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2012 Republican sweepstakes: Thune out, waiting
for Huntsman
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 2/22/2011 1:31:14 PM
Feb 22, 2011 14:31 EST
The Republican field for the 2012
presidential race has not yet
crystallized, but it will start taking
shape over the next few months
with every announcement from a
(real or rumored) potential
presidential hopeful.
One to cross off the list —
Republican Senator John Thune
said he won’t be running. He
posted the announcement on his
Facebook page, saying he plans to
continue representing South
Dakota in the Senate.
“There is a battle to be waged
over what kind of country we are
going to leave our children and
grandchildren and that battle is
happening now in Washington,
not two years from now,” Thune
said. “So at this time, I feel that I
am best positioned to fight for
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America’s future here in the
trenches of the United States
Senate.”
Thune became the second
conservative Republican in
Congress to decide against
seeking the party’s nomination,
following Representative Mike
Pence of Indiana.
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There is expected to be no
shortage of Republican candidates
vying to go up against Democrat
Barack Obama in the contest for
the White House.
Republican Jon Huntsman, the
U.S. ambassador to China will
step down from diplomatic duty at
the end of April. He has not
distinctive names compared with
their counterparts in older regions
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announced a decision about any
political intentions, but what is
essentially his campaign-in-
waiting just launched a
fundraising effort.
A political action committee
called Horizon PAC, which is
officially unconnected to
Huntsman, launched a new
website with a giant red H to seek
donations. “Maybe someday we’ll
find a new generation of
conservative leaders,” it says.
Photo credit: Reuters/Jonathan
Ernst (Thune at Conservative
Political Action conference on
Feb. 11).
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Clampdown in
Libyan capital as
protests close in (AP)
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AP - Militiamen loyal to
Moammar Gadhafi clamped down
in Tripoli, but cracks in his
regime spread elsewhere across
the nation, as the protest-fueled
rebellion controlling much of
eastern Libya claimed new gains
closer to the capital. Two pilots
let their warplane crash in the
desert, parachuting to safety,
rather than bomb an opposition-
held city.
Oil prices jump
past $100 (AP)
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AP - The price of oil passes $100
per barrel for the first time since
October 2008.
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Washington Extra – Revolutionary wrath

Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row Washington today… of Representatives Speaker John
Washington) Obama under pressure to Boehner said his chamber “will
Submitted at 2/22/2011 4:50:09 PM intervene in Libya pass a short-term bill to keep the
Pressure is mounting on the government running — one that
Revolutionaries have a tough White House to stop Muammar also cuts spending,” if the
time dealing with revolutions. Gaddafi’s bloody crackdown on Democratic-led Senate refused to
When Muammar Gaddafi took democracy protests as a lawmaker vote on a tough spending-cut bill
power in Libya in 1969, he was close to President Obama urged which was passed by the House
not yet 30. Today he faces an oil firms to halt work in Libya. on Saturday.
uprising from youthful protesters The administration faced calls For more of this story by Richard
who want him gone. His response: ranging from bombing Libyan Cowan and Alister Bull, read
You deserve the death penalty. So airfields and imposing no-fly- here.
far it appears about 300 have been zones, to criticism of Obama’s Oil spike 2008 all over again?
killed in the protests. silence on the violence. Senator Not for U.S. economy
The United States has little John Kerry, chairman of the Don’t panic. That was the
leverage with Libya — the S e n a t e F o r e i g n R e l a t i o n s message from Nobuo Tanaka, the
countries have not been on the C o m m i t t e e , c a l l e d o n t h e executive director of the
friendliest of terms for most of administration to consider re-
latest uprising against autocratic hostages on a private yacht, the International Energy Agency, to
Gaddafi’s rule. imposing tough sanctions on rulers in the Arab world. deadliest incident involving those who fear it is 2008 all over
So the administration is left Libya. His outspoken Republican
For more of this story, read here. Americans kidnapped for ransom again as unrest in oil-producing
issuing words like Secretary of House counterpart, Ileana Ros-
Obama kicks off listening tour of in the increasingly dangerous Libya pushes crude prices back up
State Hillary Clinton’s repetition Lehtinen, said the United States
U.S. businesses waters off Somalia. The U.S. toward the triple digits. Even if oil
that Libya immediately stop “this should freeze assets and issue a
President Obama, with much of military said the pirates shot the prices remain above $100 a barrel
unacceptable bloodshed.” Is that travel ban on senior Libyan
his Cabinet in tow, visited the hostages before American special this year that would most likely
enough? Others are calling for government officials.
economically hard-hit Midwest as forces boarded the vessel. Troops put a moderate counterweight on
sanctions to military intervention. For more of this story by Ross
part of his effort to mend fences killed two pirates as they took consumer spending, but not nearly
In a novel explanation, Gaddafi Colvin and Arshad Mohammed,
w i t h e n t r e p r e n e u r s . “ M y control of the boat, and took 15 enough to halt a recovery which is
says he can’t step down because read here.
administration is going to go to into custody. Another two pirates gaining momentum.
he is not president but is in fact a US unable to move its diplomats
bat for America’s businesses were found dead when the special For more of this analysis by
revolutionary. from Libya Tuesday around the world. You should forces arrived but they were not Emily Kaiser, read here.
Not known for subtlety, Gaddafi The United States said it had Top court rules for vaccine
know that,” Obama said. Since his killed by U.S. forces, the military
chose as location for his angry been unable to move any of its makers on lawsuits
Democrats were trounced in the said.
discourse the residence damaged n o n e s s e n t i a l d i p l o m a t s a n d The Supreme Court ruled that
November elections, Obama has For more of this story by Phil
in the 1986 U.S. bombing raid embassy family members out of federal law shields vaccine
sought to rebuild ties with Stewart, read here.
that also killed his baby daughter. Libya and expected them to makers from product-liability
business that became strained White House expects to avoid
Next to him stood a monument of depart in coming days. Witnesses lawsuits in state court seeking
over companies’ complaints about government shutdown
a fist crushing a U.S. fighter jet. said Libyan leader Colonel Obama’s regulatory agenda and The risk of a government damages for a child’s injuries or
Oil is at a 2-1/2 year high on the Muammar Gaddafi used tanks,
healthcare reform law. shutdown appeared to ease on death from a vaccine’s side
Libya revolt, no small issue for warplanes and mercenaries to try
For more of this story by Caren Tuesday after a top Republican effects. The high court ruled for
the world’s largest consumer of to crush protests against his 41-
Bohan and Kim Palmer, read backed passing a stopgap measure Wyeth, is now owned by Pfizer,
oil. And stocks racked up their year rule. Secretary of State
here. t o k e e p p r o g r a m s r u n n i n g , in a lawsuit brought by the parents
biggest daily loss since August on Clinton has demanded that Libya
Pirates kill four U.S. hostages although at a reduced level, and of Hannah Bruesewitz, who
the turmoil. stop what she called “this near Somalia the White House said it expected WASHINGTON page 3
Here are our top stories from unacceptable bloodshed” in the
Pirates shot dead four U.S. a shutdown to be avoided. House
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suffered seizures as an infant after
her third dose of a vaccine in
1992. Pfizer and other vaccine
makers had argued that a Supreme
Court ruling for the plaintiffs
could open the door to a flood of
lawsuits — many by families who
believe vaccines cause autism —
and threaten the supply of
childhood vaccines.
For more of this story by James
Vicini, read here.
FDA cites Sanofi over drug side
effect reporting
Health regulators have warned
Sanofi-Aventis for failing to
submit reports of possible serious
drug side effects in a timely
manner. In a January 28 letter
made public on Tuesday, the FDA
said an early response from the
drugmaker and its “promised
corrective actions are inadequate
to address the deficiencies.” “We
remain concerned that your ….
adverse drug experience reporting
system has not been fully
validated, and may have resulted
in inaccurate assessment and
untimely submission of 15-day
alerts,” FDA said.
For more of this story by Susan
Heavey, read here.
Credit cards still in US watchdog
Warren’s sights
Consumer regulator Elizabeth
Warren warned the credit card
industry of further reforms even
while praising it for going beyond
the requirements of last year’s
crackdown on fees and interest
rate increases. “The data we have
assembled indicate that much of
the industry has gone further than
the law requires in curbing re-
pricing and overlimit fees,”
Warren said, citing a government
survey of the impact of the CARD
Act.
For more of this story by Dave
Clarke and Maria Aspan, read
here.
Ex-U.S. mortgage exec to plead
to criminal charges
The former treasurer of the now-
defunct Taylor, Bean & Whitaker
Mortgage, Desiree Brown, is set
to enter a plea agreement to
federal criminal charges on
Thursday. No details of the
charges were available but a
hearing is set for 9:15 a.m. in the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia. Such hearings
are typically held when a
defendant is expected to plead
guilty. Taylor, Bean & Whitaker
filed for bankruptcy in August
2009 and federal prosecutors have
accused the former chairman of
the mortgage firm, Lee Farkas, of
orchestrating a scheme that led to
billions of dollars in losses that
are still being tallied.
For more of this story by Jeremy
Pelofsky, read here.
Existing home sales overcounting
“minor” -NAR
The National Association of
Realtors said any overcounting of
existing home sales in its data was
“relatively minor”, dismissing
claims it could have overstated
sales by as much as 20 percent.
The group said it was consulting
with a range of experts to
determine whether there was a
drift in its monthly existing home
sales data. “At this point, we
believe any drift in our data to be
relatively minor,” the NAR said.
For more of this story, read here.
Dallas, KC Feds sought discount
rate hike -minutes
Directors at the Federal Reserve
Banks of Kansas City, Dallas and
Chicago sought quarter
percentage-point hikes in the
discount rate before an August 5
policy meeting to keep inflation at
bay, Fed documents show.
Directors at the other nine
regional Fed banks all voted to
hold the discount rate steady at
2.25 percent in the same period
leading up to the Fed’s most
recent interest rate-setting
meeting, according to minutes of
discount rate meetings released by
the Federal Reserve Board in
Washington.
For more of this story, read here.
Thune decides against White
House bid
Republican Senator John Thune,
long seen as a rising political star
and possible White House
contender, said he will not run for
president next year. “At this time,
I feel that I am best positioned to
fight for America’s future here in
the trenches of the United States
Senate,” he said in a statement.
For more of this story, read here.
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Budget-cutters take aim at
nuclear modernization funds
In hardball negotiations over the
START nuclear arms treaty last
year, Senate Republicans wrested
a commitment from the White
House to redouble work to
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overhaul the nation’s nuclear
infrastructure. Somebody should
have told House Republicans.
For David Alexander’s full post,
click here.
From elsewhere…
No royal wedding invite? Get a
job at the palace
If you were not lucky enough to
be one of the 1,900 people invited
to Prince William’s upcoming
wedding, then fear not: you could
always get a job making coffee
for the guests or washing up
afterwards. Queen Elizabeth has
placed two job adverts on her
website, for a General Assistant
(Coffee Room) and a General
Assistant (Wash-up). Both pay
about $22,700 a year and the
posts are based at the monarch’s
Buckingham Palace residence in
London, although both will have
to travel to other royal homes
around Britain.
For more of this story, read here
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demonstrate in front of White
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businessman David Koch was
able to have a lengthy
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cripple public employee unions,
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Middle Eastern media see end of Gaddafi - BBC News

(Top Stories - Google News) regime is living out its last daughters! Even government serious steps to put an end to the country.
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:20:36 PM moments and has actually lost representatives abroad could not adventures of Colonel Gaddafi Pro-reform Iranian newspaper
control over many parts of the stand what the world was seeing... and his irresponsible behaviour Arman
23 February 2011 Last updated at country... But it also betrays and decided to urge Gaddafi to over his long years in power ... At The recent movement by the
12:56 ET something that is absolutely leave. a time when some European Libyan people proves that the
Arab media commentators hail terrifying. It implies that the Muhammad Bin Suleiman al- countries see him as a friend people of the country are fed up
what they see as the end of Libyan people are in for some Ahidib in the mainstream Saudi because of his country's oil, which with the hypocrisy of the system.
L i b y a n l e a d e r M u a m m a r exceptionally difficult, if not newspaper Ukaz makes them either keep silent in Although Gaddafi and his agents
Gaddafi's rule in Libya, although downright horrifying, days and We ask the al-Jazeera TV the face of his crimes or criticise have shown their real faces by
many fear that his latest speech that God only knows the scale of channel to review all the him gently, international human suppressing people the dictator
shows he will not quit without the carnage awaiting them. The interviews it has conducted with rights organisations should take would have never thought that the
further bloodshed. Colonel has openly threatened to Gaddafi and it will see that it is immediate action against him. children of Libya would rise
Pan-Arab TV channels continue fight his own people to the last part and parcel of the suffering Smadar Peri in mainstream against him. The dictator has no
to lead on the story, with even drop of his blood, which means that the Libyan people are Israeli newspaper Yediot option but to bow to the demands
usually reticent Syrian satellite that he is going to resort to a currently enduring. Its work Aharonot of the people.
TV noting international calls for scorched-earth policy. lacked professionalism, The world's silence in the face of Ibrahim Karagul in the moderate
Libya to halt attacks on its own Abd-al-Bari Atwan in the information and foresight. the massacre is horrifying... Just Islamic Turkish newspaper Yeni
people. London Arab nationalist Imad Sharif in the Iraqi give him the chance and Gaddafi Safak
T h e p r o - L i b y a n L o n d o n newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi Communist newspaper Tariq al- will murder the entire six million. The end of history has come for
newspaper a-Arab al-Alamiyah The speech delivered by Libyan Sha'ab Does that remind you of Colonel Muammar. He will now
also reported on the disintegration leader Muammar Gaddafi last The air is full of slogans such as something? ... If you really are go to the graveyard of dictators.
of Colonel Gaddafi's regime. One night is the most dangerous of its "Scrap the regime!", "Reform the siding with the Libyan people, put No power can protect him. And
Saudi paper criticizes the pan- kind because every word or regime!" or "Down with the a quick end to the massacre and they do not have such power
Arab TV station al-Jazeera, which expression conveyed an infernal Colonel!" because many people in do not let Gaddafi escape. Give anyway. Neither the African
has led the critical coverage of the conspiracy. If it is successfully our part of the world want bread, the colonel what he deserves: a countries, into which he has
Libyan leader, accusing it of implemented then it would lead to freedom, jobs and equality as they court-martial and a bullet in the poured money for decades, nor
behaving unprofessionally. the disintegration of Libya or turn can no longer stand being head. Britain and the USA, with whom
Iranian comment from left and it into a state similar to Somalia, downtrodden and discriminated Hardline Iranian newspaper he had improved relations in the
right sees no way out for Colonel or even an ocean of blood... He against by a few cliquish Jomhuri-ye-Eslami last few years, can or will protect
G a d d a f i , a n d o n e T u r k i s h was like a blood-thirsty wounded individuals who insist on The Libyan dictator Gadaffi's him.
newspaper columnist said former wolf ready to burn the whole of monopolising wealth, power and massacre of innocent people in BBC Monitoring selects and
African, British and US allies Libya for the sake of maintaining influence even as the the country showed his brutal face translates news from radio,
cannot save him. his rule, his tribe's influence and disenfranchised majority continue and his criminal nature hidden television, press, news agencies
Some writers criticise Arab and the safety of his followers. We to live in intolerable squalor and behind the mask of a and the internet from 150
other states for having tolerated should not underestimate this destitution. The wonderful bug of revolutionary figure. It proved he countries in more than 70
the Libyan regime for so long, speech or its author. change has already been caught rightly deserves the title of 'mad languages. It is based in
and one Israeli commentator calls Samir Rajab in the Egyptian pro- by several Arab countries and will politician'... In his calculations he Caversham, UK, and has several
for Colonel Gaddafi to be put on g o v e r n m e n t n e w s p a p e r A l - soon infect the rest, for our region expects the Westerners to help bureaux abroad.
trial for genocide and shot. Jumhuriyah is too infested with grievances to him... That is why in threatening This entry passed through the
Tariq al-Hamid in the Saudi- Libya in the last five days has be immune to the fast-spreading the Libyans his criminal and Full-Text RSS service — if this is
owned London newspaper Al- turned into a field of fire. Its contagion of change. corrupt son warned Westerners your content and you're reading it
Sharq al-Awsat people, for the first time, came out Pro-Fatah Palestinian newspaper that if his father's regime on someone else's site, please read
The speech Gaddafi delivered and started hurling insults and Al-Quds collapses anti-Western
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Pirates add ammo, men to ships after 4 US deaths (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) home aboard their 58-foot yacht were illegally fishing Somalia's warned them to not get nearer to Navy war ship, and it's unclear
Submitted at 2/23/2011 11:27:00 AM Quest since December 2004. waters. Now criminal gangs us." whether there was an internal
The Adams handed out Bibles dominate the piracy trade, and Piracy has plagued the shipping pirate fight or if there had been a
NAIROBI, Kenya – Pirates in around the world, but a pirate who have begun systematically industry off East Africa for years, hostage escape attempt.
Somalia said Wednesday they are gave his name only as Hassan told torturing hostages, including but the violence used during the "We don't know what happened
ferrying ammunition and men to T h e A s s o c i a t e d P r e s s o n locking them in freezers. attacks — and the money yesterday so we're not going to
the 30 hijacked vessels still under Wednesday that played no factor. "What we're seeing is that because demanded in ransoms — have make any knee-jerk decisions,"
their control, and they threatened He said the pirates reacted of the business model the pirates increased in recent months. O'Kennedy said. "But our policy
to kill more captives following the violently after the U.S. forces have adopted is so lucrative that Pirates now hold some 30 ships remains the same. Nothing is off
violent end to a hostage standoff blocked the yacht's path. you're now getting organized and more than 660 hostages. the table. All options are open to
that left four Americans dead. "We had plans to either take the criminal gangs involved as The average ransom now paid to us as a military force."
The U.S. military said that 15 hostages to the inland mountains opposed to fishermen who just pirates is in the $5 million range, Pirates blamed the deaths of the
p i r a t e s d e t a i n e d a f t e r t h e or to move onto other hijacked decided to have a go at piracy," a huge leap from only three or American hostages on the U.S.
Americans were slain Tuesday ships because we knew that the said Wing Commander Paddy four years ago when it was in the Navy, saying the pirates felt under
could face trial in the United U.S. Navy was serious about O'Kennedy, spokesman for the hundreds of thousands of dollars, attack.
States. carrying out a rescue operation," European Union's anti-piracy said Roger Middleton, a piracy "We warned them before that if
The military, FBI and Justice Hassan said. "The hostages force. expert at the London-based think we are attacked, there would be
Department are working on the pleaded with us not to harm them "Criminal gangs are more violent tank Chatham House. One ransom only dead bodies," said a man
next steps for those pirates, said or take them to dangerous places. than your average fisherman paid last year was just shy of $10 who gave his name as
Bob Prucha, a spokesman for U.S. They cried when we captured who's turned to piracy," million. Abdirahman Abdullahi
Central Command in Florida. The them ... and asked us to release O'Kennedy said. "It's really gone up, really an Qabowsade. "We have been killed
Somalis are currently being held them because they were too old A pirate in Somalia who gave his enormous amount," Middleton and arrested illegally before, so
on the aircraft carrier USS and couldn't endure captivity." name as Adowe Osman Ali said said. "If you think you can get a we can't bear with such attacks
Enterprise, which is in the waters The killings came less than a fellow "soldiers" had ferried the $9.5 million ransom, I suppose anymore. We will respond to any
off East Africa. week after a Somali pirate was reinforcements to hijacked ships the logic is that you try any means future attacks aggressively."
A pirate aboard the hijacked sentenced to more than 33 years in their hands on Wednesday in a possible to get there, and if that ___
yacht Quest on Tuesday fired a in prison by a New York court for bid to deter more hostage rescue means scaring some crews and Associated Press Writer Abdi
rocket-propelled grenade at a U.S. the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk attempts. He said after Tuesday's owners more, I guess that's what Guled in Mogadishu, Somalia
warship that had responded to last Alabama. That hijacking ended incident, captains of hijacked you do," he said, alluding to the contributed to this report.
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and Jean and Scott Adam of d i s g r u n t l e d a n d f i n a n c i a l l y before," he said. "In the past, we It's still not known publicly
M a r i n a d e l R e y , n e a r L o s motivated Somali fishermen allowed the foreign navies to whether prompted a pirate to fire
Angeles, who had made their angry that international trawlers approach us but now we have a rocket-propelled grenade at a
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Americans, Turks
Oil prices jump past $100 (AP) among the thousands
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) working in the country. jet fuel and diesel. Some that prices are difficult to predict
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:13:22 PM The country's biggest oil refineries won't be able to run on because of the rapidly changing
fleeing Libya (AP)
producer, Eni, idled operations Saudi Arabia's lower-grade crude, Middle East situation. (Yahoo! News: Most Popular)
NEW YORK – Oil prices hit that produce 244,000 barrels of oil so a sustained shut down in Libya Shares of major oil companies Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:07:10 PM
$100 per barrel Wednesday as and gas per day. Spain's Repsol- could start a bidding war for rose in Wednesday trading. Exxon
forces loyal to Libya's Moammar YPF and Austrian oil company comparable kinds of crude. Mobil gained $2.09, or 2.5 AP - Foreigners fled the chaos in
Gadhafi clashed with protesters OMV also suspended operations. "That would raise product prices percent, at $87.53. ConocoPhillips Libya by the thousands
expanding their control over parts Barclays Capital estimates that as immediately," Goldstein said. added $2.07, or 2.7 percent, at Wednesday, with Americans and
of that OPEC nation. much as 1 million barrels per day Analysts say concerns about $78.68. Chevron rose $2.83, or Turks climbing aboard ships,
In afternoon trading benchmark has been shut down so far. In violence in North Africa and 2.8 percent, to $103.15. Europeans boarding evacuation
West Texas Intermediate crude January, Libya produced almost Middle East have added a "fear Occidental Petroleum rose $1.90 flights and North Africans racing
for April delivery was up $3.48, 1.7 million barrels per day of oil premium" of about $10 per barrel to $104.04. to border crossings in
or 3.7 percent, at $98.90 per and natural gas liquids, according of oil. The rise has pushed retail In other Nymex trading in March overcrowded vans.
b a r r e l o n t h e N e w Y o r k to the International Energy gasoline prices higher in the U.S. contracts, heating oil added 12
Mercantile Exchange. Prices Agency. despite ample supplies in most cents at $2.9250 per gallon and
climbed as high as $100 earlier in The production losses will be felt parts of the country. gasoline gained 12 cents to Gov't drops
the day, hitting triple digits for the mostly in Europe. Ireland relies
first time since Oct. 2, 2008. WTI on Libya for 23 percent of its oil
Gasoline prices jumped 8.2 cents
per gallon in the last month and
$2.8704 per gallon. Natural gas
picked up 4 cents at $3.948 per
defense of anti-gay
has jumped 18 percent since imports and 22 percent of Italy's
Valentine's Day.
$1.28 per gallon in the last year. 1,000 cubic feet. marriage law (AP)
oil imports are from Libya. The The national average for a gallon ___
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of regular on Wednesday rose AP Business Writer Sandy Shore
$5.33, or 5 percent, at $111.11per barrels per day from Libya, less another 2.3 cents to $3.194, in Denver and AP Energy Writer Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:43:38 PM

b a r r e l o n t h e I C E F u t u r e s than 1 percent of its total crude according to AAA, Wright Jonathan Fahey in New York
exchange. imports. Express and Oil Price Information contributed to this story. AP - In a major policy reversal,
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average of 55,000 barrels per day said Libya's oil is a high-quality Ritterbusch said he doubts that the
last year. That follows similar variety that produces valuable national average will climb to $4
moves by other oil companies petroleum products like gasoline, a gallon or higher, but he added

EPA trims costs to control toxic air pollution (AP) MIDDLE

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in Congress and a court-ordered
deadline, the Environmental
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said it will make it much cheaper
for companies to reduce toxic air
pollution from industrial boilers
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Gay marriage: Obama administration Kadhafi ordered
won't defend part of marriage act - Lockerbie bombing: ex-
Los Angeles Times
(Top Stories - Google News)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:45:12 PM
Reporting from Washington —
The Obama administration, in a
major shift on gay rights, says it
will not defend in court the
federal law that bars the
government from recognizing
same-sex marriages and giving
equal benefits to gay couples.
"After careful consideration, the
president of the United States has
made the determination that
Section 3 of the Defense of
Marriage Act as applied to same-
sex couples who are legally
married under state law, violates
the equal-protection component"
of the U.S. Constitution,
announced Atty. Gen. Eric
Holder.
Holder said the Justice
Department now agrees with that
claim.
In his legal analysis,
discrimination against gays
"warrants heightened scrutiny,"
not general acceptance. "There is,
regrettably, a significant history
of purposeful discrimination
against gay and lesbian people, by
governmental as well as private
entities, based on prejudice and
Women offered same annuity rates as men
(Finance News - Business news
from the UK and world)
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stereotypes that continue to have
ramifications today," he said. He
also cited "recent evolutions" of
the law in courts and state
legislatures recognizing the
principle of equal treatment for
gays and lesbians.
Until now, the Obama
administration had taken the view
that it had a duty to defend all
laws, including discriminatory
measures, so long as they could
be justified as constitutional. In
this instance, the administration
could see no "reasonable
arguments" to defend a law that
denies equal benefits to legally
married gay couples, he said.
The administration said it will not
defend the law against two suits
brought by same-sex couples from
New York and Connecticut.
The administration's new legal
policy is highly significant
because it says that discrimination
against gays is generally
unconstitutional, unless the
government has a strong reason to
justify its policy. Until now, the
government's official position was
that official discrimination based
on sexual orientation was
generally constitutional.
However, the practical effect of
Women have been offered the
higher annuity rates normally
Top News/ Finance/ 7
(Top Stories - Google News) return to Tripoli drew a furious
Wednesday's announcement
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:30:00 PM response from many, and outrage
appears to be limited to those
in the United States has been
states in which gays can marry
Kadhafi ordered Lockerbie stoked by the fact that he remains
legally. The lawsuit brought by
bombing: ex-minister tells paper alive almost a year and a half after
the gay couples argued that they
(AFP) – 2 hours ago his release.
were entitled to the same benefits
STOCKHOLM — Libyan leader According to Abdeljalil, Kadhafi
as other couples because they
Moamer Kadhafi personally "ordered Megrahi to do it (the
were legally married in their
ordered the Lockerbie bombing in bombing)," and had worked hard
states.
1988, former justice minister to secure his release to ensure that
Holder said the government now
Mustapha Abdeljalil told Swedish his role in the plot remained
agrees with that claim.
d a i l y E x p r e s s e n , t h e p a p e r secret.
White House Press Secretary Jay
r e p o r t e d o n i t s w e b s i t e "To hide it, he did everything in
Carney said the president doesn't
Wednesday. his power to get Megrahi back
believe the law is constitutional,
"I have proof that Kadhafi gave from Scotland," the former
though his own personal view on
the order on Lockerbie," said the minister said.
gay marriage is still evolving.
minister, who stepped down Expressen said its reporter
"He's grappling with the issue,"
Monday to protest the ongoing Kassem Hamade, who is currently
Carney said Wednesday
violence in Libya. in Libya, had conducted a 40-
afternoon. "But I want to make a
Libyan national Abdelbaset Ali minute interview with Abdeljalil
distinction between his personal
Mohmet al-Megrahi was in 2001 at "the local parliament in a large
views" and the legal decision not
convicted of the bombing of Pan city."
to defend the law.
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Big surfing contest wipes out, no Vertex Sees Positive

waves (Reuters) Cystic Fibrosis Drug
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) the right conditions for potentially something that you might only get
Submitted at 2/23/2011 10:56:18 AM big waves, the 24 surfers slated to
compete would have held a vote
to see every 10 years. Last year
was the biggest we ever did," he
Results
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – on whether to gather shoreside at said. Brent Archer (BloggingStocks)
An epic U.S. surfing contest that Maverick's. In 1994, big wave surfer Mark Submitted at 2/23/2011 1:30:00 PM

in the past featured athletes riding "There's been nothing really Foo drowned at the surf spot
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Half Moon Bay in California, surf contest in 1998 that the event the shore -- especially on a typical reported successful results from a looks bullish and S&P gives
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Help Wanted: Seeking New Novo Nordisk A/S

Visionary Apple CEO, But Will (NVO): Health Care
Settle For Interim 'Profit Machine'
Doc Barham and Mark exceptional results. Since the on that process of bringing visions Steven Halpern
Goulston (Business Insider) "should's" "shouldn'ts" etc. are to life as opposed to missionaries (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:46:15 PM built upon doubt, someone with who may become confused after Submitted at 2/23/2011 1:00:00 PM
pure unabated confidence and a the initial visionary leaves. This is
Seeking New Visionary CEO track record to back it up, will win unfortunately Apple’s core Filed under: Newsletters, Stocks
with the Following Attributes: every time. dilemma. to Buy
1. Able to see into the future 4. Chutzpah and brazenness Will settle for interim: "Novo Nordisk A/S ( NVO) is a
b e y o n d t h e i m a g i n a t i o n o f informed by vision vs. ego. It’s In all likelihood, Apple will not Danish pharmaceutical company
customers to what will delight, not about having to be right, but find someone to immediately fill that focuses on diabetes care and
excite and addict them, that they knowing what’s right, seeing it Steve Jobs' shoes, either in biopharmaceuticals," notes insulin at all and need to inject it
can’t even conceive. It’s the clearly and not resting until it is mindset, skillset, but most Nicholas Vardy. their whole lives.
ability to know what will provide realized. Although Mark is a importantly in his clarity of vision The editor of the Global Bull Continue reading Novo Nordisk
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EXPLAINED! Why No One Knows How The

Hell To Spell Qaddafi/Gadhafi/Gaddafi/Qadhafi
Joseph Alexiou (Business spelling dictates otherwise. That's
Insider) right, in all of Arabic literature,
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:50:00 PM there's only one way to spell it.
This pronunciation detail is
According to a 2009 blog post
from ABC news, there are over
probably why Al Jazeera English
spells it "Gaddafi." Interestingly,
Goldman Sachs
112 ways that news media has
written the name of possibly crazy
Al Jazeera doesn't use the "al"
article when speaking about the
Goes Big on
Libyan president, Muammar
Qaddafi, since 1998. ABC, by the
Libyan president, but the New
York Times does. And the latter
Venture Capital
way, spells it Moammar Gaddafi. spells the article as "el," — note Tom Taulli (BloggingStocks)
Yesterday a piec e published by that the "al" of Al Jazeera and the Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:40:00 PM
the Christian Science Monitor "el" of Qaddafi are spelled the
shows that the Associated Press, same in Arabic. Filed under: Goldman Sachs
CNN, and MSNBC spell it " Ultimately, searching for what Group (GS)
Moammar Gadhafi," the New this unhinged leader is up to Investors have been trying to
York Times spells it " Muammar becomes really complicated. guess how the Goldman Sachs (
el-Qaddafi," the Los Angeles Perhaps if Qaddafi was as good at GS) business model will morph,
Times writes " Moammar wielding power as he wants us to especially as the firm moves away
Kadafi," and Reuters, the from proprietary trading.
k n o w t h i s i s g r o s s l y with his last name in question, is believe, then everyone would Interestingly enough, it looks like
Guardian, and the BBC go with "
oversimplified statement to make, begins with a "" a Qoph, an spell his name the way he did in a part of the new strategy will be a
Muammar Gaddafi." (The writer,
but there is only one way to Arabic letter that is definitely a 1986, when corresponding with focus on venture capital deals. Of
Eoin O'Carroll also wrote almost
render this leader's name in "K" (if you ever studied Hebrew, s o m e s e c o n d - g r a d e r s i n course, the standout transaction
the exact same article two years
Arabic). its essentially the same letter as M i n n e s o t a : " M o a m m a r E l - was the investment in Facebook.
ago, focusing on the particulars of Gadhafi."
Looking at Google trends, the "kaf"). But there is another interesting
Arabic pronunciation).
most popularly searched term for If it's that simple, then why do It should be noted that when the one, which was announced
Everyone gives roughly the same
the man is "Gaddafi," followed by many places spell his name with a AP published this story, the Wednesday: a $70 million
reason "because of the difficulties
" K a d a f i . " " K a d d a f i " a n d G? Arabic already has a G, which headline of it was "Second- minority stake in AppSense.
of translating Arabic." That's so
"Qaddafi" came in third and is not used to spell his name: that G r a d e r s G e t L e t t e r F r o m Continue reading Goldman Sachs
lazy. It's because we have no
fourth, respectively. letter, , is called "gim" and K h a d a f y . " Goes Big on Venture Capital
standard guide for translating
Here is why we have trouble with corresponds to the Hebrew Now that's just silly. Goldman Sachs Goes Big on
Arabic words. Join the conversation about this
spelling "Qaddafi": "gimel." Venture Capital originally
Considering this decade's news story »
His name, rendered in Arabic, is Because, apparently, Libyans appeared on BloggingStocks on
cycle, we should probably make
" ," roughly transliterates to pronounce it with the softer g- Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:40:00 EST.
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SAC's Lawyers "Actively Discourage" StackOverflow Turns

Its People From Doing Anything That Your Forum Activity
May Leave A Paper Trail Into a Resume
Katya Wachtel (Business Marshall Kirkpatrick
Insider) (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:50:00 PM
Submitted at 2/23/2011 11:32:55 AM

Steve Cohen has always been Fast-growing technical forum value on top of what's called
somewhat nostalgic about the StackOverflow is launching a new exhaust data. That term doesn't
days before email and instant service today called Careers 2.0, feel like it does justice to peoples'
messaging. where programmers can build a activities on Stack Overflow, but
Last week he pondered the good resume out of the technical it does seem technically
old days with Paul Tudor Jones, questions and answers they've applicable.
declaring“tape reading is a lost contributed to the StackOverflow When it comes to creating value,
art" and musing about how great site. The service was unveiled at though, connecting employers
the 90s were. the Launch conference today in with highly qualified technical
We're not sure how much Steve's San Francisco. candidates is one of the clearest
influenced has trickled down into It's a great example of building examples of value this paradigm
his legal team, but they're not that value on top of passively has created to date, outside of
enamored with modern collected data from another kind targeted advertising.
communicative devices either. of activity. Millions of Stack Overflow is building out a
Apparently, "SAC Capital's legal programmers visit and participate network of community Q&A sites
team actively discourages traders on a wide variety of topics. It's not
It's obviously a tactic that does its (and FBI subpoenas in the hands in StackOverflow forums to find
and analysts from using email, hard to imagine this same type of
job: besties Noah Freeman and of a whole crew of SAC alumni), and share free, community-vetted
instant messages and other forms system being offered for types of
Don Longueuil-- the two former remains to be accused of any discussions about their technical
of communication that can leave a challenges. Now the site will help work other than computer
SAC employees that have been wrongdoing.
paper trail," Reuters reported in a programming.
indicted on insider trading charges What's kind of ironic is that them transform that activity into a
story about why Steve Cohen is Also at Launch and addressing
-- would only use their personal d e s p i t e t h e l e g a l t e a m ' s resume that employers can find
the FBI's Moby Dick (aka -- why the need of finding qualified
email accounts, and only on non- preference, Stevie himself keeps and evaluate. It's free for job
they'll never nab him for insider candidates, in this case consumer
office computers, to talk about an incredible off-site emergency seekers; the cost for employers is
trading). service providers, is another
inside information. data center in Connecticut just in $500 for one week of access or
"The lack of email documentation startup called Thumbtack.
(Though Cohen may have been case anything ever goes wrong, $5k for one year subscription,
at SAC Capital is something that Presumably we'll see many more
impressed with the old-school and the precious investor paper with a money back guarantee if an
has frustrated litigants over the employer doesn't find anyone to services like these; as a growing
way Don Long tried to dump trail is threatened.
years, according to people who number of people and businesses
evidence of alleged fraud). Join the conversation about this hire.
have been involved in lawsuits Sponsor become quantified, the days of
And SAC, despite Freeman and story »
and arbitrations with the fund," From New York based making business decisions on a
Longueuil's alleged involvement
the article says. StackOverflow to the smaller but short list of contrived
more hyped Quora to Facebook recommendations and the
Connect and the soon-to-launch pedigree of a resume will soon be
Locker Project, there are all kinds surpassed.
of companies working to create Discuss
12 Business/ Technology/ Newstablet Edition

The 9 Companies Most Likely To Be YouEye watches you

Acquired (AEO, CEG, MYGN, STI) watch the Web
Mamta Badkar (Business (CNET News.com)
Insider) Submitted at 2/23/2011 11:59:29 AM

Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:52:00 PM

YouEye watches what you
With Wall Street confidence watch.(Credit: YouEye)
rising and credit markets Company number two at Launch
loosening up, the 2011 outlook for is the somewhat scary YouEye.
mergers and acquisitions is good. It's a user testing service for Web a test panel--by age, gender,
Morningstar released a list of publishers. But instead of location, and so on.
companies that it suspects are watching what users click on, it For Web designers, this beats
most likely to be targets of uses the Webcam on the computer standard click-tracking testing by
takeovers (via Dian Chu). to track what test users are a mile.
Most are mid-cap companies in actually looking at. That's a neat If you have a question or
the energy and biopharma sector, trick to do with a Webcam. comment for Rafe Needleman,
but retailer American Eagle Corp Accuracy is not the same as you'd you can submit it here. However,
and large-cap Georgia lender get in a controlled lab, but the because our editors and writers
SunTrust Bank make the list too. presenter said it's about "as receive hundreds of requests, we
Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd. accurate as the width of two cannot tell you when you may
(ALIOF.PK) Twitter profile photos" (or about receive a response.
Market cap:$7.1 billion 100 pixels, why didn't he just say Rafe Needleman writes about
American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) Short interest: 18.54% start-ups, new technologies, and
1-year performance:+0.57% so?).
Market cap:$2.8 billion The American wireless internet Web 2.0 products, as editor of
Short interest: N/A Users of the general Web don't
1-year performance:-1.30% service provider has received CNET's Webware.
A Swiss biopharmaceutical have to worry that Amazon will
Short interest: 7.73% multiple offers for a takeover but This entry passed through the
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Fear stalks Tripoli, celebrations in Libya's east

(Reuters: Top News) Foreign Minister Franco Frattini newspaper in Benghazi. protest, not by the tip of the
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:38:21 PM said as world leaders scrambled to Hossam Ibrahim Sherif, director sword. Phil1957 wrote:
evacuate their citizens and of the Benghazi health center, told Not sure if the man actually
Protesters celebrate in the streets disagreed on how to end the Reuters about 320 people had knows what the word Martyr
of Tobruk, February 22, 2011. turmoil. been killed in the city. means. 1.a person who willingly
Credit: Reuters/Asmaa Waguih Also abandoning Gaddafi's realm With much of the oil-producing suffers death rather than renounce
By Alexander Dziadosz have been officials and diplomats east said to be under control of the his or her religion.
BENGHAZI, Libya| Wed Feb 23, previously loyal to the veteran protesters, an empty jail burned in 2.a person who is put to death or
How to track the Earth’s
2011 1:38pm EST leader. A small Libyan airliner Benghazi and people let off endures great suffering on behalf rotation with a
BENGHAZI, Libya(Reuters) - turned away from Malta on firecrackers and honked their of any belief, principle, or cause: PlayStation Move
Thousands of Libyans celebrated W e d n e s d a y w a s c a r r y i n g a horns to mark the end of days of a martyr to the cause of social
the liberation of the eastern city of daughter of Gaddafi, Al Jazeera bloodshed there. justice.
controller
B e n g h a z i f r o m t h e r u l e o f said from the European island. Britain's Sky News showed Don’t quite think that a dictator Submitted at 2/23/2011 10:20:00 AM
Muammar Gaddafi, who was OIL PRESSURE footage of anti-aircraft missiles at trying to retain power meets either
reported to have sent a plane to Oil prices climbed above $110 a what it said was an abandoned of those definitions. Seems the Why should Microsoft's Kinect
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Oil climbs above $110 on Libya unrest

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Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:41:36 PM what top OPEC exporter Saudi Since resuming trading on goal is for oil to be at $150 to
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By Gene Ramos unrest spreads in the Gulf crude widened to as much as U.S. inventories”
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NEW YORK(Reuters) - Oil the Saudis release some extra Traders were gearing up for U.S. $100/b, we can borrow Fed fluff
futures rallied above $110 a barrel barrels into the market now to weekly inventory data, the first of stuff at 1%, and 10:1 leverage. A team of computer engineers
on Wednesday, posting the calm the situation, rather than which will be released by the We start selling at $180/b. The and scientists at the University of
biggest three-day percentage gain simply trying to talk the price industry group American play with food prices will drive Michigan has made a prototype of
in a year, as the escalating down," said Edward Meir, an Petroleum Institute later the market with buckets of blood. what they believe is the world's
violence in Libya could further analyst at MF Global in New Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. EST. “money for nothin, chicks for smallest computer. It's a solar-
reduce its production. York. A Reuters poll forecast that U.S. free” – Dire Straits powered device that's just one
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barrels per day of Libyan output -- April delivery gained $4.01, or barrels last week, while distillate bust. designed to go inside the human
up to 25 percent -- has been shut 3.8 percent, at $109.79 a barrel. inventories fell 1.4 million barrels Bust that boom, baby. Boom that eye.
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Report: Qaddafi Ordered Lockerbie

(FOXNews.com) Abdel-Jalil was quoted as saying. weapons of mass destruction and that.
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:43:04 PM Al-Megrahi was convicted in renouncing terrorism. "Ever since the trial, which was
2001 and sentenced to life in Qaddafi also accepted Libya's held in a totally obscure location
Libya’s ex-justice minister claims p r i s o n , b u t w a s g r a n t e d a responsibility for the Lockerbie in Holland and was covered by
the country’s leader, Muammar al compassionate release from a bombing and paid compensation nobody, there's been a drumbeat
-Qaddafi, ordered the Lockerbie Scottish prison in August 2009 on to the victims' families. But he in the UK about how this is a
bombing that killed 270 people, the grounds that he was suffering hasn't admitted personally giving trumped up thing and Libya had
according to the Swedish tabloid from prostate cancer and would the order for the attack. nothing to do with it," he said. "If
Apple schedules 'special
Expressen. die soon. He is still alive. Many of the passengers on the you went to the trial, there was no event' for 2 March: iPad
Mustafa Abdel-Jalil was quoted Al-Megrahi spent roughly 11 airliner were American college question about who did it and 2, here we come
Wednesday telling an Expressen days behind bars for each victim students flying home to New why, and who ordered it."
correspondent in Libya that he has i n t h e b o m b i n g . U p o n a l - York for Christmas, and victims’ Monetti said he's been following Submitted at 2/23/2011 11:09:00 AM

“proof that Qaddafi gave the order M e g r a h i ’ s r e l e a s e i n 2 0 0 9 , families have expressed outrage at coverage of the Libyan uprising
about Lockerbie." President Barack Obama said the al-Megrahi’s release. closely. An invite to a curious Apple
Abdel-Jalil, who stepped down as decision to free the terminally ill "I think it's appalling, disgusting "I can't wait until we see pictures event just arrived in my inbox --
justice minister to protest violence b o m b e r o n c o m p a s s i o n a t e and so sickening I can hardly find of Qaddafi hanging by his heels," looks like rumours of an iPad 2
a g a i n s t a n t i - g o v e r n m e n t grounds was a mistake. words to describe it," said Susan he said. being just around the corner were
demonstrations, did not describe Expressen spokeswoman Cohen of Cape May Court House, The Associated Press and Geoff accurate. And what better date
the proof. Alexandra Forslund said its New Jersey, upon al-Megrahi’s Mulvihill in Haddonfield, N.J., than the second day of the
He told Expressen that Qaddafi r e p o r t e r , K a s s e m H a m a d e , release in 2009. Cohen’s 20-year- contributed to this report. month?
gave the order to Abdel Baset al- i n t e r v i e w e d t h e e x - j u s t i c e old daughter, Theodora, died in This entry passed through the The invite (pictured above) says:
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‘Thunder-thighs’ dinosaur discovered, had powerful kick

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2,000 Dancing Doctors at Vienna's Hofburg

Palace (Photo Gallery)
(Epoch Times | All headlines) been to half a dozen Arzteballs,
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Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Ordered by Ghadafi,
Says Former Justice Minister
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 11:35:34 AM
By Jack Phillips
Epoch Times Staff Created: Feb
23, 2011 Last Updated: Feb 23,
2011
Picture dated February 18, 1992,
of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
escorted by security officers
before appearing at the Supreme
court for a hearing in connection
with the 1988 bombing of a Pan
Am Flight 103. (Manoocher
Deghati/AFP/Getty Images) Pan
Am Flight 103 was bombed at the
behest of Libyan leader Moamar
Ghadafi in 1988, according to
Libya's recently resigned justice
minister.
The Lockerbie bombing, as it is
known, occurred in 1988 and was
one of the worst terrorist
bombings of an airline in history,
killing all 243 passengers and 16
crew members. The London
Heathrow flight was bound for
New York when it exploded in
Lockerbie, in southern Scotland,
killing another 11 people on the
ground.
Amid violent clashes between
Ghadafi’s security forces and anti-
government demonstrators,
former justice minister Mustafa
Abdel-Jalil told Swedish
newspaper Expressen that he had
proof the embattled leader was
behind the bombing.
“I have evidence that Ghadafi
ordered the Lockerbie bombing,”
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WASHINGTON -- In a major
policy reversal, the Obama
administration said Wednesday
that it will no longer defend the
constitutionality of a federal law
banning recognition of same-sex
marriage.
Attorney General Eric Holder
said President Obama has
concluded that the administration
cannot defend the federal law that
defines marriage as only between
a man and a woman. He noted
that the congressional debate
during passage of the Defense of
Marriage Act "contains numerous
expressions reflecting moral
disapproval of gays and lesbians
and their intimate and family
relationships -- precisely the kind
of stereotype-based thinking and
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Holder wrote to House Speaker
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going to continue to debate, and I
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Roger Federer of Switzerland
returns the ball to Somdev
Devvarman of India during their
ATP Dubai Open tennis match on
Feb. 22, 2011. (Marwan Naamani/
AFP/Getty Images) Roger Federer
has moved into the second round
of the Dubai Tennis
Championships on Tuesday.
Federer posted a 6-3, 6-3 over
wild-card entry Somdev
Devvarman. The last time he won
the Dubai title was in 2007.
"I think it's always pretty tough
starting here in Dubai," he said,
according to Reuters.
Federer, the world number two
tennis player, only needed 75
minutes to defeat his 79th ranked
opponent.
"I've had some tough early round
matches here in the past so the
last thing I was going to do was
underestimate Devvarman," said
Federer, according to the BBC.
Federer now has a 26-3 record at
the Dubai event and will next play
53rd ranked Marcel Granollers of
Spain.
The warm conditions in Dubai
might be a factor coming into the
next round, he added.
"You know, when the ball has a
lot of topspin and you don't quite
catch it right, it flies out two
meters," he said, according to
Reuters. “It can take away your
confidence. It's tricky. It's about
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and translate them into
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limbs, robots and video games.
Soon you'll be able to control your
television and phone. But now
comes the BrainDriver, a car that
is driven entirely by your
thoughts.
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Over the Horizon: The Enduring Relevance of Thucydides
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Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:14:00 AM
Last weekend I attended a
conference in San Antonio on the
relevance of Thucydides' "History
of the Peloponnesian War" to the
practice of contemporary
American foreign policy.
Sponsored by the Liberty Fund,
the conference's motivating
concept and focus was the
relationship between democracy
and empire in Thucydides. The
conference attendees included
scholars of several stripes,
including War College faculty,
former policymakers from the
Bush administration and
prominent think tank fellows.
This was no dry academic
conference focused on textual
minutiae. Rather, it was intended
to give policymakers -- and those
who educate policymakers --
space for thinking about what
Thucydides can teach us about the
conduct of the international affairs
of the United States.
Thucydides is nearly ubiquitous
in the serious and general study of
American foreign policy.
Although we lack good statistics
for how often particular texts are
taught in graduate or
undergraduate courses, nearly
every professor of international
relations I spoke to at the
conference confessed to teaching
Thucydides to undergraduates,
and most remembered first
reading selections from "History
of the Peloponnesian War" as
undergraduates. But the study of
Thucydides extends to graduate
and policy programs as well. At
the Naval War College, students
are required to read Thucydides in
their first course, with additional
study available. Thucydides also
appears on syllabi in required
courses at the Army War College.
It has been argued that the study
of Thucydides was particularly
important in neoconservative
circles connected with the
University of Chicago.
Consequently, almost everyone
involved with either the
professional study or formulation
of foreign policy is familiar with
some parts of Thucydides. As
2,400-year-old texts go, this level
of penetration puts "History of the
Peloponnesian War" in company
only with the Bible. Most people's
exposure to Thucydides comes
through the Melian Dialogue, a
pithy account of a brutal Athenian
massacre of the inhabitants of the
island of Melos. The Melian
Dialogue is generally taught as an
introduction to the unsentimental
view of politics adopted by
Realist theory, although some
professors teach it as an indication
of the degradation of Athenian
democracy. International relations
scholars also focus on the first
book, in which Thucydides
appears to give a realist account
for the causes of war, typified in
the claim, "The real cause I
consider to be the one which was
formally most kept out of sight.
The growth of the power of
Athens, and the alarm which this
inspired in Sparta, made war
inevitable."
While there appears to be wide
agreement among scholars and
policymakers that Thucydides is
relevant in some sense, people
differ on the nature of the actual
lessons that he offers.
Conferences organized by the
International Studies Association
and the American Political
Science Association regularly
include panels built around
differing interpretations of
Thucydides. Some have
challenged the argument that
Thucydides is a realist at all,
while others have argued that his
position in the canon of Western
international relations thought is
undeserved. In this context, the
central question that the Liberty
Fund asked makes sense: What is
the relationship between
democracy and empire? Most
American readers of Thucydides
tend to identify with the
Athenians over the Spartans, even
if the most brutal Athenian
atrocities make them squirm. In
the book, Athenian democracy
suffers from the depredations of
war and the requirements of
maintaining a restive empire,
eventually falling prey to a series
of demagogues. The Athenian
polis also makes several poor
foreign policy decisions,
including most notably
undertaking the invasion of
distant Sicily.
This line of inquiry produces
several follow-up questions, as
relevant today as they were in
Thucydides' time. First, what
harm might fighting an extended,
existential conflict do to our
democratic institutions? Second,
does the maintenance of an
empire carry similar dangers?
Finally, are democracies prone to
making foreign policy errors that
make war and the maintenance of
empire particularly dangerous?
These questions evoke obvious
parallels in the study of American
foreign policy. Since 1941, the
structure of the U.S. government
has shifted to take on "imperial"
responsibilities, including the
maintenance of a huge military
establishment and many overseas
bases. The national security
demands of the Cold War and the
War on Terror have led some to
argue that civil liberties should be
curtailed, and have in some ways
narrowed the field of foreign
policy discussion. In short, war
and empire may have made
American democracy vulnerable
to some of the same problems as
the Athenian polis. Moreover,
while the literature on the effect
of democratic institutions on
foreign policy is too vast to
characterize here, Thucydides at
least helps to provide us with a
framework for how we might
approach such questions.
Of course, we should be hesitant
to claim too close a connection
between Athens and the United
States. Although we call both
"democracies," they differ
radically in structure and
character. It's not clear that
looking to Athens for lessons in
"civil-military relations," for
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example, could be at all
profitable, as Athens lacked a
military establishment distinct
from civilian governance.
Comparing "empires" can also
produce conceptual strain,
because imperial systems often
have radically different
characteristics. There would seem
to be some surface similarities
between the anti-Persian alliance
built by Athens and the anti-
Soviet alliance system built by the
United States, but the means of
maintaining the system would
differ in obvious, dramatic ways.
Our conference failed to come to
any clear answers, but of course
this was hardly the point. Given
the relevance of Thucydides to the
study and practice of international
relations, discussions designed to
uncover and work through the
implications of his arguments are
inherently valuable. To the extent
that close study helps open up the
whole of Thucydides and not just
the Melian Dialogue, the
conference also helped put the
"lessons" of Thucydides into
some relief. Given the penetration
of Thucydides into U.S.
institutions of foreign policy and
international relations education,
having some sense of what the
man actually argued and what he
may have meant can only help.
Thucydides is very insistent
about his place in the Western
canon, arguing that his book will
have timeless value. Timeless or
no, he will remain relevant for at
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Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:13:00 AM
Bahrain may be the 163rd most
populous country on Earth, but for
the past week it has taken center
stage, along with Libya, in the
unfolding drama shaking the Arab
world. While the island kingdom
carries little of the weight and
influence of a political and
cultural power like Egypt, the
events in Bahrain have the
potential to reshape the
geopolitics of the Gulf, with
knock-on effects for global oil
markets and the U.S.-Saudi
relationship.
Following the uprisings in
Tunisia and Egypt, disgruntled
Bahrainis took to the streets to
protest corruption,
institutionalized racism and the
lack of political rights and
economic opportunities. The
protests have been driven by the
Shiite majority, which constitutes
approximately two-thirds of the
country's native population
according to most estimates. The
Bahraini royal family is Sunni,
and, as in Saddam Hussein's Iraq,
almost all the country's political
and business elites are Sunni and
have close ties to the government.
Of the six Gulf Cooperation
Council states -- Bahrain, Kuwait,
Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and
the United Arab Emirates --
Bahrain was always the most
vulnerable to instability, due to its
discontented majority and its
small and dwindling base of oil
reserves, which other
authoritarian petrostates use to
shore up patronage networks. To
grow its economy, Bahrain has
moved to position itself as a
financial center for the Gulf
region: a Dubai without the
excesses. This has prompted
inflows of the international
business class as well as of low-
status South Asian laborers, with
the CIA estimating that nearly 32
percent of the country's 738,000
residents are foreigners. However,
the repositioning has done nothing
to address the economic injustices
the Shiite majority face.
In response to the protests, the
royal family has vacillated
between a violent crackdown,
killing several protesters late last
week, and reconciliation and
negotiation with the Shiite
opposition. This equivocation
almost certainly stems from a
behind-the-scenes struggle for
influence between Washington
and Riyadh. Saudi Arabia, which
was hardly pleased to see former
Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak fall in a people's
revolution, can live with an Egypt
whose government is guided by
the military. However, a Shiite-
led government in Bahrain would
be anathema to Riyadh, which has
a poor, restive Shiite population
of its own in the east, near
Bahrain, living amid the country's
largest oil fields. Separatism has
not been a mainstream view
among the Saudi Shiite
population, but a putative Shiite
government in Bahrain may
unleash centrifugal forces in
Saudi Arabia that the infirm royal
family may be unable to contain.
It is not unreasonable to assume
that Riyadh is arguing behind the
scenes for a firm, coercive
response to the Bahraini
protesters.
For the United States, Bahrain is
the home of the Fifth Fleet, with
some 3,000 American military
personnel living on the island and
tending to 30 naval vessels. The
Fifth Fleet's primary mission is to
maintain stability in the Gulf so
that regional oil supplies can
reach the world market without
interruption. In this regard, the
Fifth Fleet is one of Washington's
principal tools for keeping Iran in
check. Washington has apparently
calculated that the United States
should not resist the Bahraini
majority's demands for political
reform, even if such a stance risks
the U.S. Navy's basing rights and
likely puts it at odds with the
Saudi government.
Of course, for both Washington
and Riyadh, the turmoil in
Bahrain is not just about Bahrain.
It also has implications for the
regional contest with Iran. In the
past, Tehran has repeatedly
claimed Bahrain as Iran's
wayward 14th province,
revisionist rhetoric that has been
met with anger by the Bahraini,
Saudi and other Arab
governments. Anecdotal evidence
suggests that Iranian claims also
carry little water with the Bahraini
Shiite population, which is Arab.
Indeed, Tehran's opportunistic
revisionism may compel a Shiite-
led Bahraini government to
request that the Fifth Fleet
continue to be based on the island,
though this is far from certain.
The situation in Bahrain is very
fluid and a number of scenarios
could play out, including the
flight of the royal family or a
violent crackdown, both of which
are less likely but plausible. The
most probable scenario is the
resignation of the long-serving
prime minister -- Khalifa bin
Salman al-Khalifa, the king's
uncle -- and the establishment of
some mechanism for greater
Shiite representation in a modified
constitutional monarchy, wherein
the royal family still holds most of
the levers of power. This outcome
would suit Washington and could
be stomached by Riyadh, but
would ultimately plant the seeds
of the next uprising: A
government that continues to
protect the interests of the Sunni
minority at the expense of the
country as a whole is
unsustainable.
More generally, the unrest in
Bahrain has underscored how
frayed the Saudi-American
relationship has become. To the
Saudi rulers, the events in Bahrain
are an important bellwether for
the continued stability of their
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own kingdom, and yet
Washington has moderated its
support for the Bahraini
monarchy. If the unrest in Bahrain
were to topple the government,
the revolutionary contagion may
spread to Saudi Arabia, especially
its Shiite-populated regions, with
significant ramifications for the
Saudi-American relationship, the
assured supply of regional
hydrocarbons to the world market
and the dynamics of Saudi-Iranian
rivalry in theaters like Iraq,
Lebanon and the Palestinian
territories.
Matt Stone is an energy
consultant and commentator on
international affairs. Based in
Washington, D.C., and Arizona,
his expertise is the politics and
energy market dynamics of
Central Asia, Russia, Turkey, and
the Middle East; global gas; and
U.S. foreign policy.
Photo: A protest in Manama,
Bahrain, Feb. 16, 2011 (Photo by
Wikimedia user Khaldoun
Chantout).
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80 (AP) device.
When it comes to gender, men
all of the world's mobile social
gamers, while the remaining 2
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(Yahoo! News: Obituaries) -known science fiction writer still account for the majority of percent are scattered elsewhere
Submitted at 2/23/2011 9:17:28 AM whose works were translated traditional gamers with 60 percent around the globe, according to
abroad has died. He was 80.
AP - Ion Hobana, Romania's best
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Barnes & Noble’s First PubIt! In-Store Event, Demo NOOK

Color, Get Free Coffee
Rue Liu (SlashGear)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:51:14 PM

Barnes & Noble, the world’s

largest bookseller, is launching
their first in-store promotion event
for their “PubIt!” self-publishing
platform tonight in its Santa
Monica, CA store. For those not
lucky enough to be in Santa
Monica, you can head to your
local Barnes & Noble this
Saturday, February 26, to take a
guided tour of the NOOK Color
and get a free tall cup of
Starbucks coffee.
Barnes & Noble is hosting the
event tonight to show that when
you publish with PubIt! you get
lots of marketing and promotion
support in stores as well as other
unique marketing and
merchandising opportunities via
their Nook Bookstore. More than
11,000 independent publishers
and self-publishing authors have
brought their works to the
platform, adding more than
65,000 new works to the Barnes
& Noble NOOK Bookstore that
currently has over two million
digital titles.
“The variety and quality of the
content we are seeing through
PubIt! is beyond our
expectations,” said Theresa
Horner, Barnes & Noble’s Vice
President of Digital Content. “We
are thrilled with our initial sales
for PubIt! titles as our millions of
customers enjoy exploring newly added works from PubIt! writers “This in-store PubIt! event is a digital and physical reading BARNES page 26
and publishers.” continuation of bringing the worlds together,” said Horner.
26
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continued from page 25
“We recognize the importance of
uniting the reader with the author
regardless of the book format, and
we look forward to conducting
many more events to support our
PubIt! authors in our bookstore.”
Press Release:
More than 11,000 Independent
Publishers and
Self-Publishing Authors Bring
Their Digital Works to
Barnes & Noble’s PubIt!™
Publishing Platform
Company Launches First In-Store
Event Featuring Popular PubIt!
Authors,
Expanding Online Visibility to
Retail Channel
35 PubIt! Titles Currently
Among Top 200 NOOK Books™
New York, New York – February
23, 2011 – Barnes & Noble, Inc.
(NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest
bookseller, is experiencing major
growth for PubIt!
(www.PubIt.com), its easy-to-use
digital publishing platform for
independent publishers and
authors, and announcing the
expansion of its program into its
bookstores. Since launching four
months ago, more than 11,000
independent publishers and
authors have joined the PubIt!
community of booksellers, adding
more than 65,000 new works to
Barnes & Noble’s expansive
NOOK Bookstore™ of more than
two million digital titles. In fact,
there are currently 35 PubIt! titles
among the Top 200 NOOK Books
based on sales, and Barnes &
Noble customers have purchased
PubIt! works in more than 50
categories to date.
“The variety and quality of the
content we are seeing through
PubIt! is beyond our
expectations,” said Theresa
Horner, Barnes & Noble’s Vice
President, Digital Content. “We
are thrilled with our initial sales
for PubIt! titles as our millions of
customers enjoy exploring newly
added works from PubIt! writers
and publishers.”
Continuing its strong tradition of
author support, Barnes & Noble
also announced its expanded
promotion for PubIt! titles and
authors into its retail channel.
The company will host its first in-
store event featuring PubIt!
authors tonight in its Santa
Monica, CA, store. The panel
discussion will feature successful
PubIt! author H.P. Mallory, Beth
Orsoff, a traditional turned self-
published author who has boosted
her sales with PubIt!, and Lisa
Cortés, President of Cortés Films
and Executive Producer of the
Academy Award®-winning film
Precious. The discussion will
explore new opportunities in do-it
-yourself publishing, online and
on-screen. For more information
on the event, visithttp://store-
locator.barnesandnoble.com/event
/3085464.
“This in-store PubIt! event is a
continuation of Barnes & Noble’s
strategy of bringing the digital
and physical reading worlds
together,” said Horner. “We
recognize the importance of
uniting the reader with the author
regardless of the book format, and
we look forward to conducting
many more events to support our
PubIt! authors in our bookstores.”
In addition to in-store events,
Barnes & Noble offers PubIt!
authors and publishers access to
the unique marketing and
merchandising opportunities
through the NOOK Bookstore, a
PubIt! bestseller list and
additional exposure through the
Read In Store™ program
available for NOOK Color™ and
NOOK™ device customers in the
company’s more than 700
bookstores across the country.
Authors have found great success
with PubIt!. H.P. Mallory, author
of Toil and Trouble, Fire Burn
and Cauldron Bubble, and To Kill
a Warlock, calls PubIt!, “an
incredible experience…one of the
best decisions I ever made.”
Mallory’s paranormal romance
books have become such a hit that
she just signed a three-book deal
with a major publishing house.
Lori Brighton, author of A Night
of Secrets, The Mind Readersand
The Ghost Hunter, says, “PubIt!
places publishing in the author’s
hands, which benefits not only the
author, but also the reader.”
With clear and competitive terms
– and no hidden fees – the self-
service online PubIt! portal
provides qualified content owners
a simple and profitable way to
bring their works to millions of
new readers. PubIt! uses a Web-
based platform for publishers to
independently set up their
accounts, upload their eBooks, set
the list price and track their sales
and payments from a competitive
royalty based on the price. PubIt!
publishers can be confident they
will be compensated from the list
price they set with no additional
charges, regardless of file size.
Publishers’ content is offered in
ePub format, the industry standard
that allows content to be enjoyed
by customers on hundreds of the
most popular mobile, computing
and eReading devices.
Barnes & Noble offers e-mail
support and a robust online
community for those interested in
PubIt!. More information on
PubIt! can be found at
www.pubit.com.
PubIt! titles can be enjoyed
across the company’s entire
family of NOOK products and
software, including the award-
winning NOOK Color, NOOK 3G
and NOOK Wi-Fi® and NOOK
software-enabled iPad™,
iPhone®, iPod touch®,
Android™ smartphones and
tablets, and Windows-based PCs,
laptops or netbooks. For more
information on free NOOK
software, please visit
www.bn.com/nookapps.
About NOOK™ from Barnes &
Noble
Barnes & Noble’s NOOK brand
of eReading products makes it
easy to read what you love,
anywhere you like™ with a fun,
easy-to-use and immersive digital
reading experience. With NOOK,
customers gain access to Barnes
& Noble’s expansive NOOK
Bookstore™ of more than two
million digital titles, and the
ability to enjoy content across a
wide array of popular devices.
NOOK products are the most full-
featured, dedicated eReading
Newstablet Edition
devices on the market. NOOK
Color ($249), the first full-color
touch Reader’s Tablet, provides
the ultimate reading experience
with a stunning 7-inch
VividView™ Color Touchscreen
to read all of the content you love.
For book lovers, NOOK 3G
($199) and NOOK Wi-Fi® ($149)
offer a paper-like reading
experience with a color touch
screen for navigation. In Barnes &
Noble stores, NOOK owners can
access free Wi-Fi connectivity,
enjoy the Read In Store™ feature
to read NOOK Books for free,
and the More In Store™ program,
which offers free, exclusive
content and special promotions.
Barnes & Noble was the first
company to offer digital lending
for a wide selection of books
through its LendMe™
technology, available through
NOOK eReading products. Find
NOOK devices in Barnes &
Noble stores and online at
www.BN.com, as well as at Best
Buy, Walmart and Books-A-
Million.
In addition to NOOK devices,
Barnes & Noble makes it easy for
customers to enjoy any book,
anytime, anywhere with its free
line of NOOK software, available
atwww.bn.com/nookapps.
Customers can use Barnes &
Noble’s free eReading software to
access and read books from their
personal Barnes & Noble digital
library on devices including
iPad™, iPhone®, iPod touch®,
Android™, BlackBerry® and
BARNES page 31
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The Paradox for Jive Software
Alex Williams (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:08:00 PM
I find Jive Software to be a bit of
a paradox. Jive Software. I like
the people and the company
they've built. They're a local
success story here in Portland.
They have transformed from a
client-technology, software forum
provider into a collaboration
leader.
They seem to be moving in the
right direction. The company is
headed for an IPO. So, what's the
paradox?
Sponsor
Solutions oriented companies
build custom configurations.
These can become costly for the
vendor and the customer. They
also place an emphasis on
providing on-premise offerings.
On the flip side, Jive is taking the
first steps in building a developer
community. The company has
substantial financial backing and
its riding strong in providing
social technologies to the
enterprise. Jive's Trajectory
Jive can make it running on the
path they have chosen. The
biggest challenge will be costs
that come with building a
business that has any number of
custom, customer configurations
and complex licensing structures.
The answer to Jive's future will
come in how the company
balances its developer community
with the pressure to show
substantial revenues that come
with solutions contracts an large
consulting engagements.
Kleiner Perkins sees promise.
The prestigious venture capital
company invested$30 million in
Jive last summer. Jive's financial
trajectory puts it on track to make
it a company that can be publicly
traded and attract investment.
That will mean it has to show
revenues. To really extend, the
developers that the company
attracts will have to be organized
into an ecosystem that gives it
deep reach across the enterprise
and associated channels.
This means that it has to have a
clear path as a SharePoint
alternative. To succeed, Jive has
to lead the march in providing
customers with modern uses of
Web oriented technologies. To do
that they need the help of others
seeking to topple Microsoft's
dominance. And help comes in
the form of other companies and
the sharing of development
efforts. Formidable Competition
Jive also faces formidable
competition. Salesforce.com has
to be considered a rival. The
company fits into a dynamic that
others such as Yammer are fully
exploiting, too. These companies
are application centric and have
their own respective developer
communities. For example,
Salesforce.com has the Force.com
platform and relationships with
VMware and Google. Yammer is
extending its footprint with
relationships with companies such
as Crocodoc, which we covered
over the weekend in our post
about how networks are
flattening.
Technology/ 27
Financial Officer Bryan LeBlanc runs Jive's product strategy. On
said that last year the company Quora, he responded to a thread
did a record number of deals about the competition between
worth more than $1 million. In Jive and Yammer. Morace said he
some case the entire portal is has found that when it comes to
replaced for the customer. He says strategic business conversations
Acquia's Tim Bertrand wrote a a major goal is to displace most decision makers still want
post earlier this month. In it he SharePoint and homegrown solutions hosted by Jive on a box
critiques Jive for playing the same systems that companies have they control. He said It won't
game that enterprise providers cobbled together through the always be this way but as the
have played for the past 30 years: y e a r s b u i l t o n B r o a d v i s o n , market shifts from early adopters
• Everything is a "customization." Interwoven and manually built to pragmatists there is a
• Customizations cost lots of HTML-based environments. resurgence in customers who want
money. These are expensive projects. But more control.
• Organizations need to rely on the cultural climate is important to He gives a revealing reason why
the company or its partners to c o n s i d e r . C o m p a n i e s w a n t Jive started offering activity
perform customizations. security and they want the stream technology: So, what is my
• The (already) proprietary communications to be centralized. point? Cloud delivered solutions
instance of the software becomes They want guidance which they for enterprise collaboration face
too customized, it costs even more pay for handsomely. an uphill climb. The reward quite
when it comes time to migrate to Jive has an extensive consulting frequently for successful adoption
a new release. practice. Its methods are to is getting on the radar of IT and
• Repeat and start the vicious c e n t r a l i z e c u s t o m e r s t o i t s ultimately getting ripped out. The
cycle all over again. platforms from various wikis, entire reason we even pulled
blogs and the other systems Twitter/Yammer like functionality
B e r t r a n d w o r k s f o r t h e people use inside companies. into Jive was at the request of IT
c o m p e t i t i o n a n d s o i t i s Matt Tucker is Jive's CTO and co who wanted to get rid of user
understandable that we get this -founder. He says it is in Jive's adopted cloud solutions where
degree of snark. But to some best interest to do as little strategic conversations were now
extent the critique is valid. customization as possible. residing beyond their control.
Jive is arguably a solutions He sees a further emphasis on No one has meaningfully
provider but it does provide cloud delivering SaaS solutions to demonstrated in the enterprise
-based services. It builds on- customers. But there is still a need (that I am aware of) a way to do a
premise application stacks. It is for on-premise offerings. Tucker freemium solution that gets their
hard to imagine Jive as anything is a technologist. You can see the business above $15M outside of
else. Companies are doing i n f l u e n c e t h e d e v e l o p e r really tactical point solutions (and
massive overhauls of enterprise community has had upon him in I'm not even aware of any of
infrastructures. Jive's model is to the direction the company is those). The sweet spot for cloud
serve the needs of those big taking. At the same time, he delivered, inside the firewall
clients. That means it has to serve knows that there has to be ways to solutions continues to be SMB
customers who have compliance accommodate the larger clients. who have no existing
and governance matters to abide But there is more to this, too. infrastructure, value price above
by. You can see it in the comments
In an interview last month, Chief from Christopher Morace, who PARADOX page 33
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Snoop Dogg Promotes Samsung Galaxy Indulge on MetroPCS

Chris Burns (SlashGear)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:06:52 PM

If you don’t know everyone in

the video you’re about to watch,
you might not get the depth.
However, the smoothness of the
4G LTE connection is as apparent
as the additional Gs in Snoops
new name, thustly MetroPCS has
done their job well. See Snoop
Dogg (with a double dose of Gs,)
Warren G, model Brittany Dailey,
and Ted Williams – the man with
the Golden Voice all work
together to bring you The G
Connection in promotion of
MetroPCS and the Samsung
Galaxy Indulge.
First, have a look at this video
and tell us if you understand
what’s going on, or what you’d
think if you saw such a thing on
television right this second – keep
in mind that this is brand new:
Now let’s get down to business
explaining the players in this
masterpiece, each of them one by
one:
Ted Williams, the man with the
Golden Voice was only a few
months ago completely homeless
and broke. Have a look at his
story here:[CNN report] G, having been a partner of his at to this new dating show promo. Samsung Galaxy Indulge phones Superstar adds more Gs to his
Warren G has never been broke, the time they both hooked up with ALSO there’s an “Indulge with with metroPCS 4G LTE service. name to help introduce the
and in fact has been a player and a Dr Dre launching them into Snoop Dogggg” sweepstakes Sounds fine, real fine. Check out Samsung Galaxy Indulge, the
regulator for over 20 years. The G superstardom. Snoop has an where you’ve gotta head out to the full press release below: world’s first commercially
-Connection is his show in this album called the Doggumentary your local metroPCS store to sign NOTE more videos will be available 4G LTE Android
promotion, and the “Regulators, coming out soon, thus this up and win. If you win, you get a released throughout the day today smartphone, available exclusively
mount up!” comes from his collaboration (with his type logo VIP trip for two to a Snoop (and we assume in the near from MetroPCS
classic smooth rapping gangster modified and in tact) makes concert this summer – this future,) so stay tuned! DALLAS, February 23, 2011 /
hit: Regulate perfect sense. Furthermore, his includes airfare and incidentals METROPCS ANNOUNCES PRNewswire/ — Snoop Dogggg
Snoop Dogg started his career 2007 hit Sexual Seduction for two, front-row tickets, NEW COLLABORATION
around the same time as Warren features a video style very similar backstage passes, and two WITH ICON SNOOP DOGG SNOOP page 29
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has doubled down on his G’s
through his new collaboration
with MetroPCS to introduce the
new Samsung Galaxy Indulge™,
the world’s first commercially
available 4G LTE Android™
smartphone offered only with
4GLTE service from MetroPCS.
“It feels good to be working with
MetroPCS and Samsung for the
launch of the Galaxy Indulge. I’m
stepping it up to 4G’s so my
phone can keep up with my
demanding, always-connected
lifestyle,” said Snoop Dogggg.
Fortunately, any consumer can
indulge in the 4G lifestyle like
Snoop Dogggg because
MetroPCS offers 4GLTE
smartphone service plans at about
half the cost of other carriers’ 4G
smartphone service plans today.
With $50 and $60 plans, including
all applicable taxes and regulatory
fees, MetroPCS delivers
unmatched value with unlimited
talk, text and 4GLTE Web page
browsing, along with data access
to streaming audio, video and
gaming content, downloads and
Android applications on the
Galaxy Indulge.
“Indulge With Snoop Dogggg”
Sweepstakes
The superstar’s fans can win a
You stink! Humans stink more than other animals
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:44:00 PM
Pungent body odor from sweaty
adult human skin is unique in the
animal kingdom. Humans turn out
to be particularly smelly because
rare chance to meet Snoop
Dogggg up close and personal by
entering the “Indulge with Snoop
Dogggg” sweepstakes exclusively
at any MetroPCS retail store
through March 31 (no purchase
necessary to win). One winner
will walk away with a VIP trip for
two to a Snoop concert this
summer, including airfare and
incidentals, front-row tickets and
backstage passes, as well as two
Samsung Galaxy Indulge
smartphones with MetroPCS
4GLTE service. More details are
available at http://
www.metropcs.com/snoop-
dogggg-vip-rules.
Video Series
The collaboration also features
Snoop Dogggg starring as several
characters in the online video
series called “The G-Connection,”
which is based on popular dating
game shows from past decades.
The videos also feature rapper and
producer Warren G, model
Brittany Dailey, and the man with
the “Golden Voice,” Internet
sensation Ted Williams. The
videos were directed by Estevan
Oriol, partner at SA Studios. The
first of three episodes premieres
today at www.youtube.com/
MetroPCS.
odors are released from nearly
every part of the body while other
species living on us are
simultaneously emitting odors
too.
Our powerful scent attracts at
least two species of mosquitoes,
Additional Chances to Win
In addition, MetroPCS and
Samsung are offering more
chances to win autographed
Snoop Dogggg gear, Samsung
Galaxy Indulge smartphones and
MetroPCS 4GLTE service on
MetroPCS’ Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/metropcs (no
purchase necessary to win).
MetroPCS is also offering prizes
through giveaways in many of its
home metropolitan area markets,
including signed “The
Doggumentary” CD’s (in stores
March 29th).
“We are very excited about
teaming up with Snoop Dogggg to
show consumers that they can
have it all with MetroPCS 4GLTE
services and the vast possibilities
of the Samsung Galaxy Indulge
Android smartphone,” said Phil
Terry, senior vice president,
corporate marketing, MetroPCS.
“Snoop is a great match for our
brand and appeals to all of our
customers, who want the latest
high-end Android smartphones
with 4G services at the best
value.”
About the Samsung Galaxy
Indulge
Powered by the Android version
2.2 (Froyo) operating system
according to a paper accepted for Full story at Discovery News.
publication in the journal Trends More news from Discovery
in Parasitology. Understanding Communications.
what it is about human odor that Permalink| Leave a comment »
attracts these bugs could help
prevent the spread of diseases
such as malaria and yellow fever.
(OS), the Galaxy Indulge delivers
quick access to more than 200,000
applications from the Android
Market™ and complete access to
Google Mobile Services, as well
as a combination touch screen/
QWERTY keyboard, 3 megapixel
camera and camcorder with auto-
focus, music player, Stereo
Bluetooth® capabilities and
expandable memory storage up to
32GB. The Samsung Galaxy
Indulge costs $399, plus tax, and
is available at all MetroPCS stores
and online at www.metropcs.com.
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• SanDisk providing microSD
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unlimited service area
Culture/ Economy/ 29
Guess Which
Midwestern State Just
Had No Problem
Floating A Big Muni
Bond Deal
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:44:09 PM
Despite the widening crisis in the
Midwest (with conflicts breaking
out in Wisconsin, Indiana, and
Ohio), one of the worst states just
floated a pretty fat bond deal.
According to WSJ, Illinois got
$6.1 billion in bids for a $3.7
billion pension bond offering.
Foreign sovereign buyers were
among the big bidders. The 5.84%
yield obviously helped a lot.
And separately, the big muni
ETF -- MUB -- also happens to be
up today.
Click here for a look at the 17
states where workers are
protesting austerity >
Join the conversation about this
story »
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Javier Runs Errands
Google Versus Microsoft: The Battle for the K-12 Solo, but Eats Dinner
With Penelope's Help
Cloud Contract Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Audrey Watters doesn't mean that - presto, change districts migrating to the cloud Submitted at 2/23/2011 8:10:59 AM
(ReadWriteWeb) -o - every student, teacher, and include the infrastructure. There
Submitted at 2/23/2011 11:31:22 AM administrator in a school, district, are the policies (COPPA and Javier Bardem looked cool with
or state are suddenly up and FERPA). There are the parents. his shades on yesterday while
North versus South. Rural versus running on Google Apps for There are the permissions. And walking in LA. He stepped out for
urban. Add to those delineations Education or even that they will of course, there are the teachers the afternoon of errand-running
now, as schools and government be someday. Rather, the Oregon and students, who now not only solo, but he's been busy lately
agencies across the U.S. move to Department of Education now want email (let's pretend, for the taking care of his newborn son
t h e c l o u d , G o o g l e v e r s u s gives schools and districts the sake of argument here that the Leo alongside wife Penelope
Microsoft. option to pursue their own IT kids want email) but demand a Cruz. Javier and Penelope have
On the surface, at least, it's a solutions and doesn't force them whole suite of online products and been able to step out for a few
public relations battle. Google t o g o w i t h o n e p a r t i c u l a r services where they can easily date nights, however, including a
announces one state or school contractor. A Difficult Choice, A communicate and collaborate - in recent one in which they were
district has adopted its cloud Difficult Move students for the first time. the classroom and at home. spotted feeding each other bites.
offerings; and then it's Microsoft's Nick Jwayad, chief information When Jwayad described to me of It's not an easy move nor Javier has also been logging lots
turn to respond with a new list of officer at Portland Public Schools the school district's decision to necessarily a cheap move (despite
of time on the award season
cloud clients. Google touts 10 said that the decision to move to "go Microsoft," he made it sound the promises of eventual cost
circuit, accepting honors for his
million Apps for Education users. Microsoft's Live@edu "wasn't like a technological one. That's s a v i n g s ) . It may be a role in Biutiful at ceremonies like
Microsoft touts 15 million for its easy by any stretch." He said the not too surprising. He's the CIO, technological move ("to the
Spain's Goyas and the Palm
Live@edu. district weighed its options after all. And as I learned when I cloud!"). And as Paul Nelson, an
Springs Film Festival. He has one
Sponsor carefully, listing the things he said attended a K-12 summit for ed-tech specialist for Oregon's
more red carpet to hit at Sunday's
Oregon Goes Google, Portland made Microsoft's service more Oregon school district tech Northwest Regional ESD (a
Oscars- make sure to fill out
Public Schools Goes Microsoft appealing: security, support and c o o r d i n a t o r s , s p o n s o r e d b y Google district), once told me, it's
Buzz's ballot with your winner
I n t h i s l i g h t , t o d a y ' s synergy. Google, the challenges around a cultural move, one requiring
predictions before the big show!
announcement by Microsoft To be clear, this isn't an m o v i n g s c h o o l s , s t u d e n t s , district, administrator, and teacher
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seems like a veritable coup. On abandonment of Google Apps for teachers, administrators to the buy-in. In the face of all these
the list of the 16 new cloud Edu. The school district is cloud - whether it's Google's or challenges - despite the PR from
Microsoft's - can be pretty Microsoft and from Google -
High street banks
computing agreements it has moving away from an on-premise
signed is the Portland Public Novell environment towards what daunting. Today's announcement migration to the cloud is a slow 'over-charging' for
from Portland Public Schools will move for most schools.
Schools, the largest school district Jwayad describes as a "Microsoft-
mean that the district will have Photo credits: Flickr user Hans will writing services
in the state of Oregon with more centric" infrastructure. Microsoft,
than 46,000 students. Oregon, if he told me, was the "product-of- migrated to Live@edu by the Splinter Discuss (Finance News - Business news
beginning of the 2011-12 from the UK and world)
you recall, was the first state to " choice," as, among other things,
go Google" in April 2010. the Portland Public Schools plans academic year. Submitted at 2/23/2011 11:29:28 AM

Of course, "going Google" to provision email accounts to The challenges for school
High street banks have agreed to
Top 5 affordable laptops reform the way they sell will-
writing and executor services
nospam@example.com (Dory You don't need to spend upwards Farnoosh Torabi tracks down five computer power for your buck. following concerns that people do
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Cellphone calls alter brain
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Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:44:00 PM
Keeping your noggin plastered to
a cellphone can alter brain
activity, but scientists haven’t
determined if that change causes
harm.
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32 Technology/
How TheFacebook Used To Woo
Advertisers Back In The Early Days
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:25:13 PM
I’m not sure exactly how easy (or
difficult) it is to come by stuff like
this, but I for one thought it was
pretty cool.
Eli Feldblum and Mayer Reich,
co-founders of RankAbove,
emailed me a number of
documents this morning that
Facebook used to send potential
advertisers back when they were
just getting started (and when the
fledgling company was still called
TheFacebook).
The docs were originally sent to
Feldblum by Kevin Colleran– the
longest employee at Facebook
other than founder Mark
Zuckerberg– who still works there
as Global Sales Lead, after they
had met at a digital marketing
conference. The date: Thursday,
May 19, 2005.
I know, exciting, right?
Anyway, the set of documents
sent by Colleran consisted of a
general overview of advertising
opportunities on TheFacebook, a
more detailed overview of how to
buy ‘Group Sponsorships’ and a
list of schools in the TheFacebook
network (about 800 at the time).
You can find screenshots of the
documents below. Some
highlights:
- In April 2005, TheFacebook
claimed 2.7 million registered
users
- Of those registered members,
2.3 million unique users visited
the site on a monthly basis
- Monthly page views were
already at a whopping 2 billion
- TheFacebook smartly pointed
out how much U.S. students
spend(“estimated purchase power
in 2004: $85 billion”), and how
they associate with ‘lifetime
brands’ early on
- Here’s how you could advertise
on TheFacebook:
Advertising opportunities at
TheFacebook include traditional
online banners, announcement
(text only) ads, and custom groups
designed to enable brands to
create a following on-campus and
interact with students daily.
- Banner ads ‘above the fold’
were sold at a rate of $7 /
CPM(cost per thousand
impressions)
- Banner ads ‘below the fold’
were sold at a rate of $5 /
CPM(cost per thousand
impressions)
- It might seem benign now, but
ad targeting was already quite
(scarily?) detailed back then:
Banners can be targeted to select
schools and/or to specific users
based on: Geography, Gender,
Courses, Keywords in profile,
Class year, Major, Relationship
status, Favorite books, movies,
music, Political Affiliation,
University status (student, faculty,
alumni, staff).
- According to TheFacebook,
nationwide text ads
(‘Announcements’) would be
viewed by over 1.1 million
people, 5 to 6 times each, per day,
on average.
- Nevertheless, the young
company called Group
Sponsorships the “ most
integrated advertising opportunity
available on TheFaceBook.com”
- Examples for Group
Sponsorships given: SpongeBob
SquarePants and Apple
General overview of Facebook
advertising possibilities
Group Sponsorships
Sample page from the list of
schools in the network
CrunchBase Information
Facebook Information provided
by CrunchBase
Newstablet Edition
Joystickers: For When You Wish
Your iPhone (Temporarily) Had
More Buttons
Greg Kumparak (TechCrunch) touchscreen — which, for anyone
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:18:31 PM who witnessed the control pad’s
evolution from the palm-
The iPhone is great for gaming… destroying corners of the NES to
in some ways. The App Store as a the pampering curves of today’s
distribution model? Fantastic. The consoles, is a fairly terrifying
f i n e l y - t u n e d d e v e l o p m e n t idea. Playing a fighter game on a
platform? Amazing! The lack of slab of tactility-free glass? No
even a single physical face button thanks.
beyond the one that exits the Enter Joystickers’ Classics —
application? Ehhh, not so great. they’re removable, reusable,
While most game developers arcade-style buttons built to give
have learned to make do in this the iPhone (or just about any
frightfully buttonless world, there touchscreen device) that little bit
are some ideas that simply require of extra game.
buttons. This has lead to a rather Read the rest at MobileCrunch
staggering number of games that >>
draw their controls onto the
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continued from page 27

almost everything else (like
customization, integration,
configuration, and control), and
are the least regulated.
Morace shows a pretty clear
intention for Jive to continue
offering solutions oriented
offerings.
You can see then why it makes
sense for Jive to partner with
companies such as Alfresco
Software. The company must
work with third parties to offer
broad solutions.
Enguerrand Spindler owns a
consulting company called
Alfstore, specializing in Alfresco
Software integrations. He recently
wrote about how Alfresco is
integrating with Jive Software on
a project for a large French,
industrial company.
According to Spindler, Jive is
used as the front-end solution (for
social collaboration around
documents), and Alfresco is used
as the document repository:
From the Jive interface, people
can upload documents into
Alfresco, and then get the
corresponding link to collaborate
around it using the Jive features.
That's the kind of integration Jive
will need to continue growing.
Other partners in Jive's developer
community include Tungle.me,
Box and Giffy.
Am I still torn? I have no
question about Jive's success. It
will most likely become a very
large company.
But I can't help but see an
emphasis on appealing to IT and
its command and control
preferences. And that to me can
be a problem. Why? IT could be
better connected to the front lines.
They have their own ideas about
collaboration that are often
disconnected to the realities of the
average users. Those users want
to use services that make sense for
them.
Jive is far ahead of Yammer in
the market. The company is on a
$100 million run rate. That's far
bigger than Yammer and others in
the market. But its approach
reminds me more of large,
enterprise solutions providers than
nimble applications companies.
That's evident of a market
dichotomy that we see unfolding
in the enterprise. Solutions
oriented companies work with
CIOs. Those relationships help
garner significant deals that are in
excess of $1 million.
But in the long run, users will
prefer to work with loosely
coupled application services that
give them choice and flexibility.
That's a big reason why it is so
important for Jive to build that
application network. They need a
loosely federated model to keep
the user satisfied.
Will that work? Perhaps. But I'm
still torn. Solutions oriented
approaches require large project
teams. Those teams cost a lot to
run. Applications companies seek
to be more efficient on the
application stack. In the long run
that means engaging users as
much as possible and lowering the
costs to scale the company.
Jive and its competitors have
divergent approaches but in the
end, the applications providers are
creating services for an in
increasingly flat world. To truly
compete, Jive will need to
embrace the developer
community and offer a full
spectrum of services through its
ecosystem. Discuss
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Zac Efron Hits NYC to Start Work on New Year's Eve

Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 8:54:52 AM
Zac Efron had his shades and
Winter gear on yesterday evening
when he stepped out in NYC. The
actor headed to the Big Apple just
a few days ago in order to start
work on New Year's Eve
following a week in LA, where he
focused on his biceps at the gym
and even took in a musical. He's
on the East Coast again despite a
quick trip earlier this month for
Fashion Week, and he'll soon
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34 Technology/ Culture/ Obituaries Newstablet Edition

Google releases final Honeycomb Isla Fisher Keeps Her

SDK Baby Daughter Close in
(CNET News.com) ADT Plugin for Eclipse, which
Submitted at 2/23/2011 11:37:39 AM developers can also use to create
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London
Developers looking to create Designed to work with the SDK, Lauren Turner (PopSugar)
apps for the newest Honeycomb the SDK Tools help developers Submitted at 2/23/2011 9:49:07 AM

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the final SDK from Google. Updates to the latest ADT Plugin Isla Fisher carried her youngest
Honeycomb's logo(Credit: include a new palette with access child through security at
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The search giant released the ways to zoom in and out of the been overseas promoting her
software development kit for screen, and more accurate animated feature Rango in the UK
Android 3.0 yesterday, offering time picker, and even a 3D stack rendering so developers can more and Germany after showing the
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travels, though she has been
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Federal Trade Commission is

reviewing Apple's in-app purchase
system GPS Apps Might Give
Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW) responsibility squarely on the
Submitted at 2/23/2011 1:30:00 PM shoulders of the parents who You Leverage in
should lock their iPhone, iPad or Fighting Traffic Tickets
The FTC is reviewing Apple's in- iPod touch before handing it over
app purchasing policy after to their children. Though these [Driving] What's On Tonight:
reports of inadvertent purchases parental controls may be enough Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) 'America's Next Top
by children have continued to to thwart any action from the Submitted at 2/23/2011 8:05:00 AM Model,' 'Ghost Hunters,'
surface. FTC Chairperson Jon FTC, Apple may also decide to
Leibowitz agreed to look closely limit this 15-minute window and Keeping a GPS-tracking app 'Hot in Cleveland'
at the matter after Representative require a password for each in- running on your phone while Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Ed Markey of Massachusetts app purchase. driving might just provide the Submitted at 2/23/2011 6:30:00 AM
brought the matter to his attention. To disable in-app purchasing on hard evidence to fight an
Leibowitz will most likely focus your iOS device, go to Settings > illegitimate traffic ticket. At least Filed under: Reality-Free, TV
on Apple's 15-minute window, a US$1400. Earlier reports singled General > Restrictions and enter a that's how one Android-wielding Previews Here's what's on TV
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d o w n l o a d s f o r t h e n e x t 1 5 which can cost as much as $149. Purchases" and flick the toggle to 8PM
minutes. It is during this 15- Children hooked on the game and "OFF." ABC:'The Middle'
minute window that children left playing unattended have charged Federal Trade Commission is CBS:'Survivor'
unattended with a device are able hundreds of dollars to their r e v i e w i n g A p p l e ' s i n - a p p NBC:'Minute To Win It'(two
to rack up huge charges. parent's iTunes account. purchase system originally episodes)
The latest such incident involving Apple has combated this problem appeared on TUAW on Wed, 23 FOX:'American Idol'
exorbitant charges by children by pointing out that parents can Feb 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please The CW:'America's Next Top
involves the Smurf's Village app. block all in-app purchases using see our terms for use of feeds. Model'(season premiere)
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36 Technology/ Politics-Left/ Finance/
Symbian UI refresh previewed on
Nokia N8
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 11:39:10 AM
What looks to be the new
Symbian homescreen layout has
been briefly previewed, ahead of
the promised Nokia update later
in 2011. Shown briefly during a
presentation by Nokia SVP of
smartphones Jo Harlow, the
refreshed UI – demonstrated on
an N8– has a slimmed down
status bar with Android/iOS-style
operator, battery, signal and time
iconography, and a much
narrower call/menu/options bar at
the bottom.
In-between there are new
widgets, no longer imprisoned by
the traditional blocks fitting six to
a screen. Instead it all looks more
flexible and streamlined, taking a
leaf out of Android’s book. The
end result is a far more modern
looking smartphone, with a UI
that actually begins to live up to
the N8s slick aluminum chassis.
Now, it’s not 100-percent clear
that this is the actual refreshed UI
that will be going out to
Symbian^3 devices in the coming
months, but Harlow has
previously committed to a
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(Quizzle.com) (Financiallyfit on
significant attempt to improve “
the visual feel of the graphics”
and this would be a big step in the
right direction. Still, despite the
fact that Nokia envisions millions
of new Symbian device sales
before the platform is phased out
in favor of Windows Phone, we
can’t help thinking that all this is
all a little too late.
[ via My Nokia Blog]
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By: Kristie Lorette New credit…
Newstablet Edition
Eight hurt in school air
rifle shooting
Alexandra Topping (The families are appropriately
Guardian World News) supported."
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:06:15 PM It was not immediately clear who
was responsible for the attack, and
One pupil still in hospital after air Strathclyde police did not issue
rifle incident at Auchinleck information on whether any
academy, say Strathclyde police arrests had been made.
Eight schoolchildren have been Auchinleck is a small town near
injured in an air rifle shooting Mauchline and Cumnock, in East
incident in Scotland. Ayrshire. The Auchinleck
A spokeswoman for Strathclyde academy describes itself as "a
police said one pupil was in quality school with a commitment
hospital after the shooting, close to provide the highest standards of
to Auchinleck academy in East service delivery to both our
Ayrshire. students and parents".
"Eight pupils have received On its website it adds: "Success
medical attention after being shot is at the core of the school
by an air weapon in Church whether it be in academic results,
Street, Auchinleck," she said, sport, music or for that matter the
adding that police were at the promotion of enterprise or self-
Q3 2010; Symbian^4 by early scene carrying out extensive esteem. Our intention is to make
2011 inquiries. sure that every child achieves that
• Nokia to offer only one Maemo Police said they received a call at which they are capable of and, at
handset in 2010? 1.40pm about an incident. the same time, to cater for their
• Symbian^4 UI video demos A n E a s t A y r s h i r e c o u n c i l social and emotional needs."
emerge: 12 months of hard work spokeswoman said: "We can • Scotland
ahead confirm that there was an incident • Gun crime
• N o k i a N 9 0 0 p r e v i e w e d : in Auchinleck today. The school • Crime
“wholly different league” to r e s p o n d e d i m m e d i a t e l y , • Schools
Symbian informing the police and parents
• Nokia Symbian^3 browser of the children involved, and Alexandra Topping
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Crush-Stalking App Breakup Notifier Amasses Over 3.6M

Users, Is Shut Down By Facebook
Alexia Tsotsis (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:52:51 PM
Just Monday we were writing
about Breakup Notifier, a
Facebook app that raked in
100,000 users in less than 24
hours and as of 5 hours ago had a
more than modest 3,673,484 users
in its database … And then poof!
It’s gone, blocked by Facebook.
To the uninitiated, Breakup
Notifier sent you a helpful email
notifying you whenever the object
of your stalking affection changed
their relationship status. It’s
seems like Facebook has been on
somewhat of a cool app shutdown
kick lately, also blocking the
Dutch anti-smoking app
Blackmail Yourself yesterday.
Breakup Notifier creator Dan
Lowenhertz received the
following message from
Facebook a 4:38 am PST this
morning. It seems like Facebook
took issue with the app’s large
number of API calls, which might
just be a record:
“To ensure positive user
experiences on Platform, we run
routine automated screens that
take user feedback, machine
learning and various algorithms
into account and remove spammy
applications. For example, if an
application is making an
inordinate number of
stream.publish calls and receiving
a large number of user reports, it
may be removed by our
automated systems to protect the
user experience and the Platform
ecosystem.”
Lowenhertz has contacted
Facebook with no response yet, as
have we. He says that he’ll do
whatever Facebook needs to get
the app back up and
running“We’re willing to comply
with whatever they want us to
(within reason).” Facebook has
also, inexplicably, disabled his
personal account.

NYC detective who

Zaprudering the Invite: Anything to see?
Erica Sadun (TUAW)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 1:15:00 PM
Whatever you might think of
Apple's grammar, there's not
much this invitation's artwork is
giving away. Of course, we all
want to know: is there a camera
up there? If so, we're not seeing
evidence of it in the top-middle of
the graphic. Perhaps there is a left
-mounted camera hidden by
March 2, or perhaps there is no
camera to be seen at all, which
will disappoint FaceTime chatters
everywhere. Or perhaps Apple is
simply being a tease. As usual.
The volume toggle and mute
switch appear unchanged and I
suppose it's nice to know that the
virtual iPad has been fully
caught Son of Sam
guesses here in TUAW-land.
Our own Kelly G. rolled her eyes in 1970s dies (AP)
at the language. While it's not (Yahoo! News: Obituaries)
TUAW's place to smack down Submitted at 2/22/2011 1:02:33 PM
Apple for a badly constructed
sentence, we're more than happy AP - Edward Zigo, the New York
to turn over pedant duties to our City detective who cracked the
commenters. How would you notorious Son of Sam case in the
have phrased your invitation? Let 1970s by acting on a hunch about
us know! a parking ticket and arrested killer
Zaprudering the Invite: Anything David Berkowitz, has died. He
to see? originally appeared on was 84.
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Apple reportedly reduces iPad 2

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second-generation iPad just
around the corner, Digitimes is
reporting that Apple's volume
targets for the new device have
been set lower.
While both Apple and iPad
manufacturer Foxconn are mum
on the subject, Digitimes stated
that the forecasted manufacturing
run for the iPad 2 for the period
ending March 31 is now set at
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compared to earlier estimates that
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Digitimes also noted that most
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Public Unions Must Go
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 2/22/2011 5:00:00 PM
The protesting public school
teachers with fake doctor's notes
swarming the Capitol building in
Madison, Wis., insist that Gov.
Scott Walker is hell-bent on
"union busting" in their state.
Walker denies that his effort to
reform public sector unions in
Wisconsin is anything more than
an honest attempt at balancing the
state's books.
I hope the protesters are right.
Public unions have been a 50-year
mistake.
A crucial distinction has been lost
in the debate over Walker's
proposals: Government unions are
not the same thing as private
sector unions.
Traditional, private sector unions
were born out of an often bloody
adversarial relationship between
labor and management. It's been
said that during World War I,
U.S. soldiers had better odds of
surviving on the front lines than
miners did in West Virginia coal
mines. Mine disasters were
frequent; hazardous conditions
were the norm. In 1907, the
Monongah mine explosion
claimed the lives of 362 West
Virginia miners. Day-to-day life
TEDTalks : Elizabeth Lindsey: Curating humanity's heritage -
Elizabeth Lindsey (2010)
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Submitted at 2/23/2011 10:25:32 AM
It's been said that when an elder
often resembled serfdom, with
management controlling vast
swaths of the miners' lives. And
before unionization and many
New Deal-era reforms,
Washington had little power to
reform conditions by legislation.
The labor-politician negotiations
can't be fair when the unions can
put so much money into campaign
spending.
Meanwhile, government unions
have no such narrative on their
side. Do you recall the Great
DMV cave-in of 1959? How
about the travails of second-grade
teachers recounted in Upton
Sinclair's famous schoolhouse
sequel to "The Jungle"? No?
Don't feel bad, because no such
horror stories exist.
Government workers were
making good salaries in 1962
when President Kennedy lifted,
by executive order (so much for
democracy), the federal ban on
government unions. Civil service
regulations and similar laws had
guaranteed good working
conditions for generations.
The argument for public
unionization wasn't moral,
economic or intellectual. It was
rankly political.
Traditional organized labor, the
backbone of the Democratic
dies, it's as if a library is burned. knowledge passed down as stories
Anthropologist Elizabeth Lindsey, and lore.
a National Geographic Fellow,
collects the deep cultural
Party, was beginning to lose
ground. As Daniel DiSalvo wrote
in "The Trouble with Public
Sector Unions," in the fall issue of
National Affairs, JFK saw how in
states such as New York and
Wisconsin, where public unions
were already in place, local liberal
pols benefited politically and
financially. He took the idea
national.
The plan worked. Public union
membership skyrocketed and
government union support for the
party of government skyrocketed
with it. From 1989 to 2004,
AFSCME--the American
Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees--gave
nearly $40 million to candidates
in federal elections, with 98.5%
going to Democrats, according to
the Center for Responsive
Politics.
Why would local government
unions give so much in federal
elections? Because government
workers have an inherent interest
in boosting the amount of federal
tax dollars their local
governments get. Put simply,
people in the government business
support the party of government.
And this gets to the real
insidiousness of government
unions. Wisconsin labor officials
fairly note that they've acceded to
many of their governor's specific
demands--that workers contribute
to their pensions and healthcare
costs, for example. But they don't
want to lose the right to collective
bargaining.
But that is exactly what they need
to lose.
Private sector unions fight with
management over an equitable
distribution of profits.
Government unions negotiate
with politicians over taxpayer
money, putting the public interest
at odds with union interests and,
as we've seen in states such as
California and Wisconsin,
exploding the cost of government.
The labor-politician negotiations
can't be fair when the unions can
put so much money into campaign
spending. Victor Gotbaum, a
leader in the New York City
chapter of AFSCME, summed up
the problem in 1975 when he
boasted, "We have the ability, in a
sense, to elect our own boss."
This is why FDR believed that
"the process of collective
bargaining, as usually understood,
cannot be transplanted into the
public service," and why even
George Meany, the first head of
the AFL-CIO, held that it was
"impossible to bargain
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collectively with the government."
As it turns out, it's not
impossible; it's just terribly
unwise. It creates a dysfunctional
system where for some, growing
government becomes its own
reward. You can find evidence of
this dysfunction everywhere. The
Cato Institute's Michael Tanner
notes that federal education
spending has risen by 188% in
real terms since 1970, but we've
seen no significant improvement
in test scores.
The unions and the protesters in
Wisconsin see Walker's reforms
as a potential death knell for
government unions. My response?
If only.
Jonah Goldberg is a Visiting
Fellow at AEI.
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Submitted at 2/22/2011 5:00:00 PM
Everyone has priorities. During
the past week Barack Obama has
found no time to condemn the
attacks that Libyan dictator
Moammar Gadhafi has launched
on the Libyan people.
But he did find time to be
interviewed by a Wisconsin
television station and weigh in on
the dispute between Republican
Gov. Scott Walker and the state's
public employee unions. Walker
was staging "an assault on
unions," he said, and added that
"public employee unions make
enormous contributions to our
states and our citizens."
Enormous contributions, yes -- to
the Democratic Party and the
Obama campaign. Unions, most
of whose members are public
employees, gave Democrats some
$400 million in the 2008 election
cycle. The American Federation
of State, County and Municipal
Employees, the biggest public
employee union, gave Democrats
$90 million in the 2010 cycle.
Public opinion seems to be with
the Republicans. Pollster Scott
Rasmussen reports that 48 percent
of voters support Walker while
Jed Lowrie Hits Books at Stanford to Keep Up With Globetrotting Fiancee
Ed Price (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 11:49:00 AM
Filed under: Red Sox, Spring
Training FORT MYERS, Fla. --
After Monday's third full-squad
only 38 percent support the
unions.
Follow the money, Washington
reporters like to say. The money
in this case comes from taxpayers,
present and future, who are the
source of every penny of dues
paid to public employee unions,
who in turn spend much of that
money on politics, almost all of it
for Democrats. In effect, public
employee unions are a mechanism
by which every taxpayer is forced
to fund the Democratic Party.
So, just as the president
complained in his 2010 State of
the Union address about a
Supreme Court decision that he
feared would increase the flow of
money to Republicans, he also
found time to complain about a
proposed state law that could
reduce the flow of money to
Democrats.
And, according to the
Washington Post, to get the
Democratic National Committee
to organize protests against the
proposed Wisconsin law. Protests
that showed contempt for the law,
with teachers abandoning
classrooms, doctors writing phony
medical excuses, Democratic
legislators fleeing the state and
holing up in a motel. The
workout, some of the Red Sox
players hit the golf course. Or the
pool.
Jed Lowrie opened his laptop, put
the finishing touches on a 17-page
paper comparing the baseball and
lawmakers played hooky without
losing any salary, which is
protected by the state constitution.
It's true that Walker's proposals
would strike hard at the power of
the public employee unions. They
would no longer have the right to
bargain for fringe benefits, which
are threatening to bankrupt the
state government, and they would
no longer be able to count on
government withholding dues
money and passing it along to
them.
But what are the contributions
that public employee unions make
to our states and our citizens?
Their incentives are to increase
the cost of government and reduce
down toward zero the
accountability of public
employees -- both contrary to the
interests of taxpaying citizens.
An argument can be made that
higher pay, generous benefits and
lavish pensions will attract better
people to public employment. But
where are the studies that show
that citizens of states with strong
public employee unions get better
services than citizens in states
without?
What citizens of states with
strong public employee unions do
get are higher taxes and enormous
football players' unions, and e-
pension burdens that threaten to
squeeze out funds for ongoing
services, as even Democratic
governors like Andrew Cuomo of
New York and Jerry Brown of
California have figured out.
That's why one of the great 20th
century presidents was against
unions for public employees who
have civil service protections. No,
not Ronald Reagan. It was
Franklin Roosevelt who said,
"Action looking toward the
paralysis of government by those
who have sworn to support it is
unthinkable and intolerable."
So while the Wisconsin unions
are defying the law, Scott Walker
is in effect following FDR's lead,
and if he's successful others may
follow. That would be an
enormous blow to the money
power of the public employee
union bosses.
Public opinion seems to be with
the Republicans. Pollster Scott
Rasmussen reports that 48 percent
of voters support Walker while
only 38 percent support the
unions.
This seems to be a sharp reversal
of opinion over the past five
years. Back in 2005 California
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
sponsored a series of ballot
mailed it to his Stanford
professor.
With that Lowrie completed his
last coursework for a degree in
political science -- 8 1/2 years
after first arriving at Stanford.
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propositions that would have
reduced the power of the state's
public employee unions. The
unions spent something like $100
million -- all of it derived from
taxpayers -- on TV ads, and all the
propositions were defeated.
Now hard economic times have
left voters wondering why public
employees pay practically zero
toward their health insurance and
pensions when they have to pay
plenty themselves. Wisconsin,
which led the nation on civil
service a century ago and on
welfare reform in the 1990s, may
be showing the nation the way
ahead once again.
Michael Barone is a Resident
Fellow at AEI.
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How To Stamp Out the Somali Pirates

(AEI.Org: Articles) significant step" in fighting changes, expect the attacks to the will to act? President Obama
Submitted at 2/22/2011 5:00:00 PM piracy. continue. agonized for hours before giving
If our president is clueless on Second, arm the ships' crews. the order to shoot three Maersk
To family and friends, the death h o w t o d e a l w i t h b i g g e r Every British merchantman that Alabama hijackers when they
of four Americans at the hands of Blackbeards like Iran's Mahmoud sailed in international waters in were in the sights of Navy
Somali pirates on Monday is a Ahmadinejad, Libya's Moammar the 1700s and early 1800s carried SEALs. Four US warships were The X Factor to Roll
tragedy. To the rest of us, it's a Khadafy and North Korea's Kim muskets and cannons and trained standing by while the Adamses
wakeup call. Jong-il, how can we expect him to its crew to use them. Whether a and their friends were murdered
Out Facebook Voting
After more than a decade of deal effectively with the smaller rifle on board might have saved by their Somali captors. With American Premiere
provocation and international ones? the Adamses and their friends is If our president is clueless on Hilary Rothing (TV Squad)
dithering, we must stamp out the I doubt the families of Scott and arguable. But a burst or two from how to deal with bigger
Submitted at 2/23/2011 7:30:00 AM
Somali pirate havens once and for Jean Adam and Phyllis Macay an M-16 would have sent the Blackbeards like Iran's Mahmoud
all. and Bob Riggle would agree. handful of Somali teenagers Ahmadinejad, Libya's Moammar Filed under: American Idol, TV
Since ancient times, how a It's time to pay attention to trying to run down the Maersk Khadafy and North Korea's Kim News Hot on the heels of news
civilization deals with piracy has history's lessons on how to deal Alabama scurrying away in their Jong-il, how can we expect him to earlier this week that 'American
been an index of its health and with this international plague. motorboat. Other pirates would deal effectively with the smaller Idol' will incorporate online
self-respect. Right now, our index First, make piracy a true capital have thought twice before ones? voting comes word that Simon
isn't looking good. offense. The Romans branded approaching a large ship in their Starting with the relatives of four Cowell's 'X Factor' has upped the
Since 2008, the European Union pirates outlaws of humanity and waters. slain Americans, we're waiting to ante, with Facebook voting.
and the 26 warships of its punished them accordingly. We Third, sweep out the Somali find out. Makes you wonder if Simon's
multination naval force are have to be prepared to do the bases. Throughout history, the Arthur Herman is a visiting fancy, new British import will
supposed to deal with piracy in same, but we're not. most effective solution to piracy scholar at AEI. make 'American Idol' look its age,
the Gulf of Aden and the Somali Just last Wednesday, the Somali comes from the land, not the sea. Photo Credit: U.S. Navy/Mass come this fall.
basin--an area of water the size of pirate who led the band that In the 19th century, the Royal Communication Specialist 2nd As a reporter for Britain's Daily
Texas. It's not working. There seized the Maersk Alabama in Navy cleansed the world of this Class Jason R. Zalasky Mail astutely pointed out,
were more than 100 attacks on 2009 received 33 years and nine scourge from the West Indies and This entry passed through the Facebook and especially, Twitter,
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Speculation, Investment Scandals, Fraud, and China's Hard

Landing; Miracle of Chinese High-Speed Rail will be Reduced
to Dust; Peak Oil Doomsday Clock
noreply@blogger.com (Michael sacrifice quality for quantity on fly ash, and other low-grade reduced to dust." China Rail traditional railroad lines. The
Shedlock) (Mish's Global the lines' foundations which could construction materials, was Chief’s Firing Hints at Trou ble sheer size and cost of the
Economic Trend Analysis) ultimately halve their lifespan. "almost inevitable" in high-speed The New York Times reports endeavor — the investment has
Submitted at 2/23/2011 4:33:00 AM The problem lies in the use of railway construction. China Rail Chief’s Firing Hints at been estimated at $750 billion,
In President Obama's state of the high-quality fly ash, a fine powder And that could have fatal Trouble some $395 billion for high-speed
union address, he hailed China's chemically identical to volcanic consequences, Wang said. With a In his seven years as chief of the rail alone — has led experts to
high-speed rail system. He should ash, collected from the chimneys catalytic function almost opposite Chinese Railways Ministry, Liu compare it to the transcontinental
have waited. Serious questions of coal-fired power plants. When to that of good fly ash, the bad fly Zhijun built a commercial and railroad that opened the American
regarding the safety and longevity mixed with cement and gravel, it ash could significantly weaken political colossus that spanned West.
of the system is now in question. can give the tracks' concrete base railway line foundations and continents and elevated the lowly President Obama hailed China’s
One expert claims within five a lifespan of 100 years. shorten a railway's lifespan by train to a national symbol of pride program in his State of the Union
years, the "Chinese High-Speed According to a study by the First about half. That would mean and technological prowess. address and called for the United
Rail will be Reduced to Dust". Survey and Design Institute of China's high-speed rail tracks His abrupt sacking by the States to move quickly on high-
China has spent $750 billion on China Railways in 2008, coal- would last only 50 years. Communist Party is casting that speed rail plans that had been
rail lines, much of it wasted. fired power plants on the Zhu Ming - a researcher at empire in a decidedly different repeatedly delayed by budget
The culprit is not design, but mainland could produce enough Southwest Jiaotoing University's light, raising doubts not only concerns and political infighting.
r a t h e r s h o d d y c o n s t r u c t i o n high-quality fly ash for the School of Civil Engineering who about Mr. Liu’s stewardship and There are some clues in top
accompanied by fraud, greed, and construction of 100 kilometres of experimented with fly ash at a the corruption that dogs China’s officials’ public statements since
unrealistic growth targets. If that high-speed railway tracks a year. Beijing-Shanghai high-speed vast public-works projects, but the scandal broke. Speaking on
sounds familiar, it's because it was But more than 1,500 kilometres railway construction site last year also, perhaps, the safety, financial Monday in Beijing, the official
one of the factors in the US of track have been laid annually - was even more pessimistic. soundness and long-term viability who is believed to be the
housing bust, and indeed every for the past five years. This year The use of low-quality fly ash of a rail system that has captured country’s new railways chief,
huge bust in general. 4,500 kilometres of track will be would threaten the safety of rail the world’s attention. Sheng Guangzu, said the ministry
Here are a couple of links on the laid with the completion of the passengers and "judgment day" Mr. Liu, 58, was fired Saturday would “place quality and safety at
high-speed rail lines I got from w o r l d ' s l o n g e s t h i g h - s p e e d might come sooner than expected, and is being investigated by the the center of construction
Michael Pettis at China Financial railway line, between Beijing and Zhu said. party’s disciplinary committee for projects.” For good measure, he
Markets. Shanghai. Fly ash required for "Quality problems with Chinese “severe violations of discipline,” a added that safety was his highest
'Judgment day' fears for high- that 1,318-kilometre line would high-speed railways will arise in euphemism for corruption. His priority.
speed rail tracks be more than that produced by all five years," he said. "I'm not high government rank — minister The statement underscored
South China Morning reports the coal-fired power plants in the talking about small problems, but -level officials are rarely fired concerns in some quarters that
Judgment day' fears for high- world. big problems. Small problems under such a cloud — hints at far Mr. Liu cut corners in his all-out
speed rail tracks Construction of Enter low-quality fly ash. such as occasional cracks and deeper dissatisfaction with one of push to extend the rail system and
the mainland's massive high- Professor Wang Lan , lead slips that delay trains for hours China’s most publicized and to keep the project on schedule
speed rail network is in danger of scientist at the Cement and New have already occurred. Big sweeping domestic initiatives. and within its budget. No
becoming a victim of its own Building Materials Research problems that will postpone an Until last week, Mr. Liu had led accidents have been reported on
success. Institute under the China Building entire line for days, if not weeks, China’s program to lace the the high-speed rail network, but
The breakneck speed at which Materials Academy, said that will come soon. nation with nearly 8,100 miles of reports suggest that construction
t r a c k i s b e i n g l a i d m e a n s given poor quality control on the "When that happens, the miracle high-speed rail lines and to build SPECULATION, page 43
engineers are likely to have to mainland, the use of low-quality of Chinese high-speed rail will be more than 11,000 miles of
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SPECULATION,
continued from page 42
quality may at times have been
shoddy.
Analysts have warned that the
construction schedule ordered by
Mr. Liu threatens to push the
ministry’s debt — already $170
billion last fall — to an
unsustainable level.
A 2010 analysis by China
Minsheng Bank, reported this
week by Caijing, found that the
ministry’s debts equaled 56
percent of its assets and could
reach $455 billion, or 70 percent
of its assets, by 2020. In his last
months on the job, Mr. Liu had
begun an aggressive program to
deal with the debt by selling
stakes in the railway to investors
like large state-controlled banks.
The Minsheng report suggested
that the high-speed network may
remain a money-loser for the next
20 years, despite heavy use.
Ticket prices — several times
those for a conventional train —
have led to a backlash among
some Chinese.
The timing of Mr. Liu’s dismissal
may be significant: He was fired
at the end of China’s Lunar New
Year holiday, when trains are
jammed, tickets are scalped at
exorbitant prices and passengers
are angriest.
The Communist Party has long
worried that corruption may
undermine its credibility with the
public. But outside analysts agree
that high-level officials are
seldom sacked for corruption
alone, in part because kickbacks,
favoritism and other below-board
activities are so common.
Russell Leigh Moses, a scholar of
the Chinese leadership, said that
Mr. Liu’s dismissal could signal
disquiet over whether expansion
of the rail system had gone too
far, too fast.
“You don’t take someone down at
that level of status unless they’ve
done something really egregious,”
said Mr. Moses, who works in
Beijing. “I don’t know whether
it’s politics or policy. But I
wouldn’t rule out the second.”
China's Vacant Cities
China's problems go far beyond
high-speed rail, to construction
and malinvestment in general.
I have talked about China's
Vacant cities before but here is a
quick recap from Chinese Bank
Lending Spree Continues; $75
Billion New Loans First Week in
January Alone; Inflation Gone
Amuck
In case you missed it, please
consider Amazing Satellite
Images Of The Ghost Cities Of
China on the Business
Insider."There’s city after city full
of empty streets and vast
government buildings, some in
the most inhospitable locations. It
is the modern equivalent of
building pyramids. With 20 new
cities being built every year, we
hope to be able to expand our list
going forward." More Vacant
China City Stories
• Implosion of the China "Fabric
City" Frenzy
• 10 Signs of Speculative Mania
in China
• Email from a Chinese on
China's Real Estate Bubble
China property bubble will
overheat until it implodes. In the
meantime, regardless of what
China reports on the CPI, inflation
remains a huge problem. Once
again, those looking for inflation
can find it in China, not the US,
where consumer credit is
contracting.
Long Sharp Slowdown or
Economic Collapse?
Inquiring minds are wondering if
these malinvestment schemes
mean China will suffer an
economic collapse. While not a
China bull, Michael Pettis makes
a case for a long period of sub-par
growth rather than an outright
economic collapse.
Here is a snip from his latest 13-
page newsletter (subscription) , by
permission. I added the subtitles
in red, black headlines are
original. Michael Pettis writes..
Optimist Case for China
Optimists argue that China has
far less infrastructure, including
high-speed railroads, for its size
and population than countries like
Japan, and so it will take years of
building before we have to worry
about excess infrastructure
investment. They claim that the
externalities associated with
expanding the rail network are so
high that in spite of the huge costs
they nonetheless make economic
sense for China, especially over
the longer term as productivity
rises.
Pessimist Case for China
Pessimists argue that with costs
of capital set so artificially low
and with tremendous near-term
pressure on local policymakers to
promote large infrastructure
spending, there is an incentive for
policymakers to misallocate
capital, and when there are
incentives to waste money, money
tends to get wasted.
I am in the pessimist camp. Not
only do I believe that the
combination of very low cost of
capital, socialized credit risks, and
strong short-term political
incentives to fund massive
projects always leads to capital
misallocation, but I also believe
that the explosion in NPLs [Non-
Performing Loans] a decade ago,
and the fact that total SOE [State
Owned Enterprise] profits are just
a fraction of the interest rate
subsidy they receive, is strong
evidence that misallocated capital
has long been a serious problem
in China.
Collapse?
I realize that there is always the
possibility that this time really is
different, but the constellation of
factors – rapid credit expansion,
cheap capital, incentives to ignore
risk, large-scale fraud – is
striking. It is rare to see all of
these things come together
without a serious correction
following, although of course it is
folly to try to time it. All we can
say is that the later the correction
comes, the deeper it tends to be.
By the way this is not to say that
China is about to collapse into
crisis. I’ve noticed over the past
two years that a lot of
commentators in China and
abroad are citing me or my
arguments in support of their own
claims that China is about to
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collapse, but although I have been
very skeptical of the growth story
here for many years, I have never
argued that China would collapse.
On the contrary.
In my opinion, a financial
collapse requires specific balance
sheet structures in which inverted
liabilities (i.e. the opposite of
hedged) are combined with self-
reinforcing mechanisms that
exacerbate changes on both the up
cycle and the down cycle. I
believe however that with
Beijing’s control of the
liquidation process, of interest
rates, and of investor behavior,
the Chinese financial system is
organized in part to prevent
financial crises.
But in so doing it is also
organized to exacerbate
underlying imbalances and
ultimately to increase the cost of
the adjustment. This means that if
we are nearing the end of the
growth model’s life (in the next
year or two if there is a strong
consensus at the top, or in the next
three to four years if there is a
difficult leadership transition), the
adjustment will not occur as a
crisis but rather as a long and
sharp slowdown in economic
growth.
But to get back to the main story,
investment-related fraud can
occur at any time and during any
period, but as many historians
have noted, they become
extremely hard to cover up during
the stressful period just before a
major balance sheet contraction –
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SPECULATION,
continued from page 43
just think of Bernie Madoff, who
managed successfully to hide
massive fraud for many years.
The rising revelation of fraud is
one of the warning signals we
should be tracking. Is this
happening in China? Perhaps not
yet, but if we see too many of
these stories pop up in the next
year or so, it should increase the
sense that we nearing the end of
the growth model’s life.
China Hikes Reserve
Requirements
On Friday the PBoC announced
yet another 50-basis-point hike in
minimum reserves (making it the
fifth hike in five months).
But will these measures bite?
My guess is that they will at first,
but that when they do they will be
quickly reversed. Any real
attempt to reduce the sources of
overheating will cause economic
growth to slow too quickly, and
Beijing will change its mind,
especially if, as I expect, inflation
peaks soon and starts to decline.
Mission Impossible
Let’s face it – most Chinese
growth is the result of overheated
investment, and removing the
sources of overheating without
eliminating growth is going to
prove impossible. I have been
making the same argument for at
least two or three years, and so far
we have seen how Beijing veers
between stomping on the gas
when the economy slows
precipitously and stomping on the
brakes when it then grows too
quickly. I don’t believe anything
has changed.
Deposits are down
If you count all lending, and not
just the formal lending that shows
up on bank balance sheets, loan
growth has been greater than ever,
and what’s more total lending in
2010 was actually higher than in
2009. Remember that in 2009
new lending was RMB 9.6
trillion, and last year it was just
under RMB 8 trillion. This was
widely presented as a “prudent”
reduction in credit expansion. It
turns out there was no such
reduction.
On a related note, the most
interesting number in the NBS
release, perhaps, was January the
level of bank deposits. They were
down. Dong Tao at Credit Suisse
says that this is the first time this
has happened since January 2002:
What was more concerning was
that it was corporate deposits that
went backwards, not household
deposits, as may have been
expected around Chinese New
Year. This gives us reason to
believe that the fall in deposits is
not seasonal.
So why did corporate deposits
drop? My guess is that large
businesses may be finding it much
more profitable to lend money to
other businesses, especially those
who don’t have easy access to
bank credit, than to deposit cash
in the bank at such negative real
rates.
Zaiteku again?
But not a good one. Those of us
old enough to remember the
1980s will be reminded that the
Japanese had a word for this kind
of activity: zaiteku.
According to the Japanlink
website, zaiteku is an abbreviation
of zaimu tekunorojii, which
means "Raising profit by utilizing
capital for securities investments,
real estate and the like." In the
late 1980s Japanese companies,
faced with the combination of
highly repressed borrowing costs
and the prospects of ever-rising
asset prices (sound familiar?),
discovered that it was far easier
and more exciting to make money
by speculating than by normal
operations, and it became the
great fashion among Japanese
corporations.
But it came with a huge cost.
Japanese companies began relying
increasingly on zaiteku for profits
and imbedded increasingly risky
structures into their balance
sheets. When the seemingly
impossible happened, and asset
prices stopped rising inexorably,
the impact on Japan’s subsequent
contraction was made much
worse.
From the Japanese experience
(and many others) it is clear that
when SOEs and large businesses
find it profitable to speculate on
asset markets, intermediate loans,
or otherwise earn financial profits,
they usually do, in which case we
need to worry about three things.
First, financial transactions –
especially when they largely
replicate risks that are being taken
already within the financial
system – increase systemic risk
even as they disguise risk-taking.
A problem in the financial
markets is reinforced by a drop in
corporate profitability tied to
financial speculation, which then
reinforces the problems in the
financial markets.
Second, Chinese banks already
do a bad enough job of assessing
credit (why not, when most credit
risk is socialized?), and it is hard
for me to believe that we are
going to see much better credit
risk management from corporate
treasurers, and even harder not to
wonder if guanxi will play an
important role in this whole
process.
Third, the more lending occurs
away from the purview of the
PBoC and the CBRC, the less
control and oversight monetary
authorities will have over the
financial system.
Of course within the banking
system it is pretty clear that the
regulators continued to be worried
and are stepping up measures to
control lending.
On the one hand overinvestment,
excess liquidity and credit
expansion, off-balance sheet
activities, and zaiteku are
generating huge growth and,
along with it, huge risks, while on
the other the PBoC and the CBRC
are doing what they can to
monitor, manage, and limit risks
in the banking system. I wonder
if they can pull it off.
Peak Oil and Chinese Energy
Consumption
One factor Pettis did not mention
was the effect of peak oil on
China's growth.
In July 2010 the Wall Street
Journal reported China Tops U.S.
in Energy Use
China has passed the U.S. to
become the world's biggest energy
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consumer, according to new data
from the International Energy
Agency, a milestone that reflects
both China's decades-long burst of
economic growth and its rapidly
expanding clout as an industrial
giant.
China's ascent marks "a new age
in the history of energy," IEA
chief economist Fatih Birol said
in an interview. The country's
surging appetite has transformed
global energy markets and
propped up prices of oil and coal
in recent years, and its continued
growth stands to have long-term
implications for U.S. energy
security.
The Paris-based IEA, energy
adviser to most of the world's
biggest economies, said China
consumed 2.252 billion tons of oil
equivalent last year, about 4%
more than the U.S., which burned
through 2.170 billion tons of oil
equivalent. The oil-equivalent
metric represents all forms of
energy consumed, including crude
oil, nuclear power, coal, natural
gas and renewable sources such as
hydropower.
China, meanwhile, disputed the
IEA figures, but didn't offer
alternative data, according to
Zhou Xian, spokesperson for
China's top energy agency.
The U.S. had been the globe's
biggest overall energy user since
the early 1900s, Mr. Birol said.
China overtook it at breakneck
pace. China's total energy
consumption was just half that of
the U.S. 10 years ago, but in many
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SPECULATION,
continued from page 44
of the years since, China saw
annual double-digit growth rates.
It had been expected to pass the
U.S. about five years from now,
but took the top position earlier
because the global recession hit
the U.S. more severely, slowing
American industrial activity and
energy use.
China's economic rise has
required enormous amounts of
energy—especially since much of
the past decade's growth was
fueled not by consumer demand,
as in the U.S., but from energy-
intense heavy industry and
infrastructure building.
Mr. Birol, formerly an economist
at OPEC, said China is expected
to build some 1,000 gigawatts of
new power-generation capacity
over the next 15 years. That is
about equal to the current total
electricity-generation capacity in
the U.S.—a level achieved over
several decades of construction.
US China Peak Oil Doomsday
Clock
Please consider China's Oil
Consumption and Imports: A
Growing National Security Threat
to the West. At the current rates
of growth of US and China oil
imports and consumption, China's
oil consumption will match US oil
imports by '16-'17. China's oil
imports and consumption will
reach parity with the US by '21-
'22, at which point the US and
China will together consume
60% of peak global oil production
(assuming 73-75M bbl/day)
versus 37-38% today, leaving the
rest of the world to adapt to
receiving the remaining 40% (35-
40% less than is received today).
However, at the same trend rates
of imports and consumption, the
US and China will consume 80%
of global oil production by the
late '20s to early '30s, leaving the
rest of the world just 20% of
supplies, and China is on track to
consume the entire world's oil
production by the '40s-'50s;
needless to say, this cannot occur.
Granted that is a "down the road"
kind of problem, but it is yet
another reason to be skeptical
about China's perennial 10%
growth targets.
China signals intention to curb oil
demand via price hike
Inquiring minds are reading
China signals intention to curb oil
demand via price hike
21 Feb 2011
China's top economic planning
body, the National Development
and Reform Commission, has
again signaled that it intends to
curb runaway demand for
petroleum products by adjusting
prices through the price
mechanism.
Late Saturday, Beijing
announced that domestic guidance
prices for gasoline and diesel will
be increased by Yuan 350
($53.14)/mt from midnight
Sunday.
The hike follows an increase in
the price of international crude
oil, but the timing was "properly
postponed" and the rise was
"limited," the central planning
authority said in the statement.
The adjustment is the first this
year but the second in the past
two months. The increase will
hike the benchmark retail price of
gasoline by Yuan 0.26/liter and
diesel by Yuan 0.30/l, the NDRC
said.
Liu Zhenqiu, vice director of the
NDRC's price department, told
the official Xinhua news agency
that the rise in fuel prices was also
aimed at restraining rapid
increases in China's oil
consumption and boosting energy
conservation. In 2010, China's
dependence on imported oil
jumped to 55%, from 33% in
2009, with crude imports rising
17% to 239 million mt, he added.
According to the NDRC, China's
domestic car sales surpassed 18
million units last year, which was
a growth of 32% year on year.
Based on an annual consumption
of 1.5 mt of gasoline per car,
domestic refined product
consumption would be increased
by 27 million mt, or equivalent to
an increase of 45 million mt of
crude oil, the NDRC said.
"The situation of oil security is
not optimistic ... there is an urgent
need to adjust prices to guide and
control the excessive growth in oil
consumption and promote
resource conservation," the
NDRC said.
Preliminary data released last
week by the country's General
Administration of Customs
showed that China's oil demand is
continues to grow at a breakneck
pace as measures to tighten its
monetary policies to rein in its
economy appears to have have
failed to damp demand.
According to the data, crude oil
imports in January rose 27.41%
year on year to 21.8 million mt
(5.15 million b/d), the highest in
four months.
Refined product imports jumped
42.07% year on year to 3.85
million mt as domestic companies
increased purchases to ensure
ample supplies during the week-
long holiday from February 3 to
celebrate the Lunar New Year.
China is not only overheating
badly, but it is also on a peak oil
collision course with the western
45
world in general and the US in
particular. Something has to give,
and it will.
Meanwhile, the longer China
sticks with its current policies, the
longer and deeper the resultant
slowdown. China bulls are
oblivious to these facts.
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Rahm Emanuel to Succeed Daley as Chicago Mayor; Will
Emanuel Rein in Public Union Abuses?
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:30:00 AM
Congratulations to Rahm
Emanuel for his First-Round Win
to Succeed Daley as Chicago
Mayor. Rahm Emanuel, the
former White House chief of staff,
will take the reins of the nation’s
third-most- populous city in May
after defeating several candidates
to succeed retiring Chicago
Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Emanuel’s closest competitor
was Gery Chico, 54, a former
Daley chief of staff and Chicago
school board president, with 24
percent of the vote. City Clerk
Miguel del Valle had 9 percent, as
did former U.S. Senator Carol
Moseley Braun.
The election signals the end of
two decades of rule by Daley, 68,
who with his father, Richard J.
Daley, ran Chicago for 43 of the
past 55 years.
The new mayor confronts a
declining population, pension
shortfalls for city workers and a
2012 budget deficit forecast at
more than $600 million. Emanuel
will enter City Hall’s fifth- floor
mayoral suite with the added
burden of troubled labor relations.
His White House role in helping
President Bill Clinton win passage
of the North American Free Trade
Agreement and comments he
made about unions as President
Barack Obama’s chief of staff left
lingering resentment.
‘Shared Sacrifice’
In his campaign, the former
Chicago congressman had called
for “shared sacrifice” by public
workers as the city seeks to
address deficits. Congratulations
are in order because Emanuel was
the best of the lot by far. Not only
was he a free trade advocate
(which shows he has something
on the ball), but he has picked up
the ire of Chicago's public unions.
Seriously, how much more could
one possibly expect from anyone
in contention for mayor of
Chicago?
A couple of posts will show what
I mean.
Seven More Unions Endorse
Chico
Feb 8, 2011: More unions
endorse Chico, bash Emanuel
Mayoral hopeful Gery Chico on
Monday picked up the
endorsement of seven more labor
unions whose leaders accused
rival candidate Rahm Emanuel of
threatening their pensions and
“demonizing” city employees.
What infuriated the labor leaders
is an Emanuel campaign
commercial in which the
candidate appears to lecture city
employees about the meaning of
public service.
In it, Emanuel states that City
Hall “is not an employment
agency. ... It is delivering a
service to the residents and
taxpayers of the city. I want that
mind set to be different. ... That
means making sure that
everybody [who] works for city
government knows they’re
actually a public servant
representing and helping the
people [who] pay them.”
Emanuel said he was not asking
anything from police, firefighters
and teachers that he would not be
asking from himself as mayor.
“I don’t think it’s a radical idea to
express the vision that taxpayers
are the people we are all beholden
to."
That is all you need to know right
there. However, I have more.
Chicago Unions Leaders Not
Thrilled With Rham Emanuel
December 6, 2010: Chicago
Unions Leaders Not Thrilled With
Rham Emanuel
Most Chicagoans are assuming
that former White House Chief of
Staff Rahm Emanuel will become
the next mayor of Chicago. But
while the perception might satisfy
many folks in the Windy City, at
least one powerful Democratic
sector isn't so sure they are happy
with the whole idea. Chicago's
union leaders are not very fond of
the distempered former Chief of
Staff.
Big Labor has been put off on
Emanuel since he helped Bill
Clinton get the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
passed in the 1990s when
Emanuel was a Congressman
from Chicago's 5th District.
Emanuel also has a history of
dissing Big Labor. At least he's
put other interests ahead of Big
Labor enough times that labor
leaders are not overly fond of the
diminutive candidate.
A book about the Obama White
House by Steven Ratner,
Overhaul, even quoted Emanuel
as saying, "**** the UAW," when
the president was discussion the
autoworker's union in a cabinet
meeting. Added Bonus
As an added bonus, the very
powerful and corrupt Alderman
Ed Burke backed Chico.
Please see Alderman Edward
Burke: Top Machine Boss of
Obama’s Chicago-Part 1 for
details of Burke's corruption.
You may also wish to consider
Newstablet Edition
Part 2: A Top FBI Informant
Accused Alderman Burke On
Three Occasions of Fixing a
Murder Trial For the Outfit.
The election of Emanuel was not
the best outcome. However, given
the choices, his election was the
best outcome possible.
That aside, no one should expect
miracles. If Emanuel does not
deliver on reining in public
unions, it will be time to pour on
the criticism.
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CalSTRS - California State Teachers' Retirement
System is Insolvent
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 2/22/2011 10:35:00 PM
The time bomb of retiring
teachers has gone off. Few admit
it yet, but a pension reform group
in California understands the
problem, and taxpayers are on the
hook.
Please consider California
teachers' pension system headed
toward insolvency
As California school districts
anticipate possibly the worst
budget crisis in a generation,
many will try to lighten their
burden by enticing older teachers
into retirement. But as more and
more teachers retire -- with a
pension averaging 55 percent to
60 percent of salary -- they will be
straining a system that already
can't meet its obligations.
The California State Teachers'
Retirement System is sliding
down a steep slope toward
insolvency. The threat isn't to
teachers who have retired or plan
to, but to the people of California.
Taxpayers, who already pick up
23 percent of CalSTRS expenses,
will be increasingly burdened as
the giant pension system fails to
meet its obligations.
"We're on a path of destruction,"
said Marcia Fritz, president of
pension-reform group California
Foundation for Fiscal
Responsibility.
And merely rejiggering formulas
for new employees won't rescue
the system, she said. Simply put:
"We overpromised."
Among those promises,
"Californians have typically given
their public employees richer
retirement benefits" than have
other states, according to the
nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's
Office.
Despite the looming disaster,
CalSTRS is like an ocean liner
that's slow and complicated to
change course. Gov. Jerry Brown
hasn't mentioned overhauling the
system that benefits one of his
major supporters, the teachers
union. Nor has the Legislature
taken up the issue.
Although CalPERS has imposed
higher contributions, reformers
say CalSTRS' formulas can be
revised only by legislation, a
statewide initiative or possibly a
constitutional amendment and
litigation -- not to mention
immense political will. Courts
have ruled that retirees are
guaranteed the pensions promised
them when hired.
Any move to pare benefits or
collect more from employees
would affect only future teachers,
not current employees. That's why
Fritz thinks a constitutional
amendment to reduce benefits for
current teachers is necessary.
CalSTRS' formula, which is
based largely on employee salary,
age and longevity, tends to reward
retirement at age 61½. For
example, a teacher who has
worked for 35 years, making
$90,000 in her final year, could
retire at age 62 and reap a $75,600
annual pension -- 84 percent of
salary. Teachers can add to their
pensions by "buying" additional
years.
A pension reform group has
drafted a proposal that would cap
the state share of future benefits at
about 11 percent of salary.
In contrast to the proposed
overhaul, teachers' pensions on
average currently amount to 55
percent to 60 percent of their
salaries, CalSTRS counselor Dave
Gillies said.
The pension reformers hope to
find a sponsor for their legislation
soon, said Dan Pellissier of
California Pension Reform. And
if the Legislature doesn't pass a
bill by mid-May, the group will
circulate a petition to put it on the
state ballot, he said.
"We have seen polls that 80
percent of likely voters know
something needs to be done," said
Fritz, an accountant and former
CalPERS consultant. "They're
listening." CalSTRS is not
"headed" for insolvency. It "is"
insolvent.
I support all moves to rein in this
system. The first step is to kill
defined benefit pension plans
entirely for all new hires.
However, that alone would be
insufficient. A legal way needs to
be found to address those already
in the system.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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Snooki Calls Regis a
'Hot Ape' on 'Regis
and Kelly' (VIDEO)
Donald Deane (TV Squad)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 6:15:00 AM
Filed under: TV Replay
Everyone's favorite guidette,
Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi of'Jersey
Shore,' dropped by'Live With
Regis and Kelly'(weekdays,
syndicated) and announced she's
finally found the man she's
looking for. And, shockingly, he
doesn't qualify as a "gorilla
juicehead."
Polizzi said that Gianni -- the
man she hooked up with on the
most recent episode of the reality
show, and the man whose name
she couldn't remember -- is her
current beau. But, he isn't the
musclebound type that she usually
goes for. "He's definitely not a
gorilla juicehead," said Polizzi.
"But, you know, he's a guido."
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Throwing, and the Failed Policy of Season 12 Cast Rumors
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The Smart Money Has Its Eyes On Saudi Arabia,

Not Libya
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Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:14:00 PM

The smart money has their eyes

on Saudi Arabia. Will the protests
there turn ugly?
All the drama seen on the streets,
from the unnecessary deaths to
Muammar Gadhafi’s rhetoric –
its only importance is to gauge
how the Saudi citizenry react.
Reuters called a Saudi oil
disruption “unthinkable,” and the
WSJ claimed “Saudi Arabia is
well-shielded from a full-blown
uprising of the kind seen in
Libya.”
Think again. This is the world’s
second largest oil producer and
has promised to fill the gap if
Libya totally shuts down. It can’t
very well keep such promises if
Saudis are involved in their own
civil revolt. Remember, even if
Libya is totally shut down, there
is no supply issue.
But triple digit Oil prices will
come fast if the unrest on its two
borders spreads inside Saudi
Arabia. It has the same problems
as Libya and Egypt – autocratic
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STI)
Mamta Badkar (Money Game)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:52:16 PM
With Wall Street confidence
rising and credit markets
loosening up, the 2011 outlook for
mergers and acquisitions is good.
rule and unhappy people. So why today, and there will be quite a bit meaning it’s getting some serious Morningstar released a list of
should they be immune to the of resistance at the big figure of alpha from an oil move north. companies that it suspects are
spread of revolt? $100, but if you see Saudis taking CSX Corporation( CSX) is a most likely to be targets of
The Bahrain Shiite population to the streets like Libya, then Oil railroad company that has a lever takeovers.
that is up in arms is in the heart prices will definitely make it impact of 1.05 for Oil, meaning it Most are mid-cap companies in
of the Gulf (not North Africa), farther. I used HiddenLevers is getting beta from an oil move. the energy and biopharma sector
and quite connected to the Saudi Macro Ideas page to get some find It will keep up. but retailer American Eagle Corp
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The mainstream media keeps I found one that is very much story » SunTrust Bank make the list too.
telling us something happening to industry, and one that is not, just Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Saudi oil is out of the realm of to cover my downside in case (ALIOF.PK)
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A big oil gain was baked in lever impact of 1.48 for Oil,

Clueless Tennis Players Rest Easy Despite Unrest in Acapulco

Greg Couch (FanHouse Main) That's what Bob Bryan, here in Acapulco,'' and posted a .you should came sometime!'' bodies found at the shopping
American tennis player and half
Submitted at 2/23/2011 9:52:00 AM beautiful picture of the beach The world's tennis players sound mall.''
of the world's best doubles team, from her balcony. like a travel brochure at their tour
Filed under: WTA, ATP the Bryan Brothers, posted on his Gisela Dulko, another player, stop this week. I'm thinking a new
"Back at the Acapulco Princess. Twitter account the other day. tweeted a message to the world's slogan for the place could go
The waves are nice & the huevos Player Julia Georges tweeted: No. 1 player, Caroline Wozniacki: something like this:
rancheros are righteous.'' "What a nice view every morning "Caro! Here is great, so nice. . "Acapulco. Fun, sun, beheaded
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Market cap:$7.1 billion
1-year performance:+0.57%
Short interest: N/A
A Swiss biopharmaceutical
company, Actelion's stock fell in
2010 after the company's clinical
trials didn't make much headway.
Amgen Inc. a California based bio
-tech company made a bid for
Actelion last year and it was
reported that Bristol-Myers
Squibb Co., Roche Holding AG,
and GlaxoSmithKline PLC were
also interested in acquiring the
company.
Source: Morningstar
American Eagle Outfitters (AEO)
Market cap:$2.8 billion
1-year performance:-1.30%
Short interest: 7.73%
The American retailer with an
attractive valuation and no bank
debt has been a target of takeover
rumors for a while. It was
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(Redbook) (Financiallyfit on
Shine)
Submitted at 2/22/2011 4:12:58 PM
by Beth Kobliner, REDBOOK
Every little penny helps when
reported that private-equity firms
like Blackstone Group were
interested in acquiring the brand.
Source: Morningstar
Clearwire Corp (CLWR)
Market cap:$5.2 billion
1-year performance:+2.82%
Short interest: 18.54%
The American wireless internet
service provider has received
multiple offers for a takeover but
isn't expected to announce a deal
till 2Q. The company reported a
4Q loss and is looking to boost its
capital. BTIG research analysts
think Sprint, which owns 54% of
CLWR, will make a $15 a share
offer in the next 6 months.
Source: Morningstar
View more at Business Insider
you're trying to save money.
Financial guru Beth Kobliner
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your bank account will thank you.
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Judge to Lindsay Lohan: Plea Deal
Means Jail Time
Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com: actress didn't steal necklace
Breaking News) Lohan remains on probation from
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:21:00 PM her 2007 drunken driving case
and was sent to jail twice last year
Lindsay Lohan for violating probation, which
A judge told Lindsay Lohan on requires her to obey all laws and
Wednesday that she will go to jail submit to random drug tests.
if she accepts a plea deal on a Riverside County prosecutors are
charge of stealing a $2,500 also considering charging Lohan
necklace. with battery for a December
Los Angeles Superior Court altercation with a Betty Ford
Judge Keith Schwartz, addressing Center employee. She was
the actress directly, said he will ordered to go to rehab for three
sentence her to jail if she pleaded months after she admitted to
guilty or no contest to the felony failing a drug test in September.
charge. He did not specify the Los Angeles Superior Court
length of the sentence. Judge Elden S. Fox told Lohan in
Lindsay Lohan pleads not guilty October that she will face a
to felony theft; judge tells her March 10 to decide what to do. If mandatory 180-day jail sentence
"don't push your luck"
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Lohan and her lawyer, Shawn Lindsay Lohan's attorney says
Chapman Holley, have until
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Mobile Tech Activists Wary of State Department Cash

Spencer Ackerman (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 8:09:00 AM

If technology advisers to online

activists have their way, the
mobile phones in the pockets of
the democracy protesters
reshaping the Middle East will
have circumvention and
anonymity tools built in to them,
and they’ll be able to go blank if
pro-regime goons confiscate
them. The State Department
wants to fund the development of
precisely such activist tools. Only
the activists aren’t exactly
jumping to take the government’s
cash.
In a speech last week, Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
said she’d make available $25
million for a “ venture capital
approach” to underwriting new
tools to keep the Internet open in
repressive nations. She singled
out mobile technologies as
increasingly important. But some
observers and developers, while
lauding the move, aren’t so sure
the rigid bureaucracy of the State MobileActive.org, which advises because both of them have lots of carriers from accessing their data simple command while an arrest
Department can accommodate the activists and non-governmental ideas for how activists need to usage. is taking place, or for an ally to do
approach. organizations on how to minimize protect themselves when using And the phones are potential that remotely via SMS or
Nathan Freitas of the Guardian security risks on their mobile their mobile devices. The basic security risks even when they’re something.”
Project, which designs Android- devices. Verclas likes where State problem is that mobiles are switched off. Verclas sees a big Freitas worries about the
based tools for mobile anonymity, is coming from, as she thinks it’ll “highly traceable, trackable and need for a remotely activated “kill proliferation of camera phones —
says he’s not going to apply for expand the pool of government centralized,” as Verclas puts it, switch” that can cleanse a phone a somewhat counterintuitive
any of State’s money. funding recipients beyond the with carriers possessing a lot of of its stored contacts or its recent concern, given the power of viral
“Accounting complexity of typical Beltway aid groups who information on their users and Twitter or SMS activity when an videos to inspire a protest
process means we’d have to spend “know how to navigate the without many circumvention tools activist gets arrested, so as not to movement or galvanize outside
25 percent of it” on an accountant, system.” But she’s not seeking the developed for mobile phones. One alert authorities to the names of support. But impromptu video can
he says, while praising the idea in aid herself until she has a “really of Freitas’ efforts is Orbot, a other dissidents. Activists tell her reveal sensitive information like
theory. great project” ready to pitch. proxy tool for Android phones they’d like to have some kind of
Same goes for Katrin Verclas of Which might be surprising, that uses Tor to block mobile phone wiping occur “with a MOBILE page 54
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Five Things We Want from The New iPad, And Why

Charlie Sorrel (Wired Top
Stories)
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Apple will announce iPad 2 next
Wednesday, March 2nd, as made
rather obvious by invites sent out
to press this morning. That means
one thing (apart from a new iPad,
obviously): speculation. I’m not
immune, so here’s my list of
things I think will make it into an
already capable machine. I have
stuck to features, rather than
things like CPU speed, as the
internal specifics matter less than
what they actually enable you to
do.
Cameras
Obvious, this one. We’re almost
certain there will be a front-facing
camera for FaceTime and other on top of them, and the list goes really want something beefier, more than a built in camera of the worst things Apple has
webchat applications, but I really on. One of the things I took away and preferably in stereo. The connection kit. The CCC is great, made (its entire history of mice is
don’t care. I’ll use that for Skype from all the tablets I tried at rumors point to at least one big but it is one more thing to lose the other). It is symmetrical, so
once in a while and that’s it. What Mobile World Congress in speaker grille on the back of the and carry. I use my iPad more and it’s hard to put in the right way in
I want is a decent rear-facing Barcelona last week was just how iPad’s case. Currently I get more for processing photos bad light. It’s delicate (the cord
camera, like that in the iPhone good a camera is on a big device. around this with an assortment of (courtesy of Photogene and FX breaks easily where it enters the
(not the crippled piece of junk in It seems like it would be Bluetooth speakers around my PhotoStudioHD), and until I can plug) and worst of all, it’s huge.
the iPod Touch). awkward, but the big screen is apartment, but I’d rather do send direct from my camera via In fact, the iPod Nano is barely
Why? Because it would be so great for composing and the size without them. Eye-Fi, a slot is a lot more big enough for the connector slot.
useful, and not just for turns out not to matter at all. SD Card Slot convenient than yet another The likeliest candidate for a
photography. Augmented reality, Speakers This one would be purely for dongle in my bag. replacement is Light Peak, or
Instagram, scanning things, The single iPad speaker isn’t bad, importing photos and video. A Better Connector
snapping photos and then drawing but for movies and music you Basically, it would be nothing The 30-pin dock connector is one FIVE page 54
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Pentagon Looks to Africa for Next Bio Threat

Spencer Ackerman (Wired Top of “ smaller-scale” terrorism,
Stories) involving homemade bombs like
Submitted at 2/23/2011 10:41:00 AM SUVs rigged to detonate or
explosives packed in printer
No, it’s not a deleted scene from cartridges. Those cheap, low-yield
Outbreak. The Pentagon’s anti- terror attempts have been on
weapons of mass destruction team display for the last several years.
is looking at the insecure storage U.S. intelligence generally sees
of pathogens at clinics in Africa chem, bio or even nuke attacks as
as the next flashing red light for a being mostly aspirational for
potential biological outbreak. terror groups — something they’d
Kenneth Myers, the director of like to pull off, sure, but aren’t so
the Defense Threat Reduction realistic.
Agency, joined his old boss, Sen. Myers declined Danger Room’s
Richard Lugar, on a trip to efforts to press him on whether
Burundi, Kenya and Uganda last the terrorist chem-bio threat was
fall to check out the security of in fact receding. From his
disease samples at local clinics. perspective, the ounce of
What they found disturbed them: prevention afforded by trying to
strains of deadly viruses like foot- lock down facilities where
and-mouth disease and anthrax, pathogens reside is more than
available at numerous clinics in worth the effort. “Is it not in the
areas in or near conflict zones, U.S. national security interest to
potentially ripe for the terrorist create more barriers between the
taking. threat and [U.S. citizens]? The
“It’s important to remember that
Agency is looking to expand a officials, all the way down to the expensive efforts to create answer obviously is yes,” Myers
these countries have no intention
program that’s grown out of clinic level, to make sure the v a c c i n e s f o r c o n s e q u e n c e says.
of being threats to the U.S.,”
Lugar’s eponymous anti-nuclear pathogens in residual facilities are management have stalled. But Photo: Flickr/ DTRA
Myers tells Danger Room.
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n u m b e r o f f a c i l i t i e s w i t h Congress to fund in the next fiscal are actually planning chemical or
lessons from checking the spread
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of loose nukes raised fears of
That’s not all. Myers wants to developing defenses against those public threat assessment from
inadvertent bio-proliferation.
collaborate with government threats is “very, very difficult”: U.S. intelligence officials warned
So the Defense Threat Reduction
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people’s faces. He sees a need to
“tap on these faces and blur them
out” before an innocent upload
accidentally gives away
someone’s identity and puts them
in the crosshairs of a regime.
These are the kinds of ideas that
the State Department says it wants
to fund. But it’s just not clear how
nimble the department can really
be in dishing out money
responsibly — a good-
government encumbrance,
remember — or even what it
really means by a “venture capital
approach,” says Sheldon
Himmelfarb, a technology expert
at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
When venture capital firms find a
promising technology, they’re
“able to turn lots of focus,
attention, people, brainpower and
resources to taking that to market,
and the State Department doesn’t
work that way,” Himmelfarb says.
“It’s really interesting to hear
them talk about a venture capital-
style approach, but try to unpack
that. Apparently, they’re going to
give money to lots of
organizations in the hope of
bringing about breakthrough
technologies, but how are they
going to bring them to market?”
Indeed, just last week, Sen.
Richard Lugar identified at least
$8 million in money the
department hadn’t spent that
Congress provided to help
Chinese Internet users evade
restrictions.
That’s not to say State’s approach
doesn’t have its virtues. “Venture
capital firms own half your
company, while [here] the U.S.
government owns nothing,”
Freitas says, “so there is that
benefit if you figure out how to
make it work.”
And Himmelfarb notes that the
$25 million pot of cash is a
“significant amount of money for
this effort.” According to his
research, the Tor Project’s 2009
budget was $1.25 million, so it’s
not as if these tools are
particularly expensive to develop.
Rather, he says, “we have to make
sure the approach is one we’re in
position to take advantage of.”
After the success of the Egyptian
and Tunisian revolutions, there’s
not going to be any shortage of
demand for tools that can keep
activists off the radar of the
tyrants they’re trying to
overthrow.
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Apple’s rumored implementation
of it, Thunderbolt, which might
show up in this week’s new
MacBook Pros. This could be a
small port that could carry power
and data of any kind. That in itself
would be good enough, but you
know what I’d really like? A
Thunderbolt data-cable with a
MagSafe plug. That would be just
about perfect.
Better Case
The size and weight of the
current iPad are just fine. Anyone
who complains that a 1.5 pound
sliver of aluminum and glass is
too heavy needs to shut up and go
join a gym. But it is slippery. I
keep mine in Apple’s own case 24
/7. This is partly to protect the
screen, but mostly to stop me
dropping it, especially when
walking on crutches with it tucked
under my arm.
A little more friction on the back
would help a lot. Perhaps a plastic
rear, or just a grippy coating.
Bonus: The Screen
This is a little request. I don’t
want a retina display (or rather I
do, but I don’t want the penalties
of price and battery life associated
with it today). All I want is a
dimmer screen. The brightness at
the top end is fine, but even at its
dimmest setting, the screen is too
bright for using indoors at night.
It’s true, I keep my apartment
fairly dim (I call it “moody and
romantic,” but you may call it
“cheap”), but unless you keep
your place lit up like an office, the
screen glows a little too much.
Those are my requests. What
about yours? Do you want a built
in printer? A near-field
communications chip to turn your
iPad into the world’s biggest
wallet? Or even a flashlight. Let
us know your suggestions, as
ever, in the comments.
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It's Time For Ex-NFL Players to Be Scared, Very Scared

Terence Moore (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 11:54:00 AM
Andre Waters.
Shane Dronett.
Now Dave Duerson.
This is at least the third suicide
involving a former NFL player
within the last five years, which
qualifies as an epidemic, which
means this is the continuation of a
horror story with no end in sight.
Jessie Tuggle paused over the
phone from his home in the
Atlanta area, and then he cleared
his throat.
"When a guy (such as Duerson)
and he doesn't want to shoot
himself in the head, because he
wants to donate his brain to
science, because he knows what
kind of problem he is having,
there's a lot going on there," said
Tuggle, 45, now in his 11th year
suffers from this type of a of retirement as a perennial Pro
problem, and he commits suicide, Bowl linebacker for the Atlanta
Falcons. "Now when you hear all
of that, it's pretty scary to me,
because it's real, and as an ex-
professional athlete, yeah, it opens
my eyes up, because I'm having
some of the same problems."
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The Northerner: Year of Turing

Helen Carter (The Guardian the country. was known as the "Dome of Shrewsbury said following the to get worse, new detailed
World News) Other organisers include Home" because of its prominent decree to merge the parishes of Ss guidelines are being issued to
Submitted at 2/23/2011 11:05:46 AM Manchester University professor position providing a landmark for Peter and Paul and English highlight the stringent rules in
Steve Furber, creator of the BBC sailors on their way into Martyrs in Wallasey Village, Fr place over converting former
Welcome to the Northerner, Micro computer, and Turing's Liverpool Bay. Philip Moor will be inducted as businesses into homes and to try
guardian.co.uk's weekly digest of nephew Sir John Dermot Turing. On Friday 4 March there will be priest for the new parish of the to protect communities and put a
the best of the northern press Events celebrating Turing's the first celebration of holy mass Holy Apostles and Martyrs. stop to the decline.
Alan Turing, the Manchester achievements will be staged next at the catholic church since it was He said: "The dioceses can also National park authority chiefs
c o m p u t e r p i o n e e r , w i l l b e year as far away as Brazil and closed. confirm that one weekday mass have claimed the new guidelines,
celebrated in his home city 100 China, as well as Bletchley Park Frank McGowan, of the each week will be celebrated in which are set to be agreed at a
years after his birth. in Buckinghamshire, home to campaign group Soul (Save Our the Day Chapel in Ss Peter and planning meeting, are also
L a r g e l y i g n o r e d b y t h e Britain's wartime codebreakers. Unique Landmark), said he was Paul's, beginning Friday 4 March. intended to clamp down on people
establishment during his lifetime Runners in Cambridge will travel "hopeful about the church in the This is solely on the personal who take over a rural business
– he was persecuted for being gay trails and footpaths used by Alan long term". initiative of the Rt Rev Mark only deliberately to make it
and prosecuted for having a Turing as a student for an He said: "We have a foot in the Davies, Bishop of Shrewsbury." unsustainable so they can sell it
relationship with a man – there inaugural race in his memory. door now with this mass. Rome He said the bishop was in off for residential use.
will be a year of celebrations In Manchester exhibitions, has told us that it has virtually discussions with English Heritage "People really are concerned
marking the centenary of Turing's children's activities and public never happened in the Western and the church Patrimony when the last village pub or shop
birth. lectures will take place at world before for a church that was Committee and "exploring the closes and they want the planning
The Manchester Evening News Manchester University, the closed to be reopened. possibility of a community of authority to do something about
reports that scientists, computer Museum of Science and Industry, "It's quite an amazing thing Soul priests establishing a foundation it," said Chris France, the director
programmers and even runners and other venues. has achieved, it's a unique at Ss Peter and Paul's". of planning at the park authority.
will play their part in the tribute. The key event will be a three-day occasion, and much of it down to ******************** "That is absolutely reflected
Turing led efforts to decode conference on 22-25 June at the hard work of Cath Nelson and The Yorkshire Post reports that n across the North York Moors and
German U-boat communications Manchester town hall, where Bill Iveson." ew measures are being introduced is exacerbated in deeply rural
and went on to lay the foundations programmers and mathematicians The diocese said the church was in rural communities to halt the areas.
of modern computing. will talk about Turing's work in too large for the congregation and decline in villages in North He said it was apparent that pubs
He made many of his greatest computing and codebreaking. too expensive to keep operating. Yorkshire being stripped of their and shops were really struggling
discoveries while working at Mike Amesbury, Manchester This was disputed by those community buildings. and the problem was getting more
Manchester University after the council's culture spokesman, said: opposed to the closure. Since Rural communities across the acute.
war and became known as the "It's only fitting that Manchester then, the efforts to see the church national park are becoming Under the new measures
father of computer science. The s h o u l d p l a y a k e y r o l e i n reopened have continued, with a increasingly unsustainable as applicants who wish to convert a
scientist, born in 1912, developed celebrating his considerable legal case taken to the Vatican buildings such as village halls, building to residential use will
early computer software and made achievements and legacy." For and a tireless campaign by Soul. schools, shops and pubs struggle need to supply trading accounts
h u g e l e a p s i n a r t i f i c i a l more details, see the website. Local councillor Tony Pritchard to survive in the face of the over the past five years to
intelligence. ******************** paid tribute to "Soul and the declining levels of people living demonstrate that it is no longer
A f t e r h a v i n g t o e n d u r e Good news from Wirral as Liam thousands of other people who in the countryside. viable, as well as give detailed
humiliating hormone treatment, Murphy reports in the Daily Post. supported this campaign", and Strict planning rules were reasons why it is no longer usable
he took his life at his home in Campaigners are celebrating the added that he and Cllr Paul imposed by the North York for community or commercial re-
Wilmslow in 1954, aged 41. reopening of a historic church. Hayes, who has also backed the Moors National Park Authority a use.
The year of celebration is the St Peter and Paul's, in New campaign, are to meet the bishop decade ago to safeguard the fabric For proposals to change the use
idea of maths professor Barry Brighton, was shut in August soon "to explore ways of bringing of village life and prevent the of community buildings such as
Cooper, who has helped plan 2008, despite a huge campaign by the church back into full use". decline in community buildings.
lectures, prizes and events around churchgoers to save it. The church A spokesman for the diocese of But with the problem continuing NORTHERNER: page 58
56 Politics-Left/ Gaming/ Newstablet Edition

French diplomats denounce Sarkozy

Angelique Chrisafis (The and is preparing for a re-election Alliot-Marie, who has refused to sidelined and ignored its
Guardian World News) bid next year. quit, is now so loathed in the diplomats over the Arab
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:12:04 PM The uproar is serious, given the former French colonial uprisings.
importance of foreign affairs in protectorate that the Tunisian Talking to foreign journalists,
Anonymous letter accuses defining French national pride and foreign minister was forced to Sarkozy's chief diplomatic
president of diminishing France's t h e p r e s i d e n t ' s d o m e s t i c
role on the international stage popularity.
resign for saying he respected her.
Embarrassingly, Britain's foreign
advisor, Jean-David Levitte, said
of the diplomats' revolt: "I don't European PSN
Nicolas Sarkozy is facing an France has the second biggest secretary, William Hague, beat like anonymous letters."
unprecedented revolt by French diplomatic network in the world,
diplomats who warn that his after the US.Since Charles de
the French government to be the He insisted that ambassadors releases for
first European political were not being ignored, saying: "I
foreign policy gaffes have left Gaulle, France has boasted of its
France pathetically diminished on unique and independent stance in
heavyweight to visit post-
revolution Tunisia. When French
read 150 diplomatic cables a day.
It's my daily bread."
February 23
the world stage. Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
world diplomacy and foreign ministers finally arrived this The Socialist leader, Martine
After weeks of embarrassing policy is the exclusive personal week, Alliot-Marie was not with Aubry, told French radio: "Today Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:30:00 PM

French slip-ups – including Paris domain of the president. French them. it's clear that French diplomacy no
blindly standing by the Tunisian leaders have traditionally used the The embarrassment was longer exists; we're confusing It's a red-letter week for
and Egyptian dictatorships until w o r l d s t a g e t o b o o s t t h e i r compounded last weekend when contracts with diplomacy and European PSN releases --
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diplomats have published a Chirac conveniently using his streets demanding the departure of the world. Its voice no longer how to change the text color in
scathing attack on the president in popular opposition to the Iraq war the new French ambassador, Boris carries." these things yet, so disregard that
Le Monde. to mask his failings at home. Boillon, a "Sarkoboy" and French diplomats' resentment of last bit. Alien Breed: Descent and
The anonymous letter from But a poll for the newspaper presidential protege parachuted in Sarkozy had been growing under The Undergarden highlight the
serving and former diplomats Libération this week found 72% after Sarkozy sacked the previous his previous foreign minister, the new full releases, while demos for
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Military defies Gaddafi in 'Free Benghazi'
Martin Chulov (The Guardian
World News)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 11:31:02 AM
• Guardian reporter enters
country's second city
• Local doctors put massacre
death toll at 230
• Rebel officers talk of army
revolt against mercenaries
Libya's second city, Benghazi,
appears to have fallen beyond the
control of Muammar Gaddafi,
with the local military defying his
regime and monarchy-era flags
flying from government buildings.
As the first foreign news
organisation to report from so-
called Free Benghazi, the
Guardian witnessed defecting
troops pouring into the courtyard
of a ransacked police station
carrying tonnes of weaponry and
ammunition looted from a
military armoury to stop it being
seized by forces loyal to the
Libyan dictator.
Soldiers brought rockets and
heavy weapons which had been
used in an assault on citizens in
central Benghazi on Saturday as
Gaddafi tried to keep control of
the city. Doctors in Benghazi said
that at least 230 people were
killed, with a further 30 critically
injured.
There was also the clearest
confirmation yet that Gaddafi's
regime used outside mercenaries
to try to suppress the rebellion.
Adjoining the police station a
large crowd gathered in another
courtyard. Upstairs, the Guardian
saw a number of mercenaries,
allegedly flown in the previous
week, being interrogated by
lawyers and army officials.•
Listen to Martin Chulov describe
the scene in Benghazi
• Follow our live blog of events in
Libya
• Watch a British teacher speaking
from Tripoli
An air force officer, Major Rajib
Faytouni, said he personally
witnessed up to 4,000 mercenaries
arrive on Libyan transport planes
over a period of three days
starting from 14 February. He
said: "That's why we turned
against the government. That and
the fact there was an order to use
planes to attack the people."
Numerous witnesses in Benghazi
have said that while artillery was
used against citizens, air force
planes did not fire on them here.
They did, however, according to
Faytouni, drop two bombs inside
the Rajma military base to stop
weapons falling into the hands of
anti-government forces.
"The two colonels who defected
in MiGs had refused orders to
bomb the people," he said,
referring to a pair of air force
officers who fled to Malta in their
jets on Monday. He added: "There
were also two helicopters that
flew to Tunis."
All around Benghazi there were
indications that Gaddafi has lost
control of the city. The military is
no longer operating checkpoints,
which are now manned only by a
handful of traffic police. Every
physical sign of the dictator has
been taken down or burned. While
there has been no violence in the
past two days, angry
demonstrators are driving through
city firing Kalashnikov rifles into
the air and demanding Gaddafi
cede control and leave the
country.
The former Libyan flag, dating
from the reign of the monarch
ousted by Gaddafi, King Idris, is
flying above ransacked
government buildings on the
waterfront. Off the coast, several
passenger ferries wait in storm-
tossed seas to pick up foreign
nationals being evacuated. The
UK government has announced
that a Royal Navy warship, HMS
Cumberland, will be moved to
wait off the Libyan coast, but no
military ships could be seen.
Military checkpoints between
Benghazi and Egypt to the east
are now manned only by armed
militias.
Earlier the UN security council
passed a unanimous statement
calling for an immediate end to
the violence in Libya and
demanding that Gaddafi live up to
his responsibilities to protect his
own people.
The 15 council members said
they condemned the violence and
repression of peaceful
Politics-Left/ Gaming/
demonstrators after the Libyan
dictator issued his defiance of the
international community on
Tuesday.
The statement called for the
immediate lifting of restrictions
on all forms of the media and for
the safety of foreign nationals to
be ensured.
Libya's deputy ambassador to the
UN, Ibrahim al-Dabashi, who has
joined a number of Libyan
diplomats in defecting from the
Gaddafi regime, said the security
council's position did not go far
enough. "It is not strong enough
but any message to the Libyan
government at this stage is good."
Dabashi said he had received
reports that "genocide" had begun
in the west of the country, with
ground attacks occurring from
Libyan forces working alongside
"mercenaries from many African
countries".
• Libya
• Muammar Gaddafi
• Arab and Middle East protests
• Middle East
• Protest
• United Nations
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Oddboxx
coming to more
online stores
Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 1:07:00 PM
Series fans were thrilled by last
year's Steam release of The
Oddboxx, a four-game Oddworld
collection, but many were left in
the cold. "I don't live anywhere
near a Steam store, how am I
supposed to get a copy?" has been
the common refrain. But worry no
more, because as of March 7 the
game will be available at D2D,
Stardock, Amazon, GamersGate
locations across the globe. Surely,
you'll have at least one of those
nearby?
As a bonus, those who venture to
one of those stores will find
Oddboxx es littered with 50%-off
stickers; the game will be half-off
its $25 asking price between
March 7-14.
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NORTHERNER:
continued from page 55
churches and schools, applicants
will need to submit information
on why the business is surplus to
requirements and details on
alternative facilities in the area.
Robert Goodwill, the
Conservative MP for Scarborough
and Whitby, has welcomed the
new guidelines.
Last year an investigation into the
housing problem in rural England
by the Commission for Rural
Communities, the Countryside
Alliance, the Campaign to Protect
Rural England and the National
Housing Federation highlighted
hundreds of village shops, pubs,
bus services, village halls and post
offices shutting down every year
due to a lack of affordable homes.
********************
Councillors in Wirral became
embroiled in an extraordinary
public row conducted via Twitter,
which has since been resolved.
(via Twitter).
Chris Blakeley and fellow
Conservative Sue Taylor had the
spat after Blakeley tweeted
"bollocks" in response to Taylor's
claim she had been discussing the
budget at Wallasey town hall
since 9am.
He had also accused her of being
"slipshod and unprofessional"
over the way she chaired a
licensing committee. The two
councillors, members of a ruling
coalition with the Liberal
Democrats, fell out after a
meeting at Wallasey town hall.
Taylor tweeted: "Got to the Town
Hall before 9am this morning and
I am still here. Gruelling day on
licensing and next a budget
meeting at 9pm. Hurrah!"
Blakeley, who is also the agent
for Wirral West MP Esther
McVey, replied: "bollocks what
time did u get to the town hall?"
Taylor wrote: "bollocks what? I
got to Town Hall this morning at
8.50am – why?"
To which Blakeley replied: "9:40
more like."
The extraordinary public row
continued, as Taylor protested:
"Not sure how I was at my 9am
briefing then …"
Blakeley said: "neither am I then
when you said you had to wait at
home for extra info to be faxed to
you?"
He followed that with another
message saying: "and if you were
at a 9am briefing why were u not
in the committee room for the
designated 9:30 start?"
And then another one shortly
after, which said: "the fact is that
as chairman you were late for
committee that is slipshod and
unprofessional as well as wasting
peoples time."
And another, apparently in
response to Taylor's assertion that
she was at the Town Hall for 9am:
"well why didn't you say that this
morning? The hearing was timed
for 9:30 as far as I am concerned
that means 9:30?"
Blakeley has since Tweeted:
"Delighted councillor Sue Taylor
has accepted his apology and is
happy with the action she is
taking to improve licensing
procedures." Which is good news,
all round. Helen Carter
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This Is An Outrage! We
Guess...
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Submitted at 2/22/2011 3:15:00 PM
There's been a slight buzz in
gaming circles and among some
squeamish folks over the trailer
recently released for Dead Island,
a zombie apocalypse action game
with RPG elements due out this
year on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3.
Here's the trailer, but be warned
that it depicts graphic violence
and we're blogging about it
specifically because it's been
upsetting some people...
Did it sell you on buying the
game? Did it horrify you with the
depiction of children being
mauled by zombies? Are you
going to talk about how
"beautiful" it is because you got
suckered in with some somber
piano music and slo-mo footage?
The Woot Writers ran the gamut,
from "that trailer is extremely
well done" to "if you can't sell me
your product without images of
violence against children, I have
no disposable income for you."
It IS a well-done trailer. It's rare
to see such effort and attention put
into a spot for a video game;
normally it's a slew of explosions
and hyper-quick edits to assure
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you that there will be frantic, fast-
twitch gameplay. Speaking of
gameplay though, this trailer
offers none; that's generally cause
for concern when it comes to
upcoming "groundbreaking" and
"amazing" games.
But the controversy isn't that they
may be hiding subpar mechanics
behind shiny cinematics. A lot of
people have reacted negatively, as
happens with polarizing things
like violent video games, but
several comments online talk
about feeling just...depressed.
Video games are supposed to be
fun, challenge your reflexes, feed
our primate curiosities with
puzzles, and sate our outdated
bloodlust with digitized gore.
Rarely do we fire up the Xbox to
weep softly at the loss of a young
family helplessly overcome by
circumstances they could not have
foreseen.
Let us know in the comments
what you think: if you're psyched
for the game, unable to finish the
trailer, or sick of every form of
entertainment being saturated
with zombies and gore and
clinging desperately to that new
release of You Don't Know Jack.
Newstablet Edition TV/ Politics/ 59
Sarah Wildman on
American Idol Heads to Vegas and Bets Big on Sirius: Libya Chaos and
Gadhafi's Protest
The Beatles: We Pick Their Songs! Crackdown
Colin McDonald (Politics Daily)
Kate Stanhope (TVGuide.com: for Haley to switch it up and bring Idol
Breaking News) her octave range to a faster tune John Wayne Schulz: This Texas Submitted at 2/23/2011 11:57:00 AM

Submitted at 2/23/2011 10:23:00 AM such as "Revolution." cowboy has remained very close
Carson Higgins: His high-energy to his comfort zone of simple In an effort to encourage the
American Idol performances and penchant for country ballads. Though not a same level of civil dialogue
Before American Idol's dreaded screaming, rather than singing, huge stretch, it would be nice to among Politics Daily’s readers
g r e e n - m i l e s e g m e n t , t h e some of his lyrics, makes a loud see John lend his deep baritone to that we expect of our writers – a
remaining contestants are going to single like "Help!" or "Eight Days the classic "Let It Be." “civilogue,” to use the term
have to travel a little bit more than a Week" a good fit for Carson. Clint Jun Gamboa: This karaoke coined by PD’s Jeffrey Weiss– we
a few hundred feet to determine Thia Megia: The time has come host first wowed the judges with are requiring commenters to use
their fate. On Wednesday, the top for the soulful 15-year-old to his soulful take on "Billionaire," their AOL or AIM screen names
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60 Products/
HP Pavilion Quad Core Desktop with 6GB RAM and 1TB
Hard Drive
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:00:24 AM
Unit G: The Rise Of The
Machines
A computer is like a movie: it’s
only as good as the sum of its
parts.
Okay, everyone, finish getting
your coffee and let’s have a seat.
We need to get started on this
today, because we’ve got to have
a draft at the end of the week. I
know, I know, but it’s not me, it’s
the studio. What can you do,
right?
So, let’s bring everyone up to
speed here. I assume we’ve all
read The Great Gatsby before.
Yes? Oh, Peter, you say you never
have? Well, then, you’re my star
writer today, Peter, because the
rest of you need to forget
everything you know about The
Great Gatsby! We’re starting
fresh! That’s right! Grab hold of
the premise and suck the marrow
out of it!
Okay, so, I did a little
preliminary work, and here’s the
first draft. We start at the present
day. There’s a beautiful young
girl, about seventeen, using her
HP Pavilion Phenom Quad Core
Desktop. Yes, she’s watching a
band on YouTube, that’s good
thinking, good thinking, Jacqui.
We can make that the first
soundtrack tie-in, I like how you
think. So, she’s watching the
band, and then saving the file
with the built-in 15-in-1 Memory
Card Reader. But her father
comes in, and he’s furious!
“Daisy, you get away from that
old thing! You need a good
computer!” “But, Father! My HP
Pavilion Phenom Quad Core
Desktop has a 1 TB hard drive
and 6GB of RAM!” “I don’t care,
little girl, our family could never
approve of Microsoft Windows
Home Premium 7!” And then he
drags her to the car in slo-mo, and
we zoom in on the HP Pavilion
Phenom Quad Core Desktop, and
fade out.
And then, we’re in a club, twenty
years later. There’s some hard
techno music, like, the kind
computers make. There’s all sorts
of important people there,
drinking, laughing, crazy red and
blue lights everywhere. We’ll see
if the 27” monitor wants to make
a cameo as the bartender, just for
fun. And everyone is talking
about G. “Where’s G, why isn’t G
here, I want my friend the
Senator to meet G,” and then, off
in the distance, we see him! It’s
G! He’s connecting to the party
via his 802.11 b/g/n PCI Express
Wireless Half-Length Mini Card!
Yes, Donna, they should all cheer
at him, let me pencil that in. And
he’s in a white suit, like that guy
in Tron: Legacy. Oh, what’s that,
Delanie? You think it’s TRON:
Legacy? Well, maybe you’re
technically correct, but I’m
technically the producer, and I
say it looks better in lowercase.
Also, you’re fired. No, no, I’m
just kidding, you’re not fired. Yet.
Anyway, G’s up on the balcony,
and then, out of nowhere, in
comes Daisy. It’s been two
decades, so she’s like… what,
nineteen or so? Let’s not cast
over twenty-three on this, okay,
Lionel? And G sees her, he can’t
believe it. His Phenom II X4-820
(D) 2.8 GHz (95W) is practically
overclocking at the site of her.
And she’s really impressed,
because he owns the whole club,
but she has no idea who he truly
is. He’s mysterious, and she wants
to know more. And then, they go
into a back room, and they start
making out, and she sees the 15-
in-1 Memory Card Reader and
she knows! It’s him! G is her old
HP Pavilion Phenom Quad Core
Desktop! He’s made it big, and
done it all for her! And they’re so
happy, and we fade out.
Okay, brainstorm now, what’s
the third act twist? Ronnie, give
me something golden! Hmm, a
child in trouble, that’s not a bad
idea. Okay, it’s a week later, and
G and Daisy are partying again,
and he’s showing off his
SuperMulti DVD Burner with
LightScribe Technology drive.
She’s all “Does it handle CD-
RW?” and he’s all “Yes, it does!”
and she’s all “Ooo, show me!”
and he opens the tray and it hits a
little girl in the face! Right in the
face! And she dies, because she’s
poor and doesn’t eat well. And
now, he’s a killer, and he has to
go on the run! To Tibet!
Yeah, so G disguises himself
again, only now he’s part of a
musical troupe, so maybe we can
get our own Glee episode when
the DVD drops. Yeah, I know a
guy over there, I’ll make some
calls. But Daisy can’t handle that
new life, so she starts making a
costume so she can fight crime at
night. Yeah, and she has these
claws and her vehicle is a giant
robot spider. And one day, she’s
fighting the criminals at
WikiLeaks, and she’s just about to
win, but then she sees their very
last server, and it’s her beloved
HP Pavilion Phenom Quad Core
Desktop, trapped against his will!
And he says “Kill me.” but she
can’t bring herself to do it, so she
sets him free. But then a
WikiLeaks soldier shoots her in
the back! And the HP Pavilion
Phenom Quad Core Desktop takes
her in his arms, her blood all over
his white suit, whispering “No,
no, no” and his green power light
is just flashing as she reaches her
hand up to touch his… hey, can
we get Wong Kar Wai to direct?
Sure, no solid offers yet, just
send some feelers, see if he’s
interested. Yeah, get back to me
next week, see what he wants.
Okay, well, great meeting guys, I
think we really cracked what’s at
the heart of The Great Gatsby
today. It’s true what they say, I
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guess. It really is the story of
America. Jacqui? You free for
lunch? We really need to go over
those soundtrack ideas.
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Six Brands That Don't Mean What They Used To
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 2/22/2011 3:45:00 PM
It's a story as old as buccaneer
finance capitalism itself. (So, like,
the 1980s.) A ubiquitous brand,
once respected as a mark of
quality, is bought by short-
sighted, fast-buck new owners.
Rather than make stuff that
improves people's lives, their only
interest is in wringing every drop
of goodwill out of that brand
name before the public catches on
to the scam.
(Before anybody makes the
obvious joke about a certain
Amazon subsidiary, let me remind
you that Woot has never been
respected as a mark of quality.)
The end result: ripped-off,
resentful consumers. Business
legacies that took decades to build
are ruined in a few short years. In
a surprising number of cases, the
new owners wind up under
indictment. Here are six brand
names you can't trust like you
used to. Buyer beware...
Polaroid, founded 1937
Used to be famous for: the instant
-film cameras that revolutionized
the American snapshot. When
Andre 3000 told us to "shake it
like a Polaroid picture,"
everybody knew what he meant.
But then: when Polaroid ran into
financial trouble in the early
2000s, they were gobbled up by
notorious brand-name vampires
the Petters Group. The new bosses
killed the instant-film camera line
in 2008 while licensing the
Polaroid name to anybody who
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70s) said "I don't think they have
anything to offer. No."
Simmons's boss at the time, CEO
Dan Laikin, was sentenced to 4
years in prison in 2010 for paying
people to buy the company's
stock, illegally inflating the price.
Sounds like a cool dude.
cared to pay the fee, quality be household appliances while Used to be famous for: creating And now: the National Lampoon
damned. employing tens of thousands of the American sense of humor as name is disgraced by a "comedy"
But while the instant film has Americans. It's hard to imagine we know it today. The brilliant, website so stupid and crappy I
made a comeback thanks to the the "American century" without acerbic magazine, radio show, and won't inflict a link on you here,
enthusiasts in the Impossible Westinghouse. stage show brought us everyone along with ventures into pay-per-
Project, Petters Group hasn't fared But then: starting in the 1980s, from John Belushi, Chevy Chase, view strip poker, bikini wrestling,
as well. In 2009, founder and company management started Gilda Radner and Bill Murray to and the endless cascade of straight
CEO Tom Petters was convicted putting shareholder value ahead of John Hughes, P.J. O'Rourke, and -to-DVD crud. The new Lampoon
on 20 counts of fraud and money serving consumers. They sold off Doug Kenney. And we haven't continues to spit mashed potatoes,
laundering related to a Ponzi various manufacturing divisions even talked about Animal House Bluto-style, all over the face of
scheme involving phony Sam's of the company while expanding a n d V a c a t i o n . D i r e c t l y o r this American icon. They're a zit,
Club purchase orders. Classy guy. into financial services and buying indirectly, National Lampoon is get it?
And now: Polaroid is now owned C B S . T h e c r e d i t d i v i s i o n responsible for everything funny Time-Life, founded 1961
by a company called PLR IP collapsed in the early 1990s, in America since the days of Used to be famous for: high-
Holdings, LLC, who seems to W e s t i n g h o u s e c o n t i n u e d t o Henny Youngman and Bob Hope. quality, million-selling series of
h a v e a t l e a s t a v a g u e hemorrhage money and jobs and But then: a late-80s effort by books on a range of cultural,
understanding that the best way to divisions, and in 1999 it was Animal House alum Tim "Otter" historical, and scientific subjects,
make money is to make stuff bought by Viacom and eventually Matheson to return the magazine worthy of their affiliation with the
people want. Or hire Lady Gaga renamed the CBS Corporation, to its former glories failed, and in most respected magazines of the
as Creative Director. In any case, m a n a g i n g t o d r a g a n o t h e r 1991 Matheson was forced to sell day. In the 1960s and 1970s, it
they're planning to manufacture a respected 20th century icon into t h e m a g a z i n e t o J 2 was hard to find an American
new instant camera, compatible t h e m u c k . T h i s e x c e l l e n t Communications, the people home without at least a few
with the Impossible Project's film. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article, behind Tim Conway's "Dorf" volumes of the LIFE Nature
But returning the Polaroid name "Who Killed Westinghouse?" videos. J2's sole interest was Library or The Old West.
to greatness won't happen in an details the whole sordid story. licensing the National Lampoon But then: the slide started in the
instant. And now: a shell of an outfit name to crappy straight-to-video 8 0 s w i t h m o r e v a c u o u s ,
Westinghouse, founded 1886 called Westinghouse Electric softcore "comedies" with dire sensationalist series like The
Used to be famous for: building Corporation functions solely to titles like National Lampoon Enchanted World and Mysteries
the first commercial AC-current license the famous name and Paul Presents Dorm Daze 2: Semester of the Unknown. But by the 90s,
electrical plant, founding the Rand-designed logo to other at Sea. When asked by the New the company had begun to leave
world's first commercial radio manufacturers. Another remnant, York Times in 2005 whether the books behind altogether in favor
s t a t i o n ( K D K A - A M i n Westinghouse Electric Company, company would work with the of the music division, mainly K-
Pittsburgh), making the world's is still in the manufacturing magazine's old contributors, exec Tel-style compilations of oldies
first automatic elevator, and business, but their only product is Matty Simmons (the former sold through infomercials. In
selling millions of dependable nuclear reactors. publisher of the magazine who
stoves, refrigerators, and other National Lampoon, founded 1969 fired everybody good back in the SIX page 64
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Give the color wheel a whirl and brighten your How to

home Freeze
Consumer Reports Shopping bedroom. Dining Room: Dark Gothic
Blog (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 7:34:11 AM
We asked color experts from the
paint and design world for some
Small spaces are an opportunity
to try a bold, Gothic hue, such as
Foods
room-by-room recommendations. a sophisticated sepia. For added (Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
Give the color wheel a whirl and Ultimately, personal preference is sparkle, consider a metallic glaze.
brighten your home what matters most, even if it Examples: Valspar's Roasted Freshness and quality of the food
Consumer Reports latest interior means a tangerine-toned master Sepia, Behr's Not So Innocent, at the time of freezing affect the
paints review can tell you which bedroom. But if you're short on and Martha Stewart's Francesca. condition of frozen foods. If foods
products deliver the best results. inspiration, use these tips to find Remember that semigloss and, to are frozen at the peak of their
And while manufacturers boast your way around the color wheel. against crisp white trim. some extent, low-luster finishes quality, they emerge tasting better
about "handpicked hues" and Kitchens: Chartreuse Examples: Glidden's Wood reflect light, while flat finishes than foods frozen near the end of
"proprietary formulas," our This light, airy hue will perk S m o k e , B e n j a m i n M o o r e ' s absorb it. As a result, the same their freshness. So freeze items
analysis of color fan decks from things up and pairs well with Kendall Chocolate, and Valspar's color could appear brighter in you won’t use in the near future
Behr, Benjamin Moore, Martha stainless appliances and white Stone Manor. glossy finishes, an effect that sooner rather than later. It’s
Stewart and others found that you cabinets, a popular look in Family Rooms: Denim Blue intensifies over large areas. When important to store all foods at 0°
can get virtually any color in the contemporary kitchens. Plus its Blue is migrating throughout the in doubt, it's better to choose a or lower in order to retain vitamin
brand of your choice. But you still minty tone jibes with today’s home, including to family rooms, shade that's too light than one content, color, flavor, and texture.
have to pick your palette. confectionery craze. where this deep denim tone is that's too dark. And always test a Step 1: Choose Freezer-Friendly
What is it about color that Examples: Benjamin Moore's meant to convey a warm, small sample on the wall, Foods
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-minded consumers? Maybe it's Sorbet, and Martha Stewart's Examples: Martha Stewart's light conditions, before making freezing and reheating than
the notion that color can directly Lemon Ice. Thistle Blue, Behr's Almost the final committment. others. Casseroles, soups, stews,
affect mood. "Paint color is so Bathrooms: Coral Famous, and Glidden's Barely —Daniel DiClerico Subscribe chili, and meat loaf all stand up to
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2003, Time-Life was acquired by
an outfit with the colorful name of
Direct Holdings Worldwide, and
no longer has any connection to
its namesake magazines.
And now: the items currently
touted on the Time-Life
homepage include The Six
Million Dollar Man: The
Complete DVD Collection, and
Easy '80s, a 10-CD collection
featuring Michael Bolton and
Lionel Richie. We're a long way
from Great Ages of Man.
Commodore, founded 1954
Used to be famous for: iconic
early home PCs like the Vic-20
(1981), the first computer to sell
more than one million units; the
Commodore 64 (1982), the best-
selling computer of all time; and
the Amiga 1000 (1985), which set
the standard for PC graphics and
audio for the next decade.
Commodore's success proved that
"a computer in every home"
wasn't just a Jetsons pipe dream.
But then: Commodore failed to
keep up with Apple and IBM both
in terms of technology and sales.
A last-ditch attempt to save the
company in 1994 with a gaming
console, the CD32, failed. The
company declared bankruptcy
shortly thereafter.
And now: after passing through
more hands than a roach clip at a
drum circle, the Commodore
name is currently used for a line
of Vista-based gaming PCs. The
original Commodore vision of
affordable mass computing is as
distant a memory as the
company's once-dominant market
position.
The Sharper Image, founded
1977
Used to be famous for: outfitting
yuppie domiciles across America
with the desk toys, hygiene
gadgets, and workout gimmicks
featured in its catalog, later
expanded into a line of retail
stores. If you've ever used a nose-
hair trimmer or a talking scale, it's
probably the Sharper Image's
fault.
But then: After years of
stagnation and decline, founder
Richard Thalheimer was ousted
by the board of directors in 2006.
The Ionic Breeze Quadra, an air
purifier made by company, stands
as the ultimate symbol of
Thailheimer's haplessness. When
it was savaged as in a 2003
Consumer Reports review, the
company sued the magazine. Two
years and $525,000 in attorney
fees later, the suit was dismissed.
By 2007, consumers had won a
class-action judgment against the
Sharper Image for the
ineffectiveness of the Ionic
Breeze Quadra.
Thalheimer's replacement, in a
classic case of corporate "falling
upward": Jerry Levin, who had
previously managed Sunbeam
Products into bankruptcy. The
magic Levin touch helped the
Sharper Image's stock sink to 29
cents a share by February 2008.
By August of that year, all 184
Sharper Image stores had benn
shuttered.
And now: a zombie Sharper
Image staggers onward, existing
solely on licensing fees from
companies eager for a shot at the
nostalgic yuppie demographic.
There's no evidence for the claim
on the Sharper Image Wikipedia
page that the company currently
has only five employees - but
nobody has bothered to delete it,
either.
What once-trusted brand has
broken your heart? Maytag?
Napster? Maxis? Lookout
Records? Bell? The New York
Cosmos? Let your fellow wooters
know which names they should be
wary of in the forum below.
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Oh, Wasn't That A
Dainty Dish: Woot
Weads The Wire
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Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:00:00 PM scientists.
The tragedy has all but destroyed
Every week in this space, we’ll t h e L e a g u e o f P i e m a k e r s ,
take a look at the news and offer although the maid is reportedly
o u r o w n i n c i s i v e b l e n d o f quite happy to be getting fresh air
commentary, analysis, and poop again.
jokes. The news you need, from a LONDON ( UPI) -- British
voice you can trust, in the 90 scientists say they've found the
seconds you have to spare: that’s ancient remains of three humans
Woot Weads the Wire. that appear to have been killed
VATICAN CITY ( UPI) -- The and then butchered for food.
Vatican warned Friday against The scientists are even now
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beatification mass for Pope John ancient humans was a young,
Paul II, saying the outdoor service blonde, white girl, in hopes that
is free. the media would then pay
In a related story, the Vatican a t t e n t i o n .
announced four more beatification MISSION VIEJO, Calif. ( UPI) --
masses at Terminal 5 in New A California man said he was
York. planning to throw away his
BERKELEY, Calif. ( UPI) -- wooden rocking chair until he
Tyrannosaurus rex, long held as noticed an image of Jesus Christ
the "top dog" predator of Earth's in the flaking paint and rotted
dinosaur period, was more an wood.
opportunistic feeder than a top Sources say the man also saw the
hunter, U.S. paleontologists say. face of Jesus by the wall that
Cell towers reported extra-heavy needed painting, then on the stack
traffic as gamers began phoning of dishes near the sink, and again
their old dungeon masters to near the oil chance his wife had
demand the return of wrongfully been asking about, so he just took
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SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine ( UPI) -
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Streaming video: Netflix gets CBS
shows, Roku supports Amazon
Prime
James Willcox (Consumer
Reports)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 8:03:35 AM
Streaming video: Netflix gets
CBS shows, Roku supports
Amazon Prime
In separate announcements,
Netflix said it will soon be
including "dozens" of CBS TV
shows in its instant streaming
video service—and Roku reports
that it now supports the Amazon
Prime Instant Video service.
Thanks to a two-year deal with
CBS, starting in April, Netflix
will offer a number of CBS
network TV shows via its instant
video service. The mix will
include episodes of recent series,
such as "Medium" and
"Flashpoint," as well full seasons
of older, classic shows such as
"Frazier," "Family Ties," and
"Cheers." The deal doesn't include
any TV shows that are currently
airing on the network. CBS has
the option of extending the deal at
the end of the term.
Roku, which already supports
Amazon's Video On Demand
service, will now be compatible
with the online retailer's new
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Study confirms
osteoporosis drugs pose risk
of thigh fractures in women
rss@consumerreports.org
has confirmed it is prepping a (Consumer Reports)
subscription service to augment Submitted at 2/23/2011 8:59:59 AM
its Blu-ray and DVD rental
business. The company hopes to Study confirms osteoporosis
launch the service by the end of drugs pose risk of thigh fractures
this year. in women
Are you currently using a video Older women who take a type of
streaming service? If so, let us drug called bisphosphonates,
know which one, and what your which are meant to prevent "drug holiday" after five year's,
Amazon Prime Instant Video experiences have been so far with fractures, face an increased risk of but only with your doctor's OK. If
service that we wrote about its selection and quality, and unusual fractures in their thigh you are at high risk of breaking a
yesterday. Unlike Amazon Video whether you've considered bone, according to a large study in bone, you may benefit from
On Demand, which operates as a moving to a different service. the Journal of the American continuing to take these drugs
pay-per-view service, Prime —James K. Willcox Next Steps Medical Association. The study after five years because they do
Instant Video is a more Netflix- • TV Buying Advice: underscores the Food and Drug reduce the risk of certain thigh
like subscription service that's • Types of TVs| Administration's move last bone fractures. Or, you might
bundled into the online retailer's • TV Features| October to add a warning about consider switching to another
$79-per-year Amazon Prime • TV Brands this risk to the labeling of those class of osteoporosis medication.
subscription at no additional drugs, which include Because these drugs offer only a
charge. All TV Ratings Subscribers can alendronate(Fosamax, Fosamax modest benefit even in people
To use the new service, Roku view and compare all TV Ratings. P l u s D , a n d g e n e r i c s ) , who have osteoporosis, those with
owners who are Prime members Recommended TVs Look at the risedronate(Actonel, Actonel with “pre-osteoporosis,” or osteopenia,
need to click on the Amazon ones that we chose as the best of Calcium, Atelvia, and generics), often only need to take nondrug
Instant Video channel and then the best. Subscribe now! ibandronate(Boniva), and steps—getting the right nutrients
look for the Prime Instant Video S u b s c r i b e t o zoledronic acid(Reclast). The and exercising regularly, which
icon. ConsumerReports.org for expert study, which included more than strengthen their bones and prevent
It's clear that the market for Ratings, buying advice and 205,000 women 68 or older who falls.
streaming videos is becoming r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f were on a bisphosphonate, found — Steve Mitchell, associate
increasingly competitive. In products. Update your feed that those who took the drug for at editor, Consumer Reports Health
addition to current services such preferences least 5 years, were 2.7 times more Best Buy Drugs Subscribe now!
as those from Amazon, likely to sustain an atypical thigh S u b s c r i b e t o
Blockbuster, CinemaNow, Netflix fracture than those who were on ConsumerReports.org for expert
and Vudu, kiosk retailer RedBox them for less than 100 days. Ratings, buying advice and
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Psychological Tricks Warehouse Romans 14:1 (02-23-11)

(Verse of the Day) of God, shouldn't our patience be
Stores Play On You Submitted at 2/23/2011 2:00:00 AM greater, our words more tender,
our understanding more generous,
Phil Villarreal (The order to get you moving quickly warehouse — if your kid likes a Accept him whose faith is weak, and our care more attentive? My
Consumerist) and avoid clogged aisles and sample and nags you, you're more without passing judgment on Prayer... Father in heaven, forgive
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:30:00 PM lines. Warehouses often ditch the likely to make an unplanned disputable matters. me and stir me to action. I am
soundtrack, subconsciously purchase. — Romans 14:1(NIV) Thoughts ashamed that I have not done
Warehouse stores like Costco and coaxing you to hang around as If you have a warehouse club on Today's Verse... Parents are more to nurture those newborn
Sam's Club attract an unqualified long as you like. The thinking membership, what do you do to careful and tender with their babies in your family. Give me
devotion of hardcore devotees, goes that the longer you're in the make sure you aren't snookered? newborn babies even though greater patience with their failures
myself included. They provide store, the more stuff you'll be 7 Ways Warehouse Clubs Get babies are demanding, messy, and and greater passion for their
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Jonestown Reference phone radiation can
Laura Northrup (The
Consumerist)
billboards read. "To die for!" executive told the South Bend Hacienda pulls 'cult' ad[South alter brain function
The reference, of course, is to the Tribune. "It went the wrong Bend Tribune] Carol Mangis (Consumer
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:00:16 PM 1978 mass suicide at the Peoples direction, hit a nerve, and we have From ConsumerReports.org: Reports)
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Cory, the tipster who sent this in on someone else's site, please read
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phones can alter brain function an ordinance requiring that cell

Get Bigger Deduction For
Medical Expenses
Tax Cat (The Consumerist)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:15:00 PM
As a self-employed certified tax
cat, I make sure to take advantage
of every opportunity possible to
reduce my taxable income. The
health insurance premiums I pay
for me and my litter have always
worked to bring that number
down, but they never did anything
to reduce the amount I had to pay
in Medicare and Social Security
taxes. Until now.
Thanks to a new federal law, self-
employed taxpayers who go out
of pocket for health insurance will
be paying a bit less to Social
Security and Medicare.
Here's how Consumer Reports
puts it:
So, for example, if your 2010
income was $80,000 and you paid
$10,000 in health insurance
premiums, you'll owe Medicare
during short-term use—but health
effects are still unknown.
phones disclose the amount of
radiation emitted, and Consumer
Our sister site, the CR Health Reports has called for a national
Blog, discussed the study in
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guidance for cell phone users on
and Social Security tax on only The study, conducted by potential risks.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A
conservative professor in Detroit
who says he has consulted for the
Vatican's high court says New
York Gov. Andrew Cuomo
shouldn't get Holy Communion
because he lives with his
girlfriend, Food Network star
Sandra Lee.
But Catholic bishops and priests,
disagree, citing church law. They
have allowed the Catholic
Democrat to receive Communion
for years, including at Christmas
this year and at a Mass marking
his inauguration.
Cuomo, who is divorced and
supports abortion rights, won't
comment. He is the son of former
Gov. Mario Cuomo, who angered
the church more than 25 years ago
with his support of abortion
rights.
Catholic bishops in New York
cite church law that allows them
to make the decision. They say
Professor Edward Peters of
Detroit speaks for himself.
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Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl was
officially cited by the NCAA on
Wednesday for unethical conduct
for improper hosting of recruits at
a 2008 barbecue at his home and
subsequently misleading
investigators about who attended
the event.
The NCAA officially released a
report of its 22-month
investigation that details the
notice of allegations against the
Vols men's basketball and football
programs Tuesday. Tennessee
posted the release Wednesday on
its website.
Pearl was cited for impermissible
contact with student-athletes
during an unofficial recruiting
visit, for not being ethical about
the matter, for failing to promote
an atmosphere of compliance, and
for failing to monitor the activities
of his assistant coaches.
The notice did not include
potential punishments.
Tennessee has 90 days to respond
to the allegations, which also
included rules violations against
the football program and former
coach and current USC coach
Lane Kiffin. The NCAA also
reviewed Tennessee's baseball
program during its probe, but did
not levy any charges against it.
Tennessee is scheduled to appear
before the NCAA Committee on
Infractions on June 10-11 in
Indianapolis. The committee takes
up to four months to issue a
decision in some cases, as it did in
the recently concluded case
against Connecticut.
Within the NCAA's report, Pearl
is singled out as failing to conduct
himself with high standards of
honesty and sportsmanship
normally, by initially providing
false and misleading information
to Tennessee and the NCAA
enforcement staff and by
attempting to influence others to
furnish Tennessee and the NCAA
"with false and misleading
information concerning their
involvement."[+] Enlarge
Don McPeak/US Presswire The
NCAA cited Tennessee coach
Bruce Pearl for failing to uphold
standards of ethical conduct.
The one new charge revealed in
the notice of allegations was that
Pearl and associate head coach
Tony Jones were cited for a
secondary violation of "bumping"
2012 recruit Jordan Adams
(Lawrenceville, Ga.), on Sept. 14,
2010, during Adams' junior year
when the two visited Adams at
Oak Hill Academy.
According to the report, Pearl
and Jones had a two-to-three-
minute conversation with Adams
prior to the start of basketball
practice. The violation with
Adams came shortly after Pearl
and Tennessee held a news
conference announcing the self-
imposed penalties. Pearl was
allowed to recruit on the road for
two-plus weeks before he was
shut down for a year on Sept. 24.
The three assistant coaches --
Jones, Jason Shay and Steve
Forbes -- were cited for failing to
provide complete and relevant
information in the investigation.
They were not cited for unethical
conduct, as Pearl was.
According to the notice of
allegations, Pearl was interviewed
on June 14 and provided false
information about being
photographed with current Ohio
State freshman point guard Aaron
Craft in the coach's home. Pearl
denied knowledge of the photo.
Pearl also denied knowing the
other person in the photo, who
was Shay's wife.
The report states that Pearl also
called John Craft, Aaron's father,
who was also at the unofficial
visit to Pearl's home on Sept. 20,
2008, and told him that it was a
violation for the family to attend
the cookout. Unofficial visits are
supposed to take place on campus,
not at a coach's home.
Pearl gave John Craft the choice
of attending the cookout.
According to the report, John
Craft was led to believe that Pearl
was trying to influence his
statements to the NCAA
enforcement staff.
Forbes didn't provide complete
information about who was at the
cookout, either, during a June 14
interview, according to the notice
of allegations. Shay also provided
incomplete information, then
violated another bylaw by telling
Pearl the contents of his
enforcement interview -- after
being specifically told not to do
so.
Jones was also cited for not
giving full information about the
cookout.
"The receipt of today's notice
brings us one step closer to a final
resolution in this matter," Pearl
said in a statement Wednesday.
"Throughout this process, we
have recognized that we made
significant mistakes and we look
forward to concluding this matter
with the NCAA.
"The penalties imposed on our
program to date have been severe,
but I want to commend our
student-athletes and staff for
staying focused and working
through these potential
distractions. The support of our
fans and administration has been
amazing and appreciated by me
and my entire family and reminds
me every day why I have the best
job in the nation."
Pearl has already been
disciplined by the SEC, as
commissioner Mike Slive
suspended Pearl for the first eight
conference games of this season.
Pearl had already been docked
$1.5 million over five years by
Tennessee and prevented from
recruiting off campus for one
year, beginning Sept. 24.
The Committee on Infractions
could add more sanctions against
Pearl when it releases its findings
after the June hearing.
Shay, Jones and Forbes were also
slapped with recruiting penalties,
with Shay banned from recruiting
on the road for three months,
Jones for six months and Forbes
for one year.
Pearl's contract was voided and
he is now working under a letter
of appointment because of the
admitted violations. But a source
close to Pearl said the two sides
are working on a new deal that
might be done soon, although
there is no indication it would be
finished before the June hearing.
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A source close to Pearl also said
he isn't fearful of losing his job,
since no new information has
come to light since he was
penalized.
Tennessee and Pearl have the
option under NCAA rules to seek
a summary disposition of the case.
But that option would require a
consensus on all the charges and
would assume the committee does
not want to hear from Pearl at a
hearing. According to at least one
attorney on the case, that's
unlikely.
"Receipt of the NCAA's Notice of
Allegations & is another step in
bringing this matter to
conclusion," Tennessee athletic
director Mike Hamilton said in a
prepared statement.
"Our institution has operated in
complete cooperation with the
NCAA since April 2009 as they
have pursued their investigation,"
Hamilton said. "We take these
allegations seriously and most
items noted in this document have
already been reported broadly. I
would like to thank the NCAA
enforcement staff for their
professionalism and guidance
during this process."
Senior writer Andy Katz covers
men's college basketball for
ESPN.com.
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New Jersey Nets trade for Jazz PG Deron Williams

Marc Stein and Chad Ford "excited about it." and talent level will bolster our circus atmosphere that the LeBron James, Dwyane Wade
(ESPN.com) "Rarely are you able to trade for franchise as we continue to build Nuggets encountered with and Chris Bosh last summer and
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:47:43 PM somebody that's one of the top towards our goal of becoming a Anthony this season. when that failed they turned their
players at their position," he said. championship-caliber team," he Unlike Anthony, who could opt attention to Anthony.
Updated: February 23, 2011, 1:55 "We know we had to give up a lot said in a statement. out of his contract after this Just Tuesday night, the Dallas
PM ET By Marc Stein and Chad to get him, but we felt it was Williams took some heat this season and was allowed under the Mavericks were talking to the
Ford worth it." month for the retirement of Jazz current collective bargaining Nets about re-acquiring Harris,
ESPN.com Johnson was asked if this was the coach Jerry Sloan. The two had agreement to sign an extension according to sources. The
Trying to rebound from the Plan B all along if the Nets disagreed during halftime of a with the Knicks, Williams can't Mavericks had shown interest in
disappointment of their failed couldn't land Anthony. home loss to the Bulls on Feb. 9. opt out until after next season and the point guard in January and
pursuit of Carmelo Anthony, the "This is not a plan B," Johnson Sloan retired the next day. can't sign an extension until July told the Nets the sides should talk
New Jersey Nets have acquired said. "It was just one that wasn't "Maybe arguing was the last 2011. The current CBA expires again if New Jersey didn't ship
Deron Williams from the Utah announced. One that nobody got - straw, so there I am, guilty of after this season, however, him out in an Anthony trade.
Jazz in another blockbuster trade - until recently. He's not a plan B. that," Williams said at the time. making all contract talk uncertain. Sources said Dallas turned down
for the New York area. Nets Take He's a plan A also. We've been "But I think anybody who Williams was an All-Star the past a New Jersey proposal of Harris
Chance working on this for a while." believes I could force coach Sloan two seasons. In his sixth year in for Caron Butler, Mavs rookie
The Nets rolled the dice in The Jazz will get New Jersey's to resign is crazy. He's stronger the league, the 26-year-old is Dominique Jones and a first-
g e t t i n g D e r o n W i l l i a m s , first-round pick this year, which is than that and personally if I said averaging a career-high 21.3 round pick.
considering he could walk after not lottery protected and Golden that to him, he'd probably go tell points and 9.7 assists per game. Marc Stein is a senior NBA
next season, John Hollinger State's first-round pick, which is me to go do something." No Harris has played three-plus writer for ESPN.com, Chad Ford
writes. Story partially protected, next year. That Dropoff seasons in New Jersey after is ESPN's NBA Insider and Chris
• ESPNNewYork.com: Nets blog selection is top seven protected in The Nets had been after Carmelo starting his career in Dallas. He Broussard covers the NBA for
The Nets will send Derrick 2012 and 2013 and top six Anthony, but an argument can be has made one All-Star team and is ESPN The Magazine. Information
Favors, Devin Harris, two first- protected in 2014. If Utah has not made that they got a player as averaging 15.0 points and 7.6 from ESPNNewYork.com's Mike
round draft picks and cash received the pick by the 2014 good, if not better, in Deron assists this season. Mazzeo and The Associated Press
considerations to Utah for the All- draft, then the Jazz will receive Williams. Here are their stats: Favors, who was a major piece was used in this report.
Star point guard. Golden State's own 2014 and PER GAME WILLIAMS along with Harris in the Nets' This entry passed through the
In a separate deal, the Nets will 2016 second-round picks. ANTHONY Points 21.3 25.2 proposal for Anthony, was the Full-Text RSS service — if this is
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Golden State Warriors for center the Jazz get $3 million. More critical to Williams' and 5.3 rebounds in 19.5 minutes our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
Dan Gadzuric and power forward Nets general manager Billy King situation is the fact that he can per game this season. content-only/faq.php
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Spring training 2011: St. Louis Cardinals' Adam

Wainwright injures throwing elbow
Associated Press (ESPN.com) obviously ligament damage, that's powered by Snell, Lance Lynn, P.J. Walters
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:48:22 PM usually what it results in," he said. The 6-foot-7 Wainwright went 20 and reliever Kyle McClellan
The 29-year-old Wainwright -11 with a 2.42 ERA last season, "We are not going to look outside
Updated: February 23, 2011, 1:48 began feeling soreness following finishing behind Philadelphia's the organization," La Russa said.
PM ET the bullpen session. Trainers Roy Halladay in Cy Young "The answer is here."
J U P I T E R , F l a . - - A d a m examined him Tuesday and Award balloting and earning his St. Louis also likely will look
Wainwright, a 20-game winner Wainwright was scheduled to fly first All-Star selection. internally for Punto's replacement,
for the Cardinals a year ago and back to St. Louis to meet with His 2.93 ERA since 2007 trails giving Ramon Vasquez, Daniel
the runner-up for the Cy Young team doctors Wednesday. only Halladay, and no National Descalso, Tyler Greene and Allen
Award, was being sent back to St. "It appears to not be good," League pitcher threw more than Craig some extra at-bats.
Louis Wednesday for tests on his manager Tony La Russa said. Wainwright's 463 1/3 innings the Punto was injured Saturday. A
injured right elbow amid concern "We'll see, though." past two seasons. lifetime .247 hitter, he hit .238 in Tennessee Receives
that he could be lost for the The news comes one day after La Russa said he doesn't believe 88 appearances last season with NCAA Notice of
season. Adam Wainwright#50 SP the Cardinals learned utility the injury is related to the Minnesota. He hit a career-high Allegations; Lane Kiffin
St. Louis Cardinals infielder Nick Punto will miss soreness Wainwright felt toward .290 and scored 73 runs in 2006
2010 STATS eight to 12 weeks after incurring a the end of last season, when he with the Twins. Cited
• GM 33 sports hernia that will require was shut down in September. He "The expectation is that [Punto] is Clay Travis (FanHouse Main)
• W 20 surgery. said it's more likely related to going to be back 100 percent with Submitted at 2/23/2011 10:22:00 AM
• L 11 Wainwright's injury is much minor issues Wainwright suffered a lot of the season to go," La
• BB 56 more significant. Losing him in 1998 and 2004. Russa said. Filed under: Tennessee, SEC The
• K 213 would leave a gaping hole in what "It was so strange because he had Copyright 2011 by The NCAA has cited former
• ERA 2.42 looked to be a stable starting a great throw his first time out," Associated Press Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin with
rotation heading into camp. Chris La Russa said. This entry passed through the a failure to monitor charge in a
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"I don't want to speculate, but producers from a group that includes Ian

Home Loans 101: What You Need to Qualify for a Mortgage Today
nospam@example.com many benefits and rewards of common to hear people say, "I
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By: Eric Ehrhardt Now more than ever, there is a qualified for a mortgage and a lot mortgage these days."
Most people know about the lot of confusion about getting of misinformation as well. It’s
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The story was first reported here
by FanHouse earlier this month.
Kiffin has also been hit with a
failure to promote an atmosphere
of compliance charge. The
levying of these two charges
against the former coach rather
than the Vol program represents a
last-minute appeal by Tennessee
to avoid the saddling of the
program itself with the penalties.
Instead, Tennessee deftly stepped
aside and served up the head of
Kiffin to the NCAA.
Meanwhile Bruce Pearl, head
basketball coach of the University
of Tennessee was cited by the
NCAA for, per the UT release,
"impermissible contact with
prospective student-athletes
during an unofficial visit, acting
contrary to the principles of
ethical conduct, failure to promote
an atmosphere of compliance, and
failure to monitor the activities
regarding compliance of all
assistant coaches within the men's
basketball program."
The majority of these charges
stem from Pearl's lying about
having junior recruits over to his
house for a barbeque. Hosting
juniors at the home of a head
coach is a secondary violation, but
Pearl's lie made the matter a major
violation that led to a dock in pay,
an eight-game SEC suspension,
and more punishment to come,
potentially, from the NCAA.
While Tennessee declined
comment other than posting the
letter, Pat Haden, the athletic
director at USC, released this
statement in support of Kiffin:
"We have received from the
NCAA a notice of allegations
against Lane Kiffin pertaining to
his tenure as the head football
coach at Tennessee. The NCAA
enforcement process provides for
Tennessee and Lane to address
those charges. Until that process
is completed, it would be unfair
and premature for me or USC to
comment on this matter."
"However, I will say this: Since
his return to USC last year as our
head football coach, Lane has
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been vigilant in making sure he
and the football program follow
the NCAA's rules and compete
the right way. Lane has my
support as our head football
coach." For his part, Kiffin, who
declined comment when
FanHouse broke this story,
released the following statement:
"On the advice of my legal
counsel, we cannot comment
other than to say we look forward
to working through the process
with the NCAA."
Tennessee will have 90 days to
respond to the NCAA's notice of
iPhone Final Fantasy III
allegations and then will appear
before the Committee on
Infractions in early June.
is based on the DS
Follow Clay Travis on Twitter
here. With All That and a Bag of version
Mail back on a weekly basis, you JC Fletcher (Joystiq) This makes the iPhone, in our
can e-mail him questions at opinion, the weirdest place for
Submitted at 2/23/2011 1:30:00 PM
Clay.Travis@gmail.com. Final Fantasy games, since it
Final Fantasy III on iPhone isn't houses Final Fantasy I and II,
based on the Famicom original, which are based on the PSP
according to Famitsu magazine. versions, and soon the DS-
Instead, it's a remake of the originated Final Fantasy III. If
polygonal DS remake from 2006. you just downloaded them all
The magazine reports (via from the App Store without
Andriasang) that the iPhone knowing any of the history, you'd
version will have undergone be baffled as to why they looked
significant re-remaking when it's so different.
released in Japan next month. The Update: A post on the European
graphics will be in high Square Enix Members site reveals
resolution, the sound will be that FF3 is due on the App Store
updated, and the monster viewer in Europe this March, as well.
will be reformatted for ease of iPhone Final Fantasy III is based
use. No images of the new version on the DS version originally
are available yet; however, with appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 23
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Double Fine tells how it got to Sesame Street

JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:00:00 PM
The announcement that Double
Fine's next game would be a
licensed (!) Sesame Street(!!)
game for Kinect (!!!) was
something of a shock. In an
interview with Gamasutra, studio
head Tim Schafer and project lead
Nathan Martz explained how the
project grew out of a shared love
of Muppetry and an original idea
that just happened to be perfect
for the franchise.
Martz came up with the idea for
an "uplifting" game during the
same Amnesia Fortnight event
that spawned Costume Quest and
Stacking-- a game that involved
"cute, furry little monsters,
making music and having fun," as
Schafer described it. As work
continued on the prototype, which
already featured cute Henson-
esque monsters like "Marco"
(above, the one who isn't Cookie
Monster or Elmo), the idea of
pursuing the license came up --
and then when Sesame Street and
funny. He calls Sesame Street a
"secret comedy show" and intends
to keep the same tone in the game.
"They're satirical -- they don't just
make bland shows for kids, they
make them actually funny,"
Schafer said. "I think that's
important for the kids and
especially for the parents who
watch them together. We're
hoping that this is something
parents play with their kids."
Double Fine tells how it got to
Sesame Street originally appeared
WB made a deal for games, on Joystiq on Wed, 23 Feb 2011
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Curriculum," teaching social and
emotional skills as well as healthy
living habits. In addition, though,
Schafer asserts that it will be
Latest Sprint teaser
tweet all but confirms
February 24th
announcement is for
Windows Phone 7
Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 1:36:00 PM
How many mobile platforms can
you think of that integrate "with
your home game console, like
Xbox?" Unless we're completely
spacing something out, the answer
is one: Windows Phone 7. We'd
already figured the Thursday
announcement that Sprint has
been teasing this week on Twitter
-- and that little Arrive leak all but

Wisconsin Gov. Pranked by Caller confirmed it anyhow -- but if you

needed any more evidence that
the phone formerly known as the

Posing as Donor HTC 7 Pro would be formally

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Submitted at 2/23/2011 6:30:48 AM
Wednesday, 23 Feb 2011 12:30
PM
MADISON, Wis. (AP) —
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has
been lured into a conversation
about his strategy to cripple
public employee unions by a
prank caller pretending to be a
billionaire Republican donor.
Walker spokesman Cullen
Werwie confirms the governor is
on audio of the call posted
Wednesday on the website of the
Buffalo Beast, a left-leaning New
York newspaper.
The governor believes the caller
is conservative businessman
David Koch. He talks about plans
for layoff notices and what can be
done to punish lawmakers who've
left the state.
The caller suggests Walker take a
baseball bat when meeting with
Democrats. Walker jokes he has
"a slugger with my name on it."
Brothers David and Charles Koch
have given millions to support
Americans For Prosperity, which
has launched a $320,000 ad
announced in CDMA guise this
week, here you have it. We'll
campaign supporting Walker.
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(Scripting News) dead then we're dead. Work hard
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who push the idea, your deflection
I've been working hard on is showing.
software, which makes it harder to And to people who say creativity
write long blog posts. is the province of youth, I'm fed
So here are a few thoughts. up with that too. I'm now going
When I watch people on TV in through one of my most creative
Egypt and Libya I think I'm periods at age 55. I did all my
finally seeing people as dedicated work on blogging, podcasting and
to freedom as the founders of the RSS in my 40s and 50s. All the
United States were 235 years ago. Supreme Court justices are my
There's a lot of people who pay age or older. Frank Gehry who is
lip service to being patriots for
their countries, but until you're
building the most astonishing
apartment building in NY, a
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I'm anyone to look up to. But the work and winning awards as they Michael Gorman (Engadget) night. In tests with a Mitsubishi i-
people in Egypt -- that's another get older.
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Inside Job is coming out on DVD things I'm very proud of in my So, you've got your government- a home, and doled out enough
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understand this, and I've been in I keep reading that this or that is you go through it you'll be richer, public utilities. It operates by appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23
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(Scripting News) simplify, and cut costs without
Submitted at 2/23/2011 9:53:45 AM sacrificing any of the fun of using
an iPhone (it is more fun than the
Usually when you read a headline Droid), and let me turn in my
like Is the Verizon iPhone a flop? Verizon Mifi which I hardly use,
the answer turns out to be well in then they'd get me as a customer.
some ways yes, and in other ways But the savings would have to be
no. But that's the way I do things. substantial for me to put up with
I'm just one person and YMMV the hassle of dealing with them.
but yes indeed, it was a flop, a Ahhh the hassle. Forgot that...
huge one. A miscalculation and a If they were as easy to deal with
misunderstanding of what people as the people at an Apple store I
buy when they buy an iPhone and might be more inclined.
what gets them in line and I don't know what they thought
salivating to get their hands on we all were doing while they were
one. getting ready to sell their iPhone.
Now my story... Did they think we were all
I own both an AT&T iPhone 4 waiting for them? I wonder if they
and a Verizon Droid.
Had Verizon offered an iPhone
instead of the Droid in November
have any numbers of how many
Verizon phone users also have
iPhones? Would be interesting to
SlingPlayer Mobile for
2009, I would have bought one.
As would have millions of others.
know.
Now, what's going to happen iPhone & iPad updated
They likely would have taken the from here for Verizon?
market from AT&T, had they had for voice anymore, and when I do Next time there's a refresh, when
this product then. it's usuallly with Skype. the iPhone 5 comes out, they must
with video-out support
I would have bought it then But for some reason I'm not have it at the same time or before Richard Lawler (Engadget) get users mashing that update
because I was fed up with the planning on getting rid of the AT&T. And then, if the cost to Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:58:00 PM button and digging out their
AT&T iPhone's incompetence as Droid anytime soon. I'm hassle- switch is the same as with AT&T, unused connectors.
a phone. averse I guess. they'll get a lot of new iPhone If you have an iPod, iPhone or [Thanks to everyone who sent this
But since then two things I use the iPhone as a camera and business. iPad with the SlingPlayer Mobile in]
happened. a portable entertainment device. I It's never all that hard to figure app, you now have a Slingbox to SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone &
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Obama Ends Court Defense of Anti-Gay

Marriage Law
Andrew Cohen (Politics Daily) with that decision, Holder said in will, however, remain parties to constitutionality. This course of
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:10:00 PM a statement. the cases and continue to action respects the actions of the
In announcing the surprise move, represent the interests of the prior Congress that enacted
Legal Analyst A key provision of Holder noted that "After careful United States throughout the DOMA, and it recognizes the
the Defense of Marriage Act is consideration, including a review litigation. I have informed judiciary as the final arbiter of the
unconstitutionally biased and will of my recommendation, the Members of Congress of this constitutional claims raised."
no longer be defended in court by President has concluded that decision, so Members who wish Supporters of same-sex marriage
Justice Department attorneys, given a number of factors, to defend the statute may pursue were heartened by the decision.
Attorney General Eric Holder including a documented history of that option. The Department will The Human Rights Campaign, the
announced Wednesday. discrimination, classifications also work closely with the courts nation's largest lesbian, gay,
But he assured members of based on sexual orientation should to ensure that Congress has a full bisexual and transgender civil
Congress that the Clinton-era be subject to a more heightened and fair opportunity to participate rights organization, was quick to
federal statute, which defines s t a n d a r d o f s c r u t i n y . T h e in pending litigation." praise President Obama's step.
marriage as between only a "man President has also concluded that In a letter to Congressional "DOMA unfairly discriminates
and a woman" as "husband and Section 3 of DOMA, as applied to leaders released Wednesday, against Americans and we
w i f e , " w i l l c o n t i n u e t o b e legally married same-sex couples, Holder wrote: "Notwithstanding applaud [the president] for
enforced by the executive branch fails to meet that standard and is this determination, the President fulfilling his oath to defend
until it is repealed by legislators therefore unconstitutional. Given has informed me that Section 3 critical constitutional principles,"
or definitely voided by the courts. that conclusion, the President has will continue to be enforced by said HRC President Joe
Until now, federal attorneys have instructed the Department not to the Executive Branch. To that Solmonese.
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an airport gate: a padded cocoon
propped between lurking, nonstop
rumble. Gov. Scott Walker, calm
as a public-radio newsreader,
shrugs off the cacophony.
#ad#Just seven weeks into office,
the 43-year-old Republican is the
most talked-about conservative in
the country. His brawl with the
public-sector unions in the Badger
State has yielded headline after
headline, each with the same
message: Walker won’t blink. A
week ago, he proposed a budget-
repair bill that would break the
grip of labor interests in a capital
that has long been dominated by
them. Facing a $3.6 billion budget
shortfall over the next two years,
he argues that public workers
should contribute 5.8 percent of
their salaries toward their
pensions and pay 12.6 percent of
their health-care premiums. Most
controversial is his plan to
eliminate collective bargaining for
most state employees.
Walker’s budget fix is more than
state-level cold water; it is a
national firecracker. Fourteen
Democratic state senators have
fled to Illinois, refusing to vote on
it. In their absence, C-list stars of
the Left, such as Jesse Jackson,
rocker Tom Morello, and Richard
Trumka, the national president of
the AFL-CIO, have flocked to this
college town, peddling left-wing
tropes at makeshift rallies.
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz set up shop,
as did scores of bloggers and
photographers. Even President
Obama has weighed in, calling
Walker’s effort an “assault on
unions.” Organizing for America,
an outgrowth of the Obama
presidential campaign, went so far
as to coordinate anti-Walker
forces. As Rep. Paul Ryan, a GOP
congressman from nearby
Janesville, joked, it is “like Cairo
moved to Madison.”
Yet over the past eight days,
Walker has not broken a sweat.
That should come as no surprise.
His ideas and frank approach did
not fall out of the cold Wisconsin
air. Indeed, as he gazes around his
still-sparse office, his trademark
red tie falling loosely upon a light
-blue shirt, Walker points out that
he has spent his career grappling
with thorny fiscal issues. The
national spotlight may be sudden,
but his commitment to austerity is
not. As for the kicking and
screaming around us, well, he
chuckles, he has seen it all before.
Most recently, Walker tangled
with unions as chief executive of
Milwaukee County, a blue-tinted
region with nearly 1 million
residents. He was first elected to
the post in 2002 after nine years
in the state assembly. At the time,
Milwaukee politics was in chaos:
Tom Ament, the former county
executive, had resigned after the
county’s lucrative pension scheme
for public workers drew heated
scrutiny. The unfolding scandal
led to a special election to fill the
remainder of Ament’s term.
Walker, then a respected though
little-known state legislator from
the Milwaukee suburb of
Wauwatosa, threw his hat into the
ring. To political observers, it was
not a clear step up the ladder: A
red-meat Republican gunning to
run a county known for its
progressive politics? Risky.
#page#“When Tom Ament
pushed through that plan in 2000,
the media was asleep,” Walker
recalls. “Then, in early 2002,
more details came out about how
he and his cronies would get these
massive, lump-sum payments,
which the county is still paying
out.”
Once people dug into the details,
they were outraged. “People were
angry; they were talking about a
recall. But the media, the pundits,
they mostly brushed it off. I was
carpooling back and forth to
Madison at the time,” cruising
down Interstate 94 and listening
to talk radio. As Walker listened
to reports of the pension kerfuffle,
he grew irate. “I thought, okay,”
he says, shaking his head. “I was
upset, my wife was upset, my
parents and my in-laws were
upset. But that’s it. We were
angry.” In other words, he hints,
he was not angling for a new gig.
#ad#“There was nothing
calculated,” Walker says, flatly.
“People at the time thought I was
nuts. They said it was a dead end;
that Republicans had never won a
countywide race there. They said,
‘What are you doing?’ I was
getting on all of the Sunday-
morning shows in the state and
pushing bills, so they wondered
why I wanted to blow it all. Not
only could I not win, but if I did,
they said, God help you, you
won’t want it. It’s an awful mess:
there is a huge pension scandal,
the labor unions are entrenched,
and the county board is liberal.”
But opportunity soon
crystallized. As he would see
eight years later with the Tea
Party movement, Walker
witnessed a grassroots coalition
rise up. “It was really amazing,”
he says. “You had tens of
thousands of ordinary people —
without a political party, without
outside help — create their own
organic group called Citizens for
Responsible Government.” As
they gathered petitions against the
county board, Walker paid close
attention. Their flinty fire, and
effectiveness, stirred his political
spirit.
“It was at that time that I realized
that I was looking at things all
wrong,” Walker explains. “Sure,
people were angry like me. But if
it had just been about anger,
people would have checked out
and moved on. What they were
doing was really about hope, hope
that if you stood shoulder to
shoulder, people could take their
government back. It dawned on
me — and I never had any interest
in county government, never even
dreamed about that — that
somebody needed to help lead
that movement. So I ran.” And, on
a reform platform, he won.
At age 34, Walker became the
youngest Milwaukee County
executive since the non-partisan
position was created in 1960.
From the outset, he led as an
unapologetic conservative. After
nearly a decade legislating, where
he was a popular guest on
Wisconsin’s talk-radio circuit and
viewed as a rising star in
Madison, Walker found himself
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managing an out-of-control
budget in a major Midwestern
city. It was an abrupt change of
pace, to say the least.
Walker began to make
immediate, deep cuts. Budgets
were slashed and public workers
were laid off. The local unions, of
course, were apoplectic. Walker
soldiered on and never once
raised property taxes. The
county’s bond rating improved
and its debt was reduced. Walker,
a low-key speaker but a pol with
smart gut-level instincts, even
donated thousands in salary back
to the taxpayers. For a middle-
class father of two teenage sons, it
was more than a cheap gimmick.
“We were dealing with many of
the same fights I’m fighting right
now, pension reform and health-
care benefits,” he says. “We were
challenging the status quo. We
reined in spending, reined in the
size of government, and reduced
the size of the workforce.”
#page#In 2004, after two years on
the job, Walker was elected to a
full four-year term with 57
percent of the vote. People began
to take notice in state political
circles: Here was a
thirtysomething Republican
getting things done in lefty
Milwaukee. His name began to be
bandied about as a possible
challenger to Gov. Jim Doyle, a
Democrat, who was up for
reelection in 2006.
Meanwhile, Walker continued to
roil the Left with his streamlined
county budgets. “People would sit
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in the chambers when I presented
my budgets, where the people
could sit right there in the
chamber of the county board. I’d
have whole sections of the gallery
filled with AFSCME leaders in
green shirts holding up signs that
read ‘Negotiate, don’t dictate.’ So
I have great credibility when I talk
about the need to change
collective bargaining. I saw
firsthand how the unions thumbed
their noses at local elected
officials.”
#ad#“We are not budging — that
is the unions’ mindset,” Walker
sighs. “Even if you wanted
modest changes in health-care and
pension contributions, you could
not get it. One year, I even tried a
35-hour workweek for a couple
weeks and they told me to forget
it. ‘Go lay people off,’ they said,
‘you’ll be gone soon enough. We
may not get our people back, but
our benefits won’t be reduced.’
They had no interest in doing
anything reasonable with local
officials.”
By 2005, Walker’s profile was
rising and he began to look
seriously at a gubernatorial bid. “I
saw my state falling apart,” he
says. He saw Governor Doyle
vulnerable on his signature issue:
the budget. So he joined the year-
long primary race, battling Mark
Green, a U.S. congressman, for
the Republican nomination. To
Walker’s chagrin, his campaign
never caught on. Maybe it was the
low enthusiasm on the right,
maybe it was just a Democratic
year. But fundraising was a daily
struggle and his fiscal-hawk
message did not have its usual
resonance. By March 2006,
Walker had faced the looming
truth and decided to drop out of
the race. For an ambitious young
pol, it was a painful experience —
his first statewide campaign ended
with a whimper.
“I had a ton of supporters all
across this state and I did not want
to let them down,” Walker says.
“But in the end I told them that I
prayed about it, thought about it a
lot, and in the end realized it was
the right thing to do. I thought
God had called me to get in the
race, but I thought God also called
me to get out.”
By quitting the primary and
avoiding an outright loss, Walker
may have saved his political
career. He quickly endorsed
Green, whom he had been rough
on for months, and established
himself as more than a brash
county leader: Scott Walker was
also a team player. “Little did I
know, years later, the wisdom in
all of that,” he says. “As usual,
God’s grace was much better than
anything I could have planned.
Sometimes if you do God’s will,
it’s interesting how it opens doors
you’d never imagine.”
Politically bruised but not
broken, Walker returned to
Milwaukee. In the Year of
Obama, he soundly won
reelection again with nearly 60
percent of the vote. In that race,
he used many of the themes that
he would employ in 2010. As the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
predicted on election night, “the
issues he stressed in his county
executive race -- crime, as well as
taxes and privatization -- could
easily dovetail with a GOP
governor’s race template.”
With one aborted run under his
belt, and many lessons learned,
Walker decided to run for
governor again in early 2009. He
announced his campaign in April,
just as the Tea Party movement
was beginning to stir in pockets
around Wisconsin. He also
assembled a crack team of
operatives to help build a path to
the nomination, with more
fundraising prowess and political
savvy than his 2006 campaign.
Keith Gilkes, a sharp state-senate
hand, came on as campaign
manager; R. J. Johnson, a former
executive director for the state
party, joined as a consultant;
Mary Stitt and Dan Morse, two
top money bundlers with ties to
former governor Tommy
Thompson, were enlisted. So was
Brian Tringali, Thompson’s top
pollster. This was a team that
knew how to win.
#page#At his announcement in
Eau Claire, Walker outlined his
message. As with his 2002 run for
county executive, he railed
against the incumbent liberal
administration for
mismanagement and fiscal
incompetence. He also pledged, if
elected, to enact meaningful
reform. “I believe in a better
Wisconsin,” he said. “I see a state
that attracts hard-working people
and new entrepreneurs. It’s not
enough to tinker around the edges
of failed public policies that drive
jobs, qualified workers, and
retirees from our state.”
“In 2010, not only in Wisconsin
but across the country, austerity
was in,” Walker says, smiling as
if he is still a bit surprised to have
seen his key issue catch fire.
“When people talk about the
[current labor fight] and say they
never saw it coming, I get a kick
out of it. They have not been
paying attention. My entire career
has been about reining in
spending. I’ve always thought that
government was too big.”
#ad#In September 2010, after a
long primary campaign, Walker
topped businessman Mark
Neumann, a former congressman,
with 58 percent of the vote. On
election night, he wore his usual:
light-blue shirt with the sleeves
rolled up, a ruby-red tie. For the
entire race, Walker was the
frontrunner, raking in cash and
building his support in ways he
had not four years prior. Even
Mark Green, his old rival,
endorsed him.
Walker’s primary victory set up a
Brew City street-fight for the
general-election campaign. He
faced off against Democrat Tom
Barrett, Milwaukee’s mayor and a
former congressman. Barrett, with
his silver mane and admiration for
John F. Kennedy, cut a sharp
contrast to the youthful Reaganite
with slick, ink-black hair. While
Barrett was in the state assembly
during the Reagan era, Walker
was running unsuccessful
campaigns for student
government at Marquette.
Walker’s record in Milwaukee
County came under the
79
microscope. Barrett, who had
dealt with Walker for years,
hammered the Republican on
issues big and small, from the
county’s spending levels to how
he handled the debt. “Look, the
Left tried to attack me for little
things we had done here and
there,” Walker says. “But in the
end, my argument across the state
was, hey, if I could take on the
political machine in Milwaukee,
and win not just at the ballot box
but win in how I governed, there
was no doubt that I could take on
the political machine in
Madison.”
As the race began to boil, former
House speaker Newt Gingrich,
who knows a thing or two about
jousting with government
workers, became one of his top
mentors behind the scenes. They
discussed policy and politics over
long phone conversations. The
Republican Governors
Association, sensing a possible
pick-up, poured cash into his
coffers.
On Election Day, Walker turned
43. He also beat Barrett, taking 52
percent of the vote. Barrett’s
support for the stimulus, the foul
odor of Obamacare, and Walker’s
ability to defend his record, all
while championing what he calls
“brown bag” conservatism, did
him in. “It boiled down to getting
Wisconsin working again,”
Walker says. “The other part was
explaining how I could fix our
fiscal mess without hurting our
economy and limiting the role of
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‘Free’ Public Radio Is Anything But
Submitted at 2/23/2011 3:00:21 AM
For all NPR’s vaunted private
donations, it is raising the battle
cry to avoid losing a dime of
taxpayer money.
N ational Public Radio listeners
are being inundated with warnings
that they soon may have to drive
to work every morning without
the sonorous intonations of
Morning Edition’s Corey Flintoff,
Steve Inskeep, and Renée
Montagne, and may be forced to
drive home without the narrative
drone of All Things Considered’s
Robert Siegel, Michele Norris,
and Melissa Block.
Just this morning, I received a
panicked e-mail from the director
of broadcasting at an NPR
affiliate in my home state,
Michigan. You know, one of
those state-based public-radio
operations that just last October
received a portion of George
Soros’s $1.8 million Open Society
Foundation gift to hire two
government reporters in each of
the 50 states; one of the same
group of radio stations benefiting
from the Joan Kroc Foundation’s
$200 million endowment in 2003;
one of the same stations that host
interminable on-air fundraisers at
least twice a year.
#ad#They are warning that
Congress may eliminate taxpayer
subsidies to the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting, the entity
that heaps money on 900 NPR
affiliates across the country.
The warnings reek of
disingenuousness.
After all, crying poverty is public
broadcasting’s modus operandi. If
it didn’t do it extremely well, no
one would donate during those
radiothons, corporations wouldn’t
spend huge sums of money to
sponsor programming, and
“people just like you” wouldn’t
forgo paying the cable bill so they
could help meet a challenge grant
from their neighbors and co-
workers.
As an example of how much
begging public radio does,
Wisconsin Public Radio -- a
network of 32 stations
programmed by seven regional
stations -- reported that 13 percent
of its total budget in 2009 was
used for fundraising.
Additionally, the network’s
website reveals that 25 percent
($1.94 million) of the revenues
garnered from listener and
corporate donations ($6.25
million and $1.58 million,
respectively) are directly allocated
to fundraising.
So it came as no surprise when I
received the director’s e-mail,
which warns, “I believe this is one
of the most serious challenges to
public broadcasting that we have
ever faced.”
Not mentioned in his emotional
appeal are the substantial costs
American taxpayers are stuck
with.
According to dedicated public-
broadcasting professionals at
several stations in Michigan with
whom I’ve had the pleasure of
speaking without a single
Freedom of Information Act
request, the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting allocates
federal tax dollars every year to
state NPR affiliates. Station
personnel I interviewed this past
week said that the sums granted to
affiliates range from $258,000 to
approximately $450,000 annually.
Why, that’s “only $1.35 per
American per year,” according to
the e-mail. But not every one of
the 300-plus million people in the
United States is forced to pony up
that buck thirty-five. If we
hypothetically assume that 150
million people file federal tax
returns and that half of those
receive substantial refunds, that
makes NPR’s share more like
$5.40 per person. That’s still
relatively insignificant for
enlightened fans of Terry Gross
and Diane Rehm -- but it’s $5.40
more than most of the people who
don’t listen to public radio would
pay if they had a choice.
Moreover, the public “donations”
don’t stop at direct coercion by
the federal government. State
taxpayers cover a big chunk of
public radio’s bill through
subsidies to state universities and
colleges that house transmitters,
offices, studios, and utilities. One
publicly supported station in
Michigan told me that this
arrangement amounts to 12
percent ($405,159) of its annual
budget. Wisconsin Public Radio
has a similar 10 percent ($1.6
million) “indirect/in-kind”
arrangement.
In addition, there is often direct
support from the colleges and
universities, which again are
supported by taxpayers. In many
cases the college’s board of
trustees owns the broadcast
license of the station nestled on its
campus, so a line-item
designation is included in the
college’s annual budget. The
Michigan public university
referred to above bestows $1.1
million on its public-radio station
(that’s 32.8 percent of the
station’s total annual revenues).
Likewise, Wisconsin colleges
contributed 23 percent of
Wisconsin Public Radio’s $16
million revenues in 2009.
There are plenty of other
arguments for defunding public
radio (and public television as
well), but the basic one is this:
Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to
support the luxury of public radio.
— Bruce Edward Walker
(bwalker@heartland.org) is
managing editor of The Heartland
Institute’s InfoTech & Telecom
News. Bruce Edward Walker
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government.”
As we chat, Walker pauses for a
second as the swirling, almost-
muted roars from the window and
the door grow louder. Someone is
beating a massive bass drum, the
kind used in a marching band.
Thump, thump, thump— cheers
— thump, thump, thump. Walker
clasps his hands and grins, but
does not comment on the noise.
The chapel-quiet of his sanctuary
has been disturbed, if only for a
moment.
#page#Walker has been a political
animal going back to the Bush 41
era. In 1990, he left Marquette
with no degree and a middling
grade-point average and ran for
the state assembly. As an
undergraduate, he had run for
student government and lost, but
in his early twenties, he was eager
to leave the classroom and hit the
campaign trail. So he took a job
with the local American Red
Cross in marketing, left school,
and put all of his energy, as a
young and ambitious single man,
into winning the seat. You don’t
hear much about this in his
official biography.
“It was a race I wasn’t going to
win,” Walker tells me. He thought
that Democrat Gwen Moore, who
now holds a U.S. House seat,
should be opposed by a
conservative with some fire in his
belly. He hardly made a dent —
Moore coasted to victory and
Walker was now a political loser
without a college degree. What he
would do next, he did not know.
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EPA Circumventing Congress…Again

Nicolas Loris (The Foundry: earlier guidance prepared by the Adler, director of the Center for
Conservative Policy News.) Bush Administration. Business Law and Regulation at
Submitted at 2/23/2011 10:00:17 AM At issue are two Supreme Court the Case Western Reserve
rulings that environmentalists say University School of Law said,
Posted February 23rd, 2011 at h a v e n a r r o w e d t h e l a w ’ s “The problem is, you’ve got to do
11:00am in Energy and jurisdiction over isolated a hell of a lot of research to show
Environment Print This Post wetlands, intermittent streams and if you have a significant nexus.
The Environmental Protection other marginal waters. In Solid You’ve got to do this long,
Agency (EPA) is developing the Waste Agency of Northern Cook expensive project to figure this
reputation for moving forward County (SWANCC) v. Army out before you do anything else. It
with plans Congress cannot Corps of Engineers, the court makes the whole project much
accomplish. Last Congress, limited the basis for asserting longer in time span and also more
Representative Jim Oberstar (D- jurisdiction over solely intrastate involved up front.”
MN) and Senator Russ Feingold waters, while in Rapanos v. Adler also noted that a final rule,
(D-WI) tried to expand the United States, the court provided even if it were unfavorable, would
powers of the EPA by introducing t w o c o m p e t i n g t e s t s f o r at least provide certainty for
legislation that would replace the determining jurisdiction. Justice industry: “If the Obama
term “navigable waters” in the Kennedy’s test for determining administration is going to assert
Clean Water Act with “waters of jurisdiction states that water Sound familiar? It should. The have long complained that the excessive authority, the industry
t h e U . S . , ” w h i c h w o u l d bodies must have a ‘significant EPA is also using the Clean Air c o n f l i c t i n g S u p r e m e C o u r t would rather have that embodied
significantly expand what the nexus’ to ‘navigable waters’, Act to bypass Congress. Realizing decisions have made it difficult to in a clear, final action under a rule
EPA could regulate. Reforming while Justice Antonin Scalia the exorbitant costs and minimal obtain federal permits for areas because if the industry wanted to
the Clean Water Act is necessary, offered a stricter test that required e n v i r o n m e n t a l i m p a c t o f affecting wetlands. The source of challenge the administration, they
but this is the wrong way to go regulators to show a relatively instituting a massive carbon confusion is Justice Anthony would have this final act to
about it. permanent surface connection dioxide regulatory regime, K e n n e d y ’ s d e c i s i o n challenge.”
Congress rejected the Oberstar- with a traditionally navigable Members of Congress stopped cap that“regulators must determine A final rule should provide
Feingold approach, but now EPA water to assert jurisdiction. -and-trade legislation to cut CO2 where there’s a “significant clarity but not be unnecessarily
is unilaterally moving forward The divide on the definition of emissions from becoming law in nexus” between a wetland and i n v a s i v e t o e c o n o m i c
with its own rules. The Western “navigable waters” may not the last Congress. But the EPA is navigable waters. His definition d e v e l o p m e n t .
Business Roundtable obtained a matter according the EPA’s draft trudging ahead with its own plans of that nexus is where wetlands This entry passed through the
38-page leaked draft guidance that guidance. The draft guidance to regulate CO2 under the Clean “significantly affect the chemical, Full-Text RSS service — if this is
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The guidance will ‘significantly’ s i g n i f i c a n t l y c o m p a r e d t o funds to issue the guidance, is a d e t e r m i n e w h a t i s i n i t s Five Filters featured article:
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oversee wetlands and other SWANCC guidance and the 2008 should remove the confusion from It’s also difficult for businesses to The Crosshairs.
marginal waters compared to Rapanos guidance.” the law. Developers and farmers disprove a nexus exists. Jonathan
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Stay Unreasonable Voices of

Congress passed in December to consumed just 18 percent of GDP. be prepared to cut even more
Submitted at 2/23/2011 3:00:42 AM
fund the government through
The budget cuts of 2011 have to March 4. In 2010, the federal
This is like taking a cupcake
away from the world’s fattest man
popular programs, including
bigger cuts in defense, and to
Moderation
be defended if the real work of government spent $3.46 trillion. and having somebody scream that finally tackle entitlements. Submitted at 2/22/2011 11:00:56 PM
2012 is to have any chance. Assuming a 2010 baseline for this he’s starving. Recently, majority whip Eric
L ast week, the Republican- y e a r ’ s b u d g e t m a k e s t h o s e For the most part, this was a Cantor and Budget Committee History shows that muffling your
c o n t r o l l e d H o u s e o f “draconian” budget cuts equal to serious exercise in budget cutting. chairman Paul Ryan have message can mean forfeiting
Representatives voted to reduce just 1.7 percent of this year’s Sure, some of it was political indicated that they may be willing many a battle to extremists.
FY2011 federal spending by $61 federal spending. positioning (were five separate to seriously take on that M oderation -- at least verbal
billion. Democrats responded as if Or look at it another way. The amendments to defund challenge. moderation -- is suddenly in
A r m a g e d d o n h a d e r u p t e d . administration just announced that Obamacare really necessary?) or That’s what makes the upcoming vogue.
“Irresponsible,” complained it expects this year’s budget silliness (Rep. Steve Womack of fight over preserving the $61 President Obama’s rhetoric has
Senate majority leader Harry deficit to be $1.65 trillion. Thus, Arizona introduced an billion in cuts so important. Once moderated, even if his policies
Reid. Taking “a meat axe to the the House’s budget cuts amounted amendment to take away Obama’s the Senate passes its budget -- and practices have not. Among
budget,” offered Sen. Chuck to 3.6 percent of the deficit. Think teleprompter), and many of the which probably will have far Republicans, voices of
Schumer of New York. “Severe about that: Republicans just cut targets (Planned Parenthood, the fewer cuts -- we can expect moderation are warning that the
and indiscriminate,” added House less than 4 percent of the spending Corporation for Public another round of stories about party cannot win elections without
minority leader Nancy Pelosi. that we don’t have the money to Broadcasting) were easy ones for how “unreasonable” Republicans having a “big tent” and reaching
“Dangerous,” warned the New pay for. Heck, our budget deficit Republicans. Still, this are for insisting on those $61 out to Hispanics, for example.
York Times. for last month was $48 billion, so represented the first significant billion in savings. But if Recently, conservative talk-show
#ad#A million people will be a p p a r e n t l y w e ’ v e c o v e r e d reduction in federal spending in Republicans back down from host Michael Medved has
thrown out of work, according to J a n u a r y . W h e w ! many years, with the cuts spread making these cuts, there will be suggested that Rush Limbaugh
one report. Children will starve, What part of “broke” do the across virtually the entire no chance of withstanding the and Sarah Palin should moderate
s a i d a n o t h e r . W h a t n e x t ? Democrats not understand? government, including defense howls of outrage that can be their attacks on Obama.
“Volcanoes, earthquakes, human Even after these budget cuts, and homeland security. And to expected to greet the next round #ad# Moderation is fine -- if it is
sacrifice, mass hysteria, dogs and government spending will have paraphrase the late Sen. Everett of cuts. not carried to extremes. But some
cats living together ?” increased by 24 percent since Dirksen, “Sixty-one billion here, Let’s hope they stay moderates seem to think that it is
Before we get too far into President Obama took office. And 61 billion there, and pretty soon unreasonable. always a good thing to tone down
worrying that the sky is falling, a those spending increases came on you’re talking real money.” — Michael Tanner is a senior your words. Yet history shows
bit of perspective might be in top of the spending increases On the other hand, before fellow at the Cato Institute and that muffling your message can
order. The cuts were part of a during the Bush administration. Republicans dislocate a shoulder author of Leviathan on the Right: mean forfeiting many a battle to
$1.35 trillion bill to fund the B y “ s l a s h i n g ” g o v e r n m e n t patting themselves on the back, How Big-Government extremists.
government for the seven months programs, Republicans will have they should realize just how far Conservatism Brought Down the No one has had more of a mixed
r e m a i n i n g i n F Y 2 0 1 1 . T h e reduced the size of government they still have to go. To actually Republican Revolution. Michael and muffled message than Sen.
spending cuts were a reduction from 23.8 percent of GDP to just bring the budget into balance will Tanner John McCain, which is why
from 2010 spending levels, the 23.4 percent. As recently as ten clearly require much bigger cuts. Barack Obama is president of the
same levels that were contained in y e a r s a g o , u n d e r P r e s i d e n t Going into the FY2012 budget, United States.
the “continuing resolution” that Clinton, the federal government Republicans are going to have to Republican moderates warn their
fellow Republicans that they need
to move away from the Ronald
Reagan approach, in order to
attract a wider range of voters.

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Lowering Our Sights
Alan W. Dowd (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 2/22/2011 10:30:34 PM
The Space Shuttle Discovery is
scheduled to lift off this week in
one of the final three missions of
the Shuttle program. Once the
Shuttles are mothballed and
shipped off to the museums, the
United States will have no way of
delivering its own into space, at
least not for the foreseeable
future. Instead, U.S. astronauts
will fly on Russian rockets, while
NASA tries to leverage
commercial space assets. Most
Americans either don’t care or
don’t know about the nation’s
looming self-imposed exile from
space. That will change as Russia,
China and others surge ahead in
space—and America lowers its
sights.
To be sure, there’s plenty of
blame to go around for this
predicament. For decades,
policymakers of both parties and
the public at large shrugged at the
manmade miracle of space flight,
failed to appreciate the nation’s
reliance on space for everyday
life, and failed to invest in or plan
for post-Shuttle space capabilities.
For example, when the Ares I-X
rocket was tested in October
2009, it marked the first new crew
-capable spacecraft unveiled by
NASA in 30 years.
Washington’s benign neglect of
NASA and space began to change
in 2004, when President George
W. Bush announced a plan to use
the best of the Shuttle and Apollo
programs in developing a new
system—known as
Constellation—to carry
Americans beyond low-earth orbit
and deep into space. The plan
called for retiring the remaining
Space Shuttles—Discovery,
Endeavour and Atlantis—in order
to make way for Constellation’s
Crew Exploration Vehicle and the
Ares I launch vehicle. By shutting
down the Shuttle program, NASA
would be able to divert precious
economic, human and material
resources to the Constellation
program.
As Apollo astronauts Neil
Armstrong, Gene Cernan and Jim
Lovell noted in an open letter last
year, “Constellation was endorsed
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by two presidents of different
parties and approved by both
Democratic and Republican
congresses.” But President Barack
Obama, stubbornly intent on
being the anti-Bush, canceled
Constellation, choosing instead to
use NASA resources to purchase
more Russian-outsourced
missions and to encourage the
development of commercial
rockets.
These alternatives are simply not
worthy of the United States, the
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Africa’s Ceausescu
Stephen Brown (FrontPage tribalism, which strongly
Magazine » FrontPage) defines Libya, the Arab world’s
Submitted at 2/22/2011 10:40:34 PM most tribal society east of Saudi
Arabia. They are probably even
After losing control of two-thirds more unfamiliar with the tribal
of his country to anti-government code of revenge for perceived
protesters and suffering wrongs. And Gaddafi has given
condemnation worldwide for some Libyan tribes, as well as
bloody human rights abuses, individual Libyans, enough cause
Libyan dictator Muammar in his four decades in power to
Gaddafi is still refusing to go hold deadly grudges against him,
quietly into the night. the consequences of which would
As Libya descended into violence also spill over on to his clan.
and chaos, in a rambling 73- In the French newspaper, Le
minute television broadcast a Figaro, analyst Olivier Pliez cites
defiant Gaddafi called himself a
“Bedouin warrior’ and said he
the recent defection of the large
and powerful al-Warfulla tribe as
The
would stay and “fight until the last
drop of my blood” and die as “a
martyr.”
an example of this tribal code of
revenge in action. One of the
tribe’s leaders, Akram al-
Multiculti
The broadcast was made from a where they flew the banned flag
damaged
More than 300 people are Warfulla, announced on national
b u i l d i n g of Libya’s pre-Gaddafi royal reported to have died in the television the withdrawal of his
in Tripoli, Libya’s capital, which regime. About half of Libya’s fighting so far that has seen tanks tribe’s support for the regime.
Tango
David Solway (FrontPage
American forces under President 1,000 mile Mediterranean coast is and warplanes used against the Unreported in many Western Magazine » FrontPage)
Ronald Reagan had bombed in now in anti-government hands. demonstrators. Tripoli’s violence- media outlets is the fact that the al
Submitted at 2/22/2011 10:30:44 PM
1986 as a reprisal for Libyan- Gaddafi has since promised the scarred streets are described as -Warfulla tribe, as Pliez relates,
sponsored terrorist attacks. The demonstrators the death penalty. resembling a war zone. Gaddafi is had been involved in a military It takes two to tango, goes the
“Brotherly Leader and Guide of Libya is the third North African also employing mercenaries coup d’etat against Gaddafi in cliché, a truth so evident even the
the Revolution,” as Gaddafi is country this year, in which the from Chad and Sudan who are 1993, in which a hundred of its cliché must blush with
called in Libyan publications, had people have risen in popular r e p o r t e d t o h a v e f i r e d members were killed. Afterwards, embarrassment for expressing it.
deliberately left the building in a r e v o l t a g a i n s t u n b e a r a b l e indiscriminately on protesters. the tribe was “repressed and But what is true of the tango is no
state of disrepair as a monument economic conditions and long- As Gaddafi digs in his heels, the marginalised”, and now sees in less the case for the complex
to “American perfidy.” standing oppression. Successful in civil strife will definitely deepen, the current disturbances the immigration dance in which the
“Muammar Gaddafi is not a Tunisia and Egypt, whose leaders since the reason behind his opportunity “to settle accounts.” newcomer is expected to partner
president and not the kind of were pushed from power with determination to use force to “We declare to brother Muammar with the cultural norms and
person, against whom one can little bloodshed, Gaddafi is remain in power is fear. For him Gaddafi that he is no longer a usages of his adoptive
conduct demonstrations,” the proving a harder nut to crack. and his clan, the Libyan leader, brother. We tell him to leave the country—or, to be precise, was
L i b y a n l e a d e r t o l d h i s Like the Romanian dictator who came into power 42 years country,” Akram al-Warfulla expected to do so before the
countrymen, who had already Nikolai Ceausescu, who also a g o a t a g e 2 7 i n h i s o w n o m i n o u s l y w a r n e d i n t h e terpsichorean disaster of
proven him wrong by successfully refused to step down when revolution that deposed 80-year b r o a d c a s t . multiculturalism introduced the
taking to the streets against him. communist regimes fell like old King Idris, knows defeating scrum we see daily enacted before
Anti-government protesters had dominoes in Eastern Europe in the revolt is an all or nothing our eyes.
seized eastern Libya, including 1989, his African counterpart is proposition. Most Westerners are
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#ad#He soon met Tonette
Tarantino, a widow eleven years
his senior, at a barbecue restaurant
in Wauwatosa. They hit it off
immediately and soon began to
date. He proposed in the summer
of 1992 and they were married in
February 1993. As a 25-year-old
married man looking to reassert
himself in the community, Walker
decided to try politics once again.
This time, he threw his energy
into a special-election for the state
assembly.
“There was an open seat and I had
been talking about this for years,”
Walker says. “I was married to
Tonette and we were living in a
little duplex. After all this time
talking about it, I felt that I should
do it. It was a five-way
Republican primary — all were
older, more established candidates
than I. But I wore out a couple
pairs of shoes and knocked on a
ton of doors and won the primary,
then the general against the son of
the county executive.” Barely old
enough to rent a car, his rise in
Wisconsin politics had begun.
While Walker is proud of what
he has accomplished over the past
two decades, he tells me that his
political career, for all of its ups
and downs, has not been the
defining part of his life. What
matters to him are God and his
family; that’s his backbone.
Turning toward the protesters, he
doesn’t have to say it — the
message is clear: these yelpers
and screamers don’t faze him.
Part of his plainspoken nature —
he has none of the frank
combativeness of Gov. Chris
Christie of New Jersey —
developed far from Madison, in
Colorado Springs, where he was
born, and in Plainfield, Iowa,
where he grew up before moving
to Delavan, Wis., with his family.
His father, Llewellyn Walker, led
Baptist churches and his mother
was an accountant for retail shops.
His father, he says, had a major
influence on him, and Walker
proudly describes himself as a
born-again Christian.
During high school in the early
1980s, Walker idolized Ronald
Reagan. But he was not a political
nut: He was an active athlete,
active in church, and had a mullet.
His experience as an Eagle Scout
is what he is most fond of, and he
often talks about those values in
speeches and in exchanges with
citizens. Same with his time at
Badger Boys State, which he says
fueled his interest in politics. He
also had some fun: He played
football for the Comets at
Delavan-Darien High and his
tongue-in-cheek nickname was
“The Desperado.”
The fondness for Reagan is what
sticks with him today as he battles
the public-sector unions, much as
the Gipper fought hard against the
striking air-traffic controllers
three decades ago. “Like for Paul
Ryan, who grew up down the road
from me in Janesville, Ronald
Reagan was the inspiration,”
Walker says. “In my family, any
time there was a crisis, we were
drawn to him.”
“How he led very much inspired
how I lead in politics: Be realistic
about your challenges but
optimistic about your solutions,”
Walker says, as the thumping
drums start again. “That really
summarizes what Reagan brought
to the table. He knew who he was,
knew where he was going, and
knew how he was going to get
there. He was straightforward.
That’s what we are trying to do
here in Madison. People respect
honesty. We are broke and it’s
time someone stood up and told
the truth. But we are trying to fix
it. And we are being bold.”
Reagan, he hopes, would have
appreciated his tack. For
conservatives across the country,
there is no need to wonder.
--- Robert Costa is a political
reporter for National Review.
Robert Costa
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greatest space-faring nation in
history. As former NASA
administrator Michael Griffin
noted in 2008, “It is dangerous for
the United States to find itself
dependent upon any external
entity for a strategic capability,
and space transportation is just
that.”
What few Americans realize is
that Russia began carrying
American crews and cargo to the
International Space Station after
the Columbia disaster in 2003. Of
course, collaborating with Russia
by choice is far different than
counting on Putin and his puppets
out of necessity.
This is very troublesome,
especially given Russia’s open
hostility to U.S. interests and
policies. Consider the high-stakes
bargaining—or if you prefer,
blackmail—this unfortunate
situation invites. What’s to stop
the Kremlin from demanding that,
in exchange for a trip into space,
the U.S. deactivate missile
defense assets in Central Europe
or the Med, look the other way as
the Russian army finishes what it
started in Georgia, or accede to
Russian control over some new
energy pipeline.
Just as worrisome is Russia’s
space competence. Earlier this
85
month, Russia launched an
unmanned spacecraft, lost it for a
few days and then found it in the
wrong orbit. This followed failure
of a satellite to reach orbit due to
what news agencies called “a
basic fuel miscalculation that
made the craft too heavy to reach
its required height.”
And we’re going to entrust our
astronauts and space hardware to
these guys?
As to private-sector alternatives,
Armstrong, Cernan and Lovell
note that “The availability of a
commercial transport to orbit as
envisioned in the president’s
proposal cannot be predicted with
any certainty.” Indeed, there are
limitations to what private firms
can do: One of NASA’s main
private-sector partners is SpaceX,
which is developing the Falcon 9
rocket, which is expected to carry
22,000 pounds into space. By
contrast, the Shuttle can deliver a
65,000-pound payload into orbit.
Moreover, SpaceX rockets have
failed several times since 2006.
In short, the alternatives leave
much to be desired.
86 Social Media/
MULTICULTI
continued from page 84
The successful integration of the
immigrant into society demands a
series of intricate, syncopated
steps: he (or she, as it goes
without saying) must learn the
language well enough to function
in the marketplace and the public
square; should acquire a
familiarity with at least the
rudiments of the country’s
history; needs to seek
employment so as not to become a
burden on an overextended
welfare system; and must abide
by his oath of loyalty and
assimilate peacefully into the life
of nation.
The conventional metaphor
regarding optimal immigration is
what is known as the “melting
pot,” the paradigm developed in
the United States, not the “salad
bowl” model prevalent in Canada
and Europe. The melting pot
works, more or less; the salad
bowl, with its fragmented
ingredients, plainly does not. A
nation composed of immiscible
elements is asking for trouble. To
Apple iPad 2 Event Confirmed for March 2
Christina Warren (Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 11:04:02 AM
Reports circulated Tuesday that
Apple would be holding an event
on March 2, 2011, to unveil the
iPad 2; now it’s official. Apple
has issued an invitation to
members of the press today for its
upcoming event.
Any doubts about the nature of
the event should be assuaged by
revert to my controlling metaphor,
immigrants must learn to dance
chest to chest and hip to hip with
the partner they have agreed to
tango with.
All too often, the synergy does
not “take.” Indeed, an alternative
form of tango has become popular
in recent years. The tango nuevo,
as it’s called, provides for an open
embrace which permits the
“leader” to perform all manner of
figures and evolutions of his
choosing. Similarly, the
immigration dance has become
“heteronormative,” that is, the
“lead” falls to the arrivalist who
creates a kind of hyphenated
space in order to impose the
motifs he prefers on the other.
The tango nuevo is fine and
dandy on a Rioplatense dance
floor, but it does not belong in the
multicultural ballroom. This
means, of course, that there is no
room for the separating hyphen in
forming one’s national identity.
Responding to the current events
in Egypt, an Egyptian-Canadian
the graphic accompanying the
invitation.
The text accompanying the image
reads:
Please join us for an invitation-
only event at the Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts Theater in San
Francisco on March 2 at 10:00
a.m. Registration begins at 9:00
a.m. Please arrive early. RSVP to
rsvp_media@apple.com.
You’ve got to love the double-
interviewed on CBC radio
affirmed, without the slightest
awareness of the discrepancy, “I
am proud of my country.” The
question that naturally arises is:
which country? For this particular
individual, who has been long
settled in Canada, the answer is
dismayingly clear. He is not
dancing to Canada’s tune, but to
the exotic strains of another
cultural and political world.
One recalls, too, that during the
2006 Israel/Lebanon war, the
Canadian government repatriated,
at taxpayer largesse, several
thousand Lebanese-Canadians
caught in the midst of the turmoil.
After hostilities had ceased and a
year or so had passed, most of
these hyphenated beneficiaries of
what they considered their
entitlement as Canadians returned
to their sunny Mediterranean
billet as native Lebanese.
What we are observing in all too
many cases is not a dance in
which two partners agree to enact
the proper steps, but a razzia, a
meaning of the number “2.” The
actual details concerning the iPad
raid by one party upon the
generosity of another while
retaining what amounts to an alien
and often parasitical identity.
Canada is especially prone to such
depredations. As Canadian
Minister of Citizenship,
I m m i g r a t i o n a n d
Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney,
points out, “Canada has the
highest relative level of
immigration in the developed
world” and is, additionally,
saddled with a judiciary that is
soft on refugee claims. Again, this
is asking for trouble, and there has
been plenty of it. Our position
requires excessive caution and
stringent rules of admission, both
in the protocols governing the
reception of illegals to our shores
and the vetting of legitimate
applications.
2 are still under wraps, but that
hasn’t stopped the rumor mill
from cranking into overdrive. You
can read some of the latest rumors
in our iPad 2 rumor guide.
Now that we know the date of the
big event, we can all settle in and
enjoy “stage 5 in the Apple rumor
cycle, “the silence before the
storm.”
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But Ronald Reagan won two
consecutive landslide elections --
and he couldn’t have done that if
the only people who voted for him
were dedicated conservatives.
What Reagan had was a clear,
coherent, and believable message.
Even voters who did not agree
with him 100 percent could
respect that and prefer it to the
alternative.
He didn’t have to offer
earmarked goodies to each special
group, in order to get their votes.
Pandering can gain you some
votes but lose you many others.
After the tragic murders and
attempted murders in Tucson,
some Democrats and the media
have promoted the notion that
sharp political criticism somehow
provoked the shootings. There is
not a speck of evidence to support
that notion.
Such evidence as there is points
in the opposite direction, because
the individual charged with the
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Secretary-General Ban Preaches to the

Hollywood Choir While Tripoli Burns
Brett Schaefer (The Foundry: Goodwill Ambassadors among
Conservative Policy News.) Hollywood’s elite is
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:00:32 PM overwhelming. The Oscars must
have dozens of current and former
Posted February 23rd, 2011 at U.N. ambassadors in the audience
1:00pm in American Leadership each year. Is there some sort of
Print This Post union requirement or something?
As Middle Eastern and North I’m surprised no one has created a
African governments totter and drinking game about it.
fall, United Nations Secretary-
General Ban Ki-moon has his
sights set on the real crisis: getting
The U.N.’s fixation on improving
its image and promoting its
agenda through Hollywood is just
Columbia’s
Hollywood to produce more films
on global warming. As reported in
another illustration that the
organization doesn’t get it. The Disgrace
the Guardian: U.N.’s image rises and falls on its Daniel Flynn (FrontPage
Ban has been on the phone to actions and determination to Magazine » FrontPage)
Gaddafi and other leaders in the fulfill the principles outlined in its Submitted at 2/22/2011 10:37:45 PM
Middle East from Hollywood, conflict of interest. Ban send in his stead actor and C h a r t e r , w h i c h i n c l u d e s
where he is trying to raise the Secretary-General Ban’s decision U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for promoting human rights and “It doesn’t matter how you feel
profile of climate change and – t o g o t o C a l i f o r n i a r a i s e s Biodiversity Edward Norton, fundamental freedoms. Even the about the war,” Columbia
who knows – maybe pitch a fundamental questions about his s u p e r m o d e l a n d U . N . best public relations efforts can’t University freshman Anthony
movie. and the U.N.’s priorities. After all, Environment Program Global overcome electing Libya to the Maschek told classmates last
You might think that Secretary- convincing Hollywood to produce Ambassador Gisele Bundchen, or U.N. Human Rights Council or week. “It doesn’t matter how you
General Ban’s priorities are a bit movies about global warming is a c t r e s s a n d U . N . H i g h appointing a tyrant’s daughter as a feel about fighting. There are bad
backwards. Perhaps he could fit in pretty much the definition of low- Commissioner for Refugees U.N. Goodwill Ambassador. men out there plotting to kill
a phone call to Hollywood while h a n g i n g f r u i t . R e m e m b e r Goodwill Ambassador Angelina This entry passed through the you.”
engaging in direct diplomacy to Waterworld, The 11 th Hour, The Jolie? U.N. Environment Program Full-Text RSS service — if this is Maschek knows this too well. In
stop Libyan leader Muammar D a y A f t e r T o m o r r o w , A n Global Ambassador Don Cheadle your content and you're reading it 2008, the Army staff sergeant got
Qadhafi’s effort to violently Inconvenient Truth, or any of the is accompanying Secretary- on someone else's site, please read shot eleven times in a fight in
repress his citizens? Is Ban d o z e n s o f o t h e r m o v i e s , General Ban on his trip. Couldn’t our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ Kirkuk, Iraq. Before arriving at
relying, instead, on the efforts of documentaries, and TV episodes he have made the pitch? content-only/faq.php Columbia last August, Maschek
UNDP Goodwill Ambassador that focused on global warming? A quick Google search will Five Filters featured article: had spent two years rehabilitating
A i s h a Q a d h a f i ? S h e i s t h e Global warming is so common a demonstrate the utter lack of need Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In at Walter Reed Army Medical
Colonel’s daughter. That gives plot line that it’s become clichéd. for the U.N. to improve its ties to The Crosshairs. Center. His road from Idaho to
her access, of course, but raises Why didn’t Secretary-General Hollywood. The number of U.N. Columbia via Iraq was certainly
certain, ahem, questions about the one less travelled.
Such a story awes and inspires
the rest of America. At Columbia,
Maschek got heckled. “Racist!”

COLUMBIA’S page 89
88 Politics-Right/ Newstablet Edition

Another Challenge for the Administration: Piracy

in the Gulf of Aden
Morgan Roach (The Foundry: is an unreliable partner in
Conservative Policy News.) combating piracy, there are
Submitted at 2/23/2011 11:00:31 AM legitimate actors within civil
society and traditional clan
Posted February 23rd, 2011 at authorities that the U.S. should
12:00pm in American Leadership engage. By working with some of
Print This Post the more acceptable local
With chaos erupting in North authorities, the United States can
Africa and the Middle East, it’s not only encourage improved
easy to forget the many governance in Somalia but also
challenges the U.S. faces in the combat piracy.
region. On Monday, Somali With attacks averaging more than
pirates seized an American yacht one per day, the United States
off the Horn of Africa. The next must defend its people and
day all four Americans onboard economy against lawless acts in
were murdered by their captors. international waters and focus on
Piracy is one of the most a strategy to address lawlessness
common and most complicated incidents off the Horn of Africa, g o v e r n m e n t “ a u t h o r i t y ” in Somalia. This is essential to
issues for the international which totals 75 percent of the r e c o g n i z e d b y t h e U n i t e d global commerce and America’s
community. According to The world’s pirate attacks. Nations—remains unable to broader security interests in the
Heritage Foundation’s Maritime Piracy is a particularly difficult establish control over Somalia or region.
Security report, each year, 21,000 issue for the U.S. to handle for a even the capital city. As a result This entry passed through the
commercial ships sail through the number of reasons, including (but of this anarchic environment, Full-Text RSS service — if this is
Gulf of Aden and Suez Canal, certainly not limited to) the lack piracy continues to thrive. your content and you're reading it
transporting over 10 percent of of a functioning government in While authoritarian regimes on someone else's site, please read
the global oil supply and 7 percent Somalia. For nearly two decades, collapse across the region, the our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
o f t h e w o r l d ’ s m a r i t i m e Somalia has been ruled by tribal U.S. must not forget those states content-only/faq.php
commerce. Somali pirates exploit factions, warlords and terrorist whose governments have already Five Filters featured article:
their geographic position to make organizations. The Transitional failed. They too wreak havoc on Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In
easy money. This year alone, Federal Government (TFG)—the national security. While the TFG The Crosshairs.
there have been 50 recorded
Newstablet Edition
VOICES
continued from page 86
crime did not follow talk radio or
Sarah Palin.
This same political game was
played after the assassination of
Pres. John F. Kennedy, which was
blamed on the “hostile”
conservative atmosphere in
Dallas. But the atmosphere in
Dallas did not kill JFK. A bullet
from a far-left kook killed him.
The “criticism causes violence”
notion plays right into the hands
of those Democrats who have
done outrageous things in
Washington, and who now
insulate themselves from the
outrage they provoked by
equating strong criticism with
fomenting violence.
Apparently some moderate
Republicans don’t realize that you
can’t buy your opponents’
assumptions and then try to
oppose the conclusions that
follow.
Michael Medved criticized Sarah
Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and
Dinesh D’Souza for depicting
Barack Obama as someone who
does not love this country, and
who is deliberately doing things
to undermine it, at home and
abroad. Medved declared, “It’s
particularly unhelpful to focus on
alleged bad intentions and rotten
character when every survey
shows more favorable views of
his personality and policies.”
Are public opinion polls the way
to determine the truth? If so, we
can all outsource our thinking to
Gallup and Zogby.
Medved also cites other
presidents of the past, whose
errors or even sins did not mean
that they were unpatriotic. But
does anyone seriously believe that
this tells us anything about Barack
Obama, one way or the other?
Like some others, Medved seems
to think that Obama’s pragmatic
desire to be reelected means that
he is not an ideological extremist.
But Hitler and Stalin were
pragmatic and that did not stop
them from being extremists.
Finally, there is the argument that
Republicans will have a harder
time winning the next election if
they are “perceived as running
against the presidency.” But Rush
Limbaugh and Dinesh D’Souza
are not running for office, and it is
not certain that Sarah Palin will be
either.
And nobody is running against
“the presidency.” They will be
running against Barack Obama.
Are we not to consider a
possibility with deep and painful
implications for the future of this
nation, for such feeble reasons as
these? Or just because moderation
is a Good Thing?
--- Thomas Sowell is a senior
fellow at the Hoover Institution.
© 2011 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Thomas Sowell
COLUMBIA’S
continued from page 87
one student reportedly jeered,
while others booed and laughed
at the disabled veteran, according
to the New York Post.
The wounded warrior’s
impromptu speech was part of the
second of three campus forums
on the possible return of the
Reserve Officers Training Corps
to Columbia in the wake of the
repeal of the congressional ban on
open homosexuals serving in the
military. At the first forum, like
the second, a slight majority of
speakers urged the school to
continue to keep ROTC out of
Morningside Heights. The third
forum takes place February 23.
The University Senate votes on
the matter in April.
Columbia is hardly the sole
hotbed of military bashing. With
the lifting of the “don’t ask, don’t
tell” prohibition on out-of-the-
closet gays serving in the armed
forces, schools—Yale, Harvard,
Stanford, Brown, etc.—that
discriminate against ROTC cadets
(but not, consequently, against
military research grants and
contracts) have the face-saving
opportunity to welcome back
would-be student servicemen.
Instead, the disappearance of
gays in the military as an issue
has prompted ever-more creative
89
rationalizations for continued anti
-military discrimination.
“Harvard should promote public
service, but supporting the
military as a particular form of
service is problematic,”
sophomore Christian Anderson
contended in a debate over ROTC
returning to America’s oldest
college. “Not everything the
military does constitutes public
service.” The rebuttal came in
response to a College
Republican’s seemingly benign
remark that including ROTC at
Harvard would honor students
serving America.
Conrad Honicker, an Emory
University freshman, complained
in the school paper that the
military has “no services in place
to update gender, and trans-
related health care is
systematically denied to
transgender service members and
veterans…. How can we justify
bringing ROTC and military
recruiters onto our campus when
their values so clearly contradict
our affirmation of our transgender
friends and peers?”
90 Social Media/ Newstablet Edition

Ruby on Rails: Scaling Your App for Rapid Growth

Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!) performance and efficiency and the convenience of following
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:07:57 PM characteristics that need to be the Rails golden path is
considered. Ruby’s standard completely worthwhile. But most
The Web Development Series is interpreter doesn’t have a great interesting apps will run into at
supported by Rackspace, the reputation for being fast, but as least a few points where the
better way to do hosting. Learn part of a larger, well-architected standard tools break down, and
more about Rackspace’s hosting system, it is very rarely the you need to access your data
solutions here. bottleneck. differently.
Gowalla CTO and co-founder So, as a developer for a popular Fortunately, it’s a wonderful time
Scott Raymond knows a thing or service, the challenge becomes for alternative data stores. Just
two about Ruby— and about trying to foresee which actions look through the Heroku add-ons
Cocoa, scaling, handling huge will be the most frequently page — you’ve got Redis,
amounts of location data, mobile requested, which data types will MySQL, CouchDB, Memcache,
apps and NoSQL. be the fastest growing, and which MongoDB, Solr and more — all
Gowalla is a Ruby shop, and as actions are the most performance- available as hosted services. It’s
the captain of that particular ship, sensitive. In my experience, it’s incredibly freeing to be able to
Raymond has had quite a bit of harder to predict these things than feeds and audit logs. I expect that that have their own data storage tinker with these tools without
experience building a popular web you would think. I have spent our usage of Cassandra will grow and deployment patterns. So far, w o r r y i n g a b o u t u p - f r o n t
app from the ground up using many hours trying to “pre-scale” a lot this year, and that we’ll also all of those services are written in installation and configuration.
Ruby on Rails. parts of the app that never became start relying on Hadoop to help us Ruby, but I won’t be surprised if The example from the second
In a recent e-mail interview, we a problem, which often leads to understand our data better. some of them end up being question is a prime example of
found out what Raymond had to maintenance headaches. Here is a simplified example of written in Scala, or with Node.js, this. Scaling activity streams with
say about those experiences and You guys collect and store a h o w w e s t o r e a n d r e t r i e v e or something else. But when it a relational database in fairly real
what he has learned from them massive amount of location data checkins, using a custom-build c o m e s t o t h e c e n t r a l w e b time is tricky — it often breaks
over the past three and a half for your app. How do you use t i m e l i n e s e r v i c e , c a l l e d a p p l i c a t i o n t h a t p o w e r s down when one user has millions
years. Ruby and Rails for this type of Chronologic, which is backed by gowalla.com, I’m very happy with of followers, or when one user
Much has been made of Ruby/ data in these amounts? Cassandra: it being Ruby/Rails. follows millions of others. To
Rails’ perceived flaws when it We use a variety of storage When you’re not coding in Ruby, Here is a section of one of the make it work, we created a
c o m e s t o s c a l i n g . I n y o u r systems for different purposes. what other languages/tools do you view controllers in the Gowalla service called Chronologic that
experience, what are the unique O u r b i g g e s t d a t a b a s e i s use? Or, if you had to choose iPhone application. This code manages any kind of timeline, and
challenges of working with this PostgreSQL — it currently stores another language for Gowalla, handles authenticating with a third exposes a relatively simple
language and framework and the canonical records for most of what would it be? -party service. interface to the Rails application.
trying to scale an app for a nation- our data, including users, spots, When I’m coding at work these From a fan via Twitter: Was the Under the covers, Chronologic
wide consumer audience? and checkins. days, it’s usually on our iOS t r a d i t i o n a l A c t i v e R e c o r d uses Cassandra for most of its
Most of the “Rails can’t scale” We also rely heavily on Redis for client — so Cocoa/Objective-C is modeling enough or did you have storage.
noise is outdated or was all kinds of things, like where I’m spending most of my to use an NoSQL alternative? What kind of gem testing do you
misguided in the first place. In friendships, counters and queues. time. Every Rails app that I’ve ever use, if any?
general, the question of scalability We use lots of memcached for But for server-side work, I see us worked on has had to break away We use Shoulda, Factory Girl
applies at the level of architecture ephemeral things, Varnish for gradually moving toward a more from the “ActiveRecord way” at and FlexMock for testing our
and systems, and not really at the HTTP caches and Solr to keep services-oriented architecture. We some point, for some part of the Ruby/Rails code. After each
l e v e l o f l a n g u a g e s a n d fuzzy spot searches fast. a r e a l w a y s l o o k i n g a t o u r app. But it’s not an all-or-nothing commit, a local continuous
frameworks. Increasingly, we’re using application today and trying to question. Most of the time, the integration server runs the test
T h a t s a i d , l a n g u a g e s a n d Cassandra to store a lot of stream- identify pieces of functionality standard relational/ActiveRecord
frameworks do definitely have like data — things like activity RUBY page 91
that can be isolated into services approach works perfectly well,
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RUBY
continued from page 90

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What side project(s) are you
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Most of my “side” projects these
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proof-of-concept for a new
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Mashable & CNN iReport
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Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:39:56 PM
The next generation of digital
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The technology of the Porsche 911
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 2/23/2011 12:36:00 PM
Regardless of industry, there are
few brands more iconic than
Porsche. And, of all the car shapes
that have sprung from clay over
the years, few are more evocative
than the classic 911. It started in
1963 looking like a slightly
stretched Beetle -- which it wasn't
much bigger than. It's
considerably larger and heavier
now, having lost much of its
design purity in the ensuing 40-
odd years. Still, its same basic
shape and layout remain: bug eyes
up front and boxer motor in the
rear, slung between the back
wheels.
Today's 911, also known as the
997, has been around since 2005
and is about due to be replaced by
a new model. This means it's at
the top of its game, available in a
dizzying array of flavors that
include the sporty Carrera, sunny-
day cruisin' Cabriolet, all-wheel
drive powerhouse Turbo, all
leading up to the mind-blowingly
fast, twin-turbo 911 GT2. That car
is as devoid of creature comforts
as it is of apprehensions about
sending you flying sideways into
a tree. Screaming, probably.
These varying trim levels offer
juicy bits of tech like active center
differentials, launch control, and
double-clutch gearboxes. Join us
as we explore the race-ready bits
of technology that make these
cars faster and safer on the road
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and then take them for a spin
around Barber Motorsports Park
to see how it all comes together.
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