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Racial overtones at healthcare protest
Bill Trott (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 3/20/2010 7:09:51 PM
The protests against healthcare
reform took an ugly turn on
Saturday. Black congressmen
told reporters that demonstrators
called them the N-word and one
representative said he was spat
upon.
“This is not the first time the
congressman has been called the
N-word and certainly not the
worst assault he has endured in
his years fighting for equal
rights for all Americans,” said a
statement from the office of
Democratic Representative
Emanuel Cleaver.
“That being said, he is
disappointed that in the 21st
century our national discourse
has devolved to the point of
name-calling and spitting.”
The statement said the man
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Submitted at 3/21/2010 11:00:00 AM
suspected of spitting on Cleaver
was quickly arrested by police
but that the congressman would
not press charges.
The confrontations came as
Democratic House members
were going to the Capitol to
hear President Barack Obama
rally members to vote for the
2 Baltimore officers shot during traffic stop (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 9:18:27 AM
blur buzzed up: Ohio Democrat
- 21/03/10
healthcare overhaul, which
Democratic leaders predict will
be passed in a House vote on
Sunday. A crowd of at least 100
loud, sign-toting protesters
gathered around the
representatives.
“I heard people saying things
today I have not heard since
says she will vote for health bill
(AP)
47 seconds ago 2010-03-
21T10:49:23-07:00
http://www.LibertyNewspost.
First child to
receive stem-cell
March 15, 1960, when I was
marching to try to get off the transplant surgery
back of the bus,” Representative (Holy Kaw!)
Jim Clyburn was quoted as
saying on politico.com. “It was Submitted at 3/20/2010 12:25:30 PM
shocking to me.”
A ten-year-old boy in Britain
Representative John Lewis,
was the first child to undergo a
who was severely beaten during
stem-cell transplant. The boy
a 1965 civil rights march, was
received the scaffold of a
among those harassed and called
windpipe from a dead donor.
the N-word by protesters as they
His stem cells were injected in
shouted, “Kill the bill,”
the windpipe before the
according to The Washington
transplant.
Post.
The procedure will trigger
“It was like a page out of a time
regrowth of a normal transplant
machine,” Representative Andre
without, hopefully, his body
Carson, who accompanied
rejecting the windpipe. The
Lewis, told reporters.
ultimate goal is for regenerative
Photo credit: Reuters/Mike
growth from a patient’s own
Segar (Representative John
stem cells to reduce the need for
Lewis in a file photo taken
transplant surgery.
during the 2008 Democratic
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Now President Obama must show he has the courage to take

Israel on | Chris McGreal
Chris McGreal (World news: that the United Nations is a unprecedented assertion by the themselves up. But the myth of was barely a peep of protest
United States | conspiracy against the Jewish White House that Israeli policies the relentless search for peace from Washington.
guardian.co.uk) state. are jeopardising American was important to the efforts of But the ground has also shifted
Submitted at 3/21/2010 10:09:30 AM In all of this, the US emerges as interests and even endangering Sharon and Netanyahu to ensure in America. The unconditional
The US finally seems to be the least distrusted country by the lives of US soldier fighting that Americans did not call them support for the Jewish state has
l o s i n g p a t i e n c e n o w t h a t far (Britain commands a much in the Middle East. In days, the on policies that deliberately or been eroding in critical areas.
N e t a n y a h u ' s b e h a v i o u r i s lower level of confidence). Israeli government has seen not – mostly deliberately – Nowhere is that clearer than
endangering its troops Israelis recognise that they have itself repositioned from valuable sabotaged its ever-diminishing among American Jews, many of
Talk about Israel to all but its long counted on Washington to US ally in the war on terror to prospects. Nowhere was this whom stayed quiet for so long
most severe critics in America pay a good chunk of their where it really belongs – as the more clear than over the ever out of loyalty to the country of
and whatever they say it's likely military budget and provide primary obstacle to peace. growing settlements. Israel and Zionism, even as they
to be underpinned by an diplomatic cover for the It was always striking to watch Israel's apologists would have grew increasingly disturbed at
assumption that the US is the illegalities of occupation.But the smugness with which Israeli the world believe that the what was being done in their
Jewish state's best friend. that is a far cry from trust, and politicians sold Americans the construction of homes solely for name by the militarists in
Doubts may emerge about Gaza w h a t t h e r e w a s h a s b e e n idea that the only issue in Jews in the occupied territories Jerusalem.
a n d s e t t l e m e n t s b u t a n y severely eroded since Barack considering the conflict with the had no impact on the peace In Washington, a group of Jews
criticism is invariably wrapped Obama came to power as Palestinians was what Ariel process and that the issue would broke the taboo against
in the assumption that the US America catches up with the Sharon called, with deeply be resolved in final status talks. criticising Israeli policy and
has Israel's interests, particularly idea that Israeli government rolling Rs, the "tehrroar". The But settlement construction is a launched J Street, an
its security, at heart. It's not policies do not automatically ever-expanding Jewish litmus test of Israeli government organisation that believes
surprising given that American equate with what is in Israel's settlements, the annexing of intent because it is constantly Israel's security lies in a just
politicians pledge their loyalty interests or the promotion of land, expulsion of Palestinians, changing the picture on the peace with the Palestinians.
to the Jewish state over and peace. the killings of Arab children, the ground. The number of Jewish Founded by Jeremy Ben-Ami, a
over, and mean it. That distinction has finally crimes of occupation, were settlers in the West Bank has former domestic policy adviser
They see things differently in burst forth with the crisis over discarded as an irrelevance. No more doubled since the Oslo to Bill Clinton with Israeli
J e r u s a l e m . I n a c o u n t r y settlement building in East one in George Bush's White peace accords were signed in parents, it drew the backing of
p e r m e a t e d b y f e a r a n d Jerusalem, exposing how far House cared to challenge 1993. How is it possible to see an array of community leaders,
insecurity, Israelis define the American political thinking has Sharon on that. that as anything but an attempt activists and academics. It
rest of the world not by loyalties already shifted and the depth of In Israel, ordinary people to preempt an agreement on reflects the doubts held by a
but by varying degrees of Israel's prime minister Binyamin almost seemed programmed to Palestine's borders? significant proportion of
distrust. You can hear it among N e t a n y a h u ' s f a i l u r e t o repeat the wearying mantra that Watching Israel's barrier carve American Jews about
residents of Jewish settlements understand it. To the alarm of all the Jewish state ever wanted its way through Arab Jerusalem's militarist policies
deep in the occupied territories some Israeli leaders, what they was peace but that all it ever got neighbourhoods of Jerusalem and, in particular, the deep-
and in the cafes of liberal Tel regarded as a minor diplomatic in return was blood and killing. and the West Bank, its real rooted obsession with
Aviv: angst over the perception blunder in announcing yet more That was a comfortable position intent was all too evident. The settlements. Those doubts were
of a new wave of antisemitism ethnically exclusive housing in for Israelis who, all too clues lay in the twists and turns heard and shared in the White
g r i p p i n g E u r o p e , t h e East Jerusalem has resulted not understandably at the height of that separated Palestinian House. The government in
incomprehension over foreign only in unusually forceful the suicide bombings, found it villages from land then Jerusalem has been slow to
condemnation of Israel's crimes criticism from Washington, but difficult to reflect on why delivered up to Jewish settlers.
in Gaza, the common agreement t h e d i s t u r b i n g a n d Palestinians might be blowing As the barrier went up, there NOW page 11
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Memo to US: only fools rush in | Sarah Anderson

Sarah Anderson (World news: 10 March that the administration mean that a government must could cost another $600m per analysis of this matter. Nine of
United States | is very close to having model provide a stable and predictable year. us went further to call for a
guardian.co.uk) treaty text. regulatory environment. On this Could Chinese investors use a whole new approach to BITs,
Submitted at 3/21/2010 8:00:01 AM Similar to the investment basis, they have ordered bilateral investment treaty to including the replacement of the
If negotiators aren't careful, a c h a p t e r s i n U S t r a d e governments to pay undermine such US financial investor-state dispute
US-China investment treaty agreements, BITs give foreign compensation to investors who reforms? Legal experts are mechanism with a government-
could prove as explosive as investors the right to bypass claimed that changes in divided. Some argue that a to-government one. It's our view
currency manipulation or domestic courts and sue regulations or tax policies had provision in current US treaties that the current system simply
climate change governments in international made their investments less gives sufficient protection gives foreign investors –
US diplomats are no doubt arbitration tribunals. valuable. against claims related to including US corporations
eager to find something – The United States has been at At a time when our regulations financial stability measures. operating abroad – way too
anything – on which the Obama limited risk of being the target have just failed to prevent the Others, such as Professor Robert much power.
administration and China can of such "investor-state" lawsuits worst financial crisis in nearly Stumberg, director of the Negotiators need to keep in
agree. So perhaps it should because its 40 current treaty 80 years, predictability should Harrison Institute for Public mind that BITs are like
come as no surprise that they p a r t n e r s a r e n e a r l y a l l not be a top priority. And Law at Georgetown University, straitjackets, with rules locked
appear eager to make progress developing economies with little indeed, the Obama disagrees, pointing to language in for a minimum of 20 years.
in the seemingly sleepy arena of investment in the US market. administration is pursuing in the same provision that With US leaders struggling to
bilateral investment treaty (BIT) This lopsidedness has created a reforms that would have been arbitrators could interpret as a fix our broken financial system,
negotiations. one-way street in favour of US quite unpredictable two years self-cancelling loophole. this is no time to rush into a deal
It's true these deals haven't corporations operating abroad. ago and which would strike at If the ambiguity isn't fixed, we'll be stuck with for decades
grabbed headlines in the past, The China negotiations could least a short-term blow to some investors could file their claims to come.
but if US officials aren't careful, c h a n g e a l l t h a t . C h i n e s e Chinese investments. before a tribunal and let the • China
this one could become as investors have ploughed billions Take, for example, the nearly commercial arbitrators decide. If • US foreign policy
explosive as current redhot i n t o t h e U S e c o n o m y , 10% stake in Morgan Stanley the government lost, they'd have • United States
issues with China, such as particularly in the financial held by China Investment two choices: repeal the reform
c u r r e n c y m a n i p u l a t i o n , industry. Under a treaty based Corporation (CIC), a sovereign or pay off the foreign investors. Sarah Anderson
computer hacking, and climate o n c u r r e n t m o d e l s , t h e s e wealth fund. Recently, Goldman Neither option would be a guardian.co.uk© Guardian
change. investors would have standing Sachs researchers estimated that winner with the American News & Media Limited 2010 |
It was President Bush who to sue the US government over proposed regulatory reforms public. Use of this content is subject to
launched the US-China BIT breaches of a long list of host could reduce Morgan Stanley's Last year, I served on an our Terms & Conditions| More
n e g o t i a t i o n s . T h e n l a s t government obligations. annual earnings by 15%. advisory committee representing Feeds
November, Presidents Barack Of particular relevance to the President Obama's plan for a business associations, labour
O b a m a a n d H u J i n t a o China BIT is the obligation to Financial Crisis Responsibility unions, environmental groups,
a n n o u n c e d t h e y w o u l d provide foreign investors "fair Fee could cost the firm $800m, and other investment experts
"expedite" them. According to and equitable treatment." In they predict, while the proposed which unanimously
Inside US Trade, undersecretary some cases, tribunals have "Volcker rule" to prohibit recommended that the
of state Robert Hormats said on interpreted these vague terms to proprietary trading by banks administration conduct a legal

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Revealed: Labour’s cash for influence scandal Bangladeshi

(Top stories from Times gang” of colleagues on behalf of be publicly very critical of Hewitt offered a service helping man beheaded
Online) clients. Among those she named National Express” as long as he clients to influence legislation.
Submitted at 3/21/2010 9:05:14 AM were: Jacqui Smith, the former agreed terms which favoured the “If you’ve got a client who to redden bricks
home secretary; Hazel Blears, company. The decision to needs a particular regulation (Latest news, breaking news,
A FORMER Labour cabinet t h e f o r m e r c o m m u n i t i e s terminate the franchise in July removed, then we can often current news, UK news, world
minister has boasted about how secretary; and Harriet Harman, last year left a burden on the package that up [for a news, celebrity news, politics
h e u s e d h i s g o v e r n m e n t the deputy leader of the Labour taxpayer of hundreds of millions minister],” she said. news)
contacts to change policies in party. of pounds. On Friday Hewitt issued a Submitted at 3/21/2010 10:02:36 AM
favour of businesses. The interviews were part of a Byers also claimed he could use statement saying she was Published: 5:02PM GMT 21
Stephen Byers, former trade joint investigation by The his friendship with Lord offering to do the work only Mar 2010
and transport secretary, was Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Mandelson, the business after she left the Commons. “I Four suspects were arrested for
secretly recorded offering Dispatches programme in which secretary, as his “trump card” to am always willing to give murdering the 26-year-old
himself “like a sort of cab for 13 Labour MPs and seven squash government plans that advice to companies who have bricklayer in a remote town in
hire” for up £5,000 a day. He Conservatives were approached. did not suit his clients. something positive to offer our northern Bangladesh on the
also suggested bringing Tony The disclosures will raise On one occasion Byers says he country,” she said. instructions of the brick-field's
Blair to meet clients. questions about the relationship phoned Mandelson to put a stop Hoon revealed that he had owners, said Golam Sarwar
H e w a s a m o n g s e v e r a l between the large number of to “massively bureaucratic” already been offered a Bhuiyan, a local police chief.
politicians recorded by an MPs leaving parliament next food labelling regulations after chairmanship of a foreign "They said the owners were
undercover reporter posing as a month and their contacts who he had been contacted by defence firm for an unhappy as the brick-field was
company executive looking to remain in government. It comes Tesco. “Peter got it delayed and “embarrassing” amount of not producing reddish bricks
hire MPs for lobbying work. after David Cameron, the then got it amended,” Byers money. While making clear that despite enough heating. A
The others included: Conservative leader, last month said. He also boasted he could he did not want a job that was fortune teller then suggested that
- Patricia Hewitt, a former said that lobbying was the next get confidential information predominantly lobbying, he the brick-field needed a human
health secretary, who claimed political scandal waiting to from Downing Street and could offered to find out information sacrifice," he said.
she helped to obtain a key seat happen. help firms which were price- on the defence policy from civil Police were searching for the
on a government advisory group Byers, who held three cabinet fixing to get around the law. servants and said he would owners and the fortune teller, he
for a client paying her £3,000 a portfolios from 1998 to 2002, On Friday Byers issued a introduce fee-paying clients to added.
day. gave specific examples of how statement saying that he had ministers. Red bricks are in huge demand
- Geoff Hoon, the former he claimed he had changed “exaggerated” his claims and On Friday a lawyer for Hoon in Bangladesh's countryside as
defence secretary, offered to government policy by lobbying had retracted them the day after said his comments had been the colour is seen as proof the
lead delegations to ministers his cabinet friends. the meeting in an email. Tesco misrepresented and he denied bricks have been baked
and told the reporter that he was He claimed to have struck a denied any deal. ever offering to give properly.
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US Democrats predict historic health bill will pass

(Latest news, breaking news, would clamp down on the victory. Democrats who remained
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Submitted at 3/21/2010 9:50:45 AM In the hours before the vote, Republicans remain resolutely among developed nations in not
Published: 4:50PM GMT 21 House Democratic leaders were opposed to the legislation and offering its citizens
Mar 2010 still trying to nail down warned they will make comprehensive health care, with
Democratic leaders in the commitments from a handful of Democrats pay dearly in the fall nearly 50 million Americans
House of Representatives members, some of whom elections when control of uninsured.
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expand coverage to about 95
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Submitted at 3/20/2010 2:37:00 PM
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campaigned on a platform of holdouts numbered in "the low Republicans don't want this to Medicaid program for the poor, revolutionary invention, there
change, has made health care single digits." pass. There will be no and create new marketplaces are about a million that just
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Union boss attacks BA ‘spin’ of more than 1,000
staff breaking strike
(Top stories from Times
Online)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 6:16:00 AM
BA today insisted that more
cabin crew than expected had
turned out to defy the three-day
strike.
It said that 1,157 cabin crew
had ignored the first day of the
stoppage yesterday and
reported for duty. It added that it
had reinstated flights this
morning and was flying almost
50,000 passengers to
destinations around the world.
However, the Unite union,
whose members have gone out
on strike in a bitter dispute over
changes to working practices,
insists that most staff have
refused to work on BA aircraft.
Tony Woodley, the joint
general secretary of the union,
said: “Contrary to the spin from
[BA] about this strike
collapsing, only five cabin crew
have broken ranks and 80 have
gone sick.”
Mr Woodley today wrote to BA
cabin crew, congratulating them
on their “magnificent” support
for the strike, which is due to be
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Right here. These signs were at
followed by a four day walkout
from next Saturday. He urged
them to “stay strong, be brave,
don’t be intimidated”.
Negotiations between BA and
Unite broke down last week
when Willie Walsh, the head of
BA, tabled a last-minute deal
that was dismissed as “derisory”
by the union’s leadership.
Heathrow bore the brunt of the
disruption today, the second day
of the strike. Scores of BA jets
were grounded at its engineering
depot. BA's main passenger
terminal, T5, was quiet as the
company operated its limited
schedule.
There were no queues, as BA
sent e-mails and text messages
to passengers on more than
1,000 flights that have been
cancelled this weekend warning
them not to turn up at the
airport.
Many of the flights that were
operating arrived early, having
avoided the usual air traffic
control delays at what is usually
a highly congested airport.
Striking cabin crew members
manned picket lines at four
points around the airport
yesterday’s sparsely attended
demonstration in Washington
DC.
And yes, that’s Barack Obama
perimeter.
They waved the red flag of the
Unite union but the atmosphere
was decidedly Middle England,
rather than militant Labour. “I
am from Henley-on-Thames.
My Mum won't be pleased,"
one air hostess said.
A senior cabin crew purser,
with 26 years at BA, said: “No
one wants to be here. We want
to be working but we feel we
have nothing else to lose.”
The Tories have pounced on the
strike, accusing Gordon Brown
of failing to act and Labour of
being under the thumb of Unite,
the party’s largest financial
backer. In Conservative
billboard posters unveiled on
Saturday the Prime Minister is
pictured in a pilot’s uniform
above the slogan “Gordon’s
doing sweet BA”.
Unions around the world have
promised to support Unite in its
dispute. However, BA said this
morning that none of its flights
had been disrupted overseas.
It said in a statement: “Our
contingency plans are
continuing to work well on
Sunday morning around the
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world. There has been no
evidence of industrial action at
any overseas airport directed at
British Airways flights. Our
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at Heathrow and Gatwick is also
continuing to work well.”
BA has warned that any
How to
employees who go on strike will
have their travel perks work less
withdrawn. At present staff pay
just 10 per cent of normal fares
to travel standby on BA flights.
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Park Ji Sung returns United to the summit Obama's In the

(Top stories from Times Ferguson fielded what looked a Valencia as he ran into the booked for a foul on Park
House
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Submitted at 3/21/2010 8:40:03 AM Dimitar Berbatov on the bench Argentinian booked, Rooney suggestion that his opponent had Submitted at 3/20/2010 12:49:21 PM
and picking Wayne Rooney converted the rebound after Jose dived. Jamie Carragher was
Sir Alex Ferguson has struggled alone in attack in front of five- Reina had saved his spot kick. similarly incredulous - without President Obama is about to
in recent battles with Rafael man in midfield - a formation Ferguson had expressed apparent justification - when he address the House of
B e n i t e z b u t t h i s v i c t o r y similar to Liverpool's. sympathy with Benitez's was yellow-carded for a foul on Representatives about health
provided decisive vindication of The formation required the situation at Liverpool before the Rooney on the edge of the box care reform; you can watch live
t h e M a n c h e s t e r U n i t e d energetic pair of Darren Fletcher game but he showed no shortly before the interval. The over the web at this page on C-
manager's tactical acumen. and Park Ji Sung to support understanding for his forward's weak free kick was SPAN.
Aiming to avoid a fourth Rooney, which they did with counterpart's frustrations when easily saved.
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of the Premier League and Torres had put Liverpool ahead player was not sent off. Torres was deceived by a bad
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Barack Obama confident he has Anna Nicole Smith

votes to pass healthcare bill estate loses court appeal
Ewen MacAskill (World news:
United States |
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Obama was last week reported
to have told a meeting of
Hispanic members of Congress
Americans to carry insurance
with subsidies for those who
can't afford it, expand the
over billionaire's will
(World news: United States | against the latest ruling, possibly
Submitted at 3/21/2010 8:19:46 AM that the fate of his presidency government-run Medicaid guardian.co.uk)
Democrats claim to have won depended on passage of the bill. programme for the poor, and to the supreme court, on
over doubters to pass landmark Reform had been the main plank create new marketplaces where Submitted at 3/21/2010 10:01:30 AM different issues than those it first
legislation to ensure coverage of his domestic policy on the self-employed people and small considered.
for 95% of Americans Court of appeals backs Houston "It really is a unique decision,"
campaign trail. businesses can pool together to
Democratic party leaders The debate has been divisive, jury that said J Howard Marshall Richland said. "We have to take
buy healthcare.
predicted they finally have the spawning the growth of the anti- was mentally fit when he wrote it farther."
In Obama's emotional speech to
votes in the bag to pass the establishment Tea Party. will leaving nearly all his state The younger Marshall's widow
Democrats on Capitol Hill
health reform bill later today, All 178 Republicans promised to his son and nothing to Smith and two sons said they hoped
yesterday,he said: "I know this
giving Barack Obama the first to vote against the reform in the The Texan billionaire who the legal battle was close to
is a tough vote," adding that he
major triumph of his presidency House, where the Democrats married Anna Nicole Smith in ending. "Our only wish would
also believed "it will end up
and offering Americans near have an overwhelming majority. the last year of his life never be that Pierce were here to see
being the smart thing to do
universal coverage. intended to leave her any part of his vindication," the family said
But there is a bloc of Democrats politically".
The goal of universal healthcare who were reluctant to support his fortune, a federal appeals in a statement.
"It is in your hands," Obama
coverage has eluded Obama's the bill, either because of the court has ruled. The decision – if it is upheld –
said. "It is time to pass
predecessors for more than a costs of reform, estimated at The ninth US circuit court of is bad news for Smith's ex-
healthcare reform for America
century. appeals backed a Houston jury boyfriend Larry Birkhead and
$940bn (£626bn), or because and I am confident that you are
Congressman John Larson, they objected the possibility of that said J Howard Marshall was their three-year-old daughter,
going to do it tomorrow."
c h a i r m a n o f t h e H o u s e public funding for abortion. mentally fit and under no undue Dannielynn.
• US politics
Democratic caucus, said the Passage by the House virtually pressure when he wrote a will The child was named Smith's
• Barack Obama
party had the 216 votes needed ensures the bill will become leaving nearly all his $1.6bn heir in 2008 after she died at the
• Obama administration
to pass the bill, which has been law. But it has to go back to the (£1bn) estate to his son, E Pierce age of 39 of a drug overdose at a
• United States
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and has several times looked as votes. The Democrats, who have Friday's ruling was the latest Birkhead and lawyer Howard K
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Pakistan looks to British diplomatic
help for EU free trade deal
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Submitted at 3/21/2010 9:48:25 AM
by Damien McElroy, Foreign
Affairs Correspondent
Published: 4:48PM GMT 21
Mar 2010
Officials said that Pakistan was
struggling to cope with the cost
of fighting alongside the West
against the Taliban while billion
pound aid packages "were not
having an impact".
Its diplomats have sought
British support as the country
targets three key concessions
from EU leaders at the meeting
in April.
Pakistan hopes to gain a three
year deal on duty and quota free
exports to the EU, a status that
was granted to Pakistan in 2002
but expired in 2005. The
concession would boost the
country's all important cotton
industry - the largest employer -
and was estimated to be worth
$10 billion (£6 billion) a year
when it was last extended.
In the long-run Pakistan hopes
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Submitted at 3/21/2010 12:00:00 PM
The other day we learned a
for a Free Trade Agreement
with Europe. Officials want the
summit to set a start date for
negotiations. Pakistan is the
only country in South Asia that
does not have free trade
agreeement with the world's
biggest trading bloc and claims
its exporters suffer
disproportionately as a result.
Lastly Pakistan officials want
the EU to target its aid packages
to improve conditions in conflict
-scarred areas of the country.
Douglas Alexander, the
International Development
secretary, acknowleged this
month that aid should be better
targetted to support
reconstruction in the frontier
provinces next to Afghanistan
where the army has waged an
offensive against Taliban
infiltration. Mr Alexander said
Britain would provide £20
million for short term support
for displaced people,
construction of temporary
schools and quick impact
projects such as rebuilding
bridges.
European assistance to Pakistan
Google StreetView car buzzed
(or was buzzed by?) a well-fed
seagull. Today, it would seem
one of his countrymen decided
is however dwarfed by
American spending in the
region. Richard Holbrooke,
Washington's envoy to
Afghanistan and Pakistan last
week signalled a "major
intensification" of its support for
Pakistan by launching a $1.5
billion five year plan to improve
conditions in Pakistan.
He said: "The United States is
supporting Pakistan as it seeks
to strengthen democratic
institutions, as it seeks to foster
more economic development,
expand opportunities, deal with
its energy and water problems,
and defeat the extremist groups
who threaten both Pakistan's
security and stability in the
larger region, and American
national security as well.
"We do not think that the money
is moving as fast as we'd like it
to."
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grasp the significance of J Street
because for so long many
American Jews declined to
voice their doubts out of loyalty.
Buoyed by the certainty that it
was irrelevant, Netanyahu
dismissed the group as anti-
Israeli and his foreign ministry
snubbed a delegation of visiting
members of the US congress
sponsored by the Jewish
organisation.
It was a mistake because it only
confirmed in the minds of some
in Congress and the
administration that Israel will
only move when pushed.
Recent events have confirmed
that view as Netanyahu finally
begins to understand the
consequences of his mistake and
climbs down, agreeing to a
series of American demands
aimed at kick-starting
negotiations and putting the
latest settlement plans on hold.
It's a start, but Netanyahu is not
a courageous leader nor an
honest one. He pays lip service
to a peace agreement but, like
Sharon, spent the 1990s
sabotaging attempts to reach
agreements with the Palestinians
and denouncing Israeli leaders
who sought peace as traitors or
worse. Netanyahu has still to
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commit himself to a genuinely
independent Palestinian state.
He will not do the right thing for
the right reason.
Some in the US administration
are straining at the leash to
finally take him on and show
him the way after continual
humiliation of the US president.
The question is whether Obama
himself is now finally up for the
fight.
Chris McGreal was the
Guardian's Middle East
correspondent for much of the
last decade. He is now based in
Washington.
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Mar 2010
Labour MPs have been
instructed by one of the
country’s largest unions not to
cross a picket line at
Westminister when Alistair
Darling outlines his budget on
Wednesday, in support of
industrial action by civil
servants.
A number of MPs are planning
to shut down their Commons
offices in solidarity with the
strikers and those who take part
in the action will join members
of the Public and Commercial
Services Union (PCS) on a boat
trip down the Thames.
More than 250,000 PCS
members are taking part in a
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curbs on redundancy payouts
that the Government says will
save £500,000 of public money.
A two-day civil servants’ strike
a fortnight ago hit many
essential public services
including courts and
immigration checks.
Labour has been embroiled in a
row over its links to Unite, the
union behind a crippling round
of walkouts by BA cabin crew
this month. The union has given
Labour nearly £11 million in
cash donations since it was
formed in 2007.
The MPs' plans to support the
PCS strike came to light in a
leaked email sent by John
McDonnell, the Labour
chairman of the PCS all-party
parliamentary group.
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The Conservatives have
condemned the decision by
some Labour MPs to go on
strike. Mark Pritchard, the Tory
MP, said: “MPs should be
servants of their constituents
and not servants of militant
unions. Any MP who fails to
turn up for work should have
their pay docked and the
Speaker should be called upon
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The coming week will bring
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ConAgra Foods Inc. ( CAG),
earnings of $0.81 per share
Oracle Corp. ( ORCL) and
(+56.8%) on $3.1 billion in
Walgreen Co. ( WAG), all of
revenue (-8.3%). Williams-
which are expected to post
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Toyota shareholders sue over fallen stock price (AP)
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Submitted at 3/21/2010 8:14:26 AM
MIAMI – Toyota shareholders
incensed over a sudden drop in
the Japanese automaker's stock
price are heading to court with
lawsuits claiming company
executives deliberately misled
investors and the public about
the depth of accelerator
problems in millions of its
vehicles.
At least three proposed class-
action lawsuits filed by Toyota
investors say the company gave
false initial assurances that the
sudden acceleration problem
was a simple matter of floor
mats trapping gas pedals,
helping prop up the stock price.
The shareholder cases are part
of an avalanche of potentially
costly lawsuits against Toyota
over the acceleration issue,
including those filed by crash
victims and their families and
those brought by Toyota owners
contending their vehicles are
worth far less because of the
recalls.
The investor lawsuits say
Toyota spread misleading
information through press
releases, conference calls with
stock analysts and TV
interviews to assure
stockholders and the public that
the accelerator problem was
easily fixed or might be the
driver's fault.
Instead, the lawsuits contend,
top Toyota executives have
known for nearly a decade that
faulty electronic throttle controls
caused vehicles to sometimes
careen wildly out of control but
covered it up to protect the
company's reputation for safety
— and its stock price. The
company has not issued any
recalls involving flaws in the
electronic throttles and has
repeatedly denied they are the
problem.
Shares rose from just over $75
on Oct. 5, the day of the floor
mat recall, to above $90 on Jan.
21, when Toyota announced
another recall — over gas pedals
it says can stick in certain
conditions.
After that, the stock price fell,
dropping 16 percent as of early
March. Shares have since
rebounded somewhat, closing
Thursday at $79.34, but some
investors say the recovery did
not prevent them from losing
potentially millions of dollars as
the stock was dropping.
Since the sticky pedal recall in
late January, Toyota's total
market capitalization has fallen
13 percent to $135.87 billion.
Toyota declined comment
because the cases are pending in
court. The company has
repeatedly denied its electronic
throttle controls are to blame for
sudden acceleration.
In the lawsuits, the shareholders
are asking a judge to certify a
"class" of plaintiffs that would
represent all Toyota
shareholders in the U.S. who
held company stock on specific
dates. If Toyota is found liable,
damages could easily run into
the hundreds of millions or even
billions of dollars.
The shareholder lawsuits are
pending in federal court in
California, the location of
Toyota's North American
headquarters.
In one of the lawsuits, Toyota
stockholder Harry Stackhouse of
Richboro, Pa., contends the
company "misled investors by
failing to disclose that there was
a major design defect in
Toyota's acceleration system,
which could cause unintended
acceleration."
"This drop removed the inflation
from Toyota's securities prices,
causing real economic loss to
investors who had purchased
securities," said Stackhouse,
who said he bought 40 shares in
late 2009 just as the accelerator
problems became more widely
known.
Stackhouse and the others filing
suit — shareholders from Ohio
and Tennessee_ did not return
several telephone calls seeking
comment. All three investors
filed sworn statements that they
did not buy the shares as an
excuse to sue the company.
To win damages, the investors
must be able to prove Toyota
made misleading statements
about an issue that would have a
"material" effect on its bottom
line, said James Cox, a Duke
University law professor who
specializes in corporate and
securities law. And they must
show Toyota had a duty to
disclose the truthful
information.
"They clearly win on the
materiality issue. This is going
to be a matter that hits Toyota
square in the eye," Cox said.
"But the mere fact that you
didn't disclose it isn't necessarily
fault. It's whether you have a
duty."
John Coffee, a law professor at
Columbia University, said there
has to be strong evidence of
fraud.
"Stupidity or gross negligence is
not enough, and a defense by
Toyota that they were surprised
about the extent of the problem
can be anticipated," Coffee said.
In one of the best-known recent
auto product liability cases, Ford
prevailed over investors who
claimed the company made
misleading statements about the
safety of the popular Explorer
sport utility vehicle prior to a
massive tire recall prompted by
a series of rollover crashes. A
federal judge ruled in December
2001 that although some of the
company statements amounted
to "corporate puffery," Ford
could not accurately foresee the
impact of the recall when the
statements were made.
"Companies are under no duty
to disclose predictions that are
not substantially certain to
hold," wrote U.S. District Judge
Arthur Tarnow of Detroit,
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whose ruling was upheld on
appeal.
But some shareholder lawsuits
claiming corporate wrongdoing
have produced huge payouts to
investors:
• In 2008, financial institutions
were forced to cough up $7
billion for about 1.5 million
shareholders of collapsed energy
giant Enron Corp., following
claims the banks and accounting
firms took part in the fraud that
kept Enron's stock prices
artificially high.
• Former Worldcom directors,
major investment banks and
auditing firm Arthur Andersen
paid more than $6 billion to
investors in the wake of a huge
fraud that sent the former
telecommunications company's
boss, Bernard Ebbers, to jail for
25 years.
Despite those successes for
investors, Cox said Toyota
would probably fight any
settlement because investor
class-action cases are
notoriously difficult to win. In
part, that's because Congress in
1995 made it more difficult for
investors to dig into a
company's documents to find
damning evidence in the early
stages of a case.
"They have to allege enough
facts that management was
acting purposely with reckless
disregard," Cox said. "The
courts give management an
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Snowmobiles, ATVs, lobster boats used for census (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) to look forward to. And I'm not else, still have to be counted. they'll get on snowmobiles or stuff are constitutionalists,"
Submitted at 3/21/2010 10:24:43 AM sure if the people will want to be Census officials in January ATVs or put on snowshoes or Theriault said. "The census is
bothered, but hopefully they'll kicked off the start of Census skis to complete their work. outlined in the Constitution and
PORTLAND, Maine – Census be cooperative." 2010 in one of those remote In some ways, it's like a most people — not all, but most
workers are using snowmobiles, One woman rode horseback to communities, the Inupiat treasure hunt. — want to participate for that
airplanes, all-terrain vehicles — get to homes for the 2000 Eskimo village of Noorvik, For the 2000 count, a Maine reason."
even lobster boats — to visit the census, said Rick Theriault, Alaska. To reach Noorvik, U.S. census worker rode his ATV 15 Along Maine's long ragged
most far-flung, hidden-away manager of the Census Bureau's Census Bureau Director Robert miles and then walked another 5 coastline, census workers have
dwellings when counting the Bangor office for this year's Groves and other census miles to get to a backwoods challenges beyond the wooded
nation's populace. census. In Alaska, dog sleds are officials flew to the village and camp — where he was surprised wilderness. They also have to
Hand-delivering 2010 census used. then rode by dog sled to a local to find people living, at that time check housing units on many of
questionnaires in the bush of "We do whatever it takes to get school for a launch ceremony. of year, where the snow can still the state's hundreds of islands.
Alaska, Maine's North Woods the job done," Theriault said. Often, it's the weather blow. Workers will get to the 15 year-
and other isolated regions isn't In all, 10-question census forms conditions — extreme cold, high Once arriving at these remote round island communities by
as simple as strolling up a front are being delivered to 134 winds, blizzards — that make destinations, census workers get ferry or airplane. To check out
walk to a suburban home. To get million residences in the United the going tough. down to real purpose of their others where people have
to the more remote homes, States and Puerto Rico. The weather is cooperating so journey. They'll question the summer camps and homes,
census workers might fly over Census forms were mailed last far this year in Alaska, but that residents and fill out the census takers have been known
mountains or onto far-removed week to 90 percent of the wasn't the case a decade ago confidential census forms that'll to hire local boat owners,
islands, four-wheel it through homes, about 120 million of when storms made it hard for be returned to their office. including lobstermen, or even
forests and contend with deep them. Census workers are census workers to get in and out They'll also update census use canoes.
s n o w , b o n e - c h i l l i n g visiting the other 10 percent in of places. address and map information. "Anywhere there's a building,
temperatures and wildlife on the person to deliver the forms in "Ten years ago there were a Nationwide, about 1 in 10 we have to verify if they live
move. areas that don't have regular number of (census workers) people may not participate in the there," said Terry Drake, who is
In Maine, census workers will mail service or "city-style" who were stranded for more population count, with many responsible for the census along
begin delivering forms this addresses to receive mail. than a week," said Ruben Del saying they see little personal much of Maine's coast as
week by whatever means it But only two places — much of Valle of the Census Bureau's benefit from the government manager of the bureau's office
takes — ATV, snowmobile, Alaska and Maine's North Alaska office. survey or have concerns that it in Augusta. "If they could live
cross-country skis or snowshoes Woods— have been designated Forino, who lives in Fort Kent, may be intrusive, according to a there, then we have to check."
— to get to those hard-to-get-to b y t h e C e n s u s B u r e a u a s Maine, along the Canadian Pew Research Center poll ___
places. requiring special travel border, is a crew leader released last week. O n t h e N e t :
"You don't now what you're arrangements to reach remote overseeing other census workers Those concerns might be http://2010.census.gov/2010cens
going to find," said Danielle locations. in northern Maine. greater for people living off the us/
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definitely anticipate coming service and often cannot be impassable because of either Theriault, though, remains
across a lot of wildlife; the bears reached by car. snow or mud caused by the optimistic.
are coming out so we have that Those people, like everybody thaw, she said. At that point, "A lot of these 'survivalists' and
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Fargo's fight against flooding nears its climax continued from page 13

awful lot of discretion in

(AP) disclosing a problem."
The automaker is also being
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) As they waited for the crest, of the rising Red from the several farm fields and washed sued by hundreds of Toyota
Submitted at 3/21/2010 10:03:46 AM Fargo residents turned their bridge linking Fargo and out a few roads. On Saturday, owners seeking compensation
attention to cleaning up the Moorhead this year. the Coast Guard said it helped for lost value of their cars and
FARGO, N.D. – A weeklong d e b r i s i n l o w - l y i n g "Last year, more things were 10 people in rural areas trucks in proposed class-action
fight against flooding neared its neighborhoods where more than going wrong that right," he said including five people in a lawsuits likely to top $3 billion
climax in Fargo on Sunday, with a million sandbags held back while walking across the bridge. disabled boat who were towed in possible damages. The
miles of sandbags and clay dikes waters. "This year, more things are to a car waiting at the shore. company also faces a series of
expected to hold back the The calm mood stood in stark going right." None were in any immediate wrongful death and injury
bloated Red River at its crest contrast to last year, when Flooding this year has been danger. lawsuits from crashes linked to
with room to spare. floods along the north-flowing limited mostly to areas just Officials here said they were accelerator problems.
City officials and residents Red River sparked a last-minute along the Red River in Fargo better prepared for this year's A hearing is scheduled next
were on the brink of declaring frenzy of sandbagging that and Moorhead, where 3-feet- floods than the ones in 2009. week in San Diego on whether
victory and ready to move out of brought life to a halt and forced high piles of sandbags have Thousands of volunteers filled to consolidate the dozens of
flood fighting mode. They thousands to evacuate. prevented the water from and placed sandbags and the Toyota owners' class-action
hoped for mostly dry weather to This year, residents in Fargo reaching homes. Some yards, Army Corps of Engineers built lawsuits before a single judge.
speed the river's fall by week's and neighboring Moorhead, bike paths and sports fields have dozens of clay dikes. After the The investors' cases are separate
e n d . T h e f o r e c a s t w a s Minn., were confident as the flooded — but without major preparations were largely from that proceeding.
cooperating, with only a small river completed a rise driven by damage. complete, the National Weather ____
chance of rain in sight on the spring thaw of a thick North Dakota Air National Service lowered its crest AP Auto Writer Dan Strumpf in
Tuesday evening. snowpack: On Sunday, they Guard airmen wearing prediction several times as New York contributed to this
Still, Fargo Mayor Dennis walked the dog, went jogging camouflaged uniforms and below-freezing temperatures story.
Walaker warned residents not to and headed to church. bright orange lifejackets said slowed the melting of snow and Five Filters featured article:
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river goes up at two to three Moorhead coffee shop less than 23, who is a student at North was among the city officials
times what it goes down at." a block away from the river. Dakota State University in handing out cigars at a meeting
The river continued inching "I don't see the nervousness in Fargo, said he missed part of his Saturday. They were told to wait
upward early Sunday toward an people you would normally see spring break because of the until after Sunday's crest to light
expected crest that afternoon of when you talk flood," said flood — but he didn't mind. them.
19 feet over the flood stage, Ziegelmann, who has lived in "I would be nice if the ___
followed by a quick and steady the area since 1972. "We were community would not have to Associated Press Writers James
drop. That was good news to prepared this year. In a day or go through this again but if they MacPherson and Jim Suhr
residents of North Dakota's t w o , t h e w a t e r w i l l s t a r t need us we'll come again," he contributed to this report.
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US House set for key health vote
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World Edition)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 10:39:05 AM
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President Obama: "Don't do it
for me, don't do it for the
Democratic Party, do it for the
American people"
Senior Democrats say they are
confident they have enough
votes to pass landmark
healthcare reform legislation in
the US House of
Representatives.
The House has opened a
session which will culminate in
a vote on measures to give
healthcare to 32m more
Americans.
Top Democrats, including
President Barack Obama, have
spent days working to get the
216 votes needed to pass it.
Democratic House Caucus
leader John Larson said: "We
have the votes. We are going to
make history today."
Democratic Majority Leader
Steny Hoyer also told the NBC
news network he was confident
the party had sufficient votes to
pass the measure.
It comes a day after Mr Obama
visited Capitol Hill to rally
support among party members,
saying: "Let's get this done."
Among those Democrats
reportedly won over by the party
leadership is Representative
Bart Stupak, one of a group who
had threatened to vote against
the bill because of concerns it
would allow federal funding of
abortion.
The Republicans are
unanimously opposed to the
legislation, which they say is
unaffordable and represents a
government takeover of a large
part of the country's economy.
Senior House Republican Mike
Pence told CNN he was
doubtful the Democrats did have
the votes needed to approve the
bill and said his party would do
whatever it could to prevent its
passage.
Eric Cantor, the second-ranking
Republican in the House, told
ABC: "The American people
don't want this to pass. The
Republicans don't want this to
pass. There will be no
Republican votes for this bill."
The House will hold three votes
- one on a Senate version of a
health reform bill, one on a
package of changes that would
be made to that bill and one on
the rules that will govern the
debate.
If all three are passed, Mr
Obama will be able to sign the
legislation into law.
Democratic Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid assured
House lawmakers on Saturday
he had the "commitment of a
significant majority" in the
Senate to ensure the package of
changes the House wants to its
bill will pass there.
The BBC's Richard Lister in
Washington says that whatever
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and December.
The usual procedure would be
for two versions of legislation to
be combined into a single bill
for President Obama to sign into
law.
But after Senate Democrats lost
the 60-seat majority required to
defeat a filibuster by
Republicans, Democratic
leaders decided to use a
controversial procedure to
ensure the bill's passage.
Under the plan, the House will
vote on a package of
reconciliation "fixes" amending
the Senate bill.
The Senate will then be able to
make changes in a separate bill
using a procedure known as
reconciliation, which allows
happens, this will be a budget provisions to be
significant day in American approved with 51 votes - rather
politics. than the 60 needed to overcome
Either healthcare will be blocking tactics.
significantly reformed, he says, According to Congressional
or reform will be kicked into the Budget Office, the final version
long grass for perhaps decades of the Democrats' healthcare
to come - which could have all plan will cut the federal deficit
kinds of budgetary implications by $138bn over 10 years.
for the future, as the US cannot The non-partisan body said the
afford to continue on its existing proposed legislation would cost
track. about $940bn over a decade.
If passed, the reforms will The reforms would increase
deliver on Mr Obama's top insurance coverage through tax
domestic priority by providing credits for the middle class and
insurance to some 32 million of expansion of the Medicaid
the Americans who currently programme for the poor.
lack coverage. If approved, they would
Deficit reduction represent the biggest change in
The House of Representatives the US healthcare system since
and the Senate adopted different HOUSE page 17
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Iran leader rebukes US 'plotting'
(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 9:45:01 AM
Iran's Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has
used a televised Iranian New
Year address to accuse the US
of plotting against the country.
He said the US government
could not "talk about peace and
friendship and at the same time
plot and plan sedition".
His words come a day after
President Barack Obama sent a
new year video message to
Iranians saying Washington's
offer of dialogue still stood.
However, the Iranian leader did
not refer directly to Mr Obama's
message.
In his address in the north-
eastern city of Mashhad,
broadcast on state TV,
Ayatollah Khamenei said the
US might have been making
friendly overtures but its
policies showed its intentions
were different.
"Eight months after the elections
they took the worst possible
stance," he said. "The president
called those rioters and
saboteurs 'civil rights activists'."
Washington has criticised the
Iranian authorities for cracking
down on protesters in a series of
large-scale clashes following a
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US President Barack Obama:
"Our offer of comprehensive
diplomatic contacts and
dialogue stands"
In his video message, Mr
Obama said the Iranian
government had "chosen to
isolate itself" but that the US
still wanted justice and dignity
for Iranians, and less internet
censorship.
Which celebs are celebrating a
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"Even as we continue to have
differences with the Iranian
government, we will sustain our
commitment to a more hopeful
future for the Iranian people." he
said.
It was the second such
recording sent by the US
president for the festival of
Nowruz, a 12-day holiday
celebrating the beginning of the
New Year on the Persian
calendar.
Last year he became the first
US leader for decades to reach
out directly to Iran's people and
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government, offering a "new
beginning" in US-Iranian
relations.
But since then, Mr Obama's
offers of engagement over Iran's
nuclear ambitions have been
largely spurned, and US efforts
to impose new sanctions have
been slow to find wide support
from UN members.
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Novell rejects Elliot takeover bid as
'inadequate'
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 3/20/2010 6:59:00 PM
Novell has rejected an
unsolicited $2 billion takeover
bid from Elliot Associates, the
business software provider
announced in a statement
Saturday.
"Our board of directors has
concluded, after careful
consideration, including a
review of the proposal with its
Travel agency seeks independent financial and legal
advisers, that Elliott's proposal
'honeymoon tester' is inadequate and that it
undervalues the company's
(Holy Kaw!) the deal wasn’t sweet enough, franchise and growth prospects,"
Submitted at 3/20/2010 2:17:57 PM the company will be paying the Novell said.
selected couple £18,000 for their In a March 2 letter to Novell's
If you’re a newlywed not quite ‘troubles’. board of directors, Elliot--a New
ready to settle into the nine-to- Of course to enter, you’ll have York-based hedge fund that
five routine just yet, you might to convince your significant
Happy Birthday Twitter!
want to consider applying for a o t h e r t o p a r t i c i p a t e . B u t
‘honeymoon tester’ position. something tells me that won’t be
Yes, a travel company is a tough sell. Pete Cashmore (Mashable!)
seeking to send one lucky Read all about it (including Submitted at 3/20/2010 10:37:41 PM
couple on a six-month tour of how to apply) at The Telegraph.
the world’s most romantic and Looking for a job? We can Sunday, March 21st (a few
exotic destinations to review help. hours from now on the West
things like hammocks, cocktails, Photo credit: Fotolia Coast) marks Twitter’s 4th
sand quality, outdoor waterfall Permalink| Leave a comment » birthday— exactly four years
showers—you get the idea. As if since Twitter co-founder Jack
Dorsey sent his first Tweet and,
along with Evan Williams and
already holds an 8.5 percent
stake in Novell--offered to
acquire the company for $5.75
per share in cash. That price was
21 percent higher than Novell's
closing stock price the day the
offer was made.
In its letter to Novell
shareholders, Elliott argued that
Novell needs a lifeline because
the "company's effort to shift
away from its legacy division
through acquisitions and new
strategies has largely failed."
Translation by CNET blogger
Matt Asay: Novell has struggled
to meaningfully use its growing
Linux business to prop up its
declining legacy businesses.
The fund's offer sent Novell's
stock up 28 percent as investors
hoped for a better bid.
Biz Stone, started a
phenomenon.
Last month, Twitter hit 50
million Tweets per day, and last
summer it was announced that
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Novell said its board is
committed to enhancing value
for Novell stockholders and will
explore alternatives including a
return of capital to stockholders
through a stock repurchase or
cash dividend, strategic
partnerships and alliances, joint
ventures, and a sale of the
company. The company added,
however, that a future
agreement or transaction cannot
be assured.
Novell shares closed at $5.64
on Friday.
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What does Google really know about advertising?

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 10:34:00 AM

Google has been following me

around lately.
I'm not sure if I've made one
inadvertent comment too many
about my liberal lords and
masters, but whichever Web
page I happen to visit in order to
seek some temporary respite
from my complicated life, there
I find an ad suggesting I should
buy a Nexus One.
Actually, it's hard to call these
things "ads." They're little
pictures of the Nexus One.
Some have no message to speak
of. Others enjoy lines such as
"it's ultra-light." This is a line I
associate most closely with
cigarettes, so I don't know
whether Google wants to get me
into the habit of thinking about
the Nexus One every 5 minutes,
but somehow I haven't yet future: phones that could work that wants to be the dominant Have some dessert wine created at the emotional level.
inhaled. with any carrier and didn't player in every single vaguely yourself. Google makes its And we see what has happened
I'm told the Nexus One is an require you to be beholden. technological and informational money not from advertising that there.
abject failure. Or not. Right now, though, it doesn't category? creates demand but from I hate to mention Apple, but
Apparently, Google said it only want carriers to throw prima If it doesn't want to sell too advertising that directs demand. don't its products always seem
expected to sell 150,000 of these donna hissy-fits and refuse to many Nexus Ones, why is It does it brilliantly. It has used to engender excitement?
precious devices. Apparently, enjoy the multifarious benefits Google following me around the its brain power to extraordinary Excitement is an emotion.
the company is walking a of the Android system. Web all the time? Might I offer effect. But it's a very rational People talk about an Apple
terribly fine line between So, um, Google wants us to a small thought? Is it possible brain power. formula. It's anything but.
upsetting carriers right now or believe that it put out a phone that Google isn't very good at Creating demand for many Sometimes, the word "magic" is
upsetting carriers in the future. that it hoped wouldn't sell too advertising? products, though, isn't rational. appropriate. It is not a word one
How admitting that you're going well so that the carriers wouldn't I know you'll tell me I must It never was. And, until we associates so readily with
to upset them in the future get upset? This is the company have been at the dessert wine. finally reach the robot phase of Google.
doesn't upset them right now, that is supposedly so fearless This, after all, is the company our development, it never will Google has shown it rarely
I'm not sure. that it is even prepared to niggle that makes 97 percent of its vast, be. Palm Pre seems to be a understands, appreciates, or
The idea, supposedly, behind Steve Jobs so much that he infernal profits from advertising. lovely example of a phone that even takes account of the
Nexus One was that Google might actually swear and issue Please, please, put down the might be terribly good but for
lawsuits? This is the company baseball bat and take a seat. which demand simply wasn't WHAT page 23
merely wanted to show us the
20 Tech/ E-reader News Edition

Yelp for Business: 4 Steps for Success

Samuel Axon (Mashable!) about what you’re offering to never heard of your business a chance that you’ll increase
Submitted at 3/20/2010 3:14:42 PM the community. Here are a few will see them there. They’ll your exposure if you opt in,
basic tips for successfully even find you in search results. because you’ll appear at the top
This post originally appeared leveraging the tools Yelp offers The more of these offers and of the list when users perform a
on the American Express OPEN you for the benefit of your local announcements you make, the search related to your business.
F o r u m , w h e r e M a s h a b l e business. 1. Fill Out Your more likely it will be that Yelp There are a few other benefits
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a n d t e c h n o l o g y i n s m a l l business pages to learn about a creative ways to draw people in, of your choosing at the top of
business. business before going out to worse; it can turn a bad situation then share the news. 4. Display the list on your business page.
For local small businesses, v i s i t i n p e r s o n . I f t h e around. Dissatisfied customers Yelp Badges on Your Website You still can’t edit, move or
Yelp isn’t just an option — it’s a information on the Yelp page is will often give you a second or Blog delete other reviews, though.
necessity. People in urban incomplete, they’re likely to look if you communicate to Yelp provides badges that you It’s difficult to measure exactly
centers use it to choose where to move on to a competitor that them that you value their input can embed on your business’s how much these premium
go to dinner, where to buy provides more details simply and are making changes to website or blog that show that benefits will help you; it
c l o t h e s , a n d w h e r e t o b e because they’ll better know improve your business. you’re on Yelp and engaged depends on a number of factors
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5 Brilliant iPhone Apps for Baseball Fans

Amy-Mae Elliott (Mashable!) virtual idea of what’s happening with all their quirks and being a fan is in fact misery (the
Submitted at 3/20/2010 3:11:31 PM at the park with MLB’s blow-by characteristics. agony of defeat and all that jazz)
-blow Gameday updates. Cost:$0.99 4. iScore Baseball the apps make sure you are kept
Attention baseball fans, the date The app also offers scores and Scorekeeper as absolutely up-to-date as
that is no doubt etched in your stats, as well as some in-game If you consider a baseball possible with a comprehensive
brain — the start of the 2010 highlights and a video library scorebook will set you back $5 set of stats, opinions and news
Major League Baseball Season that’s searchable by both player at the absolute minimum (and drawn from national and local
— is fast approaching. To get and team. If you really can’t more if you buy it at the park) papers, broadcast media and
you ready for April 4 (when the stretch to that $15, then a free e v e n u p - t o - d a t e a d v a n c e d then the $10 price tag for this blogs.
Boston Red Sox will take on the “lite” version (MLB.com At Bat fielding metrics via FanGraph’s app does not seem quite so One nice touch is that if a blog
reigning World Series champion Lite) offers real-time MLB “Ultimate Zone Ratings.” steep. There are a dearth of 99 or news source you follow isn’t
New York Yankees at Fenway scores, schedules, news and Cost:$2.99 3. Ballpark Envi cent alternatives available in the currently included in the
Park) we’re pitching you five standings — but no audio or It could be argued that the App Store, but for looks and an indexing, the developer
handpicked iPhone apps that video — that will keep you stadium is as much a character intuitive interface (the app (Discover Motion) will add it in
will hit a home run with informed through to the end of in baseball as the opposing w o r k s o n a n “ i n t e r v i e w ” for you on request — just the
baseball fans. 2010 World Series. t e a m s o r t h e c r o w d . A premise asking you for all the kind of helpful option that
If you are partial to America’s Cost:$14.99 2. FanGraphs celebration of the nation’s data it needs to build a complete warms the cockles of an iPhone
national sport — and let’s face Baseball ballparks is offered in one neat picture of the game) the iScore owner’s heart.
it, it’s almost unpatriotic not to If you’re the type of fan that little app — Ballpark Envi — Baseball Scorekeeper is the Cost:$2.99 each More iPhone
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4 Ways Non-Profits Can Use Google Buzz
Geoff Livingston (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/20/2010 6:03:57 PM
Geoff Livingston co-founded
Zoetica to focus on cause-
related work, and released an
award-winning book on new
media Now is Gone in 2007.
Despite some initial flaws,
Google Buzz continues to show
promise as a social marketing
platform. It has a significant
(though somewhat latent) user
base, with an increasing number
of loyalists who swear by it.
When a green field lies before
you, so does opportunity. Some
non-profits stand to gain from
being part of the early Buzz
adopter community. Whether a
cause needs to further the
dialogue with a tech-savvy
crowd, or is attracted to the
functionality of Gmail
integration, Buzz does bring
some new capabilities to bear.
Here are four great uses for
Buzz in cause-based activity. 1.
Manage Public Conversations
Better
A useful feature of Google
Buzz is its public threaded
conversation stream. This
format has significant
advantages over Twitter’s
disjointed @reply conversations
Nomura loses co-head of investment banking in Asia
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 5:16:58 AM
and hashtag-based threads, as
well as Facebook’s often high
privacy walls.
“We’ve been looking at using
Buzz to have public
conversations about Mothers
Fighting for Others‘ work with
an orphanage in Kenya,” said
Jeff Turner, President of Zeek
Interactive. “We want to be able
to facilitate a consistent thread
of conversation, but we want it
to be more public and open than
Facebook or[Google] Wave
would allow. With Buzz, we
feel like we can maintain a clear
stream of thought around a
topic, and at the same time, do it
in a public forum where
someone we might not be able
to envision being interested
could join in.” 2. E-mail
Integration Means Better
Workflow
Non-profits could use Buzz to
manage workflow across a
group. This can be useful for an
organization with project teams
spread across multiple offices or
in the field. With e-mail
integration, it saves the
organization from having to set
up a separate account with
another private conversation
tool like Basecamp.
“An example would be to set up
Another key Nomura executive
has quit the Japanese bank, in a
move which highlights the
challenges it faces to build a top
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conversations between younger their area — especially in
and older, or tech-savvy and densely packed areas in New
entrenched members of their York where [Starbucks] are
teams. Crossing the streams may practically right across the street
enable better communications. from each other.
“Google Buzz allows users to “In short, Buzz can potentially
publish private streams to broadcast a cause marketing
specific contact groups,” said campaign to a much larger
Buzz as a private group for a John Haydon, a non-profit social audience than say Twitter. And
project team, large or small,” media strategist. “This is a the geo-location feature, if it
s a i d S h i r e e n M i t c h e l l , a perfect way to include staff takes off, can give a program a
Washington D.C.-based digital members who don’t use social real-time, tangible quality that
activist. “Twitter updates, blog media in important real-time can’t be replicated on another
posts, and other related content conversations, especially during [social media] platform.” More
that has an RSS feed can be news-worthy events like the social media resources from
connected to individual [Buzz] earthquake in Haiti.” 4. Geo- Mashable:
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Finally Connect to “Unsocial” Starbucks’ partnership with Gmail, Google Buzz, Google
Users Product RED,” said Joe Waters, Maps, Twitter
Another interesting aspect of author of the Selfish Giving Tags: collaboration, Google,
Buzz’s workflow and e-mail blog. “Buzzing about the latest google buzz, non-profits,
integration is the use of a system campaign to a really large nonprofits, social good, social
that blends 2.0 functionality audience with geo-location media, social media marketing
with a 1.0 system. Non-profit features [enabled] lets people
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emotional level of your average
human. Ken Auletta, author of
"Googled," managed to get the
company's co-founder Sergey
Brin to admit that the company
lacks "emotional intelligence."
Emotional intelligence is the
heart of advertising that creates
demand.
The launch of Google Buzz, for
example, was a failure of
advertising, as much as it was a
failure of aforethought. Google
communicated Buzz so badly,
with such little consideration for
real people's minds and lives,
that a backlash became
inevitable.
Similarly, with Nexus One, it's
hard not to retain the notion that
Google had no communication
strategy. Consider what you felt
when Google came out with this
cell phone: it was a cell phone.
It was made by Google. It
seemed to be well reviewed.
Cool, huh?
This is all very rational. It isn't
enough. What a great
advertising campaign can do is
to create a fascination that rises
far above any rational attribute
of a product. It's hard to do.
Sometimes, it doesn't work. It's
maddening, frankly. And
Google has very little
experience in the process of
creating such a campaign, never
mind in the judgment required
to choose what the campaign
should entail.
In many ways, there's no reason
to assume Google should know
how to do this. When you think
of Google's commitment to
research and rationality, a
powerful, emotional campaign
would have had virtually no
chance of emerging, even if
some Googlie could create one.
Web meets phone? Isn't that the
iPhone?(Credit: Screenshot:
Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
This is the company that
discusses 41 shades of blue until
it's 41 shades of blue in the face.
That might produce efficiency
of some kind. It won't produce
magic. Who can forget the
parting words of Google visual
designer leader Douglas
Bowman, after he walked out to
join Twitter last year: "I won't
miss a design philosophy that
lives or dies strictly by the
sword of data."
It's interesting how, in certain
small areas, Google has tried to
create advertising that brings
with it some kind of emotional
attachment. There was the Super
Bowl ad, so sweetly dubbed by
CEO Eric Schmidt as a "video."
It was perhaps the first time that
Google has used a mass arena to
curry emotional favor. But what
did it sell--at least in theory?
Search. Something that really
doesn't need to be sold.
Then there were the U.K.
subway billboards selling
Chrome. Again, a valiant,
groping, uncertain attempt to
emotionally engage a more mass
market through communication.
It may well be that, one day, all
retail will exist only online. And
Google has succeeded so well
without having to advertising
any of its wares. But its wares,
until now, were virtual, not
physical.
The Nexus One, of all products,
screamed out for emotional
attachment. Here was a category
in which look, feel and image
count for a lot. Yet by sticking
to its online-only model of sales,
the company didn't put it in
enough people's hands and
didn't inspire people at the
emotional level to want it in
their hands. Was this because
Google really, really didn't want
to sell too many Nexus Ones, or
because the company doesn't
have the knowledge, the
confidence, the judgment, or the
process to create something to
make that happen?
Google is great at many things.
This doesn't mean it's great at
everything. The commercial
world is full of products that
might have wonderful
characteristics, but terrible
advertising. There are many
products with wonderful
distribution, but terrible
advertising. It takes inspired
creative people, risk, judgment,
investment and a feel for
people's minds and souls to
create a campaign that attaches
itself to people's hearts and then
slips a little lower into their
pockets.
Google could have chosen to
inspire people with the
astounding, indispensable
machine that is the Nexus One.
It didn't. Was it really because it
didn't want to sell too many? Or
might it have been because it
didn't know how? And if
Google really didn't want to sell
too many Nexus Ones, why
does it keep asking me to buy
one?
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Ben Folds Plays
Chatroulette Live in
Concert [VIDEO]
Pete Cashmore (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 10:12:07 AM
Singer-songwriter Ben Folds
visited the random video chat
site Chatroulette during a recent
live concert in Charlotte, North
Carolina, playing improv piano
tunes about the people he was
connected with.
The piece, titled “Ode to
Merton”, is inspired by the
improv piano player “Merton”
who sprung up on the chat site
earlier this month.
Is this the start of a trend, or the
peak of a fad? Ben Folds Plays
Chatroulette
“Merton” Piano Improv on
Chatroulette
Tags: ben folds, chatroullette,
improv, Piano
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App Store payola, and what it means for the app ecosystem
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 3/21/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: App Store Earlier
this week, Wired posted a story
about what they call "App Store
Payola" -- the practice of sites
that solicit cash payments (or
other compensation) in order to
expedite or publish app reviews.
This isn't anything new. Ever
since the App Store first went
online, there have been sites that
have offered developers a
chance at the spotlight in return
for behind-the-scenes payment.
Apparently, it is still going on,
and Wired's piece takes a good
look at what's under the table.
It should go without saying, but
for the record: TUAW isn't
involved in this practice, and
never has been. We will use
promo codes for reviews rather
than buying the apps directly,
but a promo code doesn't
guarantee a review and it
definitely doesn't influence our
stated opinions on the products
we cover. Informally, our
editorial team gives a thumbs up
to the OATS standard, although
TUAW hasn't officially joined
the sites promoting the 'code of
conduct' for app reviews.
Nevertheless, this is an
interesting issue. My main
question actually revolves
around whether or not this
practice actually "works" for the
developer -- do devs who pay
the $25, or whatever these
"Reviews R Us" sites are
charging, actually see returns in
their product's sales or
downloads?
We know (based on detailed
reports from multiple
developers) that apps we review
or mention here often see boosts
in sales and performance in the
App Store. We presume that's
due in part to the fact that we
don't do "payola" -- our readers
trust us to post about worthwhile
apps, and thus give their
business to the ones we cite. Do
these App Store review sites that
are charging for their services
see the same effect? Are these
developers that are pouring $25
into "Joe's Review Shack" for an
"expedited review" getting their
money back in sales and/or
downloads?
If they are, something is wrong
-- either there's just not enough
trusted outlets for apps out
there, or even the App Store just
isn't big enough for its own
are enough trusted reviewers
and enough good films that you
have the option to pick and
choose the ones you like, paying
attention to reviewers you agree
with. But it does work in the
case of old-school radio, where
you only had one station to
choose from, and you listened to
(and bought) whatever songs
they played.
Of course the first question is
whether these sites work or not.
If the $25 invested in one of
these payola sites actually pays
off for an app that clearly
doesn't deserve it, then there
might be a bigger issue with the
App Store ecosystem as a
whole.
TUAW App Store payola, and
what it means for the app
d e m a n d . I f p e o p l e a r e ecosystem originally appeared
downloading and buying apps o n T h e U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e
just because they see them Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 21
mentioned anywhere (even on a Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please
site that they can't trust), then see our terms for use of feeds.
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Payola doesn't work in the case
of film reviews, because there

Conservative Party Backs Ex-Rep. Lazio for NY Gov

(Newsmax - Politics)
Submitted at 3/20/2010 1:06:18 PM
Leaders of the state
Conservative Party are giving
their critical backing for
governor to former Rep. Rick
Lazio (LA'-zee-oh).
The endorsement came
Saturday at a meeting of the
Conservative Party in Brooklyn.
State Conservative Party
Chairman Michael Long says
the Republican Lazio won the
vote by a 5-to-1 margin.
Lazio is a former congressman
from Long Island who lost badly
to Hillary Rodham Clinton in
the 2000 Senate race.
He faces challenges for the
Republican nomination from
conservative Democrat Steve
Levy (LEE'-vee) and Buffalo
businessman Carl Paladino (pal-
uh-DEE'-no).
No Republican has won
statewide office in New York
without the Conservative Praty
endorsement.
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reserved. This material may not
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Apple preps 2010 school field trips
Sang Tang (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 3/21/2010 12:00:00 PM
Filed under: Education
Apple, through the Apple II,
served as the gateway to
computing for me; my third
grade classroom had two Apple
IIs neatly tucked away in
metallic lock cases. With them, I
was exposed to word
processing, printing and, most
importantly, Carmen Sandiego.
Education is deeply ingrained
in the Apple ethos. During his
keynote at Macworld 1997 --
where he made his return --
Steve Jobs, in a not so
understated way, said that
"Apple is the largest education
company in the world" and that
this provided the company "an
incredible foundation...and
legacy to build off of." This
legacy lives on, as Apple,
through its retail stores, offers a
variety of mediums to teach kids
about and expose them to
computing and content creation.
Last week, Apple opened up
spring registration for field trips
to its retail stores. Breaking with
the tradition that students are to
Bake Homemade Cheese Crackers (Fishy Smiles Not
Included) [Cooking]
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 8:00:00 AM
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page. From my checks of
various stores in California,
there were no upcoming
workshops scheduled at this
time.
Lastly, there's Apple Camp.
Like Apple Youth Workshops,
Apple Camp is geared toward
younger audiences (8 to 12 year-
olds). Campers get to make
movies, put together iPhoto
photobooks, and compose songs
at the Apple Store. At the end of
the day, their keepsakes include
a spiffy free t-shirt and a DVD
of their creations. The Apple
Camp site is currently not up,
but Apple says that it will open
up registration beginning in
May.
To learn more about Apple's
bring apples to their teachers, class act.[hat tip to The Loop] those up to 12th grade can youth programs, visit the Apple
Apple provides a way for Field trips to the Apple store p a r t i c i p a t e , A p p l e Y o u t h Youth Program site here.
teachers to their students to the are offered every fall and spring, Workshops are geared toward a TUAW Apple preps 2010
Apple...store, that is. During and registration is currently younger crowd and toward school field trips originally
these field trips, K-12 students o p e n f o r w e e k d a y e v e n t s specific applications. Kids ages appeared on The Unofficial
can create a variety of digital February 22 through May 1. 6 to 13 can participate in Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun,
masterpieces: a photo album Apple states that field trips are workshops in which they can 21 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST.
using iPhoto, an edited video limited to 25 students (if you work on photos, music, movies, Please see our terms for use of
using iMovie, or a song in have more, you can make and even presentation skills. feeds.
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When complete, students can and can last anywhere from an w o r k s h o p s t h a t a r e b e i n g Comments
showcase their creations with hour to 90 minutes. offered at a particular retail store
others in the store. Now that's a Unlike field trips, in which at the Apple Youth Workshop
Everyone loves Goldfish like you did more than just go to light, delicious cheddar
crackers, it's just a fact of the grocery store (but actually crackers. More »
life—but if you'd like to look do little else), try this recipe for
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PhotoNest: your Twitter stream, in At long last, the Plastiki

pictures sets sail (photos)
Brett Terpstra (The Unofficial quitting the app and starting it (CNET News.com) rods onboard, so at least some of
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) again logged me in Submitted at 3/20/2010 12:18:53 PM their food, in theory, will come
Submitted at 3/21/2010 11:00:00 AM automatically without a hitch, so from the sea.
I assume it's a small bug that SAUSALITO, Calif.--At 9:30 Among the inspirations for the
Filed under: iPhone will be squashed in the next a.m. PDT Saturday, precisely on project, in addition to bring
I just tried out PhotoNest, a update. time, the Plastiki, a "boat made attention to the way humans are
cool new way to view just the The app will also let you post of 12,000 plastic bottles" and treating our environment, is the
images posted to your Twitter photos (with a tweet) to your the brainchild of banking heir Kon-Tiki expedition, Thor
stream. It picks up just the Twitter account, and you can David de Rothschild, set sail Heyerdahl's 1947 trip across the
photos, and presents them in a filter your view based on from a berth here in this town Pacific in a boat that was a
slide format, captioned with the favorite contacts. PhotoNest is just north of the Golden Gate reproduction of an Inca raft.
tweet they were posted with. available on the App Store for Bridge. In keeping with tradition, the
You can quickly flick through $1.99US. If your Twitter friends The Plastiki is not just the Plastiki will pay even more
and see what your friends are up post a lot of photos (and people world's first boat made buoyant homage to Heyerdahl. Among
to (based on the photos they with iPhones tend to), it's a fun by discarded soda bottles. It's the six crew members is Olav
post). way to keep up and worth also a statement about the Heyerdahl, Thor's grandson.
Given that Twitter doesn't have checking out. world's garbage problem, and Here, the Plastiki is seen as it
a genuine photo-posting TUAW PhotoNest: your the fact that most plastic bottles has just sailed underneath the
mechanism, this seems like a The only trouble I ran into with Twitter stream, in pictures are thrown away rather than Golden Gate Bridge and heads
grand idea to me. I've done PhotoNest was a login issue: originally appeared on The recycled. for the Pacific. Its journey has
something similar to collect and when I mistyped my password U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g The intent is to sail the boat just begun.
expand just the links posted to on the first try, it gave me an (TUAW) on Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11,000 nautical miles from Photo by Daniel
my stream, but this app does a error and took me back to the 11:00:00 EST. Please see our Sausalito to Sydney, Australia. T e r d i m a n / C N E T
great job of pulling photos login screen. After that, though, terms for use of feeds. It is carrying about 1,000 liters Five Filters featured article:
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Frank Zappa Marvel Comics Ad, 1968

(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 3/20/2010 10:55:59 AM
One of the reasons I’m visiting
family this week is to determine
the value of a trove of 1960s era
comic books that my mom kept
in a sealed wooden crate for
more than 40 years. My brother
and I have been amazed at the forgotten about this one. somewhat beat-up state, it’s still
almost new condition of a lot of This ad was in Daredevil #38, worth quite a bit of money.
the books. from March 1968. Check out the (Certainly more than 12 cents.)
And here’s an interesting bit of condition of this book; it looks The interior is completely intact,
60s trivia; in a few issues of like it just came off the rack in a the inks are still bright, and the
some of the Marvel comics, store. paper is only slightly yellowed.
we’ve discovered the following Probably the most valuable
advertisement for Frank Zappa’s new album, “We’re Only In It book we’ve found so far is this
Mothers of Invention and their For the Money.” I’d totally one: X-Men #1. Even in its
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Build Your Own Camera

Crane for Super Steady
Video [Weekend
Project]
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/20/2010 4:00:00 PM

Even if you have steady hands,

taking video from very high or
low angles can often be a
struggle. Luckily, with just
about $25 worth of materials,
you can make your own camera
crane for steady shots at any
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Apple leads the App Store race with 170,000 apps

Michael Grothaus (The apps than Apple publicly states A distant second after Apple's available downloads, Apple has
Unofficial Apple Weblog it has because AppShopper App Store is Google's Android a huge lead.
(TUAW)) updates its numbers on a daily Marketplace with 30,000 apps. TUAW Apple leads the App
Submitted at 3/20/2010 8:00:00 PM basis. As of today's count, RIM's Blackberry trails with Store race with 170,000 apps
Filed under: iPhone Silicon AppShopper says Apple has only 5,000 apps, while Palm has originally appeared on The
Alley Insider has posted an approved 198,924 apps with a paltry 2,000. Windows Phone Unofficial Apple Weblog
interesting chart that shows the 171,722 available to download.
total number of apps available The discrepancy between the
7 Series Applications were
announce a few days ago with a
(TUAW) on Sat, 20 Mar 2010
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Apple's
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As you can see from the chart, either the developers or Apple
Apple's iPhone leads the pack have removed from the App
signed on. Of course, these
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iPad ad
by a longshot with 170,000 apps Store. Apple officially states
according to AppShopper.com. that it currently has 150,000
AppShopper typically lists more apps.
into account at all (100,000 fart
apps is still just a bunch of goes viral
junk), but clearly in terms of Michael Grothaus (The
Filed under: Apple,
APPLE'S iPad
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Apple's "Meet iPad" ad, which
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debuted during the Oscars,
became the second-most viewed
viral video ad last week.
Michael Learmonth, writing for
AdAge, points out that "Apple
has had a YouTube channel
since 2005, but only recently
started using it. In the past,
they'd focused on driving views
on Apple.com, but for the iPad,
they allowed the video to be
embedded across the web, and
views were distributed across
100 different placements."
Those 100 different placements
totaled a cool 2.5 million "Meet
iPad" ad views last week. The
only ad that beat "Meet iPad"
was E*Trade's popular
"Milkaholic" Superbowl ad,
which had increased views due
Neofonie WePad Named
Using MS Word Find-and
-Replace Tool [Tablets]
Jack Loftus (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 2:00:00 PM
I realize comparisons to another
"Pads" are unfair, especially
given the Tablet Wars I just
invented by saying Tablet Wars c o m p l i m e n t / j o k e f r o m i t s
haven't even officially started, creators at Neofonie? More »
but surely the WePad's name is
some kind of backhanded
to interest from Lindsay Lohan
filing suit against E*Trade
claiming the ad was a parody of
her. "Meet iPad" was produced
by the TBWA/Chiat/Day ad
agency.
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[Download Roundup]
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Calif. Gov's Race Sets Spending Record
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Submitted at 3/21/2010 2:51:35 AM
SAN FRANCISCO – The
California governor's race is on
track to be the most expensive
nonpresidential election in U.S.
history, sparking a debate over
money and influence that could
become the campaign's defining
issue.
Republican front-runner Meg
Whitman, the billionaire former
CEO of online auction house
eBay Inc, will likely face off in
November against Democrat
Jerry Brown, a former governor
and career politician backed by
labor unions with many millions
of dollars in potential
contributions at their disposal.
The race so far pales in
comparison to the $1 billion
2008 presidential contest. But
Whitman has said she is
prepared to spend $150 million,
enough to top the $148 million
spent eight years ago in the New
York gubernatorial election won
by incumbent Republican
George Pataki.
The National Institute on
Money in State Politics ranks
the 2002 New York race as the
most expensive state-level U.S.
contest yet, and no
congressional campaign comes
close.
Whitman's benchmark would
also eclipse billionaire New
York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg's 2009 $108 million
self-funded campaign.
"This is going to be a record.
There is no question about that,"
said Bob Stern, president of the
Center for Governmental
Studies, who sees voters' anti-
incumbent sentiment in
California playing out against a
historical state bias against
wealthy candidates. The current
governor, Republican Arnold
Schwarzenneger, is barred by
term limits from re-election.
Whitman has already poured
$39 million of her own funds
into her campaign, while state
Insurance Commissioner Steve
Poizner, her rival for the
Republican nomination, has
sunk $19 million of his personal
wealth into the race.
Voters are still making up their
minds. A television advertising
blitz by Whitman has helped
propel her to a 49-percentage
point lead over Poizner and
turned her double-digit deficit
against Brown into a 3-
percentage point lead in the
latest Field Polls.
Brown, who was California
governor from 1975 to 1983 and
is now state attorney general,
has about $14 million cash on
hand. That would seem to put
him a distinct disadvantage,
lacking the deep pockets of his
Republican foes and limited by
state caps on the amount he can
raise from individual donors.
But California campaign
finance laws allow unlimited
contributions to independent
committees, giving Democratic
Party stalwarts, such as unions
concerned about possible
pension fund overhauls under a
Republican governor, plenty of
room to spend.
Two unions top a list of 15
organizations, including energy
companies, casino-operating
Indian tribes and business
groups that together spent $1
billion on ballot initiative
campaigns, candidate support
and lobbying in the past 10
years, according to the state's
Fair Political Practices
Commission.
"At the end of the day, even
with contributions and the
amount of money Meg will be
able to raise, the resources will
be about even," said Whitman
spokesman Tucker Bounds, a
contention the Brown campaign
rejects.
MONEY MESSAGES
The money has already become
part of the message. Whitman
emphasizes her success in
business and said she would not
take a salary as governor.
Brown says he needs the salary
after devoting himself to a
lifetime of public service.
Those narratives feed into what
some analysts see as the
thematic choice being presented
to voters -- an outsider with
fresh ideas versus a maverick
insider with the experience to
carry out much-needed
government reforms.
Questions surrounding the use,
abuse and raising of funds are
shaping negative campaign ads.
Whitman's campaign accuses
Brown of ceding control to
organized labor and
circumventing campaign finance
law by relying on union dollars
and activism to bolster his
campaign. At a recent union
gathering, he was videotaped
declaring: "We're going to
attack whenever we can, but I'd
rather have you attack. I'd rather
be the nice guy in this race."
That, says Whitman's camp, is
illegal coordination. "You have
the candidate telling third-party
groups to fund other third-party
groups on his behalf," Bounds
said.
Brown's spokesman, Sterling
Clifford, called such accusations
of campaign finance
transgressions ridiculous -- and
turned the focus to Whitman's
money.
"She'll say anything in her
attempt to crown herself
nominee and then buy the
general election," he said.
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Digital Storm's Davinci
workstation gets down
with Core i7-980X,
Quadro graphics
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 1:57:00 PM
Creative professional. Hear that
much? If that's how this all-too-
structured world views you, you
just might be due a new rig --
particularly if you're thinking of
stepping into 4K territory.
Digital Storm is offering up a
rather unique solution in its
Davinci, which opts for a
3.33GHz Core i7-980X Extreme
Edition (yeah, that new Intel
chip) instead of a more
traditional Xeon. You'll still get
an NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800
(768MB) GPU, 12GB of DDR3
memory, Windows 7
Processional and one of the
nicer liquid cooling systems that
we've seen, which may or may
not be enough to sneak a little
Crysis in between edits. Too bad
the base price base rings up at
$4,995, but look, that next indie
film you're producing is totally
hitting it big.
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workstation gets down with
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C l o u d C o m p u t i n g W o r l d new ideas in financial and
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• Free-to-attend exhibition with Download this entire events
seminar and scenario theatre calendar in iCal format. Discuss Launcher: You
• Free-to-attend evening awards
presentation
know, for kids
• Hear from leading case John Biggs (CrunchGear)
studies on how they have Submitted at 3/21/2010 7:17:12 AM
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I was just outside trying to
shoot a water rocket I bought at
a science museum, recalling the
heady days I once spent
shooting a similar rocket into
the air when I was a young lad.
Sadly, the poorly built rocket
failed and the pump started just
sucking in water, leading me to
the Internet for solace.
The sweet Internet doth offer
succor, friends, in the form of
the Aquapod Bottle Launcher.
While you could just make your
own water rocket out of a water
and some piping, this $24.99 kit
allows you, with the aid of a
soda bottle and bicycle pump, to
become a mini Goddard in your
own back forty.
The Aquapod is the most
exciting and safest bottle
launcher available. This
Line 6 peripheral brings MIDI and iPhone closer than you ever
expected
Ross Miller (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 8:56:00 AM
It's no amplifier substitute, but
Line 6 has come up with
something potentially even
better for the budding
songwriter buried deep within
your rhythmic veins. The MIDI
Mobilizer for iPhone and iPod
touch is an app-based peripheral
intriguing hobby toy requires no
assembly and is ready to launch
with the addition of a regular 2-
liter plastic soda bottle and an
ordinary
bicycle pump. The Aquapod
has a florescent orange futuristic
one piece design that captures
the eye instantly.
Not only does the Aquapod
launch a bottle up to 100 feet in
the air, but no other launcher out
there has a built
in safety valve that releases
pressure at 60psi in order to
keep everyone safe from over-
pressurizing the entire
system.
Just fill a 2-liter plastic bottle
half with water and secure it
over the white launch tube
upside down. Using
any ordinary pump, pressurize
that lets you record, playback,
store, and transfer MIDI
sequences and parameters using
the MIDI Memo Recorder
software. While it does sound
convenient in theory, we'll have
to wait until we can try the
dongle out for ourselves. At this
point in time, price of the
Mobilizer is TBD and the Spring 2010. As for the recorder
release date is the ever-vague app, it's currently available on
the Aquapod through the valve
stem until the check valve inside
the front leg
releases pressure and water.
Then, stand back with the strap
in your hand that is attached to a
15 foot string
and give a short, quick tug on
the string to launch the bottle
high into the air.
The Aquapod is built with high
quality thick durable plastic and
is designed to last.
The Aquapod is also available
in bulk in case you want to start
your own hamster space
program.
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Line 6 iPhone Peripheral
is for MIDI Masters On-
the-Go [Apps]
Jack Loftus (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 1:00:00 PM
Does the iPhone need a mobile
MIDI app? Irrelevant question,
self, because it has one now,
regardless of need or want. portable option for MIDI mixers
C a l l e d t h e L i n e 6 M I D I on the move. More »
Mobilizer, it's a low power,
iTunes free of charge, although expected
it's more or less useless without Line 6 peripheral brings MIDI
the complementary hardware. and iPhone closer than you ever
For now, you'll just have to expected originally appeared on
settle with living vicariously Engadget on Sun, 21 Mar 2010
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the break. terms for use of feeds.
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Three for 3D: ESPN 3D adds Home

Run Derby, Sky 3D launches 4/3,
AcTVila makes the jump this summer Best Buy now hawking
Richard Lawler (Engadget) this season(plus the Coca Cola access to even more over the
Submitted at 3/21/2010 6:29:00 AM Viliv’s wares
league playoff finals) and demo
reel for all non-footy hours of
cross-manufacturer AcTVila
video on-demand service.
Three continents, three more the day. Bringing the focus back Clearly, the only logical thing to Matt Burns (CrunchGear) The $579 S7 will be available
milestone announcements for home, ESPN 3D has scheduled do is to keep that "3D will never Submitted at 3/21/2010 8:24:03 AM with a $50 instant rebate if the
3D. First up is Sky TV, which, the first event it will produce take off" comment macro keyed buyer signs up for a Sprint Mi-
with or without 15,000 or so flat and air itself, the MLB Home up, it will be getting a lot of use Viliv makes some hot, little Fi or Overdrive hotspot. That’s
screens from LG, is officially Run Derby on July 12, a day over the next few months. portables. That’s a fact. The of course a nice offer, but the
launching its Sky 3D channel a f t e r l a u n c h i n g w i t h t h e Three for 3D: ESPN 3D adds X70 and S5 touchscreen along slightly more expensive $649 S7
around the Man. U/Chelsea SA/Mexico World Cup game. Home Run Derby, Sky 3D with the S7 convertible netboo k features a built-in unlocked 3G
game on April 3. Already have a Other events officially on deck launches 4/3, AcTVila makes are among the best in their modem allowing owners to pop-
3DTV and Sky's "top channels (the plan for the first year is still the jump this summer originally respective niche markets. But in any ol’ activated SIM card for
a n d H D p a c k ? " C a l l t h e about 85) include several appeared on Engadget on Sun, previously the products were mobile hotspot-free Internet
c o m p a n y w i t h d e t a i l s f o r college basketball tournaments 21 Mar 2010 06:29:00 EST. only available from online connectivity.
activation, while everyone else and the ACC Championship Please see our terms for use of retailers, which of course limits As of writing it doesn’t seem
checks to see if their local pub is football game in December. Last feeds. Permalink| Sky, ESPN, their visibility from a whole that any Best Buy locations have
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already signed up to receive the h o m e t o a t l e a s t o n e 3 D Starting Monday though, Best YMMV. Give your local store a
six live 3D matches slated for network, which will soon have Buy shoppers will be able to quick minute or two before
pick up the products in store and bothering computer associates

Star Jones Undergoes Heart Surgery
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 3/20/2010 6:21:00 PM
Star Jones is recovering from
heart surgery.
A rep for the television
personality tells ET, "On
Wednesday, March 17th, a pre-
planned cardiac surgery was
performed on Star Jones. This
recent surgery is a follow-up to
the thoracic surgery she had 30
years ago.
"The procedure was successful
online. There will even be an about when they will be getting
instant rebate available on the their first Viliv shipments. [
n o n e - 3 G m o d e m - e q u i p p e d Best Buy]
and she is recovering well with
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everyone’s thoughts and
prayers," the rep concludes.
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Ben Folds Takes

Chatroulette on Stage
with "Ode to Merton"
[Chatroulette]
Joel Johnson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 12:40:56 PM

I've probably seen Ben Folds

live a dozen times. And except
for the time where he actually
got so pissed at people yelling
"Freebird!" that he actually
played the whole thing, I've
never once been bored. More »

JVC ships Bluetooth-packin', geotagging Everio

GZ-HM550 camcorder
Darren Murph (Engadget) camcorders go, it's one of the users can even sync up a Everio GZ-HM550 camcorder
Submitted at 3/21/2010 10:41:00 AM better specced models on the Bluetooth headset in order to JVC ships Bluetooth-packin',
market, touting a 10.6 monitor the recorded sound or geotagging Everio GZ-HM550 Video: The $113.5
A h , s p r i n g t i m e . A i n ' t i t megapixel CMOS sensor, 32GB input voice recordings. You'll camcorder originally appeared
beautiful? So beautiful, in fact, of inbuilt storage, an SD / also get 1080p recording, a 16x on Engadget on Sun, 21 Mar
million F-35B Lightning
that you're apt to want to capture S D H C e x p a n s i o n s l o t , a n zoom and the ability to snag 9 2010 10:41:00 EST. Please see II can float in the air for
the flowers blooming and the integrated Bluetooth module megapixel stills, all for the low, our terms for use of feeds. a little bit
kids playing around you, which (for controlling the camera's low price of $799.95. Go ahead Permalink| JVC| Email this| Nicholas Deleon
is probably why JVC finally play, zoom and record functions -- step your YouTube game way Comments (CrunchGear)
decided to ship the Everio GZ- via cellphone) and geotagging up.
HM550 that it announced back support when used with a Continue reading JVC ships Submitted at 3/20/2010 11:30:13 AM

at CES. As far as handheld compatible BT phone. Oh, and Bluetooth-packin', geotagging VIDEO: page 38
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There’s a certain amount of
pride in seeing a country pump
out something like the new F-
35B Lightning II fighter jet. At
$113.5 million per aircraft, it’s
about as far away from the
meaning of the word
“inexpensive” as possible. It
makes you think, well, if we can
afford things like that, why can’t
we afford things like this? But,
whatever. The entire purpose of
this post is to watch a
legitimately exciting video. So,
let’s!
The very first test flight of the
aircraft happened yesterday, and
lasted 14 minutes long. (Yes,
there’s a certain irony in finding
out about the latest American
military technology in the
British press.) That works out to
McLaren MP4-12C: We live in a world where $225,000 cars
are considered ‘affordable’
Nicholas Deleon
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 10:00:53 AM
Watch out, Nicholas writing
about cars, there’s bound to be
errors! (No different from
anything else, really.) It’s the
McLaren MP4-12C, a £150,000
($225,000) supercar that
McLaren is actually positioning
$8.1 million per minute in the
air. Granted, that’s a horrible
way of looking at the aircraft,
but it’s a fun stat nonetheless.
The F-35B Lightning II has
been in development since 2001,
and it was originally promoted
as an affordable option to
keeping old birds like the F-16
and F-10A in the air.
The marines will start using the
jet, if all goes according to plan,
in December, 2012.
And now I’m off to play
Battlefield: Bad Company 2,
using more terribly expensive
weapons to beat up Kirilenko.
as “affordable.” I mean, an
Xbox 360 Arcade SKU is
“affordable,” maybe even a
fancy gaming mouse when you
consider what they do… Oh, I
know who would consider this
supercar affordable: people who
play for Manchester City.
The British supercar made its drivers Lewis Hamilton and
f a n c y d e b u t y e s t e r d a y , Jenson Button. Supposedly it’s
surrounded by Formula One the UK’s answer to the Ferrari
Why is this gorgeous backpack Japan
-only?
Devin Coldewey
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 3/20/2010 5:37:14 PM
Hello, my name is Devin, and
I’m a bagaholic. I can’t get
enough. Despite getting my
hands on such awesome and
varied backpacks as the Mamba
Shift, the Soyuz, and the
Vandal, not to mention those
sweet things from Acme Made
back in the day, I can’t help but
lust after the latest book-and-
laptop receptacle. This time,
unfortunately, the rascals have
made it only available in Japan.
Curses!
I think what attracts me about
this thing is those twin steel
buckles. As practical as Velcro
is, buckles are awesomer,
especially when they’re
458—Italian, of course.
It can go 0 to 60mph in 3.4
seconds. I believe that’s an
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metallic. I must have some
magpie in me, because anything
shiny like that just entrances me.
In addition to being limited to
Japan, this sucker costs a mind-
blowing ¥48,825 — over $500,
over at Beauty & Youth.. This is
why my handlers don’t let me
loose in Tokyo with a credit
card. I have to be kept on a leash
and given quarters, which I save
up to spend on gyudon at
Yoshinoya. Shameful, I know
— but savory.
[via High Snobiety and
Doobybrain]
impressive number.
The exterior is one single piece
of carbon fiber. That’s the new
“cool” material, right, carbon
fiber? You hear about it all the
time on Top Gear.
There’s no video of it in action,
unfortunately. Someone call The
Stig, or Matt. Whoever’s
available.
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Report: Rosie
T-Mobile's HTC HD2 gets purchased and O'Donnell Planning to
Return to Daytime TV
unboxed early (video) (ETonline - Breaking News)
Darren Murph (Engadget) [Thanks, Andrew] Submitted at 3/21/2010 9:05:00 AM

Submitted at 3/21/2010 12:21:00 PM Continue reading T-Mobile's

T-Mobile's not officially selling
its world-beating HD2 until
Wednesday, but if you've a
Walmart nearby and hankering
to get HTC's latest and greatest
a few days early, it might be
worth a trip out. JDMiPhoner
managed to score one from his
local Wally World a full four
days early, and he's been kind
enough to unbox it, boot it up
and give us a few first
impressions on video. Is it really
worth a couple of Benjamins
with Windows Phone 7 Series
just a few months away? Head
on past the break if you'd care to
be reminded of just how painful
it is to know that this WinMo
6.5-packin' gem won't ever be
upgradable(natively, anyway) to
WP7S.
HTC HD2 gets purchased and
unboxed early (video)
T-Mobile's HTC HD2 gets
purchased and unboxed early
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Rosie O'Donnell is planning to
come back to daytime television
as host of a new syndicated talk
show, according to a report.
According to the Hollywood
Reporter, O'Donnell is teaming
with TV veterans Dick
Robertson and Scott Carlin.
The show is being planned for a
possible launch in fall of 2011,
which is the same time that
Oprah Winfrey's long-running
talk show will end.

What's On Tonight: 'Life,' 'Family Guy,' 'Jamie Oliver',

'Breaking Bad'
Bob Sassone (TV Squad) • NBC has a new'Dateline' at 7, • Style has a new'Ruby' at 8. Hunger Force.'
followed by new episodes
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times Eastern). • FOX has two new episodes premiere of'Kirstie Alley's Big Job.'
of'Til Death' at 7, then new Life.'
• At 7, ABC has Figure episodes of'The Simpsons,' 'The • HBO has a new episode Check your local TV listings
Skating, followed by new Cleveland Show,' 'Family Guy,' of'The Pacific' at 9, followed by for more.
episodes of'Extreme Makeover' and'Sons of Tucson.' a new'How To Make It In Filed under: Programming,
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What's On Tonight: 'MTV Spring New Pic: Jesse James

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Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/20/2010 12:09:00 PM
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times Eastern).
• CBS has NCAA Basketball all
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• WE has a'Golden Girls'
marathon all night.
• At 7, Disney has'Handy
Manny.'
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• At 8, FOX has a new'Cops.'
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followed by a new episode
of'The Troop.'
• At 9, FOX has a
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Show' at 9.
• MTV has'Spring Break 2010:
Fist Pumpin' Top 20 with Jersey
Shore' at 9.
• Fine Living has the series
premiere of'Freakiest Foods' at
10.
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Getty Images Ali

Farokhmanesh celebrates
Northern Iowa’s victory over
Kansas, the first time a top seed
hasn’t gotten through the
tournament’s opening weekend
since 2004.
The Journal’s Geoff Foster
anchors coverage of the first day
of NCAA tournament second-
round play. Get all the latest
NCAA news and scores here.
4:39 pm | Pregame | by Geoff
Foster
This tournament has been a
ruthless, bracket-eating
monster, where no favorite is
safe. So itâs no surprise that just the nail in the coffin for Dunn. In terms of quality of lite", is cleared to play after Panthers are big and physical
one game into Saturday and we Villanova, which had a names, this is possibly the undergoing an X-ray that (they have a seven-footer Jordan
already had a big upset. St. forgettable month. greatest backcourt ever; in showed no breaks in his wrist. Eglseder who likes to clog up
Maryâs of California sent home Today, we will look at all three terms of basketball, they are Look for the Lobos to try and the middle) and many different
No. 2 seed Villanova. Veteran late-afternoon games. In New pretty good too as both average control the pace; they have won guys who can drain the three.
leader Scottie Reynolds capped Orleans, Old Dominion is trying over 15 points a game. ODUâs 41 straight games when they Teams like that donât go down
a miserable tournament as he to become the latest team from greatest strength is its ability to hold their opponents to fewer quietly.
was ice-cold again on Saturday, the Colonial Athletic to cause force turnovers, averaging 14.2 than 60 points. 5:09 pm | Tennessee 40, Ohio
going 2-for 11 from the field. bracket havoc as they take on a game. So if the Bears can hold In Oklahoma City, No. 1 28; 18:03 left, 2nd Half | by
On the other side of the court, the No. 3 seed Baylor team that onto the ball, they will probably Kansas is trying to reach the Geoff Foster
Omar âEnterâ Sahman was struggled with Sam Houston take control of the game. Sweet Sixteen for the 27th time Ohio appears to be
more or less unstoppable State in the first round. ODU In San Jose, No. 11 seed and the fourth year in a row. transforming back into a
underneath the basket with 32 loves to play, grind-it-out ugly Washington takes on No. 3 New The Jayhawks hardly looked pumpkin versus Tennessee,
points, seven rebounds and a basketball where it keeps its Mexico, in a game which has a dominant over Lehigh on down 12 points with the second
decisive block at the end of the opponent somewhere around 50 lot of upset potential. In fact, the Thursday, and now they face a half just underway. Unlike the
game. Best early highlight of the points (12 times this year they Huskies are favored to win the better version of Lehigh in game versus Georgetown, they
day: Mickey McConnell have held their opponents to 50 game in Vegas, so technically Northern Iowa. Ali have missed a shot today.
shooting a rainbow three that or fewer). These types of teams itâs an upset if New Mexico Farokhmanesh (whose name is 5:10 pm | Butler 44, Murray
banked off the backboard and are the live-bloggerâs best wins. (That basically definitively not a live-bloggerâs State 38; 7:02 left, 2nd Half | by
gave the Gaels a three-point friend because we have more summarizes this tournament so best friend) carried the Panthers Geoff Foster
lead with 1:16 left in the contest. time to craft our witticisms. far.) Versatile New Mexico over UNLV, draining a long Murray State had a small lead
Whether or not he called Baylor has a solid backcourt of superstar Darington Hobson, three pointer with 4.9 seconds NCAA page 43
âbankâ is unclear. That shot was Tweety Carter and LaceDarius also known as "Evan Turner left that capped the victory. The
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versus Butler at the half, but the
Bulldogs have gone on a 9-0 run
and are now up by six.
This is a vintage round two,
mid-major duel; I expect it
comes down to some late
heroics.
5:11 pm | Butler 46, Murray
State 38; 5:59 left, 2nd Half | by
Geoff Foster
Gordon Hayward uses his body
to force a dribble-drive home
and now Murray State needs a
timeout to think about things.
5:14 pm | Butler 47, Murray
State 43; 5:22 left, 2nd Half | by
Geoff Foster
Offensive foul after the drive
by Donte Poole, basket counts
but Butler goes back to the other
end to shoot free throws. Thatâs
a bizarre rule. Initially it looked
that the basket was going to get
waved off.
5:15 pm | Murray State 48,
Butler 47; 4:05 left, 2nd Half |
by Geoff Foster
Murray State with a steal, and
Canaan buries a three on the
other end. They are now up by
one.
5:17 pm | Murray State 48,
Butler 47; 3:38 left, 2nd Half |
by Geoff Foster
Hayward botches an easy layup
and the Racers have the ball
back with a one-point lead.
The announcers have
repeatedly suggested Murray
State has ânothing to lose.â
Nothing to lose except the
game, their dream of reaching
the Sweet Sixteen and achieving
the greatest sports moment in
their schoolâs history, that is.
5:20 pm | Tennessee 50, Ohio
45; 12 minutes left, 2nd Half |
by Geoff Foster
Ohio with a three and that game
is back in reach for the Bobcats.
I may have been a bit premature
on my pumpkin claim.
5:22 pm | Murray State 50,
Butler 48; 2 minutes left, 2nd
Half | by Geoff Foster
We have been reminded that
this is the biggest moment in
these young menâs lives. How
do they know that? The cliché
police have just been alerted.
Butler hits one of two free
throws and is within two.
5:23 pm | Murray State 50,
Butler 50: 1:28 left, 2nd Half |
by Geoff Foster
All tied after Mack drills a mid-
range jumper. Get the oxygen
tanks ready, Racer fans.
5:28 pm | Butler 53, Murray
State 50; 26 seconds left, 2nd
Half | by Geoff Foster
After B.J. Jenkins misses a
three-pointer, Ronald Nored
makes a drive and one! Butler
can go up by three with a free
throw. All nylon. Itâs within one
possession as Murray St. calls a
timeout.
5:29 pm | Butler 53, Murray
State 50; 21 seconds left, 2nd
Half | by Geoff Foster
Sheldon Mack picks up a foul
and sends Miles to the line for
two shots; they are in the double
bonus.
5:30 pm | Butler 53, Murray
State 52; 21 seconds left, 2nd
Half | by Geoff Foster
He hits both, one-point game.
5:31 pm | Butler 54, Murray
State 52; 21 seconds left, 2nd
Half | by Geoff Foster
Murray State is trying to force a
steal with the press and they
foul Hayward. Heâs going to
the line for two shots. He hits
the front end, and we have a
timeout so that everyone in San
Jose can breathe.
5:35 pm | Butler 54, Murray
State 52; Final | by Geoff Foster
Howard (not Hayward, those
two names are far too similar)
misses the second free throw.
On the other end, Canaan has
the ball knocked loose and
thatâs it, they never got a shot
off. The Murray State dream
has just ended. Butler keeps
dancing....
5:38 pm | Tennessee 65, Ohio
52; 6:58 left, 2nd Half | by
Geoff Foster
The Volunteers are solidly in
control of this one. Ohio seems
like they used up all their magic
in their first game in
Providence. Bruce Pearl is
without the orange sports coat
today. Orange tie, yes. The coat
must be at the dry cleaners.
5:43 pm | Tennessee 71, Ohio
60; 5:11 left, 2nd Half | by
Geoff Foster
Iâm still amazed that this team
beat Georgetown so soundly.
Speaking of Georgetown, my
DC-based mother-in-lawâs
bracket had them winning the
championship. Needless to say,
I donât think sheâs winning the
pool.
I have Kansas. Iâm risk-taker;
thatâs just who I am.
5:49 pm | No. Iowa 10, Kansas
2; 18:00 left, 1st Half | by Geoff
Foster
We are underway in Oklahoma
City. Seven-foot center Jordan
Eglseder has already sunk a
three and two-point jumper,
flagrantly showing off his
versatility. Another
possession later and Moran
buries a three. The Panthers
have fired out of the gates with
a 10-0 run.
5:54 pm | No. Iowa 12, Kansas
9; 15:39 left, 1st Half | by Geoff
Foster
You get the sense Aldrich and
Eglseder are going to be battling
all day inside. Xavier Henry
sinks a three-point jumper; two
possessions later Marcus Morris
drives one home, and Kansas
quickly ends that run.
5:55 pm | ODU 0, Baylor 0;
Pregame | by William Snyder
Even the 80s hair metal blasting
over the PA system can't mask
the fact that this is not the title
fight in New Orleans today. The
Kentucky fans are still enjoying
the vices of Bourbon Street.
About 200 Baylor fans are
stacked behind the team's bench
and maybe 100 ODU faithful
are here. Tip time.
5:58 pm | No. Iowa 14, Kansas
9; 14:00 left, 1st Half | by Geoff
Foster
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Northern Iowa has never faced
a No. 1 ranked team, and a
Missouri Valley team hasnât
beaten a No. 1 since JFK was
president.
6:01 pm | Baylor 10, ODU 1;
17:33 left, 1st Half | by William
Snyder
Under three minutes in and
Baylor looks like they deserve
their 3 seeding...Of course,
ODU look like they deserve to
be an 11th. 10-1. ODU's sole
point came on a free throw.
Meanwhile Baylor is dissecting
ODU's defense by drawing out
players and then dumping the
ball into the post.
6:02 pm | Baylor 10, ODU 3:
16:02 left, 1st Half | by Geoff
Foster
As we keep an eye an eye on
Northern Iowaâs upset bid.
Letâs switch to New Orleans.Â
Tweety Carter and LaceDarius
Dunn have combined for 10
points in the early going for
Baylor. I just checked with my
wife, and itâs official: my first
two children will be named
Tweety and LaceDarius.
6:04 pm | Northern Iowa 17,
Kansas 12; 11:59 left, 1st Half |
by Geoff Foster
The Panthers are 6 of 10 from
the field so far; they will need
to everything to fall to stay in
this one. Again though, this a
team that is used to dominating
their competition. They put
together 29 wins this year, not a
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shabby resume.
6:08 pm | Baylor 20, ODU 6;
12:24 left, 1st Half | by William
Snyder
Sitting next to Baylor's
Executive Associate AD, Todd
Patulski, on press row and he
pointed out that Baylor was
picked to finish ninth in the Big
12 this season. But three
victories over Texas and a
strong finish in the conference
has them looking like a potential
Final Four contender.
6:11 pm | Baylor 20, ODU 8;
11:31 left, 1st Half | by William
Snyder
A TV timeout will help ODU
bandage the hemorrhaging.
Geoff's right, with names like
Tweety and LaceDarius putting
up stats like they do, they
deserve to be namesakes.
They're even getting the few UK
fans who have abandoned the
Hurricanes, Grenades and
Daiquiris on their feet. Stellar
work so far.
6:14 pm | No. Iowa 22, Kansas
19; 8:35 left, 1st Half | by Geoff
Foster
Between Egleseder, Ahelegbe,
and Farokhmanesh, Northern
Iowa would be a solid No. 1
overall seed in the spell-check
bracket. Speaking of
Farokhmanesh, he hits another
Dan Marjerle-style three from
way outside. Tyrel Reed makes
a three of his own on the other
end
6:16 pm | Baylor 27, ODU 15;
8:22 left, 1st Half | by William
Snyder
Not a good sign for the ODU
loyal to see Baylor's 6-foot-10
forward Anthony Jones
attempting (and making) a three
-pointer.
6:18 pm | No. Iowa 28, Kansas
23; 8:35 left, 1st Half | by Geoff
Foster
Farokhmanesh again with a
three. That was after Eglseder
hit his second of the game. The
announcers inform us that the
seven-footer had one on the year
before this game.
I think is safe to say anyone on
the floor will sink an open look
if they have to.
6:23 pm | Northern Iowa 31,
Kansas 24, 4:07 left, 1st Half |
by Geoff Foster
This is the part of the game
where everyone expected the
Jayhawks to take over. But we
are still waiting...
Farokhmanesh again! He is
unconscious! (Not literally, that
would be a serious matter.)
6:25 pm | Baylor 31, ODU 20;
4:51 left, 1st Half | by William
Snyder
LaceDarius is delivering
serious airmail. He's been on the
receiving end of three alley-
oops in the first 15 minutes.
ODU's keeping it close enough
not to be a rout, yet, but it's
starting to feel like a 1 vs. 16
game instead of the second
round.
6:27 pm | Northern Iowa 33,
Kansas 26; 2:59 left, 1st Half |
by Geoff Foster
A sweet alley-oop from Taylor
to Marcus Morris. But on the
other end, Morris picks up his
second foul.
6:30 pm | by Geoff Foster
Baylor is the only thing in
Dukeâs way from a Final Four
return. The Selection Committee
clearly decided to be all the
injured (Purdue), slumping
(Villanova), and just plain bad
teams (Louisville) in one region.
Dukeâs region.
6:35 pm | Baylor 34, ODU 26;
2:21 left, 1st Half | by William
Snyder
Back from the last TV timeout
of the half. Baylor got cocky
trying to heave up another alley-
oop, but the long arms of Carter
for ODU messed up the
delivery. Carter gets fouled on
the return end and sinks one of
two from the line. ODU cuts it
to eight and then Baylor misses
an easy dunk. Momentum shift?
Cinderella finding her dancing
shoes? Oooh, that sounds like
Dickie V. My apologies.
6:37 pm | Washington 28, New
Mexico 21; 7:25 left, 1st Half |
by Geoff Foster
A three-point play by Abdul
Gaddy and the Huskies have a
seven-point lead in this one,
another upset in the making.
When will it stop? We need
order!
6:42 pm | Baylor 38, ODU 28;
Hafltime | by William Snyder
Last-second floater from
Tweety Carter sends Baylor to
the locker room with a 10-point
lead. Not bad, but still close
enough for Old Dominion to
make a run. They'll have to
learn to rebound first, though.
Baylor is owning them on the
boards.
6:43 pm | Washington 34, New
Mexico 23; 4:42 left, 1st Half |
by Geoff Foster
Lorenzo Romar decides to keep
Isaiah Thomas on the floor with
two fouls and he quickly buries
two threes. Smart move.
6:46 pm | Baylor 38, ODU 28;
Hafltime | by William Snyder
Order in the court, Geoff says,
and I agree. With Washington
roughing up New Mexico, it's
apparent the seeds mean nothing
this year. The Pac-10 was
supposed to be a pushover while
the Big East was going to be
unstoppable. Oops. I guess the
only consistency is that the mid-
majors are wild cards. St.
Mary's is moving on while ODU
might be packing up and
heading home.
6:46 pm | Washington 34, New
Mexico 25; 4:42 left, 1st Half |
by Geoff Foster
Hobson has been very quiet in
this one. Have to wonder if
heâs playing injured. Â Thomas
and Pondexter are getting it
done, especially in transition.
Just to clear this up straight
away: Washingtonâs Quincy
Pondexter is no relation to
Arnold Poindexter from
Revenge of the Nerds.
6:52 pm | Baylor 38, ODU 28;
Hafltime | by William Snyder
E-reader News Edition
Poor Wake Forest...Not only do
they have to play the tournament
favorite, but UK fans are fired
up after the halftime show
included a video clip on the
scoreboard of Christian Laettner
crushing their hopes and dreams
with his last-second shot in the
1992 regionals. Whoa buddy are
they angry now.
6:53 pm | Washington 34, New
Mexico 25; 3:58 left, 1st Half |
by Geoff Foster
Like I said earlier, the
oddsmakers liked the Huskies in
this one, so we shouldnât be so
shocked. However, I do agree
that itâs hard to believe the Pac-
10 could go 3-0 after all the flak
they took this season for being
largely terrible.
Also, the WCC is quietly 3-0 as
well. Thatâs a conference that
people thought didnât think
deserved multiple bids. Itâs a
West Coast uprising!
6:54 pm | Baylor 38, ODU 28;
Hafltime | by William Snyder
Oh boy, who's ready for the stat
sheet? Anyone? Bueller?
Bueller? Baylor shot 66.7%
from the three-point line. That's
a hot hand for the long ball.
Meanwhile ODU only managed
28.6% from the arc and 35.7%
for overall field-goal
percentage. What's cooler than
being cool? Ice cold.
6:56 pm | Washington 41, New
Mexico 29; 3:58 left, 1st Half |
by Geoff Foster
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Elston Turner hits a three and
gets the foul (he misses the free
throw). Turner hit four threes in
the last game; heâs red hot.
7:00 pm | Baylor 38, ODU 28;
Start of 2nd Half | by William
Snyder
Metallica's Enter Sandman
brings us back to the action. To
win, ODU needs to first, makes
some shots and second, stop
Baylor's perimeter game.
Baylor, on the other hand, needs
to keep on keepin' on.
7:00 pm | Washington 44, New
Mexico 32; Halftime | by Geoff
Foster
Turner again for three points,
from the exact same spot. Heâs
doing all this off the bench.
Coach Romar is one half from
his third Sweet 16 appearance
with the Huskies. I predicted
Washington to get romped by
Marquette in the first round.
Iâm a regular soothsayer.
7:01 pm | Northern Iowa 42,
Kansas 32; 15:23 left, 2nd Half |
by Geoff Foster
Oh by the way, Northern Iowa
is still winning by 10 over
Kansas. Pretty standard.
7:05 pm | by Geoff Foster
Iâve watched too many of those
bizarre UPS ads with the long-
haired cartoonist this weekend. I
find them weirdly hypnotic and
Iâm beginning to feel as if that
man is my friend.
7:06 pm | Baylor 38, ODU 35;
17:56 left, 2nd Half | by William
Snyder
Well, well, Keyon Carter has
ODU within three after leading
a quick 7-0 run to start the half.
Upset time in New Orleans?
Baylor wants a full timeout as
another mid-major rears its
head. Game on.
7:07 pm | Northern Iowa 42,
Kansas 35; 14:23 left, 2nd half |
by Geoff Foster
Sherron Collins finds Xavier
Henry, who hits a highly
contested three. This might give
Kansas some momentum, they
certainly need it.
7:08 pm | Baylor 38, ODU 37;
16:40 left, 2nd Half | by William
Snyder
Baylor turns it over right out of
the timeout and ODU answers
with a thunder dunk from Frank
Hassell. No buckets yet this half
for Baylor and, oh, as I type
Baylor turns it over again.
Kansas isn't the only Big 12
team sweating.
7:10 pm | Baylor 40, ODU 37;
15:47 left, 2nd Half | by William
Snyder
Hey, Geoff, you gotta watch the
games live. My media timeouts
include cheerleaders and t-shirts
from that t-shirt gun thingy. No
UPS ads. No CBS theme song
either. (And Baylor finally got
their first bucket, a dunk from
Mr. Udoh. First name Ekpe.)
7:11 pm | Northern Iowa 47,
Kansas 35; 14:23 left, 2nd Half
| by Geoff Foster
Kansas canât do anything
inside. I guess this team is
slightly bigger than Lehigh.
They also just committed their
12trh turnover of the game.
Freshman Jake Koch takes
advantage of the turnover and
hits a three! Thatâs 15 points
off KU turnovers for No. Iowa -
- Kansas has four points off
Panther turnovers.
KU wisely calls a timeout to
discuss how this utter disaster is
happening. I just heard the
sound of a remote going through
a television in Lawrence.
7:12 pm | Northern Iowa 47,
Kansas 39; 11:37 left, 2nd Half |
by Geoff Foster
I spoke (typed?) too fast,
Northern Iowa coughs up the
ball in their end and KU gets
four quick points.
7:13 pm | by Geoff Foster
For the record, I keep my own
personal t-shirt gun on my desk.
I just fired one at my wife who
is watching Lost on the couch.
7:16 pm | Northern Iowa 50,
Kansas 39; 11:03 left, 2nd half |
by Geoff Foster
Kerwin Dunham answers with a
layup and the foul. The
Panthers refuse to let Kansas go
on a run. Is this really
happening?
7:17 pm | Baylor 45, ODU 39;
14:16 left, 2nd Half | by William
Snyder
ODU's run was short lived. A
three by Tweety Carter has
Baylor up six. Now the refs are
earning the fans' ire after two
rough calls against both teams.
And there's another touch foul.
More whistles than construction
workers at a fashion show.
What? No good?
7:17 pm | by Geoff Foster
By the way, Udoh won the
Ryan Mallet Award this year for
"Best Player to Leave Michigan
and Do Really Well on Another
Team While Michigan Remains
Pathetic."
( I went there...tear)
7:18 pm | Baylor 45, ODU 45;
13:04 left, 2nd Half | by William
Snyder
We're tied! Darius James drops
a three for ODU. The team from
ol' Virginny is hot behind the
line this half.
7:23 pm | ODU 49, Baylor 47;
12:21 left, 2nd Half | by William
Snyder
Doth my eyes deceive me?
ODU takes the lead on a pair of
free throws and Kansas
continues to lag behind
Northern Iowa. Will the Earth's
polarity shift later tonight? Is it
2012 already? Maybe the
Mayan prophecy of the end
times was off by two years.
7:24 pm | Northern Iowa 52,
Kansas 45; 7:58 left, 2nd Half |
by Geoff Foster
Aldrich with a nice hook shot.
But he just hobbled off the
court after trying to get a
rebound on the other end and is
now on the bench with his face
in a towel. BAD sign.
Some good news, the Panthersâ
threes arenât falling anymore.
7:28 pm | Northern Iowa 54,
Kansas 45; 6:54 left, 2nd Half |
by Geoff Foster
Farokhmanesh has missed five
45
in a row from deep. We are still
awaiting news on Aldrichâs
injury. If Kansas does survive,
that injury could be devastating.
By the way, Washington is up
by 14 in the second half, I guess
a No. 11 beating a No. 3 is no
longer newsworthy.
7:29 pm | Northern Iowa 54,
Kansas 49; 5:30 left, 2nd Half |
by Geoff Foster
Markieff Morris had a three-
point play. And then Marcus
Morris adds another free throw
on the next possession. Here
comes Kansas.
7:30 pm | ODU 53, Baylor 52;
8:49 left, 2nd Half | by Willian
Snyder
Back from a TV timeout and
ODU hits a layup. The two
teams are swapping baskets. If
only Kansas wasn't drawing
attention away from this game.
It's tight.
7:31 pm | Northern Iowa 56,
Kansas 53; 4:30 left, 2nd Half |
by Geoff Foster
Kansas is now getting it done in
the half-court, They are scoring
on every possession here as
Northern Iowa is holding on for
dear life.
7:36 pm | Baylor 56, ODU 55;
6:37 left, 2nd Half | by Willian
Snyder
Not only is his name Tweety,
but the 5-foot-11 guard is
sporting an old school, J.R. Reid
flat top. Hey, you can pull off
bold statements when you run a
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tight floor offense. He dishes to
Dunn, who makes a sweet finger
roll lay-up to put Baylor ahead
by a point.
7:37 pm | Northern Iowa 59,
Kansas 53; 3:38 left, 2nd Half |
by Geoff Foster
Johnny Moran hits a huge
three! On the other end, Collins
clanks one off the rim. He is
doing his best impression of
Scottie Reynolds from earlier
today: heâs 0-for-4 from
downtown, 3 for 13 from the
field and he has only gotten to
the line once.
7:38 pm | Washington 55, New
Mexico 36; 14:22 left, 2nd Half
| by Geoff Foster
New Mexico has left the arena
and is already on a bus home.
The Huskies have pulled five
drunk guys out of the crowd
and are now playing them.
7:39 pm | Northern Iowa 59,
Kansas 56; 2:38 left, 2nd Half |
by Geoff Foster
Two quick steals and Kansas is
right in it. Northern Iowa canât
escape their own end because of
the press. Henry misses the
front end of a one-and-one, and
the Panthers have it back.
7:42 pm | Northern Iowa 61,
Kansas 56; 2:38 left, 2nd Half |
by Geoff Foster
Offensive rebound by Koch
after a missed three. And he hits
both. Collins gets an offensive
foul on the next possession. The
announcers can no longer tell
the Koch brothers apart; neither
can I.
7:43 pm | Baylor 65, ODU 61;
4:07 left, 2nd Half | by William
Snyder
Big, slow, and unmarked.
Baylor's 7-footer, Josh Lomers,
has been hitting shots under the
basket and getting fouled. Too
bad he can't convert on the and-
1. He's put Baylor ahead by four
and we're getting to the home
stretch. Is that Kansas game
over yet, Geoff?
7:44 pm | Northern Iowa 63,
Kansas 58; 1:07 left, 2nd Half |
by Geoff Foster
Koch (one of them) grabs
another offensive rebound and
slams it home. A couple
Jayhawk free throws later and
it's back to a five-point game.
Oh boy, this one is nuts.
7:46 pm | Baylor 70, ODU 62;
2:36 left, 2nd Half | by William
Snyder
Tweety Carter took over the
offense, setting up a three by
LaceDarius Dunn and then
driving for a simple layup. He's
put Baylor up by eight and they
look to be back in control. ODU
opts for the full timeout. Not
sure a couple of minutes on the
bench getting reamed by the
coach is the cure.
7:47 pm | Northern Iowa 63,
Kansas 62; 42 seconds left, 2nd
Half | by Geoff Foster
Marcus Morris gets to line and
hits both. KU got it back after
the press baffled the Panthers
again. They have no idea how to
inbound the ball; it's killing
them.
Just as I type that, they turn it
over again on the next inbounds
pass. Wow. KU is on a 6-0 run
after Collins puts it home. One-
point game
7:50 pm | Northern Iowa 66,
Kansas 62; 30 seconds left, 2nd
Half | by Geoff Foster
They break the press and
Farokhmanesh hits the three
rather than working the clock.
He didn't need to take that shot
at all, in fact, it was probably a
terrible decision. But he was
wide open and figure why not.
GUTSY!
Offensive foul on the other end.
Back to the Panthers!!
7:52 pm | Northern Iowa 67,
Kansas 64; 6 seconds left, 2nd
Half | by Geoff Foster
Kansas has to foul. And
Ahelegbe hits one of two. On
the next possession, KU
manages a couple offensive
rebounds and brings it back to a
three-point game.
7:52 pm | Baylor 72, ODU 64;
1:05 left, 2nd Half | by William
Snyder
Giant journeyman Josh Lomers
fouls out, but his rebounds and
points might have iced it for
Baylor. Hassell makes 1 of 2 for
ODU. Time is short and so is
ODU's season it looks like.
7:55 pm | Northern Iowa 69,
Kansas 67; Final | by Geoff
Foster
That's it. Every bracket in the
country is officially busted.
Farokmananesh hit both free
throws at the very end when it
counted. What a heroic
performance for Farokmananesh
and the Panthers.
This tournament has gone from
mere madness to criminally
insane.
7:56 pm | by William Snyder
With Kansas' loss does this
mean the President's bracket is
busted? Well, at least he has the
health-care vote tomorrow...
7:58 pm | Baylor 74, ODU 68;
20 seconds left, 2nd Half | by
William Snyder
This one's on ice. Tweety and
LaceDarius, that's all you need
to know. They ran the offense
and pulled Baylor away down
the stretch.
7:58 pm | by Geoff Foster
I believe that is the first No. 1
to not make it out of the first
weekend since Kentucky lost to
UAB in 2004. Bonkers.
8:00 pm | Baylor 76, ODU 68;
Final | by William Snyder
Well, now that the pesky
Kansas game is out of the way
we can focus on the main match.
Baylor got a scare but managed
the win. Next up for them, St.
Mary's. Before the UK vs Wake
Forest game starts, I'll be in the
parking lot burning my bracket.
Wait a second, I'm in New
Orleans, maybe I can use a little
voodoo to repair the damage.
8:01 pm | by Geoff Foster
The irony is that the Midwest
was supposed to be the region of
death. But with Georgetown and
Kansas losing, there must be a
lot of happy people in
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of happy people in Columbus,
Ohio.
8:04 pm | by William Snyder
I hear that. Of course my I grew
up in N.C. with a family of
former UNC athletes.
Everything about this year hurts.
Now for round two, my mother
is from Kentucky and my dad
went to biz school at Wake. I
guess that makes me impartial.
8:07 pm | Washington 78, New
Mexico 59; 3 minutes left, 2nd
Half | by Geoff Foster
This game is still going on even
though New Mexico is now at
the airport and going through
security.
No. 3 losing? Big deal.
8:27 pm | Pregame | by William
Snyder
Take two for a number-one
seed. Kentucky is looking to
cruise -- as they're favored to do
-- over the Demon Deacons
from Wake Forest. No sign of
Ashley Judd yet, which seems to
be what everyone on press row
is really curious about.
8:29 pm | Pregame | by William
Snyder
While we go through the line-
ups here (biggest cheers for
UK's star frosh, John Wall), I
just noticed that BYU has
jumped out to a 7-0 lead over
Kansas State. What is in the
water?
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12:05 pm | Pregame | by Jim
Chairusmi
Courtside at HSBC Arena. The
first chants of "Let's go Orange"
are heard. A bit subdued as the
crowd is still streaming in.
Strange that the game most 12:18 pm | Syracuse 6, complete a three-point play Gonzaga 17; 11:13 left, 1st Half almost beside the point as he
people are in town to see gets Gonzaga 6; 16:31 left, 1st Half | from the line when we return | by Jim Chairusmi drew the third foul from
the early tipoff. by Pete McEntegart from the TV timeout. Bulldogs If there's any Gonzaga fans in Jackson, who has to take a seat.
12:14 pm | Pregame | by Pete Wes Johnson has all the offense have thus far had good success the arena, they certainly aren't Jackson had picked up his
McEntegart for Cuse with two 3-pointers. on the offensive boards. That's visible. The only visible non- second foul on the previous
Syracuse and Gonzaga are just He's also missed two shots. He in part because Orange coach orange in the arena is the half- offensive possession, and when
about to tip off in Buffalo as the certainly isn't afraid to let it go. Jim Boeheim sat center Rick filled West Virginia section. Harris grabbed an offensive
Orange will try to avoid 12:21 pm | Gonzaga 13, Jackson immediately after he Every Zags basket is followed board, Jackson bumped him.
becoming the second No. 1 seed Syracuse 10; 14:17 left, 1st Half picked up his first foul. by silence. Now Jackson will likely sit the
to go down in the second round. | by Jim Chairusmi Boeheim's treating Jackson with 12:32 pm | SU 22, GU 17; rest of the half in favor of green
But that's a mere appetizer for With Arinze Onauku out, it's kid gloves due to the injury of 11:13 left, 1st Half | by Pete freshman DaShonte Riley.
what's coming the rest of the clear that Gonzaga is trying to fellow big man Arinze Onuaku. McEntegart 12:40 pm | SU 27, GU 21; 7:56
day. get the ball inside to center 12:26 pm | Syracuse 15, Orange roll into TV timeout left, 1st Half | by Jim Chairusmi
Starting at 2:20 ET, there will Robert Sacre. Syracuse Gonzaga 13; 13:17 left, 1st Half hitting four-of-nine from Pete: Otto the Orange is indeed
be a slate of four games starting freshman center Dashonte Riley | by Pete McEntegart downtown thus far. I miss the courtside. Did a couple of
at 10-minute intervals. I'll be looks overmatched. For the Scoop Jardine's 3 puts Cuse in old SU mascot with the giant tumbles during the last time out
with you until the end of that Orange, Wes Johnson with 8 of front. Gus Johnson tells us the Orange head. Is he (she?) still break.
slate, or until I lose my mind. the team's 10 points, has come crowd isn't booing, they're around? 12:41 pm | SU 27, GU 21; 7:56
Not that those are mutually out looking for his shot. saying "Scoop." Though it's 12:36 pm | SU 22, GU 21; 8:58 left, 1st Half | by Pete
exclusive. Somewhere late in 12:23 pm | Gonzaga 13, unclear if any fans can match left, 1st Half | by Pete McEntegart
those games, Jonah Keri will Syracuse 10, 14:17 left, 1st Half Johnson's excitement level. He McEntegart Orange rally without Jackson to
take over for the rest of the day. | by Pete McEntegart gets FIRED UP! Elias Harris just missed two NCAA page 49
So let's go, shall we? SU's Johnson will try to 12:31 pm | Syracuse 22, FTs for Gonzaga, but that's
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Twins closer Joe Nathan strengthening the muscles
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ligament in his right elbow. He worst-case scenario.
was injured on March 6 during a "It started out well," Nathan
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the beginning. I didn't want to
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The 35-year-old right-hander where it was along the lines of
signed a $47 million contract playing a normal game of catch.
two years ago that guarantees "I got out to about 60 or 70 feet
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season and next. The Twins stiffness. I wasn't sure if it was
have a $12.5 million option for from the forearm or from the
2012, with a $2 million buyout. elbow. I just kept throwing, and
Nathan has set his sights on it became clear that it was an
returning at the start of the 2011 injured elbow. It was getting
season. harder and harder. It became
"I'm very confident," he said. clear that it didn't feel good. I
"I've talked to the doctors. The don't have a number on what I
percentages of coming back are threw, but it wasn't very long. It
very good. You never want to was probably only a few
say 100 percent, but it's pretty minutes of playing catch when I
close to being 100 percent of the started feeling stiff."
time." Nathan said he would
Nathan went 2-2 with a 2.10 rehabilitate from the surgery in
ERA and a career-best 47 saves Minnesota.
last season. "I think it will help me get
The in-house relievers likely to through this thing and at least be
replace Nathan include Jon a part of the team a little bit," he
Rauch, who has 26 big league said. "I'm very comfortable in
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there, and my family would like
it. Obviously, I would like to
help out whoever is thrown into
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There has been speculation that
the Twins might call on left-
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to become the team's closer.
Manager Ron Gardenhire said
Saturday that he's told Liriano
he's a starter. But he didn't
completely dismiss the
possibility of making a change.
"We brought [Liriano] in our
office to clear the air with him
and tell him he's a starter,
honestly, until we decide if we
want him to close or anybody
else," Gardenhire told reporters
on Saturday, after Liriano threw
three scoreless innings against
the Tampa Bay Rays. "We told
him, 'You're a starter. We're
getting you ready to start the
season as one of our starters,
Frankie.' And that's all it is, and
if there is any decision made
otherwise, we would go talk to
him or anybody else we decided
to do that with before we talked
to anybody else."
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take their biggest lead heading
into the TV timeout. Cuse is 5-
of-10 from deep. Who needs big
men anyway?
12:42 pm | SU 27, GU 21; 7:56
left, 1st Half | by Jim Chairusmi
Full disclosure. I'm a Syracuse
grad and over the years, there
had been consideration of
modernizing Otto the Orange
and make him a more
intimidating mascot. The idea to
make him a lion (Orange Pride)
or wolf (Orange Pack) was even
considered. I'm glad the
movement has been shelved. I
like Otto.
The school did change its
Bulldogs within five. On the last
two SU possessions, Riley
tossed up an airball and
traveled. Hmm, maybe there's a
reason this kid has barely played
this year. Now SU's Triche hits
one of two FTs and we'll go into
the under-four TV timeout with
a 32-26 count.
12:50 pm | SU 32, GU 26; 3:59
left, 1st Half | by Jim Chairusmi
Although I'm partial to
anything Orange, the Gonzaga
cheerleaders are so far winning
the pep-squad battle on points.
Some very impressive lifts,
pyramids and jumps.
12:55 pm | SU 41, GU 28; 1:48
moments. To continue with the
Dickie V theme (and where did
that come from?), maybe Riley's
a Diaper Dandy after all.
1:03 pm | SU 46, GU 30; 35.4
seconds left, 1st Half | by Jim
Chairusmi
Pete, you're out on the West
Coast. Do you think a noon
eastern time tipoff, plus playing
150 miles from Syracuse's
campus are just to big an
obstacle?
1:05 pm | SU 47, GU 32;
Halftime | by Jim Chairusmi
An impressive first half by
Syracuse, especially having to
play the last nine minutes of the
to make this a game.
1:10 pm | Syracuse 47,
Gonzaga 32; Halftime | by Jim
Chairusmi
With the game at the half,
here's a little funny anecdote.
Syracuse is a basketball-
obsessed school and town,
especially as the football team
has struggled in recent years. Cam Janssen and Pierre-
But not every person with a
Syracuse connection follows Luc Letourneau-
March Madness that closely. I Leblond's Marathon
got the following email from a Bout
friend who relayed this tale to
me when I said I was in Buffalo Kevin Schultz (FanHouse
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just Orange a few years ago.
12:44 pm | SU 31, GU 21; 6:43
left, 1st Half | by Pete
McEntegart
Bulldogs call time as Johnson
hits a deep 2 from straightaway.
SU now on a 9-0 roll.
On a completely unrelated note,
the leaders of the LA Marathon
are passing within about four
miles of my couch as I write
this. I hope they'll be able to
catch the afternoon games.
12:47 pm | SU 31, GU 21; 4:49
left, 1st Half | by Jim Chairusmi
An airball from DaShonte Riley
as the shot clock winds down.
Halftime can't come soon
enough for Syracuse.
12:49 pm | SU 31 GU 26 SU;
4:23 left, 1st Half | by Pete
McEntegart
Steven Gray hits his second
trifecta of the day to pull
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Another three by Wes Johnson.
If Dick Vitale were watching,
he's be yelling that Wesley
Johnson is a PTPer.
12:56 pm | SU 41, GU 28; 1:28
left, 1st Half | by Pete
McEntegart
Johnson's 3 caps yet another 9-
0 Cuse run and Gonzaga needs a
TO, bay-bee. (Sorry, I slipped
into Dickie V there). Orange
snared two straight steals to help
key the spurt.
1:00 pm | SU 46, GU 30; 35.4
seconds left, 1st half | by Pete
McEntegart
Orange are rolling as Brandon
Triche (nephew of former Cuse
star Howard) hits a deep 3 after
canning a layup off a beautiful
feed by Riley. I've also been a
little too tough on the latter, who
has a steal in addition to that
great pass in the last few
half with Rick Jackson on the
bench with three fouls. The
partisan crowd stands and
applauds as the Orange leave the
court.
1:09 pm | Syracuse 47,
Gonzaga 32; Halftime | by Pete
McEntegart
Zags tip one in at that buzzer
but that only means SU's half-
ending run was 15-4 rather than
15-2. Orange look every bit a
No. 1 seed, i.e. more Kentucky
than Kansas in yesterday's
terms. Jim makes a good point
that the Bulldogs are today
facing a 9:10 a.m. tip-off
according to their body clocks
on a court that's a 120 miles or
so from SU's campus. Ouch.
The Zags have probably been in
Buffalo since Wednesday, but
it's a tough assignment
nonetheless. But they better
wake up in a hurry if they want
customer service girl. She
was really helpful so we started
exchanging some small talk. I
cracked a joke and she giggles a
bit, the pressure is off, the
professionalism eases, she asks
me who I have in my bracket.Â
What!?! I had to ask her if SU
was still in it. She said yes, she
has them winning it all. I said,
"Oh good. Then yes, I am
rooting for 'Cuse."
1:26 pm | 53-34 Syracuse;
18:37 left, 2nd half | by Pete
McEntegart
Andy Rautins (son of former
SU stud Leo) hits two straight
3s. It doesn't seem the Zags
focused on defending the
perimeter at the half. Or if they
did, it hasn't helped so far.
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8:34 pm | WFU 4, UK 0; 18:57
left, 1st Half | by William
Snyder
WFU fans are outnumbered
somewhere in the vicinity of,
oh, 200-1, but even with a
strong UK presence, the arena is
half empty (half full for the
optimist readers). And it's game
time. Wake makes quick plays
inside and Wall picks up an
early foul.
8:43 pm | WFU 10, UK 7;
15:53 left, 1st Half | by William
Snyder
Wake is not shying away from
going inside and they seem to
have UK's big man, DeMarcus
Cousins on his heels. Lucky for
the Cats, Wall knocks down a
three to keep it tight. But at the
first media timeout the only
rhythm is coming from the pep
bands. Both teams look a little
off-kilter.
8:44 pm | UK 12, WFU 10;
14:03 left, 1st Half | by William
Snyder
It was nice while it lasted.
Darius Miller comes full-force
out of the timeout to hang 5
quickly and put UK up two. The
pace is picking up, but still no
Democrats confident of healthcare victory
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 9:17:55 AM
Democratic leaders in the US
House of Representatives said
on Sunday they believe they will
have the votes to pass landmark
rhythm. It's sloppier than
Bourbon Street on a Sunday
morning.
8:50 pm | UK 19, WFU 19;
11:39 left, 1st Half | by William
Snyder
UK is working for the highlight
reel and Wake is working to
stay in it. For every thunder-
dome dunk (Patrick Patterson
had one off a Bledsoe foul-shot
miss) or slick three-pointer,
Wake is answering with gritty
baskets of their own. All level
almost half way through the
first.
8:55 pm | UK 22, WFU 19;
9:30 left, 1st Half | by William
Snyder
A brick to lay the foundation.
Ishmael Smith had a fast break
and set up for a monster slam,
but hammered it hard off the
back rim. Wake's gotta convert
if they want to add another 1-
seed scalp to the pile.
8:59 pm | UK 24, WFU 19;
9:03 left, 1st Half | by William
Snyder
Wake takes a full timeout to
cool the hot hands of UK's
guards, and that gave me a
chance to check the BYU vs
healthcare overhaul legislation,
President Barack Obama's top
domestic priority.
Asked whether the party has the
216 votes needed to pass the bill
over unified Republican
opposition in the House,
Representative John Larson,
Kansas State score. What is
going on in the world? BYU is
up seven late in the first half. A
lower seeding seems like the
best path to victory.
9:16 pm | UK 36, WFU 26;
3:39 left, 1st Half | by William
Snyder
UK is bringing the pain now.
But the post game is getting
rough for both teams. Despite
the elbows and audible slaps,
the refs are waving play on.
9:22 pm | UK 44, WFU 28;
1:39 left, 1st Half | by William
Snyder
The rout is on. UK's offense is
being aided by constant shot
blocking. I don't think a Wake
shot has graced the rim for
several minutes.
9:33 pm | UK 44, WFU 28;
Halftime | by Editor
And that concludes our Day 3
live blog. Please come back
tomorrow for our Day 4 live
blog, which starts around 12
p.m. ET before the Gonzaga-
Syracuse game. Good night!
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Tournament - East Region NEW
ORLEANS -- For a moment
Saturday night, Kentucky coach
John Calipari considered the
question of his Wildcats now
being the team to beat NCAA
tournament in the wake of the
stunning fall of overall No. 1 overwhelming favorite," said
Kansas. Calipari, who is in first year
Calipari grinned a little behind with the Wildcats but he's no
the microphone and before stranger to making NCAA
delivering a carefully thought tournament runs with loaded
out response. No one has ever teams. "Everyone was picking
accused Calipari of being the us to lose today with this being a
most sincere guy and his "Who, tough game. They were also
us?" postgame eloquence did saying we'd be the first No. 1
little to change that perception out.
after Kentucky's 90-60 rout of "So how do they change those
Wake Forest. talking heads overnight. With
"I don't know if we are the one game? Come on."
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the opener against Cleveland on
April 5.
The calf has been an issue for
, Jenks since last season, when he
missed the final 11 games and
finished with 29 saves.
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Wrapup is greeting
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Submitted at 3/20/2010 11:30:00 PM
Happy first day of Spring,
everyone! Let's all take a
moment to bid farewell to
Winter, unless you live in
certain parts of the Midwest,
where Winter is apparently still
all the rage. While there's
nothing inherently wrong with
Winter, we feel it lacks the
inherent positivity of the current
season. Also, Spring's
associated with better stuff, such
as Spring cleaning, Spring
break. Spring rolls, and, of
course, Coily the Spring Sprite.
Below are our seven favorite
gaming related webcomics from
this past week. Check them out,
then vote for your favorite after
the jump! If we missed out on
any notable strips, drop a link in
the comments section!
The Future is The Past(Virtual
Shackles)
Caged(Sidescroller)
A Final Fantasy XIII(Penny
Arcade)
Malpractice(Awkward Zombie)
Shoulders(Brawl in the Family)
Sibilance(VG Cats)
Hindsight is 29RX20(Monday
Night Crew)
Continue reading Weekly
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Australian mature game

detractor Michael
Atkinson stepping down
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) Labor backbench who deserve a
Submitted at 3/21/2010 11:00:00 AM go," Atkinson explained.
There's no telling whether the
South Austrailian Attorney new A.G. will share Atkinson's
General Michael Atkinson, the position on the outright banning
gentleman almost single-
Rock Shock Jayhawks, Kansas Bows handedly responsible for
preventing the nation from
of mature games, but judging by
the cornucopia of tips we
received from overjoyed
Out adopting an R18+ rating for
games, is stepping down from
Aussies last night, there's plenty
of room for hope.
Brett McMurphy (FanHouse UNI's 7-foot, 280-pound center, all night, but nearly pulled off a the front bench. The Australian mature game
Main) grabbed his extra, extra, really comeback from 12 points down controversial figure will remain detractor Michael Atkinson
Submitted at 3/20/2010 6:27:00 PM extra large jersey, and thrust the in the second half before falling on the Australian parliament stepping down originally
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sophomore Marcus Morris fell The NCAA tournament's No. 1 where we were ranked and
to his knees. Senior guard overall seed and the nation's No. expectations," Kansas coach Bill
Sherron Collins, realizing that 1 ranked team for the majority Self said. "And to put ourselves
h i s K U c a r e e r w a s o v e r , of the season has been playing in a position that we were in,
collapsed near an empty Kansas all season with the No. 1 bull's they don't come around every
bench. eye on its back. It finally caught year.
On the other end of the Ford up to them Saturday night in one "You got to make the most of
Center's court, purple clad of the biggest upsets in NCAA those opportunities when you're
Northern Iowa players hugged tournament history. granted them. That's probably
and celebrated. Jordan Eglseder, The Jayhawks were outplayed what stings the most."
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Cut a rug with Red Steel
2's enemies in the latest
trailer
Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 3/20/2010 9:30:00 PM
Well sure, the baddies from
Red Steel 2's "Enemies" trailer
aren't quite dancing, per se, but
there is quite a bit of fancy
footwork going on -- not to
mention tons of other stuff
getting cut, as you might
imagine. From the adorably
named "Katakara" to the not so
subtly named "Ninja," it seems
that Red Steel 2 is full of
flamboyantly exaggerated
personalities, all of which are
ready to put a sword or bullet
through you at a moment's
The Threat to Muddle
Through
John Mauldin (The Big
Picture)
Submitted at 3/20/2010 1:22:11 PM
March 20, 2010
By John Mauldin O Canada
The Threat to Muddle Through
Back to 1971
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in
our stars
GDP = C + I + G + Net Exports
An Optimistic New Venture,
San Diego, and New York
If the Chinese allowed the
notice. Oh, and if you were
wondering how your foes will
stop your combination of bullets
and sword charging full speed at
them, you'll want to pay extra
close attention at the end there
(spoilers: they handle it like
jedi).
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renminbi to rise, would that
make the USA better off? That
is the contention of a cabal of
critics from Senators to Nobel
laureates. Paul Krugman wants
to see a 25% tariff on Chinese
goods. Today we examine that
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Capcom taking pre-
orders on exclusive
'Dojo Edition' of SSFIV
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 3/20/2010 7:30:00 PM
So, what would you imagine to
be included in a special edition
version of Capcom's upcoming
pseudo-expansion pack, Super
Street Fighter IV? Perhaps a
FightStick emblazoned with the
personas of the game's new
characters? That's a pretty good
guess, but the correct answer
was, of course, a USB flash
drive, a gym bag, a head band, a
Dudley T-shirt and an aluminum
water bottle. Sorry! You were so
close.
Capcom recently began taking
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Prince of Persia:
Forgotten Sands dev
diary demoes Wii
version's features
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Submitted at 3/21/2010 1:00:00 PM
Wondering how Ubisoft's
upcoming Wii iteration of the
timeless royal platformer, Prince
of Persia: The Forgotten Sands,
will implement the system's
decreasingly unique control
scheme? Wonder no further --
just past the jump, you'll find
pre-orders on the "Dojo Edition" the first installment in a series of
of SSFIV, which retails for a developer diaries for the game,
crisp $79.99. Yes, that's double which shows off the motion-
the price of the standalone game controlled powers at your
-- however, the standalone game disposal, as well as the title's
won't make you the envy of all light co-op mechanics. Man, if
the folks at your local workout New Super Mario Bros. Wii
center. We think that notoriety almost tore your family apart,
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idea, and look at the real
problems that we face. If only it
were so easy. The numbers just
don’t add up. The fault, dear
Brutus… O Canada
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In my opinion, they are one of
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Threat to Muddle Through
I have pretty well laid out over
the past decade that I think the
US will Muddle Through what
promises to be a period of below
-trend growth and a long-term
secular bear market. It will not
be pleasant or fun – there will be
a lot of pain – but we will get
through the coming crisis (note:
I think the Big One is still in our
future). That is what we do in a
more or less free-market world.
But, as I wrote 7 years ago and
have written since, there is one
caveat that turns me from a
Muddle Through-er into a real
doom and gloom type, and that
is the threat of protectionism
and trade wars. As in Smoot-
Hawley, which made the
Depression into something
much worse than it should have
been.
Yet that is the prescription that
Paul Krugman is advocating. In
a commentary in Sunday’s New
York Times(“ Taking on
China“), he called for an across
the board 25% tariff on Chinese
goods:
“In 1971 the United States dealt
with a similar but much less
severe problem of foreign
undervaluation by imposing a
temporary 10 percent surcharge
on imports, which was removed
a few months later after
Germany, Japan and other
nations raised the dollar value
of their currencies. At this point,
it’s hard to see China changing
its policies unless faced with
the threat of similar action –
except that this time the
surcharge would have to be
much larger, say 25 percent.”
Krugman doesn’t think the
Chinese can really retaliate by
dumping their hoard of dollars.
He points out:
“It’s true that if China dumped
its U.S. assets the value of the
dollar would fall against other
major currencies, such as the
euro. But that would be a good
thing for the United States,
since it would make our goods
more competitive and reduce
our trade deficit. On the other
hand, it would be a bad thing for
China, which would suffer large
losses on its dollar holdings. In
short, right now America has
China over a barrel, not the
other way around.”
I probably shouldn’t take on a
Nobel Laureate who got his
prize for his work on trade, but
this truly scares me. People pay
attention to this nonsense,
including the five Senators, led
by Schumer of New York, who
want to start the process of
targeting China.
First, the Chinese have got to
be wondering what they have to
do to make these guys happy. In
2005 they were demanding a
30% revaluation of the Chinese
yuan. And over the next three
years the yuan actually rose by
22% at a gradual and sustained
pace. Then the credit crisis hit,
and China again pegged their
currency. From their standpoint,
what else were they to do?
Force their country into a
recession to appease our
politicians?
They responded by a massive
forcing of loans to their
businesses and governments and
huge infrastructure projects.
Kind of like our stimulus,
except they got a lot more
infrastructure to show for their
money. It remains to be seen
how wise that policy was, and
how large the bad (non-
performing) loans will be that
came from that push – just as
there are those (your humble
analyst included) who do not
think the way we went about
the stimulus plan in the US was
the wisest allocation of capital.
But the reality is that the
Chinese will do what is in their
best interest. I wrote in 2005
that the yuan would rise slowly
over time. The political
posturing of Schumer, et al.,
was counterproductive then,
and it still is now.
My prediction? The Chinese
will begin to allow the yuan to
rise again sometime this year,
just as they did three years ago,
because it will be to their
advantage. A stronger yuan will
act as a buffer to inflation,
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which they may face due to the
massive stimulus they created.
They are going to need some
help in that area. But it will be 5
-7% a year, so as not to create a
shock to their export economy.
Not 25% at one time. And at
some point they will allow the
yuan to float against the dollar.
They know they will have to
get the currency status they
want. As an aside, are we going
to put a tariff on every country
that pegs their currency to the
dollar? That is a whole lot of
countries. Back to 1971
By the way, let’s go back to
the 1971 that Krugman
mentions. The Japanese yen was
around 350 to the dollar. They
revalued by 10%. Oh goody,
salvation for the US. The yen is
now at 90, and the Japanese are
still producing massive trade
surpluses, about half the size of
Chinese surpluses, with less
than one-tenth of the people.
That is an almost 75%
devaluation, and yet the world
keeps buying Japanese products.
Why? Because they make good
stuff we all want. The Chinese
could raise the value of the yuan
by 25% over the next year and
they would still run a surplus,
because like the Japanese, they
make good stuff we want at
prices we like. Would their
surplus still be as high? No.
Because a 25% increase in
prices would mean that we
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could afford less of what they
sell. But of course it would also
give them wider profit margins,
which would help hold their
trade surplus up.
And it would also introduce
inflationary increases in our
imports and higher prices for
lower-income families. Yes, a
25% tariff is such a smart idea
that it took a Nobel laureate to
think it up.
What Krugman argues is that
we should pay more for Chinese
goods, so that we will buy less
of their goods. As if we
wouldn’t buy the same goods
from Vietnam or Brazil or
Pakistan, if those goods were
cheaper than Chinese goods. For
the life of me, I can’t see how
substituting goods from foreign
countries other than China helps
our trade deficit.
Are we going to start targeting
the currencies of every nation
that runs a surplus with us?
What about Europe? And Great
Britain? Their currencies are
dropping against the dollar, in
the case of England rather
precipitously. Are they pursuing
mercantilist policies, Senator
Schumer [in reference to his
recent scandalous press
conference]? What happens
when the euro goes to parity
against the dollar (and it will!)
because the Europeans are
having trouble getting their act
together? Are we going to
demand they force the euro to
rise? Tell the ECB to raise rates
and shove the whole euro area
into an even worse recession?
Do you think Japanese
businessmen believe the yen is
too strong, and we should make
the dollar stronger against the
yen? What are we going to do in
three years when the yen is at
150 on its way to 300 because
Japan is getting ready to hit the
wall, due to their massive
government deficits? Accuse the
Japanese of mercantilism and
try and force them to revalue
the yen?
Maybe Canada should put a
25% tariff on US goods,
because their dollar has risen by
almost 40% against ours in the
last few years. That would
teach us a lesson. It would also
destroy trade and a very good
relationship.
It is a dicey damn world we live
in. We are coming to the end of
the debt super cycle, as I have
written elsewhere in this letter.
It is a very perilous time. Things
are going to be hard enough.
We have a huge problem with
deleveraging and controlling our
fiscal deficits, not just in the US
but in the entire developed
world. Starting trade wars is the
absolutely worst possible thing
to do. For the US to even
suggest that such a policy is
reasonable is the worst possible
kind of message. Where are the
adults in the administration?
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in
our stars
But in ourselves, that we are
underlings.
Let’s look at the actual trade
deficit. This past month it rose
to $40 billion, but that is down
from the $70 billion it was only
a few years ago. Over half that
deficit is oil and energy. The
Chinese “deficit” fell to a four-
year low.
Trade deficits actually matter
in a deleveraging cycle. Let’s go
back to the Outside the Box I
sent you a few weeks ago from
Rob Parenteau and review.
“… if we divide the economy
into three sectors – the domestic
private (households and firms),
government, and foreign sectors
– the following identity must
hold true:
Domestic Private Sector
Financial Balance + Fiscal
Balance + Foreign Financial
Balance = 0
“Note that it is impossible for
all three sectors to net save –
that is, to run a financial surplus
– at the same time. All three
sectors could run a financial
balance, but they cannot all
accomplish a financial surplus
and accumulate financial assets
at the same time – some sector
has to be issuing liabilities.”
As Rob noted, this is an
“identity” equation. It is always
true for all nations. In order for
the US or any nation to be able
to see both its government and
private sectors reduce their
leverage or deficits, the country
must run a trade surplus.
Let’s look at the implication of
that equation. Most everyone in
the US (other than Paul
Krugman and his fellow uber-
Keynesians) think that reducing
the federal deficit would be a
good thing. And the private
sector is busy reducing its
leverage and “deficits” as well.
But if we really want to reduce
the government and private
deficits at the same time, we
have to be able to run a trade
surplus.
Those numbers must ALWAYS
add up to zero. The US trade
deficit is due to a lack of savings
in the US. No one is forcing us
to buy goods from abroad. If we
saved more and bought less we
would have a trade surplus. It’s
really that simple.
Another implication. And a
rather sobering one. For the US
to continue to run such massive
government fiscal deficits,
either the private sector is going
to have to massively increase its
savings or we will have to
reduce the trade deficit by
buying less goods and energy,
or some combination of the two.
There is no other option. And if
the savings of the private sector
are funneled into government
debt, then that crowds out
private investment. And it is
private investment that produces
jobs. GDP = C + I + G + Net
Exports
The above equation is another
identity equation. It says that
Gross Domestic Product is equal
to total Consumption
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(consumer and business) plus
Investments plus Government
Spending plus Net Exports
(which in the case of the US is a
deficit and in the case of
Germany or China is a surplus).
We are going to examine this in
great detail in the coming
weeks, as there are serious
implications for the economy
contained within these simple
terms.
But for our purposes today, if
you play with the above
equation a little you find that
savings is equal to investments.
But if the government “dis-
saves” or runs a deficit, that
means that savings have to go to
cover the government deficit,
which means there is less for
investment. And it is investment
that produces jobs.
Krugman and the Keynesians
are right in this regard. If
consumption falls, as it does in
recession, then a corresponding
increase in “G” helps offset that
drop. But Keynes assumed that
in good times government
would run surpluses. It seems
that we forgot that part.
What Greece is learning, as will
all nations, is that you cannot
increase “G” in an unlimited
fashion. There is an end to the
ability of governments to get
investors to lend them money.
That level is different for
different countries, but the work
of Rogoff and Reinhart (which
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we have looked at extensively in
previous letters) clearly shows
that at some point, and generally
rather dramatically, markets
lose confidence in the
government’s ability to pay, and
the game stops.
Let’s assume (and here I put on
my optimist hat) that the US
decides that reducing our deficit
over time is a good thing. Fiscal
conservatives get into Congress
and we reduce the deficit by
(say) $200 billion a year for five
years, with a growth in
revenues, so that the budget
deficit is less than the growth in
nominal GDP.
The first identity equation says
that to do so we must either
increase savings or reduce the
trade deficit or some
combination. If we use all our
savings to cover the government
deficit, then we have nothing
left for private investment. And
yes, it is not quite that simple,
as we could use already
accumulated savings, but over
the medium run, large
government deficits will crowd
out private investment, the
engine of job growth.
As we will see in a few weeks,
reducing “G” (government
deficits) in the short run is a hit
to GDP. There is no question
about that. But in the medium
run (we no longer have the
luxury of the long run) running
massive deficits, as we are now,
will mean that we, too, will
become Greece. As will much
of Europe and Japan if deficits
are not brought under control.
It is not a question of pain or no
pain. We are going to have the
pain. The question is whether
we take it in small doses or all
at once. Slow growth, or a
depression?
Part of that process that we
MUST address is getting the
trade deficit down, as we need
that money for handling the
deleveraging process.
A rational energy policy that
gets us off foreign oil as quickly
as possible must be enacted.
Senator Schumer, if you are so
worried about deficits, why not
demand that we drill for oil
offshore on the continental
shelf, where we know there are
massive deposits? And why not
aggressively encourage the use
of natural gas in the medium
term for transportation? Nuclear
energy?
And why are we not
aggressively doing as many
open-trade agreements as we
can? Columbia and Korea have
been done, and it would open up
those markets for our exporting
businesses. Yes, they get a shot
at us, but I will bet on the home
team. Our exports are growing
every month. It seems, Senator,
that you oppose all those
policies. But simple accounting
demands that we reduce the
trade deficit, and tariffs are the
worst possible way to try to do
so, and won’t work. And the
possibility of a trade war and
the real damage to our export
sector? I really get alarmed.
Instead of bashing China over
their currency valuations, let’s
challenge them where it would
make a difference, on opening
up their markets to our products
and businesses more than they
already do. Seriously, if we did
impose a tariff on Chinese
goods, US consumers would
just switch to goods from other
countries. It would be
meaningless. But if we could
sell more to them?
If we are going to put our fiscal
house in order in the US, we are
going to have to get a handle on
our trade deficit. The operative
word is “our.” Not Chinese
deficits. They are not
responsible for what we choose
to buy.
When we look into our
economic mirror, we must
confess, “We have met the
enemy, and he is us.” We can’t
borrow our way out of a debt
crisis, Paul. At some point, we
just have to get on with it.
One last thought. The whole
world cannot run a trade
surplus. Someone must actually
consume. Germany and Japan
are also running huge surpluses.
Many of the problems in the
peripheral European countries
are because they are running
trade deficits. Would not the
rational extension of Krugman’s
and Schumer’s ideas mean that
we also target Germany and
Japan? The world is out of
balance, and getting it back will
not be easy, and certainly not
easier if we all pursue beggar-
thy-neighbor policies. An
Optimistic New Venture, San
Diego, and New York
Let me express my thanks to
ProFunds, Rydex/SGI, Trust
Company of America, and
Ceros for sponsoring the CMG
Advisor Forum that I hosted
along with good friend Steve
Blumenthal of CMG. There was
a good crowd (about 70) of
advisors and brokers from all
over the country, and we
finished the day at my house for
Texas BBQ. If you are an
advisor or a broker (or an
investor) and want to see the
outstanding platform of traders
Steve has assembled, then go to
http://www.cmgfunds.net/public
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they will get in touch with you.
Just for the record, I am
helping to start a new software
company. I will write about this
later, but I think there is a large
opportunity in new-media and
mobile software, and I have
persuaded an experienced
executive in the industry to start
a new venture with me. I will
be providing the money and
nothing much else, as what I
know about software is limited.
But I am convinced after a lot of
research and discussion that
there is an opportunity.
And that is how recovery
happens. Someone sees an
opportunity and takes a chance.
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Some of them work out. Most of
them don’t. Believe me, I
know. Yet, if all goes well we
could create a dozen jobs this
year. Not a lot, I know, but it all
adds up.
And what I saw in Cincinnati
simply amazed me. A whole
new mega-health-care business
will be born in the next few
years. I will give you more on
that later.
The world is not ending. It is
changing and adapting.
I will be in San Diego twice in
April, once for my conference,
which is now sold out, and again
for Rob Arnott’s annual
conference. In between I will be
in New York for a speech and
an appearance/interview with
Steve Forbes, which should be
fun.
I will be a panelist in the
inaugural “America: Boom or
Bankruptcy?” summit to be held
in Dallas on March 26. There
will be five of us, presenting
problems (plenty of those!) and
possible solutions. This
promises to be a no-holds-
barred, full-throttle event. It
should be a ton of fun. Details at
www.fedfriday.com.
Once again, it is time to hit the
send button. It is late and there
is a lot to do tomorrow. I have it
blocked off as a day with my
youngest son, ending with the
Mavericks playing the Celtics.
The Mavs are starting to look
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major contributor to their gain in
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over half — 58%, to be exact —
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And to make matters worse, at
the end of last year, 51% of
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filing jointly (up $500). In
addition, the $3,650-per-person
personal exemption is up $150
from 2008. Tax brackets are
wider, too. For a married couple
filing a joint return, for example,
the taxable-income threshold
separating the 15% bracket from
the 25% bracket is $67,900, up
from $65,100 in 2008. And
there's an added benefit for
taxpayers in the 10% and 15%
tax brackets: They pay zero
capital-gains taxes on profits
from investments they sold in
2009 (as long as they owned
them for more than a year).
Plus, most workers are eligible
for the new Making Work Pay
credit, worth up to $400 for
individuals and $800 for
married couples, depending on
income. Although you probably
received the money in the form
of reduced tax withholding from
your paycheck throughout the
year -- rather than a bigger
refund now -- you still have to
claim the credit on your tax
return to ensure that it is
counted against your 2009 tax
liability (see Tax Forms:
Cracking the Code). If you
don't, it could boost your tax bill
or reduce your refund.
At times, filling out your 2009
return may feel as if you're
taking a multiple-choice quiz,
guessing at the best option to
maximize your tax savings. If
you're not already using tax-
preparation software or working
with a professional tax preparer,
it may be time to seek help (see
Tax Prep: Most Can File for
Free).
Education breaks
With a sizable, six-figure
income, Timothy and Kathy
Cormier of Fairfax, Va., never
expected to qualify for a tax
credit to ease the pain of paying
college expenses for two of their
three children. But this year is
different.
The new American Opportunity
credit is worth up to $2,500 per
student each year during the first
four years of college. For most
students this break replaces the
Hope credit, which was good
only for the first two years of
college. The American
Opportunity credit covers 100%
of the first $2,000 of expenses,
including tuition, fees and
books, and 25% of the next
$2,000. You can claim the full
$2,500 credit if you are single
and your income is $80,000 or
less ($160,000 if you're married
filing jointly). You get a partial
credit if you are single with
income up to $90,000 ($180,000
for joint filers). The Cormiers
can multiply that tax break by
two, saving them up to $5,000
on their 2009 tax bill.
But here's where it gets
confusing. Taxpayers with
similarly generous incomes (up
to $80,000 for single or
$160,000 for married filers) can
claim a $2,000 tax deduction for
higher-education costs even if
they don't itemize -- but you
can't claim both the credit and
the deduction. So which should
you choose? Take the credit if
you can. A credit reduces your
tax liability dollar for dollar,
whereas a deduction merely
reduces the amount of income
that is taxed. In the 25%
bracket, for example, a $2,000
deduction reduces your taxes by
just $500, while a $2,000 credit
reduces your taxes by the full
$2,000.
Simple choice, right? Not so
fast. The American Opportunity
credit applies only to the first
four years of college, so anyone
paying bills for graduate school
would want to choose the
deduction -- that is, unless they
qualify for the even more
valuable Lifetime Learning
credit, which has lower income-
eligibility caps than the
deduction. The credit is
available for 20% of the expense
of any posthigh school classes
up to a maximum $2,000 credit
per tax return. For the full
credit, your income can't top
$50,000 if you're single or
$100,000 if you're married filing
jointly. A partial credit is
available to those with income
up to $60,000 ($120,000 if
married).
And the choices don't end there.
Parents with students attending
college in one of the ten
midwestern states that were
declared disaster areas after the
2008 floods should compare
their choices of credits to
determine which saves them the
most money, says John Roth, a
senior tax analyst with CCH, a
provider of tax information. The
Hope and Lifetime Learning
credits for the midwestern
disaster area are twice the usual
amounts and have been
expanded to include room and
board as qualifying expenses
(but the credits are subject to the
same income-eligibility limits).
The maximum Hope credit for
freshmen and sophomores is
$3,600 per student. But if you
claim a Hope credit for a student
in the midwestern disaster area,
you cannot claim an American
Opportunity credit for any
student in the same year. The
maximum Lifetime Learning
credit for any posthigh school
courses taken in the disaster area
is $4,000 per tax return. (Parents
of students attending colleges in
Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska
and Wisconsin are eligible.)
Home-buyer credit
New-home shoppers celebrated
when the popular $8,000 first-
time home buyer's credit was
extended to contracts signed
through April 30, 2010. But you
might have missed some of the
nuances. For example, income-
eligibility limits for this credit
differ depending on the date of
purchase; and current
homeowners who buy a new
home now qualify for a tax
credit, too.
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If you bought your first home
between January 1 and
November 6, 2009, you are
eligible for a maximum credit of
$8,000 as long as your income
doesn't exceed $75,000 if you're
single or $150,000 if you're
married filing jointly. You're
considered a first-time buyer if
you didn't own a principal
residence during the three years
prior to closing on the new
home.
But the rules changed for
purchases after November 6.
Income-eligibility limits were
increased to $125,000 for the
full credit for single filers,
phasing out at $145,000, and to
$225,000 for joint filers,
phasing out at $245,000.
Homeowners who have lived in
the same principal residence for
at least five out of the past eight
years also became eligible for a
10% credit of up to $6,500 on
the purchase of a new home
after November 6. To claim the
credit, buyers must enter a
binding contract by April 30 and
must close on the sale before
July 1. Members of the military
who are serving overseas have
an extra year of eligibility (see
A Roster of Tax Breaks for
Military Families).
To claim the credit, you must
file Form 5405, "First-Time
Homebuyer Credit," and attach
a copy of your settlement
statement or a copy of the
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certificate of occupancy for
newly constructed homes.
Homeowners must provide
proof of five consecutive years
of ownership, such as mortgage-
interest statements, property-tax
records or homeowners
insurance.
Because of the new
documentation requirements,
you can't file your tax return
electronically if you claim the
home-buyer credit. Print it out
and mail it with supporting
documents to the IRS. Be
prepared to wait. Refunds for
paper returns normally take
from four to eight weeks,
compared with about ten days
for e-filed returns. You can file
for the credit on your 2009
return even if you close after
April 15 by filing an extension
or amending your return.
Home-energy credit
So maybe you didn't buy a new
house last year, but you did
make some energy-efficient
home improvements. You may
claim a credit for 30% of the
cost of eligible home
improvements on your principal
residence, up to a maximum of
$1,500. The credit applies to
insulation and to energy-
efficient exterior windows and
doors, heat pumps, furnaces,
central air conditioners, and
water heaters. The new rule is in
effect for both 2009 and 2010,
so if you claim the full $1,500
credit on your 2009 return, you
are not eligible for additional
credits in 2010.
Another residential tax credit,
designed to spur investment in
alternative-energy equipment
such as solar hot-water heaters,
geothermal heat pumps and
wind turbines for new and
existing homes, is worth 30% of
the cost of such items, including
installation, with no cap on the
amount.
New-vehicle deduction
If you sank some money into
new wheels last year, whether it
was a car, a motorcycle, a light
truck or a motor home, there's a
tax break for that, too. As long
as you purchased the new
vehicle anytime after February
16, 2009, you may be able to
deduct the state or local sales
tax or excise tax. The deduction
is limited to the tax you paid on
up to $49,500 of the purchase
price, but there is no limit on the
number of eligible vehicles.
To qualify for the full
deduction, your income can't top
$125,000 if you're single or
$250,000 if you're married filing
jointly. A partial deduction is
available for individuals with
income between $125,000 and
$135,000 and for joint filers
with income between $250,000
and $260,000.
Taxpayers can claim the new-
vehicle sales-tax break whether
or not they itemize their
deductions. But some itemizers
who bought a new car last year
can snag a double tax savings by
deducting both their state
income taxes, as part of their
itemized deductions on
Schedule A, and claiming the
special sales-tax deduction on
the same form.
Itemizers may even be able to
claim a tax break on the sales
tax they paid on new vehicles
purchased before the February
17 start date or even the sales
taxes they paid on used or
leased vehicles acquired in
2009. But it makes sense only
under certain circumstances. To
do so, you must choose to
deduct state sales taxes rather
than state income taxes on
Schedule A. In most cases,
income taxes will represent the
bigger deduction and are the
smarter choice. But those with
little taxable income, such as
retirees, or residents of states
with no income tax, such as
Florida or Texas, get a better
deal with the sales-tax
deduction. You can base the
write-off on actual receipts or
use IRS tables keyed to
household income, size and
state. Plus, if you use the tables,
you can add sales taxes paid on
big-ticket items, such as cars,
boats, RVs and building
materials. Of course, itemizing
makes sense only if it gives you
a bigger write-off than the
standard deduction.
Break for unemployed
With the highest jobless rate in
decades, many Americans are
receiving unemployment
benefits for the first time. The
first $2,400 of benefits collected
in 2009 is exempt from federal
income tax, but the exclusion
isn't automatic. You must
subtract $2,400 from the amount
of total unemployment
compensation shown on Form
1099-G to determine the taxable
amount to report on your Form
1040 (or 1040A or 1040EZ). If
both spouses received benefits,
each can exclude $2,400 from
taxable income.
A lower income in 2009 may
make it easier to deduct job-
hunting expenses, such as
résumé printing, postage, career
counseling and travel costs for
out-of-town interviews. You can
deduct these and other
miscellaneous expenses, such as
tax-preparation costs, only to the
extent that they exceed 2% of
your adjusted gross income.
Give some back?
Despite all of these tax breaks,
some taxpayers will receive
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smaller refunds than usual and
others may end up owing
money. Blame it on the Making
Work Pay credit. Employers
adjusted tax-withholding
schedules during the year so that
you could receive an immediate
benefit from the 6.2% tax credit
worth up to $400 for individuals
and $800 for married couples,
subject to income limits. But
some employees, such as teens
with part-time jobs, aren't
eligible for the credit if they can
be claimed as dependents on
someone else's tax return.
Others may have received more
credit than they were due
because they worked more than
one job or because both spouses
worked and their combined
income topped eligibility limits.
The credit is reduced for
individuals whose income is
between $75,000 and $95,000
and for married couples with
joint income between $150,000
and $190,000; it's eliminated for
taxpayers with income higher
than those levels.
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Think Like a Squirrel
(Kiplinger Personal Finance)
Many of us don't have the sense
God gave a squirrel. Consider
this choice: Buy refrigerator A,
which costs $50 less than fridge
B but uses $50 more in
electricity each year, or fridge
B, which saves money in the
long run. Select fridge B and
one year later you'll break even,
after which you'll save $50
annually. Yet despite the future
savings, one study showed that
most people faced with this
decision would choose to buy
the cheaper but less-efficient
fridge.
In this situation, as in many
others -- notably, neglecting to
sign up for your company
retirement plan -- immediate
financial gratification proves to
be a prime motivator. That's the
case even though the short-term
rush pales in comparison with
the long-term savings realized
from picking the more-efficient
appliance. Squirrels, by contrast,
stow nuts for the winter even
when it means skipping an acorn
or two in October.
Time plays tricks on our ability
to make smart decisions,
especially when it comes to
money. Here's another example:
When offered the choice
between taking $50 today or
$100 a year from today, most
people choose $50 now. But
take away the instant
gratification and the results are
reversed. That is, given the
alternative of receiving $50 in,
say, five years or $100 in six
years, most people will choose
$100 in six years. Yet that's the
same trade-off as with the
shorter time frame.
"We care a lot more about today
than about the future," explains
Harvard economics professor
David Laibson. "Humans, like a
lot of other animals, place full
weight on what happens right
now and half weight on what
happens even a few days away."
That's because we react
emotionally to immediate
gratification and think logically
about future rewards. And
emotion often trumps logic.
Logical thinking, including
thinking about our financial
future, occurs in the prefrontal
cortex of the brain. This was
demonstrated by Jordan
Grafman, a neuroscientist at the
National Institutes of Health,
who discovered that Vietnam
War veterans with injuries to the
prefrontal cortex struggled when
making long-term financial
decisions. "They had a difficult
time articulating goals for the
future, especially far into the
future, such as saving for their
children's education or planning
for retirement," says Grafman.
Be a noodge. So the trick to
making better financial
decisions for the long term is to
think like a squirrel. In some
cases, that's already being done
for us. The study on buying a
refrigerator took place in 1980.
Since then the government has
raised the bar on energy-
efficiency standards for fridges
and other appliances so that we
no longer have the option of
buying an appliance that's much
cheaper but much less efficient.
With regard to retirement
savings, many employers now
automatically enroll employees
in the company plan when
they're hired, and workers must
actively opt out if they don't
want to participate.
In the book Nudge: Improving
Decisions About Health,
Wealth, and Happiness, authors
Richard Thaler and Cass
Sunstein defend such tactics as
simple strategies to counteract
our human limitations.
How do you nudge yourself to
make better long-term
decisions? Laibson suggests
making time your ally. Instead
of immediately tackling a
daunting task, such as reviewing
your entire financial plan (when
you'd rather go to the movies or
play golf), take the first step by
making an appointment with a
financial planner to rebalance
your investments or work on
your estate plan.
Also, delaying a financial
decision by a few days can help
give the logical part of your
brain a chance to kick in. That
shiny new Rolex that screams
"buy me" when you're in the
store could look like an
expensive bauble when you're
paying your bills.
Kiplinger's is partnering with
Nightly Business Report on the
"Your Mind & Your Money"
series, funding for which is
provided by the FINRA Investor
Education Foundation. For
companion video reports, tune
in to NBR on your local PBS
channel March 15 and 29.
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Prepare for Storm
Season With
Flood Coverage
(Kiplinger Personal Finance)
The Northeast was hit hard by
storms and flooding recently,
and I hear that more storms are
on their way throughout the
country. What type of storm
damage is covered by
homeowners insurance and what
is covered only by flood
insurance? How much does a
flood policy cost?
Homeowners-insurance policies
typically cover damage that
comes from the top down --
such as rain and wind damage --
but they don’t cover rising water
and flooding.
You may be able to boost your
coverage a bit by adding a
sewage-backup rider to your
home-insurance policy. This
extra rider generally costs about
$50 per year to cover $10,000 to
$20,000 of damage if your
sewer backs up or if water gets
into your home because your
sump pump stops working. It’s a
good idea for everyone to add
this coverage.
To get flood coverage, you
must go through the National
Flood Insurance Program. Your
mortgage company may require
you to get flood insurance if you
live in a high-risk area, but the
coverage can be important even
if your lender doesn’t require it.
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Most people can buy federal
flood insurance through their
homeowners-insurance agent. If
you don’t have one, you can
find a local agent at the NFIP’s
FloodSmart.gov Web site. If
you want to have coverage in
place for the spring storms, you
need to act quickly -- there’s a
30-day waiting period before the
flood coverage takes effect.
Flood insurance can be
inexpensive for low-risk areas.
If you don’t have a basement,
the annual premium for a
preferred-risk policy can cost as
little as $348 a year for the
maximum coverage of $250,000
for your dwelling and $100,000
for your possessions, or $388
per year if you have a basement.
Similar coverage can cost
$1,484 per year in a moderate-
risk area, or more than $2,600 in
a high-risk area.
FloodSmart.gov has a great tool
that lets you type in your
address and immediately see
your property’s flood risk, your
estimated premium and contact
information for agents serving
your area. It also has an
interactive tool to show how
much damage you could have
for each inch of flooding, and a
cool new flood history map that
lets you look up how many
flooding events and how much
flood damage there was in your
state and county in the past year,
along with a link to detailed
information about the floods.
The federal flood program
provides enough coverage for
most people. But the maximum
dwelling coverage of $250,000
could leave people who have
expensive homes short of what
they need in the event of a total
loss. Several insurers, such as
Chubb and Fireman’s Fund,
offer excess flood coverage to
supplement the federal policy
and increase the coverage limits
to the same level as your
homeowners insurance. These
policies also provide some extra
coverage beyond the federal
plan, such as replacement value
for contents (the federal plan
covers only depreciated value)
and the cost of additional living
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expenses should you have to
move out of your home for a
while because of the flood
damage.
For more information about
flood coverage and lessons from
people whose homes were
damaged in the Midwest floods
of 2008, see Lessons From the
Floods. Also see Insurance
Lessons After Katrina and Make
Your Insurer Pay for more
information about what is and
isn’t covered by homeowners
insurance after a storm, as well
as strategies that helped
homeowners get their claims
paid after Hurricane Katrina.
For advice on preparing your
finances for a disaster, see
Protect Your Home and
Finances Against Twisters and
Protect Your Home Before
Disaster Strikes.
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