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healthcare between Democratic By By Tom Worden On Monday it emerged judge
campaign strategist David Published: 4:21PM GMT 22 Jose Maria Tapia Lopez had
Plouffe and Republican guru Mar 2010 ruled in the illustrator's favour
Karl Rove quickly turned heated The Lord of the Rings star, 87, and ordered the defendants to
on Sunday with Plouffe likening and his associates must pay pay the huge sum.
Rep ublican fiscal policies to £640,000 to artist Gerardo The judge also ordered the
those of Greece. Moreno for work he did on a defendants' assets to be frozen
Rove, known as the “architect” DVD cover, a Spanish court to a value of £640,000 until
of President George W. Bush’s ruled. the money is paid.
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wins, laced into the healthcare properly paid for the art work on appeared in court or had lawyers
plan Obama and his Democrats the DVD of Jinnah, a 1998 representing them.
us from big budget surpluses at position to lecture about
hope to pass as he and Plouffe movie staring Lee about the life The British actor has appeared
the beginning of the last decade “profligate spending.” He said
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wars, big tax cuts,” responded “Karl,” interjected Plouffe, “the
Democrats of using “Bernie actor's official website run by In 2002 he said Jinnah was his
Plouffe, who was Obama’s 2008 Republicans have zero
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A refreshing attitude to human rights | Afua Hirsch
Afua Hirsch (World news:
United States |
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Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:05:04 AM
As Labour and the Tories race
to disown human rights, in
Washington Michael Posner and
others are fighting their corner
These are murky times for the
relationship between
governments and human rights.
In the UK, New Labour's love
affair with human rights and the
small constitutional revolution
that saw the introduction of the
1998 Human Rights Act seems
at times to have degenerated
into a grubby election battle
with the Tories as to who can
disown them fastest.
In the US many believed that
Obama – as well as saving black
people, poor people and liberal
people from the long low-point
of the Bush administration –
would also give human rights a
new home at the heart of
America's decision-making in
security and foreign policy. On
all counts, euphoria has given
way to a predictable impatience
and scepticism.
Human rights campaigners
outside government in the US
have stepped up the pressure.
Guantánamo Bay remains open.
Information about rendition and
torture is still being kept secret.
The British government was
told in the Binyam Mohamed
case that revealing these secrets,
albeit from the Bush era of old,
would be to damage the US
intelligence-sharing relationship
with Britain.
But how has all this gone down
with human rights campaigners
inside government? Take
Michael Posner, assistant
secretary of state for democracy,
human rights and labour, and a
former champion of rights for
asylum seekers, torture victims
and crimes against humanity.
His presence inside the US
administration is itself testimony
to how much has changed under
Obama. It's hard to convey how
just extreme the contrast is
between the gung-ho attitude of
Bush officials I met in this same
US embassy in London and this
careful, patient advocate of
human rights.
People such as Posner joined
the government because they
believed they could be on the
inside and fight for human rights
and not have to choose
fundamentally between the two.
They believed they could be part
of a government that adheres to
international law, supports the
international criminal court and
strives to build strong, human-
rights-respecting institutions in
Afghanistan.
"I wouldn't have come into this
administration if it wasn't for
my absolute belief in the change
to the policy of what I can only
call official cruelty under the
previous administration," said
Posner when I met him in
London recently.
"There has been a sharp and
dramatic change in official
policy; from the president's first
executive order that ended the
practice of law-free zones and
enhanced interrogation regimes.
Many of us are in government
now because he made that
commitment."
There is nothing new about
governments bringing in
veterans of the human rights
movement, of course. Labour's
"government of all talents"
advisers – affectionately known
as Goats – included some of the
most eminent human rights
advocates; Lord Lester as a
specialist human rights adviser,
Francesca Klug and others as
unpaid independent members of
its "bill of rights and
responsibilities reference
group."
That exercise largely ended in
tears. It's fair to say that the
momentum that saw these
human rights experts leap at the
chance of advising the
government during a moment of
real constitutional change, has
never been recovered.
It's hard to imagine Posner
describing himself as a "tethered
goat", but that's not to say being
in government doesn't require
some uncomfortable
positioning. On Binyam
Mohamed, Posner draws the
somewhat contrived distinction
between the "official cruelty"
which his government has
denounced, and the principles of
intelligence-sharing, on which
they continue to rely:
"The policy question about what
the government are now doing
in regard to torture is a separate
issue to the discussion about
intelligence-sharing and the
control principle.
There is a need for close allies
to share information and have a
sense of confidence that
exchanges are not to be
breached. That is a question
independent of the subject
matter about setting a precedent
of exceptions and how that may
affect a relationship that is built
on confidentiality."
The comparison between the
human-rights-advocating US,
and the human-rights-weary UK
is disorienting. Whatever your
views of New Labour,
ideologically things never got so
bad as they did under Bush. No
UK politician gets credit for
supporting international
institutions such as the
international criminal court
(ICC) or the Council of Europe
– it's a given. And we in the UK
never had an official policy of
torture in the UK, just an
unofficial one, apparently.
Which is bad enough in itself,
but Karl Rove's self-publicising
boast about how great
waterboarding was earlier this
month was a useful reminder
that things in the US really were
much worse.
Bringing people like Posner
into an administration doesn't
create revolutionary change.
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Governments are governments;
they don't like their secrets
spilled, and they can't drag their
legislatures kicking and
screaming to institutions such as
the ICC.
What is so different about non-
politicians such as him is their
style. Posner speaks like a
human rights advocate, not a
politician, and it is refreshing:
"The problem with being in
government is that every
decision is not made only
around human rights concerns.
Human rights are only part of
the consideration. The problem
is how to incorporate human
rights – it doesn't always wind
up being the first item on the
agenda. But under this
government, it is part of the
decision-making in a way that
encourages me."
What are the chances of a
member of the Labour or
Conservative frontbenchers
admitting that?
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Karzai has talks with leading Afghan rebels
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Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:46:26 AM
President meets militant group
officials to discuss warlord's 15-
point peace plan for troops to
withdraw from Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai has held face-to-
face talks with active insurgents
representing one of the most
violent rebel leaders operating
in Afghanistan, the Afghan
president's office said today.
Karzai's spokesman said the
unprecedented meeting took
place "a couple of days back"
between the president and top-
level officials from the militant
wing of Hezb-e-Islami, the
movement run by Islamist
warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
from his sanctuary in Pakistan.
According to the organisation's
spokesman Haroun Zarghoun,
the delegates presented a 15-
point plan, including a call for
foreign troops to withdraw from
Afghanistan within six months,
starting in July. Six months after
that an interim government
would be appointed and
preparations made for fresh
elections.
Matt Waldman, an independent
analyst specialising in Taliban
peace talks, said: "It sounds like
an opening position because
they know these are demands
that will not be granted."
Nonetheless, it was remarkable
that such senior insurgent
leaders were allowed to move
freely around Kabul to attend
the meeting with Karzai.
Representatives of Mr
Hekmatyar, who is blacklisted
by the US and the United
Nations as an international
terrorist, have participated in
informal talks before, including
a meeting in the Maldives, but it
is not thought Karzai has ever
taken part in such discussions
himself. Usually the president is
represented by members of his
national security council or by
his brother Qayoum, a private
citizen who plays a leading part
in reconciliation policy.
Leading the delegation was
Hekmatyar's deputy Qutbuddin
Helal and it also included his
son-in-law and former
spokesman.
A spokesman for the movement
said they had full authority to
speak on behalf of Hekmatyar
and they also planned to meet
other important Afghan leaders,
including former mujahideen
leaders Abdul Rasul Sayyaf and
Burhanuddin Rabbani, as well
as foreign ambassadors.
A spokesman for the British
embassy said he was not aware
of such a meeting but that the
UK backed peace talks as long
as they were led by the Afghan
government.
The development is likely to
please the British government,
which wants to see immediate
steps towards a political
settlement with insurgent
leaders.
However, the US is demanding
a more gradual approach in the
hope that if the extra 30,000
troops sent to Afghanistan this
year chalk up major battlefield
successes then insurgent leaders
will be willing to be more
flexible in their demands.
Waldman said the latest
entreaties from one of
Afghanistan's most notorious
warlords would further heighten
divisions between the US and its
main allies.
Hezb-i-Islami is allied to the
Taliban and is dominant in the
east of the country. Over the
years it has claimed
responsibility for some of the
most deadly and spectacular
attacks on Kabul, including a
brazen attempt to assassinate
Karzai during a military parade
in 2008.
Although Hekmatyar has a
reputation as an unbending
radical Islamist, in recent
months it has been rumoured
that he is keen to strike a power-
sharing peace deal with the
government. Some analysts
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Damian Green affair: Michael Martin criticised
for letting police raid Commons' office
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Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:34:21 AM
By Christopher Hope,
Whitehall Editor
Published: 4:34PM GMT 22
Mar 2010
MPs on the Commons’
privilege committee said that it
was “inescapably” Lord
Martin’s job to ensure “to make
sure the right questions were
asked” when police tried to
raid Mr Green’s office as part of
a Home Office leaks inquiry
in November 2008.
The MPs found that Lord
Martin, who quit as Speaker at
the height of the MPs'
expenses scandal last year,
“failed to exercise the ultimate
responsibility which was his
alone to take control and not
merely to be kept informed”.
“Seriously inadequate
communication” between the
Speaker, the Clerk of the
House of Commons and the
Serjeant at Arms, had “resulted
in complete misunderstanding
about the proper process for
allowing a search of a
member’s office”, the MPs said.
However, the committee of
MPs accepted the evidence of
Michael - now Lord - Martin
that he had not been explicitly
informed and that the police
were proposing to carry out a
search.
The arrest of Mr Green, the
shadow Immigration minister,
and raids at his home and
Commons office in November
2008 sparked outrage and
accusations that the
Metropolitan Police had
breached the principle of
parliamentary privilege.
They were sparked by a series
of damaging stories from leaked
Home Office documents
which had appeared in a number
of newspapers, including the
Sunday Telegraph.
The committee, headed Sir
Menzies Campbell, former
leader of the Liberal
Democrats, was set up to
examine the issues in the wake
of the row.
Sir Gus O’Donnell, the Cabinet
secretary, was also criticised by
the MPs for exaggerating the
impact of the leaks. He had been
wrong to suggest the leaked
material damaged national
security when he called in the
police to investigate.
The MPs said they understood
that Sir Gus was concerned
about a series of leaks from
the Home Office but "giving the
impression that national
security had been damaged by
the Home Office leaks was
hyperbolic and unhelpful.
"In our view the impact of leaks
on Government business is not,
and never can be, a
sufficiently weighty reason in
itself to justify a police
investigation."
The committee said the Cabinet
Office had failed to take a
"properly balanced approach"
to leaks from the Home Office.
If Sir Gus had been "adequately
briefed" about progress with the
investigation by October 22,
there was no need to have called
in the police to investigate.
"There was no basis for the
concern that the potential for
future damage to national
security was significant," the
MPs said.
"The Cabinet Office was wrong
on October 29 to continue to
press for a police investigation
of the recent Home Office leaks,
and it was a mistake for the
Metropolitan Police Service to
act upon the Cabinet Office's
request."
The MPs also criticised police
for "sloppiness", insisting they
should have dropped probes into
shadow immigration minister
Damian Green and junior civil
servant Christopher Galley
much earlier.
If police had exercised
"sufficient rigour" when
considering whether there was
a realistic chance of a
prosecution in October 2008, the
case could have been dropped
then. Instead the Crown
Prosecution Service took the
decision not to proceed six
months later, in April last year.
Assistant Commissioner Bob
Quick was criticised for his
leadership of the probe, which
the MPs branded
"disproportionate".
"The arrest of Damian Green by
the Metropolitan Police was
poorly executed and in any
case quite unnecessary, since the
police could have arranged to
interview him by appointment,"
they said.
"We are deeply concerned by
the sloppy wording of the
written informations, upon
which search warrants were
obtained, and their
inconsistency with the true
character of the leaks uncovered
in the actual investigation
which must have been known
and understood as a result of the
scoping operation."
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Ben Folds’ live
ode to Chatroulette
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Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:08:04 AM
Ben Folds loves a little
Chatroulette in his spare time
away from tickling the ivories at
his day job, but he decided to
combine his two passions
recently at a concert in
Charlotte, North Carolina. Folds
sang little ditties live in front of
an audience as chatting partners
popped up on the screen. Don’t
worry, all the penises were axed
from the final cut of the video,
but, fair warning, there is some
NSFW language and a guy
sitting on a toilet.
Full story at Swiss Miss.
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Don't laugh,
Venuegen's virtual
meetings can work
Rafe Needleman
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Submitted at 3/21/2010 9:01:00 PM
Second Life didn't work as a
virtual world for business
meetings, but this might.
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Harry Carpenter, BBC's voice of boxing for a
generation, dies aged 84
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Submitted at 3/22/2010 7:31:13 AM
Harry Carpenter, the BBC
boxing commentator known for
his on-air banter with Frank
Bruno, has died at the age of 84.
Carpenter, the subject of
Bruno’s catchphrase, “Know
what I mean, ‘arry?”, was the
voice of the BBC’s boxing
coverage for 45 years, having
joined the corporation in 1949.
A spokesman for his family
said that the presenter died in
his sleep at King’s College
Hospital, in London, in the early
hours of Saturday.
David Wills, his solicitor, said:
“He had been unwell since last
summer when he had a minor
heart attack. The funeral has not
been arranged but will be a
family funeral, to be followed
by a memorial service in
London.”
Born in South London, the son
of a fish merchant, Carpenter
left school at 15, taking his first
job on the Greyhound Express.
During the war he joined the
Navy, serving as a telegrapher
on board destroyers, before
moving back into sports
journalism, balancing
commentary work for the BBC
with jobs in the print press.
Frank Maloney, the boxing
promoter, called Carpenter the
“voice of boxing”. He said: “He
was probably one of the greatest
commentators of all time. His
voice was so distinctive and I
remember all those Ali fights
and Bruno fights he
commentated on. It’s like a
piece of boxing history has been
taken away.”
Carpenter, who also wrote
books on the history of boxing,
found himself in the
commentator’s chair for
arguably the greatest bout of all
time, the “Rumble in the
Jungle” between George
Foreman and Muhammad Ali, in
1974.
He said that the fight, in which
Ali knocked out Foreman to
reclaim the world heavyweight
title at the age of 32, was the
“most extraordinary few
seconds that I have ever seen in
a boxing ring”.
Despite being so closely
associated with boxing,
Carpenter also presented golf
and tennis coverage, hosting
Grandstand and Sportsnight, as
well as Sports Personality of the
Year.
Bruno was said to be too upset
to speak today, but is expected
to release a statement later this
afternoon.
Terry Edwards, the former
Great Britain boxing coach,
described Carpenter as a “true
legend”. He said: “The world of
boxing is a big loser today. He
was Mr Boxing as far as
commentary goes.
“Both he and Reg Gutteridge,
who died in the last year, were
monumental people in boxing.
It is very, very sad. When you
think of boxing sometimes their
commentary was so great,
detailed and passionate that you
remember their voices as much
as you remember the bout.
“If you were to ask me who
would take Carpenter’s place
there is nobody who could truly
take his place — not with the
same passion and
professionalism.
“He was loved by everybody
within boxing. He was respected
in boxing not just in Britain, but
all over the world. He was one
of those guys who never had
any enemies. He was a lovely
guy and always willing to give
advice to anyone.”
Barbara Slater, the director of
BBC Sport, said: "Harry
Carpenter was for decades one
of the standout voices of sports
broadcasting. While many will
no doubt best remember him for
his boxing commentaries on the
BBC, he should also be hailed
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for his work on a number of
other flagship BBC programmes
such as Sportsnight, Grandstand,
Wimbledon, the BBC’s golf
coverage, the Boat Race and of
course the Olympics.
"Harry’s passing is a huge loss
to the world of sports
broadcasting. His journalistic
credentials, professionalism and
presence marked him out as an
inspirational figure for a
generation of aspiring
presenters, commentators and
producers. He will be sorely
missed by all those who had the
good fortune to work with and
learn from a master."
Tony Jeffries, Britain’s light
heavyweight bronze medallist at
the Beijing Olympics, said: “He
was a brilliant man and his
knowledge of boxing was
second to none. I have only ever
heard people say very good
things about him. My
condolences go out to his
family.”
Carpenter leaves a wife,
Phyllis, whom he married in
1950, and a son.
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Mickie Kennedy, founder of
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tips to write better press-release
headlines. These are three of the
tips:
• Strive for being clear rather
than clever.
• Ditch the hype
• Make sure the headline is
accurate
This advice is also applicable to
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Israeli settlements undermine peace prospects,

warns Clinton
Ewen MacAskill (World news: Clinton said. One sceptic questioned why the outpacing that of Jews in Israel
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guardian.co.uk) unexpectedly announced new had had such harsh things to say as would more efficient
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Secretary of state reaffirms leading Palestinians to pull out Clinton's hopes for a "There is another path. A path
'rock-solid' commitment to of proposed US-brokered peace comprehensive Middle East that leads toward security and
Israeli security but says US has talks. peace settlements as unrealistic. prosperity for all the people in
responsibility to tell friend the Clinton told the conference:
truth "New construction in East
The Israeli prime minister,
Binyamin Netanyahu, has flown
the region. It will require all
parties including Israel to make
World's greatest
Hillary Clinton today warned Jerusalem or the West Bank
Israel against any further new undermines mutual trust and
to Washington for the Aipac
meeting and is scheduled to
difficult but necessary choices,"
she said.
rivers as seen
Jewish settlements in Palestinian endangers the proximity talks
t e r r i t o r y , s a y i n g t h e y that are the first step toward the
meet both Clinton and Barack
Obama. Last week, under
On Iran, she said the US was
working towards the imposition
from space
u n d e r m i n e d p r o s p e c t s f o r full negotiations that both sides pressure from Clinton, of sanctions that would bite. (Holy Kaw!)
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had no influence
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Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:21:03 AM
The Government today
dismissed calls for an inquiry
into whether Stephen Byers and
other former Cabinet ministers
had unduly influenced
government policy by lobbying
on behalf of business.
Harriet Harman told the House
of Commons that urgent internal
inquiries at the departments of
transport, trade and health had
found no trace of "the
impropriety alleged" by Mr
Byers.
The former transport minister
was secretly filmed boasting to
undercover reporters that he
was a political "cab for hire"
who had secured secret deals
with serving ministers, obtained
confidential information from
Number 10 and helped firms to
get around price-fixing rules. Mr
Byers, a Blairite, said that he
charged up to £5,000 a day.
Among Mr Byers’ boasts was
that he had come to a secret deal
with Lord Adonis, the
Transport Secretary, over the
termination of National
Express's rail franchise
contract, and that Lord
Mandelson, the Business
Secretary, had got regulations
on food labelling amended after
he intervened on behalf of the
Tesco supermarket firm.
Two other former Cabinet
ministers, Patricia Hewitt and
Geoff Hoon, were also recorded
by the undercover reporters
from The Sunday Times and
Channel 4 offering to undertake
lobbying work, and Ms Hewitt
was alleged to have influenced
an appointment to an advisory
group.
Ms Harman told the House of
Commons that the Prime
Minister had asked Sir Gus
O’Donnell today for assurance
that the departments of business,
transport and health had looked
into the claims. The permanent
secretaries who head each
department had made inquiries
into the claims relating to food
labelling, National Express and
an appointment to the advisory
group on mental health.
Ms Harman said: “In each of
the cases raised the departments
have looked into these
allegations and are satisfied that
these decisions have been made
without the impropriety alleged.
"They have assured the Cabinet
Secretary that they are satisfied
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North Korea to put US citizen on Army to sack 500

trial for illegal entry soldiers because of
(World news: United States |
guardian.co.uk)
past year. It was not
immediately clear why he had
crossed into the country.
for disarmament pact and pulled
out of the negotiations last year
in protest at the criticism it
troop 'cap'
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:53:31 AM
(Top stories from Times Peter Wall, Commander in
Two US journalists, Laura Ling faced for a rocket launch that Online)
30-year-old Aijalon Mahli and Euna Lee, were arrested a was widely condemned as a Chief, Land Forces.
Gomes was detained after year ago near the Chinese violation of UN sanctions. Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:09:54 AM Initially, between 300 and 500
crossing into North Korea from border and sentenced to 12 years North Korea's move to test a soldiers will be given one year’s
China on 25 January Up to 500 soldiers will lose notice as well as help with
hard labour for illegal entry and nuclear bomb weeks later
North Korea today said it engaging in "hostile acts". their jobs under a plan to finding a job back in the civilian
prompted the UN security
would put a US citizen on trial They were freed in August after reshape the Army to better meet world, including a grant of
council to further tighten
f o r e n t e r i n g t h e c o u n t r y the former US president Bill the challenges of operations in £10,000.
sanctions against the regime.
illegally. Afghanistan, the Ministry of The process, known as
Clinton made a high-profile Pyongyang has pressed
The Korean Central News humanitarian visit to Pyongyang Defence announced today. Manning Control Points, will
Washington for bilateral talks to
Agency identified the man as 30 to negotiate their release. The Ministry of Defence has happen over the next financial
discuss a peace treaty as part of
-year-old Aijalon Mahli Gomes, On Christmas Day, Robert not exercised its right to year, from April 2011.
any disarmament negotiations,
of Boston, and said "his crime Park, an American missionary, terminate a soldier’s The Army said that other
citing the US military presence
has been confirmed". The brief crossed into North Korea from employment since 2002 and the soldiers also deemed to be in the
on South Korean soil as the
dispatch did not say when China on a self-proclaimed troops targeted under the wrong job will be given the
main reason for its drive to build
Gomes would stand trial. redundancy plans will have opportunity to retrain into a
mission to draw attention to nuclear weapons.
Two months ago, Pyongyang Pyongyang's human rights completed 12 or 15 years of more useful role. Employment
North and South Korea are
announced that an American record and call for the country's service. They will be working in teams will decide over the
separated by a heavily-fortified
h a d b e e n d e t a i n e d f o r leader, Kim Jong-il, to step areas that are not seen as coming months which areas of
border and remain officially at
trespassing on 25 January after down. He was released last critical to the mission in the Army are less important for
war.
crossing into the country from month after more than 40 days Helmand. the mission in Afghanistan. It
Their three-year conflict ended
China. With a cap on the total number will also highlight where
in custody. in a truce in 1953, but a peace
There was no immediate US Today's announcement comes of troops in the Army almost shortages in skill sets lie.
treaty has never been signed.
confirmation of the man's as regional powers pushed for reached due to a rise in The latest manning figures,
• North Korea
identity. PJ Crowley, a state N o r t h K o r e a t o r e j o i n recruiting and a drop in the from December 2009, show that
• United States
department spokesman, said last i n t e r n a t i o n a l t a l k s o n number of people leaving, the the total number of soldiers in
week that Swedish diplomats in dismantling its nuclear weapons Army says the move will free the Army is 101,190 - just 850
guardian.co.uk© Guardian
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Health Care Reform Passes House

(Little Green Footballs) There it is — the health care by President Obama has gotten passed the House.
reform legislation championed the necessary 216 votes and And now the screaming starts…
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Election baby for Samantha Cameron Will Cameron follow in

(Top stories from Times
Online)
first son, died last February. He
had suffered from a rare
channel-flicker" and had a
fondness for repeat viewings of Blair's footsteps by having
neurological condition from films.
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:34:36 AM
birth.
Samantha Cameron, the wife of Mrs Cameron, the creative
She said: "Like most men ... he
likes watching Westerns and all
a Downing Street baby?
(Latest news, breaking news, prime minister Harold
the Tory leader, is pregnant, it director of Smythsons, an three of the Godfather films, current news, UK news, world
was announced today. upmarket stationers, announced sort of again and again and Macmillan regularly invited
news, celebrity news, politics his grandchildren to stay in
Mrs Cameron, 38, is due to give earlier this month that she would again". news)
birth to the couple’s fourth child be joining her husband on the On the prospect of him winning Downing Street during the
this September, a spokeswoman campaign trail. power at the general election, Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:24:10 AM school holidays, and the
for the Conservative Party said. By Gordon Rayner, Chief former chancellor Nigel Lawson
She recently told ITV1 that her expected to be held on May 6,
David Cameron let slip that the husband was “very strong” and Reporter and his wife Therese lived in
she said: "If he did become
couple were trying for another a “fantastic dad” but also a Published: 4:24PM GMT 22 No.11 with their children Tom
prime minister I would be
baby last year. Speaking to "terrible mess" in the kitchen. Mar 2010 and Emily in the 1980s.
incredibly proud of him.
Grazia magazine last August, She said that she found the Until Tony Blair’s son Leo was But times have changed, and
"And our life would change, you
the Tory leader said that he prospect of him becoming prime born in 2000, the last serving Mr Cameron, whose wife
know, and that is daunting and
wanted to expand his family. minister daunting but would be prime minister to father a Samantha is due to give birth in
I'm sure we would have to
“I’d certainly like to. But we’ll proud if he won the election. child was Lord John Russell, September, would become the
make sacrifices. But for me,
have to wait and see if the stork Mrs Cameron said: "We've whose son Francis was born in third successive premier to
personally, it would be a huge
drops one off.” 1849. move into Downing Street with
been together 18 years now and honour to do everything that I
The pregnancy raises the we've been through some, you Before Mr Blair moved into his children, following in the
possibly could to support him
prospect of another newborn in know, fairly tough times and I Downing Street with his young footsteps of Mr Blair and of
and make sure that he could do
No 10, a decade after Leo can honestly say that I don't family in 1997, few children Gordon Brown, whose sons
the job to the very best of his
Blair’s arrival in Downing think in all that time he's ever let had ever lived in its cramped John, six, and Fraser, three,
abilities."
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10 World/ Business/ Tech/ E-reader News Edition

British Airways in 'gagging' row over Inc. 5000 Applicant of

strike the Week: IguanaMed
(Latest news, breaking news, does not release information about travel plans. Lauren Folino (Inc.com) but now, he says, his company
current news, UK news, world that is misleading or inaccurate. "We have no difficulty with Submitted at 3/22/2010 4:00:00 AM is focusing on building the
news, celebrity news, politics Information concerning our media desire to report Unite’s IguanaMed brand, rather than
news) As applications for the 2010 comparing their brand to others.
operation is clearly market strike impartially. We believe
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:14:33 AM sensitive. this objective, and the objective Inc. 500 | 5000 arrive, we I g u a n a M e d o f f e r s s e v e r a l
By David Millward, Transport This information includes of accurate reporting, is thought it would be worthwhile collections and styles of their
Editor matters such as numbers of assisted by rigorous assessment to shine a spotlight on some of medical scrubs, but their Med
Published: 4:14PM GMT 22 passengers we are able to by media organisations of the the companies that are vying to Flex fabrics – namely, their
Mar 2010 carry, numbers of flights information they receive." appear on our ranking of the revolutionary Med Flex II,
In an email sent to hundreds of operated and numbers of crew BA's complaints were f a s t e s t - g r o w i n g p r i v a t e which is a tri-blend with
journalists, BA complained that reporting for work. dismissed by Unite. "BA's companies in the U.S. (For more spandex for easy movement –
equal credence was being "Any suggestion in media expensive PR operation information and to apply, go to are what make their products
given to the union's estimate of reports that information we have appears rattled that it has not http://www.inc.com/inc5000app e s p e c i a l l y a p p e a l i n g , h e
the number of staff working, issued is untrue implies that established a media monopoly. ly/2010/.) One that caught our says.While the company was
flights operating and how many the airline’s management is It now seems to want to ensure e y e w a s C h i c a g o - b a s e d founded in 2005 as a subsidiary
passengers were on board. acting unlawfully." that the union side is not IguanaMed.IguanaMed makes of Walrus Brands, another
The airline's broadside came as BA alleged that information reported at all," said a union scrubs, shirts and trousers or manufacturer of medical scrubs
the stoppage by cabin crew from Unite and BASSA – the spokesman. g o w n s w o r n b y n u r s e s , and other niche products,
entered its third day, with little union branch representing "We have confidence that the surgeons, and other hospital I g u a n a M e d n o w o p e r a t e s
sign of a settlement in sight. cabin crew – had "no basis in overwhelming majority of personnel, but not just any independently from its former
"Some media reports on our fact". journalists will ignore this scrubs. The company combines parent company. After the split,
flight operations during the The airline added: "It is bullying." different sporty, creative designs IguanaMed went on to earn a
period of Unite’s strike have extremely confusing for our Five Filters featured article: w i t h h i g h - p e r f o r m a n c e , place on the Inc. 5000 from
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information we have issued as some media reports conflicts PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, flexible movement easier. company was able to grow its
to claims made by Unite," the with information we have Term Extraction. "We're not the first company to distribution across all 50 states,
airline said. provided via ba.com and infuse style creatively into a s w e l l a s 1 1 c o u n t r i e s
"As a PLC, British Airways is direct communications in an scrubs, but I think we're doing it worldwide, including Italy,
legally obliged to ensure that it effort to minimise uncertainty aggressively," says president Saudi Arabia and Brazil. "We've
and CEO Gregory Lilien. "We learned a lot over the past
Sex.com does not sell want to continue to expand couple years," Lilien says. "I
(CNET News.com) sell after all. fabrics, and keep appearing think we're also in a product
3 minutes 32 seconds bold, unique a n d category that's not shaken up a
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Cell Phones: A Security Risk to Your Business?

Minda Zetlin (Inc.com) gigahertz processor and a tremendous amount of hassle," worst enemies so make sure assistance.
Submitted at 3/22/2010 6:33:00 AM hundreds of megabytes of RAM. notes Randy Gross, CIO at they know what not to do. First, 7. Shut out unknown Bluetooth
So all the same types of attacks CompTIA, a trade association if they receive an unsolicited devices. Have you ever been in
Last July, Charlie Miller, a that could happen to a computer for the IT industry. "You may SMS text, even if it appears to a public place and found that
professional hacker, announced can happen to a smart phone." be able to set security on the come from someone they know, your phone's Bluetooth was
from the stage of an IT security These attacks include intrusions phone so that if someone tries they should avoid clicking on trying to connect to an unknown
conference that he could hack (such as Charlie Miller's hack); the wrong password a certain links contained in the message. device nearby? Although many
any iPhone in the world by text viruses and other malware; number of times, the phone is These could lead them to people think of Bluetooth as a
m e s s a g e . " T h a t w a s a phishing for passwords and automatically wiped. That can malicious websites where the neater alternative to a physical
demonstration, it never really other information; theft of data protect your data." phone might be infected with wire, in fact it creates a personal
happened in the wild," notes stored on or sent to or from the 2. Use encryption. While malware. Second, and less area network, and like any
Jamie De Guerre, CTO of phone; and spam. And the password protection is a good obvious, users should never call network, it will recognize
Cloudmark, which provides phones' new capabilities bring step encryption is even better, a phone number that arrives in appropriate devices within its
messaging security for mobile their biggest vulnerabilities. and a good way to secure data an unsolicited text message, range. This can let in malware,
and fixed-line companies. "Social media is expanding to stored on cell phones. "A 16- even if the message appears to though, for example, a virus
No actual iPhone users were mobile devices," notes Martha gigabyte phone can contain a lot come from the user's bank, called CommWarrior that
harmed in making Charlie Vazquez, senior research analyst of information," Gross notes. employer, or cell phone infects some phones via
Miller's point, and Apple in the Network Security practice "With the right security company. Instead, users should Bluetooth, as well as other
patched the vulnerability shortly at consulting firm Frost & software, you may be able to find the bank or employer's ways. "A phone's Bluetooth
after he announced it. But other Sullivan. "While this is a great remotely wipe the phone if it is number independently to make setting is on by default, so it
cell phone users have been less way to market your business, lost or stolen." the call, otherwise, they -- or needs to be turned off, or
lucky. The Sexy View worm, so many threats are attacking these 3. Stay up to date on operating you -- might wind up paying for configured for a specific device
dubbed because it sends a text sites and it's common to find a system patches. "Whenever the a premium call. or headset," Nguyen says. "If
inviting users to look at sexy malicious URL link. SMS phone maker releases new 6. Educate users about not, it will look for other
pictures, targets some Nokia messages are another very patches or new versions of its phishing. Some of the most Bluetooth-enabled phones,
phones. If a hapless user tries to c o m m o n w a y t o r e c e i v e operating system, make sure you successful phishing attacks in which could result in malware
look at the pictures, it will take m a l w a r e . " have the latest version on your recent times have affected being loaded on the device."
over the phone much the way a What should a small business device," Gross advises. Twitter, often when users 8. Be wary of open Wi-Fi
botnet takes over a computer, do? It's obviously impractical to 4. Use antivirus software. accessed the site with their networks. It's easy to forget, but
and then send itself to the entire ask employees to give up their "Small businesses must treat smart phones. Make sure users many smart phones also work
contact list. cell phones, or return to the mobile devices as they would know not to input their on regular WiFi networks. Users
So far, De Guerre says, Sexy quaint old days of using them their PCs by installing security passwords or other personal should be aware that when they
View has been more of an issue only for phone calls or the software and keeping it up to information to any site or join an open WiFi network,
in Asia than in the United occasional photo. But there are date," says Khoi Nguyen, group service unless they navigated nearby eavesdroppers may be
States. But it seems only a smart policies and practices that product manager, Mobile there themselves, as opposed to able to see the data they send
matter of time until security can help you keep cell phones Security Group at Symantec. following a link in an email or and receive, such as email.
issues begin affecting American out of harm's way. Here are "This will protect the device text. The same goes for any "Make sure before you join that
cell phone users as well. "The some steps to consider. from new variants of viruses and phone call where the user did it's a network you know and
thing to understand is that smart 1. Insist on password other malware." not find the number trust," De Guerre advises.
phones today have all the power protection. "The simple act of 5. Warn users about malicious independently, for instance by
of a full computer," De Guerre enabling a password or PIN sites and phone numbers. Cell visiting a company's website or
says. "They can have a 1 number on a phone can save you phone users can be their own looking it up using directory
12 Business/ E-reader News Edition

What Health Care Reform Means for Your Business

Courtney Rubin (Inc.com) when Republican Scott Brown coverage to retirees age 55 to 64
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:45:00 AM unexpectedly won the late Ted who aren't eligible for Medicare,
Kennedy's seat in a January the legislation includes what's
The healthcare reform bill the s p e c i a l e l e c t i o n . T h e being called a "temporary
H o u s e o f R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s reconciliation bill will be reinsurance program" that
approved last night will bring considered under fast-track begins no later than 90 days
drastic changes to the way small Senate rules that require only a from the moment Obama signs
businesses buy and supply simple majority. the bill and expires Jan. 1, 2014.
health insurance. Here's what's coming: The program will reimburse
Nothing is changing fast, By 2014, states must set up employers or insurers for 80
though – most of the provisions Small Business Health Options percent of retiree claims
of the $940 billion legislation P r o g r a m s – a k a " S H O P between $15,000 and $90,000.
won't kick in until 2014. Exchanges" – essentially Companies with more than 50
Obama is expected to sign the purchasing pools where small employees that don't offer
main piece of the package (the businesses can club together to coverage would be fined up to
underlying Senate bill) into law buy insurance. What's defined $750 per worker if any
this week, possibly as early as as a "small business"? Those employees rely on government
Tuesday. The other piece – a fix w i t h n o m o r e t h a n 1 0 0 subsidies to buy coverage. The
-it bill that of amendments that employees, though states can compromise bill the Senate will
would make several changes to limit the pools to companies consider this week will hike the
the new law – goes back to the with 50 or fewer employees fine to $2,000 per full-time
Senate. Debate could start through 2016. Companies that employee. The first 30 workers
Tuesday, and conclude before outgrow the size limit will be are excluded, but two part-time
Congress's two-week recess grandfathered in. employees will count as one full
b e g i n s F r i d a y n i g h t . The pools will probably only -time one for purposes of
Republicans likely will offer slightly shrink your insurance workers won't face penalties if fewer employees and average penalty calculation.
lots of additional amendments to c o s t s : T h e n o n p a r t i s a n they don't offer insurance. If you yearly wages of less than The new legislation also will
the reconciliation bill, but any Congressional Budget Office have 25 or fewer employees and $25,000); the subsidies shrink as require more transparency from
changes – even ones Democrats predicts small-group premiums a work force with an average companies' size and average pay health insurance companies –
might like – would send the bill will fall by 1 to 4 percent thanks pay of up to $40,000, you can rise. The tax breaks – estimated they'll have to report the
back to the House rather than to t o the exchanges. get tax credits to help buy to affect about 12 percent of p r o p o r t i o n o f p r e m i u m
O b a m a f o r s i g n i n g , s o (Unfortunately, the premiums insurance: up to 35 percent of employees covered by small- payments they fork over (as
Democrats are expected to may rise considerably before the cost of the premiums this group insurance -- will last for opposed to marketing and
oppose them all. (Yet another they fall. Health care insurance year, rising to 50 percent in the first two years a company administration costs). Insurers
way the rules could change: consultant Robert Laszewski 2014. (You'll have to pay at buys insurance through its state will also be forced to reveal the
Republicans already are vowing told the Wall Street Journal that least half of the total premium exchange. The breaks should r a t i o n a l e b e h i n d p r e m i u m
to repeal the laws if they win plans will want to make as much cost or 50 percent of a lower the cost of insuring increases, and states will be able
back majorities in November's money as possible before the benchmark premium to qualify.) affected employees by 8 to 11 to bar them from the exchanges
midterm elections.) wide-sweeping reforms take Full credits will be available for p e r c e n t , e s t i m a t e s t h e if they're found to be upping
The complicated two-step effect in 2014.) the smallest firms with the Congressional Budget Office. premiums without good reason.
process was made necessary Companies with fewer than 50 lowest-paid workers (10 or If you provide health insurance
E-reader News Edition
How to Choose an Investor
Jason Del Rey (Inc.com)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:16:22 AM
What the health care bill means
for small businesses. Inc.com's
Courtney Rubin has the details
on what the passage of Sunday's
health care reform means for
your small business. Still, there's
time to plan; most changes
won't take effect until
2014.How to judge potential
investors. SpeakerText founder
Matt Mireles, who started his
business with $4,000 in the
midst of the recession, has come
up with his own formula for
how to judge investors while
they're busy judging you.
Expect some strong language,
and a lot of great advice. Above
everything else, says Mireles,
you need to ask yourself
whether you want this person on
your board. "When the $%^&
hits the fan, do I want to be
accountable to this guy? Do I
want this to be the guy that has
my back?" He also tells
entrepreneurs to ask themselves:
Are the investors smarter than
you? (It's great if they are.) Are
they secure and self-confident
enough to make rational
decisions? Are they reverential
to entrepreneurs and understand
"their place in the ecosystem as
enablers"? Are they humble and
Sunday Afternoon Music: Don Ross, 'Three Hands'
(Little Green Footballs)
self-aware? Do they know what
it means to be an operator? Do
they teach you things? Are they
happy? And last, but not least:
do they want you to lie to them?
Says Mireles, "This typically
manifests itself in the form of
long-term financial projections.
'What will your sales be 5 years
from now?' I have no $%*#@
clue, and if you're asking me
that question, neither do you."
(Via peHUB.)Yelp: a business
owner's guide. We've covered
businesses that have found
creative ways to respond to
criticism on Yelp, but Mashable
is filling in some of the gaps for
beginners and explaining three
other steps you should take to
succeed on Yelp. The article
recommends filling out your
business information
thoroughly, making offers and
announcements regularly, and
displaying a Yelp badge on your
website. It also raises the
question of the value of
advertising on Yelp, a revenue
stream that has put the company
in some legal hot water. For
more tips on how to use review
sites to your advantage see our
guide on the subject.Intro to the
balance sheet. Venture capitalist
and prolific blogger Fred
Wilson has the lowdown on
reading and understanding the
Here’s a midday music thread
featuring Don Ross on the
balance sheet.App developers
hot for iPad. "Rush is on to be
first in iPad Apps," declares a
headline in The New York
Times. The paper reports that
app developers large and small
are scrambling to get software
ready in time for the April 3rd
release date of Apple's new
tablet. This is despite the fact
that the vast majority of app
developers haven't even used
one in real life. Although a
handful of big media companies
have prototypes, they've agreed
to "keep the iPad hidden from
public view, chained to tables in
windowless rooms." Seriously:
chained to tables. The little guys
get a software program that
simulates the iPad and runs on a
Mac, which means that they'll
be at a disadvantage once the
device is released. "Developers
know from experience how
important timing can be," The
Times reports. "Some of the
earliest developers to release
programs for the iPhone were
also the most successful...A
developer who is out in front
with an application that is
tailored for the iPad stands a
better chance of getting
noticed."Five things to
remember about location-based
social media. As apps like
Foursquare and Gowalla
Frameworks guitar.[Video]
Business/ Tech/ Politics/
continue to see significant
growth in users, many
businesses are still scrambling
to figure out exactly how to
leverage these tools to augment
their products and services.
Mashable has posted a few
things to consider along the
way, the most important of
which is scalability for
companies with a primarily
local customer base. For
example, while Foursquare has
reached 500,000 active users, "If
you apply any city's share of the
total U.S. population, the results
show some pretty low estimates
of users in individual localities,"
the post says. "This shows why
it is important to achieve scale if
you hope to see return on
investment in the location
marketing space." Also,
remember that getting potential
customers to find your place of
business shouldn't be the only
goal. "It's easy to lose sight of
the fact that location's real
appeal to advertisers is the fact
that with this functionality, you
can reach the on-the-go user,
who is ready to buy and
consume," the article says. Once
you've figured out your
Foursquare strategy, click here
for tips on how to bring in some
actual cash.
13
Found Footage: David
Barnard of AppCubby
talks about KaleidoVid
Steven Sande (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 3/22/2010 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: Found Footage,
iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
While roaming the floor at
Macworld Expo 2010 in
February, I had the opportunity
to talk with David Barnard of
AppCubby about several of their
iPhone apps, including
GasCubby and TripCubby.
David also told me about a
project that they had in the
works at the time, which has
recently been released -- a
US$0.99 iPhone kaleidoscope
called KaleidoVid.
TUAW's Dave Caolo provided
you with details about the app in
an earlier post, but we thought
you might enjoy this short
interview with David where he
talks about the app, his reason
for developing it, and gives us a
short demo of KaleidoVid in
action.
TUAW Found Footage: David
Barnard of AppCubby talks
about KaleidoVid originally
appeared on The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW) on
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Morning Reading Google Skipfish

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and quality and choice suffer,
the fault will lie with
funds for elective abortions, the
explicit separation of federal
because the vast majority of
these traders and finance for security
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Health and Human Services that executive order: a blanket everyone, turning them into a

With 540 iPhone apps, an iPhone font is born

Don Reisinger If you have time on your hands, font created entirely out of App
(Webware.com) you can come up with some Store apps.
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:03:48 AM rather interesting ideas. One Originally posted at The Digital
person has designed an iPhone Home
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Just As It Tries To Kick
MoMA Acquires "@" Symbol. "WTF" Next? People Offline, The
British Gov't Wants To
Cliff Kuang (Fast Company) applications. always celebrated elegance,
Submitted at 3/22/2010 11:25:14 AM And that's what drew the economy, intellectual Move All Public Service
attention of Ray Tomlinson, a transparency, and a sense of Online
N e w Y o r k ' s M u s e u m o f computer engineer who helped the possible future directions
Modern Art is adding the create the world's very first e- that are embedded in the arts of Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
ubiquitous typographic icon to mail system. Faced with the our time, the essence of Submitted at 3/22/2010 1:54:23 AM

its permanent collection. Here's problem that emails could only modern.
the story behind the acquisition. be sent to users on the same Weirdly, if the internet hadn't Just as it considers kicking
Today, MoMA's announced server, he adopted the "@" to been invented in America, we people offline via the Digital
what might be its boldest a l l o w c r o s s - s e r v e r e m a i l might never have begun using Economy Bill, it looks like the
acquisition ever. And it didn't routing, via an email address. As "@" the way we do: In Russia, it UK is getting set to move all
even cost anything: The "@" Antonelli writes: In January symbolizes "dog," and in sorts of government services
symbol is now a part of the 1971, @ was an underused collection: Tomlinson then sent Norway, it's known as the "sign online-- giving every UK citizen
museum's permanent design jargon symbol lingering on the an email about the @ sign and of the meow." And in Spain, it's a unique webpage, where they
collection. Which sounds keyboard and marred by a very how it should be used in the used to express gender equality, can access all sorts of
more than a little mystifying. limited register. By October, future. He therefore consciously, since it contains both an "o" and personalized gov't services.
But MoMA's chief design Tomlinson had rediscovered a n d f r o m t h e v e r y s t a r t , "a"--for example: "Hola l@s Now, some folks are (perhaps
curator, Paola Antonelli, offers a and appropriated it, imbuing it established new rules and a new viej@s amig@s y l@s nuev@s reasonably) concerned about
fairly detailed and fascinating w i t h n e w m e a n i n g a n d meaning for this symbol...[He] amig@s!" privacy and the threat of data
rationale. elevating it to defining symbol performed a powerful act of Presumably, the "@" will now breaches, but it seems like an
"@" is more ancient than you of the computer age. He chose design that not only forever be periodically displayed with a even bigger issue is the
might think--Some scholars the @ for his first email c h a n g e d t h e @ s i g n ’ s placard in the design galleries, conflicting messages the UK
think it was invented over 1,300 because of its strong locative significance and function, but detailing this history. gov't seems to be sending in
years ago, as way to reduce the s e n s e — a n i n d i v i d u a l , which also has become an Since it's in the public domain, threatening to remove people's
Latin word "ad"--which means identified by a username, is @ important part of our identity in it was of course free--making it internet connections at the same
"at, "to," or "toward"--into a this institution/computer/server, relationship a n d the only free acquisition that time it's trying to get them to do
single penstroke. and also because…it was communication with others. His MoMA's ever done. more and more online.
But by the 20th century, it was already there, on the keyboard, (unintended) role as a designer Permalink| Comments| Email
a weird oddity of typography-- and nobody ever used it. must be acknowledged and This Story
found on most keyboards, but And here's her rationale for celebrated by the one
essentially useless for everyday a d d i n g i t t o t h e M o M A collection—MoMA’s—that has

Palm's Last Stand: Its Products Come to AT&T

Brian White (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 12:10:00 PM
Filed under: Competitive
Strategy, AT and T (T), Palm
Inc (PALM)
After reading this breakdown of
Palm's ( PALM) lethal
combination of mistakes in the
last year, one would wonder want to acquire it and investors Come to AT&T originally
where the company is headed in it will lose everything. That appeared on BloggingStocks on
(except into the ground). is, unless a product launch on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:10:00
Without following some sound AT&T ( T) can save the EST. Please see our terms for
advice from non-CEOs, the company. use of feeds. Read| Permalink|
company -- which at one point Continue reading Palm's Last Email this| Comments
was the premier smartphone Stand: Its Products Come to
company -- may be headed to the company is even worth AT&T
shutterville faster than 2012. If anything by then, nobody will Palm's Last Stand: Its Products
16 Business/ Tech/ E-reader News Edition
Switzerland So Neutral
The swinging tax door It Won't Even Let In
nospam@example.org (Scott • A deduction for state and local easier for state officials to commissioner for New York Violent Video Games
Jagow) (Marketplace Scratch taxes on new vehicle purchases. garnish the wages of employed State, because it was not cost-
Pad) Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
• An increase in the Earned residents who owe taxes. effective for states to monitor
Submitted at 3/22/2010 5:59:15 AM
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:05:58 AM Income Tax Credit and the And many states are stepping every bricklayer and lawyer
Part of the government’s Child Tax Credit. up their efforts to collect taxes crossing a border… An anonymous reader sends in
r e c o v e r y s t r a t e g y w a s t o • A tax break for unemployment owed by people who live in one But now states have greater word that Switzerland appears
incentivize consumers to buy benefits. Ordinarily, jobless state but drive or fly to another access to data warehouses that to be following in the footsteps
things — a new car, a new benefits are taxable, but under state to do work. From the New help them better track taxes of Venezuela by getting close to
house, some more education. the Recovery Act, the first York Times: owed. banning all violent video games
The incentives came in the form $ 2 , 5 0 0 i n u n e m p l o y m e n t “The states are all hungry for These are taxes people in the country (yes, even for
of tax breaks, and now the bill benefits received in 2009 is tax- revenue,” said Alan Clavette, an technically owe, so that’s one adults). It's not quite there yet --
has come due. free. accountant in Newtown, Conn. thing. But we haven’t as the Swiss National Council
The commissioner of the IRS While these tax benefits are “We are certainly seeing states mentioned new taxes that are has basically just given itself the
says says so far, the average clearly welcome for those who like New York and Connecticut part of the health care reform or right to put in place such a ban,
income tax refund is up 10% can take advantage of them, looking more and more for potential taxes, both state and but is still debating the actual
from a year ago to a record they come at a time when the executives and everyday federal, that might be required extent of the ban. However, it
$3,036. He says last year’s federal government and the taxpayers who may be spending to close budget deficits. Some appears that many expect all
stimulus package is a major states have huge budget deficits. time across the border.” of those are a ways down the video games rated at a mature or
reason. The tax breaks provided S o , b e p r e p a r e d f o r t h e Once upon a time, state tax road. But while the money’s adult level will likely be banned.
by the Recovery Act include: revolving door to swing the officials relied on the sports going into many taxpayers’ I'm curious why none of the
• A $ 2 , 5 0 0 A m e r i c a n other way. Georgia, for one, pages and celebrity magazines pockets now, it might not be a countries that ban such video
Opportunity Credit for qualified just beefed up its tax collection to see when well-known higher- bad idea to plan for it coming games are also willing to ban R-
college expenses. manpower: earners came to town for work. out in the future. rated movies as well.
• A tax credit of up to $8,000 for The (state) House this past (Yes, even the taxman reads Us Permalink| Comments| Email
f i r s t - t i m e h o m e b u y e r s . week approved one bill that Weekly.) For everyone else, it This Story
Congress expanded this credit in would give a handful of tax was largely a “don’t ask, don’t
November to provide a $6,500 agents law enforcement power tell” world, says James W.
credit for repeat buyers. and another that would make it Wetzler, the former tax

Consol Energy Scoops Up CNX Gas for $965 Million

Tom Taulli (BloggingStocks) properties of Dominion and will require some financial CNX Gas for $965 Million
Submitted at 3/22/2010 11:50:00 AM Resources ( D). It was a major maneuverings. For example, originally appeared on
move to diversify its energy Monday CONSOL agreed to BloggingStocks on Mon, 22
Filed under: Deals, Competitive platform, picking up 1.46 purchase its remaining 17% Mar 2010 11:50:00 EST. Please
Strategy million oil and gas acres and stake in CNX Gas ( CXG) for see our terms for use of feeds.
Last week, the fourth largest 9,000 producing wells. In all, $965 million. Permalink| Email this|
U.S. coal producer, CONSOL CONSOL is expected to boost Continue reading Consol Comments
Energy ( CNX), agreed to pay its natural reserves to about 3 Energy Scoops Up CNX Gas for
$ 3 . 4 8 b i l l i o n f o r t h e trillion cubic feet and the about 41 trillion cubic feet. $965 Million
A p p a l a c h i a n n a t u r a l g a s potential reserve base will be However, the deal is not cheap Consol Energy Scoops Up
E-reader News Edition
Browser Wars: Microsoft's EU Browser Ballot Saps IE's
Marketshare
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 10:28:36 AM
First, the European Union
decided that Microsoft was
unfairly monopolizing the
browser market by bundling
Internet Explorer in software
packages. As a result EU users
are now offered a ballot that
allow them to select alternatives.
And it's working: IE is losing
chunks of marketshare.
About 200 million Windows
users of all flavors, old and new,
are being served up with
Microsoft's ballot window
(shown above), which is a
roadblock-style pop-up forcing
them to choose which browser
they'd like to use on their PC.
For many Windows users, this is
an irrelevance: PC-savvy people
are well aware of IE's serious
shortcomings in terms of
security and compliance with
open Web code standards and
will have opted for one of the
big competitors: Firefox, Apple
Safari for PC and the new
pretender Google Chrome. But
there are significant numbers of
Windows users who'll have
never stopped to think about the
Tea Partiers Threatening Violence? Where?
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 10:16:00 AM
matter--because IE has always
just been there, and it's a
familiar and "safe" bit of
software. They may never have
realized that there's another way
to browse the Net.
Hence the EU case. MS bundles
IE as an integrated part of the
Windows experience and
presents it as the de facto
browser--warts and all. With so
many millions of Windows
users, this resulted in what the
Right here. These signs were at
yesterday’s sparsely attended
demonstration in Washington
EU decided was monopolistic
behavior. MS's solution was a
neat work-around before the
matter came to a head (perhaps
with punitive fines): Present all
EU netizens with a choice of
browser, in a pop-up window
that randomly shuffles the
browsers so that no one is
particularly favored.
According to analytics firm
Statcounter, it seems the ballot
has now resulted in a slip in IE's
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all of the others have had to
engage in PR to get their names
known.
IE's marketshare slip is small
for now--just 1% in the UK,
1.3% in Italy, and 2.5% in
France. But that slip is likely to
get bigger as more users face the
ballot pop-up and as word of
mouth and press attention is
brought to bear on the issue.
Many a Net programmer will
be rejoicing at this news too,
thanks to IE's terrible record in
security matters and its non-
compliance with Web standards-
-even the upcoming IE9's
compliance with the new
(potentially Flash-killing)
HTML5 standard is slightly
questionable. And this may even
browser marketshare, implying allow us to ask the big question:
that the average Windows user Is this news the beginning of the
is more Net-savvy than one may end of IE's automatic dominance
have expected. Many are opting in the browser wars?
out of the MS product. On the [via Reuters]
other hand, Mozilla's Firefox, To keep up with this news,
Google's Chrome, and even using whatever browser you
Apple's Safari are all much fancy, follow me, Kit Eaton, on
more "branded" products than Twitter. That QR code on the
IE. Microsoft has never had to left will take you to my Twitter
promote IE to the public--it just feed too.
served it up to them whether
they wanted it or not, whereas
DC. from a donkey’s ass.
And yes, that’s Barack Obama (Hat tip: Gus 802.)
with a Hitler mustache emerging
18 Business/ Tech News/ E-reader News Edition

Google Versus China: China to Win, Chinese Netizens to Lose

Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:42:45 AM

The face-off between Google

and China is entering its final
phase: Rumors are building that
Google may announce its pull
out of the country as soon as
today. Meanwhile, China's
netizens are desperately trying
to make their voice heard.
Google seems to be playing is
cards extremely close to its
chest on this matter--and today,
like much of the recent news,
we're only learning about things
via persons "familiar with the
situation" who've spoken to the
Financial Times. These insiders
are saying that Google's on the
point of revealing the closure of only way out is to close to both Google and China's censor important matters like repercussions. It also makes it
Google.cn, and its strategy for Google.cn. We'll all just have to authorities. The letter essentially the "Shanxi vaccine scandal" clear that Google's Chinese
what happens next. watch the headlines today to see lists the user's woes, starting but argue that companies (both presence is seen as important to
This is as close to the end game exactly how it plays out. with questions about national and international) normal Chinese citizens, and
as we've got so far, and it was Meanwhile, China's netizens understanding exactly what the operating inside China should this above all else highlights the
almost inevitable after China's are complaining about all the disagreement between Google comply with censorship laws, true tragedy at the heart of this
moves over the last few weeks smoke and mirrors surrounding and the government is about (a wherever these are reasonable affair.
to strengthen its immovable the affair. As we've highlighted matter which will have been and not overly-restrictive. [via rConversations, Financial
position on self-censorship. before China's Net users not reported differently inside China Hence within the scope of a Times]
With China apparently only stand the most to lose from than in the rest of the World,) single letter, the individuals To keep up with this news in a
stubbornly defending its a Google pull out, but it could and moving on to questions have gently complained about more real-time setting, follow
censorship above all other have far-reaching side-effects on about exactly what the China's authoritarian stance, and me, Kit Eaton, on Twitter. That
issues, and Google's human rights and freedom of government wanted censored. Google's obfuscations--which is QR code on the left will take
management apparently resolute speech within the country. The netizens' position is very probably about as challenging you to my Twitter feed too.
about their decision to not Hence this open letter from a carefully arranged in fact. They this letter can be without
comply with censorship, the group of Chinese Internet users are resolute that China cannot causing potential legal

SXSW is a Bands' Social Network Like No Other

Eliot Van Buskirk (Wired Top AUSTIN, Texas - Don’t expect soon. Most industry players find over a couple of Lone Star beers we now call 'social networking.'
Stories) the bands and labels gathered at that none of those tools replace — all the ways people
Submitted at 3/22/2010 6:01:00 AM the SXSW to forsake MySpace, the need to shake hands, look traditionally networked socially
Twitter and Facebook anytime one another in the eye or bond before the internet enabled what
E-reader News Edition Business/ Tech News/ 19

Not over by a long shot

nospam@example.org (Scott we will file a lawsuit to protect that those activities substantially
Jagow) (Marketplace Scratch the rights and interests of affect interstate commerce, and
Pad)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:30:13 AM
American citizens,” he said.
The primary argument the
that’s how the court would
probably view the regulation of
Bo Burlingham in the
After many long months of states will use is that the bill
debate, a health care reform bill violates the Constitution by
has finally passed. President requiring every American to buy
health insurance.
However, we may be in new
territory now:
Big Apple
Lewis Schiff (Inc.com) clients.Fifth, great companies--
Obama is expected to sign it insurance. Virginia also plans While Congress has used its
into law this week. But as soon to challenge it on the grounds Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:05:40 AM and their owners--have a
taxing power to fund Social
as that happens, another long that it would violate the state’s passion for what they do.Bo
Security and Medicare, never The legendary Bo Burlingham, introduced a sixth aspect of
battle is likely to begin — in new law that says no Virginian before has it used its commerce Inc. magazine's editor-at-large great companies--one he said he
courtrooms around the country. may be compelled to purchase power to mandate that an landed in the New York-New "would put in the book if I were
The Christian Science Monitor insurance. individual person engage in an Jersey-Connecticut region last w r i t i n g i t n o w . " G r e a t
says the attorneys general of a But has Congress overstepped economic transaction with a w e e k w i t h h i s r e c i p e f o r companies must have sound
dozen states have expressed i t s a u t h o r i t y u n d e r t h e private company. Regulating the entrepreneurial greatness. In business models and good gross
support for taking legal action c o m m e r c e c l a u s e o f t h e auto industry or paying “cash each of our whistle-stop events margins. In other words, before
against the health care measure: Constitution? It’s hard to for clunkers” is one thing; in the region, Bo paved the way you can be a great business, you
“The health care legislation determine based on precedent. making everyone buy a Chevy is to a higher entrepreneurial must run a smart business. You
Congress passed tonight is an Georgetown Constitutional law quite another. Even during plateau with his five "Small may not know it but Bo's
a s s a u l t a g a i n s t t h e professor Randy Barnett writes World War II, the federal Giant" principles, drawn from entrepreneurial profiles have
C o n s t i t u t i o n , ” s a i d S o u t h in the Washington Post: government did not mandate his book of the same name.First, made up many of the iconic
Carolina Attorney General Historically, insurance that individual citizens purchase great companies are run by stories inside Inc. magazine for
Henry McMaster. “A legal contracts were not considered war bonds. people who are clear about who 27 years. From Norm Brodsky
challenge by the states appears commerce, which referred to As much as the public might t h e y a r e . S e c o n d , g r e a t to Ari Rosenzweig, each of
to be the only hope of protecting t r a d e a n d c a r r i a g e o f want this matter to be settled companies have a connection to them exemplifies Bo's six-point
the American people from this m e r c h a n d i s e . T h a t ’ s w h y one way or another, many the community in which they do model of greatness. On any
unprecedented attack on our insurance has traditionally been aspects of the health care reform business.Third, great companies given Monday, it's easy to get
system of government,” he said regulated by states. But the measure don’t take effect for 3 have intimate relationships with caught up in the day-to-day of
in a statement. Supreme Court has long allowed to 4 years. So, as they usually their customers. They talk to our businesses. Bo reminds us
Florida Attorney General Bill C o n g r e s s t o r e g u l a t e a n d do, the courts may take their them, care about them and that entrepreneurship is not just
McCollum issued a similar prohibit all sorts of “economic” sweet time sorting this out. empathize with them.Fourth, a job, it's a calling. Thank you,
statement late Sunday. “If the activities that are not, strictly
great companies treat their Bo, for sharing your best ideas
president signs this bill into law, speaking, commerce. The key is
employees very, very well. They with the great entrepreneurial
understand that a well-trained community of greater New
workforce leads to happy York.

Amazon Shows Off Kindle for iPad

Charlie Sorrel (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 6:39:00 AM
Amazon announces Kindle
Apps for Tablet Computers
(including Kindle for iPad), a
rather polished e-reader
application that both makes the
Kindle itself look rather old-
fashioned and explains why last instead.
week’s Mac version was so
unfinished: The Amazon
developers have clearly been
spending all their time on this
20 Business/ Tech News/ E-reader News Edition

Nestle Learns an Important Lesson in Social Media

Management
Addy Dugdale (Fast media. Create a community
Company) strategy. Have an established
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:52:35 AM plan for those times when your
site is overrun by brand-jackers,
Last week, Nestle got itself into and practice it regularly.
a bit of a situation on its I might add one more to the list.
Facebook page. Following There is no point in deleting
accusations by Greenpeace that every negative comment
the confectionery company was received on your social media
using palm oil sourced from pages, as your brand will just
deforested areas in Indonesia, end up looking like you handed
the company's Facebook page over management of it to this
was overrun by disgruntled guy. Just remember, control and
campaigners urging a boycott of management are not the same
its products, and the firm was and the company ended up by example of misunderstanding on most of the newbies not thing.
forced to put out a statement on posting the comment, "Social the medium. The company uses actually being "fans." [Image via]
its corporate website. media: as you can see, we're Twitter extensively--its CSV ( Jeremiah Owyang has been
Nestle had, at first, been trying learning as we go. Thanks for Creating Shared Value) account, following the crisis and has
to firefight the situation on its the comments." unsurprisingly, has more come up with some useful
Facebook page, without much We've already seen how the big followers than any of its guidelines for large companies
success. Caustic responses to the guys are using blogs to fight corporate accounts--and has who are getting into social
angry brigade, and attempts to back against their critics, but over 200,000 fans on its media. Use an experienced
delete unwanted comments Nestle's attempt to manage its Facebook page, an increase of community manager rather than
merely fanned the flamewar, social media sites is an epic 125,000 over the weekend. Bet an intern to manage your social
Comic Artist James
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Boehner to GOP:
'Behave Like
Grown-Ups'
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:11:52 AM

At a closed meeting yesterday,

House Minority Leader John
Boehner told GOP legislators to
“ behave like grown-ups.”
Now, why would he think it
was necessary to tell them that?
House Minority Leader John
Boehner told his conference to
“behave like grown-ups” if the
healthcare bill is passed by the
House on Sunday.
The Ohio Republican made the
warning at a quick closed-door
meeting with fellow House GOP
lawmakers at noon in the
Capitol.
According to several
lawmakers who attended the 15
Sprint Ad Uses the iPhone to Show Off Its 4G minute meeting, Boehner said
“we will behave like grown-
Network (Yes, That iPhone) ups,” and not engage in taunting
the vulnerable Democrats who
support the controversial
Dan Nosowitz (Fast network, which is several times frustrating than AT&T. AT&T proved the fastest of the
Company) faster and in daily use often [youtube TwV4XJJAAas] 3G networks. It's reliability measure.
approaches the speed of a home Unfortunately, it's not that's the problem--and Sprint's
Submitted at 3/22/2010 7:37:34 AM
broadband network. particularly practical. For one 4G is not particularly
Correspondent
Sprint's Overdrive portable Wi- So the Overdrive is compatible thing, you'd need two separate widespread due to its youth. Shuffle at the NYT
Fi hotspot is similar to Verizon's with any Wi-Fi device: laptops, data plans, in addition to a voice Anyway, all that arguing
MiFI: it's equipped with a most smartphones, PMPs like plan; the iPhone requires an mostly misses the point of the [Internal Memos]
wireless antenna like a phone, the iPod Touch and Zune HD, AT&T voice and data plan, and ad, which is to say "Ha ha, Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
but instead of merely using it, it and a whole host of other the Overdrive another. You'd be iPhone owners, don't you just Submitted at 3/22/2010 12:00:55 PM
exports it as a Wi-Fi network connected gadgets. But to paying out the ear to let one data hate AT&T?" and to remind us
that any device with a Wi-Fi suggest the iPhone plays on all plan sit fallow. But the other all that it's Sprint that's pushing For those obsessively tracking
antenna can use. The MiFi is the dreams of annoyed iPhone problem is, speed isn't the issue forward with the earliest 4G the distribution of beats at the
great, but it's still just a 3G owners: keep the device, but with AT&T. Sprint's 4G network. Good for them. New York Times, this memo
network--Sprint's Overdrive take advantage of a wireless network is far faster, of course, went out this morning: More »
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HANS, IACI, LMT, MT, SMSC, Sells AIG Shares to
STI, TRNO, WDR ... UBS
Eric Buscemi • FBR Capital upgraded from hold at Brean Murray. Mark Fightmaster
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Analyst Initiations • Morgan Keegan upgraded LMT, MT, SMSC, STI, TRNO, International Group ( AIG) lead
Analyst Upgrades Standard Microsystems ( WDR ... man Maurice Greenberg (called $278 million. The way the deal
• Oppenheimer upgraded SMSC) to outperform from Analyst Calls: BA, BZH, FTO, "Hank" by most and the is structured is known as a
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to reflect, among other things, company will benefit from originally appeared on of his AIG shares to UBS( Greenberg Sells AIG Shares to
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Democrats hail US healthcare bill

(BBC News | Americas | the size and complexity of the
World Edition) bill and have been angered by
Submitted at 3/22/2010 6:28:48 AM the long, bitter process of its
passage.
Democrats have hailed the The New York Times, which
approval of legislation has supported the reforms,
extending healthcare to an called the vote an
additional 32 million Americans accomplishment of historic
as a historic advance in social proportions, but the Wall Street
justice. Journal said the bill would mean
The speaker of the House of much higher taxes, slower
Representatives, Nancy Pelosi economic growth and worse
said it was comparable to the medical care.
establishment of Medicare and Democrats hope that once the
Social Security. voters see the new law taking
The bill was passed in the effect they will learn to like it
House on Sunday evening by before they go to the polls in
just seven votes. mid-term elections in
Republicans have vowed to November, our correspondent
continue to challenge it, saying adds.
it is too expensive and promotes 'Fixes'
big government. Congress. would "improve the quality of healthcare system, but it moves The bill's final approval
Senator John McCain, the The House approved the bill life for millions of American us decisively in the right r e p r e s e n t e d a s t u n n i n g
defeated presidential candidate, p a s s e d b y t h e S e n a t e o n families." direction," he added. turnaround from January, when
warned that outside the capital Christmas Eve by 219 votes to Please turn on JavaScript. U n d e r t h e p l a n s , h e a l t h it was considered dead after
"the American people are very 212, with 34 Democrats joining Media requires JavaScript to insurance will be extended to Democrats lost their 60-seat
angry". Republicans in voting against it. play. nearly all Americans, new taxes majority in the Senate, which is
"They don't like it, and we're Victory was assured only hours President Barack Obama: 'It's a will be imposed on the wealthy, required to defeat a filibuster, a
going to repeal this," he told before voting started, when the victory for the American people' a n d r e s t r i c t i v e i n s u r a n c e method used to delay or block
ABC News. president agreed to a deal with The president said that after practices such as refusing to the passage of legislation.
President Barack Obama is conservative Democrats to nearly 100 years of debate and cover people with pre-existing To avoid a second Senate vote,
expected to sign the bill as early reiterate in an executive order frustration, Americans finally medical conditions will be the House also approved on
as Tuesday, after which it will that money provided by the bill had the assurance of universal outlawed. Sunday evening a package of
g o t o t h e S e n a t e w h e r e could not be used for abortions. health cover. The House Republican leader, reconciliation "fixes" - agreed
Democrats hope it will be Democrats were jubilant after "We pushed back on the undue R e p J o h n B o e h n e r , s a i d beforehand between House and
passed by a simple majority the vote, with House Majority influence of special interests," lawmakers had defied the Senate Democrats and the White
under budget reconciliation. Whip Representative James he said in a statement. "We wishes of their constituents. House - amending the bill that
'New day in America' Clyburn describing it as "Civil didn't give in to mistrust or to "We have failed to listen to senators adopted in December.
The BBC's Adam Brookes in Rights Act of the 21st Century". cynicism or to fear. Instead, we America," he added. "This body The president could sign the
Washington says Mr Obama's Rep Marcy Kaptur of Ohio said proved that we are still a people moves forward against their House-approved Senate bill as
long, stubborn effort to reform the bill heralded "a new day in capable of doing big things." will. Shame on us." early as Tuesday, after which it
healthcare came to fruition after America", while Rep Doris "This legislation will not fix Our correspondent says many DEMOCRATS page 26
a d r a m a t i c l a t e n i g h t i n Matsui of California said it e v e r y t h i n g t h a t a i l s o u r Americans do seem bemused by
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Clinton warns Israel of choices
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Mrs Clinton warned that Israel
was facing tough challenges
US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton has called on Israel to
make "difficult but necessary
choices" if it wants a peace
agreement with the Palestinians.
Mrs Clinton warned that the
status quo was "unsustainable"
in a speech to a pro-Israel lobby
group.
Her comments come amid a
dispute between the US and
Israel over plans for 1,600 new
homes in East Jerusalem.
On Sunday, Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
ruled out halting settlement
construction in the city.
They liked her tough words
about Iran. But they were
largely silent as she explained
why the US had condemned
Israel's latest plans to build for
Jews on occupied territory in
Jerusalem. She presented the
Obama administration as an
unshakeable friend of Israel,
unafraid to give it straight
advice about its best interests.
The status quo, she said, was
not sustainable, even if some in
Israel thought that it was.
Without going into too much
detail, she sketched out the
settlement the US wanted - a
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officials say these include an
agreement to discuss all
outstanding issues in the indirect
"proximity talks" being
mediated by US special envoy
George Mitchell.
However Israel will not discuss
a freeze on settlement
construction in Jerusalem.
"As far as we are concerned,
building in Jerusalem is like
building in Tel Aviv," Mr
Netanyahu told his cabinet on
Sunday.
But Mrs Clinton warned in her
speech to Aipac that the "status
quo is unsustainable for all
sides" and "promises only
violence and unrealised
aspirations".
"There is another path - a path
Palestinian state alongside more than 100 settlements built New construction in East that leads toward security and
Israel, living in peace, with since Israel's 1967 occupation of Jerusalem or the West Bank prosperity for all the people of
borders based on the ceasefire t h e W e s t B a n k a n d E a s t "undermines mutual trust" and the region. It will require all
line that held until Israel Jerusalem. They are held to be "exposes daylight between parties including Israel to make
captured the West Bank and illegal under international law, Israel and the United States that difficult but necessary choices,"
East Jerusalem in 1967. though Israel disputes this. others in the region hope to she said.
Jerusalem, at the centre of the In her speech to a convention in exploit" she said. Mrs Clinton also spoke of the
recent row between the US and Washington of the influential Mrs Clinton has demanded Mr need for sanctions against Iran
Israel, needed a solution that Aipac (American Israel Public Netanyahu move to restore over its nuclear programme.
would realise the aspirations of A f f a i r s C o m m i t t e e ) , M r s confidence in the peace process, She called for "sanctions that
both sides, she said. That's code Clinton underscored the Obama i n c l u d i n g e x t e n d i n g t h e will bite".
for a Palestinian capital as well administration's "rock solid" suspension of new building in Iran says its nuclear programme
as an Israeli one. Easy to talk commitment to Israel. the West Bank to include East is for peaceful, civilian use, but
about, very hard to achieve. "Guaranteeing Israel's security Jerusalem. the US disagrees.
The Palestinian Authority is is more than a policy position In a telephone call on Friday, "Let me be very clear: The
furious at Israel's insistence on f o r m e . I t i s a p e r s o n a l the Israeli prime minister United States is determined to
building on occupied territory. It commitment that will never proposed a series of "trust- prevent Iran from acquiring
sees it as a serious stumbling waver," she said. b u i l d i n g m e a s u r e s " t h a t nuclear weapons," the secretary
block to the resumption of talks, B u t , s h e a d d e d , i t i s represented "a real effort" to aid of state said.
which have been stalled for Washington's "responsibility to US peace efforts. If Iran developed a nuclear
more than a year. give credit when it is due and to Although details have not yet CLINTON page 27
Nearly 500,000 Jews live in tell the truth when it is needed". been made public, Israeli
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Md. woman gets life for killing,
freezing 2 girls (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:51:04 AM
ROCKVILLE, Md. – A
Maryland woman convicted of
killing her two adopted
daughters and storing their
bodies in a home freezer was
sentenced Monday to life
without parole.
Renee Bowman, 44, was
convicted last month of two
counts of first-degree murder
and three counts of first-degree
child abuse. A third adopted
daughter survived the abuse.
"You sentenced these two young
innocent children in the dawn of
their lives to a death chamber,
and for you that option is not
available," Montgomery County
Circuit Judge Michael J. Algeo
told Bowman before handing
down the maximum sentence —
two consecutive life terms, plus
75 years in prison for the abuse.
The crimes are not eligible for
the death penalty in Maryland.
Bowman showed no emotion
during the hearing.
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Infrequent bulk shopping is a
"I am very sorry for the abuse of
the girls," Bowman told the
judge in an even voice. "It
haunts me. It haunts me every
day."
Bowman's lawyers maintain
that she did not kill the girls,
though they acknowledge she is
guilty of abusing them. Public
defender Alan Drew said the
defense would appeal the
murder convictions, but he
declined to comment further.
Bowman kept the two young
girls' bodies on ice for months
while she continued to collect
subsidies paid to parents who
adopt special-needs children in
the District of Columbia. She
received a total of about
$150,000 after the adoptions.
In January, Bowman was
sentenced in Calvert County to
25 years in prison for abusing
her surviving daughter. That girl
escaped from Bowman's home
in September 2008 and was
found wandering the
neighborhood. Authorities
searched Bowman's home and
common way for people to get
groceries. Stock up on Saturday,
restock on the next Saturday, through the week. European-
and hope everything keeps well
found the bodies in the freezer.
The survivor, now 9 and living
with new foster parents, testified
at the trial about the abuse she
and her sisters endured — being
beaten with a baseball bat and
shoes and choked until they lost
consciousness.
The sisters who died, Minnet
and Jasmine Bowman, were
both younger than 10, though
authorities were never able to
determine exactly when they
were killed. Nobody knew they
were missing, and there are no
records the children were ever
enrolled in school.
Prosecutors said Bowman
killed them while the family was
living in Rockville and took the
freezer with her when the family
moved first to Charles County
and later to Lusby, in Calvert
County.
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Bush and Clinton to
visit Haiti
(BBC News | Americas | rebuild their cities, their
World Edition) neighbourhoods, and their
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:21:39 AM families".
The 7.0 magnitude earthquake
Former US Presidents George struck near the capital, Port-au-
W Bush and Bill Clinton are due Prince, causing massive damage
to visit Haiti as part of their fund t o h o m e s , b u s i n e s s e s ,
-raising efforts to aid the government buildings, schools,
earthquake-stricken nation. roads and bridges.
T h e t w o w e r e a s k e d b y Officials have said $11.5bn
President Barack Obama to lead (£7.6bn) will be needed to
US fund-raising after the 12 rebuild the country and are
January earthquake that killed at expected to appeal for that much
least 220,000 people. at a donors' conference in New
In their first joint visit to Haiti, York on 31 March.
the two will meet President The two former presidents have
Rene Preval and visit camps for both played a part in Haiti's
the homeless. recent history. Mr Clinton
About 1.3 million earthquake helped the democratically-
survivors are homeless and elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide
living in tent cities. return to power in 1994 after he
The camps, some of them built was ousted in a military coup.
on steep hillsides, are now at And the Bush administration
risk of flooding and landslides was criticised for not doing
in the coming rainy season. enough to help Mr Aristide
The two former presidents have when a rebellion forced him out
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General Dynamics wins UK tank bid continued from page 23

will be officially enacted into Are you in the US? What is

(BBC News | Americas | off-the-shelf vehicle with British The jobs will be lost at BAE
World Edition) law. However, the bill will your reaction to the vote? How
design by British engineers to sites in Newcastle, Leicester and contain some very unpopular will the healthcare reforms
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:09:30 AM the British Army," said Sandy Telford. measures that Democratic affect you? Send us your
Wilson, president and managing BAE has already announced the senators have agreed to amend. comments. Please remember to
US defence firm General director of General Dynamics. closure of its Telford and Leeds The Senate will be able to make include your phone number.
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weapon, it would embolden
terrorists and spark an arms race
that would destabilise the
Middle East, Mrs Clinton said.
"This is unacceptable to the
United States, unacceptable to
Israel and unacceptable to the
region and the international
was seeking an early resumption
of the stalled indirect talks
between Israel and the
Palestinians.
After meeting the Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas, Mr Mitchell urged the
two sides to exercise restraint.
killed by Israeli troops on
How the Health Care
Saturday following violent
clashes with Jewish settlers. Reform Bill Will Affect
Mr Netanyahu is due to meet
Mrs Clinton, President Barack
Obama and Vice-President Joe
You [News]
Biden in Washington on Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Tuesday during a visit which Submitted at 3/22/2010 7:00:00 AM

community," she added.
The US and its allies have been
pressing for sanctions on Iran,
but China and Russia have so
far resisted them.
Talks sought
Mr Mitchell, Mr Obama's
Middle East envoy, is back in
the region.
Speaking in the Jordanian
capital, Amman, he said the US
His latest visit comes amid
increased tension between Israel
and the Palestinians.
On Sunday, Israeli soldiers shot
dead two Palestinians in the
West Bank. The circumstances
were unclear, but one report said
the soldiers opened fire when
the Palestinians tried to stab
them.
Two Palestinian youths were
will also see him address Aipac
members.
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Marketing becoming more immediate, social

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:02:00 AM
This year will be a transitional
year for marketing as we move
toward an era that is "more
immediate, more personal, more
social, and more engaging,"
according to recently released
survey data from marketing
software developer Unica.
Really what this means is that
marketers have to be much more
vigilant about managing their
various presences, online and
off, in order to stay on top of
their brand.
While there are more tools and
channels for marketers than ever
before, marketing budgets
haven't risen dramatically. This
means that marketers will need
to use technology to leverage
fast, cheap marketing channels.
However, the survey data
shows that marketers believe
that IT support of their efforts is
the No. 1 bottleneck and
hindrance to success.
Personally, I think it's a weak
argument to suggest that IT can
hold your marketing back
considering all of the SaaS and
cloud-based marketing services
available, but we'll take this data
(as we do all other statistics)
with a grain of salt.
Key points from the survey
report:
• 73 percent of companies
surveyed are leveraging
customer initiated interactions to
serve marketing messages and
offers
• Organizational and financial
concerns, rather than technical
barriers, are slowing the
adoption of centralized
decisioning
• Many marketers use both
aggregate Web data and offline
data when making decisions
about marketing offers. E-mail
is the channel where both online
and offline data are most likely
to be used in decisionin
• Contact optimization and
social-media monitoring will be
the fastest growing marketing
technologies, while marketing
resource management will
continue to lag
• Mobile, rich media, and social
-media marketing are all being
adopted with enthusiasm by
marketers
• A third of marketers surveyed
already conduct some type of
mobile marketing.
• Social-media marketing is
widely embraced, but marketers
need to think more about
integrating social media with
other marketing tactics
Survey data like this is great for
a glimpse of the aggregated
marketing approaches but
doesn't always match up to your
own experience. An important
aspect of any marketing effort is
the need for experimentation
within channels, pricing, and
messaging, as well as with tools
and specific methods.
Today's marketer has a huge
amount of data available to them
about many aspects of their
business. Choosing the right
path is about more than just a
blog or Twitter account; it's
about learning how your
customers and partners want to
interact with your brand and
then designing programs that
best take advantage of your
learnings.
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5 Stellar Ways to Explore Space Using Social Media

Amy-Mae Elliott (Mashable!) even the nearest agency), particularly adventurous, you updated with the goings-on at
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:33:36 AM offering the best online can even have a brief chat with a the cosmic outpost, while
experience. You could easily local. becoming a fan of the X PRIZE
Space — the final frontier, and lose yourself in the official Microsoft’s real-time Foundation will connect you to
all that jazz. As the folk over at NASA site, which is highly simulation of the company’s all the gossip about the multi-
the Hubble Telescope website recommended if you have a World Wide Telescope project million dollar race to the moon,
say, “Your body may be spare 36 hours or so to kill. is now integrated into Bing and other endeavors.
trapped at your desk, but your Other official online search as a Bing Maps Those with an eye to the future
imagination can roam the far destinations for the major space application. In addition to can beat the crowds by signing
reaches of the universe, thanks programs around the globe offers a wealth of photography viewing celestial bodies in real- up to fan the James Webb Space
to the wonders of the web.” include the European Space via galleries, most of which you time as if you were to look up at Telescope on Facebook. As the
Here’s a spaced-out selection of Agency, with which Canada can download for personal use the night sky, there are pre- successor to the Hubble, the
sites and social media resources enjoys the special status of a as desktop wallpaper, etc. loaded “collections” of super-duper, high-tech infrared
that will have you reading the “Cooperating State.” Staying in Better still, there’s plenty of info constellations that can be telescope is due to launch in
thoughts of astronauts, taking a Europe, both France’s Centre explaining what’s in the photos viewed against Streetside(i.e. 2014, and the related Facebook
virtual tour of the International National D’Etudes Spatiales and and why it matters. There’s also 3D photo) maps. Fan Page offers info on the
Space Station, and viewing the German Aerospace Center the option to see where the If you’d like to know what the project, as well as the option to
galaxies far, far away. offer English language versions Hubble is at any time during its innards of the International comment on it and connect with
Get your space geek fix below, of their sites, as does the 97-minute sweeps around the Space Station look like, you can others who share your interest.
and, as always, please do share Russian Federal Space Agency. Earth. take a 360-degree tour over at If you want to stay in touch
any resources we’ve overlooked The official online destination Elsewhere on the web, both Boeing’s website. NASA offers with space organizations and
in the comments box. 1. Mission for the Japanese Aerospace Google and Microsoft offer a something similar, but we found people on a more real-time
Control: Space Agencies on the Exploration Agency, or JAXA, glimpse of our galaxy. Sky in Boeing’s option easier to use. basis, Twitter has a wealth of
Web is painfully dry, but chock full Google Earth is a feature of the 3. Cosmic Connections on accounts that are worth
There’s a ton of space agencies of fascinating content if you can virtual world software that, at Facebook and Twitter following, including one for the
around the globe, together stand to stick around, while in the click of a button, will show NASA is big on Facebook with aforementioned Webb
boasting an estimated $44 contrast, the China National you the sky above your location over 30 different accounts and Telescope.
billion annual budget to find out Space Administration site takes with the option to navigate to Fan Pages. We’re not going to As well as following the big
m o r e a b o u t s p a c e . W h i l e a more poetic approach to space certain points, or pan and scroll list them all here, rather just agencies like NASA(which
capabilities vary dramatically exploration. At one point, they around to see stars, planets, point you to NASA’s main offers a useful list of who is in
from country to country (not all explain why the moon is liked constellations and more — as account. But you might want to space right now), individual
have basic launch capability, let by the people of Earth: “because well as photos from the Hubble. browse the full list and cherry astronauts can followed for a
alone manned spaceflight, and of its thin brilliance that brings In addition to mapping the pick the areas you’re interested more personal view.
the only two with lunar landing lovers with quiet warmth in the Earth and providing space data, in following. As you can imagine, there are
capability are NASA and the night, it is likened to a jade plate Google offers 3D models of You can also connect with U.S. quite a few astronauts who
Russia’s CCCP), most are doing o r a l o v e l y a n d g r a c e f u l both the Moon and Mars. The Army Astronauts, and the 1,000 tweet, especially with NASA’s
interesting work that can be w o m a n . ” features give you a glimpse at -plus people that support them pro-social media approach. But
perused online. 2. Online Observatories lunar landscapes and Apollo on Facebook. Across the pond, a few to get you started include
NASA dominates online as it It goes without saying that the landing sites, as well as Martian the European Space Agency’s Mike Massimino, the first man
does in space (which might have Hubble Telescope’s official site points of interest like the so- fans number nearly 4,000 space to tweet from space, U.S. Army
something to do with the fact is the go-to place for some called Face on Mars or Olympus lovers. Astronaut Col. Tim Kopra,
that its funding is currently amazing real-life space imagery. Mons. If you’re feeling The ISS’s Facebook pages, STELLAR page 33
around $12 billion ahead of Thankfully, the official site meanwhile, will keep you
E-reader News Edition
Ask TUAW: DVD Sharing on an iMac, menubar calendar,
network scanning, and more
Mat Lu (The Unofficial Apple
Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 3/22/2010 12:00:00 PM
Filed under: Features,
Troubleshooting, Ask TUAW
Welcome back to Ask TUAW,
our weekly troubleshooting
Q&A column. This week we
have questions about using
DVD Sharing on an iMac
(instead of a MacBook Air),
ignoring Software Updates,
getting a drop-down calendar in
the menubar, seeing Wi-Fi
network channels, using iChat
with other services, and more.
As always, your suggestions
and questions are welcome.
Leave your questions for next
week in the comments section at
the end of this post. When
asking a question, please include
which machine you're using and
what version of Mac OS X is
installed on it (we'll assume that
you're running Snow Leopard
on an Intel Mac if you don't
specify), or if it's an iPhone-
related question, which iPhone
version and OS version you
have.
Sammyg1010 asks
Is there any way to take
software updates that I don't
need off the download list?
Most recently, I was bugged by
the Auto Software update telling
me to update for RAW digital
cameras. I don't have any of the
models listed, and don't plan on
it. Not much of a photographer.
Same with the printer driver
updates. I know I don't have do
download them (click of a box),
but they bother me sitting on the
list. Any ideas?
All you have to do is select the
update you don't want and hit
the delete key (or alternatively
go to Update Ignore Update in
the menubar). If you should
change your mind at some point
in the future, you can reset the
ignored update in the Software
Update menu.
William asks
Is there an easy way to get a
small calendar to display when I
click on the time/date in the
menubar for OS X? Windows 7
handles this really well, with the
ability to go back and forth
between different months, years,
and even decades, just by single
-clicking on the date/time in the
taskbar. It's kind of annoying to
have to open iCal just to see
what day a particular date fell
on a couple weeks ago, or to see
what day a future date falls on,
etc...
I've got two suggestions for
you: MenuCalendarClock for
iCal($19.95) is the classic utility
for doing this and I used it for
years. However, lately I've
switched over to iStat
Menus(donations requested),
which not only adds a calendar
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In the long run, I suspect you'll
have better luck sticking with
Adium. However, it should be
possible to use iChat with ICQ
just by adding a new (AIM)
account and entering your ICQ
credentials. To use iChat with
to your menubar, but also and WAP (WAP4400N) on non- Windows Live, you'd need to
includes a variety of other handy interfering channels? use a Jabber transport. I really
u t i l i t i e s l i k e n e t w o r k You need a network scanner think this is more trouble than
throughput, free memory, etc. like KisMAC. Run this on your it's worth (and it's text only), but
chitebbeiv asks Mac and it should show you all you might be interested in this
Today I was watching a of the networks within range, old tutorial.
youtube video and I felt the along with the channels they're Is there a way to remotely
need to fastforward it for some broadcasting on. control my mac (snow leopard)
weird reason, but I realized it aleonell.10 asks with remote desktop out from a
isn't possible if not under I run the new iMac (snow windows machine? I know
windows with a commercial leopard). Recently, I accidently about teamviewer but I'm
software called myspeed. I am put my SD card in the CD slot looking for a tool that doesn't
stil searching for some firefox or instead of the SD slot, and I was display my actions on the
chrome plugin, o r just wondering if I could use my remote computer.
greasemonkey script that does MacBook Pro as the cd drive (I There are a variety of ways of
this kind of task but still no have heard you can do this with controlling a Mac remotely with
results... if they can do this a MacBook Air). a PC from VNC to LogMeIn or
under windows why isn't it You're right that this is limited GoToMyPC. However, as far as
possible under mac? by default to the MacBook Air. I know, none of them will hide
It turns out that MySpeed has a However, there is apparently a your actions on the remote
M a c A l p h a a v a i l a b l e f o r terminal hack that should allow computer.
download and testing. If you fill you to do this from the iMac to Chroma asks
out their form, they'll email you the MacBook Pro. Be sure to In Tiger I was always able to
the link. turn on DVD or CD Sharing in hit the space bar when a prompt
MNJayW asks the Sharing Preference Pane in had a button outlined in blue.
I just moved into a new the System Preferences of the However, I have found nothing
townhouse, and I am seeing M a c B o o k , t h e n e n t e r t h e like this in Snow Leopard. Can
multiple Wi-Fi networks in the terminal command on the iMac. this be enabled, or was it
area. Is there an application that Fabian asks serially removed entirely from 10.6?
I can get that will allow me to Is there a way to add icq and All you need to do is turn Full
see what channels the neighbors' windows live accounts to iChat? K e y b o a r d A c c e s s t o A l l
networks are on so I can set my I am using adium at the moment
wireless router (WRVS4400n) but I don't like it very much. ASK page 32
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TUAW Bookshelf: Final Cut Pro 7 Quick-Reference Guide
Steven Sande (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 3/22/2010 12:30:00 PM
Filed under: Reviews, Books,
TUAW Bookshelf When it
comes to software reference
books, there are three major
varieties -- the detailed soup-to-
nuts books that try to tell you
everything and weigh about ten
pounds, the "dummies" type that
are usually so full of obvious
information that they're
relatively useless, and the small
quick reference manuals that
assume that you have some
familiarity with your software
and just focus on the things that
you really need to know.
Brendan Boykin's Final Cut Pro
7 Quick Reference
Guide(US$29.99 for the printed
text, $16.79 for the ebook
version), part of the Peachpit
Press Apple Pro Training Series,
is one of the latter types. It's a
small book when it comes to
physical size; you can easily
tuck it into a laptop bag with
your MacBook Pro when you're
heading out for location
shooting and editing. The 212-
page text is divided into sections
roughly following the three-part
Final Cut Pro workflow of
ingest, edit, and output.
Boykin, owner of Creek
Mountain Media and an Apple
Certified Master Trainer,
definitely knows Final Cut Pro.
Brendan not only teaches Pro
Certification classes, but also
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works with Final Cut Pro and templates, and compositing. The
other Final Cut Studio book then gets into output
applications to build digital methods for the final product of
video solutions for clients. your labors. Boykin rounds out
The Quick-Reference Guide the Guide with detailed
starts with an overview of Final descriptions of specialized
Cut Pro's user interface. While workflows.
this may seem like overkill for a The text is well-written with
text that is directed towards absolutely no fluff. As with
working professionals, this most of the Peachpit Apple Pro
reviewer found the section Training Series, the concepts are
useful as a memory jogger for explained more fully with a
such things as what the various good mix of annotated color
colors in the render status bar diagrams and screenshots. For
mean, or what some of the many users who want to take their
icons in the Tool Palette are knowledge to the next level,
used for. Boykin provides a 5-page
The book layout includes blue appendix of keyboard shortcuts,
tabs in the outside lower corner and the book is well indexed, as
of the pages to highlight new a reference guide should be.
features in Final Cut Pro 7. This If there's one complaint this
can be very useful for FCP users reviewer has about the Final Cut
who are moving up from earlier Pro 7 Quick-Reference Guide,
versions, are familiar with the it's that it's not spiral-bound. For
application and its UI, and who books of this type, it's handy to
want to learn what's new in have the text laying flat next to a
Final Cut Pro 7. keyboard while you're trying
The text moves on to the details something. With a standard
of setting up a new project paperback binding, you have to
before moving to the section on hold the page down with a hand
"ingesting," or capturing, video or conveniently-placed
data. Peachpit's books include peripherals. The binding choice,
highlights and arrows denoting of course, is made by the
three-point nonlinear editing textbook.
tips and important information publisher, not the author.
methodology in detail, the Of course, video without audio
notes, and they're very helpful For both new and established
author focuses on the Final Cut is rare today, so the book covers
for learning your way around a users of Apple's pro video
Pro tools that are used for the tools used for setting an
specific feature of Final Cut Pro application, the Final Cut Pro 7
editing and trimming video. a u d i o m i x , a u t o m a t i n g
7. Quick-Reference Guide is a well
That's exactly what a book like r e c o r d i n g , a n d r e c o r d i n g
Once video has been captured, -written, focused, and compact
this should focus on, and voiceovers. The tools for video
it needs to be edited. Boykin compendium of tool
Boykin does an excellent job of transitions and filters are next,
goes through two quick sections descriptions, tips, and notes.
ensuring that this is a quick- f o l l o w e d b y c h a p t e r s o n
on editing and trimming video TUAW page 32
reference guide, not a detailed keyframing, generators and
next. Rather than describing the
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iTunes 201: Using smart playlists to fill your portable's music

library
Chris Rawson (The Unofficial represents music that I want to another smart playlist called
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) listen to more often, and it "iPhone NRP" with the
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:00:00 AM ensures that songs I don't like condition "Playlist is Not
don't end up playing when I Recently Played." Nested within
Filed under: iPod Family, How- shuffle songs in iTunes. It also that playlist condition by using
tos, iTunes Unless you don't guarantees that only music I the (...) button on the far right, I
listen to a whole lot of music, actually want to listen to makes went through and set "Playlist
chances are pretty good that it onto my iPhone. is" to all of the various playlists
your iTunes music library is The only problem is that my I synced to my iPhone.
larger than what will fit on your "Top Rated" playlist is still too This accomplishes two things:
iPhone. As an example, my big -- almost 23 GB. It takes a it creates a "Not Recently
music library is over 39 GB, but little more paring down to get Played" list for my iPhone with
my iPhone 3G only has a 16 GB music to fit on my iPhone. music that I haven't listened to
capacity -- and I have to fit Therefore, I created another in a month or more, and it pares
apps, pictures, videos, and data playlist called "Favorites" it down to only songs that are
into that small space, too. which, as you might guess from already synced to my iPhone.
One way of solving this the name, represents the best of This playlist doesn't add any
dilemma is by using iTunes's the best in my music library. I music to my iPhone that wasn't
powerful smart playlists to filter set the following conditions for already there, but it adds a new
your library into a size that's a the smart playlist: "Rating is condition (not played in the last
little more iPhone-friendly. The five stars," "Play Count is month) that draws more
following smart playlists are greater than 4," and I filtered out functionality out of my iPhone's
examples from my own setup, a bunch of genres that I don't music library.
but the smart playlist system is necessarily want to listen to These are just a few examples
flexible enough that you can do when I'm on the go, by setting of how you can use smart
almost anything with it to filter "Genre is not" to those genres. playlists to your advantage
your songs. Naturally, these tips This gets my iTunes library when you have a large music
will work just as well for any of down to a far more manageable library that you need to fit into a
A p p l e ' s s m a l l e r c a p a c i t y 6 GB. Now we're talking. Read smaller device. With all of the
players, like iPod nanos or on to learn about some more playlist that I use most on my here is that since this playlist is metadata iTunes puts onto songs
lower-capacity iPod touches and techniques you can use to get Mac, one called "Not Recently built off of my "Top Rated" in your library, there are nearly
iPads; I've focused on the the most out of your iPhone's Played." In order to keep from playlist, it's far too large to fit on limitless possibilities for setting
iPhone only because that's what music library. shuffling through the same my iPhone. So, in order to get up smart playlists.
I own. The "Favorites" smart playlist songs all the time, I built a "Not t h a t s a m e " N o t R e c e n t l y TUAW iTunes 201: Using
I've rated almost every song in forms the foundation of my Recently Played" playlist based Played" functionality in my smart playlists to fill your
my library, and those with 4 or 5 iPhone's music library, with a on my "Top Rated" playlist. iPhone's music library, I had to p o r t a b l e ' s m u s i c l i b r a r y
stars end up in a playlist called few standard playlists thrown in "Not Recently Played" has a create yet another smart playlist. originally appeared on The
"Top Rated," or in the language to round it out to about 1400 simple setup: "Playlist is Top Here's how I filtered my "Not U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g
of smart playlists, "Rating is songs. However, I ran into Rated" and "Last Played is not Recently Played" playlist into a
greater than three stars." This another problem with the smart in the last 1 month." The issue more manageable size: I created ITUNES page 33
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Peachpit also makes an online

Requires Filtering edition of the book available to
purchasers for 45 days at no cost
Mike Masnick (Techdirt) arguments were about how clear: Viacom is claiming that messaging system? The only as part of their Safari Books
Submitted at 3/22/2010 7:20:00 AM Viacom set up a complex set of the DMCA requires filters. Yet, reason these (and many other) Online digital library.
e v e r c h a n g i n g r u l e s t h a t the DMCA is explicit that this is online services exist is because TUAW TUAW Bookshelf:
We're seeing more and more confused even Viacom's partner not true, and always has been. the DMCA safe harbors give F i n a l C u t P r o 7 Q u i c k -
a n a l y s i s o f t h e s u m m a r y in issuing takedowns, and yet In fact, if I remember correctly, them rules to follow that are Reference Guide originally
judgment motions filed by both expected Google to be able to Paramount Pictures top lawyer much clearer than the murky appeared on The Unofficial
sides in the YouTube lawsuit magically know what Viacom ( P a r a m o u n t i s a V i a c o m s t a n d a r d s f o r " s e c o n d a r y Apple Weblog (TUAW) on
between Google and Viacom. wished taken offline, and what subsidiary) said in a discussion liability." If Viacom is right, Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:30:00
Unfortunately, many sites are should be left online. Oddly, we wrote about last year, that he then there are no clear rules to EST. Please see our terms for
basing their analysis on the out Ou seems to have missed all of felt the current DMCA was follow, except "beg permission use of feeds.
of context quotes Viacom pulled that, despite it being the central deficient, in that it had a notice- from every copyright owner Read| Permalink| Email this|
out of some emails -- despite the point to Google's motion. He and-takedown provision, rather first." And that's a rule that Comments
fact that the evidence doesn't also falsely claims that Google t h a n r e q u i r i n g p r o a c t i v e would hobble innovation and
actually support what it claims. i s s u g g e s t i n g i f V i a c o m m o n i t o r i n g . competition online. So please
One particularly laughable uploaded some content, that And yet, by Viacom's own pay careful attention to the
analysis was done by a group means everyone should be able (indirect) admission in this actual arguments being made
funded by the entertainment to do so. Google said no such lawsuit, it seems to believe that here. No one is saying that
industry, which not only takes thing. It's merely pointing out the DMCA requires proactive copyright infringement should continued from page 29
ASK
those quotes out of context and that Google is in no position to monitoring: So what Viacom is be allowed on YouTube. The
considers them proof, but then k n o w w h a t V i a c o m i s asking for here is a radical re- only question is whether or not Controls in the Keyboard
c o m p l e t e l y m i s i n t e r p r e t s authorizing and what it is not -- write of the DMCA that, if i t s h o u l d b e Y o u T u b e ' s Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard
Google's filing as well. The and according to the law, that accepted, would put all kinds of responsibility to proactively Preference Pane (or just hit
writer, George Ou, seems to means Google need not try to online service providers at risk monitor that content and stop it control+F7).
think that the point of Google's guess. TUAW Ask TUAW: DVD
of huge statutory damages for from being uploaded. The law
filing is to show that since A much better analysis, that copyright infringement. Is eBay is pretty clear that this is not Sharing on an iMac, menubar
Viacom used YouTube, it really cuts through the clutter used to commit copyright required -- and, as Google's calendar, network scanning, and
shouldn't file a lawsuit. But and highlights the key point of infringement every day by some filing makes clear, even if it more originally appeared on The
that's not at all what Google's the case, is the one by the EFF's users? Sure. Do people use were required, given Viacom's U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g
motion said. The point wasn't Fred von Lohmann, where he M i c r o s o f t ' s B i n g t o f i n d own actions, this would be (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010
that Viacom used YouTube, but notes (as Eric Goldman did) that infringing materials? Check. Do impossible. 12:00:00 EST. Please see our
that it uploaded all sorts of in a footnote, Viacom admits online lockering services get Permalink| Comments| Email terms for use of feeds.
content in secretive ways -- t h a t i t ' s f i n e w i t h a l l o f u s e d t o s t o r e i n f r i n g i n g This Story Read| Permalink| Email this|
w a y s t h a t w o u l d m a k e i t YouTube's actions after May of m a t e r i a l s ? D o u s e r s s e n d Comments
impossible for Google to know 2008, when it implemented its infringing email attachments?
w h a t w a s a n d w a s n o t own filtering technology. Once How about the "send file"
infringing. Furthermore, the you realize that, it becomes f e a t u r e s o f e v e r y i n s t a n t
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continued from page 28
Soichi Noguchi, Clayton C.
Anderson, Nicole Stott and
Naoko Yamazaki.
Tip: If you want to cheat, you
can just follow the NASA
Astronauts account for more of
an overview.
Twisst is great account that
offers personalized alerts for
when the International Space
Station is passing over your
geographical area — as it’s
visible to the naked eye, it’s
certainly worth keeping a look
out for it.
Our favorite by far however, is
the Twitter home for JPL’s Near
Earth Object Office that
coordinates NASA’s efforts to
detect and track potentially
hazardous asteroids and comets
headed to, or near, Earth.
Follow this account if you’re
looking for a heads-up on the
planet’s imminent doom.
4. Void-Filling Video
As in other areas, NASA really
shines when it comes to online
video resources. As well as
offering exciting live-streamed
launches, there’s a NASA TV
ITUNES
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area within the site’s main
multimedia offerings, an official
USTREAM channel, and over
ten official YouTube channels
including the main one.
You can get your space fix
elsewhere on YouTube with the
official Hubble account and the
European Space Agency.
Another spot to watch for
relevant content is the Science
Channel. 5. An Astronomically
Cool App
We run the risk of sounding
like NASA cheerleaders here,
but the free iPhone app the
organization offers is a must-
have for iPhone- and iPod touch
-owning space geeks. It is, quite
simply, mega. You can easily
burn ten space-faring minutes at
a time on categories like
“Missions,” which includes
detailed info about ongoing and
recent operations, “Images,”
with an Image of the Day that
you can share via Twitter,
Facebook Connect and e-mail,
or “Videos” and “Updates,” the
latter of which aggregates
official feeds from Twitter into a
Comments
timeline of interesting info. The
only catch is that due to the
wealth of info the app can
access and its dynamic updates,
you do need to be connected to
use it. But when you are, it’s
like having NASA in your
pocket. More social media
resources from Mashable:
- How Twitter in the Classroom
is Boosting Student Engagement
- 6 Ways Law Enforcement
Uses Social Media to Fight
Crime
- The Science of Building Trust
With Social Media
- How Companies Are Using
Your Social Media Data
- How Musicians Are Using
Social Media to Connect with
Fans
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Hollywood Continues To
Make Up Facts; AP
Continues To Parrot Them
Mike Masnick (Techdirt) DVDs -- with police to tighten
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:40:00 AM enforcement, with Internet
service providers to fight
So, the MPAA's latest target for I n t e r n e t p i r a c y a n d w i t h
crackdowns on camcording politicians to create more
appears to be India. You may effective laws. With these big
remember that it went through a professional reporters, you
series of questionable claims might think they would try to
about camcording in Canada fact check a claim like "90% of
and the US, where if you looked all "pirated" DVDs come from
at the math, none of it added up. camcorded movies." They
Apparently, the same thing is might have trouble doing that,
happening in India and the because the actual research
reporters at the Associated Press s u g g e s t s s o m e t h i n g q u i t e
don't feel the need to investigate different. A study that we wrote
bogus Hollywood numbers. In about a few years ago found
t h i s A P r e p o r t a b o u t t h e otherwise. Specifically, it found
MPAA's new "crackdown" on that "77% appear to have been
c a m c o r d i n g i n I n d i a , t h e leaked originally by industry
reporter says that camcording is insiders."
to blame for 90% of "pirated" But, of course, we need to save
movies: A year in the making, the AP, because they do real fact
the coalition to fight film piracy checking, right?
in India will work with movie Permalink| Comments| Email
theaters to crack down on This Story
camcorder piracy -- the source
of 90 percent of all pirated
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ACS:Law Now Using Dubious Legal With 540 iPhone apps,

Theories To Threaten Slyck.com an iPhone font is born
Mike Masnick (Techdirt) committee by the Solicitors tourism statute, the Libel (CNET News.com) indicated, as you might expect,
Submitted at 3/22/2010 4:03:50 AM Regulation Authority. Terrorism Protection Act, which Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:03:48 AM that the work was the result of
The Solicitors Regulation makes libel lawsuits in foreign "too much free time."
Just last week, we were talking Authority claim that it's also countries against US journalists If you're having a rough start to The font is definitely
about how UK firm ACS:Law, investigating ACS:Law, and unenforceable. The good folks your Monday, sit back, relax, noteworthy, and the designer
who has been condemned by they may now have one more at the EFF have stepped up to and take a look at the iPhone should be commended for the
UK politicians and ISPs, was thing to investigate. It appears support Slyck in responding to Font found at Urikane.com. hard work that must have gone
still pushing forward with its that ACS:Law's latest move is to ACS:Law, and it appears that, It's a perfect way to start your into creating it. But I have a
efforts to send out tens of threaten the US-based blog for the time being, ACS:Law week. problem: there is no "W" and
thousands of threatening "pre- Slyck.com with a defamation has gone quiet. Rather than simply use apps on there are no numbers.
settlement" letters. These letters lawsuit, based on some of the Of course, in theory, ACS:Law the iPhone, the designer--whose Complaints aside, it's a neat
attempt to scare recipients into comments in Slyck's forums. could push forward against name may actually be Uri Kane- idea that once again shows off
paying up to avoid a potential For a variety of reasons, this Slyck anyway, and could -decided to create a font out of the ingenuity of the human race.
(though rarely filed) lawsuit threat was entirely groundless. potentially win in the UK. But the multitude of applications in If you're interested in seeing a
claiming c o p y r i g h t First, it seems that the given the mass scorn being Apple's App Store. Even better, video of the different letters,
infringement, based on quite comments in question were heaped upon ACS:Law right each letter is color-coded, which here it is:
weak evidence (an IP address joking statements of opinion, now in the UK, combined with a must have made it even more (Via Engadget)
collected by DigiProtect after rather than actual libel -- such as recent push in the UK to rewrite difficult to develop. Five Filters featured article:
DigiProtect purposely puts a file calling ACS:Law's plan a "wank defamation laws to prevent In a video showing off the Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
online). The whole thing has plan." How is that libelous? these sorts of questionable letters that were created, the PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
been called a"scam" by Lord Second, of course, Slyck is lawsuits, if ACS:Law does designer wrote that the font was Term Extraction.
Lucas in the UK, and lawyers at based in New York, and is decide to push forward, it may developed from 540 iPhone
the firm that initiated this protected from defamation suits find that the backlash is a lot apps. The designer also
practice, Davenport Lyons (and based on comments by its users more damaging than some
w h o a p p a r e n t l y p r o v i d e d thanks to Section 230 of the anonymous person in a forum
ACS:Law with its original CDA. Furthermore, Slyck has calling its plan a wank plan.
d o c u m e n t s ) w e r e r e c e n t l y even greater protections thanks Permalink| Comments| Email
r e f e r r e d t o a d i s c i p l i n a r y to New York's own anti-libel This Story

Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus Coming to AT&T

Amy-Mae Elliott (Mashable!) Despite launching fairly well- AT&T has yet to reveal when both options requiring a two-
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:06:20 AMreceived next gen phones the Palm phones will be year agreement and $100 mail-
(starting with the original Pre available on its network, only in rebate.
In a bid to increase its market back in 2009), the struggling that they are due “in the coming Tags: att, palm, palm pixi plus,
share, Palm plans to offer its smartphone company is facing months.” palm pre plus
latest webOS smartphones — questions about its solvency as AT&T is matching Verizon
the Palm Pre Plus and the Palm of late. Sales of the devices are Wireless‘ pricing for the Pre
Pixi Plus — to AT&T’s 80 said to be disappointing, as is which was down below $5 last Plus ($149.99), but offering the
million customers very soon. the company’s share price, week. Pixi Plus for less ($49.99) with
E-reader News Edition
Amazon previews Kindle iPad app
Michael Grothaus (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 3/22/2010 11:00:00 AM
Filed under: iPad
Amazon has launched a
preview page for its iPad Kindle
app. The app itself takes a lot
from the iBookstore, including
visual page swipes and book
cover navigation view (of
course, to be fair Apple
did"borrow" a number of things
from Wil Shipley). One cool eye
-candy feature of the Kindle app
is that the app's developers have
played around a little with
Kindle's silhouetted figure
Simultaneous Web and TV Use Is
Surging [STATS]
Jennifer Van Grove
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:12:19 AM
New data from The Nielsen
Company lends more credence
to the idea that watching
television while surfing the web
is becoming more common in
U.S. households.
In fact, nearly 60% — or 134
million people — do it at least
once a month, with the average
time spent consuming media on
both platforms now three and
half hours per month. That’s
almost 35% more time spent
doing both than last year at the
reading under a tree
iconography. In cover-
navigation view, the sky behind
the silhouetted figure will
change according to what time
of day it is.
The ebook war is heating up
and, though early on, it looks
like Apple and Amazon are
going to be the two major
players. Given that Amazon last
week threatened smaller
publishers that it will stop
selling their books if they make
them available in the
iBookstore, it might at first
seem odd that Amazon is so
readily embracing the iPad. But
same time.
These numbers should come as
no surprise given the upward
trend in simultaneous media
consumption. Still it’s important
to recognize just how prevalent
computers in the living room
have become. In fact, panelists
reported using the Internet 34%
in an age where content is king,
hardware sales take a back seat
to continued content sales.
Amazon supporting the iPad is
like giving away the razors so
of the time they were also
watching television — 14%
more frequently than a year ago.
Nielsen points to increased
DVR usage as a factor
influencing simultaneous usage
rates. We also know that
television viewers are using
sites like Twitter and Facebook
to share the experience with
their friends and followers
during live events like the Super
Bowl, Grammys and Oscars.
Image courtesy of iStockPhoto,
joshblake
Tags: Nielsen, social media,
stats, tv
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book sales. Who knows, in a
future where multi-function
tablets/ereaders will be the
norm, perhaps giving away one-
feature dedicated ereaders will
become standard practice?
Last week Amazon unveiled its
Kindle reader for Mac.
TUAW Amazon previews
Kindle iPad app originally
appeared on The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW) on
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The Complete Guide to
Ripping and Converting
Flash Videos [Flash]
The How-To Geek
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:00:00 AM
Whether you want to save and
watch a Flash video offline,
convert a Flash music video for videos is a useful skill. Here's
y o u r M P 3 p l a y e r , o r d o how it works. More »
something else entirely, learning
how to rip and convert Flash
36 Tech/ Tech News/ Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition

Make Online Purchases Here’s What the Kindle

With Your Verizon App for iPad Looks
Wireless Account Like
Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:56:39 AM
Looking to cash in on the
increasingly lucrative social
gaming and virtual goods
market, Verizon Wireless is
introducing a new mobile
payment service.
Called Billtomobile, the service
allows approved merchants to
integrate a payment option into
their checkout systems where
purchases – both one-time and
subscription – are added to a
user’s phone bill. For security,
a passcode is sent to a user’s
phone that needs to be entered
online to complete a transaction.
There’s also a $25 maximum
spending limit per user, per
month.
Clearly this is a convenient way
for those without credit cards or
PayPal accounts to make
purchases, and should be a boon
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 7:47:11 AM
Print a Lens Hood for
It’s official: Amazon is building On-The-Cheap Sun
a Kindle app for the iPad and Blocking [Camera
the other tablets that are about to
swarm the market in the second Hacks]
part of 2010. Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
For some reason, Amazon Submitted at 3/22/2010 6:30:00 AM
to social gaming companies that repeatedly uses the formulation
integrate it. Some networks – “ K i n d l e a p p s f o r t a b l e t
If you rarely need a lens hood,
like hi5 and myYearbook– have computers (including the iPad)” page turn animation that iPad it hardly seems worth it to shell
seen significant revenue growth several times on the official has? Yep, the Kindle app will out the money for the few times
from implementing pay-by- p a g e ; p e r h a p s A m a z o n i s have it too (unless you choose to a year when you need it. Print
mobile options. implying that iPad is not just shut it down and use the “Basic off a lens hood template and
Verizon’s service – being another tablet, or maybe it’s Reading Mode”). shield your lens on the cheap.
offered in partnership with preparing for possible rejection Furthermore, Kindle for tablets More »
mobiling billing company Danal of the app — which is definitely will include Whispersync, with
— will launch later this spring. a possibility, since it competes the ability to start reading on
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, with Apple’s iBookstore.
JerryPDX As for the features, Amazon
one device and continue on
another, as well as full access to
Hands on with
Disclosure: Verizon Wireless is promises that apps will be
a Mashable sponsor. “tailored to the size, look and
the Kindle store. Check out
some screenshots below. the Playstation
Tags: mobile payments, social feel of your tablet computer,”
gaming, verizon wireless with customizable background,
Tags: amazon, ebooks, ipad,
Kindle Move
brightness and font. That nifty John Biggs (CrunchGear)

Inventors Design Less-Lethal Quantum Technology Promises Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:15:53 AM

'Taser Me Elmo' Rifle
Nathan Hodge (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:21:00 AM
As part of the Pentagon's push
for more varieties of less-lethal
weaponry, an invention firm has
designed the prototype of an all-
in-one weapon: lethal when
used at high velocity, or less-
lethal at low-velocity.
Wedding Photos From Phone
Cameras
Priya Ganapati (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 7:40:00 AM
A new sensor technology
crunchgear on livestream.com.
Broadcast Live Free
Watch as we rock out with the
new Sony Playstation Move.
promises to make cellphone
cameras good enough to use for
wedding photos.
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Democrats Discover Their Base

John B. Judis (The New Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson. divided at 43 percent. This challenger. The Steelworkers remind Democrats who have
Republic - All Feed) This approach worked month, on the eve of the vote, staged a sit-in at the Western had to put up with intransigent
Submitted at 3/21/2010 8:32:08 PM somewhat with the initial Kaiser found that supporters Pennsylvania office of Republicans that they also had a
stimulus bill, but it sputtered outnumbered opponents by 46 Representative Jason Altmire. movement they could mobilize.
Health care reform would not with health care reform--and percent to 42 percent. Other The American Association of It had been present during the
have happened without the ground to a halt after Scott polls showed higher disapproval Retired Peoples (AARP), not campaign, but the Obama White
political skill and tenacity of B r o w n ’ s v i c t o r y i n of the plan, but a similar trend your stereotypical protest House had allowed it to
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, or Massachusetts removed the toward approval and support of organization, held a disappear. Now it was back, and
without the last minute round of Democrats 60-vote edge in the health care reform. But the most demonstration at the offices of it could be used not just to build
arm twisting by President Senate. interesting finding in the Kaiser New York Representative Scott support for other bills, but to
Barack Obama. But equally After Brown’s victory, poll was the increase in “strong Murphy. protect endangered Democrats
important was the energetic powerful Democrats, including support” for the plan among The administration’s somnolent in the fall.
public campaign that Obama Rep. Barney Frank, declared the Democrats--from 30 percent in Organizing for America Obama and the Democrats in
a n d l i b e r a l a n d l e f t - w i n g struggle lost, and White House January to 52 percent in March. suddenly woke up during the Congress need to take heed of
organizations waged on behalf aide Rahm Emanuel renewed That was evident not just in poll health care battle. Members this. During the president’s first
of it. This campaign altered the h i s p i t c h f o r s m a l l - b o r e , numbers, but in an energized demonstrated in Salt Lake City year, as Obama’s and the
chemistry of the debate within incremental reforms. As we now Democratic base that had lain and Royal Oak, Michigan. They Democrats’ poll numbers fell,
C o n g r e s s a n d a m o n g know, Obama and Pelosi fallow since the inauguration. annoyed Texas Representative and as the Democrats lost key
D e m o c r a t s . D e m o c r a t s i n decided instead to make a final In the last month, the political Chet Edwards with repeated elections in Virginia, New
W a s h i n g t o n h a d c o m e t o push for a comprehensive bill. movement that stirred during the demands that he back the bill. Jersey, and Massachusetts, a
understand that it was us versus Part of their strategy included campaign suddenly revived. Most interesting, groups that kind of fatalism took hold in
t h e m , w i t h “ t h e m ” b e i n g caucusing and arm twisting, but Liberal, left-wing, and labor had opposed or been wary of the Washington. It was inevitable,
Republicans, Tea Partyists, and what Obama also brought to the groups ran ads--Moveon.org existing legislation from the left the feeling went, that an
various business lobbies, but table was a public campaign. It spent $300,000 on an ad fell into line once the real administration facing an
they can now recognize that began with the health care plugging health care reform, and choices became apparent. When economic downturn would get
there is a real “us” out there. summit, and continued with Health Care for America Now, Moveon.org, which had drubbed in the next elections,
During the 2008 presidential speeches to voters in places like which is largely labor-backed, campaigned for the public and perhaps even lose the House
campaign, Obama billed himself Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, spent $1.4 million--primarily in option, held a referendum on and the Senate. But this
a s a v e t e r a n c o m m u n i t y Strongsville, Ohio, and St. the districts of wavering whether to back the current bill, argument assumed the kind of
organizer, but he governed Louis, Missouri. These speeches Democratic House members. 83 percent of their members static insider model that the
during his first year as the most took aim at the insurance They threatened to withhold favored doing so. AFL-CIO Obama administration followed
conventional politician. He companies (chiefly WellPoint) contributions and run primary unions unhappy with the excise during its first year. This model
largely stayed above the fray, a n d t h e R e p u b l i c a n s w h o candidates against Democrats tax pressured Massachusetts needs to be discarded, and
leaving the battle to pass his wanted to “let them run wild.” who opposed the bill. In New Representative Stephen Lynch replaced by the kind of political
legislation to White House aides They were tough, agitational, us York, the Working Families to back the bill. model that would be familiar to
and to Congressional leaders -versus-them speeches. Party, which has attracted labor In the end, wavering House Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald
whom, he hoped, would reach a Obama’s public offensive voters for Democrats, threatened Democrats like Murphy and Reagan: one where the politics
fruitful accommodation with shifted opinion on health care. to withhold endorsement from Ohio Representative Charlie of maneuver within Washington
potential opponents from the In early February, before the Representative Mike Arcuri. Wilson fell into line. But the was supplemented--or better,
Republican Party and K Street. summit, a Kaiser poll found The Service Employees importance of an energized base transformed--by a politics of
It was more reminiscent of support and opposition to the International Union (SEIU) told went well beyond their votes. vigorous protest and advocacy.
Grover Cleveland or Dwight “health care proposals being Rep. Mike McMahon that if he The upsurge of activity over DEMOCRATS page 40
E i s e n h o w e r t h a n F r a n k l i n discussed in Congress” equally voted no, they would fund a health care reform should
38 Politics/
Senate Rivals in Missouri Vie for 'Outsider' Role
(Newsmax - Politics)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 1:51:51 AM
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Rep.
Roy Blunt has been in Congress
for 13 years, most of them in the
Republican leadership.
Democratic Secretary of State
Robin Carnahan comes from a
family with three generations of
Washington politicians.
Yet both Mr. Blunt and Mrs.
Carnahan are campaigning
against the powers that be as
they attempt to win Missouri's
U.S. Senate seat left open by the
retirement of longtime
Republican Sen. Christopher S.
Bond.
It's a sign of just how unpopular
Washington is these days.
Senate aspirants across the
country are parroting the
"outsider" theme that President
Obama himself campaigned on
just two years ago. That's
particularly true in the 11 states
with open Senate seats.
Just 22 percent of Americans -
less than at any previous point
in Mr. Obama's presidency -
approve of Congress, according
to an AP-GfK poll this month.
Half say they want to fire their
own congressmen. And the
frustration is directed at both
Republicans and Democrats.
"This is a year when people are
very unhappy about the
direction of the country. They're
very unhappy in particular about
the performance of government
and of Congress," said Dave
Robertson, a political scientist at
the University of Missouri at St.
Louis. "All candidates are going
to try to emphasize that they are
not part of the problem, but can
contribute to the solutions."
Few candidates face a more
interesting challenge in this
climate than Missouri's Senate
contenders.
The Carnahans and Blunts are
the state's versions of the
Kennedy political dynasty.
During the past half-century,
members of the two families
have served at almost every
level of government - from the
local school board to the state
legislature to the governor's
mansion and the U.S. House and
Senate.
In the swing state of Missouri,
which narrowly went for
Republican John McCain over
Mr. Obama in 2008, Mr. Blunt
has been running against Mr.
Obama and the Democratic
leadership of House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi and Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Mrs. Carnahan, meanwhile, has
been running against a
Washington establishment,
personified by Mr. Blunt, that
she decries as mired in partisan
gridlock and beholden to special
-interest lobbyists and Wall
Street executives.
Mrs. Carnahan didn't even
share the stage when Mr.
Obama visited Missouri recently
- she had traveled to the nation's
capital, saying she needed to
push for tougher oversight of
Wall Street bankers.
Is she the challenger?
"Absolutely," Mrs. Carnahan
said in a recent interview with
the Associated Press.
Is he the challenger? "I am
absolutely in the challenger
mode," Mr. Blunt said in an AP
interview.
Those assertions ring hollow to
some prospective voters.
"We look at the Carnahans and
Blunts just as big families that
have been in politics - that's part
of the problem," said Mike Lee,
48, a plumbing salesman who
attended a recent "tea party"
rally in St. Louis. "We just want
a change."
In Illinois, Republican Rep.
Mark Steven Kirk and
Democratic Treasurer Alexi
Giannoulias both have presented
themselves as outsiders in a race
for the Senate seat Mr. Obama
once held. Mr. Kirk, a nine-year
veteran of Congress, casts
himself as a new face removed
from Illinois' Democratic
corruption scandals. Mr.
Giannoulias has played up the
fact that he's never served in
Washington and tried to tag Mr.
Kirk as tainted by his years of
service there - even though Mr.
Giannoulias himself has ties to
the White House as a former
basketball buddy of the
president.
A similar dynamic is forming in
Indiana, where former Sen. Dan
Coats is the front-runner for the
GOP nomination and Rep. Brad
Ellsworth is favored for the
Democratic nod. Neither can
boast purity from the stigma of
Washington - Mr. Coats spent
more than a decade in Congress,
then served as an ambassador to
Germany under President
George W. Bush and worked as
a lobbyist, while Mr. Ellsworth
is in his second term in the
House.
But that hasn't stopped either
from casting himself as the
outsider. Announcing his
candidacy, Mr. Ellsworth played
up not his three years in the
House, but his time as a sheriff
in southern Indiana. Mr. Coats
has vowed to stop Democrats'
push for major policy changes.
Likewise, Mr. Blunt doesn't
dwell on his past tenure as the
House Republican whip - nor
his interim role as majority
leader, nor his wife's job as a
Washington lobbyist - when
traveling the state in an RV
emblazoned with the slogan
"Jobs for Missouri's future."
Instead, Mr. Blunt focuses on
the Democrats who now control
Washington. In stump speeches,
he mentions Mr. Obama, Mrs.
Pelosi and Mr. Reid as much or
more often than Mrs. Carnahan,
whom he casts as their rubber
stamp.
"The agenda they established
from Day One in their majority
was an extremist agenda, and
President Obama, unfortunately,
seems pretty comfortable with
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that extremist agenda," said Mr.
Blunt, mentioning the
Democratic health care and
climate-change proposals.
Mrs. Carnahan worked from
1993 to 1996 for the Export-
Import Bank of the United
States. Her grandfather was a
congressman, and her mother
was appointed a U.S. senator
after her father, then-Gov. Mel
Carnahan, died in a plane crash
while campaigning for Senate in
2000. Her brother, Russ,
currently is a Democratic U.S.
House member.
Yet Mrs. Carnahan declared:
"Washington feels broken." And
she added: "What Congressman
Blunt represents is the worst of
Washington."
"If you're too big to fail,
Washington works for you. If
you have a high-powered
lobbyist, Washington can work
for you. But for the rest of us,
we're just having to put up with
this recession and try to get
through it," she said.
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March Madness
Lydia DePillis (The New behind them. Jack Kingston, a So much for GOP Latino family-oriented—the protest capitalist system,” she explained
Republic - All Feed) conservative Georgia outreach—which, considering overflowed with nuclear units to me. “And they lose.”
Submitted at 3/21/2010 10:36:43 PM congressman, urged an how many interests the two accompanied by strollers—and Even more friendly overtures
assembled group to get involved groups share, is a very strange not necessarily wedded to the fell flat. On the lawns, as
Walking across the Capitol in congressional races in swing opportunity to miss. Democrats. Republican congressmen egged
lawns yesterday morning, a little districts, because the left can The rally on the Mall was hot “I’m a conservative, and I on tea partiers from the Capitol
Hispanic girl noticed something b r i n g i n “ b u s l o a d s o f and dusty, with almost no space support comprehensive balcony, one lady attempted to
exciting: protesters massing on p r o f e s s i o n a l between bodies, and signs immigration reform,” read one extend an olive branch to a
the steps, waving flags and p r o t e s t e r s ” — s e e m i n g l y swinging everywhere. Not sign. And another, with a family of El Salvadorans living
chanting. illustrated by the buses unlike another day last warning for the president: “No in Maryland. “You guys citizens
“ Look at all the signs here!” she unloading a few blocks away. September, when the tea party more O-bla bla bla. Take action yet?” she asked the group,
exclaimed to her father (in a “They can hire riots, because had its first huge shindig in now—you can lose our walking toward them.
m i x t u r e o f S p a n i s h a n d they have unions and federal D.C.—another awakening of a support.” “No, not yet,” they shook their
English), pointing toward the e m p l o y e e s , ” h e usually-silent mass that wants Immigrant leaders have been heads.
white marble dome. explained—plainly in evidence government to show it’s broadening their base of “You don’t want this bill to
H e r f a t h e r m i g h t h a v e with purple SEIU t-shirts listening. Indeed, despite the support: NAACP president Ben pass, you really don’t,” the
explained to her, however, that dotting the crowd. “I think that obvious differences, the Jealous spoke at the rally, a step woman assured them. She
it wasn’t their protest. The bringing people in here just for immigrants marching in white t- toward mending the gap with explained she wasn’t anti-
family was there for an votes is ridiculous,” said shirts have more in common African Americans concerned immigrant; her husband is from
immigration reform rally, which Kaylynn Parks of Pennsylvania, with the tea partiers than either about competition for jobs. And Greece. But still: “This bill will
d r e w a t l e a s t 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 who argued that the debt could side realizes. alliances with evangelical and kill America. You have to ask
participants. Meanwhile, on the be reduced substantially by Religion, for one: The Catholic groups pulled them to vote no.”
steps of the Capitol were tea stopping Spanish instruction in immigration rally began with an numerous churches into the Afterwards, I spoke with the
partiers taking a last stand public schools. interfaith prayer service, not effort. family. “They don’t want us to
against health care reform. On And as cheers from the rally on unlike one held at the National But Republicans, who could be here,” said the daughter.
the fringes, the two groups the Mall reached all the way to Tea Party Convention last sure use the Latino vote in urban “Just the posters that they have,
regarded each other warily, with the Capitol, undergirded by the month. There were more crosses areas, had no speakers in the you can tell they don’t like us.”
occasional flare-ups. “Pay your faint drumbeats from a Mexican at this rally than most tea party lineup. Lindsey Graham, who is Lydia DePillis is a reporter-
taxes and be a citizen!” a dance ritual taking place on the functions, and I would guess sponsoring immigration reform researcher at The New Republic.
platinum blonde tea partier lawns, Representative Steve that most of those carrying them legislation with Chuck Schumer, For more TNR, become a fan
yelled in the general direction of King warned the few remaining would back Bart Stupak in his is already a GOP apostate. And on Facebook and follow us on
the pro-immigrant protesters. tea partiers of the danger they stubborn opposition to abortion. if the bumbling tea party Twitter.
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there was no more solid proof of them are sympathizers and tea partiers changed his pitch for benefits for you!” one woman
the mortal peril they imagine apologists.” a new clientele: “Dos dolares, shouted at the protesters
America faces than the (mostly) “They want our health care!” dos dolares!”). Hispanics are streaming by. “These people are
brown people flooding the Mall someone yelled. culturally conservative, fiercely pawns to bring down the
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Last Hurrah
Michelle Cottle (The New afternoon presser announcing wandering out on the balcony more than one member made a being ruthless and efficient and
Republic - All Feed) his oh-so-agonized decision to and revving up the crowd. Two snorting reference to Bachman’s competent, this is a particularly
Submitted at 3/21/2010 11:17:15 PM support the bill even without his or three scrawled ‘No’ on sheets “Evita” moment. Soon, other devastating blow, and we should
desired anti-abortion provision, of paper and began waving them Republicans began sliding out to probably cut members a little
From the opening seconds of the GOP knew it had been over the railing, tittering like stand beside her and bask in the slack in dealing with it the best
the final vote on HR 3590, all beaten. All day you could sense school boys. Tennessee’s Zach reflected love. they could. In fact, earlier in the
you had to do was watch the a kind of daffy resignation in Wamp snatched up a discarded Hours later, as the whole pre- day, as I stood watching Wamp
House leaders of both parties to some of the rank-and-file as poster board, propped it against vote back-and-forth really got and Gerlach make their cute
know what the outcome would they milled about the Capitol, a column, and, black marker in rolling, Republicans were in no little sign for the protesters,
be. On the Democratic side, waiting for the inevitable drama hand, began gleefully writing mood to sit still. They trotted Illinois’s John Shimkus
Speaker Pelosi, radiant in lilac to play itself out. “LET’S MEET ‘EM AT THE out every parliamentary trick in stretched an arm up over my
suit and matching pumps, was For anyone trolling for pre-vote STATE LINE” in big block the book to try and slow the head to snap a picture of the two
handing out hugs and kisses and activity, the hottest action was letters. (Homemade signs were process even further. They were men with his cell phone. “I
posing for pics with groups of on the grand balcony that runs all the rage among members. quick to snicker, groan, and boo should really get them off the
her House sisters. Across the along the Speakers Lobby on the Inside high windows along the at Democats’ comments, and balcony,” he mused, more to
aisle, meanwhile, Republican south end of the Capitol. A east side of the capitol, someone they’d shout down any member himself than to me. We
whip Eric Cantor looked even members-only retreat, the had put up more letters spelling of the majority who went even a introduced ourselves, and I
edgier and more vibratory than balcony looked out over the out “VOTE NO” and “SCRAP second over their allotted asked the congressman if he was
usual as a handful of his gaggle of Tea Partiers and other THE BILL.”) Caught up in the speaking time. And whenever having a good day. “Not really,”
members huddled close, all eyes anti-reform die-hards come to naughtiness of it all, one of their own team spoke, the he said with a heavy sigh, eyes
on the giant illuminated list of express their extreme distress Pennsylvania’s Jim Gerlach remarks would be met with still glued to his colleague’s
member votes projected on the over America’s impending rushed over to steady the enthusiastic applause and balcony antics. “But what are
wall above the press gallery. plunge into communism (or posterboard while Wamp cheers. Bachman took to you gonna do?”
(Red light for nay, green for “socialism” depending on which scribbled. shouting “Good job! Good job!” What indeed.
yea.) Some Dems watched the banners, shirts, and signs you But it wasn’t until a couple of at colleagues, like she was a Michelle Cottle is a senior
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Senators to Square off over Financial Reforms
(Newsmax - Politics)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 1:29:30 AM
WASHINGTON - The U.S.
Senate Banking Committee will
begin hammering out new rules
for the financial system on
Monday, two years after Bear
Stearns' collapse ushered in the
worst financial crisis in decades.
Republicans plan to introduce
about 300 amendments to
attempt to weaken or kill key
provisions of a regulatory
reform bill developed over
months of negotiation by the
committee's Democratic
chairman, Senator Christopher
Dodd.
Whether a bill emerges as Dodd
hopes by Friday, when Congress
is set to adjourn for two weeks,
is uncertain.
Failure to produce a bill in the
Senate could doom hopes for a
broad rewrite of financial rules
meant to ward off future crises
like the one that punished the
U.S. economy with its deepest
recession since the Great
Depression, dragging much of
the global economy down with
it.
Dodd has the votes to ram a
Democratic bill through the
committee. He may do that if he
senses Republicans are not
interested in legislating and
want only to keep President
Barack Obama and Democrats
from achieving a top objective.
But some key Republicans on
the committee maintain they
want to reform financial
regulation, and recognize
Congress needs to act quickly
since lawmakers will soon
refocus on political campaigns
ahead of the November
elections.
The committee is slated to
begin its bill-drafting session at
5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) on
Monday. It could last all week.
If a bill emerges with no
Republican support, Democrats
would be hard-pressed to muster
the 60 votes that will almost
certainly be needed to move the
legislation through the full
Senate, where Republicans now
routinely throw up procedural
roadblocks. The Democrats
control only 59 votes.
REFORM COULD BE
DOOMED
Since the crisis peaked a year
and a half ago, financial reform
proposals have been fiercely
debated, with Republicans
allying themselves with the
deeply unpopular financial
industry as it fights to block
reforms that threaten bank
profits.
The House of Representatives
approved a bill in December that
embraced most of the reform
proposals made by Obama in
mid-2009. The House bill
passed with no Republican
votes.
In the Senate committee,
documents obtained by Reuters
show Republicans plan a wide
assault on Dodd's bill.
The documents summarize
amendments that target a
proposed inter-agency council to
monitor financial system risk, a
fund for liquidating distressed
firms, and a plan to shift
oversight of hundreds of small
banks out of the Federal
Reserve.
Republicans plan to offer
amendments to strip Dodd's
proposed Financial Stability
Oversight Council of the power
to assign risky nonbank
financial firms to Fed
supervision, according to the
documents.
In another example, one
Republican amendment would
delete a provision in Dodd's bill
establishing a fund to help pay
for orderly liquidations of
distressed financial firms, which
is meant to preventing more
AIG-style bailouts.
STATE BANKS IN PLAY
Republicans also want to
amend Dodd's bill to block his
plan to transfer supervision of
hundreds of state-chartered
banks with assets of less than
$50 billion to the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp from
the Fed, the documents show.
The summary says Republicans
want to delete major portions of
the Dodd bill dealing with over-
the-counter derivatives
regulation and new rules for
credit-rating agencies, while
referring to unspecified
Republican substitute plans.
The summary says that Senator
Richard Shelby, the top
Republican on the committee,
alone plans 110 amendments,
more than any lawmaker,
followed by Senator Bob Corker
with 98.
It says 12 Democrats plan to
offer 94 amendments.
Other contentious issues up for
debate include a new watchdog
for financial products.
Democrats and Republicans
generally agree that regulations
should be reformed in order to
strengthen the financial system
and plug regulatory gaps, but
they have clashed over the
breadth of the rules and the role
of government.
Senators are considering
changes to the so-called Volcker
rule that clamps down on banks'
risky activities. Senators
including Dodd have expressed
doubts over the proposal.
Already Dodd has watered
down one of the White House's
key reforms -- an independent
watchdog for consumer
financial products such as
mortgages and credit cards.
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Soundwave makes
a comeback, as a
theatre on wheels
Jimin Brelsford (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:30:49 AM
If you can’t go and listen to a
high fidelity sound system, why
don’t you have it come to you?
The Harmon Mobile Showcase
is designed to do just that,
bringing two professionally
calibrated listening rooms to an
expo near you.
The trailer contains a 2-channel
“audiophile” room, and a multi-
channel home theater
environment. The equipment
used inside is exclusively from
Mark Levinson, JBL, Lexicon,
and Revel, so this isn’t by any
means the only super cool sound
system you’ll run across. But
it’s definitely way outside my
price range.
The truck just left the
Architectural Digest Home
Design Show here in New York,
and will next be spotted at the
Hi Fi Buys Event in Nashville.
So if you’re in the
neighborhood, go check it out.
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California Governor's Race to Set Spending Record
(Newsmax - Politics)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 1:33:36 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
This flash drive probably isn’t TSA or workplaced approved
Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 7:45:44 AM
Here’s a short list of places
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
where you probably shouldn’t
take your fancy new flash driv e.
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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.
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"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
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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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Obamacare Is Going to the What Racism at the Tea

President's Desk--What Comes Next? Parties?
(AEI.Org: Articles) looking at an insurance market employer (most likely a union (Little Green Footballs) Rep. Andre Carson, D-Indiana,
Submitted at 3/21/2010 4:00:00 PM that has become worse, not plan) or through the new state- Submitted at 3/21/2010 2:41:07 PM who was walking with Lewis at
better, with premiums higher based exchanges. Many large the time. Protesters were
The question arises: What next? and more Americans joining the employers with a preponderance Wow. The racism that underlies yelling, “‘kill the bill, kill the
H o w w i l l t h e h e a l t h - c a r e rolls of the uninsured. of middle-wage employees will much of the tea party movement bill’ and the ‘N’ word several
landscape evolve on the heels of Longer term, insurers will move their workers into the is coming to the surface more times,” Carson said.
O b a m a c a r e ' s p a s s a g e ? begin to consolidate into a exchanges, since the subsidies and more, and yesterday in Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-
Economic forces provide some handful of very large national are richer than the tax exclusion Washington DC the mask came Missouri, released a statement
clues. carriers backed up by small, they get through worker- completely off: Protesters hurl late Saturday saying he too was
The insurance market will state-based plans that try to provided coverage. Only slurs and spit at Democrats. called the “N” word as he
begin to shake up almost attract consumers using regional employers with sticky union Washington (CNN) - Civil walked to the Capitol for a vote
immediately, as health-care appeal. Health insurance will contracts, or those that employ a rights icon and veteran Rep. and that he was spat on by one
plans jockey for advantage in become a commodity product, lot of high-wage workers (e.g., John Lewis, D-Georgia, said protestor who was arrested by
advance of the legislation's full one that offers little consumer Goldman Sachs) will continue anti-health care bill protesters U.S. Capitol Police. Cleaver
implementation. Insurers will choice and with benefits that are to offer workplace coverage. Saturday repeatedly yelled the declined to press charges against
b e g i n p u l l i n g o u t o f t h e mostly defined by regulations Eventually, the federally “N” word at him as he left a the man, the statement said.
individual market, and they will issued in Washington. Doctors regulated exchanges will be the heath care meeting and walked Protesters also hurled anti-gay
aggressively hike premiums in will begin to consolidate their only game in town. That was the to the Capitol. comments at Rep. Barney
the small-group market. These practices into larger groups, or idea behind Obamacare from the “I haven’t seen heard anything Frank, D-Massachusetts, who is
consequences are the market's sell their offices to hospitals or start. like this in more than 40 years, openly gay, as he left the same
response to the bill's new large medical chains. That is Scott Gottlieb, M.D., is a maybe 45.” Lewis said. “Since health care meeting that Lewis
regulations, which effectively h o w p h y s i c i a n s w i l l g a i n resident fellow at AEI. the march from Selma to attended in a House office
p r e v e n t i n s u r e r s f r o m leverage on health-insurance P h o t o C r e d i t : Montgomery really.” building.
underwriting risk. Insurers are plans and take advantage of new iStockphoto/DNY59 “Yeah, but it’s okay,” Lewis A CNN producer overheard the
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Public Pension Deficits Are Worse

Than You Think
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adopted by the states, a public you need today to consider that
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at New Low
(Newsmax - Politics)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 11:06:51 AM
A new survey by the Field Poll
shows California Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger's public
opinion rating has slumped to a
new low.
Results from a survey released
Sunday show that only 23
percent of people asked
approved of the job the governor
is doing, while 71 percent
disapproved.
Poll officials say Sunday's
assessment is the lowest
approval rating the governor has
received since he took office.
It also is statistically equivalent
to the all-time record low job
appraisal that voters gave to
Democrat Gray Davis shortly
before he was recalled from
office in 2003.
The Field Poll found only 13
percent of the voters asked
approved of the job the state
Legislature is doing, while 78
percent disapproved.
The latest Field Poll was
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First Looks: Magazines on the iPad
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:54:08 AM
Last week, a video of online
magazine VIVmag's iPad app
made the rounds on the web.
Featured in The New York
Times as a taste of digital
reading's future, this
extraordinary, interactive video-
infused 'zine was beautiful to
watch, but left many others
questioning if the expense of
creating tablet-ready content
like this was actually feasible.
For some, that answer -
surprisingly - may be yes.
According to Jeanniey Mullen,
CMO of the magazine's
distributor, Zinio, the cost was
not as expensive as you may
think - it was "not even
$100,000," she said. But $100
grand to create one copy of an
online magazine? That's far
beyond the reach of many micro
-publishers. And yet, for them
too, the iPad introduces the
possibility of reaching a wider
audience than ever before.
Sponsor
According to the Times article,
the VIVmag iPad version will
continue to feature interactive
content and video in every issue.
For them, it's less of a problem
to do so than it would be for
other publishers. Although the
costs of hiring models, filming
against a greenscreen and
editing video may seem
exorbitant, VIVmag was already
an "all digital" magazine from
the start. Creating their digital
content costs approximately the
same as creating a normal print
magazine - they just employ
different people to do the digital
version of the analog jobs.
Much of the magazine is
templated, too, allowing the
company to reuse the same basic
structures to display new
content in later issues.
VIVmag received the most
press - unless you count Wired's
so-called "iPad app," that is. But
Wired's app isn't iPad-ready just
yet. Built with Adobe AIR
technology, the app won't run on
the iPad in its current state due
to Apple's policies. Still, both of
these high-end creations
demonstrate the potential for all-
digital magazines on the new
form factor of the tablet PC.
However, incredible tablet-
based magazines like these
won't be limited to publishers
with big budgets alone.
Magazine with Music
Downloads and More
Take, for example, Digital
America, an interactive literary
and culture magazine made
especially for the tablet
experience. Like VIVmag,
Digital America will also mix in
video with their other content.
In fact, they'll offer articles,
graphics, videos and music plus
extra, downloadable content
included in the per issue price.
Part of the magazine's content
lineup for their first issue will
include exclusive author
interviews, a featured musician
with playable music tracks, a
filmmaker interview and their
award-winning short, a featured
animator with exclusive
commentary, a playable cartoon,
five pieces of chosen fiction-
reading from American writers
and "bonus extras."
From the interactive table of
contents, accessible from
anywhere in the magazine, you
can navigate through the
available sections. A quick
layout view lets you hop from
page to page and you can
choose to scan the magazine in
landscape mode, too, if desired.
Not Just a Magazine, a Tool
Too
The online designer
community, Mobile Love, is
also turning their niche resource
into an iPad "magazine" app.
Not only will their iPad app
include video alongside the
magazine's text, it will offer an
included iPhone wireframing
tool, too, which can be used to
create iPhone applications. After
designing an app, there's a
button at the top which will
allow the designers to request a
quote from a developer if they
want to have their application
built. (You can see this in action
in the video demo here.)
Blogs Become Mags
Video-enabled, highly
interactive magazines aren't the
only types of new magazines
experiences coming to the iPad,
either. Another developer has
the idea of turning your favorite
web blogs into your own,
custom digital creations. Called
"Blogazine," this new iPad app
will let you virtually flip
through blog articles in
chronological order.
The concept is easy to grasp -
blogs become magazines. From
a centrally located button, you
can tap to change from one blog
to another. Another feature lets
you quickly share an article on
Facebook or Twitter. The app
will soon arrive for the iPhone
too, but it's on the iPad where it
will really shine.
Can't Build Your Own iPad
App? Zinio Does It for You
For publishers big and small
who, for whatever reason, can't
or don't want to build their own
iPad or tablet application in-
house, digital magazine
distributor Zinio will be
introducing an iPad application
which provides readers with
easy access to digital
subscriptions and an online
Tech News/ 45
"newsstand." The company,
which has been around for a
decade now, got started by
offering magazine reader
software for desktop computers.
Now that the mobile revolution
has taken hold, Zinio has
expanded their offerings to
include subscription and reading
experiences for magazine
customers which are accessible
no matter what device you use:
Mac, PC, iPhone, web or mobile
web and soon, iPad, plus - who
knows? - maybe one day
Kindle, too. Zinio's goal is to
make it simple for publishers to
get their content out there on
any form factor, screen size or
platform.
To get an idea of what these
iPad mags could look like,
check out National Geographic's
latest issue: " Water: Our
Thirsty World." According to
the NatGeo website, this edition
features the "complete content
from the print edition, plus extra
photo galleries, rollover
graphics that animate features
like maps and time lines, video
profiles of photographers who
contributed to the issue, and
other interactive features."
When the iPad launches, it too,
will have the same interactive
content as is available now in
this digital edition, explains
Mullen.
Another Zinio partner preparing
for the iPad is Sporting News, a
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46 Tech News/ Gadgets/
Inventor of the Web Gets Backing to Build Web of Data
Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 10:31:11 AM
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor
of the World Wide Web, and
prominent researcher Nigel
Shadbolt will lead a new British
Institute for Web Science with
$45 million in government
backing. The announcement
was not without its critics, but
the Institute could have a world-
wide impact.
The two men collaborated in
helping build the excellent
data.gov.uk and will now
expand upon that work. Prime
Minister Gordon Brown said of
the move: "We are determined
to go further in breaking down
the walled garden of
Government...This Institute will
help place the UK at the cutting
edge of research on the
Semantic Web and other
emerging web and internet
technologies."
Sponsor
Understanding the Web of Data
Berners-Lee said two years ago
last month that all the pieces
were in place to build the
semantic web, a paradigm based
on giving structured meaning to
Blood, Sweat and Photographic Tears [Safari]
Greg du Toit (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 12:00:00 PM
Greg du Toit contracted several
and clear links between
otherwise unstructured content
floating around the web. Many
people believe that a web with
semantic structure will be the
same type of boon to innovation
that common standards like
HTML have been.
Berners-Lee famously
described his vision of the
semantic web like this:
I have a dream for the Web [in
which computers] become
capable of analyzing all the data
on the Web - the content, links,
and transactions between people
and computers. A 'Semantic
Web', which should make this
possible, has yet to emerge, but
when it does, the day-to-day
mechanisms of trade,
bureaucracy and our daily lives
will be handled by machines
talking to machines. The
'intelligent agents' people have
touted for ages will finally
materialize.
Today's announcement came
along government calls to build
super-fast broadband to every
home in the UK. Prime
Minister Brown claimed that
such a development could foster
economic development and as
many as 250,000 new jobs.
diseases and parasites while
spending months half-
submerged in a Kenyan
watering hole. But he also
As writer Tom Foremski
pointed out this morning about
the Web Science Institute,
however "internet technologies
have resulted in fewer jobs
created than have been lost --
which is the way of all
disruptive technologies."
Making the Vision Real is Hard,
Too
Super-fast broadband to every
home is a much easier thing to
sell to the public than a future-
web of structured, machine-
readable data. After years of
expectations, the semantic web
remains in search of its clearly
comprehensible killer-app.
Earlier this month, semantic
social bookmarking service
Twine quietly slid into obscurity
and was bought up by news
recommendation service Evri.
Twine was said to be possibly
"the first mainstream semantic
web app" two years ago.
Founder Nova Spivak raised
half as much money for Twine's
parent company Radar
Networks ($24m) as Berners-
Lee's entire new institute is
receiving. Twine faltered under
poor usability and the leadership
of Spivak, considered to be both
captured a rare and stunning
one of the smartest people in the
internet industry and a caustic
egotist.
Thus is the dilemma for this
supposed next stage of the web.
Andrew Orlowski tears into
today's announcement in The
Register, calling it "a confluence
of two groups of people with a
shared interest in bureaucracy."
Orlowski says the Web of Data
is a fraud as well: "Of course,
most web data is personal
communication that happens to
have been recorded. Most of the
rest is spam, generated by
robots, or cut-and-paste material
'curated' by the unemployed or
poor graduates - another form of
spam, really."
That's a funny critique but the
truth is probably somewhere in
between the superlatives and the
condemnation. Critics like
Orlowski have already grown
jaded about the world-changing
impact of the last iteration of the
web (easy social publishing) and
underestimate the platform
potential of this next iteration.
"I've always been sceptical of
the need for a 'new discipline.'
[Web Science]," says leading
semantic web consultant Paul
Miller."A significant tranche of
look of the wildlife he
encountered nose-to-lens. More
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funding such as that announced
by the Prime Minister this
morning will be helpful in
tackling some of the issues (both
hard and soft) that still remain
as we push more and more data
out into the public sphere. I
hope and expect that Nigel, Tim
and others will devote at least as
much attention to issues of trust,
provenance, licensing etc as to
the details of angle brackets,
triples and ontologies."
Miller did a podcast interview
with Shadbolt for the UK's
largest semantic web company
Talis, here.
For an in-depth explanation of
Berners-Lee's perspective, see
the two-part interview
ReadWriteWeb founding Editor
Richard MacManus did with
him last year. MacManus has
said that Berners-Lee's vision of
a read/write, two-way web, was
a key inspiration behind the
founding of the publication
you're reading now.
We wish the Institute for Web
Science the best of luck in
delivering on its rich promise.
Discuss
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Opera's Widgets Become Mobile Apps

Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) distribute a single browser UI also offering some advanced
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:15:56 AM across a wide range of devices." options like pinch-and-zoom
That change to browser and tabbed browsing. For
Opera Software, developers of distribution technology now feature phones, the Opera
web browser technology for PC, applies to the Opera Widgets browser can offer a better web
Mac, Linux and mobile, have too. Already, there are hundreds surfing experience, but on
just announced that their Opera of widgets available in Opera's today's smartphones, the built-in
"widgets" will now work on o n l i n e g a l l e r y , i n c l u d i n g browser is usually just as good The Android Game That
nearly any mobile phone. The everything from games to media (if not better) and doesn't have Every Android Fan
widgets in question are small p l a y e r s p l u s w i d g e t s f o r to rely on proxies for fast web
mini-applications that can run in accessing Facebook, Twitter and access. Must Get [Android]
Opera's web browser itself, on more. Similarly, the new mobile Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
the desktop as standalone apps However, it appears that these widgets are likely intended to be Submitted at 3/22/2010 11:20:00 AM
and now, as standalone apps on widgets for mobile aren't being the speedy apps missing from
mobile phones, too. offered directly to consumers in most feature phones - phones Platform game. Retro look. 40
Built with standards like the way that the company's web which, unlike the iPhone and levels. The Android mascot as
HTML, CSS and JavaScript, the browser widgets are. Instead, Android devices, don't have the main character. Free. If
widgets are easy for web Opera intends to provide their their own built-in "App Stores." you're an Android fanboy or
developers to create since they widget lineup to operators and right now. Widgets: Apps for By providing carriers and fangirl, you have to play Replica
don't require knowing a vendor- handset manufacturers who can Feature Phones? manufacturers access to the Island. Don't expect to
specific technology in order to then choose which widgets they That's OK, though - the Opera widget lineup, now even buttsmash any iPhones, though.
do so. want to include with their company probably doesn't the most basic phones can tout [ Replica Island via Replica
Sponsor phones. Interested businesses intend for that to happen some of the same features that Island] More »
According to the company's are asked to request more info anyway. The Opera mobile modern smartphones do("access
announcement, the new widgets h e r e : browsers have become popular Facebook with an app!," "update
take advantage of Opera's http://www.opera.com/business. alternatives to the basic Twitter on the go!"). Whether or
r e c e n t l y l a u n c h e d c r o s s - In other words, just because browsers included on many of not any businesses go for these
platform UI framework, a these widgets are built with today's "feature phones" because new widgets still remains to be
framework that's intended to "open web standards," it doesn't they speed up browsing by seen. Discuss
" h e l p o p e r a t o r s a n d mean you can just start proxying access to the web
m a n u f a c t u r e r s e f f i c i e n t l y installing them on your iPhone through Opera's servers while

FIRST
continued from page 45

multimedia company catering to
sports fans. Their newly
announced iPad app will have
interactive full scoreboards,
stats, rotating image galleries,
sports video highlights from
CineSport and guest columns
from athletes, coaches and
industry executives. Other
benefits of the iPad platform
include search, bookmarking,
clipping and social sharing to
sites like Facebook and Twitter.
iPad: Magazines Transformed?
While these iPad magazine
demos are exciting to look at,
there's one big question hanging
over everyone's head: can the
iPad save the flailing magazine
industry? For companies like
Zinio, the hope is to encourage
advertisers to buy across
multiple magazines based on
categories, instead of just
sticking with the most popular
print titles. Kia recently did just
this and placed their TV ad in 45
copies of Zinio's digital mags. discover a whole new way of
This cross-platform digital buy reading. Discuss
was the equivalent of one print
buy in a physical magazine. But
this makes us wonder: will this
be enough income for digital
publishers to thrive? It's too
soon to tell, but in the
meantime, we're about to
48 Tech News/ Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition

Can You Hear Me Now? Check This

Crowd-Sourced Mobile Coverage
Map
Mike Melanson be in development.
(ReadWriteWeb) We have to wonder if
Submitted at 3/22/2010 10:23:00 AM differences between handsets
areas for AT&T, Sprint, T- and reception have been taken
Have you ever found yourself Mobile and Verizon. into account or have we moved
wondering why your friend From the company on the beyond that? The map lets us
hasn't called - even though they specifics on the network testing: choose between what type of
promised - only to realize Root Mobile conducts tests that reported info we would like to
you've been sitting in the measure signal strength, data see, whether "Signal", "Data" or
cellular equivalent of the Dead transmission speeds, network "Network", but there is no
Sea for the past hour and a half? connection failures and other device category. We can also
Wii football controller
Sometimes, it just happens that performance indicators. It is s e e t h e n u m b e r o f z o n e s
the spot you decided to wait out noteworthy that these tests differ reporting "No Bars", "Access
a n i m p o r t a n t c a l l h a d n o from data transmission speed Failure" and "Hot Zones" (such
brought to life by CTA
coverage and now, you could tests conducted by others using as dropped calls), but no
know that beforehand. Even PCs, precisely because Root information on how many Digital
better, you can look at your M o b i l e i s e n g i n e e r e d t o people have reported these Vladislav Savov (Engadget) pigskin substitute. It's
city's coverage before you even determine real-world network issues. With a crowd sourced Submitted at 3/22/2010 11:11:00 AM ambidextrous, it comes with a
choose a wireless service in the performance as experienced by app and mash-up like this, we'd wrist strap, and it has absolutely
first place. people using smartphones - love to know if the problem is It wasn't too long ago that we no right to exist in a society of
Root Wireless today released its findings that for the first time widespread or if, in reality, were berating Nintendo for its right-thinking Homo sapiens.
Root Mobile crowd-sourcing objectively measure and map there's been one person who's s e e m i n g l y s i l l y p a t e n t But it does. At least price and
app for Blackberry and Android true, real-world performance been there and not gotten any application relating to a football availability aren't yet public, so
phones, which pulls data from from the perspective of the r e c e p t i o n . M a y b e t h e y ' v e -shaped soft appendage for the hopefully you'll have forgotten
phones and aggregates it into a smartphone consumer. Users dropped their phone one too Wii Remote controllers. As it about this abomination by the
street-level coverage map. can choose to run a network test many times? We don't know. t u r n s o u t , w e m a y h a v e time of release.
Sponsor when they want. The application Either way, it looks like a neat underestimated the consumer Wii football controller brought
According to the company, the otherwise runs unnoticed in the idea that we think we would like interest in just such a product. to life by CTA Digital originally
app is "a free beta application background. to compare with those carrier- While Ninty's application is still appeared on Engadget on Mon,
utilizing smartphones as Apps for Blackberry and provided coverage maps. Let's under review, CTA Digital has 22 Mar 2010 11:11:00 EST.
network monitoring devices" to Android phones are already see if your map gets in the way t a k e n t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o Please see our terms for use of
help people choose which cell available with one for Windows of the game now, Verizon. introduce its own "soft, realistic feeds. Permalink Gadget Venue|
provider to go with. Currently, Mobile phones on the way Discuss accessory" for the ballers that C T A D i g i t a l | E m a i l t h i s |
the mash-up map, which is before the end of the second just can't get their Madden on C o m m e n t s
offered on CNET, provides quarter. An iPhone app is said to without the feel of a rubbery
information on 17 different
E-reader News Edition
My6Sense Releases API: 'Digital
Intuition' for the Real-Time Web
Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:02:00 AM
We trust services like Last.fm
or Pandora to learn our musical
tastes and serve up custom radio
stations, so why not the same for
the numerous streams that
bombard us daily?
My6Sense, a recommendation
engine for your social streams
and news feeds, is releasing its
functionality today in its "
Attention API" at the DEMO
conference.
Sponsor
The company released an
iPhone app last summer, which
uses the company's "digital
intuition" to determine the
particular stories and status
updates that are most relevant to
you according to what you've
clicked on and spent time with
in the past. The system learns
from you, becoming more
familiar with what you are
interested in as time goes on.
According to the company, "the
service is content/stream
agnostic and can automatically
rank information from all types
of sources -- including social
streams like Twitter, news
streams, RSS, vertical content
providers, open whiteboards and
more. The solution is optimized
for mobile platforms, where
digital clutter is the most
prominent, and can be
successfully used on non-mobile
sites and applications as well."
With services like Pandora, you
need to let the program know
when you like or dislike
something. The "Attention
API", on the other hand, simply
requires that the site making use
of it report back user activity in
order to learn the user's habits
and preferences.
While this sounds great, and we
can see it filtering out some of
the noise, we have the same
concerns about it as we do about
Google customizing our search-
that we will end up in an echo
chamber of like-minded
thought. As our own Frederic
Lardinois pointed out when
reviewing the My6Sense iPhone
app, you may want to step
outside the recommendations
once in a while for a breath of
fresh air. If you are a real news
junkie, you will probably still
sometimes want to switch to the
regular timeline mode that
organizes items chronologically.
After all, the items you don't
usually think you would be
interested in can sometimes
really grab your attention
(which is, to be honest, a
problem that all
recommendation systems have
to grapple with).
On the company's API page, it
mentions that the API will
provide "No fear of
bombardment" as "Developers
and publishers can broadcast
any amount of information and
content to a widespread
audience, which reaching
individual consumers with
messages that are uniquely
relevant to them."
We would hope that, in reality,
any service using the API would
notify its users that it was doing
so and even offer the ability to
step outside of the service's
recommendations. Discuss
Tech News/ Gadgets/ Entertainment/
What Does a Frozen
Han Solo Pop Taste
Like? [Star Wars]
matt buchanan (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 10:46:03 AM
I think it would taste like a
Flinstones pop, but that's just
me. Like all Tee Fury shirts, it's
available one day only, for $9. [
TeeFury via Geekologie] More
» a real difference in my life. [
Celebs Make Their
'Dancing with the Stars'
Debut Tonight
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 7:30:00 AM
From "The Bachelor" Jake
Pavelka to reality show mom
Kate Gosselin to "The Insider"'s
Niecy Nash, the men and
49
Bottle-Opening Remote
Makes Sitting on the
Couch Drinking Beer
Even Less Labor
Intensive [Beer]
Adam Frucci (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 10:40:00 AM
Screw combining a phone with
an MP3 player, this is the sort of
gadget convergence that makes
Clicker via The Awesomer]
More »
women of ABC's "Dancing with
the Stars" are gearing up to
compete for the coveted mirror
ball trophy. Click the pics to see
who will be hitting the dance
floor tonight!
50 Gadgets/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition
Actress Lake Bell Sports
Inhabitat's Week in Green: high speed rail, Same Style as Model
Natalia Vodianova
augmented reality, and body broadband (ETonline - Breaking News)
Inhabitat (Engadget) contact lenses that may just Submitted at 3/22/2010 6:00:00 AM

Submitted at 3/22/2010 12:32:00 PM bring terminator vision to the

The Week in Green is a new
item from our friends at
Inhabitat, recapping the week's
most interesting green
developments and clean tech
news for us.
It was a monumental week for
efficient transportation as China
unveiled plans to connect its
high speed rail network all the
way to Europe. We were also
excited to see Solar Roadways
unveil the first prototype of an
energy-generating road that
stands to transform our freeways
into power conduits.
Meanwhile, one 74 year old
man is going solo and blazing
his own trail across the states
aboard a solar powered stroller.
Inhabitat also showcased
several amazing feats of
architecture this week. One of
the world's first skyscrapers
with built-in wind turbines is
rising above London, while
designer Enrico Dini has created
a gigantic 3D printer that is able
to create entire buildings out of
stone.
Finally, we explored all sorts of
ways that people are getting
wired - literally. Students at the
University of Washington are
working on a set of solar-
powered augmented reality
masses, while Spanish scientists It's a fashion face-off for style-
are working on nanochips that savvy celebs! From 'Precious'
can be that can be implanted actress Paula Patton and Kelly
into human body cells to detect Osbourne's crimson styles, to
diseases earlier. And in case you actress Sara Paxton and Victoria
haven't heard, "me-fi" is the new Beckham's daring dresses, see
WiFi as researches have which stars are stepping out in a
discovered a way to transmit similar fashion.
10mbps broadband data through Click the pics and vote on
a human arm. which styled star you prefer.
Inhabitat's Week in Green: high
speed rail, augmented reality,
and body broadband originally
appeared on Engadget on Mon,
22 Mar 2010 12:32:00 EST.
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Zygor’s guides are half-off this week, World of Warcraft peeps

Nicholas Deleon by-step, but that’s the same with the year 2010, with a netbook by
(CrunchGear) any strategy guide—but painless your side on GameFaqs.
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:00:57 AM nonetheless. Anyhow, the guide I should probably mention the
is on sale this week, and if you price at some point. For the
Just a friendly heads-up, gents. were ever thinking about getting duration of this sale, which ends
A few months ago, I mentioned it, but were put off by its price, on the 24th, you can get both
the release of Zygor 2.0 for well… guides for $50 (down from
World of Warcraft. Zygor, of The guide sits in-game, like any $100) or $25 each for the
course, is an in-game leveling other add-on, and uses the Alliance or Horde guide. (The
guide that makes going from waypoint system to tell you guides are sold separately.)
level 1 to level 80 pretty where to go. “Talk to Man A, Quest, go back to Man A and the Blizzard EULA. It’s no
I don’t know, I thought it was
painless. Crushingly boring and collect Quest, kill 10 boars. Talk Man B to turn in Quests.” different than playing Final
worth mentioning. Carry on.
repetitive—much of the sense of to Man B, collect Quest, find 5 It’s all nice and legal per the Fantasy with a strategy guide by
adventure is lost following step- items. Talk to Woman A, collect letter of the law, also knows as your side, or, to bring this into
E-reader News Edition
The Enso zenPad MID banks on
being the cheap Android tablet
Tablet
(BestTabletReview.com)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 7:20:40 AM
The Endo zenPad MID -
formerly Smit MID-560
Here’s another firm contender
in the small tablet market. The
Enso zenPad comes in with a 5-
inch 800 x 480 resolution
touchscreen powered by a
Samsung 6410 667MHz
processor. It also starts at an
affordable $155 and is currently
shipping.
This isn’t the first we’ve heard
of the Enso zenPad, but it has
had a name change since then.
We first saw the OEM of the
zenPad on video under the name
Smit MID-560 back at the IFA
2009 show thanks to Charbax
from ARMDevices. It seems to
have been rebranded as the Enso
zenPad and brought to the States
where it is currently available
This Woman Knows 'The Answer' to
Lost [Clues]
Richard Lawson (Gawker)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 12:00:49 PM
Sheila Kelley, the actress who
plays the brand new character
Zoe on Lost, just did an
for sale.
The rest of the spec sheet
features a six hour batery life,
Android 1.6, 8GB of storage
with expandable microSD, WiFi
and optional GPS ($25 more)
and 3G ($35 more). This MID
has video, image and music
playback along with an eBook
reader. It certainly a more
interview with Us Weekly and it
is interesting! She says she's on
affordable version of a small
tablet than an Archos 5 or Dell
Streak. Still, it looks to be
noticeably slower than both
from the video below.
Source: Engadget
Five Filters featured article:
Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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Term Extraction.
every page of the final script,
and that Zoe "has the answer."
More »
Gadgets/ Apple/ Entertainment/ 51
TAB Welcomes: Josh
Sunshine
Josh Sunshine
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 7:30:43 AM
I’d like to begin by telling you
that there isn’t a single thing I
haven’t heard said about my
name. So, that said, here’s what
you’d find written if I had a
Wikipedia page:
• Yes, I do look small in that
photo. That’s because I’m only
16 (and the photo has been
resized).
• In regard to #1, I know more
than you might expect about
computing*.
• I write from my house which I’m joining TheAppleBlog as
is tucked away in the South-East the newest How-To and tutorial
corner of England, so expect writer. Look out for my series of
posts which seem to have been ‘Quick Tips’ which will
written in the middle of the hopefully teach you something
night. useful in a short amount of time.
• This is my first proper move I’m open to feedback, argument,
into the world of tech writing, so insult etc. in the comments area
I dare say you’ve never heard of of my posts, so chatter away.
me before. If you have trouble sleeping at
• I first switched in 2007 with
the receipt of my 20 iMac,
night, try reading my stream of
dullness that is@jobbogamer on
which I still have today. Twitter.
• If you visited me, you’d find
the iMac, a late-2008 MacBook,
* Contrary to popular belief, not
all teenagers sit on MSN and
two iPhone 3GSs and two iPod Facebook all day long.
touches (2nd generation).
52 Gadgets/ Entertainment/
Sony's new 14- and 17-inch VAIO E laptops
invite you to taste the rainbow
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 10:48:00 AM
Was Sony's last VAIO E
laptop, the blue one with a pink
keyboard, not garish enough for
you? Maybe these new models
will saturate your questionable
color palette. The E series has
gotten a bit smaller and also a
bit bigger, adding 14- and 17-
inch models to the lineup. The
14-inch, 1600 x 900
VPCEA1S1E models include
Intel Core i3-330M processors
at 2.13GHz, 4GB of DDR3
memory, 500GB disk drives,
and ATI Mobility Radeon HD
5145 graphics. The 17-inch,
1920 x 1080 VPCEC1S1E
moves up to Core i5-430M
processors at 2.26GHz, 1TB of
storage, Radeon HD 5650
graphics, and replaces the
smaller unit's DVD player with
a Blu-ray drive. All offer
802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth, and
HDMI output for your media
entertainment. No word on price
or availability, but we have
confirmed you can get them in
black if you're not feeling quite
so colorful on a Monday.
E-reader News Edition
Gerard Butler and
America Ferrera Roar
Breaths of Fire at
'Dragon' Premiere
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 3:49:00 AM
Bolts of lightning, balls of fire,
and piercingly sharp fangs are
just some of the in-your-face 3D
graphics that comprise 'How to
Train Your Dragon.' Gerard
Butler gave his signature
Scottish flair as the voice of
Stoick and shared his rave
review with ET.
"I was blown away by this
whole experience visually,
emotionally. The originality, it
was just really an enthralling
movie," Gerry said
compassionately of the animated
feature.
Based on a children's book,
'Dragon' is a heartwarming story
of Hiccup ( Jay Baruchel)
struggling to earn the respect of
his strong, powerful father.
Determined to prove himself
worthy to his doubtful dad and
villagers, the young Viking boy
tries to slay an elusive breed of
Gallery: Sony VAIO E 14- and dragon that no Viking has laid
17-inch laptops eyes on before. In a touching
Sony's new 14- and 17-inch turn of events, the boy befriends
VAIO E laptops invite you to the creature he sought to harm
taste the rainbow originally and proves to the other Vikings
appeared on Engadget on Mon, that the reptiles are maybe not
22 Mar 2010 10:48:00 EST. so dangerous after all.
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Tata Motors' Nano lights up the
streets of Mumbai
Joseph L. Flatley (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 12:09:00 PM
Indeed, there is a time in every
product's life-cycle when it has
its birth announcement, when it
steps out into the world for the
first time, and when it bursts
into flames-- and Tata's Nano is
no exception. According to
Indian Autos Blog, the
manufacturer is particularly well
known for its combustible
motorcars these days -- back in
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What's On Tonight:
'Dancing,' 'Chuck,' '24,'
'United States of Tara'
Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 12:00:00 PM
Here's tonight's TV lineup (all
times Eastern).
• At 8, ABC has the season
premiere of'Dancing with the
Stars,' then a new'Castle.'
• CBS has a new'How I Met
Your Mother,' followed by new
episodes of'Rules of
Engagement,' 'Two and a Half
Men,' 'Big Bang Theory,' • Spike has'TNA Wrestling' at
and'CSI: Miami.' 9.
• NBC has new episodes • At 10, Showtime has the
of'Chuck,' 'Trauma,' and'Law season premiere of'Nurse
and Order.' Jackie,' then the season premiere
• The CW has a new'Life of'United States of Tara.'
Unexpected' at 8, then a
new'Gossip Girl.'
• ABC Family has a new'Greek'
at 10.
• ABC Family has the season
finale of'Secret Life of the Check your local TV listings
for more.
2009, three Nanos caught fire, thought that a $2,500 vehicle American Teenager' at 8. After the jump, the late night
and now we have pictures of the w o u l d b e p l a g u e d w i t h • TCM has'The Big Sleep' at 8, talk shows.
latest to go into flames, courtesy problems? Let's just hope they f o l l o w e d b y ' T h e M a l t e s e Continue reading What's On
of an insurance agent Satish get 'em sorted before the Nano F a l c o n . ' Tonight: 'Dancing,' 'Chuck,' '24,'
Sawant. Apparently, the auto EV hits the streets. • Also at 8: Food Network has a
'United States of Tara'
dealership was delivering the Tata Motors' Nano lights up the new'Good Eats.' Filed under: Late Night,
vehicle to its new owner when a streets of Mumbai originally • At 9, FOX has a new'24.' Programming, Celebrities, Talk
motorcyclist overtook the driver appeared on Engadget on Mon, • USA has a new'Monday Night Show, What To Watch Tonight,
to get his attention -- just like 22 Mar 2010 12:09:00 EST. RAW' at 9. Reality-Free
that old episode of CHiPs. Since Please see our terms for use of • Food Network has a
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54 Gadgets/ TV/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition

Conan and Fox Still

Talking with 'Idol Gives
Back' in the Mix
Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:02:00 AM

The jury is still out as to

whether Conan O'Brien will be
starting a new late night talk
show on Fox. Talks are still
progressing on that front.
However, in an interesting
wrinkle, the producers of one of
Fox's biggest shows,'Americal
Idol,' have approached Conan to
appear on their charity
special'Idol Gives Back.'
Unfortunately, Conan had to his'Legally Prohibited From
decline the appearance because Being Funny on TV' tour. It is
it would still be in breach of interesting to note that the day
contract (he is prohibited from of May 17th was left free on the
appearing on television until tour, which is the same day as
September). You'd think NBC the Fox upfronts in New York

BlueAnt outs the rugged T1 would be willing to allow for a

one-time waiver for charity, but
at the same time it's unlikely
City. Coincidence?
Filed under: Industry,
Programming, American Idol,
Bluetooth headset they would allow for such a
ratings bonanza on a rival
Celebrities
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seems like one tough bastard.
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:08:35 AM and is the first model to feature For now, Conan still has
The T1 comes with a protective verbal caller ID where the
Bluetooth headsets generally skin that that can protect and headset will speak the name of Monetary tightening fears weigh on
take a good amount of abuse. cushion better than just the outer
They are after all thrown in plastic shell. It should provide a
the incoming caller. Users then
can either say Answer or Ignore
investors
pockets with keys, tossed in bit more protection while not to perform the spoken task. (Financial Times - US 08:23 | Last updated: March 22
bags , thrown on desks, and increasing the weight or size too Expect the T1 to hit stores this homepage) 2010 16:44
suffer countless other forms of much. It was also designed to May at or below the MSRP of Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:44:05 AM Five Filters featured article:
stress over their lifetime. withstand everyday dust and $79.99. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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10.6.3 is Imminent…Maybe the Malware’s Not Far Behind?

Liam Cassidy (TheAppleBlog) • Issues resolved with recurring farmhouse in the country with for the most part, we can at least
Submitted at 3/22/2010 7:11:17 AM events in iCal when connected no locks, and Windows is living agree that the Mac has been
to an Exchange server in a house with bars on the enjoying fantastic growth. The
It looks like we’re getting close • Issues resolved that prevented windows in the bad part of old days of ‘security by
to the official release of 10.6.3, files with the “#” or “&” town.” obscurity’ are drawing to a
the latest update to Mac OS X symbols in their names from Miller said that the 20 exploits close. Sooner, not later, Mac-
Snow Leopard — and, from opening in Rosetta are all contained in closed- specific malware will come.
what we’re hearing on the • Issues addressed that caused source Apple products, but (You know, the real malware of
developer grapevine, it might background message colors to pointed out that exploits could Windows-exploit proportions!)
prove to be the most extensive display incorrectly in Mail when be found throughout Mac OS X Miller says that “… in their
Snow Leopard update yet. scrolling due to bugs in many popular minds, [Mac owners] don’t have
TUAW reported on Friday that • Issue resolved that caused applications from different a security problem until it
the latest build of 10.6.3 (known machines using BTMM and the finished tweaking (and vendors; affects their bottom line, which
as 10D572, for those of you Bonjour Sleep Proxy to wake trimming) the code! Security OS X has a large attack surface hasn’t been the case, yet.” And
p a y i n g o b s e s s i v e l y - c l o s e unexpectedly But the thing I’m most consisting of open source that ‘yet’ is the real issue here.
attention) was seeded to interested in is whether 10.6.3 components (i.e. webkit, libz, Mac OS X 10.6.3 probably
developers only two days after a OK, as far as lists go, this one’s addresses the alleged boat-load etc), closed source 3rd party addresses some vulnerabilities
previous build. Typically, ever- not not very exciting, I know. of security exploits identified by components (Flash), and closed — we can expect at least that
shortening intervals between But, what if you fired-up hacker extraordinaire and source Apple components much — but I wonder how
build seeds indicates imminent Software Update and were security expert Charlie Miller. (Preview, mdnsresponder, etc). obsessively Apple focuses on
release to the public. TUAW offered the latest pre-release At this week’s CanSecWest Bugs in any of these types of the security of its venerable OS,
describes the latest build as version of 10.6.3? Would that security conference, Miller will components can lead to remote and, whatever its actual efforts,
focusing on “Graphics Drivers, excite you? Update Snafu discuss how he discovered them compromise. Sooner, Not Later is it enough? Can Apple do what
Quicktime, Images & Photos, According to TUAW’s Michael (all 20 of them) via a process It seems not a keynote goes by Microsoft still struggles to
Mail, and Security Certificates.” Grothaus, this is exactly what known as ‘fuzzing’. His without Steve Jobs showing us produce; a user-friendly, user-
Oh, what’s that? Want more happened to one Mac owner last presentation is subtitled “An one of his shareholder-and- proof OS that isn’t riddled with
details? OK, here’s the full week. They don’t name him, analysis of fuzzing 4 products media-friendly line charts vulnerabilities?
rundown of features and fixes probably to save him the email- with 5 lines of Python” and, illustrating Macintosh sales. Every update to Mac OS X
we can expect in 10.6.3; avalanche from other Mac according to security website h- You know the ones, always reminds me that the days of
• Compatibility issues with owners — not to mention the online.com, those 4 products are trending up-and-to-the-right. security-indifference amongst
OpenGL-based applications inevitable Cease & Desist order all made by Apple; Apple is clearly proud the Mac Mac owners are well and truly
• Performance improvements from Apple (you just know In cracking competitions, it is is selling better than ever (in a numbered.
for 64-bit Logic Apple would bully the poor regularly the Apple systems conference call in late 2009, Tell me I’m worried for no
• Changes to QuickTime X that chap into silence, right?) but which are cracked first by Apple announced that, for 19 good reason, or scream at me
increase reliability and improve they do offer up this tantalizing attackers. Miller has argued for out of the previous 20 quarters, and call me a moron for not
compatibility and security screengrab of the autoupdate some time that Mac OS X is the Mac grew faster than the rest already using security software,
• Printing reliability and snafu: among the comparatively of the market!) in the comments below.
compatibility with third-party Image courtesy of TUAW insecure operating systems. Statements from Apple
printers Grothaus writes that the update Apple users are currently “safer, regarding sales are always kinda
• Issues resolved that prevented “…weighs in at a whopping but less secure. tricky; they’re usually vague
files from copying to Windows 1.19GB” and, at that size, I’m “Mac OS X is like living in a enough to allow pretty much
shares happy to wait until Apple has any positive interpretation but,
56 Apple/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition
Niecy Nash Squeezes
Gatekeeping the iPad: Apple Being Shrewd About In One Final
'Dancing' Rehearsal
What Will Appear at Launch (ETonline - Breaking News)
Darrell Etherington bookseller thanks to this shrewd Submitted at 3/22/2010 5:38:00 AM
(TheAppleBlog) move. The e-book market is one
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:00:59 AM of the few where it will actually The clock is ticking fast in the
be playing catch-up. Amazon in dance studio. Niecy Nash and
How do you control what will particular will have a built-in partner Louis Van Amstel are
and won’t appear on your brand user base at launch, as owners of using every last second to
new platform on launch day if its Kindle devices and those perfect their "sassy" cha-cha for
you’re Apple, without outright who’ve already built up a library tonight's "Dancing with the
banning apps in a way that on the iPhone and computer Stars" premiere.
might invite accusations of versions of its software could With her "secret weapon" by
attempting to start a monopoly? well be reluctant to start again her side to lead her through the
If it’s the e-book market you’re with another seller, in the same choreography, Niecy told ET,
after, apparently all you have to way that Canon DSLR owners "I'm gonna bring it tonight." She
do is limit pre-release device generally won’t switch to Nikon promises to entertain and dazzle
access. camera bodies since they lose in a "very saucy, very uplifting"
Amazon was not one of the the use of all their lenses. dress. As for what to look
select few companies that got My guess is that since Apple is forward to in the dance steps,
access to pre-launch hardware launching iBooks in the U.S. "The Insider"'s panelist teases,
with regards to iPad only so far, its main concern "Louis Van Amstel has
development. Neither was isn’t really a customer-grab choreographed my jiggly parts
Barnes & Noble. That honor from Amazon and others and made them a part of the
was reserved for others, like already in the business. I’d say routine."
Major League Baseball, the Cupertino is more interested in So far Niecy has eluded injury,
New York Time and the Wall the extremely large potential but comments, "How is my
Street Journal. None of which, marketshare that remains in the body holding up? I don't know
doesn’t necessarily guarantee its own iBookstore will be ready
you’ll note, directly compete for form of people who haven’t yet because everything from the
the effectiveness of the real for the launch, though it will
dollars with anything Apple will gotten on the e-book neck down is numb."
thing. Accordingly, the only be available as a download,
be offering on the platform. bandwagon. Just like with
booksellers will wait until they and not pre-loaded on devices.
Since Amazon and Barnes & gaming, Apple will be looking
can check final versions on The B&N and Amazon iPhone
Noble won’t be able to test their to convert casuals who adopt its
iPads, which will only happen apps will be available, of course,
e-reader apps on actual iPads platform for other reasons, and
after the street date, before and compatible with the iPad,
prior to its launch, neither will I’d be surprised if we didn’t see
submitting iPad-specific apps to but they probably won’t be that
be offering the software for them become an industry
Apple. appealing running in the iPad
download on launch day. Sure, leading force overnight all over
This will give Apple a valuable software’s shoehorned
they could use the virtual iPad again in this new arena.
head-start when it comes to compatibility modes.
development tool now included
selling books on the iPad. Apple needs the time it will
with the iPad SDK, but a
There’s almost no question that gain as the sole iPad-specific
smooth virtual experience
E-reader News Edition Apple/ TV/ Entertainment/ 57

Amazon Previews Kindle App for Christian Slater's Latest

iPad (and Other Tablets) Will Be a Fox Pilot
Darrell Etherington new ones of its own as of yet. Allison Waldman (TV Squad)
(TheAppleBlog) Visually, the Kindle app looks Submitted at 3/22/2010 11:00:00 AM

Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:30:33 AM like what you’d expect. Page

turn animations are included, or Nobody can accuse Christian
It may not be ready in time for you can turn them off if you’re Slater of not trying to get
the launch of the iPad, but not so crazy about mimicking a himself into a hit TV series.
Amazon wants you to know that paper reading experience on First there was'My Own Worst
its Kindle app will be worth the your digital devices, which I Enemy,' then this year's'The
wait. That’s why it’s created a most definitely am not. You can Forgotten.' Two swings, two
special preview page of the also change font size and color, misses. Will the third strike rule
upcoming software, dubbed and background color in order to apply if his next project fails to
“Kindle Apps for Tablet make the reading experience make the cut? Whatever the
Computers” with “Including the more comfortable. outcome, you gotta give the guy
iPad” in much smaller font Kindle for tablets also supports credit for trying. Today, the
beside that primary title. full color images and graphics, Hollywood Reporter reported
So its clear that while Amazon especially for those (like me) which is great news not only for that Christian Slater's been cast
wants to capitalize on the iPad’s who are already hardware fans of comics and graphic in an Adam Goldberg comedy
hype and pre-release popularity, Kindle owners. novels, which haven’t really pilot for Fox. also in the pilot. He's the Don
it also doesn’t want to go as far First, the Kindle tablet app will been a great option on the There's action as well as Juan and reconnaissance expert.
as helping Apple convey the offer Whispersync services, Kindle thus far, but also for comedy apparently, with Slater Continue reading Christian
impression that it’s the only which means you can pick up textbooks, recipe books, and playing the leader of a group Slater's Latest Will Be a Fox
tablet game in town. To me, the where you last left off reading, some more adventurous fiction called Titan Team, a bunch of Pilot
“Including the iPad” sounds like no matter which device you that uses in text images and font young, brilliant security experts. Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities,
a begrudging admission of the “I happened to be using. I can’t color changes as narrative He's ex-military and a maverick. Casting, Reality-Free
was wrong and you were right” count how many times I’ve used devices. Writer/actor Trevor Moore from Permalink| Email this| |
variety. this between my Kindle 2 and Finally, you’ll be able to shop 'The Whitest Kids U'Know' is Comments
Of course, it might just be that my iPhone, so I can’t imagine it in the Kindle store via a built-in
Amazon would like to appeal to being any less useful with my web view, so you can indulge all Resonance of Starbucks Ad Correlates
the widest group of potential iPad when it finally graces these those buying impulses on the fly
customers possible, while at the Canadian shores. instead of having to wait till you
Directly to Appropriateness of Suicide
same time acknowledging that The app will also synch your have access to a full computer.
Apple is likely to win the brand n o t e s a n d h i g h l i g h t s a n d All-in-all, it sounds like it’ll
[Kill Yourself]
r e c o g n i t i o n f i g h t i n t h a t bookmarks across all compatible give my Kindle 2 a run for its Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
particular category. Whatever devices, including the recently money, even with potentially Submitted at 3/22/2010 12:44:02 PM

the marketing logic, the actual r e l e a s e d K i n d l e f o r M a c eye-straining backlighting.

software Amazon is previewing software, which can read notes Starbucks Sumatra blend: "It's
looks to be pretty fantastic, and bookmarks, but not make about the most adventurous cyanide. [ Copyranter] More »
thing you can do and still be at
work by 9 a.m." Don't forget the
58 TV/ Entertainment/ E-reader News/ E-reader News Edition

How Will Christiane Tiger Woods Says

Amanpour Change Nothing in ESPN, Golf
ABC's 'This Week?' Channel Interviews
Danny Gallagher (TV Squad) Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 10:02:00 AM Submitted at 3/22/2010 10:28:00 AM
How to Make It in
Here's a bit of news from our So, did you see the interview America Lesson of the
"Department of News that that Tiger Woods gave to ESPN Week: Flirting Gets You
Everyone and Their Mother Saw and The Golf Channel
Coming." Needless to say, yesterday? It was ... odd. It was Everything [Recaps]
they've been a little behind with one of those interviews that had Brian Moylan (Gawker)
the health care bill debate, and the appearance of telling us a Submitted at 3/22/2010 12:46:55 PM
Tiger Woods' apology . lot, but after it was over you
Christiane Amanpour has realize that you learned exactly Florida and they had to be held This is a lesson that the women
accepted the offer from ABC's nothing and your opinion on the to five minutes. of the world have known for a
news division to anchor the matter didn't change one bit. Continue reading Tiger Woods long time, but thanks to HBO's
Sunday show 'This Week,' Woods talked to ESPN's Tom Says Nothing in ESPN, Golf Horatio Alger story for hipsters,
taking over for George Rinaldi(the interview that I saw) Channel Interviews men might get hip to it, too. Oh,
Stephanopolous, who now for five minutes and to Golf Filed under: Sports, Celebrities, what a cruel world that will be!
anchors'Good Morning Channel's Kelly Tilghman for Reality-Free More »
and nays on both sides of the
America'. This means she'll be five minutes. The rules were he Permalink| Email this| |
question.
leaving CNN where she has could be asked anything but the Comments
racked up an impressive 18-year
Continue reading How Will
interviews had to be held at the
Amazon, Barnes &
Christiane Amanpour Change Noble prepping iPad e-
body of work consisting mostly Isleworth Country Club in
ABC's 'This Week?'
of international reporting and
Filed under: News, Casting, readers (Macworld.com
journalism. via Yahoo! News)
Reality-Free
However, does this give her the
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chops to moderate a political
Comments for e-readers)
fueled talk fest? There are yeas
Submitted at 3/22/2010 6:22:00 AM

Health Care Madness: 'Vote-a-Rama' and Crazy Terri buzzed up: Demise of
coral, salamander show impact
Legal Challenges Yet to Come [Whee] of Web (AP)
31 seconds ago 2010-03-
Pareene (Gawker) health care bill this week. But its goddamn time. Then: the 22T09:49:43-07:00
Submitted at 3/22/2010 12:31:09 PM then there's more voting to be lawsuits! More » Five Filters featured article:
done, on the reconciliation Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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Ben Affleck Raises What We Learned From Tiger’s

Awareness To Troubled Interviews
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
African Nation Submitted at 3/21/2010 7:16:14 PM
He used strong, negative words
like horrific, disgusting, reckless
and brutal to characterize the
minutes, plus a little
spilloverprevented either
interrogator from diving deep.
(ETonline - Breaking News) long -- it is one of the worst Tiger Woods answered rapid- philandering behavior which led Mr. Rinaldi in particular seemed
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:17:00 AM humanitarian tragedies in the fire questions in two short to the current scandal and his to be racing furiously to get in
world,” said Affleck, who broadcast interviews Sunday, withdrawal from golf. the maximum number of
ET has the latest... returned today from a five-day the first time he has made In trying to explain his questions, as if he were a
Ben Affleck is lending his trip to the region. "I brought himself available to the media extensive marital infidelity, he contestant on the old television
efforts to the African nation of together this unique collection this way since his Nov. 27 car used several similar phrases and game show, Beat The Clock.
Congo by launching the new of partners in order to bring accident. sentences in both interviews. He Consequently ESPN got many
initiative. Read on for details. their experience in humanitarian None of his answers provided said he had gotten away from Twitter-length answers.
The Academy Award winner r e l i e f a n d s u s t a i n a b l e significant new information, but his core values, including Ms. Tilghman seemed more
has launched the Eastern Congo development to bear as we focus the twin five-to-six-minute especially the Buddhism of his composed. She noticed, for
Initiative (ECI), which supports like never before on local sessionswith ESPN and the Golf mother. He said he had been in example, that Mr. Woods was
Congolese organizations that solutions to challenges in this Channelgave viewers a chance denial, had felt entitled and had wearing a white, double-strand
help survivors of rape and region. Right now, the attention to see Mr. Woods in a less rationalized his behavior. bracelet and asked about it. Its
s e x u a l v i o l e n c e , h e l p s paid to this crisis doesn’t match scripted situation than his public I was living a life of a lie, he Buddhist, its for protection and
reintegrated child soldiers into the needs of those affected by it. reading of an apology Feb. 19. told ESPNs Tom Rinaldi. strength and I certainly need
their communities, increases We will raise that attention The biggest revelation, actually, But he insisted his close that, Mr. Woods responded.
access to health care and l e v e l , a n d w o r k w i t h t h e came during the Golf Channel advisors were not aware of his Mr. Woods has said he will
education, promotes economic extraordinary Congolese people studio show after that networks extra-marital affairs. It was all return to golf at the Masters on
o p p o r t u n i t y a n d c r e a t e s who are making a positive interview aired at 7:30 p.m. ET. me, he told the Golf Channels April 8. The interviews Sunday
community-level peace and d i f f e r e n c e i n t h e i r o w n Kelly Tilghman, who conducted Ms. Tilghman. Im the one who were clearly part of a broader,
reconciliation programs. communities." the interview, said that she had did it, Im the one who acted the planned strategy for easing back
"The situation in eastern Congo learned beforehand that Ari way I acted, no one knew what into the public eye. They had the
has been neglected for far too Fleischer, the former press was going on. Im sure if more feel of being trial balloons, as if
Get feedback and collaborate secretary to President George
W. Bush who had been advising
people would have known in my
inner circle they wouldve
Mr. Woods were testingin a
highly controlled
about ideas with Collaboratize Mr. Woods on his public
rehabilitation, had withdrawn
stopped it, or tried to put a stop
to it. But I kept it all to myself.
circumstancehow he, his
interlocutors and the public
Barry Ritholtz (The Big audience. I speak with CEO, his services because he felt he Mr. Woods refused to give new would respond to public
Picture) Richard Lang, and learn more was becoming too big a part of details about the night of his questioning.
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:10:28 AM about this new service that the story. accident, the issues he and his When Mr. Rinaldi asked what
launches tomorrow at the Mr. Woods, standing wife Elin are working on, or the kind of reaction he expected
Collaborize f r o m DEMO conference. uncomfortably in a green exact nature of the therapy he is from fans, Mr. Woods said, I
http://democrasoft.com/ will let Five Filters featured article: sweater and Nike cap on the undergoing. He said those don’t know. I don’t know. I’m a
you organize conversations, Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: portico of the golf clubhouse at matters were private. little nervous about that to be
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your coworkers, friends, or Term Extraction. near Orlando where he lives, the interviewsMr. Woodss camp
appeared subdued and contrite. limited each network to five
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addition to ESPN, Woods spoke
with the Golf Channel. The
interview was offered to ESPN
with no restrictions on
minute time limitation, plus an
agreement to hold it for airing
on television beginning at 7:30
p.m. ET.
Woods hasn't been questioned
by reporters since he was
involved in a one-car crash
outside his Florida home in the
early-morning hours of Nov. 27.
He declined to answer
questions about the specifics of
the accident.
"Well, it's all in the police
report," he said. "Beyond that
everything's between [wife] Elin
and myself and that's private."
“ from Dec. 31 until Feb. 11, then
I was living a life of a lie, I
really was. And I was doing a
lot of things ... that hurt a lot of
people. And stripping away
denial and rationalization you
start coming to the truth of who
you really are and that can be
very ugly. But then again, when
you face it and you start
conquering it and you start
living up to it, the strength that I
feel now ... I've never felt that
type of strength.”-- Tiger Woods
in interview with ESPN's Tom
Rinaldi
He also wouldn't get into
specifics about his infidelity,
though he did tell Rinaldi that
"just one is enough ... and
obviously that wasn't the case."
After his auto accident, Woods
admitted to infidelity and said
Dec. 11 he would take an
"indefinite break" from golf.
Woods spoke publicly for the
first time Feb. 19, when he
confessed to cheating on his
wife. But he didn't take any
questions after his 13-plus-
minute statement.
"I hurt a lot of people, not just
my wife," he told Rinaldi on
Sunday. "My friends, my
colleagues, the public, kids who
looked up to me. There were a
lot of people that thought I was
a different person and my
actions were not according to
that. That's why I had to
apologize. I was so sorry for
what I had done."
He was in a Mississippi clinic
went to an Arizona clinic for a
week of family counseling after
his Feb. 19 statement.
He didn't say what he was in
treatment for, but did say "It
was really tough to look at
yourself in a light you never
want to look at yourself, that's
pretty brutal."
Woods denied that any of his
associates were involved in his
off-the-course affairs. "It was all
me," he told the Golf Channel.
"I'm the one who did it. I'm the
one who acted the way I acted.
No one knew what was going on
when it was going on.
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"I'm sure if more people would
have known in my inner circle,
they would have stopped it or
tried to put a stop to it. But I
kept it all to myself," he said.
Harig: Interview won't appease
everyone
Not until Tiger Woods faces the
music without time restrictions
will he be able to put all the
questions behind him about his
sordid tale, writes ESPN.com's
Bob Harig. Story
Woods told ESPN's Rinaldi that
he didn't seek addiction
treatment sooner because "I
didn't know I was that bad." He
said he married Elin in 2004
"because I loved her" and that
his wife was "shocked," "hurt,"
and "angry" when he told her of
his actions.
He called telling his wife and
his mother among his lowest
points.
"I hurt them the most," he said.
"Those are the two people in my
life who I'm closest to and to
say the things that I've done,
truthfully to them [was] very
painful."
In his interview with the Golf
Channel, Woods talked about
his father, Earl, who died in
2006.
"He'd be very disappointed in
me," Woods said. "We'd have
numerous long talks and that's
one of the things I miss," Woods
said. "I wish I could have had
his guidance through all this, to
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(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) detonated millions of brackets. showing up in the box scores. those A’s look good to anyone
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:39:14 AM At Yahoo, Dan Wetzel writes Among these are a few who has ever received a report
that the weekend’s stunning recognizable former college card, but they suggest something
There have been years when the results are a natural outgrowth stars, from former VMI point- less complimentary: a hitter or
team everyone expected to win of a mentality for many mid- production dynamo Reggie pitcher who is too good for
the NCAA tournament won it — major teams that refuse to see Williams (currently lighting it Triple-A ball but not good
like North Carolina last year, for t h e m s e l v e s a s u n d e r d o g s . up in Golden State) to ex-Siena enough for the majors. In
instance. But it’s hard to “These teams aren’t just good, star Kenny Hasbrouck, the first Pittsburgh’s Garrett Jones, a
remember a year in which they’re confident,” Wetzel seeds? Of course not,” the Saints player to reach the NBA. breakout star as a 28-year-old
college-basketball fans woke up writes. “They believed that a Philadelphia Inquirer’s Bob What all those players have in rookie in 2009, Kepner finds an
bored on the Monday following Sweet 16 appearance was every Ford writes. “It means that the common, beyond their obscurity example of an erstwhile Four-A
the first two rounds. Some bit as much their destiny as the NCAA tournament — this just to people who are not either player who shed the label.* * *
tournaments offer more upsets Kansas or Villanova kids did.” i n — i s s o m e t i m e s m o r e hoops nerds or regular readers As anyone who has ever
or more memorable games than In the Los Angeles Times, Chris exciting than fair, and that’s of Ridiculous Upside, is a attempted to run a marathon —
others but, at least for your Dufresne argues that the upsets what makes it unique.” background in the NBA or even watched other people
Fixer, there has never been a were the result of a shrinking There are arguments to be made D e v e l o p m e n t L e a g u e . run a marathon — could tell
tournament that didn’t offer “talent gap” between big-ticket that Kansas’s draw was unfairly In the Washington Post, Carlo you, 26.2 miles is a very long
enough of either. Getty Images conferences and the erstwhile stacked with tough teams, given Rotella offers a glimpse inside way. And if it seems like a long
Many more people know how to mid-majors. the Jayhawks’ top-overall-seed t h e D - L e a g u e f r o m t h e way to the runners and
spell the name of Northern Two Sweet 16 teams with status. But those cases look p e r s p e c t i v e o f t h e h o o p s spectators, you can only imagine
Iowa’s Ali Farokhmanesh than unimposing seeds bear names a unconvincingly abstract relative vagabonds and hopefuls filling how long it seems to the city
did a week ago. bit more recognizable than to the hard-fought basketball the minor league’s roster. “You officials forced to re-route
Still, college-hoops fans had to Northern Iowa’s. At CBS game against a flesh-and-blood play hard and well to catch the traffic and close off streets, and
wake up feeling somewhat, Sports, Jerry Palm warns readers team that bounced Kansas from attention of an NBA team, and if to the police and fire
well, grateful this Monday. to label sixth-seeded Xavier — the tournament. In the Kansas you get the call, you pack your departments tasked with keeping
Sure, many of our brackets are which dispatched three-seed Pitt City Star, Jason Whitlock bags and leave your minor order along the marathon route.
in tatters and our earlier claims on Sunday — a mid-major at refuses to play that game. “A league team behind without a In recent years, the Los Angeles
to expertise in serious doubt. their peril. In the Seattle Times, p e r f e c t s t o r m w i p e d o u t second thought,” Rotella writes. Marathon wound through some
But if every NCAA tournament Steve Kelley writes that 11th- Kansas,” Whitlock writes. “D-League players wait for that of the most easily managed
o f f e r s f a n s e n o u g h g r e a t seeded Washington is finally “Period.”* * * break, and work toward it, in a areas of that labyrinthine
basketball, surprising storylines playing up to expectations. Given the nonstop sensory distinctive in-between state. metropolis, but since being
and memorable teams, this While you probably won’t hear assault of college basketball’s T h e y ’ r e a s c l o s e a s a purchased by Los Angeles
year’s tournament has offered many fans complaining about all last several days, it’s easy to professional basketball player Dodgers owner Frank McCourt
something close to too much of those excellent games, it’s not forget that the NBA regular can get to the NBA without in 2008, the L.A. Marathon has
all of those. Witness, among the d i f f i c u l t t o d e t e c t s o m e season is still happening. The being in it, but they still have a worked hard to increase its L.A.
Sweet 16 members, ninth- disappointment from certain league’s elites have pretty well long way to go to realize their appeal. This year’s iteration,
seeded Northern Iowa and 10th- quarters. Each upset leaves at separated themselves from the dream.” held Sunday, looked nothing
seeded St. Mary’s and 12th- least one marquee program rest, and much of the rest of the In the New York Times, Tyler like marathons past, ESPN LA’s
seeded Cornell, which became disappointed in its wake. “Does NBA has been reduced to K e p n e r o f f e r s a l o o k a t Ramona Shelburne writes.
the first Ivy League team to that mean Kansas shouldn’t playing out the string at this baseball’s equivalent of the D- “From start to finish, concept to
reach the round of 16 since have been a No. 1 seed, or that point. It’s about as interesting as League All-Star: the effective execution, dream to daylight on
1979. UNI’s shocking Saturday Georgetown and New Mexico it sounds, generally, except for minor-league players who bear SWEETER page 65
upset of top overall seed Kansas shouldn’t have been No. 3 some of the unexpected names the dreaded AAAA tag. All
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3-pointer that lifted the fifth-
seeded Spartans to an 85-83 win
over fourth-seeded Maryland on
Sunday.
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, the round of 16 for the ninth
time in 13 seasons, a string of
consistency topped in the
NCAA tournament by only by
Duke, and is two wins away
from a nation-high sixth Final
The Spartans will play ninth-
seeded Northern Iowa in the
Midwest Regional semifinals on
Friday night in St. Louis, facing
the team that knocked top-
seeded Kansas out of their path.
"We can't look at whoever lost,"
Durrell Summers said after
scoring 26 points to send the
Spartans home happy from
Spokane, Wash. "We got to
advance and prepare for
Northern Iowa."
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Lucas.
Chris Allen was limited to just
4 minutes against the Terrapins
because of an injury to the arch
in his right foot, Delvon Roe
hobbled on his surgically
repaired right knee against them
and Raymar Morgan played
with a broken tooth.
"We've got a `MASH' unit,"
Izzo said. "The bottom of Chris'
foot is purple, Delvon is playing
on one leg and Raymar looks
like a hockey player with his
tooth cut in half. We think we
can get Chris back -- after
showing toughness we've never
seen from him -- and we'll hold
Delvon out of practice to let him
rest as much as we can."
Defining Loss Of Lucas
Michigan State will have a big
void to fill if Kalin Lucas can't
play against Northern Iowa. The
guard is a big part of everything
the Spartans do.
With Lucas out, Lucious
becomes a starter, walk-on Mike
Kebler has to play more and
versatile forward Draymond
Green becomes even more
valuable with the ball in his
hands.
Lucas was hurt late in the first
half, landing awkwardly after a
shot, and did not return. He is a
two-time All-Big Ten player
and 2009 conference player of
the year. He also leads the team
in scoring -- averaging nearly 15
points -- assists and playing
time.
The injured players are the
same ones that drew Izzo's
tough love this past season: The
coach kicked Lucas out of a
practice, suspended Allen
during the Big Ten tournament
and Lucious from a game at
Penn State.
Now the Spartans will face the
Panthers missing their star in
Lucas and perhaps Allen.
"We're going to need everybody
we have in uniform to step up,"
Izzo said. "There were times we
had two walk-ons, a freshman
and a sophomore on the court
Sunday and that probably won't
be the last time in the
tournament. Northern Iowa is
good, but thank God they're not
a team that presses like
Maryland."
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Interviews presses Israel
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interviews this afternoon, one The ESPN interview, by in my life who Im closest to and
with The Golf Channel and one reporter Tom Rinaldi, was also to say the things that Ive done, Hillary Clinton, US secretary of
with ESPN. Both interviews - short, about five to six minutes. truthfully to them, is…honestly state, warned Israel that its
the first he has given since his E S P N h a s r e l e a s e d t h e wasvery painful. survival could depend on
car accident on November 29 - following excerpt from the have…..Ive done some pretty On what his measure of success negotiating a peace deal with the
will be aired this evening at 7:30 interview: bad things in my life. And uh, will be at the Masters: Palestinians and its Arab
p.m. ET. Each network will On why he got married: all came to a head. But now, Woods: Well, playing is one neighbours, in an eagerly
make the interview available Woods: Why? Cause I loved after treatment, going for thing. Im excited to get back awaited speech that followed the
online on its Web site. Reuters her. I loved Elin with everything inpatient treatment for 45 days and play, Im excited to get to recent rift between the two
Tiger Woods, shown during the I have. And thats something that and more outpatient treatment, see the guys again. I really miss countries.
Presidents Cup last October, makes me feel even worse. That um, Im getting back to my old a lot of my friends out there. I In her speech to the American
gave his first two broadcast I did this to someone I loved roots. miss competing. But still, I still Israel Public Affairs Committee
interviews since his Nov. 29 car that much. On what happened the day of have a lot more treatment to do, in Washington, Mrs Clinton
accident today. On the depth of his infidelity: the car accident: and just because Im playing, called for concrete steps from
The Golf Channel interview, by Woods: Well, just one is Woods: Well you know its all doesnt mean Im gonna stop Benjamin Netanyahu’s
anchor Kelly Tilghman, took enough. Um, and obviously that in the police report. Beyond that going to treatment. government and its interlocutors
place at Mr. Woodss home in wasnt the case, and Ive made everything’s between Elin and On the expected/hopeful and pledged US support for
the Isleworth community near my mistakes. And as Ive said, myself and that’s private. reception from fans: Israel’s security while stressing
Orlando and lasted less than 10 Ive hurt so many people, and so On why he didnt seek treatment Woods: I don’t know. I don’t US interests as well as Israel’s.
minutes. No restrictions were many people I have to make an before all the news broke: know. Im a little nervous about Five Filters featured article:
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happened the night of his car my life. A lot of ugly things moments of having to tell his
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have him help straighten me up.
I know he would have done it."
He also told the Golf Channel
that he will eventually talk to his
children about what has
transpired in his life.
Asked how well the world
knows him, Woods told ESPN's
Rinaldi: "A lot better now. I
was living a life of a lie, I really
was. And I was doing a lot of
things, like I said, that hurt a lot
of people. And stripping away
denial and rationalization you
start coming to the truth of who
you really are and that can be
very ugly.
"But then again, when you face
it and you start conquering it
and you start living up to it, the
strength that I feel now," he
said, "... I've never felt that type
of strength."
Woods returned to practice
when he got home from
Arizona. Swing coach Hank
Haney joined him last week.
Woods announced on March 16
that he would return at the
Masters, a tournament he has
won four times (most recently in
2005).
For his return to public life,
Woods enlisted the help of
former White House press
secretary Ari Fleischer, who had
recently worked with Mark
McGwire on his return to
organized baseball -- and his
acknowledgement that he had
used steroids. Fleischer
acknowledged in an e-mail to
The Associated Press that he
had been working for Woods
and had decided to withdraw.
Woods, who will have been idle
for 144 days, said he is ready to
return to golf.
"I'm excited to get back and
play, I'm excited to get to see
the guys again," he said. "I
really miss a lot of my friends
out there. I miss competing.
But still, I still have a lot more
treatment to do, and just because
I'm playing, doesn't mean I'm
[going to] stop going to
treatment."
Woods last played on the PGA
Tour in the Tour Championship
on Sept. 28, 2009, where he
finished second. Woods won the
Australian Masters in
Melbourne on Nov. 15 for his
82nd worldwide victory.
Jim Furyk, who won the rain-
delayed Transitions
Championship on Sunday, was
given a transcript of Woods'
comments as he walked in to
address the media. Woods'
interview was shown at about
the time he was finishing off his
win (which came 90 minutes
after the scheduled finish of the
Transitions event).
"I wish him well," Furyk said.
"... I think it's good for him to
get his face out there and have
people see him. They are going
to make their judgments, but I
think it allows him to kind of
move on and get focused for the
next thing."
CBS was offered a chance to
interview Woods, but declined
because of the five-minute time
limit restriction. CBS Sports
spokeswoman LeslieAnne Wade
told The Associated Press that
CBS would be interested in an
extended interview with Woods
"without any restrictions."
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Basketball Game of the Day
Vanderbilt beat DePaul 83-76
in overtime, the first extra
session game in the tournament
to date.
The Commodores (23-10), the
sixth seed in the Sacramento
region, used an 11-0 run at the
start of overtime to advance to
the second round for the seventh
time in 10 years.
"Overtime is about heart," said
Vanderbilt senior Merideth
Marsh (pictured right), who
scored nine of her 26 points in
OT. "It's a mental game, and
you don't want to walk away
with a loss."
Upset of the Day
Is this any way to win an
NCAA tournament game: Go
the final 12:17 of the game
without scoring from the floor.
Watch your two best players
foul out in the closing minutes.
Oh, yeah, and turn the ball over
30 times.
It must work, as 12-seed
Wisconsin-Green Bay, one of
the last teams into the field, did
all those things, and still
knocked Virginia, the fifth seed,
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out of the Dayton regional 69-
67.
The Phoenix (28-4) nearly
dropped a 16-point lead but sank
five free throws down the
stretch to hold off the Cavaliers
(21-10). In all, Wisconsin-Green
Bay hit 34 of 40 foul shots on
the night to advance to a second
-round meeting with Iowa State.
Also receiving votes in this
category were San Diego State's
74-63 win over Texas in Austin.
The 11th seeded Aztecs (22-10)
beat the Longhorns (22-11), the
sixth seed, behind 32 points
from Jene Morris for their
second first-round upset in as
many years.
After Saturday's first-round
action, when all 16 higher seeds
won their games, Sunday saw
four schools with double-digit
seeds advance.
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NCAA rejects Memphis' final appeal

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Memphis
must vacate its record 38-win
2007-08 after the NCAA
rejected its appeal.
The NCAA announced Monday
Committee ruled against
Memphis, which was found to
use an ineligible player,
believed to be Derrick Rose.
Kansas in the national title game
that season.
The NCAA originally ordered
Memphis to vacate the season
and forfeit money on Aug. 20.
Memphis had appealed, arguing
the penalties were
unprecedented and that the
liability when Rose was ruled
retroactively ineligible for an
SAT score that was invalidated
by the Educational Testing
Copyright 2010 by The
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Furyk Ends Drought at
Transitions
Mick Elliott (FanHouse Main) so inviting Furyk could have
Submitted at 3/21/2010 4:01:00 PM been excused for breaking into a
run.
Filed under: PGA In addition to a close to a
PALM HARBOR, Fla. -- As a lengthy day, an end to Furyk's
wet, chilled and dreary day second longest winless drought
moved hastily toward darkness, of a productive career -- 32
Jim Furyk stood on the 18th tee months and 58 tournament
Sunday in the Transitions appearances -- was that close.
Championship at Innisbrook And what happened? He took
Resort knowing it was perfectly the scenic route.
natural to be in a hurry. First Furyk pushed his tee shot
Maybe that was the problem. to the right into pine trees that
Rain and lightning earlier in the line the finishing hole. His
day had delayed Furyk's final- second shot was a semi-shank
group tee time almost five hours that stopped some 100 yards
and now, holding a two-shot short of the green in rough.
lead with the finish line in sight, "Yeah, just went right in front of
he was more than eager to bring me," playing partner K.J. Choi
the day to an official close. said. "I thought it was a moon
The par-4 finish line was 454 passing by."
yards away -- albeit uphill -- and
E-reader News Edition Sports/ Economy/ 67

Tiger Fooling Nobody With 5- X Marks the Spot of

Minute Blips Most Overlooked Mid-
Jay Mariotti (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 2:55:00 PM
normalcy, he comes off as a
plastic man who's trying to
outsmart us. Really now, what
Major
John Walters (FanHouse
Filed under: Golf Not much in more did he say this time that he Main)
life can be accomplished in five hadn't said already in his no-
minutes, phone sexting being questions apology last month? I Submitted at 3/21/2010 3:03:00 PM

one such exception. Certainly, it feel like we're part of a plotted

isn't enough time for the world's Filed under: NCAA
12-step program toward
most prominent athlete when Tournament, NCAA
regaining the public trust, an
he's attempting to explain why Tournament - West Region On
incremental taffy pull that has
he cheated on his wife and slept expansive and willing to answer no chance of succeeding if he Sunday, Xavier beat Pittsburgh,
with half the free world, all every question. But that's doesn't start opening up and the team that knocked them out
while fraudulently promoting a exactly what the harsh ground sitting down for long periods of in the Sweet 16 last season, to
f a m i l y - m a n i m a g e f o r rules were as he specified them, time with interviewers. In one advance to its third consecutive
megabucks. and when his mini-interviews breath, he admits to concern third-round contest in the
Which is why Tiger Woods' were finished with ESPN's Tom about how the public will NCAAs. Only Michigan State
has a streak that long, and the each year. Miller, now at
two TV interviews Sunday Rinaldi and the Golf Channel's receive him at the Masters, Arizona, was with the
night, each a mere 300 seconds Kelly Tilghman, it was clear saying, "I don't know. I don't Musketeers would be going to
their fourth consecutive Sweet Musketeers five seasons and led
in length by his decree, pretty he'd only leaked snippets of his know. I'm a little nervous about them to an NCAA first-round
much left him sunk in the same truest thoughts instead of the that to be honest with you. It 16 if not for a semi-miraculous
3-pointer by Ohio State in 2007. victory in four of the five years.
deep bunker. When he has spent elaborate answers his sins would be nice to hear a couple Matta. Miller. Mack. Three
the last four months in a scandal demand. That contest, a 78-71 overtime
claps here and there. But also coaches in one decade has not
of epic proportion, when he has The last thing we want from hope they clap for birdies, too." win by the Buckeyes, featured
Xavier coach Chris Mack's two impinged Xavier's on-court
been a significant part of the Woods is more control, more And yet, he can't be more prowess, but it's one more that
global consciousness for a calculation, more spin. Even forthcoming for the very fans predecessors at the Cincinnati-
based Jesuit school, Thad Matta the school, despite its
decade and a half, Woods can't w h e n h e ' s t r y i n g t o b e whose favor and applause he unparalleled consistency among
grant his first interviews since remorseful, salvage his marriage seeks. and Sean Miller. Matta, who
coached three years at Xavier non-BCS powers this decade,
his life unraveled without being a n d r e s u m e s o m e s o r t o f has yet to seduce us.
(2001-2004), led them to at least
one NCAA tournament victory

Democrats win historic healthcare vote

(Financial Times - US moves on Monday before social reform in more than 40
homepage) signing the historic reform into years.
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68 Sports/ Game/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition

Teemu Selanne Scores The violent, vulgar first

600th Career Goal trailer for Kick-Ass: The
Adam Gretz (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 2:45:00 PM Game
Andrew Yoon (Joystiq) movie tie-in games. We do see
Filed under: Ducks, NHL
Videos Anaheim Ducks forward mention of Facebook
Submitted at 3/22/2010 11:27:00 AM

Teemu Selanne added another connectivity in this trailer, but

Nearly everything about Kick- it's hard to gauge the precise
milestone to his already
impressive Hall of Fame resume Ass: The Game is bewildering. functionality of the feature. Health Care
Like its movie and comic Still, if both the PS3 and iPhone
on Sunday night when he tallied
the 600th goal of his NHL counterpart, it features young, versions of the game are priced Expenses vs.
career at the 34 second mark of
the second period of Anaheim's
everyday kids killing bad guys right, Kick Ass may be worth
in graphically violent ways. It's checking out, especially for fans Life Expectancy
a bit startling to see a game with of the franchise. Kick-Ass: The Barry Ritholtz (The Big
5-2 win against Colorado. He Picture)
becomes just the 18th player in such vulgar language appear on G a m e will launch
Sharks and is currently in his
league history to reach the Apple's iPhone platform, and simultaneously on PSN and Submitted at 3/22/2010 7:30:25 AM
second stint with Anaheim,
plateau, and only the third how bizarrely random is a iPhone on April 15.
scoring 225 of his goals with the
European player (Jaromir Jagr simultaneous release on iPhone Gallery: Kick-Ass The Game via Columbia / Sam Cook
Ducks.
and Jari Kurri are the others). and PS3 (via PSN)? The violent, vulgar first trailer Five Filters featured article:
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He hit the ground running as a Less unexpected is the apparent f o r K i c k - A s s : T h e G a m e Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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campaign, scoring an incredible The Game, as featured in the on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:27:00 Term Extraction.
winner and a four-time
76 goals -- tied for the league trailer. Predictably, the game EST. Please see our terms for
Olympian for his native Finland.
lead -- with the Winnipeg Jets. looks to be a rather standard use of feeds.
Here's the video of his 600th
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Colorado Avalanche, San Jose low production values we've C o m m e n t s
come to expect from simple,

Hamster Ball rolls onto PSN this week

Andrew Yoon (Joystiq) mammals, Hamsterball looks to "sumo" is supposed to mean, but Hamster Ball rolls onto PSN
Submitted at 3/22/2010 11:58:00 AM be a race through suspended it's true that the PS3 can support this week originally appeared on
mazes, with the goal of up to 7 controllers locally -- so Joystiq on Mon, 22 Mar 2010
TikGames is launching yet achieving faster and faster will Hamsterball be one of the 11:58:00 EST. Please see our
another game on PS3 this week completion times. few games to actually support terms for use of feeds.
via the PlayStation Network: In addition to the requisite this feature? Read| Permalink| Email this|
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hamster-themed mix of " Marble Hamsterball also features a two- for $9.99 on the North
Madness and Super Monkey player split-screen mode and a American PlayStation Store this
Ball." As with other games seven-player "sumo" mode. Thursday, March 25.
f e a t u r i n g p l a s t i c - t r a p p e d We're not entirely sure what Gallery: Hamsterball
E-reader News Edition
Original Alone in the
Dark designer hints at
new project for Ubisoft
Xav de Matos (Joystiq)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 10:58:00 AM
On the website for French
developer Ludoïd(the team
headed up by designer Frédérick
Raynal), a chalkboard image
teases an upcoming project and
features a rather conspicuous
Ubisoft logo nearby. When
translated, the image (pictured
right) tells site visitors to check
the "back" of the chalkboard for
the name of Ludoïd's next
project. Clicking the image flips
the board, but only reveals
rubbed out text. Tease!
Frédérick Raynal is best known
for co-designing the original
Alone in the Dark(1992), a
forebearer of the survival horror
genre. Raynal is also responsible
for the cult-hit Little Big
Adventure series; however,
Ludoïd has already said its
upcoming project will not be a
continuation of that franchise.
So, all we have to go on is
some French text and a
chalkboard that looks
suspiciously like an iPhone or
iPad. Time Commando reboot
anyone?
[Via VG247]
Original Alone in the Dark
designer hints at new project for
Ubisoft originally appeared on
Joystiq on Mon, 22 Mar 2010
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Around the Net In
Media: Old, New Media
Can Co-Exist For
Marketers
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 3/21/2010 10:28:00 PM
As more marketers turn to Web
video, many are increasingly
doing so in addition to, rather in
place of, television. Take, for
instance, "The Next Round
Served Up by Jim Beam," a
Web series for Jim Beam
Hydrophobia site set for bourbon that ESPN plans to
introduce on April 4. Although
the Webisodes will be on
reveal this week ESPN.com, excerpts will appear
during the first commercial
Justin McElroy (Joystiq) the developer's Twitter feed breaks on 11 p.m. episodes of
Submitted at 3/22/2010 12:27:00 PM promises, " All will be revealed "SportsCenter" on the ESPN
v e r y s h o r t l y , " a d d i n g , cable channel.
True to its name, news on Dark "something big is coming." This The pairings of Web video and
Energy Digital's episodic XBLA whole countdown page thing is television reflect a belief that the
(puzzle? horror? action?) game, a little "mid-to-late 2008" for old and new media can coexist
Hydrophobia, has been the very our tastes, but we'll be willing to and benefit from each other.
definition of a trickle. Every few forgive, if the reveal leads to That idea has been reinforced
months, the thing emerges Loch some promising details about recently by growing audiences
N e s s - s t y l e t o r e a s s e r t i t s the game. for the Super Bowl and other
existence, then promptly dives [Via CVG] big events on TV. They seem to
below again. If the game's Hydrophobia site set for reveal be stimulated by blogs and
official site is to be believed, this week originally appeared on social media like Facebook and
though, the peek-a-boo routine Joystiq on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 Twitter, enabling viewers to
may be ending. 12:27:00 EST. Please see our discuss together what they are
Visitors to the page are now terms for use of feeds. watching separately.
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Health-care reform: Hammering home reform

(The Economist: News initially voted against reform financial provisions are its weakness. The Congressional cost curve”, but Mark
analysis) last year. supposed to be passed using the Budget Office (CBO), a non- McClellan of the Brookings
Submitted at 3/21/2010 8:05:38 PM However, the crucial holdouts budget reconciliation rules. partisan agency, estimates that Institution, a think-tank,
were a block of anti-abortion Republicans are noisily claiming the new health reforms will cost explains that the most
Health-care reform Barack Democrats led by Bart Stupak of that some provisions do not some $940 billion over the next meaningful proposals have since
Obama’s health reforms cross Michigan. This group worried meet this test, and therefore decade. Using heroic been “watered down or
the most important threshold that the Senate bill’s provisions must be rejected by the Senate’s assumptions about likely future delayed.” For example, an
Mar 22nd 2010 | From The on abortion were too liberal. parliamentarian. If he does so, revenues (from cuts in Medicare independent commission on
Economist online The breakthrough came when the resultant bill passed by the and doctors’ reimbursements, reforming Medicare got
“TODAY is a day that will rank Mr Obama issued an executive upper chamber would no longer for example), it concludes that defanged, and a promising tax
with the day we passed the Civil order on March 21st confirming be an identical version of the those costs will be more than on gilded (or “Cadillac”)
R i g h t s A c t i n 1 9 6 4 ! ” S o that the new law would not House bill—and therefore, the offset by revenues. In fact, the insurance plans will now be
d e c l a r e d J o h n D i n g e l l , a result in federal funds being lower chamber would once CBO claims the federal deficit diluted and delayed for years.
Democrat from Michigan, on used to fund abortion. Mr again have to vote to approve will actually be cut by over 1 Indeed, it is likely that the
the floor of the House of S t u p a k d e c l a r e d h e w a s the new reconciliation bill. trillion dollars over the next two laudable extension of insurance
Representatives as he argued for satisfied, and the Democrats got Even if there were such a to- decades by this reform. That, coverage now makes it more
passage of President Barack the majority they needed. and-fro, it seems likely that Mr argue fans of the Obama effort, important to tackle the question
Obama’s health-reform package In the event, the Senate bill was Obama, who brought the health means it is a triumph of fiscal of costs. On that, at least, left
on Sunday March 21st. That is passed by the House on a final bill back from near-death, will rectitude. and right seem to agree. Paul
quite a claim, but coming from vote of 219 to 212 just before soon get a final health reform Not so, say critics, observing Krugman, an economics
America’s longest-serving midnight; this now goes to Mr package. The heart of the new that subsidies and other big professor at Princeton and a
congressman (and one whose Obama for signature into law. reform is a restructuring of outlays do not kick in till 2014. liberal booster of reform, said
father also championed health The reconciliation bill then America’s deeply flawed Paul Ryan, a Republican on the eve of the votes, “there is,
reform in Congress) his words passed by a margin of nine insurance market. Insurers congressman, says the CBO as always, a tunnel at the end of
carried weight. votes. Because this is a new bill, would face tough new estimate “has 10 years of tax the tunnel: we’ll spend years if
Democrats were hardly assured it now needs to be approved by regulations forbidding such increases, about half a trillion not decades fixing this thing.”
of victory going into the day’s the Senate. Passing a bill practices as dropping customers dollars, with 10 years of Robert Moffit of the Heritage
legislative wrangling in the uniformly opposed by the with “pre-existing conditions” Medicare cuts, about half a Foundation, a conservative think
House. In order to pass both the Republican minority would (real or trumped up), lifetime trillion dollars, to pay for six -tank opposed to the effort,
principal health reform bill normally require a filibuster- coverage caps and other cruel years of spending” By his agrees, albeit in darker terms:
(identical to a flawed, pork- p r o o f 6 0 v o t e s , b u t t h e practices. In return, though, they reckoning, this reform will “This marks the beginning of
laden bill passed by the Senate Democrats now lack such a would enjoy a vast expansion of prove a “fiscal Frankenstein” the next phase of this 100 years’
b e f o r e C h r i s t m a s ) a n d a super-majority. So they are the country’s private insurance with a true ten-year cost (that is, war.” Readers' comments
“reconciliation” bill (designed to u s i n g a p r o c e d u r a l market. Some 32m of the from 2014 to 2023) of $2.3 The Economist welcomes your
fix many of those flaws), tactic—claiming that health country’s 49m or so uninsured trillion, not $940 billion. views.
Democratic leaders needed 216 r e f o r m i s r e a l l y b u d g e t would be required to get The truth is that ObamaCare Five Filters featured article:
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E-reader News Edition Economy/ Media/ 71
Online Media Daily:
Google set to announce China site closure Canadian Online
(Financial Times - US google.com website could suffer A different scenario could see services group. “Since January,
homepage) and and its share of the search Google maintain a sizeable we have been offering clients
Usage Surpasses TV
Submitted at 3/22/2010 12:29:20 AM advertising market would presence in China. The company advertising on other search (MediaPost | Media News)
dwindle in China. could keep its research staff in engines in China as a back-up Submitted at 3/22/2010 5:31:01 AM
Google could reveal as early as Google in China – what’s at the country and continue to plan. But many continue to go
Monday the closure of its stake build search features suited to for Google because a large Marketing and media research
Chinese search engine and its Company could close all Chinese internet users. majority of digital advertising is firm Ipsos this morning reported
plan for the rest of its China subsidiaries and offices in China Users could access the Chinese- very short-term.” findings of an ongoing tracking
operations, according to a More than 600 staff could lose language interface of So far, most Google staff in study indicating that the weekly
p e r s o n f a m i l i a r w i t h t h e their jobs Google.com through the English China have stayed with the Internet usage of online
situation. Google faces losing most or all -language site and changing the company and attempts to poach Canadians (18.0 hours) has
The US internet giant said on of its 35% search market share language setting, said Cao them have been largely surpassed the number of hours
January 12 it was no longer in the country Junbo, chief analyst at iResearch unsuccessful. spent watching television (16.9
willing to censor its Chinese Beijing could block google.com in Beijing. “But [Google] could A headhunter who had been hours). Ipsos said the weekly
search engine and could pull out A political stand-off between tweak this in a way that every trying to interest engineers for Internet usage of Canadians is
of the country unless a solution China and Washington could user with a China-based internet jobs at IBM’s cloud computing up from 14.9 hours last year,
was found. Since then, Google deepen protocol would automatically unit said nobody at Google while time spent watching
employees, advertisers and the A complete pull-out by Google get the Chinese-language China wanted to move. A television is up from 15.8 hours.
millions in China who use its would indicate a failure to reach interface.” human resources consultant Ipsos said usage of other media,
services have been waiting to even a basic compromise with “They would then move all the working for Microsoft said including newspapers, radio and
find out how far the company’s the Chinese government. This service offerings for the Chinese offers for jobs at Bing had also magazines, is "relatively stable"
retreat from the country will go. could result in a political stand- market on to google.com so for generated very little interest vs. a year ago.
Google could terminate all off, heightening the risk that Chinese users many things among Google China staff. She Five Filters featured article:
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running Google.cn and its The fate of other Google-linked might allow Google to hold on their jobs. “And if not, they’ll be
w h o l l y - o w n e d r e s e a r c h businesses such as the sale of to part of its 35 per cent market waiting for fat severance
subsidiary. More than 300 handsets using the company’s share in China, could only work packages,” she said.
engineers and another 300 local Android platform could also be out if access to google.com Five Filters featured article:
sales staff in Beijing and threatened. remained unobstructed. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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company’s ability to offer they expected Android devices China chief executive of
Chinese services on its main to continue to do well in China. ZenithOptimedia, a media

MediaDailyNews: Maxus Establishes Mideast Presence

(MediaPost | Media News) strategic affiliation with BPG markets. The new alliance, a n a l y t i c s a n d d i g i t a l PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
Submitted at 3/22/2010 10:26:30 AM Media that gives the GroupM called BPG Maxus, will offer c o m m u n i c a t i o n s . Term Extraction.
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Burst.com Launches Web-Based

Software Collaborize
Barry Ritholtz (The Big audiences and internal teams of Collaborize can cost-effectively
Picture) nonprofits and for-profit empower groups and
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:00:46 AM organizations address issues organizations of all sizes:
both large and small and drive businesses, non-profits,
Several emailers have asked me toward actual implementation of governments and their citizens.
about what was the latest collective solutions. The public It taps into the “Wisdom of
information with Burst.com. a n n o u n c e m e n t of We”(TM) to turn a group,
(“Hey, how about some non- Collaborize(TM) was made at organization or social network
public inside information to the Spring DEMO Conference. into a functioning community
trade off of?”) I have been Burst.com is in the process of
unable to discuss as I am a c h a n g i n g i t s n a m e t o
that can organize conversations,
capture great ideas, collect votes
Government’s Share of
Board member, being one of Democrasoft(TM) to underline
those odd ducks who prefer not its new strategic direction.
to go to jail. Collaborize is the first in an
and streamline group decision-
making, all online and in real
time.
Economy, 1950 to 2075
Barry Ritholtz (The Big Table
Since its now official, I can a n t i c i p a t e d s e r i e s o f Burst is presenting at Picture) Chart
point those who are interested to Democrasoft products built Demo.com today; that Charts via CBO, Perot Charts
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:00:46 AM
the following. upon a common platform. presentation will be posted More charts after the jump . . .
H e r e ’ s t h e o f f i c i a l Collaborize arrives on the scene eventually. Peter Boockvar dug up these From Perot Charts:
announcement: backed by the company’s 20 Scobelizer did an interview fascinating charts from this >
Burst.com (BRST) today years of technology expertise with the CEO Richard Lang CBO report from 2002. Source:
announced its long-awaited new and beta partners that include about Collaborize — the video What really surprised me is A 125-Year Picture of the
direction with the launch of Medtronic, Robert Cringely, is here. . . how consistent the US economy Federal Government’s Share of
Collaborize, its new easy-to- TechSoup Global, Monitor Five Filters featured article: has been for most the latter half the Economy, 1950 to 2075
start, e a s y - t o - u s e Group, Maverick Media, Wine Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: of the 20th century: About 20% CBO, No. 1, June 14, 2002;
communications and decision Industry Network and others PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, of GDP. It starts about 19%, Revised July 3, 2002
tool for groups of all sizes. Because of the flexibility and Term Extraction. peaks at about 23% then falls
Collaborize is an online service scalability built into its “cloud back to about 18 and a half%. http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?in
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Research Brief: Big Screens Drive Movie-Goer

Growth, But Cable and Online Encroaching
(MediaPost | Media News) effects and sound quality. Respondents) than 70% of consumers said
Submitted at 3/22/2010 6:15:45 AM People are also looking for Planned Usage television ads, followed by
alternative ways to watch Rental Source movie trailers that they see in-
According to a new consumer movies on their own schedules % Using theatre. Recommendations from
survey conducted by Market and at a lower price, driving Will Increase friends and written movie
Force Information, nearly 70% movie consumption even higher. Will Decrease reviews were also cited by three
of consumers said they planned In this area, the biggest growth No change in 10 consumers.
on going to the movie theatre in story in movie consumption, Cable TV The survey was conducted in
the first three months of 2010, says the report, is the explosion 15% December 2009 from the
and one third of those said they of kiosk movie rentals. More 28% Market Force network of more
planned on seeing three or more than four in 10 consumers 11% than 300,000 consumers. The
movies by the end of March. reported they are using in-store 72% pool of 3,000 respondents
One out of two respondents or mall kiosks such as RedBox Kiosk ranged in age from 19-72 and
pointed to the experience of to rent the latest movie on DVD, 41 reflected a broad spectrum of
viewing a movie on the big surpassing the 36% that rent 26 income levels, with
screen as the reason for going to from physical stores. 10 approximately half reporting
a theatre instead of watching a Even more telling is that 26% 64 incomes of more than $50,000 a
movie in the comfort of their of consumers said they will Physical store year. Approximately 75% were
o w n h o m e . O n e t h i r d o f increase their use of kiosk DVD 36 women, the primary household
respondents said they did not rentals, the highest percentage 12 consumer purchasers. Half had
want to wait to see the latest of any of the movie rental 18 children at home.
release, and one quarter also options. Almost one in five 69 For additional information,
listed that they liked going to expect to rent less frequently Online please see the Market Force
the theatre with friends. from stores in the future, while 27 presentation here.
These results support the online rentals such as Netflix 21 Five Filters featured article:
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from focusing on comfortable said they expect that to increase. 2010
seating and clean facilities to Expectations of Movie Rental When asked what drives them
investing in the latest in digital a s A l t e r n a t i v e ( % o f to seek out a new movie, more
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Amazon, Barnes & Noble prepping Amazon, Barnes &

iPad e-readers (Macworld) Noble Prepping IPad E-
(Yahoo! News Search Results
for e-readers)
Given that Amazon has had an
iPhone version of its Kindle app
for a while and even recently
wants to do it, there is no reason
for Apple to stop them. Apple
has always been more interested
readers (PC World)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 6:36:22 AM
(Yahoo! News Search Results the Kindle Store.
released a beta version of its in selling the razors than the for e-readers)
Posted on by Aayush Arya, Mac client, it seems only logical blades and the more content The New York Times says that
Macworld.com that the software would head to they allow onto the iPad—no Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:56:23 AM both vendors are working on
With the launch of the iPad t h e i P a d . W h a t ’ s m o r e matter which channel it comes apps for reading and buying e-
looming ever closer, more and interesting, however, is whether With the launch of the iPad books-and the screenshot above
from—the more appealing the
more developers are coming or not the iPad app will allow looming ever closer, more and does show a link for shopping in
iPad itself becomes for
forward with plans for the customers to buy content from more developers are coming the Kindle Store-but it's not
consumers.
device. The latest in line are the Kindle Store. forward with plans for the clear whether that will open the
It’s also worth noting that
book retailers Amazon and The New York Times says that device. The latest in line are bookstore within the app itself, à
Apple will not include the
Barnes & Noble, both of which both vendors are working on book retailers Amazon and la Apple's own iBooks app, or
iBooks app pre-loaded on the
are hard at work on their apps for reading and buying e- Barnes & Noble, both of which simply bring up the Web-based
iPad itself; instead, it will be
respective e-book reading apps books—and the screenshot are hard at work on their store in the iPad's browser, as
available as a free download
for the iPad, according to The above does show a link for respective e-book reading apps Amazon's Kindle app for the
from the App Store. That ought
New York Times. for the iPad, according to The iPhone does.
shopping in the Kindle to at least shield apps like the
Neither of those companies Store—but it’s not clear whether New York Times. Some have speculated whether
Kindle and Barnes & Noble e-
were among the ones that got that will open the bookstore Neither of those companies Apple would approve the Kindle
readers from the
physical pre-production iPads to within the app itself, à la were among the ones that got app if it allowed customers to
infamous“duplicates existing
test their applications on and Apple’s own iBooks app, or physical pre-production iPads to purchase books from inside the
functionality” rejection. It’ll be
won't be aiming to make their simply bring up the Web-based test their applications on and app. In my opinion, if Amazon
interesting to see how this
applications available on launch store in the iPad's browser, as won't be aiming to make their wants to do it, there is no reason
situation unfolds.
day. Both apps will feature a Amazon's Kindle app for the applications available on launch for Apple to stop them. Apple
[via Engadget]
completely redesigned interface iPhone does. day. Both apps will feature a has always been more interested
Five Filters featured article:
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that's what we've come to expect purchase books from inside the page-turn animations, because matter which channel it comes
from an e-reader. that's what we've come to expect from-the more appealing the
app. In my opinion, if Amazon
from an e-reader. iPad itself becomes for
AMAZON, Given that Amazon has had an consumers.
continued from page 74 iPhone version of its Kindle app It's also worth noting that Apple
Barnes & Noble e-readers from Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: for a while and even recently will not include the iBooks app
the infamous"duplicates existing PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, released a beta version of its pre-loaded on the iPad itself;
functionality" rejection. It'll be Term Extraction. Mac client, it seems only logical instead, it will be available as a
interesting to see how this that the software would head to free download from the App
situation unfolds. the iPad. What's more Store. That ought to at least
[via Engadget] interesting, however, is whether shield apps like the Kindle and
Five Filters featured article: or not the iPad app will allow AMAZON, page 74
customers to buy content from
E-reader News Edition
Should I Be Worried About Electromagnetic
Pulses Destroying My Electronics?
Lana Birbrair (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 7:02:49 AM
It depends on the source of the
pulse. Electromagnetic pulses
(EMPs) large enough to cause
you trouble come in two
varieties: those produced by the
sun, and those created by a
nuclear bomb or another
military-grade emitter device.
With the sun-related variety,
specifically coronal mass
ejections (CMEs), your gear will
probably be fine. But a really
large CME could take down the
power grid, says Bill Murtagh,
the program coordinator of the
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's
Space Weather Prediction
Center. Power lines transmit
electricity as an alternating
current, but a pulse from a CME
can introduce a direct current
into the system, says Luke van
der Zal, a technical executive at
the nonprofit Electric Power
Research Institute. This can
cause transformers to overheat
and work sluggishly, or fail
altogether.
Despite the grid's numerous
built-in safeguards, if enough
transformers go down, they
could take large chunks of the
grid with them. The only way to
get it running again would be to
replace all the damaged gear.
CMEs aren't usually disastrous,
but the two largest blasts on
record, which took place in
1859 and 1921, could each
knock out the Northeast power
grid if they happened today. On
the bright side, although CMEs
have been known to put
satellites out of commission, our
atmosphere deflects most of the
energy, so the radiation is too
diffuse by the time it reaches
your electronics to destroy them.
A man-made EMP poses a
greater threat. If one goes off in
your neighborhood, there's a
significant risk that the
concentrated pulse will induce
extra voltage in the circuit-board
components, frying them for
good. The best bet for protecting
your electronics is to store them
in a Faraday cage: a cube of
interweaving metals, preferably
copper and quarter-inch-thick
steel, which together can act as
an electromagnetic shield. Like
in a lightning rod, the copper
PopSci/ 75
Swiss Team Breaks
Record for Around-the-
World Flight, Despite
Encountering Volcanic
Eruption
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:28:41 AM
First time the record has been
set with refueling stops
Piloting a plane older than two
of the three crew on board, a
Swiss team shattered Steve
Fossett's around-the-world flight
record by almost ten hours over
attracts electricity while the the weekend, the first time the
steel absorbs magnetic pulses. A record has been set in this
cage big enough to hold all your weight class with refueling
favorite gadgets-your cellphone, stops. But the pilots didn't just
TV, computer, and so on-runs in have to negotiate the usual
the neighborhood of $15,000. headwinds and bad weather --
An EMP could also crash the their flight was nearly derailed
power grid, so you might want by a volcanic eruption in Iceland
to spring for an extra cage to that forced them to make an
protect your generator too. extra refueling stop and add an
Try to stump us. Send your unexpected 12th leg to their
questions to fyi@popsci.com journey.
The Swiss team -- helmed by
Chief Pilot Riccardo Mortara --
set out to beat not only Fossett's
non-stop circumnavigation time
of 67 hours one minute, but also
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continued from page 75
golf legend Arnold Palmer's
1978 record of 57 hours 26
minutes which was set in a
Learjet 36, a plane in a lighter
weight class than Mortara's
Sabreliner 65.
After lifting off from Geneva,
the team stopped to refuel in
such places as Bahrain, Macau,
Osaka, Anchorage and Las
Vegas before lifting off from
Montreal for Keflavik, Iceland.
But halfway there -- and four
hours ahead of Palmer's time --
the crew learned of the volcanic
eruption in Iceland that forced
the closure of the nation's
airports.
What are Virtual PCs, and What Can I Do With
Them?
Adam Pash (Popular Science
- New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:51:06 AM
You've finally got your PC set
up to your liking and running
smoothly. So when you decide
to add software later on, the last
thing you want is something
potentially unstable that could
endanger the system. Although
they're not a replacement for
antivirus applications, virtual
machines can really come in
handy. Essentially, they're full-
fledged operating systems that
run as an application inside your
actual operating system while
remaining safely isolated from
Rather than risk being grounded
in Iceland or limping on fumes
all the way to Ireland, the crew
decided to turn back for Goose
Bay in Labrador, Canada. After
refueling there, they continued
to Ireland and on to Geneva via
Marrakesh, completing the
nearly 23,000 mile journey in 57
hours 54 minutes, a half hour
slower than Palmer's 1978 run.
Why did Mortara and company
choose to break the record in a
thirty-year-old plane? There
doesn't seem to be a real reason
except that they had one and
Mortara likes the way they fly.
They're not exactly the most
it.
Say you want to open a file you
downloaded from a questionable
source, kick the tires on a new
operating system like Linux, or
even run an older OS from the
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fuel-efficient planes, though
continued from page 76
stations, hundreds of battery
Will Better
they are pretty swift (the crew
averaged just over 400 miles per
swapping stations, and devising
software so these cars won't Place Make
hour during the trip). crash the grid when charging.
Whether or not the team will
attempt a second journey sans
But look at it from another
perspective. There are around
It?
rare geologic event is uncertain; 200 million drivers and 254 info@greentechmedia.com
(Greentech Media: Headlines)
in the meantime, the Sabreliner million vehicles in the U.S. and
65 returns to its day job as a insurance companies say the Submitted at 3/22/2010 4:56:14 AM
luxury charter jet. average person drives 12,000
miles a year. That comes to 2.4 Can three cents be transformed
trillion miles, or $72 billion of into billions of dollars?
potential three-cent transactions That's the big question when it
per year. Even one percent of comes to Better Place, the well-
that would probably placate funded start-up that wants to put
investors. And in Europe and people into electric cars. Driving
a gas car costs about 12 cents a
WILL page 77 mile when gas costs $3 a gallon,
says Jason Wolf, vice president
the company's North American
division.
Electricity, on the other hand,
costs about 3 cents a mile: a
kilowatt hour costs around and a
You could even run a separate car can go around 4 miles on a
operating system as a virtual kilowatt hour. A battery for an
machine just to use that one electric car, meanwhile, will
killer app that's not available on cost around 6 cents a mile over a
your OS of choice. 200,000 mile lifetime.
F r e e a p p l i c a t i o n s l i k e Since Better Place says it will
Microsoft's Windows Virtual supply the electricity and
PC ( micro soft.com), VMware batteries to consumers, the
Player ( vmware.com) and the company has a margin of 3
open-source app VirtualBox ( cents per mile (12 cents minus
virtualbox.org) are great for 9) before potential customers
getting your feet wet. Setting complain about the higher cost
them up is a similar process to of going electric. Granted, 3
familiar environment of your installing a regular operating cents doesn't sound like much: I
main desktop. If anything goes system. Once you've done it, it harvest more loose change than
awry in your virtual machine, will seem like you've got a real, that every time I do laundry.
you can reset it to a previous separate computer living inside And Better Place proposes
state or just delete it altogether, your system. building thousands of charging
with no harm to your system. WILL page 76
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Asia, higher gas prices boost
that 3 cent margin to 9 or 12
cents. Additional revenue can
come from selling semi-depleted
batteries to utilities, which isn't
part of the above calculations.
And with the battery separated
from the car, the down payment
and resistance toward going
electric goes way down.
"When you buy a Toyota, you
don't buy eight years of
gasoline," Wolf said. "You take
out the battery and now you
have a much, much cheaper
car."
Big math problems like that,
along with their inherent
uncertainties, make Better Place
one of the more intriguing
companies in greentech today,
or in any market, for that matter.
In a short period of time, the
company has joined the ranks of
Google, Apple, Microsoft and
Tesla Motors as a subject of
endless debate and speculation.
How did they raise over $500
million? How much have they
spent? Will car dealers and
manufacturers work with them?
I've criticized the company's
strategy in the past. Now, after
talking to Wolf, I have to admit
that the plan actually makes
more sense. But the recent
discussion also crystallized what
appear to be five big hurdles the
company will have to overcome.
Here is how the service works.
Consumers will buy electric
cars, but not the battery. Better
Place will build charging
networks and then charge
consumers subscription fees that
cover the cost of the car's
battery, the electricity to run
them, and ancillary services like
smart charging software and
charging station maps. (The
company figures 2.1 charging
stations per car, by the way.)
Since the battery accounts for
about one-third of the cost of an
electric car, the sticker price will
be far lower than competing cars
sold with batteries.
Along the way, it will also offer
discount entertainment
packages, insurance and other
services.
Competitors such as Coulomb
Technologies will offer
subscriptions too, but they won't
include the battery. In other
words, a more expensive car,
but a less elaborate subscription
-- and it works with any electric
car.
So what are the Better Place
hurdles?
1. Fear, Uncertainly and Doubt.
The ol' Nixonion Trilogy is
perhaps the largest looming
barrier. It's just plain weird to
buy a car but lease the most
expensive component. Nissan
recently announced it would
initially not try battery rental
strategy in the U.S. with the
Leaf, due to negative response
to the concept in customer
surveys.
This is America, after all. We
hate renting. Graduating from
renting an apartment to buying a
home has become enshrined as
hallmark of adulthood. And if
there's one thing we hate more
than renting, it's sharing stuff
with strangers. Who had this
battery before me? Is that smoke
coming from the hood? The first
time someone gets in a bad
accident or the car conks, watch
them blame it on some
stranger's battery.
Getting consumers comfortable
with this will take extensive
marketing and hand-holding.
And they will have legitimate
questions. How will this impact
the resale price of the car? What
if Better Place goes out of
business? Is this like getting a
car from Hertz? You might pay
more money and feel cheap at
the same time.
The weirdness of it all is one
more reason Better Place may
succeed in Israel first. In Israel,
large companies give cars to
employees as sort of a fringe
benefit. Thus, the drivers won't
have to worry about who-owns-
what questions.
2. It's the Dorian Gray-Mobile.
Swapping, as it takes place over
time, is the brilliant nugget
buried in the business plan.
Consumers don't have to worry
about their battery degrading. In
fact, their cars will stay younger
longer because Better Place will
circulate newer, longer-lasting
batteries into the fleet.
But for Better Place, the
benefits are even greater
because batteries will decline in
price over time. Several months
ago, lithium-ion batteries sold
for around $900 a kilowatt hour,
according to various estimates.
Now lithium batteries sell for
$500 a kilowatt hour, said Wolf,
and the Department of Energy is
funding research to drop it to
$250 a kilowatt hour.(Others put
the price at closer to $900 now.)
Moore's Law will similarly
whack the cost of the electrical
components surrounding the
cells in the battery pack.
Declining prices, of course,
mean increased margins. At
$250 a kilowatt hour, Better
Place's battery expenses drop to
3 cents a mile and the gross
margin doubles to 6 cents. The
company can then add to its
margins by selling the semi-
depleted battery packs to
utilities for grid balancing.
Overall, this is a huge plus for
everyone, but one that could go
wrong in word-of-mouth.
Consumers might see this as
buying a car with a perpetual
stream of payments. Never
ending fees explain why many
detest cable companies: your
monthly rates is going up, but
now you get the Bowhunter
Network and Hungarian Life in
HD.
Slogans could help: "The Only
Car that Gets Better with Age."
"It's a Timeless Classic. Really,"
etc. If the company can stroke
the ego of upper-middle-class
consumers and convince them
they are getting a superior deal
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to those clods that insist on
owning batteries, perceptions
may turn. But if Better Place
doesn't surrender some margin
on its savings, the program
could smell like a trap.
3. Hostility from Car Makers.
The battery is one-third of the
price of an electric car. That
means car manufacturers only
get to sell two-thirds of a car,
leaving them and their dealers
less wiggle room for haggling
and making a profit. That should
really warm car makers up to
this. Car manufacturers -- on the
whole, a conservative lot -- also
worry about safety, warranties
and design homogenization.
"The battery defines the
architecture of the car. It only
makes sense if you have the
same type of battery for every
car," Ulrich Hackenberg, a
member of VW's board told me
last year."I can't imagine all of
the OEMs are building their cars
around this type of battery."
Volkswagen and Ford do not
have battery swap plans on the
road map, while General Motors
and Fisker have hybrids that
make swapping unnecessary.
Tesla will have one version of
the Model S with a swappable
battery. So far, it's not a rousing
start.
On the other hand, fleet sales of
these things are drawing
customers, which car makers
won't want to miss out on.
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Higher Temperature Solar Thermal from SHEC

info@greentechmedia.com Doubling the operating efficiency receivers and excellent complement to an of companies are working on
(Greentech Media: Headlines) temperatures doubles turbine proprietary high-temperature Integrated Combined Cycle this, but it is highly unlikely that
Submitted at 3/22/2010 9:00:06 AM efficiencies, according to the thermal storage media, but they plant. a 15 person company can cover
company. The high temperature have also developed a The firm is funded by private the ground they are claiming to
SHEC Energy started doing technology lends itself to manufacturing process for the placements, high net-worth cover - everything from receiver
research in the production of systems employing thermal rapid forming of glass mirrors, individuals, government funds, design to mirror manufacturing
hydrogen using solar technology based stored energy. claiming a manufacturing and corporate investors, and is processes?...its easy to make
in 1996. But with the hydrogen SHEC's temperatures aren't as process that is 30 times faster now looking for its first claims in CSP, its harder to get
power market, um, still in high as what Israel's HelioFocus than conventional glass forming institutional round from VCs or results."
development (i.e., non-existent), has achieved: that company has technologies. It's a lot of strategic partners. Finally, all the technology in
SHEC Energy’s focus is now on hit 850 Celsius and says it will technology development for a As with all solar thermal the world won't get CSP
power generation. get to 1,000 Celsius. The small company to take on. technologies, SHEC would have deployed if the funding is not
S H E C h a s d e v e l o p e d Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi The company believes that its better economics in the sunbelt there. Other CSP startups have
innovative solar concentration, has a high temp prototype too. technology can drop the and in a region with generous great technology, but getting to
receiver and thermal storage Still, the hotter the better and levelized cost of solar thermal to feed-in tariffs. market requires funding -- and
technology for the efficient this puts SHEC toward the top down to that of fossil fuels. We asked a prominent member lots of it. BrightSource Energy
collection of solar power. of the class in the ever-evolving The 15+ employee company of the CSP community who was anointed by the U.S.
"What we do is concentrate at a solar thermal world. envisions utility-scale preferred to remain anonymous, government with $1.37 billion
very high level," according to SHEC also claims a dramatic deployment of its technology in to comment: in loan guarantees. eSolar was
Tom Beck, the CEO of the improvement in the power an array of receivers, taking the "The concept of a dish having a anointed by the Chinese
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-based distribution curve. According to collected heat to a steam boiler higher capacity factor than a government and Ausra had to let
firm. He claims a concentration the firm, a competitive system in a closed-loop binary system. tower which is higher than a itself get caught by Areva in
level of 5,000 to 22,000 suns with a power rating of 1 When queried about go-to- trough, based on an analysis per order to live another day. SHEC
with a "new counterintuitive and megawatt, for example, may market strategy, the CEO said, meter squared of glass is is going to have to prove it can
elegant design that uses no only deliver 5 megawatt-hours "Owner-operator and power accurate. The question is how develop funding as well as
exotic materials." of power per day, while SHEC's producer is definitely our much higher and what is the technology.
Beck claims that the firm has s y s t e m , a l s o r a t e d a t 1 preferred business model. But relative tradeoff of capacity Acciona, Solar Reserve and
developed some of the world's megawatt, could deliver 10 we would be willing -- under factor vs the installed cost -- the Tyco are also working on solar
most efficient solar thermal megawatt-hours per day. special circumstances -- to graph is way out of any thermal and thermal storage
power technology with systems In order to make this happen, consider other options." reasonable bounds. media.
that operate at much higher SHEC's optical receiver has SHEC Energy has performed Higher temp/pressure has Five Filters featured article:
temperatures (800 degrees C) been designed to withstand a lot field trials of its technology on a always been the best way to go, Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
compared to trough systems of heat. And SHEC is ambitious small-scale pilot plant at a test and will be for all thermal PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
(400 degrees C), resulting in -- not only are they developing site in Arizona. The CEO claims cycles, but this sounds more Term Extraction.
higher turbine efficiencies. h i g h - t e m p e r a t u r e , h i g h - that a CSP plant would be an academic and theoretical...Lots
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Control4 Announces New Software, Partners

With Lockheed Martin
info@greentechmedia.com The company is hoping the 5- hardware and software to a management and grid security
(Greentech Media: Headlines) inch screen display, which will larger segment of the market. for utilities.
Submitted at 3/22/2010 8:59:26 AM allow customers to monitor Control4 is teaming up with Lockheed is already working
everything from a wireless Lockheed Martin to connect with PPL Electric Utilities,
Control4 unveiled new software thermostat and other smart their EMS 100 and Rappahannock Electric
today to accompany its Energy d e v i c e s , c o u l d a l s o h o s t ADVANTAGE software with Cooperative, American Electric
Management System 100 (EMS applications such as Facebook, the defense company’s SEEload Power Co. and Northern
100). The flash-based open RSS feeds and Netflix, to make demand response platform. Virginia Electric Cooperative on
p l a t f o r m s o f t w a r e , c a l l e d it a one-stop destination for not “We’re providing the designing security solutions (see
ADVANTAGE, is designed so just energy management, but connection from the EMS100 Lockheed Expands Its Smart
that utilities and developers can also for apps that fit every facet directly back to SEEload with Grid Wings).
build applications to integrate of a consumer’s life. Move over whoever [Lockheed Martin] Control4 is banking that their
with the EMS 100. iBeer. Get ready for an app partners with,” said Richard system can overcome some of
Control4, which also builds where your wireless thermostat Walker, president of Control4 the backlash in smart grid
other wireless home networking and refrigerator can tweet for Energy Systems. “We’ve always rollouts (see Oncor Reacts to
systems from audio systems to you. been hardware and software Smart Grid Anger) by
temperature control, is confident On the utility side, Control4 is agnostic, which has helped us drumming up consumer
that their system will not only touting the analytics that will on the partnership front.” confidence while pursuing
blend in with a utility’s back allow power providers not only Lcokheed Martin, along with partnerships that will hopefully
end to optimize demand gather data on individual other defense contractors, is get its product into homes. After
response, but also engage the houses, but also build models of eager to bring their security all, what good is a secure,
customer. how an entire neighborhood expertise to smart grid (see dynamic smart grid if the
“ W e ’ r e c o m i n g f r o m t h e behaves that will allow them to Defense Contractors Pursue the consumer rejects it?
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"In Israel and Denmark, we
announced with Renault that we
are buying 100,000 switchable
cars," Wolf said. "That is larger
than all of the noise in the U.S."
4. Your Dryer. Most people
don't realize this, but they
already have an electric car
charging station. It's the 240 volt
outlet their clothes dryer is
plugged into. Technically, you
will need to install a charger for
safety reasons, but it's
essentially the same outlet.
Do you really need
subscriptions from Better Place
or Coulomb? Your first electric
call will likely be a commuter
car, plowing less than 40 miles a
day, so the need for public
chargers remains small. Both
companies readily admit most
consumers will charge their cars
at home. If you drive 12,000
miles a year like the average
American, your electricity costs
come to $360 a year, or $36 a
month. And if you charge at off-
peak hours like the utilities will
urge you to, the monthly costs
drop to $24. Costco offers free
electricity in some cars and one
can imagine office buildings
doing the same.
"When 90 percent of the cars are
electric, do you think the
majority of charge spots will be
free?" he asked. Maybe not, but
those subscription services
better be mighty cheap.
5. It's Not a Cellular Network.
Better Place often analogizes the
service to the cell phone
industry. In the early days, cell
phone equipment was
expensive: the only guy that
could afford them was Michael
Douglas with that shoe phone in
Wall Street. Now, phones go
worldwide and the infrastructure
costs have dropped.
Better Place drivers will be able
to charge on other networks, so
the company won't have to build
as many charging stations as
you might think. Plus, the
number of charging stations isn't
extreme, which means Better
Place only has to keep about 12
batteries at each switch station.
"A switching station can support
3,000 cars," Wolf said. "A gas
station supports 60 cars. There
are 1,200 gas stations in the Bay
Area. You won't need that many
charge stations...With a 100
switch stations in the Bay Area,
you can support hundreds of
thousands of users."
"Smart phones are switchable
cars," he added later.
Still, the prices of cell phone
equipment and Better Place
equipment aren't remotely in the
same league. A cell phone costs
less than $20 to make and
Verizon charges customers $30
to $100 a month to use them.
Antennas continue to plummet
in price, they largely get planted
on marginal land that has no
other economic use and
everyone owns a phone. When a
phone breaks, you get a new
one. These factors are far
different with cars. 100,000
drivers means $4.8 million
worth of charging stations, $210
million worth of charging
stations and $1.2 billion worth
of $12,000 batteries.
Cell phones give you freedom
to take calls and get emails
away from your desk.
Then again, with a leased
battery, electronics are someone
else's problem. That's freedom
by another name.
So it could work.
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Sold Funds
(Kiplinger Personal Finance)
Twenty years ago, the
distinction between load and no-
load mutual funds was clear-cut.
Do-it-yourselfers bought no-
loads directly from the sponsors.
Investors working with brokers,
financial planners and even
insurance agents invested in
load funds, typically paying a
front-end sales charge of 5% to
6% for stock funds and a little
less for bond funds. Or they
bought share classes with higher
annual fees and stiff back-end
sales charges.
In recent years, though, the
distinction between load funds
and no-load funds has blurred.
Take the case of Thornburg
Investment Management, which
runs $48 billion of assets.
Thornburg’s Leigh Moiola
reports that 80% to 90% of the
Santa Fe, N.M., firm’s funds are
bought without a sales
commission -- the inverse of the
ratio 20 years ago.
Load funds without loads come
in a variety of guises. They may
be institutional-class shares,
which investors typically buy
through fee-based advisers.
They could be Class A shares
with their front-end loads
waived. Or they could be Class
R shares, which are used in
401(k) or similar retirement
plans. “Load versus no-load is
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no longer correct terminology,”
says Avi Nachmany, head of
research at Strategic Insight. He
estimates that the share of funds
from traditional load families
sold without sales fees today is
60% and rising. “Everyone is
moving toward offering mutual
funds through financial
advisers,” Nachmany adds.
We don’t advise that you ever
pay a front-end load or an
ongoing sales charge
(particularly for Class B fund
shares). But we recognize that
many outstanding load funds are
now available without a fee
through advisers, brokerage
wrap accounts, 401(k)s and even
529 plans, so we decided to pick
our dozen favorites. In
compiling this list, we used the
same strict criteria that we
employ to compile the Kiplinger
25, the list of our favorite no-
load funds. Among other
considerations, we gave extra
points to fund managers who are
skilled risk managers and whose
funds tend to hold up well in
bear markets. Domestic stock
funds
Don’t let the name fool you.
Thornburg Value(symbol
TVAFX) isn't purely a bargain-
hunting fund. Managers Connor
Browne and Ed Maran divide
their holdings into three
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Should You Buy or Rent?
(Kiplinger Personal Finance)
If you're a renter, you may be
champing at the bit to buy a
house after watching prices fall
for four years. Is it time to
jump? It may well be, especially
if you want to capture the home
buyer's tax credit (you'll need to
have a contract by April 30 and
close by June 30). But before
you leap, you need to go beyond
calculating the impact on your
monthly budget and figure out
how much home-price froth is
left in your local housing
market.
Encouraging signs. A key
number to consider when
switching from renter to
homeowner is the price-rent
ratio. This figure compares a
city's median home price with
its median annual rent. At the
housing market's peak in 2005,
the national median home price
had inflated to nearly 21 times
the median annual rent. By the
third quarter of 2009, however,
the ratio had deflated to 15,
returning to the historical norm,
according to Hessam Nadji,
managing director of Marcus &
Millichap, a commercial real
estate brokerage company in
Encino, Cal.
If the price-rent ratio where
you're looking to buy is 18 or
higher, your market may still be
in the bubble zone, with a
greater probability that home
prices will fall after you buy.
That could put you underwater -
- meaning your home would be
worth less than what you owe
on the mortgage. If the ratio has
fallen below 15, there's less
chance that home prices will
sink.
The table on Rent or Buy below
shows the ten cities in which
home prices are least likely to
drop further, as well as those
most likely to fall further, based
on price-rent ratios. We also
show the gap between median
monthly apartment rents and
median monthly mortgage
payments. Five years ago, the
difference between monthly
mortgage payments and rent
was $745 nationally; by the end
of 2009, it was just $181.
To get a rough estimate of your
local price-rent ratio, divide the
average list price of several
homes that meet your criteria by
the average annual rent of
several rental units with the
same number of bedrooms and
comparable amenities.
Weighing the decision. A year
ago, the price-rent ratio in
Phoenix was 14 -- down from
almost 19 a year earlier. Home
prices had fallen by half, and
mortgage rates were at historic
lows. Financial planner Brendan
McNamar decided it was finally
time for him to buy. He had
rented since moving to the city
in 2006, just after the housing
bubble peaked, and was sitting
on a nice nest egg from a home
he had sold in 2004.
McNamar shopped for a long
time, made offers on several
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ten-year-old, four-bedroom,
three-bathroom short sale listed
for $219,000. (In a short sale,
the sellers get permission from
the lender to sell for less than
the mortgage amount.) The
house had sold for $355,000 in
2007. McNamar offered the full
price, which the bank eventually
accepted after 90 days. He put
down 20% and took out a 30-
year mortgage with a low fixed
rate of 5.25%. He pays $1,176 a
month (including taxes and
insurance), which is more than
twice his former monthly rent of
$550. But because he hadn't
owned a home in the past three
years, he was able to snag the
$8,000 first-time home buyer's
tax credit.
From an investment
perspective, McNamar wanted a
house that would allow him to
break even or earn a profit if he
sold in three years. But given
that prices have fallen even
further in Phoenix since last
spring -- the price-rent ratio is a
rough guide, not an infallible
one -- he reckons that his break-
even point now may be four
years away. But it's not a big
financial setback to him
because he has no plans to
move.
Good deals for renters. Renting
can be a smart strategy while
waiting for this choppy housing
market to settle down. Consider
Jeremy Portnoff and his wife,
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houses and eventually bought a
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5 Stocks for Food Inflation

(Kiplinger Personal Finance) Producers of potash, a key the estimate of 70 cents to $1 Agrium recently dropped a coming from Monsanto’s
fertilizer, should prosper per share it made in January. bitter yearlong bid for CF pipeline of new products.
People have to eat. As the mightily from food inflation. The company says “the increase Industries, which makes A moderate amount of food
economy recovers, expect G o l d m a n a n a l y s t s e x p e c t in potash sales volumes this nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer inflation tends to be good for
demand for food to grow and f a r m e r s t o b o o s t p o t a s h quarter represents the beginning products. Agrium shares have grocers, and one of the best-
prices of meats, grains and dairy consumption significantly from of a return to long-term growth leapt 120% since the market’s positioned supermarket chains is
to rise. Goldman Sachs named weak 2009 levels. If potash in demand.” bottom. At $70.71, they trade at Safeway( SWY). The company,
food inflation one of its top nine volume declined again this year, Potash Corp.’s stock has been 15 times estimated 2010 which has more than 1,700
investing themes for 2010. The it would be only the second time on a wild ride. The stock, as low earnings of $4.68 per share. grocery stores in the U.S. and
agricultural sector will benefit since 1960 that volume dropped as $9 in July 2002, ran up to Once you have the fertilizer, Canada, slashed costs
broadly from this trend, and we for three consecutive years, $230 in June 2008 before you need the seeds. No aggressively in 2009. The belt-
have identified five stocks that Goldman analysts say. collapsing to $53 in December company in the seed business is tightening means that Safeway’s
w i l l t h r i v e i n s u c h a n The price of potash has already 2008. At its March 18 close of more dominant (or more profits should improve this year
environment. started to recover from declines $122.88, the stock traded for 24 despised) than Monsanto( and that the Pleasanton, Cal.,
Let’s break it down by the sparked by the Great Recession. times estimated 2010 earnings MON). The St. Louis company company should have more
numbers. The U.S. Department After peaking at more than of $5.10 per share. faces an antitrust investigation money to return to investors in
of Agriculture forecasts that $1,000 per ton in 2008, the price Mosaic, Potash Corp.’s top by the Justice Department and, the form of dividends and share
food prices will rise 2.5% to fell to about $350 per ton in rival, is also optimistic about the as a top producer of genetically buybacks. Scott Mushkin, a
3.5% this year, up from a 1.8% January 2009. On March 5, prospects of a potash rebound. engineered seeds, has drawn fire Jefferies & Co. analyst,
increase in 2009. Several factors Canpotex, the international Chief executive James from activists about its business estimates that Safeway will
will put pressure on food prices. marketing arm for the three top Prokopanko says potash sales practices and the long-term generate more than $1 billion in
Producers of cattle, dairy cows, producers -- Potash Corp. of have picked up since November effects of its products on the free cash flow per year for the
hogs and poultry cut their output Saskatchewan(symbol POT), and expects growth to continue food supply. Politics aside, UBS next five years even if business
in 2009 because of high feed Mosaic Co.( MOS) and Agrium( through 2010. analyst Don Carson expects remains challenging. (Free cash
prices. That, in turn, reduced the AGU) --announced that it was Mosaic’s stock tracks a boom- Monsanto to gain market share flow is net income plus
supply of meat. At the same raising potash prices to $400 a and-bust pattern similar to that in the growing market for corn depreciation and other cash
time, a growing number of metric ton. of Potash. At $59.56, Mosaic seeds through 2012. charges, minus the capital
p e o p l e a r o u n d t h e w o r l d , Edlain Rodriguez, an analyst shares are up 55% since the Monsanto’s stock, which expenditures necessary to
particularly in fast-growing with Broadpoint AmTech, sees stock market bottomed on advanced by a factor of 20 maintain the business.) The
emerging nations, such as China prices increasing throughout the March 9, 2009. Mosaic trades between March 2003 and June stock, at $24.65, trades for 14
and India, are consuming more year. That’s why he’s bullish on for 15 times the $3.95 per share 2008, has stood still during the times estimated 2010 earnings
protein. Add to the mix the the trio of fertilizer stocks. analysts expect the Plymouth, current bull market. The stock, of $1.81 per share. Mushkin
e t h a n o l i n d u s t r y ’ s h e a v y Potash Corp., which , controls Minn., company to earn for the at $72.03, is up just a couple of rates the stock a buy and has a
reliance on corn, the main 22% of the world potash supply, 12 months ending in May 2011. bucks a share since March 2009. 12-month price target of $30.
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more animals, and that takes -quarter earnings estimate to for 4% of the company’s total and thinks it is worth $94 per
more fertilizer. $1.30 to $1.50 per share, from 2009 sales of $9.1 billion. share, with $60 of the value
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buckets: basic value, consistent
earners and “Remerging
franchises,” companies with fast
-growing products or services
with strong competitive
positions. This gives the fund,
which invests mostly in large
companies, a blend of growth
and value attributes.
Basic value companies tend to
be in industries, such as banking
and oil, in which competition is
fierce and firms don’t have
much pricing flexibility. An
example of such a holding is
U.S. Bancorp, which remained
profitable throughout one of the
ugliest banking cycles in
history.
Another holding, Gilead
Sciences, the leader in HIV
treatments, generates consistent
(and rapid) earnings growth.
Stocks such as this tend to hold
up well in bear markets (see
Stocks That Grow in Any
Climate). Emerging franchises
can be small or they can be large
-- such as Apple, which Browne
says has the potential to
dominate the fast-growing smart
-phone business.
The six managers at RS
Partners( RSPFX), a small-
company fund, think very much
like private-equity investors
when they spend hundreds of
hours breaking down a business
and analyzing each of its parts.
Co-manager Joe Wolf says deep
knowledge of a business is one
of the best tools to mitigate risk.
So he and his colleagues will
buy a stock when they are
satisfied that it has $3 to $5 per
share of upside potential for
each dollar of downside risk.
The RS team searches for
businesses showing improved
returns on invested capital.
“When you purchase
structurally improving
businesses, time is your friend,”
Wolf says. Holdings include
NBTY -- owner of Nature’s
Bounty, the leading vitamin
wholesaler -- and ACI
Worldwide, the dominant
processor of debit-card
transactions.
Eric Ende, of FPA Perennial(
FPPFX), makes stock picking
sound easy. You identify
superior businesses that will
increase their intrinsic value
every year, buy them at a
discount and hold on.
For Ende and co-manager
Steven Geist, a superior
business has a sturdy balance
sheet, achieves a high return on
capital and has abundant
opportunities to reinvest in the
business. And most important,
the businesses are shielded by
high barriers to entry, which
means that returns will not be
eroded by competitors.
Perennial, which focuses on
small and midsize companies,
has found several of these
businesses in health-care niches.
VCA Antech is a consolidator in
the highly fragmented veterinary
-hospital industry, and Charles
River Laboratories dominates
the market for providing
laboratory rodents for
pharmaceutical research.
Overseas stock funds
Thornburg International Value(
TGVAX) is a close cousin of
Thornburg Value. The managers
(Bill Fries, Wendy Trevisani
and Lei Wang) divide stocks
into the same three buckets of
basic value, consistent earners
and emerging franchises.
During gloomy 2008, Trevisani
notes, the fund had half of its
assets in consistent growers.
Such steady Eddies as Teva
Pharmaceutical Industries, the
Israel-based generic-drug giant,
provided some ballast. This
year, emerging-growth
companies such as Baidu, a
Chinese Internet play, are
boosting performance.
In addition to holding 18% of
its assets in emerging-markets
stocks, International Value
recently owned several
European companies largely for
their exposure to fast-growing
developing countries. Trevisani
says Louis Vuitton, the French
luxury-fashion king, is selling
more and more products in
China, and Standard Chartered,
a bank based in the U.K.,
generates 90% of its profits
from emerging markets.
Over the long run, emerging
markets deliver handsome
returns. The problem is the
rocky ride: Emerging-markets
stocks tend to be nearly twice as
volatile as U.S. stocks.
American Funds New World(
NEWFX) was designed to tamp
down that risk. Along with
developing-markets stocks, such
as China Mobile, this fund
invests in emerging-markets
bonds (typically 10% of the
portfolio). It also holds stocks of
multinational corporations
(currently one-fourth of assets),
including Avon Products and
Switzerland-based Nestle, that
derive substantial revenues from
emerging nations. As a result,
investors enjoy most of the
gains from emerging markets
with about one-third less
volatility than the typical
emerging-markets stock fund.
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Health Care Bill
Won’t Help
Employers Cut Costs
(Kiplinger Personal Finance)
Employers are taking matters
into their own hands as they get
ready for the 2011 benefit plan
year. There’s a growing
recognition that the health care
bill passed by Congress on
March 21 won’t help lower
costs, forcing firms to act on
their own if they want to
survive. In fact, many
employers believe the pending
health bill will only add to their
problems. “Health reform will
result in not only increased costs
for employers, but less generous
benefits for employees,” says
Helen Darling, president of the
National Business Group on
Health.
Most companies will make
workers pay a bigger share by
raising premiums, deductibles
and copayments. These
increases will affect both the
medical and pharmacy plans.
Surcharges for providing health
care coverage to working
spouses will also increase, to
encourage those spouses to use
their own employer’s health
plan.
But the real emphasis will be on
behavior, with businesses using
more sticks and fewer carrots to
pressure employees to adopt
healthier lifestyles and
participate in programs to
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manage their chronic illnesses.
In a recent survey by Hewitt
Associates, nearly half of
employers say they plan to use
financial penalties for workers
who don’t participate in certain
health improvement programs.
“Employers have come to
realize that they have to manage
their risks, not just costs,” says
Rick McGill of Hewitt, a
benefits consulting firm.
Big bucks are at stake. About
70% of health care costs are
driven by behaviors. The
difference in cost between a
diabetic who manages his or her
disease compared with one who
doesn’t can be 10 times higher,
says McGill.
Workers who don’t play ball
will pay more. Employers are
realizing that penalties work
better than rewards and are
planning to ramp them up. To
avoid running afoul of federal
antidiscrimination laws,
businesses can’t base penalties
or rewards on results, but they
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Heather, of Edison, N.J. By mid
2009, the median home price in
Edison had fallen a healthy
19%, to $317,000, from the
market's peak in mid 2006.
The Portnoffs had their heart
set on a home with three or four
bedrooms to accommodate the
family they hope to have, plus
an office for Jeremy. The house
they could afford was a starter
home, probably a small
can discount rates for
participation. For example,
employers will impose higher
premiums for smokers who
refuse to participate in a
smoking cessation class, or will
relegate wage earners who
refuse to participate in wellness
activities to a health plan with
leaner benefits.
More firms are also using their
own clinics to cut costs, on-site
if the company is big or nearby
when smaller businesses work
together. Clinics offer low
prices, convenience and
noteworthy success rates.
Also growing: Consumer
directed health plans (CDHPs)
combining high deductible plans
with a tax advantaged savings
account. About 60% of
companies will make them an
option in 2011, up from 54%
this year, and 12% will make
them the only option, up from
8% in 2010, according to a
recent employer survey by
Towers Watson and the
townhouse -- which, on an after-
tax basis, they figured would
cost them about the same as
renting.
But the Portnoffs also figured
that if they sold it in three years,
real estate commissions would
consume any gains they could
reasonably expect. Plus, Jeremy
believed that the price of their
ideal home in that area would
continue to decline.
National Business Group on
Health. “Employers offer
substantially reduced premiums
of between 30% and 50% to
encourage employees to choose
the CDHP option,” says Ted
Nussbaum of Towers Watson.
Having more-educated health
consumers is a key goal, with
insurers helping firms provide
information to employees on
cost-effective treatments and
comparative pricing. Employers
will also provide incentives such
as lower copays or no
deductibles to encourage
workers to use the top
performers. There’s ample
evidence that higher quality
providers have lower costs and
employees get back to work
quicker, says Nussbaum.
Several big firms are sharing
success stories, making it more
likely that others will follow
suit. For example:
•At PepsiCo., smokers who
won’t join programs pay $600
more a year, a policy that has
So they took a pass on buying
and got a great deal on renting a
two-bedroom townhome --
$1,550 a month, $300 less than
when they looked at the same
development three years before.
The couple prudently plan to
continue to pay down debt and
save for a larger down payment
on their next home.
In some markets, rental prices
have dropped as supply has
hiked participation 10-fold and
boosted smoking cessation rates
14%.
•Boeing targeted employees
with complex medical problems
for a program in which
specialized teams of nurses and
doctors monitor care. Average
absence rates fell from 7.8 days
per six months to 3.4 days. The
first two years of the program
resulted in a savings of 20%.
•Perdue Farms has 18 on-site
clinics and credits them with
helping keep worker diabetes
control rates at 68%, double the
national average.
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increased. By the end of 2009,
the vacancy rate nationally had
grown to 8.2%, a 30-year high,
according to Nadji, of Marcus &
Millichap. Meanwhile, rents had
fallen 5.8% from the year
before.
Markets with the highest
vacancy rates include
Jacksonville, Fla. (forecast at
14% in 2010), Atlanta, Houston,
Las Vegas, Orlando, Phoenix,
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2011, with very strong rent
growth between 2011 and 2015.
Demographics (five million
people will enter the peak renter
age range of 20 to 34 over the
next decade) and plummeting
construction starts in 2009 and
2010 drive his forecast.
Not all cities have an excess of
rental units, though. In some
large cities, such as New York,
downtown Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles and
Washington, D.C., vacancy rates
have remained tight -- and home
prices have remained stubbornly
high.
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Tampa and Tucson. Renters in
such markets can afford to shop
around and negotiate hard. A
building's leasing manager may
be willing to lower the rent to
attract or keep your business.
Nadji expects the vacancy rate
nationally to tighten up a bit (to
7.8%) by year-end and start a
rapid recovery beginning in
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