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And on the second day, they read…

Richard Cowan (Front Row believe he was born in Africa and document. And it’s part of House government professor at The
Washington) not Hawaii. Speaker John Boehner’s promise University of Texas at Austin, in a
Submitted at 1/6/2011 1:15:30 PM Republicans staged the reading of to make his chamber a more telephone interview with Reuters,
the 4,400-word Constitution — functional, civil place to do said: “It’s like saying I’ll read out
Day Two of Republican control not counting the 27 amendments business, after years of partisan ‘thou shalt not kill’ and some will
o f t h e U . S . H o u s e o f — in part as a gesture to Tea bickering. say, ‘What part of that do you not
Representatives was highlighted Party activists who helped them “In this Congress, there will be understand and how can you
with a reading of the 223-year-old w i n b i g i n t h e N o v e m b e r clear constitutional authority support capital punishment?’”
Constitution — the document that elections, and in part to cue up required when members file Others would read those same
formed the American government F r i d a y ’ s d e b a t e t o r e p e a l bills,” Boehner told reporters. words and say “how can you
and guides it to this day. “Obamacare,” the healthcare But there already are signs that support abortion?” Levinson said.
It’s often a raucous scene on the reforms Democrats enacted last reading the Constitution will not “We’re not going to get
House floor. Today, it was year. do much to facilitate camaraderie anywhere,” he said.
raucous in the visitors’ gallery, UPDATE: Elizabeth Wydra, or more effective governing. Photo credit: Reuters/Jim Young
when a woman calling herself chief counsel at Constitutional “We were not sent here to use the (Boehner salutes assembled
“Theresa” disrupted the recitation Accountability Center, wrote at Constitution as a political prop or members of Congress on opening
of the Constitution at the exact The Huffington Post that the a partisan weapon, but instead as day of 112th Congress)
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Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 1/6/2011 5:23:08 PM
Forget about the branch.
President Barack Obama offered
the whole olive tree to the
business community today with
the appointment of JP Morgan
Chase executive William Daley as
White House Chief of Staff.
Daley also knows something
about politics. He comes from
Chicago where politics has a
history of being played bare-
knuckled style. Oh, and his
brother is the Daley who is
stepping down as Chicago mayor,
which opened the way for Rahm
Emanuel, Obama’s former White
House chief of staff (whom Daley
is replacing), to run for that office.
Plenty more dots to connect —
Daley was also former President
Bill Clinton’s commerce
secretary, and Clinton has come to
Obama’s aid on more than one
occasion (even before the press).
Obama said Daley “has a
smidgen of awareness of how our
system of government and politics
works. You might say it is a
genetic trait.”
The Chamber of Commerce did
not even try to contain its glee.
“This is a strong appointment,”
said Thomas Donohue, president
of the business group.
Looks like the scene is set for an
administration-business
rapprochement.
Here are our top stories from
Washington today…
Obama names JP Morgan’s
Daley as top aide
President Barack Obama named
JPMorgan Chase executive
William Daley as his chief of
staff, bringing a politically
seasoned businessman into the
White House to help trigger job
growth as he grapples with
resurgent Republicans. Obama
said he hoped Daley would help
energize the economy. Reducing
America’s 9.8 percent jobless rate
is Obama’s biggest challenge
ahead of his 2012 re-election bid.
“He possesses a deep
understanding of how jobs are
created and how to grow our
economy,” Obama said at the
White House.
For more of this story by Steve
Holland, read here.
Geithner presses Republicans to
lift US debt limit
Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner stepped up pressure on
Republican lawmakers to raise the
nation’s $14.3 trillion debt limit,
warning failure to act would lead
to an economic catastrophe.
“Even a short-term or limited
default would have catastrophic
economic consequences that
would last for decades,” he said in
a letter to Senate Majority leader
Harry Reid.
For more of this story by David
Lawder and Glenn Somerville,
read here.
Budget antics more theater than
reality show
Hours after taking control of the
House of Representatives,
Republican lawmakers were
Hours after taking control of the
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limit speculative positions in
commodity markets to the next
stage, said Jill Sommers, a
Republican commissioner. The
CFTC introduced its long-awaited
plan to quell speculation for the
metals, agriculture and energy
markets on Dec. 16, but
postponed a vote on releasing it
for public comment because of
internal dissent among the
agency’s five commissioners.
For more of this story by
Christopher Doering and Roberta
Rampton, read here.
Jobless claims up, underlying
trend still down
New claims for jobless benefits
moved higher last week, but a
decline in the four-week average
H o u s e o f R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s , Republican efforts to scrap to a nearly 2-1/2-year low
Republican lawmakers were President Obama’s healthcare suggested the labor market
already rolling back pledges to reform hit new trouble when continues to improve. Initial
slash spending — a rollback that budget analysts put the cost of claims for state unemployment
may actually be the best thing repeal at billions of dollars and benefits increased 18,000 to a
they can do for the economy. One Senate Democrats promised to seasonally adjusted 409,000, the
giant-but-remote risk remains that defend the law. The nonpartisan Labor Department said, above
t h e n e w l y e m p o w e r e d CBO estimated overturning the economists’ expectations for
Republicans will make good on reform would add about $230 400,000.
threats to block the Treasury billion to the deficit by 2021 and For more of this story by Lucia
Department from issuing any result in 32 million fewer people Mutikani, read here.
more bonds once it hits a debt having health insurance. “I don’t Bacteria gobbled methane from
ceiling. But so far, in their first think they expect, certainly they BP spill -scientists
few hours of power, Republicans shouldn’t expect the Senate to go Bacteria ate nearly all the
have eased concerns that their along with this kind of wholesale potentially climate-warming
attempts to shrink the government repeal,” Senate Democrat Dick methane that spewed from BP’s
— and a $1.3 trillion deficit — Durbin told reporters. broken wellhead in the Gulf of
will inadvertently derail a still- For more of this story by John Mexico last year, scientists
vulnerable economic recovery. Whitesides and Richard Cowan, reported. Nearly 200,000 tons of
For more of this analysis by read here. methane — more than any other
Pedro da Costa and Emily Kaiser, CFTC’s Sommers expects limits single hydrocarbon emitted in the
read here. plan to move forward accident — were released from
R e p u b l i c a n b i d t o s c r a p The CFTC likely has enough
healthcare hits snags votes to advance a proposal to WASHINGTON page 3
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the wellhead, and nearly all of it
went into the deep water of the
Gulf, a researcher said in a
telephone interview. Bacteria
managed to take in the methane
before it could rise from the sea
bottom and be released into the
atmosphere.
For more of this story by
Deborah Zabarenko, read here.
What we are blogging…
And on the second day, they
read…
Day Two of Republican control
of the House was highlighted with
a reading of the 223-year-old
Constitution. It’s often a raucous
scene on the House floor. Today,
it was raucous in the visitors’
gallery, when a woman calling
herself “Theresa” disrupted the
recitation of the Constitution at
the exact point in which a
lawmaker read that the president
must be a “natural born citizen.”
“Except Obama,” Theresa
inserted as her own 28th
Amendment to the Constitution,
invoking Jesus. It may have been
the most prominent performance
so far by “birthers,” who claim
Obama has no right to be in office
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because they believe he was born
in Africa and not Hawaii.
For Richard Cowan’s full post,
click here.
Bachmann for president? Tea
Party darling blames media
Minnesota Republican Michele
Bachmann, champion-in-chief of
the House Tea Party caucus,
blames the media for all the recent
chatter about her status as a
potential presidential candidate.
“I’m not concerned about my own
personal ambition,” she tells NBC
News. “Right now, too many
people in the media are concerned
about who will be the nominee in
2012.”
For David Morgan’s full post,
click here.
From elsewhere…
Mass bird deaths rare, not
apocalyptic-experts
Birds falling out of the sky in the
United States and Sweden are
freak examples of the kind of
mass animal deaths, from beached
whales to deluges of frogs, that
have unusual but not apocalyptic
causes, experts say. Storms, hail
or lightning can kill birds while
tornadoes or waterspouts may
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suck up small fish or frogs and
drop them far away. Human
causes, such as fireworks, power
lines or a collision with a truck,
may explain avian deaths.
“Science is struggling to explain
these things. These are examples
of the surprises that nature can
still bring,” said Nick Nuttall,
spokesman of UNEP. “More
research is needed.”
For more of this story, read here.
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White House chief of staff
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Allegation Of Racism
Against Donald Sterling
Kevin Baumer (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:18:23 AM
ESPN has obtained more legal
documents filed by Elgin Baylor
in his lawsuit against the L.A.
Clippers, accusing owner Donald
Sterling of "wrongful termination"
because of Baylor's age and race.
The latest papers indicate Donald
Sterling is as much of a jerk as
we've all suspected.
The documents indicate that
Sterling is extremely frugal when
it comes to spending on players,
but they also make several
allegations of racism by Sterling,
most notably this passage:
"Players Sam Cassell, Elton
Brand and Corey Maggette
complained to me that DONALD
STERLING would bring women
into the locker room after games,
while the players were showering,
and make comments such as,
'Look at those beautiful black
bodies.' I brought this to Sterling’s
attention, but he continued to
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bring women into the locker
room."
In legal papers released in
November Sterling allegedly told
a black coach candidate that he,
"would like to have a white
Southern coach coaching poor
black players." Sterling's real
estate companies have also been
sued by the government over
racial discrimination.
Earlier this season, Sterling was
spotted heckling his own players
from his courtside seat.
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Goldman's Facebook Deal Mirrors Subprime CDO Deals That

Blew Up Entire Companies, Says One Former Goldman Exec
Nomi Prins (Business Insider) worked on the analytics of that advertiser money along with
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:19:20 AM business. At the time, CDOs were them.
mostly stuffed with relatively The Facebook deal sucks so
With the Facebook IPO now solid high yield corporate loans badly that one of Goldman Sachs'
delayed until 2012, former and bonds, and sometimes credit own funds didn't want a single
Goldman Sachs exec Nomi Prins default swaps. I left the firm, and share of it. Richard Friedman,
explains how her old bank got a banking business, in 2002, before who runs the money for past and
worse deal than their infamous they began recklessly stuffing present Goldman partners, among
toxic mortgages. subprime assets into that pipeline. others, said, thanks, but no
Facebook and Goldman Sachs No matter, as the game remained thanks. That should tell everyone
unleashed a tech investing mania the same: get the business, rake something.
this week compared far and wide in the fees—and pawn off the But for investors, just like with
with the euphoric 1990s dot-com overpriced goods on the clients the CDO business, the Facebook
run-up. (even the “ shitty deals” so deal has an important "sellability"
By arranging a $500 million Goldman’s not holding the bag. factor and high-profile
private investment, at a staggering That dirty formula cost Goldman support—a.k.a. Goldman's.
$50 billion valuation, Goldman at a $550 million fine less than six Formidable support begets higher
once delayed a Facebook public months ago. initial evaluations. The CDO
offering ( now expected in 2012), Yet the Facebook phenomenon pitch: House prices will always go
prompted a likely LinkedIn IPO, s h o w s u s t h a t n o t h i n g h a s
have to disclose any pertinent exceptions. Ditto Facebook up, and thus subprime CDOs will
and thrilled its clients, who changed. Goldman again moved
financial information to you or employees (although they were always hold value. The Facebook
clamored for a piece of Mark a g g r e s s i v e l y t o g e t t h e
any regulator for 15 months. For allowed to cash out about $100 pitch: Social-media revenue will,
Zuckerberg's behemoth. business—investing $75 million the privilege, Goldman gets its million last year). But Goldman so social-media websites will
But for all the nostalgia for pre- into Facebook early, at a low
eight-digit windfall. is. Whenever it wants "without always hold value.
IPO "friends and family" stock in valuation, through one of its
Forget their fees for a moment, notice to the fund or investors in Goldman does seem to have
P e t s . c o m , t h e d o t - c o m e r a hedge funds, in the same way it learned one lesson. One of the
though. Recall that what killed the the fund."
c o m p a r i s o n s a r e o f f b a s e . used to get CDOs rolling—again
CDO market, aside from the CDOs were private, unregulated, problems brought up by the
Instead, Goldman's Facebook will rake in the fees (to the tune
crappy deals, crappy collateral overvalued, disclosure-lite, fee- Abacus CDO deal that prompted
d e a l m i r r o r s t h e s u b p r i m e of $60 million—upfront) and
and overall shadiness: lack of intensive deals. The Facebook the $550 million fine was the
collateralized debt obligation a g a i n w i l l p a w n o f f t h e
liquidity. Investors stopped deal is private, unregulated, idea that Goldman was helping
d e a l s t h a t b l e w u p e n t i r e overvalued results to its clamoring
buying CDO pieces, and trading overvalued, disclosure-lite, and one client short the deal against
companies, as well as crater-size clients, who don't have nearly as
desks stopped making markets in fee intensive. CDOs sold like another client. To avoid another
hole in our economy. In fact, much information as Goldman.
them. Game over. That's why this mad— until they didn't. That can uncomfortable SEC incident, and
what Goldman just engineered If you're one of those investors,
deal, albeit in something with happen here. At the end of the the nuisance of public scrutiny,
might well be worse. here's the deal in a nutshell: You more potential than a basket of holding period, there may be no they've put the sell possibility
Let me explain. When I joined get to buy shares, forking over 5
subprime assets, is worse than a bid for Facebook shares anywhere right out front: a disclaimer
Goldman as a Managing Director percent of any possible gains, on
CDO: Investor illiquidity begins near the price paid. Plus, by that allowing them to dump their
in early 2000, right after the dot- top of a 4 percent placement fee
on day one. The rich Goldman time all the enthusiastic global shares, or perhaps short them, at
com bubble burst, the hot new and a 0.5 percent expense reserve
clients who must pony up a users of Facebook may have a n y p o i n t . W h i c h i s e x t r a
profit area was credit derivatives fee (so you're down 10 percent
minimum $2 million investment d r o p p e d i t f o r convenient, since Goldman is
and CDOs. In fact, one of my jobs before the game starts) in a GOLDMAN'S page 8
aren't allowed out until 2013. No thenextgreatfad.com taking the
was managing a team that private company that doesn't
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The Tampa Bay Rays are
Dismal Jobs Report Not Important! shipping Matt Garza to
the Chicago Cubs for 4
Sy Harding (Business Insider) December. The consensus the way, makes a number within Index, and so on.
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:18:25 AM estimate was also that the this morning’s report particularly Additionally, the disappointing prospects
unemployment rate would hold telling, and that is that the average jobs report will provide the (Business Insider)
A n o t h e r m o n t h - a n o t h e r steady at 9.8%. That was also workweek for all employees held Federal Reserve, which also
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:17:18 AM
d i s a p p o i n t m e n t i n t h e wrong. The unemployment rate steady at 34.3 hours in December. overemphasizes the employment
employment picture. fell quite dramatically to 9.4% Employers normally increase the picture as an important indicator, The Tampa Bay Rays are
But it doesn’t matter! The (but that was probably due to so hours for existing employees with reason to continue with its shipping Matt Garza to the
economic recovery continues. many unemployed people giving before hiring more workers. quantitative easing program, Chicago Cubs for 4 prospects
E m p l o y m e n t i s a l a g g i n g up on finding a job). Employment therefore lags additional fuel for the economy. Join the conversation about this
indicator. For many years I’ve called the behind the economy and is not of So, the economic recovery is story »
A month ago the consensus Labor Department’s monthly near as much importance as the continuing, which bodes well for
forecast was that 155,000 new employment report the Big One media places on it. the stock market in 2011, the Online Model Fail Sites -
jobs were created in November. among economic reports. Not The leading indicators of the usually positive third-year of the The 'Girls of eBay' Blog
When the November jobs report because it’s more important than economy are measurements of presidential cycle. Spotlights Questionable
was released in early December it other reports, because it is not - consumer activity, obvious since But that does not mean investors
was terrible, showing that only but because it is impossible to consumer spending accounts for can relax just yet. Clothing Models
39,000 jobs were created. (The forecast and therefore has the 65% of the U.S. economy. That Short-term, the stock market is (GALLERY)
economy needs approximately record for most often coming in makes retail sales, home sales, overbought, and investor (TREND HUNTER - The Latest
150,000 new jobs monthly just to with a surprise in one direction or auto sales, consumer sentiment, sentiment is at high levels of Trends)
k e e p u p w i t h t h e g r o w i n g the other. factory orders and the like much bullishness and complacency
Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:02:01 AM
population). It was also reported It’s also the big one because the more indicative of the economic usually seen at rally tops.
t h a t t h e a l r e a d y h i g h financial media holds the report recovery than the employment The disappointing jobs report ( TrendHunter.com) I want to
unemployment rate ticked up up as an important leading reports. could have the effect of providing thank the ' Girls of eBay' blog for
from 9.6% to 9.8% in November. indicator of the economy - which And those consumer-related the catalyst for the stock market to scaring me permanently away
A month later, with the economy it also is not. indications continue to improve. correct enough to alleviate that from the online auction site. This
continuing to improve, the Employment is a lagging Among reports of recent weeks overbought condition and cool photoblog is dedicated to eBay
consensus estimate has been that indicator. Employers do not hire that came in better than forecasts investor sentiment off to a clothing merchants and their
175,000 new jobs were created in additional full-time employees were consumer sentiment, retail healthier level. questionable model choices.
December. until after the economy has sales, home sales, construction Join the conversation about this The...
Wrong again. The report this recovered so much that their spending, auto sales, factory story »
morning was that only 103,000 present employees cannot keep up orders, the ISM Mfg Index, the
n e w j o b s w e r e c r e a t e d i n with improved business. That, by ISM Non-Mfg (service sector)

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Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: Newsletters, Altria
Group (MO), Stocks to Buy, Best
Stocks for 2011
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Google's Priority Inbox Will Save 13% of Your

Time
Kit Eaton (Fast Company) worked out how to make
Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:51:57 AM prioritizing work.
How well does it work? The
Google introduced its Priority research found that compared to
Inbox system late 2010 to help Google employees without Verizon & Sprint
users tackle the increasing burden Priority Inbox, PI users spent 6% Windows Phone 7 launch
of email influx. It's now just less time reading email, and 13% by June 30 says Microsoft
published research into how well less time reading unimportant
PI works, and the results are stuff in their inboxes. PI users
exec
impressive: 6% less time reading were also "more confident" to Chris Davies (SlashGear)
email, 13% less time reading crap. bulk archive emails, or delete Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:24:10 AM
The research is coming from nonsense.
Douglas Aberdeen, Ondrej Considering how many trillions Microsoft expects Windows
Pacovsky, and Andrew Slater in of dollars of business rely on Phone 7 smartphones to be on sale
Google's offices in Switzerland, email as a tool, and that the at Sprint and Verizon by June 30
so it's a tad self-serving, but the volume of spam email is running 2011, according to Aaron
research team seems to have at ridiculous levels and growing Woodman, director of mobile
tackled their topic with some fast (some put the figure at 97% communications business.
serious scientific objectivity. of all email traffic), any system Woodman outlined the timeframe
The problem Google's Priority that means we as users spend less in an interview with Seattle
Inbox faces is a tricky one, from a time on dealing with the Times, though we’re left hoping
philosophical point of view: How unimportant trivia in inboxes is a that date is the very last in a
store and trawl through for The other key metric is whether
do you prioritize the incoming good thing. Plus this research window starting considerably
training Google's algorithms, and users consistently mark their
stream of emails to a Gmailer's gives us a small, but rare insight earlier in the year, rather than a
"users disagree on what is messages in a particular manner--
account without "explicit user into the clever technology that sign that CDMA WP7 devices
important, requiring a high degree when Google detects that you're
labeling"--where users' input is works behind Google's smooth, aren’t expected until late in Q2.
of personalization." doing this, it uses the information
required to train the code? There's featureless user-facing interfaces. Last we heard, the rumor mill
It turns out one of the most to adjust how it prioritizes
an extra spin on the problem To read more news on this, and was pegging January 2011 for the
important ways Google works out information to you. By applying
caused by the fact that the nature similar stuff, keep up with my Verizon and Sprint launch of
what emails are important to users some bulk decisions to all mail
of email is constantly changing updates by following me, Kit CDMA devices, a suggestion later
(versus just interesting) is how flowing through Gmail, then
(so working out what's important Eaton, on Twitter. strengthened by the appearance of
quickly the user interacts with it adding a layer of personalized
and what's not is tricky), there're Verizon-branded apps in the
in the moments after its delivery. processing to each user, Google's
terabytes of reference emails to Windows Phone Market. An
update expected later this month
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The NFL's Content Blitz Will Now
Cost ESPN $2 Billion Per Year
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:18:27 AM
The National Football League
and ESPN have reportedly
finalized a deal extending their
existing media rights agreement--
and ESPN has the sticky end of it,
paying 65-70% more than it does
now: That's up to $2 billion a
year. Which is about the same
figure being kicked around as
Facebook's annual revenue.
Higher cable fees loom.
According to some reports, ESPN
(Disney owned) and the NFL
started having serious discussions
about their deal around Labor Day
2010, initially agreeing to extend
their existing deal, which allowed
the negotiations to proceed past
the original Thanksgiving
expiration date. At the heart of the
new deal, other than the NFL's
evident hunger for raw, hard cash
in large quantities, was ESPN's
drive toward "TV Everywhere,"
which would permit broadcasting
over broadband systems and
streaming onto mobile devices
like tablets and smartphones.
ESPN will apparently hang on to
the rights to broadcast key
moments, including highlights
and the NFL Draft. But neither
ESPN nor ABC seems to have
landed the rights to carry the
Super Bowl--which one could
reasonably think might be part of
a $2 billion-a-year deal.
ESPN is forking over some 70%
Business/ 7
Apple's Mac App Store
Scores Over One Million
Downloads on First Day
Kit Eaton (Fast Company) the Mac App Store is getting.
Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:48:06 AM Developers have done a great job
bringing apps to the store and
Apple's Mac App Store is an users are loving how easy and fun
i n n o v a t i o n n o t w i t h o u t i t s the Mac App Store is."
attendant controversy, but one We're not quite sure exactly how
fact is glaringly evident: It's an Jobs knows his users are in love
instant success. Apple's just with the Store's ease of use
announced that over one million (unless he's obliquely referring to
apps were purchased in the first the slew of personal emails he
more per annum because the NFL to ask their teams for more pay. 24 hours. may have been getting to his
is increasingly aware of how Game tickets may hedge upwards, Apple's press release basically steve@apple account--and to
valuable its content is, particularly along with the cost of hot dogs l e t s t h e f i g u r e s s p e a k f o r which he sometimes responds) but
in the digital broadcast era where and beers. And the cost of cable themselves: Over one million the opening Store app count is
TV content is increasingly diluted packages that cover ESPN may apps have been downloaded from indeed impressive.
across different platforms. In also rise. Essentially the NFL's the Mac® App Store in the first What Jobs definitely didn't refer
2010 the league demonstrated this deal will, indirectly, over time, day. With more than 1,000 free to is the fuss about a huge piracy-
b y s i g n i n g a $ 7 2 0 m i l l i o n syphon ever more cash from the and paid apps, the Mac App Store enabling loophole in the Store's
sponsorship deal with Verizon, wallets of football fans across the brings the revolutionary App architecture, or the fact that the
giving Verizon exclusive mobile U.S.—and the world. Store experience to the Mac, so usual App Store rules barring trial
access to Sunday Night Football To read more news on this, and you can find great new apps, buy software are really rubbing Mac
and NFL Network games. similar stuff, keep up with my them using your iTunes® account, developers the wrong way--it's a
But there may be unpleasant side- updates by following me, Kit download and install them in just system of distribution that's
effects to the NFL's price hike: Eaton, on Twitter. one step. worked for years.
Players may want a slice of the Steve Jobs is then quoted, To read more news on this, and
action, and their agents could d i s p l a y i n g h i s t y p i c a l similar stuff, keep up with my
easily use this moment as the time cheerleading enthusiasm: "We’re updates by following me, Kit
amazed at the incredible response Eaton, on Twitter.
8 Business/
Konbit's Skill-Indexing Platform for Earthquake Recovery
Workers Launches in Haiti
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:30:05 AM
We first got wind of Konbit, an
interactive skill-indexing
communications platform for
Haitians looking for work, last
March when it was announced by
MIT students Greg Elliott and
Aaron Zinman. The platform
allows locals to call an automated
service, record their skills, and get
jobs from NGOs that want to use
local labor to assist in earthquake
recovery efforts. Konbit went live
in December and over 600
Haitians have since called the
service to offer themselves for
GOLDMAN'S
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privy to far more information
about Facebook than the people
they would sell them to: insider
trading in the public
markets—upfront and legal here.
At that point, Goldman could
bank more fees by offering its
shares to everyone that couldn't
get into the deal during the first
oversubscribed round. The firm is
even creating a new private-equity
fund, Goldman Sachs Partners
Private Opportunities Fund, where
investors can buy into Facebook,
and Goldman will extract a
different fee—a straight hedge-
fund fee of 1.5 percent of invested
capital and 20 percent of profits
work.
It's been a long road to launch for
Elliott and Zinman. The Konbit
prototype was introduced last
March in Miami at Konbit for
Haiti, an unrelated community
center for Haitians, whose
members were interested in
volunteering for earthquake relief.
The 30-person trial proved that
the automated service worked, but
the MIT students had another
problem: getting nonprofits to
sign on.
"We spent quite a few months
trying to approach NGOs and get
them to put a stamp on the
project. We kept hearing 'It
above 8 percent.
So while Facebook and CDOs
would seem to have nothing in
common, they share that magic
Goldman intangible: timing.
During the height of the subprime
and toxic-asset crisis, Goldman,
even better than its competitors,
timed when to invest with or
against clients, what to hold on
its books, and when to fold. It's
doing it again. And no one seems
to have learned anything from
either of the last two busts.
Nomi Prins is author of It Takes a
Pillage: Behind the Bonuses,
Bailouts, and Backroom Deals
from Washington to Wall
sounds great, let us know when
it's available,'" Zinman says.
So Zinman and Elliott put the
finishing touches on Konbit and
mounted a PR campaign in Haiti
Street(Wiley, September, 2009).
Before becoming a journalist, she
worked on Wall Street as a
managing director at Goldman
Sachs, and running the
international analytics group at
Bear Stearns in London.
This article originally appeared
on The Daily Beast and is
republished with permission.
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that included voiceover work
from a well-known Haitian radio
personality. Now that Konbit has
messages from hundreds of
Haitians, the organization is
Covidien Is in an Uptrend
Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:30:00 AM
Filed under: Stocks to Buy The
rally in the shares of medical
device supplier Covidien ( COV),
which I first discussed here on
June 4, 2009 at a price of $35.65,
continued this autumn, with the
shares winding their way toward
$50.
Moreover, given the impressive
35% rise since the summer, those
who bought in at roughly that $35
level may wish to consider taking
some profits off the table. Even
so, those investors who can
tolerate the risk can maintain their
full position and go for an even
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working with 1000 Jobs Haiti to
translate recordings from Creole
into English. This will give
Konbit a searchable database of
workers for NGOs to peruse.
"The aim is to get as many callers
as possible translated in the next
couple weeks," says Elliott.
"Once that's done, it will be the
best time to start approaching
NGOs." The service is a finished
product--it just needs
organizations to step up and take
advantage of the local talent it has
to offer.
Ariel Schwartz can be reached on
Twitter or by email.
bigger gain, as COV will likely
test $55 in 2011.
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Germany closes 4,700 farms as dioxin crisis widens

(AFP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) the northern state of Schleswig- the economic damage will be." Beck from a chicken and egg
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:14:05 AM Holstein is alleged to have The Hannoversche Allgemeine market research firm.
supplied up to 3,000 tonnes of Zeitung reported earlier Friday There has been a "clearly
BERLIN (AFP) – A food crisis in contaminated fatty acids meant that tests conducted on Harles und noticeable" impact on the market
Germany deepened Friday as only for industrial use to around Jentzsch as far back as March last already, Beck said, adding it was Apple Says Over 1M
around 4,700 farms were closed 25 animal feed makers. year had revealed dioxin levels too early to give precise figures.
after tests showed animal feed Most of this -- 2,500 tonnes --
Apps Downloaded From
twice the permitted maximum "There is a lot of uncertainty, both
was contaminated by a cancer- was delivered in November and amount. from consumers and from Mac App Store In 24
causing chemical, and officials D e c e m b e r t o a n i m a l f e e d However, the March test results producers," she told AFP. Hours
said they suspected foul play. producers in Lower Saxony, did not come to light until late However, a survey conducted for Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
F e a r s a l s o g r e w t h a t t h e where it was used in fodder. December, the paper said. ARD public television suggested
Submitted at 1/7/2011 8:04:06 AM
contamination could have entered Tests on samples from Harles The scandal has also spread two thirds of German consumers
the food chain earlier than u n d J e n t z s c h s h o w e d n i n e beyond Germany's borders. would not change their egg Apple this morning announced
thought, as tests on animal fats at samples out of 20 had dioxin German authorities on consumption. that over one million apps have
the firm at the centre of the levels higher, or much higher, Wednesday told the European Only 14 percent of people said been downloaded from the Mac
scandal reportedly showed they than permitted, the Schleswig- Commission and business they would eat fewer eggs and App Store, which was launched
were tainted as far back as last H o l s t e i n m i n i s t r y s a i d o n partners that 136,000 eggs from four percent said they would shun just yesterday (with over 1,000
March. Thursday. suspect farms had been exported eggs completely. apps).
A spokesman for Agriculture "The first indications point to a to the Netherlands. One German pensioner, who Our own MG Siegler thinks the
Minister Ilse Aigner told a news high level of illegal activity," said And the European Commission declined to give his name, seemed Mac App Store will be huge
conference Friday that "4,709 E i c h e l e . P r o s e c u t o r s h a v e said Thursday the hunt had also clear on the subject, however. indeed, even if many of the apps
farms and businesses are currently launched an investigation into the turned to Britain but the country's "Dioxin is a very dangerous available through the desire leave
closed," including 4,468 in the company. Food Standards Agency (FSA) substance. I've just discussed it much to be desired.
state of Lower Saxony, northwest The vice president of the said the tainted eggs were not with my wife. I have 10 eggs at For (a lot) more coverage, check
Germany. association for consumer thought to pose a threat. home and I'm not going to eat out this Techmeme thread.
The farms will be closed until protection and food safety in The German government said them now." CrunchBase Information Apple
they are found to be clear of Lower Saxony, Konrad Scholz, earlier that up to 150,000 tonnes "We're going to have to do Information provided by
contamination with dioxin, a toxic told the Tagesspiegel daily: "At of feed overall were feared to without eggs now," he told AFP. CrunchBase
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Did parts from a new iPhone model
(briefly) appear on YouTube? (Digital leads to hijacking alert
Trends)
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Submitted at 1/6/2011 12:58:14 PM
The odds are resoundingly
against any surprise CES
announcements concerning
Apple’s iPhone (Apple will
reportedly wait to around
Valentine’s Day for that). But
that’s not stopping a new wave of
iPhone speculation fueled by
leaked photos and videos that
seem to show parts belonging to a
device that is very similar an
iPhone 4 — but not quite.
Several iPhone repair and parts
companies claim to have
somehow gotten a hold of parts
that belong to a new model of
iPhone. The website
GlobalDirectParts.com posted a
video to YouTube yesterday that
appeared to show a bare metal
iPhone chassis. Earlier today, the
video was yanked indicating a
complaint from Apple.
[ Related: Hot gadgets to look for
in 2011]
How the companies could have
come into possession of the parts
is as big a mystery as how an
Apple engineer could leave an
iPhone 4 prototype in a bar, but
without allowing for alcohol
consumption as a valid excuse.
If the parts do indeed belong to a
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(Reuters)
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doing away with a two-camera Submitted at 1/6/2011 11:00:26 AM transponder to a frequency needed
design completely or has merely to alert air traffic control that the
developed slimmer parts that CHICAGO (Reuters) – Beware plane was having communication
require less infrastructure support. of spilling drinks while flying a problems, the hijack alert was
Light leaks from the camera plane. accidentally triggered.
design have been suggested as a During a United Airlines flight to Johnson said that the crew
cause of the delayed release of the Frankfurt, Germany from Chicago remained in contact with air
white iPhone 4. this week, a cockpit crew member traffic control and landed in
As we learned from last year’s spilled a beverage on equipment, Toronto. Passengers were flown
iPhone 4 leak, Apple is going to an airline spokesman said. It back on a different plane to
remain tight-lipped and guard its prompted a chain of events that Chicago, where meals and hotel
secrets closely until Steve Jobs is inadvertently sent an alert that the accommodations were provided,
new iPhone model, then it appears
good and ready to say something. plane was being hijacked. Johnson said. They departed again
that Apple may have adjusted the
And until then, or until we see a " D u r i n g a p e r i o d o f l i g h t for their destination on Tuesday
phone’s antennae design to
leak of a wired-up model, we can t u r b u l e n c e , a c o c k p i t c r e w afternoon.
correct the “antennaegate” issues
only guess at what 2011 has in m e m b e r ' s b e v e r a g e s p i l l e d , (Writing by Mary Wisniewski,
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Bernanke testifies to Senate Budget panel
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:37:31 AM
Federal Reserve Board Chairman
Ben Bernanke testifies in front of
the U.S. Senate Budget
Committee on ''The U.S.
Economic Outlook: Challenges
for Monetary and Fiscal Policy''
on Capitol Hill, January 7, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Jim Bourg
WASHINGTON| Fri Jan 7, 2011
10:37am EST
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The
following are highlights from a
U.S. Senate Budget Committee
hearing on Friday with testimony
from Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben Bernanke.
B E R N A N K E O N
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
It's about what we expected
(103,000 new jobs in December)
... but if we continue at this pace
we're not going to see sustained
declines in the unemployment
rate.
BERNANKE ON TAXES,
SPENDING:
"We need to think about making
investments for the future as
opposed to simply spending our
seed corn on current needs. So
thinking about government
programs, we should ask the
question, will this provide
benefits in the future."
"On the tax side, I don't think it's
Pop Quiz, Hot Shot: Week of Jan 3, 2011
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 7:04:00 AM
really very controversial among
economists that rising rates,
combined with a multiplication of
exemptions, deductions, credits
and so on, leads to a tax code
which is very complex and can
distort economic decisions. And I
think all of the major deficit
reduction commissions have taken
the opportunity to talk about the
need to lower rates, but to close
loopholes so as not to lose
revenues. So I think that is
something, I hope, that the
Congress will talk about."
B E R N A N K E O N
STABILIZING DEBT-TO-GDP
RATIO
"No one knows exactly what the
desirable debt-to-GDP ratio is.
You mentioned the 90 percent
number as an upper level of
comfort. In the near term I think
we need to focus on stabilizing
the debt-to-GDP ratio. Under the
alternative scenario of the CBO
(Congressional Budget Office) it
just rises indefinitely and that's
certainly not sustainable. If we
could achieve, say in the next
decade, a two to three percentage
point reduction in the deficit that
would be sufficient to bring the
primary deficit close to zero and it
would stabilize the debt-to-GDP
ratio over the next decade. We'd
need additional steps after that."
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
Did you study up on this week's
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Question 1 of 10 Who joined
KENT CONRAD'S OPENING
STATEMENT ON THE
BUDGET:
"We need to get in place this year
a plan to get our fiscal house in
order."
The Bowles-Simpson plan "could
provide a blueprint and the way
forward."
"Facing up to the debt threat is
something we must do and we
must do it together."
BERNANKE ON ECONOMIC
RECOVERY:
The economic recovery that
began a year and a half ago is
continuing, although, to date, at a
pace that has been insufficient to
reduce the rate of unemployment
significantly. ... More recently,
however, we have seen increased
evidence that a self-sustaining
recovery in consumer and
business spending may be taking
hold. In particular, real consumer
spending rose at an annual rate of
2-1/2 percent in the third quarter
of 2010, and the available
indicators suggest that it likely
expanded at a somewhat faster
pace in the fourth quarter.
Business investment in new
equipment and software has
grown robustly in recent quarters.
B E R N A N K E O N
EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK:
A number of indicators of job
openings and hiring plans have
Cindy Crawford and her family
looked stronger in recent months,
and initial claims for
unemployment insurance declined
through November and
December. Notwithstanding these
hopeful signs, with output growth
likely to be moderate in the next
few quarters and employers
reportedly still reluctant to add to
payrolls, considerable time likely
will be required before the
unemployment rate has returned
to a more normal level.
Persistently high unemployment,
by damping household income
and confidence, could threaten the
strength and sustainability of the
recovery.
BERNANKE ON BUDGET
OUTLOOK:
It is widely understood that the
federal government is on an
unsustainable fiscal path. Yet, as a
nation, we have done little to
address this critical threat to our
economy. Doing nothing will not
be an option indefinitely; the
longer we wait to act, the greater
the risks and the more wrenching
the inevitable changes to the
budget will be. By contrast, the
prompt adoption of a credible
program to reduce future deficits
would not only enhance economic
growth and stability in the long
run, but could also yield
substantial near-term benefits in
terms of lower long-term interest
on vacation in Mexico? Matthew
McConaughey Kid Rock Lance
Armstrong Ryan Seacrest
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rates and increased consumer and
business confidence.
thickhamsteak wrote:
If you were to point a finger at
the one individual in the entire
government who has done the
most harm during this financial
crisis it’d be Bernake.
Audit the Fed. End the Fed.
DrJJJJ wrote:
When states begin to cut
spending, our economy will
contract again! If states don’t
begin to cut spending, 2012 will
be dramatically worse! How’s
your state budget looking?? Same
goes for our $5 Billion dollar/
DAY Fed deficit!! Americans
seem to be be short term thinkers
when it comes to finances-one of
our weakness! Note: A Fed pay
freeze saves about (1) days deficit
spending to give ya an idea of the
magnitude of the deficit!!
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TV Review: ‘Downton Abbey’
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 4:03:39 AM
COUNTESS: Dame Maggie
Smith in a scene from the British
series "Downton Abbey."
(Courtesy of Masterpiece) Few
contemporary writers understand
the foibles of the British upper
class as well as Julian Fellowes.
In fact, the Academy Award-
winning screenwriter of Gosford
Park recently joined their ranks,
having been named a
Conservative peer in the House of
Lords.
Fellowes brought his keen
understanding of social dynamics
and biting humor to television,
creating and writing most of the
first season of Downton Abbey. A
breakout hit across the pond, the
thoroughly engaging Edwardian
period drama debuts on PBS’s
Masterpiece Classic this Sunday
night.
Downton Abbey is a hulking
behemoth of a mansion,
surrounded by considerable
grounds and outbuildings. The
upkeep is enormous, which is why
Downton was entailed—a
common practice among the
landed gentry, prohibiting the sale
of any part of the estate, while
mandating the entire kit and
caboodle pass entirely to the
lord’s immediate male heir.
The Earl of Grantham has had the
devil’s own time with the
entailment. When nearly
bankrupted by Downton’s
maintenance, Grantham went to
New York to find himself an
heiress. As luck would have it,
they also fell in love, but their
union has only produced
daughters.
Mary, the eldest, has dutifully
agreed to marry her cousin, the
heir to Downton, but the first
episode opens with bad news. The
Titanic has sunk, taking the
Grantham heirs down with it. So
begins the “great problem” of
Downton Abbey.
Of course, there is an heir out
there somewhere.
Disappointingly, Matthew
Crawley is hardly a proper
gentleman of leisure. In fact, he is
a solicitor with a dreary middle-
class work ethic. He and Mary
instantly clash, dashing her
parents’ hopes of any potential
marriage between them. However,
as the series progresses, their cold
war melts into a sort of Tracy-
Hepburn attraction. It might
sound somewhat predictable, but
like everything in “Downton
Abbey” it is smartly executed.
In the tradition of Upstairs
Downstairs, viewers spend equal
time with the servants of the
abbey, including Grantham’s
mysterious new valet, John Bates,
the earl’s former military
comrade.
Overseeing it all is the butler, Mr.
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end of episode 4, Fellowes still
ends it at a perfect place, wholly
in keeping with the themes of
change threatening social
stability. ITV has already renewed
the series in the U.K., which is
good news.
Despite the symmetry of his
conclusion, Fellowes totally
leaves us hanging. Do not be
deterred by that, though.
Combining the best of both high-
period pieces and good old-
fashioned melodrama, Downton is
thoroughly satisfying television.
A highlight of the Laura Linney
era of PBS’s Masterpiece
Classic(who is about as classy a
host as one could find these days,
Carson, who naturally has his own Michelle Dockery plays Lady w i t h a l l t h e r i g h t t h e a t e r
secret past. Yet, we also learn that Mary Crawley in the British series credentials for the gig), Downton
he has a special relationship with "Downton Abbey." (Courtesy of Abbey premieres this coming
Lady Mary. Indeed, it is those Masterpiece) While no one can Sunday (Jan. 9), continuing for
i n t r i g u i n g m o m e n t s , w h e n touch a figure of Smith’s stature, the next three weeks (through Jan.
upstairs and downstairs meet, that the rest of the ensemble is also 30).
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U.S. aims to cut defense budget and slash troops
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 12:05:39 AM
Secretary of Defense Robert
Gates holds a media briefing at
the Pentagon in Washington
November 30, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
By Andrea Shalal-Esa and Phil
Stewart
WASHINGTON| Fri Jan 7, 2011
1:05am EST
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The
United States plans to cut $78
billion in defense spending over
five years, including a reduction
of up to 47,000 troops, in a
politically contentious move that
would trim the government's
growing budget deficit.
The proposed cuts, unveiled at a
somber Pentagon briefing on
Thursday, follow increased White
House and congressional scrutiny
of military spending, which has
doubled in real terms since the
September 11, 2001, attacks.
They are in addition to a $100
billion cost-savings drive that
Defense Secretary Robert Gates
kicked off last year to eliminate
waste, cut poorly performing
weapons programs and redirect
the money to other priorities.
Congress ultimately controls the
Defense Department's budget, and
lawmakers often block
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But Gates said the military had to
play its part in getting U.S.
finances in order.
"As the biggest part of the
discretionary federal budget, the
Pentagon cannot presume to
exempt itself from the scrutiny
and pressure faced by the rest of
our government," Gates said.
The annual budget request for the
Pentagon will be submitted to
Congress as part of the overall
federal budget around February
14. Industry sources and analysts
say the Obama administration will
ask for $554 billion in military
spending in fiscal 2012, not
counting overseas fighting, $12
billion less than it initially
intended.
Shares of major defense
contractors rose. Lockheed Martin
Corp and General Dynamics Corp
have programs that would be hit
by the reshuffle but were spared
from deeper cuts that some
investors feared.
Gates, in a half-hour address, said
the Pentagon would cope with the
belt-tightening by freezing
civilian pay, changing economic
assumptions and reducing troops
starting in 2015, among other
items.
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That will allow defense spending
to keep growing modestly through
2014 before leveling off in 2015
and 2016, Gates said.
He said calls from some in
Congress for deeper cuts would
be "risky at best and potentially
calamitous," citing global tensions
that require a strong, modern U.S.
military.
Mitch McConnell, the top
ranking Republican in the Senate,
said on Thursday he believed no
U.S. government department was
off-limits from belt-tightening.
Other Republicans offered a swift
rebuke of the plans, in a sign that
the proposed cuts may not be
realized despite growing pressure
to rein in U.S. government
spending.
"I'm not happy," House Armed
Services Committee Chairman
Howard McKeon told reporters.
"This is a dramatic shift for a
nation at war and a dangerous
signal from the Commander in
Chief."
TROUBLED PROGRAMS
AXED giveitthought wrote:
Hasn’t he retired yet? Someone
get Gates a Shady Pines brochure
and get him out of a position of
authority. NOW.
You don’t swing the budget axe
at a war time military. Large
weapons platforms- sure, have at
it. You can use that money other
places. But you don’t talk about
troop reductions when you are
fighting two simultaneous
campaigns, that’s just idiotic.
OriginalMaerzie wrote:
This is a great beginning. When
you don’t have the money, you
DO WITHOUT!! It’s about time
our government and LOTS of
other people learn that!
SportsCar39 wrote:
I can see where the U.S. aims to
cut defense budget, slash troops
and Weapons in order to lower the
budget. All the U.S. has to do if
they end up in more wars (like
North Korea) is to PUSH THE
BUTTON. If they are going to
reduce the over all strength of our
U.S. troops on the battlefield,
They better be ready to PUSH
THAT BUTTOM. Our men &
women on the battlefield will be
putting their lifes on the line
without the right equipment.
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House Drama as Health Repeal Debate Ariz. Puts Spotlight on

Goes On Illegals Trashing Border
(FOXNews.com) Office report on Thursday Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., (FOXNews.com) products are also occasionally left
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:05:15 AM estimated that the repeal would ranking Democrat on the House Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:05:15 AM behind, according to the website,
add $230 billion to the deficit Rules Committee. which is funded by the Arizona
The House has started debate over the next 10 years. The Rules Committee adjourned PHOENIX -- A new website to Department of Environmental
ahead of a test vote Friday on Republicans dismissed that figure abruptly Thursday after realizing draw attention to tons of trash Quality.
Republicans' bill to repeal the and pledged to push forward on the problem. Slaughter called for discarded along the Arizona- Accumulated refuse along the
health care overhaul, amid some the vote. House Republican the committee, of which Sessions Mexico border has been launched border can cause erosion and
last-minute drama over the L e a d e r J o h n B o e h n e r s a i d is a top member, to start over on by state officials hoping to stem watershed degradation, damaged
c r e d e n t i a l s o f t w o G O P Thursday that his party wants to Friday. the flow of refuse left behind by infrastructure and property and
lawmakers. repeal the law because it's getting But Republicans have instead illegal immigrants making their loss of vegetation and wildlife.
The test vote -- expected later in in the way of job creation. attached a provision to the health way into the United States. The average border crosser
the morning -- will set up a full But as the House battles anew care test vote Friday that would The website, azbordertrash.gov, leaves approximately six to eight
vote in the House next over the health care bill, retroactively legitimize all votes is also seeking volunteers to pounds of trash in the desert
Wednesday on the repeal bill. lawmakers are also engaged in a and official actions taken participate in cleanup efforts during a typical trek into the
That bill is seen as largely peculiar tiff on the sidelines over Wednesday and early Thursday along Arizona's 370-mile border United States, according to the
symbolic, since Senate Majority whether two GOP lawmakers by Sessions and Fitzpatrick. with Mexico. website.
Leader Harry Reid has vowed to were actually bona fide members Both members were formally "An estimated more than 2,000 "The cost of disposing of this
block it in the Senate -- and of Congress earlier this week. The sworn in Thursday afternoon. tons of trash is discarded annually t r a s h i s h i g h f o r l o c a l
President Obama would surely dispute centers on Reps. Pete Fitzpatrick said this was done out in Arizona's borderlands," the communities," the website reads.
veto anything of the sort that Sessions, R-Texas, and Mike of an "abundance of caution." website reads. "A variety of "Landfill fees range from $37 to
clears Congress. Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., who ducked Fox News' Chad Pergram federal and state government $49 per ton in Southern Arizona.
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Shen Yun Makes its 2011 Debut at Ruling Opens Door for
Lincoln Center More Nudity on TV
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7, 2011 Last Updated: Jan 7, 2011 the boob tube. number of years, they may try to
Shen Yun Performing Arts held The US Second Circuit Court of pull out all the stops and say,
its first of 10 shows at the David Appeals has vacated the $1.21 'Let's throw in as much nudity and
H. Koch Theater at Lincoln million worth of fines that the swear words as we can out there,'
Center on Jan. 6. (Dai Bing/The FCC levied against ABC after instead of focusing on playing
Epoch Times) NEW YORK—In alleging that the network violated great content, which they have not
an colorful display of classical broadcast indecency standards for been doing."
Chinese dance, Shen Yun daring to show actress Charlotte Still, neither Meyers nor "NYPD
Performing Arts held its first of Ross' naked behind during a 2003 Blue" co-creator Steven Bochco
10 shows at the David H. Koch episode of "NYPD Blue." expects that bare buns will be de
Theater at Lincoln Center on Jan. When overthrowing the fine, the rigueur on broadcast TV.
6. c o u r t c i t e d t h e F C C ' s o w n "It's not just a question of, 'Oh,
“It was fantastic,” said Rodolpho who works in corporate and adding that where he’s from in declaration that "nudity itself is maybe they'll program where
Martinez, a corporate events wholesale at Marie Belle. Being a Honduras, it’s difficult to find a not per se indecent." It also you're going to see a little t- - -
manager for Marie Belle. “The fashion enthusiast, Iannuzzi said show such as this. reiterated that the FCC's context- and
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way they play with the screen, it’s dazzling array of costumes. p e r f o r m a t D a v i d H . K o c h "unconstitutionally vague," as the issue. The issue is, generally
just fantastic; magical.” Iannuzzi said she spent four Theater, Lincoln Center though previously determined by the speaking, having a broader palette
Based out of New York, Shen months in China two years ago Jan. 16. For more information court when the FCC demanded to tell your stories.
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Khloe Kardashian: E! Show Given to
Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian
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Submitted at 1/7/2011 2:56:17 AM
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Angeles Lakers forward Lamar
Odom (Michael Buckner/Getty
Images) Khloe Kardashian and
her husband, Lamar Odom, the
power forward for the Los
Angeles Lakers, are slated to get
their own reality show.
The show will run for eight
episodes and will be called Khloe
& Lamar, airing on E!
The show will feature the lives of
Odom, Kardashian, and her
brother Rob, who lives with the
couple, the network said.
"Lamar and I are so blessed to
have been given such an amazing
opportunity to take this journey
together as a couple," Kardashian
told E! News. "I know that it will
only strengthen the bond we have
and the love we share for each
other and we're so excited to share
our lives with our fans."
Filming will start early this year.
Odom noted that the show may
make him a lightning rod for
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CloudMade, which provides
collaborative data and tools to
developers and OEMs for
mapping and navigation
applications, has acquired
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OneStepAhead. Terms of the deal
were not disclosed.
OneStepAhead’s software
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CEO Juha Christensen says that
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The Realist Prism: Russia's Ruling Tandem Likely to Last
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Submitted at 1/6/2011 11:30:00 PM
As Russia begins its countdown
to elections for the Duma at the
end of this year as well as the
presidential ballot in early 2012,
two predictions are making the
rounds. The first is that Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin will
reclaim the presidency, which the
constitution required him to
vacate in 2008. (Article 81.3
prohibits anyone from holding the
office for more than two
consecutive terms.) The second is
that the "tandem" formed by Putin
and current President Dmitry
Medvedev, Putin's former chief of
staff, is not sustainable and that an
open break between the two will
occur sooner or later.
Events may prove me wrong, but
I believe that in this case, the
conventional wisdom is mistaken:
Putin will not run for president
again in 2012, and rumors of an
impending split between Putin
and Medvedev have been greatly
exaggerated.
Those who argue that Putin is
aching to return to the presidency
often overlook a critical shift that
has taken place over the last two
years: The office of the prime
minister is no longer a
subordinate role. It was very true
that during the Yeltsin and Putin
administrations, the prime
minister was clearly subordinate
to the president. But when Putin
became prime minister in 2008,
he used public comments to
unofficially redefine and
rebalance the relationship, saying,
"The president is the guarantor of
the constitution and sets the main
domestic and foreign policy
guidelines. But the highest
executive power in the land lies
with the government . . . "
Moreover, Medvedev no longer
has the upper hand vis-à-vis his
prime minister, as did previous
Russian presidents. Putin is the
first post-Soviet Russian prime
minister to directly control the
political party -- United Russia --
that holds a majority of the seats
in the Duma, unlike previous
prime ministers who were
completely dependent on
presidential favor and had no real
power base of their own. So while
Medvedev retains the
constitutional right to dismiss the
prime minister, Putin, in turn, now
controls a supermajority in the
Duma that could either impeach
the president or alter the
constitution. In some ways this
makes Putin's current position
even more secure, especially
because there are no constitutional
limits on his tenure. And if ever
he wanted or needed certain
formal powers that currently are
not assigned to him, he could
easily rectify the situation.
The restructuring of the Russian
government has created, in effect,
a "dual key" system that requires
both the prime minister and the
president to be in significant
agreement in order for policy to
move forward. This means, as
Dimitri K. Simes and Paul
Saunders observed, that both men
blur the constitutional lines
separating the roles of their
respective offices: "Medvedev
summons ministers who report to
Putin to issue public instructions
on the economy, while Putin often
takes a visible role on security and
foreign-policy issues, such as
[the] war with Georgia, the
decision to apply to the WTO as a
customs union with Belarus and
Kazakhstan (announced just days
after Medvedev's advisers said
Moscow would continue with its
previous approach), and high-
profile foreign trips, like a 2009
visit to Poland around the 70th
anniversary of the Molotov-
Ribbentrop Pact and the German
(and Soviet) invasion."
Analyst Kirill Rogov, in looking
at the current situation in Russia,
argues that under the Medvedev-
Putin tandem, the country has, in
fact, at least three governments,
each grouped around different
political-economic factions --
sometimes referred to as the
Kremlin "clans" -- and possessing
different institutional power
bases. At their overlapping center,
the president and prime minister
must find policy approaches that
address the needs and concerns of
these different blocs, in order to
avoid any sort of destructive
rivalries that pull apart the entire
governing structure. The lesson
the Kremlin learned from the
revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine
and Kyrgyzstan was that when a
country's elite is divided among
itself, and when the resulting
rivalries can no longer be
managed within the system, it
opens up the possibility of a
dramatic shift that could
fundamentally change the existing
order.
To prevent this from happening,
the system must ensure that the
interests of the different factions
are all accommodated to some
extent. However, this is rarely a
transparent process, and Russian
policymaking remains defined by
its opaque nature. This leads
observers to try and calculate
shifts in the balance of power
between the "presidential" and the
"prime ministerial" teams, and
between Putin and Medvedev
personally.
No one disputes the fact that
there have been and will be
disagreements between the two
over policy and how the Russian
political and economic system
should evolve in the coming
years. Putin favors stability over
change, and his instincts were
likely reinforced by the multiple
crises which beset Russia in 2008
and early 2009 -- shocks that
observers both inside and outside
of Russia thought might be of
sufficient magnitude to bring
down the status quo. But the two
men seem to share a
fundamentally similar vision of
where Russia ought to be in the
future. What's more, Putin
recognizes that the future
longevity of the system he has
created requires, over time, a
broadening of "the political base
of the tandemocracy," and this
means implementing some
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elements of Medvedev's reform
agenda. Neither wants the
stagnation of the Brezhnev era,
but neither wants to unleash
uncontrollable forces the way that
Gorbachev did.
An interesting bellwether to see
whether these assessments are
accurate will be to judge what
happens in the run-up to the
Duma elections. Should Putin
move to play a greater role in the
party, and perhaps even seek a
Duma seat himself -- thereby
signaling that in the future, the
Russian cabinet will be directly
linked to a parliamentary majority
-- this may signal that the present
informal "tandem" between Putin
and Medvedev could evolve into a
more institutional "cohabitation"
along the lines of the French
model. And if Medvedev is more
successful, in the coming year, in
convincing some of those
currently outside the power
structure -- particularly the
technocratic liberals involved in
the modernization of the economy
-- to become part of the process, it
will signal whether a second
Medvedev term would be likely to
result in renewed efforts to reform
the country. Benchmarks to look
for here would be whether we see
continued moves in the coming
year to break apart some of the
bureaucratic fiefdoms that have
developed, particularly in the
regions.
In assessing the future of the
Medvedev-Putin relationship,
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The Climate Change Agenda After Cancún: Part IV

(World Politics Review: Articles) knowledge that creates them, The Cancún Agreement built on prevent and manage potential of the developer, and their right to
Submitted at 1/6/2011 11:44:00 PM played a major role at the U.N.'s work from Copenhagen, damage. For coastal or rain-heavy make a profit off their work?
annual conference on climate proposing a two-tier system to nations, this can include levees, While acknowledging it as an
This is Part IV in a four-part change in Cancún, Mexico, in expand the reach of these tools. A dikes or drainage systems to limit important topic to revisit,
series. Part I examined the follow- December 2010. Technology Executive Committee damage from flooding. For arid observers at the conference felt
up agreement to the Kyoto This component of global efforts (TEC) will bring together 20 nations, this could mean water- the finer points could be resolved
Protocol. Part II examined the to contain and address climate experts from the developed world saving technologies or the as the plan is further developed
REDD+ agreement. Part III change is known as technology and the developing world to serve provision of drought-resistant during a series of talks throughout
examined financial assistance. transfer, and its goal is to as an advisory committee. This seeds. It will be the responsibility 2011. Hopefully this viewpoint is
And Part IV examines technology distribute resources for adapting panel will chart relevant of the TEC and CTNC to address not overly optimistic.
transfers and adaptation. to changing climates. Developing developments in the field, define and evaluate the changing needs Countries struggling to develop
CANCÚN, Mexico -- In the past binding agreements in this area to priorities, identify countries in of specific countries, and respond their market economies have a lot
1 0 y e a r s , t e c h n o l o g y complement the financial need and coordinate accordingly with developing to gain by receiving this support.
d e v e l o p m e n t s i n t h e mechanisms needed to fund implementation efforts. technologies. With volatile weather patterns
e n v i r o n m e n t a l s e c t o r h a v e developing countries' responses to The second -- and much larger -- The current state of the being the variable that no one
progressed significantly. Solar climate change will be crucial in Climate Technology Center agreements suggests a lot of seems able to accurately predict,
panels now have the capacity to bridging the technological gap (CTNC) will play a more progress will be needed to refine technology will be an important
power entire regions of Germany. b e t w e e n r i c h e r a n d p o o r e r operational role, carrying out TEC the particulars -- a common trend tool to both prevent future
Wind turbines provide small to c o u n t r i e s . mandates across the globe. This at the conference. And, to operate emissions and effectively deal
medium-sized cities across the Central to the work on can include anything from effectively, the current initiatives with environmental problems as
world with their energy needs. technology transfer is the idea that workshops that facilitate will need to legally bind countries they arise. A completed deal on
Geothermal heating is a functional not all international development knowledge transfer to the building to the promises made, and deliver technology transfer would help
reality, while methane captured needs to come in the form of cash. of projects in countries where clear information about the source ensure that this will not just be the
from modest-sized landfills can Financial assistance will play a there is a determined need. of the funding. luxury of richer nations.
offer electricity to thousands of necessarily massive role in Two main objectives drive the However, compared to the other The success of technology
nearby homes. And newer ideas assisting developing nations, but emphasis on this topic. One is pillars of the Cancún Agreement, transfer will be limited in its
such as harnessing tidal power it is addressed as a separate that, in some cases, it can allow relatively little controversy effectiveness if it is left to stand
and run-of-river hydropower component in current climate nations without fully developed plagues talks on technology alone. A renewed and expanded
dams continue to make significant change literature. It is important infrastructures to skip over carbon transfer. Both developed and Kyoto Protocol, binding
progress. Even carbon storage and to note the difference. -intensive practices such as developing nations view progress agreements on reducing the
s e q u e s t r a t i o n ( C S S ) s e e m s To think that money alone will building coal-fired power plants. here as attainable, important, and release of carbon through
p o t e n t i a l l y v i a b l e i n t h e solve predicted complications This allows for quicker just, and this topic does not come protecting forest ecosystems, and
foreseeable future. from changing climates and implementation of sustainable with the divisive aspects or legal commitments for the
However, plotting a global map weather patterns is shortsighted. means to produce and consume staunch opposition that surround international community to fund
of these projects would rapidly Access to cash is essential, but energy, which can offer massive the Kyoto Protocol or REDD this all need to work in concert to
reveal a very apparent trend: The environmentally minded leaders long-term reductions in both cost program. create real, lasting changes to
vast majority operate in a handful from rich and poor countries have and carbon emissions. This will One area where debate is still currently harmful environmental
of developed countries. Equally long since realized that sharing be especially important in light of needed is with intellectual practices around the world.
important, developers of these specific ideas and resources the likelihood that many emerging property rights: If private Cancún may have reinvigorated
t e c h n o l o g i e s r e s i d e a l m o s t comes with equal -- if not greater economies will have their enterprise patents a specific confidence in the U.N. negotiation
exclusively in Europe, North -- benefits than simply doling out emissions regulated future climate technology or knowledge system, process. But 2011 needs to be a
America and along Asia's east capital. Technology Transfer is change treaties. how can this be shared with year of action, and one that ends
coast. How to expand the reach of about endowing nations with the The second is that it will offer developing nations without
these technologies, and the infrastructure to adapt. technologies and resources to infringing on the ownership rights CLIMATE page 21
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Kosovo: Going Rogue?
(World Politics Review: Articles)
Submitted at 1/6/2011 11:46:00 PM
Almost three years after its
declaration of independence,
backed by the U.S. and many of
its allies, Kosovo is the object of
increasing concern for the
international community.
On Dec. 12, the Democratic Party
of Kosovo (PDK), led by
incumbent Kosovan Prime
Minister Hashim Thaci, won a
plurality in Kosovo's first post-
independence general elections.
Only days later, Thaci, a Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) leader,
was accused of being the head of
a mafia organization involved in
murder, human-rights abuses,
organ harvesting and heroin
smuggling, among other offenses,
in a report for the Council of
Europe leaked to the U.K.'s
Guardian newspaper. Thaci has
vociferously defended himself
against the allegations, which
implicate him and the violent
Drenica group, reportedly headed
by Thaci, in crimes including the
smuggling of Serbian prisoners of
the Kosovo War across the border
to Albania, where some were
allegedly executed for their
kidneys. The group, which was
apparently a controlling faction of
the KLA, are accused of carrying
out "assassinations, detentions,
beatings and interrogations" and
of involvement in a range of
trafficking activities.
The December elections have
themselves provoked controversy.
The results were immediately
contested by opposition parties,
and irregularities were reported by
several senior observers,
including the U.S. ambassador.
One unnamed diplomat has said
that fraud was committed on an
"industrial scale," with unusually
high turnouts reported in PDK
strongholds. Allegations have also
been made of vote-rigging in Serb
areas, where fights broke out in
polling stations and voting papers
were stolen. The Serbian
community in the country appears
divided, with most in the north
boycotting the poll. Turnout was
higher in Serb enclaves in the
south and center of the country,
where people are more isolated
from their compatriots and more
reliant on Kosovan public-sector
jobs. It seems likely that the
leading Serb party -- accused of
vote-buying and intimidation --
will take a significant number of
seats and use them to back the
PDK.
Supporters of Kosovan
independence have every reason
to be embarrassed by the Thaci
allegations, as the Council of
Europe report claims that the
international community willfully
ignored the Drenica group's
activities. The U.S. and its NATO
allies, including Germany, are
widely thought to have backed the
KLA with technical expertise and
arms before they intervened in the
Kosovo conflict in 1999. Since
then, Washington, London and
Berlin have been key players in
backing the Kosovan government,
which has generally been led by
former KLA figures including
Thaci. Knowingly or otherwise,
then, some of the world's leading
democratic powers have backed a
regime allegedly linked to
horrendous crimes. At worst, they
could be accused of effectively
handing a strategically important
area of the European continent to
the control of a criminal gang.
Naturally enough, this is grist for
the mill of those who oppose
independence, including EU
members such as Spain and
Romania.
The countries that backed
independence, including the U.S.,
U.K., Germany and Turkey, have
been somewhat muted in their
response. VOA, whose editorials
reflect official U.S. policy, called
the elections"a significant
milestone in the development of a
multi-ethnic democracy" and
accused "Serbian sources" of
creating an "atmosphere of
threats, intimidation, and
violence." The prevailing view
seems to be that these are the
teething troubles of a young,
insecure democracy. Meanwhile,
Russia, which has been trying to
build closer ties with Belgrade for
some time and has blocked U.N.
recognition of Kosovo, has
expressed "serious concerns"
about the allegations regarding
Thaci and labeled the elections
illegal.
Allegations of the KLA's
criminal links do not come as a
great surprise to most veteran
Balkan watchers. As far back as
2001, Human Rights Watch
accused the KLA of various
human-rights abuses, including
postwar attacks on Serbs, Roma
and Albanian political rivals.
Nonetheless, the Council of
Europe report and electoral
disputes shine an uncomfortably
harsh light on Kosovo and the
West's policies towards the
region.
"To be frank, the allegations are
not that new," Branislav Grubacic,
a Belgrade-based journalist, told
World Politics Review. "But this
will be big abroad, and questions
will be asked about why the West
didn't act earlier. For some EU
countries, this will be too much,
and there will be fears that
Kosovo could become a black
hole in Europe."
Serbia's position is somewhat
ambiguous. Officially, Belgrade
called on Serbs to boycott the
election, and Serbian Foreign
Minister Vuk Jeremic has accused
Thaci of being "the leader of one
of the most organized criminal
clans in the Balkans." However,
in recent months, Serbian
President Boris Tadic has made it
clear that he is willing to negotiate
with Thaci, a statement he
reiterated after the council report
was leaked. Serbian officials have
floated the prospect of
partitioning Kosovo, with Serbia
taking the Serb-dominated far
north, though this proposition has
limited support internationally
and could be a delaying tactic that
merely postpones Belgrade's
ultimate acceptance that Kosovo
is lost.
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Grubacic and an increasing
number of Serbs see Kosovan
independence as a fait accompli
and partition talks as a red
herring.
"The Serbian government should
be honest and open and say that
realistically Kosovo will be
independent," Grubacic said. "We
should focus on the security and
well-being of Serbs in Kosovo."
Given the stances taken by the
U.S. and Tadic, as well as the
backing from the PDK's Serb
Kosovan parliamentarians, it is
likely that Thaci will manage to
cling to power for the time being.
He remains essentially the only
game in town and a pro-Western
and putatively moderate figure, in
contrast to Greater Albanian
nationalists whose ambitions
could drag the region back into
war.
For now, then, an uneasy status
quo is likely to prevail. But recent
weeks have shown the problems
that Kosovo faces and the
unresolved issues left by the war,
while highlighting once again the
messy consequences of Western
realpolitik, however well-clothed
in the rhetoric of democracy and
self-determination.
Andrew MacDowall is a
journalist and analyst focusing on
the Balkans.
Photo: Kosovo's Prime Minister
Hashim Thaci, July 2008 (DoD
photo by R. D. Ward).
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Brian Whitmore at Radio Free
Europe concluded, "[Putin will]
set broad policy goals, keep the
elite in check, and take off his
shirt now and then to wrestle with
the occasional wild animal for the
cameras. Medvedev will likely
remain president and carry out
limited political and economic
reforms under Putin's watchful
eye, and with his protection. It's a
formula that is working politically
and -- despite the elite's current
jitters about what happens in 2012
-- has proven to be remarkably
stable."
That seems like a more likely
outcome than the admittedly more
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dramatic conventional wisdom
currently making the rounds.
Nikolas K. Gvosdev is the former
editor of the National Interest, and
a frequent foreign policy
commentator in both the print and
broadcast media. He is currently
on the faculty of the U.S. Naval
War College. The views
expressed are his own and do not
reflect those of the Navy or the
U.S. government. His weekly
WPR column, The Realist Prism,
appears every Friday.
Photo: Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev and Russian Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin (Photo
from the Office of Dmitry
Medvedev, licensed under the
Creative Commons 3.0
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Ask Maggie: On smartphone battery life and rural wireless

broadband
(CNET News.com) Consumer Electronics Show this smartphones. So it's very likely 4G phones that the company in it that can be removed and
Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:58:47 AM week for its 4G network, battery life will suffer on phones introduced at CES should have inserted into another phone,
including the Motorola Droid using more sophisticated dual- battery life that is comparable to switching providers will be very
Have you ever noticed that your Bionic that has a dual-core core processors, at least in the the battery life on most of its simple. Phones with SIM cards
old flip phone held its charge for processor. I would like to know early days. other smartphones. use GSM network technology. If
days, even weeks sometimes, but how these new dual processors The problem is compounded for The new 4G phones were just you want to switch carriers, all
a half-hour spent surfing the Web will affect battery life on the the Droid Bionic, because it also announced this week at CES, so you have to do is switch the SIM
or watching a video on your new phone. All the power is good to operates over Verizon's new 4G CNET hasn't yet reviewed them. card and voila, you can hop
smartphone and the battery is have but ONLY if you have the LTE network. This is a challenge But even after the reviews are out, amongst carriers.
dead? battery life to support it. I think for battery life because the you might want to wait until the On the other hand, phones based
You aren't alone. As cell phones most people would rather have the phone's battery has to support phones are out in the market for a on CDMA do not use SIM cards.
get more sophisticated, all those cell phone function all day (and several radios in a single device. couple of months if battery life is So it is more difficult to get the
bells and whistles come at the cost more) with less power than a In addition to supporting a Wi-Fi a major concern for you. Early phones unlocked and to use them
of heavy power consumption. highly powered device that gets radio and a 3G radio, now it has adopters using the phone day to on another carrier's network. I
Sure, we all like the convenience only a couple of hours of battery to accommodate a 4G radio, too. day will discover shortcomings, wrote about this topic in a
of hitting Google on the go or life. Chipmakers and phone such as poor battery life. Also, previous Ask Maggie column.
getting turn-by-turn navigation on Thank you for your time, manufacturers are constantly battery performance can vary That said, a reader pointed out to
our smartphones, but when the Stan looking for ways to make power greatly based on usage and other me in an e-mail that it is not
battery life is drained almost Dear Stan, usage more efficient. Users can factors, such as signal strength. So impossible to unlock and use a
i n s t a n t a n e o u s l y , t h o s e n e w The move to dual-core processors also help manage power getting more input from regular CDMA phone on another carrier's
features become a drag. will make mobile devices consumption by adjusting users might help you make a network. But it does require some
In this week's Ask Maggie I significantly more powerful than settings, such as turning off better decision on which phone is know-how. You have to "flash"
answer one reader's question they can be if they use a only multiple radios or applications right for you. Servicing an the phone's radio so that it
about how the new speedy dual- single-core processor. But the that are running in the unlocked BlackBerry communicates over another
core processors in smartphones challenge for chip manufacturers background, or using their phone Dear Maggie, CDMA carrier's network.
will affect battery life. I also and device makers is balancing in places where there is a strong First of all I wanted to tell you While swapping out SIM cards
explain how to take an unlocked the more powerful hardware with cell phone signal. what a fan I am of yours. I have on an unlocked GSM phone is
BlackBerry to a new carrier, and battery life concerns. Tony Melone, CTO of Verizon an unlocked BlackBerry Bold, fairly simple, one thing you must
offer some thoughts on whether Crappy battery life is a major Wireless, acknowledges that and I want to know what my best check is that the phone you are
wireless broadband will ever issue for many smartphones managing battery power can be options are to get BlackBerry using supports the GSM radio
come to rural America. already. Most users are lucky if tricky. But he said he thinks service. Also, once the phone is frequency in the country where
Ask Maggie is a weekly advice they can get a full day's use out of device makers and chip vendors unlocked, can I use it on different you are using the phone. A quad-
column that answers readers' a s i n g l e c h a r g e o n t h e i r have worked through these issues carrier networks? How easy is it band world phone should cover
wireless and broadband questions. smartphones. As so-called "super for the new lineup of dual-core to switch carriers? all your bases.
If you've got a question, please p h o n e s " b e c o m e m o r e processor 4G phones that will Thanks a million, In the U.S., your options for
send me an e-mail at maggie dot sophisticated, they will require eventually be introduced on Mendy GSM mobile phone service are
reardon at cbs dot com. And higher-power processors, which Verizon's network. He also said Dear Mendy, AT&T and T-Mobile USA.
please put "Ask Maggie" in the consume more power. there are things that the carrier First, thanks for the compliment! AT&T sells the BlackBerry Bold,
subject header. Battery Life Unfortunately, battery technology can do to help alleviate the I'm so happy someone is finding so this is likely your best bet for
Hi Maggie, has struggled to keep pace with problem. For example, it can have this column useful! service. The phone can also be
Verizon Wireless just announced demand for all the new features devices scan less frequently for Now to answer your questions. If ASK page 25
some cool new phones at the t h a t a r e b e i n g a d d e d t o new cell towers. He said the new your BlackBerry has a SIM card
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Mac App Store Tops 1 Million Downloads in Day One: Here's
What's Hot
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:22:40 AM
In case there was any doubt
whether or not the iTunes model
for application sales could work
on the desktop, today's news from
Apple should dispel those
concerns. The company has
announced this morning that the
number of downloads from its
newly launched Mac App Store
surpassed 1 million within the
first 24 hours.
The store, which launched
yesterday morning to bring a
centralized repository of OS X
compatible applications to Mac
users, now includes over 1,000
free and paid software programs.
And as with iTunes, the apps are
organized by category, are ranked
by top paid, free and top grossing,
and are rated and reviewed by
customers.
Sponsor
According to Apple CEO Steve
Jobs, the company is "amazed at
the incredible response" the store
is getting. Given that there are 50
million Mac users in use
worldwide, it's not really all that
surprising to us, however. But it's
a great start, nonetheless. Top
Paid Apps
As of this morning, the top paid
charts featured a collection of
Apple software programs like
iPhoto, iMovie and Pages as well
as games, including the ever-
ubiquitious Angry Birds, which
soared in to the number one spot.
It's unclear if Angry Birds' rise
was at all affected by the recent
reports of Mac App Store piracy.
To catch you up: apparently,
Rovio, the creators of Angry
Birds, in addition to many other
Mac App Store developers,
neglected to follow Apple's
guidelines on validating App
Store receipts for purchases.
What this means is that, for some
applications, you could copy the
receipt from any other Mac App
Store download (even free apps)
into a copy of the paid app you
want to use and it will run.
The procedure for doing so is a
bit more hacker-y than some news
reports have implied, though. You
have to delve into the Package
Contents of the app's dmg file,
navigate to a particular folder and
delete specific files. You then
copy and paste those same files
from the free app's folder to the
paid one. In other words, you
would need to know these specific
instructions before doing this - it's
not a matter of simply copying-
and-pasting a receipt number, like
you would have on some brick-
and-mortar retail store's receipt,
into a field or pop-up notification
within the paid app.
For average to fairly technical
users, the hack is a piece of cake.
But for the millions who chose
Mac because "it just works" and
who were stymied by the
complexities of Windows
systems, even a simple hack like
this is likely over their heads.
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minimize and zoom buttons, for Whether or not this same App
example, are black not red, yellow Store model will work back in the
and green), has led to a love it or Windows world, is still unknown.
hate it experience among Apple Intel launched its AppUp Center,
fans.( John Gruber has a good an app store mostly designed with
essay on the pros and cons). netbook users in mind, but a
Clearly, the majority of the end startup called AllMyApps, wants
users love it - well, they love it to more broadly address the app
enough to install it and give it a needs of the Windows market.
shot, that is. Again, watching the Silicon Valley tech pundit
charts over the coming weeks will Roberrt Scoble recently admitted
tell us more about the app's long- that he was not excited about the
term position. initiative and "was a jerk" to the
That being said, it will be The top 12 free apps, as of this founder at the LeWeb conference
interesting to watch the ratings to morning, are: in December, but AllMyApps
see if anything changes with • Twitter CEO Thibauld Favre, stood up for
regards to Angry Birds' standings • Solitaire Greatest Hits himself and his vision, even
after Rovio closes - as they surely • Evernote thanking Scoble for being
will - this security hole. • SketchBook Express challenged. Favre countered
The full top 12, as of this • Caffeine Scoble's claim that Windows
morning, is as follows: • swackett users don't "load new apps" by
• Angry Birds • MindNode for Mac saying the reason for that is "not
• Chopper 2 • SoundCloud because they are Windows users
• iPhoto (Apple) • TextWrangler but because without a real
• iRingtones • Stuffit Expander application store, they just cannot
• Aperture • Alfred do it."
• Pinball HD • VirusBarrier Express An app store, he said,
• Flight Control HD "provides...a great integrated user
• iMovie (Apple) We would imagine that many of e x p e r i e n c e , w h i c h m a k e s
• iHomework the downloads from the Mac App discovering and managing apps
• The Incident Store come from new Mac users fun," and for developers, "makes
• Pixelmator w h o h a v e m o v e d f r o m t h e distribution more effective." That
• Pages Windows world to OS X and are may be true, but Apple users are
unfamiliar with the offerings an entirely different beast than
Free Apps available to them in the Mac Windows users. Will they want or
In the Mac App Store's free chart, universe of applications. For those need a collection of browsable
the newly launched official folks, having a curated collections apps? Or will they think, hmm, I
Twitter application now stands at of organized apps will help them need some apps - I'll just search
number one. The app, which get up to speed and be productive the Web...?
notably ditches some of Apple's on the new platform. Does this
r e c o m m e n d e d d e s i g n Prove the App Store Model for
c o n s i d e r a t i o n s ( i t s c l o s e , Desktops? MAC page 27
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HCL Aegis low-cost home automation gateway supports WiFi,
ZigBee, DLNA, HomePlug & more
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:58:24 AM
HCL has announced Aegis, a
multi-platform home automation
gateway which promises to
control your multimedia, energy
monitoring, HVAC, security and
more, all through Android, iOS
and Symbian devices, and using
multiple wireless standards.
Debuting at CES 2011 this week,
the platform-agnostic Aegis
supports WiFi, ZigBee, DLNA
and HomePlug networking.
While home automation
gateways aren’t uncommon, HCL
reckons it can push pricing down
significantly by its combination of
low-cost chips and flexible
support for different standards,
allowing OEMs to pick and
choose the connectivity of their
preference. Unfortunately, we’ll
have to wait for those OEMs to
show some interest; HCL is
looking for partners to bring
Aegis to market.
Press Release:
HCL Launches Home
Automation Gateway, AEGIS, at
CES 2011 Makes the Smart Home
a Reality
Las Vegas, Nevada, January 6,
2011—HCL Technologies Ltd.
(HCL), a leading IT and
Engineering services provider,
unveiled Aegis – a platform
agnostic Home Automation
Gateway solution which can
empower end users to control all
home appliances and devices from
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storage.
“Current Home Automation
gateway solutions are expensive,
require high configuration and
cannot interconnect all home
appliances due to the existence of
various protocols. There is a
definite demand for a low
configuration, low cost home
automation gateway, which
enables connectivity to diverse
protocols. Since the Aegis
solution is adaptable to many user
cases, our customers have a
immense flexibility to define the
functionality they desire,” added
Sandeep.
Aegis has been developed with
the flexibility to be designed
around any low configuration
processors like the Texas
Instruments-OMAP. Currently,
Home Automation Gateway
systems are marketed at a price
point of 500 USD or more.
their mobile technologies. (Nokia products). HCL has also provide a critical time to market Deploying AEGIS creates an
HCL will demonstrate their developed a mobile application advantage to our customers. We opportunity to significantly
AEGIS solution, its functionality which can be used to control the can adapt and deploy AEGIS to a reduce the price of such systems.
and discuss its scalability to gateway through all Android broad range of use cases, which There are two ways to learn
handle more complex use cases at p h o n e s . L e a d i n g C o n s u m e r Consumer Electronic OEM’s can more:
booth number MP 25363 in South Electronics OEMs are adapting take to market as cutting edge 1. Meet with HCL executives
Hall 2 LVCC at CES 2011. this technology, for their unique products.” including Sandeep Kishore,
The Aegis solution enables specifications, to launch cutting The architecture of the Aegis E x e c u t i v e V i c e P r e s i d e n t ,
i n t e r c o n n e c t i v i t y b e t w e e n edge products in the market. solution provides the flexibility to Engineering and R&D Services,
multiple devices linked via Wifi, Sandeep Kishore, Executive Vice create systems in many form HCL America, at HCL’s booth
ZigBee, DLNA and HomePlug President & Global Head Sales factors and support numerous during CES 2011
networks. The user interface of and Practice, Engineering and applications like Home Security, 2.Listen to Shashidhar K– Head,
the Home Automation Gateway R&D Services, HCL said, “the A l a r m N o t i f i c a t i o n , H o m e Convergence Practice at HCL on
can be developed for any mobile AEGIS solution is part of our Electrical controls, Appliance the panel ‘Anytime, Anywhere
operating system – Android, iOS o n g o i n g e f f o r t s t o t a k e a Control, Energy Management and E n t e r t a i n m e n t ’ a t P a r k s
(Apple products) and Symbian productized solution approach to Digital Content access and HCL page 25
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ASK
continued from page 22
used on T-Mobile, but the phone
may not support the frequency
band that T-Mobile uses for 3G
service. (It's different from the
frequency band that AT&T uses
for 3G service.)
As for which carrier offers the
best service, it really depends on
where you are using the phone.
AT&T has a much wider footprint
than T-Mobile, so in some places,
T-Mobile may not even be an
option. But if it is available, it
might offer a better deal than
AT&T, depending on usage and
the plan you select. Rural wireless
broadband
Dear Maggie,
I live in the country in Texas. I
have wireless Internet service, but
it is not very good. Most of the
time, the speeds are barely above
dialup. What's the outlook for us
country people when it comes to
high-speed Internet service.
Thank you for your consideration
in responding.
Mike
Dear Mike,
It's difficult to say whether
wireless broadband service will
improve significantly for you
anytime soon, because I don't
know exactly where you live. I
also don't know specific regional
plans for upgrades for each carrier
in the U.S. But I will try to answer
your question more broadly,
because I think this is an
important topic that policy makers
at the Federal Communications
Commission and in other parts of
the government are grappling with
today.
Let's start with the good news.
Getting broadband access to every
American is a priority for
President Obama and the FCC.
And for the first time in the U.S.
there is a comprehensive policy
plan in place for achieving this
goal over the next decade.
Last year, the FCC submitted a
National Broadband Plan to
Congress, which outlined a 10-
year plan for getting broadband
service to every American. Within
that plan, the FCC highlighted
wireless as a key technology for
providing broadband service to
rural communities.
As part of this plan and as part of
the economic stimulus package
passed by Congress in 2009,
wireless operators have been
given millions of dollars to invest
in building networks in rural
communities. The FCC has also
taken measures to speed up the
process for approving the
construction of new cell phone
towers and for freeing up more
wireless spectrum, which should
also help stimulate further
infrastructure deployments.
Another piece of good news for
rural wireless subscribers is that
all four major U.S. wireless
carriers are in the midst of major
network upgrades to 4G wireless
broadband, which provide average
download speeds between 3Mbps
and 12Mbps.
Two of the largest carriers,
AT&T and Verizon Wireless, are
using 700MHz spectrum to build
their new networks using a
technology called LTE or Long
Term Evolution. The 700MHz
spectrum they are using is ideal
for serving rural communities
because signals can travels long
distances over this band. It was
previously used to provide
broadcast analog TV service.
What this means for rural
subscribers is that wireless
carriers can reach more
geographically dispersed
subscribers with fewer cell
towers.
The main reason that
infrastructure of any kind is
limited in some rural communities
is because it's often difficult for
private-sector companies to make
a return on their investment. In
some cases, there are simply too
few subscribers to justify the
upfront capital investment in the
infrastructure.
This is where the bad news
comes in. Even though the major
wireless operators are upgrading
their networks, they are still likely
to concentrate most of their
investments in densely populated
regions, because that is where
they can get the biggest returns.
This means that cities such as
New York, San Francisco, and
Chicago are more likely to get 4G
service quicker than a rural
community in, say, west Texas.
The federal grants from the
stimulus package should help
encourage investment in some
regions of the country, but it won't
be enough to encourage
investment in every rural
community.
That said, Verizon Wireless,
which bought a nationwide swath
of 700MHz spectrum, is striking
deals with regional rural carriers
to lease its 700MHz spectrum, so
that these companies can roll out
service more quickly to more
people. Verizon Wireless CEO
Daniel Mead said at the
company's press conference at
CES that Verizon is making
progress with rural carriers
interested in leasing its spectrum.
Hopefully, your community in
Texas will be among those to
benefit from either Verizon or
AT&T's expansion or the
expansion by a rural carrier.
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at 2:45pm on January 6th
About HCL Enterprise
HCL is a $5.5 billion leading
global technology and IT
enterprise comprising two
companies listed in India – HCL
Technologies and HCL
Infosystems. Founded in 1976,
HCL is one of India’s original IT
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custom & package applications,
BPO, IT infrastructure services,
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ViewSonic’s ViewPad 4 Android 2.2 smartphone dislikes curves

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:44:11 AM

ViewSonic has followed up its

Android tablets with an Android
2.2 smartphone, the 4.1-inch
ViewSonic ViewPad 4. Built
around a WVGA touchscreen, the
ViewPad 4 runs Qualcomm’s
1GHz MSM8255 processor and
has a 5-megapixel autofocus
camera capable of 720p HD video
recording.
You’ll be able to play that
footage back via the ViewPad 4s
HDMI output, too, and there’s
WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 and
GPS/A-GPS as well. No word on
pricing – ViewSonic says that’s
up to carriers – but it’ll apparently
go on sale in the middle of the
year.
[ via Android Community]
Press Release:
ViewSonic Expands ViewPad®
Line at CES
ViewPad 4 Offers Phone and
Tablet Functionality in Hand-
Held Package
LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwire
– January 6, 2011) – CES 2011
ViewSonic Corp. (South Hall
30873), a leading global provider been at the forefront of visual ranging from 4 to 10 inches, functionality bundled with HD Today’s growth of the ViewPad
of computing, consumer display technology for nearly 25 allowing consumers to select the 720p video recording, playback, line complements the rest of
electronics and communications years, 10 of which have been ViewPad that works best for their upload and HDMI 720p display ViewSonic’s tablet line being
solutions, is extending its spent in the tablet space. We are needs. As part of this expansion, output. A 5-megapixel auto-focus showcased at CES, including the
ViewPad line at CES 2011 with a proud to extend our tablet legacy the company is introducing the camera and Bluetooth® 2.1 and ViewPad 7 and the ViewPad 10.
brand new 4-inch tablet. by expanding our ViewPad ViewPad 4, an Android-based 4.1 802.11 b/g/n wireless enable Now available for purchase for an
“ViewSonic’s heritage in display offerings to incorporate new -inch WVGA touch capacitive video telephony. Additionally, ESP of $459, the ViewPad 7 is a 7
technology serves as a natural solutions like the ViewPad 4 that device offering tablet power and GPS / A-GPS functionality makes -inch Android 2.2-based tablet
extension of our product put ViewSonic anywhere performance — and a phone — it easy to identify points of that combines a Qualcomm®
expertise,” said Jeff Volpe, vice consumers share, play and all for carrying in your pocket. interest from anywhere. The MSM7227 600MHz processor
president and general manager for connect.” Based on a Qualcomm® MSM ViewPad 4 will be available in the with 3.5G data technology. With
ViewSonic Americas. “We have ViewSonic will now offer 8255, 1GHz platform, the middle of 2011. Pricing will be VIEWSONIC’S page 29
connected ViewPad solutions ViewPad 4 offers full cell phone dependent upon carriers.
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MAC
Windows Phone 7 Updates Revealed: Copy & Paste continued from page 23

Soon, "Mango" this Fall Discuss

Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) "NoDo," "Mango" and More won't be shipping fixes for
Submitted at 1/7/2011 8:23:38 AM The first update, he says, will individual issues but will instead
RTM (release to manufacturing) handle updates more like it does
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in January but won't ship until service packs for Windows PCs. Morning Links - Why
o f f i c i a l l y c o n f i r m e d t h e early February. This update, He thinks that's a poor choice on Kristen Accidentally
timeframe for the series of called "NoDo" (which stands for the software giant's part because
planned updates to the company's "No Donuts" and probably refers Microsoft has "plenty to fix" in Slapped Robert
mobile phone platform Windows to the first Android update called Widows Phone 7. PopSugar (PopSugar)
Phone 7 during his keynote "Donut"), includes the copy and But that's sort of a"darned if you Submitted at 1/7/2011 8:14:59 AM
address at this week's Consumer paste functionality noted above do, darned if you don't" situation,
Electronics Shows (CES 2011) in plus support for the Qualcomm isn't it? If Microsoft went the way
Las Vegas. No, he didn't give an 7×30 smartphone chipset, a of Google, as it did with Android, • Why Kristen Stewart slapped
exact launch date for the updates - CDMA location stack and a it could leave in its wake a Robert Pattinson- Us Weekly
this is Microsoft, you know - but number of software fixes. support and Far East Asian f r a g m e n t e d e c o s y s t e m o f
• Kim Kardashian's new man
he did say that the updates will NoDo will also include improved language support. Thurott says woefully un-updated devices.
hasn't met her family yet- People
begin in the "next few months." Marketplace search, says the blog that internally, this code branch is That would not be a good thing
• Seth Rogen is not getting a pre-
In addition, blogger Paul Thurrott LiveSide, also an unofficial, but dubbed the "entertainment" for such a new (and still buggy)
nup- Huffington Post
of Windows Phone Secrets has w e l l - c o n n e c t e d M i c r o s o f t - branch, which suggests more platform, especially considering
• Will Emma Watson become
detailed a number of things about watching site. They noted that functionality yet to be unveiled. t h e s p e e d w i t h w h i c h
Harvey Weinstein's new favorite?
the coming updates, including a f t e r N o D o , a s e r i e s o f It may or may not be referred to manufacturers like to push
- Lainey Gossip
when they will launch and what intermmediate updates will arrive as Windows Phone OS 7.5. Foley updates...or rather, the lack of
• Kanye West is being sued for
they provide. bringing new APIs (application guesses it may also offer more speed.(Our Samsung Galaxy S is
assault- PopEater
Sponsor programming interfaces) with enterprise functionality, liked still waiting for Froyo even
• Meet the man at the center of
The Official News greater multi-tasking support, in- improved Exchange ActiveSync though Google has already
Lindsay's Betty Ford assault case-
As for the official news, Ballmer app downloads and better end support. released Gingerbread, for TMZ
said that the first update will bring user customizations. These will In any event, expect some of this e x a m p l e ! ) .
• Lady Gaga's boyfriend cheers
copy-and-paste functionality and likely be announced during news to become more official in Forcing the carriers to stay only
her on during a overly sexy show!
improvements to the phone's M o b i l e W o r l d C o n g r e s s i n February, when Mobile World one step behind is great for
- Wonderwall
performance when loading or F e b r u a r y , t h e y s a y . Congress starts (Feb 14-17). consumers - in some ways - but it • Does Jessica Simpson want to
switching between applications. Both LiveSide, Thurott and In the meantime, courtesy of also means the speed of updates
score a gig like Jennifer
He also mentioned that WP7 Z D N e t ' s M a r y - J o F o l e y LiveSide, is a chart detailing the has to be dialed down a bit. This
Hudson's?- Celebitchy
devices will show up on Sprint confirmed the existence of an update schedule: may have even been a point of • Jennifer Lopez poses in front of
and Verizon in the first half of update code-named "Mango" Debating the Merits of Treating c o n t e n t i o n , a n d e v e n t u a l l y
Jennifer Lopez- ICYDK
2011 and more languages will be suspected to arrive sometime this Updates Like Service Packs compromise, between Microsoft • Aretha Franklin's heath
available later in the year. fall. Mango is a major update, Thurott mentions that, due to and carriers for all we know.
problems have been resolved-
Thurott, however, provided more bringing IE 9 with the Trident 5 Microsoft's requirement that Discuss
Lifeline Live
information, albeit unofficial and rendering engine, HTML5 and carriers stay only one step behind
• Camille Grammer is not happy
unconfirmed. More Details on Silverlight support, gesture in terms of updates, Microsoft
she was "edited" to be the bad guy
- I'm Not Obsessed
28 Technology/ Culture/ Politics-Left/ E-reader News Edition

Business Analytics Predictions from Gartner and

Forrester
Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb) collaboration and social software of my own 2011 predictions is
Submitted at 1/6/2011 10:45:17 PM into decision-making that predictive analytics will be
environments. applied to more business
As part of its Predicts 2011 processes, whether it helps or not.
series, Gartner has made four The fourth is the most intriguing • Social analytics- Kobielus sees
predictions for the near future of prediction. One of the most business process management
b u s i n e s s i n t e l l i g e n c e a n d obvious places to expect a utilizing social decision making
analytics. Also, Forrester analyst convergence of business analytics combined wtih analytics. This Andrew Garfield Breaks
James Kobielus has written a and social software is in SAP's jibes very well with Gartner's From Spider-Man to Get
lengthy article outlining his own StreamWork, which bills itself as fourth prediction. Social With Jessie
predictions for business analytics c o l l a b o r a t i v e d e c i s i o n • Scalable analytics- Tools like
in Information Week. Both see making(CDM) product. Gartner Hadoop that help users deal with
Eisenberg and Armie
analytics being embedded in more h a s i d e n t i f i e d C D M a s a n big data. Hammer
business processes, particularly in emerging category of enterprise assume the future of enterprise • Cloud analytics- SaaS-based Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
collaborative and social software. software. architecture is in Web Oriented datawarehousing.
The idea of working backwards - Architecture platforms like Jive's • Real-time analytics- More or
Submitted at 1/7/2011 7:38:15 AM
Sponsor
From Gartner: getting analytical data from and that from Salesforce.com. In less self-explanatory. The boys of The Social Network,
• By 2013, 33 percent of BI enterprise social software - is this scenario, the platforms with A ndrew Garfield, Jessie
functionality will be consumed e v e n m o r e o b v i o u s . the best analytics systems built Analytics is one of the most Eisenberg, and hottie you'd like to
via handheld devices. Salesforce.com is already doing into their core will be the most f a s c i n a t i n g e m e r g i n g see more of Armie Hammer, were
• By 2014, 30 percent of analytic t h i s i n t e r n a l l y w i t h i t s competitive. technologies, with the potential to together in LA last night for a
applications will use in-memory Chatterlytics program that awards Meanwhile, Kobielus examines radically improve the way we do party celebrating the release of
functions to add scale and bonuses to top contributors to the the six trends that are shaping business, cause cataclysmic their critically-acclaimed film on
computational speed. By 2014, 30 c o m p a n y ' s i n t e r n a l C h a t t e r F o r r e s t e r ' s 2 0 1 1 a n a l y t i c s business failures, or turn out to be D V D . T h e i r c o s t a r J u s t i n
percent of analytic applications d e p l o y m e n t . I B M ' s s o c i a l r e s e a r c h : a pointless excercise. We'll be Timberlake had to skip out on the
will use proactive, predictive and software suite Lotus Connections • Self-service analytics- Giving watching analytics developments event, though, as he's been busy
forecasting capabilities. is also baking in analytics. IBM is customers access to analytics in 2011 with much interest. shooting Now. Andrew has
• By 2014, 40 percent of investing heavily in business tools. Photo credit: nasa1fan/MSFC l i k e w i s e h a d h i s d a y s f u l l
spending on business analytics analytics, making it a core part of • Pervasive analytics- Kobielus Discuss shooting the new Spider-Man
will go to system integrators, not the company's strategy. says Forrester will publish reports
movie, though his work doesn't
software vendors. Let's assume business analytics t o h e l p e n t e r p r i s e s e m b e d seem too hard since he gets to kiss
• By 2013, 15 percent of BI will converge with collaboration predictive analytics into all
Emma Stone. He may have had
deployments will combine BI, and social software. Let's also business processes. As a note, one the day off, but Emma was
TNR Film Classics: 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (1939) spotted solo on set yesterday.
Andrew, Jesse, and Armie will be
Otis Ferguson (The New big movie explosion of the year, p a t t e r a b o u t c o n g r e s s i o n a l a regular trio on red carpets this
Republic - All Feed) and reviewers are going to think cloakrooms and pressure groups, award season, as they make the
Submitted at 1/6/2011 11:06:15 PM twice and think sourly before and a naïve but shameless hooraw rounds at the SAGs, Golden
they’ll want to put it down for the for the American relic—Parson Globes, and, likely, the Oscars.
Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes clumsy and irritating thing it is. It Weems at a flag-raising. View Slideshow ›
to Washington” is going to be the is a mixture of tough, factual
E-reader News Edition
GE’s Ecomagination Challenge Phase
Two To Focus On “Eco-Home”
Technology
Lora Kolodny (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:57:44 AM
General Electric has been trotting
out “home of the future”
technologies at the 2011
Consumer Electronics Show this
week, from a backyard-installable
wind turbine, the Skystream 600,
to a home energy management
device and system called the
Nucleus (image below).
Today the company revealed a
new — perhaps not surprising —
“eco-home” focus for phase two
of their Ecomagination Challenge,
a competition through which GE
and its venture capital partners
committed to invest $200 million
in clean, green technology
startups.
The Ecomagination Challenge is
now seeking green tech ideas to
power the home. More
specifically, the competition
wants proposals in the following
consumer-facing categories:
household energy efficiency
including management software,
appliances and air conditioning;
and renewable power, from solar,
wind, hydro and biomass.
Applications will be accepted
online through GE’s
Ecomagination Challenge site
Technology/ 29
VIEWSONIC’S
continued from page 26
an 800×400 WVGA LCD screen Android for mobile entertainment.
in a lightweight, pocket-sized
design, this device is one of the
The ViewPad 10 is on track for
availability in March for an ESP
few 7-inch tablets to offer of $629, as scheduled.
Android Google Mobile Services
(GMS) for access to more than
For more information on this and
other CES announcements,
came in from about 150 countries. 100,000 Google apps and games including hi-res images, please
We evaluated those and are still along with Gmail, YouTube and visit ViewSonic.com/ces2011/.
evaluating some that may not m o r e f o r a c o n v e n i e n t For further information on
h a v e b e e n a p p r o p r i a t e f o r entertainment solution that fits ViewSonic and its products, visit
from January 18 to March 1, investments at the time, but may their mobile lifestyle. Teamed ViewSonic.com or follow
2011, then discussed and voted on have something we want to with built-in 3-megapixel, dual ViewSonic on Facebook,
by the user community there, with license, for example. Many of the front and rear cameras, GPS/A- YouTube and Twitter.
winners selected and announced ideas we saw also could have GPS, an integrated e-book reader, About ViewSonic
in the early spring. become stronger and qualify for Document-To-Go functionality ViewSonic® Corporation is a
TechCrunch covered the phase investment moving forward. and an ultra long battery life of up leading global provider of
one winners of the Ecomagination We’ll encourage some of those to 10 hours, the ViewPad 7 computing, consumer electronics
challenge in November, and the applicants to submit new or ensures consumers can bring all and communications solutions.
beginning of this initiative in July. stronger ideas to ecomagination. their favorite multimedia content ViewSonic develops, markets and
In an interview this week about Since we only announced our with them wherever they go. supports a broad range of
the competition thus far, GE’s investments in November, it is too ViewSonic’s 10.1-inch Wi-Fi innovative products, including
chief marketing offier and senior early to see returns. We continue based ViewPad 10 tablet offers LCD TVs, computers, Tablet,
vice president, Beth Comstock to have very fruitful discussions the best of both worlds with dual LCD monitors, projectors, digital
said: with retailers about working o p e r a t i n g s y s t e m s , g i v i n g photo frames, digital signage
“The focus of the Powering Your t o g e t h e r i n l i c e n s i n g a n d consumers a choice between displays and digital media
Home phase of the challenge is d i s t r i b u t i o n . Windows® 7 Home Premium and players. For further information,
innovation that consumers can Though the challenge invested Google Android 1.6 within the please contact ViewSonic
touch and feel. $55 million in the last phase, we same device. With a high speed Corporation at 800.888.8583 or
Phase one was great. We funded haven’t set an amount we plan to I n t e l ® A t o m ™ 1 . 6 6 G H z 909.444.8888; or visit
ideas from such a wide spectrum, invest in Powering Your Home. processor and sharp 1024×600 ViewSonic.com.
especially to create and use We’ll just have to see the ideas.” LED backlit panel, this tablet is
[ r e s o u r c e s a n d e n e r g y General Electric’s chief executive ideal for consumers that want to
sustainably]. But we felt we could officer Jeff Immelt is also set to use Windows to view Flash-based
get consumers more engaged at s p e a k a b o u t s o m e o f t h e content and Office programs, and
this point. company’s digital energy and
We got about 1,000 ideas in the other green initiatives on the
home energy management space Innovation Power Panel at CES
alone, out of about 4,000 total 2011 today.
ideas in the last phase. They came
from kids as young as ten and
entrepreneurs over ninety. They
30 Technology/ Culture/
Hanvon WISEreader E920 claims better readability
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:15:53 AM
It seems the higher-resolution
path is one that ereader
manufacturers are increasingly
taking, with iriver setting its stall
at the 6-inch point of the market,
and Hanvon’s new WISEreader
E920 claiming boosted
performance at the 9.7-inch point.
The E920 uses the same casing
design as the color ereader
launched last year, but with a
monochrome 200dpi panel
instead.
Battery life is said to be up to 15
days of standby or over 10,000
pages of reading, while storage is
via microSD card (up to 32GB).
There’s also text-to-speech, PDF
annotation and Chinese to English
translations. No word on pricing
or availability.
Press Release:
HANVON UNVEILS
INDUSTRY’S FIRST LARGE-
SCREEN, HIGH-RESOLUTION
EREADER AT CES
Hanvon WISEreader E920
Brings Crispness and Clarity to
eReaders
Twittrd Shows You the Most Popular Links on Any
Web Page [Web Browsing]
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 7:30:00 AM
While we at Lifehacker have
Las Vegas—January 6,
2011—Hanvon, a leading global e
-book manufacturer, today
unveiled the Hanvon WISEreader
E920, the industry’s first large-
screen, high-resolution e-book
reader at CES 2011 (LVCC South
Hall Booth #36062). The Hanvon
WISEreader has a 9.7 inch screen
and 200 dpi resolution, which
provides some of the crispest and
sharpest images ever seen on an E
some handy indicators next to
each post so you can track what's
popular, not all sites provide the
same functionality. Free service
Ink-powered device. The eReader
will be available by June 2011.
“Hanvon introduced the world’s
first color E Ink reader, and we
are continuing to innovate with
our large-screen, high-res
eReader,” said Mr. Liu Yingjian,
president of Hanvon. “Consumers
should expect clear, detailed text
and images from their e-books,
readable in bright light conditions,
and the WISEreader E920
Twittrd will show you how often
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store more than 10,000 e-books
on the reader. It provides all the
traditional benefits of an E Ink
reader and also supports a variety
of formats, will speak in TTS
voice, allows users to comment in
PDF at any time and make instant
Chinese-English translations.
About Hanvon Hanvon
Technology Co., Ltd. (Hanvon)
was established in 1998 and is a
high-tech enterprise that is
dedicated to the development and
production of intelligent products,
technologies and services in the
field of man-computer interaction.
Hanvon is a leader in the global
handwriting recognition market
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Mac App Store downloads surpass 1
million in first day
Dave Caolo (TUAW)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:30:00 AM
Let's say it's off to a good start.
Apple has announced that users
downloaded over 1 million apps
from the Mac App Store since its
launch just over 24 hours ago.
That's a truly incredible number.
The fact that millions of iOS users
instantly knew how to use the
Mac App Store certainly helped.
"We're amazed at the incredible
response the Mac App Store is
getting," Steve Jobs said in a press
release. "Developers have done a
great job bringing apps to the
store and users are loving how
easy and fun the Mac App Store
is."
We can assume that sales will
slow down after the initial rush,
but for now Steve et al. can enjoy
some good news as their
weekends begin.
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Get an iTunes or Mac
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fees. To find out more about Michael Terretta (TUAW) through the process, making sure
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visit developer.apple.com/ payment option. Check your
programs/mac. Parents, the safest way to keep email and click the link to verify
find great new apps, buy them Apple designs Macs, the best your kids from accidentally your account. The process is
using your iTunes(R) account, personal computers in the world, spending your money in any of essentially the same from an
download and install them in just along with OS X, iLife, iWork, the iTunes stores, including the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, but
one step. and professional software. Apple App Stores, is to give them their you'll specify your country after
"We're amazed at the incredible leads the digital music revolution own iTunes Account that doesn't you click Buy.
response the Mac App Store is with its iPods and iTunes online have an associated credit card. Now you have an iTunes Store
getting," said Steve Jobs, Apple's store. Apple is reinventing the Whether you want to let your Account without a credit card on
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easy and fun the Mac App Store its magical iPad which is defining credit card to try one of the holiday edition of Angry Birds.
is." the future of mobile media and hundred free apps in the new Mac We found this tip in the new Mac
The Mac App Store offers apps computing devices. App Store or download free apps App Store Support site. For a step
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Design, Lifestyle, Productivity, surpass 1 million in first day You can't create an account in the instructions for setting up the free
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TNR Film Classics:
DisplayLink app makes iPad a wireless Windows 'Mr. Smith Goes to
monitor Washington' (1939)
Otis Ferguson (The New
(CNET News.com) If you have a question or Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:09:22 AM comment for Stephen Shankland,
Submitted at 1/6/2011 11:06:15 PM
you can submit it here. However,
DisplayLink's application turns because our editors and writers
an iPad into a secondary monitor Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes
receive hundreds of requests, we
for Windows.(Credit: Apple App to Washington” is going to be the
cannot tell you when you may
Store) big movie explosion of the year,
receive a response.
DisplayLink announced an$1.99 and reviewers are going to think
Stephen Shankland writes about a
application today that turns an twice and think sourly before
wide range of technology and
iPad into a second monitor they’ll want to put it down for the
products, but has a particular
wirelessly connected to a clumsy and irritating thing it is. It
focus on browsers and digital
Windows computer. is a mixture of tough, factual
photography. He joined CNET
The application works with patter about congressional
News in 1998 and since then also
Windows XP, Vista, and 7 and cloakrooms and pressure groups,
has covered Google, Yahoo,
requires an iPad with iOS 3.2 or and a naïve but shameless hooraw
servers, supercomputing, Linux
later, the company said. It's for the American relic—Parson
and open-source software, and
configured with the DisplayLink Weems at a flag-raising.
science.
software that the company offers This entry passed through the
for its primary line of business, Full-Text RSS service — if this is
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"The productivity benefits of laptop screen," DisplayLink said technology today at the CES show our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
m u l t i p l e d i s p l a y s h a s b e e n in a statement. That may sound in Las Vegas. content-only/faq.php
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networking, Web browsing, and iPad can become a third, the speeds.
Dimdim: The
Wallet Securely Stores Sensitive Information on Risk of Using
Your Android Phone [Downloads] A Free Service
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker) sensitive, yet hard-to-remember and syncs it across devices. More Alex Williams (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 6:30:00 AM data that we want to take with us. »
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:00:00 AM
Android app Wallet stores
Android only: We all have anything you could need in a secure, password-protected app There appears to be a bit of

DIMDIM: page 33
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customer discontent about the account at my.dimdim.com. preserving that functionality?

news that Dimdim's free service
will be discontinued after the
closing of the sale to
Salesforce.com.
The closing is without question.
The Dimdim FAQ has 11
questions and answers to inform
customers about the service's
discontinuation.
Dimdim's closing is a study in the
risks of using free services. What
will happen now to Dimdim
customers is all lined out in the
FAQ. The first question states the
timeline for closure:
Sponsor
How long will my service be
available? Monthly accounts will
be available until March 15.
Annual accounts are available
until their current subscription
ends. You can determine the
expiration date of your
subscription by logging into your
Will I be able to access my
recordings after my account is no
longer available? How can I keep
them??
Your recordings will no longer be
available after your account
expires. You can download your
recording files and chat transcripts
before then. See the Knowledge
Base for instructions on
downloading recordings and
transcripts.
Open-source code contributions
will stop: What will happen to the
Open Source version of Dimdim?
The open source code made
available by Dimdim remains
available on SourceForge.net.
Dimdim will no longer be
contributing to this project.
The API will be maintained as
long as the service is functioning:
We have integrated with the
Dimdim API. Will you be
Current API functionality will be
maintained for all active
subscriptions.
Sameer Patel says the Dimdim
acquisition is a wake up call about
using free tools for business use.
They do go away. There are few if
any guarantees about your data.
But people will get over it. They
will move on.
"Loyalty to a free product is
somewhat artificial," Patel said.
The services available to Dimdim
customers are plenty. Dimdim
will be forgotten by customers.
But we'll see if the market makes
note of what happens when a free
service gets acquired. Discuss
The Awesome Power of
Happiness And Her
Dance Of Joy
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal) those afternoon blues away! Flail
Submitted at 1/6/2011 3:18:00 PM those arms! Wave that bottom at
the project manager until he fires
It's late in the afternoon on a you, then dance with security all
Thursday. The morning coffee the way out the door! Yeah! Turn
still sits burning in the office your day around! Get energized!
brewer, lunch has come and gone, Get pumped!
and the dreaded specter of Sleepy Or just watch someone else do it
Procrastination looms just above for a bunch of strangers watching
your cubicle as you check the tiny television for a couple of minutes.
clock on your desktop ever half Just a word of advice: If you do
second to see if it's quitting time decide you're going to boogie
yet. about the office wildly, you might
Sounds like you need a dance consider wearing the proper head
break! That's right! Time to get up protection. Safety first, y'all.
off of that yoga ball and shake

Johnson & Johnson Leads $9 Million Investment In

Personal Genetics Startup 23andMe
Leena Rao (TechCrunch) Director Ashley Ledbetter diseases (Michael has tried the enable us to bring the vision of
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:06:24 AM Dombkowski will be joining service). personalized medicine to
23andMe’s Board of Directors. Wojcicki said in a statement: consumers faster.
23andMe, the personal genetics This brings the company’s total With MPM Capital joining The company has had its hiccups
company co-founded by Anne funding to nearly$54 million. Johnson & Johnson Development along the way, but funding from
Wojcicki, Google co-founder 23andMe, which was founded in Corporation, Roche Venture healthcare and pharmaceutical Third-party apps not
S e r g e y B r i n ‘ s s p o u s e , h a s 2006, aims to help individuals Fund, Google Ventures and New giant Johnson & Johnson is purchased via Mac App
raised$9 million more in funding, understand their own genetic Enterprise Associates as investors, certainly a vote of confidence for Store may appear as
adding to the company’s$22 i n f o r m a t i o n t h r o u g h D N A 23andMe has aligned a powerful the startup. CrunchBase
million C round announced last analysis technologies and Web- constellation of expertise in Information 23andMe Information
Installed
November. This round of funding based interactive tools. DNA strategic healthcare, healthcare provided by CrunchBase TJ Luoma (TUAW)
comes from MPM Capital and analysis helps participants find venture funding, consumer Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:00:00 AM
Johnson & Johnson Development information about their ancestry markets, information technology,
Corp. MPM Capital Managing and their risks of getting certain THIRD-PARTY page 34
and business strategy that will
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Apple just released the Mac App
Store, and with it came one very
unfortunate feature. It was well-
intentioned, but poorly executed,
and it ends up being an "attractive
nuisance," meaning that it's
something that you're really better
off ignoring: third-party apps not
purchased via the Mac App Store
may appear as "Installed" there,
leading to unrealistic expectations
of what you can do with Apple's
latest service.
Here's a quick overview of how
the Mac App Store works, in case
you haven't tried it: 1) you search
for an app, 2) when you find an
app you want, you click on the
button showing "Free" or "Buy"
with the price listed, 3) the button
changes to "Installing" while the
the app is downloaded to your
Applications folder and 4) the
button changes to "Installed"
when the app is fully installed.
The problem is that the Mac App
Store also recognizes apps that
you have purchased outside of the
Mac App Store if the version of
the app matches the Mac App
Store version exactly, using
something called the "Bundle ID."
For example, if you noticed that
the Mac App Store showed iPhoto
as "Installed," even though you
bought it through the boxed iLife
set, but the Mac App Store did not
notice that you already have
Pages installed, it may be because
you haven't installed the latest
iWork update.
As you might expect, this has led
to quite a bit of confusion, so it
bears repeating: if you have not
purchased an app through the Mac
App Store, you cannot re-
download it or get any future
updates through the Mac App
Store. For that, you will have to
continue to check for updates
using the app's built-in
mechanisms, or check the
developer's website. The folks at
Panic and Barebones have written
very good posts about this, as
have the folks over at Macworld,
so check them out if you're still
unclear about how this works.
Continue reading Third-party
apps not purchased via Mac App
Store may appear as Installed
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Installed originally appeared on
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FanHouse TV: Tony
Dungy Breaks Down
Packers vs. Eagles
FanHouse TV (FanHouse Main) time Vick was quarterbacking the
visiting Falcons in the NFC
Submitted at 1/7/2011 7:48:00 AM
Championship game. This time
Filed under: Eagles, Packers, Vick leads the Eagles as they host
N F L P l a y o f f s , N F L V i d e o , the wild-card Packers on Sunday
FanHouse Previews, NFL afternoon. FanHouse TV's
Predictions, NFL Analysis The Thomas George was joined by
last time Michael Vick started a special guest Tony Dungy to
playoff game was nearly six years break down the game.
ago, in Philadelphia, and it
resulted in a loss. Of course at that

Mac App Store launch day: roundup of TUAW's coverage

Richard Gaywood (TUAW) it reporting the news as it broke. If experience. We were also happy Mac App Store launch day:
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:00:00 AM you missed some or all of our to see that the store itself is its roundup of TUAW's coverage
posts, never fear -- here's what own app, rather than yet another originally appeared on TUAW on
If you somehow missed the news, you need to know to get caught up thing crammed into iTunes. A big Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:00:00 EST.
yesterday the Mac App Store on Apple's latest assault on your launch-day release exclusive to Please see our terms for use of
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s c r a m b l e i n t h e T U A W you can get to it from the Apple and another one walking you Continue reading Mac App Store
newsroom!), and as you'd expect, menu if you remove it from the through the app downloading launch day: roundup of TUAW's
we were right there in the thick of Dock), a gallery of the basic UI coverage
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Re-Use Your Keurig K- Realism on China Is More Realistic

(AEI.Org: Articles)
Cups! Submitted at 1/6/2011 5:00:00 PM
for greater cooperation between
Washington and Beijing, though
without the rose-colored glasses
Oslo last month. There could be
no clearer evidence of the
fundamental differences between
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Gates will visit China next week, America's vision, and only if America's than the empty chair
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Do you love the Keurig coffee relations between Washington and chance they have to end the stage.
system? Beijing. He faces an uphill task, distrust they themselves have This article is available in full by
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Cups into reusable K-Cups! play a more constructive global of concern to many for years, yet January 10, 2011.
The Keurig standard approach $14 and up. If you want 10 of role have given way to the
them, that is $140 just for the only recently has it caught the Michael Auslin is a resident
involves the purchase of K-Cups realization that American and attention of some observers. This
reusable cups. Second, the cup scholar at AEI.
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10 Stocks Whitney Tilson Is Heavily Short Right Now (AIG, ITB,

IOC, NFLX, LULU)
Gus Lubin (Money Game) the last time we suffered such big we didn’t!" Tilson writes in his is basically a scam and has been
Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:59:00 AM losses in our short book and felt latest investment letter (via short since last summer.
like covering everything was in Insider Monkey). Tilson is also short the housing
Whitney Tilson has one message late 2007. But after evaluating Tilson's current short book market via St Joe, with David
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Saving Money, Saving Lives

(AEI.Org: Articles) legislative landscape. And it incentive-based funding to recent drop in crime to more
Submitted at 1/6/2011 5:00:00 PM opens the way for a common- strengthen the state's probation people being locked up. But the
sense left-right agreement on an system in 2005. Then in 2007, facts show otherwise. While
With nearly all 50 states facing issue that has kept the parties they decided against building crime fell in nearly every state
budget deficits, it's time to end apart for decades. more prisons and instead opted to over the past seven years, some of
business as usual in state capitols There is an urgent need to enhance proven community those with the largest reductions
and for legislators to think and act address the astronomical growth corrections approaches such as in crime have also lowered their
with courage and creativity. in the prison population, with its drug courts. The reforms are prison population. Compare 'The Real Housewives
We urge conservative legislators huge costs in dollars and lost forecast to save $2 billion in Florida and New York. Over the
to lead the way in addressing an human potential. We spent $68 prison costs over five years. past seven years, Florida's of Beverly Hills,' Season
issue often considered off-limits billion in 2010 on corrections-300 The Lone Star State has already incarceration rate has increased 16 1, Episode 11 Recap
to reform: prisons. Several states percent more than 25 years ago. redirected much of the money percent, while New York's Rebecca Adler Warren (TV
have recently shown that they can The prison population is growing saved into community treatment decreased 16 percent. Yet the Squad)
s a v e o n c o s t s w i t h o u t 13 times faster than the general for the mentally ill and low-level crime rate in New York has fallen
compromising public safety by population. These facts should drug addicts. Not only have these twice as much as Florida's. Put Submitted at 1/7/2011 4:30:00 AM

intelligently reducing their prison trouble every American. reforms reduced Texas's prison another way, although New York
populations. Filed under: Recaps['The Real
Our prisons might be worth the population-helping to close the spent less on its prisons, it
W e j o i n e d w i t h o t h e r current cost if the recidivism rate Housewives of Beverly Hills'-
state budget gap-but for the first delivered better public safety.
conservative leaders last month to were not so high, but, according 'How to Behave']
time there is no waiting list for Americans need to know that we
announce the Right on Crime to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, On this week's episode of 'The
drug treatment in the state. And can reform our prison systems to
Campaign, a national movement half of the prisoners released this Real Housewives of Beverly
crime has dropped 10 percent cost less and keep the public safe.
urging states to make sensible and year are expected to be back in Hills,' Camille hosted a tennis
from 2004, the year before the We hope conservative leaders
proven reforms to our criminal prison within three years. If our tournament, Cedric divulged his
reforms, through 2009, according across the country will join with
justice system-policies that will prison policies are failing half of troubled past and Kyle threw a
to the latest figures available, us in getting it right on crime.
cut prison costs while keeping the the time, and we know that there bash for Mauricio's 40th birthday.
reaching its lowest annual rate Newt Gingrich is a senior fellow
public safe. Among the prominent are more humane, effective The miracle of this episode was
since 1973. at AEI. Pat Nolan is a vice
s i g n a t o r i e s a r e R e a g a n alternatives, it is time to not the size of Cedric's Speedo,
Last year we both endorsed president of Prison Fellowship
administration attorney general fundamentally rethink how we but the ceasefire between Camille
corrections reforms in South and was Republican leader of the
Ed Meese, former drug czar Asa t r e a t a n d r e h a b i l i t a t e o u r and Kyle, which by this point has
Carolina that will reserve costly California State Assembly.
Hutchinson, David Keene of the p r i s o n e r s . lasted through three parties. These
prison beds for dangerous P h o t o C r e d i t :
American Conservative Union, We can no longer afford business women have had more peace talks
criminals while punishing low- ivoryelephantphotography/Flickr/
John Dilulio of the University of as usual with prisons. The than the leaders in the Middle
risk offenders through lower-cost Creative Commons
Pennsylvania, Grover Norquist of criminal justice system is broken, East, so it was refreshing to watch
community supervision. The This entry passed through the
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ConservativeHQ.com. We all Several states have shown that it Camille, who must have an olive
conservatives, law enforcement, on someone else's site, please read
agree that we can keep the public is possible to cut costs while grove on her property, decided to
the judges and reform advocates. our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
safe while spending fewer tax keeping the public safe. Consider extend yet another branch by
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The Right on Crime Campaign Conservative Republicans joined for a tennis tournament.
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Republicans and Democrats Both Offer Promising

Ideas for Economy
(AEI.Org: Articles) popular will and restore consider another smart idea from are a hearty perennial in
Submitted at 1/6/2011 5:00:00 PM democratic accountability. across the political aisle. Sen. Washington, especially after
Every year the alphabet soup of Mark Warner, a Democrat from elections when voters issue a
Recessions are nasty things, but executive branch agencies issues Virginia, proposes what he calls a "thumpin'" as they did in 2006 or
they have their uses. Downturns thousands of new regulatory regulatory "pay as you go" a "shellacking" as they did in
force companies to make tough r e q u i r e m e n t s , f r o m t h e
decisions they otherwise wouldn't, E n v i r o n m e n t a l P r o t e c t i o n
system. Sen. Warner's plan
"would require federal agencies to
2010. Everybody finds religion
and wants to get along. So here's a
'Jersey Shore'
which in turn help them get leaner Agency, the Department of Health
a n d i m p r o v e e f f i c i e n c y . and Human Services, the Federal
identify and eliminate one
existing regulation for each new
chance for real bipartisan reform.
Combine the GOP's REINS Act
Season
R e c e s s i o n s c a n a l s o f o r c e Communications Commission and
policymakers to think hard about more. The regulations have a huge
regulation they want to add."
Like the REINS act, this effort
with Sen. Warner's regulatory pay
-go proposal and give the
Premiere Recap
w h a t c a n u n l o c k e c o n o m i c effect on economic activity. With would restore some accountability economy a win-win boost in Dr. Ryan Vaughan, PhD (no,
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Rosenberg on the Non-Double-Dip; A Look Ahead to Second

Half-2011 and 2012
noreply@blogger.com (Michael month ago), but I would expect to for half of the GDP growth in led first quarter, followed by (ii) consumers had more income than
Shedlock) (Mish's Global see it revised up very shortly: 2010). It would also likely be air pockets in both Q2 and Q3, was thought previously.
Economic Trend Analysis) prudent to assume that some risk and then (iii) a capex-led fourth This is a nice story. It explains
Submitted at 1/6/2011 9:39:00 PM • Consumer spending 3.5% (the aversion will resurface from the quarter. Moreover, a 2012 why we were wrong on the Q3/Q4
The "Double Dip" for 2010 did impact of the payroll tax cut) renewal of European debt recession cannot be ruled out. In double-dip scenario, but going
not happen and one for 2011 now • Residential investment 2% (the concerns in March after the Irish fact, elections are great years to forward, this income revision and
seems unlikely as well. However, monthly construction spending elections (if the opposition party have recessions: 1960, 1970, its impact on spending can be
a recession in 2012 is not out of numbers have risen modestly off wins, expect the EU deal to be 1980, 2000 and 2008! How about considered yesterday’s story. As
the question. Dave Rosenberg the lows) renegotiated and the debt to be that Mr. Potter? we said, there is the current
explains in Breakfast with Dave • Non-residential spending 5% restructured, and if that happens, The Real Cause For The Recent payroll tax effect, but this will be
Can We See 4% GDP Growth (the architectural billing index is look for other countries to follow Exuberance contained to the first quarter and
For Q1? Yes, But Look For Air consistent with this) suit). Of course, we have the debt- Personal income was revised up the one thing history teaches us is
Pockets Thereafter • Capex 10% (still solid but ceiling issue to contend with in $46.3 billion in the second that tax cuts that are temporary in
This is not a forecast as much as moderating as the latest core March-April and the GOP are quarter. This was huge the nature carry with them virtually
something that should be on the orders data are predicting) dangling $100 billion of spending Commerce Department found no multiplier impact into the
radar screen. Nor should this be • Net exports swing from $470 cuts in front of the White House $46.3 billion for the consumer future. Look for Q2 of this year
considered a change in our billion to $460 billion (net in order to get a deal done. This is that it thought wasn’t there before. and likely Q3 as well to turn out
fundamental view for 2011 as a addition of 0.4%) not last year’s lame duck This made the difference between to be as disappointing for the
whole — as a year of overall • Inventories from $73 billion to Congress. And this doesn’t add to income being up at nearly a 6% market, as was the case for these
disappointment on the macro $68 billion (drag of 0.2%) uncertainty and possible annual rate that quarter and 3%. exact same quarters in 2010. In
front. Be that as it may, the • Government 1.5% disappointment in the second and The newly found income carried other words, look for a repeat
probability of a much stronger Q1 third quarter? some important spending except this time around we don’t
economic outcome has risen very Even if government is flat, the The Fed is not going to be able to momentum with it into the third have a Fed and a Congress that is
recently. number for Q1 would still be embark on more balance sheet quarter and this was really big in going to pull another rabbit out of
Yes, you read that right. But why 3.7% seasonally adjusted annual expansion unless things were to terms of influencing people’s the hat during the summer and
would that come as a surprise? rate. get really ugly given the new perceptions of how the economy fall.
We had near 4% GDP growth in What is important is what Congressional oversight and the was performing. Change of Tune
the first quarter of last year (the happens in the second and third longer list of “hawks” that are When double-dip risks were at I too thought a double-dip in
consensus was little more than quarter when we see the U.S. FOMC voters this comes to a their peak, it was when Q3 GDP 2010 or 2011 was likely. I
2.5% going into that quarter) and economy hitting an important air head in June and remember what was released initially and it changed my mind some time ago
by summer everyone was still pocket. In Q2, there is a loss of happened last year when Mr. showed a mere 1.6% annual and made it theme number seven
t a l k i n g a b o u t a d o u b l e - d i p fiscal support at the margin. Market hit a pothole as the Fed growth rate, which was even in Ten Economic and Investment
recession and the stock market Moreover, we will be deeper into contemplated its elusive exit weaker than the 1.7% print in Q2 Themes for 2011
was beginning to price one in. this renewed leg of the downturn strategy. It would be irresponsible (which was less than half the 7. US Avoids Double Dip
The points below show what it of home prices, with negative to ignore these risks. growth rate of Q1). Then Q3 GDP The tax cut extensions and the
would take to get 4% GDP growth implications for the household All we know about Q4 is that we was revised up to 2% and then all payroll tax decrease will keep the
for Q1 — believe it or not, it is wealth effect, confidence, and should see a decent pickup in the way to 2.6% and that is all she US out of recession. However,
not a stretch to get there. With spending. We will be seeing the capital spending ahead of the end wrote as far as the double dip for growth estimates are still too high.
consumer spending at 3.5% peak impact from the runup in o f t h e b o n u s d e p r e c i a t i o n 2010 was concerned. And it now The tax cut extensions do nothing
(perhaps even higher), it doesn’t energy prices too. The inventory allowance, which will merely looks like we are going to see more than maintain the status quo
take much. The consensus right cycle has pretty well run its create another problem for 2012 something closer to 3.5% for Q4. ROSENBERG page 42
now is less than 3% (taken a course as well (it was responsible but the story here is (i) consumer- So what happened was that
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Italy The Invisible Elephant
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 6:54:00 AM
In regards to the escalating
sovereign debt crisis in Europe,
most eyes have been focused on
Greece, Ireland, Spain, and
Portugal, the so-called PIGS.
Dr. Evil, a former government
bond trader for a very prominent
bank pinged me regarding my
post PIGS Exposure Table,
Explaining the Panic by Numbers.
Her message was to pay more
attention to the second "I" in
PIIGS, namely Italy, the "invisible
elephant".
Dr. Evil writes ...
Hello Mish
I just saw your table on the PIGS
and I see the biggest one of all
missing, ITALY. I traded Euro
Government bonds for 11 years
and know this market inside out.
Spain is a big one should it go but
Italy has a cool 2 Trillion EUR in
debt and has much worse debt
statistics than Spain.
Italy's debt-to-GDP ratio is 118%
(2009). Greece got in trouble at
116%. Italy's deficit is smaller and
has a high savings ratio. However,
nobody focuses on that as Spain is
in the limelight with a debt-to-
GDP ratio under 60%. Should
austerity measures result in a
nominal GDP contraction in Italy,
its debt stats will worsen very
rapidly.
Italy is the elephant in the room
not Spain.
Regards
Dr. Evil Let's take a closer look
at sovereign bonds spreads in
Europe, comparing German 10-
year government bonds to Italian
10-year government bonds.
German 10-Year Government
Bonds
Italian 10-Year Government
Bonds
Since mid-October, German 10-
Year Government bond yields are
up .64%. In the same timeframe,
Italian 10-Year Government bond
yields are up 1.04%.
The flight-to-safety divergence
increased starting around
December 16, 2010. Since then,
German bonds yields are off .16%
while Italian bond yields rose
.14%.
Government Bond Spreads as of
January 7, 2011
On January 7, 2011 the German-
Italian spread government bond
spread is 1.88% and rising. Table
is courtesy of the Financial Times.
Web of Debt
Here is an interesting chart
courtesy of the New York Times
regarding Europe's Web of Debt
that helps explain the picture.
click on chart for sharper image
The graphic is from May, 2010
so it's a bit dated. However, it
does explain the interrelationships
quite nicely.
Note that Italy owes France a
whopping $511 billion, 20% of
the French GDP. Moreover,
nearly 1/3 of Portugal's debt is
held by Spain. Meanwhile Spain
owes huge amounts to Germany,
France, and the UK.
Do you think all of that will be
repaid? I don't.
Critical Court Ruling Coming Up
In Feb 2011 the German court
gives its verdict on the
constitutionality of the bail-out.
Fifty academics and politicians
sued the government over it.
February is crunch time. For more
details please see EU Commission
Plans Haircuts on Bank Debt;
Greek Yields Hit New Record;
China Buys Spanish Debt;
German Courts to Decide Bailout
Constitutionality.
If the German courts uphold the
constitutionality of these various
bailouts, the crisis is merely
pushed a bit further down the
road.
New Irish Government Likely To
Demand Haircuts
In March a new Irish government
will take over and it is highly
likely that government questions
the hundreds of billions Ireland
owes German, French, and UK
banks.
I believe Ireland should tell the
ECB and IMF to go to hell and
default. For my rationale, please
see To Ireland With Love. Here is
the "Trojan Horse" image I used
with the article.
Italian Snowball and Off-Balance
Sheet Derivatives
In a subsequent email, Dr. Evil
elaborated on Italy's off-balance
sheet debt.
Hello Mish,
If Italy were to go into a nominal
GDP recession on account of its
austerity programs, its debt-to-
GDP ratio would likely be 130%
by 2012. It's difficult to see how
the market would ignore that.
Also check out Italy's debt
compared to Germany. Here is the
official EU Gross Government
Debt Figures by country. Note
that as of 2009, Italy's Debt is
1.763 Trillion EUR, about the
same as Germany. Obviously the
German economy is far bigger.
Moreover, I assure you that Italy
has a lot of off-balance sheet debt.
Some European countries took
some very creative measures to
Economy/ 39
reduce interest payments on debt.
Italy was one of those countries.
I have seen Italy do HUGE (10+
billion USD) derivative
transactions. Those transactions
were all off-balance sheet but the
cash flows behind the transactions
were very real.
Italy was the number 1 customer
for big investment banks in
London for years. You won't find
anything about that in the press.
In 2011, Italy will need to
rollover a pile of debt. It will be
interesting to see how that goes. I
believe that if the 10-year yield
hits 6%, an irreversible snowball
effect similar to what Greece and
Ireland went through is likely.
That's when gold hits $2000
Dr. Evil
2011 Italian Debt Issuance
Inquiring minds are reading
Italian Public Securities By
Maturity to see how much debt
Italy will need to rollover in 2011.
A quick look at page 3 totals
approximately 281 billion in euro
debt rollovers. Assume a 5%
budget deficit on a GDP of
roughly 1.5 trillion euros and you
end up with 281 + 75 billion or
roughly 356 billion euro total debt
issuance.
Will the market accommodate
that issuance at a good interest
rate? If not, the "Invisible
Elephant In The Room" will
quickly make its presence known
in a rather rude manner.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
h t t p : / /
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Portuguese, Spanish Bonds Smacked on Sovereign Debt

Financing Concerns; Euro Flirts with December and Mid-
September Lows
noreply@blogger.com (Michael sale before it was announced. Commission Plans Haircuts on
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Submitted at 1/6/2011 2:19:00 PM primary market with supply from Debt; German Courts to Decide
Portuguese and Spanish 10-year Spain and Italy,” he said. Bailout Constitutionality.
bonds are getting smacked hard as The yield on 10-year Portuguese For a look at the mess in Japan,
refinancing needs mount. Greek bonds jumped 26 basis points to please see Japan's Finances
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continued from page 38
while the payroll tax deduction is
just for a year. Most will use it to
pay down bills. Look for GDP at
2.0-2.5%. That is the stall rate.
There is no reason to stick with a
forecast that is not going to
happen. When retail sales picked
up in November and continued
into early December, that was it
for me. I had significant doubts
even before that.
Robust Jobs
On Monday, January 3, before
the ADP numbers came out, in
Factories Expand 17 Consecutive
Months, Jobs Don't I discussed
the possibility for a couple
months of good jobs reports.
The BLS report for December
comes out on January 7th. The
January report comes out on
February 4th. Those reports could
be robust because of retail and
service sector hiring, especially
the January report. Everyone is
now going gaga now because
Wednesday's ADP National
Employment Report"suggests
nonfarm private employment
grew very strongly in December".
ADP has private-sector
employment at +297,000.
The pertinent question, assuming
the report is correct (I'll take the
way under) is "how sustainable is
it?" On this score I am in
agreement with Rosenberg. I
suggest not very, although next
month or two could be good as
well.
Bear in mind we had strong
employment reports early last
year, only to see them fade in the
second half. Given that headwinds
are enormous, I see no reason to
change what I said in Jobs
Forecast 2011 Calculated Risk vs.
Mish.
Nor do I see any reason to change
my long-term forecast that the US
slips in and out of recession or
near-recession and deflation for a
number of years, just as Japan did.
Little has changed except a
massive amount of stimulus
delayed the double-dip. What
can't go on forever won't and I
doubt if this Congress is very
accommodating to states in
trouble.
Economic forecasts for 2010
ranged from hyperinflation to
strong growth and strong
inflation, to weak growth and
strong inflation, to weak growth
and minimal inflation, to weak
growth or double-dip
accompanied with deflation (my
call), to outright economic
Prechter-like collapse.
Those in the hyperinflation and
strong inflation camps missed the
mark by a mile. Mid-year it
looked like the US was headed
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been locked in a period of anemic only affair, but otherwise the two
growth, blamed by analysts such economies move very much in
as Richard Koo of Nomura on its sync when population is
lengthy deleveraging process. considered.
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An Ugly Development For Everyone Going Gaga For Emerging
Markets... (FXI, EWH, INDY, INP, VNM)
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:40:35 AM
The emerging market inflation
problem isn't going away, and it's
time you got up to speed on where
the problem lies, especially if
you're among the throng
shoveling money their way.
We all know how we got here:
The growth in emerging markets
has created a whole new level of
demand from countries like India
and China, weather has hit
commodity prices this year, and
the U.S. is flooding the market
with easy money through QEII.
But now the impact is being felt
in stock markets around the
world. The Shanghai Compsite is
down 4.7% since November 1.
The BSE is down 1.7% in the
same time period, but was down
2.44% last night on tightening
concerns. The Jakarta Composite
was down 2.81% last night too.
Banks Are Tanking After Suffering A Big Loss At The Massachusetts
Supreme Court (BAC, WFC, USB)
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:46:00 AM
One step forward, one step back.
The Massachusetts Supreme
Court just dealt a negative ruling
to the banks in the closely-
followed Ibanez case, which
But just what does this situation
look like? In China, where
tightening measures are coming in
heavy, and SHIBOR, the lending
rate, is spiking, inflation concerns
remain high. And while inflation
dipped last month, Nomura
doesn't see that as a sign that
things are turning down for the
economy.
Instead, their call on Chinese
inflation remains high, driven by a
couple of factors:
• La Nina impacting agricultural
commodities
• "Burgeoning demand" from
China (and India, among other
countries)
• The link between oil prices and
food prices
• China is moving from an export
economy to a consumer driven
economy way quicker than the
world thinks
Note, CPI has dipped, but it still
challenged securitization
standards. It's pretty
straightforward: The banks didn't
have the proper parwork to
foreclose, says the court. Hence,
no legitimate foreclosure.
Tracy Alloway at FT has a good here, but essentially it comes to
overview of what was at stake
remains above the 50% level
which indicates rising prices.
Here's why Chinese growth looks
good heading into 2015 >
From Nomura:
India is the other big worry.
What's happening there? Well,
roughly the same thing that is
happening in China: rising food
and commodity prices, surging
demand, etc.
But the big concern has to be that
people now expect prices to rise
for food. That means, even while
India's central bank is raising rates
to handle the core inflation
question of whether banks have
standing to foreclosure.
We'll post the ruling as it gets
out.
Shares of Bank of America,
Wells Fargo, and USB had been
higher, but are now lower in the
span of a few minutes.
Economy/ 43
problem, consumers are more
focused on rising food prices. So
they start adjusting, and paying
more. So prices go up anyway.
Here's what the inflation problem
in India looks like right now >
From Nomura:
Beyond China and India, there
are some other big worries.
Vietnam stands atop the inflation
table, prices being driven higher
by a weakening of the dong.
They're also dealing with all the
problems India and China are, like
higher demand for commodities
and weakening supply due to
weather.
Check out more on the Vietnam
story here >
From Nomura:
Join the conversation about this
story »
Wells Fargo is down nearly
2.4%.
Now click here for a deep dive
into Bank of America's faulty
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Jan. 7, 1851: Foucault Pendulum Experiment

Randy Alfred (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 6:00:00 AM

1851: Léon Foucault uses a

pendulum to demonstrate the
rotation of the Earth. It is the first
direct visual evidence not based
on watching the stars circle in the
sky.
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was
born in 1819. His mother wanted
him to become a doctor, but he
dropped out of medical school
when he made his first scientific
discovery: He couldn’t stand the
sight of blood.
Without formal scientific
training, he worked as a lab
assistant and continued tinkering.
He used the new Daguerreotype
photographic process to take the
first photograph of the sun.
Together with Armand Fizeau, in
1850 he devised a way to use
rotating mirrors to measure the
speed of light. They observed that
light travels more slowly in water
than in air.
Scientists had been trying for two starts at zero degrees longitude going straight back and forth, but degrees at the North Pole (the sine remarkable pendulum on March
centuries to drop objects from and swings back and forth, as the the Earth moved for Foucault. of 90 degrees is 1), but not at all 31. Under the lofty roof of the
towers and measure their drift as Earth spins below it. For every (Sources disagree on whether the at the equator (the sine of zero Pantheon in Paris, Foucault hung
the planet spun beneath them. It hour it’s going back and forth, the crucial experiment took place on degrees is zero). a 62-pound brass sphere on a 220-
didn’t work: too quick, too crude, Earth will have moved 15 degrees Jan. 6, Jan. 7 or Jan. 8. We’ve Foucault arranged a foot cable. A pointer attached to
too many interfering factors. of longitude eastward. The effect taken the middle course here.) demonstration for the scientists of the bottom of the sphere traced
Foucault had an insight. A is less farther away from the Foucault refined his apparatus Paris on Feb. 3. He told them, patterns in sand on a low wood
pendulum hanging on a wire and poles, but it’s still there. and also derived his “sine law” “You are invited to see the Earth platform.
swinging directly north and south After weeks of work in the cellar showing the governing influence turn.” And so they did, as they The public was dazzled.
would appear to the observer to of his home, Foucault hung a 5- of latitude on how much a free- watched Foucault’s pendulum President Napoleon soon became
slowly move its plane of kilogram [11-pound] pendulum swinging pendulum would move. move on an 11-meter [36-foot] Emperor Napoleon III, and he
oscillation as the Earth turned from a 2-meter [6½-foot] cable in Specifically, the angular speed (in wire at the Paris observatory. gave Foucault the position of
underneath it. January 1851. He observed a clockwise degrees per sidereal French President Louis Napoleon Physicist Attached to the Imperial
To grasp this, just picture a small clockwise motion of the day) is 360 times the sine of the was a science buff, and he Observatory. While there,
pendulum at the North Pole. It pendulum’s apparent plane of latitude. A Foucault pendulum arranged for Foucault to give a JAN. page 45
oscillation. The pendulum was will rotate through a full 360 public demonstration of his
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JAN.
Game|Life's Most Anticipated Games continued from page 44

Foucault’s work on the centrifugal rotation in Reykjavik or Punta

of 2011
Chris Kohler (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 6:00:00 AM
Now that we’ve taken stock of
the best games of 2010 and
shamed the year's most
disappointing titles, it's time once
again for Game|Life's crew of
writers to bask in unbridled
optimism.
These are the videogames we're
most looking forward to over the
next 12 months. Our tastes might
differ from yours, but that’s why
they teach you in college to
celebrate diversity. Actually, this
list comes with several more
caveats:
• No wishful thinking: Only
games with an announced 2011
release date (in any country)
qualified. (Sorry, Diablo III.)
• Only games that have not yet
been released in any country were
eligible. (Sorry, Radiant Historia.)
• As with last year’s anticipated
governor improved the precision
of surveying instruments.
Arenas than in Nairobi or Quito.
Photo: sylvar/Flickr
games list, one or more of these Asylum was the total package. Despite Foucault’s imperial This article first appeared on
will almost surely end up in our Mark Hamill turned in a bravura support, the university-trained Wired.com Jan. 7, 2009. We’ve
inevitable roundup of 2011's most p e r f o r m a n c e a s t h e J o k e r , scientists of Paris sniffed at him taken it out for another spin.
disappointing games. gameplay mixed Metal Gear with as an unschooled upstart. They See Also:
• Several of these games will M e t r o i d a n d i t h a d s o m e turned him down several times for This entry passed through the
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To come up with this list, Chris lets Batman solve crime scenes of 49. content-only/faq.php
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Meyer, Jason Schreier and Chris criminals. Photo: Foucault pendulums are a Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing
Baker engaged in a lengthy Where, when: Xbox 360, p opular feature in science Again?.
discussion about which titles were PlayStation 3, PC; fall 2011 museums around the world. This
most worthy. At the end of the —Chris Kohler one hangs out in the National
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the best superhero games ever, Again?.
takes the action out of the nut
house and into the streets.
Why we're excited: Arkham

The Show Girl Talks Snooki, 'The Bachelor' & the Future of
'Party Down' (VIDEO)
Maggie Furlong (TV Squad) celeb she hasn't met that she loves a show that brutally skewers Any plans for them to reunite
Submitted at 1/7/2011 4:00:00 AM thinks would fit right in with her him each week because, yes, he soon? See what he spilled.
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46 Politics-Left/ E-reader News Edition

Wiki Rehab
Evgeny Morozov (The New Internet what the Greens did for could have made the text of the while theoretically problematic, Wikileaks is not mistreated by its
Republic - All Feed) the environment in the 1970s: cables—or even any pages was something that most geeks business partners is to minimize
Submitted at 1/6/2011 11:00:00 PM start a much-needed conversation bearing the word accepted as some kind of the power of intermediaries and,
about the potentially corrosive “Wikileaks”—disappear from its necessary evil inherent to preferably, make them immune to
American diplomacy seems to impact of corporate interests on search index. Twitter could have capitalism. It seemed unlikely that political and financial pressure.
have survived Wikileaks’s “attack the public good, a conversation followed the path of Bank of Amazon or PayPal would bow This objective, as much as the
on the international community,” that may eventually coalesce into America and refused to publish down to pressure from the desire to boost transparency and
as Hillary Clinton so dramatically a broader political movement. (or index) any tweets containing governments of Vietnam, reduce government secrecy, is
characterized it, unscathed. Save Ironically, it’s not what Assange the words “Wikileaks,” Azerbaijan, or Tunisia (the moral what presently unites many of
for a few diplomatic reshuffles, d i d , b u t w h a t A m e r i c a n “Assange,” or “Cablegate.” resolve of Facebook and Google, Assange’s technology-savvy
Foggy Bottom doesn’t seem to be companies and politicians did in Facebook could have banned which had ads to sell in these very supporters. And such geeky
d e e p l y a f f e c t e d b y w h a t response to the publication of the access to Wikileaks fan pages for markets, was a different case). efforts to remake the Internet are
happened. Certainly, the U.S. cables, that has given thousands anyone with an American IP Likewise, it seemed unlikely that likely to pay off in the long run
government at large has not been of geeks a cogent alternative address, as it did with the democratic governments would even if Wikileaks’s transparency
paralyzed by the leaks—contrary vision for the future of the “Everybody Draw Muhammed want to bully the intermediaries drive falters.
to what Julian Assange had Internet. Day” page for users in India and rather than pursue their grievances Remarkably, the Cablegate saga
envisioned in one of his cryptic- At the very heart of that vision Pakistan. via the legal system. has already spurred (or boosted)
cum-visionary essays, penned in lies the desire to ensure that the While some of the companies Any deviant behavior by several nonprofit initiatives that
2006. In a fit of technological kind of problems that have that targeted Wikileaks were companies was supposed to be aspire to provide the kind of
romanticism, Assange may have plagued Wikileaks’s online subject to direct political pressure corrected by having Internet online services that are essential
underestimated t h e presence since the publication of from American politicians, others companies sign on to self- to a controversial project like
indispensability of American the diplomatic cables are never seem to have volunteered—a regulating industry agreements Wikileaks—and do so in a more
power to the international system, repeated in the future. It’s an decision that must have been easy like the Global Network Initiative decentralized and resilient
the amount of cynicism that impressive list of difficulties: to make given all the Wikileaks- (GNI). Sadly, most technology fashion. A handful of projects
already permeates much of Access to the Wikileaks.org bashing in Congress. Wikileaks giants—Facebook, Twitter, bearing unashamedly geeky
W a s h i n g t o n ’ s p o l i t i c a l domain was disrupted after its survived these betrayals; but the Amazon, Skype—did not follow names like P2P DNS, Project
establishment, and the glaring domain provider got cold feet; myth that today’s Internet is the the lead of Microsoft, Google, and IDONS, and 4LW seek to create
lack of interest in foreign policy A m a z o n f a m o u s l y b o o t e d best of all possible worlds didn’t. Yahoo and declined to join GNI; an alternative system for
particulars outside the Beltway. Wikileaks off its servers; PayPal, That the Internet is heavily there is no indication that they managing domain names that
Indeed, it’s not in the realms of Visa, and MasterCard cut their dominated by for-profit will in the near future (in a bizarre would be less pliable to political
diplomacy or even government t i e s t o W i k i l e a k s a s w e l l , companies, and therefore subject explanation of its reluctance to interference. Another new
secrecy where Wikileaks could significantly hampering its ability to influence from governments, is join, Facebook—currently valued project—called Unhosted—seeks
have its biggest impact. If the to raise donations. Bank of not a ground-breaking discovery. at $50 billion—said it was just a to decouple applications that run
organization wants to leave a America went further, refusing to Who Controls the Internet?—the small company that couldn’t in the cloud from the user data
positive imprint on the world, it process any Wikileaks-related 2006 book by Jack Goldsmith and afford to pay the $250,000 joining that they store or generate; the
should turn to a different mission transactions, even prompting an Tim Wu—made a very reasonable fee). idea is that if the data is stored in
entirely: forcing the general angry editorial from The New argument that as long as most What Wikileaks has revealed is a distributed and encrypted
public to re-examine some of the York Times. It is also important Internet activities depend on for- that that it doesn’t take all that manner across a number of
organizing assumptions behind not to forget that Wikileaks could profit intermediaries, much pressure (or even unrelated servers, it may reduce
today’s Internet. have been in a considerably worse governments would be able to controversy) to force Internet the power of whoever owns the
Regardless of what happens to position if some other Internet indirectly establish control over intermediaries to drop clients that app. BitCoin, another novel
Assange, Wikileaks has the companies—Facebook, Twitter, cyberspace by pressuring these are not on Hillary Clinton’s initiative, seeks to create a
potential to catalyze a worldwide Google—chose to behave like middlemen. Christmas card mailing list. Thus,
campaign that could do for the Amazon and PayPal. Google Until Cablegate, this situation, one way to ensure that the next WIKI page 48
E-reader News Edition Politics-Left/ TV/ Products/ 47
CES 2011: Cool new
Sudan Dispatch: Will Oil Keep the Peace? wireless cameras and
Rebecca Hamilton (The New (Read Rebecca Hamilton’s first supported a variety of splinter to the outside world gives both the
Republic - All Feed) Sudan Dispatch: “Is the End in southern rebel groups based here north and south a strong incentive accessories (video)
Submitted at 1/6/2011 11:00:00 PM Sight?”) who were locked in battle with the to maintain good relations. Carol Mangis (Consumer
Both the northern and southern Sudan People’s Liberation Army, At the Unity oil field on Reports)
Bentiu, Sudan—Two days ago, governments need Sudan’s oil to the main southern rebels. Indeed, Thursday, I met a mix of Submitted at 1/7/2011 7:46:55 AM
President Omar Al Bashir made s u r v i v e f i n a n c i a l l y . T h e much of the civilian life lost in Sudanese employees, working as
what is likely to be his last visit to g o v e r n m e n t i n K h a r t o u m this area did not come from direct drivers, cooks, and floor CES 2011: Cool new wireless
Juba, the southern capital, as the currently gets 60 percent of its north-on-south violence, but from managers, alongside Chinese cameras and accessories (video)
h e a d o f a u n i f i e d S u d a n . annual budget from oil revenue, a coalition of Sudanese engineers. As dusk fell, the The idea of tranferring digital
Promising to be “the first to w h i l e , f o r t h e s o u t h e r n government soldiers, Khartoum- northern Sudanese set up their images from your camera
r e c o g n i z e t h e s o u t h ” i f government, the figure is 98 backed rebel groups, and oil prayer mats beside their on-site wirelessly isn't new, but past
southerners vote for independence percent. And nearly 80 percent of companies, which worked to accommodations, kneeling against solutions haven't always worked
in this weekend’s referendum, Al this lucrative oil comes from here “secure” the oil fields for the backdrop of a giant oil rig. so well. At CES this year, though,
Bashir’s conciliatory tone left in Unity state, which will soon be Khartoum’s benefit. This meant One of these workers, who asked new wireless cameras and
people here scratching their heads part of a new, independent South clearing the land—and, with it, not to be named, said that accessories are showing some real
about his real intentions. Mistrust Sudan, if the vote goes as the people who lived here. southern government officials had promise.
of his ruling National Congress expected. Now, with just two days to go recently visited the rig to reassure Consumer Reports' associate
party is intense in the south, and, Unity state used to be known as before southerners finally vote on the employees that, even if electronics editor Terry Sullivan
until last week, officials in Western Upper Nile—that was, independence, Unity state is on secession happens, there will be came across a new Olympus PEN
Khartoum had been uniformly until oil was discovered here. As the brink of a new era in its no disruption to their work. “It is camera, the E-PL2, that comes
hostile about the possibility of part of a redistricting of the south, history. Instead of being a in everyone’s interest,” the with an optional accessory called
secession. But there was a not-so- Khartoum renamed the area battleground, it could potentially worker recalled the officials PENpal: It attaches to the top of
subtle subtext in Al Bashir’s Unity, as if, by labeling alone, this play a crucial role in keeping the saying, “to keep the oil flowing.” the camera and allows wireless
comments, namely his pledge to most oil-rich part of the south north and an independent south Rebecca Hamilton is the author transfer via Bluetooth to your
“cooperate and integrate in all would be forever connected to the from returning to war. While of Fighting for Darfur and a smart phone. He also found a new
areas because what is between us north. For most of its history, technically, the oil here would fellow at the New America model from Samsung that sends
is more than what is between any however, Unity has been the belong to the south, the pipeline Foundation. Her Sudan reporting photos directly from the camera,
other country.” What he was antithesis of its name. During the that exports it runs through the is supported by funding from the and memory card solutions as
really talking about was oil. most recent civil war, Khartoum north. The need to keep selling oil Pulitzer Center. well.
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48 TV/ Finance/
WIKI
continued from page 46
decentralized currency system
that has no need for any central
administration.
So far, this nascent global
movement is running on little else
but the sheer enthusiasm of the
techies involved. This may be
enough to find theoretical
solutions to the technical
problems encountered by
Wikileaks. From a purely
engineering perspective,
designing a decentralized search
engine, a micro-blogging service,
or a social networking site that
could compete with Google may
not be all that challenging. But
getting those sites to achieve the
same level of public
prominence—and especially to
generate the level of traffic that
usually accompanies such
prominence—will be much
harder.
Those trying to re-imagine the
Internet in the wake of the
Cablegate controversy have no
choice but to work with a select
few social media giants, pushing
them to adhere to some rules
rather than trying to reinvent the
wheel. The only way to do this
would be to add an explicit
political dimension to their work;
quick technological fixes, while
4 Ways to Go on a Spending Diet
nospam@example.com (Good
Housekeeping) (Financiallyfit on
Shine)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 5:26:53 AM
A while back, I signed up for
Mint.com, the site that keeps track
of your finances for you. My
helping to eliminate some of the
choke points present in today’s
Internet infrastructure, are not by
themselves enough.
There already exists a global
political movement that could
help the Wikileaks-inspired
techies to accomplish some of
these goals. The so-called Pirate
Parties that have recently sprung
up all over the world in the past
few years, with an explicit
objective of changing national
copyright laws, are natural allies
of the movement started by
Assange. There is already some
collaboration between the
Wikileaks crowd and the Pirates:
The Swiss cell of the Pirate Party
hosts Wikileaks’s site at
Wikileaks.ch.
A closer alignment between the
two would afford Wikileaks and
its supporters with a vehicle for
participation in traditional
politics. And, if Wikileaks were to
abandon its special brand of
techno-anarchism and adopt the
cause of building a decentralized,
commons-based Internet
infrastructure—in order to
preserve the virtues of the Internet
for future generations—it would
stop alienating some of its
potential supporters by appearing
fiscally responsible (or wannabe
responsible) New York friends
anti-American and even anti-
diplomacy.
As we are likely to discover in
the course of the next few months,
Wikileaks is only as good as its
last leak—and it’s unlikely that it
will run into another Bradley
Manning any time soon. The fight
for transparency is an important
one—but it’s probably better
served by many of the regional
Wikileaks clones that have
recently hit the Internet or the
more transparent and
decentralized model of the soon-
to-launch OpenLeaks. Assange
has already made his big point
about government secrecy. Now
he should use his cult-like status
in the tech community to
campaign for something else
instead.
Evgeny Morozov is a visiting
scholar at Stanford University and
a fellow at the New America
Foundation. His new book is The
Net Delusion: The Dark Side of
Internet Freedom.
were raving about how it really
helped them get a handle on their
spending…
E-reader News Edition
Aretha Franklin Says Her
Medical Problems Are
Resolved
Robyn Ross (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 8:19:00 AM
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin says the ailment
that lead to her recent surgery has
been resolved.
In an interview with Jet
magazine, the Grammy winning
Queen of Soul says she first began
to experience pain in her side
during a concert last year in
Toronto. Franklin said she
initially thought the problem
stemmed from a colonoscopy.
The doctor that performed the
procedure had her return for tests.
Aretha Franklin Released From Franklin was released from a
Hospital Detroit-area hospital last month,
Franklin would not disclose the two weeks after her surgery. She
condition from which she suffered has canceled all concert dates and
and she would not she comment personal appearances through
on reports that suggested she had May.
been treated for pancreatic cancer. This entry passed through the
She did, however, share a Full-Text RSS service — if this is
message with her fans. your content and you're reading it
"I know my fans are concerned. on someone else's site, please read
Let them know I am feeling great our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
and coming along," she said. "I content-only/faq.php
want to thank my fans and friends Five Filters featured site: So,
and supporters who have prayed Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing
for me and sent me beautiful cards Again?.
and flowers. Please continue to
respect my privacy as I continue
to recover."
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Roush Review: A Super Busy TV Sunday
Matt Roush (TVGuide.com: Abbey weaves its stories between
Breaking News) the embattled family and the
Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:31:00 AM manor's colorful staff. The
primary conflict arises because
Episodes the sympathetic Earl ( Hugh
Only a week into the new year, Bonneville) and his devoted
and already the volume of new A m e r i c a n w i f e ( E l i z a b e t h
TV is overwhelming. Case in McGovern) have three grown
point: this Sunday's logjam of daughters, and British inheritance
new titles on network and cable, law of the times do not allow
ranging from the truly sublime to women to inherit. Which means
the hopelessly ridiculous and the legacy will fall to a distant
instantly forgettable. Here's a cousin unaccustomed to the rigid
rundown from best to worst. class proprieties that come with
W a n t m o r e M a t t R o u s h ? this territory. Downton Abbey,
Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine which spans the years from the
now! Titanic disaster to the start of
DOWNTON ABBEY(PBS, 9/8c WWI, is suffused with a subtext
in most markets) of sentimental regard for an
Masterpiece Classic kicks off its endangered way of genteel life.
landmark 40 th season with a Much of that sentiment is
delightful four-part miniseries in e m b o d i e d i n t h e h i l a r i o u s
the grand tradition, with echoes of protestations of scene-stealer
D i c k e n s , J a n e A u s t e n a n d Maggie Smith as the family's
l e g e n d a r y M a s t e r p i e c e indignant dowager aunt, who
b r e a k t h r o u g h U p s t a i r s flinches at electricity ("It is as if I
D o w n s t a i r s ( w h i c h i s b e i n g were onstage at the Gaiety"),
revived later this season) in the sneers at the prospect of a
scintillating script by Julian working-class Earl ("What is a
Fellowes(of Gosford Park fame). weekend?" she huffs) and laments
Watching Downton Abbey is like the high road the current Earl is
curling up with a really satisfying attempting to take ("Why do you
book, and I can't think of a better always have to pretend to nicer
way to get through one of the than the rest of us?"). Factor in
crueler months of winter. This is sibling rivalries among the Earl's
one of those shows that after spirited daughters, and conflicts in
finishing it, I immediately began the servants' quarters when a new
to envy those who had yet to valet with a curious past joins the
experience the pleasure. staff, and you've got the makings
Set at a glorious country estate of one seriously addictive and
beset by inheritance intrigues after fabulously enjoyable saga. Dig in.
the Titanic sinks with male heirs EPISODES(Showtime, 9:30/
aboard — "It's worse than a 8:30c)
shame, it's a complication" — In a season, and mid-season,
TV/ 49
sharp and merciless, and, except
for a trite jealousy subplot, on
point. It's never what you would
call subtle, but why should it be?
TV is a brutal business, and
deserves a snarky slap in the face
once in a while.
SHAMELESS(Showtime, 10/9c)
Remaking British originals, more
slavishly than what happens on
Episodes, is one of the
midseason's more notable, and
often lamentable, trends (on the
horizon: carbon copies of Being
Human on Syfy and Skins on
MTV). Showtime weighs in with
this provocative and often
overindulgent redo of an
when so much of what's thrown stinker titled Pucks!, designed by outrageous family drama about a
on TV leaves you wondering, a coterie of smarmy network rowdy and rudderless Chicago
"What were they thinking?" along "yes"-suits as a comeback vehicle family of unsupervised waifs and
comes this painfully funny TV for Matt LeBlanc. scrappy delinquents. They scrape
comedy about the making of a The former Friends icon has by, by hook and often crook, in a
painfully unfunny TV comedy. never been better as he plays a house of chaos, with little help
There's savage satirical delight to disarmingly sheepish and self- from their drunk and degenerate
b e e n j o y e d i n t h i s b r o a d , absorbed version of himself: dad ( William H. Macy, who
unsparing farce, as two celebrated cocky yet insecure, desperately when not in an alcoholic coma
British husband-wife comedy desiring a hit that would put the spends most of his time in a state
writers (the deliciously droll Joey debacle behind him, and of overwritten rant).
Stephen Mangan and Tamsin blind to the misery being visited Stealing this show at every turn is
Greig) are wooed to bring their upon the writers as they are the brilliant, beautiful Emmy
smart little prize-winning U.K. patronized, lied to and overruled Rossum as eldest daughter Fiona.
show to L.A. Mistake! Almost in every collision with bad taste. A natural head-turner even when
instantly, even as they are At times, this is like watching a her sad eyes reveal a frazzled and
simultaneously entranced and particularly vile sausage being exhausted soul, Fiona is den
appalled by the phony glamour of m a d e . C h a r a c t e r s l i k e t h e mother, protector and defender of
Hollywood, their pet project is obnoxious network boss played h e r c l a n , a n d e v e n o f h e r
mutated and dumbed down. It by John Pankow( Mad About impossible dad. Her sibs get
starts with the lead character, who You) might seem preposterous — occasional moments to shine amid
m o r p h s f r o m a w i s e o l d to anyone who never met Ben the madness, especially brainiac
headmaster ( Richard Griffiths, S i l v e r m a n . T h e w r i t i n g i n brother Lip and hard-working Ian,
w h o s e a u d i t i o n s c e n e i s Episodes, by sitcom vets David who has issues of his own that are
p o i g n a n t l y f u n n y ) t o a Crane ( Friends, The Class) and
wisecracking hockey coach in a Jeffrey Klarik ( The Class), is ROUSH page 50
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revealed in surprising (and, for
this show, surprisingly non-
exploitive) ways.
Shameless is what you might
expect of a no-holds-barred
family drama on pay cable:
reckless, raw and always a bit
much — especially when it comes
to a preposterous character like
Joan Cusack as a neurotic,
agoraphobic, psycho/nympho
housewife who we first meet
when Lip tutors her daughter in
sessions that go predictably
ribald. Moments and characters
like these take us out of the reality
that Shameless otherwise aims to
portray, falling victim to the pay-
cable impulse to push the shock
envelope just because it can.
Which ultimately is less shocking
than irritating. A shame, really.
THE CAPE(Sunday, 9/8c; moves
to regular time Monday at 9/8c)
I get why NBC would go back to
the superhero well, to try to fill
the void that was Heroes(and
temporarily replace the void that
The Event became) with an
earnest, straightforward comic-
book story like The Cape. But it's
devoid of new ideas. This isn't a
catastrophe, mind you. It's not
Knight Rider-Bionic Woman
awful. It's merely forgettable.
Which is just sad.
This is the familiar story of a
noble cop, family man and ex-
soldier (the regrettably bland
David Lyons) who is framed by
corrupt forces in mythical Palm
City and left for dead. With the
help of a larcenous circus troupe,
led by the terrific Keith David as
Max the magical mentor, our hero
assumes the identity of his son's
favorite comic-book figure, a
hooded do-gooder who whips
around a magical weaponized
cape with a panache that Liberace
might envy. While the rest of us
giggle. "The Cape" (a name that
makes most of the locals scoff
when they come in contact with
him) is also aided by a foxy
blogger named Orwell (fan-boy
fave Summer Glau), and they face
villains with names like Scales,
Cain and Chess (a lizard-eyed
James Frain).
It could all be ridiculous fun if it
weren't played so laughably
seriously. "Doesn't anyone value
showmanship anymore? Max
barks to a gang of meanies. We
do, but in The Cape, it's as sorely
lacking as originality.
BOB'S BURGERS(Fox, 8:30/
7:30c)
Fox's menu of animated
comedies takes a blow to the gut
with this rancid new toon about a
sad-sack family operating a bad-
luck fast-food joint. "My crotch is
itchy," peeps the daughter running
the grill cook as the episode
begins, setting the tone for a show
that's about as appetizing as a
salmonella outbreak. The voice of
put-upon propriety Bob is
supplied by H. Jon Benjamin,
whose deadpan snark is better
suited to the heightened antics of
FX's Archer, which returns later
this month. This crudely mean-
spirited cringe of a show isn't
even medium well-done, and
here's this customer's tip: Avoid at
all costs.
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Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:33:00 AM
The Cape
from the show
With Batman locked up by
Warner Bros.' feature-film
department, NBC's The Cape may
be the closest thing we'll get to a
Dark Knight TV series in the
foreseeable future. And that's just
fine by creator Tom Wheeler, who
has been a major comic-book
geek (mostly Marvel) since he
was 5. "There's a lot of
inspiration," says Wheeler, who
has also woven in elements of his
other obsession: magic. "I've
always been a big fan of Harry
Houdini, escapism and illusion."
All these themes come together
to form hunky, masked caped
crusader Vince Faraday ( ER's
David Lyons), who assumes the
identity of his son's favorite comic
-book hero after being framed for
murder. Unlike NBC's last
superheroic attempt, Heroes,
which milked the life out of
baddie Sylar for its entire four-
season run, The Cape's fictional
Palm City is loaded with a rogue's
gallery of colorful
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Vaccine scare study was based on falsified medical

records
rss@consumerreports.org Thoughtful House Center for have seizures. But children
(Consumer Reports) Children, in Austin, Texas. usually recover quickly from
Submitted at 1/7/2011 7:59:06 AM A key claim in the original study these problems. There's no
was that 8 of the 12 children evidence of long-term harm.
Vaccine scare study was based on examined had started suffering What you need to know. A study
falsified medical records developmental problems, that’s often been often cited as
Research that triggered a major including autism, just a few days showing a link between autism
vaccine scare has been branded a after being given the MMR and the MMR vaccine has been
fraud by the BMJ. The study, vaccine. But the children’s labeled a fraud, with children’s
which was retracted by its medical records (which were had three key features of the new medical records not supporting Logan Morrison Fights
publisher last year, discussed a made public during the hearing syndrome: bowel inflammation, claims the researchers made about
possible link between the MMR into the researchers’ misconduct) regressive autism, and symptoms them. No good research has
Back Against Cancer
vaccine, bowel disease, and show that this was true for just 2 that developed days after having linked the MMR vaccine with That Took His Father
autism. A new investigation by o f t h e 1 2 c h i l d r e n ( w i t h the MMR vaccine. The new autism. The vaccine is safe and Jim Henry (FanHouse Main)
journalist Brian Deer reveals that information missing on another investigation says that, according effective, and the side effects are
Submitted at 1/7/2011 7:00:00 AM
the original study made claims t w o ) . S o m e c h i l d r e n h a d to medical records, none of the 12 minor, especially when looked at
a b o u t c h i l d r e n t h a t a r e symptoms before being given the children had all three features. alongside the potentially Filed under: Marlins Logan
contradicted by their medical M M R v a c c i n e , a n d o t h e r s The investigation concludes that dangerous diseases the vaccine Morrison knows the statistics by
records. developed them many months “no case was free of misreporting prevents. memory.
It’s not the first time the 1998 later. or alteration." Dr. Fiona Godlee, — Philip Wilson, patient editor, Sure, Florida Marlins fans can
study has been criticized. It Another of the study’s claims BMJ Editor in Chief, says that BMJ Group probably repeat Morrison's
looked at just 12 children, with no was that 11 of the 12 children had there is “clear evidence of ConsumerReportsHealth.org has statistics in the drop of a hat, too.
comparison group. The paper b o w e l i n f l a m m a t i o n . T h i s falsification of data." partnered with The BMJ Group to They surely know he hit .283 with
itself admitted it couldn’t prove a inflammation, it was suggested, Good-quality research on the m o n i t o r t h e l a t e s t m e d i c a l two homers, 20 doubles and 18
link between vaccines and autism, could be linked to both the MMR MMR vaccine shows no link with research and assess the evidence RBI in 62 games last season after
but a press conference at the time, v a c c i n e a n d d e v e l o p m e n t a l autism. The MMR vaccine can to help you decide which news blossoming quickly into one of
followed by huge amounts of disorders such as autism. Original have side effects, but these are you should use. the hottest young prospects in the
m e d i a c o v e r a g e , c r e a t e d reports made by the hospital mild compared with the illnesses For for information, take a look Marlins' farm system. Logan
uncertainty in the minds of many pathology service in the course of the vaccine prevents. In the early at our section on measles, mumps, made his big league debut July
parents about whether the MMR the study, however, said that just 1990s, more than 150 children and rubella prevention and read 27, playing left field after playing
vaccine was safe. 3 of the 12 children had bowel died in the United States because our previous coverage of the first base most of his minor league
Last year, the study was retracted inflammation. These reports were of a measles outbreak among controversy. career.
by the journal that first published changed after being “reviewed” young children who hadn't been Subscribe now! While those statistics are
it, The Lancet. Two of the by the researchers. vaccinated. Mumps can cause S u b s c r i b e t o important to Logan, they don't
researchers, Andrew Wakefield Wakefield’s study suggested infertility in men, and rubella can ConsumerReports.org for expert represent life and death. Not even
and John Walker-Smith, lost their there was a new syndrome of cause serious birth defects if a Ratings, buying advice and close. These statistics do, and
licenses to practice medicine in regressive autism with bowel woman is infected during reliability on hundreds of Morrison, just 23 years old,
the UK over accusations of d i s e a s e , a n d d i s c u s s e d t h e pregnancy. products. Update your feed knows the pain and heartache
misconduct in the running of the possibility that this might be Some children who have the preferences associated with them.
study. Wakefield subsequently linked to the MMR vaccine. It MMR vaccine get a high
w o r k e d f o r a t i m e a t t h e claimed that 6 of the 12 children temperature, and a few children
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CES 2011, Day One: Life Ain't Nothin' But Finches
And 3D
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 1/6/2011 11:15:00 PM
Why was the 2011 Consumer
Electronics Show so much more
crowded today than it has been for
the last few years? Maybe that
elusive recovery is finally here,
and the consumer electronics
industry is high on the heady
fumes of those green shoots.
Maybe nobody has much work to
do, so they figured they might as
well blow the last of their
companies' cash reserves in Las
Vegas, living large and handing
out resumes. Maybe this endless
recession has made us all
desperate to believe that 3D TV
will magically heal the ravages of
buccaneer finance capitalism.
Whatever the reason, one thing
was clear: come lunchtime, you
weren't gonna get that $9 personal
pizza in less than 45 minutes.
Look, we can do 3D too!
So yeah, 3D was everywhere,
which, until 3D monitors come
into widespread use, makes it hard
to report on CES on a blog. Good
thing we were only there for the
vibe, man...
OK, OK, we'll drop our mask of
curdled cynicism long enough to
give honest props to one goofy
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Hey kid: pitch a
perfect game in MLB
2K11, win $1 million
Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:15:00 AM
We've never been more excited
about Take-Two's annual MLB
2K challenge, which offers a
million bucks to the first person to
pitch a perfect game in the newest
iteration of the series ( MLB
2K11 in today's announcement).
It's not just the money -- though
that's obviously interesting for
Xbox 360 and PS3 players vying
gadget. We'd heard about the book based on a video game or a blog posts. But of all the wonders for the prize -- it's that the official
iCade, that iPad add-on that turns video game based on a comic that CES holds, there is one in rules have lowered the minimum
your tablet into a mini-standup book - who can be bothered to short supply: love. Look at this age of contestants to thirteen.
arcade machine. Seeing it in find out?), you too would give the cruel man taunting me with the ...You're still not getting it. It's
person confirmed that it was next dork who points out that happiness I can never have (until okay, we didn't at first either.
pretty cool and we'd buy one if we Asha's holding her sword wrong a couple of days from now when I Maybe the company didn't realize
had $150 and an iPad. There. Can in the comics a brimful of Asha go home to my wife). it, and we certainly don't want to
we get back to complaining now, right in the jugular. And you'd do That was day one of CES 2011, jinx anything, but Take-Two has
please? it... 3D style! dudes! Who's ready for more put our planet just 27 virtual outs
Uh-oh, it's been thirty seconds We saw lots of other bizarre, tomorrow? away from a real life Blank Check
since we mentioned 3D. So here: fascinating, and smirkworthy stuff Carry on our wayward blog: our scenario, this time with no
after a long day posing with nerds today, along with a Ballmer-sized CES 2011 coverage continues meddlesome gangsters or Feds to
in the guise of Asha Catari, a buttload of tedious hype. Much of through Monday, or until we lay spoil everything. We call dibs on
swordvixen from Rift: Planes of it you'll see over the next day or our weary heads to rest. the first go-kart race.
Telara(which is either a comic two in our CES 2011 videos and Hey kid: pitch a perfect game in
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Gearing up for the 2011 International TNA iMPACT! Results

Builders' Show 1/6: Van Dam vs. Jarrett
Consumer Reports Shopping
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launches across the more than 300
product categories. That includes
a smog-eating roof shingle, a
No-DQ
Submitted at 1/7/2011 7:51:10 AM
Brandon Stroud (FanHouse exhibition is made for Genesis.
programmable thermostat that can Main)
Gearing up for the 2011 potentially be controlled by a 1. The Motor City Machine
International Builders' Show smart phone, and a laundry Submitted at 1/7/2011 7:54:00 AM Guns(Alex Shelley and Chris
The Consumer Reports Home machine that's able to both wash Sabin) defeated AJ Styles and
team is looking ahead to the 2011 Filed under: Pro Wrestling Kazarian with a Sliced Bread #2
and dry clothes.
International Builders' Show FanHouse has complete results for on Styles. After the match, Beer
We also look forward to seeing
(IBS), taking place January 12-15 the 1/6 episode of TNA Wrestling Money beats down the Guns.
what impact several key
in Orlando, Florida. Our editors iMPACT!, headlined by a no- 2. Madison Rayne and Sarita
trends—including energy-
and product-information disqualification match between defeated Angelina Love and
efficiency, downsizing, and aging
specialists will be reporting live former World Champions Rob Velvet Sky after Tara hit Sky with
-in-place—are having on home
from the Orange County Van Dam and Jeff Jarrett. Also on her knee brace.
design and the products that go
Convention Center via blog posts, the show, Jay Lethal takes on the 3. Douglas Williams defeated
into them.
videos and Twitter. Still we're eager to see which monster Abyss, the Motor City " T h e F r e a k " R o b T e r r y b y
Check back regularly next week
Now in its 67th year, IBS bills innovations are emerging despite Machine Guns face off against AJ disqualification in about a minute
for in-depth coverage from
itself as the largest residential the down market. Not to put a Styles and Kazarian and Rob after AJ Syles attacked. Styles
Florida.
building industry trade show in Pollyanna spin on things, but we Terry does his best to destroy tries to injure Williams' hand by
—Daniel DiClerico Subscribe
the world. That it is, but the suspect manufacturers will be less Douglas Williams with TNA's smashing it into the ring steps and
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S u b s c r i b e t o
year's show is way down from the money unveiling products they Complete iMPACT! results are Styles doesn't win the TV Title at
ConsumerReports.org for expert
100,000 or so builders, architects, really don't believe in to a half- below. Genesis, he's gone.
Ratings, buying advice and
dealers, distributors and media empty (or should we say half-full) iMPACT! Results: Brother Ray and Brother Devon
reliability on hundreds of
outlets that canvassed the floor convention center. In fact, the Rob Van Dam demands a match have a pull-apart brawl in the
products. Update your feed
during the housing industry's Home team has already caught against Jeff Hardy, so Eric parking lot.
preferences
boom years. wind of some pretty interesting Bischoff gives him a match later 4. Jay Lethal defeated Abyss by
t o n i g h t a g a i n s t a m y s t e r y disqualification when Abyss
Psalm 130:7 (01-07-11) opponent. refused to release a choke. Kaz
Jeff Jarrett, using Kurt Angle's taunts a helpless Lethal after the
(Verse of the Day) except God's unfailing love. Even that you are at work for my entrance, participates in another match.
Submitted at 1/7/2011 2:00:00 AM when we disappoint, hurt, offend, eternal good. I believe that you MMA exhibition, defeating a fan 5. No-Disqualification Match:
or rebel against him, he still loves alone offer freedom from all that with an ankle lock submission. Jeff Jarrett defeated Rob Van
O Israel, put your hope in the us. While we were sinners he sent enslaves me. Thank you for your When he won't let go of the hold, Dam after a Twist of Hate from
LORD, for with the LORD is Jesus to redeem us from sin and forgiveness of my sins and your Kurt Angle appears from out of Jeff Hardy and interference from
unfailing love and with him is full death. Why trust anything or promise of life forever with you. the crowd. Angle says that G u n n e r a n d M u r p h y . M a t t
redemption. anyone else with our future? Let's But most of all, dear Father, thank because Jarrett's MMA matches Morgan tries to make the save for
— Psalm 130:7(NIV) Thoughts lean on God's unfailing love! My you for your unfailing love. In are exhibitions, he can participate Van Dam. Mr. Anderson does the
on Today's Verse... What do we Prayer... Abba Father, loving Jesus' name I pray. Amen. in one without breaking his same with a steel chair, but
have in this life that is unfailing God, I place my hopes, dreams, promise to not wrestle. The accidentally hits Morgan.
and inexhaustible? Nothing and future in your hands. I trust
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Dallas Cowboys decide on Jason Garrett as coach

Calvin Watkins (ESPN.com) coaching staff or comes to the "One of the things that I talk permission to speak with Garrett playcalling and Baltimore's Ed
Submitted at 1/7/2011 7:52:15 AM coaching staff," Jones said. about with our players all the time about vacant coaching openings. Reed said the Cowboys were
"There won't be a player on this is appreciating the opportunities Jones wouldn't identify those predictable.
Updated: January 7, 2011, 8:52 team that Jason does not want on they have as players," Garrett teams but realized he needed to But 2010 may have been his best
AM ET By Calvin Watkins the team." said. "It's a hard room to get into move quickly. year after losing Tony Romo to a
ESPNDallas.com Garrett agreed to a four-year and it's a hard room to stay in. My "I was getting calls from other broken collarbone.
Archive contract, though financial terms approach as a player was to be as clubs wanting to know if they The Cowboys finished the year
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Standing were not disclosed. Garrett had good as I could be each and every could interview him for head ranked No. 7 in offense in terms
at a podium on the main one year remaining on his day." coach, just to let you know" Jones of yards (364.2) and points (24.6)
concourse with the largest video assistant coach's contract that paid Several Cowboys players said. "From significant ones ... the per game, while having to use
board in sports as a backdrop, him $3.5 million a year, the endorsed Garrett as the coach, and ones you're reading about right backup quarterbacks Jon Kitna
Jason Garrett was announced as highest in the league. cornerback Mike Jenkins said the now. So I know what a top-flight and Stephen McGee for the final
the eighth coach to lead the Dallas He will remain the offensive new coach talked to the team coach we've got here." 10 games. The Cowboys scored at
Cowboys on Thursday. playcaller and there is a about becoming positive role For Garrett, 44, this seems like least 26 points in seven of
Garrett earned the job after going possibility there won't be an models away from the field. the culmination of a process that Garrett's eight games as interim
5-3 during the second-half of the offensive coordinator. Garrett and But Jones said he needed to go started when he joined the coach.
2010 season in place of Wade Jones said no decisions have been through the interview process Cowboys before Jones even Now with the added
Phillips, who was fired on Nov. 8. made regarding the coaching before hiring Garrett and named Phillips the coach in 2007. responsibilities official, Garrett
Cowboys owner and general staff. promised a decision would be He was viewed as the coach-in- must get the team back on track.
m a n a g e r J e r r y J o n e s l i s t e d Garrett takes over a team that forthcoming by the end of this waiting ever since but interviewed Jones still believes it's a playoff
wanting a culture change around finished 6-10 and in third place in week. with Baltimore, Atlanta, Denver, team and one that could have a
Valley Ranch as one of his the NFC East. The Cowboys He interviewed just two Detroit and St. Louis. After massive roster turnover due to
reasons for making the move from started the 2010 season with candidates, wide receivers coach Garrett turned down the Ravens, free agency and the club's
Phillips to Garrett, and those eight Super Bowl aspirations but an 0-2 Ray Sherman and Miami Jones made him the highest-paid decision to release underachieving
games confirmed to him he made start morphed into a 1-7 record at Dolphins assistant coach Todd assistant in the NFL. players.
the right decision. the midway point. Bowles. In his four-year run as offensive "It's always been a very honest
"He's truly one of our own," Jones Jones elected to fire Phillips, The coaches, who are African- coordinator, the Cowboys have relationship that Mr. Jones and I
said of Garrett, who was a backup whom he just gave a two-year American, satisfied the Rooney not had an offense rank lower have with each other," Garrett
quarterback for seven seasons extension to the year before, Rule, which requires teams to than 13th in the NFL. It has not said. "I've always thought I told
with the Cowboys. "We know following a 45-7 loss at Green interview minority candidates. always been perfect, like calling a him what I thought about
him well for the qualifications Bay. Jones called Bowles spectacular play late in the first half of the everything and when you become
that he has for this position, and I Garrett said at that moment he and Stephen Jones, the executive season opener at Washington that the head coach, now you have
know that he has spent his entire w a s c h a l l e n g e d t o f i x t h e vice president, who also did the turned into a Redskins touchdown different kinds of decisions
life preparing for this day. He's operation of the Cowboys. It interviews with his father, said after a Tashard Choice fumble. because you have different kinds
well qualified." worked quickly as he won his first Sherman was impressive. Garrett held a meeting the last of responsibilities."
Jones has so much respect for game, Nov. 14 at the New York A previous relationship that made week of the season with wide Calvin Watkins covers the
Garrett that he stressed the new Giants. a comfort level stronger and his receiver Roy Williams about his Cowboys for ESPNDallas.com.
coach will make the final call on The Cowboys didn't give up on work during the second half of the comments regarding the offense. Information from
who is on the coaching staff and their season and of the five 2010 season told the Joneses they Garrett also had to fine starting ESPNDallas.com's Todd Archer
indicated there will not be a victories under Garrett, three were needed to keep Garrett. running back Marion Barber in was used in this report.
player on the 53-man roster he on the road, including the regular The Cowboys felt rushed in some his first game as coach for Follow Calvin Watkins on
doesn't approve of. season finale at Philadelphia. ways to get a deal done with violating the team dress code. Twitter:@calvinwatkins
"Jason will have the final say on Garrett's teams lost three games Garrett. Jerry Jones said several In 2008, wide receiver Terrell
a n y p e r s o n t h a t l e a v e s t h e by a total of seven points. teams contacted him for Owens questioned Garrett's DALLAS page 56
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Andrew Luck skipping NFL draft, will return to Stanford Cardinal

Ted Miller (ESPN.com) "It's not like the NFL is going owner Stephen Ross on Thursday decision will be a blow to the of his passes for 5,913 yards, 45
Submitted at 1/7/2011 6:56:12 AM anywhere, it's one of the best run in the Bay Area, two people with Panthers, who have the No. 1 pick touchdowns and 12 interceptions
leagues in the world. It will still knowledge of the situation said. in April's draft and are looking for in his career. He has also rushed
Updated: January 7, 2011, 7:56 be there when he graduates." ESPN's Chris Mortensen reported a quarterback. for 807 yards and five scores.
AM ET The Carolina Panthers own the late Thursday that the Dolphins Luck capped this season by That athleticism, along with his
Stanford quarterback Andrew No. 1 pick in the NFL draft and will retain head coach Tony completing 18 of 23 passes for strong, accurate arm and on-field
Luck, the odds-on favorite to be indicated earlier this week that Sparano, according to sources. 287 yards and four touchdowns in poise, has had NFL scouts
the No. 1 pick in this spring's NFL they would be interested in New Denver Broncos chief the fifth-ranked Cardinal's 40-12 salivating at his potential as a pro.
draft, announced Thursday he will drafting Luck if he decided to football executive John Elway has victory over No. 12 Virginia Tech Harbaugh, a former star
stay in school and play his leave school. said he hopes to interview in the Orange Bowl on Monday quarterback at Michigan and in
redshirt junior season. Luck's father, who's also the Harbaugh for their job. night. the NFL, has called Luck the
"I am committed to earning my athletic director at West Virginia, It's unclear whether Luck's That helped Stanford (12-1) greatest player he has ever been
degree in architectural design said the possibility of an NFL decision to stay in school will extend its school record for wins around.
from Stanford University and am lockout or being selected by the impact Harbaugh's decision to in a season and has the Cardinal Luck set school records for TD
on track to accomplish this at the Panthers did not influence his leave for an NFL job this year. If poised to finish in the top five of passes (32), completion
completion of the spring quarter son's decision. Harbaugh does leave Stanford, the the AP poll for the first time since percentage (70.7 percent) and
o f 2 0 1 2 , " L u c k s a i d i n a "Call him old school," Oliver opportunity to coach Luck next the unbeaten 1940 team finished passing efficiency (170.2) this
statement. Luck said. "He comes from a season will likely make Stanford a No. 2. season. He is already being
The school announced Luck faction of people who believe you plum assignment. The Doug Luck is a major reason why mentioned alongside John Elway,
wouldn't be made available for go to college to pursue your Gottlieb Show Stanford has gone from a one-win Jim Plunkett, John Brodie and
comment. degree." ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr. isn't team in 2006 before Harbaugh Frankie Albert as one of
Miller: Luck in no hurry for NFL, Luck consulted with the Colts' surprised Andrew Luck is arrived to one of the top teams in Stanford's great quarterbacks.
real world Peyton Manning and the Rams' returning to Stanford. He thinks the country. He has led Stanford Ted Miller covers the Pac-10 for
Andrew Luck has decided that he Sam Bradford before making the this opens the door for Missouri to a 20-5 record in his 25 career ESPN.com. Information from The
does not need the NFL right now decision, ESPN college football QB Blaine Gabbert. And does starts, missing only last season's Associated Press is included in
and that he will return to Stanford analyst Rodney Gilmore reported. Vince Young's downfall hurt Cam Sun Bowl loss to Oklahoma with this report.
to earn his degree in architectural Both quarterbacks made similar Newton? Plus, Ryan Mallett a broken right index finger. This entry passed through the
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Source: Miami Dolphins sticking with
Tony Sparano as coach
ESPN.com news services
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Submitted at 1/7/2011 6:54:50 AM
Updated: January 7, 2011, 7:54
AM ET
The Miami Dolphins will retain
head coach Tony Sparano, a
source told ESPN's Chris
Mortensen on Thursday night.
Sparano
Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh
met earlier Thursday with Miami
owner Stephen Ross in the San
Francisco area about the Dolphins'
job, sources told Mortensen.
But Harbaugh and the Dolphins
broke off talks later in the day,
sources told The Associated
Press.
The Dolphins were willing to
make Harbaugh the highest-paid
coach in the NFL, which would
place his salary in the $7 million-
to-$8 million range, sources said.
Ross resumed the meeting
Thursday night with Harbaugh's
agent, David Dunn, in Southern
California after the Dolphins
owner traveled south to satisfy an
unrelated business commitment
following his meeting with
Harbaugh, the sources said.
Ross hoped to persuade
Harbaugh to take the job and
travel to Miami on his private jet
to introduce him as his new coach
by Friday or this weekend, the
sources added.
"Stanford is still a viable option"
for Harbaugh, the source said. He
could return to coach quarterback
Andrew Luck and what is said to
be a strong recruiting class, and
see what NFL options exist next
year. How awkward
Tony Sparano reported for work
Thursday and tried to pretend as
though his future would not be
determined by a college coach's
willingness to hijack his job,
writes Tim Graham. Blog
Luck, the odds-on favorite to be
the No. 1 pick in this spring's
draft, announced Thursday he will
stay in school and play his
redshirt junior season.
A late-season collapse by the
Dolphins put Sparano's job in
jeopardy. He has a year left on his
contract and was at work at the
team's complex in Davie, Fla.,
while Ross was on the other side
of the country courting Harbaugh.
Sparano tried to make the best of
the bizarre situation. While still
uncertain of his fate, he took an
afternoon walk outside the team
offices Thursday and encountered
a cluster of media staking out the
facility.
"You guys need to find a better
hobby," Sparano said.
The odd sequence of events
threatened to undermine the
authority of a coach whose status
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was already shaky because of a
late-season meltdown. The
Dolphins lost their final three
games, including a 38-7 drubbing
at New England in their finale last
Sunday, and finished 7-9.
Ross said before the season he
expected the Dolphins to reach
the Super Bowl. Instead, for the
eighth time in nine years they
failed to reach the playoffs. The
Dolphins lost at home in
December to three sub-.500
teams, and their 1-7 home record
matched the worst in franchise
history.
FireHero brings the
Sparano led Miami to the AFC
East title in 2008, his first year as danger back to video
an NFL coach. He has a three-
year record of 25-23 with the
Dolphins, who haven't won a
game rock
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Vintage Promos: Take the Damn

Money
Brandon Stroud (FanHouse jovial actor. Triple H is in his 40s, attention to you. He might've
Main) but he isn't an adult. He makes d-- never been young. He sprung
Submitted at 1/7/2011 8:13:00 AM k jokes and wears novelty army fully formed from the head of his
helmets. The Undertaker isn't an dad with those tattoos on his
Filed under: Pro Wrestling adult, he's wearing a Halloween forearms and the muttonchops.
Everyone thinks wrestling was costume. Hogan isn't an adult, and He will give ANY LIVIN'
"better" when they were kids. he never was. HUMAN BEAN 25 large to
People who grew up in the 1980s The wrestling I watched as a eliminate Ric Flair from rassling.
watching Hulk Hogan think child involved adults, real,
nothing is better than the Rock n' weathered and cool adults doing
Wrestling Era. Today's wrestlers adult things to each other. Not
Listen to how he says it: rassling.
He isn't being ironic, and when he
says it he doesn't sound stupid. He
Dragon Age 2 first DLC
just aren't as good. Kids who grew porno adult things, they just acted
up in the Attitude Era miss The like grown ups. That's missing
says it like that because he's from
f*****g Missouri and he does it
named 'The Exiled
Rock and Stone Cold, and think from wrestling, and has been
John Cena and The Miz are trash. missing for a while. Class and
Older fans who grew up watching style. Not thinking that 35 was
for a living.
Notice the belt in the case. Notice
the gigantic freaking microphone.
Prince,' teased in video
Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) Points ($7) at some point after
Bruno Sammartino can remember where your career started to end. Notice the crazy long pause
crying when Stan Hansen broke Men who cursed and wore suits Submitted at 1/7/2011 11:05:00 AM DA2's release this March. Head
before he screams "Kabuki!" as
his neck and know nothing will (because they owned suits, not past the break for a trailer of The
though he was trying to remember As of right now, you've got four Exiled Prince, distributed by EA
feel as real as that again. because they are trying to look the guy's name and couldn't, days until pre-orders for Dragon Germany (hence the subtitles).
I grew up watching Mid-Atlantic good on television), men who because he doesn't ever need to Age 2 shrivel and return to their Continue reading Dragon Age 2
Championship Wrestling and the screamed indignities because they recall Kabuki's name because he's normal state; as previously noted, first DLC named 'The Exiled
NWA, and what eventually meant them, mean who, when Harley Race. Somebody, TAKE the "Signature Edition" of DA2 Prince,' teased in video
became WCW. What I watched they've had enough of you, might THE DAMN MONEY! only exists as a bonus for folks Dragon Age 2 first DLC named
wasn't necessarily "better," though pay someone to take you out for Of course, someone did, and that pre-ordering before January 12. 'The Exiled Prince,' teased in
it still feels ahead of its time. I've good. lead to another great promo from And with that Signature Edition video originally appeared on
been trying to pinpoint exactly Harley Race is an adult. He could someone who can pull a great comes "The Exiled Prince," a free Joystiq on Fri, 07 Jan 2011
what makes it seem so cool, and be your father, the one who sits in promo out of their ass. You know, DLC quest and character that both 11:05:00 EST. Please see our
I've got it: it involves adults. an armchair drinking and when they aren't being iced. seem hinged on revenge. terms for use of feeds.
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Why you got blocked
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 1/6/2011 11:34:16 AM
When people ask why I blocked
them, I'm going to point to this
piece.
1. I like to follow the Mentions
tab in Twitter, so I can see who's
directing messages to me, or
talking about me using my
Twitter handle.
2. This is the Internet, so
sometimes people say mean
things. When they use your
Twitter handle it shows up in the
Mentions tab.
$20 MS Point cards 3. The mean stuff can sit there for
hours, esp when things are quiet.
discounted to $15 at Walmart 4. I think of them as turds.
[update: They're gone] Daley Must Work to Fix Broken White
Richard Mitchell (Joystiq)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:03:00 AM P
The Xbox Live Arcade House
arty begins next month,
including the likes of Torchlight
House
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Update: And ... they're sold out! and Beyond Good and Evil, so
There may be no such thing as you might want to stock up on a Submitted at 1/7/2011 3:57:33 AM
free money, but in this age of few of these before they sell out.
digital economies we're getting And they will, very fast. Friday, 07 Jan 2011 09:57 AM
quite accustomed to discounted $20 MS Point cards discounted to By Dan Weil
fake money. Enter Walmart, $15 at Walmart [update: They're It took President Barack Obama
which is currently selling 1600 gone] originally appeared on two years to turn the White House
MS Point cards -- that's $20 worth Joystiq on Fri, 07 Jan 2011 into such a mess. So it’s going to
-- for$14.96. Thrifty Nerd tells us 10:03:00 EST. Please see our take a lot of work from his new
that you don't even have to pay terms for use of feeds. moderate chief of staff William
shipping costs if you choose the in Permalink| Email this| Comments Daley to set things straight,
-store pick up option. Politico reports.
The selection of Daley, “which
drew predictable fire from liberals
Thursday, underscores Obama’s
determination to run from the
center in 2012 and somewhat
neutralize the outright hostility of
many business groups to his
Gaming/ Featured/ Politics/
5. Since I check the Mentions tab
frequently, as much as 5 times an
hour, I see these turds many
times. Each time they get more
annoying.
6. There's no way to delete a
tweet from the Mentions tab,
without blocking the person.
7. Blocking has the side-effect of
making me invisible to the person
I'm blocking. This is totally
unnecessary. I have no reason to
want to stop someone from being
able to read my tweets. It's this
one smelly turd they left that I
don't want to look at.
8. Following someone or not is a
matter of personal choice. It's
none of anyone's business who I
administration,” the news service
states.
“The improvisational campaign
mentality that has been the
Obama White House’s
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follow or don't.
9. But unfollowing won't get rid
of the turd if it has my handle in
it.
10. To the extent that this hurts
your feelings, I am sorry.
However, if you hadn't said
something unpleasant and
personal, you wouldn't have
gotten blocked, so if you want to
know who to blame, look in the
mirror.
Obviously this took more than
140 characters to explain. It
comes up all the time, so now I
have a place to point people to
when they want to know why they
got blocked.
fundamental style is likely to be
supplanted by a more methodical
focus on the mechanics of
governance, organization building
and relationship repairs — a shift
from attention deficit disorder to
obsessive compulsive disorder, to
use clinical terms.”
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Why Obama Chose Businessman William Daley as His Chief of

Staff
Lynn Sweet (Politics Daily) October to run for Chicago favorite, he recalled a visit to the
Submitted at 1/6/2011 9:22:00 PM mayor, getting in the race once White House decades ago with his
Mayor Daley decided not to seek family.
President Obama picked former another term. "Fifty years ago this month, I
Commerce Secretary William In selecting William Daley, visited the White House with my
Daley to be his new chief of staff White House officials told Politics parents and my brothers and
on Thursday, bringing on board a Daily, Obama gets a very specific sisters to visit a young president
businessman with vast political skill set needed as he prepares to who went on to show great
experience at a time Obama is launch his re-election bid and deal strength, leadership and vision in
preparing to launch his re-election with a potentially hostile GOP- the face of enormous challenges
bid and improve relations with the controlled House and a Senate in those times. You, Mr.
corporate community. where Democratic strength has President, are proving your
Though the president and Daley diminished. strength, your leadership, your
have known each for years from Daley, who is expected to join vision during a most difficult time
Chicago politics, Obama's quick the administration in a few weeks, for our nation and for the world.
rise from the Illinois State Senate brings in deep links to the global You have also shown through
to the White House had little to do b u s i n e s s w o r l d , C a b i n e t Walter Mondale's presidential counselor to the president.
your example that public service
w i t h D a l e y o r h i s b r o t h e r , experience, national political contest. In speaking about Daley, Obama
is an honorable calling, and I am
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. knowledge and a comfort factor But Daley is as familiar with said, "He's led major corporations.
pleased to answer your call,"
Daley has never been part of s t e m m i n g n o t o n l y f r o m Chicago's precinct politics as he is He possesses a deep
Daley said.
Obama's inner personal circle-- connections to Axelrod but also to with presidential elections. understanding of how jobs are
Daley's appointment drew mixed
considered a plus because he can David Plouffe, Obama's 2008 Though Daley, 62, the mayor's created . . . And, needless to say,
reviews: Democratic progressives
bring an outsider's perspective to campaign manager who is joining youngest brother, in the last 10 Bill also has a smidgen of
were disappointed and the
the White House. years flirted with runs for Illinois awareness of how our system of
the White House on Monday. business community was very
What Obama and Daley -- and Since May 2004, Daley has been governor and senator, he never government and politics works.
upbeat. Daley frayed relations
former Chief of Staff Rahm working from Chicago as the jumped in himself. You might say it is a genetic
with unions in 1993, when he was
Emanuel -- have in common are Midwest chairman banking giant Obama noted how Daley trait," Obama said, a reference to
President Clinton's "NAFTA
close ties to Obama Senior JP Morgan Chase & Co. and head straddled the government and Daley's brother and father, both
czar," successfully winning
Adviser David Axelrod, who is of its corporate responsibility political worlds when he Chicago mayors.
congressional approval for the
expected to depart at the end of operation. Daley's last major announced his chief of staff pick Obama cited Daley's
North American Free Trade
the month to return to Chicago political assignment was in 2000, Thursday afternoon in the White "tremendous experience, his
Agreement.
and take on duties as the main when he was brought in to rescue House East Room, flanked by strong values and forward-looking
Clinton later tapped Daley as
strategist for the 2012 Obama V i c e P r e s i d e n t A l G o r e ' s Daley and interim chief of staff vision," adding, "I'm convinced
Commerce secretary in 1997 at
campaign. Pete Rouse. that he'll help us in our mission of
presidential campaign, setting up the start of his second term and
Daley is stylistically different camp in Tallahassee, Fla., during Rouse got high grades for his growing our economy and moving
earlier had named him to a seat on
from Emanuel, far more measured the brutal recount battle against work, but did not want to stay on America forward. And I very
the board of Fannie Mae, the
than the harder-edged Emanuel, George Bush that was eventually as chief. Instead, the super low- much look forward to working
quasi-governmental mortgage
whose early political job was as a decided by the U.S Supreme profile Rouse, who served Obama with Bill in the years to come."
maker, in part to make up for not
fundraiser for Richard Daley's Court. as his chief of staff when he was Daley said it was an "extreme
making him Transportation
1989 mayoral campaign. The He also was an early backer of an Illinois senator -- and was an honor" to take on the assignment.
secretary in his first term.
vacancy Daley is filling was Vice President Joe Biden's 1988 architect of his presidential Alluding to President John F.
campaign -- will remain as a Kennedy, always a Daley family WHY page 62
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Boehner in Wonderland: Kill Health Care Before Reviewing the
Evidence
David Corn (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 4:00:00 AM
Now that Speaker John Boehner
has been handed Hagrid's gavel,
the first order of policy business
for the newly empowered House
Republicans is eradicating
President Obama's health care
reform package by passing HR 2,
which is titled -- seriously --
"Repealing the Job-Killing Health
Care Law Act."
The measure, scheduled for a
quick vote next Wednesday, will
pass with Republican votes, but it
won't go anywhere: Democrats in
the Senate won't bother with it,
and Obama has already vowed to
veto the measure, if it ever
reaches his desk. Which it won't.
But this stunt -- being conducted
instead of real business (such as
proposing alternative legislation
that would address the nation's
health care woes or bills that
might spur job creation) -- has
placed GOP hypocrisy on display.
The Republicans, who have
proclaimed fealty to congressional
due process and deficit tracking,
are rushing ahead with a vote on
the bill without holding hearings
or a committee mark-up and
without submitting it to the
nonprofit Congressional Budget
Office to determine its impact on
deficits. Still, the CBO has issued
a statement stating that repeal of
the health care law will add $230
billion to the deficits through the
next ten years.
So the games have begun. But
perhaps the biggest (bad) joke is
in the name of this bill. The
Republicans are once again trying
to win an argument by making a
provocative assertion they cannot
prove -- such as when they falsely
claimed Obama's recovery
package had not created a single
new job. (The CBO calculated the
legislation had saved or created
about 3.5 million jobs.)
This time, the assertion is another
simplistic mantra: Obamacare
kills jobs. On Thursday, Rep. Eric
Cantor (R-Va.), the new House
majority leader, indicated that
undoing the health care measure
is the GOP's top priority when it
comes to dealing with the
country's economic troubles:
"Obamacare spends a trillion
dollars that we don't have and
kills jobs at a time when our top
priority must be getting people
back to work. This job-killing
health care law has caused great
uncertainty for employers small
and large and has put our country
on a path to fiscal insolvency."
Cantor didn't say anything about
the screw-ups that led to the Bush
-Cheney crash that threw the
economy into a ravine. The true
problem with the economy is not
a health care bill that has yet to be
fully implemented. That aside,
Cantor's specific charge that the
bill is a job-killer is empty
rhetoric.
On Thursday, the Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities, a
Washington think tank that
supports the bill, released a report
noting that according to the
CBO's conclusions Obama health
care reform will not be a destroyer
of jobs The CBO estimates that
health care reform will have little
effect on health care premiums for
businesses and will likely reduce
them between 0 and 3 percent in
2016 for businesses with more
than 50 workers (which is 70
percent of the total insurance
market). Smaller businesses, the
CBO projects, will see premiums
change in the range from a 1-
percent hike to a 2-percent drop.
The CBPP report quotes a
Moody's Analytics finding
concluding that "the net long-run
impact [of the health care law] on
the economy will be minor."
CBPP maintains, "House
Republicans are crying wolf about
potential negative effects of health
reform on labor markets." It also
points out that Cantor and Co. are
ignoring the aspects of the health
care measure that could have a
positive effect on the economy,
such as greater labor flexibility
and healthier workers.
CBPP analysts are honest enough
to admit that the law could wield
some negative impacts on the
labor market, but it seconds
CBO's bottom-line conclusion
that overall the effects (both
positive and negative) will be
modest. The GOPers don't engage
in such intellectual candor. They
opt for brazen exaggeration when
they dub the measure a "job-
killer," let alone place that term in
the title of the bill. (By the way,
here's a fun fact: In the short
speech Boehner delivered when
he became speaker on
Wednesday, he did not once
mention "jobs.")
Are CBPP and CBO correct in
their appraisals of Obama's health
care law? There's no way to know
for certain. The same, though, has
to be said for the GOP's
apocalyptic prediction. Which is
why the GOP's approach to
legislating is fundamentally
phony. If the Republicans truly
believe there is a solid case for
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their claim that the health care bill
will (further) wreck the economy,
they ought to hold hearings and
invite experts from all sides. Let
their favorite analysts mix it up
with folks from CBO, CBPP, and
Moody's. Live on C-SPAN!
Boehner and his crew should try
to win the argument with facts,
not hyperbolic statements. If they
are indeed fans of responsible
read-the-bill-first governing, as
they claim, this is the least they
can do. Instead, they're behaving
like the Red Queen: "sentence
first -- verdict afterward."
Actually, there won't be any
verdict (that is, hearings)
afterward. Just the sentence: kill
it.
Welcome to Boehner's
wonderland. You can fill in your
own joke about a tea party.
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AFL-CIO President Richard
Trumka was wary of Daley. "The
president is of course entitled to
choose a chief of staff in whom he
has complete confidence,"
Trumka said in a statement. "Yet
President Obama and his
Administration will ultimately be
judged by results -- whether the
economy recovers robustly and
begins to generate good jobs on
the scale needed to improve the
lives of working people."
Justin Ruben, executive director
of the liberal MoveOn.org, was
equally skeptical. "With Wall
Street reporting record profits
while middle-class Americans
continue to struggle in a deep
recession, the announcement that
William Daley, who has close ties
to the Big Banks and Big
Business, will now lead the White
House staff is troubling and sends
the wrong message to the
American people," Ruben said in
a statement.
Daley's selection drew applause
from Chamber of Commerce
President and CEO Thomas J.
Donohue. "This is a strong
appointment," he said in a
statement. "Bill Daley is a man of
stature and extraordinary
experience in government,
business, trade negotiations, and
global affairs. He's an
accomplished manager and strong
leader. We look forward to
working with him to accelerate
our recovery, grow the economy,
create jobs, and tackle America's
global challenges."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-Ky.) was also
enthusiastic about the Daley pick.
He told reporters on Thursday, "I,
frankly, think it's kind of a
hopeful sign. He has a business
background. You know, we used
to -- I used to say the last two
years -- I don't know whether it's
technically true or not -- but that
there was nobody down at the
White House who had ever even
run a lemonade stand. You know,
they were all college professors . .
. former elected officials. This is a
guy who's actually been out in the
private sector, been a part of
business. Frankly, my first
reaction is: That sounds like a
good idea."
Like Emanuel, Daley is a
Democratic centrist. In a
December Washington Post
column taking stock of the big
Democratic loss in the November
elections, Daley gave liberals
some tough love:
"All that is required for the
Democratic Party to recover its
political footing is to
acknowledge that the agenda of
the party's most liberal supporters
has not won the support of a
majority of Americans -- and,
based on that recognition, to steer
a more moderate course on the
key issues of the day, from health
care to the economy to the
environment to Afghanistan.
"For liberals to accept that
inescapable reality is not to
concede permanent defeat.
Rather, let them take it as a sign
that they must continue the hard
work of slowly and steadily
persuading their fellow citizens to
embrace their perspective. In the
meantime, liberals -- and, indeed,
all of us -- should have the
humility to recognize that there is
no monopoly on good ideas, as
well as the long-term perspective
to know that intra-party warfare
will only relegate the Democrats
to minority status, which would
be disastrous for the very
constituents they seek to
represent," Daley wrote. Last
year, Daley joined the board of a
moderate group called the Third
Way, whose president, Jonathan
Cowan, said in a statement, "His
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selection sends a clear signal that
he intends to govern and
campaign from the center over the
next two years.
"In selecting Daley, President
Obama has hit the trifecta – a top-
notch manager, a pro-growth
business leader and a moderate
Democrat who knows how to
work across the aisle."
"Bill Daley is an experienced
manager who has run agencies
and presidential campaigns," said
Cowan. "He has the business
credentials to help the White
House continue to heal the breach
between the administration and
the private sector; and he is
committed to a big-tent politics
for the Democratic Party."
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Reading of Constitution Comes Up Military: Now Is Not the

Short as Sections Are Omitted Time to 'Come Out'
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Oops -- they skipped a part. Qualifications of its own -- from both parties-- took part in By Henry J. Reske
During a reading of the U.S. M e m b e r s . . . the reading. The event was briefly Military officials are moving
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the omission of Article 4 Section once. that requires the president be born the time to “come out.” Secretary
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The error was recognized two Congress to the text of the U.S. reported that Capitol Police training within weeks, The of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noted
hours after the fact, when Rep. Constitution," according to his arrested Theresa Cao, 48, and Washington Post said. that the ban remains in effect until
Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) -- the man website. But in addition to the charged her with unlawful Gates said that training of the 2.2 the president formally certifies the
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Whether it's the holidays, game ingredients when it makes sense
Friday, 07 Jan 2011 10:26 AM day, or a casual gathering of (and when it tastes good), and we Downloaded From the
By Dan Weil friends, serving an appetizer always try to serve appetizers Mac App Store in One
The Democratic Congressional certainly gets the fun going. with fresh veggies or fruit to Day
Campaign Committee is in deep Unfortunately, so many bite-size round out the nutrition (and it also
do-do, as former President George nibbles weigh in with way too makes for a pretty presentation). Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
H.W. Bush might put it. “The many calories for an entire meal, At under 100 calories, each of Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:08:40 AM

DCCC is nearly $20 million in much less the first act to a bigger these appetizers are sure to inspire
debt, the electoral map may be meal. This collection of party- your next gathering. Users have downloaded more
even more daunting in 2012 after disadvantage compared with the worthy appetizers proves you can View Recipe: Bruschetta with than 1 million free and paid apps
redistricting, and fundraising even past four years when Democrats have it all: refined presentation Peach Salsa and Melted Brie Next from Apple’s freshly launched
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Hands On With the BlackBerry PlayBook: A

Seriously Impressive Multitasker
Dan Nosowitz (Popular Science than to the staid BlackBerry OS tablet, and doesn't require any consumption device! Let's leave
- New Technology, Science that's been largely unchanged in extra buttons on the gadget's face. messaging to the BlackBerry!"
News, The Future Now) BlackBerry phones for years. The The screen itself is super clear, Groan.)
Submitted at 1/6/2011 9:18:06 PM homescreen is taken up largely by with even tiny text appearing So here's the rub: The PlayBook
Samsung promises dual
After using BlackBerry's dual- big thumbnails of open apps, legibly. is a surprisingly formidable tablet -core smartphones, new
core wonder, my mind was more which are presented in real-time. Browsing the Internet was super from a company largely written tablets for MWC 2011
than a little blown That means if you're watching a smooth, including all of the off as boring by gadget nerds. I
BlackBerry's PlayBook tablet video in one app, playing a game typical tablet-y motions--swiping frankly loved it--the sheer power, Vlad Savov (Engadget)
was announce way back in in another, and reading a Flash- around pages, pinching to zoom, the perfect smoothness of the UI, Submitted at 1/7/2011 11:15:00 AM

September, but this is the first animated website in another, all that kind of thing. That's more the level of polish overall--calling
time the press has been able to get three will be shown in a moving, impressive because the PlayBook it an iPad competitor isn't wishful CES isn't even over yet, but
their sweaty fingers all over it. I buttery-smooth thumbnail, not supports full Adobe Flash. Every thinking at all. But RIM (the Samsung's already looking
played with the 7-incher at just a static image. That's possible video I tried played perfectly makers of BlackBerry) really need forward to its next big event:
BlackBerry's booth here at CES, due to the PlayBook's dual-core within the page, and the PlayBook to get their act together on apps. Mobile World Congress in
a n d c a m e a w a y n o t j u s t processor and generous 1GB of didn't seem to suffer any adverse BlackBerry smartphones are Barcelona. That show gets started
impressed, but amazed: This is a memory--the iPad, with half the consequences from the basically a disaster zone for apps, on February 14th, but Sammy
legitimate competitor to the iPad processing power and a quarter of notoriously processor-heavy task with the cobbled-together App plans to get things going early
and Motorola Xoom, and deserves the memory, might well burst into of embedded Flash. World both small and unwieldy. with an announcement of dual-
a serious look from everyone, not flames if it tried to handle a The PlayBook also has a 3- That won't fly for a tablet as good core smartphones and new tablets
just BlackBerry's core corporate similar task. megapixel front-facing camera for as this one. BlackBerry seems on February 13th. Such is the
audience. You swipe through the open video chat, which seemed to work fully aware of this; the reps word straight from the company's
The PlayBook is a 7-inch tablet, apps, and tap to make one full as expected--it's way less blurry wouldn't leak me any specifics, mobile biz president, JK Shin,
the same size as Samsung's screen or swipe it upwards to or pixelly than a 1.3-megapixel but said they're "in talks" with who says Samsung is " in a
mediocre Galaxy Tab, but it close it. It's not a new idea-- smartphone camera, but not several "major developers," so position to supply 4G
doesn't feel nearly as awkward. WebOS created it, and Nokia was exactly high-def, either. hopefully there'll be an app smartphones and tablets to all the
That's because it's running a brand one of the first to realize its The only real downside is kind of selection worthy of the tablet carriers in the US." Naturally, this
-new OS, while the Galaxy Tab brilliance--but a lack of originality a bizarre one: To use the itself. 4G strategy will include both LTE
uses the same Android 2.2 that's is just fine with me when it's such messaging apps (in this case, RIM says the tablet will launch and WiMAX, while another major
on much smaller phones. The a damn good idea. email, calendar, and BlackBerry sometime early this year, for a prong of the company's future
Galaxy Tab feels like a slightly Like WebOS, the PlayBook uses Messenger), you have to tether a price that is as yet undisclosed roadmap is to curtail its
larger Android phone, but the the bezel surrounding the screen BlackBerry. You can access that (but "competitive with other featurephone offering in favor of
PlayBook feels like a tablet. The as a touch area. To bring up the stuff from the browser, but the similar devices," which is low-cost smartphone devices.
OS is largely to thank for that. keyboard, you swipe from the decision to force tethering for marketing speak for "around Interesting times certainly lie
The PlayBook runs BlackBerry's bottom left corner, and to bring up basic tasks like communication $500"). See the rest of PopSci's ahead.
brand-new "Tablet OS," which is the homescreen, you swipe up seems like a marketing decision live CES 2011 coverage here Samsung promises dual-core
much more similar to Palm's from the bottom bezel. It's a that doesn't make sense in the real smartphones, new tablets for
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Glasses-Free 3D Deserves to Shine, But Still Needs Time In the
Oven
Stan Horaczek - <a
href="http://www.soundan
dvisionmag.com/3dtv/2011/01/c
es-2011-glasses-free-3d-
deserves-shine"
target="_blank">
Sound+Vision</a>
(Popular Science - New
Technology, Science News,
The Future Now)
Submitted at 1/6/2011 6:29:48 PM
Stand Here, and Here Only Black
markers taped to the floor indicate
exactly where you need to stand
for Toshiba's glasses-free 3D
effect to work John Mahoney The
case for real 3D immersion,
without the hokey glasses
3D glasses are a hot topic at CES
2011. Monster has been bragging
about their $250 pair that works
with any 3DTV. Samsung
debuted their "lightest pair ever,"
weighing in at just one ounce.
And Vizio — among others —
have been touting the fact that
their passive 3DTVs work with
the cheap-o polarized glasses you
get at the movies.
But what has really caught our
attention are those that have
managed to nix the eyewear all
together.
Three companies currently have
glasses-free 3DTV demos on the
show floor: Toshiba, LG and
Sony. Samsung's glasses-free
solution is MIA despite making
an appearance at last year's initial
3DTV. Sharp has several devices
that use the technology, but none
of them are TVs. A rep from
Mitsubishi came right out and told
us that they don't have much
interest in the idea until the
technology is more "figured out."
Panasonic too.
It's all a little disappointing.
Our first experience with glasses-
free 3D at this year's show was
with Toshiba's 65-inch panel. We
lined up our toes with the black
footprints carefully taped to the
ground and it still took several
seconds to lock onto the 3D
effect, which was surprisingly
easy to lose. When the effect is
working, it's more subtle than
with active or even passive
glasses, but even when you're
properly aligned, the film that
helps create the 3D effect gives
the look of a screen door
overlaying the screen. When it's
not working? Break out the
Aspirin.
Despite its short comings,
Toshiba is the only manufacturer
on the floor who will at least
speculate on bringing their
solution to market, and before the
end of this fiscal year no less.
Toshiba reps claim that they're
working hard to improve the
viewing angle issues, but even if
that's solved there are still plenty
of barriers to overcome. In order
to deliver full-HD 3D without the
shutter effect, they need to use a
4K panel (one with approximately
four times the resolution of 1080p
HD), which means just about
everything you'll watch, including
Blu-ray, will need to be upscaled
(and that the panel itself will be
ridiculously expensive). Watching
just about any kind of broadcast
TV is going to result in an
extremely ugly experience.
LG's panel looked dedidedly
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better, even though it's being
touted as little more than a "future
3D technology" demo. They opted
for a 55-inch, 4K side-lit panel
with local dimming which
drastically improved the picture
quality. They say you need to sit
in a sweet spot about 12-feet away
to maximize the effect, but it
works to about 14-feet.
While LG's panel is encouraging,
it's clear that Sony is going to
have to bear much of the burden
in pushing glasses-free tech
forward if they want to cash out
on having bet the farm on 3D.
They brought three prototype
displays with them to show off.
Unfortunately, and in typical
Sony fashion, they're extremely
reluctant to give up specifics.
Their 56-inch 4K TV is easily the
best looking of the bunch. The
viewing angle is solidly ahead of
everyone else, it churned out
excellent blacks (in the blackout-
curtained viewing room, anyway),
and the screen-door effect that
plagues the Toshiba is far less
noticeable.
Unfortunately, the only other info
we were able to squeeze out of the
person manning the demo was
that there was "an entire room full
of gear" behind the TV making it
go.
Despite its diminuitive size,
Sony's 24.5-inch OLED display is
also a good reminder of how
much potential glasses-free 3D
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Archive Gallery: This Is PopSci On Drugs
Denise Ngo (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:09:24 AM
December 1967 How PopSci
chronicled the American drug
trade, as well as the methods old-
time smugglers used to peddle
their wares
Working and writing for Popular
Science means being able to do
fun things, like playing with the
latest consumer electronics in Las
Vegas, touring the Shanghai
Expo, and getting paid to do hard
drugs. We're not kidding. In 1967,
reporter Robert Goddard spent a
weekend getting high on LSD at a
psychiatric institution in
Pennsylvania. Under close
supervision, Goddard passed the
next 24 hours doing pirouettes,
rolling around in the grass, biting
his arms, and mumbling about the
depravity of his generation. Then
he got to write about it.
Click to launch the photo gallery.
"I'm totally insane," he said. "I
know because I can see reality as
it flicks past, just a little slit of
sunlight. I'm in a giant maelstrom,
swirling, whirling, with reality
only a small slot in the side."
Although it was written to
provide a frank account of the
LSD's experience, the vividness
of Goddard's article inadvertently
reinforces the allure of illicit
substances. You can't read
something like the sentence above
without understanding how drugs
have become such an integral part
of contemporary society. Drug
addiction is nothing new, but as
our archives will attest, the
organized drug trade is constantly
using sneakier ways to smuggle
increasingly sophisticated
products.
At the turn of the century,
cocaine, heroin, and opium ruled
the drug scene. Smugglers sewed
dope into their jacket hems and
injected heroin into oranges,
which were then sold to prisoners
who were already serving time for
selling drugs.
The drug problem only got worse
once Prohibition came into effect.
We explored how the methods
people used to snort up drugs and
the possible physical effects,
including "saddle nose" -- or what
is today known as "coke nose."
As the decades wore on,
researchers worked to develop a
non-toxic medication to wean
addicts off drugs. The University
of Virginia labored to create a
"dopeless dope,"while scientists
attempted to breed hemp that
didn't contain the marijuana
component.
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GLASSES-FREE
continued from page 66
has. The high pixel density and
ridiculous contrast ratios offered
by OLED give it serious punch,
even though it's only a traditional
1080p screen as opposed to 4K.
Glasses-free 3D tech has made its
way into all kinds of other tech on
the show floor this year, too. You
can find everything from
smartphones, laptops, digital
photo frames to mobile TVs like
Sony's 10.1-inch portable concept.
But the focus really needs to shift
back to the big screen where 3D
can achieve its ultimate goal:
immersion, without the hoaky
eyewear.
It's been a good 60 years, and
scientists are still working to
perfect the technology. Those
experiments might not have ended
well, but plenty of other anti-drug
measures did. Click through our
gallery to read about how we
covered the rise of marijuana in
the 1960's, the corruption among
dope-addicted diplomats, and how
one agent who dubbed himself
"Flash" busted drug rings on the
regular.
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Potty-Training Pigs Cuts Runoff From Taiwanese
Farms by 80 Percent
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:16:32 AM
Potty Training Pigs Taiwan
wants to toilet train its six million
pigs to reduce the impact of farm
pollution on water supplies.
USDA
Large scale farming is a dirty
business, but Taiwan's
environmental authorities have
come up with a novel way to
clean up it's six-million-swine pig
farming industry: a href="http://
green.yahoo.com/news/afp/
2 0 1 1 0 1 0 5 / o d _ a f p /
taiwananimalspollutionfarmoffbea
t.html">potty train the pork. The
Environmental Protection
Administration has pledged to
increase the number of toilet
trained pigs in that country after
YouTube Offers First Glimpse of Crowd-Sourced Documentary
Todd Wasserman (Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 9:46:00 AM
YouTube has offered its first
glimpse of the Ridley Scott-
produced, crowd-sourced
documentary Life in a Day before
the film’s world premiere at the
2011 Sundance Film Festival on
January 27.
The clip, shot by Toniu Xou and
Patricia Marinez del Hoyoa of
Spain, features a young girl
one breeder successfully reduced
the amount of waste water on his
10,000-pig operation by 80
percent by teaching his pigs to use
the toilet.
Starting in 2009, one southern
Taiwanese pig farmer began
smearing special "toilet" areas on
climbing a “human castle” in the
small town of San Jaume dels
Domenys in Tarragona, a Spanish
province. That clip is one of 1,125
out of a total of 80,000 submitted
that made the final cut for the 90-
minute doc.
Life in a Day is based on an
experiment in which thousands of
people across the world shot
video on July 24, 2010 to
document a single day on earth.
Since then, Oscar-winning
his farm with excrement and urine
to attract the pigs, cajoling them
into doing their business in areas
where the waste can be contained
(waste from farms is among the
primary water pollution
complaints received by Taiwan's
EPA, and the farmer was trying to
director Kevin Macdonald and a
group of editors have been editing
the film. On January 24, YouTube
is asking viewers to submit
questions to Macdonald for an
interactive Q&A. Macdonald will
also be providing updates from
the Sundance Festival during that
time.
The film will also make its debut
on YouTube on January 27 for no
avoid costly fines). The effort was
such a success that the EPA
recently conducted a study on the
technique and plans to adopt it
across the island.
The effort didn't just cut the
amount of waste water at the farm
to 20 percent of previous levels,
but also made the farm a cleaner
and less odorous operation,
boosted fertility y 20 percent, and
reduced illness among the
animals. The farmer who piloted
the initiative told local media that
he thinks he collects up to 95
percent of all pig waste produced,
rather than letting it slip into
nearby rivers.
[ AFP via Treehugger]
charge. In September, YouTube
also launched an interactive
gallery showing off some
submissions.
The ambitious project, which is
also said to be supported by LG
Electronics, is not being
distributed by a Hollywood studio
and filmmakers whose work
makes the cut will not be paid,
though they will be credited as co-
directors.
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"Most people will be choosing
between a grill pan, contact grill,
freestanding electric grill or an
indoor smoker," says Steven
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Raichlen, grilling authority and
author of Raichlen's Indoor
Grilling and Planet Barbecue. A
grill pan is a good choice for
searing in flavor while imparting
classic grill marks on steaks and
chicken breasts. "Someone who
has a kitchen that is tight on space
might also choose a grill pan,"
says Raichlen.
A contact grill (also referred to as
a panini maker) can make a mean
grilled cheese as well as a juicy
burger (but may steam rather than
sear a steak). It heats up quickly,
and cooks food fast since you're
getting heat from two sides.
If you're a barbecue guy, an
indoor smoker can bring ribs,
brisket, or even smoked salmon
onto your winter menu.
Finally, a freestanding grill is sort
of like a hotplate grill or mini
habachi, and works best for small
jobs like shrimp or fruit kebabs.
Since they pale in power when
compared to outdoor versions,
Raichlen isn't a huge fan of these.
You can also find grills that go in
your fireplace, which bring the
outdoor grilling experience
indoors, or even ones that can be
in built-in to your cooktop.
Do Your Research
Now that you know which type
of grill will light your fire, choose
one wisely by following
Raichlen's recommendations. "A
grill pan should be cast iron, for
better heat conduction and
retention. A contact grill should
have sharp ridges on its grill
surface and as much wattage as
possible, for better browning. And
for a smoker, there is really only
one brand widely available, the
Camerons Smoker Cooker," says
Raichlen. Other features you'll
want to look for include floating
hinges, drip pans and nonstick
coatings. Examples of grills
which fit the bill include the
Emerilware 10-Inch Cast Iron
Square Grill Pan and the
Villaware V2160 UNO ProPress
Panini Grill.
Fire Up Some Flavor
Indoor grilling is certainly
warmer for the chef than grilling
in the snow, but the end product
won't be exactly the same. "The
lack of live flame indoors cuts
down on searing and
caramelization of the meat
proteins. You can't burn wood
chips indoors to generate smoke
(except for in an indoor smoker),
so you need to pump up the spices
and seasoning," says Raichlen. So
now just might be the perfect time
to try out those chipotle barbecue
chicken or wasabi seared tuna
steak recipes.
Keep Things Tidy
Outdoors, you can just let mother
nature wash away grease drips
and the sky above absorb the
smoky remnants of your summer
feast. But indoors, you'll want to
make less mess where you can.
To reduce the smoke factor, trim
excess fat away from the meat.
With a contact grill, make sure
your drip pan is in place before
you start your grill, and keep an
eye on it to make sure it doesn't
need replacing midway through
your cooking session. Then, clean
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it while it's still warm. This may with butter.
seem counterintuitive, until you're • Place 2 slices of bread on a
trying to scrap hardened grease work surface, buttered side down,
off. When using a smoker, line it and arrange prosciutto on them,
with aluminum foil first. Also use followed by slices of cheese,
a drip pan—it's your best friend trimming edges to fit. ComScore: Android
when it comes to cleaning up. • Generously sprinkle pepper jumps ahead of iOS in
And simply soak your grill pan in over sandwiches.
warm water before cleaning (use • Place remaining 2 slices of
total US smartphone
soap if it's not cast iron). bread on top, buttered side up. subscribers
Try a New Recipe • Lightly coat the grill surface Vlad Savov (Engadget)
After you've brought your with cooking spray.
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:37:00 AM
favorite outdoor recipes inside, try • Using a spatula, transfer the
a new recipe like this one: panini to the hot grill and close
We've seen plenty of data to
Prosciutto and Fontina Panini the lid. Grill until the bread is
show that Android is the hottest-
Serves 2 crusty and golden brown and theselling smartphone OS among US
Raichlen calls this the "ultimate cheese is melted, about 5 minutes.
buyers today, but now we have a
ham and cheese," and with its • Cut in half on the diagonal and
stat point to show that it's doing
salty pork and buttery dairy serve at once. pretty well in cumulative terms as
flavors, it's easy to see why. well. According to ComScore's
Throw it on your contact grill, and For more recipes and information latest estimates, Android had 26
you'll feel like you're in northernon how to choose an indoor grill, percent of all US smartphone
Italy. visit barbecuebible.com. Related subscribers in the quarter ending
Ingredients: articles: November 2010, bettering Apple's
Recipe: Grilled Lamb Riblets iPhone for the first time. The
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MF Guy: Nelly
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Submitted at 1/7/2011 3:00:00 AM
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NELLY
Age: 36
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 185 lbs
Body of Work: 5.0, Sweat/Suit,
Country Grammar
Image courtesy of Universal
Records
The multiplatinum hip-hop star
works hard to stay fit, but he also
enjoys an occasional indulgence.
When he dropped by our offices
recently, the perpetually buff
rapper was snacking on a 100
Grand candy bar and a pack of
fruit Mentos. Yet, from the look
of his six-pack, the damage was
limited.
Since he broke into the music biz
with Country Grammar back in
2000, Nelly has started his own
clothing line, bought a minority
stake in the NBA's Charlotte
Bobcats, sold millions of records,
and put on nearly 30 pounds of
muscle. His latest album, 5.0,
drops right after the release of
Celebrity Sweat—a DVD that
reveals his training secrets. "In the
gym, I try to do everything I can,"
he says. "I isolate, I do cables, I
use the Smith machine, I bench."
When his schedule isn't loaded,
Nelly lifts five days a week. "If
I'm busy, I get in two or three
days just to maintain." Timing is
never an issue. "If I'm recording,
I'm in the studio until six or seven
in the morning," he says. "Then
you go home, get that nap, get to
the gym anywhere from 9 p.m. to
midnight. Sometimes later."
For cardio, Nelly focuses on his
love of sports. "I don't do
treadmills," he says. "I did try a
cycling class, but a 55-year-old
lady kicked my ass and I was
done." Mostly he plays basketball.
"It gives me everything," he says.
"I get the agility, the stretching,
the stop and go, the jumping. Full
court, you're getting the sprinting
in, too."
His eating plan is just as
straightforward. "I used to be a
vegetarian, but now I eat chicken.
I eat turkey. I'm not a great cook,
but I do it well enough not to
starve."
A favorite muscle-building meal?
"My specialty is probably turkey
burgers. They're the best—Swiss
and American cheese, lettuce,
Thousand Island dressing."
Thanks to good genetics and all
that dedication, the only time he
had to change his meal plan was
after landing a role in The
Longest Yard, when he needed to
bulk up. "They wanted me to play
a running back, and I looked like
the water boy," he says with a
smile. "I thought it was best to
look the part."
His Workout
In his workout DVD (available at
celebritysweatnelly.com), Nelly
hits his chest hard with pyramid-
style training. On exercises where
the reps decrease with each set, he
adds weight to keep his muscles
working hard and his body from
guessing what's coming next. A
typical routine:
Incline dumbbell press
SETS: 4
REPS: 15, 12, 10, 8, 6
Flat Smith machine bench press
SETS: 4
REPS: 15, 12, 8, 6
Dumbbell pullovers
SETS: 3
Cable crossovers
SETS: 3
REPS: 30 (10 each of high,
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You've done curls to death, but
your biceps still aren't growing.
Now try the chinup with iso
hold—a move specific to mixed
martial arts (MMA) training that
also helps to build bigger arms.
DO IT!
Grab on to a chinup bar with
hands shoulder-width apart and
palms facing you, and hang. Pull
yourself up until your chin is over
the bar and hold yourself there for
20 seconds. Lower yourself
slowly, then explode back up.
Now do three to five normal
chinups.
WHY IT WORKS
Wrestling and jiu-jitsu involve
prolonged isometric contractions,
such as when you're locking up
with an opponent or struggling to
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apply a submission choke. This
chinup simulates these situations,
and then forces you to use
explosive power when you're
already fatigued, just as a fighter
needs to. Supporting your entire
body weight in a chinup puts
tremendous load on your biceps,
and you'll recruit even more
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In Defense of Marty Peretz

Ronald Radosh (FrontPage circulation continued to fall, he elsewhere, is that the heyday of
Magazine » FrontPage) formed a group of investors to the magazine’s large influence
Submitted at 1/6/2011 10:45:46 PM buy it back. Throughout all the lies far in the past, particularly in
changes, Peretz established the decade of the 1980’s and the
Martin Peretz has been a pillar of himself as the liberal the left Reagan years. Most TNR readers
responsible liberalism since loved to hate, primarily because I have spoken with regularly
b u y i n g T h e N e w R e p u b l i c of his resolute defense of Israel in comment to me about the
m a g a z i n e i n 1 9 7 4 . W h i l e an era when progressives, acting journal’s decline in importance
establishing himself as a respected in concert with Islamic extremists, over the years. Their decision to
teacher at Harvard, he also made insisted that it was a reincarnation go bi-weekly, while possibly
TNR into one of the most exciting of Hilter’s Germany. Peretz’s necessary for financial reasons,
publications of the post Vietnam enemies bided their time, waiting made it less effective as an
era. Peretz gave graduate students for an excuse to isolate and influence in the nation’s political
like Michael Kinsley, Leon stigmatize him. Their moment debate. Sites like “Real Clear
Wieseltier and Andrew Sullivan came a few weeks ago when he Politics” sometimes put up pieces
the opportunity to establish wrote in his New Republic blog, from TNR, but more than often,
themselves as important public “The Spine,” about how the one finds more entries from
intellectuals and in return they primary target of Islamist violence Peretz as an intellectual pariah kept him from doing so. Involved conservative journals like
helped him give a second life to is other Muslims. “Muslim life is who was unbalanced and in other projects, Peretz feels he National Review and the Weekly
The New Republic, a magazine of cheap, most notably to Muslims,” ultimately undone by his betrayal had no time for the responsibility Standard. Checking the
politics founded by Herbert Croly Peretz wrote. “I wonder whether of the left, and most of all by his and day to day work of an editor magazine’s print circulation
and Walter Lippmann in 1914. I need honor these people and rear guard commitment to in chief, and felt that now was the figures that by law are publicly
Peretz defined its unique blend of pretend that they are worthy of the Zionism. right time to relieve himself of the printed once a year, we see a steep
muscular political journalism and p r i v i l e g e s o f t h e F i r s t Wells broke the story that as of job. Moreover, the implication drop in subscriptions, compared
literary and cultural criticism. By Amendment, which I have in my the first of this New Year, Peretz that the Board of TNR wanted to a huge rise in left-wing
the 1980s, TNR was the most gut the sense they will abuse.” would be stepping down and him out are also not true; nor were magazines like The Nation, and a
influential small circulation The reaction was immediate. given the new largely honorary the rumors that they had a constant high circulation in
magazine in the country, and Leftist commentators from the position of Editor in Chief controlling share in the magazine National Review, still since
unique among liberal publications elite media like The New York Emeritus. Moreover, it was and that he had to bend to its Buckley’s days the standard-
in its defense of America in a time T i m e s ’ N i c h o l a s K r i s t o f reported that his popular blog on desires. bearer for the conservative
of Soviet advances and leftish d e n o u n c e d Peretz’s TNR’s website, “The Spine,” Readers who may not have as yet movement.
infatuation with the Sandinistas I s l a m o p h o b i a . S t u d e n t s a t would be dropped from the seen the Wallace-Wells article In 2000, TNR’s paid circulation
and other totalitarian adventures, Harvard picketed him with signs magazine’s site. This turned out were not informed on the was 101,651. In 2009, it had
and also in its steadfast defense of calling him a “racist rat.” not be true. I spoke to Peretz, who magazine’s website of this major dropped to 53,485—the lowest in
Israel when the “progressive” Intellectuals such as Kinsley, is teaching in Israel, by phone. He change. The magazine had many, many years. A previous
attack on the only democracy in Peter Beinart, The New Yorker’s pointed out to me that he is previously announced that its sale to CanWest did not work out,
the Middle East, which Peretz saw Hendrik Hertzberg, and others actively writing new blog entries- actual editor, Franklin Foer, was and in 2009, a group of investors
would become a roar on the left, whose careers Peretz made, left as he has the past few days. leaving, and that Richard Just was in which Peretz had a major share
was still just a murmur. him twisting slowly in the wind. It Moreover, rumors that he was to replace him. But the magazine bought the magazine from the
In 2007, Peretz sold TNR to the was a full fledged public burning forced out of the editorship are did not announce any changes in Canadian firm that pledged to
Canadian media conglomerate that culminated in a recent New not true. He was contemplating Peretz’s status, and the last actual make it a major force in
Canwest, but retained his position York \Magazine article titled leaving that post the last few issue still listed him as Editor-in- publishing once again. In 2010, in
as editor in chief. Two years “Peretz in Exile.” The piece by years, he said, and only pleas by Chief.
l a t e r , a s t h e m a g a z i n e ’ s Benjamin Wallace-Well portrayed DEFENSE page 73
Frank Foer and Leon Wieseltier The truth about TNR, as I wrote
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comparison, the left-wing Nation
had a circulation of 145,000, and
the conservative National Review
in 2008 had a high circulation of
178,780. These figures tend to
change and fluctuate with the
fortunes of both the Left and the
Right; conservative influence
produces an influx of subs to left-
wing organs of opinion, and a
seemingly resurgent liberalism
leads to growth of conservative
ones. But despite these changes,
the one constant has been a
regular drop in the fortunes of
TNR.
Peretz disputes the above
assessment. First, he argues that
on domestic policy, TNR has had
a great influence in gathering
support for Obama Care, which he
backs. Right before Obama’s
inauguration, TNR ran an event at
which Rahm Emanuel and Barney
Frank both spoke, and they would
not have done so had they not
understood TNR’s importance to
the new administration, he argues.
Moreover, he notes that TNR’s
website has a huge readership, far
more than The Nation. One
cannot evaluate the magazine’s
readership, says Peretz, by just
going to the print edition.
For many years, especially in the
80’s, the magazine functioned as
the more realistic and hard-edged
liberal alternative to the stale
liberalism of the wartime Popular
Front, and later, the new anti-anti-
Communism of the bulk of the
liberal movement during the
Vietnam War and after. In the
conflict at home over Reagan
policy in Central America, Peretz
editorially supported the
Nicaraguan contras, a group for
whom most liberals had nothing
but hate and disdain. He did this
against the wishes of his own
chosen editors, who openly
published a letter opposed to the
magazine’s editorial policy. And
Peretz continued to run articles
fiercely critical of Daniel Ortega
and the Sandinistas, from writers
like Robert Leiken and myself.
Indeed, Peretz and TNR sent me
twice to Nicaragua to report on
events during the Sandinistas’
years of power. From today’s
perspective, Peretz says in
retrospect, the fight of those years
was more about a conflict
between Nicaraguan elites for
power, rather than one of the
forces of freedom fighting against
those of tyranny.
But on domestic issues, the
magazine continued to hold firm
to the old paradigm of
Progressivism, in which it got
started when Herbert Croly
founded the journal in the days of
TR and Woodrow Wilson. Its
writers and editors followed the
usual Progressive era views,
whose adherents thought that the
“administrative, bureaucratic
state,” as writer Walter Russell
Mead defines it, can still be
handled via regulatory measures.
Hence their defense of and
support of Obama Care, which
outgoing editor Franklin Foer
mentioned as one of the
magazine’s most important
efforts. As Mead writes so
powerfully, “if our society is
going to develop we have to move
beyond the ideas and institutions
of twentieth century
progressivism.” Its promises have
dissolved, and its “premises no
longer hold.” This goes against
the grains of many of our best
intellectuals, Mead claims, an
observation justified by reading
many of TNR’s own writers and
editors when they write about
domestic issues.
Despite this major problem that
has always plagued TNR, for
years it was a hard edged critic of
the official American liberalism,
particularly in the realm of
foreign policy. It stood not only
for anti-Communism, but for a
strong national defense, against
appeasement of tyrannies at a
time when many of our Presidents
sought to placate or appease them
in the hopes that it would lead to
peace. Most important of all, TNR
was the strongest media voice in
the nation that stood foursquare in
defense of Israel. And all of this
was due to the influence and
guidance of Marty Peretz, who
always understood – and does so
especially at present – that the
strength of Israel was paramount
to the ability of the West to defeat
our latest enemy, the forces of
radical Islam. Peretz realizes that
Israel’s fight is not that nation’s
alone; rather, it is the fight of the
Western powers as a whole.
And it is this stance, we must
understand, that has led to Peretz
having so many enemies. His
willingness to stand up and buck
official liberalism in its hostility
to Israel and the view of most
realists and liberals that peace
does not exist in the Middle East
because of Israel’s so-called self-
defeating policies, has meant that
those who believe in this fairy tale
have total hatred for Peretz, and
instead of wishing him well in his
endeavors, are out to destroy him.
The New York Magazine article
was part of this hit-job, in which
the author allowed Peretz’s ex-
wife Anne, from whom Peretz
obtained a bitter divorce a few
years ago, to largely frame the
personal narrative of the article, in
which readers learn of Peretz’s
“anger” that supposedly was
“only partly diminished by years
of therapy.” His defense of Israel
is questioned by having Wallce-
Wells treat the Palestinians as
making “halting steps to
modernization,” while Israel he
claims has “pivoted to the right.”
Clearly, Wallace-Wells is a
sympathizer with Peter Beinart’s
school of realism in which Beinart
and others argue that Israel has
betrayed them and liberalism, and
might no longer be worthy of the
support they once gave the Jewish
State unless it allows them to
force concessions upon Israel that
a majority of its citizens oppose.
I happened to be leaving a forum
with Peretz at which he spoke and
as we exited the building, Peter
Beinart was coming in. The two
passed each other by with hardly a
word of response from Beinart,
although Peretz said hello. It was
pretty clear that Beinart now felt
personally hostile to Peretz. And
this is from a man whom Peretz
made editor of the magazine and
who stood at its helm for many
73
years. Yet Wallace-Wells only
lets his readers know that if
people dislike Peretz and his
politics, it is all Peretz’s
fault—just like the absence of real
peace in the Middle East is all
Israel’s fault.
We learn that Peretz “is grumpy
about modernity,” that James
Fallows – “the most reasonable
man in American letters,” Wallace
-Wells writes – concludes that
“Peretz is a bigot.” How could he
not be, since Fallows said it, and
he is, of course, reasonable.
Wallace-Wells does not tell his
readers that Fallows is well
known for long holding an anti-
Israel position. This was made
clear a few years ago by Gabriel
Schoenfeld.
“Taking up the ideas of John
Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
about the inordinate influence of
the ‘Israel Lobby’ on American
foreign policy,” writes
Schoenfeld, “James Fallows of
the Atlantic writes that ‘[t]o the
(ongoing) extent that AIPAC–the
American Israel Public Affairs
Committee, which calls itself
‘America’s Pro-Israel Lobby’–is
trying to legitimize a military
showdown between the United
States and Iran, it is advancing its
own causes at the expense of
larger American interests.” The
people behind this cause, he
continue ‘are not from one ethnic
group in the conventional sense
but are mainly of one religion
(Jewish).’ “To observe this, writes
Fallows, and to warn against it,
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Morning Bell: Americans Are Fleeing Obama’s Crony Capitalist

Economy
Conn Carroll (The Foundry: brands actually fell a full 1.8 and added former Fannie Mae • Reduce taxes on foreign Department yesterday informing
Conservative Policy News.) percent in 2010. So why is the ($135 billion bailout so far) earnings to encourage companies them that the House will be
Submitted at 1/7/2011 8:33:22 AM President’s closest lobbyist and JPMorgan ($12 to repatriate the profits to investigating allegations that the
communication aide doing PR for billion bailout) executive Bill America. Civil Rights Division has engaged
Posted January 7th, 2011 at what is, supposedly, a privately Daley as President Barack in race-biased enforcement of the
9:33am in Ongoing Priorities owned car company? Obama’s Chief of Staff. There is a According to James Sherk, Karen National Voter Registration Act.
Print This Post Yes, the Obama Administration phrase for an economy that is so Campbell, and John Ligon of the • Forty-six Republican House
Today the Bureau of Labor and did sell off a majority stake of dependent on close relationships C e n t e r f o r D a t a A n a l y s i s , Members and one Democrat
Statistics released its monthly jobs their ownership of GM this between business people and adopting these measures increase j o i n e d s p o n s o r M a r s h a
report showing that the U.S. November ( at a $10 billion loss government officials: crony real gross domestic product by an Blackburn’s (R–TN) bill that
economy added only 103,000 jobs to taxpayers), but that still leaves capitalism. And it is strangling average of $56 billion a year would block the EPA’s new
t h i s D e c e m b e r . W i t h t h e them owning about a 37 percent our economic recovery. between 2011 and 2020, reduce global warming regulations.
unemployment rate now at 9.4%, share in the company. In other There is a better way. Instead of the national debt by $305 billion • Representative Steve Scalise
this marks the 20th month in a words, our government is still part relying on bailouts, subsidies, tax by 2020, and increase job growth (R–LA) and 28 other House
row that the unemployment has owner of a supposedly private car loopholes, and regulations to pick by 305,000 a year between 2011 R e p u b l i c a n s i n t r o d u c e d
been over 9 percent, a post–World company. And that is not the only and choose which politically and 2020. legislation to rein in the various
War II record. You are going to continuing link between bailed- connected firms succeed or fail, This past June, marking the first “ c z a r s ” i n t h e O b a m a
hear a lot of noise from the White o u t G M a n d t h e O b a m a government should unleash anniversary of the Obama A d m i n i s t r a t i o n .
House about how this drop from a Administration. The Obama czar entrepreneurs to create jobs Administration’s destruction of • Republican governors are
9.8% unemployment rate to 9.4% who oversaw the GM bailout, Ron through true free enterprise our nation’s bankruptcy code, pressing the Administration to
means the economy is in a strong Bloom, was just named the new policies. Specifically, Congress Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels make it easier for states to cut
recovery. This is false. The reality czar for all of manufacturing should: (R) warned: “The nation is not Medicaid spending.
is that the only reason the policy at the White House’s • Rescind unspent stimulus funds; safe from crony capitalism. In the • The Democratic-controlled
unemployment rate dropped is National Economic Council • R e f o r m past year we’ve experienced the Illinois General Assembly has
because the U.S. labor force (NEC). So we can expect to see regulations—specifically nationalization of the student loan reached agreement with Governor
decreased by 434,000. More continued favoritism for GM and repealing Section 404 of the industry and the passage of Pat Quinn (D) to raise income and
importantly 260,000 Americans its bailed-out brothers from the Sarbanes–Oxley Act—to reduce national health-care and financial- corporate taxes to help eliminate a
dropped out of the labor force entire Obama Administration. unnecessary business costs; services regulation, each of which budget deficit of at least $13
entirely. This means that the The manufacturing industry is • Remove barriers to domestic is rife with new opportunities for billion this year.
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Hitting the Ceiling
Submitted at 1/7/2011 3:00:42 AM
Republicans debate whether and
how to raise the federal debt limit.
W hat happens when you get
close to the limit on your credit
card? Well, if you’re the United
States Congress, you can just vote
to increase that limit and carry on
spending -- and Congress has
done just that five times in the
past four years.
Not this time. Not so fast,
anyway. President Obama, who
on Thursday formally requested
congressional approval to increase
the national debt limit -- currently
set at $14.3 trillion -- will have to
persuade a Tea Party–infused
112th Congress, and soon. The
limit is expected to be reached
sometime this spring.
#ad#Just as Republicans were
able to leverage a January 1
deadline to strike a deal with the
White House on tax rates during
the lame-duck session, they are
now hoping to use the urgency of
this situation to force Democrats
to swallow a hefty dose of fiscal
restraint.
There are, of course, a number of
leading conservatives who are
dead set against raising the debt
ceiling under any circumstances,
even if it means forcing a
government shutdown similar to
the one orchestrated by former
speaker Newt Gingrich in 1995,
or risking default. Familiar faces
such as those of Reps. Michelle
Bachmann (R., Minn.) and Ron
Paul (R., Texas) have been joined
by a chorus of freshman members,
many of whom explicitly
campaigned against raising the
debt limit.
However, most Republicans,
bowing to reality (and
remembering the blow that the
GOP’s reputation suffered as a
result of the 1995 shutdown),
have decided on a more pragmatic
approach. A number of ideas have
been put forward as to what a
compromise might look like.
Many of them center on efforts to
rein in government spending
(though none have been specific
about what would be cut).
“You can’t not raise the debt
ceiling,” said House Budget
Committee chairman Paul Ryan
(R., Wis.) during a forum at the
National Press Club on Thursday.
“But we want to have real fiscal
controls, real spending cuts to go
with this.” Perennial fiscal hawk
Rep. Jeff Flake (R., Ariz.) agreed,
telling National Review Online
that any debt increase “has to be
in tandem with spending cuts.”
Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.),
who has characteristically
threatened to filibuster the vote,
said he wanted $300 billion in
agreed cuts before he’d back
down. And the new House
speaker, John Boehner (R., Ohio),
said in a statement Thursday that
“the American people will not
stand for” an increase to the debt
limit “unless it is accompanied by
meaningful action#...#to cut
spending.”
But some GOP lawmakers would
like to see more than just
spending cuts. Sen. Lindsey
Graham (R., S.C.) said on Meet
the Press that Social Security
reform should also be on the
table. Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.)
has suggested that comprehensive
tax reform be included as part of a
deal.
One idea that has started to catch
on is a proposal by Sen. John
Cornyn (R., Texas) to tie raising
the debt ceiling to a balanced-
budget amendment. Cornyn
introduced such a bill in
December, and it was
unanimously approved by the
Republican Conference.
Club for Growth spokesman
Mike Connolly said Republicans
should aim big. In return for
raising the debt ceiling, the GOP
should demand “pretty dramatic
reforms,” not only in terms of
spending but also in terms of
comprehensive structural changes
to the budget process,
entitlements, and the tax code.
“We need to go farther than just a
few symbolic cuts,” he told
National Review Online.
“Republicans need to show the
game has changed and a new
sheriff is in town.”
FreedomWorks president Matt
Kibbe agreed, saying any
arrangement should include
significant and immediate
spending cuts, as well as longer-
term structural reforms such as a
balanced-budget amendment and
perhaps a few elements of Ryan’s
“Roadmap for America.”
#page#Grover Norquist, president
of Americans for Tax Reform,
said he liked all of the policy
proposals that have been put
forward, but argued that
Republicans’ primary goal should
be “winning the argument” on
debt and spending. In other
words, they should make the case
to the public, and independent
voters in particular, that
Democratic policies are to blame
for the country’s fiscal woes.
“You take as much as you can get,
and you can get more if you frame
the argument correctly,” he told
National Review Online. One
item Norquist said he would like
to see attached to the debt vote
was a bill introduced by Rep.
Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) that
would force state and local
governments to be more
transparent in regard to their
public-pension liabilities (which
are pushing those governments
toward default).
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Democrats have been doing their
best to “frame the argument” by
painting Republicans as economic
extremists. Austan Goolsbee,
chairman of the White House
Council of Economic Advisers,
accused Republicans of “playing
chicken” with the debt ceiling on
ABC’s This Week. Failure to
raise the limit, he said, would be
“totally unprecedented” and have
“catastrophic” consequences.
“This is not a game,” Goolsbee
said. “If we get to the point where
you’ve damaged the full faith and
credit of the United States, that
would be the first default in
history caused purely by
insanity.” Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid recently warned of
“extremist elements in the GOP”
plotting to shut down the
government.
#ad#A senior GOP Senate aide
told National Review Online that
Democrats can complain all they
want; they are still going to lose
the argument. Republicans believe
that given the mood of the
country, many Democrats won’t
have the stomach to take a hard
line against fiscal discipline. “Our
strategy is to force them to say no
to spending cuts,” the aide said.
Let the games begin.
--- Andrew Stiles is a 2010
Franklin Fellow. Andrew Stiles
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Obama’s Vacation Reading
Submitted at 1/7/2011 3:00:49 AM
Is the president trying to become
a man of the people?
P resident Obama’s vacation
reading was announced recently,
and the three authors likely to get
sales boosts from the
announcement are Lou Cannon,
David Mitchell, and John Le
Carré, authors of President
Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime,
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob
De Zoet, and Our Kind of Traitor,
respectively. Also, on Christmas,
the Washington Post reported that
President Obama was reading
Taylor Branch’s book about the
Clinton presidency.
A number of analysts have
suggested that these selections
show that Obama is trying to
become more of a man of the
people. The Independent’s Guy
Adams says the picks of “the le
Carré and David Mitchell
bestsellers are populist gestures;
Mr. Obama’s previous reading
lists, which included works by
such authors as Thomas
Friedman, are said to have been
too dry and academic for Middle
America.”A report in the
Australian suggests that Obama is
“stung by criticism he is aloof and
out of touch” and has therefore
“turned to the great communicator
for inspiration.”
#ad#I am not so sure. Having
made a bit of a study of the
meaning we can derive from
presidential reading (see here and
here), I think that the choices
reflect who Obama is and how he
wants to be seen, but I don’t think
he will be turning to populism
anytime soon. With The
Thousand Autumns, Obama is
once again looking at a sprawling
historical novel, as he did with
this summer’s Freedom, by
Jonathan Franzen. The Thousand
Autumns has some cachet among
the smart set, and Obama seems
to enjoy the approval of that
crowd. Furthermore, the New
York Times described the
Mitchell book as having
“meticulously reconstructed the
lost world of Edo-era Japan,”
which does not strike me as
characteristic of a populist reading
selection.
As for the Reagan book: Obama,
like Clinton, has demonstrated a
tendency to read mainly books by
liberal authors. (George W. Bush,
in contrast, read a variety of
works from both liberals and
conservatives.) By reading
Cannon, Obama may not be
reading a conservative author, but
at least he is reading about a
conservative subject, which is
progress, of a sort. More likely,
though, he is looking to a great
president for clues as to how he,
too, can become a great president.
Reagan’s communication skills
were of course superb, but his
policies had something to do with
it as well, and Obama would have
to take on some of Reagan’s
ideology to learn the full lesson of
Reagan. Everyone, left and right
alike, can agree that this is
unlikely to happen.
Le Carré is typical vacation
reading, and probably does not
teach us all that much, although
Obama may have been intrigued
by the cameo appearance that his
wife, Michelle, makes in the
book. According to the New York
Times’ Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “in
one passage, characters cannot
visit the gardens of the Champs-
Élysées because ‘Michelle Obama
and her children are in town.’”
As for the Branch book about
Clinton, the December 25
Washington Post report that it was
on Obama’s list came more than
two months after the New York
Times’ Peter Baker reported that
Obama was “seeking guidance in
presidential biographies,”
including the Branch book.
Presumably, it is taking Obama a
long while to get through the
book’s 720 pages. It is also
possible that he does not read that
many books when not on
vacation. In a conversation with
the New York Times’ Michael
Powell, he admitted that one of
the challenges of the presidency is
that “you have very little chance
to really read. I basically floss my
teeth and watch SportsCenter.”
Regardless, Obama’s recent
interest in Clinton may have been
part of an early effort to begin his
preparations for dealing with a
GOP Congress. Looking to learn
from the past to avoid mistakes is
a good idea, but Obama is not the
only one who stands to benefit
from looking at the history of the
Gingrich–Clinton showdowns.
New House speaker John Boehner
has an interest in this as well -- he
not only has studied the earlier
interaction, but lived through it,
and will presumably be prepared
to face the Clinton playbook
should Obama resort to using it.
As always, it is important not to
read too much into presidential
reading. As the interpretation of
reading selections can vary
widely, overthinking the
selections by a president can
backfire. Also, there is no rule
that says that all of a president’s
books need to be disclosed to the
public. A president should pick
books that he likes, and let the
politics of the reading sort
themselves out. The best thing to
do, as Animal House’s Otter
suggested about golf -- which also
occupied a great deal of Obama’s
vacation -- is to not “think of it as
work. The whole point is just to
enjoy yourself.”
--- Tevi Troy is a visiting senior
fellow at the Hudson Institute. He
is a former White House aide and
a former deputy secretary of
health and human services. Tevi
Troy
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Don’t
Rewrite
Mark Twain
Submitted at 1/6/2011 11:00:32 PM
The whitewashers are missing the
point.
I f only Mark Twain were alive to
skewer the censorious protectors
of modern sensitivities who have
taken to banning Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn from the
classroom and now to excising its
offensive words.
A new edition published by
NewSouth Books will expurgate
all 219 uses of the N-word, and
the use of the word “injun,” for
good measure. Twain probably
wouldn’t be surprised, since
bluenoses have been after his
masterpiece from the beginning.
The Concord, Mass., public
library rejected the book upon its
publication in 1885. It considered
Twain’s handiwork “rough,
coarse, and inelegant, dealing
with a series of experiences not
elevating, the whole book being
more suited to the slums than to
intelligent, respectable people.”
#ad#The good librarians of
Concord must not have read far
enough into the novel to realize
that it satirizes many of the
“rough and coarse” people with
which it deals. Just as today’s
critics of the book miss that it
condemns racism, brilliantly and
movingly, although much too
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The Next Immigration Battle: Birthright Citizenship

Arnold Ahlert (FrontPage model bill doesn’t confer any or court decisions) on what Rep.
Magazine » FrontPage) special rights, benefits, privileges Kavanagh referred to as granting
Submitted at 1/6/2011 10:40:01 PM or immunities, nor would babies citizenship “based on GPS
born to illegal immigrants in any location at birth.” Randy Terrill,
The next big battle on the illegal state which passes the law be an Oklahoma Republican state
immigration front is beginning to stripped of any rights or benefits representative working on an anti-
take shape. A group of state law- they already receive. birthright bill there, goes further.
makers plans to challenge the idea Kris Kobach, a University of “When taken to its logical
that babies born in the United Missouri-Kansas City School of extreme, that would produce the
States to immigrant parents Law professor who helped draft absurd result that children of
should automatically be granted S B 1 0 7 0 ( A r i z o n a ’ s s t a t e invading armies would be
citizenship. So-called “anchor immigration law), claims the bill considered citizens of the U.S.,”
babies” have always been an neither upends the Fourteenth he said.
integral part of the overall illegal Amendment, nor the federal Opponents of the measure
immigration debate, but this government’s power to make consider such an attempt a waste
particular aspect of it centers immigration law. The “very of time and money. ”I don’t
a r o u n d t h e C o n s t i t u t i o n ’ s calculated first step” asserts the know what they think they’re
Fourteenth Amendment which right of a state to define the terms doing,” said Paul Bender,
reads, ”All persons born or o f c i t i z e n s h i p w i t h i n t h a t professor of law and dean
naturalized in the United States, s t a t e – a l o n g with a Fountain Hills). America. That has been emeritus at Arizona State
and subject to the jurisdiction separate mutually-agreed upon, Reality check? Such a pact something that has been ignored, University’s Sandra Day
thereof, are citizens of the United multi-state compact to keep between the states would require as our government has allowed O’Connor College of Law. “I
States and of the State wherein r e c o r d s r e g a r d i n g w h e t h e r Congressional approval, a long for citizenship to be granted to guess they want to create a
they reside.” Does eliminating someone was born to U.S. citizen shot at best in the Democratically- children of foreign nationals,” he controversy, hoping for what?
birthright citizenship require a parents, or not. Proponents of the controlled Senate. said Tuesday. That the Supreme Court will
constitutional amendment? legislation believe that creating Butler County Republican Daryl As of now fourteen change its mind, or Congress will
Legislators from five states don’t two different kinds of state birth Metcalfe of western Pennsylvania states–Arizona Alabama, do something? I don’t know, but
think so. In Washington, D.C. on certificates, one for the children of takes a different tack. He claims Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, it’s pretty clearly
W e d n e s d a y , t h e y r e v e a l e d citizens and another for the the Fourteenth Amendment has Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, unconstitutional.” Mr. Bender
legislation designed to force the c h i l d r e n of illegal been “misinterpreted,” and that Nebraska, New Hampshire, added that even if the bill got to
issue into federal courts. They i m m i g r a n t s , c o u l d s p a r k a the word “jurisdiction” provides Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas the Supreme Court, it doesn’t
intend to pass laws establishing a numerous lawsuits which might the key. “It was very clear that to and Utah–are on board with this necessarily mean the basic
criteria for “state citizenship,” resolve the conflict in their favor. be under the jurisdiction thereof attempt to eventually trigger a question of whether or not
defining who would or wouldn’t ”The bottom line: What we want meant that your parents had an Supreme Court review of current birthright citizenship applies to
be a citizen in a particular state. is our day in court,” said Arizona allegiance to the United States of federal policy (as opposed to law children of illegal immigrants
The lawmakers add that the state Rep. John Kavanagh (R- would even be addressed.
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The Other New Chicago Crony Chief of Staff

Submitted at 1/6/2011 11:00:49 PM
the Daley political machine: That doomed corporate-sports- energy from the election process
Sher is Mrs. Obama’s old boss at welfare campaign would have and turn it toward the agenda.”
It’s No Windy City Corporate t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f C h i c a g o provided a multibillion-dollar Others in on the politicized-arts
Lawyer Left Behind Week in the Medical Center (where they taxpayer windfall to Daley’s campaign discussed creating
nation’s capital. worked together on an infamous bankrupt city and the real-estate “counter-narratives” to combat
F un fact: Bill Daley isn’t the “patient-dumping” scheme that mogul friends of the Obamas’ GOP health-care critics and anti-
only new chief of staff in the benefited Chicago political inner Chicago circle. amnesty activists.
White House with longtime ties to operative and public-relations The head of the White House In a statement touting the chief-of
the Chicago Way. Yep, it’s No guru David Axelrod at the OPE? Chicago corporate lawyer, -staff appointment, Mrs. Obama
Windy City Corporate Lawyer expense of poor urban patients prodigious six-figure political lauded Tchen’s “outreach”
Left Behind Week in the nation’s outsourced to far-off clinics). fundraiser, and old Jarrett friend prowess and praised her for
capital. Before that, Sher worked as a Tina Tchen. “ensuring that communities across
On the other side of the White former top city attorney for Tchen was listed in 2009 White the country have a voice and a
House, deep-pocketed campaign- retiring Chicago mayor Richard House visitor logs as having met presence at the White House.”
finance mega-bundler Tina Tchen Daley’s administration, where she there with none other than radical “Communities.” It’s the 2011
was named first lady Michelle forged a tight relationship with left-wing billionaire George euphemism for privileged
Obama’s new right-hand woman - Daley’s deputy-chief-of-staff- Soros. Chicago friends of Obama.
- or rather, left-hand woman. The t u r n e d - l i f e t i m e - O b a m a - Tchen was also in the middle of Make no mistake: These
self-described “progressive” consigliere Valerie Jarrett. Jarrett the Obama administration’s appointments aren’t about moving
attorney from Chicago is taking hired Michelle Obama at Sher’s efforts to recruit artists to advance toward “centrism.” They’re about
over as chief of staff in the East behest, and they all linked arms as their political agenda through the protecting the politics of self-
Wing following the expected they gamboled together down the taxpayer-supported National perpetuating favoritism. With
departure of Susan Sher. Tchen patronage-trimmed path to 1600 Endowment of the Arts. Daley in the West Wing and
personally raised more than Pennsylvania Ave. Conservative film producer and Tchen in the East Wing, the
$ 2 0 0 , 0 0 0 f o r t h e O b a m a As White House senior adviser, BigGovernment.com contributor Crony State is safe.
presidential campaign while a Jarrett has had free rein to create Patrick Courrielche first blew the --- Michelle Malkin is the author
lawyer at white-shoe Skadden shady, self-serving political whistle in 2009 when the NEA of Culture of Corruption: Obama
Arps. (No word on whether Mrs. offices and agencies on the and OPE gathered 75 artists, and His Team of Tax Cheats,
O b a m a g a v e h e r t h e s a m e taxpayers’ dime. One of those musicians, writers, and poets on a Crooks & Cronies(Regnery,
a n t i – c o r p o r a t e l a w y e r , f a t offices is the White House Office conference call to exhort them to 2010). © 2010 Creators
cat–bashing lecture she delivered of Public Engagement. OPE is the create propaganda art supporting Syndicate, Inc. Michelle Malkin
on the campaign trail.) secretive office Jarrett and the Obama’s domestic-policy agenda.
#ad#Now, stick with me here as Obamas used to push their failed Tchen was quoted telling the
we diagram another Chicago bid to win the 2016 Olympics for group on the call that “the
shuffle. As usual, all roads lead to Mayor Daley and their hometown. administration wants to sustain
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subtly for the witless commissars
of offensiveness.
The editor of the NewSouth
edition, Alan Gribben, isn’t
among them. To his credit, he
wants the book’s audience to
widen rather than shrink in the
controversy over one word. So
he’s well-intentioned in replacing
the N-word with “slave,” but
mistaken: Rewriting Twain is
wrong on all levels.
It does violence to Twain’s
artistry. Part of the genius of the
tale of the runaway Huck and his
slave friend Jim is how it
reproduces the speech of the time.
According to The Oxford
Companion to Mark Twain, he
experimented with five different
spellings of “something” to
capture how Jim said it: “suffin,”
“sumfin,” “sumf’n,” “suthin,” and
— the finalist — “sumfn.”
Twain uses the N-word so much
because it was inescapable. In the
1960s, Martin Luther King Jr.
joked about genteel Southerners
who still couldn’t quite get their
mouths around the word “Negro,”
saying “Nigra” instead. And that
was about 120 years after Huck
set out with Jim on a raft down
the Mississippi.
What was the Mississippi River
Valley like around 1840?
Consider the fate of Elijah P.
Lovejoy, who was killed by a
mob in the town of Alton, Ill., for
the offense of publishing an
abolitionist newspaper. Add a
darkly comic twist, and the story
could appear in Mark Twain.
This is the irony of sanitizing
Huck Finn. Those who rail against
the novel’s antiquated vocabulary
are usually the same people who
revel in America’s failings. But
they’re effectively whitewashing
our history. Nothing better
captures the quotidian racial
ugliness of that time and place
than Huck Finn’s deadening,
inescapable use of the N-word.
Editing out the word eases the
sting of Twain’s rebuke of mid-
19th-century conventions. It is
Jim, the character who is
demeaned and hunted like an
animal, who is most humane.
While Huck’s father is an
ignorant drunk who beats and
robs him, Jim desperately misses
his own family, and his
conscience lashes him for having
once hit his daughter unjustly.
Huck reflects on this and remarks,
“He was a mighty good n——,
Jim was.”
Strike the offending word from
the text and you lose the point.
The attitudes of the time kept
Huck from seeing what was
obviously in front of him —
simply a man, and a better one
than most. Twain said that Huck
had “a sound heart and a
deformed conscience.” The boy’s
triumph is rising above the forces
that shaped him and deciding to
help Jim run away, even though
it’s supposed to be wrong. “All
right then, I’ll go to hell,” he tells
himself.
Huck thought — because he was
told by every adult around him —
that it was a sin and a crime to
free Jim and treat him as equal,
and resolves to do it anyway. It’s
hard to imagine a more
devastating critique of antebellum
America, or a more affecting
portrayal of the power of human
fellow-feeling, than that. Please,
don’t try to improve Huck Finn.
— Rich Lowry is editor of
National Review. He can be
reached via e-mail,
comments.lowry@nationalreview.
com. © 2010 by King Features
Syndicate. Rich Lowry
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‘including the disastrous
consequences of attacking Iran’
that it is seeking to bring about, is
not to be anti-Semitic. And noting
the ‘power and potential’ of
groups like AIPAC ‘to distort
policy’ simply means
‘recognizing that James
Madison’s warnings about the
invidious effects of ‘faction’
apply beyond the 18th century.’”
As Schoenfeld argues, Fallows
himself is part of the faction “of
liberals who in almost all
instances oppose the use of
American power abroad. This
faction, too, might be thought of
as invidiously ‘advancing its own
causes at the expense of larger
American interests.’”
Take Wells’ second paragraph, in
which he blames Israel for
refusing “to stop construction of
new settlements; its growing
hostility toward the international
community and the Obama
administration; its storming of an
aid flotilla off the Gaza Strip in
May- these postures and incidents
have led some of the liberal
intellectuals who have historically
79
defended Israel to begin to edge
away.” He writes as if it was not
Obama who reversed a fifty year
policy of support for Israel,
bowed and scraped before Israel’s
enemies, snubbed Netanyahu and
reneged on Bush’s pledge about
allowing settlements. Obama, as
most observers have noted, made
it impossible for the Palestinian
Authority to do any less than
Obama had, and hence they
demanded Israel make
concessions before any
negotiations. And then he
describes the terrorist attempt to
break a legal blockade of Gaza as
an “aid Flotilla,” rather than a
blatant attempt of Hamas
supporters to push Israel to the
wall. Wallace-Wells, clearly, is in
the Beinart-Walt-Mearsheimer
camp- and is in no position to
criticize Peretz for standing firm
against them.
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Rep. Darrell Issa Takes On Big Government

Rich Trzupek (FrontPage role – arguably the biggest role –
Magazine » FrontPage) in creating the economic disaster
Submitted at 1/6/2011 10:43:46 PM that continues to fester today. A
thorough investigation into the
California Representative Darrell sorts of lending policies that
Issa (CA-49) has been a thorn in Fannie and Freddie encouraged
the side of the Obama and/or demanded, despite
administration since the president repeated warnings that such
President Obama’s
took the oath of office. Now that policies could only end in Approach to Sudan:
Issa is being elevated to the chair catastrophe, is desperately Gambling on Carrots, Not
of the House Oversight and needed. Sticks
Government Reform Committee, Other items high on Issa’s agenda
the congressman will have the are investigations to determine Morgan Roach (The Foundry:
power to shine a light on a host of Conservative Policy News.)
exactly how the Obama
matters and policies that many on administration spent trillions in Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:00:53 AM

the Right find to be of TARP and stimulus money, a look

questionable value at best and at corruption in Afghanistan and a Posted January 7th, 2011 at
downright destructive at worst. closer examination of the 11:00am in American Leadership
Preliminary reports indicate that Wikileaks scandal. Everyone, of Print This Post
Issa’s ambitious agenda will cover any political persuasion, ought to Last November, President Obama
a host of areas that badly need welcome these kind of hearings. made Sudanese President Omar al
attention. Yet, even if Issa and his Yet, despite Issa’s avowed intent -Bashir an offer: Allow southern
fundamental question: Why hasn’t of recession, there’s little chance
committee investigate such issues, to maintain a bipartisan approach, Sudan to secede peacefully in the
the economy created the private- that free market sanity will ever
the ultimate question remains: it would be the height of naiveté upcoming referendum and the
sector jobs the president prevail again.
will this finally be the Congress to believe that party rancor and United States will remove Sudan
promised?” Issa asked in a memo Issa also plans to use his
with the will and the courage to ideology won’t – as it always does from the list of state sponsors of
describing the hearing. It’s a committee to closely examine the
do something when problems are – quickly and loudly intrude into terror. Ironically enough,
timely question, given continuing roles that Fannie Mae and Freddie
identified, or will our the proceedings. One can only President Obama admonished
economic doldrums and high Mac played in 2008’s economic
representatives shy away from hope that the chairman and President Bush when he made a
unemployment, so this would meltdown. Those on the Left who
making tough, unpopular committee members from both similar offer two years ago. The
seem to be a good place for the insist on blaming the burst of the
decisions once again? parties will have the guts to stick Obama Administration gave
Oversight and Government housing bubble solely on
According to an interview he did to their guns and answer the tough Bashir, a man responsible for
Reform Committee to start. If the capitalist greed will surely gnash
with Fox, the first thing on Issa’s questions, no matter where the mass genocide, an opportunity to
public and both parties cannot be their teeth when these hearings
agenda will be a hearing to investigations lead. save face.
convinced that excessive are held. Denials by Barney Frank
examine the impacts of excessive While this offer will be rescinded
bureaucratic interference is and his ilk notwithstanding,
regulation on job creation. “We should Bashir fail to live up to his
economic poison after two years Fannie and Freddie played a huge
need to start by asking a very promise, the label “state sponsor
of terror” should not be treated as
a political tool. Such a status
should be removed only if a
country legitimately ends its
support to terrorist organizations.

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Manufactured Jihad
Ryan Mauro (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 1/6/2011 10:30:15 PM
The February 2006 riots
following the publication of
cartoons mocking the Prophet
Mohammed in a Danish
newspaper killed over 100 people
and showed the West the danger
of offending Muslim sensibilities.
New documents obtained by
WikiLeaks now show that the
Syrian government was actively
stoking these flames as a way of
frightening its enemies, winning
its own credibility in the Muslim
world and discouraging the West
from promoting democracy in the
Middle East.
It was obvious from the
beginning that terrorist-
sponsoring regimes were trying to
promote the outrage. Angry
crowds formed in Lebanon, Iran,
Gaza City and Damascus that
attacked the Danish and
Norwegian embassies and burned
European flags. As Fox News
reported at the time, “few believe
the protestors could have pulled
off such a brazen act without tacit
government consent.” Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice
said,“Iran and Syria have gone out
of their way to inflame sentiments
and to use this to their own
purposes, and the world ought to
call them on it.” Diplomatic
cables obtained by WikiLeaks
now reveal that the riots were
more of an instigated event than
previously acknowledged and was
not a spontaneous outburst of
Muslim outrage around the world.
In the days leading up to the large
demonstrations in Damascus, the
Syrian government ordered the
country’s Grand Mufti to “issue a
strongly worded directive to the
imams delivering Friday sermons
in the mosques of Damascus.”
Ammar Sahloul, a businessman
suspected of being an agent of the
Syrian government with close ties
to the Grand Mufti, began sending
out text messages at this time to
organize the demonstrations and
played an important role in
making them happen.
The documents explain that
banners put up in the Rawda
Square of Damascus by the
demonstrators were “obviously”
put up with the Assad regime’s
permission, as the security forces
had immediately removed other
banners such as ones promoting a
Muslim-Christian interfaith event
in the past because such banners
require government approval. The
Syrian security forces stood by as
the Danish and Norwegian
embassies were attacked by the
rioters but then intervened to
protect the French one, the cable
says.
At this time, Iranian state
television was describing the
publication of the Mohammed
cartoons as an insult to Islam by
the Danish government. Supreme
Leader Khamenei addressed the
country to call the cartoons a
“Zionist plot” and a top Iranian
official said the West had
published them to “test” Muslims
to see how they’d react.
Hezbollah and Hamas likewise
told Muslims it was their duty to
join the demonstrations and said
the punishment for insulting
Mohammed is death.
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PRESIDENT
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Sudan has been listed as a state
sponsor of terrorism since 1993. It
has been a safe haven for some of
the most wanted terrorists,
including Carlos the Jackal and
Osama bin Laden.
Other potential incentives being
touted by the Obama
Administration for Sudan’s good
behavior include the removal of
sanctions, international debt
relief, integration of Sudan into
trade and investment relations,
and improved diplomatic benefits
as announced by Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton at the U.N.
Security Council Ministerial
Meeting on Sudan in November.
These incentives for Bashir’s
cooperation are extremely
generous for a man wanted for
war crimes and genocide. While
Bashir is cooperating for now,
there’s no guarantee that he’ll
return to his gruesome ways once
the period for which he is required
to behave has lapsed.
The United States should not
bend to the will of any
international leader who has
committed atrocities against his
own people. So far, according to
Nile Gardiner of The Heritage
Foundation, the Obama
presidency has earmarked for
engagement practically every
dictatorship on earth, from Iran to
Venezuela to Sudan. Sadly, this
new policy has borne little fruit.
From North Korea to Belarus,
from Iran to Cuba, millions suffer
under the yoke of tyranny. In
Sudan, the Obama Administration
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PRESIDENT WAYS
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is betting against the trend line.
In the aftermath of the
referendum, if southern Sudan
votes for independence, President
Obama should not allow Bashir
and his troop of mass murderers
to inflict violence or impose any
political action that would hinder
the south’s right to self-
determination. His unreliable
diplomatic strategy of weighing
carrots over sticks could prove
dangerous not only for the
southern Sudanese but for
Americans as well.
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week, which I will use for
purchases under $10. That way,
I'll presumably think twice about
those trips to the vending machine
or the cafeteria for snacks at the
office, or that second glass of
wine when out catching up with a
friend. And, by setting this $10
mark for these first two rules, I'm
forced to consider carefully any
purchase before I make it.
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and Save Money This Winter
3. Bring lunch— four days per
week. One thing I quickly learned
from reviewing my Mint account:
I eat my money — literally. So,
while this rule is on the obvious
side, groceries for a week of
lunches are certainly cheaper than
the $7 to $10 per day I often
spend for my midday meal. But so
I won't feel too deprived, I'll take
myself out come noontime on
Fridays. I'm also going to limit
myself to dinners out on
weekends only (and use
Restaurant.com certificates
whenever possible).
Related: 5 Most Common Money
Mistakes (and How to Avoid
Them)
4. Attempt one "no-spending"
day per week. I read that the
average American spends an
average of $60 per day on non-
essentials. After some number
crunching, I know I'm not
"average" in this case, but I figure
that if I keep my wallet in my
purse for at least 24 hours every
seven days, I'll certainly spend
less frivolously.
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Fake Site Cwora Lampoons Quora

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4 Ways to Go on a Spending Diet

(Financiallyfit on Shine)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 5:26:53 AM
A while back, I signed up for
Mint.com, the site that keeps track
of your finances for you. My
fiscally responsible (or wannabe
responsible) New York friends
were raving about how it really
helped them get a handle on their
spending — and even helped
them save a little (yes, even in this
pricey city). So, I signed up,
plugged in my account numbers
(don't worry, it's totally safe!), and
even clicked around a bit... and
then basically forgot about it.
However, while I'm generally
pretty careful with my cash, I
would like to boost my savings
account a bit in 2011. So, I logged
in again, and set my savings goal
and my budgets for how I'll
(hopefully) achieve it.
Without getting into the minutia
of my specific plan, here are a few
guidelines I will follow:
1. Use a credit card for any
purchase over $10. Yes, you read
that right — but, note that I'll be
using just one single card. I've
always paid my balance off in full
every month, and it's much easier
for me to see where my money is
going when I can review a
statement. Plus, Mint lets you
categorize expenditures however
you like, so you can group similar
purchases together. Finally, a
while back I used BillShrink.com
to choose a card that offers the
best rewards program for me, so I
earn a little something for
spending.
Related: Money Savers That
Won't Cramp Your Style
2. Give myself a cash allowance.
I'm going to start with $50 per
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Geohot demos homebrew on 'jailbroken' PS3, Sony vows to 'fix'
via software update (video)
Ross Miller (Engadget)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:14:00 AM
We just saw how you can now
add an Install Package Files
option to the PS3 using some
custom firmware, but that darn
hacker George " Geohot" Hotz
has taken it a step further by
demonstrating homebrew in a
quick, Mr. Blurrycam-approved
video. It's a barebones app that
only says "sup dawg, it's geohot,"
but in reality it's a pretty huge
4G Shocker! Study finds consumers want what they fail to
understand
Joseph L. Flatley (Engadget)
Submitted at 1/7/2011 10:29:00 AM
We've certainly seen our fair
share of 4G devices in the Las
Vegas sun (well, convention
center) this year, but as you might
have guessed, a recent study finds
that increased awareness does not
necessarily equal increased
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step. Geohot's provided the file on
his website along with a copy of
the METLDR root key that
enables the homebrew. Sony,
meanwhile, has issued a statement
saying it'll "fix the issues through
network updates, but because this
is a security issue, we are not able
to provide you with any more
details." This runs counter to what
pytey from fail0verflow (the
famed group that kickstarted this
new round of hacking) just told
the BBC, "the only way to fix this
understanding. As the Nielsen
Company recently discovered, the
majority (54 percent) of
consumers who know or care
about 4G were relying on the old
International Telecommunications
Union definition of mobile data
speeds over 100 Mb/s, even
though carriers have sort of been
making up their own rules (for
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think that 4G somehow refers to
the iPhone 4? That one's a
perpetual head-scratcher. But in
the end, the study finds that none
of that really matters: almost three
in ten consumers are gearing up to
buy a 4G device within the next
twelve months. And \that's what
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