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Budget and bipartisanship don’t mix on
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Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 2/14/2011 1:03:37 PM
Feb 14, 2011 14:03 EST
Where’s the love?
Despite all the (whining?) and
dining at the White House in the
hopes of bipartisanship and
civility, Republicans got out the
trash-talk for President Barack
Obama’s 2012 budget proposal.
Since Republicans control the
House, and Democrats the Senate
and White House, bipartisan
action will be needed if any
progress is to be made.
Congressional Correspondent
Richard Cowan takes a look at
how the budget process works
here.
Obama released a $3.7 trillion
proposal as the first salvo in the
annual budget wars. Republicans
immediately marched out their
disapproval.
Republican House Budget
Committee Chairman Paul Ryan:
“The president’s budget
accelerates our country down the
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showed fiscal discipline: “It is a
tough love budget.”
Despite all the words today, the
series of spending bills that
actually implement the budget
won’t emerge for months and
months, after many congressional
hearings and behind-closed-door
negotiations.
In fact, Congress still hasn’t
passed the 12 spending bills from
last year, and has kept
government programs funded
through short-term bills with the
threat of a government shutdown
hanging over each of those votes.
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AP - A couple who spoke to the
Dalai Lama's nephew before he
was killed along a dark Florida
highway says he was smiling and
happy when they saw him, but
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Couple talked to
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Washington Extra – Cake cutting

Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row Washington today… as it prepares for tighter budgets
Washington) Obama budget attacks U.S. in coming years. The
Submitted at 2/14/2011 5:25:46 PM deficit, fight looming administration’s fiscal 2012
President Obama proposed budget proposal includes $118
Everyone SAYS they want to cut halving the deficit by 2013 and billion for wars, chiefly in
the budget deficit, but when it cutting $1.1 trillion over the next Afghanistan and Iraq, on top of a
comes to actually agreeing on a decade in a budget he called a record Pentagon base budget of
course of action, it’s not exactly a “downpayment” on fiscal control. $553 billion. The base budget
piece of cake. But Republicans, who accuse request is $22 billion above the
President Barack Obama says his Obama of being a tax-and-spend level enacted for 2010, a new high
budget plan would halve the Democrat, said the president had even as the government faces an
deficit by 2013. “So what we’ve not gone far enough in controlling overall freeze in federal spending.
done here is make a down costs. They aim to make the 2012 For more of this story by Andrea
payment, but there’s going to be presidential election a referendum Shalal-Esa and Jim Wolf, read
more work that needs to be done, on his fiscal track record. Obama here.
a n d i t ’ s g o i n g t o r e q u i r e said his plan was a balance Obama keeps Afghan war
through economic assumptions funding increases for market
Democrats and Republicans between deficit reduction pain and spending, Iraq costs down
that are brighter than private regulators, a move already
coming together to make it investment for growth. It only President Barack Obama on
forecasts, analysts said. coming under fire from
happen,” he said. provided a general guide on how For more of this story by Donna Republicans who oppose key Monday proposed spending
But Democrats and Republicans to tackle entitlement outlays that
Smith, read here. provisions in the Dodd-Frank a l m o s t $ 1 1 0 b i l l i o n o n
are far from seeing eye-to-eye on include the Social Security and
Obama seeks corporate tax break f i n a n c i a l r e f o r m l a w . T h e Afghanistan, signaling little let-up
how to go about deficit cutting. Medicare programs responsible cuts for revenue administration’s fiscal 2012 in the U.S. war drive despite
House Republican Leader Eric for huge government spending.
President Obama revived earlier budget proposes giving the SEC a demands for tougher spending
Cantor explained the difference as For more of this story by Alister
proposals to raise tens of billions 28 percent funding increase to controls at home. Obama, in his
he sees it: “For years, Democrats Bull and Jeff Mason, read here.
of dollars by cutting tax breaks $1.427 billion compared to fiscal budget for the 2012 fiscal year,
have proposed more government For a Q&A on how the budget
enjoyed by America’s biggest year 2010 actual spending levels. proposed spending just $16 billion
spending to create jobs, resulting proposal works, click here.
companies, ideas that have The CFTC would see an 82 in Iraq — a significant decrease as
in the largest debt and deficits in Facts and fiction gloss up U.S.
floundered in Congress for several percent spending jump to $308 U.S. diplomats take over from
history while unemployment presidents’ budgets
years. Obama’s 2012 budget million, but $117 million of that combat troops under a security
remains too high. Republicans Every president does it — plays
request proposes to raise $129 total would be offset through a agreement between the two
believe in free markets and the with the numbers in their annual
billion over 10 years by limiting user fee on financial firms that is countries.
ability for small businesses and budgets to make them add up to
deferral of taxes on income unlikely to draw support in For more of this story by Andrew
entrepreneurs to keep more of meet policy goals and to put a Quinn, read here.
earned abroad and curtailing what Congress.
their own money so they can nicer gloss on a bad situation.
the White House calls abuse of For more of this story by Obama budget has $556 bln, 6-
invest, grow their companies and President Obama plans to reduce
foreign tax credits, among other Christopher Doering and Sarah N. year transport plan
hire employees.” a budget deficit that is projected President Obama proposed an
provisions. Last year’s budget Lynch, read here.
At some point both parties are to account for 11 percent of the
proposal was similar, seeking to For related graphics, click here ambitious long-term transport
going to have to start singing entire U.S. economy this year to spending plan in his 2012 budget
raise about $122 billion by and here.
“stuck in the middle with you,” or just 3 percent in 2015. Meeting
trimming loopholes. Pentagon would get brief boost as a way to boost economic
nothing’s going to move. that goal “would be a significant competitiveness and spur job
For more of this story by Kim under Obama budget
(Sorry, have Grammy’s on the a c h i e v e m e n t , ” s a i d D a v i d
Dixon, read here. President Obama is seeking $671 growth. While cutting other
brain – how many people in DC Kendall, an analyst with Third
CFTC, SEC see funding surge billion for the military next year, spending, Obama aggressively
have heard of Arcade Fire?) Way, a centrist think tank. Much under Obama plan offering the Pentagon a short-term WASHINGTON page 3
Here are our top stories from of the deficit reduction is done
The White House proposed large boost for its core operations even
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accelerated efforts to upgrade
aging roads, bridges and introduce
high-speed rail with a six-year,
$556 billion package. The total is
60 percent richer than the last
transportation blueprint enacted
by Congress, which expired in
2009.
For more of this story by John
Crawley and Lisa Lambert, read
here.
Fannie, Freddie to need almost
$90 bln more-WHouse
The White House expects to
shovel close to $90 billion to
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over
the next few years, though they
are expected to start paying back
more than they receive as of next
year. The two firms have already
taken more than $150 billion in
direct taxpayer aid. The Obama
administration expects that
cumulative total to reach $236
billion by fiscal year 2021.
For more of this story by Corbett
B. Daly, read here.
Obama budget targets brand
name medicines
Big pharmaceutical companies
could face increased competition
from generic drugmakers under
two proposals put forth by the
Obama administration despite
earlier savings extracted from
drugmakers as part of last year’s
healthcare law. President Obama,
as part of his 2012 budget
proposal, called for cutting the
number of years drugmakers
could exclusively market
brandname biologic drugs to 7
years from 12.
For more of this story by Susan
Heavey, read here.
Obama would end subsidies to
wealthiest US farmers
President Obama called in his
2012 budget plan for the
elimination of farm subsidies to
the wealthiest growers, arguing
that the payments distort the farm
sector and some farmers can be
paid even if no crops are grown.
Lawmakers rejected an identical
proposal a year ago, ahead of the
2010 mid-term elections. They
said any change in farm supports
should be delayed until a
scheduled overhaul in 2012.
For more of this story by Charles
Abbott, read here.
Obama 2012 budget provides $8
bln for clean energy
President Obama proposed
boosting funds for clean energy
research and deployment in his
2012 budget by slashing subsidies
for fossil fuels such as oil, gas and
coal. The budget provides the
Department of Energy $29.5
billion for fiscal year 2012, up 4.2
percent from the proposed 2011
budget, and up 12 percent from
the enacted 2010 budget. Some $8
billion would support research in
clean energy like wind, solar and
advanced batteries.
For more of this story by
Timothy Gardner, read here.
In food vs fuel debate, U.S.
resolute on ethanol
As world food prices reach new
highs, a handful of politicians and
hard-hit corporations are readying
a fresh effort to forestall the use
of more corn and soybeans as
motor fuel. They are likely doing
so in vain, say experts. Unlike in
2008, when a wave of global
panic over grain supplies
provoked a fierce “food vs fuel”
debate, there’s so far only muted
outcry over biofuels, even after
corn surged last week to within 10
percent of its 2008 peak following
a forecast showing even higher
use in the ethanol sector.
For more of this analysis by
Timothy Gardner and Charles
Abbott, read here.
For a related graphic, click here.
US bailout cop Barofsky resigns
as TARP winds down
The top government auditor for
bailouts of financial firms and
automakers resigned his position
as the $700 billion TARP winds
down. Neil Barofsky said in a
resignation letter that he will leave
on March 30, but did not state a
specific reason for his decision to
resign his position as TARP
Special Inspector General after
serving just over two years. He
wrote that it “has truly been an
honor to serve, particularly during
such a critical time.”
For more of this story by David
Lawder, read here.
U.S. halts use of long-life
landmines, officials say
The U.S. military has stopped
using a type of land mine often
condemned as a long-term threat
to civilians and has ordered its
stock of 1.3 million of the mines
be set aside for destruction,
officials say. The decision to
move ahead with a long-standing
policy to end the use of persistent
landmines — those that cannot be
set to self-destruct or deactivate
— by the end of 2010 comes as
the Obama administration
continues to study whether to join
a global treaty banning anti-
personnel mines.
For more of this story by David
Alexander, read here.
What we are blogging…
Budget and bipartisanship don’t
mix on Valentine’s Day
Where’s the love? Despite all the
(whining?) and dining at the
White House in the hopes of
bipartisanship and civility,
Republicans got out the trash-talk
for President Obama’s 2012
budget proposal. Obama released
a $3.7 trillion proposal as the first
salvo in the annual budget wars.
Republicans immediately
marched out their disapproval.
For Tabassum Zakaria’s full post,
click here.
CPAC victory in hand, Ron Paul
takes on Tea Party
Libertarian Ron Paul, a godfather
of the Tea Party movement, isn’t
altogether happy with his political
progeny these days. Fresh from
victory in last week’s CPAC
presidential straw poll, the
3
Republican congressman from
Texas laments to MSNBC’s
“Morning Joe” that some Tea
Partiers aren’t measuring up when
it comes to the tough defense and
entitlement program cuts he
believes are needed to save the
United States from economic
cataclysm.
For David Morgan’s full post,
click here.
From elsewhere…
McDonalds serves up
McWeddings in Hong Kong
In the buzzing financial hub
known for its fast living, young
Hong Kong couples can now grab
love on the run at the city’s
McDonald’s outlets, which are
offering a burgeoning new
sideline: “McWeddings.”
For more of this story, read here.
Photo credit: Reuters/Michaela
Rehle (gingerbread dough for
traditional Oktberfest hearts)
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Bahrain protesters take control of main square (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) protesters quickly renamed politically volatile nations in the the nation's gradual pro- political crisis. But Al Wefaq
Submitted at 2/15/2011 10:15:16 AM "Nation's Square" and erected Middle East's wealthiest corner democracy reforms that have warned that it could take more
banners such as "Peaceful" that despite having one of the few given Shiites a greater political steps if violence persists against
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – were prominent in Cairo's Tahrir elected parliaments and some of voice. marchers staging the first major
Thousands of protesters poured Square, the epicenter of protests the most robust civil society The second day of turmoil began rallies in the Gulf since uprisings
into a main square in Bahrain's there. groups. A crackdown on after police tried to disperse up to toppled long-ruling regimes in
capital Tuesday in an Egypt-style The dramatic move Tuesday perceived dissent last year 10,000 mourners gathering at a Tunisia and Egypt.
rebellion that sharply escalated came just hours after a second touched off weeks of riots and hospital parking lot to begin a A statement from Bahrain's
pressure on authorities as the protester died in clashes with clashes in Shiite villages, and an funeral procession for Ali interior minister, Lt. Gen. Rashid
Arab push for change gripped the police in the strategic island ongoing trial in Bahrain accuses Abdulhadi Mushaima, 21, who bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, expressed
Gulf for the first time. kingdom, which is home to the 25 Shiites of plotting against the died in Monday's marches. "sincere condolences and deep
Security forces have battled U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. country's leadership. Officials at Bahrain's Salmaniya sympathy" to Mushaima's family.
demonstrators calling for political Oppositions groups aren't calling A prolonged showdown could Medical Complex said a 31-year- He expanded on the king's pledge:
reforms and greater freedoms over for the ruling Sunni monarchy to draw in the region's two biggest old man became the second stressing that the deaths will be
two days, leading to the deaths of be ousted, but they do want an rivals: Saudi Arabia, as close fatality when he died of injuries investigated and charges would be
two protesters and the main end to its grip on key decisions allies of Bahrain's Sunni from birdshot fired during the filed if authorities determined
opposition group vowing to freeze and government posts. monarchy, and Iran, whose hard- melee in the hospital's parking lot. excessive force was used against
its work in parliament in protest. Other demands — listed on a liners have spoken in support of The officials spoke on condition the protesters.
In a clear sign of concern over poster erected in the square — the nation's Shiite majority. of anonymity because they were But that's unlikely to appease the
the widening crisis, Bahrain's included the release of all political Bahrain is also an economic not allowed to speak to protesters, whose "day of rage"
King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa prisoners, more jobs and housing, weakling compared with the journalists. Monday coincided with major anti
made a rare national TV address, an elected Cabinet and the staggering energy riches of Gulf After the clash, riot police -government demonstrations in
offering condolences for the replacement of longtime prime neighbors such as Saudi Arabia eventually withdrew and allowed Iran and Yemen.
deaths, pledging an investigation minister, Sheik Khalifa bin and Qatar, which can afford far the massive funeral cortege for In the past week, Bahrain's rulers
into the killings and promising to Salman Al Khalifa. more generous social benefits. Mushaima to proceed from the have attempted to defuse calls for
push ahead with reforms, which The nation's majority Shiites — Bahrain's oil reserves are small main state-run medical facility in reform by promising nearly
include loosening state controls about 70 percent of the population and its role as the region's Manama. He was killed Monday $2,700 for each family and
on the media and Internet. of some 500,000_ have long international financial hub have during clashes with security pledging to loosen state controls
"We extend our condolences to complained of discrimination and been greatly eclipsed by Dubai. forces trying to halt marches to on the media.
the parents of the dear sons who being blackballed from important One protester, 24-year-old demand greater freedoms and State media reported that the king
died yesterday and today. We state jobs. Hussein Asamahiji, echoed the political rights. At least 25 people telephoned the head of Egypt's
pray that they are inspired by the Many in the square waved complaints from Tunisia and were injured in the barrage of ruling military council, Field
Almighty's patience, solace and Bahraini flags and chanted: "No Egypt: a lack of jobs and rubber bullets, birdshot and tear Marshal Hussein Tantawi, on
tranquility," said the king, who Sunnis, no Shiites. We are all allegations that the ruling elite gas, relatives said. Tuesday. No further details were
had previously called for an Bahrainis." It also appeared they monopolizes the best The main Shiite opposition given, but Bahrain had earlier
emergency Arab summit to were planning for the long haul. opportunities. group, Al Wefaq, denounced the appealed for an emergency
discuss the growing unrest. Some groups carried in tents and "We simply want the chance at a "bullying tactics and barbaric summit of Arab leaders to discuss
As the crowds surged into the sought generators to set up under better future," he said. "Egypt policies pursued by the security the widening protests.
Pearl Square in the capital of a nearly 300-foot (90-meter) showed it's possible." forces" and said it was suspending Bahrain's ruling Sunni dynasty
Manama, security forces appeared monument cradling a giant white The bloodshed already has its participation in parliament, also has extremely close ties with
to hold back. But key highways pearl-shaped ball that symbolizes brought sharp denunciations from where it holds 18 of the 40 seats. the leadership in Saudi Arabia,
were blocked in an apparent the country's heritage as a pearl the largest Shiite political bloc, The declaration falls short of which is connected to Bahrain by
attempt to choke off access to the diving center. which suspended its participation pulling out the group's lawmakers,
vast traffic circle — which Bahrain is one of the most in parliament, and could threaten which would spark a full-scale BAHRAIN page 9
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Stephen R. Covey (Fast understand my kid. He just won't interaction, but your motive in heart. You listen for feeling, for
Company) listen to me at all." listening is autobiographical. You meaning. You listen for behavior.
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do you listen with your own won't listen to you?" When I say empathic listening, I Empathic listening is so powerful
autobiographical filter? Or do you "That's right," he replied. mean listening with intent to because it gives you accurate data
listen to actually understand the "Let me try again," I said. "You understand. I mean seeking first to work with. Instead of
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Highly Effective People, by another person, you needed to reference. You look out through head and heart. You're listening
Stephen R. Covey. listen to him," I suggested. it, you see the world the way they to understand. You're focused on
The habit to "seek first to "Oh!" he said. There was a long see the world, you understand receiving the deep communication
understand" involves a very deep pause. "Oh!" he said again, as the their paradigm, you understand of another human soul.
shift in paradigm. We typically light began to dawn. "Oh, yeah! how they feel. In addition, empathic listening is
seek first to be understood. Most But I do understand him. I know Empathy is not sympathy. the key to making deposits in
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intent to understand; they listen through the same thing myself. I parts of the conversation. We a form of judgment. And it is because nothing you do is a
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everything through their own idea of what was really going on practice attentive listening, paying them dependent. The essence of make a deposit, only to have it
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autobiography into other people's into his own head and thought he the words that are being said. But agree with someone; it's that you person regards your efforts as
lives. saw the world, including his boy. very few of us ever practice the fully, deeply, understand that manipulative.
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attitude is, "That person just listening at all. We may practice you practice those techniques, you you listen with your ears, but you be your only motivation.
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A father once told me, "I can't Right." We may practice selective autobiography in the actual with your eyes and with your USING page 9
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Chinese shoppers struggle with spiraling prices (AP)
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BEIJING – Spiraling prices have
made the grocery store a scary
place for Chu Yun, a 27-year-old
office clerk.
"Prices for everything are going
up and it seems it will never stop,"
Chu said as she hunted bargains in
a supermarket. "I have no
confidence prices can be brought
under control this year. I think
they will keep going up."
China's public is struggling with
a monthslong surge in food prices
that has defied government efforts
to combat inflation with interest
rate hikes, price controls and a
campaign to boost vegetable and
grain output.
On Tuesday, the government
reported inflation accelerated in
January, rising to 4.9 percent from
December's 4.6 percent. That was
driven by a 10.3 percent jump in
food costs amid tight supplies and
strong demand.
Economists expect more sharp
price rises in coming months
because China faces a problem it
cannot quickly fix: Demand is
outstripping food supplies, while
high global commodity prices
mean it can't fill the gap cheaply
with imports.
"Inflation is unlikely to come
down substantially in the first half
of the year," said Mark Williams
Apple rolls out digital subscription service (Reuters)
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of Capital Economics. Analysts
expect more rate hikes, but
Williams said that on their own,
"they aren't going to bring more
crops to the market."
Inflation is dangerous for China's
leaders because it erodes
economic gains that underpin the
Communist Party's claim to
power. And it hits the poor
majority hardest in a society
where millions of families spend
up to half their incomes on food.
That is politically awkward as
Beijing tries to enforce stability
ahead of a once-a-generation
handover of power next year to
younger Communist Party
leaders.
"The political backdrop of the
transition is paramount in the
policymakers' minds," said
Dariusz Kowalczyk, senior
economist at Credit Agricole CIB.
"They realize the poorer people
who still are the majority of
China's population are hurt by
inflation to a larger degree than
they benefit from growth."
Beijing has tried to mollify the
public by paying food subsidies to
poor families, holding down
prices in university cafeterias and
ordering local leaders to see that
vegetable markets have adequate
supplies. It has tried to diffuse
public frustration by claiming
hoarding and price-fixing by
speculators is partly to blame.
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a long-awaited subscription move that could dent the fortunes
s e r v i c e f o r m a g a z i n e s , of successful services such as
But analysts say Beijing also
failed to act quickly enough to
head off inflation after it deflected
the 2008 crisis by flooding the
economy with stimulus money
and bank lending. The economic
rebound gave consumers more
money to spend and banks are
pumping out loans despite orders
to curb credit.
Beijing has raised interest rates
three times since October, but
economists say more rate hikes
are needed and it will be months
before the effect is seen.
"It seems Chinese policymakers
are behind the curve in fighting
inflation," Kowalczyk said. "They
have been too cautious."
The headline inflation numbers
hide even sharper increases in key
items.
In January, the price of fresh fruit
soared by more than a third from
year earlier, while eggs rose by a
fifth, the National Bureau of
Statistics reported.
At the Xinya Shopping Center, a
supermarket on Beijing's east
side, the price of sugar is up 80
percent over a year earlier, while
high-quality rice costs 65 percent
more, according to manager
Wang Yongyi.
"Since the second half of last
year, we have been busily
changing the price tags to mark
the prices up," Wang said. "It
seems that the more control we
had from the government, the
higher prices rise."
Inflation could also spill over into
higher Chinese export prices. That
might raise costs for Western
consumers but also could help
countries such as Vietnam and
India compete with China as
suppliers of clothing, furniture
and other low-cost goods.
Global Sources, a company that
connects Chinese suppliers with
foreign customers, said this week
that a survey of 232 Chinese
companies found 74 percent of
them raised prices last year —
some by up to 20 percent — due
to higher costs for materials and
components.
"China is steadily moving away
from being the world's low-cost
source of various products," the
company said in a report released
this week.
A separate Global Sources survey
of 385 foreign buyers last month
found 31 percent were increasing
purchases from Vietnam due to
higher Chinese prices.
Higher inflation also might
prompt Beijing to slow the rise of
its currency, the yuan, against the
U.S. dollar to help its exporters
compete. That might add to
strains with Washington and other
governments that complain the
yuan is kept undervalued, giving
China's exporters an unfair
advantage and adding to its huge
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trade surplus.
Adding to pressure on food
supplies, China's northeast faces a
crippling drought that threatens its
winter wheat crop. Global wheat
prices are high, limiting Beijing's
ability to fill the gap by boosting
imports at a reasonable price.
The government has launched a
$1 billion campaign to save the
harvest with emergency irrigation
and cloud-seeding to make rain.
"I hope the government can rein
in the food price rises this year, or
else people's lives will be greatly
hurt," said Wang, the supermarket
manager. "No matter how high
prices go, people need to eat
anyway, right?"
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contributed.
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Barcode-to-Bibliography App Makes College Ridiculously

Easy
David Zax (Fast Company)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 12:49:12 PM

It's almost not fair to those

who've already graduated. A new
app from some University of
Waterloo undergraduates makes
that "works cited" page a cinch.
Sometimes a technology comes
along that is so great it seems
almost unjust to former
generations. Aviation. The
personal computer. The polio
vaccine.
One gets the same feeling today
when considering a new app out
for iPhone and Android. Quick
Cite, a 99-cent app, automates the
task of putting together a experiment in coding creativity the Android team got stuck on Ross Robinson, one of the A bit of quick math shows a
bibliography--that arduous list of and class-cutting " 7Cubed," and interfacing with the platform. coders, promises an update to conservative estimate of
books, articles, and other sources even made a little video about it. Having said that, the Android app address some of the problems something on the order of 11-12
consulted that goes at the end of a [youtube ObRLASu8OBE] was released that night, whereas "soon" in the comments section of hours spent just on a project of
master's thesis of PhD How did they do it? "A lot of iPhone had to wait for approval the Chronicle's report. that size, while doing almost
dissertation. The first thought you coffee," 7Cubed's Gareth from the app store!" Just how much time and nothing else. For larger projects,
have is, "How much time scholars MacLeod tells Fast Company. "A There's a slight hiccup in the app, aggravation does such an app save of course, you'd be spending days
will henceforth save!" The next lot. Of. Coffee. In the last two though. It appears that the the next generation of scholars? or weeks. Indeed, one of Fast
thought you have is, "Anyone days I was running on 4-6 information embedded in the Let's grab the back of an Company's trusted sources (okay,
who got a PhD before the year espresso's a day." He adds that barcode is sometimes abbreviated envelope. our own Kit Eaton), estimates that
2011 was a poor sucker." since the group was coding for or incomplete. The Chronicle of Imagine your dissertation has, such an app would have saved
The app works by using the Android and iPhone Higher Education test-drove the say, 200 sources, and sifting him over two weeks on his
smartphone's camera to scan the simultaneously, the results app and found that the citations through the pile of books and physics dissertation.
barcode on the back of a book. became a case study in the that came over had a few glitches, holding one open on your knee And two weeks, we don't have to
Then it emails you a citation vagaries of each format. "At some reading "Cambridge Univ Pr.," for while you type takes something tell you, is how long many of us
formatted to fit one of four point in the day it became a race instance, where bibliography on the order of three minutes per take every year for vacations.
common bibliographic styles: between Android and iPhone. purists would insist on a full- book. Copyediting that and Follow Fast Company on Twitter.
APA, MLA, Chicago, or IEEE. Android took an early lead getting fledged "Cambridge University getting the formatting consistent [Image: Flickr user jlz]
The app was one of seven barcode scanning working Press." Also, barcodes only will take you another minute or so
developed over seven sleepless almost right away, but iPhone's became standard on library books for every 10 citations if you're
days by seven undergraduates at slow-and-steady approach around the 1970s, so many books extremely speedy. Furthermore,
the University of Waterloo. Thus eventually won out, after we on won't be scannable. you'll need sanity breaks.
they called the week-long
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Map Your Housing Search With HotPads

David Zax (Fast Company)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 10:26:29 AM

The DC-based startup launched a

new feature Monday, which helps
you quickly visualize the priciest
and cheapest listings in an area.
HotPads.com, a real estate search
site, on Monday announced a new
feature called HotSpots, a tool
that visualizes housing options by
relative price. The tool is
dynamic, meaning that when you
zoom a map in or out, it
recalibrates what prices equal
"hot" (expensive, in red) or "cool"
(cheaper, in blue). HotSpots joins
a few other recently added tools to
HotPads, including a lasso that
helps you narrow your search to
the precise areas you're interested
in.
HotPads, a five-year-old DC-
based startup, is all map-oriented, about 400 partners. HotPads the price points recalibrate, and outside the weirdly there. With a few clicks, you can
in contrast to the infamously texty doesn't source any of their data suddenly you see that property gerrymandered region between also have HotPads show you all
Craigslist. The idea behind through Craigslist, though. "We owners around Manhattan are that Dunkin Donuts, that bus the properties on the market in
HotPads was to "make it visual," explored some options there," paying less than those in station, that cafe, that other cafe, that region--a great help if you're
HotPads's Paul Gleger tells Fast says Gleger with a laugh, but Manhattan." Clear enough to a that park, and that school, all of letting school choice determine
Company. "Craigslist is just a "they're not the easiest company local, perhaps, but "for someone which bound the neighborhood of your housing search.
community bulletin board." Its to work with." out of state, who has never been your dreams. "You can literally Craig Newmark, of Craigslist
traffic has been growing steadily-- But a little healthy competition, there, it gives a wealth of draw the area you're interested in, fame, are you listening? Probably
a 260% increase last year, up to 4 as we know, forces companies to information." then click 'save search,' and you not; the man is famous for
million visitors, 2.5 million innovate. Hence the new And for people who are in-state, can opt-in to be notified when stubbornly flouting and
uniques monthly. HotSpots feature, where and already have a good idea of properties are available in the conventions of design. Which is
[youtube WZ3U7T46RBE] individual listings are color-coded what they want, HotPads has a area," explains Gleger. probably all the better for
HotPads sources their listings by price. "It paints an interesting few other new tools, added within One more recent addition: HotPads.
through a variety of methods. picture of cities," says Gleger, the past few weeks. The lasso tool HotPads also gives you Follow Fast Company on Twitter.
Individuals can add postings for walking me through a New York helps you micro-target the precise information about neighborhoods
free. (Currently, most of example. "So in the Lower East area you're interested in, weeding served by a local school. Click on
HotPads's revenue is from Side you have prices that are out listings from the wrong side of a public school that interests you,
advertising.) Brokers also add lower than maybe on the Upper the train tracks--or, indeed, and you'll see a shaded-in region
listings; HotPads has feeds with West Side. But if you zoom out, listings that simply happen to be of the zone that sends students
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US backs Iran protests; Iranian
lawmakers want opposition leaders
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Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:29:28 AM
After a day of massive protests in
Iran, Secretary of State Clinton
affirmed US support for the
antigovernment demonstrators
while Iranian lawmakers called
for opposition leaders' execution.
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Washington came out strongly in
support of antigovernment
protests in Iran after a day of
massive protests in Tehran
Monday, part of the wave of
antigovernment revolt sweeping
across the Middle East.
Thousands took to the streets in
Tehran’s Asadi Square on Feb.
14, showing their solidarity with
the Egyptian revolution,
according to a BBC report. Police
used tear gas and batons to dispel
the protesters. One person was
reportedly shot dead when the
fighting broke out between
antigovernment demonstrators
and security forces, and dozens
have been arrested.
Demonstrations were also held in
other Iranian cities, such as
Isfahan, Mashhad, and Shiraz.
In Washington, Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton told reporters that
the United States stood behind the
protesters in Iran.
Mrs Clinton said they deserved to
have "the same rights that they
saw being played out in Egypt"
and that Iran had to "open up" its
political system. …
"What we see happening in Iran
today is a testament to the courage
of the Iranian people, and an
indictment of the hypocrisy of the
Iranian regime – a regime which
over the last three weeks has
constantly hailed what went on in
Egypt," she said.
"We are against violence and we
would call to account the Iranian
government that is once again
using its security forces and
resorting to violence to prevent
the free expression of ideas from
their own people."
There have not been statements
so directly in support of
antigovernment demonstrators in
other countries rocked by violent
protests, such as Jordan, Bahrain,
and Yemen, though US officials
flew to Jordan Monday to
reassure King Abdullah II of their
continued support, the
Washington Post reported.
Iran responded to Clinton’s
comments today: Iranian Foreign
Ministry spokesman Ramin
Mehmanparast said events in the
Middle East have “confused” the
US because the changes in the
regions were blows to world
powers and Israel, according to
Xinhua news.
Staunch pro-government Iranian
lawmakers on Tuesday called for
Iranian opposition leaders to be
tried and put to death, according
to the Associated Press. More
than 220 lawmakers issued a
statement saying that opposition
leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and
Mahdi Karroubi and former
reformist President Mohammad
Khatami should be held
responsible for the current
antigovernment uprising.
"We believe the people have lost
their patience and demand capital
punishment" for the opposition
leaders, the statement said.
Current protests in Iran are the
largest in the country since the
massive protests in 2009
following the disputed
presidential election, which
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
claimed to win.
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President Obama on Tuesday the country is sending "the right and Republicans to cut spending northern government of backing it handles such cases.
praised what he called the right signals." and decrease deficits and the southern rebels who killed 211
signals coming out of Egypt and Noting that a wave of protests budget. people. Dan Frommer live-
outlined an agenda for dealing has spread across the region,
with continuing unrest in the Obama posed a plan for United
Obama's budget does not include
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UK army investigates tweeted Eric Schmidt's
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Man ties machine on Day 1 of Celgene (CELG): A

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The final showdown airs on
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Target?
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Windows Phone 7 to get better multitasking, IE9 and cloud storage

Submitted at 2/15/2011 8:57:13 AM
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
took to the stage at 2011's Mobile
World Congress in Barcelona to
show off the next major update
for Windows Phone 7. The feature
-bump, vaguely pencilled in for
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more to Microsoft's fledgling
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protesters - Reuters
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Submitted at 2/15/2011 10:23:12 AM
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(Reuters) - Clashes broke out in
Bahrain this week as security
forces tightened their grip on
Shi'ite communities in anti-
government protests
[nLDE71E0NE].
Bahrain, a non-OPEC oil-
producer and home to the U.S.
Navy's Fifth Fleet, has a Shi'ite
Muslim majority population but is
governed by the Sunni Muslim Al
Khalifa dynasty.
King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al
Khalifa rules the island kingdom,
where half of the 1.3 million
people population are expatriates.
Here is a list of the opposition
and protesters' demands:
SHI'ITE MAJORITY
* Many Bahraini Shi'ites say they
face discrimination in housing,
healthcare and access to
government jobs, a charge the
government denies. Discontent
has been expressed in on-and-off
unrest since the mid-1990s.
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* The introduction of a new
constitution and parliamentary
elections a decade ago helped
quell the Shi'ite unrest, but
tensions have risen again in recent
years as Shi'ites have been
disappointed with the assembly's
limited clout.
* The main Shi'ite opposition
group, Wefaq, won all 18 seats it
contested in parliamentary
elections in October, out of a total
of 40. It competes with Sunni
Islamist groups and the secular
group Waad in parliament.
* The Shi'ite majority want the
government to stop granting
Sunnis from outside Bahrain
citizenship and jobs in the armed
forces and national security
services to try to change the
demographic balance.
* Night clashes between security
forces and young Shi'ite protesters
burning tires and throwing petrol
bombs worsened last year.
YOUTHS' OPPOSITION
* A statement from Bahraini
activists said the revolution would
begin on February 14 with
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decent rally this winter, rising to
time to consider taking some
peaceful rallies around Bahrain
and continue until their demands
were met.
* They called for changes and
reforms in the country's
governance and administration
system.
The key demands:
* Dissolving the constitution of
2002.
* Formation of a council made up
of experts and people of both the
Sunni and Shi'ite sects to create a
new constitution.
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Jenara Nerenberg (Fast
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Someone get the folks at
Guinness on the horn. For the first
time ever, a wind-powered car
completed a three-week, 3,100
mile test ride. It happened in
Australia this week. Relying on
lithium-ion batteries that charge
overnight via mobile wind
turbines--the vehicle, the "Wind
Explorer," as the car has been
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The Best Parts Of Michael Wolff's Adweek Hit Pieces Are In
The Comments Sections
Glynnis MacNicol (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 12:12:52 PM
In the past three weeks Michael
Wolff's Adweek has attempted to
launch itself into the
consciousness of New York
media with a series of hit pieces
penned by a journalist named
Dylan Byers.
Taken together one would be
forgiven for concluding that
Wolff is in fact attempting to
parrot Gawker...circa 2007.
Which is entirely legitimate.
When Gawker went national a
few years back it left a New York
City shaped hole in sharp, snarky,
gossipy media coverage that has
been partially filled by Page Six
(which otherwise might have lost
its hold on the niche) and may yet
be filled by the new Spiers-led
New York Observer, which
dropped the ball (to put it mildly)
back in 2008 when they neglected
to get on the Internet.
In case you missed any of it here
is a short summup of what we've
seen from Adweek so far:
Who and What Is Rachel Sterne?:
New York's new digital officer is
young and pretty but why is she
being paid so much money when
a quick glance at her resume
reveals she is really just good at
making connections.
Elizabeth Spiers and N.Y.
Observer: Married in Hell?:
Elizabeth Spiers is young and
successful, but why is she being
given the Observer to run when a
quick glance at her resume reveals
she has had so many jobs.
And just as readers were
beginning to wonder whether the
Byers/Wolff (there seems to be a
vague assumption Byers is merely
a stooge for Wolff's media
vendettas) raison d'etre was
merely to brand successful young
media women as totally
unqualified along came
yesterday's takedown of the NYO
president Christopher Barnes
whom everyone apparently hates
(I have been told this one may not
been quite so far off the mark).
You get the picture.
However! Far more interesting
than Byers' pieces, which are a bit
transparent in their goal, is the
comments section that
accompanies them! So far they
have featured a bit of a who's
who of New York Media, all of
whom apparently are only too
eager to once again have a
comments section to air their own
Wolff misgivings [see a sampling
below].
So kudos to Wolff for proving
that even badly done New York
media gossip is alive and well.
Elizabeth Spiers can take heart
from this discovery! Not that
long ago this is what the NYO did
well...now she can rest-assured
the audience for it has not
completely decamped to Tumblr
and Twitter land.
And now to the comments. If
you've made it this far probably
you don't need to be warned again
that this is very insidery New
York media.
From the Sterne piece:
Colin Nagy: Since you didn't find
anyone else to go on the record, I
will in the comments! I think
Rachel is smart and knows
everyone. And, it is probably
good to have a hustler in this role
rather than a formally trained
policy person.
Caroline McCarthy: Agreed. I've
known Rachel for years and while
I was initially surprised that they
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Sounds like you were holding
picket signs outside Kathie
Black's nomination as well.
Outside perspective can only
help!
Anthony De Rosa: Rachel's skills
make her uniquely qualified for
this position. The author of this
article doesn't seem to have any
understanding of what it will take
for someone in the position of
CDO to be successful. If the city
had gone the direction the author
suggests it would have been a
disaster and ultimately failed.
Rachel's appointment means we
may actually get someone who
can fulfill the duties a Chief
Digital Officer is expected to
perform.
Rachel Sklar: If this writer had
really done his research he'd know
that Rachel moves easily across
many different pockets of the
industry and overlapping
chose someone so young and industries, and at many levels,
relatively inexperienced, she making things happen in Silicon
s h o w s g r e a t p o t e n t i a l a s a Alley lofts or Aspen Institute pow
dealmaker. When the initial job -wows or White House meetups -
posting for this position came with contacts from literally
out, I feared they'd pick someone around the world through Ground
with an MBA, a traditional Report. She can play with the
corporate consulting background, kids and the grownups and the
and absolutely no finger to the makers and the managers, and
pulse on what New York's she has done so so effectively thus
technology community can offer far that this is the first negative
to the city. Can't see that being thing I have *ever* read about
beneficial.Really bad call on the her. The fact that this writer
city's part not to hire someone chose to publish a snarky, jealous,
who has worked for years in
government to get them to BEST page 15
innovate in the digital world. :)
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continued from page 14
sniping anonymous comment
rather do the work to reach out to
people who have, you know,
*worked* with her says more
about his slipshod style than any
defecit in her. Who and what is
Dylan Byers?
From the Spiers piece:
Paula Froelich: This is appalling.
That Ad Week would stoop so
low as to publish something by
Michael Wolff - who has long had
a feud (and often been on the
losing end) with Spiers - and is
the worst gossip I know (Irony
Alert! I used to deputy edit Page
Six, which Spiers was NOT a
tipster for, she was actually a
freelance writer, regardless,
gossip is very hard to write - and
Wollf has never worked very hard
at anything except to shellac his
This Is The Application That Got Me A Job
Interview With Google
Alyson Shontell (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 12:07:38 PM
If you read about my nightmare
interviews with Google, then you
know I bombed them.
But two years later I ran into one
of my interviewers. He
recognized my name at a
conference and said, "I remember
your application. I've never seen
WootTF?! Teenage Desperation
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
own name). This article is based
in personal grudge slinging, not
fact. Spiers has been very
successful in creating companies,
and helping companies flourish.
Just ask Conde Nast, b5 media,
her original colleagues at
Deadhorse, which, if she had
stayed on (and adhered to her
original proposal instead of
backtracking) would have sold
for millions. Shame on you Ad
Week.
From the NYO piece:
Elizabeth Spiers( from her
Tumblr): Aside from the fact that
the piece is full of factual
inaccuracies (I’d like to know
who these staffers are who work
on other Kushner projects,
because they don’t work for me)
and distortions, it seems as
anything like it."
Even though I buckled under the
pressure, I had an application that
got me remembered and got my
foot in the door.
Depending on where you want to
work, applications don't have to
be traditional and boring. They
need to stand out from clutter and
showcase your skills, much like
business cards.
If it helps, here is what worked
First, click here and press play.
Then, click here.
though this purported advertising
trade mag has never been
anywhere near an actual ad sales
operation, where doing things
like posting sales numbers
publicly is pretty standard. But
then again, they recently gave a
megaphone to a certain washed-
up columnist who now works for
them because he doesn’t even
have the courtesy to fail
*upward*, so he could trash me
anonymously as “an ex-colleague
who worked with her at New
York mag in 2003.”
Join the conversation about this
story »
for me.
This is the application cover I
created for Google with things
You're welcome.
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around outside on a gorgeous day. new generation of MacBook Airs
The models wear an... hogged the tech headlines: it's the
paper-thin Mac that's lighter,
more compact and yet more
powerful than its predecessor.
And with a dual-core processor, a
tough aluminium case and robust
flash storage, Apple touts it as the
ultimate in on-the-go computing.
But how does it really perform,
out on the road, away from the
easy life of a hip cafe in a W-Fi-
friendly city?
about myself (because Google Better still, how about when
says they really like diversity and stowed in a bicycle pannier on a
personality): journey to Tierra del Fuego, the
And here's the cover letter I southern most tip of Latin
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Kyle Bass Had A Funny Interaction Italian Court Orders
With A Chief Bank Economist Who KnoxParents Into Libel
Believes Harry Potter Can Fix Greece Trial
Courtney Comstock (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 12:10:47 PM
In Hayman Advisor founder Kyle
Bass' most recent letter to
investors, he talks about meeting
an economist who completely
validated everything he thought
about Greece on a trip he recently
took to the country.
He kids you not: A Greek bank's
chief economist proposed that
Greek's financial catastrophe
could be "magically" fixed if only
Greece's government debt could
be transferred to its population.
Asked how the government could
possibly effect such a massive
financial transaction, the
economist said: let's ask Harry
Potter!
Here's the full story, from his
letter (via Alpha Magazine):
One chief economist at one of the
largest banks in Greece surmised
that if the sovereign could transfer
€100 billion of government debt
to the personal balance sheets of
the population that it would be a
potential “magical” fix for the
state’s finances (and subsequently
pointed out that Greece would not
be such an “outlier” as a result).
Playing with Fire?
(AEI.Org: Articles)
When asked how the Greek state
could accomplish such a feat, he
said he did not know and that
maybe Harry Potter could find a
way. It is hard to believe, but he
was completely serious.
Also humorous: he found a
hospital that employed and paid
45 gardeners, yet had no garden.
Here's how it happened:
Shortly after this meeting, my
host informed me of an audit
recently done on one of the largest
hospitals in Athens. This hospital
[ fivefilters.org: unable to retrieve
full-text content] Britain is
was hemorrhaging Euros, and the
Greek government is required to
make up the deficit with capital
injections. Officials began an
inquiry into these losses and
found 45 gardeners on staff at the
hospital. The most interesting fact
about the hospital was that it did
not have a garden.
His full letter is below.
Kyle Bass - Hayman Investor
Letter - February 2011
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story »
modifying its counterterrorism
laws, but they continue to reflect
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(FOXNews.com) A Knox family representative
said there would be no comment.
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:23:30 AM
Knox and ex-boyfriend Raffaele
PERUGIA, Italy -- The parents Sollecito were convicted in 2009
of Amanda Knox, an American o f s e x u a l l y a s s a u l t i n g a n d
student convicted of murder in m u r d e r i n g K e r c h e r i n t h e
Italy, were ordered Tuesday to apartment she shared with Knox
stand trial for alleging that Italian in the central Italian city of
police abused their daughter, a Perugia. Kercher was stabbed to
lawyer and media reports said. death the night of Nov. 1, 2007.
Curt Knox and Edda Mellas were Knox was sentenced to 26 years
indicted in Perugia for libel, said in prison; Sollecito 25 years. Both
the Italian news agency ANSA. deny wrongdoing and their
L a w y e r L u c i a n o G h i r g a appeals trial is under way.
confirmed the indictment and said Another man, Rudy Guede, was
trial was set for July 4. also convicted in the killing.
He said the couple did not attend Italy's highest criminal court has
the hearing. already upheld Guede's conviction
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Bahrain Protesters Take Over Capital's Main Square

(FOXNews.com) protesters quickly renamed politically volatile nations in the the nation's gradual pro- political crisis. But Al Wefaq
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:23:30 AM "Nation's Square" and erected Middle East's wealthiest corner democracy reforms that have warned that it could take more
banners such as "Peaceful" that despite having one of the few given Shiites a greater political steps if violence persists against
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – were prominent in Cairo's Tahrir elected parliaments and some of voice. marchers staging the first major
Thousands of protesters poured Square, the epicenter of protests the most robust civil society The second day of turmoil began rallies in the Gulf since uprisings
into a main square in Bahrain's there. groups. A crackdown on after police tried to disperse up to toppled long-ruling regimes in
capital of Manama Tuesday in an The dramatic move Tuesday perceived dissent last year 10,000 mourners gathering at a Tunisia and Egypt.
Egypt-style rebellion that sharply came just hours after a second touched off weeks of riots and hospital parking lot to begin a A statement from Bahrain's
escalated pressure on authorities protester died in clashes with clashes in Shiite villages, and an funeral procession for Ali interior minister, Lt. Gen. Rashid
as the Arab push for change police in the strategic island ongoing trial in Bahrain accuses Abdulhadi Mushaima, 21, who bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, expressed
gripped the Gulf for the first time. kingdom, which is home to the 25 Shiites of plotting against the died in Monday's marches. "sincere condolences and deep
Security forces have battled U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. country's leadership. Officials at Bahrain's Salmaniya sympathy" to Mushaima's family.
demonstrators calling for political Oppositions groups aren't calling A prolonged showdown could Medical Complex said a 31-year- He expanded on the king's pledge:
reforms and greater freedoms over for the ruling Sunni monarchy to draw in the region's two biggest old man became the second stressing that the deaths will be
two days, leading to the deaths of be ousted, but they do want an rivals: Saudi Arabia, as close fatality when he died of injuries investigated and charges would be
two protesters and the main end to its grip on key decisions allies of Bahrain's Sunni from birdshot fired during the filed if authorities determined
opposition group vowing to freeze and government posts. monarchy, and Iran, whose hard- melee in the hospital's parking lot. excessive force was used against
its work in parliament in protest. Other demands -- listed on a liners have spoken in support of The officials spoke on condition the protesters.
In a clear sign of concern over poster erected in the square -- the nation's Shiite majority. of anonymity because they were But that's unlikely to appease the
the widening crisis, Bahrain's included the release of all political Bahrain is also an economic not allowed to speak to protesters, whose "day of rage"
King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa prisoners, more jobs and housing, weakling compared with the journalists. Monday coincided with major anti
made a rare national TV address, an elected Cabinet and the staggering energy riches of Gulf After the clash, riot police -government demonstrations in
offering condolences for the replacement of longtime prime neighbors such as Saudi Arabia eventually withdrew and allowed Iran and Yemen.
deaths, pledging an investigation minister, Sheik Khalifa bin and Qatar, which can afford far the massive funeral cortege for In the past week, Bahrain's rulers
into the killings and promising to Salman Al Khalifa. more generous social benefits. Mushaima to proceed from the have attempted to defuse calls for
push ahead with reforms, which The nation's majority Shiites -- Bahrain's oil reserves are small main state-run medical facility in reform by promising nearly
include loosening state controls about 70 percent of the population and its role as the region's Manama. He was killed Monday $2,700 for each family and
on the media and Internet. of some 500,000-- have long international financial hub have during clashes with security pledging to loosen state controls
"We extend our condolences to complained of discrimination and been greatly eclipsed by Dubai. forces trying to halt marches to on the media.
the parents of the dear sons who being blackballed from important One protester, 24-year-old demand greater freedoms and State media reported that the king
died yesterday and today. We state jobs. Hussein Asamahiji, echoed the political rights. At least 25 people telephoned the head of Egypt's
pray that they are inspired by the Many in the square waved complaints from Tunisia and were injured in the barrage of ruling military council, Field
Almighty's patience, solace and Bahraini flags and chanted: "No Egypt: a lack of jobs and rubber bullets, birdshot and tear Marshal Hussein Tantawi, on
tranquility," said the king, who Sunnis, no Shiites. We are all allegations that the ruling elite gas, relatives said. Tuesday. No further details were
had previously called for an Bahrainis." It also appeared they monopolizes the best The main Shiite opposition given, but Bahrain had earlier
emergency Arab summit to were planning for the long haul. opportunities. group, Al Wefaq, denounced the appealed for an emergency
discuss the growing unrest. Some groups carried in tents and "We simply want the chance at a "bullying tactics and barbaric summit of Arab leaders to discuss
As the crowds surged into the sought generators to set up under better future," he said. "Egypt policies pursued by the security the widening protests.
Pearl Square in the capital of a nearly 300-foot monument showed it's possible." forces" and said it was suspending Bahrain's ruling Sunni dynasty
Manama, security forces appeared cradling a giant white pearl- The bloodshed already has its participation in parliament, also has extremely close ties with
to hold back. But key highways shaped ball that symbolizes the brought sharp denunciations from where it holds 18 of the 40 seats. the leadership in Saudi Arabia,
were blocked in an apparent country's heritage as a pearl the largest Shiite political bloc, The declaration falls short of which is connected to Bahrain by
attempt to choke off access to the diving center. which suspended its participation pulling out the group's lawmakers,
vast traffic circle -- which Bahrain is one of the most in parliament, and could threaten which would spark a full-scale BAHRAIN page 19
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Diminishing Low Back Pain, Part 1
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 8:39:55 AM
By Ronald D. Whitmont, M.D.
Created: Feb 15, 2011 Last
Updated: Feb 15, 2011
MASSAGE: A good foot
massage is one way to treat back
pain. (Chris Weeks/Getty Images
for Chaum Center) Back pain is
defined as pain felt in the back
and originating in the muscles,
nerves, bones, joints, or other
structures of the spine.
Back pain is the subjective
experience of pain in the cervical,
thoracic, lumbar, or sacral areas
of the spine. Almost 98 percent of
back pain cases are the result of
unknown causes.
Only a small proportion (2
percent) of cases occur as a result
of serious pathology, which can
include herniated discs, cancer,
infection, or other identifiable
causes. Nine out of ten people
report at least one episode of back
pain in their lives.
Low back pain (LBP), or
lumbago, affects 80 percent of the
population and accounts for more
sick leave and disability than any
other medical condition. In the
United States, lower back pain is
the No. 1 reason for individuals
younger than 45 to limit physical
activity.
It is the second-most common
complaint in physicians’ offices.
Most patients with acute lower
back pain recover completely over
a few weeks regardless of
treatment modality.
A number of approaches used to
treat back pain have gained favor
and have been recommended with
varying degrees of success.
Conventional treatment of back
pain typically includes analgesics,
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory
medications (NSAIDs), and
muscle relaxants. In chronic
cases, narcotics, antidepressants,
physical therapy, facet injections,
and even surgery have been used.
Conventional treatment of back
pain is, for the most part, a failure.
According to researchers at the
Pain Research Center at
University of Utah and the
chairman of the American
Academy of Pain Medicine,
“almost everybody” now suffers
from chronic pain, including back
pain. Conventional medication, a
“mainstay” of treatment, is one of
the reasons for this.
Pharmaceuticals actually worsen
pain over time. Use of most of
these medicines causes an
increase in pain sensitivity, slows
down the body’s healing
response, and leads to the well-
known tendency to escalate use
and eventually abuse these drugs.
It’s no wonder that many people
overuse these drugs on a daily
basis since pharmaceutical
marketing strategies permeate the
media with information
suggesting that these drugs should
be part of a normal daily routine.
Our culture has become
dependent upon medications for
pain relief.
More of these medications are
now used by more people than
ever before in the history of
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Homeopathy has been proven to
be more effective than either
placebo or physical therapy in
treating patients with back pain.
HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES
(Louise McCoy/The Epoch
Times)
I have found that most cases of
back pain respond well to a
combination of specific
preventive physical-therapy
modalities, coupled with
individualized CHM. Using these
two complementary modalities
together offers the opportunity to
create lasting improvement and
freedom from relapses while
mankind. As a result, we now Effective CAM modalities for stabilizing underlying mechanical
suffer from more symptoms of treatment of back pain include: imbalances.
pain and more chronic illness than • Acupuncture All this can be achieved without
ever before in history. • Exercise the use of conventional pain
These medications are dispensed • Herbs medication if one is willing to
and used for even simple, self- • Naturopathy address the cause rather than the
limiting maladies. Many people • Behavioral therapy symptoms of the condition.
would rather take a medication • Alexander technique Next week: Part 2 on evaluation
than correct their lifestyle, alter • Feldenkrais and treatment of back pain.
their exercise regimen, or change • Chiropractic spinal Dr. Whitmont is a classical
their diet to correct an imbalance. m a n i p u l a t i o n h omeopathic physician and
With the exception of physical • Osteopathic manipulative internist who practices in New
therapy, which offers some medicine York. He is a clinical assistant
mechanical rehabilitative benefit, • Massage professor of family and
most conventional treatments of • Yoga community medicine at New
back pain carry significant risks • Tai chi and qigong York Medical College. His
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BAHRAIN
Egypt army seeks 6-month handover, Mubarak continued from page 17

a causeway. Bahrain has given

ailing citizenship to Sunnis in Saudi

Arabia and across the region to
bolster its ranks against the
(Reuters: Top News) democracy. Holding, Egypt's biggest garment Yemen, neighbors of the world's
country's Shiite majority.
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:32:56 AM But the Islamist Brotherhood, exporter, said on Tuesday it had biggest oil exporter Saudi Arabia.
Bahrain's Sunni leaders point to
echoing the demands of pro- closed its factories in Tenth of • Share this
An Egyptian policeman controls d e m o c r a c y a c t i v i s t s a n d Ramadan City, in the desert • Link this parliamentary elections as a
the traffic in Tahrir Square in reformists, said it wanted the outskirts west of Cairo, till • Digg this symbol of political openness. But
Cairo February 14, 2011. many Sunnis in Bahrain also are
military to carry out further steps February 17 due to strikes. • Email
Credit: Reuters/Suhaib Salem highly suspicious of Shiite
immediately. Some secular leaders fret that • Reprints
By Andrew Hammond and Peter "We, together with the entire racing into presidential and activists, claiming they seek to
Millership undermine the state and have
nation ... are in need of a bridge of parliamentary elections in a nation burkes wrote:
CAIRO| Tue Feb 15, 2011 confidence between the army and where Mubarak suppressed most The Egyptian President is playing c u l t u r a l b o n d s w i t h S h i i t e
12:32pm EST heavyweight Iran.
the people," Essam al-Erian, a opposition activity for 30 years a delaying action, on hiatus in his
CAIRO(Reuters) - Egypt's senior Brotherhood member, told m a y h a n d a n e d g e t o t h e resort villa. Next This entry passed through the
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Deutsche Boerse unveils NYSE mega-exchange

deal
(Reuters: Top News) Euronext Chief Executive Duncan At a 60-40 ownership split, the Singapore Exchange bid for
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:19:04 AM Niederauer, who will have the 55 percent of shareholders in a Australia's ASX late last year.

is seen February 9, 2011.

same title at the combined group,
The New York Stock Exchange said that talks were still ongoing
in a bid to find a name that would
combined company would be
from the United States, with 11
percent from Germany, 11 percent
And last week, London Stock
Exchange said it would buy
Toronto Stock Exchange operator
Christian
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Jonathan Spicer
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the rest of the world, a source
TMX Group, just hours before
Deutsche Boerse and NYSE World
Reto Francioni of Deutsche familiar with the deal said. Euronext said they were in
FRANKFURT/NEW YORK| Tue B o e r s e , w h o w i l l b e c o m e
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Bahrain Now Sees Protests in Addition to Iran
and Yemen
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 8:32:05 AM
By Stephen Jones
Epoch Times Staff Created: Feb
15, 2011 Last Updated: Feb 15,
2011
Bahraini Shiite protesters carry
the coffin of a comrade who died
a day earlier from his wounds
following clashes with police,
during his funeral in the town of
Jidhafs, near the capital Manama,
on Feb. 15, 2011. (Adam Jan/AFP
/Getty Images) DUBAI, United
Arab Emirates—Inspired by the
successful uprisings in Egypt and
Tunisia, protesters on the streets
of Bahrain, Iran, and Yemen
clashed with security forces
today.
Thousands took to the streets to
demand greater freedoms from
highly entrenched leaders, in
protests coordinated via Twitter
and Facebook.
In Bahrain, a second protester
was killed on Tuesday and in Iran
at least one was killed and dozens
injured, state media reported.
The demonstrations come after
the ouster of President Hosni
Mubarak from Egypt and Zine El
Abidine Ben Ali from Tunisia,
following a large-scale public
uprisings.
Until now protests have largely
been contained to North Africa
but have since spilled over into
the Persian Gulf, a major oil
producing area.
The Palestine News Network
reported that 50,000 protesters
took to the streets on Tuesday
outside Manama in Bahrain—a
tiny Gulf monarchy and home to
the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet.
Scores of people carried the
coffin of Ali Abdul Hadi
Mushaima, a Bahraini national
who was killed on Monday when
security forces shot rubber bullets
and duck shot to disperse crowds.
A second person was killed at the
funeral, the official Bahrain News
Agency reported. The country is
ruled by a small Sunni elite, and
the 70 percent of the population
from Shiite descent claim job and
housing discrimination.
"We are only asking for political
reforms, right of political
participation, respect for human
rights, stopping of systematic
discrimination against Shias,"
activist Nabeel Rajab told al-
Jazeera.
In Yemen, around 1,000
protesters clashed with riot police
and government loyalists in the
fifth day of protests against the
administration of President Ali
Abdullah Saleh.
Four protesters, including one
member of Parliament, were
injured in rock throwing—two
with head injuries, Reuters
reported.
Saleh, a key U.S. ally in the fight
against al Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula, has ruled the country
for more than three decades.
On Monday, tens of thousands
rallied in Tehran’s Azadi
Square—the same spot where
protesters gathered in the wake of
the disputed presidential elections
in June 2009.
The official IRNA news agency
News Wire/ Technology/ 21
in Iran said that one person was
shot dead and dozens injured in
the clashes. An unspecified
number of protesters were
arrested. Nasa engineers design
On Tuesday, parliamentarians manned deep-space
called for the execution of former
presidential candidates Mir craft Nautilus-X
Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi
Submitted at 2/15/2011 6:41:05 AM
Karrubi, both instrumental figures
in the opposition Green While funds might be thin on the
Movement, Press TV reported. ground at American space agency
Both men are currently under Nasa, and plans to go to Mars are
house arrest. a couple of decades off, two
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary engineers from the Johnson
Clinton issued a statement of Spaceflight Center are already
support for Iranian protesters on developing concept vehicles that
Monday. could make the trip.
"We wish the opposition and the This is one of them, the Nautilus-
brave people in the streets across X MMSEV from Mark
cities in Iran, you know, the same Holderman and Edward
opportunity that they saw their Henderson. That cumbersome
Egyptian counterpart seize in the acronym stands for Non-
last week,” she said. Atmospheric Universal Transport
Elsewhere, the Palestinian Intended for Lengthy United
Authority cabinet resigned in a States X-ploration Multi-Mission
bid to fend off criticism over the Space Exploration Vehicle. We'll
administration’s negotiations over go with Nautilus-X, for short.
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last month in a series of leaked
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Retail sales slow, business inventories up

(Reuters: Top News) economist at Bank of Tokyo/ percent gain, after rising 0.3 Still, experts predict that people
Submitted at 2/15/2011 9:27:23 AM Mitsubishi UFJ in New York. percent in December. will largely remain frugal and
Economists also noted that sales Sales last month were held back focus on bargains this year.
Shoppers depart with their bags were taking a breather after recent by a 2.9 percent drop in receipts at Higher prices on food and cotton
at Toys R Us on Black Friday in hefty gains and expected the building material and gardening apparel are adding pressure to
New York November 26, 2010. upward trend to resume, spurring outlets after rising 1.8 percent in shoppers whose budgets were
Credit: Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi the economic recovery. The U.S. December. Sales at food services already being pinched at the
WASHINGTON| Tue Feb 15, economy grew at a 3.2 percent and drinking places fell 0.7 gasoline pump. GeekDad
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as extreme weather in large parts However, revisions to the retail But so-called core retail sales, number of shoppers coming into fallacy' error
of the country kept some shoppers sales data from prior months which exclude autos, gasoline and the stores remains sluggish.
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Washington Post extends free iPad app subscription

Mel Martin (TUAW)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 1:00:00 PM
The free ride on the Post iPad app
was supposed to end in mid-
February, but the Post app has
been updated and the iTunes Store
description says that the full
access subscription is still
"provided for a limited time."
That's the same thing that another
iPad paper, The Daily, did the
other day. One wonders if the
newspapers are afraid to pull the
plug and see how a paid version
will fare. I don't blame them. App
store reviews of both endeavors
have been dreadful. Maybe they
are trying to set up the in-app
subscriptions Apple has allowed. W a s h i n g t o n P o s t a p p n o w
This latest update to the
includes the ability to read offline
(duh!) and fixes the frequent
crashes that plagued the software.
I haven't seen anything in either of
these efforts that would convince
me to subscribe when the free trial
ends. How about you? Were you
enticed by the apps, or are you
going to dump them when or if
the free trials end?
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How Prop Trading Sank Wall Street

(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 8:06:40 AM
AFTER THE CRISIS: An
employee poses with a Lehman
Brothers company sign on Sept.
24, 2010, part of the 'Lehman
Brothers: Artwork and Ephemera'
sale at Christie's auction house in
London. Over two years since the
Sept. 15, 2008 collapse of
Lehman triggered a global crisis,
and the U.S. Congress has yet to
pass meaningful financial reform
into law.(Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty
How could one trader be granted
so much power that he exposed
the livelihood of 25,000
employees, 8,000 retail
stockbrokers, all the individual
accounts, not to mention the
global economy under one
investment house?
Since the bursting of the housing Valve Makes More
bubble, first financial reform
legislation in the Dodd-Frank Act Money Per Employee
followed by the Volcker Rule has Than Google Or Apple
been racing to address proprietary John Biggs (TechCrunch)
trading and other critical issues of
investment banks were when the company. He no longer made financial reform to prevent the Submitted at 2/15/2011 10:25:54 AM

Images) Ominous signs of the crash erupted. p r o p r i e t a r y t r a d e s f o r next economic collapse.

impending financial storm
cropped up all over Wall Street in
2008. Bear Stearns shares cratered
toward bankruptcy by March,
setting off a global panic, before
JPMorgan Chase scooped up the
decimated investment house for a
song that calmed the markets.
Later that June, Morgan Stanley
stated net revenue of $6.5 billion
had fallen 38 percent for the same
period the previous year, with a
blood red $436 million in losses
in mortgage proprietary trading.
Still, the stock market chugged
on unfazed, until the credit bubble
burst later in September. What
had been obscured from the press
and from each other were how
overleveraged Wall Street
No longer able to hide losses, customers—deemed as “good” Here’s an interesting figure:
In January, a blizzard of
Merrill Lynch and Lehman trading—but did so only for government reports swept out of Valve makes more money per
Brothers were ready for the himself and the firm. employee than Google or Apple.
Washington, including the
dustbin. The former was bailed Disengaged from serving the F i n a n c i a l C r i s i s I n q u i r y While we can easily figure out
out, while the latter was pushed interests of clients—call it "evil" Commission, which issued a 650- how much the publicly traded
onto the sword of bankruptcy. proprietary trading—such as plus-page report on what created, Google and Apple make per
One was saved; the other was left institutional investors, John Mack, inflated, and popped the fixed employee, estimating what Valve
to die. Yet personalities more than then CEO of Morgan Stanley, income bubble of 2008. Prev - 1 | pulls in is trickier. Valve has done
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Have a Coke and a Smile— and the No iBooks For You: Latest
Secret Recipe? iBooks Version Won't
(FOXNews.com)
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percent of the drink's total
spokeswoman making the
following statement:
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holy grail of soft drinks -- the consists of alcohol, orange oil, have tried over time to crack the
secret recipe for Coca-Cola, lemon oil, nutmeg oil, coriander, secret formula of Coca-Cola. That Apple's e-reader app iBooks
news.com.au reported Tuesday. neroli and cinnamon. secret combination of ingredients received an update last week,
The website for Chicago public The recipe is said to be similar to holds a special place in the history boasting a fairly typical set of
radio show This American Life previous lists made by those who and mythology of Coca-Cola -- changes: better stability, better
states it found a list of ingredients have tried to uncover the secret something we continue to layout, and a connection to
for Coca-Cola, a secret that has ingredients, including Mark celebrate as we mark our 125th AirPrint. But according to some
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than a century, in a 40-year-old God, Country and Coca-Cola," Click here for more stories from cause problems for those trying to
newspaper. and Joe Jacobs, owner of the Foxnews.com's Food and Drink open e-books on jailbroken
iPhones. launch.
It said the Atlanta Journal- pharmacy where Coca-Cola was section Interestingly, it appears as though
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For Ecuador's Correa, an Uneven Record: Part I

(World Politics Review: Articles) record. has been derided by some military ultimately rescued him already concerned at the level of
Submitted at 2/15/2011 4:45:00 AM Despite this, the Correa indigenous groups as constituting only when it determined that his power and influence the military
administration has failed to break a severe threat to the rainforest. life was in danger. Coups and has come to wield following last
Editor's note: This is the first of a Ecuador's dependency on primary Populist leaders have historically countercoups are one of Ecuador's year's police riots. They will not
t w o - p a r t s e r i e s e x a m i n i n g exports. Buoyed by an export attempted to reduce political historical specialties, and Correa be particularly enthralled by the
Ecuador under President Rafael boom that has produced a record pluralism by cracking down on should be wary -- he has already announcement that Ecuador will
Correa. Part I examines Correa's g o v e r n m e n t w i n d f a l l , t h e political opposition or co-opting been deserted by several top allies purchase 12 retired South African
domestic policy. Part II, appearing government has done little future certain sectors -- trade unions, from his ruling Alianza Pais party fighter jets that the president has
tomorrow, will examine his planning for revenue generation, indigenous groups, the military -- who have become disillusioned already designated for military
foreign policy. despite having committed to huge into the state apparatus. Along with his style of governance. use on the northern border with
Four years have passed since increases in social spending that it these lines, there is increasing Crime and public insecurity have Colombia. The news is a further
Ecuadorean President Rafael will surely struggle to maintain in evidence that democracy is giving increased dramatically under indication of Correa's apparent
Correa joined his Venezuelan leaner times. Correa has also way to authoritarianism under Correa, making security now the preference for strengthening the
counterpart, Hugo Chávez, in engaged in an increasingly Correa. There have been clear average Ecuadorean's biggest armed forces' role in law
Latin America's revolutionary strident political discourse, attempts to reduce the concern. The lawlessness has enforcement, rather than that of
fold. Correa came to office p r e a c h i n g p o l a r i z a t i o n a n d independence of the media and been complicated by Correa's less the national police.
promising to usher in a new era in exclusion for those who do not concentrate the political process -than-functional relationship with Given the reduction in political
Ecuador and put an end to the share his vision for Ecuador. within Correa's ever-narrowing the police force, which predates space and the growing resentment
"dark night of neoliberalism." Furthermore, crime has become version of a national project. The last year's incident. The national of Correa's authoritarian style, the
Now, despite some notable E c u a d o r e a n s ' n u m b e r o n e Economist Intelligence Unit's police were a largely pro- country's near-term outlook is not
successes, there are increasing c o n c e r n . Democracy Index rated Colombian and pro-American promising. By the government's
doubts about the Correa As result, the Correa Ecuadorean democracy in the body, but since assuming power, own admission, poverty levels
administration's stability and administration has fallen out of region's bottom five. Media Correa, who resented this have dropped at a disappointing
longevity as well as about the favor with trade unions and freedom has perhaps seen the relationship, has repeatedly rate, given the Correa
legacy it will leave behind. indigenous movements, who feel most dramatic setbacks, with attempted to purge the administration's vast investments
Public perceptions of corruption excluded from the president's Ecuador having falling 43 places organization and has targeted in social programs. More-
have dropped dramatically since "national project." One of the in the Reporters Without Borders judicial investigations against effective public policies are
Correa took power, and he has major issues among indigenous 2010 Freedom Index. some of its members. This has essential if Correa is to maintain
successfully broken the cycle of and social groups is Correa's The Ecuadorean state has proved to be one of his biggest popular support. As for the army's
political instability that saw stance on mining and other traditionally bought off special- mistakes. The northern border support, it is not clear whether he
E c u a d o r i n a u g u r a t e e i g h t extractive industries in rural interest groups -- primarily the area in particular has become a will be able to maintain it if social
presidents from 1996 to 2006. E c u a d o r , p a r t i c u l a r l y t h e i r police, armed forces, indigenous cause for great concern, as the protests continue to grow. Equally
Correa has successfully swept out environmental impact. Wanting a groups and minorities -- with state spillover from Colombia's conflict unclear is Correa's strategy to
the old political class and ushered greater role in the consultation handouts in exchange for support has resulted in an influx of tackle urban insecurity.
in a host of opposition figures. process as well as recognition and or acquiescence. Correa favored refugees and FARC guerrillas, as In the short term, however, he
Other notable gains include a implementation of collective land an end to this style of governance. well as paramilitaries who are has enough support within his
remarkable "tax revolution," rights, indigenous and social One of his attempts to reign in involved in illegal activities on own coalition, despite the
wherein the Correa administration movements have been aghast at state responsibilities -- cutting pay Ecuadorean territory. desertions, to forge ahead with the
has been able to boost state tax Correa's pro-extractive policies for public servants -- resulted in Correa's response has been to "citizen's revolution." Having
revenues by 64 percent in five and his use of military force to his near demise in September strengthen the armed forces marked the political, economic
years simply by improving suppress anti-mining protests. 2010, when police and security instead of the police, giving them and security landscape with his
collection rates. In addition, he Though he promised to be a forces responded with riots and greater control over law own brand of socialism, there is
has r educed Ecuador's foreign savior of the Amazon when held Correa hostage when he enforcement in the north. Certain
debt to one of its lowest levels on campaigning for office, Correa confronted them in person. The circles within his government are FOR page 28
26 World News/ Newstablet Edition

Global Insights: Russia's Demographic Timebomb

(World Politics Review: Articles) Soviet period, MiG-25 warplanes increased death rates since the recommended by the WHO in its availability of black markets and
Submitted at 2/15/2011 12:46:00 AM were a particularly popular Gorbachev-era levels accounted Global Strategy to Reduce the surrogates. Furthermore, to really
source, since their de-icing tanks for 6.6 million more deaths, Harmful Use of Alcohol, adopted make a dent in the country's
A new report released on Feb. 11 contained almost 5 gallons of pure accounting for Russia's post- in May 2010. These have included alcohol consumption, Russian
by the World Health Organization alcohol. Soviet population decline. Life limiting the hours when alcoholic authorities will need to address
( W H O ) o n t h e d a n g e r s o f Insomuch as it contributes to expectancy has begun to increase drinks can be sold, restricting the root causes of alcoholism,
alcoholism and its impact on Russia's demographic meltdown, in the past few years, but only advertisements promoting alcohol such as poverty, culture, and the
overall health highlights the Russian leaders see alcoholism as marginally, despite the strong use, cracking down on illegal paucity of appropriate medical
urgency of Russia's alcoholism a threat to their country's national economic growth Russia production, raising the minimum and psychological treatments.
crisis, itself just one part of the security. In particular, alcoholism experienced from 1999 to 2007. price of alcohol as well as taxes Even if the anti-alcohol campaign
country's broader demographic is the underlying cause of 20 As a result, the population is still on it, placing warning labels of achieves partial success, Russian
challenges. Official WHO(.pdf) percent of Russian male deaths, expected to shrink to 135 million alcoholic drinks, and conducting a officials still need to address the
and Russian statistics paint a exacerbating the largest gender people by 2025. sophisticated public relations demographic and national security
horrifying picture on this subject gap in the world in terms of life Conditions might become even campaign against alcoholism threats resulting from Russians'
for Russia's population of 140 expectancy. The probability that a worse in coming years. The through modern social media widespread addiction to Afghan
million: 15-year-old Russian boy will die Russian population, despite its outlets. heroin and other drugs.
- Russians 16 and older drink the before he reaches 60 is more than low life expectancy, is aging Yet, in an indication of the Unless reversed, Russia's broader
equivalent of roughly four gallons 40 percent. rapidly due to low national birth ground the Russian government demographic trends threaten
of pure alcohol per capita each Until recently, Russia was one of rates. The decreasing number of must make up, it only tried to Moscow's control over outlying
year, almost twice the amount of the few countries experiencing women of childbearing age legally redefine beer as an territories. This concern is most
their American counterparts. decreasing life expectancy, with combined with the fact that the alcoholic drink last month. acute in the sparsely populated
- Russia currently has 2 million the decline only having recently increase in disease and deaths has Russian law currently treats beer Russian Far East, where Russian
alcoholics. leveled off. Scholar Nicholas been greatest among Russia's as a food item, making it readily officials worry that millions of
- The number of Russian children Eberstadt notes that, while many working-age population has available for consumption by Chinese might at some point be
aged 10-14 who drink alcohol countries are experiencing aging resulted in the labor force minors and others. With the tempted to move northward across
exceeds 10 million. populations and declining birth shrinking more rapidly than the encouragement of government the border in search of land and
- Roughly 500,000 Russians die rates, the Russian Federation is in population as a whole. Not only regulators, who saw beer as less other resources.
annually from alcoholic-related t h e m i d s t o f a h i s t o r i c a l l y do these trends reduce Russia's dangerous than vodka, Russian Furthermore, the Russian armed
accidents, crimes, and illnesses. unprecedented population crisis. economic growth prospects for beer consumption has increased forces face a massive personnel
- Alcohol poisoning kills more Russia's fertility rate has declined years to come, but this shrinking more than 51-fold between 1995 problem, and the country's
than 23,000 Russians each year. dramatically since the end of workforce must bear the burden and 2007. But the policy shift is demographic trends will reduce
In addition to heavy overall communist rule and is now of supporting the pensions and not guaranteed to succeed, as the availability of potential male
drinking, Russians are prone to considerably below replacement health care of an increasingly Russia's powerful alcohol recruits even further in coming
binge drinking. It is also not levels. But what really makes aging population. producers, who have successfully years. By 2016, the number of
u n c o m m o n f o r R u s s i a n s t o Russia unique is its level of With all of these various factors blocked many other proposed men available for conscription
c o n s u m e p o t e n t i a l l y t o x i c premature mortality, which in mind, Prime Minister Vladimir restrictions on the sale of alcohol, will be half that of 1996, a
substances containing high levels r e s e m b l e s t h a t f o u n d i n Putin and President Dmitry are lobbying against the proposed problem exacerbated by the fact
of alcohol -- including lighter i m p o v e r i s h e d d e v e l o p i n g Medvedev have established the law. that many potential recruits are
fluid, cleaning solution and even c o u n t r i e s . goal of cutting national alcohol It also remains unclear whether unfit for service due to alcohol-
the ethanol fuels used in vehicles - Russian life expectancy rose consumption in half by 2020. The Russian officials can overcome related complications.
- for the simple reason that they rapidly in the 1950s and early main components of Medvedev's the other problems that have In addition to being a national
contain greater concentrations of 1960s, stagnated in the mid- anti-alcohol campaign, launched repeatedly disrupted past Soviet health crisis, Russia's alcohol
regular alcohol but are taxed at 1960s, and then experienced an in 2009, have included and Russian anti-alcohol
only one-third the rate. During the acute decrease after 1990. The implementation of many measures campaigns, including the easy GLOBAL page 28
Newstablet Edition
Brazil Takes a Second Look at China Ties
(World Politics Review: Articles)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 4:46:00 AM
Brazil has profited handsomely
over the past decade from its
economic relationship with China.
Exports to the People's Republic
have shot up nearly 20-fold since
2000, and last year alone, Brazil
enjoyed a bilateral trade surplus
of $5.2 billion, largely thanks to
China's seemingly insatiable
appetite for iron ore and soybeans.
In 2009, China supplanted the
United States to become Brazil's
biggest trade partner, an
arrangement that allowed Brazil
to skirt the global recession by
insulating it from the precipitous
drop in exports that most other
Latin American countries
suffered.
The relationship is not likely to
change in the near term due to
unflagging Chinese demand; the
construction of major Brazilian
and South American
infrastructure projects aimed at
servicing Asia; and the slow pace
of economic recovery in the U.S.
and Europe.
Yet today Brazil is reappraising
its trade ties with China, as many
in Brazil worry that China is
trying to pigeonhole Brazil as just
another commodity supplier. A
closer look at the figures behind
Brazil's swelling exports to China
reveals that the country is
exporting fewer manufactured
goods, causing concern about lost
jobs. Approximately 29 percent of
Brazil's exports were raw
materials in 2002, but by 2009,
that had grown to 41 percent.
Meanwhile, Brazilian imports of
Chinese manufactured goods are
surging. Brazil typically imports
more Chinese manufactured
goods than it exports to China, but
whereas Brazil used to run a
deficit in manufactured goods of
several hundred million dollars a
year, that gap grew to $23.5
billion in 2010.
This imbalance could sap Brazil's
economy, hindering growth and
leading to de-industrialization.
Brazilian imports of manufactured
goods from China reportedly cost
70,000 jobs last year alone, and
slower GDP growth is forecast for
next year partly due to Chinese
manufactured goods replacing
domestic goods in the Brazilian
market. Says a spokesman for
FIESP, Sao Paulo's Industrial
Federation, "The relationship with
China is important, but from an
industrial perspective, it is
extremely negative."
Even iconic Brazilian industries
are feeling the pinch. Shoemaking
in Brazil has a heritage dating
back more than a century to
waves of European immigration,
and it draws on the country's
strength at raising stout cattle. As
recently as 2002, Brazil
dominated production of dress
shoes for the global market.
However, the number of shoes it
exported decreased by nearly half
from 2004-2009. And regarding
that most emblematic of
garments, the bikini, BBC Radio
4 recently aired a story
highlighting the woes of Brazilian
bikini manufacturers in the face of
Chinese competition.
All told, more than 80 percent of
Brazilian manufactured exports
are being adversely affected by
competition from China,
according to one recent study.
Certain producers of commodity
byproducts are also being
impacted. China, for instance,
overwhelmingly buys Brazilian
soy grain, not soy oil, denying
producers the chance to charge a
premium for the refinement. So
while Brazilian soybean
production continues to expand,
its soy oil and meal production
has largely stagnated.
Underlying these shifts are
divergent monetary priorities.
Global attention has recently
focused on the Chinese
government's efforts to
undervalue its currency, the yuan,
in order to keep its exports cheap
on world markets. Conversely,
Brazil's currency, the real, has
appreciated an estimated 40
percent since 2008. As a result,
Brazilian goods are at a
competitive disadvantage in terms
of price in China and other
countries.
In December, Brazil reacted by
increasing tariffs against Chinese
toys, from 20 percent to 35
percent, the highest level
permitted by the WTO. Other
piecemeal tariffs may soon follow
in an effort to protect specific
Brazilian industries from
shedding more jobs. The Brazilian
government has taken an
increasingly firmer stance against
the value of the yuan in recent
months, and the issue will likely
be broached when President
Dilma Rousseff visits Beijing in
April.
Having pitched her candidacy as
a continuation of the tenure of her
popular predecessor, former
President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva, Rousseff now seems to be
letting pragmatism take
precedence over continuity. A key
part of that pragmatism appears to
be building closer ties with the
U.S. On Feb. 7, U.S. Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner
visited Brazil to talk about closer
U.S.-Brazilian economic ties.
After meeting with Rousseff,
Geithner stated that Brazil and the
U.S. shared a common cause: to
"work together on the global stage
to build a more balanced and
more stable, stronger multilateral
economic system." While
Geithner refrained from specific
mention of China, advisers to the
Brazilian government and major
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media outlets read the trip as an
attempt to build a new alliance
against the weak yuan. More
generally, Brazilian trade policy
may be an early indication that the
Rousseff administration intends to
triangulate its foreign policy with
China and the United States.
Brazil and China's economic
models proved very
complementary at the onset of the
so-called BRIC era. Now, as both
seek to reposition themselves for
a push further up the economic
development ladder, that
complementarity is less likely to
be taken for granted.
Sean Goforth teaches
international political economy at
Coastal Carolina University and
blogs on Latin America for the
Foreign Policy Association.
Photo: Brazilian President Dilma
Rousseff (Agência Brasil photo
by Wilson Dias, licensed under
the Creative Commons Brazil 2.5
Attribution).
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director of Country Risk on someone else's site, please readOnce you start watching TV with comment about their bad taste in Verizon FIOS TV subscribers. I
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consulting firm based in content-only/faq.php going back. When the big screen We both much prefer Yap.TV, my new remote control. It lets
Connecticut, and senior adviser to Five Filters featured article: becomes boring, you just switch which lets you navigate shows via you tune into any show currently
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Daniel Jackman is a research The Crosshairs. whole world of Twitter, email, the guide or a grid showing trending WiFi network in your house and
analyst with CRS. Web, and apps stand ready to shows. The whole point of the app your set-top box. The app itself is
Photo: Ecuadorian President entertain your multitasking mind. is to, well, yap about TV, and not a bit clunky (the program guide
Rafael Correa, December 2006 In this week’s episode of Fly or just with people you know. When takes forever to fully load), but it
(Agência Brasil photo by Die, CrunchGear editor John you click on a show, you see a is such an improvement over the
GLOBAL Biggs and I look at three TV apps Twitter stream with all the traditional remote control that it is
continued from page 26 designed to enhance your TV realtime tweets about that show, now my default. I can keep
problem also represents a national Attribution). watching experience, not distract along with polls, and a window looking for something better to
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World Politics Review senior Five Filters featured article: The three TV apps we evaluate in especially well for appointment like Comcast’s Xfinity app allows
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Global Insights, appears every The Crosshairs. and FIOS Mobile. The first one, Grammy’s, or even The Colbert If you want to jump to individual
Tuesday. IntoNow, is like Shazam for TV Report, where lots of people are segments of this show (the whole
Photo: Vodka bottle (photo by shows. It lets you check into a watching at the same time. thing is 11 minutes), here is where
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a high gee-whiz factor, and it lonely people,” but then again as by?
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Live from Eric Schmidt's Keynote at Mobile World Congress

Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) idea of mobile phones as We have an anti-fragmentation standard had to evolve.
Submitted at 2/15/2011 10:52:52 AM "serendipity" platforms that help clause for all our vendors. The Eventually, some number of years
you discover the world around importance of the app store - it's from now, a lot of apps will run
Google Executive Chairman Eric you, a favorite topic of his. Some the carrot and stick that on HTML5, on both mobile and
Schmidt is giving a keynote magical things phones do come encourages updates. non-mobile forms.
presentation at Mobile World from Google: Google Translate 6: 27 Question: Google's role in 6:35 Question about Google's
Congress in Barcelona. It's his for instance, is a universal managing people's money? vision for social, how will it bring
first major speech since he translator. Translation is done in Schmidt: Larry said we should intelligence to social info: Google
stepped down from the CEO the cloud. offer "Google Bucks." Probably is a platform. If you give us your
position in January. His goal? To 6:01 Demo Time! We're looking not going to happen. The serious social info, we can make search
talk Android, of course, and more at a new Android app: Android answer is that there's a mega better. Ex: if you tell YouTube
importantly, to convince carriers Movie Studio which lets you edit opportunity in front of us. The who your friends are, it can
that Google isn't trying to make video files. The app lets you add NFC chip can be used as a secure suggest better videos for you. It's
them just "dumb pipes" for pan and zoom effects, customize ever really lost? And all your ID for electronic transactions. another signal we add to the
Google's content. the images in the timeline, change friends know where you are, too. Scenario: Phone remembers you matrix.
Sponsor the beginning and end of clips, You're never lonely - there's need new pants. Phone knows Question about IPv4: last block
Live Blog, bandwidth permitting. change the colors in clips. always people "around" you. And there's 2 stores in front of you of addresses gone in next 6
Press F5 to refresh periodically. 6:07 Schmidt mentions, this is a you're never bored, never out of selling pants. The phone tells you months. Google has been testing
5:49: 300,000 Schmidt starts with Honeycomb app. Networking ideas. "We can always suggest which one has the pants you like IPv6, as all major vendors do. The
stats: Android activations per day. issues! Can complete the demo, new ideas." You? Google? And of (the cheaper ones). Phone tells concern is about the intermediate
He's talking about the power of but you can see it on YouTube! course, your car drives itself. This you where to go. Store knows things - the things you forgot
b r o a d b a n d , t h e p o w e r o f 6:08 Back to Schmidt. He loves technology will come in a decade, you're coming. Pants are ready. about. We have do a number of
connectivity. Honeycomb. Google wants to get not a year. You buy them, paying with your tests to make sure IPv6 routing
5:52: Technology is going to you back to being human, not a 6:20 More people are coming to phone. works. The time is now, we have
serve humans, not the other way slave to the computer. mobile, billions. It will change 6:31 Question about the different to deal with it.
around. And "computers are here 6:11 Google Chrome, AdWords, their lives. Because of what you O S ' s : " I a p o l o g i z e f o r t h e 6:39 Question about how
to make us happier." & YouTube get shout outs. 160 helped them build (talking to the c o n f u s i o n . " C o n f i r m s t h a t Schmidt sees Google in 10 years?
5:53: Today's developers think million mobile views per year on operators here, again). He says he Android Ice Cream will combine Google will be a lot bigger. The
mobile first. Last year, Schmidt Y o u T u b e . N o w G o o g l e i s hopes Google and you (the the features of Gingerbread and world will be more mobile. The
said he predicated smartphones monetizing professional content carriers) can work together to help Honeycomb. He doesn't confirm big development will be artificial
would pass PC sales in 2 years. on YouTube. make the world a better place with it's called "Ice Cream," just that it intelligence. The infrastructure
Now, he says he was wrong. It 6:13 We understand that we're technology. starts with an "I" and is named will be built but we can't predict
h a p p e n e d i n o n e y e a r . A disruptive. We understand people 6:21 Q&A after a dessert. Chrome OS is the next killer apps.
smartphone today has the same have concerns about privacy. We 6:24 Question about Ads: What unrelated to mobile phones. 6:41 Mobile devices and health:
capability of a lunar mission in think the debate is healthy and we will ads in the future look like? Chrome OS is for netbooks and It's obvious that mobile devices
1969. The same thing has want to be a part of the Schmidt says targeted TV-quality PCs. Over time, we're working for should be used for heatlh.
occurred on the networks - the discussion. We're listening. ads customized to the unique them to merge. Between 3-4 Google queries are
operators are pouring billions of 6:15 Over the next few years, all individual without violating their 6:33 Why isn't Larry here? Larry medical, working to make those
dollars to offer data at this scale. the mobile phones and tablets that privacy is the next big thing in said: you get to fly around more. results accurate, more automated.
5:55: Note, he's not calling the are coming mean that you never advertising. Better ads are more Larry is probably at his desk, Question about primary
operators "carriers" like he does in forget anything: where you satisfying to viewer and are a working on products. competitors: Microsoft. They
the U.S. Carrier implies dumb stayed, who you talked to, what better return on investment. 6:34 Question about HTML5. It have the cash, scale, brand and
pipe, operator sounds better. you said. You're also never lost. Q u e s t i o n a b o u t A n d r o i d will become the way almost all
5:59 Schmidt is revisiting the WHen was the last time you were fragmentation, what's being done? apps are built. The underlying LIVE page 33
Schmidt: we hear some of this.
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Huawei IDEOS S7 Slim hands-on; X3, HiLink & Mobile

WiFi official
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:36:30 AM

Huawei’s IDEOS S7 Slim isn’t

exactly a tricky proposition to
understand: take the original
IDEOS S7, shave some heft off
the chassis and switch out the
unloved resistive panel for a
capacitive one instead. As we
found with after our hands-on
with the slate at MWC 2011, it all
adds up to a surprisingly
convincing slate.
Gone is the sponginess of the S7s
screen, replaced by a reasonably
responsive capacitive screen.
There’s now multitouch support
in the browser and other apps, and
since there’s integrated 3G –
along with WiFi b/g/n and
Bluetooth – you get Android
Market access as well, which puts
the S7 Slim ahead of many other
low-cost slates. There’s also an
HDMI output, for hooking up an
HDTV.
The touchscreen is still WVGA
800 x 480 resolution, however,
while rivals like the Galaxy Tab
and the new HTC Flyer have 1024
x 600 displays, and Android 2.2
Froyo – even with Huawei’s skin
– isn’t ideal. The software
experience is little changed from Still, that’s why Huawei can and the Mobile WiFi Smart Pro Huawei Reveals Expanded Suite market with latest intuitive
what we’ve seen before, so a expect to sell the IDEOS S7 Slim hotspot. The X3 is headed to of Smart Devices at 2011 Mobile Android 2.3 interface
selection of paneled homescreens for under $300 when it arrives on Japanese carrier Softbank in the World Congress Huawei IDEOS™ S7 Slim next-
split into work, entertainment, the market in April 2011. spring, while the two modems Huawei IDEOS™ X3 generation tablet now more
communications, favorites and the Meanwhile,the company has a will launch in April and Q2 Smartphone – Sleek, stylish streamlined for easier portability
full apps list. It’s obviously not as new smartphone, the X3, and a respectively. design, the thinnest device in the
slick as Honeycomb. pair of new modems, the HiLink Press Release: 3.2-inch screen range on the HUAWEI page 34
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Lower wind, solar prices to usher speedier adoption

(CNET News.com) for the first time in two decades, Barcap's Madlani. "The number one company in the
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:32:19 AM with fewer turbines installed than For the first time, China last year world holding solar patents is
in 2009, but the world added a topped the world in cumulative Samsung, but they're not sure how
Rapid recent solar and wind price record amount of solar power, U.S. cents per kilowatt hour installed capacity. to jump into it," said Jefferies'
falls are likely to bring new reaping the benefit of generous (kWh), depending on construction An advantage of solar power is Reid. "Semiconductor companies
markets and mass adoption a step incentives in Europe. and financing costs, compared that it supplies electricity at the like Intel are also looking
closer over the next decade and The price of solar panels, or with about 3 to 7 cents for gas and hottest time of the day, in line closely."
raise the prospects of mergers. modules, is expected to fall coal, say analysts. with peak demand for air In the wind market, a merger
The financial crisis coupled with another 10 percent to 25 percent D e n m a r k - b a s e d M A K E conditioning and when electricity among existing niche players
a ramp-up in China, which now in 2011. Consulting reported strong growth prices are highest. could create a global player to
leads the world wind and solar Modules prices would halve in turbine orders in 2010 for Even so, solar panels generate rival Vestas, GE, and Siemens.
manufacturing, have led to over- again in the next two to three delivery over the next couple of power at a cost of more than 15 Buyers could include emerging
capacity and pressured prices in years, predicted Madlani. But years, up 48 percent on 2009. U.S. cents per kWh even in the eastern giants, or outsiders.
the past three years. other analysts said that the longer "Prices have bottomed," at about sunniest climates, making it China's Goldwind acquired
Natural gas is the main fossil fuel outlook is clouded by conflicting 1 million euros per megawatt, said competitive only in a very few Germany's Vensys in 2008, while
rival and still wins on price after pressures. MAKE Consulting's Steen Broust retail power markets such as diversified U.S. manufacturer
U.S. shale gas finds created a Additional demand from new Nielsen. southern Italy and Hawaii. United Technologies bought
global glut. markets such as India, China, and In the windiest sites, in Scotland, E l s e w h e r e i t d e p e n d s o n Clipper Windpower last year.
But wind and solar are now the Middle East may counter an Ireland, and Brazil, wind is s u b s i d i e s . Story Copyright (c) 2010 Reuters
competitive in niche markets after expected paring of subsidies in already competitive with coal, Italy is expected to rein in its Limited. All rights reserved.
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32 Technology/
Shuttle Introduces Two New Mini-PC Models
Rue Liu (SlashGear)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:26:46 AM
The Mini-PC maker is about to
release two new barebone systems
on Intel’s “Sandy Bridge”. The
XPC Barebone SH67H3 and
SH67H7 will support Intel’s i3,
i5, and i7 processors and both will
be available by the end of March.
The small form factor of Mini-
PCs is pack a lot in a tiny bundle
and Shuttle’s new models are no
different. Both the SH67H3 and
SH67H7 can hold two 3.5” drives
and one 5.35” drive with four
DIMM slots capable of up to 16
GB of DDR3 memory. There are
plenty of ports for users too with
four USB 2.0 slots and three USB
3.0 slots.
The chassis and case cover for
both models are made of
aluminum and a 300 W power
supply keeps the Mini-PCs
running. The H7 model is the
more stylish of the two with ports
and connectors hidden behind
drive doors, while the H3 is more
traditional with all connectors
exposed.
Press Release:
Mini-PCs for 2nd generation
Intel Core processors
Product demonstrations at CeBIT
2011 in Hall 17, Stand E41
Shuttle Inc., a leading developer
and manufacturer of
multi-form-factor solutions such
as the world-famous XPC Mini-
PC
Barebones, showcases two
models for Intel’s new 32 nm-
technology
processor generation (code name:
Sandy Bridge) at CeBIT 2011.
Shuttle, as the Mini-PC pioneer,
is set to launch the XPC Barebone
SH67H3 and SH67H7 at the end
of March 2011. Both are based on
the
Intel H67 Express chipset and
boast extremely impressive
technical
features to support all Intel Core
2nd generation i3, i5 and i7
processors with LGA1155. There
are four DIMM slots that enable
DDR3
memory support with a
maximum capacity of 16 GB.
Furthermore, these Mini-PCs are
able to accommodate two 3.5
drives
and one 5.35 drive with the
motherboard offering 2x SATA 6
Gbit/s and
2x SATA 3 Gbit/s. Additional
drives can be connected externally
via
eSATA or via an array of USB
ports. On the front and rear of the
SH67H3 and SH67H7 models
there are for the first time 4x USB
3.0 and
4x USB 2.0 ports as well as 2x
eSATA/USB combo ports. A
Gigabit-LAN
interface is also provided for fast
network access and data transfer.
All second-generation Intel Core
processors have a built-in
graphics
function. At the rear of both
SH67 models are two digital
monitor
outputs. With both HDMI and
DVI-I connections, the user can
run two
monitors and enjoy seamless
playback of HD content. The Mini
-PCs
deliver audio signals via S/PDIF
or HDMI.
Additional graphics performance
is provided by the PCI-Express
2.0
x16 port which is compatible
Newstablet Edition
with the latest dual-slot graphics
cards.
If a single-slot graphics card is
used, one PCI-Express 2.0 x1 port
is
then available for expansion
cards. The third expansion option
is the
Mini-PCIe port, which can be
used for various applications, e.g.
a
WLAN module.
A 300 W, 80-PLUS-certified
power supply unit ensures the
compact PC
is able to deliver high
performance. The overall system
is cooled by
means of a heatpipe with a large
speed-regulated fan.
“With one machine available in
two different designs, consumers
are
able to choose their preferred
option. The H3 design is more
traditional and all connectors are
directly available. The H7 on the
other hand has a more elegant
look and all connectors are
elegantly
hidden from view behind drive
doors,” states Tom Seiffert, Head
of
Marketing & PR at Shuttle
Computer Handels GmbH. “With
these new
models, we are responding to the
commonly expressed wish of our
customers to go back to
aluminium as the material for the
chassis and
case cover.”
SHUTTLE page 35
Newstablet Edition
Secretary Clinton: The Internet Has Become The
World’s Town Square
Leena Rao (TechCrunch) Clinton, and there is now a debate
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:45:31 AM of whether internet is a voice for
surpression or liberation. But with
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary 2 billion people online worldwide,
Clinton took the stage at George Clinton says that the internet has
Washington University today to become the world’s Town Square,
address ‘Internet Freedom’ and where people are assembling to
ways that the U.S. can ensure free connect with each other. And that
internet access around the world. presents a challenge, says Clinton.
You can watch a live video of the “We need to have a serious
speech on Facebook here. The conversation about what rules
announcement is timed with the should exists and not exist and
measures taken by the Egyptian why.” She adds, “the freedom to
government to restrict internet a s s e m b l e a n d a s s o c i a t e i s
access to citizens during the a p p l i c a b l e t o c y b e r s p a c e . ”
massive protests against the Clinton explains, “For the U.S.
Mubarak regime. Much of the the choice is clear— we place
organization of the initial protests ourselves on the side of openness.
and rallies in Egypt took place Internet freedom raises tensions
over Twitter and Facebook over like all freedoms do but the
the past few weeks.
benefits outweigh the costs.”
Clinton, who previously called on Others have taken a different
former Egyptian president a p p r o a c h t h a n t h e U . S .
Mubarak unblock social media government, says Clinton. Some
sites such as Facebook and governments that arrest bloggers
Twitter, said that Egypt did not and limit their access to the
want the world to watch or internet may claim to be seeking
witness what was taking place in security but they are taking the
the country. She drew similarities wrong path she asserted.
to the protests in Iran last year, The second challenge is
where the internet and cellphone protecting both transparency and
access were also shut down by the confidentiality on the internet, she
government. says. “In addition to being a
Unlike, the situation in Iran, the public space, the internet is also a
story ended differently for Egypt. c h a n n e l f o r p r i v a t e
The internet is an accelerant of the communication and there must be
way to start political change, says a way to protect confidential
Jazz pianist George Shearing dies at 91 (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Obituaries) AP - George Shearing, the
ebullient jazz pianist who wrote
Technology/ Obituaries 33
LIVE
continued from page 29
reach. Bing is good - perhaps too
good, as we mentioned in a blog
post. Facebook is less of a
competitor.
expression. Walls preventing this
On Nokia/Microsoft deal: We
interaction are far easier to erect
wished Nokia chose Android. We
than maintain, she warns. “And
certainly tried. We're sorry that
c o m m u n i c a t i o n s . ” C l i n t o n these actions incur opportunity they chose Microsoft.
p a r t i c u l a r l y h i g h l i g h t s t h e costs for closed freedom of 6:44 Oops I dropped my camera.
i m p o r t a n c e o f g o v e r n m e n t expression. When countries
6:47 Why don't educational
communications, calling out curtail internet freedom, they institutions embrace Google
Wikileaks, which she says began place limits on economic future.” searches, Internet research?
with an act of theft, similar to Freedom of expression is part of Schmidt: We've funded YouTube
smuggling papers in a briefcase. what fuels innovation in a professors. We haven't come up
She explains that any of cable c o u n t r y , C l i n t o n s a y s . S h e with a killer "Ed" app. The sooner
released by Wikileaks relate to highlights China, where internet we can get people on mobile, the
human rights issues around the censorship is high but economic faster change can occur.
world and it is dangerous work to growth is strong. But she warns 6:48 Android has been a success,
publish diplomatic cables. With that the restrictions will have are you moving to PC world?
this, Wikileaks exposed people to economic costs in the future. (Me: Uh, seriously?) Schmidt:
greater risks. And we did not ask I urge countries to join us in the Yes, and it's called Chrome OS.
or mandate that companies to shut bet we have made, which is a bet Sometime in spring, hardware
down support to Wikileaks, she that an open internet will lead to m a n u f a c t u r e r s w i l l d e l i v e r
maintains. stronger countries, she concludes.
Chrome OS PCs. They won't run
Deleting writing, blocking Innovation thrives where ideas of Microsoft apps.
content and arresting speakers all kinds are shared and explored. 6:50 Question about privacy
only drives people with strong The U.S. will continue to promote dilemma? People trust brands that
ideas to the fringes, where and internet where people’s rights are trustworthy. People will opt-in
c o n v i c t i o n s d e e p e n w i t h are protected, and has found if you know they're not trying to
challenges, Clinton explains. strong partners and organizations violate your privacy. Privacy is
When it comes to online speech, t o s u p p o r t t h i s i n i t i a t i v e complicated, there's not a single
the U.S. has chosen to urge are w o r l d w i d e .
answer. Sometimes national
citizens to act with civility and Some have criticized the U.S. for security, local laws, local customs
recognize the power their speech not pouring money into a single come into play. As long as you
has online. technology, says Clinton, but
choose to opt-in, not an issue.
Speaking specifically to the web, there’s no technology available to Discuss
C l i n t o n s a y s t h a t s o c i a l prevent the surpression of internet
n e t w o r k i n g s i t e s a r e n o w access. “There’s no App for that
becoming a collaborative space so get working,” she said.
f o r a s s e m b l e a n d p o l i t i c a l Updating
the standard "Lullaby of both with and without his quintet,
Birdland" and had a string of hits has died. He was 91.
34 Technology/ Culture/
HUAWEI
continued from page 30
Huawei HiLink for automatic,
hassle-free Internet connection
anywhere, anytime
Huawei Mobile WiFi Smart Pro
wireless modem with intelligent
routing
Spain, Barcelona, 15 February
2011: Huawei, a leader in
providing next-generation
telecommunications network
solutions for operators around the
world, introduced its latest
Android Gingerbread smartphone,
the Huawei IDEOS™ X3, at the
Mobile World Congress in
Barcelona on 15th February. The
ultra-stylish Huawei IDEOS X3
blends sleek hardware with high-
performing software to help users
more effectively manage their
communication and social
networking activities.
At the same event, Huawei also
launched the Huawei HiLink, a
plug-and-link data card which
connects users to high-speed
Internet on-the-go, the Huawei
Mobile WiFi Smart Pro wireless
modem, an intelligent device
which automatically selects the
best high-speed Internet
connection available, as well as
the Huawei IDEOS™ S7 Slim, a
next-generation 7-inch capacitive
touchscreen tablet offering a
blend of style and portability.
Behind the scenes at Pixar Studios [video]
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:42:00 AM
We’ve all seen the magic at the
end of the Pixar rainbow, but
“The IDEOS range and our latest
mobile broadband solutions are
intuitive, simple to use products
that offer users an enhanced
mobile experience integrated
seamlessly across different
wireless technologies,” said Mr.
Victor Xu, chief marketing officer
of Huawei Device. “As we move
into 2011, Huawei will continue
to lead the drive to provide
consumers with smart mobile
connectivity at the right price.”
The Huawei IDEOS™ X3
smartphone: intuitive, power-
efficient, ultra-stylish
The Huawei IDEOS X3,
featuring an ultra-slim exterior, is
a high-performing smartphone
that boasts a 3.2-inch capacitive
HVGA touchscreen, a 3.2
megapixel camera and the Huawei
Handset Over-the-Air and Online
Upgrade (HOTA) solution for
Android, which provides users
easy and timely OS upgrades. It is
the thinnest device in the 3.2 inch
screen range on the market. The
smartphone runs on the latest
Android 2.3 Gingerbread
platform, which features a refined
user interface that makes the
smartphone easy to navigate,
more intuitive and more power-
efficient.
The Huawei IDEOS X3 also
Melena Ryzik of The New York
Times got a rare chance to get a
glimpse of the folks behind the
curtain.
Full story at The New York
comes standard with applications
that allow users to easily manage
information and seamlessly sync
their various social
communication channels.
·
Product availability:
The Huawei IDEOS™ X3
will be available in Japan via
SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp.
from Spring 2011[1].
· The Huawei IDEOS™ S7
Slim will be available in April
2011.
· The Huawei HiLink will be
available in Europe in Q2 2011.
· The Huawei Mobile WiFi
Smartpro will be available in Q2
2011.
Relevant Entries on SlashGear
• Huawei Ideos U8150, S7 tablet
& Hx concept hands-on [Video]
• Huawei IDEOS X6 smartphone:
4.1, HDMI and HSPA+
• Huawei unveils E583C Mobile
WiFi Hotspot
• Huawei D100 Router
transforms 3G dongle into WiFi
network
• Huawei Android devices hitting
T-Mobile in Q3 2009?
Times Plus via Neatorama.
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Sparrow gets AppleScript
support, immediately put
to use with OmniFocus
Steven Sande (TUAW) icon to send it to Sparrow.
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:00:00 AM The task's name, context and note
fields are included in the email,
Sparrow, the sleek new email with Delegated Task as the
client for Mac OS X, was updated subject line. As Southard notes,
yesterday to improve speed, fix you can easily rearrange the order
some minor bugs, and add some of the task fields within the script.
limited AppleScript support. It's a simple but effective
While the changes might not be AppleScript, and demonstrates the
apparent to many Sparrow users, power of Apple's venerable
t h e y w e r e a p p a r e n t l y a n scripting language in integration
inspiration to Don Southard, who of different apps. As Sparrow
immediately figured out a way to evolves from the current 1.0.1
use the AppleScript support with version, it would be nice to see
OmniFocus. additional AppleScript support
Southard's quick work allows built in so that people like Don
him to delegate an OmniFocus Southard can do even more fun
task by sending an email with and useful things with the app.
details about the task to another [via MacStories, image from Tech
person via Sparrow. The script is Blog /via Dirt Don]
saved and placed into the~/ Sparrow gets AppleScript
Library/Scripts/Applications/ support, immediately put to use
OmniFocus folder, and then a w i t h O m n i F o c u s o r i g i n a l l y
script icon named "Send to appeared on TUAW on Tue, 15
S p a r r o w " i s p l a c e d o n t h e Feb 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please
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Android ups lead over iOS on mobile ad network
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:31:56 AM
Android has strengthened its
leading position as the most
popular smartphone platform on
Millennial Media's mobile ad
network, according to the
company's January Mobile Mix
report.
For January, Google's mobile OS
captured 54 percent of all ad
impressions seen on smartphone
platforms on the network, up from
46 percent in December. At the
same time, the share of
impressions held by Apple's iOS
fell to 28 percent from 32 percent
the prior month.
In third place was Research In
Motion's BlackBerry with a 14
percent share, followed by
Nokia's Symbian and Microsoft's
Windows Mobile, each of which
picked up 1 percent of all ad
impressions.
Android may be the leading
smartphone OS, according to the
report. But switching gears to
look at the device makers
themselves, Apple held onto its
top spot by a healthy margin.
For January, the iPhone, iPod
Touch, and iPad collectively
grabbed 26 percent of all ad
impressions, a jump of 24 percent
from December. Of all connected
devices tracked on Millennial
Media's network, the iPhone
retained its No. 1 position but was
followed by the iPod Touch,
which sneaked into second place
last month with an 8 percent
share.
Among other device makers,
HTC's share of ad impressions
grew 36 percent in January to
propel it to the No. 2 position
among the top 15 manufacturers.
All told, HTC won 21 percent of
all impressions and accounted for
eight of the devices in Millennial
Media's top 30 list with its Nexus
One smartphone taking third
place.
Fellow Android device maker
Samsung dropped to the No. 3
spot, though its Epic and Galaxy 5
smartphones joined the top 30 list
for the first time last month.
Collectively, Samsung captured
15 percent of all ad impressions
tracked by Millennial Media and
saw seven of its devices scattered
among the top 30.
In fourth place was RIM with 10
percent of all ad impressions and
five of its BlackBerry phones on
the top 30 list.
The top 10 device makers seen
on Millennial Media's ad
network.(Credit: Millennial
Media)
The report for January also
uncovered further evidence of the
ongoing popularity of
smartphones. For the month,
smartphones accounted for 23 of
the top 30 mobile devices to win a
collective 55 percent share of all
ad impressions, up 15 percent
from December.
Of course, the year is still young,
and recent events promise to
Technology/ 35
SHUTTLE
continued from page 32
Shuttle’s recommended retail
price for the Barebone SH67H3 is
EUR
239.00. For the XPC Barebone
SH67H7 the recommended retail
price is
set to EUR 251.00 (both prices ex
VAT).
Relevant Entries on SlashGear
• Shuttle announces XPC
Barebone SG45H7 with Intel G45
Express chipset
• Shuttle X100 mini desktop PC
• Shuttle offers discounts on all
SFF Barebones PCs at Newegg
• Shuttle unveils 3.3cm thick
XS35 PC
• Shuttle debuts snazzy new XPC
SG41J1 SFF barebone computer
shake up the mobile market as
2011 progresses. Will the Verizon
iPhone knock Android a few pegs
off its perch? And though Nokia
and Microsoft were on the bottom
of Millennial Mobile's ad
network, will the new deal
between the two companies at
least give Windows Phone 7 a
much-needed shot in the arm?
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HTC's "Facebook Phones" are Real, eBay Lands First Mobile

Offer One-Button Access to Social Pre-Load Deal With
Network Telefonica’s O2 UK Phones
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) 3.4-inch, 480 x 320 resolution Submitted at 2/15/2011 10:58:10 AM

Submitted at 2/15/2011 9:36:55 AM touch display. Assuming

Facebook ever launches video eBay’s mobile reach in Europe is
As rumored, HTC did launch two chat, these phones would be about to expand exponentially.
"Facebook phones" at Mobile ready. What's This About "Ice The e-commerce giant has just
World Congress this week: the Cream?" announced it first ever mobile pre
HTC Salsa and the HTC ChaCha. CNET and others noticed that -load deal with Telefonica, which
will equip most smartphones and Mobile generated$2 billion in
No, they're not the Facebook HTC sent out a press release
feature phones sold by the sales for eBay last year, and the
phones - that is, they're not saying that the phones would run
Telefonica via its O2 brand with company expects to double that
branded or licensed by Facebook Android 2.4, the version that will
eBay’s mobile app or a link to number in 2011. And eBay’s
itself - but they offer such deep be known as "Ice Cream," or so
eBay’s mobile page pre-loaded. mobile strategy is already gaining
integration with the social say the Internet rumors. That's not
The company says the deal will traction in international markets.
networking service, you may as exactly true, according to the
status updates. In the case of include most Android, Windows The UK is the strongest market
well call them "Facebook HTC reps we spoke to. The
status updates, a simple "press and 7, Symbian and Bada devices sold for eBay in terms of m-commerce
phones," we'd say. phones will launch with Android
hold" action will present a screen by O2 in the UK over the next in Europe, with an item purchased
Here's another surprise - the 2.3.3 ("Gingerbread") but will
where you can type in your status. two years. Telefonica will on average every two seconds
phones may soon run a newer soon be upgraded to 2.4,
Music updates post the artist actually work with device through the eBay buyer app in the
version of Android, which may or depending on what Google
name and album and calendar manufacturers to pre-install the UK in 2010. And Germany and
may not be code-named "Ice provides as the next big upgrade
entries are duplicated to your application. the UK combined generated
Cream." for its mobile operating system.
Facebook calendar. So why is this a big deal? It’s nearly one-third of all eBay’s
Sponsor That update may be called "Ice
You can also chat with your eBay’s first pre-load deal with a mobile sales in 2010.
One Button for Facebook Cream," or it may be called
Facebook friends using these carrier, and Telfonica O2 is one of I’m going to take a wild guess
With the HTC Salsa and ChaCha, "Gingerbread," - the naming is up
devices and your Facebook the largest carriers in Europe. here, but I’m sure eBay will be
Facebook access is baked into to Google. All that really matters
messages and conversations are While the apps will only be negotiating similar pre-load
HTC's Sense user interface. If you here is the phones are going to run
integrated so they appear available on O2 UK’s phones carrier deals in other countries
take a photo, for example, the the latest version of Android
alongside text messages and initially, the apps are expected to over the next year. CrunchBase
phone is aware of your actions ASAP - there's a commitment on
emails. Hardware Details roll out to other Telefonica Information eBay Information
and the button will light up, HTC's part to make sure of that.
As for the specs, the ChaCha has markets. The pre-loaded apps will provided by CrunchBase
indicating that you can now post And these so-called "Facebook
a QWERTY keyboard, a 2.6-inch, no doubt be able to bring in more
the photo to Facebook, if you so phones" won't be the only devices
480 x 320 resolution landscape traffic to eBay’s apps and sites.
desire. One press of the button, getting the update, when it
touch screen, a 5-megapixel color
and the photo is sent directly to arrives. HTC's new Incredible S,
camera with auto focus and LED
your Facebook Wall. Desire S and Wildfire S will also
flash and a VGA front-facing
But the functionality is not run the latest from Google as soon
camera. The Salsa also has a 5-
limited to photos alone, it will as it's available.
megapixel camera and VGA front
also work with videos, music, Discuss
-facing camera in addition to its
calendar appointments, and even
Newstablet Edition
Verizon network reportedly handling
iPhone traffic well
Steven Sande (TUAW)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 12:00:00 PM
Verizon's vaunted network is
handling the onslaught of new
iPhones very well, according to a
report published by web
application performance firm
Compuware Gomez. The report
states that Verizon's mobile data
performance seems untouched by
the addition of hundreds of
thousands of data-hungry iPhones
to the network. There was
virtually no change -- about four-
tenths of one percent slower -- in
the performance of the Verizon
network in terms of browsing and
page load times.
The firm made measurements of
data performance on the Verizon
network on the first four official
days of iPhone availability --
February 10 - 13. Based on
estimates from Wall Street
analysts, upwards of 500,000
Verizon iPhones may have been
purchased during pre-sales, with
another 70,000 - 100,000 users
switching from AT&T to Verizon.
Compuware Gomez believes that
between 500,000 and 700,000
new iPhone users are now using
the Verizon network.
While that could be construed as
Inflation shock hits savers and borrowers
(Finance News - Business news
from the UK and world)
Technology/ Finance/ 37
Apple issues survey to
MacBook Air owners,
mentions 3G
Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW) the notebook, a move that would
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:30:00 AM pit the Air directly against the 3G
iPad. Other questions hint at cloud
Apple is sending out surveys to -based services which could
MacBook Air owners that hint at suggest Apple is moving forward
3G connectivity and other with the technology it acquired
hardware changes for its popular from its purchase of LaLa.
notebook. The survey queries The use of surveys by Apple is a
causing additional demand for the huge number of iPhones did current owners about their interest relatively common occurrence.
b a n d w i d t h o n t h e V e r i z o n not immediately cause the VZW in wireless 3G connectivity as Apple used a similar survey to
network, many of the 500,000 network to take a dirt nap. It will well as the customer's usage of tweak the Apple TV which is
Verizon iPhone pre-sales may be fascinating to see if that trend web-based data storage storage slowly changing from a "hobby"
have been to existing customers, stays steady as adoption of the services on the MacBook Air. The to a viable media playback device.
therefore offsetting any expected iPhone by Verizon customers survey also addresses the issue of If you were Apple and had the
i n c r e a s e i n d a t a u s a g e . continues. USB ports, keyboard function power of Steve Jobs in your
Compuware Gomez performs Verizon network reportedly keys and the use of external hard hands, how would you tweak the
their tests by capturing data from handling iPhone traffic well d r i v e s w i t h t h e p o r t a b l e MacBook Air to make even better
a few thousand actual users originally appeared on TUAW on c o m p u t i n g d e v i c e . than it already is?
spread across the U.S., so the Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:00:00 EST. There is little doubt the latest Apple issues survey to MacBook
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38 Technology/ Culture/ Newstablet Edition

Survey Finds Local Marketing Panasonic’s first 3D

Dollars Go To Facebook Places Over LED TVs Debuting in
Foursquare, Groupon 2011
Audrey Watters is Groupon, with 6.6% of local Samia Perkins (SlashGear)
(ReadWriteWeb) merchants saying they'd offered a Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:46:55 AM

Submitted at 2/15/2011 9:54:59 AM "daily deal." But 13% of those

surveyed say they plan to do so, In 2011, Panasonic’s Viera TV
When Facebook Places launched an indication that there is a line will include the brand’s first
last summer, one of the first demand for group-buying 3D LED TVs. The DT30 series
questions (other than "how will opportunities. will include two TVs, the 32-inch
this impact my privacy?") was Interestingly, 14.3% of TX-L37DT30, and the 37-inch
"How will this impact other respondents said they'd never TX-L37DT30. These panels will
location-based startups?" While heard of Groupon, while 27.6% add mid-size TVs to the larger
Foursquare was gaining tractions said they'd never heard of plasma TVs that Panasonic
and users, some questioned if Foursquare. 26.9% said they'd already offers. They will have IPS
Facebook's entry into "location" never heard of Groupon's panels for a wide viewing angle,
Merchant Confidence Index, competitor Living Social. 11% Plasma screen will also be
would serve to squash it. and the addition of improved
Facebook and Google are still the s a i d t h e y ' d n e v e r h e a r d o f available in 42, 50, 55, and 65
Foursquare has hardly been motion response and Intelligent
leaders when it comes to online Facebook Places. Before you inch screen sizes.
squashed. The startup ended 2010 Frame Creation to produce cross-
marketing efforts. [ via PocketLint]
with over 380 million check-ins draw any conclusions about Super talk-free 3D images, according to
Respondents to the latest survey Bowl ads, the survey ran from Relevant Entries on SlashGear
and now boasts over 6 million Panasonic.
indicate that 32% are using January 22 through February 3, • Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 and LG
users. But a new survey from The DT30 series models will
Facebook Places to promote their narrowly missing the Groupon Optimus Pad inbound at CES
MerchantCircle suggests that include Panasonic’s Viera
businesses, with 12% planning to advertising gaffe. according to report
while users may be flocking to Connect internet service, which
do so in the coming months. That According to the survey, about • THQ’s Homefront DLC
Foursquare, businesses' marketing gives viewers access to a series of
compares to 8.7% who use 72% of local businesses say Debuting on Xbox LIVE, One
dollars are going elsewhere. apps with functions including
Foursquare, with 7.6% planning they'll spend less than $5000 a Map Exclusive at Launch
Sponsor accessing Twitter, Facebook and
to add it to their marketing year on these marketing efforts, • Fifteen Panasonic’s 103-inch
According to the 8000 local Skype. They also will include Wi-
repertoire soon. Plasma Sold So Far
business owners that participated with 34% spending less than Fi and DLNA connectivity, and 4
Behind Foursquare in the survey $1000. Discuss • Panasonic consumer 3D HDC-
in MerchantCircle's quarterly HDMIs, 3 USB ports, and a PC
SDT750 camcorder leaks
input.
• Panasonic’s first 3D Blu-ray
When Do You Condone Piracy? The DT30 will be available in the
UK in May, according to
PocketLint.
Disc Player, 2010 Blu-ray Lineup

[Ask The Readers] Panasonic’s flagship VT30 3D

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Verizon to start selling Pre 2 on Thursday

(CNET News.com) On nearly every front, the Pre 3
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:22:31 AM seems to be a more attractive
option for customers than the Pre
The Pre 2 (right) sits next to the 2. And considering that the Pre 3
Pre 3.(Credit: James Martin/ is launching this summer, the Pre
CNET) 2 might just be too little, too late Automatically Delete
Hewlett-Packard's Pre 2 is finally from HP.
making its way to Verizon Those interested in getting their
.DS_Store and Other
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the WebOS-based smartphone -in rebate and with a two-year
will be available in its stores and Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
agreement.
online starting Thursday. This entry passed through the Submitted at 2/15/2011 8:00:00 AM

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WebOS 2.0, Verizon noted. The
device comes with a 3.1-inch
display, a slide-out keyboard, and
a 5-megapixel camera. It supports
Wi-Fi and can share its 3G
connection with up to five other
devices, thanks to its Mobile
Hotspot capability. The
smartphone's WebOS 2.0
integration means people will also
be able to place Skype-to-Skype
calls in the U.S. from the handset.
HP's timing with the Pre 2 is a
tad unfortunate, though.
Last week, the company unveiled
its plans in the mobile market,
revealing the TouchPad tablet and
two smartphones, the Veer and
the Pre 3.
As one might expect from the
name, the latter is the successor to
the Pre 2 and comes with a 3.6-
inch multitouch display and a
slide-out physical keyboard. It too
will boast Mobile Hotspot
functionality and offer video
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40 Policy/ Culture/
Is Science Saturated with Sexism?
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 2/14/2011 5:00:00 PM
New evidence suggests the
opposite.
The voice of reason is easy to
shout down but hard to vanquish
altogether. This week it turned up
in an unlikely place: an academic
paper about gender bias in the
sciences. The Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences
published a coolly objective paper
on the hot, politicized subject of
bias against women in academic
science.
In "Understanding Current
Causes of Women's
Underrepresentation in Science,"
Cornell professors Stephen Ceci
and Wendy Williams provide a
thorough analysis and discussion
of 20 years of data. Their
conclusion: When it comes to job
interviews, hiring, funding, and
publishing, women are treated as
well as men and sometimes better.
As Williams told Nature, "There
are constant and unsupportable
allegations that women suffer
discrimination in these arenas,
and we show conclusively that
women do not." Put another way,
the gender-bias empress has no
clothes.
For more than a decade,
passionate activists in groups such
as the American Association of
University Women, the National
Council for Research on Women,
and the Committee on
Maximizing the Potential of
Women in Academic Science
have insisted that women
scientists are victims of pervasive
sex discrimination, and they have
produced a mountain of advocacy
research to prove it.
But many scholars have
questioned the cogency of their
studies, most recently in a 2009
article entitled "Gender
Difference at Critical Transitions
in the Careers of Science,
Engineering and Mathematics
Faculty," sponsored by the
National Science Foundation, and
in a 2009 collection that I edited,
The Science on Women in
Science. But the NSF authors and
other critics proved no match for
the women's groups, who ignored
the evidence and aggressively
promoted their own agenda
through government lobbying and
a mystifying number of
conferences, retreats, and
summits.
Ceci and Williams's new article
will be impossible to ignore. The
featured article in one of science's
premier journals, it is a systematic
demolition of most of the studies
that sustain the science wing of
the gender-bias movement.
Celebrated bias research--
including a much-vaunted 1997
Swedish study alleging massive
discrimination in peer review--is
shown to be seriously flawed,
marginal, and "superseded by
larger, more sophisticated
analyses showing no bias, or
occasionally, bias in favor of
women."
What is more, Ceci and Williams
demonstrate that the real problem
most women scientists confront is
the challenge of combining
motherhood with a high-powered
science career. This issue, they
say, will never be solved by the
"misplaced focus on
discrimination."
But a misplaced focus on
discrimination is now the law of
the land. At the behest of the
women's groups, Congress held
several hearings throughout the
last decade on the "crisis" of
sexism in the sciences. Scholars
like Ceci and Williams played no
role--only true believers were
brought in as expert witnesses.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.), an
early convert to the view that
American science is saturated
with sexism, was successful in
bringing the Title IX equity
program into the science lab.
"The most common
misconception about Title IX is
that it applies only to sports," said
Wyden in 2005. "That's just not
true. . . . Title IX should be a
guiding principle in hiring, tenure,
scholarships, and lab space for all
scholars." By the late 2000s,
Wyden's vision had prevailed:
Wide-ranging Title IX
investigations were underway.
Members of Congress, from both
parties, also gave strong support
to a hard-hitting NSF equity
program called ADVANCE.
ADVANCE has awarded millions
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of dollars to activist scholars in
universities for anti-bias centers,
workshops, tutorials, and
interactive theater groups. To cite
just one example, gender activists
at the University of California's
Hastings College of Law were
awarded a $300,000 grant to
develop Gender Bias Bingo, an Top 10
online game that raises players'
consciousness about the "four
patterns of gender bias." But if
stolen cars
Ceci and Williams are right, the
premise behind all of this
taxpayer-funded agitation--from
of 2010
(Holy Kaw!)
games and skits to Title IX
investigations--is false. Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:34:00 AM
Congress should hold hearings on
Each year, the Highway Loss
the merits of continuing to spend
Data Institute (HLDI) releases
hundreds of millions on Title IX
information on auto thefts in the
science reviews and the
United States. Among other
ADVANCE grants. This time
statistics, the group calculates the
skeptics like Ceci and Williams
most stolen car makes and models
must be included. It is hard to see
in a given year, based on how
how the gender-bias empire will
many of every 1,000 insured cars
stand once reason and truth are
are reported stolen.
given a place at the table.
Since most car thieves either re-
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Expired Collective Bargaining Agreements in Wisconsin

Canceled March 13; Union Extortionists Begin Rallies
noreply@blogger.com (Michael about 22,000 state employees, did quickly through the Legislature, Imagine if the tables were turned have the snowplow drivers. We
Shedlock) (Mish's Global not return calls Friday. But AFT- perhaps being passed as early as and employers had the right to have people who do just about
Economic Trend Analysis) Wisconsin President Bryan next week. Republicans control 'employer bargaining', under every kind of work you can
Submitted at 2/14/2011 10:45:00 PM Kennedy said Walker's move is the Assembly 60-38-1 and the which the employer could demand imagine,” AFSCME Council 40
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker part of a nationwide effort to kill Senate 19-14. whatever pay reductions or Staff Representative James
is doing something that needs to labor unions. Good Faith? workday increases he wanted, the Mattson said.
be done in every state in the union "It is a power grab, a coordinated Senator Risser calls this "union employees had to negotiate with But Senator Bob Jauch (D-
- g e t t i n g r i d o f c o l l e c t i v e effort to kill the union here," said busting" as if that was a bad thing. the employer, and employees Poplar) has a warning. "In 5 days,
bargaining agreements with Kennedy, whose organization Unfortunately, Walker is not couldn't quit! this legislature and governor
public unions. represents 17,000 state getting rid of any unions in this Such an arrangement could only could eliminate 60 years of
Please consider Walker takes employees. "This is essentially the proposal. Hopefully that will be be classified as slavery. collective bargaining history,”
broad swipe at public employee governor saying, 'Sit down, shut the next step. The right to terminate the Jauch said.
unions Saying those who didn't up and do what you are told.'" Furthermore, the idea that unions employer-employee relationship It is possible, Senator Bob Jauch
see it coming must have been in a Look at how ridiculously ass negotiate in "good faith" is one of is a fundamental right of both says, through a new bill from
"coma," Gov. Scott Walker backwards that comment is from the most preposterous statements employer and employee. Republican Governor Scott
unveiled sweeping legislation that AFT-Wisconsin President Bryan in history. Under collective Employment should be mutually Walker. If it becomes law would
would severely curtail public Kennedy. bargaining agreements the state beneficial to employer and forbid most contract discussion
employee rights and dramatically This is definitely not a power must deal with unions. This leads employee and open to termination and punish resistance to the
c h a n g e t h e w a y W i s c o n s i n grab by Walker. This is an to one-sided negotiations and by either when it becomes non- change.
negotiates with unions going attempt to eliminate unjustified, extortion by unions. beneficial (limited of course by "They would have no rights to
forward. unworkable power grabs by Collective Bargaining is any voluntary contractual deal with these issues as they have
Officials alerted the Wisconsin public unions. The Governor and Extortion agreements). in the past,” Mattson said.
State Employees Union on Friday citizens are tired of pandering, Please consider Why Collective Second, the misnamed term Milroy says Gov. Walker will not
that expired collective bargaining coercion, bribery, whining, and Bargaining is Extortion 'collective bargaining' has given sit down for a discussion with
agreements would be canceled petulant demands of the unions. 'Collective bargaining' is not what an aura of moral righteousness to union officials and that his bill
March 13. State unions have been Union Busting? its name indicates. In fact, it the unions who pretend to be would hurt Wisconsin families
operating under the terms of their Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, means exactly the opposite of fighting for true American values and communities.
p r e v i o u s c o n t r a c t s , a n was shocked by the proposal. He what you'd guess. Collective like the freedom of association. "For a lot of people this is going
a r r a n g e m e n t t h a t c a n b e said the governor seems to be bargaining refers to the However, they are fighting for to mean a 5-10% cut in their take-
terminated with 30 days notice. "union-busting." obligation of an employer to values quite foreign to the United home pay,” Rep. Nick Milroy (D-
The news came on the same day "State employees have the right to recognize the elected States, values that come from Superior) said. It's time to send
the governor unveiled a budget negotiate in good faith with the representatives of a group of Marxist collectivism, i.e. the senator Bob Jauch and Rep. Nick
repair bill that would remove state. Without a willingness to workers and his further expropriation of the property of Milroy packing. Taxpayers are
nearly all collective bargaining even discuss what concessions obligation to negotiate with those employers and the negation of fed up. They are sick of extortion
rights for nearly all public need to be made with state representatives. This last part is their rights. Union Extortionists by unions that give union workers
employees in the state and make it employees, the governor comes what makes 'collective bargaining' Begin Rallies wages and benefits most
easier for employers to fire across more like a dictator and extortion. Fox News reports Wisconsin taxpayers will never see.
workers that engage in some form less like a leader," Risser said. Under collective bargaining Laborers Rally Against Gov. Bill Will Drive Workers Away?
of labor unrest. Both Democratic and Republican laws, employers have to Walker's "Union-Busting" Bill Sometimes I wonder what planet
WSEU executive director Marty lawmakers said Friday they recognize an elected union and "We have people who are
Beil, whose union represents expected Walker's bill will move have to negotiate with them. working in the courthouse. We EXPIRED page 45
42 Economy/
One $90K Fashion-Related Job Opening for the Right Person;
Unrelated email from "Granny Bev"
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 2/14/2011 2:17:00 PM
I am going to try something for
the first time. Perhaps it will help
some reader of my blog. This post
has nothing to do with global
macroeconomics, but it is about
jobs, rather a specific fashion-
related job.
This post also contains an email
from "Granny Bev" an 80-year
young woman who writes
children's books. She heard me on
Coast-to-Coast radio. Her email
follows the job opening.
Fashion-Related Sales Position
for Rue Magazine
Yesterday, I received an email
from a contact on Linked-In about
a fashion-related job opening.
I know nothing about fashion, but
I do know how hard it is to find a
good job. In the interest of
helping out a reader of this blog
who may be interested in what
seems to me to be a good
opportunity, I am posting this
email that I received.
Lawrence writes... Hello Mish
My sister's company Rue Media
Group, Inc ( RUE Magazine) is
hiring one to three Sales Directors
(online advertising sales). The
company is focused on women's
fashion, style, home decor and
lifestyle.
Rue Media Group is a startup, but
it is profitable, and is doing
extremely well in terms of
revenue, readership, and growth.
Target compensation for the
position is $90K - $100K+
Please pass the below job
description along to anyone who
might be qualified and interested.
Best,
Lawrence Job Details,
Requirements, Description
Sales Director - Rue Media
Group
Openings in San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Chicago, Dallas,
Atlanta, and New York
Company Description
Rue Media Group is an online
media company focused on style,
fashion, and interior design.
Founded in May 2010 and
headquartered in San Francisco,
CA, Rue Media Group publishes
Rue Magazine, an interiors and
entertaining online publication
with a fashion and lifestyle
sensibility. Rue Magazine
provides inspiration, inclusive
community, and fun to its
readership of style and home
décor enthusiasts. Representative
advertiser clients include Duralee,
Gilt Groupe, HGTV, Layla
Grayce, Kravet, and Mitchell
Gold + Bob Williams.
Job Description
Rue Media Group is seeking
experienced and highly motivated
Sales Directors to join its team.
We seek extraordinary individuals
who are passionate about style,
design, and fashion, and that bring
an entrepreneurial and creative
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• Research, analyze, and prioritize • Motivated by high income and
sales territory and client accounts. earnings potential.
• Develop sales and marketing • Comfortable in a loosely
materials such as media kit, structured startup environment.
custom proposals, and campaign • BA or BS degree.
analysis. Compensation
• Deliver presentations on the Compensation commensurate
benefits and value of advertising with experience. Base pay + sales
with Rue Media Group. commission. Role initially will be
• Ensure overall client on a contract or consulting basis
satisfaction, value, and advocacy. and will not include benefits.
• Manage all phases of the sales Strong contributors will be
process: territory planning, considered for full time
account planning, prospecting, employment and promotion
new business development, pending demonstrated success
pipeline development and over time.
spirit of achievement to the management, proposal generation, Target salary is $90K+ at quota.
client service, relationship Miscellaneous
company.
Ideal candidates will be located management, negotiation, and • U.S. Citizens and Green Card
in the cities of San Francisco, Los bringing deals to closure. Holders only; no visa sponsorship
A n g e l e s , C h i c a g o , D a l l a s , Desired Skills and Experience provided.
Atlanta, or New York, and will • 3+ years of experience in • Rue Media Group is an Equal
have a strong rolodex of agency advertising sales, ideally having Opportunity Employer. This
and advertiser client contacts in met or exceeded a six or seven company does not and will not
the style, design, and/or home figure annual sales quotas in the discriminate in employment and
décor industries. Favorable past. personnel practices on the basis of
references and a track record of • Strong rolodex of agency and race, sex, age, handicap, religion,
success in advertising sales are advertiser contacts in the style, national origin or any other basis
highly desirable. The Sales fashion, and/or interior design prohibited by applicable law.
Director will be responsible for industry. Contacting Us
meeting and exceeding an annual • Strong understanding of online Please send resume and summary
quota, and for driving strong advertising metrics: CPM, CPC, o f i n t e r e s t t o
revenue growth and overall client CPA, Page Views, Visits careers@ruemag.com In a follow-
• Self motivated, driven, and goal up email with Lawrence, I asked
satisfaction.
oriented. if I could post that on my blog.
Job Responsibilities
• Execute outbound prospecting • Demonstration of leadership and Here is his reply:
and new business development ability to juggle multiple projects Hello Mish
with tight deadlines. I’m a big fan of your blog! We’d
activities.
• Establish, develop, and maintain • Passion for and/or strong interest be thrilled and honored if you
r e v e n u e r e l a t i o n s h i p s w i t h in style, fashion, home décor, and/
or interior design. ONE page 46
advertiser clients.
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Obama's Revenue Estimates Are Either Fantasy Or Comedy
Chris Martenson (Money
Game)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:44:19 AM
Fantasy or comedy? I couldn't
decide which way to label the
Obama budget, so I went with
both.
The bottom line is that the
Obama administration has
brought forth the most
unbelievable revenue increase that
I have ever seen proposed in a
budget, a whopping 65% increase
in revenues in just four years,
which will - miracle of miracles -
drop the deficit as a percent of
GDP from nearly 11% to just
3.2% over those same four years.
The only problem with this
scenario is that it stands virtually
no chance of actually happening.
Revenue will be far lower than
projected and the deficit
correspondingly higher.
One of my abilities is spotting
bogus numbers quickly, and
another is to make reasonably
accurate projections without a
staff of hundreds. For example, in
2009 I called for the Social
Security fund to soon begin
dipping into negative territory
when the CBO was clinging to the
illusion that 2017 was the 'below
zero' date. Turns out I was right,
and it wasn't a terribly difficult
call to make. A little trend
projection here, some assumptions
about early retirement there, a
higher and more realistic
assessment of peak
unemployment, and - voila! - a
reasonably accurate projection
was made.
Let's look at the recently released
Obama budget, which is so far off
the mark that no special abilities
are required beyond the ability to
suppress the urge to chuckle:
The green circles show the rosy
deficit-reduction estimates, while
the red arrows indicate the
incredible 65% increase in federal
revenues over a single four year
period. 65%! How likely is that?
Is it realistic?
Perhaps a little history is in order
here. Let's start by asking a
question: In any other four-year
period, have federal revenues
increased by 65% or more?
The answer is yes, but it’s a very
qualified yes.
In the first chart below, the red
bars show the proposed revenue
increases on a rolling four-year
basis. That is, each year is
compared to the revenue period
four years prior. The blue bars
are the same, only they represent
actual history, not projections
while the red bars are the Obama
team projections.
The second chart is a comparison
to CPI to make a point.
Over the past 60 years, there have
only been three other years with a
similar or higher rate of revenue
growth to the one estimated to
occur in 2015: 1979, 1980, and
1981.
There are two things we might
note about those prior three years
('79-'81) of rapid federal revenue
growth. The first is that those
same years represent the second,
first, and fourth highest rates of
yearly inflation in 50+ years of
data, coming in at 11.3%, 13.5%,
and 10.4%, respectively.
Does the Obama budget assume
similar enormous rates of
inflation? Nope. It assumes 2% or
less inflation in every year of its
projections out through 2015. So
it's not inflation that will be
driving the enormous revenue
growth.
Another reason we might
anticipate extremely strong
revenue growth is because of a
rapid expansion of GDP.
Here again in 1979, 1980, and
1981, we saw something very
unusual in the data: Those years
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clocked exceptionally robust GDP
growth at 11.7%, 8.8%, and
12.1%, respectively. Out of 65
years of data, those were the 4th,
5th and 17th fastest years of
economic expansion.
Could that be the driver behind
Obama's optimism? Is his team
calling for double-digit GDP
growth over the next few years?
Do they envision 'top ten' like
performance for a couple of those
years?
Not according to their published
data.
So we can't really defend the
projected increase in revenues on
the assumption of massive
economic expansion either. The
Obama team does predict a pretty
decent expansion - but on a
relative basis, it's nothing
spectacular and is less than half
that which drove the revenue
expansion in the 1979-81 period.
So the 65% revenue increase will
not be driven by either inflation or
GDP expansion.
What if we compare the projected
increases historically on an
inflation-adjusted basis - would
that put them in a better and more
believable light?
In this next chart, we simply
chart each year's federal revenues
after correcting for CPI (we used
the Obama budget CPI
assumptions for the years 2011 -
2015 to discount the future so
everything is in 2010 dollars).
Are these numbers any less
fuzzy? Nope. Even on this basis
OBAMA'S page 47
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Housing Crash Bites Deeper; Economic Reality Trumps "It's

Different Here"; Unprecedented Double-Dip
noreply@blogger.com (Michael calculations, still has as much as This might sound strange
Shedlock) (Mish's Global 10 percent to fall. Mr. Humphries coming from a real estate blogger,
Economic Trend Analysis) [chief economist for Zillow] but I just don’t find all the hype
Submitted at 2/14/2011 3:19:00 PM estimates the rest of the country about a real estate bubble all that
The popular housing notions "It's will drop a further 5 and 7 percent interesting. None the less, it
different this time" as well as the as last year’s tax credits for home seems that about once a week a
highly regarded corollary "It's buyers continue to wear off. new blog starts up with the
different here" continue to bite the CoreLogic, a data firm, said last mission to highlight all the
big one. week that American home prices “evidence” that there is a
While housing in some cities will fell 5.5 percent in 2010, back to nationwide real estate bubble that
a l w a y s c a r r y a p r e m i u m , the recession low of March 2009. is about to pop. The most popular
fundamentals, especially price-to- New home sales are scraping site is the Housing Bubble 2,
rent ratios, property taxes, and along the bottom. Mortgage although there are many others.
wage growth will eventually applications are near a 15-year My Comment: Of course you do
matter. low, boding ill for the rest of the not find it interesting. You are a
Those fundamentals caught up to winter. Real Estate agent with a vested
cities thought to be immune to a “I don’t expect the market to get interest to deny there is a real
housing slump. better,” said Ms. Dortch, 31, a estate bubble.
Please consider Housing Crash Is customer service consultant. chief economist. “This sort of building smack in the midst of a What I would like to hear is a
Hitting Cities Once Thought to Be Neither does Gene Burrus, double dip is unprecedented for massive inventory glut. “pro-bubble” argument which
Stable another frustrated seller who housing.” Unprecedented Double- Seattle vs. Las Vegas 2009-2010 takes into account two secular,
SEATTLE — Few believed the became a landlord. “Rent is so Dip Seattle vs. Las Vegas 2000-2010 local Seattle conditions which
housing market here would ever cheap it doesn’t make sense to The double dip is Those are two of four Las Vegas both tend to limit the supply of
collapse. Now they wonder if it buy now,” he said. He might "unprecedented" because the last vs. Seattle comparisons by the urban land:
will ever stop slumping. reconsider if 10 or 15 percent rally was totally artificial. New York Times. 1. A firm political consensus for
The rolling real estate crash that more comes out of the market. Las Vegas has given back 100% “growth management” which will
r a v a g e d F l o r i d a a n d t h e Whenever the market finally does • The Fed bloated up its balance of its gains since 2000. Seattle has not change & hence unleash a lot
Southwest is delivering a new pick up, all those accidental sheet with $trillion in Fannie and given back all of its gains since of land for at least the next
wave of distress to communities landlords will want to unload, Freddie paper pushing down 2003. That's quite a drop. generation or so. (Even if there is
once thought to be immune — putting another burden on the mortgage rates Years ago, I got into it on several land to be found.)
economically diversified cities market. “So many sellers are • States an processors alike occasions with the "Rain City 2. Total inability to deal with
where the boom was relatively waiting in the shadows,” said sponsored foreclosure Guide", a Seattle real estate blog traffic congestion which is having
restrained. Redfin’s chief executive, Glenn moratoriums promoting the idea "It's different a centralizing force, making “in
In the last year, home prices in Kelman. “The inventory is going • Most importantly the Obama here" city” properties (where one can
Seattle had a bigger decline than to expand and expand and expand. administration had two rounds November 17, 2007: It's not minimize travel) more and more
in Las Vegas. Minneapolis I d o n ’ t s e e a n y b a s i s f o r home-buyer tax credits different in Portland and Seattle valuable.
dropped more than Miami, and significant price increases.” August 19, 2007: Chicken Little When you take into account these
Atlanta fared worse than Phoenix. “We’re at a period near the As expected in this corner, the Here is a snip from the former: trends — both firmly rooted in
Seattle is down about 31 percent bottom but with more volatility stimulus from all those measures Rain City Madness our local culture — do you still
from its mid-2007 peak and, than we normally see at this did not work. Worse yet, they Denial is a mile thick on the
a c c o r d i n g t o Z i l l o w ’ s point,” said David Stiff, Fiserv’s stimulated more new home Rain City Guide. HOUSING page 46
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EXPIRED
continued from page 41
people are on. The opinions
expressed by "experts" in a
ridiculously slanted article in in
the Journal Times is a case in
point.
Please consider Experts: Walker's
budget bill would likely drive
workers away
The bill proposed by Gov. Scott
Walker to restrict collective
bargaining for most public
employees would likely drive
workers from the public sector
and the state, according to legal
and economic experts.
Those experts said the bill would
keep public employee wages
down, create contentious and
protest-filled union-employer
relations and cause confusion
about labor issues, all culminating
in public employees eventually
leaving for private sector jobs or
work in other states.
"People will leave the public
sector and as a whole the state of
Wisconsin will be looked at as a
place where there is less stability
and, frankly, as a more backwards
state," said Marianne Robbins, a
Milwaukee-area lawyer
specializing in public and private
sector labor law.
Employee groups could bargain
for wages but any wage increases
would not be able to exceed the
increase in the Consumer Price
Index unless approved in a
referendum.
That means there likely won't be
decent-sized wage increases, if
there are increases at all, said
Robbins and Andrew Reschovsky,
professor of public affairs and
applied economics at the
University of Wisconsin-
Madison.
"So some (public workers) with
options will think about taking
jobs elsewhere," said Reschovsky,
who is among the University of
Wisconsin System staff that
would be affected by Walker's
bill. "Retirement will look better
to some state workers. The most
experienced will leave and there
could be real costs in lost
experience."
Departing workers might look
outside Wisconsin, leaving the
state with less experienced and
lower quality workers,
Reschovsky said, especially when
it comes to new school teachers
and UW System faculty who can
take their research and business-
growing efforts elsewhere.
Walker's bill would also lead to
more contentious relationships
between unions and employers,
Robbins said. There will likely be
confusion about what can be
talked about and with whom
because of restrictions on what
can be negotiated, she added.
"Everyone will be completely
distracted by all these issues
instead of taking care of what
public sector employees do: Clean
the streets, teach the children,
guard the prisons," she said.
Workers may also be distracted
by continuing demonstrations
against the bill, said Paul
Secunda, associate law professor
specializing in labor and
education law at Marquette
University 's Law School. He said
time would also be spent by
employees and unions challenging
the bill on statutory and even
constitutional grounds, in
particular relating to language in
the law that prohibits labor
protests, Secunda said, explaining
that could violate freedoms of
speech, expression and
association.
Such challenges to the bill as
well as protests may even come
from those who work outside the
public sector, Secunda said.
"It's not just about the public
sector," he said. "It's about all
workers and their inability to have
any say over wages, hours and
terms and conditions of their
employment."
Amazing Collection of
Misguided Union-Apologist
Opinions
That is one of the most amazing
collections of one-sided union-
apologist opinions I have seen
anywhere.
For starters, the idea that union
members will leave the state is
preposterous. Where are they
going to go? Illinois? New
Jersey? Right-to-Work states in
the South? California?
It would help if these union-
apologists would think before
spewing massive amounts of
nonsense.
Next, I hope unions do take these
cases to court. Indeed, I hope
they are foolish enough to spend
every last dime they have taking
these issues to court because they
will lose. Then the unions will be
out of money that would
otherwise go to bribing officials,
running fear-mongering
campaigns, etc.
" Everyone will be completely
distracted by all these issues
instead of taking care of what
public sector employees do: Clean
the streets, teach the children,
guard the prisons" said Robbins.
The remedy to that, should it
happen would be to privatize it
all. Indeed, Wisconsin should
privatize it all before it can
possibly happen.
The idea the we need public
union workers is preposterous in
and of itself. In fact, that is
precisely why Walker's proposal
does not go far enough.
Exempting public safety workers
from the proposal was lame.
Role of Government vs. Role of
Unions
The role of government should be
to provide the most services at the
least cost. The role of unions is to
provide the fewest services at the
most cost. The unions succeeded.
Then the ungrateful extortionists
piss and moan and bitch and
whine about how underpaid they
are.
Well if they are underpaid, they
have a choice. They can leave.
And that is exactly what New
Jersey Governor Christie tells
union members who whine in that
state.
Here some Chris Christie articles
to consider
• Chris Christie on Teachers'
Unions, Vouchers, Union Dues,
Change: "We are going to lead the
45
way!"; Ron Paul-Chris Christie
for President, VP
• Governor Christie Calls Unions
"Crass Bullies of State Street";
Says Unions Have a Choice
"Givebacks or Layoffs"
• NJ School Superintendent
Bitches about Making $175,000 a
year, Gov. Christie says “Let Me
Help You Pack”
The reality is few public union
workers will leave. And if they
do, there will be 5,000 people out
of a job willing to do it, probably
better, and for less money to boot.
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46 Finance/
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continued from page 42
mentioned our job opportunity on
your blog.
A few additional information bits
that might be of interest to you:
Rue Media Group started as a
grassroots effort in the
blogosphere and has blossomed
into a profitable business.
Founders Crystal Gentilello and
Anne Sage, and team members
Bri Emery and Cassandra Lavalle
are prominent interior design,
fashion, and style bloggers.
Crystal and Anne’s enthusiasm
for the blogging and positive
feedback from readers inspired
them to take their passion to the
next level and launch an online
magazine focused on style,
fashion, and home décor. Their
blogs can be found here:
• The City Sage
• Coco + Kelley
• Design Love Fest
• Plush Palate
You’d be doing us and many job
seekers out there a huge favor if
you can help match us up. Any
help you can provide would be
graciously appreciated!
Best Regards,
Lawrence Fashion-oriented
minds may want to check out
those blogs. They are very
colorful and well laid out.
One thing I do ask. Please do not
What to buy and what to skip at Trader Joe’s
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Editors of EatingWell Magazine)
(Financiallyfit on Shine)
Submitted at 2/14/2011 11:53:12 PM
respond to the inquiry if you are
not qualified. It will be a waste of
your time and theirs.
Wool E. Woola
As long as I am doing strange
and unusual things (posting job
openings qualifies), here is an
email I received from "Granny
Bev", who just turned 80 and is
on Social Security.
She wrote a children's book she is
attempting to promote. She heard
me on Coast-to-Coast a couple
weeks ago. Granny writes...
Hi Mish
The picture of you surprised me.
You won't recognize me because
we met on Coast-to-Coast. You
talked, I listened. I had expected
an older man - you look to be in
the same age bracket as my
Grandsons.
I just turned 80, living on less
money than I need to pay my
bills. I started planning for my
retirement when gas was $ .50 a
gallon and my tiny annuity pays
for my additional health insurance
alongside my Medicare I have
$9.00 left over.
Mish, you are the first and so far,
only advisor who really seems to
understand the financial situation
for us elders and bless you for
that.
Thank you for listening. If you'd
like to see my art work check out
my web site that I have set up
What are the best and worst deals
at Trader Joe’s? Americans (and I
include myself) are crazy about
Trader Joe’s, but are the prices
myself Baashi's Boutique or the
site for my book Wool E. Woola
on Moonbow Press.
Thanks again
Granny Bev Images from Wool
E. Woola
I am willing to help those trying
to help themselves. If you are an
art director in need of art for
children please give Granny Bev a
ring.
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there always better? Armed with a
HOUSING
continued from page 44
get a bubble? The same
arguments were made about
Florida, San Diego, and the entire
nation of Japan. Prices in Japan
fell for 18 consecutive years and
there are less places to build in
Japan than there are in Seattle.
The San Diego Bubble
Professor Piggington has a nice
recap of The San Diego Housing
Bubble and he easily shoots down
such arguments that we might be
hearing about the Rain City such
as:
• "Everybody wants to live here."
• "The strong economy."
• "Low interest rates."
Here is the heart of the matter:
Further theories are offered up
by home price apologists. They
speak of an implausibly sudden
shift in demographics, a new era
of endlessly looser mortgage
lending, and any number of other
rationalizations that all, in the
end, translate to "it's different this
time."
The key to understanding the
housing boom really lies in the
difference between growth rates
of home prices and rents. While
one might expect that homes
would be more expensive to own
than to rent, there is no
fundamental reason why the cost
list and a calculator, I went to see
how prices and perceptions match
up. Find out what you should buy
and what you should skip at
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difference between renting and
owning should have expanded as
much as it did since 2001. .... It's
Wasn't Different This Time
History now shows it was not
different in Seattle after all. Prices
in Seattle are back to 2003 levels
and falling much faster than other
bubble areas that may have
bottomed.
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Trader Joe’s.
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OBAMA'S
continued from page 43
the proposed revenue increases
are the largest on record, bar
none. Conclusion
There is almost no chance of the
Obama revenue projections
coming to pass, unless massive
tax increases are part of the deal,
and as far as we know, they aren't.
The only other alternative is that
the United States might enjoy
some pleasurable combination of
quite rapid growth, a fall off in
unemployment to match, tidy
increases in wages, and a low
CPI. But the probability of all of
these coming to pass is very, very
low (although I will admit that
they must be very appealing to an
incumbent. Appealing? Yes.
Likely? No.)
Here's my prediction; we'll have
sub-par growth in 2011 and
relatively weak growth in 2012,
with a 50% chance of a double-
dip appearing in one of those
years. As such, revenue growth
will be slightly below average
between here and 2015.
Using these assumptions, and
generously assuming that things
more or less carry on as normal
and even more generously that the
economy magically grows to $19
trillion as the Obama team has
assumed, the actual budget deficit
will be no less than 8% of GDP
each year between here and 2015.
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My estimates translate into a
roughly$1.5 trillion cash deficit
each and every year-- give or take
a little -- digging our national debt
hole deeper by another$7.5
trillion by 2015.
This, however, is merely my
starting bid. I can easily envision
deficits that are far higher in both
aggregate and percent-of-GDP
terms, due to some combination
of rising energy prices and debt
overhang dragging the GDP
figure downwards, and rising
interest rates driving federal costs
higher.
The bottom line is that either this
budget is a fantasy, or I am
completely wrong and we
somehow set historical records for
revenue growth during a time of
low inflation and below average
GDP growth.
It is against this backdrop that
you should be especially
dismissive of any and all partisan
rhetoric that proposes to reduce
the deficit by trimming this or that
program by a few billion here and
there. Until and unless you hear
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legitimately address this condition
before being forced to do so by
global or market circumstances
will lead to a far rougher period of
adjustment than necessary. Such
a failure even risks it all: a sudden
loss of reserve currency status for
the US that leads to a sudden
repatriation of some $7 trillion in
US-dollar-denominated assets
currently held off-shore.
Said simply: The risk is a
massive inflationary event that
forces the Fed to choose between
defending the dollar (by raising
interest rates) or defending the US
economy. It can't do both at the
same time.
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Victoria Beckham Talks Exercise,
Her Happy Home Life, and
Feeling "Really Content" in Allure
Lauren Turner (PopSugar) • On being comfortable in her
Submitted at 2/15/2011 9:38:34 AM own skin: "For the first time, I
feel like what you see is what you
Victoria Beckham looked fresh get. This is me: the more natural
and natural on the cover of hair, the slightly more relaxed
Allure's March issue, which is way of dressing. I feel really
also its special 20th anniversary c o n t e n t p e r s o n a l l y a n d
e d i t i o n ! S h e p o s e d f o r professionally. I'm not freaked out
photographer Michael Thompson about getting older. I'm growing
for the accompanying spread - older with the most amazing man
check out a behind-the-scenes I've ever met - with my soul mate.
video from the shoot! Victoria's Life's great."
been busy prepping her latest • On her diet and exercise: "I'm
collection for Fashion Week, not one of those people who can't
though now that her show is over eat carbs. I eat a lot. I do. I run
she can get back to focusing on four miles a day on the treadmill.
her husband and growing family. I know that works for me, so I've
She opened up in the interview kind of trained myself. I do lift
about just that, her work, and her weights. I'm not very good at
home life. Here's more: soccer."
• On her home life: "Our house is Photos courtesy Michael
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The latest numbers show the world’s second-largest the basket. To make it easier, probably picture a lone genius in a Every invention has problems,
inflation is soaring out of control e c o n o m y . China should do what Bernanke laboratory concocting brilliant and it might not be until some
in China. The CPI is up 4.9% year Food prices climbed 10.3 percent does - declare food and energy to devices, experimenting and other inventor comes along that
-over-year, up from 4.6% in last month from a year earlier, be "volatile" - then toss them out redesigning until some concept or they get solved. To confuse things
December. The PPI clocked in at according to today’s report, after of the "core" report altogether. contraption works perfectly. At further, it usually isn't the original
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month. Vegetable prices jumped 2 looking for huge inflation can unveiled to the world, a stunning but rather the inventor who made
Things are even worse than they percent, fruit prices surged 35 easily find it, not in the US but in piece of new technology that the one crucial improvement that
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Global Demand For Meat And Ethanol Are
Contributing To The Grain Price Surge
Frank Holmes (Money Game)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 10:50:00 AM
Bushels of corn reached their
highest prices in nearly three
years this week after the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
(USDA) reported that corn
inventories will fall to levels not
seen since 1996.
We’ve witnessed nearly a 100
percent surge in the price of corn
over the past year as increased
demand has been met with
diminishing supply. Dry weather
conditions due to La Niña in
Argentina and other disruptions
have shriveled supply despite a
near record amount of acreage
being planted.
Globally, corn consumption has
increased 10 percent over the past
five years to reach record levels
and stock-to-use ratios for corn
suggest we’re currently
experiencing the tightest global
corn market since the late 1970s,
according to Macquarie.
This jump is due to increased
corn consumption for ethanol and
greater demand for feed grain.
The USDA estimates that just
under 40 percent of U.S. corn
production will be consumed for
ethanol, up from 31 percent in
2008-2009. China will likely need
to import 5 million tons of corn
in 2011 in order to meet the
Ukraine.
These tight supply/demand
fundamentals reflect the impact of
a growing global population and
increasing economic strength in
emerging markets, Potash says.
As per capita wealth has grown
in other countries, there has been
a huge jump in demand for
grains. This chart shows the
amount of bushels consumed as
GDP per capita rises.
Much of the rise is due to people
consuming more meat as their
fortunes rise. To meet this higher
protein diet, more chickens, cows
and hogs are fed grains and
demand skyrockets. You can see
that China and India are still in
the very early stages of increased
consumption.
We think the agricultural space is
ripe with opportunity. With global
grain inventories relative to
country’s booming need for feed supply.
grain. In the U.S., an additional 60 This chart from Potash Corp. demand at multi-year lows and
million bushels will be used for shows that grain production has the rising emerging market
feed despite a reduction in failed to meet consumption in middle class showing a healthy
livestock, according to the Des seven of the past 11 years. This is appetite for more meat and dairy
Moines Register. despite producing a significantly products, demand for increased
Corn is just one part of the food larger amount of grain in 2009 crop yields should remain strong.
pyramid that is rising. Around the than in 2000. Potash Corp. None of U.S. Global Investors
world, prices for wheat, soybeans, estimates world grain production Funds held any of the securities
cocoa and other grains have declined more than 4 percent in mentioned in this article as of 12/
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Ben Heads Home to LA
Following a Stint on Set
With Jennifer in Atlanta
Lauren Turner (PopSugar)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 9:31:30 AM
Ben Affleck arrived back at LAX
yesterday after a stint in Atlanta,
where Jennifer Garner has
apparently been working on a new
project called The Odd Life of
Timothy Green. It's Ben's
directorial effort The Town,
however, that has kept the couple
busy during award season. The
film was honored at the AFI
ceremony and nominated at the
Critics' Choice Awards, where
Ben and Jen enjoyed some table-
side PDA. His movie didn't get
much love at the Oscars, but his
costar Jeremy Renner did get a
nod in the best supporting actor
category. Whether Ben and Jen
turn out to support Jeremy or not,
the event is sure to be star-studded
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The SF Fed Just Hiked Its 'Normal' Unemployment Estimate

From 5 Percent To 6.7
Gregory White (Money Game) unemployment brought on by a U.S. may actually be as high as
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:53:04 AM lack of skills and mobility in the 7.5%.
labor force. But the Fed admitting to it means
The San Francisco Federal From The San Francisco that, as we get closer to 6.7%,
Reserve just released a report that F e d ( e m p h a s i s o u r s ) : board governors will likely
suggests the natural rate of The construction, finance, and become more and more concerned
unemployment in the U.S. (also real estate sectors have shrunk about the inflation threat as that
sometimes called NAIRU) is after the bursting of the housing headline unemployment number
going up and may actually be b u b b l e a n d t h e s u b s e q u e n t goes down. Paul Krugman argues
6.7%. That means, relying on last financial crisis. The skills of they shouldn't since Fed
month's 9% unemployment rate, workers who used to be employed economists also suggest the new
we're only 2.3% away from the in those sectors may not be easily structural gap is 50% the result
natural rate. transferable to growing sectors unemployment benefits being
Their analysis looks at how many such as education and health care extended.
jobs are available in the U.S. (see Rissman 2009 and Barnichon The estimates of the natural rate
economy, and how employable et al. 2010). Similarly, the higher growth areas. These This isn't the first time we've below, with some going as high as
the U.S. work force is. Their housing bust has left millions of s e c t o r a l a n d g e o g r a p h i c heard this. Many analysts have 7.0% or above.
conclusion is that the U.S. now homeowners underwater on their mismatches between workers and been talking about " structural" Join the conversation about this
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unemployment rate due to a their homes and may make it harder for employers to fill Earlier this month, Societe
h i g h e r l e v e l o f s t r u c t u r a l more difficult for them to move to vacancies. Generale said that NAIRU in the

Jennifer Aniston Tells Rachael Ray What She'd
Do If She Didn't Act
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Submitted at 2/15/2011 10:07:10 AM
Jennifer Aniston's film Just Go
With It was the big winner at the
weekend box office, but that
hasn't slowed down her press
obligations. The newly turned 42-
year-old actress appeared on The
Rachael Ray Show recently to
chat with the host about a variety
of topics during an interview that
airs tomorrow. The ladies chatted
Domino's Pizza
ditches Britain's Got
Talent as profits fall
(Finance News - Business news
about Jen's milestone birthday, depressing, leave that to the from the UK and world)
which she celebrated with famous professionals. I haven't even
Submitted at 2/15/2011 9:04:58 AM
pals like Jake Gyllenhaal and played one of those on TV! I
Adam Sandler, as well as what would want to be a party planner. Domino's Pizza reported a
she'd do if she wasn't an actress. I love planning a party, I love decline in profits as it announced
Jennifer said: mixing people together. I love it would ditch its successful
• Jen on her age:"All of a sudden getting the food ready, it's just sponsorship of Britain's Got
you're labeled, you're a number. . . fun. And people always have a Talent after failing to agree terms
It wasn't like 30-plus or 30 good time." with ITV.
something. It's just that all of
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age, not so bad.' It's like what?" would be a party planner! Why do
• What she would do if she wasn't I want to be a doctor? That's so
Newstablet Edition Economy/ Culture/ 51

The 15 Biggest Gainers Since The

March 2009 Market Bottom (FTIB,
JDSU, SSP, RT, GNW, CROX)
Mamta Badkar (Money Game)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:16:00 AM

The Dow and S&P 500 hit a 10-

year low on March 9, 2009, at the
height of the market chaos driven
by the collapse of the U.S.
banking sector and the explosion
of the real estate bubble.
Since then, the S&P 500 has
practically doubled, rising from
676 to 1,332 as of yesterday.
Giant hidden planet may
As the economic recovery took
hold, many companies benefited.
Some saw their share price sky
be lurking in our solar
rocket.
We surveyed the S&P 1500 to
system
list companies that have witnessed (Holy Kaw!) times the size of Jupiter.
the largest percent growth since. Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:38:00 AM So how did space explorers miss
Crocs and Ruby Tuesday have this out-of-this-world behemoth?
CEO: Kevin T. Kabat 1134% Prepare for a second dose of Well, the planet (dubbed
seen quite the revival. Read on to
Source: Bloomberg La-Z-Boy Inc is a global planet shock. Nearly five years “Tyche”), lays in one of the most
see which other companies made
#14 Stone Energy Corporation manufacturer of reclining chairs after Pluto lost its official planet remote regions of our solar
the list.#15 Fifth Third Bancorp
with gain of 1070% and upholstered furniture and designation, a new solar system system, 15,000 times farther from
with gain of 1016%
Stone Energy Corporation is an operates 510 comfort studios. The scandal has come to light. the Sun than Earth and 375 times
Fifth Third Bancorp is a
oil and gas company that operates company is headquartered in Scientists have gathered evidence farther than former planet Pluto.
diversified financial services
primarily in the Gulf of Mexico. Monroe County, Michigan. that another planet may be lurking Full story at the Independent.
company that operates
The company is headquartered in Market cap:$428.4 million in our solar system, and not just a Blast off to more space news.
commercial banking, branch
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banking, consumer lending and
Market cap:$1.27 billion CEO: Kurt L. Darrow around. Nope, this mysterious
investment Advisory operations.
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CEO: David H. Welch View more at Business Insider
Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Market cap:$12.53 billion
#13 La-Z-Boy Inc with gain of
Ticker: FITB
52 Culture/ Newstablet Edition

Focus on Sex Discrimination in Science Is Misplaced: Study

Kate Shaw (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 8:50:00 AM

By Kate Shaw, Ars Technica

Today, more than half of all
PhDs in the life sciences are
awarded to women, compared to a
measly 13 percent bestowed upon
women in 1970. However, women
still lag far behind men in full
professorships and tenure track
positions in math-intensive fields.
Despite claims that this disparity
is due to discrimination against
women in the processes of
publication, grant review,
interviewing, and hiring, a review
in PNAS last week, written by
Stephen Ceci and Wendy
Williams of Cornell University,
finds that there is actually little
evidence for sex discrimination in
these areas, and concludes that
women’s underrepresentation
stems from other causes. Is it
harder for women to publish?
Getting research published is a
must for scientists, and is essential
for getting hired and moving up
the ranks in all scientific
professions. Critics have claimed
that men have an advantage in the
reviewing and publishing
processes, and that this bias may
account for the dearth of females discrimination. For example, women are more difference in publication rates for scientists to get funding for their
in tenured positions. However, When men and women with likely to work at teaching- men and women. It seems that the work than it is for male scientists.
after reviewing several studies in similar resources are compared, intensive colleges and therefore critical factor isn’t sex, but instead Some studies, such as a very
this area, Ceci and Williams there is no evidence for lack the time and resources to access to resources, an area in influential 1997 Nature
conclude that this just doesn’t publication differences between produce frequent and high-quality which women may lag behind publication by Wenneras and
seem to be the case. Studies of the sexes. However, there are research for publication. When men. Are women at a Wold, have found that grant
publication rates in Nature some factors that affect women at the type of institution, the disadvantage when applying for review panels are more likely to
Neuroscience, Cortex, and Journal a disproportionately high rate and scientist’s funding, the teaching grants? fund males over females. This
of Biogeography, among others, may cause biases in the load, and the research assistance Another commonly-cited issue is
found no evidence of sex publication process. are taken into account, there is no that it is harder for female FOCUS page 53
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study found that women needed to
be “2.5 times more productive”
than men to be funded by the
Swedish Medical Research
Council in 1995.
However, this study has been
challenged based on
methodological and conceptual
issues, and further studies have
mostly been unable to replicate
this level of bias. In fact, where
biases have been found,
advantages often go to the
women; a 1996 study of females
funded by a UK panel found they
have published just 11.2 papers on
average, while the funded males
had published an average of 13.8
papers. Large scale analyses of
grant review in the past 30 years
at NSF, NIH, the US Department
of Agriculture, and the Australian
Research Council have not found
any evidence of sex
discrimination.
Research does suggest that,
before the 1980s, it was more
difficult females to get grants than
it was for males. However, most
research agrees that the playing
field has evened out in terms of
funding in the last few decades.
Does hiring occur without regard
to gender?
Finally, Ceci and Williams
examined the interviewing and
hiring process at research
institutions. A very
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famous 1999 study distributed
mock CVs to 238 psychologists
who were reviewing possible
hires for assistant professor and
tenure track positions. For the
assistant professor job, the
reviewers tended to rate CVs with
male names more highly than
identical CVs with female names
(although this effect disappeared
for the tenure track job). This
finding, as well as similar results
in other studies, suggested to
many that females may be at a
disadvantage when applying for
some scientific positions.
However, since 2000, there is
little evidence that females face
more hurdles than men in the
hiring process. In fact, some
studies have shown that women
get interviewed and are offered
tenure-track jobs at a slightly
higher rate than males. What is
evident, however, is that females
tend to make different choices
than men when applying for and
accepting jobs. Here, Ceci and
Williams argue, is where much of
the scientific gender gap arises.
About 80 percent of both male
and female graduate students
believe that working full-time is
“important” or “extremely
important.” However, nearly a
third of women believe that
working part-time for a period is
“important” or “somewhat
Calling his plan one made up of
"tough choices and sacrifices,"
President Barack Obama sent
Congress a$3.73 trillion budget
important,” compared to just 9
percent of men. In the UK,
females are almost twice as likely
as men to work part-time for at
least some length of time. So,
while females have similar
aspirations as men, they seem to
make different choices when it
comes to employment. Asking
different questions
Instead of debating whether
women are being discriminated
against in publication, grant
review, and hiring, Ceci and
Williams argue that we should
concentrate on more current
causes of female
underrepresentation in the
sciences. The important question
to address now is whether women
on the academic track are making
personal choices that promote
happiness and satisfaction, or
whether their careers are
constrained by biology and
societal obligations.
The authors suggest that there are
three main contributors to this
unde-representation: career
preferences, family choices, and
ability differences. Women tend
to chose careers in which they are
“helping people,” such as working
at teaching-intensive institutions,
at a greater rate than men do.
Additionally, fertility and lifestyle
choices affect women’s careers at
a disproportionately high rate
on Monday that proposed to
when compared to men. In terms
of ability differences, far fewer
women than men appear in the top
one percent of standardized math
results, such as SAT and GRE
scores. The authors cite this last
fact without venturing into the
complicated reasons behind the
phenomenon, except for stating
that it is “potentially influenced
by both socialization and
biology.”
So, women in scientific fields —
especially math-intensive ones —
seem to be at a disadvantage due
both to free choices and various
constraints. According to the
authors, however, discrimination
in publication, grant review, and
hiring do not seem to be among
those constraints.
As a start, Ceci and Williams
suggest exposing young women to
successful role models in science
and math-intensive fields and
giving them more information
about career opportunities.
Furthermore, they advocate
changing the tenure system
slightly so that there are fewer
disincentives for women to have
families and children. As a model,
the authors cite UC Berkeley’s
“Family Edge” program, which
provides child care and urges
reviewers to ignore family-related
gaps in employment and
productivity.
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While more work clearly needs to
be done on clarifying the causes
of women’s underrepresentation
in the sciences (especially in math
-intensive fields) the review
strongly suggests that
discrimination isn’t the cause, and
that we need to “redirect our
energies” toward more pertinent
questions.
Image: Flickr/ juan.barredo.
Source: Ars Technica.
Citation: “Understanding current
causes of women’s
underrepresentation in science.”
Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M.
Williams. Proceedings of the
National Academies of Science,
published online Feb. 7,
2011. DOI: 10.1073/
pnas.1014871108
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Traditional Media Dominates The Twitter News Agenda:

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impact on what becomes a
trending topic on Twitter, a
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Apple Launches App Store Subscriptions For Digital Content

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Boss pays £13k to 'humiliated' thief

(The Guardian World News)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:36:03 AM
Employer compensates floor
fitter he paraded through streets
with 'thief' sign round neck
A boss who frogmarched a
worker to the police station with a
sign saying "thief" around his
neck has paid out £13,000 after
being sued for "humiliation".
Mark Gilbert, a 40-year-old floor
fitter, was paraded through
Witham, Essex, with a handmade
cardboard sign saying "Thief. I
stole £845 am on my way to the
police station."
His boss, Simon Cremer, found
the father-of-three had written out
a company cheque to himself and
taken it to Cash Converters in
October 2008.
Gilbert confessed to police and
was cautioned while Cremer was
taken to court for false
imprisonment.
The case against the flooring firm
boss collapsed but he has paid
£5,000 compensation and £8,000
legal costs after Gilbert sued for
two years worth of lost earnings,
distress and psychological help he
said he needed after the incident.
Cremer, 47, who runs In House
Flooring, of Witham, said: "I
think it's absolutely disgusting
that he was even able to sue me
after he had stolen from me to be
honest. I don't want to give him a
penny after what he did, so it
really sticks in my throat.
"He stole from me yet he is the
one who is walking away with the
money. It makes me so angry."
The case had been due to come
before a civil court but father-of-
two Cremer said he could not risk
the expense involved in fighting
the damages claim.
Cremer said: "It would have cost
me £25,000 just to go to court, so
I had no option but to settle.
"I would lose my business and I
would risk losing my home
because I would have to
remortgage it.
"This has left me with no faith in
the justice system whatsoever –
absolutely none."
Gilbert, formerly of Colchester,
Essex, is believed to be living in
Bristol.
He admitted writing the cheque
out to himself and trying to
cashing it, claiming he was ownd
wages, which he needed for a
holiday.
Staff at Cash Converters were
suspicious and contacted Cremer,
who called Gilbert into work to
confront him along with three
other workers.
Speaking after the incident in
2008, Gilbert said he feared he
was going to be killed as he was
bundled into the back of a van.
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Mother sobs at sterilisation hearing

Karen McVeigh (The Guardian give a ruling that would enable a wrong in her behaviour. She only provided the necessary
World News) sterilisation procedure to take doesn't have the capacity to support for P, but have undertaken
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:24:54 AM place at the same time as the baby realise about her actions." the care of her first child and
is born. Mrs P said that, after her propose to do likewise with the
Judge rules court has not enough But the judge was told that expert daughter gave birth, she would second."
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mum and dad. She thinks she will if so, whether she should be where applications for "serious trust, treating doctors, or the local Dog Show'
see them at weekends and on their sterilised by means of "tubal medical treatments" were made authority involved. MyTV:'Are You Smarter Than A
birthday and at Christmas. She ligation". involving patients who were • Learning disability Fifth Grader?'(two episodes)
doesn't understand that she won't During the hearing, Mrs P broke unable to give consent. • Health HGTV:'My First Place'
ever see them again. She says, down in tears as she told the In a short statement, the judge • Child protection OWN:'What Would You Do?'
'I'm the mummy'. She doesn't judge: "From my point of view, I said P was a young woman who • Human rights After the jump, the rest of the
understand they will get a new want the best for my daughter. "by reason of a medical condition schedule and the late-night talk
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58 Politics-Left/ TV/ Newstablet Edition

Abuse trial of 'German Fritzl' opens

Helen Pidd (The Guardian court spokesman. A further child Detlef is also accused of years of "he is where he belongs and he
World News) who died as a baby is also violence in the family's home in cannot do anything to me
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:44:30 AM believed to have been his. the village of Fluterschen, north anymore. I want to fight for the
In court, the man's lawyer, of Koblenz. He would allegedly truth, I want to fight for children
M a n a d m i t s f a t h e r i n g Thomas Düber, told the judge his beat his wife and children with a who are going through the same
stepdaughter's seven children but c l i e n t w o u l d r e c o g n i s e t h e belt and a homemade whip. or similar," he said.
denies decades of sexual crimes paternity of the seven living Until his arrest, Detlef lived with The local authority has been
A man labelled the "German children, but denies the abuse. his wife and 15 children. Four of criticised for not intervening in Irina Shayk is 'Shocked'
J o s e f F r i t z l " h a s a d m i t t e d The defendant began abusing his the children were from his wife's the case sooner. Over Landing 2011
f a t h e r i n g s e v e n o f h i s twin stepchildren, who are now first marriage. The couple also The German tabloid Bild has
stepdaughter's children but denied 28, in 1987 when they were had four of their own children. called the suspect the "German Sports Illustrated
repeatedly raping her and two of around four years old, according The alleged crimes only came to Fritzl", a reference to Europe's Swimsuit Cover
his other children over more than to the indictment. light last year when Natalie found most infamous case of incest.
20 years. The man, a 48-year-old Later, when his biological a letter Janine had written to her Austrian Josef Fritzl was found
(VIDEO)
known simply as Detlef S because daughter, Janine (not her real father telling of the pain he had guilty in 2009 of locking his Donald Deane (TV Squad)
of Germany's strict privacy laws, name) turned 12, he started to caused her over the years. Judge daughter in a dungeon for 24 Submitted at 2/15/2011 6:45:00 AM
is standing trial at a court in rape her once a week, allegedly Winfried Hedge read aloud from years and fathering seven children
Koblenz charged with 350 counts telling her initially that "as a the letter, which told Detlef: "You with her. He is serving a life Filed under: TV Replay Russian
of sexual abuse dating from father I'm not supposed to do made my life a living hell." sentence. beauty Irina Shayk appeared
autumn 1987 to summer last year. this". When she was on her The three alleged victims – the • Germany on'Today'(weekdays, 7AM ET on
As the 21-page indictment was period, he would force her to give man's daughter, stepdaughter and • Europe NBC) and expressed shock over
read out this morning, the man's him oral sex. stepson – have joined the trial as • Josef Fritzl landing the cover of the 2011
stepson, one of his three alleged From 1995 onwards, Detlef co-plaintiffs. Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
victims, fled from the courtroom allegedly began selling Janine – Reporters were cleared from the Helen Pidd Shayk didn't learn the news until
in tears. The accused appeared now 18 – and his stepdaughter, courtroom today as Natalie gave guardian.co.uk© Guardian News the cover was unveiled on last
emotionless. He faces up to 15 Natalie (not her real name), to evidence. Her twin, Björn B, and & Media Limited 2011 | Use of night's'Late Show With David
years in prison if found guilty. friends for sex. Two of Detlef's their stepsister Janine may also this content is subject to our Letterman.'
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seven children, according to a As well as the sexual abuse, confront his stepfather, but that

'House' Season 7, Episode 12 Recap

Danny Gallagher (TV Squad) Patient has a problem that no one a barren salt flat of mindless
Submitted at 2/15/2011 6:20:00 AM can solve, House's team think they moral melodrama. They still bear
have the solution, then they don't, fruit every now and again, but
Filed under: Recaps['House' - then they think they don't only to lately, my stomach has been
'You Must Remember This'] find out they don't, lather, rinse, growling for something more
It's hard to get over how familiar repeat if necessary. substanial. .
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Quango praised by PM scrapped Nick Jonas Talks 'Mr.

Matthew Taylor (The Guardian
World News)
up in March next year.
"For once, I agree with the prime
Advantage WM won the main
public sector award at the
Sunshine,' Favorite Twitter
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:36:08 AM minister, or rather, he agrees with
us," said Mark Serwotka, general
Midlands Excellence ceremony at
Birmingham ICC on 3 February.
Pals & Wanting to be on 'Glee'
Prime minister had praised ill- secretary of the PCS union. "Like Mick Laverty, chief executive of Maggie Furlong (TV Squad)
fated Advantage WM and other t h e o t h e r R D A s [ r e g i o n a l Advantage WM, said the award Submitted at 2/15/2011 6:30:00 AM

Midlands award winners as d e v e l o p m e n t a g e n c i e s ] , was testament to the

examples of 'big society' in action Advantage WM plays a vital role professionalism and commitment Filed under: Reality-Free,
A quango that David Cameron in the economy and this is exactly of the agency's staff. "We have Celebrity Interviews, The Show
praised as one of the organisations the sort of alternative to spending made a difference. Independent Girl Matthew Perry is no dummy.
that will "bring the wealth, the cuts that we've been talking about. evaluation has shown that every After over three decades in this
jobs and the opportunity our Instead of arrogantly swinging the £1 invested by the agency business -- 10 years of that on
country needs so badly" is being ideological axe, the government generates an average £8.14 return 'Friends,' one of the most popular
scrapped with the loss of more should be investing in the public back into the region's economy - shows in TV history --'Mr.
than 300 jobs. sector to help our economy to as public sector activity goes Sunshine''s leading man is pulling
The prime minister sent a video grow." that's an outstanding return." out all the stops to make his new
message praising Advantage WM Cameron was forced to relaunch The government is scrapping show a success (Wednesdays,
after it won a top prize at the his "big society" project this week RDAs and replacing them with 9:30PM ET on ABC).
Midlands Excellence awards after allegations the government's local economic partnerships. In This week's big draw? Guest star
earlier this month. cuts were hitting public sector and November Vince Cable, the Nick Jonas as Eli White, a teen
"These awards celebrate precisely voluntary groups that deliver local rock star playing at the Sunshine personal celebrity demands. He
business secretary, described the
the kinds of things that will get services. Center who is moody, demanding also dished about his favorite TV
abolition of RDAs as"a little
our economy back on its feet," During his address to the awards and hell-bent on making Perry's shows, wanting to be on'Glee' and
Maoist and chaotic".
Cameron told the audience on a c e r e m o n y h e a p p e a r e d t o Ben Donovan miserable. the most random people he
• David Cameron
video link. "You are the doers and acknowledge that organisations I caught up with Jonas -- who is follows on Twitter.
• Quangos
the grafters who are going to such as Advantage WM had a role genuinely funny in this episode Permalink| Email this| Linking
• Unemployment and
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employment statistics
opportunity our country needs so "Everyone in your room tonight • Job losses acting chops -- to talk about his
badly." has a huge impact on our society inspiration for Eli and his own
However, most of the 340 staff and our culture and it is great that Matthew Taylor
who worked for Advantage WM those who take their responsibility guardian.co.uk© Guardian News
expect to be made redundant in s e r i o u s l y a r e r e a l l y b e i n g & Media Limited 2011 | Use of
September and the organisation, recognised. That is one of the this content is subject to our
which has an annual investment things the big society should be Terms & Conditions| More Feeds
budget of £300m, will be wound all about."

Took longer than expected: A marriage proposal in Minecraft

Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) gigantic explorable globes, or Continue reading Took longer Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:00:00 EST.
relationships that last a lifetime.
Submitted at 2/15/2011 12:00:00 PM than expected: A marriage Please see our terms for use of
Check out the video after the proposal in Minecraft feeds.
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anything in Minecraft: To-scale designer's super saccharine, marriage proposal in Minecraft
models of the U.S.S. Enterprise, e q u a l l y n e r d y r e q u e s t f o r betrothment. originally appeared on Joystiq on
60 TV/ Products/ Finance/
Billy Ray Cyrus: Hannah Montana
Destroyed My Family
Robyn Ross (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:22:00 AM
Billy Ray Cyrus
Billy Ray Cyrus says Hannah
Montana destroyed his family.
In an in-depth interview with GQ
magazine, the country singer
credits the Disney series for
ending his 17-year marriage to
wife Tish.
Billy Ray Cyrus and wife file for
divorce
"The damn show destroyed my
family," he says in the March
issue. "I sit there and go, 'Yeah,
you know what? Some gave all.' It
is my motto, and guess what? I
have to eat that one. I some-gave-
all'd it all right. I some-gave-all'd
it while everybody else was going
to the bank. It's all sad."
In addition to his separation,
Cyrus has dealt with his daughter,
Miley, who shot to fame on the
series, consistently being the
public eye for such scandals as
her racy Vanity Fair cover and
pole-dancing at the 2009 Teen
Choice Awards. Last year, he said
he was "so sad" over a video of
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Miley hitting a bong.
"I'm scared for her. She's got a lot
of people around her that's putting
her in a great deal of danger," he
tells the magazine. "I know she's
18, but I still feel like as her
daddy, I'd like to try to help. Take
care of her just a little bit, to at
least get her out of danger. I want
to get her sheltered from the
storm. Stop the insanity just for a
minute. When you go through
what she's been through, it takes a
Families are already feeling the
pinch as increasing transport, food
and energy costs start to make a
beating on you."
Billy Ray Cyrus "so sad" over
video of Miley hitting a bong
Cyrus, who's currently not on
regular speaking terms with his
daughter, draws parallels between
the 18-year-old and late stars
Michael Jackson, Kurt Cobain
and Anna Nicole Smith. "I'm
concerned about Miley. I think
that [Cobain's] world was just
spinning so fast and he had so
many people around him that
didn't help him."
Ultimately, the "Achy Breaky
Heart" singer wishes Hannah
Montana had never happened.
"I'd take it back in a second," he
says. "For my family to be here
and just everybody be okay, safe
and sound, and happy and normal,
would have been fantastic."
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Tuesday's Run and Gun Shows
Joe Hudak (TVGuide.com:
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Submitted at 2/15/2011 10:36:00 AM
Top Shot
With high-powered firearms and
high-flying ninja stunts, these sure
aren't your daddy's sports shows.
But we're betting he'd enjoy Top
Shot(Tuesday, 10/9c, History
Channel) and Jump City:
Seattle(Tuesday, 8/7c, G4), too.
Last week, History premiered
Season 2 of its direct hit Top
Shot, which challenges two teams
of marksmen and women to
pepper targets using a variety of
weapons, from bows and arrows
to fully automatics. "The cool
factor goes through the roof
whenever you bring out a
Prohibition Era Tommy gun,"
says host (and Survivor alum)
Colby Donaldson. Tonight's
contest: "The teams have to
maintain composure and focus
while paintballs are whizzing over
their heads," he says.
Over at Jump City: Seattle,
however, it's the contestants
themselves who are whizzing
overhead as they perform gravity-
defying acrobatic tricks straight
out of The Matrix. The discipline
is known as Parkour, and it's a
Kenneth Mars, co-star in Mel Brooks comedies,
dies (AP)
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Submitted at 2/14/2011 5:24:56 PM
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NFL denies labor talks
were scheduled this
week
Chris Mortensen (ESPN.com) called the union's claim "complete
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:04:33 AM fiction."
"There were no meetings
Updated: February 15, 2011, scheduled so there was nothing to
12:04 PM ET re-confirm," said Aiello.
A s p a r t o f t h e i n c r e a s i n g The NFL filed an unfair labor
miscommunication gap between practice charge against its players'
the two sides, the NFL has denied union with the National Labor
that there were any collective Relations Board on Monday.
bargaining negotiation sessions The NLRB is a federal agency
scheduled this week, as a union that enforces the nation's labor
official had claimed Monday. l a w s a n d r e f e r e e s l a b o r -
phenomenon on the Internet, Doing a cartwheel over a copier is Future Of The League management disputes.
where montages capture urban a lot different than a leap over two In a guest column, NFL rep Greg The current collective bargaining
athletes bouncing off walls and semi trucks!" Aiello outlines the league's agreement expires at 11:59 p.m.
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Jeopardy! Showdown: Human and
Supercomputer Tied After Round 1
Robyn Ross (TVGuide.com:
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Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:30:00 AM
Alex Trebek with contestants
Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter and
a computer named Watson
Jeopardy! all-time winner Brad
Rutter and the supercomputer
dubbed "Watson" are neck-and-
neck after their challenge began
Monday.
Rutter and former contestant Ken
Jennings— who holds the game
show's longest winning streak—
are facing off against the IBM
machine that has been in
development for two years.
Named for IBM founder Thomas
J. Watson, the machine is
powered by 10 racks of computer
servers running the Linux
operating system.
Computer to compete against
Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter on
Jeopardy!
Rutter, who won nearly $3.3
million in 2005, and Watson
ended the initial round tied at
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$5,000, while Jennings was
behind with $2,000. Some of the
answers included, "4-letter word
for a vantage point or a belief,"
which Watson got correct (what is
a shoe?), and "Stylish elegance, or
students who all graduated in the
same year," which Rutter got
correct (what is class?).
The matches will continue on
Tuesday and Wednesday, with the
winner collecting $1 million. The
cultural displays. The best way to
experience it is in its ritual setting.
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this. About his draining tenure as merit in giving quarterback
Washington Redskins coach Michael Vick a second chance.
beginning in the 1980s and how And there is the 2005 tragic story
he sacrificed his relationships of Tony Dungy's son, Jamie, who
with his sons J.D. and Coy. Gibbs at age 18 committed suicide.
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Toy Fair 2011: Day One: Are Friends Electric?
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 9:00:00 AM
What combines the disdain of a
club bouncer, the struggle of a
marathon walk and the ridiculous
on-site food markup of your
average baseball game? That's
right, it's Toy Fair time! And until
he learns to stop mouthing off at
Matt Rutledge during the
Christmas party, we'll be sending
staff ne'er-do-well Scott Lydon to
endure whatever the toy world
can throw at him. Enjoy our blog
posts today and tomorrow, and a
special video podcast coming up
next week!
It's hard to love Toy Fair this
year. Gone are the piles of free
donuts and the handfuls of t-shirts
that used to make the wandering
worthwhile. It's all business,
business, business this year, and
some of the best small companies
from before are now nowhere to
be found. Worst of all, there's
some completely inescapable saga
involving Ken trying to win back
Barbie, a saga that very much
feels like a crying child trying to
get attention by throwing a
tantrum in the middle of a
shopping mall. Everyone's
pretending not to look while
finding it impossible to ignore,
and sadness is in the air.
But still, hidden away in all the
crap, there are still a few honest-
to-goodness gems. So let's start
with all the stuff that's better than
"Ken-bie" or "Bar-en" or
whatever they're calling them in
Club Lame-o. After the jump,
help us start this year's Toy Fair
coverage with a look at some
interesting dolls.
Oh, and action figures might
count too. See you inside?
Of course, those are the Brothers
Tweedle from Alice in
Wonderland, as rendered by
Tonner Dolls. Tonner's booth
featured some of the coolest dolls
at the fair, including a pair sure to
impress every gender.
That's a dark and distant Strider
on the left, and a busty DeeAnne
Denton on the right. I have to
say… it looks like she's had some
work done.
But maybe you're not the type
looking for a doll that might ruin
your child's body image. Well,
then, what about the EggBods?
They're round, slightly cracked,
and clearly support equality
because you can change their
heads around. They also wind up
and walk, and they're from
Europe, which somehow makes
them better. Think of them as a
new type of Mr. Potato Head.
Hey, wouldn't that make for a
great segue? SPEAKING of a
new Mr. Potato Head...
The franchise-friendly PPW
boasts an impressive new line of
Mr. Potato Head collectables
that… well, they're all Mr. Potato
Head. There's only so much you
can change on him. But The
Three Potato Stooges? A Klingon
Potato? There's a certain dadaist
beauty in these, don't you think?
ThinkGeek also knows how to
bring the surreal, with the zero-
points-of-articulation Monolith.
Please note that, for legal reasons,
Products/ 63
it's not considered to be THE
Monolith, just A Monolith.
Apparently Kubrick's contracts
are sort of iron clad when it
comes to toy rights. Who knew
the man was such a control freak?
Now, before I discuss Playmobil,
let me tell you that I didn't take
these photos. They were given to
me by the Playmobil team so I
wouldn't make their little dolls
look horrible. Really, check this
out:
Mongol Dude's got a
background! A background! I'm
just lucky when I get my cheap
refurbished camera to focus
correctly! So good job there,
Playmobil. But don't get cocky,
because this is a picture of your
upcoming Spies playset that I
took when you weren't looking.
HA HA HA IN YOUR FACE
Now that we're even, I'll talk
about the neat little bad guy
camera attachment they're
announcing. Here's the company's
photo:
The camera's designed to fit into
certain Playmobil vehicles, mostly
those belonging to the bad guy.
As you drive with a remote
control, you get to see through the
eyes of evil, letting you stalk the
other cars, monitor the other
figures, see what the weather's
like outside, or possibly watch a
baseball game without express
written consent. That's the kind of
thing a bad guy would probably
do, after all. Good guys never
think of stuff like that. They're too
TOY page 64
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From the logbook: 2011 Jeep Grand
Cherokee
Consumer Reports Shopping
Blog (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 5:59:59 AM
From the logbook: 2011 Jeep
Grand Cherokee There are some
who say that certain cars come
along and virtually "save" a car
company. The first-generation
Taurus is one that comes to mind.
Or the original Chrysler minivan.
I wonder if the Grand
Cherokee—based on the next-
generation Mercedes-Benz
ML—is just such a vehicle. Is it
exactly what Chrysler needed to
get the company on firm financial
footing, buying time to launch a
bevy of redesigned and refreshed
models from Detroit's smallest
automaker? Perhaps.
Our V6-powered Laredo four-
wheel-drive Grand Cherokee
came with the $4,000 "X"
package (which includes heated/
leather seats, back-up camera and
nav system, among other items),
Trailer Tow Group, and
panoramic sunroof. Bottom line:
$39,010. (See the Jeep Grand
Cherokee V6 and V8 road tests.)
Looking at the Jeep's odometer,
it's certainly one of the more
popular vehicles in our current
fleet. With the rough winter we're
having, it seems like it's in
constant demand. Normally, we'd
see anywhere from 6,000-8,000
miles put on test cars. Our Grand
Cherokee odometer reads at over
10,000 miles.
Here's a look at how some of the
travels have been:
"Feels much more substantial than
last GC."
"V6 engine is quiet but seems to
strain to keep the heavy car at
speed on the highway."
"Transmission can be really slow
to downshift."
"Ride grows old on back roads
with lots of snappy side-to-side
motions."
"Quiet cabin."
"Excellent road-trip car."
"High step in, but the seat can be
set low to ease access."
"Comfortable seating, but it's hard
to adjust the lumbar in the driver's
seat."
"Impressive interior fit and finish
and nice tactile feel to the
controls."
"I really dislike the radio system
touch screen control; it's slow and
awkward to use...really could use
a tuner knob."
"Sunglass holder intrudes into the
rear-view mirror even when it's
closed...oh, come on."
"Tailgate is very heavy."
"Mercedes' greatest gift to
Chrysler...made the whole merger
worth it."
"Totally competitive now with
BMW X5, Lexus RX, Mercedes
ML, and Nissan Murano...blows
the doors off the Toyota
4Runner."
While the drivers have found
their niggles, the raw logbook
notes are unanimous on this being
the best Grand Cherokee ever. We
find that it really does many
things well, aside from the V6
having to work like mad to move
this truck and a radio interface
that should be improved.
The demand for this Jeep
continues to be strong. We don't
really want any more snow here in
the northeast, but if we have to
face more storms, the Grand
Cherokee will handle the white
stuff with ease.
— Mike Quincy Next Steps
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continued from page 63
busy feeding hungry meerkats. permission easily. So enjoy his
See? What a nice good guy! Even
though I'm pretty sure meerkats
couldn't live long on a diet of
time at ToyFair 2011 today and
tomorrow, with a special video
recap next Monday. He's suffering
Reese's Pieces in the real world. so you don't have to!
But it's always fun to pretend.
Scott can't come home without
permission, and we don't give
The Rock Returning to
WWE at WrestleMania
27
Brian Fritz (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 8:30:00 AM
Filed under: Pro Wrestling
Finally, The Rock has come back
to WWE.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
made a surprise appearance on
Monday night's edition of " Raw"
to announce that he will be the
special guest host of
WrestleMania 27 on April 3 in
Atlanta.
During the second hour of the
show, The Rock came out to a Raw. Which means finally The
thunderous ovation from the live Rock has come back ... home."
crowd in Anaheim, Calif., to He went on to say that he
make the announcement. returned because of the fans. "And
"After seven long years ... finally, I give you my word, I am never,
finally, finally, The Rock has ever going away.
come back Anaheim," Rock said. "Simply put, ladies and
"Which means finally The Rock gentlemen, The Rock is back."
has come back to Monday Night
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(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
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wants to watch My Big Friggin’
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tuner, I’m the one who has to let
that sludge run through my body.
I wish somebody would make an
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I used to ask myself why. I used
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the way Mother feels about me.
But what I can do is this. You see,
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Mother turns the Blu-ray player
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accident. Oh, don’t worry, you
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Eagles Put Franchise Tag on
Michael Vick
FanHouse Staff (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 7:27:00 AM
Filed under: Eagles
PHILADELPHIA -- The
Philadelphia Eagles have placed
the franchise tag on Pro Bowl
quarterback Michael Vick.
Vick led the Eagles to a 10-6
record and the NFC East title after
replacing an injured Kevin Kolb
in Week 1. Despite missing three
games with an injury, Vick had
while serving a jail sentence and
his best season.
playing sparingly in 2009.
He set career highs in yards
The Eagles also placed the
passing (3,018), touchdowns
transition tag on Pro Bowl kicker
passing (21), touchdowns rushing
David Akers. Coach Andy Reid
(9), completion percentage (62.6)
says the moves Tuesday "ensure
and passer rating (100.2).
that they'll be back in Philadelphia
Vick was voted The Associated
next season."
Press Comeback Player of the
Year after missing two seasons
66 Products/ Sports/
Toy Fair 2011: Day One: Here In Our Cars We Feel Safest Of
All
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:00:00 AM
The first day that two pieces of
plankton began to crawl out of the
sea, two other pieces of plankton
invented the bet. And it was on
that day that the race was born.
Now, of course, we have human
running, horse running, car
running, and Toy Fair 2011's no
different. Only… well, a lot of
what's out there this year is pretty
boring. They're fun to play with,
but how many times can a person
look at the same type of die-cast
metal car? So after the jump,
we're offering a quick peek at the
most interesting types of racing
on display.
If it wasn't for racing, there
probably wouldn't be any car
culture. And without car culture,
there probably wouldn't be any
Automoblox.
Each Automoblox car comes pre-
assembled, but where's the fun in
Alberto Contador Cleared of Doping Charges, Will Keep Tour
Title
FanHouse Newswire
(FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 10:25:00 AM
Filed under: Cycling MADRID
(AP) -- Alberto Contador was
cleared of doping Tuesday after
the Spanish cycling federation
that? A real hot-rodder needs
customization, if only to learn
what his or her vehicle can really
do. So grab the ends and pull,
because when you take apart this
baby, you'll find a universal joint
that allows for different shaped
connectors. Match the shape of
the connector with the shape of
the related peg, and you can put
any type of car together. Even the
really stupid ones. Such as the one
I made!
Yeah, they laughed at John
DeLorean too, so whatever. The
Automoblox are fun to assemble
and they feel great to hold. The
wheels turn pretty fast, which
comes in handy when playing
chicken on the kitchen floor.
Much like a Ford Country Squire,
it's wood you'll be proud to drive.
Now you know your cars. That
means it's time to brush up on
your driving skills Walthers are
the owners of Life-Like Toys, so
they claim domain over the Life-
reversed its proposal to ban him
one year for a positive test at the
Tour de France.
Contador will keep his third Tour
title and can ride in this year's
race, but the International Cycling
Union and the World Anti-Doping
Agency can appeal the decision to
Like Champions Speedway Kid
Powered Slot Car Set. Just take
hold of the handle and start
cranking, and your own power
will move the cars around the
track. Want to go faster? Get to
work, slacker! The harder you
turn, the faster those cars go.
the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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own devices, a Hexbug will run
up and down the spiral track and
do laps in the big open spaces
until they decide to reverse the
process and it all repeats again.
Who doesn't like to watch robots
hard at work? Keep it going, and
your little contender will be ready
for the big dance, by which we
mean the Glow-in-the-dark
Hexbug racing track pictured
below:
It's bright enough in the light, so
imagine how it shines in the dark!
Remember: nothing proves the
men from the boys like a little
night racing. Once you conquer
that, you've got nothing left to
prove.
If a workout's not your thing, You can bet on it, Scott's staying
maybe you want a little auto-pilot. at ToyFair 2011 today and
Hexbug has some solid ideas in tomorrow, with a special video
robot racing (you'll see more from recap next Monday. There's more
them on Monday in our recap to come!
video podcast) and this "parking
garage" is a great way to solo up
your robot's skills. Left to their
Contador tested positive for the
banned substance clenbuterol
during last year's Tour. He blamed
the result on eating contaminated
beef.
"Justice has been served,"
Contador's lawyer, Andy Ramos,
told The Associated Press.
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New heart-disease prevention
guidelines for women
rss@consumerreports.org
(Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 9:43:32 AM
New heart-disease prevention
guidelines for women
The American Heart Association
today released new guidelines for
preventing heart disease in
women, identifying certain risk
factors that are especially
important or unique to women,
and some preventive measures
that aren’t useful, including some
supplements.
For example, the guidelines say
there’s no reason to take
supplemental doses of
antioxidants such as vitamins C or
E, as well as B vitamins, to
prevent heart disease. Our report
on heart supplements released
today, reached the same
conclusion, for men and women.
(Note that folic acid supplements
to reduce the risk of birth defects
still make sense for pregnant
women.) The guidelines also say
that low-dose aspirin is generally
not appropriate for women
younger than 65, though it can
help prevent strokes in women
older than that. To determine if
you’re a candidate, see our advice
on low-dose aspirin.
The new recommendations
emphasize the importance of
controlling traditional risk factors
such as blood pressure,
cholesterol levels, and excess
weight, but also say that
physicians should consider issues
such as gestational diabetes and
pregnancy-induced hypertension.
In addition, the guidelines say that
physicians should ask women
about their history of certain
autoimmune disorders, such as
rheumatoid arthritis and lupus,
both of which are more common
in women than men and both of
which have been linked to
increased heart risk, possibly by
causing inflammation that
damages the coronary arteries.
Finally, doctors should also talk
with women about their emotional
health, since depression might
interfere with their ability to make
needed lifestyle changes or adhere
to prescribed drugs. And as we’ve
recently reported, emotional stress
might damage the heart directly,
in both genders.
“These new guidelines from the
AHA provide a useful reminder of
what works, and perhaps more
importantly these days, what
doesn't,” says Orly Avitzur, M.D.,
medical adviser to Consumer
Reports. “The report also
emphasizes how important it is
for women to have a physician
that communicates well with
them, which is essential for
getting the right tests and
treatments at the right time.”
—Joel Keehn, senior editor
See our Ratings of heart
screening tests to see the ones we
recommend based on your age,
gender, and risk level.
And use our calculator to find
your risk of having a heart attack
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Valve's Gabe Newell discusses
company profitability, and
getting new eyes
Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 12:25:00 PM
You probably don't need
company head Gabe Newell to
tell you -- as he did Forbes in a
recent profile -- that Valve is
"tremendously profitable." But
did you know that it's "more
profitable than Google or Apple"
(per employee)?
And did you know that Newell
has crazy robot eyes?
Okay, okay, he actually got
cornea implants instead of "robot
eyes," per se -- just as interesting,
however, is Newell's post-surgery
statement. "Not only could I see
again, but I could see better than I
ever had before." As Newell
suffers from Fuchs Dystrophy, his
corneas were slowly degrading
before correction. "I felt like I was
in a fantasy story. It reminded me
of how fast the future is coming at
us and from what unexpected
directions."
Keeping his eyes on the money,
Newell declined to offer any hard
numbers as to his company's
financial success, though he
admitted that "per employee,
Valve is more profitable than
Google and Apple." To put some
context on that, Valve's 250-
person company has an estimated
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value of $2 billion to $4 billion
(approximately $8 million to $16
million profit earned per
employee), while Apple's 49,400
employees pull in roughly $6.68
million each, and Google's 24,400
earn the company around $8.19
million apiece. [ Note: statistics
based on current market
valuations of Apple and Google,
combined with company-provided
employee numbers, here and
here].
Continue reading Valve's Gabe
Newell discusses company
profitability, and getting new eyes
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Tony La Russa: Union is trying to 'beat up' Albert

Pujols
Jayson Stark (ESPN.com) negotiation should be based on Most HRs and RBIs in MLB a similar decision, La Russa
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:27:30 AM what's the best decision -- taking Since 2001 Rodriguez Pujols HR replied: "I think Albert is very
everything into account, not 424 408 RBI 1,236 1,230 smart and very strong, and he's
Updated: February 15, 2011, taking one thing into account." Salary$252M$96.7M Salary per going to make a good decision.
12:27 PM ET But because the union sees Pujols HR$594K$237K Salary per I'm just saying I regret some of Save $10 on
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said Tuesday that he believes the pressure than your average player,
Major League Baseball Players La Russa said.
Michael Weiner, the executive
director of the players union,
as it is."
And then the manager had a
3 at Newegg
Association is attempting to "beat This sort of pressure has gone on didn't immediately respond to a warning, not just for Pujols but, in JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
up" Albert Pujols and his agent in for years, with many high-profile message. a sense, for all players who might Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:40:00 AM
an attempt to get Pujols to sign a players, La Russa went on. But in Cardinals general manager John consider leaving a team with
record-setting contract. Pujols' case, he said, this was "not Mozeliak said Monday that the which they're happy, comfortable If you missed out on those
A n d t h a t , L a R u s s a s a i d just arm-twisting. It's dropping an deadline to reach a contract and successful because there Amazon coupons and don't have a
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dropping an anvil on your back pressured by the players union. most high-profile free agents, money," La Russa said, "and Newegg sent out an email
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Philadelphia Eagles franchise

Michael Vick, give David Akers
transition tag
Adam Schefter (ESPN.com) were two of our most valuable franchise player.
Submitted at 2/15/2011 10:16:07 AM players last year," coach Andy Vick was selected to start the Pro
Reid said in a statement Bowl last month, his fourth trip to
Updated: February 15, 2011, announcing the moves. "They Hawaii in eight seasons. He is
12:53 PM ET were well deserving of their Pro coming off a season of career
The Philadelphia Eagles placed Bowl berths and we're happy to highs in passing yards (3,018),
their franchise tag on quarterback take this step to ensure that they'll
Michael Vick on Tuesday, the be back in Philadelphia next
team announced. Mike and Mike season."
passing touchdowns (21), rushing
touchdowns (9), completion
percentage (62.6) and passer
Duke Nukem Forever
in the Morning ESPN.com reported last month
ESPN NFL Insider John Clayton that the Eagles would franchise
rating (100.2). The Eagles (10-7)
were 8-3 in games Vick started pre-order bonuses
says franchising QB Michael Vick Vick. If franchise tags are upheld, and finished.
allows the Eagles to take offers on t h e m o v e w i l l t i e V i c k t o
QB Kevin Kolb. Plus, Clayton Philadelphia for the 2011 season
Vick was voted The Associated
Press Comeback Player of the
ripped from time
says he's no longer optimistic and put the Eagles in a better Year after missing two seasons Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) GameStop wants to stuff its pants
about a new CBA before the position to potentially trade while serving a prison sentence Submitted at 2/15/2011 1:05:00 PM with pre-order cash using a
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have placed their transition tag on Now that the Eagles have tagged Adam Schefter is ESPN's NFL you to open up your wallet for game EGO boost (health), big
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70 Featured/ Politics/
Requests for makers of
Twitter client apps
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 2/14/2011 4:30:14 PM
A few simple requests for
developers who make Twitter
clients:
1. Please create a static archive of
your users' tweetstream in a
publicly accessible place. Have
the URL be a function of their
Twitter username.
2. If you're going to use RSS as
the archive format, please don't
repeat the content of the tweet in
both the title and description
element of the item. That's the
way Twitter did it, apparently
status.net copied them. It's a
bizarre choice, and requires
guesswork to properly deal with
on the other end. Pick one or the
other. In my application I store
the tweet text in the description
element. It seems more like a
GOP Mocks Obama
Budget
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 5:34:29 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Barack Obama's $3.7
trillion budget for 2012 was
quickly dismissed Tuesday by
House Republicans for taking a
pass on tackling historically huge
federal deficits.
Obama told a news conference
that the $3.73 trillion budget he
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Shirley Sherrod Sues Andrew
Breitbart Over Misleading Video
Tom Diemer (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 9:45:00 AM
Correspondent Remember
Shirley Sherrod? The former
Agriculture Department employee
has sued a conservative blogger
for posting an edited video of her
in which she appeared to
acknowledge discriminating
against a white farmer. Sherrod,
who initially lost her job over the
incident, is African American.
Sherrod filed the defamation
lawsuit in Washington, D.C.,
description than a title, to me. Superior Court against Andrew
Here's my linkstream in RSS. Breitbart, who posted the edited threatened legal action against assurances the video is taken
Brietbart, and remains down from the website. She
3. Allow users to subscribe to video of Sherrod's March 2010
these feeds. This means your speech before the NAACP. In it, unemployed, the Washington Post asserts that she's suffered
reported. "enduring damage to her
users can follow people who may she recalled an episode working
not be on Twitter. It's a step for the USDA in Georgia when In a statement Monday, she said, reputation, as well as emotional
"This lawsuit is not about politics distress and financial damages"
toward our independence. she could have helped a white
farmer -- but didn't. That's what or race. It is not about Right from losing her federal job.
versus Left, the NAACP, or the Breitbart said in a statement, "I
went up on Breitbart's website,
BigGovernment.com. In fact, Tea Party. It is about how quickly, can promise you this: neither I,
Sherrod was discussing something
that happened in 1986, and she
in today's Internet media
environment, a person's good
name can become 'collateral
nor my journalistic websites, will
be or can be silenced by the
institutional Left, which is
went on to say that she had
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White House budget director
Jacob Lew kicked off the
administration's defense of its
proposed 2012 budget on Capitol
Hill with an appearance before the
House Budget Committee. Rep.
Mike Simpson spoke for most of
the Republicans on the panel in
saying he doesn't view the
proposal — which mostly ignores
the recommendations of Obama's
fiscal commission — as a serious
one.
"In our nation's most pressing
fiscal challenges, the president
has abdicated his leadership role,"
said House Budget Committee
Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
"When his own commission put
forward a set of fundamental
entitlement and tax reforms ... he
ignored them."
Lew countered that the Obama
plan is a "tough budget" filled
with cuts to programs the
president himself supports.
Eager to please their conservative
tea party supporters, Republicans
are championing $61 billion in
cuts to hundreds of programs for
the remaining seven months of
this federal fiscal year under a bill
the House planned to debate
Tuesday. AmeriCorps and the
Corporation for Public
Broadcasting would be
completely erased, while deep
cuts would be carved from
programs for feeding poor women
and children, training people for
jobs and cleaning the Great Lakes.
Reductions of that magnitude this
late in a fiscal year would have a
jarring impact on many programs.
The GOP-run House planned to
approve the measure Thursday.
The proposed reductions have
"showdown" written all over
them. Republicans included them
in a must-pass bill financing the
government, which otherwise runs
out of money on March 4. The
Democratic-controlled Senate and
Obama himself are sure to turn
them down.
"We have consistently said it's not
our intention to shut down this
government," House Majority
Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said
Monday of one possibility should
there be an impasse. "That's
political talk and we ought to get
that off the table and we ought to
go about the real business of
trying to cut spending."
Lew downplayed the possibility
of a government shutdown.
"If we all work together in a
bipartisan way to look for the
things we can agree on and take
some of the things that we can't
agree on off to the side, we can
accomplish a great deal," Lew
said.
Obama unveiled his fiscal
blueprint a day earlier, a plan that
mixes tax increases on the
wealthy and some businesses, a
five-year freeze on most domestic
programs, and boosts for
elementary schools, clean energy
and airport security. The outline is
a first step in what is likely to be a
bitter partisan fight as Congress
translates it into a parade of tax
and spending bills.
Despite its savings, Obama's
budget projects a record $1.65
trillion deficit this year, falling to
$1.1 trillion next year and easing
thereafter. Even so, it stands to
generate a mammoth $7.2 trillion
sea of red ink over the next 10
years, a number that would be
even larger had the president not
claimed over $1 trillion in 10-year
savings by winding down the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Glaringly missing from the
president's budget was a
substantial reshaping of Social
Security, Medicare and other
massive, automatically paid
benefit programs that bipartisan
members of his deficit-reduction
commission had recommended
last year. That leaves the nation
under a black fiscal cloud as its
aging population, prolonged
lifespans and ever costlier medical
procedures leave the government
with enormous I.O.U.'s.
Most Republicans have also
shied away from calling for
savings from so-called entitlement
programs, but that's not stopped
them from criticizing Obama's
failure to do so. Rep. Paul Ryan,
R-Wis., chairman of the House
Budget Committee, has called for
such reductions, but would not
predict Monday whether they
would be included in the 2012
spending plan his panel plans to
write this spring.
"The president punted on the
budget, he punted on the deficit,"
Ryan told reporters. "That's not
leadership, that's an abdication of
leadership."
Overall, Obama's budget claims
$1.1 trillion in deficit reduction
from tax increases and spending
cuts over the next decade while
protecting some — but not all —
programs that Democrats cherish.
By 2021, Obama projects that
$844 billion out of the $5.7
trillion federal budget would go
toward paying interest on the
government's debt. Such interest
payments would exceed the size
of the entire federal budget in
1983.
Federal budgets often burrow
into the minutest details of the
bureaucracy, and Obama's was no
exception.
The State Department said it
expected to save $5.3 million over
the next three years by painting
the roofs of its embassies and
other offices in a heat-reflecting,
energy-saving white color. And
the U.S. Agency for International
Development projected hundreds
of thousands in savings by
reducing the font size in its
documents to reduce paper usage.
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White House Correspondent In
his first press conference of the
new year, President Obama
defended his proposed 2012
budget Tuesday, asserting that it
"puts us on a path to pay for what
we spend by the middle of the
decade." But he deferred tackling
the looming, long-term deficits
caused by entitlement programs
such as Social Security and
Medicaid, saying that bipartisan
cooperation was the necessary
first step to any real reform.
"If you look at the history of how
these deals get done," Obama
said, "typically it's not because
there's an Obama plan out there.
It's because Democrats and
Republicans are both committed
to tackling this issue in a serious
way."
The president underscored the
importance of a bipartisan effort
by citing the work of previous
administrations. "Ronald Reagan
and Tip O'Neill came together to
save Social Security," he said.
"Bill Clinton and the Republican
Congress eventually found a way
to settle their differences and
balance the budget." Obama also
pointed to last year's lame-duck
session of Congress -- one in
which significant legislation was
passed -- as evidence of how
fruitful such cooperation could be.
"Democrats and Republicans in
Congress came together in
December to pass a tax cut that
has made Americans' paychecks a
little bigger this year and will spur
on additional economic growth.
"I'm confident we can get Social
Security done in the same way
that Ronald Reagan and Tip
O'Neill were able to get it done.
By parties coming together, [and]
making some modest
adjustments."
The president's comments echoed
those made earlier in the day by
his chief emissary for all things
budgetary, OMB Director Jacob
Lew. In testimony before the
accused Washington of
demanding too much, too soon.
"There's a tendency for us to
assume that if it didn't happen
today, it's not going to happen,"
he said. Acknowledging his
support for "much" of the
commission's plan to reduce the
national debt -- and his
disagreement with "some" of it --
Obama reiterated his belief that
bipartisan dialogue was a needed
next step, and that it would take
some time.
"This is going to be a process in
which each side, in both chambers
House Budget Committee, Lew
of Congress, go back and forth
said the administration had
and start trying to whittle their
focused on drivers of the
differences down, until we arrive
immediate deficit, rather than
at something that has an actual
programs that would drive the
chance of passage," he offered.
debt farther out, in 2021 -- among
"And that's my goal. I mean, my
them, Social Security.
goal here is to actually solve the
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problem."
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DIY Snacking The ideal pressure
and temperature vary with each
grain, so trial and error is key.
Too much pressure, and you get
explosive fragments. Too short or
soft, and the grains will be raw
and inedible. If you take too long,
they'll burn. Once you have the
mix and motions right, try adding
some seasonings. Andrew
MacDonald The hosts of Food
Jammers show how to make a
version of a multimillion-dollar
commercial grain puffer for about
50 bucks. See the video inside
The machinery that snack and
cereal companies use to transform
rice and other foods into puffed
snacks is expensive and operates
at extreme pressures and
temperatures. Since you can buy
the resulting cheese puffs, rice
cakes and toasty oat cereals
anywhere, why try to make them
ourselves? Because we were
curious whether we could figure
out a cheap way to crack the code
of puffing technology. Plus, we
like to build elaborate machines
and to blow things up, even if it's
only spelt grains and millet cakes.
The science behind puffing is
simple. Heating the moisture
inside of a grain creates pressure
and builds up steam, which is
trapped by the grain's hull or
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Many people mistakenly assume
shell. When that hull suddenly
fails, everything inside it expands
in a blast, transforming the grains
into a crispy, porous mass; the
best example of this is popcorn.
Some grains can fuse together,
making a cake.
Not all grains are easily puffed,
though. Try to puff rice or wheat
berries in this way, for example,
and they just burn. Two things are
required to get almost any grain to
puff. You need an optimal amount
of moisture inside the grain, and
you must artificially make a
popcorn-like shell that can
temporarily hold steam under
pressure and release it
suddenly. We built a metal shell
using a pipe, a rod and a plate to
mount the pipe on, forming a
bottom to clamp against, like a
piston in a cylinder. Using vise
grips, we put the shell over a
butane burner, clamped it tightly,
and then unclamped it to make it
puff. At high temperatures, you
have 10 to 20 seconds when the
grains puff before they start to
burn. We puffed millet, wild rice,
sorghum, barley, and white and
brown rice. We called the results
"vise cakes."
Our equation for the process
looks roughly like this: 150 psi
(pressure) and 480ºF (heat) x 12
that buying in bulk is always a
good thing. Truth be told, buying
in bulk is only a good thing when
the price is right. Costco isn’t
always the best place to buy--it
seconds (time) + sudden release
back to atmosphere = 1 vise cake.
Last year we built a rig to make
mini vise cakes, which worked
well, but it took a long time to
produce a large quantity. So this
time we increased the scale,
creating a design that could make
the cakes with a 2.5-inch
diameter. All told, it cost us only
$57. Our design requires at least
four hands to operate, though why
puff solo when you can puff in a
group? Besides, you‘re saving a
good million bucks or so off the
price of a commercial machine.
Click to launch a step-by-step
gallery showing how to construct
and use a grain puffer.
WARNING: Using tools at high
pressures with flames can be
dangerous. The puffing action and
release of locking pliers can move
hot parts quickly. Play it safe,
wear proper protection, and
secure loose articles and moving
parts. Keep fire extinguishers
handy.
might make you feel like you are
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Rockets As a Safer, Cheaper, and
More Efficient Way to Space
Clay Dillow (Popular Science - Building Rockets in Workshops
New Technology, Science Launch Systems Rockets Priced
News, The Future Now)
to Move China's Moon Rocket
Submitted at 2/15/2011 10:54:06 AM May Take a Cue From the Saturn
Launching payloads into space is V Tags Technology, Clay Dillow,
expensive, but high costs aside it's energy beam propulsion, laser
also a horribly inefficient process. propulsion, rockets, Space, space
Conventional rockets are almost launches This heat exchanger
pure fuel, leaving only a small causes the temperature of the fuel
percentage (usually in the low aboard the rocket to spike,
single digits) of a launch vehicle's pushing it to something like 3,100
total weight available for payload. degrees, a temperature that
So NASA's Glenn Research drastically increases the rocket's
Center in Ohio is looking into a thrust. But it's not incendiary like
whole new system of payload a conventional rocket, so it emits
propulsion that uses lasers or only hydrogen. Also, it can't
microwaves to launch vehicles explode as towering tanks of
into orbit. bottled up rocket fuel are wont do.
Doing so could significantly The drawback: the technology is
reduce the costs and physical r e a l l y o p t i m i z e d f o r s m a l l
dangers associated with regular p a y l o a d s w e i g h i n g i n t h e
spaceflight. Rockets, as we noted neighborhood of 200 pounds. But
earlier, are more or less massive it would also be able to cheaply
c o n t r o l l e d h y d r o c a r b o n launch several rockets daily, so it
explosions--bottled up fuel that (if could carry larger objects into
all goes well) ignites in stages to orbit piecemeal for assembly
hurl the rocket skyward. The new later. The small-payload scheme
technology would use ground- also fits nicely with the increasing
based lasers or microwaves to proliferation of micro- and nano-
target a heat exchanger aboard a satellites.
rocket, coaxing increased energy [ Discovery News]
output from the fuel.
Related Articles A Few Dreamers
saving a ton, but unless you buy space, yet another reason to be
enough of the right things at the picky about what you buy in bulk.
right price it can end up costing
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New NASA Designs for a Reusable Manned Deep-Space

Craft, Nautilus-X
Rebecca Boyle (Popular orbit.
Science - New Technology, Nautilus is by far the highlight,
Science News, The Future however, with pretty specific
Now)
schematics and development
Submitted at 2/14/2011 4:52:15 PM estimates. Construction would
NAUTILUS-X NAUTILUS-X take at least five years and require
stands for Non-Atmospheric two or three rocket launches. It
Universal Transport Intended for would cost about $3.7 billion.
Lengthy United States The centrifuge, which could help
eXploration. via HobbySpace keep crew members healthy
Nautilus includes a centrifuge and during a long trip, includes
inflatable parts inflatable structures and pieces
This tubular spacecraft could that must be launched into orbit. It
serve as a reusable vehicle for would be fairly simple to test on
lunar and deep-space missions, the International Space Station - it
holding a crew of six and enough would launch to the station on
supplies for a two-year board a rocket, and if it works out,
expedition. it could become living quarters
Dubbed Nautilus-X, for "Non- for the station's crew.
Atmospheric Universal Transport These are dreamy ideas, to be
Intended for Lengthy United provide partial gravity, and engines and fuel depending on space exploration. Check out the sure, especially in light of federal
States eXploration," this craft radiation-mitigation systems that where you wanted to go. Such an P o w e r P o i n t s l i d e s h e r e . funding roadblocks. But the use of
could be built in orbit and ready could include tanks of water or all-purpose system would be HobbySpace has a nice roundup e x i s t i n g t e c h n o l o g i e s l i k e
for space missions by 2020, liquid hydrogen slush, reports the simpler than building heavy-lift of the meeting, which also Bigelow's modules, as well as the
a c c o r d i n g t o a b r i e f i n g b y website HobbySpace.com. rockets for specific missions to i n c l u d e d a D A R P A - f u n d e d adaptability of a multi-purpose
NASA's Future In Space Nautilus is a multi-mission space the moon or Mars. geosynchronous satellite servicing crew carrier, means a system like
Operations group. exploration vehicle, so it could Henderson described the system project, in-situ water recovery on Nautilus could play a role in
It would be assembled from incorporate mission-specific a t a b r i e f i n g o n N A S A ' s the Moon, a project that would NASA's future.
expandable structures, such as the propulsion units, according to T e c h n o l o g y A p p l i c a t i o n s demonstrate space-based solar [ HobbySpace]
inflatable habitats proposed by Edward Henderson of NASA Assessment Team, which is power beams, a solar electric
Bigelow Aerospace. It would also J o h n s o n S p a c e C e n t e r . studying (relatively) inexpensive, propulsion vehicle, and propellant
contain a ring centrifuge to Theoretically, you could swap out quick-turnaround technologies for depots floating in geosynchronous

Eric Schmidt: 'We certainly tried' to get Nokia to use Android

Nilay Patel (Engadget)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 12:55:00 PM
No big surprise here, but Eric
Schmidt just told the crowd at
Mobile World Congress that
Google "certainly tried" to
convince Nokia to pick Android
as its future platform over
Windows Phone 7. Schmidt said
Google "would've loved" having
Nokia on board, and that although
they'd been rebuffed this time
around, the offer to adopt Android
later "is still open." Look like Vic
Gundotra might have to get down
with a turkey after all.
Eric Schmidt: 'We certainly tried'
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By Shining a Laser From the Ground,
Researchers Could Easily Measure Earth's
Magnetic Field
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 9:16:27 AM
Firing Lasers at the Sky Dmitry
Budker lab/UC Berkeley
Satellites, step aside
To map the earth's magnetic
field, scientists usually take
readings from one of a number of
satellites, a process that is
expensive and often less-than
accurate. Physicists at UC
Berkeley have a better idea:
measure the earth's magnetic
nuances using a single ground-
based laser to examine the spin of
sodium atoms 56 miles up in the
sky.
There are a variety of reasons for
mapping the Earth's magnetic
field--geophysicists use the data
to study the planet's interior, oil
and gas companies use it to hunt
for energy deposits, and
climatologists use it to study
changes in the atmosphere.
Hebrews 13:17 (02-15-11)
(Verse of the Day)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 2:00:00 AM
Obey your leaders and submit to
their authority. They keep watch
over you as men who must give
an account. Obey them so that
their work will be a joy, not a
Studying the atmosphere, it turns
out, should inform scientists about
changes in the earth's magnetic
field as well.
The magnetic field of the planet
at a given locale influences the
rotation of the atoms in that
locale, and by studying that spin
with a relatively simple laser-
burden, for that would be of no
advantage to you.
— Hebrews 13:17(NIV) Thoughts
on Today's Verse... We often fail
to realize that one of the very best
ways we can make Kingdom
leadership better is by being better
followers. Kingdom leadership
telescope combo researchers can
determine the magnetic field at a
given place without consulting a
satellite. Unlike satellites, the
ground-laser setup isn't in motion
relative to the earth. Its magnetic
readings also aren't confused by
other science tools the way
readings can be marred when
means that leaders will have to
answer to God for how they have
led. Kingdom citizenship means
that we will be held responsible
for how we have obeyed and
blessed our leaders. What have
you done to show your love,
respect, and support for your
taken by instrument-heavy
satellites.
Aiming a precisely tuned 20- to
50-watt orange laser at a six-mile-
thick band of sodium atoms in the
mesosphere (some 56 miles up)
excites the atoms, causing them to
fluoresce. The degree of
fluorescence depends on the spin
polarization of the atoms when
the laser strikes them, allowing
researchers on the ground to take
measurements from which they
can determine the magnetic field
at that point in space.
At least, that's the theory. ESO
researchers who collaborated on
the idea are developing a 20-watt
modulated laser that will be
deployed at the Very Large Array
in Chile's Atacama Desert to test
the idea.
[ PhysOrg]
church leaders lately? My
Prayer... Almighty King, all
authority and dominion belong to
you. You alone are worthy of
power and the right to rule. Please
bless our leaders at church that
they may lead by serving and
following Christ. Please empower
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Romantic
Restaurants
(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
1. Boulevard, San Francisco, CA
A historic, waterfront building,
dazzling Art Nouveau decor and
sumptuous food hit all the right
notes at this always-busy
restaurant. Lively yet romantic,
the place puts folks immediately
at ease and readies them to delight
in chef Nancy Oakes' creative
cuisine.
2. Sapphire Grill, Savannah, GA
One of Savannah's best fine
dining restaurants, Sapphire Grill
features superb cuisine enlivened
with local ingredients, not to
mention an extensive wine list.
Located in a venerable building
with an exterior of Savannah grey
brick and an interior of stainless
steel and glass, it's a city
mainstay.
3. Pink Adobe, Santa Fe, NM
This three-hundred-year-old
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me to follow their leadership in
ways that exalt the cause of Christ
and bless the leaders in your
Kingdom. May my life never be a
burden to them or an
embarrassment to you. In Jesus'
name I ask it. Amen.
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former military barracks first
opened as a restaurant in 1944.
Accented by fireplaces and
original works of art, its multiple
dining rooms are cozy and
intimate.
4. The Paddock, Hyannis, MA
A long-lived local tradition, The
Paddock boasts Victorian
elegance, a pleasant summer
porch, and a menu that offers
classics with a few innovations.
5. Christy Hill, Tahoe City, CA
A dramatic lakeside setting with
unobstructed views draws diners
to this romantic spot. The food is
hardly overshadowed by the
environs, however; Californian
and French flavors and
preparations mingle pleasantly on
the plate and palate.
6. Romeo's Café, Coral Gables,
FL
Romeo¹s is unquestionably a top
Miami restaurant, and one of the
few with such a personal take on
food. Patrons can enjoy their
specially prepared meal in
Romeo's cozy dining room, which
boasts remarkable waterfront
views and an exhibition kitchen
where you can watch the chef at
work.
7. Garden Café, Prospect
Heights, NY
Sometimes - in the pursuit of
good food - it's worth venturing
out a bit.
That's certainly the case with
Prospect Heights' Garden Cafe.
Not at all caught up in the hubbub
of the Manhattan dining scene,
this cozy corner spot marches to
its own beat. Best of all, the prices
are more than reasonable, easily
making this one of the borough's
best deals.
8. Giorgio's, Portland, OR
Boasting some of the best food in
Portland, Giorgio¹s fuses
Northern Italian cuisine with
French techniques and organic
Pacific Northwest ingredients. Be
prepared for a variety of pasta,
fish and desserts, as the menu
changes daily at this Pearl District
Italian dining establishment.
9. Aldo's, Baltimore, MD
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A narrow two-story foyer,
flanked with Italianate arches and
elegant white columns, adjoins
this attractive dining room. The
menu emphasizes healthy,
flavorful preparation techniques
and fresh, seasonal ingredients.
10. Circa 1886, Charleston, SC
One of Charleston's best-kept
secrets, Circa 1886 prepares some
of the best cuisine in town.
Named for the year that the
neighboring Wentworth Mansion
was built, Circa boasts a wine list
that provides diners with well
over 200 selections.
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7 Desserts that Fight Fat

David Zinczenko with Matt came to shove, he put Skywalker lowering it, ice cream might Worst Ice Cream Treat Treats in your blood sugar in a healthy
Goulding (Eat This, Not That) first. And, well, the same is true actually help diminish your risk of America.) range as you indulge your sweet
Submitted at 2/14/2011 1:28:38 PM of the ice cream sundae sitting in stroke and heart disease. And so it Best Scoop-Shop Dessert tooth.
your dish. is with dessert: If you can look at Cold Stone Creamery Tart and Not That!
What do Darth Vader, King It might have a bit more sugar your after-dinner treat as an Tangy Plain Yogurt (Like It size Oreo Crème Ice Cream (Like It
Kong, and an ice cream sundae all than your body needs (technically opportunity to add something with walnuts) Size)
have in common? They’re all your body doesn’t need any more than just calories, you’re on 270 calories 440 calories
destructive, havoc-wreaking sugar), but ice cream also delivers your way to a healthier (and more 13 g fat (1 g saturated) 31 g fat (14 g saturated)
villains. But if you look deeper, calcium, which binds to fatty indulgent) diet. 24 g sugars 38 g sugars
you discover that they all have a acids in the digestive tract and To that end we’ve pulled together On its own, the Like It Size Tart Best Classic Dessert
good side, as well. Kong may blocks their absorption. And ½ America’s best desserts—the ones and Tangy Yogurt has a mere 140 Sonic Junior Banana Split
have made a mess of Midtown cup gives you 17 milligrams of that offer something of nutritional calories, making it the ideal base 200 calories
Manhattan, but his animal rage c h o l i n e , w h i c h c a n l o w e r substance, avoid the flab-inducing for a healthy topping of your 6 g fat (4.5 g saturated)
was driven by his love for Fay h o m o c y s t e i n e . W h a t ’ s deluge of calories, and short you choice. Fruit works fine, but 22 g sugars
Ray. Sure, Lord Vader wanted to homocysteine? An amino acid none on satisfaction. (Think of walnuts usher in fiber and healthy DESSERTS page 79
destroy the Jedi, but when push that restricts blood flow, and by this list as the antidote to the 10 fats, both of which work to keep
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DESSERTS
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Whoever decided that banana
splits should have three scoops of
ice cream obviously wasn’t
worried about body fat. So let’s
agree right now: The only banana
split worth eating is a single-
scoop banana split. Thank you,
Sonic, for giving us what we
want.
Not That!
Banana Cream
Pie Shake (14 oz)
408 calories
29 g fat (20 g saturated)
77 g sugars
Bonus Tip: You know what’s
more threatening than dessert?
The soda you drink alongside
dinner. But maybe you already
knew that— check out the 20
Worst Drinks in America for
some truly shocking waistline
offenders.
Best Dessert Parfait
Ruby Tuesday Berry Good
Yogurt Parfait
162 calories
3 g fat
26 g carbohydrates
The parfait is an entirely
underutilized dessert. Ideally it
should be a little sweeter than a
breakfast parfait (this one is), yet
still offer significant hits of fresh
fruit, protein, and fiber (this one
does). Order this in place of
Ruby’s Italian Cream Cake and
consider yourself 828 calories
thinner.
Not That!
Italian Cream Cake
990 calories
56 g fat
108 g carbohydrates
Best Chocolate Bar
Chocolove Strong Dark
Chocolate Bar, 70% Cocoa (1/3
bar, 30 g)
157 calories
12 g fat (7 g saturated)
8 g sugars
It’s time to swear off milk
chocolate. The dark stuff is a far
richer source of epicatechin, an
antioxidant that helps blood
vessels relax, and studies show it
migh reduce your odds of
developing diabetes. After years
of taste-testing dark chocolates,
Chocolove’s Strong Dark still
wins out—dark enough to corral
cocoa’s benefits, yet sweet
enough to taste like dessert.
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Not That!
Hershey’s Mr. Goodbar (49 g)
250 calories
17 g fat (7 g saturated)
23 g sugars
Best Shake
Wendy’s Jr. Original Chocolate
Frosty
150 calories
4 g fat (2.5 g saturated)
22 g sugars
It seems like every year Wendy’s
comes out with some new, tricked
-out Frosty. There are now Frosty
Floats, Frosty Shakes, and Frosty-
cinos, and every one is worse than
the original Frosty. Stick to the
classic, and make it a “junior.” Up
-sizing to the small will more than
double the calories in your cup.
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have transformed your favorite
foods into your belly’s worst
enemy? Check this out: The
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Not That!
Oreo Twisted Frosty
440 calories
14 g fat (7 g saturated)
55 g sugars
Best Yogurt
Chobani Strawberry Nonfat
Greek Yogurt
140 calories
0 g fat
19 g sugars
With other flavored yogurts,
“strawberry” amounts to little
more than corn sweeteners and
red dye, but on Chobani’s
ingredient statement, fruit is
second only to Greek yogurt—just
as it should be. That fills your
dessert out with more natural
sugar and good stuff like vitamins
C and A, which bolster your
immune system while mopping up
free radicals in your body. (Learn
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Not That!
Yoplait Original 99% Fat Free
Strawberry
170 calories
1.5 g fat (1 g saturated)
27 g sugars
Best Caffeinated Dessert
P.F. Chang’s Mini Tiramisu
100 calories
11 g fat (5 g saturated)
10 g carbohydrates
Thanks to the arms race of
oversized foods currently
underway in America’s kitchens,
proper dessert portions now come
with qualifying terms like “mini.”
So be it. Chang’s Tiramisu
consists of multiple decadent
layers, just enough to hit your
sweet tooth and reward a good
day of eating. Eat this instead of a
slice of New York-Style
Cheesecake and you’ll save 820
calories. Make a dessert swap like
that three times a week and you’ll
shed nearly 3 pounds every
month.
Not That!
New York-Style Cheesecake
920 calories
56 g fat (36 g saturated)
92 g carbohydrates
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King’s Speech
Submitted at 2/15/2011 3:00:12 AM
Rep. Peter King battles Islamic
radicalism — and political
correctness.
R ep. Peter King, the New York
Republican who chairs the
Homeland Security Committee,
will hold hearings next month on
radicalization within the
American Muslim community.
Weeks before he bangs the gavel,
King is catching flak from both
left and right: Conservatives are
irked that most of the people he is
calling to testify are Muslim
leaders; House liberals would like
to see him pursue homegrown
terrorism more broadly, without a
specific focus on Muslims.
#ad#The gruff Long Islander, in
an interview with National
Review Online, shrugs off his
critics. The hearings, he predicts,
will be neither toothless nor
inflammatory. His aim, he says, is
simply to dig into the root causes
of radicalization with the help of
Muslim leaders -- Beltway pooh-
poohing and political correctness
be damned.
“I strongly believe that there is a
concerted effort by al-Qaeda and
al-Qaeda affiliates to recruit
young Muslims living legally in
this country,” King says. “It is a
real threat, and it deserves our
attention.”
Keeping the spotlight on the
subject at hand will be a
challenge, King acknowledges.
He knows how easily such a
hearing could devolve into a
media circus. But by calling on
Muslims to speak up, he hopes to
spark a dialogue.
Better cooperation, King reasons,
will be encouraged if the hearings
turn down the volume and clear
the air. For now, Walid Phares, a
Beirut-born professor, and Dr.
Zuhdi Jasser, an Arizona
physician and military veteran,
are slated to appear. Rep. Keith
Ellison (D., Minn.), a Muslim,
will also participate.
King’s strategy, however, leaves
well-known experts on Islamic
terrorism outside of the Muslim
community -- such as Steve
Emerson, Robert Spencer, and
Daniel Pipes -- watching via C-
SPAN.
“I don’t want to bring in the same
faces,” King explains. “Nine years
after September 11, people’s eyes
glaze over if they keep seeing the
same people. If we have
subsequent hearings, and we have
more questions, we can bring in
others.”
King reckons that by bringing in
a slew of Muslim leaders as initial
witnesses, he will be able to get
them, on record, to more fully
explain how Muslims are
supporting anti-terror efforts. At
the same time, he is looking
forward to giving Muslims a
platform to voice their concerns
about related issues. Looking at
radicalization from the Muslim
perspective, he says, could yield
something constructive, beyond
the usual blame game.
“Look, when I meet with Muslim
leaders, people who are successful
in their community, it is clear that
there is no support for al-Qaeda. I
don’t sense that at all.” King says.
“What I do sense is that they feel
like they are under siege.” That
fear, he says, is natural, but
unfortunate. “If they did speak
out, it would make them a much
more positive force.”
“It is not enough for them to say
that they denounce all terrorism,
that they denounce all violence,”
King says. “They have to be much
more aggressive. I don’t think
they fully realize that. They worry
that if they came out and
highlighted their opposition to
Islamic terrorism, it would focus
too much attention on the Muslim
community, reminding people that
these terrorists are Muslims. So
they don’t deal with it in an open
way.”
#page#While he aims to keep the
tone of the hearings civil, King
points out that he is willing to
wade into areas of discomfort.
With domestic attacks on the rise,
from the botched Times Square
bombing to the Fort Hood
shooting, he says the stakes are
too high not to delve into the
leadership of the Muslim
community. Unlike other faiths,
he says, Islam has a hierarchy that
is quite complex and often
misunderstood, with few
identifiable national spokesmen.
He hopes his hearings will give
community leaders a chance to
flesh out their concerns and
insights -- and provide Congress
and fellow Americans with a
window into their world.
For his part, King will spend
most of the hearings pressing for
more information about how
Muslims respond to law-
enforcement officials.
#ad#“There has not been enough
cooperation from the Muslim
community,” King says. “That is
what I have learned over the past
eight or nine years in dealing with
law-enforcement officials at all
levels. It has been disappointing.
There is no doubt that the
overwhelming majority of
Muslims are good people, but the
leadership in their communities
has not cooperated enough, nor
have they set a tone for
cooperation. I want to see that
change.”
In numerous cases, King has seen
a lack of “full throated, intense”
denunciation of terroristic
activities, he says. The Council on
American-Islamic Relations’ use
of “Don’t Talk to the FBI” posters
is but one example. King plans to
cite many such instances at his
hearings, looking for answers.
Despite his careful prep, things
could get hot. But King bristles
when opponents call his hearings
“McCarthyite” witch hunts. “If
there are people in the United
States who are organizing against
the government, it does fall within
our congressional responsibility,”
he argues. “A number of people
have said that this is for the FBI,
not for Congress. Well, in that
case, Bobby Kennedy and Jack
Kennedy never would have
investigated the Teamsters.
Congress does have an
investigative role to play.”
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While King does not expect any
grand, “Kumbaya” policy
document to emerge after the
hearings, he is hoping that the
discussions will stir law-
enforcement leaders to be “less
politically correct” in their
dealings with the Muslim
community. The standoff nature
of investigations and even minor
dealings, he says, has put all sides
at risk.
“The lack of cooperation is
something I have adjusted to over
the years,” King chuckles. “Over
the years, in private
conversations, law-enforcement
officials almost casually admit
that they do not get cooperation
from Muslim leaders, that they
don’t expect any. Then, in public,
they say no one cooperates more
than the Muslim community. You
have this disconnect between
what they tell me privately and
what they feel they can say
publicly, for political reasons.”
Brushing away the cobwebs of
post-9/11 trepidation is crucial,
King says. It will also be a
delicate endeavor: Democrats will
be watching for any misstep. And
any gaffe or whiff of anti-Muslim
rhetoric could be devastating.
House Speaker John Boehner,
King notes, is not blocking his
efforts. But the New Yorker
knows that he must tread with
caution.
“Nobody from the leadership has
said anything, so I’m just going
ahead,” King says. “I have not
KING’S page 83
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Is the President’s Small Reactor Push the Right Approach?

Nicolas Loris (The Foundry: production but rather on national large reactor certification when it
Conservative Policy News.) security requirements. should use this opportunity to
Submitted at 2/15/2011 10:00:33 AM Entrepreneurs and investors took establish a new, more efficient
that national security research and licensing pathway.
Posted February 15th, 2011 at spun off commercial enterprises. Instead of paying for DOE
11:00am in Energy and Today these companies are bureaucrats to get in the way of
Environment Print This Post moving that technology from commercial progress, the
One of the more talked about government labs and into the Administration should commit to
highlights of the President’s marketplace. Testament to this ensuring that the U.S. Nuclear
energy budget is his growing progress is that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is fully
support for small modular reactors R e g u l a t o r y C o m m i s s i o n i s equipped and prepared to regulate
(SMRs). This includes $30 expecting six advanced reactor new reactor designs. This should
million for research and design applications to be include high-temperature gas-
development and $67 million for submitted some time in the next cooled reactors and liquid-metal-
licensing activities. While the 18–24 months. These include cooled fast reactors as well as
President should be commended small light water reactors, high- small light water designs. This
for recognizing the potential of temperature gas-cooled rectors, would provide a strong regulatory
SMRs, his approach unfortunately and liquid-metal-cooled fast foundation for each of the
misses the mark. reactors. decision and should instead be left partially do. expected design certification
Research and Development, Yes; What this all makes clear is that up to the private sector. applications. The DOE should
Commercialization, No these programs are well beyond • Companies want subsidies or A l a c k o f r e s e a r c h a n d have no role in the process. If a
The federal government does the basic R&D stage and into the preferential treatment to increase development or not having a company wants to get its reactor
have a legitimate role to play in commercialization process. Thus, profits. This too may be accurate, specific Department of Energy design certified for commercial
providing some basic research and providing $30 billion in SMR but it should not be sufficient to (DOE) program dedicated to use in the U.S., it should be able
development money to fund R&D seems to be simply using stop private investment if the S M R s i s n o t t h e p r o b l e m . to go straight to the NRC for that
projects that may hold potential taxpayer money to offset the costs u n d e r l y i n g e c o n o m i c s a r e Establishing them is merely a service.
but are too risky for the private of doing business for a handful of c r e d i b l e . A n d g i v e n t h e symptom of the problem: the Such an approach would
sector. And the President’s companies that have already significant private investments absence of a predictable, fair, and substantially decrease the risk
nuclear energy budget does benefited from significant public already made absent specific efficient regulatory framework to associated with getting designs
provide basic R&D in other investment. federal SMR R&D programs, one allow the introduction of SMRs certified, which in turn would
accounts such as the Nuclear Yet many of these companies can conclude that investors are into the marketplace. alleviate the need for public
Energy Enabling Technologies insist that without such public confident in the economic E s t a b l i s h i n g a R e g u l a t o r y support. Then, instead of seeking
(NEET) program, which is slated s u p p o r t , t h e y c a n n o t m o v e potential of SMRs. Framework taxpayer funds to offset regulatory
to get $97.364 million. NEET is forward. Such conclusions are • Regulatory risk outweighs the The Obama budget essentially risk, reactor designers could
c h a r g e d w i t h i n v e s t i g a t i n g based on one or a combination of potential financial benefit of acknowledged the regulatory develop investors to support the
crosscutting technologies with three things: greater investment. New nuclear problem in his budget, which certification process.
applicability to multiple reactor • The underlying technology is designs cannot be introduced into requests $67 million for DOE to Build the Framework and They
designs, including small, modular economically dubious. This may t h e m a r k e t p l a c e w i t h o u t a work on licensing technical Will Come
reactors. well be the case, but is yet r e g u l a t o r y f r a m e w o r k . T h e support for small light water Nuclear energy is already clean,
Indeed, the emergence of SMRs unknown. The only way to absence of such a framework reactors. While the intent is safe, and affordable. Introducing
can in part be attributed to basic determine the economic viability m a k e s S M R i n v e s t m e n t correct, the approach is wrong. small reactors could make it
government R&D. Often ignored, of SMRs is to introduce them into prohibitively risky without some The Administration is relying on transformational. But the federal
however, is that this research was the marketplace. Doing so should way to offset that risk, which the the same bureaucratic, taxpayer-
not focused on commercial energy not, however, be a public policy federal R&D program would funded process that is stifling PRESIDENT’S page 84
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Budget Bust
Submitted at 2/15/2011 3:00:56 AM
those assumptions may be rosy; does so too often through raising not payers of taxes, but collectors the sort of catastrophe America
either way, his budget goes a long taxes and fees. Some of these are of them. When Uncle Sam had in mind when the reserve was
P r e s . B a r a c k O b a m a h a s way toward undermining even relatively benign, such as reaches deeper into Big created.
proposed the largest federal these tepid growth projections. increasing the royalties charged to Business’s pocket, his hand #ad#While the president is bailing
budget in the history of the United Such wishful thinking is, oil drillers working on federal passes straight through and into out mortgage deadbeats and
States of America, at $3.73 unfortunately, the theme of this land, which currently are set at the pockets of consumers, who playing sandbox energy tycoon,
trillion. It includes a string of budget. For example, Obama’s very generous rates. Likewise, will pay higher prices at the filling his budget shortchanges one of
monster deficits, including a proposal predicts that the costs of charging similar royalties to station, in their utility bills, and at the few areas of spending that
projected 2012 deficit amounting bailing out Fannie Mae and mining companies working on the grocery store. represent an inarguable federal
to 10.9 percent of GDP -- a Freddie Mac -- the government- federal lands, as Obama proposes #page# responsibility: national defense.
borrowing binge exceeded by the s p o n s o r e d e n t e r p r i s e s t h a t to do, would help to ensure that In exchange for what? Obama Hacking away at the military
United States only during the contributed mightily to the Americans receive a reasonable proposes to spend even more on while U.S. troops are at war in
height of World War II. With h o u s i n g b u b b l e a n d t h e return for the use of our property his failed foreclosure-prevention Afghanistan and Iraq -- and while
President Obama’s spending subsequent 2008 fiscal crisis -- by commercial interests. But program, one of the bailout the Middle East is undergoing
vision pushing the $4 trillion will be cut in half. How precisely Obama’s other tax proposals initiatives that continue to lose historic turmoil and China grows
mark, it is worth remembering that will be accomplished is a would impose very high costs and money. (Distasteful as the bank ambitious -- is problematic on its
that it was only a few short years mystery, especially given the cause extensive damage to the bailouts were, those funds have own. Doing so to free up money
ago when Pres. George W. Bush unlimited line of credit that the economy in return for relatively largely been repaid, often at a for spending on projects that are
shocked the nation by proposing two enterprises enjoy courtesy of little revenue. Those proposals modest profit; the secondary far beyond federal responsibility
the first $2 trillion budget. Time the U.S. Treasury and the Obama include raising many Americans’ measures demanded by Obama and far outside of federal
flies when you’re on your way administration’s steadfast refusal income taxes (after the 2012 and other Democrats -- money for expertise is asinine.
toward doubling federal spending. to downsize or dismantle these election, of course!), raising taxes mortgage defaulters, the GM Republicans, who already have
#ad#Obama’s budget is bad -- beasts. With the U.S. housing on energy companies (including fiasco, etc. -- are where the losses offered credible proposals to
very bad, inasmuch as its vision market continuing to decline, it is the ones that already will be have occurred.) Obama proposes reduce this year’s spending, are
of fiscal responsibility includes extraordinarily unlikely that the paying higher oil-and-gas to pay for his “investments” in well-positioned to propose a
deficits in excess of $1 trillion for Obama administration and its royalties), imposing fees on some renewable/green/unicorn energy significantly better budget, and
the next decade, an arrangement allies in the Democrat-controlled investment products, and more. by smacking around real energy they should fight for one. It
that Uncle Sam’s creditors will Senate will take the necessary President Obama will no doubt providers with higher taxes and should not be forgotten that
have something to say about, none steps to rein in Fannie and couch these tax increases as a levy more invasive regulation. He even Democrats didn’t even bother to
of it likely to be pleasant. It is Freddie, and allow the U.S. on big corporations to finance proposes to start pawning some of pass a budget last time around,
wishful thinking to assert that our housing market to find its bottom. investments that benefit the little the family jewels, selling off oil leaving the nation's finances under
nation can continue to pile more It is at least as likely that guy, to help us "Win The Future," from the strategic reserve to help an ad hoc "continuing resolution."
than a trillion dollars a year onto continued pressure on home as the president insists on putting fatten Energy Department Obama’s proposal suggests that
its debt without driving up interest prices will end up increasing the it. That class-warfare rhetoric on bureaucrats. The strategic the nation may be better off if
rates, depressing the dollar, and expense of keeping Fannie and taxes persists because President petroleum reserve is there to Democrats continue to take a
s m o t h e r i n g t h e p r o d u c t i v e Freddie from crumbling. Obama and his more ardent stockpile oil in case of a true pass. The Editors
e c o n o m y . O b a m a ’ s b u d g e t To the extent that Obama’s supporters do not have sufficient national emergency -- war or
projects anemic economic growth budget makes even a half-hearted wit to appreciate that the natural disaster -- and bad as
for the next two years, and even attempt at deficit reduction, it corporations they abominate are Obama’s budget is, it isn’t exactly
Newstablet Edition
Is Science Saturated with Sexism?
Submitted at 2/15/2011 3:00:00 AM
New evidence suggests the
opposite.
T he voice of reason is easy to
shout down but hard to vanquish
altogether. This week it turned up
in an unlikely place: an academic
paper about gender bias in the
sciences. The Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences
published a coolly objective paper
on the hot, politicized subject of
bias against women in academic
science.
In “ Understanding Current
Causes of Women’s
Underrepresentation in Science,”
Cornell professors Stephen Ceci
and Wendy Williams provide a
thorough analysis and discussion
of 20 years of data. Their
conclusion: When it comes to job
interviews, hiring, funding, and
publishing, women are treated as
well as men and sometimes better.
As Williams told Nature, “There
are constant and unsupportable
allegations that women suffer
discrimination in these arenas,
and we show conclusively that
women do not.” Put another way,
the gender-bias empress has no
clothes.
#ad#For more than a decade,
passionate activists in groups such
as the American Association of
University Women, the National
Council for Research on Women,
and the Committee on
Maximizing the Potential of
Women in Academic Science
have insisted that women
scientists are victims of pervasive
sex discrimination, and they have
produced a mountain of advocacy
research to prove it.
But many scholars have
questioned the cogency of their
studies, most recently in a 2009
article entitled “ Gender
Difference at Critical Transitions
in the Careers of Science,
Engineering and Mathematics
Faculty,” sponsored by the
National Science Foundation, and
in a 2009 collection that I edited,
The Science on Women in
Science. But the NSF authors and
other critics proved no match for
the women’s groups, who ignored
the evidence and aggressively
promoted their own agenda
through government lobbying and
a mystifying number of
conferences, retreats, and
summits.
Ceci and Williams’s new article
will be impossible to ignore. The
featured article in one of science’s
premier journals, it is a systematic
demolition of most of the studies
that sustain the science wing of
the gender-bias movement.
Celebrated bias research --
including a much-vaunted 1997
Swedish study alleging massive
discrimination in peer review -- is
shown to be seriously flawed,
marginal, and “superseded by
larger, more sophisticated
analyses showing no bias, or
occasionally, bias in favor of
women.”
What is more, Ceci and Williams
demonstrate that the real problem
most women scientists confront is
the challenge of combining
motherhood with a high-powered
science career. This issue, they
say, will never be solved by the
“misplaced focus on
discrimination.”
But a misplaced focus on
discrimination is now the law of
the land. At the behest of the
women’s groups, Congress held
several hearings throughout the
last decade on the “crisis” of
sexism in the sciences. Scholars
like Ceci and Williams played no
role -- only true believers were
brought in as expert witnesses.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.), an
early convert to the view that
American science is saturated
with sexism, was successful in
bringing the Title IX equity
program into the science lab.
“The most common
misconception about Title IX is
that it applies only to sports,” said
Wyden in 2005. “That’s just not
true.#...#Title IX should be a
guiding principle in hiring, tenure,
scholarships, and lab space for all
scholars.” By the late 2000s,
Wyden’s vision had prevailed:
Wide-ranging Title IX
investigations were underway.
Members of Congress, from both
parties, also gave strong support
to a hard-hitting NSF equity
program called ADVANCE.
ADVANCE has awarded millions
of dollars to activist scholars in
universities for anti-bias centers,
workshops, tutorials, and
interactive theater groups. To cite
just one example, gender activists
at the University of California’s
Hastings College of Law were
awarded a $300,000 grant to
develop Gender Bias Bingo, an
online game that raises players’
consciousness about the “four
patterns of gender bias.” But if
Ceci and Williams are right, the
premise behind all of this
taxpayer-funded agitation -- from
games and skits to Title IX
investigations -- is false.
Congress should hold hearings on
the merits of continuing to spend
hundreds of millions on Title IX
science reviews and the
ADVANCE grants. This time
skeptics like Ceci and Williams
must be included. It is hard to see
how the gender-bias empire will
stand once reason and truth are
given a place at the table.
--- Christina Hoff Sommers is a
resident scholar at the American
Enterprise Institute. Christina
Hoff Sommers
Politics-Right/ 83
KING’S
continued from page 80
gotten any opposition from them
at all. I’ll be managing the
hearing, so the responsibility is
mine, to make sure there is no
kind of religious bias or hostility
toward Muslims. We are not
going to be getting into
interpretations of the Koran.
Decorum will be important. I do
not want anything said at my
hearing that could justify someone
throwing a brick at a mosque.”
King, a high-spirited and
argumentative attorney, admits
that he, too, will have to simmer
down. “I can’t allow myself to say
anything that would be
misinterpreted,” he says. “I can’t
be feeling sorry for myself if I
give the mainstream media a
sword to use against me; I can’t
say something dopey, inane, or
not based in fact, or lose my
temper. We are going to keep this
sensible. As long as this is done in
a professional way, I know that I
will have John Boehner’s
support.”
“I’m not Dr. Phil,” King sighs.
“In one or two hearings, I will not
able to unravel all of the problems
in the Islamic community. But I
may be able to bring some good
leaders from within that
community forward.” And that, he
tells me, would be an
achievement.
--- Robert Costa is a political
reporter for National Review.
Robert Costa
84 Politics-Right/ Newstablet Edition
PRESIDENT’S
Mitch Daniels Is No Panderer continued from page 81

government should not drive the

Submitted at 2/14/2011 11:00:49 PM
need to find the second-best way.” it was at work, saying he couldn’t as he once put it, is preposterous. process. It should be supported by
He called for reaching beyond the pre-empt it; now that it has issued A basic conflict of visions about the market. If the underlying
At CPAC, the Indiana guv didn’t conservative base to voters “who a specific report, he simply the meaning of virtue and justice technology is as strong as many of
deliver a typical presidential- surf past C-SPAN to get to ignores it. can’t be suppressed, no matter us believe it to be, the federal
campaign speech. SportsCenter.” He said the Right Out of this miasma of evasion, how devoutly budget wonks government needs only to provide
I ndiana governor Mitch Daniels “should distinguish carefully Mitch Daniels strides might wish it. a predictable, stable, efficient, and
did not get the memo about skepticism about Big Government purposefully, walking all over the Daniels spoke compellingly at fair regulatory environment. The
CPAC, the annual gathering of f r o m c o n t e m p t f o r a l l third rail in his deliberate, CPAC about the need for rest will happen on its own—or it
conservatives in Washington. The government.” He plugged civility. plainspoken Hoosier style. At economic growth and about the won’t.
etiquette is that presidential This was not a typical CPAC CPAC, he said it’s time to bid “an struggles of the middle class, but This entry passed through the
wannabes should hew to a narrow speech, in fact not a typical affectionate thank-you to the made them subordinate to the Full-Text RSS service — if this is
band of harsh and harsher speech for any politician major social-welfare programs of overriding question of the debt. your content and you're reading it
denunciations of liberalism, or anywhere. Daniels struck these the last century.” If the This has it backward. Growth and on someone else's site, please read
anything suspected of having a admonitory notes not to lecture Democratic National Committee middle-class vitality should be the our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
liberal taint. friends, but to prepare them to doesn’t have this sound-bite foremost goals of our economic content-only/faq.php
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e a r n e s t a n d b r i g h t f o r m e r and coalition-building necessary ad should he run for president, a means to help achieve them. For Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In
governor of Minnesota, Tim to fight “the Red Menace,” his someone should be fired. all their worship of Ronald The Crosshairs.
Pawlenty, resolutely denounced phrase for “the debts our nation Daniels advocates “new Social Reagan, Republicans sound at
brie-eating, although he had not has amassed for itself over Security and Medicare compacts.” times as if they are reverting all
hitherto been known for his decades of indulgence.” Over time, he wants to change the the way back to Eisenhower-era
hostility to the French-derived Everyone knows and everyone programs so that they focus on the deficit phobia.
soft cheese. says popular entitlement programs neediest, grow with inflation but To all of this, Daniels the anti-
That’s what pandering does. imperil the country’s fiscal health. not faster, and feature more panderer would surely say, “Here
Daniels, in contrast, seems Then, the conversation usually flexibility and choice. In pursuit I stand, I can do no other.” At
temperamentally incapable of ends. of his overall vision of fiscal CPAC, he again proved himself
unseriousness; he is the anti- Freshman congressman Bobby rectitude, Daniels is willing to put centered, clear-eyed, and honest.
panderer. He gave a speech at Schilling, (R., Ill.) appeared on defense on the chopping block He’s the kind of guy who makes
CPAC that was characteristically M e e t t h e P r e s s d u r i n g t h e and relegate cultural issues to the you think, “He should run for
thoughtful, standing out in his weekend to say that “everything is far back burner. Conservative president — and probably won’t.”
willingness to tell hard truths on the table,” before mumbling sacred cows, too, must go to the --- Rich Lowry is editor of
about the nation’s fiscal condition and looking at his shoes when slaughterhouse. National Review. He can be
and to challenge his audience. asked for details. Pres. Barack As a former Office of reached via e-mail,
#ad#Daniels spoke in favor of Obama took the bold step a year Management and Budget director, comments.lowry@nationalreview.
principled compromise — ago of appointing a fiscal Daniels lets his green eyeshade com. © 2011 by King Features
“should the best way be blocked,” commission to study the issue. He occasionally obscure his vision. Syndicate. Rich Lowry
he argued, “then someone will hid behind the commission while The idea of a culture-war “truce,”
Newstablet Edition Politics-Right/ 85

Tunisia: Predictably Disastrous Handling by Brussels

Sally McNamara (The Foundry: of the crisis. The player exposed as a paper tiger—as it
Conservative Policy News.) simulating the role of the U.K. was in the Balkans in the 1990s.
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:00:35 AM stated that this mission was an The messages from this
opportunity for the EU to simulation are clear:
Posted February 15th, 2011 at demonstrate its much-vaunted • There are simply not enough
12:00pm in American Leadership ability to project soft power, and forces to go around for the
Print This Post the U.S. was happy to see number of crises that Europe and
Harvard University’s Niall Europeans taking the lead for the NATO need to cope with;
Ferguson recently criticized the crisis. • Neither the U.S. nor Europe has
Obama Administration for lacking Although the EU foreign minister the luxury of assuming that crises
foresight and planning over the worked tirelessly to rally firm will come “one at a time” or on a
events in Egypt. The point of his peacekeeping and financial timetable that is convenient for
criticisms of t h e contributions from member states Washington or Brussels;
A d m i n i s t r a t i o n — a n d , b y for a large-scale European • The EU is not a credible actor
e x t e n s i o n , t h e E u r o p e a n response, she was ultimately for large-scale humanitarian or
Union—was illustrated over a unsuccessful. Italy, Malta, and security missions and is unwilling
year ago in a Heritage Foundation other affected nations were left to appropriate the military
“war game.” largely alone to struggle with equipment necessary for these
In late 2009, Heritage invited massive refugee influxes. The EU missions.
security experts and Washington- foreign minister did little more
based policymakers to “game” a than make a number of political time” method of working. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni For the U.S., the Obama
fictional scenario of its own statements and call international In reality, few European nations has stated that Italy had been “left Administration should take note.
whereby Tunisia was hit with a conferences. Neither the EU nor had the forces or political will alone” to deal with the problem. The EU is no substitute for the
major earthquake. Significant the Tunisian government could necessary to deal effectively with The EU’s response has seen transatlantic alliance, and
political and civil unrest followed, gain control of the situation, and either crisis, and America failed to Foreign Minister Cathy Ashton American leadership is still
accompanied by large numbers of security in the affected region play its traditional leadership role, pledge aid and trade deals needed around the world.
refugees flowing from Tunisia to quickly declined. having been assured that the EU (sometime in the next five years) This entry passed through the
Italy and Malta. Reports also emerged that was to be taken seriously and invite various members of the Full-Text RSS service — if this is
The exercise was intended to test Islamists were using the situation following the introduction of the interim Tunisian government to your content and you're reading it
how well NATO and the EU t o m i g r a t e i n t o E u r o p e Lisbon Treaty. Brussels. However, her actions on someone else's site, please read
would respond to such crises, and u n d e t e c t e d . I t a l y p r o v e d The Heritage simulation have done little to address the our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
it proved eerily predictive of exasperated that its demands for demonstrated that EU assertions worsening security situation for content-only/faq.php
current events in North Africa. In more EU action went ignored. of leadership lacked Europe or Tunisia. In Heritage’s Five Filters featured article:
Heritage’s simulation, when When Heritage announced that a substance—which is exactly what scenario, negotiating an EU Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In
Tunisia was hit by the fictional second security crisis had erupted has happened in real life. An response enabled many countries The Crosshairs.
earthquake, the EU foreign in the Balkans (as has happened in estimated 5,000 asylum seekers to shirk their responsibilities, and
minister made a number of Egypt in real life), the players fell have reportedly arrived on the the EU’s Common Foreign and
statements proclaiming leadership victim to their “one crisis at a Italian island of Lampedusa, and Security Policy was again
86 Politics-Right/ Newstablet Edition

The Case for Firing James Clapper

Ryan Mauro (FrontPage Muslim Brotherhood is based in certainty, a mujahid [heroic
Magazine » FrontPage) Egypt and while its branches can fighter], and I have no doubt in
Submitted at 2/14/2011 10:41:50 PM act relatively independently based his sincerity in resisting the
on their local conditions, they are occupation, close to Allah on
T h e D i r e c t o r o f N a t i o n a l united by their Islamist ideology high.” He clarified that he
Intelligence, James Clapper, is and a plan to incrementally bring disagreed with Al-Qaeda’s attacks
being widely criticized for his the world under Sharia-based on civilians but endorsed their
inaccurate comments about the governance. The Brotherhood has jihad against “occupation,” even
Muslim Brotherhood but there’s a a S u p r e m e G u i d e n a m e d saying the Brotherhood would
larger point being missed. He was Muhammad Badi who gives send jihadists to fight in Iraq “if
trying to portray the Brotherhood g e n e r a l d i r e c t i o n f o r t h e we are permitted.”
as a moderate group and worldwide movement. Clapper testified that the
downplay its sinister motives. The Brotherhood may be “very Brotherhood consists of “chapters
This severely flawed view, when heterogeneous” in that Islamists of franchise…but there is no
combined with how he was can come from any social or overarching agenda, particularly
embarrassingly unaware of major economic background but that in pursuit of violence, at least
terrorist arrests in London, makes should not be mistaken for largest Islamic movement in by contrasting the two. This is as
internationally.” He is making the
a strong case for his departure. modern times,” it says. valid as trying to assuage the
ideological diversity as Clapper case that the actions of one
On Thursday, February 10, seems to believe. His statement E v e n i f H a m a s s o m e h o w concerns of a community over the
Brotherhood affiliate cannot
Clapper was testifying before the that it has “eschewed violence” is separated from the Brotherhood, presence of an axe murderer by
reflect upon another. A secret
House Intelligence Committee patently false, as its focus on non- the two remain ideological allies. saying he’s condemned a serial
Brotherhood document stated that
when he began sounding like a violent methods is a matter of The Muslim Brotherhood has killer. The Brotherhood supports
its “work in America is a kind of
Brotherhood apologist. He said practicality, not conviction. The never condemned Hamas and the killing of innocent Israelis and
grand Jihad in eliminating and
t h a t “ T h e t e r m ‘ M u s l i m group has endorsed armed jihad consistently and loudly supports its most influential theologian,
destroying the Western
Brotherhood’ is an umbrella term against Western forces in Muslim it. The Brotherhood recently said Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi, has
civilization from within and
for a variety of movements, in the countries and the Brotherhood it would use its influence in the praised those waging jihad against
‘sabotaging’ its miserable
c a s e o f E g y p t , a v e r y cannot be distinguished from next Egyptian government to U.S. forces in Iraq and said
house…” FBI Director Robert
heterogeneous group, largely Hamas, which is one of its revoke the peace treaty with Israel Muslims should ally with the
Mueller said on the same day that
secular, which has eschewed branches. and told Egyptians to “prepare for Taliban against the American
the Muslim Brotherhood has
violence and has described Al- Article 2 of Hamas’ constitution war with Israel.” Those are not military in Afghanistan.
supported terrorism inside the
Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.” makes this clear. “The Islamic the commands of a non-violent Al-Qaradawi has expressed his
U.S. and outside the U.S. In order
Clapper made it sound as if the Resistance Movement is one the organization. doubts about Bin Laden being
to agree with Clapper, you must
Brotherhood lacks a central wings of the Moslem Brotherhood Clapper’s mentioning of the involved in the 9/11 attacks and in
believe that the Brotherhood of
leadership and is just a brand in Palestine. Moslem Brotherhood M u s l i m B r o t h e r h o o d ’ s November 2007, then-Supreme
Egypt is more moderate than the
name that various groups around M o v e m e n t i s a u n i v e r s a l denunciation of Al-Qaeda is an Guide Muhammed Mahdi Akef
Brotherhood of the U.S.
the world use. In reality, the organization which constitutes the attempt to make it seem moderate said that Bin Laden is “in all
Newstablet Edition Politics-Right/ 87

Now Is the Best Time to Defund Obamacare

Ernest Istook (The Foundry: that disallow amendments that try report details billions more in
Conservative Policy News.) to go back and reclaim money current and future funding equally
Submitted at 2/15/2011 10:30:14 AM spent by last year’s Congress. available for cutting.
Yet that’s what the bill does to That’s a dirty little secret about
Posted February 15th, 2011 at other programs! A different the new law. As further detailed
11:30am in Entitlements, Health standard is being applied to in a Heritage Foundation report,
Care Print This Post permit the 123 other reachbacks rather than respecting the right of
Now—when the House considers t h a t w e r e a p p r o v e d b y t h e future Congresses to decide on
the bill to fund government for the Appropriations Committee—but funding, Obamacare’s sponsors
rest of the year and seeks to not for defunding Obamacare. included several years worth of
r e d u c e s p e n d i n g b y $ 1 0 0 So now will conservative House current and future appropriations
billion—is the best of all times to Members—especially the GOP for the health care
defund Obamacare. But although f r e s h m e n — o n c e a g a i n p l a y makeover—money that mostly
it’s a golden opportunity, so far hardball with party leaders and has not yet been spent.
defunding Obamacare is not on oppose any measure that does not Despite the recent court ruling
the agenda. permit defunding Obamacare? that the new health law is
Republican freshmen have the That would be a repeat from last unconstitutional, the White House
chance to fix that if they stand week, when they forced the insists it will go charge forward to
firm again as they did last week. Appropriations Committee to implement the law and spend that
House Republicans say they are propose more spending cuts than dough.
crafting a bill to save taxpayers originally approved. Defunding Obamacare is a two-
$100 billion. Their revised Certainly Obamacare is also a fer. It responds to the public
proposal would rescind funding much better target for rescissions mandate for repeal, plus it moves
for 123 different federal programs than the defense budget, which the House GOP closer to fulfilling
and would lower future funding finds itself on the chopping block its pledge to cut spending by $100
for many others. Yet it leaves even in the midst of a hot war. billion this year.
Obamacare unscathed. Except for Even now, many conservatives The House will never have a
transferring $750 million to a say the bill falls $16 billion short better chance to stop it than to
different public health program, of the GOP commitment to make Some don’t realize that last October 14. defund Obamacare this
the tens of billions appropriated $100 billion in spending cuts this year’s Congress did fund This includes major money that w e e k — b e f o r e i t ’ s t o o l a t e .
last year for Obamacare would year. The House Republican Obamacare even though it failed could be pulled back immediately. This entry passed through the
remain available for the White S t u d y C o m m i t t e e , l e d b y to pass appropriations bills for Congress could rescind the $5 Full-Text RSS service — if this is
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Only if House leaders expressly ( R – O H ) , p l a n s t o o f f e r a n to Obamacare are outlined in 1101(g) to create high-risk pools, on someone else's site, please read
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offered successfully on the House billion. These extra savings could Report R41301,“Appropriations Section 1102(e) for a re-insurance content-only/faq.php
floor. Otherwise, Members like come from Obamacare—but only and Fund Transfers in the Patient program, and the $6 billion in Five Filters featured article:
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88 Politics-Right/ Social Media/ Newstablet Edition

From Tahrir to Tehran Bonnaroo 2011 Lineup

Stephen Brown (FrontPage But it is in Iran where events
Magazine » FrontPage) have taken a sweet, ironic turn. Announced By Vevo &
While numbers are unclear, The
Submitted at 2/14/2011 10:45:33 PM
New York Times reported an
Conan O’Brien
While Egyptian leader Hosni estimated 20,000 to 30,000 [VIDEO]
Mubarak’s resignation last Friday demonstrators took to the streets Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!)
caused tremors in Western on Monday in solidarity with the
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:54:37 AM
capitals due to the potential for a events in Egypt and to protest
Muslim Brotherhood power-grab, against the Iranian state’s well- The Bonnaroo 2011 lineup is
the Egyptian president’s stepping known domestic repression. And officially on the table, courtesy of
down is paying an unexpected like in Yemen and Bahrain, Iran’s an announcement today on Vevo
dividend. The unrest that induced government security forces dealt presented by Coco himself, Conan
radical political change with the protesters in brutal O’Brien.
in Egypt is now spreading to other fashion. The main artist lineup — which
Middle Eastern countries, “The conspirators are nothing but includes mystery band the Arcade
including Iran. corpses,” Hossein Hamadani, a Fire— hit Vevo today in the form
Starting last Friday, the day of commander in the Revolutionary of a video featuring social media
Mubarak’s resignation, hundreds Guard was quoted in The Times savant Conan O’Brien. O’Brien
of students in Yemen reignited as saying. “They will be dealt doesn’t utter any band names per
protests against President Ali
r o u n d o f a n t i - g o v e r n m e n t population of one million (about with severely.” se, but he does repeat the word
Abdullah Saleh. Saleh, like
demonstrations to oust Yemen’s half are foreign workers) and It was only last week that Iran’s “Bonnaroo” copiously. The full
Mubarak, has ruled his country
r u l e r , s i n c e t h e y i m p e d e d form the country’s least privileged rulers were praising the street lineup can be found at
for 30 years and his government is
unemployed young men from class. The Shiites believe the demonstrations in Egypt, calling Bonnaroo.com.
also regarded as being just as
uniting. Saleh also bought off the country’s ruling Sunni elite them an Islamic revolution that Last year, the festival took a
venal and corrupt. Inspired by
demonstrators with tax cuts and discriminate against them in was imitating the ayatollahs’ 1979 much more elaborate route for its
Mubarak’s stepping down, the
pay raises, and may attempt “ h o u s i n g , e d u c a t i o n a n d revolution. They obviously never lineup announcement, partnering
students are demanding their
something similar with the governance” and have for years considered that the radical with MySpace( R.I.P. perhaps
president’s resignation, and have
students. b e e n d e m a n d i n g e x t e n s i v e changes they were witnessing soon) and participating bands to
clashed with pro-Saleh supporters
Bahrain, a small Arab island state structural changes in government, in Egypt could ever make an reveal the acts throughout the day.
and police, shouting: “Our
off the coast of Saudi Arabia, is which is run by a royal family appearance within their own Personally, I’m glad that this
demands are clear. Go out,
a l s o e x p e r i e n c i n g p o l i t i c a l under King Hamad bin Isa al- borders. Unacquainted with year’s method is a bit simpler —
Saleh.” freedom, the Iranian theocracy is and decidedly bereft of cuckoo
d i s t u r b a n c e s . O n S u n d a y , Khalifa.
Monday’s disturbances mark the
demonstrators fought with police “We want real reforms, a real oblivious to the fact that freedom clocks.
second round of demonstrations
who responded with tear gas and parliament elected by the people has no boundaries. And after More About: bonnaroo-2011,
against the Yemeni regime.
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2012 Budget: “Debt on Arrival”

Rich Trzupek (FrontPage about whether or not the GOP’s
Magazine » FrontPage) proposed budget would include
Submitted at 2/14/2011 10:43:11 PM entitlement reforms this way:
Your question about the budget
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions itself and the entitlement
described President Obama’s inclusion, yes, we will include
proposed 2012 budget as “debt on entitlement reform provisions in HTC's Facebook-
arrival,” a pithy assessment of a our budget, again, unlike the
plan that seems to have virtually President, and unlike Harry Reid worshipping phones
no chance of being passed. The who doesn’t even admit there headed to AT&T later
$3.73 trillion spending plan needs to be any reform of Social
exceeds the Republican’s budget Security.
this year
target of $2.9 trillion by more We are going to lead. That is why Laura June (Engadget)
than $800 billion. Recall that, I said the President missed an Submitted at 2/15/2011 12:51:00 PM
even with majorities in both opportunity to lead today, to try
houses of Congress last year, the and address the biggest fiscal HTC just unveiled its MWC
president had a tough time getting challenge we have. And so we are lineup a few hours ago, including
his 2011 spending bill passed. going to lead and include that in the ChaCha and the Salsa, which
With the GOP in control of the our budget. both possess dedicated Facebook
House and with national anxiety Some observers think that there is buttons (all the cool kids have
over unsustainable national debt a reason that the president’s Facebooky phones these days).
rising, it’s hard to see how this taxes. The wealthy, businesses, step on those two third rails of proposed budget seems to be so AT&T, however, just issued a
plan is going to go anywhere. statement to let the world know
the oil and gas industry, financial American politics. The president’s out of step with the mood of the
The Washington Post’s Ed institutions and hedge funds proposed budget makes it clear nation: it’s not so much an actual that it'll have a Facebook-
O’Keefe broke down some of the would all be subject to higher t h a t h e w a n t s a n d e x p e c t s proposal as it is a negotiating dedicated HTC handset by later
details. Though the plan is taxes if this budget were to be Republicans to take the first step ploy. As Chris Stirewalt observed this year. Now, there's no word on
supposed to ultimately cut the passed. which phones are AT&T-bound
in that direction, a political at Fox:
deficit by $1.1 trillion over the Perhaps most importantly, the consideration that may prove By entering his opening bid on just yet, but a spokesperson told
next ten years, that figure falls far president’s proposal does nothing important when it’s time to play spending so high, Obama is All Things D's Ina Fried that the
short of the $4 trillion in deficit to address the two-headed 800 the blame game after cuts are hoping to produce a final result carrier will have at least twelve
reduction that the president’s own pound gorilla lurking in the room: made. that preserves some of his agenda. Android phones on offer this year.
d e b t c o m m i s s i o n s a i d w a s Medicare and Social Security, the Will the GOP actually have the Yes, the administration knows HTC's Facebook-worshipping
n e c e s s a r y t o a v o i d f i s c a l massive entitlement programs that c o u r a g e t o m a k e a s t a b a t that money for high-speed trains phones headed to AT&T later this
catastrophe over the course of the account for the bulk of federal entitlement reform in a counter- and solar panels will likely get year originally appeared on
decade. Additionally, most of the s p e n d i n g . M o s t e v e r y o n e proposal? House Majority Leader s h a v e d o f f , b u t a s i n a n y Engadget on Tue, 15 Feb 2011
$1.1 trillion in deficit reduction acknowledges that the federal Eric Cantor says they will. In an negotiation, the administration has 12:51:00 EDT. Please see our
comes on the back of $1.6 trillion budget cannot be brought under interview posted at his website, come to the table with some terms for use of feeds. Permalink|
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Apple’s New Subscription Model & What it Means for

Publishers
Christina Warren (Mashable!) revenue cut for in-app of subscription. This is optional, continue to gain steam and other
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:31:06 AM subscriptions and sign-ups, the and all personal information will platforms like webOS and
company points out that be governed by a publisher’s Windows Phone 7 attack the
As promised with the release of publishers can also cultivate and privacy policy, not Apple’s. market with more vigor. A Win
The Daily, Apple has formally acquire digital subscribers outside Beyond Magazines and for Consumers
launched a new subscription of the app itself. Newspapers Fundamentally, the ability to
feature for content publishers. From the Apple: Magazines and newspapers are subscribe to content using iTunes
This means that magazine and For example, publishers can sell clearly the focus of the new is good for consumers because it
newspaper publishers will be able digital subscriptions on their web subscription feature, but Apple creates a more cohesive
to offer in-app subscriptions to sites, or can choose to provide stresses that the subscription experience. It also means that
customers. Price and subscription free access to existing subscribers. service is available for “all publishers will be more likely to
length can be set by the publisher Since Apple is not involved in publishers of content-based apps investigate offering various
and consumers will be charged these transactions, there is no on the App Store” and this subscription options for multiple
Reader app for iOS was
using their iTunes account. revenue sharing or exchange of includes music and video. device types — whether those
reportedly not accepted into the
Renewals and cancellations will customer information with Apple. This raises interesting questions subscriptions are gained using
App Store because it violated
take place through iTunes. In There is a caveat, with this new about what impact this policy will iTunes or through a third-party
some of Apple’s policies. At the
exchange for handling payment policy, however: have on apps from music website.
time, it was unclear if the cited
processing and the logistical …Apple does require that if a subscription services like Spotify, For publishers, losing out on 30%
policy violations would extend to
backend of the system, Apple will publisher chooses to sell a digital Rdio, MOG and Rhapsody, as of subscriber revenue may be a
other e-book applications like
get the same 30% revenue cut it subscription separately outside of well as video subscriptions from tough pill to swallow, but Apple
those from Amazon and Barnes &
gets from other in-app and App the app, that same subscription Netflix and Hulu Plus. has at least conceded on some
Noble.
Store purchases. offer must be made available, at If we had to guess, we would say terms that will make it possible to
Because Apple’s latest remarks
Magazine publishers have been t h e s a m e p r i c e o r l e s s , t o that those applications will now acquire customers through non-in-
concentrate on subscription
clamoring for a subscription customers who wish to subscribe be able to offer users a way to app means.
content, it still isn’t clear to us if
model from Apple since the iPad from within the app. In addition, subscribe to the services using More About: app store, apple,
these new provisions also apply to
was first announced, back in publishers may no longer provide iTunes (and Apple will get its digital magazine subscriptions,
other types of apps. We don’t
January of 2010. links in their apps (to a web site, 30% revenue cut) or to sign in ipad, ipad magazines, magazines,
know if this means that
As we noted in September, for example) which allow the with an existing account. publishing
applications — like Amazon’s
m a g a z i n e a n d n e w s p a p e r customer to purchase content or Apple’s gamble, it appears, will For more Media coverage:
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website is still in the app.
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As for subscriber data, Apple will
two of the biggest points of gives users an opportunity to given the well-established base of
allow customers to provide
contention: revenue share and subscribe within the application iOS subscribers. However, this is
publishers with name, e-mail and
subscriber data. itself. a value proposition that may
zip code information at the time
Although Apple will take its 30% Earlier this month, the Sony decline as Android devices
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HANDS ON: Sony Ericsson’s “PlayStation
Phone”
Chris Taylor (Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:36:21 AM
The Sony Ericsson booth at
Mobile World Congress is much
like any other at the week-long
event in Barcelona: neon lighting,
shag carpeting and racks of
phones on large plastic stands.
But most of the phones are
looking distinctly unloved. Just
one of their brethren is getting all
the attention — the Xperia Play,
informally (and more
appropriately) known as the
PlayStation Phone.
The Xperia Play is an Android
phone where the slide-out
keyboard has been replaced by
slide-out PlayStation controls for
easy gaming. Yesterday, Sony
announced the Xperia Play would
be available sometime this spring
worldwide; in the U.S. it will be
carried on Verizon. Some 50
games, many of them classics
from the PlayStation One, will be
ready at launch, according to
Sony Ericcson. You’ll be able to
buy them through a virtual
PlayStation store, accessed via the
Android Marketplace.
I had the opportunity to take the
Xperia Play for a test run, and I
was pleasantly surprised by how
enjoyable I found it. I’ve owned
several PlayStations in my
lifetime, but I’ve never been much
of a fan of the platform. I had zero
interest in the PSP, the pricey
portable gaming platform that has
been losing out to the more
innovative (and cheaper)
Nintendo DS. Neither seemed like
devices I had room to carry
around. I’m not alone: In
December, a report by research
firm Interpret showed a
significant rise in smartphone
gaming and a decline in PSP/DS
use.
But the Xperia Play isn’t merely
a PSP with phone functionality
added on. It has been redesigned
from the ground up. On the
surface, it looks and acts like a
touch-sensitive when in game
mode. This means that games for
the Xperia will have more kinds
of input at their disposal than a
Sony PSP, a Nintendo DS or an
iPhone. For that matter it has
more potential inputs than a
PlayStation3, or any other
console.
Of course, whether all those
inputs are used in games depends
on game developers. Only a few
of the launch games I sampled —
which included FIFA 10, Asphalt
6 and Bruce Lee— were
optimized for the touchpad
joysticks. Then again, it took
iPhone game developers a while
to catch on to all the possibilities
inherent in that device, and now
you’d be hard-pressed to find an
iPhone game that doesn’t use the
accelerometer. The Xperia Play
respectable, regular touchscreen designers deliberately left out an
phone running Android 2.3, or accelerometer, convinced that
G i n g e r b r e a d . I t w o u l d n ’ t gamers don’t want to swoop their
immediately tip your boss off to phone around the room while
your status as a gamer. Wait until playing. Perhaps that was one
the boss goes out of the room, input too many.
however, and you can slide out More About: android, sony, sony
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Dell Rumored To Be
Interested in Buying
AMD [REPORT]
Todd Wasserman (Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 11:04:31 AM
A report in Barron‘s aired a
rumor that chipmaker Advanced
Micro Devices is an acquisition
target for Dell.
The rumor was credited with
boosting AMD’s stock price 5%
yesterday. The report noted that
“there’s not a lot of color on the
rumor at this point.” Nevertheless,
the story has taken on a life of its
own as Bloomberg attempted to
suss out the rumor and got
insights from industry experts on
its plausibility.
“There’s no management team
there,” Wedbush Securities
analyst Patrick Wang told
Bloomberg, adding a takeover is a
“far-fetched possibility.”
This morning, AMD’s stock price
was down slightly.
Nevertheless, as Wang notes,
there is a management vacuum at
AMD now. Robert Rivet, the
company’s chief operating officer,
and strategy head Marty Seyer
announced last week they are
leaving the company. CEO Dirk
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Meyer announced on January 10
that he was also leaving.
Meanwhile, Dell has missed
targeted earnings for six of the
past eight quarters, and analysts
are watching the company’s
ability to shore up its margins
with lower component costs. The
company is expected to report its
fourth-quarter earnings after the
market closes today. Dell has
about $14 billion in cash on hand.
Rob Enderle, principal analyst of
the Enderle Group, says that the
rumor doesn’t make much sense.
“I just have this hard belief that
Dell making a run against Intel is
just something they wouldn’t do,”
says Enderle. Though buying a
chipmaker would give Dell a
price advantage over its rivals, it
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Apple MacBook Air survey gets chatty about 3G
Paul Miller (Engadget)
Submitted at 2/15/2011 12:45:00 PM
Apple isn't much of one for
customer surveys, but this recent
missive to select MacBook Air
owners has all sorts of goodies
inside it. Most notable is the large
amount of questions on 3G data
connectivity, a feature that Apple
has so far avoided adding to any
of its laptops, even though it sells
a tablet computer with the
functionality. Interestingly, Apple
has waited so long on this feature
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that its primary objection -- the dividing line between a MacBook
need to pick a specific carrier over Pro. Perhaps this year's expected
another -- has disappeared thanks Sandy Bridge or (we wish) Fusion
to Qualcomm's Gobi chipset. On refresh of the MacBook Air could
the other hand, most people get have something more in store?
3G data onto their laptops these Check out the source link for the
days through tethering, whether it whole thing.
be with their phone or a dedicated Apple MacBook Air survey gets
MiFi-style device, and Apple's chatty about 3G originally
survey seems to be designed to appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15
pick up on the prevalence of all Feb 2011 12:45:00 EDT. Please
functionality that keeps the Air whole thing, Apple might actually
these tendencies. Other aspects of see our terms for use of feeds.
from being a primary computer, be trying to feel out the dividing
the survey deal with data storage Permalink| AppleInsider| Email
and other miscellany. If you want line between an iPad and a
and syncing ( MobileMe and this| Comments
to get overanalytical with the MacBook Air, instead of the
Dropbox get shout outs), missing