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One possible reason: Republicans recently spend months bashing Submitted at 2/19/2012 10:46:00 AM Obama during the recent Iowa launched Barack Obama's Republican caucuses. Obama, winning presidential campaign in whose win in the 2008 Iowa 2008, and now a new poll reflects Democratic caucuses boosted his how difficult his re-election might candidacy, ran unopposed this be. time around. Three of the four Republican Iowa is also considered a key candidates would beat Obama in s w i n g s t a t e i n t h i s f a l l ' s the Hawkeye State if the election p r e s i d e n t i a l e l e c t i o n . was today, says the new survey by From the Des Moines Register: the Des Moines Register. The president's job approval is 46 Ron Paul does the best against percent in Iowa, just one point Obama, leading the president 49- above his lowest low of 45 42% in the Iowa poll; Rick percent in September 2010. Santorum has a 48-44% lead over No president has been re-elected the president, while Mitt Romney with a national approval rating leads by a margin of 46-44%. under 49 percent, according to Obama does lead Republican Gallup polling dating to 1964. It's Newt Gingrich in Iowa by 51- a watershed mark, and about 8 37%. months from the election, Gallup "This is not a secure state for national polling Saturday had Obama," said J. Ann Selzer, O b a m a a t 4 6 p e r c e n t - pollster for The Des Moines u n d e r w a t e r . Register. The Hawkeye State has been [unable to retrieve full-text content] [unable to retrieve full-text content]
damage, said Paul Begala, a Washington, D.C.-based Democratic strategist and political commentator for CNN. "More than any other early state, the discussion in the Iowa GOP contest centered on attacking the president," Begala said. "The enduring lesson is that unanswered attacks do real damage." Iowa equipped Obama with training wheels by handing him a win in the first-in-the-nation Democratic caucuses in 2008, then handed him a driver's license with a 9.7 percentage-point win in the general election. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is awash in GOP messages, and, your content and you're reading it perhaps as a consequence, it's in a on someone else's site, please read Republican mood. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentMillions of dollars of attack ads only/faq.php#publishers. Five and months of campaign trail Filters recommends: Donate to harping about Obama did their Wikileaks. [unable to retrieve full-text content]
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New details released in shooting of Calif. ICE agent

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LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) A federal agent accused of shooting a supervisor engaged in a serious struggle for his gun with another colleague who subsequently shot and killed him, an official said. By Brittany Murray, AP Streets were closed in downtown Long Beach surrounding the federal building Thursday after a shooting at the federal building. The shooting occurred after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Ezequiel Garcia discussed his job performance with the agency's second-in-command in the Los Angeles region, ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said Saturday. Another agent who attended the discussion and had just left the office rushed back and burst in to disarm Garcia after the shots rang out. "There was a very, very intense struggle," Kice said. "They were physically struggling over the gun." The agent eventually drew his
own gun and shot Garcia, Kice said. ICE is not releasing the agent's name. The supervisor, Kevin Kozak, continued his recovery Saturday from at least six bullet wounds, including to the hand, knee and torso, Kice said. Kozak, 51, is the agency's deputy special agent in charge of investigations in the Los Angeles region. Los Angeles police officers who work in the building on a joint task force for Internet crimes responded to a call for help and aided the bleeding Kozak, Kice said. "The fact that they were literally right there probably was another thing that was instrumental in his survival," she said. Garcia joined the former Immigration and Naturalization Service in 1988 and was named criminal investigator three years later. Shortly after the Department of Homeland Security was created in 2003, he was promoted to supervisor for a documents and benefits fraud task force. He had told his wife of problems at work but, when she called him at the office Thursday, everything
seemed normal, according to the Los Angeles Times. They talked about having Korean barbecue for dinner, but he said he first had to meet with a high-ranking supervisor about his performance. "He never made it home," said Garcia's wife, Balbina. She told the Times the couple were going through a divorce but trying to work things out. Former neighbors in Murrieta, southeast of Los Angeles, said Saturday that Garcia worked long hours and mostly kept to himself. "He was friendly enough to wave and say hi, but he didn't have too much time for conversation," said Tim Shepard, 49, who lived across the street. Neighbors said Garcia moved to the quiet, residential street with his wife and two young boys about eight years ago. About four years ago, he began visiting only on weekends. The family moved about two years ago, though Garcia's wife still regularly returns to visit a friend. "He worked a lot," said Andrea Tjaden, 45, who lived next door. "He would come home late at night and be gone for days."
Garcia was a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department after he and another immigration agent claimed they were roughed up by officers while doing undercover work. A federal jury found in the police officers' favor in 2005, saying they did not use excessive force. The lawsuit alleges that officers handcuffed and threatened to shoot the other agent, and put Garcia in a headlock, handcuffed him and forced him into the back of a police car, despite his cries of agony because of an old shoulder injury. Garcia was hospitalized for cuts, bruises and treatment of his shoulder. "If this could happen to me, then ordinary citizens have even more reason to fear for their own safety," Garcia told the Times when the lawsuit was filed in 2000. "The situation within the LAPD is clearly out of control." Doug Walters, an attorney who represented Garcia, said he was shocked by his death. "During the time I worked with Zeke, his supervisors were very supportive of him and the case," Walters said. "Some of his
supervisors traveled some distances to testify." Kice said she didn't know what job performance issues Garcia was counseled about before the shooting, and couldn't disclose them if she did. A federal official with knowledge of the investigation has told the Associated Press that Kozak denied Garcia's request for an internal transfer. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly. ICE routinely reallocates resources in line with priorities, but does not disclose details for security reasons, Kice has said. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Iran says it has cut oil exports to Britain and France

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website Sunday that "crude oil exports to British and French companies have been halted." TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran has "We have our own customers and halted oil shipments to Britain and have no problem to sell and France, the Oil Ministry said export our crude oil to new Sunday, in an apparent pre- customers," he said. e m p t i v e b l o w a g a i n s t t h e Britain's Foreign Office declined European Union after the bloc comment, and there was no imposed sanctions on Iran's immediate response from French crucial fuel exports. officials. By Kamran Jebreili, AP The semiofficial Mehr news Oil tankers are seen in the a g e n c y s a i d e x p o r t s w e r e distance in the Strait of Hormuz in suspended to the two countries this Jan. 19 photo. Sunday. It also said the National The EU imposed tough sanctions Iranian Oil Company has sent against Iran last month, which l e t t e r s t o s o m e E u r o p e a n included a freeze of the country's refineries with an ultimatum to central bank assets and an oil either sign long-term contracts of embargo set to begin in July. two to five years or be cut off. Iran's Oil Minister Rostam Mehr did not specify which Qassemi had warned earlier this countries were sent the ultimatum, month that Tehran could cut off but Spain, Italy and Greece are oil exports to "hostile" European among Europe's biggest buyers of n a t i o n s . T h e 2 7 - n a t i o n E U Iranian oil. accounts for about 18% of Iran's Iran's targeting of Britain and oil exports. France appeared to be a political The EU sanctions, along with decision to punish the two other punitive measures imposed countries for supporting tougher by the U.S., are part of Western sanctions against Iran over its efforts to derail Iran's disputed nuclear program. nuclear program, which the West Sunday's announcement follows a fears is aimed at developing flurry of contradictory signals by atomic weapons. Iran denies the Iran about backlash against the charges, and says its program is EU for imposing a boycott on for peaceful purposes. Iranian oil. The spokesman for Iran's Oil Last week, state media said Iran Ministry, Ali Reza Nikzad- was planning to cut off oil exports Rahbar, said on the ministry's to six EU nations, including
France, but later reports said the nations were only told that Iran has no problem finding replacement customers for the European shipments. The EU sanctions, imposed last month, were part of Western efforts to target Iran's critical oil sector in attempts to rein in Tehran's nuclear program. Also on Sunday, the secretary general of Iran's central bank said a decision by SWIFT, an international banking clearinghouse used by nearly every country and major corporation in the world, to shut Iran out from its respected network will not harm the country. "The country will not face any problems as a result of the SWIFT measures," Mahmoud Ahmadi was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency. He added that Iran has been "pursuing alternative solutions" since Western nations imposed sanctions on Tehran. He did not elaborate. SWIFT said in a statement on its website Friday that it will comply with expected instructions from the EU to cut off Iranian banks. SWIFT has previously brushed off international efforts to use its network to target countries or companies, telling enforcers that it does not judge the merits of the
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China and Ireland talk up trade on visit by Xi Jinping - BBC News

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BBC News China and Ireland talk up trade on visit by Xi Jinping BBC News The man tipped to become China's future leader, VicePresident Xi Jinping, is making a three-day visit to the Irish Republic with the focus on trade. On his only stop in an EU state after visiting the US, Mr Xi arrived with a delegation of 150 business... Hollywood wins access to China Washington Post Chinese vice-president Xi Jinping targets lower GDP, vows to help Europe Times of India Irish PM holds talks with China's leader-in-waiting AFP Belfast Telegraph- Boston.com all 633 news articles
Holcomb wins 2-man gold at bobsled worlds

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Romney has been the presumptive frontrunner throughout the seemingly Submitted at 2/19/2012 12:56:22 PM interminable campaign season, Feb. 18, 2012: Republican but despite his hometown roots p r e s i d e n t i a l c a n d i d a t e M i t t and his father having been Romney speaks to a group of governor of Michigan for three former Salt Lake City Olympic terms, Romney's numbers in the committee members marking the state are dragging ahead of the 10th anniversary of the games. Feb. 28 vote. Michigan, with 30 Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, delegates after being penalized for Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. voting early holds its election Or maybe Chris Christie, Jeb alongside Arizona one week Bush, Mitch Daniels and Paul b e f o r e t h e M a r c h 6 S u p e r Ryan. Tuesday mega-vote. In the Republican presidential Santorum has been up by three to p r i m a r y r a c e , e n t h u s i a s m 10 points in Michigan in the last frequently turns toward the four polls tracked by Real Clear candidates not in the race. Politics. On average, Santorum And as the August Republican gets 36.6 percent of polling national convention hastily sneaks compared to Romney with 30 up on the field, the fact that one percent in the state, according to candidate hasn't yet run away with RCP. Nationally, Santorum is up m o m e n t u m h a s t h e m e d i a , by an average 6.6 points in an pundits, even the candidates average of national polls tracked t h e m s e l v e s t a l k i n g a b o u t by RCP. generating the appeal to defeat The former Massachusetts President Obama in November, or g o v e r n o r i s n o w r e t o o l i n g , having someone else jump in the planning a big economic speech race. this week at the stadium where the "Just when you thought this race Detroit Lions play. In the era of for the nomination couldn't get "go big or go home," Romney is any more volatile. it seems like it doing both. potentially could," said Shane But will it be enough? D'Aprile, editor of Campaigns and "If Romney can't find a way to Elections Magazine. turn this thing around and win
Michigian I think this question of a brokered convention a contested convention, whatever you want to call it, is a much more salient question," D'Aprile told Fox News. Romney challenger Gingrich, without referencing the possibility of a brokered convention, agreed that the struggle will be tough for anyone who loses at home. "If any of the three loses our home state -- if Santorum loses Pennsylvania, Romney loses Michigan, or I lose Georgia -- you have, I think, very, very badly weakened candidacies." But could a brokered -- or contested -- convention be in the cards? And could New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Indiana Gov.
Mitch Daniels or anyone else come in to save the day? "I don't see how that can happen," Ryan, R-Wis., the chairman of the House Budget Committee, told NBC's "Meet the Press." "It's just too late, I think." "I've heard it, but, man, that is an unbelievable scenario. It'd be really hard to achieve that," former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told Fox News in a recent interview. "I think it's about as remote as life on Pluto," said Karl Rove, George W. Bush's chief strategist and a Fox News contributor. A brokered convention results when a candidate fails to obtain a majority of delegates and a feverish bout of backroom negotiating goes on to obtain the
support needed to push a candidate over the top. The last brokered convention for Republicans was in 1948, when the party nominated Thomas E. Dewey on the third ballot -- in case anyone remembers how that headline turned out, Dewey did not defeat Harry Truman in that party contest. To avoid anything resembling a replay in 2012, a GOP candidate needs to secure 1,144 of the 2,286 delegates. So far, according to The Associated Press count, Romney has 123 delegates, Santorum has 72, Gingrich 32 and Paul 19. A contested convention could be "disastrous," D'Aprile said, because delegates chosen by their candidates "feel very strongly about their candidate," "You've got a deadlock scenario," he said. "I think it's significantly harder for someone to walk on the convention stage out of nowhere, given the makeup of the delegates they may be facing. I think that's a scenario for potential disaster for the party. I don't know how you come out with an actual consensus candidate from there." Before that happens, the ROMNEY page 7
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Whitney Houston laid to rest - msnbc.com

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Dave Kotinsky / Getty Images The hearse carrying the body of Whitney Houston arrives for her private burial at the Fairview Cemetery on Sunday in Westfield, N.J. By msnbc.com news services Whitney Houston was laid to rest Sunday in a private ceremony at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, N.J. She was buried next to her father, John Russell Houston, who was interred in 2003. The singer passed away on Feb. 11 at age 48. Fans and onlookers gathered in several places along the route the motorcade took from the Newark funeral home to the cemetery about 20 miles away. Many held signs wishing Houston farewell and some created impromptu memorials. Some even slowly ran alongside the hearse as it began the journey to Houston's gravesite. Several yelled out "We love you, Whitney" as the hearse, which had a black and white headshot of the star in a window, slowly drove away. Barbara Davis, 53, of Newark, said she had been waiting outside the funeral home since 8:30 a.m., hoping to get a glimpse of Houston's final trip. "To be here at her home-going is an honor and a blessing," Davis told The Star-Ledger of Newark. Saturday's ceremony at the New Hope Baptist Church was
attended by hundreds of invited friends and family -- many of them stars themselves. After all the testimonials from relatives and friends, the songs from legends and pop stars, the preaching and even laughter, the raw emotion of Whitney Houston's funeral came down to just one moment: The sound of her own voice. Whitney Houston was buried Sunday after an emotional funeral. Msnbc's Alex Witt reports. Read NBCNewYork.com's complete coverage on Whitney Houston Set To Be Buried As the strains of her biggest
record, "I Will Always Love You," filled the New Hope Baptist Church at the end of the nearly four-hour service Saturday and her silver-and-gold casket was lifted in the air, the weight of the moment was too much for her mother to bear. Gospel singer Cissy Houston wailed, "My baby! My baby!" as she was held up by two women and led out of the church behind her daughter's body. A few steps behind her was the pop icon's daughter, Bobbi Kristina, also crying uncontrollably as she was comforted by Houston's close
friend, singer Ray J. Kevin Winter / Getty Images It was the most searing scene on a day with mixed moods as family, friends and a list of celebrities sometimes one and the same came to the humble New Hope Baptist Church, where Whitney Houston first wowed a congregation, to remember one of music's legends, but also a New Jersey hometown girl. Her death marked the end of a life of stunning achievement. Blessed with a voice of great power and beauty, Houston became one of pop music's most successful artists over a career
that spanned nearly three decades and segued into film with hits like "The Bodyguard." More from TheWrap: Houston joke earns suspension for radio duo But her life was not without struggles. An addiction to drugs and a tumultuous union with exhusband Bobby Brown saw her tumbling from grace. An autopsy has been performed, but results will not be revealed until the completion of the toxicology report. The Associated Press, WHITNEY page 6
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2 Senators Suggest Helping Syrian Rebels - New York Times

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and military support, and the governments in Damascus and Tehran have sectarian ties as well: Submitted at 2/19/2012 1:12:32 PM Iran has strongly backed the KABUL, Afghanistan With Syrian Shiite minority and the the Syrian government continuing o f f s h o o t A l a w i t e s e c t t h a t its deadly crackdown on its dominates Syrias ruling class. citizens, two senior American I believe there are ways to get senators who were on their way to weapons to the opposition without t h e M i d d l e E a s t s p o k e o u t direct United States involvement, strongly on Sunday in favor of Mr. McCain said. The Iranians arming the Syrian opposition and the Russians are providing forces. Bashar Assad with weapons. The two Republican senators, People that are being massacred John McCain of Arizona and deserve to have the ability to L i n d s e y G r a h a m o f S o u t h defend themselves. Carolina, laid out a series of So I am not only not opposed, diplomatic, humanitarian and he said, but I am in favor of military aid proposals that would weapons being obtained by the put the United States squarely opposition. behind the effort to topple The detail in their comments, President Bashar al-Assad of made at a news conference during Syria. The senators, both of whom their visit to the Afghan capital, are on the Senate Armed Services appeared to signal that these were C o m m i t t e e , s a i d t h a t r e b e l themes that they would address fighters deserved to be armed and when they arrived in Cairo, their that helping them take on the next stop. The senators were Syrian government would aid leading a bipartisan delegation Washingtons effort to weaken that stopped in Kabul to meet with Iran. military officials, diplomats and Syria relies on Iran for financial President Hamid Karzai.
Mr. McCain said the United States would not have to send weapons directly to the opposition but could work through third world countries and the Arab League. Senator Graham also endorsed arming those who are fighting Mr. Assad, and he suggested that the Arab League, which has called for Mr. Assads departure, could be a conduit. A byproduct of a more interventionist policy would be to weaken Iran. Breaking Syria apart from Iran could be as important to containing a nuclear Iran as sanctions, Mr. Graham said. If the Syrian regime is replaced with another form of government that doesnt tie its future to the Iranians, the world is a better place. Both senators backed a multipronged approach that included urging President Obama to make more use of his office to chastise Syria and to show United States backing for the Assad governments opponents. Mr. Graham said that the United
States should continue to push its position at the United Nations Security Council, but he said it also must work with the Arab League, in part to continue the pressure on Russia and China to change their stances. Two weeks ago, Russia and China vetoed a Security Council resolution that called for Mr. Assad to step down. We have to form a track outside the United Nations using the Arab League as the center of gravity, putting on the table humanitarian and economic assistance with also the possibility of arms possibly being provided at a later date, Mr. Graham said. Neil MacFarquhar contributed reporting from Beirut, Lebanon. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
China-Malaysia firm rejects S.Sudan accusations in oil row - Reuters

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AFP China-Malaysia firm rejects S.Sudan accusations in oil row Reuters JUBA Feb 19 (Reuters) - Chinese -Malaysian oil firm Petrodar, the main oil operator in South Sudan, denied on Sunday it had helped Sudan seize any southern oil, after Juba accused Chinese firms of cooperating with Khartoum in a row between the two... Sudan Wins Five-Year Delay to Repay China Debt, Al-Sahafa Says Bloomberg Sudan delays China debt, exports $400 million of gold Reuters UK all 208 news articles
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The 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week

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Catch up on the stories readers deemed most clickworthy this week from Fast Company, Co.Design, Co.Create, and Co.Exist. This week, we revealed our annual Most Innovative Companies list. You devoured it, like you do each year. (And why wouldn't you? It's a roadmap to the future of business.) There's plenty to explore in the full list, but a few story subjects stood out: Jack Dorsey's Square, for example, which we highlighted for changing the way people pay for all kinds of goods, and Y Combinator, for enabling more people to innovate. Other mustreads ranged from movie poster psychology to raw, grammatically dubious love letters from a young Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Catch up on the most popular stories below. 1. The Psychology Behind Movie Poster Designs By JD Rucker Find out how movie studios elicit emotional responses and connections from seemingly simple movie posters. 2. Why User Experience Is Critical To Customer
Relationships By Brian Solis Brian Solis presents the case for why user experience can no longer be neglected in our ultracompetitive tech landscape. 3. Square: For Making Magic Out Of The Mercantile By Ellen McGirt Learn about Square's history and how they are changing the way we pay through our phones. 4. 5 Tips To Get Maximum ROI From Saying "Thanks" By Lydia Dishman Lydia Dishman outlines how gratitude can improve your business. 5. Y Combinator: For Building The Next Great Silicon Valley Mafia By Emma Haak & David Lidsky Y Combinator is revolutionizing
the way start-ups receive education, funding, and most importantly, networking support in their industries. 6. The USB Memory Stick Is Facing Extinction By Kit Eaton Kit Eaton predicts that memory sticks will float into the cloud. 7. 4 Elements That Make A Good User Experience Into Something Great By Helen Walters Helen Walters presents the do's and don'ts of user interfaces. 8. 12 Hand-Written Love Letters From Famous People, From Henry VIII To Michael Jordan By Suzanne Labarre We know Michael Jordan can ball, but can he write a love letter? 9. Alan Moore On Watchmen's "Toxic Cloud" And Creativity V. Big Business By Susan Karlin Alan Moore discusses why old source material is better, and how big comic book manufacturers are stymieing creativity and original (housing - Google News) content. Submitted at 2/19/2012 12:26:36 PM 10. LiveWork: The Future Of Living Where You Work And Housing advocate discouraged by Working Where You Live By Fort Monmouth redevelopment Andrew Price switch Andrew Price takes a look at the Asbury Park Press future of working from home 6:53 pm A housing advocate said (pretty slides included).
candidates will plod along to create whatever intensity they can generate. "We don't know when the end is, whether it's going to be May, June, July or August," Paul told CNN on Sunday. "So we just have to, you know, wait and see so that, in my mind, I anticipate it's going to go on for a while." "You know, I have been through Tim Pawlenty, then Michele Bachmann, and then Herman Cain one, and then Rick Perry, then Herman Cain the second time, and now we have Santorum," Gingrich told "Fox News Sunday." "And we're just going to keep moving forward gathering delegates. We're looking forward very much to Super Tuesday." . Putting to rest the notion of a weakened GOP, Daniels told CNN that whoever it is -- and
whenever a candidate is nominated --the race will return to "a binary choice between a failed presidency" filled with policies "detrimental to job growth and investment and risk taking" and a Republican alternative. Related Video Covering the frontrunners Are the media causing campaign controversy? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Five Things To Do Before Your SXSW Launch

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You have to embrace the occasional serendipitous meeting, but you must have a game plan, Submitted at 2/19/2012 1:00:00 PM he says. With only a few weeks For new tech companies, a good left before SXSWi starts on showing at Austins South by March 9, here are five things to do Southwest Interactive festival can before your launch. carry you down the path to startup 1. Get your pitch ready. glory. Take the time to hone your C o n s i d e r T w i t t e r , w h i c h message about who you are as a launched in the summer of 2006 company and the vision you have with a whimper, according to for your product or service. Youll cofounder Evan Williams, writing need it for when you meet the a Quora response. Nine months venture capitalist of your dreams later, with the help of big-screen in the bathroom line at the SXSWi TVs and a scrolling Twitter feed Startup Village -- a new area that caught the attention of early where special events for startups, adopters at SXSWi 2007, a social- such as Microsofts fourth annual media star was born. BizSpark Accelerator And lets not forget the launch Competition, will be consolidated. two years later of Foursquare, the We spent weeks practicing our darling of geo-social apps. As part pitch, says Ken Cho, co-founder of his attention-getting strategy, of Spredfast, a social-media co-founder Dennis Crowley drew company in Austin and one of chalk lines for an actual game of e i g h t f i n a l i s t s ( o u t o f 2 0 0 foursquare on the sidewalk applicants) in BizSparks 2010 outside the Austin Convention competition. This year, 675 Center and played with random hopefuls have applied for the passersby. chance to show off their products Of course, these days its not so in front of thousands of investors easy to cut through the noise, says and industry experts. Hugh Forrest, the director of Having a great five-minute pitch SXSWi. The entire event was can be crucial, since there are so once contained on one floor of the many connections to make with convention center. Now, the press, investors and potential programming spans numerous c u s t o m e r s . W e u s e d t h e venues, including several big conference to network with as hotels. many people as we could, shared So whats an entrepreneur to do? our ideas and got feedback on
how to make our business better, he says. The company closed a round of $1.6 million right after the buzz and quintupled employee count in 2011. 2. Target your outreach Figure out all the social-media tools youll use to broadcast your SXSWi activities, whether thats attending a panel, throwing a launch party or passing out promos. Find out whos going you can scan the list of attendees on SXSocial and reach out for one-to-one meetings. Learning what key attendees want and like (especially at parties) will help you make a good impression when you finally get there. Chaotic Moon, a mobile app
organized the popular mobile apps street food fest on Sunday last year, attracting about 4,000 attendees and positive press coverage, including a write-up on CNN. Foodspotting is all about helping people find good food, so this was the perfect way to introduce people to us, she says, adding that employees came out a few days early to plaster stickers and event flyers around convention center entrances. Finding ways to showcase your value is the best way to cut through all the craziness that is SXSW. In Foodspottings case, the event went so well SXSW organizers development company in Austin, are bringing it back this year at a has maintained 500 percent year- busier time: Saturday night. over-year revenue growth after 4. And helpful launching at the festival in 2010, To make the longest-lasting and CEO Ben Lamm says thats impression, prepare to be as partly because the company threw useful as possible to conferencea buzzworthy crowdsourced goers. Last year, GroupMes coparty. Prior to the festival, the founders Jared Hecht and Steve team asked the SXSW community Martocci rented a space in front of where we should buy t-shirts, the convention center and turned which bars are the best, which it into a highly trafficked grilled drinks to serve basically cheese and beer stand. Who everything, he says. The result got doesnt love grilled cheese? Hecht says, noting that the industry leaders and fans talking. GroupMe Grill also became a hub 3. Make activities authentic No doubt your planned launch for people to relax between panel activities are brilliant, but make sessions. If you havent rented sure theyre relevant and not too space, you can set up shop gimmicky, says Foodspottings FIVE page 9 head of outreach Fiona Tang, who
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anywhere in town (thats legal to do so) and take advantage of foot traffic. GroupMes group text messaging service eventually won the SXSW Breakout Award for representing the digital trend that gained the most traction during the festival and was bought by Skype late last summer. The products that have breakout years are those that are built to help with the SXSW experience, Martocci says. 5. Psyche yourself up For newbies, a fact of SXSWi: You snooze, you lose. So do what you need to do to be mentally and physically on top of your game. We all spent almost all of our time in Austin representing GroupMe, Hecht says. It was
exhausting, but we wouldnt have had the breakout experience that we had if everyone didnt give 110% of themselves. Lamm agrees: Go to every event, every keynote, take every meeting. When you go, go all in. Our Chaotic Moon typical conference day goes from 6 a.m. to 3 a.m. the next morning. When everyone is sleeping in, were at meetings. We want it more, so we work harder. Corrections & Amplifications: Chaotic Moon, a mobile app development company in Austin, launched at SXSW in 2010. An earlier version misstated the company's launch date. This post originally appeared at Entrepreneur.
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3News NZ Protest over Housing NZ redevelopment NZ City Housing New Zealand is waiting on action from police to evict protestors from an empty house in Auckland. Housing New Zealand is waiting on action from police to
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When Will This Gas Price Chart Finally Reverse Itself?

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It's kind of beautiful. From the early '90s until the late '90s, the stock market steadily Submitted at 2/19/2012 12:45:00 PM outstripped gas prices. As we predicted early last week, Since then it's been basically everyone is talking about gas been the reverse, so that one prices today. "share" of the S&P 500 today gets It's the how new meme: Will gas you the same number of gallons prices be the thing that suffocates of gas as you got in the early 90s. this economy? It's a depressing trend. We'll pass on making a guess. You'd like to see stocks (which But we thought it'd be a good represent human value creation) time to update one of our favorite grow at a faster clip than a charts: The S&P 500 divided by commodity, which just sits there. the cost of an average gallon of For the average person, it means gasoline. their investments aren't growing
faster than a basic cost they see every day. And for a little more perspective, here's the same chart alongside the price of a gallon of gas -- blue
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Mayawati confident of winning more seats - The Hindu

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Housing New Zealand is axing a service which has worked with other agencies to find private rental homes for people who can't get state houses. The personalised service will be replaced by giving people contact numbers for...
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Greeks protest cuts on eve of bailout decision

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across downtown Athens after a much larger rally involving tens of thousands. By George Georgiopoulos "The austerity measures are really ATHENS| Sun Feb 19, 2012 hurting pensioners - we can't just 1:36pm EST sit and take it," said retired state (Reuters) - Several thousand electricity worker Costas Xenakis, Greeks demonstrated on Sunday 70, whose monthly pension will a g a i n s t p u n i s h i n g a u s t e r i t y be hit again by new cuts approved measures to reduce the country's b y P a p a d e m o s ' c a b i n e t o n debt, on the eve of make-or-break S a t u r d a y . talks in Brussels on a 130-billion- Banners such as one reading euro ($171 billion) bailout to "Down with the memorandum of avert bankruptcy. hunger" bore testimony to the Greece hopes euro zone finance anger many Greeks feel towards a ministers will sign off on Monday political elite that allowed the on the rescue package funded by country over the years to rack up t h e E u r o p e a n U n i o n a n d a national debt worth 160 percent International Monetary Fund, of national output while the superGreece's second bailout since rich took advantage of lax tax 2010. collection. Sceptics, led by Germany, remain Police said the protest was w a r y a b o u t G r e e c e ' s peaceful aside from some minor determination to shrink its debt scuffles and stone-throwing at mountain. Yet failure by Athens security forces as demonstrators to service its debts next month started to head home. would trigger a chaotic default Ahead of an election due in that would send shockwaves April, a survey released on through the single currency. Sunday showed the two parties Greek Prime Minister Lucas that have dominated politics since Papademos flew to Brussels for the 1974 end of junta rule last-minute preparations as some S o c i a l i s t P A S O K a n d 3,000 demonstrators massed on conservative New Democracy the capital's central Syntagma would muster little more than a square. quarter of the votes between them, Riot police shielded the national with parties to the left gaining assembly, braced against a repeat ground. of riots a week ago that saw One survey by pollster MRB buildings torched and looted showed that while 73 percent of
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Greeks want the country to stay in the single currency, just 49 percent believe it will manage to do so in the next two years. After months of often acrimonious negotiations, Greek hopes are rising that Monday's meeting will endorse the rescue Athens needs to avoid bankruptcy on March 20 when major debt repayments fall due. WON'T THROW OUT GREECE Greece adopted a new wave of austerity measures last week, setting out 3.3 billion euros in wage, pension and job cuts, as well as savings on defense and health spending. Speaking on Sunday, Austrian Finance Minister Maria Fekter said it appeared a deal was finally taking shape. "I don't think there is a majority to go a different way because a different way is enormously arduous and costs lots and lots of money," she said in a television interview. "The euro finance ministers and, I believe, the heads of government agree that we will not leave Greece in the lurch in the euro zone and also won't throw it out," Fekter said. However, Jean-Claude Juncker, who will chair Monday's meeting of the Eurogroup in Brussels, had earlier made clear urgent work was still needed over the weekend
to get a program to reduce Greece's crippling debts back on track. A Greek government official said Papademos had flown to Brussels, but declined to say whom he would meet. London-based consultancy Capital Economics warned the rescue deal could yet collapse, noting a growing number of voices suggesting the euro zone might now be better placed to cope with the shock of a Greek default and exit from the single currency. "Some core policy-makers have suggested that the negative effects of a disorderly default might be limited and are therefore willing to walk away if Greece does not agree to additional tough conditions," it wrote. Aside from the budget cuts, there is a push within the euro zone for Greece's public spending to be put under tighter surveillance. MISSING THE TARGET At stake is a target of lowering debt to a more manageable 120 percent of gross domestic product by 2020. EU and IMF officials believe that target - which assumes Greece will run a budget surplus next year, excluding the massive cost of its debts - will be missed. Under the main scenario of an analysis by the European
Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Greek debt will fall to only 129 percent of GDP in 2020, one official said. On Sunday, senior euro zone finance officials met to discuss the analysis and find ways to bring the debt closer to the 120 percent target before the finance ministers gather on Monday. One official said while there were still gaps to be filled, they were not so large that they risked derailing the agreement. "I don't see anybody wanting to be responsible for pulling the plug on the deal at this late stage," he said. Critics argue the austerity measures are driving Greece further into recession, with the contraction accelerating to 7 percent in the last quarter of 2011, making it even harder for Greece to pay back its debts. The Greek economy has shrunk 16 percent since 2008, driving up unemployment to over 20 percent. "We are caught in a vicious circle," said Zoe Rapti, a 43-yearold teacher. "Austerity brings more and more measures. In a few months they'll be taking more from our pockets." The euro zone is looking at modifying the deal negotiated GREEKS page 15
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Data collection arms race feeds privacy fears

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A Facebook logo is displayed on a Kodak photo kiosk during the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 11, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Steve Marcus By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO| Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:14pm EST (Reuters) - This week's revelations that Google Inc, Twitter and other popular Internet companies have been taking liberties with customer data have prompted criticism from privacy advocates and lawmakers, along with apologies from the companies. They are the latest in a long line of missteps by large Internet companies that have faced little punishment for pushing privacy boundaries, which are already more expansive than most consumers understand. Despite all the chatter about online privacy and the regular introductions of proposed data protection laws in Congress, Silicon Valley is in the midst of a veritable arms race of personal data collection that is intensifying. Many innovative companies, most prominently Facebook, base virtually all of their services on the ability to personalize, which requires them to know their users well. Their business models likewise depend to an increasing degree on the ability to target a
banner advertisement or other marketing pitch to an individual. Millions of times each day, the right to advertise to a specific user is auctioned off in a fraction of a second by computers talking to one another. For both the buyers and the sellers of the advertising, the business advantage goes to the participant with the most knowledge, and that race is driving companies like Google to learn as much about its users as Facebook does. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Video-Is Google tracking you: r.reuters.com/tat66s ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Few U.S. laws prevent those companies and others from collecting all manner of information - ranging from credit cards numbers and real names and addresses to buying patterns and Web surfing habits - then selling the data to advertisers and other third parties. "Companies are feeling along in the dark, trying to figure out how to serve consumers with cool new toys and while protecting consumer interests," said Jim Harper, a privacy policy specialist at the libertarian Cato Institute. "More often than not, they fall in love with their cool new toys and forget the privacy interests." Aside from special protections for credit report information, medical records and a few other
narrow categories, virtually anything is fair game. Companies generally face legal threats or a user backlash only after violating their own published privacy policies or being discovered subverting consumer wishes. Last week Twitter, Path and other firms were found to be vacuuming users' iPhone contact lists even though Apple Inc's policies forbade it. On Friday, a Wall Street Journal report showed that Google was tweaking ads on Apple's Safari Web browser to install tracking cookies which, while commonplace on other browsers, are blocked on Safari unless the user specifically allows them. Reps. Edward J. Markey (DMass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas), co-chairmen of the Congressional Privacy Caucus asked for a Google probe by the Federal Trade Commission, which declined to comment. Google said Friday that its intentions were innocuous but it nontheless dropped the practice. Twitter and Path said they would seek explicit permission before grabbing address-book contents, and Apple said it would update its software to prevent further leaks. PROMISES, PROMISES The developments fit what is by now a well-established pattern that has thus far kept major new laws off the books, longtime policy specialists said. A company over-reaches, gets
caught, and promises to do better. If a greater than usual display of outrage prompts introduction of plausible legislation, the industry counters with a new plan for selfregulation, such as the publication of privacy policies that users seldom read. Sooner or later, the plan is rendered obsolete by new technologies in the data arms race, and the cycle repeats. Google and Facebook last year both agreed to 20 years of privacy audits by the Federal Trade Commission after they made public customer information that users had considered private. But with few restrictions on data collection, the audits are not likely to have a major impact on business practices. Internet companies and their investors argue that datacollection is essential to their businesses, and enables them to provide services that would otherwise be impossible. Consumers get more accurate search results, more relevant advertising, and more intimate connections with friends and others when Internet companies know something about them. "For that value tradeoff, they're willing to provide information," said Ron Conway, a well-known Internet investor. "I don't like people tracking my location, but I want to know, 'what are some nearby Italian restaurants that my friends have liked,'" said Auren Hoffman, CEO
of Rapleaf, which compiles profiles of Internet users. The equation is different in Europe, which has long-standing data protection laws that limit some practices that are standard in the United States. The European Union is now weighing updated rules that would allow any resident to ask companies to delete the information on file about them; the United States only has equivalent rights for those under age 13. Privacy advocates in the United States say they do not expect big changes anytime soon. "Trying to pass a bill through Congress that's actually going to safeguard user records, especially when you've got huge advertiser lobbies trying to defang that law, is an incredible challenge," said Rainey Reitman, activism director with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. At best, they say, a law might allow consumers to opt out of some tracking. "That is more likely today than it was 24 hours ago," said Justin Brookman, director of consumer privacy at the Center for Democracy & Technology, which gets funding from foundations and major technology companies. "But the 'right-to-be forgotten,' erase-button thing, you would see more of a fight." (Reporting by Joseph Menn. Additional reporting by Alexei DATA page 16
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Contested GOP Convention in Works?

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state are dragging ahead of the Feb. 28 vote. Michigan, with 30 delegates after being penalized for Feb. 18, 2012: Republican voting early holds its election p r e s i d e n t i a l c a n d i d a t e M i t t alongside Arizona one week Romney speaks to a group of b e f o r e t h e M a r c h 6 S u p e r former Salt Lake City Olympic T u e s d a y m e g a - v o t e . committee members marking the Santorum has been up by three to 10th anniversary of the games. 10 points in Michigan in the last Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, four polls tracked by Real Clear Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. Politics. On average, Santorum Or maybe Chris Christie, Jeb gets 36.6 percent of polling Bush, Mitch Daniels and Paul compared to Romney with 30 Ryan. percent in the state, according to In the Republican presidential RCP. Nationally, Santorum is up p r i m a r y r a c e , e n t h u s i a s m by an average 6.6 points in an frequently turns toward the average of national polls tracked candidates not in the race. by RCP. And as the August Republican The former Massachusetts national convention hastily sneaks g o v e r n o r i s n o w r e t o o l i n g , up on the field, the fact that one planning a big economic speech candidate hasn't yet run away with this week at the stadium where the m o m e n t u m h a s t h e m e d i a , Detroit Lions play. In the era of pundits, even the candidates "go big or go home," Romney is t h e m s e l v e s t a l k i n g a b o u t doing both. generating the appeal to defeat But will it be enough? President Obama in November, or "If Romney can't find a way to having someone else jump in the turn this thing around and win race. Michigian I think this question of "Just when you thought this race a brokered convention a contested for the nomination couldn't get convention, whatever you want to any more volatile. it seems like it call it, is a much more salient potentially could," said Shane question," D'Aprile told Fox D'Aprile, editor of Campaigns and News. Elections Magazine. Romney challenger Gingrich, R o m n e y h a s b e e n t h e without referencing the possibility p r e s u m p t i v e f r o n t r u n n e r of a brokered convention, agreed t h r o u g h o u t t h e s e e m i n g l y that the struggle will be tough for interminable campaign season, anyone who loses at home. but despite his hometown roots "If any of the three loses our and his father having been home state -- if Santorum loses governor of Michigan for three Pennsylvania, Romney loses terms, Romney's numbers in the Michigan, or I lose Georgia -- you
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have, I think, very, very badly weakened candidacies." But could a brokered -- or contested -- convention be in the cards? And could New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels or anyone else come in to save the day? "I don't see how that can happen," Ryan, R-Wis., the chairman of the House Budget Committee, told NBC's "Meet the Press." "It's just too late, I think." "I've heard it, but, man, that is an unbelievable scenario. It'd be really hard to achieve that," former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told Fox News in a recent interview. "I think it's about as remote as life on Pluto," said Karl Rove, George W. Bush's chief strategist and a Fox News contributor. A brokered convention results when a candidate fails to obtain a majority of delegates and a feverish bout of backroom negotiating goes on to obtain the support needed to push a
candidate over the top. The last brokered convention for Republicans was in 1948, when the party nominated Thomas E. Dewey on the third ballot -- in case anyone remembers how that headline turned out, Dewey did not defeat Harry Truman in that party contest. To avoid anything resembling a replay in 2012, a GOP candidate needs to secure 1,144 of the 2,286 delegates. So far, according to The Associated Press count, Romney has 123 delegates, Santorum has 72, Gingrich 32 and Paul 19. A contested convention could be "disastrous," D'Aprile said, because delegates chosen by their candidates "feel very strongly about their candidate," "You've got a deadlock scenario," he said. "I think it's significantly harder for someone to walk on the convention stage out of nowhere, given the makeup of the delegates they may be facing. I think that's a
scenario for potential disaster for the party. I don't know how you come out with an actual consensus candidate from there." Before that happens, the candidates will plod along to create whatever intensity they can generate. "We don't know when the end is, whether it's going to be May, June, July or August," Paul told CNN on Sunday. "So we just have to, you know, wait and see so that, in my mind, I anticipate it's going to go on for a while." "You know, I have been through Tim Pawlenty, then Michele Bachmann, and then Herman Cain one, and then Rick Perry, then Herman Cain the second time, and now we have Santorum," Gingrich told "Fox News Sunday." "And we're just going to keep moving forward gathering delegates. We're looking forward very much to Super Tuesday." . Putting to rest the notion of a weakened GOP, Daniels told CNN that whoever it is -- and whenever a candidate is nominated --the race will return to "a binary choice between a failed presidency" filled with policies "detrimental to job growth and investment and risk taking" and a Republican alternative. Related Video Covering the frontrunners Are the media causing campaign controversy? This entry passed through the CONTESTED page 16
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Lawyers: New Drug Tests For Italy Cruise Captain

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had asked prosecutors on Friday to order new testing to see if the samples might have been Jan. 24: A sea platform carrying a c o n t a m i n a t e d . crane approaches the grounded The Italian news agency ANSA cruise ship Costa Concordia off quoted the forensic medical expert the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. who carried out the toxicology ROME Lawyers for survivors test as dismissing Codacons' of the capsized Costa Concordia concerns about the external trace cruise ship on Saturday pressed of cocaine. for new drug tests on the ship's The expert, Marcello Chiarotti, captain after traces of cocaine was quoted as saying the modest were reportedly found on the trace of cocaine "was a marginal outside of a hair sample. problem that absolutely doesn't But the consultant who did the invalidate the results of the analyses for prosecutors stood by analysis" that found none of the results, which found no presence drug inside the hair itself or in the of the drug in urine samples or urine. Traces of cocaine in the within the hair of Capt. Francesco urine or inside the hair itself Schettino. would have pointed to Italian consumer protection group c o n s u m p t i o n . Codacons is representing some The prosecutor's office in survivors of the shipwreck of the Grosseto, Tuscany, was closed cruise liner, which rammed a reef Saturday, as was the law office of near a Tuscan island the night of the attorney defending Schettino, Jan. 13. Under Italian law, those who is under house arrest in his attaching civil suits to a criminal home near Naples while he is case must be informed of, and i n v e s t i g a t e d f o r a l l e g e d allowed to monitor, evidence and m a n s l a u g h t e r , c a u s i n g a other developments in the probe. shipwreck and abandoning his Codacons said Saturday that ship. The lawyer could not be some traces of cocaine were reached by cell phone. found on a hair sample and in an But ANSA quoted the lawyer, envelope containing the sample, Bruno Leporatti, as saying the test but noted that a urine sample results yielded nothing new. taken from Schettino and an "We have always been sure that analysis of the hair itself found no Schettino didn't take drugs," the presence of the drug. It called that G r o s s e t o - b a s e d l a w y e r w a s finding "very strange" and said it q u o t e d a s s a y i n g .
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The Concordia's hull was speared by the reef after the ship cruised close to the island of Giglio in what many contend was a publicity stunt. The Concordia was carrying some 4,200 passengers and crew on a week's cruise on its standard route when it crashed into the reef during dinner a couple of hours after leaving an Italian port. The boat started badly listing to one side almost immediately, causing passengers to panic and try to scramble aboard lifeboats. Schettino has denied abandoning have resulted if Schettino's hair But the evacuation wasn't ordered ship and insisted the reef was not h a d c o m e i n c o n t a c t w i t h until about an hour later, and marked on navigational charts. someone who had handled s o m e p a s s e n g e r s j u m p e d Thirty-two people are believed to c o c a i n e . overboard to swim to Giglio when have perished, including 15 A Codacons spokesman, Stefano several of the lifeboats couldn't be whose bodies have not been Zerbi, told The AP that the group deployed because of the ship's tilt. found. was raising the possibility with Divers have been searching Chiarotti was described as prosecutors that the samples sections of the wreckage where expressing confidence in the m i g h t h a v e b e e n p o o r l y some of the missing were last results. "We will be able to clear preserved. Codacons' statement seen in hopes that more bodies this problem up later," ANSA said the results indicate a "strange, can be recovered. After much quoted him as saying. "Those who passive contamination," in which delay, in great part because of work in our field know that there c o c a i n e s o m e h o w g o t o n t o s t o r m y w e a t h e r , p u m p i n g can be problems like this." He Schettino's hair even though he operations have been under way told ANSA that "the results leave wasn't using the drug. for a week to remove some no doubt," adding that he would The samples were taken on Jan. 500,000 gallons of fuel from the formally hand in the report to 17, Codacons said. ship's tanks. prosecutors next week. The consumer group on Friday The Concordia is lying on its side Chiarotti is on the teaching staff also asked prosecutors to order close to the port of Giglio, which of Rome's Catholic University of DNA testing of the samples to is part of a protected Tuscan the Sacred Heart. The university confirm they are indeed those of archipelago in pristine waters said he was not in his office S c h e t t i n o , t o e l i m i n a t e t h e famed for whales, dolphins, fish Saturday. possibilities the samples were ANSA, without citing sources, a c c i d e n t a l l y m i s l a b e l e d o r LAWYERS: page 15 said that traces of the drug might s w i t c h e d .
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over many months with private creditors under which they would accept a cut of around 70 percent in the real value of their Greek bond holdings. One official familiar with the (Reuters: Top News) The European Commission said curbing imports from Iran. by Iran," Nikzad said. analysis said that, in order to last week that the bloc would not Iran was supplying more than EU's new sanctions includes a Submitted at 2/19/2012 11:10:31 AM bring the debt level closer to 120 be short of oil if Iran stopped 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) to range of extra restrictions on Iran TEHRAN| Sun Feb 19, 2012 crude exports, as they have the EU plus Turkey in 2011, that went well beyond U.N. percent, changes could be made to the interest accrued on privately 12:10pm EST enough in stock to meet their industry sources said. sanctions agreed last month and held bonds, but the EU and its (Reuters) - Iran has stopped needs for around 120 days. By the start of this year imports included a ban on dealing with selling crude to British and Industry sources told Reuters on had sunk to about 650,000 bpd as Iranian banks and insurance national institutions might also F r e n c h c o m p a n i e s , t h e o i l February 16 that Iran's top oil some customers cut back in companies and steps to prevent play their part. Interest rates on EU loans to ministry said on Sunday, in a buyers in Europe were making anticipation of an EU ban. investment in Tehran's lucrative Greece could be cut, and those retaliatory measure against fresh substantial cuts in supply months Saudi Arabia says it is prepared oil and gas sector, including national central banks in the euro EU sanctions on the Islamic in advance of European Union to supply extra oil either by refining. zone which hold Greek bonds state's lifeblood, oil. sanctions, reducing flows to the topping up existing term contracts The mounting sanctions are "Exporting crude to British and continent in March by more than a or by making rare spot market aimed at putting financial pressure might accept similar terms to French companies has been third - or over 300,000 barrels sales. Iran has criticized Riyadh on the world's fifth largest crude private creditors. The national central banks own stopped ... we will sell our oil to daily. for the offer. oil exporter, which has little an estimated 12 billion euros of new customers," spokesman France's Total has already Iran said the cut will have no refining capacity and has to Alireza Nikzad was quoted as stopped buying Iran's crude, impact on its crude sales, warning import about 40 percent of its Greek debt. The European Central s a y i n g b y t h e m i n i s t r y o f which is subject to fresh EU that any sanctions on its oil will gasoline needs for its domestic Bank has refused to take part in the complex deal for the private petroleum website. embargoes. Market sources said raise international crude prices. consumption. The European Union in January Royal Dutch Shell has scaled Brent crude oil prices were up $1 (Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing c r e d i t o r s , w h i c h i n v o l v e s swapping old bonds for new ones decided to stop importing crude back sharply. a barrel to $118.35 shortly after by David Cowell) from Iran from July 1 over its Among European nations, debt- Iran's state media announced last This entry passed through the with a lower face value, lower disputed nuclear program, which ridden Greece is most exposed to week that Tehran had cut oil Full-Text RSS service if this is i n t e r e s t r a t e s a n d l o n g e r maturities. the West says is aimed at building Iranian oil disruption. exports to six European states. your content and you're reading it (Additional reporting by Mike bombs. Iran denies this. 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Iran to Britain, France:No More Oil From Us

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LG Optimus Vu--another 5-inch, penfriendly Android phone

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World Congress. The world is now home to at least two 5-inch Korean-made Android Another big phone and its stylus smartphones that are blurring the are giving the Samsung Galaxy line between phone and tablet and Note some company. attempting to resurrect the stylus. LG has been touting the Vu's 4:3 L i k e t h e G a l a x y N o t e , t h e aspect ratio and the 5-inch phone's Optimus Vu is designed with a size on an HTML5 micro-site. pen-friendly interface in mind. Today it's official--another big LG also claims the 4:3 aspect boy phone will debut in Korea ratio on the Optimus Vu as a soon. central selling point--a Korean The Samsung Galaxy Note is press release touts the huge screen getting some company in the space and brightness as ideal for emerging world of mega- reading e-books and other smartphones from LG's Optimus c o n t e n t . Vu, which has been revealed Unlike the Galaxy Note, ahead of the upcoming Mobile h o w e v e r , t h e L T E - e n a b l e d
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Why Your Next Board Member Should Be A Woman

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Submitted at 2/19/2012 12:01:32 PM
demonstrate higher collective intelligence and better problem solving ability. So its probably Editors note: Aileen Lee is a not a coincidence the worlds partner at venture firm Kleiner most admired companies have Perkins Caufield & Byers, where more women on their boards than she focuses on investing in the average company. consumer internet ventures. You There is a group of public can read more about Lee at companies that gets these insights KPCB.com and follow her on they are quietly adding some of Twitter at@aileenlee. the smartest women in Silicon Good questions have been asked Valley to their boards of directors. lately of tech companies without And most are not making much gender diversity on their boards of noise about it, perhaps they want directors. While women comprise to benefit from their savvy while 51% of the population, they make their competitors are asleep at the up only 15.7% of Fortune 500 wheel. boards of directors, less than 10% I was impressed by a move by of California tech company AutoNation, the countrys largest boards, and 9.1% of Silicon auto retailer ($4.6B market cap). Valley boards. They did an extensive search and Why should we care? For one, last year added Alison Rosenthal women are the power users of to their board an off-the-F500many products and its just smart radar-screen, Brown and Stanford business to have an understanding educated, early Facebook team of key customers around the table. member who led FBs core BD Could you imagine a game activities for 5 years in social, company without any gamers on growth, international and mobile. the leadership team or board? Why add a 30-something female If youre not aware, studies also to a male board with an average show companies with gender a g e o f 5 8 ? M i k e M a r o o n e , diversity at the top drive better AutoNations President and COO financial performance on multiple explained, We looked at our measures for example, 36% board [and realized] its male better stock price growth and 46% dominated, while women make better return on equity. And, over 50% of the purchasing studies show the more women, the decisions in our business. And, better the results. This is likely the travel, music and news because teams with more females industries have been transformed
by digital. Were trying to transform the auto business and connect with the thinking of the digital generation, and we need this level of insight at the board level. AutoNation is not alone in identifying next gen talent that adds diversity of gender, thought, age and experience to the boardroom, long the domain of (male) titans of big business, law and finance. LinkedIn ($9.1B) was ahead of the curve when they added longtime Netflix CMO Leslie Kilgore to the board in 2010. And in the past year, TripAdvisor ($4.1B market cap) added former Google International exec Sukhinder Singh Cassidy to the board of directors; HomeAway ($2.1B) added Google Ads head Susan Wojcicki; LuluLemon ($9.3B) added FB local-andmobile exec Emily White; Starbucks ($36.5B) added 29-year -old Clara Shih, CEO of Hearsay Social and author of The Facebook Era; and Scripps Networks Interactive ($6.9B) just announced the addition of Gina Bianchini, CEO/founder of Mighty Software. Of this, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner says, Some boards may look for candidates already on other boards, or CEOs of other companies. In the case of Leslies
seat, we were looking to add someone with specific expertise, CEO or non-CEO, to complement our board and the results from broadening our consideration set have been outstanding. Christine Day, CEO of LuluLemon, offered similar sentiments. We wanted a board member who understands how our target guest thinks, is a leader in the world of digital innovation and social, and understands steep growth. Emily is part of a new generation that is going to change the game. Ebay ($45.1B market cap) also recently added Facebook product marketing exec Katie Mitic to their board. Of this, CEO John Donohoe told me, We were looking to add people who understand the web of the future and our consumer (50% of whom are women), and who are product and tech savvy. Katie is a 12 out of 10 on these. And, we have a strong commitment to attracting, developing and retaining female leaders. Theres also a cultural impact outside of the boardroom its inspiring to our team members and community to see someone like Katie on our board. By adding new blood to the boardroom, these companies are getting a four-fer, or more: 1) gender diversity, and in most cases, age diversity around the
table; 2) better understanding of core customers; 3) Social-MobileLocal expertise and insight into digital platforms like Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, Path, Square, Flipboard and Pinterest that are fundamentally changing business; and 4) hyper growth and rapid innovation DNA. These factors are driving a trend to change board composition. And from what Ive heard from CEOs, the smartest companies will continue to diversify their boards rather than checking a box. Initiatives like 20by2020 will also help. Theres an opportunity to make your board, and your company, smarter by adding diversity, especially of gender. And if youre at a smaller company, theres a greater likelihood that your board lacks diversity and thats an opportunity to seize, especially if your company counts on females as key users. Savvy companies are quietly changing up their boards of directors and teams, and this is giving them better collective intelligence, more community admiration, and better financial results. PS if your company would benefit from new DNA in the boardroom, there is great talent to WHY page 27
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Asana and Orchestra Help Me Slowly Regain Control of Email

Semil Shah (TechCrunch)
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imagine it wouldnt be that hard to build these features into current products. Third, the work of Editors Note: TechCrunch creating context and prose around contributor Semil Shah currently all these emails places a cognitive works at Votizen and lives in Palo b u r d e n o n t h e r e c i p i e n t t o Alto; you can follow him on determine what action to take on twitter@semil the email, and then how to track This is not a rant against email. that action to a point where it can This is a story of hope. be mercifully put to bed. It sounds nuts, but I really enjoy Twitter, to its credit, gets you email, though I realize Im in the q u i t e f a r . T h e r e a r e n o t i n y m i n o r i t y a n d t h a t i t s expectations around responding to legitimately unmanageable for public replies, and users can limit many, especially those that dont their DM inbox simply by which use clients that automatically accounts they follow. Of course, thread messages by subject or those messages are limited to 140 label. characters in size, and while DMs The complaints against email are are insanely effective for short universal and valid: Lines of lines bursts of private communication, of emails accumulate with the oftentimes those conversations are force of a snowball racing down moved back to email in order to the side of a mountain during an coordinate. So, were back to the avalanche, and the business of drawing board. crafting and answering emails The plain fact is that email still only creates more email. Its a remains a very strong channel and never-ending cycle, making any will continue to be for a long time Inbox 0 achievement ephemeral to come. As anyone who has at best. worked on user acquisition I see three main reasons why metrics will know, despite all the email falls short. First, anyone has time were collectively spending the ability to invade your inbox if on social networks, the clickhe/she can get your email. Filters through rates through other and labels help, but its not private social messaging systems e n o u g h . S e c o n d , t h e r e a r e is typically below the rates email currently few tools in place to can produce. Additionally, nearly empower the recipient to limit the everyone on the planet has been size of emails that come into his/ trained to check their email as the her inbox, though one could first and last things they do on a
computing device. A billion people may be on Facebook and billions of tweets may be sent per week, but not everyone you need to communicate with is on these messaging services theyre mainly using email. And, then, after all this, here we are. Email is not going away. Ive concluded that the only thing we can do is to create systems and layers on top of our email in order to exert control on our work flow and time. To that end, Ive been testing out a few new products and services and thought Id share my opinions, but Id also like collect your points of view in the comments below. First, Ive attempted to route most of my unsolicited emails through my About.me page. Anyone can send me a message through the site, limited by character size. The email I receive truncates any long message and I dont feel compelled to write back if I dont want to. But, my email is pasted all over the Internet, so this doesnt solve all the problems. Second, Ive attempted to tie a Shortmail account to my Gmail, which limits emails by character size, and Im excited to really test the service when its ready for it (you can import your contact lists from Gmail and Twitter, and start to convert over). At the moment, I
never received a few test messages to my Shortmail, so I wasnt able to test this integration. Even if I could tie it back into Gmail, this tie-in may only make sense for someone who receives an insane amount of inbound email and needs to place a restriction on the email flow immediately. And, third, Ive tried to convert inbound emails, both at work and personally, into action items. It boils down to asking, upon receiving each email: What is the action item? Its really hard for me to create this new habit, but Im trying. (I know there are many options in this category too many to list here such as Clear and Workflowy, among many others. Therefore, Ill just share what Ive been using and would be curious to know what works for you.) At work, weve been using Asana for nearly all nontechnical tasks. I love the web app, the soft blue hues of the software, and how lightweight it feels. Your team members can send tasks to your Inbox (either from within the app or by forwarding an email to Asana, which is powerful), and then you get to mark if its something that will be done today, or if its upcoming, or if its for later. For each task, your teammates who are following that
task can comment within the thread, and just that slight option actually reduces the amount of and size of correspondence around a task. The single best part of Asanas design is that you can control the order of your Taskbox and experience the satisfaction of marking a task as complete and then archiving it out of sight, out of mind. Id be lying if I said that our team doesnt go back into email for certain communications, but I have noticed that the number of emails has decreased, and that everyone knows what each other is working on. Adoption in the workplace is a bit easier since we all have to collaborate to get things done. Its early in the process, but so far, the net-net is positive. (Ive also been using Asanas iPhone app, which looks nice but mimics the interaction design of the Facebook iOS app, a design that reduces my desire to use it on the go.) For personal matters, Ive converted all of my to-do lists and tasks to Orchestra, a beautifully designed iPhone app that also has a web app. I had been using Google Tasks, which is really easy because it rests within Gmail, where all of my work flow is, so I had to strong-arm myself ASANA page 24
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Is a Google Phablet Next?

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 12:30:44 PM
Samsung has done it with the Galaxy Note, LG jumped on board today with the Optimus Vu: will Google and Motorola phollow in their phablet phootsteps? We wont know how the Vu holds up until Mobile World Congress in a weeks time, but already the phone/tablet hybrid segment is getting interesting. The lingering question is whether phablets are the standout form-factor of 2012 or merely a fad, and it could be Google and imminently-acquired Motorola Mobility that swing the decision one way or another. Google has been quiet on pen control for Android devices, but that doesnt mean it hasnt been thinking about it. Android 4.0 already includes support for stylus input, natively recognizing multibutton pens, taps, tilt/distance, pressure and more. Everything, in fact, youd need to create an artand handwriting-capable Android phone or tablet. Android 4.0 includes full support for stylus input events, including tilt and distance axes, pressure, and related motion event properties. To help applications distinguish motion events from different sources, the platform adds distinct tool types for stylus, finger, mouse, and eraser. For improved input from multi-button pointing devices, the platform now provides distinct primary,
secondary, and tertiary buttons, as well as back and forward buttons. Hover-enter and hover-exit events are also added, for improved navigation and accessibility. Developers can build on these new input features to add powerful interactions to their apps, such as precise drawing and gesturing, handwriting and shape recognition, improved mouse input, and others Google Android 4.0 Highlights Samsung and LG both with
devices currently running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, with custom pen support are yet to confirm whether theyll be switching over to ICS native stylus input system when the Galaxy Note and Optimus Vu make the leap to 4.0. But Google and its new hardware team at Motorola could easily put a Note/Vu rival together using native ICS code."Its possible that pens are a passing trend" Its possible that pens are a passing trend rather than
something which will stick. Samsung and LG are known for being fiercely competitive with each other; where one goes, the other usually follows, even if thats in a direction the rest of the industry is less convinced by. The Galaxy Note is certainly a niche device, but LG obviously decided it was a niche worthy enough to wade into itself. Still, the Optimus Vu presents a slightly different proposition: its display is squatter, wider than that
of the Note, using a 4:3 aspect panel like Apples iPad rather than the taller, narrower Samsung screen. In effect that means wider notepaper to write on, though its also worth remembering that Samsung still squeezes in more horizontal pixels: the LG screen is 768 pixels wide, versus the Galaxy Notes 800. Thatll have a small impact on how fine your handwritten text can be. GOOGLE page 27
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Great Acquisitions! Now Put a Fork in ERP

Contributor (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 1:26:01 PM
Editors note: Tien Tzuo is the CEO of Zuora, as well as the former chief strategy officer/chief marketing officer at salesforce.com. You can follow him on Twitter at@tientzuo. Everyone is applauding Oracle and SAPs cloud acquisitions RightNow, SuccessFactors, and now Taleo. But the biggest cheers are coming from SAP and Oracles cloud competitors, salesforce.com and Workday. Because with these acquisitions, Oracle and SAP have effectively validated the cloud and sounded the death knell for ERP ( enterprise resource planning). Why? Because SAP and Oracle are acquiescing to the cloud, yet they have no strategy to get their customers there. If SAP and Oracle were serious about the cloud, where are their big cloud solutions or visions for migrating customers? Consider SAP, the leader in ERP. SAP had supposedly bought into the cloud five years ago with SAP BusinessbyDesign. But there are only 1,000 BusinessbyDesign customers to date; thats less than
half of a percent of SAPs entire install base. Salesforce has over 100,000 customers last time I looked. So wheres SAPs NetSuite killer? How are they going to fend off Workday? Similarly, Oracle is the leader in the enterprise stack, but, when it comes to the cloud, it has acted like a follower. Oracles initial response to the popularity of cloud computing was to revert to the mainframe mindset with Oracle private clouds. Oracle should be reinventing its entire stack and look to provide the next generation platform for the enterprise. That position is open and available. Instead, it bought Taleo, an HR solution, and RightNow, yet another CRM solution. Why isnt Oracle offering a relationship database in the cloud? Or an app server in the cloud? Why isnt Exadata a true competitor to Amazon? That would be a true sign of Oracle really trying to be a leader. SAP and Oracle should be pushing innovative cloud solutions that cannibalize their bases. Instead, theyre attempting to acquire themselves into innovation. Thats not a strategy. Thats a shift into survival mode.
These kinds of deals have a history of backfiring on the deal makers. Weve seen this story before: an industry giant makes a strategic acquisition that causes a critical shift in perception of a nascent space. It happened when Siebel acquired Upshot and in turn validated salesforce.com. It happened when Yahoo acquired Broadcast.com and validated YouTube. It happened when Cisco acquired Pure Digital, propelling video as a standard feature on smart phones. I would argue that it happened when Time Warner acquired AOL and in turn validated the entire Internet economy. In each case, an industry leader first denies the relevance of a technology, then frets over losing marketshare to it, then finally spends big money to acquire it under the pretense that its the key to expanding innovation. Overnight, that technology is now worth far more in the eyes of customers and investors. But more importantly, the acquisition strategy failed in each case. Instead of leading the way, the deal makers never committed to the technology, and their actions usually helped open the door to a
whole new class of companies to take over. The bottom line is this: A series of cloud acquisitions wont help lumbering old ERP one bit. Acquiring cloud companies doesnt make you a cloud company any more than buying a Giants jersey makes you Eli Manning. Its not a strategy for an on-premise solutions company. Its an attempt to distract customers and hope they will forget about the ERP boat anchor theyre stuck with. The big ERP players had their day, but now its coming to an end. This is the classic Innovators Dilemma. For too long SAP and Oracle have watched the enterprise market innovate around them, stuck to their knitting and failed to adapt. The cloud technology wave has passed them by, and now its too late. Its time for SAP and Oracle to either accept that they need to adapt and go all cloud, or accept that they are going to go the way of the mainframe stuffed in the back closet. They wont die completely. Theyll just become irrelevant.
Why the Moon has no active volcanoes

Olivia Solon
Submitted at 2/19/2012 1:00:00 PM
A team of Dutch earth scientists - lead by Mirjam van Kan Parker and Wim van Westrenen from VU University Amsterdam -- have now identified the likely reason for the lack of volcanic activity: the hot, molten rock contained within the Moon's interior could be so dense that it is too heavy to rise to the surface. The team came to this conclusion by producing microscopic copies of moon rock collected by the Apollo missions and melting them at extremely high pressures and temperatures, similar to those found inside the moon. They then measured their densities with powerful X-rays generated at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. By: Olivia Solon, Edited by: Duncan Geere Continue reading...
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Single-atom transistor built with precise control

Martin LaMonica (CNET News)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 12:00:00 PM
Seeking to keep Moore's Law on pace, researchers have developed a repeatable technique for assembling a single-atom version of the transistor--the building block of semiconductors and computers. Researchers were able to make a single-atom transistor with a scanning tunneling microscope that includes the single red phosphorous atom and electrical leads for control gates and electrodes. Researchers are getting down to the atomic level in the pursuit of smaller and more powerful computers. The University of South Wales in Australia today announced it has made a single-atom transistor using a repeatable method, a development that could lead to computing devices that use these tiny building blocks. About two years ago, a team of researchers from the Helsinki University of Technology, the University of South Wales, and the University of Melbourne in Australia announced the creation of a single-atom transistor designed around a single phosphorus atom in silicon. Now a new paper published in the journal "Nature
Nanotechnology" describes a technique for making this type of transistor with very precise control. That opens up the possibility that the method can be automated and single-atom transistors could be manufactured, according to the group at the University of New South Wales. "The thing that's unique about the work that we've done is that we have, with atomic precision, positioned this single atom within our device," said Martin Fuechsle from the lab. That level of control is important in order to fabricate
the other components, including control gates and electrodes, needed for a working transistor, the building block of microprocessors and computers. The lab members used a scanning tunneling microscope to manipulate atoms at the surface of a silicon crystal. Then with a lithographic process, they laid phosphorous atoms onto the silicon substrate. "Our group has proved that it is really possible to position one phosphorus atom in a silicon environment--exactly as we need
it--with near-atomic precision, and at the same time register gates," Fuechsle said in a statement. Work on alternatives to traditional microprocessor designs has been going on for years to maintain the pace of Moore's Law, which predicts that the number of transistors on a semiconductor doubles every 18 months. Intel last year announced it would start using threedimensional transistors for its 22nanometer process, a move designed to avoid the leakage of
current that occurs at this very small scale. Other groups have pursued carbon nanotubes or graphene rather than silicon in the pursuit of miniaturization. The University of New South Wales team hopes that its method of manipulating at the atomic scale can form the basis for quantum computers, machines that use the effects of quantum mechanics, specifically the spin of electrons around an atom, to represent digital information. SINGLE-ATOM page 25
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AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note LTE on sale now

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app allows for sketching directly onto images and clips. Otherwise, theres a 1.5GHz dual Samsungs Galaxy Note has gone -core processor, LTE connectivity up for sale on AT&T in LTE form as well as HSPA+ for when today, offering stylus-loving youre out of true 4G coverage, Android fans an oversized phablet WiFi, Bluetooth, an 8-megapixel to play with. Priced at $299.99 1080p HD capable camera and a with a new, two-year agreement, sizable 2,500 mAh battery that we t h e A T & T G a l a x y N o t e i s found capable of lasting more available in ceramic white or than a full day. AT&T is also carbon blue, each having a 5.3- offering the S-Pen Holder Kit, a inch 1280 x 800 capacitive $29 accessory that makes the touchscreen and a Wacom-based standard stylus thicker and more digital pen. easily held, and the $20 USB Host S a m s u n g h a s c u s t o m i z e d adapter. Story Timeline Android 2.3 Gingerbread not only Samsung Galaxy Note Review with its own TouchWiz UI, but on Nov 4th 2011 some stylus-specific apps and Samsung Galaxy Note LTE features. Tapping the display with revealed for AT&T on Jan 9th the pens button pressed triggers a 2012 screenshot that can be annotated, AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note while theres a new Memo app for LTE hands-on on Jan 9th 2012 handwritten notes, drawings and AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note clippings from webpages. A LTE in white hands-on on Jan preloaded photo and video editing 14th 2012
AT&T Galaxy Note LTE hits stores Feb 19 for $300 on Jan 30th 2012 Samsung's Galaxy Note will star in company's first-ever Super Bowl ad on Jan 31st 2012 AT&T Galaxy Note LTE up for pre-order on Feb 6th 2012
Samsung Galaxy Note coming soon in Berry Pink on Feb 10th 2012 Galaxy Note for AT&T Review on Feb 16th 2012 With the Galaxy Note going on sale in the US today, LGs timing
revealing the Optimus Vu earlier feels all the more deliberate. Like the Galaxy Note, the Vu has a stylus and a large display 5inches on the LG, though 4:3 aspect and targets those who want to use their phone as a memo device too. LG, though, is yet to announce US availability for the Optimus Vu. For all the details on the AT&T Galaxy Note, check out our full review. AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note LTE demo: AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note LTE on sale now is written by Chris Davies& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
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to bring everything over to Orchestra. After I did, I realized it was worth the effort. The software design makes it feel as if Im being more productive, which in turn motivates me to complete tasks faster and faster. I can now dictate my tasks into the Orchestra app, and see them update on the web in real-time. Ill even go so far to say that
Orchestra, as a native iOS application, is one of the allaround slickest pieces of software Ive seen on the iPhone platform. Ive been trying to take each email and ask, What is the action item from this thread?, and then determine if it makes the cut into Orchestra. Although Orchestra has robust tools for delegating and managing the tasks of others, I
havent used it personally in that sense yet. While its provided a productivity boost for me personally, I still have to go back to email to announce that other tasks have been completed, though Im enjoying Orchestra much more than Google Tasks. Im resigned to believe that until I win the lottery, Ill be checking my email constantly, and that Ill
continue to have to monitor it because its the best channel out there. Therefore, the only thing I can do to exert a bit more control is to ask of every email that comes in. Im trying to train my brain to do that, but after using email for two decades, it turns out the switching costs are really complicated. Thats why we feel were drowning in a swirling sea
of emails, and why products such as Asana and Orchestra provide me with a makeshift raft and navigation device. Heres hoping we all make it safely to shore. Photo Credit: Creative Commons Flickr / Daehyun Park
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How Virgin Atlantic's birthday e-mail stabbed me in the heart

Chris Matyszczyk (CNET News)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 11:58:06 AM
Some companies are very fond of sending customers birthday emails. Virgin Atlantic, however, sent me one that called me a very sad name and questioned whether my parents had ever wanted me at all. Recently, I experienced a birthday. Thank you, you shouldn't have. Oh, wait, you didn't. Birthdays mean bracing yourself for cards and e-mails from your family, ex-lovers, and people who want something from you. Companies who want you to buy things, for example. Starbucks always anticipates my birthday early. The company sends me a postcard two weeks before, so that I can be sure to claim my exciting free birthday drink. Virgin Atlantic, on the other hand, believes it should send me an e-mail. It is all part of Virgin's
"we're nicer and cooler than the others" attitude, although it does seem slightly dated. Some of these corporate birthday e-mails I don't even bother opening. But I like Virgin Atlantic. It's Upper Class pods are delightful. Its staff are human beings from the remaining nice parts of the U.K.. So I opened this one, only to receive a slap in the
face and a reason to question my mother. For it read: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ERROR, FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT VIRGIN." Frankly, I have cried a little every day since. Not merely because I am older, but because I had always suspected that I had been a touch unwanted. My parents had always told me I
Naturally, I could be overreacting. Perhaps my real birth name, the one on my passport--Krzysztof--somehow slipped its software, leaving it only to belch an error message. Or perhaps it was something else. I haven't dared to ask the company. But I write this in the hope that other forlorn children might have received a similar birthday e-mail. We can work through this together. I know we can. It isn't going to be easy, though. We need to form a support group. Please, um, e-mail me. w a s i n c o m p r e h e n s i b l e a n d This entry passed through the peculiar. They sometimes looked Full-Text RSS service if this is u p o n m e w i t h a p i t y i n g your content and you're reading it expression, the sort given by on someone else's site, please read pedestrians to men who walk the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentdown the street and warn of the only/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to end of the world. Now here was Virgin Atlantic, Wikileaks. going beyond even Google's ability to snoop around my life, to confirm my most pained fears.
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"This individual position (of a phosphorus atom in silicon) is really important...because it turns out that if you want to have precise control at this level, you need to position individual atoms with atomic precision with respect
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Former Grenada PM George Brizan dies at 69 (AP)

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of Grenada's ruling party, has died in his Caribbean homeland. He was 69.
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iPad 3 leak tips sleeker edges and 8MP camera

Submitted at 2/19/2012 10:03:17 AM
Salt at the ready, but according to the latest rumors youre looking at the rear panel of the new third-gen iPad, complete with a larger lens for whats tipped to be an 8megapixel iPad 3 camera. The leaked component shows less of a taper to the edges, while the sources revealing it to Taiwanese language Apple Daily also claim that it will have a significant step up in rear camera quality from the current iPad 2. In fact, the new rear camera will supposedly offer eight times the pixels of the existing 1-megapixel iPad 2. Thats a considerable increase matching the iPhone 4S - especially given tablet owners are more reluctant to use their slates for photography than they are with their phones. Still, adopting the same camera unit as in the iPhone if, that is, the rumor is true, and indeed if the two components are the same then Apple could perhaps leverage economies of scale by reducing the number of different parts it has to order.
larger battery, new LCD on Feb 8th 2012 Apple picking iPad 3 showcase apps in final launch prep on Feb 10th 2012 iPad 3's biggest boost will be its massive resolution on Feb 10th 2012 iPad 3 announcement dated, details rounded up on Feb 13th 2012 Apple iPad 3 will have 4G LTE compatibility on Feb 13th 2012 Siri update may be for iPad 3 on Feb 14th 2012 iPad 3 buyers don't care about price on Feb 17th 2012 iPad 3 Retina Display allegedly confirmed on Feb 17th 2012 As for the rest of the specs, were hearing the same as in recent weeks. The biggest change is tipped to be the display itself, a so -called Retina Panel running at 2048 x 1536 resolution; leaked images purportedly showing the panel under the microscope were caught online last week. Theres also said to be a faster Apple A6 processor with an improved GPU to handle all those new pixels, LTE connectivity for compatible data networks, and a bigger battery to make sure runtimes dont suffer from the spec-boost. Apple is expected to hold an iPad 3/iPad 2S event exact naming isnt known yet in the first week of next month, on March 7. Story Timeline iPad 2S up next, iPad 3 pushed back on Jan 19th 2012 iPad 3 component suggests [ via AppAdvice] iPad 3 leak tips sleeker edges and 8MP camera is written by Chris Davies& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Anatomic Tights Black Milk Clothing Makes You Look Ripped (TrendHunter.com)
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Chisora released after questioning over Haye brawl

Submitted at 2/19/2012 1:13:17 PM
British heavyweight Dereck Chisora was released Sunday after nearly seven hours of questioning by police following his brawl with former WBA champion David Haye at a post-fight news conference.
Dreaming of dry sheets: All about bedwetting [infographic]

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consider. Here are just some examples of female leaders who are savvy about digital innovation, customer experience and hypergrowth. Ive listed talent with experience from larger companies, as startups are generally less able to share their talent: Allison Johnson, former VP Global Marketing Comm, Apple Anne Raimondi, VP Marketing, SurveyMonkey Amy Chang, Head of Global Product, Ads Measurement, Google Barbara Messing, CMO, Tripadvisor Caterina Fake, Founder, Pinwheel; cofounder, Flickr and Hunch
Carolyn Everson, VP, Global Marketing Solutions, Facebook Heather Harde, former CEO, TechCrunch Jennifer Bailey, VP WW online stores, Apple Jessica Herrin, CEO/founder, Stella & Dot Jessica Steel, EVP of Business & Corporate Development, Pandora Joanne Bradford, Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer, Demand Media Julie Bornstein, SVP, Sephora Digital Katie Jacobs Stanton, Head of International Strategy, Twitter Kerry Wharton Cooper, CMO, Modcloth; ex VP eCommerce, Walmart.com Lori Goler, VP of People and
Recruiting, Facebook; ex marketing, eBay Marissa Mayer, VP of Local, Maps and Location Services, Google Raji Arasu, VP of Technology, eBay Selina Tobaccowala, VP of Product and Engineering, SurveyMonkey Stephanie Tilenius, Global Commerce Strategy, Google Tina Sharkey, Chairman and Global President, BabyCenter [ image via Flickr/Bill McChesney]
Double-Eyed Cat Campaigns - The Pet Show Pet Food Ads by Hermandad are Dizzying (TrendHunter.com)
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As for who else might follow the Korean companies, the phablet market is still very much uncertain. HTC has experimented with pen input itself, though on its tablets rather than smartphones. The HTC Flyer beat the Galaxy Note to market, but struggled thanks to less precise digital inking. Its meatier stylus also lacked a place to dock into the Flyer itself, too, something even Palm many years ago couldve told you was essential. After all, if the pen is even slightly tricky to carry, youre unlikely to bother taking it with you. The HTC Jetstream, meanwhile, was priced
out of contention, though theres talk of a Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet from Samsung next week. Motorola has been arguably the least experimentative of all the major Android players it has alltouch phones, QWERTY phones, and a couple of sizes of tablets so far, a side-effect perhaps of its tightened focus after years of spreading its ambitions (and resources) too thin. With Google taking the reins, and access to the core Android engineering staff, that period of reticence could be over. A Google Nexus phablet might be too much out of left field for the companys traditional own
-brand purposes, but like the original XOOM, arguably positioned as a Nexus device in all but name a Motorola phablet could well be used to showcase Android 4.xs native stylus skills and highlight its abilities over and above iOS. Take Our Poll Is a Google Phablet Next? is written by Chris Davies& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Blurred Retro Shoots - The Querelle Jansen Editorial for Exit Magazine is Striking (TrendHunter.com)
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( TrendHunter.com) The Querelle Jansen editorial is fresh and
striking. Exit magazine's sensual shoot featured in the latest issue captures the model sporting the collection labeled Pringle of Scotland. Model Querelle...
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Greek CDS to Trigger in March

legislation next week on so-called collective action clauses, with the aim of forcing a minority of holdout investors to take losses Submitted at 2/19/2012 12:02:00 PM Whether or not Greece stays in of around 70 per cent on their the Eurozone and for how long is holdings. still debatable, but Greek CDS The debt swap would offer contracts are set to trigger next bondholders a cash sweetener of month after Greek parliament 10-15 per cent of their holdings, retroactively inserts collective plus new 30-year bonds with a action clauses (CACs) forcing all coupon of around 3.75 per cent, debt-holders to participate in the which could increase if Greece next deal. achieves higher than forecast B e a r i n m i n d t h a t f o r c e d growth rates restructuring is the trigger, not the An Athens banker with insertion of the CAC language k n o w l e d g e o f t h e s w a p itself. negotiations said the size of the The Financial Times reports cash payment and the final noreply@blogger.com (Ad Greece sets date for 200bn debt interest rate would be set by ServeRSS) (AdServRSS Feed) swap eurozone officials ahead of Greece plans to launch a debt Mondays meeting of finance Your gift to provide seeds, tools, swap next month for private ministers. Default Ducks Lined and training will be multiplied 4 bondholders as part of a second Up times by grant funds, and can 130bn bail-out expected to be As noted earlier, the ECB will get mean the difference between life approved on Monday by eurozone preferential treatment on its and death for hungry children. finance ministers, a government bonds, exchanging them at par. official said on Saturday. After the swap, the ducks will The official said the swap, which then be lined up for the Troika to would cover 200bn of Greek find some excuse to deny Greece sovereign debt, would take place payments or request still more between March 8 and March 11, austerity measures that Greek only days before Athens is due to politicians refuse to go along repay a 14.4bn bond maturing on with. In theory, the Greek mess March 20. could fester for years, I just highly A s a f i r s t s t e p t o w a r d s doubt it will. completing the deal, the Greek A hard default will not be as parliament is set to pass disorderly as most claim,
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especially from the point of view of the rest of the Eurozone. There are only $3.2 billion or so Net CDS Contracts still floating around, a trivial number these days. I have seen reports as low as $2.8 billion. Last month it was $4 billion. Greece is in a hopeless situation until it exits the Eurozone. German officials seems to have figured that out even if the Eurocrats have not. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
Jane Austen fans will tell you each reading of her books reveals something new, and while some may suspect theyre merely indulging in Mr. Darcy fantasies, science now shows its actually good for ones mental health to reread those beloved volumes. 'By doing it again, people get more out of it,' says author Cristel Antonia Russell of American University. 'Even though people are already familiar with the stories or the places, reconsuming brings new or renewed appreciation of both the object of consumption and their self.' The same can be said of watching a movie again and again, as well as revisiting a favorite vacation spot, so while others may laugh at your comfort zone, in this one case, doing what feels good is also good for you. Full story at Daily Mail via The Mary Sue. Your ticket to indulge. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink| Leave a comment
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The Volcker Rule: A User's Manual

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Submitted at 2/19/2012 12:47:23 PM
macroandcheese.org The Volcker Rule, named for the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve credited with taming inflation in the early 1980s, is a specific section of the DoddFrank Act that was signed into law on July 21, 2010. Although the Dodd-Frank Act is now law, the Volcker Rule is not slated to be implemented until July 21, 2012, on the two-year anniversary of the original bill. This entry provides a brief overview of the Volcker Rule and its key statutes, including what entities are impacted, which bank trading activities will be prohibited, the measures that will be required for compliance, and the implementation timeline. This explanation frequently references the original document itself, with specific citations sourced with the relevant page(s) provided in parentheses. The original document can be found here: http://www.sec.gov/rules/ proposed/2011/34-65545.pdf What is the Volcker Rule? The Volcker Rule (VR) is an addendum to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The VR runs 298 pages. Its intent is to prohibit commercial banks from engaging in proprietary trading according to a limited, prescribed definition (see below). The VR does not prohibit banks from
trading altogether, although it will require banks to document all trades that are not exempted, and to demonstrate that these trades follow procedures as mandated. The VR will be overseen by five separate government entities, including the Federal Reserve, SEC, CFTC, FDIC, and OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.) What is the Dodd-Frank Act? The Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) was enacted to carry out financial reform measures in response to the financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009. The intent of the bill was to reform the financial system, including some consolidation of regulatory agencies, consumer protection measures, broader supervision of the financial system by the Federal Reserve, and increased supervision of hedge funds. The Volcker Rule was added to the DFA at the request of President Barrack Obama. What institutions are affected by the VR? All banking institutions in the United States and their affiliates, including overseas bank branches, would be bound by the VR. In addition, the VR would cover all foreign banks maintaining operations in the United States. Non-bank financial institutions such as hedge funds or insurance companies would not be affected. Brokerages and investment banks would also not be subject to the VR, although the largest of the
investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley agreed to become banking institutions during the financial crisis and would now be covered. What is the VR definition of proprietary trading? The VR definition is as follows: Proprietary trading means engaging as principal for the trading account of the covered banking entity in any purchase or sale of one or more covered financial positions. Proprietary trading does not include acting solely as agent, broker, or custodian for an affiliated third party. (p. 390) The VR goes on to provide a specific definition of trading account, namely an account that trades for short-term resale; benefitting fromshort-term price movements; realizing shortterm arbitrage profits; and hedgingpositions. The VR adds that positions held for 60 days or less will be generally deemed to be trading positions. This definition effectively allows banks to maintain investment accounts for longer-term investments. However, the VR permits regulators to designate any account as a trading account as they see fit. The VR also defines covered position in a very specific manner, namely (A) a security, including an option on a security; (B) a derivative, including an option on a derivative; (C) a contract of sale of a commodity
for future delivery, or option on a contract of sale of a commodity for future delivery. The definition specifies that loans, commodities, and foreign exchange are excluded from the VR (p. 394). What activities are not covered financial positions and are therefore acceptable? In addition to loan, commodity, and foreign exchange transactions, the VR also permits trading in government securities (including agencies, securities issued by individual states and cities, etc.), underwriting and market-making provided the transactions are affiliated with specific customer needs, and any trade in which the bank is acting as agent (broker) rather than as principal. Does the VR impose other restrictions besides proprietary trading? Yes, under the VR, US banks will not be allowed to own interests in hedge funds exceeding 3% of the total value of the equity, and will not be allowed to sponsor hedge or private equity funds. The VR also prohibits transactions that represent a material conflict of interest between the bank and its clients, bank exposure to high-risk assets or trading strategies, or activities that jeopardize the safety and soundness of the covered banking entity, or the financial stability of the United States. (p.411)
None of backstop restrictions are defined in detail and are subject to the judgment of federal banking agencies. How will banks comply with the VR? Banks will be responsible for monitoring of and compliance with the VR. As stated in the VR, the banks written policies and procedures must clearly articulate and document a comprehensive explanation of how the mission and strategy of each trading unit, and its related risk levels, comply with this part. (p. 487) Additionally, banks are required to identify which activities are covered, and if so, to document in detail how covered transactions are being properly managed and monitored in accordance with the VR. Why is compliance with the VR considered to be complicated? Applying the VR in many cases is straightforward. It will be possible for banks to trade US treasury bonds for their own account, for example, but not securities such as stocks or stock options. However, due to the complexity of financial instruments and to the comprehensive nature of bank market-making activity, compliance will be challenging. To distinguish market-making from proprietary trading, for example, regulators will apply five specific factors in making VOLCKER page 32
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Guest Post: Our Tolerance For Fashionable Deception

Tyler Durden
Submitted at 2/19/2012 12:48:04 PM
Submitted by Ben Tanosborn Our Tolerance For Fashionable Deception Nothing appears as ugly as unmasked raw propaganda, or seems as fashionable as wellcrafted deception. Yet, the catwalk for both forms of propaganda is one and the same, deception wearing the most titillating togs provided by the top fashion house, the House of Public Relations. And the deceptive PR isnt limited to multinational firms or businesses in general; it is part and parcel of our daily existence, having infiltrated most if not all institutions, totally poisoning politics, and eroding away whatever little honesty might still be left in our elected officials. During the past century we have seen the transformation of the raw epithet known as propaganda, and all its implied vilification, to that of an accepted social science with full academic accreditation, unashamedly sitting at the same table with all reputable and timehonored professions. We, members of society, have swallowed lock, stock and barrel the presumed need by notable individuals and institutions to receive help from specialized
professionals to show us all the good things about them, their positive contribution to society. But much of what we get is tainted with deceit. From press releases to the practice of damage control, public relations, the pseudo-science, is there more often than not ready to deceive us all. The alchemy of spinning factoids into facts, the use of euphemisms and constant truth cherry-picking, has reached such degree of sophistication that we are, as individuals, no longer able to discern fact from fiction. Yet, the one place we should be looking for help to unravel deception from truth, the government, is often complicit with those engaged in the deception that is, when not being the source of the deception itself. Now, to further complicate matters, we have entered the age of Internet-mediated PR! Americans have been victims some might argue, beneficiaries of three grand deceptions during the past three generations, in all cases having the government as either the deceiver or co-deceiver; the very instrument for the capitalist entrenched power. One of the three grand deceptions has to do with the very defense of predatory capitalism, a system we are told to equate with democracy and our very constitutional
freedoms. That supreme deception has allowed the buildup of an imperial military, and permitted Americas unchallenged interference in the affairs of other sovereign nations. But the deception involved in the creation of this imperial might is something that for now we might as well set aside and concentrate on the other two, housing and jobs, where maybe we still have a chance to confront deceit head-on, debunking old myths; one which will force the long term planning of education and employment without punishing and impoverishing three-quarters of the nations population. Of the two, the most visual, one playing a key role in the economic predicament in which we find ourselves today is real estate, and the much touted American Dream an invention of those holding the money and power to convince the working men and women in America of both capitalisms virtues and the sanctity of private property over anything the commons we as a people might demand in an equitable society. What has been viewed as shelter traditionally, a roof over our heads for the most part, has changed via deceit to the need for a sacrosanct mortgagedownership which became not just symbolically but de facto a
magical investment instrument, a source of non-existent wealth. Bricks and mortar placed over a few feet of land made us all smart and enterprising capitalists. Renting was relegated to the very poor, those who would yet have to earn their diplomas to enter the house-owning capitalist class. All of this was done through deceit and the creation of inane tax subsidies which only went to help an inefficient and blotted industry, Any comprehensive analysis to determine what makes sense for an individual, whether to rent or to own the shelter they occupy, should yield a clear result if for no other reason than the fixed nature of the asset. Renting is, has always been, and is likely to be, the most logical decision when properly assigning a value, a negative value, to its immobility. What many of us have been saying for decades, definitely not a mainstream chant, is now gaining converts to reason, and that is for other than psychic reasons affordable if you have the income or wealth to waste it does make financial sense to rent instead of own the house where you live. I was just reading about a Johnny -come-lately convert to this point of view, an adjunct professor in
personal finance at Berkeley, Rich Arzaga, founder and CEO of Cornerstone Wealth Management, who appears not to feel professional embarrassment when admitting he lost 35 percent in the value of his home he bought 7 years ago. Nice to have a convert, but one would think that most people would think twice before taking a class from him, or have him manage their money! As for the other grand deception, the impoverishment of most Americans as a consequence of globalization, it is a subject that neither the government nor the capitalist curia running the United States is willing to tackle, keeping their dirty secrets behind chambers. Three big deceptions or lies have been perpetrated on the American citizenry: the need for an imperial military; the fantasy of the American Dream; and the need to immerse the country in overnight globalization without acknowledging or planning for possible consequences. Did Hitler have it right when he said that the great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one? Apparently, we in America have. Average: Your rating: None Average: 5( 3 GUEST page 31
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of anything from office, business and farm machinery to, yes, real estate. . But really, its there. I cant Self-Serving Accounting imagine how the accounting rules Theres been an ongoing row can bury this debt. Im amazed a b o u t c h a n g e s i n l e a s e there a is even any debate, after accounting. Big players in the all we've been through. The leasing industry (think GE) have conclusion that it could cost 190k been fighting the changes tooth- jobs and $28b annually might be and-nail. This article had some correct. I would like to see a i n t e r e s t i n g d a t a o n t h e different report. What is the cost c o n s e q u e n c e s o f t h e n e w (in both jobs and money) of accounting rules: allowing phony accounting to Consulting firm Chang & Adams persist? A few years ago we were found that proposed standards for measuring this in the Trillions. lease accounting will result in an We still are. increase in total reported debt Self-Serving Forecasts l i a b i l i t i e s o f $ 1 . 5 t r i l l i o n ; This week the Fed came out with increased costs of $10.2 billion its consensus forecast of inflation annually; job losses of over for the next three years. No 190,000; and a lowered GDP of surprises, the Fed governors $27.5 billion annually. believe that inflation is a non$1.5 trillion is a hell of a lot of event: money to suddenly appear on the Im not sure if the Fed is trying to balance sheet of these lessors, for fool us with this very tame view that reason alone I expect that the of inflation. But the Fed is not new rules will be watered down. fooling the market. The Ten-Year No one wants to see another T I P S / B o n d s p r e a d i s n o w $1.5T of debt exposed those days. forecasting inflation at 2.3%. From the C&A report: Thats the highest reading in the Essentially, the standards will past six-months. Maybe the Fed require tenants to place leases on folks are just kidding themselves. t h e i r b a l a n c e s h e e t s a n On Money Laundering enormous line item that consists Another big step has been taken
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in the global effort to control the use of money. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has adopted new regulation to control money laundering. FATF is a policy setting body that is comprised of thirty-six countries, including the EU, Switzerland, Russia, China and the USA. Its difficult to find fault with this new effort. Its directed at terrorist financing and other illegal activities. Most interesting to me, the new rules bring tax evasion within the scope of global money laundering: Expanding the scope of money laundering predicate offenses by including tax crimes. By accepting the new standards, the US has significantly upped the consequences for tax evasion. Tax evasion brings with it a range of penalties and fines that include jail time for some. The rules on money laundering are much harsher. FATF will give the authorities a big excuse to go looking for taxcheats. They will also have expanded capacities (surveillance/ monitoring of accounts) to seek out and find those cheats: More effective international cooperation including exchange
of information between relevant authorities, conduct of joint investigations, and tracing, freezing and confiscation of assets. Better operational tools and a wider range of techniques and powers, both for the financial intelligence units, and for law enforcement to investigate and prosecute money laundering. It can be argued that were all better off when Big Brother can easily dig through financial records. It would be foolish to think that it doesnt also come with an enormous cost. Note: FATF has provided an estimate of the global illegal activity. They think it could be as high as 5% of total GDP. Ahhh. 5% means $3 Trillion in the $60T global economy. For the USA, 5% of GDP comes to $750 Billion. That's a hell of lot of criminal activity. If FATF were able to achieve their objective of eliminating this activity, it would bring about a global depression greater than that seen in the 30s. Go figure. Update on the Nations 31st Largest Bank The Federal Financing Bank has
been hard at work over the past sixty days since my last report. Some highlights: These results are consistent will all the other monthly reports from the FFB since Obama took office. The Administration is conducting a back-door stimulus and an interventionist industrial policy. Its financing this with off-federal -balance-sheet-financing, in lieu of funds appropriated by Congress. This article from the Fiscal Times is just another in a long list of how the folks getting this money are connected one way or another to the Administration. This bank will make headlines at some point during the Presidential campaign. . Average: Your rating: None Average: 3( 2 votes) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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their determination. These factors are:
program requires that banking entities establish, maintain, and enforce an effective compliance Risk-Management program, consisting of written Source-of-Revenues policies and procedures, internal Revenue Relative to Risk controls, a management Customer-Facing Activity framework, independent testing, Payment of Fees, Commissions, training, and recordkeeping. and Spreads (p.479) Appendix C lays out in considerable detail what will be The definitions and descriptions required and runs 23 pages, from run 14 pages of the VR (pp. 450- pp. 479-502. The VR holds senior 464). The application of these and intermediate management factors is quantitative in nature accountable for the effective a n d r e q u i r e s e x t e n s i v e implementation of the program, measurement and record-keeping and requires that the banks board on an ongoing basis. Since of directors and CEO review the regulators will be applying these program for efficacy. rules to banking activities, the What is the VR timeline? banks themselves will of course As mentioned, the VR need to make their determination implementation date is July 21, in the same manner. 2012. Banks will be required to W h a t a r e t h e c o m p l i a n c e implement a full compliance measures to be implemented by program capable of monitoring all banks? banking activities by that date. As detailed in Appendix C of the However, there will be a two-year VR, a minimal bank compliance conformance period by which
banks will be expected to bring their activities within compliance. In other words, banks will have a two-year grace period during which they can bring their operations to conformity. In addition, at the discretion of the Federal Reserve, individual banks may be granted three one-year extensions beyond the initial grace period. Full implementation by all banks much be achieved by July 21, 2017. Average: Your rating: None Average: 1( 1 vote) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
The Top Stock In The Russell 3000 Also Runs The World's Largest Sex Dating Site (FFN)
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Submitted at 2/19/2012 10:57:30 AM
Hack Ikea Storage Baskets into a Crafting Table [Ikea Hacks]

David Galloway (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 11:00:00 AM
In our latest update to the 2012 " dash for trash" theme, we look at FriendFinder Networks. FriendFinder serves over 528 million registrants and operates popular social networking and dating sites including F r i e n d F i n d e r . c o m , PerfectMatch.com, AsiaFriendFinder.com, SeniorFriendFinder.com, AdultFriendFinder.com, Amigos.com and BigChurch.com. According to its website, AdultFriendFinder.com has over 41 million members and is the "world's largest sex dating site & swinger personals community." Dating websites are expected to grow at a 7.2 percent annualized rate, says Marketdata, Last May, FriendFinder Networks' IPO was priced at $10 per share. But the stock disappointed investors, closing 2011 at a measly $0.75. However, since the beginning of the year, the stock has soared 210% to $2.33, making it the top performer in the Russell 3000
Index (h/t Bespoke Investment Group). Only five other stocks have more than doubled this year. Here's a table of the top Russell 3000 stocks courtesy of Bespoke Investment Group: Please follow Clusterstock on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: Another Chinese Stock Gets Destroyed After The Dreaded "Strong Sell" From Muddy Waters 106 Year-Old Irving Kahn Is Still Investing In The Stock Market In 2012, This Is What A Good Financial Stock Will Look Like
If you need a table for sewing or other crafts you can inexpensively create a table with storage by
Amon table top. This will give you a sturdy surface for crafting with ample storage for around $60. More attaching two Ikea Antonius frame and wire baskets to a Vika
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When Will This Gas Price Chart Finally Reverse Itself?

Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 12:45:00 PM
From the early '90s until the late '90s, the stock market steadily outstripped gas prices. As we predicted early last week, Since then it's been basically everyone is talking about gas been the reverse, so that one prices today. "share" of the S&P 500 today gets It's the how new meme: Will gas you the same number of gallons prices be the thing that suffocates of gas as you got in the early 90s. this economy? It's a depressing trend. We'll pass on making a guess. You'd like to see stocks (which But we thought it'd be a good represent human value creation) time to update one of our favorite grow at a faster clip than a charts: The S&P 500 divided by commodity, which just sits there. the cost of an average gallon of For the average person, it means gasoline. their investments aren't growing It's kind of beautiful. faster than a basic cost they see
every day. the trend of gasoline prices over And for a little more perspective, the last couple of decades. here's the same chart alongside Please follow Money Game on the price of a gallon of gas -- blue Twitter and Facebook. dotted line -- just so you can see Join the conversation about this
story See Also: SEAN DARBY: 'The Consensus Has Underestimated How Competitive The US Economy Has Become' CITI: Expensive Stocks Can Be Cheaper Than Cheap Stocks CITI: Here Are 3 Sectors That Will Beat Estimates This Earnings Season
Top 5 Love Lies

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women to make all of their romantic dreams come true, based on the premise that men are Submitted at 2/19/2012 3:00:12 AM natural hunters, seeking out When Ellen Fein filed for divorce desirable women like prey. in 2001, the media pounced on the Akin to strict diets and fitness p r o c e e d i n g s [ s o u r c e : regimens, "The Rules" edicts Tresniowski]. And who could didn't leave much room for blame them? A self-proclaimed cheating, either: A woman should love expert calling it quits in the never call a man she's interested relationship department makes for in, period [source: The Rules irresistible headline fodder. Six Book]. A guy who wants to go years earlier, Fein and best friend Dutch on a date might as well just Shelly Schneider had co-authored go home [source: The Rules the runaway hit "The Rules," Book]. And if a boyfriend hasn't which promised surefire ways for proposed marriage after a year of
dating, a savvy gal should move on, pronto [source: The Rules Book]. In short, don't court him, he'll court you. Despite selling more than 1 million copies, "The Rules" left plenty of people skeptical [source: Bittman]. Could long-term romance really be bound by immutable laws? Considering that Fein's own path toward remarriage in 2008 broke one of her cardinal rules (she dated her husband for three years before marriage), the idea that there are must-dos in dating is arguably a
myth [source: Brady]. And pop principles about love aren't the only axioms on the chopping block. According to the following five love lies, even conventional wisdom about happily-ever-after may not be so spot-on. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Image Gallery: Landing on Mars

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[unable to retrieve full-text content] Ten years ago, NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft began its mission to map the Red Planet, while also relaying communication between rovers on the surface. What does it take to land a vehicle on Mars?
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Shirtless Channing Tatum Lets Loose With Jonah Hill in Australia

Katie Henry (PopSugar)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 11:17:14 AM
The REAL Scariest Jobs Chart Ever

Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 12:36:35 PM
You've definitely seen this chart from Calculated Risk, which we've posted several times, and dubbed the Scariest Jobs Chart Ever. Of course, this is just post-WWII recessions. Well, Calculated Risk has published another version comparing the Great Recession -the current red line -- vs. the Great Depression. That's the real scariest jobs chart ever.
Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: The American Energy Revolution IS ON! A Few Areas Of The Economy Where Jobs Are Growing Like Wildfire THE JOBS REPORT CRUSHES EXPECTATIONS AT 243K, UNEMPLOYMENT FALLS TO 8.3%
Shirtless Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill made a splash on Sydney's world famous Bondi Beach today. The 21 Jump Street stars are kicking off their international promotional tour and have plans to host a screening for their Australian fans tomorrow night. The film, opening March 16, is already getting rave reviews from critics in the States, and it's really no surprising since both Channing and Jonah are at the top of their game. Channing's coming off The Vow's major box office success. The film earned the number one spot last weekend, broke records on Valentine's Day, and is currently poised to take the top slot for the second weekend in a row. Jonah, on the other hand, is also having amazing career
Jessica Alba Spends a Sunny Afternoon With Her Loved Ones

success, and recently earned his first Oscar nomination for his supporting role in Moneyball- be sure to fill out your 2012 Oscar ballot for a chance to win an iPad 2 16GB Wi-Fi and Prada case! The guys seem to be enjoying their trip Down Under, but they'll be back in LA in just a few short days so Jonah can prep for the Feb. 26 Academy Awards celebration. View Slideshow
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Jessica Alba and Cash Warren found a cozy patch of grass at an LA park yesterday and spent the afternoon relaxing with their daughters Honor and Haven. The girls were all dressed in navy for the family outing, though earlier in the week Jessica modeled a sexy turquoise dress during a Fashion Week appearance. Jessica was seated in the front row at Michael Kors's Fall 2012 presentation with fellow actresses Amber Heard, Paula Patton, Debra Messing, and Angelica Houston. Fashion followers, Nick Squires (Finance News of Courmayeur, two months after stylists, and designers moved on Business news from the UK and a s i m i l a r r a i d o n a n o t h e r to London for the next crop of world) playground of the rich, Cortina shows, but it looks like Jessica's happy to sit this round out in d'Ampezzo. Submitted at 2/19/2012 1:00:48 PM order to spend more time with Italian tax agents donned skis, Cash and the girls. View gloves and goggles to launch an Slideshow unusual blitz in the chic ski resort
Italian tax men blitz the chic in ski resort raids
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Who Is Jeremy Lin's Pastor?

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(Photo: Reuters/Mike Segar) New York Knicks' Jeremy Lin drives into Sacramento Kings' Isaiah Thomas during the third quarter of their NBA basketball game in New York's Madison Square Garden, February 15, 2012. Featured Posts Column Dying to Live We Christians have a remarkable tendency to focus almost exclusively on the ... February 16, 2012| 2:20 pm Lin's family attends Redeemer Bible Fellowship, the English ministry of Chinese Church in Christ Mountain View, in the Silicon Valley. His pastor, Stephen Chen, spoke this week to KQED radio station of northern California. "He (Lin) attempts to play for his God, and to honor Him and glorify Him," explained Chen, who had spoken to Lin just before his breathtaking 38-point game last Friday against the LA Lakers. Chen first met Lin when he was in eighth grade, and at that time, the middle schooler was about
5'2'' or 5'4'', recalled the pastor. But the boy had told Chen that one day he will grow to over six feet and play basketball. "And so I asked him how are you going to do it, and he said 'I'm going to drink milk every day, and I'm going to eat calcium pills every day, and it's going to happen,'" Chen shared to KQED. "And sure enough, he's over six feet tall and he's playing in the NBA." The 6'3'' point guard for the New York Knicks, the first Chinese- or Taiwanese-American player in NBA history, has made it his signature characteristic to thank God and give credit to his teammates whenever receiving accolades for his basketball skills. His humble response to praises and his generosity on the court (sports commentators have repeatedly noted how Lin shares the ball with his teammates), have even inspired Taiwan's president, Ma Ying-jeou, to crack a joke this week that he wished his cabinet would also demonstrate Lin's team spirit. Like us on Facebook Lin's parents are devout Christians, and his maternal grandfather was a Taiwanese Christian pastor, according to The
New York Times. His Twitter avatar is a picture of Jesus talking to a young man who may have ran away from home or is homeless (there is a large duffel bag and sleeping bag besides him), with the message, "No, I'm not talking about Twitter. I literally want you to follow me Jesus." Lin's outspokenness about his Christian faith and his astounding skills have caused people to compare him to Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow. But unlike Tebow, who was a Heisman Trophy winner in college and a first-round NFL draft pick, Lin struggled to get noticed in his basketball career. He attended Harvard University, but not on a basketball scholarship, studying economics, instead. He went undrafted after college, and was offered a twoyear deal with his hometown Golden state Warriors. Lin was assigned to the Warriors' DLeague affiliate, the Reno Bighorns. After about a year, the Warriors released him. He went on to the Houston Rockets, who also released him after less than a month. The New York Knicks claimed Lin in late December as a substitute and he did not have a
guaranteed contract until just before winning his fifth straight game. It is during this unstable time that he is famously known for sleeping on his brother's couch, not having a place of his own. He had his breakthrough game on Feb. 4, when the injury of other players caused Coach Mike D'Antoni to put Lin in the game. During Lin's fifth game with the Knicks, he solidified his position as a winner and dispelled doubts that his previous wins were just flukes by outscoring the LA Lakers' Kobe Bryant, who had 34 points compared to Lin's 38. The Knicks had a narrow victory over the Lakers, 92-85. After the Knicks' win over the Lakers, Lin tweeted, "Gutsy win 5 in a row! This team is so unselfish and has so much heart. Love playing with them! God is good!" Lin's pastor, Stephen Chen, noted in the radio interview that "obviously, he's (Lin) overwhelmed by a lot of people demanding his time, pulling him in a lot of different directions. He understands that at any moment he can go from hero to zero." The skyrocketing international basketball star told reporters after the game against the Sacramento
Kings this week that he didn't want his stardom to cause him to develop an ego. "I don't want to let anything affect me or this team," Lin said. "We need to stick together, put our egos aside." Lin has said that after he is done with professional basketball, he would like to become a pastor and be involved in charity work. The New York Knicks' next game is Friday, Feb. 17 against the New Orleans Hornets. WATCH VIDEO OF JEREMY LIN'S TESTIMONY WATCH VIDEO OF JEREMY LIN PRAISING GOD FOR A VICTORY WATCH VIDEO OF JEREMY LIN BEING COMPARED TO TIM TEBOW WATCH 'A DAY IN THE LIFE' VIDEO BY JEREMY LIN HERE WATCH 'HOW TO GET TO HARVARD' VIDEO HERE This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Lindsay Lohan To Host 'SNL'

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After long hiatus filled with court room drama and community service, Lindsay Lohan is slowly
but surely making her comeback. with musical guest Jack White. The troubled starlet is set to host Saturday Night Live on March 3
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Ricky Gervais Says It's 'Child Abuse' to Tell Children Gays Will Go to Hell
Gervais on the cover of New Humanist magazine from September/October 2011 appeared on the screen. The ( P h o t o : R E U T E R S / P h i l image shows Gervais standing in McCarten) Executive producer the shape of a cross, with his shirt Ricky Gervais answers a question off and the word 'atheist' written during a panel for HBO's "The across his chest, while his arms Ricky Gervais Show" at the HBO are outstretched and tied to a sessions of the Television Critics microphone stand. Association winter press tour in "And I've got nothing against Pasadena, California January 14, people believing in God, at all. In 2010. fact, if it did make you a kinder person, if you really did good Featured Posts things in His name, then great," Column Dying to Live Gervais continued. "But there's We Christians have a remarkable the rub, it's when I see some of t e n d e n c y t o f o c u s a l m o s t these religious fundamentalists exclusively on the ... saying that they've told their fiveFebruary 17, 2012| 5:16 pm year-old children that if they turn When asked by Morgan how his out gay they will burn in hell. atheist beliefs impact God-fearing That, to me, is child abuse. That Americans, Gervais responded by has nothing to do with religion or saying, "Why should they take spirituality. That's child abuse." offense that I don't believe in their Morgan also asked him about the God or any other god? And I say current political race between to them, 'Tell me the reasons you R e p u b l i c a n p r e s i d e n t i a l don't believe in all the other gods, candidates and what he thought and that's the reason I don't about the candidates who are believe in yours.'" against gay marriage because of During his response, the image of their religious beliefs.
"Just because they're offended by someone being gay doesn't mean they're right," said Gervais, who believes that people can't choose to be either gay or straight. Like us on Facebook Patricia Jones, pastoral counselor and founder of Dove Christian Counseling, told The Christian Post on Friday that what Gervais sees as abusive, she sees quite differently. "Ricky Gervais, he would probably think most of the scriptures in the Bible were abusive ... because God has many, many scriptures on many topics that are warnings to us about what will happen if we disobey what He sets out," said Jones. She said God has given His laws to humans, and has laid out the consequences for disobedience, so it is up to each person to decide whether or not they will obey Him. Despite what Gervais suggests, Jones says no one is born gay. "The thing is, God does not lay down as the law something that's going to send you to hell, and then
contradict Himself and have you born with it," she said. Gervais' comments also come after the head of Exodus International, Alan Chambers, expressed his firm belief that all, including homosexuals, who accept the free gift of salvation, are Christians. He made the remarks at the Gay Christian Network conference earlier this year and acknowledged that the statement is controversial but he stressed that the gift of salvation is irrevocable. "As an adoptive father, my children are irrevocably mine. They may disown me, stop talking to me and sin against me, but that does not change the fact that they are mine and always will be. I believe the same is true of God with His adopted children," he stated. During Thursday's interview, Gervais also discussed his use of Twitter with Morgan. He said that, while he sometimes gets into heated arguments through the social networking site, he is
always smiling on his end of the conversation. "When someone's arguing with me that the earth is 5,000 years old, yes I'm smiling ... the fundamentalist view of the creation of the earth is rather like an episode of 'The Flintstones,' so ... I have to laugh at those sort of things," said Gervais. Despite his persistence in joking about religion, the comedian said he would defend religion for the sake of freedom of speech. "Even though I don't believe in God ... if someone said, 'We're banning religion,' I'd march to not have it banned because it's your right to believe what you want, and it's your right to be wrong. And I'll fight for that right," he said. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Kristin Cavallari Shows Off Tiny Baby Bump

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Submitted at 2/19/2012 1:55:00 PM
Despite her pregnancy, mommyto-be Kristin Cavallari is still keeping fit! After a workout at the gym, the
Dancing With the Stars alum was seen treating herself to a healthy smoothie at Erewhon Natural Foods store in Los Angeles. The
star, who is starting to show the first signs of a baby bump, is currently expecting her first child with fiance Jay Cutler.
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Dead Sea Scrolls Prophesy Confirmed by Hubble Telescope, Author Says

(Photo: AP Photo / Sebastian Scheiner) A worker of the IAA, Israel Antiquities Authority, points at a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls in a laboratory in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Israel's Antiquities Authority and Google announced Tuesday they are joining forces to bring the Dead Sea Scrolls online, allowing both scholars and the general public widespread access to the ancient manuscripts for the first time. Featured Posts Column Dying to Live We Christians have a remarkable tendency to focus almost exclusively on the ... February 16, 2012| 10:36 am The Hubble telescope, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble, observes the universe with ultraviolet, visible, and nearinfrared instruments. The Hubble was launched into orbit around
the Earth in 1990 and still remains in operation, often capturing intense images of stars, constellations and distant galaxies. In a recent article, The Business Insider listed 10 things Hubble has discovered that science was previously unaware of. The Dead Sea Scrolls, on the other hand, which were found in caves on the shores of the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956, represent 825 to 870 separate scrolls written mostly on animal skin. They are written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, and are divided into two categories biblical and non-biblical, and contain prophecies by Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Daniel not found in the Bible. Among the non-biblical writings are the order of commentaries on the Old Testament, paraphrases that expand on the Torah, rule books of the community, war conduct, thanksgiving psalms, hymnic compositions, benedictions, liturgical texts, and sapiential (wisdom) writings.
The Isaiah Scroll, which, unlike many of the other scrolls, was found mostly intact, and is 1,000 years older than any previously known copy of Isaiah. In fact, the scrolls, also referred to as the Qumran scrolls, are the oldest group of Old Testament manuscripts ever found. According to author J. Paul Hutchins's book, Hubble Reveals Creation by an Awe-Inspiring Power, which will be released at New York City's BookExpo America this summer, the ancient prophet Isaiah recorded what appears to be a "divine invitation from God to mankind," inviting people to explore divinely questions through the stars. Like us on Facebook Hutchins' book takes a look at the history of the Hubble telescope and the discoveries made in the last two decades, which according to scientists, have revealed how the universe unfolded, calling it " the greatest cinematic drama in human history." He claims that these discoveries are directly related to observations Isaiah
recorded in 732 BCE about the unimaginable energy source behind the universe. The passage in question, Isaiah 40:25-26, reads: "To whom will you compare me? Who is my equal?" asks the Holy One. "Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars? He brings them out like an army, one after another, calling each by its name. Because of his great power and incomparable strength, not a single one is missing." Hutchins asserts that when Isaiah wrote about the power behind the universe, he did not have the benefit of a powerful space telescope, yet his description matches the discoveries made by Hubble in recent years of powerful galaxies like the Sombrero Galaxy. The Sombrero with its ominous glow at its center exhibits unimaginable energy. The glow is made up of eight hundred billion stars like the Earths' sun, which gives the galaxy the appearance of a Mexican sombrero hat. Late last year, New York's
Discovery Times Square premiered its new exhibit, "Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Biblical Times." The new exhibition is said to feature the "largest and most comprehensive collection of Holy Land artifacts" and also the "largest collection of the 2000year-old scrolls ever displayed in the United States." Discovery Times Square has 20 scrolls on display, four of which will be making world debuts. The scrolls include the biblical books of Genesis, Leviticus, as well as Exodus and Kings, among several others. WATCH A VIDEO FEATURING SOME OF THE BEST HUBBLE IMAGES This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Cherry Blossom shoe polish maker puts a shine on its profits

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Shoe polish, you might think, had s o m e t h i n g p i c t u r e s q u e b u t gone the way of spats, tea cosies essentially useless in this day and a n d p l o u g h i n g b y o x e n , age.
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In Life's Too Short, Famous Dwarf Tangles With Ricky Gervais

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Submitted at 2/19/2012 9:00:00 AM
| Next >> Warwick Davis, star of Life's Too Short, tries to maintain an upbeat veneer as he looks for work at the tail end of a showbiz career that included roles in Star Wars and the Harry Potter movies. | Next >> View all Yes hes a dwarf, but the fictionalized version of Warwick Davis is also a vain, selfdelusional, preening egotist beset by an endless succession of humiliating social encounters. Hes the perfect antihero for Ricky Gervais new fake documentary comedy series Lifes Too Short, which debuts at 10:30 p.m. Sunday on HBO. In the show, shaky cameras follow Davis around London as he desperately reminds prospective employers and complete strangers that he played an ewok in Return
of the Jedi, appeared in Harry Potter movies and starred in the George Lucas-produced bomb Willow. Like Gervais delusional David Brent in The Office, Davis tries and invariably fails to win friends and influence people. Lifes Too Short treads a tricky line by simultaneously mocking and celebrating a small mans offbeat charisma. Its not a half an hour of, Isnt it funny that hes so short! Gervais said, describing the show to reporters last month during a Television Critics Association
panel discussion. It isnt that at all. Hes got small-man complex. Its nothing to do with his height per se. Its about his aims. Its about his ambition. Theres a difference between a show that exploits and a show that ridicules exploitation, and were clearly in the second camp. With its three-dimensionally flawed protagonist and contemporary setting, Lifes Too Short, co-created by Gervais and his frequent comedic conspirator Stephen Merchant, marks an empowering break from the past. Especially in sci-fi and fantasy
realms, dwarves historically serve as visual shorthand for otherworldly David Lynch spelled it out in his surreal TV series Twin Peaks by naming dwarf Michael J. Andersons character The Man From Another Place. The Wizard of Oz transported viewers to another time and place from the moment Munchkins made their entrance, and what are hobbits if not little people writ large? But Hollywood is starting to move beyond its reliance on using little people for novelty effect. In Game of Thrones, Peter Dinklage
plays witty, whoring conniver Tyrion Lannister with such fierce intelligence that the characters physical stature becomes far less interesting than his machinations. Sure, size matters, but projects like Lifes Too Short and Game of Thrones point toward a more expansive storytelling role for diminutive actors provided they have big talent. Check the gallery for a short list of the most magnetic little people in fantasy and sci-fi history, and read on for a longer look at the LIFE'S page 40
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Intel Chefs Bake WiFi Into Mobile Chips

Robert McMillan (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 10:00:00 AM
Intel's Rosepoint chip combines a digital WiFi radio with a CPU (Photo: Intel) Researchers at Intel have come up with a way to make WiFi faster and more energy efficient. Its a chip called Rosepoint, and although its just a research project today, it could show up in mobile phones and laptop computers by the middle of the decade. Rosepoint represents a breakthrough that Intel engineers have been hammering away at for years. Theyve been able to digitize little blocks of radio components in the past things like amplifiers and synthesizers but now theyve managed to put a digital 2.4 GHz WiFi radio on a chip, right next to one of their low-power Atom central processing units (CPUs). Building analog WiFi chips is a bit of an art. Radio Frequency (RF) chip designers build complex, customized circuits that operate on a continuum of voltages. The problem is that its often tough to shrink these analog designs down to the tiny scale thats possible with todays
cutting-edge chipmaking processes. Not so with digital RF chips, such as the one Intels just built. Digital RF chips are simpler. They have just two voltage levels and can be shrunk down much more easily whenever Intels researchers come up with a way to make chip parts smaller. Thats good news for WiFi users. When Intels chips start to hit the market they will have state of the art power efficiency and superior
signal quality, says Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner. And things will only get better as Intel shrinks things down. With a digital approach to radio, you can bring the benefits of Moores law to RF and radio circuits, he says. Intel wants to build a digital cellular radio chip too, in the not too distant future, Rattner says. Thats going to move Intel into closer competition with RF chip companies such as Texas
designs. Wireless radios and CPUs arent exactly ideal roommates. Both parties emit radiation that can mess with the other, in the same way that a calculator near an AM radio can distort sound. This radiation seeps into the RF module and corrupts the data, says Hossein Alavi, director of Intels Radio Integration Lab. The closer they are, the more interference is going to go to them. Radio wave emissions can also mess with the microprocessor, Alavi adds. To fix this, Intel has had to come up with noise canceling and radiation-shielding techniques for the chips. Intel has even worked out techniques for putting radio antennas on-chip, but it isnt Instruments and Broadcom, says talking about them for another Kevin Krewell an analyst with year or two. semiconductor consulting firm This entry passed through the The Linley Group. Full-Text RSS service if this is In the long run, that could also your content and you're reading it mean better phones for everyone. on someone else's site, please read Ultimately it would reduce the the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentchip count on the cell phone, only/faq.php#publishers. Five which would reduce the cost and Filters recommends: Donate to the complexity of manufacturing Wikileaks. of the phone and improve battery life, Krewell says. But its not easy to do one of these wireless system-on-a-chip
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first two episodes of Lifes Too Short. Spoiler alert: Minor plot points follow. Sneak Peek at Lifes Too Short Episode 1 loads up on notparticularly-funny exposition: Davis wife is kicking him out of the house. Gervais and Merchant, having cast Davis in their Extras series, now consider the unemployed actor a pest and place the buzzer to their office at a height they know he cant reach. To top it off, Davis owes a huge tax bill. Episode 2 gets laughs when Davis tutors Johnny Depp on how to get struck by lightning, dwarfstyle. Later, while selling autographed photos at a sci-fi convention, Davis gets invited to
a wedding. When he shows up in street clothes, the groom, infuriated that he did not wear an ewok costume, forces the actor to dress up as a bear. Davis hops onto a table and gives an insulting toast that makes the bride weep. Curtain! Images courtesy various studios except where noted. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Michael Kors's Inspiration, Grunge Styling at NYFW, and How to Chop an Onion - The Best of PopSugar TV This Week
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Submitted at 2/19/2012 6:04:00 AM
PopSugarTV was all about New York Fashion Week! FabSugarTV was in the Big Apple and at the shows, where Michael Kors dished on Anglina Jolie's inspiration and J. Crew's Jenna Lyons shared about Manolo Blahnik collaborating with her brand. BellaSugarTV had the scoop on runway makeup looks, showing sexy tousled hair from Rag & Bone and grunge styling at Altuzarra. YumSugarTV, meanwhile, was in the kitchen showing how to chop an onion and make fondue dippers.
FitSugarTV had helpful hints for buying the right sneaker and getting long, lean legs. Check out all the videos at the links above and visit PopSugarTV for even more!
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Submitted at 2/19/2012 3:00:12 AM
Five Best Professional Nameplate Sites [Hive Five]

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Penguins sign LW Neal to 6year contract extension

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James Neal's first full year with the Pittsburgh Penguins keeps getting better. And now the highscoring forward will be around for another six seasons after signing $30 million contract extension on Sunday.
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Boxer Chisora released from custody over brawl with Haye - Monsters and Critics
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Munich's Olympic arena after Chisora had lost a world title bout on points against Vitali Klitschko. Munich - British boxer Dereck Haye, who has retired and was in C h i s o r a w a s r e l e a s e d f r o m Munich as a television pundit, detention on Sunday after several was mocked by Chisora who also hours of questioning by Munich tried to talk him in to a all-British police over a brawl with former fight before the fight broke out. world champion David Haye, Chisora reportely said he would local news reports said. 'shoot' and 'burn' Haye. The munich-based Sueddeutsche The German professional boxing Zeitung (SZ) paper said on its federation was pondering a life website that Chisora and his boxing ban for Chisora and Haye trainer Don Charles were stopped in the country. at Munich's airport on suspicion This entry passed through the of causing grievous bodily harm. Full-Text RSS service if this is They were allowed to leave after your content and you're reading it seven hours. on someone else's site, please read The report said that police also the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentwanted to talk to Haye, but that he only/faq.php#publishers. Five left Munich on an early-morning Filters recommends: Donate to flight. Wikileaks. Chisora's altercation with Haye came at the news conference in
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Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port factory under threat from GM's losses in Europe
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There are only 20 miles between the Jaguar Land Rover plant in Halewood, Merseyside, and Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port factory. But they are split by 1bn.
Hackathons are nonsense

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Idlib, killing both of them and their driver, state media said. State news agency SANA said on Sunday that Idlib provincial state prosecutor Nidal Ghazal and Judge Mohammed Ziadeh were killed instantly in the attack. A day earlier, SANA said gunmen shot dead Jamal al-Bish, member of the city council of the nearby northern city of Aleppo, Syria's largest. It said he was killed outside the city, a centre of support for Assad that has been relatively quiet since the uprising began. Police and armed patrols fanned out in the Syrian capital's Mezze district to prevent a repeat of protests against President Bashar al-Assad that have threatened his grip on Damascus, opposition activists said. On the international front, Egypt said it was withdrawing its ambassador to Syria and China said it believed a peaceful solution to the crisis was still possible. China's official Xinhua news agency reflected Beijing's view a day after a Chinese envoy met Assad in Damascus while thousands of Syrians demonstrated in the heart of the capital in one of the biggest antigovernment rallies there since a nationwide uprising started nearly a year ago.
On Sunday, the body of Samer al -Khatib, a young protester who was killed when security forces opened fire on the protest, was buried in Mezze early in the morning. Security forces maintained a heavy presence to prevent the funeral from turning into an antiAssad demonstration, opposition activists contacted by Reuters from Amman said. Fifteen pick-up trucks carrying security police and armed proAssad armed men, known as 'shabbiha', surrounded the funeral as Khatib was buried quietly, they said. Police cars and militia jeeps patrolled Mezze while secret police agents spread out on foot, stopping men at random and checking their identification cards, they said. "Walking in Mezze now carries the risk of arrest. The area is quiet and even the popular food shops in Sheikh Saad are empty," activist Moaz al-Shami said, referring to a main street. Assad, who belongs to the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam, in a majority Sunni country, says he is fighting foreign-backed terrorists. Saturday's shooting by security forces took place as a Chinese envoy, Foreign Minister Zhai Jun met Assad and appealed to all
sides to end the violence. Zhai also expressed Beijing's support for Assad's plan to hold a referendum and multi-party elections within four months, a move the West and some in Syria's fragmented opposition movement have dismissed as a sham. China has emerged as a leading player in the multiple international efforts to end the bloodshed in Syria and is one of Assad's main defenders. "China believes, as many others do, there is still hope the Syria crisis can be resolved through peaceful dialogue between the opposition and the government, contrary to some Western countries' argument that time is running out for talks in Syria," the Xinhua commentary said. It also criticised the West's stance, highlighting differences between foreign powers over how to deal with the conflict. Western countries were "driven less by their self-proclaimed 'lofty goal' of liberalizing the Syrian people than by geopolitical considerations", Xinhua said. The words might bring a measure of comfort to Assad, who is now generally reviled in the West for a crackdown in which his security forces have killed several thousand people. Egypt recalls ambassador
Egypt on Sunday became the latest Arab country to scale back its relations with the embattled regime in Damascus. Egypt's recalling of Shawqy Ismail, its ambassador to Syria, comes as Arab states continue to pile pressure on Damascus over its crackdown on dissent that has left thousands dead. Mohammed Amr, the foreign minister "summoned the Egyptian ambassador to Damascus ... and it was decided that the ambassador will remain in Cairo until further notice," Amr Rushdi, an Egyptian foreign ministry spokesman, said in a statement on Sunday. Meanwhile, media reports state that Syria has sealed off its second border crossing with Jordan on Friday morning. Also on Saturday, two Iranian warships docked at a Syrian port city of Tartous, the Iranian broadcaster Press TV reported. The warships reached Tartous, northwest of the capital Damascus, after crossing the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea. The crossing was the second in a year by Iranian warships, Iran's navy chief said. 'Dividing the country' Syria's main opposition groups have rejected a newly drafted constitution that could end nearly five decades of single-party rule, and have urged voters to boycott a
February 26 referendum on the charter. Assad for his part said on Satuday that the events in Syria were "aimed at dividing the country and delivering a blow to its geopolitical position and historical role in the region," the official SANA news agency reported. He said he was determined to "advance the political reform process according to a precise plan and timetable". The developments came as US defence officials told a US television network that "a good number" of unmanned US military and intelligence drones are operating in the skies over Syria to monitor Assad's government forces attacks against civilians and the armed opposition. "The officials said this surveillance is not in preparation for US military intervention," NBC News reported on Friday. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Iran warships 'dock in Syria's Tartous port'

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Iranian warships have crossed the Suez Canal and docked in Syria's port of Tartous, Iranian state media has reported. The Mehr news agency said on Sunday that Tehran's show of support has caused "extreme worry for Zionist forces". Youcef Bouandel, professor of international affairs at Qatar University, told Al Jazeera that Iran's deployment has to be viewed as part of a "broader picture", because the Iranian government feels that "Syria is the first step towards putting Iran in the corner". "Iran has been having a few standoffs with the West in general over its nuclear programme and over its oil emabrgo," said Bouandel, who added that the docking of the ships on the Syrian coast had two largely symbolic meanings. "Iran has been threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz and has been a strong ally of Syria over the last year in particular ... The two ships ... crossed the Suez Canal without being stopped or searched [which] suggests that they do not carry
any weapons," he said. Tensions over the nature of Iran's nuclear programme have led to ever-tightening sanctions on the country's oil exports, prompting Iran to threaten to close the strait, the world's most important chokepoint for oil transport. Put 'breaks' on Israeli attack Reacting to the news on Saturday, Israel's foreign ministry denounced the deployment as a "provocation" and a "power play". Israel said it will be watching the ships' movements closely to ensure they do not approach its coast. There have been increasingly frequent media reports, as has been the case in the past, citing Israeli officials who say they must bomb Iran's nuclear facilities before the government acquires the ability to construct a nuclear bomb. Tom Donilon, the US national security advisor, is due to meet Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, in Jerusalam on Sunday, and he will likely warn against such a strike. There have been reports, said Al Jazeera's Nisreen el-Shamayleh, that Donilon has "made it clear that the US does not support any
kind of military action against Iran". Israel has expressed some satisfaction with recent harsh sanctions passed against Iran's financial sector but does not believe they alone will lead Tehran to re-evaluate its nuclear program, said Shamayleh, reporting from Jerusalem. Al Jazeera's John Terrett, reporting from Washington DC, said it was highly unusual for a national security advisor to travel overseas and that he was likely to bluntly tell the Israelis to "put the breaks" on its attack plans. Iran carries 'message of peace' In remarks carried by the official IRNA news agency, Iranian Admiral Habibollah Sayari did not say how many vessels had crossed the canal or what missions they were planning to carry out in the Mediterranean, but he said the flotilla had previously docked in the Saudi port city of Jeddah. Two Iranian ships, the destroyer Shahid Qandi and supply vessel Kharg, had docked in the Red Sea port on February 4, according to Iranian media. Sayari said the naval deployment to the Mediterranean would carry
a "message of peace" but also put on display "the might" of Iran's military. "It will prove to the world that despite increasing enemy sanctions over the past 33 years, our manpower, obedient to the orders of the leader Imam Khamenei, continue to add to their academic and military abilities," Sayari said. The first Iranian presence in the Mediterranean in February 2011 provoked strong reactions from Israel and the US. During the 2011 deployment, two Iranian vessels, a destroyer and a supply ship, sailed past the coast of Israel and docked at the port of Latakia in Syria before returning to Iran via the Red Sea. Russia, who has close relations with Iran and has at every turn opposed military action against Syria, also has a base in Tartous. UK warning The latest announcement comes amid heightened tensions between Iran and Israel, fuelled by a longstanding dispute over Tehran's nuclear programme and rising speculation that Israel might launch pre-emptive strikes against Iranian facilities. William Hague, the British
foreign minister, on Saturday warned that an attack on Iran would carry huge costs. Although Iran's suspected drive for atomic weapons could lead to a dangerous nuclear standoff in the Middle East, he said he favoured more time to allow for increased diplomacy and economic pressure. "We are very clear to all concerned that we are not advocating military action,'' Hague said. Israeli officials accused Tehran of orchestrating anti-Israeli bombings in India and Georgia as well as blasts in Thailand last week, allegations that Iran denies. Iran has accused Israel of assassinating several of its nuclear scientists. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Iran 'stops oil exports' to UK and France

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Destinations of Iran's oil exports Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry has said, in a retaliatory measure against fresh EU sanctions on the Islamic state's lifeblood, oil. "Exporting crude to British and French companies has been stopped ... we will sell our oil to new customers," spokesman Alireza Nikzad was quoted as saying on Sunday by the ministry of petroleum website. The European Union in January decided to stop importing crude from Iran from July 1 over its disputed nuclear programme, which the West says is aimed at building bombs. Iran denies this. Iran's oil minister said on February 4 that the Islamic state would cut its oil exports to "some" European countries. The European Commission said last week that the bloc would not be short of oil if Iran stopped crude exports, as they have enough in stock to meet their needs for around 120 days. Greece exposed Industry sources told Reuters on February 16 that Iran's top oil buyers in Europe were making
substantial cuts in supply months in advance of European Union sanctions, reducing flows to the continent in March by more than one-third, or over 300,000 barrels daily. France's Total has already stopped buying Iran's crude, which is subject to fresh EU embargoes. Market sources said Royal Dutch Shell has scaled back sharply. Among European nations, debtridden Greece is most exposed to
Iranian oil disruption. Motor Oil Hellas of Greece was thought to have cut out Iranian crude altogether and compatriot Hellenic Petroleum along with Spain's Cepsa and Repsol were curbing imports from Iran. Iran was supplying more than 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) to the EU plus Turkey in 2011, industry sources said. By the start of this year imports had sunk to about 650,000 bpd as some customers cut back in
anticipation of an EU ban. Saudi Arabia says it is prepared to supply extra oil either by topping up existing term contracts or by making rare spot market sales. Iran has criticised Riyadh for the offer. Iran said the cut will have no impact on its crude sales, warning that any sanctions on its oil will raise international crude prices. 'Own customers' Brent crude oil prices were up $1 a barrel to $118.35 shortly after
Iran's state media announced last week that Tehran had cut oil exports to six European states. The report was denied shortly afterwards by Iranian officials. "We have our own customers ... The replacements for these companies have been considered by Iran," Nikzad said. EU's new sanctions includes a range of extra restrictions on Iran that went well beyond UN sanctions agreed last month and included a ban on dealing with Iranian banks and insurance companies and steps to prevent investment in Tehran's lucrative oil and gas sector, including refining. The mounting sanctions are aimed at putting financial pressure on the world's fifth largest crude oil exporter, which has little refining capacity and has to import about 40 per cent of its gasoline needs for its domestic consumption. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Mike Ryan: SNL Scorecard: Is Maya Rudolph Linsane?

Mike Ryan (TV on HuffingtonPost.com)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 1:35:10 PM
So, the talk this week centered on the question of "will she or won't she" in relation to Maya Rudolph's Whitney Houston impression -- and thankfully, that didn't happen. (Though, that was nothing compared to the now two weeks of buildup until Lindsay Lohan's sure-to-be disaster of a show.) The most notable thing about last night's show was the cold open: absolutely pouncing on the Jeremy Lin story - even responding to the unfortunate ESPN headline - instead of the usual, "Hey, here's Mitt Romney talking," or whatever. In other words: it set the tone for the night. A very good Amy Poehler, Justin Timberlake and Paul Simon cameo filled night, I should add. Sketch of the Night "Cold Open: Linsanity Postgame"(Hader, Thompson, Pharoah, Killam) Please, please, please, please, please let this put an end, once and for all, to the Jeremy Lin puns. You, out there, still trying to come up with a new word to stick "Lin" in front of -SNL is openly mocking you. (OK, having said that, please ignore the headline of this piece.) Also: as mentioned before, why every show doesn't start with a great
cold open is beyond me. Actually, in the two years that SNL Scorecard has existed, I'm fairly certain (and I'm way too lazy to look this up to be sure) that this is the first time the cold open has earned "Sketch of the Night." Again: it really does set the tone. (Though, I'm afraid in 15 years, people will look back at this sketch and ask, "Wait, who are they talking about?")
Score: 8.5 The Good "Cosby Obama"(Rudolph, Armisen, Sudeikis, Killam) First thing: This was honestly the first time I've seen Armisen having fun playing Obama since the "Play it Cool" sketch from 2008 - even though it was more Cosby than Obama. Also, the sketch captures the later years Cosby Show tone of almost being a parody of itself.
And, yes, it is remarkable that Maya Rudolph has to host the show in order to air a sketch featuring the First Lady - that's sort of a problem. (Also, somewhere, Carl Payne III is calling his friends to ask, "Hey, did you see they mentioned Cockroach on SNL last night?") Score: 8.0 "Weekend Update"(Meyers, Poehler) Amy Poehler should not
allowed to appear on "Update." Every time I convince myself, "You know, Meyers does a really good job by himself. And historically the 'Update' anchor has been more of a solo gig than a duo anyway," Poehler shows up and utterly destroys this misconception of mine. The energy level on "Weekend MIKE page 46
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Update" went off the charts as soon as Poehler showed up. Even the jokes that misfire can be saved by the banter between Meyers and Poehler. It's just not fair. It's not fair to give us this taste, knowing that it's only temporary. Score: 8.0 M a y a R u d o l p h Monologue(Rudolph, Simon, Ensemble) Hey: Paul Simon showed up! How about that! Yeah, as far as monologues go, this was pretty great. I love it when the whole cast gets together for a choreographed number. This just had the feeling of, "Wow, a lot of work went into this one." Oh, did I mention Paul Simon was there? (Yes, and Stephon -- who I can handle as a cameo right now, but is getting dangerously close to being overexposed.) Score: 7.5 What's Up With That?(Thompson, O'Reilly, Upton, Ensemble) Oh, you thought this was retired forever, didn't you? You almost had me convinced! But I always held on to hope. Hope that, just like the phoenix, rising out of the ashes of Mahwah (or, whatever), Deandre Cole would return to me. Good God, it was great to see Jason Sudeikis dancing around in his red tracksuit again. And, Lindsey! Poor Lindsey. Someday, Lindsey.
Score: 7.0 "Maya Angelou Prank Show"(Rudolph, Pharoah, Thompson, Hader) OK, I'll be honest, I had to watch this one a few times before I fully appreciated it. I don't know why, but it grew on me. Actually, it's one of those sketches in which I laugh harder the more times that I watch it - particularly at Pharoah's Morgan Freeman. Score: 6.0 How's He Doing?(Thompson, Pharoah, Rudolph) "The show where the black voter takes a look at President Obama and asks, how's he doing?" My biggest problem with this sketch was its placement on the show. It's not quite bizarre enough to be the last sketch of the night. With its political slant, it almost felt like something that was bumped from the cold open. In other words: it's a good sketch that would have played better not closing out a high-energy show. This would have been a good ballad to slip into the middle of a set list filled with rock song after rock song. Score: 6.0 The Bad "Bronx Beat"(Rudolph, Poehler, Samberg, Timberlake) Ah, yes, the least surprising "surprise" of the evening. (OK, to be fair, I had heard through the grapevine that
this was happening over a week ago. I digress.) Look, I don't get "Bronx Beat." I never have. I know people that swear by it. Every time it airs - and it always airs in prime real estate -- I try to give it another chance. I really do. But, for me, the humor just comes down to Rudolph and Poehler doing exaggerated New York accents. Great. To those who love "Bronx Beat," I apologize in advance because I'm sure this entry was just as amazing as all of the others. I just can't join you in your praise. I just ... can't ... do ... it... Score: 4.5 "Jay-Z and Beyonce's Baby(Rudolph, Pharoah, Timberlake, Ensemble) I despise these type of sketches. Yes, I like seeing Fred Armisen's Prince has much as the next person, but what this amounts to is, "Let's just parade in the entire cast and have each do an impression. It doesn't matter what the impression is, any will do..." They always feel lazy and this was no exception. (OK, yes, I did like Timberlake's Bon Iver -- but, still...) Score: 4.0 The Ugly "Super Showcase"(Wiig, Rudolph, Hader, Bayer) Don't be fooled by how much you laughed during this sketch. You laughed
because Kristen Wiig broke character - which, to her credit, is extremely rare. If that had not happened, you would not have laughed at this sketch. It's just Wiig and Rudolph doing a weird voice. Actually, this felt like an inside joke between Wiig and Randolph, which is probably why Wiig couldn't keep a straight face. Score: 1.0 Average Score for this Show: 6.05 Jimmy Fallon 6.17 Zooey Deschanel 6.08 Maya Rudolph 6.05 Jason Segel 6.05 Charlie Day 6.00 Steve Buscemi 5.95 Emma Stone 5.85 Alec Baldwin 5.80 Charles Barkley 5.65 Melissa McCarthy 5.45 Daniel Radcliffe 5.39 Channing Tatum 5.27 Ben Stiller 5.18 Katy Perry 5.09 Anna Faris 4.95 You can contact Mike Ryan directly on Twitter.
Sony: Call of Duty blasting onto Vita this fall

Jessica Conditt (Joystiq)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 12:30:00 PM
Call of Duty will be launching on Vita this fall, Sony's SVP of PlayStation Brand Marketing told Game Trailers in a video interview. SVP Guy Longworth, hired by Sony in October 2011, casually dropped the news about Vita's Call of Duty title, saying his kids love first-person shooters and "in the autumn, they're really looking forward to Call of Duty on Vita, and we think that's going to be an absolute game-changer for the platform." When pressed for more details, Longworth said Sony wasn't ready to announce which title will be hitting Vita, but we bet it'll be the one with the guns during that war against those bad guys with strange accents. Sony: Call of Duty blasting onto Vita this fall originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Poole: Expect NBA to add Jeremy Lin to All -Star roster - San Jose Mercury News
By Monte Poole (- Bing News)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 6:14:16 AM
NBA production and leadership under the unforgiving glare of expectation. Sending him easily It is the biggest weekend on the c o u l d b e p e r c e i v e d a s a n NBA calendar. Players flock to it, overreaction to what might be a as do the usual collection of momentary phenomenon. celebrities and jock chasers who Indeed, the sight of Lin in the All bend toward the spotlight like -Star game surely would chap plants to the sun. Brandon Jennings, the Milwaukee All-Star weekend is days away, point guard who has an unbridled and the league that promotes stars lust for attention. It almost better than any other faces a certainly would bother a Monta vexing issue: How to capitalize on Ellis (Lin's ex-teammate with the Jeremy Lin, the one-man publicity Warriors) or a Josh Smith or a fire raging out of control? Paul Millsap, to name three more The obvious answer is to send players whose good work over the him to Orlando, Fla., to do more years has yet to be rewarded with than merely participate in the an invitation to the All-Star game. Rising Stars Challenge and the None of those players, however, Dunk Contest, where Lin is set to has risen from relative obscurity caddy for New York Knicks to uniquely inspiring in the span teammate Iman Shumpert. of a week. Place Lin on the Eastern None of those players has Conference All-Star roster. captivated a global audience. Allow him to replace Bulls star None of those players has so Derrick Rose, whose cranky back broadly expanded the NBA brand. has sidelined him for Chicago's Lin is turning heads that past five games, including its 97- otherwise would have looked 8 5 l o s s t o N e w J e r s e y o n right past the Knicks, the NBA Saturday. and the entire sport of basketball. There is no question such an H i s s h o c k i n g s u c c e s s i s honor is unmerited. Jeremy has influencing the sports world -not earned it through years of and the universe beyond it -- to
think outside boxes, see beyond blueprints. He's giving all of us an opportunity to grow. Filmmaker Spike Lee, arguably the NBA's No. 1 fan, is so moved by the experience that he invited Peter Diepenbrock, Lin's coach at Palo Alto High, to join him courtside Sunday at Madison Square Garden, where the Knicks play host to Jason Kidd and the Dallas Mavericks. Some of Lin's former teammates from that squad, which in 2006 won a state championship, also will make the trip to the Big Apple. This situation presents a fabulous opportunity for the NBA, the best of the domestic professional sports leagues at thinking on its feet. NBA commissioner David Stern is not averse to taking advantage of a moment that might never come again. He realizes Lin should be in Orlando. Nobody in the league is hotter. No player in recent years has commanded such intense, unrelenting attention. Stern is bullish on the league he has lorded over for nearly 30
years, so I'd be disappointed if he doesn't find a way to put Lin in uniform. The Stern I've come to expect, who understands the value of a name worthy of a marquee, is working on that task at this very minute. Consider that since Lin's first start Feb. 6, Madison Square Garden stock has jumped 7 percent. The cost of Knicks tickets on the secondary market -such as brokers -- has soared 25 percent. Sales of Knicks merchandise suddenly is the highest in the NBA. Among commissioners of major American sports, only Bud "Turn a Blind Eye" Selig would not to notice this. No league worth its net value in billions would ignore the chance to offer such positive exposure, boost TV ratings and, of course, rake in potential megabucks. MLB's 2011 All-Star game drew record-low ratings. Ratings for the NFL's Pro Bowl, played last month, were down 8.1 percent. The NBA's 2011 All-Star game, by contrast, scored its highest rating since Michael Jordan's last appearance in 2003.
Why not raise the stakes, take it up a notch, for the game to be played Feb. 26, which will face tough competition from the Academy Awards telecast? Lin doesn't need the All-Star game, but the NBA surely would benefit from his presence. And Stern, who can do pretty much anything he wants, usually does what's best for the league. It's not as if another Jeremy Lin is going to come along this year, or this decade. It's time the mighty commish, facing a reality that only looks like a dream, improvises. Ride the wave. Contact Monte Poole at mpoole@bayareanewsgroup.com. Copyright 2012 San Jose Mercury News. All rights reserved. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Rampant Speculation Theater presents: Microsoft files for 'Avatar Famestar' trademark
Jordan Mallory (Joystiq)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 2:00:00 PM
Last monday, Microsoft submitted a trademark filing for "Avatar Famestar" to the US Patent and Trademark Office. The application classifies the trademark for "downloadable software for video game services" and "providing an online portal for video game services and social networking," which leads us to believe it has something to do with video games. What that something might be is anyone's guess, but you came here for our guesses, which are as follows: Avatar Famestar will be a triplatform XBLA/Windows Phone/ Facebook photo-editing suite akin to Hipstamatic and Instagram, in which the user will be able to add her Xbox Live avatar into any
Buy 2 get 1 free on select Vita games at GameStop starting today

Jordan Mallory (Joystiq)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 11:00:00 AM
picture uploaded into the service. Animated sparkling overlays and faux-Polaroid frames serve as monetized microtransactional DLC. "Take control of your Xbox Live avatar as they audition for simulated singing and dancing reality shows, embarking on the musical journey of a lifetime in this Better With Kinect[TM]
experience! Upload your audition tapes to Friendster and LiveJournal and let your friends hear the snarky British commentary delivered by Avatar Famestar's virtual judges! It's just like losing your dignity on national television, only without the brief candle of fame flickering in the distance! Pre-order today!"
In true local-furniture-store fashion, purchasing any 2 firstparty Vita games on this list will land you a third title (also from that list) free of charge. The deal runs between now and February 25, and while it excludes nonRampant Speculation Theater SCE games, it'll help you save presents: Microsoft files for some skrill for a memory card. 'Avatar Famestar' trademark Continue reading Buy 2 get 1 originally appeared on Joystiq on free on select Vita games at Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:00:00 EST. GameStop starting today Please see our terms for use of Buy 2 get 1 free on select Vita games at GameStop starting today feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
What if Jackson Pollock had comments?

Submitted at 2/19/2012 9:59:37 AM
What if, when you viewed a Jackson Pollock painting, you could leave a comment?
Gee man I don't understand. (That's okay, maybe that's the message.) I could do that. (No you can't because art is an expression of an individual. That's not your art, so make your art.) you couldn't make it. You could I know art when I see it and that
ain't art! (You just proved that it is art!) It's just a random scribbling. (Heartless.)
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comes about is uncertain, but it's not always designers that are responsible. It could just as easily Submitted at 2/19/2012 8:09:14 AM be bad clients or bosses. Or As you may know, I push links programmers who don't work well through my linkblog feed and with their designers. Etc. through Twitter. Please subscribe A bunch of responses in tweets to one or both. say it's not true, but, in 140 chars Sometimes I push a link that gets all you can do is grunt or snort. retweeted a lot. I appreciate that in Nothing other than a primal the New Twitter UI it's easy to see scream or two. No! Not true! who retweets. And as I result I Arrrgh! can see which ones are heavily I said people should write a blog retweeted. post stating the other side. And I pushed a link to an article that o n e d i d . W e l l t h o u g h t - o u t , said that designers are ruining the reasonable, respectful. So I web. I don't agree, but I thought it pushed a link back out the same was well-written and thoughtful, way the other one went. and made a point that could use a Jamie Forrest: No, Graphic fresh look. Designers Aren't Ruining The J o h n N a u g h t o n : G r a p h i c Web. designers are ruining the web. The web works, badly designed What I think is true -- bad design or not! makes the web ugly, slow and hard to use. How bad design
What New Yorkers Think of the Samsung Galaxy Note [VIDEO]

Peter Pachal (Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 12:06:23 PM
SEE ALSO: Galaxy Note Super Bowl Ad Inspires Twitter In the dreamworld of a Super B a c k l a s h Bowl commercial, the Samsung Could the Note melt through the Galaxy Note isnt just a hot new built-in skepticism of New p h o n e i t s p u r e g a d g e t Yorkers and persuade them to ambrosia, inspiring legions of smile, cheer and perhaps break everyday people to abandon their into song? Or would it provoke iPhones for the Notes extra-large feelings of confusion or even s c r e e n , s p e e d y 4 G L T E disgust at its massive size and connection and awesome stylus. retro stylus? The video above Its fantasy, of course, but does it reveals all. even have a kernel of truth? We If, after watching, you want to try checked out the Galaxy Note out the Samsung Galaxy Note for earlier this week, yet somehow we yourself, just head over to your werent moved to scream from the nearest AT&T store. The Note rooftops how it changed our lives. goes on sale today for the tidy But that could be just us. We sum of $299 with a two-year decided to take to the streets of c o n t r a c t . H e y , t h e b i g g e s t Manhattan to give the Samsung smartphone ever with an Galaxy Note a chance to recreate incredibly fast mobile Internet its Super Bowl glory.
connection doesnt come cheap. At least they throw in a stylus for free. Enjoyed the video? Love, hate or are indifferent to the Galaxy Note? Discuss in the comments. Video shot and edited by Brandon Smith More About: 4g lte, Galaxy Note, LTE, mashable video, samsung, Samsung Galaxy Note, smartphones, stylus, Super Bowl For more Mobile coverage: Follow Mashable Mobile on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Mobile channel Download our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
Hosea 2:19-20 (02-19-12)

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I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion. I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the LORD.
Hosea 2:19-20(NIV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... God longed for Israel to be faithful to him. Despite the unfaithfulness in the past, God offered his people forgiveness and hope that they could be restored to relationship with him again. If God was willing to pay such an incredibly
high price to do this, shouldn't we do the same with each other? But, let's go one step further; let's be faithful to each other and to God in the first place! My Prayer... Dear Heavenly Father, God of compassion, please give me a more forgiving and sensitive heart. In addition, dear Father,
please give me a faithful heart that will not stray from the pledges and vows I have made to you and to others. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
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Chart of the Week: Nearly Half of All Americans Dont Pay Income Taxes
Rob Bluey (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
growth in the non-taxpaying public, wrote Heritage authors Bill Beach and Patrick Tyrrell. The percentage of people who do Submitted at 2/19/2012 8:32:23 AM This years Index of Dependence not pay federal income taxes, and on Government presented who are not claimed as startling findings about the sharp dependents by someone who does increase of Americans who rely pay them, jumped from 14.8 on the federal government for percent in 1984 to 49.5 percent in housing, food, income, student aid 2009. or other assistance. ( See last That means 151.7 million weeks chart.) Americans paid nothing in 2009. Another eye-popping number By comparison, 34.8 million tax was the percentage of Americans filers paid no taxes in 1984. who dont pay income taxes, The rapid growth of Americans which now accounts for nearly who dont pay income taxes is half of the U.S. population. particularly alarming for the fate Meanwhile, most of that of the American form of population receives generous government, Beach and Tyrrell federal benefits. warned. Coupled with higher One of the most worrying trends s p e n d i n g o n g o v e r n m e n t in the Index is the coinciding programs, it is already proving to
be a major fiscal challenge. This trend should concern everyone who supports Americas republican form of government, Beach and Tyrrell wrote. If the
citizens representatives are elected by an increasing percentage of voters who pay no income tax, how long will it be before these representatives respond more to demands for yet more entitlements and subsidies from non-payers than to the pleas of taxpayers to exercise greater spending prudence? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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New York Daily News George Huguely murder trial: Prosecutor weeps while showing photos of Yeardley... New York Daily News By AP / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A jury is set to begin deliberations in the murder trial of ex Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely on Wednesday. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. A jury that begins deliberations Wednesday will have to decide whether a former... and more
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Is This Our First Peek at the iPad 3? [PICS]

Alissa Skelton (Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 1:25:02 PM
dual-core Apple A5 processor. Heres Apple Dailys comparison of the three iPads: Chinese blog Apple Daily claims Apple Daily says the iPad 3 will to have leaked pictures of the iPad have a 9.7-inch Retina Display 3 before Apple officially planned the same size as the iPad 2s to give its own sneak peek in screen but with 20481536 early March. resolution instead of 1024768 The unconfirmed photos of the and the case allegedly has an 8iPad 3 look similar to the iPad 2, megapixel camera on the outer but Apple Daily reports the iPad 3 corner. MacRumors confirmed the will have a quad-core Apple A6 Retina Display last week. The processor and 4G. The iPad 2 has case has been improved and the 3G connectivity and a 1 Gigahertz screen resolution is the same as
the screen on the iPhone 4S. SEE ALSO: Apple to Unveil iPad 3 in March and It Could Look Like This [RUMOR]
Were not sure if these iPad 3 pictures are real, but take a look for yourself. We will find out the truth on March 7 when Apple
shows off the new tablet. Bonus Gallery: Inside the iPad 3 Back Casing: iPad 3 vs. iPad 2 This photo allegedly shows the back of the iPad 3, which suggests more room for battery, a different camera and a new LCD. Credit: Repair Labs Click here to view this gallery. Photos courtesy of Apple Daily More About: apple, ipad 3, leaked, trending
After 16 Months, Don is Back in Mad Men Teaser [VIDEO]

Jeremy Cabalona (Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 12:45:51 PM
Spain Protests Labor Reforms As Hundreds Of Thousands Take To Streets (PHOTOS) - Huffington Post
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Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. Its been quite a while since weve seen Don Draper in action. Due to contractual negotiations between series creator Matthew Weiner and AMC, Mad Men season 5 will premiere on March 25th nearly a year and a half
after the Season 4 finale. Mad Men won its fourth Emmy Award for Best Drama at the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in September. Mad Men is set in the 1960s and tells the story of Don Draper, a secretive and morally ambiguous advertising executive. Image courtesy of Lionsgate Home Entertainment More About: mad men,
television, Video, YouTube For more Entertainment coverage: Follow Mashable Entertainment on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Entertainment channel Download our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
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19 Feb 2012 The family of a 59-year-old teacher who died when a coach carrying schoolchildren home from a ski trip crashed in northern France said they were "devastated" by their loss. Peter Rippington was killed and four others seriously injured when the bus flipped over and came to rest at the bottom of an embankment near the city of Reims in the ChampagneArdenne region at around 2.30am. Mr Rippington's wife Sharon was also injured in the crash, which involved 29 pupils from Alvechurch Middle School in Worcestershire. A statement from the Rippington family said: "We, as a family, are devastated at the tragic loss of Peter, a wonderful husband, father, son, brother, son-in-law, brother-in-law, uncle, friend and teacher.
"We are still extremely concerned about the health of his wife, Sharon, who was injured and is still recovering in hospital in France. Sharon is accompanied by her daughter Amy, who escaped the incident with minor injuries. Until they are safely home we ask that our privacy is respected and that we are left to grieve with our friends and family." A total of 27 people were taken to hospital following the crash, with 22 of those said to have minor injuries. It is not known how many of the seriously injured are children. Interski Snowsport School, the company that arranged the trip, said there were 21 adults on the coach when it crashed on the A26 at Chalons-en-Champagne. There were two drivers on board, along with six Interski instructors and 13 adults belonging to the school party. Mr Rippington was described as a "one of a kind teacher" by his pupils, who gathered at the school in shock.
Speaking outside, Superintendent Steve Cullen of West Mercia Police, said: "This is a very sad incident and I want to express our sympathy to all those affected by the crash. I want to offer reassurance to local people that we are doing all we can to help and support all the children." Councillor Liz Eyre, cabinet member for children and young people at Worcestershire County Council, added: "We are shocked and saddened about the accident early this morning. Our thoughts are with those involved and their families." They said the school would be open tomorrow and pupils will be offered any help and support they need. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
March Madness streams to more platforms in 2012, but not everything is free
Richard Lawler (Engadget)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 2:19:00 PM
time, however after being offered for free last year the rebranded March Madness Live app will Last year CBS and Turner Sports cost $3.99 this time around, which brought every game of the NCAA is still less than the$10 it cost in Division 1 Men's Basketball 2010. Check out the press release Tournament home in HD on four after the break for all the details cable channels, and streaming for on what's viewable where -- cord free to PCs and iOS devices. cutting sports fans will want to While the broadcast plans remain m a k e s o m e a l t e r n a t e the same this year, if you want to a r r a n g e m e n t s . stream the 41 games broadcast on Continue reading March Madness cable networks then you'll need to streams to more platforms in subscribe to an affiliated TV 2012, but not everything is free provider (all the major guys March Madness streams to more except Time Warner) and log into platforms in 2012, but not the TNT, TBS, or TruTV website everything is free originally on your Windows PC or Mac. For appeared on Engadget on Sun, 19 the other 41 games broadcast on Feb 2012 14:19:00 EDT. Please CBS, CBSSports.com is your see our terms for use of feeds. (free) online resource. Live Permalink| Turner Sports| Email streaming on mobiles (over WiFi this| Comments or 3G) has been extended to the Android platform for the first
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Santorum: Obama motivated by a different theology

Ed Morrissey (Hot Air Top Picks)
phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology, Santorum told Submitted at 2/19/2012 9:30:34 AM supporters of the conservative Tea posted at 10:30 am on February Party movement at a Columbus 19, 2012 by Ed Morrissey hotel. Normally, I would advise Santorums attack didnt just presidential candidates to avoid come out of the blue. And it getting caught in arguments over wasnt Santorum who proclaimed the relative merits of the faith of his theology in support of his own their opponents. Americans policy choices, either. That honor typically dont respond well to goes to Barack Obama twice. politicians claiming that they have Lets not forget this moment from a superior theology, especially earlier this month at a prayerwhen it comes to translating that breakfast event, when Obama told into public policy. In this case, the nation that Christian theology though, Rick Santorum didnt calls for him to confiscate more start that fight yesterday in Ohio: from higher-income earners: Republican presidential candidate And when I talk about shared R i c k responsibility, its because I Santorum challenged President genuinely believe that in a time B a r a c k O b a m a s C h r i s t i a n when many folks are struggling, beliefs on Saturday, saying White at a time when we have enormous House policies were motivated by deficits, its hard for me to ask a different theology. seniors on a fixed income, or A devout Roman Catholic who young people with student loans, has risen to the top of Republican or middle-class families who can p o l l s i n r e c e n t barely pay the bills to shoulder the d a y s , S a n t o r u m s a i d burden alone. And I think to the Obama administration had myself, if Im willing to give failed to prevent gas prices rising something up as somebody whos and was using political science been extraordinarily blessed, and in the debate about climate give up some of the tax breaks change. that I enjoy, I actually think thats Obamas agenda is not about going to make economic sense. you. Its not about your quality of But for me as a Christian, it also life. Its not about your jobs. Its coincides with Jesuss teaching about some phony ideal. Some that for unto whom much is
given, much shall be required. It mirrors the Islamic belief that those whove been blessed have an obligation to use those blessings to help others, or the Jewish doctrine of moderation and consideration for others. On top of that, we have the new spectacle of Obama telling churches through the new HHS mandate that his interpretation of religious theology is that faith only takes place in houses of worship, and that works are mere businesses under federal jurisdiction for the purpose of forcing churches to pay for contraception and abortifacients that violate their religious doctrine. That is the different theology to which Santorum refers, and his remarks are clearly in response to Obamas own efforts to justify his policy decisions under the cloak of a strange and self-serving interpretation of Christian teachings. Is this wise politics? Perhaps not; most people dont care to get religion mixed up in their politics, and Obama took some heat for his tax-hike rationalizations on the basis of Christianity for that reason. Santorums well-known affiliation with religious conservatives risks him being pigeonholed even further in a
debate like this. But Obama started this argument twice in the past three weeks, and to blame Santorum for pushing back seems a little odd. Update: Commenter Reliapundit notes that there are some arguments, though true, that should be made through surrogates and not by the candidates themselves and that this is one of those. Its not a bad point, perhaps especially for Santorum. Also, some argue that this is a distraction from the main economic issues of the campaign, but as it applies to Obamas theology on taxes and ObamaCare mandates, thats not entirely true. And if the economy heats up a little bit between now and the election, we will need the Republican nominee to be arguing on both how both represent an unconscionable power grab, and not merely how they both damage the economy. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
The False Equivalence Watch: Good News and Bad (and Good)
James Fallows (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 9:40:44 AM
A reader sends in a positive example of a paper moving past the " false equivalence" trap. It's a New York Times story this past week on the "Heartland" controversy. The story says, with emphasis added: Heartland's latest idea, the documents say, is a plan to create a curriculum for public schools intended to cast doubt on mainstream climate science and budgeted at $200,000 this year. The curriculum would claim, for instance, that "whether humans are changing the climate is a major scientific controversy." It is in fact not a scientific controversy. The vast majority of climate scientists say that emissions generated by humans are changing the climate and putting the planet at long-term risk, although they are uncertain about the exact magnitude of that risk. Whether and how to rein in emissions of greenhouse gases has become a major political controversy in the United States, however. Let's stipulate that a controversy has subsequently arisen about the FALSE page 54
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authenticity of these Heartland "documents" -- and that papers should be careful to spell that out too. But this is an example of two reporters, Justin Gillis and Leslie Kaufman, plus their editors being willing to plainly state the facts about a case, without being buffaloed into giving "equal" credence to all claims. On the less cheering side, a reader writes to note a veteran Congressional correspondent saying two days ago on public radio that 60 votes is what it takes to "pass" a bill in the Senate. The discussion is about the extension of the payroll tax-cut this week, by a 60-to-36 vote in the Senate. The correspondent, Gail Russell Chaddock of the Christian Science Monitor, says on Here and Now, "Sixty is the outer limit for passing a bill in the Senate. Had one Senator changed their mind, we wouldn't be having this discussion." From the reader: The host replies, "What does this say about Republican leaderships, because..." The conversation goes on, and the reporter returns to the 60 number as being the minimum, but no reference is made to this being a procedural/filibuster issue. If the listener doesn't already know this, the impression is that
the 60 vote margin is a constitutional requirement in the Senate. To be clear, I know you have affection for NPR [JF: and for this show in particular, which I like and have recently been on]. I do too. It's what I listen to and where I get most of my news (after TheAtlantic.com) This is not a pick on NPR, but a note of how things that are untrue become "facts". Of course that correspondent realizes that 60 votes is the threshold for breaking a filibuster in the Senate, not for passing a bill. (With a few narrowly stated exceptions, like treaties and impeachment, the Constitution says that the Senate will work on a simple-majority basis, with the Vice President breaking a tie if need be.) But a major goal of the legislative-obstruction campaign of the past six years has been to make people forget that there is a difference between breaking a filibuster-- which historically had been a rare situation -- and getting any routine business done. So every time a major news source says that it takes 60 votes to "pass" a bill or confirm a nominee, an incorrect and damaging impression sinks in more deeply. We move that much
further away from reality and toward dysfunctionally obstructed government. More on what that's a problem in the posts collected here. For now, thanks to readers for these leads. UPDATE: Back on the bright side, check out the bravely unconventional long piece by Dylan Matthews, in today's Washington Post, about the "Modern Monetarist" school among economists. This is a perspective you didn't often get during the "deficit crisis" panic of last year, and congrats to the Post for giving it this much attention. This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2012/02/the-falseequivalence-watch-good-newsand-bad-and-good/253296/ This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Student hacks into Facebook, gets eight months in prison, twelve likes
James Trew (Engadget)
UK address. It's believed Mangham gained access to the Submitted at 2/19/2012 9:48:00 AM inner sanctum after hacking into a The next time you get caught Facebook employee's account, hijacking your friend's Facebook, though it's not known if the remember it could be worse. On c o m e d y s t a t u s u p d a t e a n d Friday, British Student Glenn embarrassing profile picture were Mangham was sentenced to eight also part of the attack. months in not-so-social jail, for Student hacks into Facebook, hacking deep into Facebook's gets eight months in prison, servers. Apparently no user twelve likes originally appeared details were taken, with Mangham on Engadget on Sun, 19 Feb 2012 heading straight for "invaluable" 09:48:00 EDT. Please see our intellectual property instead. terms for use of feeds. Permalink Facebook alerted the authorities H u f f i n g t o n P o s t | P r e s s after it discovered the breach last A s s o c i a t i o n | E m a i l t h i s | May, the FBI then followed the C o m m e n t s digital thread back to the Briton's
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Iowa not so hot for Obama Video: CNNs these days Obama Bump moment
Jazz Shaw (Hot Air Top Picks)
lead: Ron Paul, who would defeat Obama by 7 percentage points, 49 percent to 42 percent. Rick Submitted at 2/19/2012 11:00:35 AM Santorum, winner of the 2012 posted at 12:00 pm on February Iowa caucuses, leads Obama 48 19, 2012 by Jazz Shaw percent to 44 percent. Mitt The current state of play in Iowa Romney, edged in the caucuses by may be something of a mixed bag Santorum, leads Obama 46 for many of you. Theres good percent to 44 percent. news, not so good news and, The president defeats only Newt frankly kind of weird news. Gingrich, 51 percent to 37 Barack Obama carried Iowa by percent. nearly 10% in 2008. So it should Iowa is considered a swing state provide a cheerful note for the in the general election, critical to GOP hopefuls to learn that three Obamas re-election or victory by of the remaining four top tier the Republican nominee. contenders lead the President in So apparently Iowa has caught head to head match-ups in the the fevah, and the only cure is latest polling there. But who does Ron Paul. the best? This comes as something of a President Barack Obama trails surprise, considering recent news three of the four Republican items providing more positive candidates in head-to-head match- news for the President. Fox has ups if the election were held already reported that Obama has today, according to a new Iowa been ticking upward in the swing Poll. states, and theres been a The Republican with the biggest relentless media narrative about
how happy days are here again, good times are just around the corner and very likely that oceans levels have indeed begun to fall. Is Iowa some sort of harbinger of things to come, even before the expected change in unemployment trends? Clearly, Ron Paul is overperforming with independents and disheartened Democrats, while lagging badly with the base. Either way, though, it still appears that Obama is facing an uphill battle here unless Newt somehow makes a third comeback. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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been years ago. CNN took a solemn occasion which they could have reported as the news story it Submitted at 2/19/2012 12:30:03 PM was and turned it into a chatty, posted at 1:30 pm on February unserious talk show. 19, 2012 by Ed Morrissey As for the fist bump, well, thats Newsbusters picked this moment what you get on chatty, unserious up from John Ziegler, and Drudge talk shows. Neither CNN anchor picked it up from Newsbusters, initiated that exchange, but and well, its destined to be a OBrien who Newsbusters classic. While covering the points out took an on-air high five Whitney Houston funeral live f r o m now-suspended with two anchors CNNs commentator Roland Martin a few Soledad OBrien and talk-show weeks back for ripping Mitt host Piers Morgan interviewed Romney certainly didnt have singer Roberta Flack and Jesse to say, Absolutely! in response. Jackson for a segment. When If OBrien looks less like a Flack got up to return to the serious news reporter than ever funeral, she offered the two CNN after the fist bump, its in large hosts an Obama bump, which part because CNNs assignment both returned, and to which of this gig to her strongly OBrien replied Absolutely! i n s i n u a t e s t h a t t h e y d i d n t So is this Flack for Obama, or consider her one before the fist flacking for Obama? bump, either. Er .. the first question should be Update: From the comments, I why CNN felt it necessary to find out that pretty much every dedicate a live broadcast to the television news outlet provided funeral of Whitney Houston. Its l i v e c o v e r a g e o f W h i t n e y a tragic shame the talented singer Houstons funeral which just with the once-beautiful voice means that Americas television passed away at 48 (my age, by the n e w s m e d i a a r e p r e t t y way), but when was the last time fundamentally unserious across Houston was newsworthy enough the board. to dedicate an hour of live news This entry passed through the coverage? Probably never, and if VIDEO: page 55 there was a time, it would have
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Google quietly launches Latitude Leaderboards, threatens Foursquare under its breath
Terrence O'Brien (Engadget)
Submitted at 2/19/2012 12:30:00 PM
are tallied and used to rank Google+ users on a global leaderboard, just like on Google didn't exactly offer much Foursquare. Not everyone is fanfare for this new feature -- as seeing the feature just yet, and it far as we can tell, it still hasn't only appears to reveal itself after been officially announced. With you check-in somewhere. In fact, the latest update to the Maps app, we still haven't found a way to Mountain View delivered an extra pull up the leaderboard without level of functionality to the all but first registering our location. You sound off in the comments if forgotten Latitude. Now check can see the rather sparse help page you're seeing your name ranked check-ins earn you points which at the more coverage link and
alongside your favorite Engadget editors and Leo Laporte. Google quietly launches Latitude Leaderboards, threatens Foursquare under its breath originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Android World (translated)| Email this| Comments

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