winner Is Crowned
everyday reality the soil from what some regard as his anarchist Giacometti was a great admirer of certainly for us? In drawing his
which a private garden grows? sympathies in the years leading up Braque’s paintings, with their exquisite figures and faces on Sharon Knolle (TV Squad)
After World War II, Meyer to World War I. Others have heartbreaking, exquisite pieces of newspaper, Giacometti Submitted at 12/22/2010 5:00:00 AM
Schapiro spoke of the need for thought that the juxtaposition of orchestrations of grays. Some asserts a reality that complicates
American avant-garde artists to various newspaper fragments influence may have also gone the everyday reality: the superior Filed under: Recaps The first-
cultivate their own gardens. reflects the cacophonous other way, at least my thoughts reality of his eye, his sight. He is ever'Skating With the Stars'
Surely Giacometti must have felt conversations in the Parisian cafés about Giacometti and newspapers m a s t e r i n g — h e i s champ was named tonight and
a similar urgency, living as he did during the Cubist years, the have made me think again about a overriding—current events. These awarded a pair of golden skates.
among intellectuals who were cascade of cosmopolitan voices, poster by Braque that I’ve lived drawings, so casual and so Judge Johnny Weir opened up the
immersed in postwar politics. The the heterogeneity of opinions. De with for many years, one he gorgeous, trump their quotidian show with a "fabulous" (to quote
Ekykn Maclean show includes Kooning, in making his 1955 designed for an exhibition at the supports. Springing from the host Vernon Kay) caged bird
one of Giacometti’s drawings of painting Gotham News, found a Maeght Gallery in 1956. Braque page, Giacometti’s line confounds routine choregraphed by fellow
his friend Sartre, a political very different way of using was obsessed in those years with the day’s news with a glimpse of judge Laurie Ann Gibson.
animal if there ever was one. newspaper, inserting the ghost of the image of a bird in flight, and eternity. Among the returning skaters,
Giacometti drawing on 'France- the day’s news amid his jabbing so the poster features one of his Jed Perl is the art critic for The third place Jonny Moseley seemed
Soir,' 1963, Courtesy Eykyn paint strokes. He would emblematic creatures, the entire New Republic. to have entirely lost his mojo,
Maclean LP sometimes press sheets of body composed of a single For more TNR, become a fan on stumbling several times during his
Giacometti drawing on newspaper into his wet paint, twisting, angling line. Only here Facebook and follow us on routine, but finishing with a smile.
'L’Express,' 1964, Courtesy apparently to keep the surface the bird is inscribed on a sheet of Twitter. So, who took home the golden
Eykyn Maclean LP from drying overnight. And when newspaper that has been scumbled skates -- soap star Rebecca Budig
Giacometti is by no means the he removed the pages the next day with white paint in such a way as or reality queen Bethenny
only twentieth-century artist who and found that the ink had not to totally obliterate the Frankel?
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Storage Wars
When the renter of a self-storage
unit can't make the payments, the
stuff inside goes up for grabs —
and, maybe, right into Darrell
Sheets' hands. Sheets is one of the
professional buyers in A&E's new
hit Storage Wars(Wednesday, 10/
9c). We polled Sheets for his
greatest finds.
1. A Hulk-size comic-book
collection
Sheets hauled away seven Augousti now!
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2. Four Picasso paintings
Says Sheets, "I'm still not sure of
5. The loot of a London runway
model
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ABC Family:'The Santa Clause'--
New study shows ID theft exaggerated Filed under: TV Previews Here' s (120 minutes)
tonight's lineup of new shows and DIY:'Cool Tools'
Consumer Reports Shopping reported. For example, credit- and tangentially involved. About 10.1 events (all times Eastern). Check ESPN:'Las Vegas Bowl'-- Boise
Blog (Consumer Reports) debit-card fraud accounts for the million of the 11.7 million victims y o u r l o c a l T V l i s t i n g s f o r State vs. Utah
Submitted at 12/22/2010 5:59:59 AM majority of what is now labeled as of ID theft involved existing a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n . G4:'American Ninja Warrior'
ID theft. accounts. * = Series/Season Premiere NatGeo:'Nazi Hunters'
New study shows ID theft More than 86 percent of the ID “Is that really identity theft? That ** = Series/Season Finale Showtime:'SHO Sports 2010: A
exaggerated theft picked up by the BJS survey is certainly a criticism raised # = New Day/Time Year Reviewed'-- 8:30 start
If you worry that your identity is involved existing credit card, about this data,” Katrina Baum, On the season finale of 'Psych' TLC:'World's Oldest Conjoined
at risk of being stolen, a new bank, or other accounts. So if a senior statistician at the Bureau, we finally discover who the Yin- Twins Move Home'
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should set your mind at ease. It your Visa card, that counts as studies employ the broader 8:00 to 9:00
confirms that the identity-theft identity theft, even though your overarching definition of identity CBS:'A Home for the Holidays'
“crisis” has been wildly credit card is the thing that was
overblown, as we’ve previously stolen and your identity was only NEW page 52
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theft used in the Fair Credit differently, the 56,480 people accused. When your credit card is crime—calling the police. About
Reporting Act: “A fraud surveyed in that age group had stolen, you simply report it and 27 percent of victims of new-
committed using the identifying less than a 1 percent chance of get a replacement, and the card account and personal information
information of another person.” being victimized by what we issuer takes all or most of the ID theft called the cops, vs. 19
But the new study now also consider true identity theft. financial loss, not you. percent of existing bank account
includes a more refined analysis Better yet, that percent represents The BJS study also shows the fraud victims and 9 percent of
of the data that isolates a separate the risk rate over a two-year low financial losses related to credit-card fraud victims.
category of what many would period spanning 2006 to 2008, most ID theft: 91 percent of credit Bottom line: You have a low
argue is true identity theft, and
which consumers fear the most. In
rather than an annual rate, because
respondents surveyed in 2008
card fraud victims suffered zero
out-of-pocket costs. Ironically,
likelihood of becoming a victim
of true identity theft, and even if Dr. Santa’s 12
that crime, a doppelganger uses
your name, date of birth, and
were asked about their experience
over the previous two years.
victims of the much scarier
personal information ID theft and
you are unlucky, your finances
will probably not suffer. Don’t tips for a
Social Security number to pose as Unfortunately, the annual risk rate new account ID theft also suffered waste money on expensive
you and open new credit accounts, is not calculable from two-year almost no out-of-pocket losses, services offered by credit- healthy holiday
tap your health insurance benefits, data, and you can’t simply divide with 90 and 95 percent, reporting bureaus and other ID rss@consumerreports.org
earn taxable income, or commit by two, says Lynn Langton, a respectively, incurring no costs. theft protection companies. Most (Consumer Reports)
some other crime without your Bureau statistician and co-author ID theft involving an existing of their products are unnecessary
Submitted at 12/22/2010 5:59:59 AM
knowing about it. You eventually of the latest study. bank checking or savings account, or ineffective, or they duplicate
find out you’re a victim when bill The difference between true and however, was shown to be a more things you can do yourself, for Dr. Santa’s 12 tips for a healthy
collectors, lawyers, Internal trumped-up ID theft is not just a serious affair, with 26 percent of free.—Jeff Blyskal Subscribe holiday
Revenue Service agents, or police matter of opinion, it’s based on victims reported being severely now! Yes, my name really is Dr. Santa.
officers come knocking on your important differences, also distressed by the attack on their S u b s c r i b e t o (It’s Hungarian.) I like doctoring
door to make you answer for supported by the BJS study. Only core financial accounts and 25 ConsumerReports.org for expert around the holidays—my name
someone else’s crime. 11 percent of survey respondents percent of victims losing money Ratings, buying advice and makes it fun, and a lot of
Victims of these newly parsed victimized by existing credit card out-of-pocket. Nevertheless, it’s reliability on hundreds of important health issues come up
categories of “new-account” and fraud were severely emotionally worthwhile for the fearful to note: products. Update your feed then, too. I hope this series helps
“personal information” ID theft distressed by the situation vs. 29 75 percent lost nothing. preferences you navigate the season
totaled 1.4 million, the BJS study percent of new-account ID theft Finally, varying perceptions of TIP 10 Holiday gifts: Open with
found. That’s a lot of people, but victims. True ID theft is logically the seriousness of different types caution
it represents only 7/10 of 1 more threatening than a lost credit of ID theft are also revealed by My wife and I thought it was a
percent of the 235 million U.S. card, because the innocent victim whether victims exhibit the DR. page 53
population aged 16+. Stated can unexpectedly become the normal response to a
cute present—two colorful you may well be tempted to stab it getting outdoors, even in the
Some Pick-Up Lines
wooden characters, with magnets
inside, who danced and spun on
with a sharp object. Don’t! Each
year, thousands of people end up
winter, and challenging yourself.
Just be sensible, OK? Should Be Criminal:
the surface of a wind-up music in an emergency room with — John Santa, M.D., M.P.H,
box. Our 18-month old niece
loved it—especially the way the
packaging-related injuries,
according to the Consumer
director of the Consumer Reports
Health Ratings Center
Woot Weads The Wire
characters tasted. Within minutes Product Safety Commission. TIP 1 Don’t shop till you drop: (Woot! - One Day, One Deal) missing.
she had popped them in her mouth Many more suffer less serious How to navigate the holidays in a Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:00:00 PM WASHINGTON ( UPI) --
and separated two other parts into wounds, often from using sharp stress-free and healthful way. President Barack Obama huddled
nice bite-size pieces. So much for tools such as knives, ice picks, or TIP 2 Lights, ladder, and candles: Every week in this space, we’ll for 90 minutes with 12 labor
cute. box cutters to free products from Avoid holiday accidents. take a look at the news and offer leaders at the White House to
The problem of dangerous gifts the hard plastic bubbles called TIP 3 Dr. Santa’s stocking- our own incisive blend of reassure them he was still
isn’t limited to toddlers. I “clamshells.” To prevent those stuffers. commentary, analysis, and poop committed to them, union aides
remember my first full-size bike. I injuries: TIP 4 What not to get for the jokes. The news you need, from a said.
loved it, but my dad had to attach • If you must use a knife or holidays this year: A cold or the voice you can trust, in the 90 Sources described the huddle as
wooden blocks so I could reach another type of sharp object,
flu. seconds you have to spare: that’s adorable, and especially noted
the pedals. Suffice to say I took cut away from your body. TIP 5 Over the river and to the Woot Weads the Wire. how cute it was when Obama
some creative falls and ended up • If you must use scissors, use ER: What to do if you get sick NEW YORK ( UPI) -- Subway closed his widdle eyes and
with some interesting bruises. ones with blunt tips. while traveling. riders at a pair of New York yawned a really big yawn.
And I have a friend who one • Wear protective gloves. TIP 6 Raise a toast—but not too stations said they were perplexed LONDON ( UPI) -- Interviewed
Christmas gifted himself with the • Avoid opening tough-to-open many. b y s i g n s p r o m o t i n g r a p p e r after his release by a London
sports car of his dreams—and packages in a crowded area. TIP 7 Stuff the goose—not Diddy's latest album, "Last Train c o u r t , J u l i a n A s s a n g e o f
promptly plowed it into a • Don’t hold the product between yourself. to Paris." WikiLeaks denounced sex
telephone pole as he made a fast your legs to keep it stable. TIP 8 Difficult holiday Fears were validated when the charges against him and pledged
right turn. Some risks, of course, conversations. C l a r k s v i l l e T o u r i s m b o a r d more revelations.
can be moderated. New bikes, I have one final caution, as much TIP 9 Don’t be a holiday heart reported a 46% drop in visitors. Though Assange had no
skis, and skateboards, for for myself as others: Try not to attack. Subscribe now! STRASBOURG, France ( UPI) -- statement as to what these
example, should come with a new turn into the safety police. After S u b s c r i b e t o A Cuban dissident had to thank r e v e l a t i o n s w o u l d b e ,
helmet. (See our advice on all, you don’t want to become so ConsumerReports.org for expert the European Parliament for a u n d e r g r o u n d w e b s i t e
choosing helmets for kids.) And if timid that you’re afraid to Ratings, buying advice and human-rights prize by recorded WikiLeaksLeaks promised to
you’re in the market for a toddler, roughhouse a little. Who knows, r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f message Wednesday. release full details of what was
see our advice for buying safe maybe part of the nation’s obesity products. Update your feed T h e E u r o p e a n P a r l i a m e n t coming sometime in the next 24
toys. epidemic stems from our growing preferences apologized, saying it always sent hours.
Then, of course, there’s the risk addiction to electronic games. numbers it didn't recognize PARIS ( UPI) -- U.S. pop star
of just opening the presents. No, And while active video games straight to voicemail. Lady Gaga had to postpone a
not the paper and the ribbons, but like the Wii Fit might have some FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. ( previously rescheduled concert in
the plastic packaging inside. In of the same health benefits as the UPI) -- Florida police said they Paris because snow prevented
your frustration and impatience, real thing, there’s nothing like arrested a woman accused of trucks from getting her equipment
setting the crotch area of her to Bercy stadium.
boyfriend's pants on fire. The Canadian reggae singer, best
Other arrests included the k n o w n f o r h i s 1 9 9 2 h i t
daughter of a man suspected of "Informer", was escorted from the
b e i n g a t h i e f , a g i r l f r o m parking area and asked not to
Tennessee, and an angel who had return.
allegedly been reported as
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Don't ask, don't tell" policy, Maine), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), done." history." But he said that "at every
which for 17 years had banned and Carl Levin (D-Mich.) in The bill stipulates that DADT turn, at every crossroads, we
gay service members from serving particular for their support of the will only be discarded after the know that gay Americans fought
openly in the armed services. legislation. president, the secretary of just as hard, gave just as much to
Proclaiming that the policy "will Acknowledging the prolonged defense, and the chairman of the protect this nation and the ideals
strengthen our national security," congressional battle to repeal the Joint Chiefs of Staff certify that for which it stands."
the president vowed that "no policy, he said, "They held their changing it will not hurt the To gay service members still
longer will tens of thousands of shoulders to the wheel in the armed services' readiness, morale serving in uniform, the president
Americans in uniform be asked to Senate," the president said. In the or cohesion. After a 60-day offered, "Your country needs you,
live a lie. Or look over their lower chamber, he thanked Reps. review by Congress, the Pentagon your country wants you, and we
shoulders in order to serve the Susan Davis (D-Calif.), Barney is to develop procedures for will be honored to welcome you
country they love." Frank (D-Mass.), and Patrick ending it altogether, a process that into the ranks of the finest
Paraphrasing Joint Chiefs of Staff Murphy (D-Pa.) for "keeping up could take months or years to military the world has ever
Adm. Mike Mullen -- a leading the fight in the House." complete. known." Then, before signing the
advocate of repeal -- Obama The president also recognized the Addressing the apprehension that bill, he declared, "We are not a
added, "Our people sacrifice a lot efforts of outgoing Speaker of the some detractors of the bill had nation that says 'Don't ask, don't
for their country -- including their House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), expressed regarding the change in tell.' We are one that says 'Out of
lives. None of them should have Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D- defense policy, the president said many, one.' "
to sacrifice their integrity as well."
Introduced by Vice President Joe
Md.) and Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid (D-Nev.). He noted
he remained certain that the repeal
would "strengthen our military
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This is a long time in coming, but
I'm glad it's here" -- Obama
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audience of lawmakers and service chiefs and they are all the making" and that there would Wednesday, 22 Dec 2010 01:01
service members, the president committed implementing this "never be a full accounting of the PM
acknowledged the bipartisan change swiftly and efficiently." contribution" of gay Americans in Conservative radio talk show
support for the effort, and singled He promised, "We are not going the military, saying, "Their MICHAEL page 60
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Food
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Pattiz, founder of industry giant falls short financially and contains Talkers magazine reports that PM
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According to court papers, the limit Savage’s negotiating rights to radio host in the nation behind Republican presidential candidate
proposed Savage network would and other terms not in the Rush Limbaugh and Sean Mike Huckabee chooses first lady
have links to the RightNetwork, Courtside proposal. Hannity, and his show is currently Michelle Obama over his possible
an on-demand video service The lawsuit also maintains that aired on more than 300 stations 2012 opponent Sarah Palin. The
backed by actor Kelsey Grammer Savage’s show — which currently across the nation. former governor of Arkansas says
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from Courtside Radio. For TRN failed to match Courtside’s Again?. Huckabee said on the “Curtis
Sliwa Show.” trying to force the government's
example, he argues that TRN offer and that an arbitration desires on people,” he says.
can’t match the stock equity offer provisions in his TRN contract is Michelle Obama backs several
moves to encourage children to “She’s stating the obvious, that
proffered by RightNetwork. illegal and unenforceable. we do have an obesity problem in
Savage’s suit filed in federal Without a favorable court ruling, exercise and eat well. Palin has
called the first lady’s efforts an this country. The first lady's
court in the Northern District of Savage’s suit states, he faces the campaign is on target.”
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thing or two about obesity. Michelle Obama, who said the guitar. . . . But you went out on a
Huckabee, who lost more than other day we should not have Wednesday, 22 Dec 2010 12:25
mission not only to lose weight
100 pounds after learning in 2003 d e s s e r t . " O b a m a h a s u r g e d PM
for yourself, which you did --
that hew had diabetes, says fellow Americans to find alternatives to Skipping key votes for a
you're very svelte -- but you also
Republican Sarah Palin maybe fattening desserts. Christmas party probably isn’t the
promoted it in the schools and
doesn't get it when it comes to best strategy for a new senator –
Huckabee said the obesity every town in Arkansas that both
First Lady Michelle Obama's p r o b l e m i s r e a l a n d h a s just ask freshly elected West
the adults and the kids had to live
campaign against childhood ramifications, even for national Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin.
a healthier life and that it had to
obesity. He apologized Tuesday for
security: He noted that "25 start with diet."
Huckabee, a once and possibly percent of the people trying to get missing votes on the repeal of
Listen to his conversation with
future presidential candidate, told into the military today can't do so “don’t ask, don’t tell” and the
Huckabee below, courtesy of
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YouTube and the "Radio
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Pass AlanM1 via Wikimedia rare earth materials per year. ongoing rare earhts narrative that
Merry Christmas From
Japan has already taken measures
to innovate and make deals
Molycorp says it has already lined
up contracts for a quarter of the
is increasingly seeing the U.S.,
Europe, and Japan aligning Antoine Dodson, the “Bed
around China's monopoly on the materials it will mine during that themselves opposite China in a
global supply of refined rare earth
elements, and the U.S. is now
first year of full production, and
already has letters of intent to sell
sometimes quiet, sometimes overt
struggle for these prized raw
Intruder” Guy [VIDEO]
Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!)
doing the same. Rare earths the rest in U.S., Japanese, and materials that are necessary to
producer Molycorp has secured European markets. manufacture everything from Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:06:23 PM
remixed Billboard Hot 100 jam
the proper permits and clearances The materials that come out of portable electronics to emerging and his own sex offender app), we
Finally, a Christmas song more
needed to reopen the Mountain Mountain Pass will be used to green technologies to high-tech really hope this song doesn’t
disturbing than “Grandma Got
Pass, Calif., mine that should be make high-strength magnets weaponry. Both the Department make it into the Christmas canon.
Run Over By A Reindeer.”
able to cover the current domestic necessary for electric vehicle of Energy and the Department of Somehow attempted rape doesn’t
Everyone’s favorite witness,
demand for rare earths once it engines, wind turbines, and a Defense have voiced concerns quite spell “Happy Holidays,” if
Antoine Dodson, is out with a
reaches full production. variety of other high-tech about a disruption in supply, you ask us.
carol titled “Chimney Intruder”
Mountain Pass would be the first products. However, the U.S. concerns that were exacerbated More About: antoine dodson, bed
that reimagines Santa as a rather
domestic producer of rare earths possesses neither the technology this year when China quietly intruder, lopez-tonight, music,
sinister criminal.
in the U.S. in more than a decade, nor the licensing to manufacture imposed a brief and unofficial television, viral video
Dodson, who found a place in the
when cheap Chinese imports the neodymium-iron-boron alloy embargo on exports to Japan. For more Web Video coverage:
viral firmament after giving an
rendered the U.S. market necessary for their production. As [ Technology Review] • Follow Mashable Web Video
impassioned speech on the news
unprofitable. The 50-acre pit near such, Molycorp has partnered on Twitter
about the attempted rape of his
Las Vegas is about 500 feet deep with Japanese firm Hitachi Metals • Become a Fan on Facebook
sister, debuted the song on the
currently, but expansion will push to manufacture the magnets in the • Subscribe to the Web Video
place where memes go to die,
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his ability to make proverbial
projected to be capable of doesn't come as a surprise, though
lemonade out of life’s lemons
delivering around 20,000 tons of it does add another wrinkle to the
(with his Gregory Brothers-
Boisard via SPACE emits more thermal radiation on pointed out, if you're going to
Most asteroid diversion schemes its near side, which affects the launch a mission all the way out
tend to involve some kind of asteroids orbit ever so slightly. to Apophis you might alter its
impact - an explosion, a crash, a Small asteroids emit too little orbit just as easily by - that's right
violent shove - but a French radiation to matter and large - crashing a spacecraft directly
researcher has proposed an asteroids are too big for the effect into it.
intriguing plan to alter the course to move them, but Apophis is in Regardless, the strides being
of the asteroid Apophis before it that medium-sized goldilocks made in solar sail tech are
swings into Earth's neighborhood range that is just right. promising, and the versatile way
in 2036: offer the asteroid some A group of solar sailing they are being employed - even in
shade. A fleet of solar sail spacecraft flying in formation theory only - show a lot of
spacecraft could shift Aphophis's could get between Apophis and potential for the nascent
course by simply shielding it from the sun, blocking solar radiation technology.
solar radiation, the researcher and elimination the Yarkovsky [ SPACE]
says. effect, altering Apophis's orbit
The idea is to eliminate the so- significantly over time.
called Yarkovsky effect, a
phenomenon that produces a tiny
Of course, it's not easy to predict
Apophis's trajectory that far into GM Is Turning Recycled Deepwater
amount of thrust on the warm side
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As if it further needed to drive absorbent plastic--and an awful to direct air around the Volt's
home its eco-friendly, anti-oil lot of it was used, saturated with radiators, which sounds kind of
message, the Chevy Volt will oil, and discarded. But GM is negligible until you realize that
soon boast a body made partially taking a multi-step process to this recycling will save over
of recycled equipment originally recycle that plastic. 100,000 pounds of polypropylene
used in the Gulf oil leak cleanup Heritage Environmental, a waste- from ending up in landfills. And,
efforts. Specifically, GM will use disposal company, collects the of course, it's another way for GM
recycled plastic from oil booms, booms, then passes the to sort of ironically note how
which are sort of floating polypropylene to Mobile Fluid environmentally-friendly the Volt
containment walls meant to keep Recovery, which spins the is.
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Oil booms are, generally from the oil and wastewater. Then
speaking, tube-shaped cylinders Lucent Polymers treats the oil-less
of netting which contain some plastic, passes it to a GM plant
material used to block the spread which creates parts from it, and
of oil. In the case of the Gulf oil then to a GM assembly line.
leak, most of that internal material The final product will make up
was polypropylene, an oil- about 25% of an internal part used
Michael Strahan
(Mensfitness.com) moves do you hate doing? 'Hey, this isn't college anymore.
Submitted at 12/22/2010 4:00:00 AM I hate leg exercises. I hate one- You're out here now with a bunch
legged squats. I hate the hurdles of men and you have to step it up
by Brandon Guarneri| Print and the split squats. I hate all the to compete.'
Article| Email to Friend leg exercises. I know they help What's your ideal time to train?
Former New York Giants me and I'm able to move around If my schedule allows I prefer to
defensive lineman Michael and don't have knee problems and workout in the afternoon. But
Strahan spent 15 years chasing my hip doesn't hurt anymore but with the kids I get it in when I
quarterbacks and tackling running when my trainer tells me I have to can. A lot of times I go right after
backs, but since he retired do them, I almost feel like my they go to school, so usually
(following the Giants win in body goes into convulsions. about 9 a.m. but sometimes it can
Super Bowl XLII in 2008) he's What would surprise people most be 7 p.m. And when I do FOX
had to adjust to a new life as a about your new workout routine? NFL Sunday I normally leave
broadcaster with the FOX NFL Probably the core stuff, like around 5:30 p.m. and I'll get to the
Sunday crew. That means a whole doing the one-leg ab crunch on gym by 6 p.m. and that'll give me
new workout routine, a different the medicine ball. You're an hour to workout before they
meal plan, and a brand new idea basically doing a push-up but close.
of what being "fit" really means. your legs are up on the big rubber Do you miss the intensity of pro-
How beat up were you physically ball and then you take one leg off level workouts?
after Super Bowl XLII? the ball and with the other one Even though the weight I'm
When I was in the Super Bowl I you bring your knee up to your lifting isn't what it was when I
had problems with my back and I chest. That's something that takes was playing, it's not like I'm not
banged my right hip up pretty a lot of core strength. lifting weights that are heavier
good. My shoulders were not Let's talk about your diet. What's than the common person would
100%. I had achy knees and a typical breakfast like for you? lift. I think a lot of people look at
elbows to the point where when I I eat three egg whites and three that and say ' whoa!' Related
first started working out with my slices of turkey bacon for articles:
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exercises where I would say 'I'm meals instead of just gorging MF Interview: Ndamukong Suh
not doing that, I can't do that.' Not myself. As an athlete, you're Michael Vick's Rise to the Top
that I didn't want to, I just felt like brought up with that mentality [on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and
I couldn't because my body felt so that you finish everything you strawberries, blueberries, Petitgout used to workout with us more]
beat up. Now I'm able to train and start. If you're going to start a raspberries, a little bit of oatmeal everyday too. I miss joking This entry passed through the
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My squats and leg presses now Do you have any favorite protein I miss the routine. There's first time I went into the locker Five Filters featured site: So,
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weight and focus on range of I'll take two scoops of protein, professional locker room. Lawrence Taylor and how amazed Again?.
motion instead of brute strength. some flax seed oil, some (Vikings TE) Visanthe Shiancoe I was. So when the rookies would
What's the toughest thing you do glucosamine and chondroitin was my workout partner every come into the weight room and
in the gym these days? What liquid for the joints, bananas, day. (Former Giants LT) Luke see you working out it's like,
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agriculture -- logically, he produce more terrorists than and then as president embraced or assumptions: (1) all problems supercharger as an upgrade on the
asserted, given that 90 percent of others.” even expanded all of them -- with abroad either started with or failed Chevy Volt?
the annual Sierra snowpack would So, gone for the moment at least not a word of remorse that his to transcend George W. Bush; and An unrepresentative but quite
soon disappear. are we “cowards” who racially earlier demagoguing might have (2) multicultural non- influential intellectual elite -- in
#ad#While the state struggles with stereotype, oppose the Ground done great harm both to the judgmentalism must replace neo- the media, the universities, the
flooding and blizzards, Governor Zero mosque in Neanderthal efficacy of the programs and to conservative promotion of human arts, and government -- is vested
Schwarzenegger is advertising fashion, and fail to appreciate the reputations of those involved rights across cultures and nations. in Barack Obama, in his
himself to the Obama Holder’s own commitment to in them, as well as to his Now? I don’t think anyone argues unpopular doctrinaire agenda, but
administration as a possible shutting down Guantanamo and country’s image abroad. I suppose that China, Russia, or Venezuela even more so in the symbolism of
post–Van Jones green czar, to trying KSM in a New York we are all Orwell’s farm animals has become a little softer on his person. The result is
regulate energy for the country as federal court. Much like his now, mystified but quiet as we dissidents, or that North Korea is paradoxical. For his political
he has done for a now insolvent colleague Harold Koh (who, as an wake to see the commandments a little more quiet, or that Iran is a survival, Obama now accepts that
California. But then, once global Obama State Department justice on the barnyard wall crossed out little less likely to press ahead his faith-based ideas about the
warming morphed into climate official rather than a Yale law and written over#. with its nuclear proliferation, or environment, radical Islam, taxes,
change, too much rain, snow, and dean, is no longer suing to put an #page#On the matter of taxes, two that Japan, Britain, or Eastern stimulus, the economy, national
cold could become as end to waterboarding at years after borrowing $2 trillion Europe is a little more confident security, and foreign policy are
symptomatic of too much man- Guantanamo, but is instead to expand, stimulate, change, and in American leadership, or that not supported by any evidence in
made carbon being released as too opposing those who are suing to reset the economy, and after Iraq is lost or Afghanistan saved the real world. Yet he knows as
little rain, snow, and cold once stop Predator assassination talking of limb-lopping doctors, because we put “our eye back on well that the more he must
were. Start that engine, and thou missions), Holder in a blink of an fat-cat bankers, junketeering the ball.” As a result, in six become empirical, the more he
shalt both burn and freeze in hell. eye went from trashing the Bush- CEOs on their way to Vegas and months, U.S foreign policy will must assure his flock of believers
This week Attorney General Cheney anti-terrorism protocols to the Super Bowl, and how “at a probably be indistinguishable outside the farmhouse window
Holder was warning about the sighing that it is almost a matter certain point you’ve made enough from that of the second George that he still walks on four rather
threat of terrorism -- but not of when, not if, home-grown money,” Obama has now W. Bush term -- even as we than two legs.
terrorism in the usual liberal Islamic radicals will kill lots of embraced the abhorrent Bush-era continue to hear sermons about The wonder is not that politicians
Timothy McVeigh, “even us. Holder’s road to Damascus is tax rates, and he is courting bold new multicultural initiatives change as politics dictate, but that
Christians can be terrorists” sort eerily reminiscent of the sudden CEOs. The latter are apparently delivered in Nobel-laureate the most vehement leftism now
of gobbledy-gook. Rather, Eric conversion in 1938 of British sitting catatonic on the sidelines, rhetoric. When did “Bush did it” accepts nonchalantly what it not
Holder, as this Christmas’s new intellectuals, who, as with hundreds of billions in cash become “And we did too!”? long ago so ardently demonized.
Dick Cheney, is warning about Czechoslovakia was swallowed, but unwilling to expand When one loses one’s faith, the The oddity is not that Obama
U.S. citizens who are stealthy abruptly went from 15 years of operations for fear that Obama aftermath can be startling. As gas must back up after driving his
radical Islamists. Holder fears that trumpeting League of Nations will adopt EU-like socialism. At hits $3 a gallon at Christmas, with country into a brick wall at the
they wish to succeed where the pacifism to calling for British exactly what point did the fears of $4 by summer-vacation end of a dead-end street, but that
would-be Times Square, subway, military deterrence against caterpillar of massive borrowing time, expect suddenly to hear of as he backs up, turns around, and
Portland, and Christmas airliner fascism. Unlike Holder, however, and government spending emerge plans to tap more natural gas, heads in the other direction, he
bombers all failed. He assumes they at least explained why they from his chrysalis as the butterfly build more nuclear reactors, and can still be praised as if he had
that the terrorists among us for had made their about-faces. of not raising taxes on anyone in a lift the suppression of offshore dematerialized and gone ahead
some reason did not read the Al- To be fair, the Obamaites are recession and of balancing drilling -- all beneath a loudly right on through the wall.
Arabiya interview, fully simply channeling their budgets? At 8, 9, or 10 percent trumpeted but very thin wind and — NRO contributor Victor Davis
appreciate the Cairo speech, see commander-in-chief, who spent a unemployment? At 50, 48, or 43 solar veneer. What are we to Hanson is a senior fellow at the
the famous bow to the Saudi king, near decade, from 2001 to 2009, percent approval? Or at the idea expect next -- a few windmills Hoover Institution, the editor of
or hear of administration pressure pontificating on the illegality or of 30, 40, 50, or 63 lost House fastened atop a drilling rig in the Makers of Ancient Strategy: From
on Israel. In short, “All religions superfluousness of the Patriot Act, seats? Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Persian Wars to the Fall of
produce terrorists,” is now renditions, tribunals, Predators, #ad#Obama reset-button some solar panels on the domes of OBAMAITES’ page 71
followed by “But some religions Guantanamo, and overseas wars, diplomacy rested on two new nuclear-power plants, a
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Implementing Repeal
Submitted at 12/22/2010 3:00:17 AM
differently. And this is the great allowed for the most part to serve would have a negative impact on
danger: that the repeal will be without interference. unit effectiveness.
Lifting “don’t ask” should be a expedited for political reasons no This will change once the repeal Perhaps the best we can hope for
step-by-step process. matter the impact on the military. is put in place, as outside groups is that implementation will be
N ow that Congress has decided The Pentagon report on the issue with a broader homosexual “staggered,” starting with the
to allow homosexuals to serve acknowledges that lifting the ban agenda are thrown into the mix. support establishments (where
openly in the armed forces, the will seriously and adversely affect The irony is that this agenda will unit cohesion is less important)
military faces the real challenge: the health and effectiveness of the be pursued at the expense of and leaving combat units for last.
Fewer Teen Moms but
implementation. U.S. military. To begin with, currently serving homosexuals, This would be in line with the More Babies Born to
The new policy will be put in lifting the ban will lead to who are more concerned about practice of other countries that Single Moms Than Ever
place when the president, the i n c r e a s e d a d m i n i s t r a t i v e serving their country than permit military service by open
secretary of defense, and the nightmares driven by outside validating a homosexual homosexuals. Rachel Sheffield (The Foundry:
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of political groups with goals that Conservative Policy News.)
“lifestyle.” Such an approach is also in
Staff (JCS) have all certified that transcend national security. The Pentagon report claims that keeping with the “functional Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:00:18 PM
it can be done in such a way as to It is true that the Pentagon has the key to “overcoming imperative” of the U.S. military --
minimize any adverse impact on already addressed some of the resistance” is “training and fighting and winning the nation’s Posted December 22nd, 2010 at
military effectiveness. On the one more basic concerns voiced by education.” As it is, military wars. The fact is that advocates of 1:00pm in Family and Religion
hand, President Obama would like opponents of lifting the ban: members are subjected to repeal never identified a single Print This Post
to see the revised law put into F r a t e r n i z a t i o n r u l e s , w h i c h politically correct “sensitivity benefit of repealing the ban when Yesterday, The Washington Post
action as soon as possible, and c u r r e n t l y p r o h i b i t s e n i o r - training” on a variety of issues, it comes to recruiting, retention, heralded the decline in teeth birth
Admiral Mullen, chairman of the subordinate relations between e.g., sexual harassment and unit effectiveness, and readiness rates, stating:
JCS, has been pushing for repeal men and women, will apply to “diversity.” Once homosexuals of the force. Staggering As the nation continued to
for some time (indeed, he started homosexual relations as well; become a favored group, things implementation is a way to struggle in the recession in 2009,
before consulting with the service public displays of affection while will only get worse. The Marines minimize the adverse the rate at which U.S. women are
chiefs). in uniform are not permitted; no and the Army will receive consequences of Congress’s having babies continued to fall,
#ad#On the other, Secretary of special arrangement will be made sensitivity training in spades action. pushing the teen birth rate to a
D e f e n s e R o b e r t G a t e s h a s for billeting. (This last one is because, as the report shows, --- Mackubin Thomas Owens is record low, federal officials
expressed concern about the likely to cause the greatest those services, the mission of editor of Orbis, the journal of the reported Tuesday.
policy’s impact on military problems for commanders.) which is to conduct close ground Foreign Policy Research Institute While a decrease in the teen birth
readiness and effectiveness, and The fact is that homosexuals have combat, are the most “resistant” (FPRI). His book, US Civil- rate is good and well, such news
he has indicated that it could be always served honorably in the of all. Indeed, the report reveals Military relations After 9/11: seems to portray the idea that
some time before he certifies the military, and the “don’t ask, don’t that 45 percent of Army troops Renegotiating the Civil-Military single motherhood in the United
change. However, Secretary Gates tell” policy was designed to help and nearly 60 percent of Marines Bargain, will be published by States is on the downturn.
has also indicated that he is them. As a result of this policy, (67 percent of those in Marine Continuum in January. Mackubin However, just the opposite is true.
leaving soon, and President homosexuals who are willing to combat arms: infantry, artillery, Thomas Owens In fact, the number of children
Obama may very well replace him s u b o r d i n a t e t h e i r s e x u a l and armor) who have been in born to single mothers is on the
w i t h s o m e o n e w h o t h i n k s orientation to their duty have been combat zones say that repeal rise and has been since the 1960s.
In 1964, fewer than 10 percent of
babies were born to single
mothers. Today that number is
above 40 percent for the overall
population and even higher
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among Hispanics and African wedlock childbearing are the made it financially and proven school students should be put into
Americans ( 50 and 70 percent, predominant cause of child that their relationship will last. Of place to help couples learn the
respectively). poverty in the U.S. today. Data course, having a baby as a low- skills to sustaining a healthy
How can this be if teen moms are clearly show that children raised educated, single woman is more marriage.
fewer in number? Because the by single mothers are more than likely to lead to a life of poverty Fortunately, there is still hope for
large majority of single moms are five times more likely to be poor and welfare dependency than to American families, but if the
well beyond their high school than are children raised by reaching any level of affluence United States fails to act soon, the
years. In reality, high-school-age married mothers with the same and building a stable family. ill consequences of declining
girls are responsible for fewer education level. Unfortunately, recent research marriage rates and increasing
than 10 percent of births
occurring to single mothers, while
And access to birth control is not
to blame. Research shows that
shows that this decline in
marriage, as well as the increase
single-motherhood will only
continue its upward climb,
2010 Census Shows
women between 18 and 29 years single low-income mothers do not in children born outside of leading to increased financial Folks Flocking to
of age are responsible for roughly report a lack of access to birth marriage, is now moving into burdens for the American
75 percent of out-of-wedlock control as the reason for having a middle America. taxpayer and, more tragically, to a
Free Market States
births. baby. They become pregnant If the United States is really host of negative outcomes for Rich Trzupek (FrontPage
Yet most of the talk heard from because they want to have a baby. interested in decreasing the out-of children, families, and society. Magazine » FrontPage)
policymakers regarding this Unfortunately, marriage has -wedlock birthrate instead of This entry passed through the Submitted at 12/21/2010 10:45:06 PM
matter centers around the need to become all but obsolete in low- continuing to pretend that teen Full-Text RSS service — if this is
throw increasing amounts of income communities. Kathryn pregnancy is responsible for this your content and you're reading it Data released by the census
money at teen pregnancy Edin and Maria Kefalas’s research problem, we must take steps to on someone else's site, please read bureau yesterday indicates that
prevention programs, mostly on low-income communities support marriage in low-income our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ Republican-leaning seats will
those that get birth control into the clearly paints the picture: Women communities. First, policymakers content-only/faq.php have a stronger voice in the House
hands of high school students. in low-income communities can start by eliminating policies Five Filters featured site: So, and increased pull in the electoral
While teenage birth is a modest desire to have children and do so, that penalize marriage. Also, the Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing college over the next decade. Yet,
problem, the current out-of- yet fathers quickly drop out of the U.S. should launch a campaign to Again?. there is a deeper, more important
wedlock birthrate among women picture. To these women and men, promote the benefits of marriage message contained within the
in their 20s is a catastrophe for marriage is regarded as a middle- in low-income communities. heaps of figures as well. States
mothers, children, and society. class institution, something to Furthermore, marriage education 2010 page 77
Single parenthood and out-of- enter into only when a couple has for low-income adults and high
AMERICA
continued from page 70
powerful human impact that are at stake. Yet today, about our enemies in this war can prosperous America. want to recognize Lauren
radical Islamism has had on our Washington refuses to tell the America summon the clarity and Thank you, and God bless. Fleming, who’s a key part of the
country. Unfortunately, radical truth about the war we’re fighting. courage to win. Newt Gingrich: Let me, first of Citizens United team. And we’re
Islamism continues to threaten According to experts, many of We are long overdue for a serious all, say that after David was done thrilled that she’s here with us
America, as proven by the whom you’ll see in the film this global strategy in fighting with that rather over-the-top today and that she represents the
Christmas Day bomber in Detroit, afternoon, we are at war with an terrorism and the ideology behind introduction, I began getting entire team that David Bossie has
the massacre at Fort Hood, and enemy that the current it. We must have the courage to excited about hearing from the assembled.
the car bomber in Times Square. administration refuses to identify tell the truth and to act on that person. And Callista leaned over
We made this movie because we and does not understand. If we truth. “America At Risk” is to remind me it was me and not to
believe America is at risk. And can’t understand and accurately designed to begin an important get too excited. But it was a very
the dangers facing our country describe our enemies, how can we and necessary dialogue about the generous introduction.
today are real and growing. It is develop a strategy to defeat threats we face today, in an effort I also want to take just one
clear that the freedoms we cherish them? Only by being honest to preserve a safe, free and moment — Callista and I both
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TAKING MOLLY
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“the lunatic notion that America is To really understand what sets America “the greatest country in diminish the potency of our most the U.S. Civil Rights
the only truly free and succesful America apart, we need to go the world,” as the USA Today/ effective weapon in the war Commission, I recently
country in the world” and what beyond numbers to examine the Gallup poll asked, that depends on against radical Islam: forthright participated in a hearing on
Politico’s Michael Kinsley heart and soul of the nation: the how you define greatness and is and frank speech. California state university campus
dismisses as the “theory that ideas of the Declaration of really a separate question Our expressive rights, whether speech rights. After listening to
Americans are better than Independence. Unlike other altogether. drawing cartoons or publicly “the powers” from key
everybody else”? nations that derive their meaning American’s dedication to the declaring that shariah law is on a administration staff, it was clear
Let’s start with what everyone and purpose from some unifying permanent truths expressed in the collision course with our that students are informed that the
can agree about: America does quality—an ethnic character, a Declaration of Independence does Constitution, are the most right of one to “be free from
stand out from other countries—in common religion, a shared however mean that it has a special powerful tools we have to expose harassment” is equal to the other’s
particular other Western history, an ancestral role to play in the world. America the false claims perpetrated by right to “speak freely.” In other
countries—on a wide array of land—America is a country has a responsibility to uphold Wahhabists among us. Our words, the expressive rights
measures. America’s economic dedicated to to the universal ideas freedom and the cause of liberty cherished constitutional principles enshrined in our Constitution have
might and military capabilities are of equality and liberty. The truths both at home and abroad. do not afford us many legal now been formally subjected to
unrivaled. Americans also give we hold to be self-evident apply America then, really is different. methods to deal with a subversive what is considered by our courts
more to charity than anyone else to all men—not just all Not just in the way that all element that seeks to advance a to be the Heckler’s Veto: a group
and vote more frequently than Americans. countries are different, Mr. stealth agenda. But ridicule and complains that government should
anyone else (there are, after all, As G.K. Chesteron noted: President, but different in a satire do provide the means to silence or restrict the speech of
more offices open to election than “America is the only nation in the different sort of way, so to speak. expose the consequences of one group so as to avoid
anywhere else in the world). world that is founded on a creed.” Exceptionally different, shall we piecemeal accommodation of this offending the other group. This
Comparative surveys also reveal As such, there is an American say? aggressive socio-political belief equal balancing of speech rights
that Americans are more religious Dream—but no French, Greek or This entry passed through the system. This is not about hate or and group feelings results in free
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Since the numbers don’t lie, exceptionalism in no way implies Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing California Advisory Committee to
what’s all the big fuss about then? that America has not often fallen Again?.
America’s number one in short of—and at times even
philanthropy, but Japan has the betrayed—these ideals. Nor does
longest life expectancy and it imply that Americans are better
Luxembourg the highest per than everyone else and are
capita GDP. Aren’t we all therefore somehow exempt from
statistically exceptional in one whatever rules may apply to
way or another? others. As to whether it makes
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that embrace conservative Texas continues to serve as a those people happen to be new
principles of governance are model of free market driven immigrants or whether their
growing, while those states that prosperity, despite the long families have lived in America for
stubbornly cling to progressive recession. Last year the Lone Star generations. The 2010 census
policies are bleeding citizens, jobs state added 129,000 jobs. makes it very clear that such cities
and influence. People are flocking Compare that to California, which are located within states that still
to states in the South and West lost 112,000 jobs in the same time believe in the American Dream.
that offer low taxes and reject frame. Then, consider another Ohio and New York will lose two
mandatory collective bargaining. point of contrast: state and local seats in the House, while Illinois,
The population increase in states government spending in Texas Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan,
governed by conservative has held steady at about eighteen Missouri, New Jersey,
principles has two components: percent of its private GDP, while Pennsylvania and Louisiana will
internal migration and state and local government each lose one. Of that group, only
immigration. In the first case, spending in California ballooned Louisiana is a reliably red state,
American citizens continue to from nineteen percent in 1987 to and its population decrease is
relocate into states where over twenty-six percent today. attributable to the exodus that
government exerts a light hand. In
the latter, new immigrants
According to Americans for Tax
Reform the states that will gain
occurred after Hurricane Katrina
wreaked her havoc, rather than the Google Spaces shows us
naturally flock to the states where seats in reapportionment have an way the state is governed. In
economic opportunities are the
brightest. Either way, the 2010
average top individual state
income tax rate of 2.8 percent,
addition to Texas, winners include
Florida, which will pick up two
where Wave went
census provides a ringing while those states that will lose seats, while Georgia, South Tim Stevens (Engadget) version of Wave, and maybe that's
endorsement for the kind of free seats have an average top rate of Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, Utah Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:48:00 PM all the service really needed.
market, limited government 6.05 percent. Almost 90 percent and Washington will gain a seat Direction. Right now there are
principles that the electorate so of winning states have Right to apiece. These are largely free So it's safe to say that Google just shy of 50 such gadgets for
strongly supported in the last Work laws in place, while only 20 market states, for only Wave didn't really make one upon you to try, but anyone with a little
election. percent of losing states allow Washington can be described as the tech world as a whole, but it JavaScript know-how can whip up
The big winner was Texas, which workers to opt-out of paying true blue, although it does not certainly was a neat idea. While their own in a jiffy, though sadly
saw its population swell by union dues. The net effect is have a state or corporate income Wave itself now lives with the there's no interactive gadget-
twenty-one percent over the last obvious. States that offer lower tax. Apache Software Foundation, the creation Space. Now that would
decade and which will gain four taxes and that refuse to pay core concept, easy and direct be something.
seats in the House of homage to Big Labor attract collaboration with anyone, has [Thanks, Hassan]
Representatives as a result. As a employers, who in turn attract new life with Google Shared Google Spaces shows us where
“Right to Work” state and one employees. People flock to cities Spaces. The Wave gadgets have Wave went originally appeared on
that imposes no state income tax, where jobs are plentiful, whether been given a standalone home Engadget on Wed, 22 Dec 2010
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and more mainstream, established have been around for a while Ben Folds and Pomplamoose, and process to get an account on Ping models (a la Girl Talk and Trent
publications and institutions now, but what’s changed in the learning how to use social tools to is not as simple as creating a Reznor) and taking advantage of
embracing social media all the past year is the number of devices their advantage. 3. Music Videos username and logging in; Apple the buzz that a leak builds (a la
more. you can access them on — Will Continue Their Renaissance needs to vet bands before granting The National).
There’s a lot of noise out there in everything from the iPad to Roku Online them access.) That’s not to say that matters are
the music world — and we’re not to the Xbox Kinect to the This past year, a very sizable In the ensuing months, Ping has looking sunny for artists. It’s
just talking about the genre — and upcoming Chrome OS devices. player entered the online music made an effort to become more likely they will have to continue
we’re all hoping that out of that The ability to listen to music on- video space: Vevo, which social, adding Twitter integration to diversify their methods of
tangle of ideas and sounds comes demand across a variety of launched at the end of 2009. In and social playlists, but the site’s garnering cash by ramping up
the antidote that will fix a system devices is sure to be a hit among just one year, Vevo has become a focus — predictably — seems to touring and licensing deals. More
that is so obviously in flux. consumers — it just remains to be very worthy adversary to sites like be more on commerce than social. Social Music Resources from
Although I don’t quite see that seen how these services will MTV.com when it comes to For example: Yes, you can create Mashable:
antidote being concocted this monetize. 2. More Artists Will hosting music videos, and MTV, and share playlists, but you can’t - How To Make Your Music
coming year, I do see more trial Finally Get Social for its part, has started amping up use your own songs to build said Video Go Viral: 10 Tips From
and error and creativity brewing You know your friend in that its online/on-air video output as playlists — you must assemble Cee-Lo, OK Go & More
that could, in the end, lead to the band that never gets gigs? The well. them from iTune’s song previews. - 4 Ways Bands Can Cash in
music industry’s eventual rebirth. guy who basically has no idea Now, we’re not saying Vevo has So, basically, by sharing playlists Online Without a Label
Either that or it will all implode how to use Twitter and thinks single-handedly sparked the users are creating free advertising - Top 10 Twitter Tips for Bands,
and we’ll live in eternal silence, Foursquare is a playground game? renaissance of the music video, for iTunes rather than trading By Bands
but somehow I doubt it. Well, even that guy is going to but it has helped give the format a tunes. - 5 Great Ways to Find Music
And with that I bring you my start realizing in the coming year kick in the you-know-what. That Yes, MySpace may be suffering That Suits Your Mood
predictions for 2011. 1. that he can’t just keeping sticking platform, coupled with the some financial woes(and a bit of - 5 Free Ways to Identify that
Subscription Services Will Be his head in the sand where social growing ability of artists like OK an identity crisis), but it’s Song Stuck in Your Head
Popular, But Not Profitable media is concerned. Go, Arcade Fire and Kanye obviously a much more social Images courtesy of iStockphoto,
If Spotify’s$26.7 million loss in I mean, Billboard recently tapped West(he’s everywhere on this list) sphere than a place for commerce enot-poloskun, and Flickr,
2009 is any indication, Next Big Sound to gather stats for to create true cinematic, and (which may explain the financial Hygiene Matters, Taylor Burnes,
subscription services still have a its“Social 50 Chart; we’re talking sometimes interactive woes). Case in point: It just added Robert Agthe, and ste3ve
ways to go before they’ll actually about a publication that’s been masterpieces — which are the a suite of fan management tools More About: apple, arcade-fire,
become profitable. Hell, Last.fm around since 1894 paying bread and butter of the viral web for artists. Ping may not die this Billboard, facebook, kanye west,
isn’t even turning a profit yet — attention to social metrics where — have ensured that online music year — Apple is a tenacious beast MARKETING, MOG, mtv,
although it could be getting close. artist popularity is concerned. videos will continue to be — but I don’t see it gaining any music, myspace, Ping, predictions
Still, this year and the end of last Let’s hear that date again: 1894. eminently shareable in the coming traction either. 5. Music Piracy -2011, social media, the-national,
year saw services gaining even So basically the fact that you’re year. 4. Ping Will Never Take Off Will Not Die twitter, vevo
more steam — MOG launched its over 30 is no excuse for not — Never Despite the looming spectre of For more Entertainment
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of devices to be unveiled at CES). of socially savvy bands like months out of the gate, the site leaky nature of the web by PREDICTIONS page 81
Yes, streaming music services Kanye West(for better or worse), boasted only 2,000 artists. (The adopting pay-what-you-wish
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