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Barbour clarifies civil rights remark
Steve Holland (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 12/21/2010 3:56:34 PM
Dec 21, 2010 16:56 EST
Mississippi Governor Haley
Barbour, who may seek the
Republican presidential
nomination in 2012, went into
damage control mode Tuesday
because of remarks he made about
the 1960s civil rights movement
in his state.
A profile of Barbour in a
conservative magazine, The
Weekly Standard, included
comments from him about what
life was like growing up in Yazoo
City, Mississippi, in the civil
rights movement in the 1960s.
“I just don’t remember it as being
that bad,” Barbour said.
The remark risked making
Barbour look indifferent to the
sometimes violent 1960s effort to
end segregation. Mississippi, like
its Deep South neighbor Alabama,
was a central player in the civil
rights movement.
In the article, Barbour also
appeared to defend a pro-
segregation group, the Citizens
Council by saying, “You heard of
the Citizens Councils? Up north
they think it was like the KKK
(Ku Klux Klan). Where I come
from it was an organization of
town leaders.”
Barbour is frequently mentioned
as one of several Republicans
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Washington Extra – You win some, you lose some
Kristin Roberts (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 12/21/2010 6:01:20 PM
Democrats scored some
noteworthy wins today. They
pushed the nuclear arms treaty
with Russia past a Republican
hurdle. They adopted Internet
rules that Republicans and
some big media companies called
unwarranted, excessive and
maybe even illegal.
But it’s hard for Extra to call this
a good day for Dems. Republicans
have promised to unravel
everything from Tuesday’s net
neutrality decision at the FCC to
Dodd-Frank and Obamacare.
They’ve pushed the fight over
government spending into 2011,
when they’ll run the House and
have more leverage in the Senate.
That means regulators won’t get
the extra funds they’ve requested
to tighten oversight of Wall
Street, as Mary Schapiro lamented
to Reuters today.
Lest you think Extra’s too short-
sighted, too focused on 2011,
consider what could be the most
politically significant news of the
day — new Census data.
Democrats cannot be anything but
bummed by the Census showing a
population shift from blue states
to red ones. It means a redrawing
of congressional districts that will
likely add Republicans to the
House. We won’t bog you down
with the details, but just
remember it’s the number of
House seats that determines a
state’s representation in the
Electoral College
and it’s the Electoral College that
picks the president.
Here are our top stories from
Washington today…
Republican-leaning states gain
clout from Census
Republican-leaning states in the
South and West will gain political
clout from new population
figures, dealing a blow to
President Obama and Democrats
that could linger for years. The
Census estimates show a
population shift from Democratic-
leaning states in the Northeast and
Midwest to Republican
strongholds like Texas, Utah and
South Carolina, giving those
states more seats in the House of
Representatives. The release of
the figures kicks off the once-a-
decade, state-by-state fight over
redrawing congressional lines to
ensure each House district
represents roughly the same
number of people.
For more of this story by John
Whitesides, read here.
For a factbox on states that
gained clout, click here.
Divided U.S. FCC adopts
Internet traffic rules
Communications regulators
adopted Internet traffic rules that
prevent providers from blocking
lawful content but still let them
ration access to their networks.
The FCC approved the “Open
Internet” order after Chairman
Julius Genachowski’s plan got the
support of fellow Democrats
Michael Copps and Mignon
Clyburn. The rules aim to strike a
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For a newsmaker story on
Treasury’s ‘AIG fix-it man,’ Jim
Millstein, click here.
Lack of funds will restrict SEC
plans: Schapiro
Budget shortfalls will hurt the
SEC even as it desperately needs
funds to bolster equity markets
and adopt new rules required by
the Dodd-Frank financial
overhaul, its chairman said.
Congress is set to reject the
Obama administration’s plan to
boost funding for the SEC and
CFTC by millions of dollars. “We
will have to take some more steps
balance between the interests of of healthcare and financial to cut back,” SEC Chairman Mary
Internet service providers, content regulations. Schapiro said in an interview. “At
companies and consumers, but For more of this story by Andy this stage it will impact our
some industry analysts think a Sullivan, read here. work.”
court challenge is still likely. Inside AIG’s tortuous turnaround For more of this story by
For more of this story by Jasmin AIG has come a long way, Rachelle Younglai, read here.
Melvin, read here. rebounding far faster and more START appears to have support
For a graphic of the top online dramatically than nearly anyone for US Senate passage
video providers, click here. For a inside or outside the company President Obama’s strategic
graphic of smartphone market e x p e c t e d . A s a r e s u l t , t h e nuclear arms treaty with Russia
share, click here. Treasury Department, which will a p p e a r s t o h a v e e n o u g h
Senate postpones spending fight own more than 90 percent of the R e p u b l i c a n s u p p o r t t o w i n
The Senate has approved a company, is likely to hold two passage in the Senate when it
compromise bill to fund the large stock sales next year and comes to a final vote expected this
government for several months as aims to offload the rest in 2012. A w e e k . A t l e a s t 1 0 S e n a t e
Congress moved to postpone a big profit from the AIG rescue Republicans have said they back
struggle over spending and the a n d t h e g o v e r n m e n t ’ s the accord — which should be
deficit until next year. The bill to disentanglement would be a boost enough to give Democrats the
fund the government through for the Obama administration. But needed two-thirds majority. All
March 4 would give Republicans the remarkable reversal of fortune 5 8 m e m b e r s o f t h e S e n a t e
the chance to try to push dramatic has taken a tortuous path, and the Democratic caucus are expected
budget cuts when they take way ahead is not without risks. to support the treaty.
c o n t r o l o f t h e H o u s e o f For more of this special report by For more of this story by David
Representatives early next year. Paritosh Bansal, Kristina Cooke Alexander and Thomas Ferraro,
The bill would deny Obama the and David Lawder, read here. read here.
budget increases he has sought to For a graphic of profit scenarios
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CFTC fines, bans natgas traders
for fraud scheme
The U.S. futures regulator said it
has fined two natural gas traders
for a fraudulent trade allocation
scheme and permanently banned
them from trading.
For more of this story, read here.
Go ‘long on women’ for profits,
BofA Merrill says
Recession wounds are healing
faster for women than for men, so
there is money to be made for
companies that cater to women,
economists at Bank of America-
Merrill Lynch said.
For more of this story, read here.
What we are blogging…
This lame duck sure can fly
Congress seems to work better
under deadline pressure (like
journalists). Democrats are racing
to cram as much through the post-
election lame duck session as
possible, before their majority
turns into a pumpkin when
Republicans take control of the
House of Representatives in
January. The lame duck session of
Congress has produced — tax cut
extensions have been signed into
law, the repeal of“Don’t Ask ,
Don’t Tell” to allow gays to serve
openly in the military will be
signed into law tomorrow, and the
START treaty is moving toward
ratification.
For Tabassum Zakaria’s full post,
read here.
For more stories from our
Washington correspondents visit
www.reuters.com and stay
informed.
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Belt-Like Timepieces -
The Balenciaga Watch is
Inspired by Cristobal
Balenciaga Historical
Clock (GALLERY)
(TREND HUNTER - The Latest
Trends)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:42:02 AM
( TrendHunter.com) Although it
might look like a belt for your
wrist, the Balenciaga Watch is a
stunning timepiece that has hit the
market just in time to be
considered as a Christmas gift
contender. Inspired by
Cristobal...
3
Analyst Calls: AEO, BK,
HTGC, KFN, PLD, STT,
SVU, THC, VPHM ...
Eric Buscemi (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:30:00 AM
Filed under: Analyst Reports,
Analyst Upgrades and
Downgrades, Bank of New York
(BK), Analyst Initiations, KKR
Financial (KFN), American Eagle
Outfitters (AEO)
Analyst Upgrades
• SuperValu ( SVU) to buy from
hold at Hapoalim.
• Constellation Energy ( CEG) to
buy from hold at Citigroup.
• Doral Financial ( DRL) to

Toshiba Unveils First Solar-Powered E-Reader neutral from sell and ABB ( ABB)
to buy from neutral at Sterne
Agee.
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company) a six inch e-Ink display, WiFi and you live in Japan, of course).
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:58:21 AM 3G connectivity, a stylus, 2 The company's move into solar-
Analyst Downgrades
gigabytes of storage, and support powered e-readers comes just a
Move over, Kindle, iPad, and for an SD card that holds up to • American Eagle ( AEO) to
year after Toshiba established its
Nook. A new e-reader is inching 3,000 books. But the one detail neutral from buy at SunTrust.
photovoltaic systems business,
in on your market. Toshiba's black that really makes the e-reader • Tenet Healthcare ( THC) to
which is working on solar powere
and white Biblio Leaf is the first stand out is the small solar cell market perform from outperform
generating systems for utilities
solar-powered e-reader. The attached to its base. Toshiba hasn't at Wells Fargo.
and businesses. Eventually,
catch: for the moment, at least, it's revealed how long the cell takes Toshiba hopes to move into the
only available in Japan. Continue reading Analyst Calls:
to charge, but we imagine it isn't and costs $20 per month with a solar-powered EV charging
The Biblio Leaf has decent stats, particularly quick. AEO, BK, HTGC, KFN, PLD,
3G service contract from TDDI (if market as well.
according to TFTS--it comes with Toshiba's e-reader is free upfront STT, SVU, THC, VPHM ...
Analyst Calls: AEO, BK, HTGC,
KFN, PLD, STT, SVU, THC,
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4 Business/
GOOGLE: Here's How You Use Your Nexus S (GOOG)
Jay Yarow (Business Insider)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:01:29 PM
Looking for some tips and tricks
on using your new Android
phone? Google has you covered.
Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's
product management SVP has
posted this list of tips on using the
Nexus S, Google's new Android
phone running Gingerbread, its
latest OS. He also included some
of his favorite apps.
Tips
• Visual cue for scrolling: When
you are in a scrollable list (like
your Gmail inbox) and you reach
the end of the list it shows an
orange hue—a visual cue that you
can’t scroll anymore.
• Notification bar icons (Wi-Fi,
network coverage bars, etc.):
Turn green when you have an
uninhibited connection to Google,
white when you don't. Hint: if
you're in a hotel or airport using
Wi-Fi, the bars won't turn green
until you launch the browser and
get past the captive portal.
• Voice actions: Tell your phone
what to do by pressing the
microphone icon next to the
search box on the home screen,
or long press the magnifying
glass. You can tell it to send an
email or text message (“send text
to mom, see you for pizza at 7”),
call someone ("call mom"),
navigate somewhere (“navigate to
pizza”), or listen to music ("listen
to Mamma Mia").
• Find things you’ve downloaded
from your browser: Your
downloads are now neatly
collected in a Downloads
manager, which you can find in
the apps drawer.
• Turn a Gallery stack into a
slideshow: In Gallery, when you
are looking at a stack of photos,
put two fingers on the stack and
spread them. The stack spreads
out and the pictures flow from
one finger to the other, a moving
slideshow that lets you see all of
the photos.
• Walk, don’t drive: Once you’ve
gotten directions within Google
Maps, click on the walking person
icon to get walking directions.
• Easy text copy/paste from a
webpage: To copy/paste from a
webpage, long press some text,
drag the handles around to select
the text you want to copy, and
press somewhere in the
highlighted region. To paste,
simply long press a text entry box
and select paste. Gmail is a bit
different: you need to go to Menu
> More > Select Text.
• Turn your phone into a Wi-Fi
hotspot: Go to Settings >
Wireless & Networks > Tethering
& Portable Hotspot. (You may
have to pay extra for this feature.)
• Look at Maps in 3D: With the
latest release of Google Maps,
you can now look at 3D maps.
Tilt the map by sliding two
fingers vertically up/down the
screen, and rotate it by placing
two fingers on the map and
sliding in a circular motion, e.g.,
from 12 and 6 o’clock to 3 and 9.
• Cool shutdown effect: When
you put the phone to sleep, you’ll
see an animation that resembles
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Runs even better on Gingerbread.
• Fruit Ninja: A juicy action
game that tests your ability to
smash flying fruit. A fun time-
killer on the bus or train.
• FXCamera: Popular photo
sharing app with slick effects and
filters.
• Google Maps: Use your device
as a GPS navigation system with
free turn-by-turn voice guidance,
and take advantage of other
Google Maps features like Street
View, Latitude and Places.
• Instant Heart Rate: Measure
your heart rate using your camera.
• Phoneanlyzr: Track your phone
usage: who you text most, call
most, average call length
distribution, etc.
an old cathode tube TV turning Applications
• RemoteDroid: Control your
off. • Angry Birds: Popular game that
computer from your phone. Gives
lets you knock down blocks by
you a mobile wireless mouse and
Keyboard tricks slingshotting birds.
keyboard. Great if you’re using
• Shift+Key to capitalize a word: • Astro: Awesome file explorer
your computer for music or
In Gingerbread (and supported app. Browse and access the
movies.
hardware), you can Shift+Key to directories on your phone, and
• Shazam: Identifies virtually any
capitalize a letter instead of going t a k e f u l l a d v a n t a g e o f i t s
song you are listening to.
to a separate all caps keyboard. capabilities. Great if you’re a
• SoundHound: Record a snippet
• Auto-complete: The space bar power user.
of a song and get it identified
lights up when auto-complete can • Chrome to Phone: This one is
instantly. You can even hum (if
finish a word. really useful for Chrome users.
you can carry a tune!).
• Quick replace: Tap on any You can send anything you
• Tango: A free, high-quality
previously typed word, then tap browse on your computer to your
video call app that works on both
on a suggestion to automatically phone. So if you are heading out
3G and Wi-Fi. If your device has
replace it with the suggested to a restaurant or party and look
a front facing camera (e.g., Nexus
word. up directions on your computer,
S), you will love this app.
• E a s y a c c e s s t o s p e c i a l just click the “send to phone”
• YouTube: New UI. Plus,
c h a r a c t e r s ( l i k e n u m b e r s , button (requires Chrome to
portrait-mode player, and view
punctuation): Press and hold any Phone extension) and that exact
comments and drop-down box
key to go to the special character page will open on your phone.
video information
keyboard. You can also press and Same with virtually any webpage.
hold the "," key for an extensive • Flash: Install from Android
punctuation keyboard. Market to watch Flash videos GOOGLE: page 6
embedded throughout the web.
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Is Bank of America Buying Abusive Domain Names Ahead of

Possible WikiLeaks Assault?
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 10:35:52 AM

It's emerged that Bank of

America is buying-up domain
names that could be used to abuse
its senior execs if (or possibly,
when) WikiLeaks comes good
with its promise to leak
controversial internal data on the
bank's activities.
According to some reports, Bank
of America has created a "war
room" to develop strategies to
defeat any allegations or political
or media back-wash that will
probably develop if WikiLeaks
publishes thousands of internal
documents. Julian Assange has
promised that WikiLeaks has
enough embarrassing data on a
"major" U.S. bank (which people December 17th alone, which whois.markmonitor.com Interestingly, the bank doesn't data, particularly if it's taking
generally think means the Bank of implies a degree of immediacy Updated Date: 17-dec-2010 seem to have done a particularly defensive moves before the fact.
America) that it would force the and panic on behalf of the bank-- Creation Date: 17-dec-2010 thorough defensive job: Board And last week the bank joined
resignation of its senior which may be worried WikiLeaks Expiration Date: 17-dec-2012 member Thomas May is PayPal and MasterCard in
management. is imminently about to reveal all. MarkMonitor styles itself as "the u n p r o t e c t e d a t denying WikiLeaks access to
One part of the bank's defenses Searching variations on the global leader in enterprise brand ThomasMaysucks.com, and payment processing facilities--
seems to be a pre-emptive buying- bank's CEO, Brian Moynihan, protection. Experts in Domain BrianMoynihanLies.com is which could actually prompt
up of domain names that could be reveals many of these possible Management, AntiCounterfeiting, available. "Sucks" and "blows" WikiLeaks to reveal what it
used to attack this same variations were registered by a Grey Market, Trademark are also pretty mild attacks--there knows about the bank's alleged
management. According to c o m p a n y n a m e d Protection" and so on. The link to are a dozen dirtier or more barbed bad behavior--especially now that
Domain Name Wire, the bank has M a r k M o n i t o r . c o m : the Bank of America is suggested terms that come to mind, and Julian Assange is out on bail and
been "aggressively" buying D o m a i n N a m e : by the fact that "Bank-of- which the bank doesn't seem to be he's vowed to keep leaking.
domain names that incorporate BRIANMOYNIHANBLOWS.CO America.com" itself was officially acting to defend. To read more news on this, and
directors' and senior execs' names M registered in 1999 (and expires in So why is the bank potentially so similar stuff, keep up with my
and the words "sucks" and Registrar: MARKMONITOR January 2011, incidentally) by worried? It would seem to imply a updates by following me, Kit
"blows." Apparently "hundreds" INC. n o n e o t h e r t h a n degree of nervousness that it will Eaton, on Twitter.
of such names were registered on W h o i s S e r v e r : M a r k M o n i t o r . c o m . really look bad in the WikiLeaks
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Stop Smudging Your iPad: Elliptic Labs' Touch-Free Dock Is
Coming [CES 2011]
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:01:05 PM
Elliptic labs is known for its
clever, gesture-based touch-free
controls for computing. Then the
iPad came along like a techno-gift
for the team, and they're due to
show a prototype dock for iPads
at CES that is a sci-fi dream come
true.
Gesture-controls, even if they're
achieved via clever hacks, have
hit the news recently because of
Microsoft's fascinating Kinect toy
for Xbox 360, but the core tech
ideas behind Kinect are far from
new. Elliptic Labs, a Norwegian
company that specializes in
advanced ultrasound sensor tech,
has been developing clever touch-
free gesture controls for tablet
computing purposes for a while.
Back in September at the IFA
show the labs demonstrated their
development platform--shown in
action in the video below:
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Of course the iPad is an advanced
computing tablet with a
sophisticated developers kit and
powerful skills in communicating
with peripherals--a technological
gift horse for Elliptic. The
company has leaped at the
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opportunity, and has put together
a prototype dock for the iPad that
it'll be showing at the upcoming
CES show in January (though it's
careful to note that the tech can
work with other tablet platforms
too). The ultrasound sensors
create a touch-free gesture zone in
-front of and to the sides of the
iPad screen, the idea being--
according to Elliptic's CEO who
spoke to Mobile Mag--is that you
use touchless gestures "to operate
primary functions of a docked
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• Google Nexus S Is "Better Than
The iPhone In Most Ways," Says
tablet in situations like when you
have wet or greasy hands in the
kitchen" and in situations when a
docked tablet is tricky to reach
over and touch.
The tech is exciting, and it's
likely to arrive by hook or by
crook, even if Elliptic Labs isn't in
the forefront. Nokia has, back in
2007, filed a complex patent that
covers a gesture-based UI that
uses ultrasonic sensors to detect
and triangulate a user's hand in
front of a tablet-like device in
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• Gmail Creator Explains Why
Google Is Still Awesome
order to react to gesture-based
commands. Apple has patented a
number of multi-touch and
gesture based inventions, of
course, and it's also been
experimenting with gestures that
involve making the frame or bezel
of its devices touch-sensitive, and
making peripherals like
headphones act as gestural input
devices. It's even toyed with a
"touch-free" gesture interface
involving users swiping a finger
in front of an iPhone's camera
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lens.
Touch-free gestures seem like a
natural extension of the current
multi-touch revolution, and we're
certain that they're a big part of
the future for many electronic
gizmos. We have just one quick
caution to make, courtesy of the
ever-visionary Douglas
Adams:"For years radios had been
operated by means of pressing
buttons and turning dials; then as
the technology became more
sophisticated the controls were
made touch-sensitive--you merely
had to brush the panels with your
fingers; now all you had to do was
wave your hand in the general
direction of the components and
hope. It saved a lot of muscular
expenditure, of course, but meant
that you had to sit infuriatingly
still if you wanted to keep
listening to the same program."
To read more news on this, and
similar stuff, keep up with my
updates by following me, Kit
Eaton, on Twitter.
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Banks Are Rallying Right Under Your Nose (BKX,
PNC, WFC, JPM, BAC, MI)
Jim Cramer (Business Insider)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:02:44 PM
Call it the great December bank
rally. The big bank breakout. Call
it something, but definitely take
notice of it.
Here's why: No one is
championing it. The only research
we see on it is negative. We keep
hearing number cuts. We keep
hearing about attorneys general
blasts. We keep hearing about
departures of CEOs and a strong
belief that next year will bring
nothing good. We keep hearing
that home prices are going down
-- more on that in a later posting.
And what is the group doing? It
is going higher. Onward and
upward higher. I could see the
banking index (BKX) going to 58
on this move. I have been
pushing the banks everywhere,
and I see very few believers.
People have all been burned so
often that no one can blame them
for not wanting to talk about
them, let alone buy them. But
when you see moves based on
nothing, no sponsorship, no good
news, endless carping about QE2
-- heard a ton of that just today
again!-- and Bank of
Don't Look Now, But The Market Is Gathering Steam Again
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:25:51 AM
Today has been one of the
America(BAC)/ Wells
Fargo(WFC)/ JPMorgan(JPM)
are going up in giant gulps and
taking out levels that were
supposed to stop them, you have
to ask yourself can you afford to
miss PNC(PNC) or JPMorgan?
You want to stay in the
defensives, which act awfully?
I like the materials stocks, but
let's understand that it would be
nice to own something that's got
momentum in earnings -- the
materials -- but something that's
quietest days all year, and yet...
stocks are getting some life. Not
all that much, but a noticeable
jump in just the last several minutes.
Business/ Economy/
wait until the press and the
analysts turn positive.
They are still yammering about
foreclosures and bad sales, even
though foreclosures peaked
already and bad sales aren't bad. I
expect the bandwagon to be big
by these same naysayers in 2011.
But not until after the bulk of the
move is made. At the time of
publication, Cramer was long
PNC and JPM.
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Holiday Panic:
Skype Is Down
(EBAY)
Matt Rosoff (Business Insider)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:06:00 PM
If you were hoping to complete
your long-distance holiday calls a
little early this week, you're out of
luck: Skype has gone down and
the outage is affecting millions of
users.
The company posted to Twitter
about an hour ago acknowledging
the outage, and lots of users are
complaining via Twitter. The
company hasn't yet given any
reason for the outage.
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FCC Launches Competition for "Open Internet" Apps
E.B. Boyd (Fast Company)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 9:59:06 AM
Tired of reading about how the
Net Neutrality rules the FCC
approved today will either destroy
capitalism as we know it or
cement the power of the wireless
oligarchs? You may be interested
in this side-note to today’s
brouhaha: The FCC
simultaneously launched the Open
Internet Challenge, in which it is
inviting the public at a large to
create apps that will “that help
consumers enhance, foster,
measure and protect Internet
openness”--a kind of Netflix Prize
for the Net Neutrality set.
Starting February 1, individuals
and teams can submit applications
to the competition that do things
like provide Internet users with
Bleak Prospects for Further Economic
Growth
Gary Shilling (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:00:00 PM
Filed under: Forecasts,
Newsletters, Economic Data,
Housing
In projecting U.S. GDP growth at
about a 2% rate for the remainder
of this year and in 2011, I have
noted that the two propellants of
growth so far in this economic
recovery -- the inventory revival
and fiscal stimuli -- are largely
exhausted.
But are there other sectors of the
real-time information about their
network connections. For
example, the FCC said, one app
could be a tool that tells a user
when “a broadband provider is
interfering with DNS responses,
application packet headers, or
content.”
The competition is being hosted
economy that might serve as the
backbone of any meaningful
economic recovery? I don't see
any, especially with U.S.
consumers continuing their saving
spree, repaying debts and
at Challenge.gov, the platform
created as part of President
Obama’s Strategy for American
Innovation, in which he called
upon agencies to foster innovation
through these kinds of prizes and
competitions. Among the 55 other
challenges posted to
Challenge.gov are one from the
remaining hesitant to spend like
they did during the boom times of
earlier years.
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Department of Veterans Affairs
soliciting ideas for wireless
devices or apps that solve specific
veterans problems, and another
from FEMA that is looking for
ideas on how to prepare
communities before disasters
strike.
Participants in the Open Internet
Starry Jungle Gyms - The
Playground by Sungkuk
Park Glows Day or Night
(GALLERY)
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Trends)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:27:01 AM
( TrendHunter.com) The
Playground by Sungkuk Park
brings a little whimsy to children's
outdoor activities. Covered in
stars, with references to the moon
through dome-shaped elements, it
is a magical jungle gym that
will...
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Challenge have until June 1 to
submit their apps, which must be
free, open source, and available
on the Internet. Expert judges and
public voting will winners, which
will be announced on Aug. 8.
Unlike the Netflix Prize, which
came with a $1 million kitty, the
FCC is only ponying up a trip to
DC and the opportunity to present
one’s app to the Commission as a
prize. We’ll be watching closely
to see how well this competition
does. Sure, many coders hack for
glory, but there’s nothing like the
promise of a juicy carrot to get
their fingers moving across those
keyboards.
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Xilinx Cuts Third-

Quarter Sales Forecast
Mark Fightmaster
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:30:00 PM
Filed under: Technology
Tuesday, chipmaker Xilinx (
XLNX) announced that it was
cutting its current-quarter (third
quarter) revenue forecast thanks
to weaker-than-expected sales to
some of its larger communications
customers. This announcement
comes during a series of quarters
in which the company has seen
record sales, thanks to rising
demand stemming from a
perceived economic rebound.
One analyst calls this news,
"evidence of a cyclical inventory
correction that we'd been
expecting and have talked about
previously." Nevertheless, the
POTUS-phobia
Eric A. Posner (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:00:00 PM
The Decline and Fall of the
same analyst said that it could
take longer than Xilinx had
previously estimated for inventory
to come back to better levels.
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By Bruce Ackerman
(Belknap Press, 270 pp., $25.95)
POP-QUIZ: What Was The
Insurance Industry's Most
Expensive Disaster This Year?
Joe Weisenthal (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:01:00 PM
Nope, it wasn't the Gulf oil
disaster. It was the Chile
earthquake.
This table of significant
insurance catastrophe's comes
Shattering Gaming Art -
The Dan Saelinger Xbox
360 Explosion is a
Gamer's Nightmare
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Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:53:02 AM
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so much for this wicked gaming
console I don't know why anyone
would want to smash it into itty-
bitty pieces, but photographer
Dan Saelinger did the unthinkable
and created the Xbox 360
Explosion...
from Guy Carpenter of Swiss Re
(via GCC Capital Ideas). The Gulf
explosion comes in second third.
Second was the earthquake in
New Zealand, and fourth was the
Windstorm Xynthia in Europe,
which... we have no memory of.
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News Corp Sells Fox Mobile Group To Jesta

Leena Rao (TechCrunch) has acquired Fox Mobile Group launched mobile video service 15 percent of its staff in Germany.
(FMG) from News Corporation.
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:58:13 AM and entertainment platform. FMG CrunchBase Information Fox
Terms of the deal were not will become part of Jesta Mobile Mobile Group Information
It looks like News Corp. has disclosed in the release. Holdings. provided by CrunchBase
unloaded its Fox Mobile Group FMG operates a number of We’ve known that News Corp
division. According to a release, mobile services including Jamba, w e l l a s B i t b o p , a r e c e n t l y was looking to unload Fox Mobile
investment company Jesta Group Jamster, Mobizzo and iLove, as Group, most recently laying off
10 Top News/
Ivory Coast opposition wants Gbagbo gone by force (AP)
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Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:36:11 AM
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – A top
opposition figure called
Wednesday for the international
community to use force to oust
Laurent Gbagbo from the
presidency after the disputed
election, as France urged its
citizens to get out amid growing
fears of civil war.
The United Nations and other
world leaders recognize Alassane
Ouattara as the winner of the Nov.
28 runoff vote. His prime
minister, Guillaume Soro, urged
the U.N., European Union,
African Union and others to
consider intervening to push
Gbagbo out.
"It is obvious that there is one
solution left — that of force,"
Guillaume Soro told France's i-
tele television channel. He added
that "200 people have been killed
by the bullets of Liberian and
Angolan mercenaries" in Ivory
Coast but he did not elaborate and
the numbers could not
immediately be confirmed.
The U.N. said Sunday that at
least 50 people have been killed in
Ivory Coast in recent days, and
the U.N. chief also has expressed
concern about the recruitment of
fighters from neighboring Liberia.
Still, there appears to be little
international interest in a military
intervention in Ivory Coast. The
United States and the EU are
imposing sanctions targeting
Gbagbo, his wife and political
allies. Hundreds of U.N.
peacekeepers have been
protecting the hotel where
Ouattara is based.
Over the weekend, Gbagbo
ordered all U.N. peacekeepers out
of the country immediately in an
escalation of tensions. The U.N.
considers Ouattara president and
is staying put, raising fears that
U.N. personnel and other
foreigners could be targeted in
violence as tensions mount.
The U.S. State Department has
already ordered most of its
personnel to leave because of
what officials called a
deteriorating security situation
and growing anti-Western
sentiment. Germany's Foreign
Ministry also has recommended
that its nationals leave.
French government spokesman
Francois Baroin said Wednesday
that French citizens who can leave
Ivory Coast should do so
temporarily. At least 13,000
French people are currently
believed to be in Ivory Coast,
which maintains close ties to
France and was once the crown
jewel of its former West African
colonial empire.
After a meeting in Paris with
French President Nicolas Sarkozy,
World Bank chief Robert Zoellick
also confirmed Wednesday that
loans have been halted to Ivory
Coast. The World Bank's aid
commitment to Ivory Coast was
$841.9 million as of January
2010, according to the bank's
website.
"The World Bank has currently
stopped lending and disbursing
funds to the Ivory Coast and the
World Bank's office (in Abidjan)
has been closed," a statement
from the agency said.
"The World Bank and the African
Development Bank have
supported (regional bloc)
ECOWAS and the African Union,
in sending the message to
President Gbagbo that he has lost
the election and needs to step
down," it said.
Ouattara has also sought to use
financial pressure to force Gbagbo
out, appealing to the West African
central bank (BCEAO) to cut off
his access to state coffers, making
it impossible to pay civil servants
and soldiers. Such a move could
set the stage for mass defections
and turn the tide against Gbagbo.
The latest international pressure
Wednesday to force Gbagbo out
comes amid rising concerns about
violence in Ivory Coast. U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
said Tuesday that Ivory Coast
faces "a real risk" of return to civil
war.
Over the weekend, masked
gunmen opened fire on the U.N.
base in Ivory Coast, though no
one from the global body was
harmed in the attack. Two
military observers were wounded
in another attack. The U.N. also
says armed men have been
intimidating U.N. staff at their
private homes.
A Gbagbo adviser said he didn't
believe soldiers or people close to
Gbagbo would carry out such
acts.
The U.N. chief also has
expressed concern about fighters
from neighboring Liberia entering
into the growing political crisis in
Ivory Coast. The U.N.
peacekeeping force in Ivory Coast
has "confirmed that mercenaries,
including freelance former
combatants from Liberia, have
been recruited to target certain
groups in the population," he said
Tuesday.
Ivory Coast's 2002-2003 civil
war saw the involvement of
Liberians fighting on nearly all
sides of the conflict. Liberia itself
suffered brutal back-to-back civil
wars that lasted until 2003, and
the two countries share a porous,
370-mile-(600-kilometer)-long
border. Liberia's president has
urged citizens not to get involved
in Ivory Coast's latest political
crisis.
Hundreds of U.N. troops are
protecting the Golf Hotel where
Ouattara is based, but they are
encircled by forces loyal to
Gbagbo. U.N. Special
Representative Choi Young-jin
said that a blockade was lifted
Wednesday and U.N. supply
trucks are now able to bring in
food, water and needed
medications that weren't getting
through after Gbagbo imposed the
blockade last week.
Gbagbo said late Tuesday that
people could also leave the Golf
Hotel, but Ouattara's people say
they're still not venturing out for
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fear of a trap.
"Mice don't trust smiling cats,"
said senior Ouattara adviser
Amadou Coulibaly.
Ivory Coast was once an
economic hub because of its role
as the world's top cocoa producer.
The 2002-2003 civil war split the
country into a rebel-controlled
north and a loyalist south. While
the country officially reunited in a
2007 peace deal, Ouattara still
draws his support from the
northern half of the country where
he was born while Gbagbo's
power base is in the south.
Gbagbo claimed victory in the
presidential election only after his
allies threw out half a million
ballots from Ouattara strongholds
in the north, a move that
infuriated residents there who
have long felt they are treated as
foreigners in their own country by
southerners.
___
Associated Press writers Jamey
Keaten in Paris and Edith M.
Lederer at the United Nations
contributed to this report.
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Ashes 2010: Fourth Test at the MCG - Preview

(Epoch Times | All headlines) struggled in their first innings at and I’m sure that’s what the
Submitted at 12/22/2010 10:38:28 AM bat. The top order fell cheaply and Australian public want too.”
at one point was 4-36. And ‘Red mist’
By David Bryceson although they only scored 268 "It's England vs Australia, an
Epoch Times Staff Created: Dec runs in the first innings, Australia Ashes series. Blokes get the red
22, 2010 Last Updated: Dec 22, set themselves up for the victory mist occasionally and you're
2010 on a bouncy pitch suited to allowed to do that; things happen
The Melbourne Cricket Ground bowling. ..." Excited at the prospect of
(MCG) lies in wait for the Fourth The standout player in the match playing at the MCG, England's
Test in the 2010 Ashes Cricket was Australia’s Mitchell Johnson, Kevin Pieterson speaks to the
Series. (William West/AFP/Getty who had been controversially media during a press conference
Images) Sledging and pitch omitted from the Second Test and on Dec 22 ahead of the Fourth
tampering have led the 2010 included in the third. He took six Test against Australia. (William
Ashes Cricket Series news since of England’s wickets for 38 runs West/AFP/Getty Images)
Australia defeated England by in the first innings and 3-44 in the England’s Kevin Pietersen said
267 runs to level the series in the second. Leading the fight-back that there was nothing new about
Third Test at the WACA in Perth. with bat and ball, his important 63 A u s t r a l i a n C r i c k e t e r s ’ test, as the name suggests. It’s not
the Australian’s behavior, but that
After Australia bowled England runs in the first innings helped the A s s o c i a t i o n , P a u l M a r s h , just a test of how good a batsman,
it wasn’t as bad as in the past.
out for 187 and 123, the Ashes fiery fast-bowler’s momentum. speaking on ABC Radio, said that bowler, fielder, etc you are, it’s
“I’ve played against Australia I
Series is alive and well—setting On several occasions, heated the as a result of the warning, this how strong you are mentally and I
don’t know how many Test
up what is expected to attract a words were exchanged between led to a change in their form for think that’s what our players have
matches and believe me, the first
world record breaking crowd for p l a y e r s d u r i n g t h e m a t c h . the worse. been very good at, getting into the
time I played and the second time
one day of cricket at the Fourth Beginning when Johnson was “There was a clear directive from minds of opposition players. Our
I came out here, the likes of
Test beginning on Boxing Day at batting on the first day—he and Cricket Australia that the players’ players have been doing it for
Warne, McGrath, etc, there were
the Melbourne Cricket Ground. on-field behavior needed to be several decades. It’s part of the
England’s James Anderson traded some pretty big verbal contests,”
With three of the 5-day Test barbs—Australia were louder than looked at,” Marsh said. DNA of the Australian cricket
said Pietersen, reported
matches played, the series is tied their subdued behavior in the one- “I think at the time, a number of team and the reason why we are
espncrickinfo.
at 1-1, including a drawn match in sided Adelaide Test. the players were of the view that so successful.
“I haven’t seen or heard anything
the First Test at the Gabba in Sledging it was a bit of a storm in a tea cup, “The team went through a bit of
different from what’s happened in
Brisbane. The tourists need only A green pitch that will favor but at the time, there was a fair bit an identity crisis around what they
the first two Tests, let alone last
avoid defeat in the remaining two Australia's pace bowlers is being of controversy going around. The could and couldn’t do on the field
year in England. There are not
Tests at the MCG and Sydney prepared as ground staff remove players definitely looked at their and I don’t think they played with
really any big chirpers or sledgers.
Cricket Ground to return to covers at the MCG on Dec 22. behavior and I think they changed their natural instincts for a while,”
“It’s England vs Australia, an
England with the Ashes. it—not necessarily for the better, he said.
(William West/AFP/Getty Ashes series. Blokes get the red
Third Test—WACA as it turned out.” “It was pleasing to see them in
Images) The Australians played mist occasionally and you’re
With England only needing one with an aggression not seen since Marsh discussed the line at which Perth get back to their natural
allowed to do that; things happen.
win following the Second Test at 2008 at the SCG, where they o n - f i e l d b e h a v i o r b e c o m e s instincts. I think the Australian
“You’re playing for that little urn
Adelaide Oval to retain the Ashes, defeated India. They had received unacceptable. public clearly wanna see the team
and it’s historic, it’s huge. But
they began confidently in Perth a warning from Cricket Australia “ O b v i o u s l y , i f y o u ’ v e g o t play like that.”
there’s nothing that’s been
and appeared to have one hand on for sledging, an aspect of the physical contact between players, “I don’t think anyone overstepped
overboard and if things go
the urn. that’s unacceptable. If it becomes the mark; they played hard but
game that Australia had been overboard, match referees deal
There was anticipation of an masters at during their long period personal, you don’t really need it fair and it’s no doubt the players
with stuff like that and there’s
Adelaide repeat performance by of dominance. to be discussing people’s family intimidated the English during
both nations as Australia and the like. that particular game. ASHES page 17
The chief executive of the
“But the object of Test cricket is a “I hope we can see more of that
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Can 'Cursed' SpideyMusical Be Saved?
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:13:11 PM
If anyone needs a Christmas
miracle it’s the accident-prone
Broadway musical “Spider-Man:
Turn Off the Dark.”
Called “cursed” in Broadway
circles, the show experienced its
fourth onstage accident this week.
Producers are now being forced to
enact new and better safety
measures, and Broadway veterans
are calling for director Julie
Taymor’s head.
Yet despite the serious setbacks
on "Spider-Man," a show that
tries to depict real-life stunts on
par with computer-generated
special effects, theater experts say
this show will go on.
“There's no way it won't open.
Not only would canceling it be a
huge embarrassment for everyone
involved, but from a business
point of view they have no choice.
They've spent so much money
already, they can't possibly not try
to recoup it,” New York Observer
theater reviewer Jesse Oxfeld told
FOX411.com. “They'll tinker a bit
more, get safety standards to the
point where New York State
officials and Actors Equity are
happy, and they'll open when
they're currently scheduled to,
which is mid February, or else
soon thereafter.”
On Monday evening, actor
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Christopher Tierney, the stunt
man who makes Spidey fly
through the air with the greatest of
ease (in theory), became the
show’s fourth victim when his
safety tethers failed to function
during the musical’s second act,
and he fell 10-20 feet into the pit.
A representative for the actor’s
union said the accident was
caused by “human error” and not
mechanical failure. Tierney was
reported in serious but stable
condition on Tuesday night with
cracked ribs, but no life-
threatening injuries.
After a meeting with the
Occuptional Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), the
Actors Equity Union and the New
York State Department of Labor,
“Spider-Man” producers said in a
statement that additional safety
measures “would be enacted
immediately.” A Wednesday
matinee was canceled, but the
show was expected to resume
Wednesday evening.
“An accident like this is obviously
heartbreaking for our entire team
and, of course, to me personally,"
director Julie Taymor, famous for
her direction of Broadway’s long-
running “Lion King,” said in a
statement. "I am so thankful that
Chris is going to be all right and is
in great spirits. Nothing is more
important than the safety of our
‘Spider-Man’ family and we'll
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continue to do everything in our
power to protect the cast and
crew."
But the hopeful words didn’t stop
Broadway veterans from attacking
Taymor and calling the accidents
unacceptable.
“They should put Julie Taymor in
jail for assault,” Broadway actor
Adam Pascal, who starred in
“Rent” and “Aida,” said on his
Facebook page. Pascal added that
he hopes Tierney sues Taymor as
well as Bono and The Edge from
the rock band U2, who are
investors and composers of the
show's music.
“Does someone have to die?”
tweeted Tony Award-winner
Alice Ripley.
Before Tierney’s accident, lead
actress Natalie Mendoza received
a concussion during an offstage
accident in November, and two
other actors have been hurt during
flying sequences, one breaking
both wrists.
Show producers have already
sunk more than $65 million into
the production, making it by far
the most expensive Broadway
spectacle in history.
“I call this the Great Wall of
China of musicals. It’s a natural
wonder of the world. Because of
that they have no choice but to be
cautious. Whenever they have felt
something isn't right they have
pushed back the opening. They
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canceled the show today and took
a $200,000 ticket hit right there,”
Ken Davenport, who produced
David Mamet's "Oleanna" and
"Speed the Plow" on Broadway,
told FOX411.com. “They have
demonstrated they are willing to
do whatever it takes, and they
need to do that going forward for
this show to survive. Broadway is
a family business, and the family
wants to know everyone is safe.”
“Spider-Man” is costing around
$1 million per week to stage
during previews. On the bright
side for the production, the
show’s weekly gross topped $1
million last week with an average
ticket price of $90.45, according
to Playbill.com. But it will have to
do much better than that once it
opens, cutting costs by at least a
third and increasing gross by half,
experts say. Then it will have to
run for at least two years,
successfully, to break even.
Broadway insiders say the show
is still selling tons of advanced
tickets, with recent accidents only
ratcheting up the expectations for
the trouble-addled production,
fulfilling the adage that all press is
good press.
“Theater isn’t always in the
spotlight, and all the buzz with
‘Spider-Man,’ whether good or
bad, is putting the spotlight on the
theater,” Frank DiLella, who
produces segments on Broadway
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explained. “People are going to
want to go to ‘Spider-Man’ just to
see what 65 million dollars looks
like on stage. Some people are
going to be intrigued by the
element of danger, and others will
simply want to enjoy the spectacle
of the comic book hero flying
around to Bono.”
Another Broadway producer
went a step further.
"It drives me crazy that someone
would even consider that this
show, after so many years in
development, so much money and
time invested, and so much
creative passion and effort should
close before it even opens," said
Toby Simkin, producer of "Long
Day's Journey Into Night," and
"Death of a Salesman." "'Spider-
Man' should stay on the path to
achieve opening. Then let the
public decide."
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Senate heads toward approval of arms treaty

(Reuters: Top News) relations between Washington and talks with Republicans, has North Korea as a bigger national their citizens that they’re telling
Submitted at 12/22/2010 10:50:46 AM Moscow. committed to spend $85 billion security concern than Russia. the truth? Not me. And hopefully
"I believe that it will be ratified," over 10 years to modernize U.S. Republican leaders have pressed not President Obama. But if he
Senator John Kerry (D-MA) (L) Medvedev told reporters during a nuclear weapons and for a more robust missile defense has so much influence with his
and Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) visit to Mumbai, India, wishing infrastructure. program, even at the risk of new friends the Russians, why
(R) address a news conference to O b a m a s u c c e s s i n w i n n i n g "Under no circumstances should irritating Russia, which is wasn’t he able to stop this? marc5
discuss their support of ratifying a p p r o v a l f o r t h e p a c t . the START treaty be ratified concerned that U.S. plans for wrote:
the new START treaty, at the U.S. The treaty would reduce long- without doing this. That'd be like missile defenses in Eastern Hmmm…. so what about China?
Capitol in Washington, December range, strategic atomic weapons reducing our weapons and leaving Europe could ultimately be used giveitthought wrote:
21, 2010. deployed by each country to no us with a collection of wet to defeat Moscow's nuclear Another talking point for the
Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst more than 1,550 within seven matches. I mean we need to make deterrent. Realist99 wrote: upcoming elections. Count on this
By David Alexander and Thomas years. Deployed missile launchers sure that what we have left “It is a centerpiece of Obama’s one being hailed as a “MAJOR
Ferraro -- whether silos, submarines or works," said third-ranking Senate bid to “re-set” relations with FOREIGN POLICY MIRACLE.”
WASHINGTON| Wed Dec 22, bombers -- would be cut to no Republican Lamar Alexander, Russia, which has been Sort of like calling your kid a
2010 11:50am EST more than 700. who supports the accord. increasingly cooperative on issues genius when he speaks his first
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The Russian parliament has been Changes to the treaty would related to U.S. national security, words. Em, no, he’s not a genius,
President Barack Obama, with the waiting for the U.S. Senate to act effectively defeat it by forcing a from curbing Iran’s nuclear he’s just a kid who finally started
support of fellow Democrats and before taking up the treaty itself. renegotiation with Russia. program to the war in talking.
some rival Republicans, headed The Kremlin-backed United But understandings, Afghanistan.” It won’t affect polling numbers
toward a major foreign policy Russia party dominates the interpretations and other language Seriously? Before Obama “hit the even a little, which will send
victory on Wednesday with parliament, so ratification is all can be inserted in the Senate's reset button,” the Russians and Obama back into his usual
anticipated Senate approval of his but assured, possibly before year's resolution of ratification without others blocked fuel rods from whining that the evil Republicans
milestone nuclear arms treaty with end. affecting the actual treaty, and going into the Busheir plant. But are out to get him. It’s almost
Russia. Obama, who has been calling Democrats were using that route in August of 2010, Russian-made interesting.
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with Obama in April, expressed a m e n d m e n t s a h e a d o f revealed fundamental differences promise that once the rods have
optimism that the Senate would Wednesday's vote dealing with over national security between Plutonium, they will be taken
approve the accord, considered a missile defenses, verification and Democrats and many Republican, back to Russia for reprocessing.”
c e n t e r p i e c e f o r i m p r o v i n g nuclear modernization. Obama, in who view states like Iran and Who’s willing to bet the lives of
Buchheit on why Google will never catch Facebook
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Dems Rips GOP Over9/11 Health Bill Stall

(FOXNews.com) years to survivors and responders an agreement will be reached At the same time, the House is
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:13:11 PM who became sick after being Wednesday. The stumbling block rapidly losing members who are
exposed to toxins at the World
WASHINGTON -- With the Trade Center ruins.
is the $6.2 billion price tag.
Negotiations are centered on
throwing in the towel and just
leaving town, regardless of what's
Ashes 2010:
lame-duck session nearing an Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla, lowering the cost of the bill on the floor. Fourth Test at the
increasingly bitter end, Senate released a seven-page document "substantially" -- by at least a "It's a big problem," House
Democrats are now accusing on Tuesday outlining what his billion dollars, the source said. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said MCG - Preview
Republicans of abandoning 9/11 spokesman says are the senator's A Democratic Senate source told Tuesday as he hustled into a (Epoch Times | All headlines)
heroes because of their concerns "concerns" with the bill. Fox News something could Democratic leadership meeting.
Submitted at 12/22/2010 10:38:28 AM
with a bill that would pay for the "The United States of America happen "within hours." But the "We're short about 80 (members)
health care of the first responders does have an obligation to provide source added that it's unknown right now." You are not authorised to view
to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist for those devastated by the tragic whether that would be a New York lawmakers are urging this resource.
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U.S. military to allow gays, but rules will take time

(Reuters: Top News) to live a lie, or look over their to say how long it will take to Sexual prediliction has no value
Submitted at 12/22/2010 10:33:45 AM shoulder in order to serve," draft the new rules, critics say the when assessing military
Obama said before signing the Pentagon may drag out the capability.
President Barack Obama signs repeal and making good on a key process in a nod to internal You can or cannot fight (I know
the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal campaign pledges. skepticism. the military do other things too),
Act of 2010 lifting the ban on Despite divisions at the top of the "The defense secretary and those who cannot get a RE
homosexuals serving openly in military, Defense Secretary service chiefs have so far acted as position. Is this beyond your wit?
the U.S. armed forces at the Robert Gates and Chairman of the if repeal is a complicated There are far more pressing
Department of the Interior in Joint Chiefs Admiral Mike problem. They are probably going things to examine surely?
DIY Exploding High-
Washington, December 22, 2010. Mullen supported an end to the to demand up to a year to train drybeans wrote: Five Glove makes hand-
Credit: Reuters/Jim Young policy, pointing to a recent troops how to interact with gays," You know what else might slapping geeky [Video]
By Missy Ryan Pentagon study that concluded the said Aaron Belkin, director of the endanger troops? WAR. indiaten
WASHINGTON| Wed Dec 22, risks were low. Palm Center, a think tank at the wrote: Chris Davies (SlashGear)
2010 11:33am EST The Pentagon must now draft a University of California, Santa Since many are now trying to say Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:02:40 AM

WASHINGTON(Reuters) - plan that will decide how troops Barbara. that Gay rights are equal to civil
President Barack Obama on will be educated about the new "This is a political obstruction by rights which they are not because As we all know, high-fiving went
Wednesday signed a landmark policy and make decisions about the service chiefs. Bottom line is one is simply a lifestyle choice out of fashion because it wasn’t
law to allow gays and lesbians to disciplinary procedures, benefits that military could repeal ban does this mean that polygamy will loud enough; kids experimented
serve openly in the U.S. military or the status of those fired for tomorrow if it wanted to, but be allowed in the military? When with gunpowder and methane gas,
for the first time, but it could be violating "Don't Ask" in the past, that's not going to happen," he does it stop? If your sexual but it all proved far too unstable.
many months before a move some said Colonel David Lapan, a said. preference is a civil right then Happily Eli Skipp has stepped in
top officers warn may endanger Pentagon spokesman. The recent working group report isn’t all sexual preferences with her DIY “exploding high-
troops will finally take effect. The plan may take a cue from the did make suggestions about protected? Who is to say whether five glove”: it doesn’t actually
The Pentagon is drafting new Pentagon's recent working group communicating the new rules and it’s right or wrong, who has the explode, just use an Arduino, a
rules following the repeal of the report, which recommended educating troops, but Pentagon right to say a pedophile is wrong, force-sensor and a loudspeaker to
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, against separate bathroom and officials say more study is it is wrong, but with this type of make explosion noises whenever
which Congress passed this shower facilities for gay soldiers required. thinking you can see where it can you high-five someone.
month, to cheers from opponents and said some benefits, like free Obama promised the government go. Video demo after the cut
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Third-quarter GDP raised, home sales bounce back

(Reuters: Top News) fourth quarter. Third-quarter growth estimates 15.4 percent rate instead of 16.8
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:00:55 PM "The more recent data suggests were revised to reflect a $121.4 percent. breezinthru wrote:
we're seeing reasonably healthy billion increase in business It’s difficult for me to reconcile
Crews load and unload consumer retail sales growth, pretty healthy inventories rather than the $111.5 the optimistic title of this article
products at the Port of New i n v e s t m e n t s p e n d i n g , s o m e billion rise reported last month. with this paragraph on page 2 of
Orleans along the Mississippi growth in employment, so maybe Inventories added 1.61 percentage the article:
River in New Orleans, Louisiana the core growth or final sales points to GDP growth. “Residential investment was little
June 23, 2010. growth is starting to accelerate in Excluding inventories, the changed, contracting at a 27.3
Credit: Reuters/Sean Gardner the fourth quarter," said Zach economy expanded at a 0.9 percent rate, instead of 27.5
WASHINGTON| Wed Dec 22, Pandl an economist at Nomura percent pace rather than 1.2 percent. Housing is lagging the
2010 1:00pm EST Securities International in New percent. recovery and a report from the
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - Sales York.
of previously owned homes rose Stocks edged higher to extend
CONSUMER SPENDING NOT
AS ROBUST
Mortgage Bankers Association
showed mortgage applications last
Skype Goes Down
in November, offering the latest four days of gains that drove the The increase in consumer week fell to their lowest level in – And The Buzz On
sign the economy was ending the broader Standard & Poor's 500 spending was revised down to a nearly a year.”
year on a more solid footing after index to levels not seen since 2.4 percent rate from 2.8 percent. Michelle Meyer makes a feeble
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performance. bankrupt two years ago. Prices for more than two-thirds of economic subsequent paragraph, but the fact Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:07:15 AM
Gross domestic product growth government debt were slightly activity and contributed 1.67 remains that residential
was revised up to an annualized down, while the dollar was flat percentage points to growth in the investment is still in a contraction Breaking: Skype appears to have
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inventory accumulation, the Economists expect growth to the first quarter of 2007 and was a influence that keeps us searching of this moment Skype is not
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Washington Square Park Photo-op

(Scripting News) I needed to do a test post, so monument that's the centerpiece
Submitted at 12/22/2010 10:05:48 AM here's a picture I took yesterday. of the park.
Just some people having their pictures taken in front of the
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ASHES
continued from page 11

been nothing like that. There’s not
been anything close to it.”
Pitch Tampering
Leading into the much
anticipated Boxing Day Test,
reports of preparing a green MCG
pitch to suit the host nation had
seen a knee-jerk reaction by
English media crying foul.
A greener pitch means that fast
bowlers and seamers will get
more swing from the ball than a
spin bowler would on a drier
one—suiting the Australian pace-
bowling attack that had great
success in Perth.
The tendency of a host’s curator
preparing pitches in the hope of
favoring their team has probably
always been a factor in
cricket—home advantage has
always played its part in results.
England’s Alastair Cook saw it as
normal “home advantage”.
“You’d expect everyone to do it,”
the opening batsmen told
reporters in Perth. “That is the
beauty of home conditions, isn’t
it?
“You can prepare a pitch to
hopefully suit the home side. That
is what we try and do in England
in certain cases. There is no
reason I would expect Australia
not to do it.”
Fourth Test—MCG
Australia's Mitchell Johnson was
involved in verbal barbs during
the Third Ashes Test. (Hamish
Blair/Getty Images) Pieterson,
who was the hero at the Adelaide
Oval when he scored his career-
best 227 and captured the crucial
wicket of Michael Clarke on the
last day before stumps on Day
Four, had a shocker in Perth. A
duck in the first innings and three
runs in the second was far from
his best Test performance.
Excited at the prospect of playing
before an expected MCG crowd
in excess of the record of 90,800
set at the same venue in February
1961 against West Indies, the
stage couldn’t be bigger for
Pieterson to find a return to form.
“Having won a Test, lost a Test,
two to play and one to win to take
the Ashes home is an incredible
opportunity for the team.
“I don’t know what ticket sales
are like, but it could be potentially
around 400,000 people watching
the five days. That is so exciting.
“I’ve played a little bit and I get
goosebumps thinking about it.
“Everyone in the team, including
the management, and the
Australians are really looking
forward to what should be a great
week’s cricket if the sun shines.
Any day of Test cricket is
amazing, but if you get 100,000
watching you on a particular day,
you’re pretty pleased.”
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Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:14:57 AM back to normal – thanks for your
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Skype, popular Internet phone At peak times, Skype has up to
and instant messaging program, 23 million users online from
seems to be down for millions of around the world, according to
users as of Wednesday morning. Skype's website. Yet at 1 p.m.
As users lose their ability to EST, only 6.2 million users are on
communica te through Skype, Skype, as seen from a New York
they are turn ing to Twitter by the City IP address.
throusands to tweet about it: Founded in 2003, Skype has
"Skype is down. God help us all," become increasingly popular for
tweeted user@ coribald at 12:45 enabling its users to make free
p.m. EST. video and voice calls, send instant
" Skype is down! R.I.P.," tweeted messages, and share files with
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Massive Chicago BlazeClaims 2 Firefighters

(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:13:11 PM
Two firefighters were killed and
14 others were injured -- six
critically -- after being trapped in
a vacant burning building on
Chicago's South Side on
Wednesday.
Ten firefighters are listed in in
stable condition following the
blaze at an abandoned dry
cleaners, where a wall collapsed
as crews fought the fire at the one
- s t o r y b u i l d i n g ,
MyFoxChicago.com reports.
Dozens of firefighters sifted
through the rubble to find their
comrades, and then rushed them
to nearby hospitals.
The fire started at about 7 a.m.
local time and a "mayday" call
went out when the wall collapsed.
Ten ambulances rushed to the
scene.
The blaze occurred on the 100th
anniversary of the Union
Stockyards fire that claimed the
lives of 21 Chicago firefighters in
1910. In all, 24 men in that fire in
the meatpacking operation at a
Morris & Co. plant.
Fire officials did not immediately
confirm or deny the reported
fatalities, but the medical
examiner's office has confirmed
the two deaths.
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from MyFoxChicago.com.
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Over the Horizon: The Greenhouse of U.S. Foreign Policy

(World Politics Review: Articles) Comparative Jurisprudence and or business concentration. Almost aspects of their education into articles arguing that security
Submitted at 12/21/2010 11:59:00 PM Diplomacy. The Walsh School all of these schools offer their careers. Another is through studies as an independent subfield
was founded in 1919, the Fletcher considerably more "hands on" the professors it retains, as was dead.
Two weeks ago, the Patterson School in 1933, the Kennedy policy education than would be teaching at a policy program During this period, partly in
S c h o o l o f D i p l o m a c y a n d School in 1936, and SAIS in found in an academic graduate opens up certain avenues of study response to the end of the Cold
I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o m m e r c e 1943. The growth in size and program, including support for that aren't always rewarded in War, young scholars drifted away
graduated its 50th class. Having number of such programs runs policy internships as well as a traditional academia. For from security studies. Most
completed not only an 18-month parallel with the expansion of the steady stream of visitors, adjuncts, example, the need for foreign- importantly, the links between
program of study but also a gamut U.S. college and university and speakers with concrete policy policy schools to offer security academia and the policy world
of comprehensive exams, the system in the 20th century, but experience. studies courses probably helped withered. Junior scholars under
roughly 30 graduating students also with the dramatic increase in The number and geographic that political science subfield tenure- and job-pressure
are now ready to enter the foreign the size and professionalism of distribution of foreign-policy survive some "lean" years in the concentrated on academic
-policy workforce. But the the country's foreign-policy schools, as well as their presence 1990s. publishing rather than on policy
Patterson School is just one a p p a r a t u s . A s A m e r i c a ' s on both public and private There were several reasons for questions, while on the policy
element of an archipelago of responsibilities and interests campuses, suggests that the days the decline of security studies in side, the product of academia
schools focusing on international a b r o a d h a v e g r o w n , t h e in which U.S. foreign policy was the traditional academy at the seemed to hold less relevance.
policy that collectively helps staff i n s t i t u t i o n s p r o v i d i n g t h e executed almost solely by time. The field had emerged in "The Clinton administration was
t h e F o r e i g n S e r v i c e , t h e personnel who help make U.S. members of the East Coast political science as a consequence focused more on technical
intelligence community, a variety foreign policy function have intelligentsia have passed. The of plentiful government funding questions than wider strategic
o f n o n - g o v e r n m e n t a l responded. foreign-policy archipelago is during the Cold War, and by the thought," according to Dr.
organizations, and corporations The style of education at these about as democratic as the U.S. 1990s, the Cold War was over. Richard Betts, author of "Should
with international divisions. programs is far more policy- university system as a whole. So In addition, arcane academic Strategic Studies Survive?" and
Other schools with the same oriented and less abstract than that although that system still tends to conflicts within political science professor of political science at
mission include the Elliot School of traditional political science under-represent certain socio- often left security studies on the Colombia University. In 1997,
of International Affairs at George programs. Instead of seminars on economic and demographic losing side. Long-simmering Betts and several other senior
Washington, the Walsh School of the latest in international relations groups, the foreign-policy normative concerns about the security specialists established
Foreign Service at Georgetown, theory, students take courses on machinery of the United States appropriate relationship of the SWAMOS, or the Summer
the Fletcher School of Law and the history and practice of does not resemble the classical scholar to the state also re- Workshop on Analysis of Military
Diplomacy at Tufts, the Nitze diplomacy, the functioning of a British imperial system, in which emerged. Security studies had Operations and Strategy, in order
School of Advanced International modern bureaucracy, and the young men of very specific class long enjoyed a privileged to preserve a nucleus of strategic
Studies at Johns Hopkins, the elements of military operations and social backgrounds "went to relationship with the military- expertise within political science.
Kennedy School of Government that civilian policymakers need to India" to make their fortunes -- or industrial complex, with security The workshop educated 20
at Harvard, and many others. understand. Most of the programs to become tyrants, as Edmund scholars receiving money and political scientists a year in hard,
Some, although not all, of these require some study of statistical Burke would have it. attention when their work was of policy-oriented security questions.
schools have doctoral programs in methods to provide a foundation In addition to producing the value to the defense community. Many of these political
addition to offering master's for both reading and producing nation's foreign-policy workforce, This caused resentment, and not scientists, myself included, have
degrees, and some also offer quantitative analytical study. The the archipelago of foreign-service just due to professional jealousy: gone on to teach security studies
undergraduate majors. schools differ in terms of schools offers an increasingly Many believed that security at foreign-policy schools.
Each of these schools has a educational approach, substantive important avenue for the academy specialists were associated with a For related reasons, foreign-
unique history. The Patterson focus, and area expertise. Most of to influence policy. One way is number of immoral activities policy schools seem to have been
School was founded in 1959 on them tend to offer two-year through the students it graduates, undertaken by the United States more friendly than traditional
the strength of a grant made in degrees, although some are as foreign-policy professionals military. As a result of these academic programs to policy-
1922. The Elliot School came into shorter or longer, and many offer will inevitably -- and combined factors, several
existence in 1898 as the School of dual degrees combined with a law appropriately -- carry some prominent scholars even wrote OVER page 21
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ICC Indictments Put Kenya on Trial

(World Politics Review: Articles) and legislative branches of Uhuru Kenyatta, son of the Kikuyu from remaining in the Also of concern are the lengths to
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:00:00 AM Kenya's government. country's first post-independence highest office in the land. Arap which supporters of the suspects
Kibaki has taken a defensive tack leader, current finance minister Sang used Kalenjin-language might go to upend the fragile
The International Criminal Court rather than coming out with the and deputy president; Francis broadcasts to encourage his ethnic stability that has settled over
(ICC) will rule on whether to strong, public statements of Kirimi Muthaura, a top Kibaki brethren to take up arms, in an Kenya in the lead-up to the next
issue summonses for six men support for the ICC proceedings collaborator and legendary eerie echo of the hate speech sent round of presidential polls in 2012
a c c u s e d o f c r i m e s a g a i n s t anticipated by Kenya's population mastermind on behalf of the over the radio wires by Rwanda's -- polls in which Kenyatta and
humanity for their alleged roles in and its international partners. In a Kikuyu ethnic group's political Radio Mille Collines during the Ruto were initially considered
violence following Kenya's statement released moments after machine; and former police chief darkest days of the 1994 front-runners to replace Kibaki.
d i s p u t e d 2 0 0 7 p r e s i d e n t i a l the suspects were named, he Mohammed Hussein Ali will genocide, Moreno-Ocampo said A nationwide poll conducted by
election. But in announcing the insisted that they "not be judged represent the Party of National on Dec. 15. Synovate in the week before the
suspects' names on Dec. 15, ICC a s g u i l t y " p r e m a t u r e l y . H e Unity in the ICC dock. None, however, face charges for so-called Ocampo Six were
Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo promised that his government will Suspended Education Minister the desperate situation in which named found overwhelming
indicted the entire East African "remain vigilant and ensure that William Ruto, already facing tens of thousands more of the support for the ICC prosecutions
nation, saying that "we had to the rights of its citizens and the corruption charges in Kenya; victims of the violence still find among a population wearied by
launch this because nothing was dignity of the nation are upheld," Industrialization Minister and themselves: refugees in their own the ease with which their elites
happening in Kenya." echoing the resentment over chief Odinga ally Henry Kosgey; country, interned in squalid camps evade consequences for their
It was an overt and pointed foreign interference in Kenyan and radio host Joshua Arap Sang as pawns in a political chess game actions. But equally expressed
critique of the government of affairs expressed in the pages of make up the Orange Democratic more than three years later. was a sense that justice at such a
national unity born from the post- Kenya's dailies by its political Movement's delegation. "Support for justice by the ICC is high level would fail to resonate
election violence. Although only elites. All six swiftly pledged their high among the Kenyan among people who eke out a
barely able to hold itself togethe r, Some have even gone so far as to cooperation with the ICC while population and matched by most moderate existence still beset by
the government has managed to call for Kenya to pull out of the steadfastly maintaining their of its international partners," petty corruption, ethnic or
s t r e n g t h e n K e n y a ' s a l r e a d y ICC -- a decision that would take innocence on all charges. Evenson said. "It's important that regional rivalries and the threat of
entrenched culture of impunity, a year to implement, meaning that Some 1,300 people were killed in those who are members [of the retribution for daring to complain.
allowing political elites to steal, these prosecutions, at the very the month of violence, many at Court] not let up on the message "There is a recognition that this is
threaten and kill without legal least, would go forward. the hands of security forces that the process needs to go not going to be enough,"
repercussion. The prosecutions are only in their ordered into action by Kenyatta, forward. Their responsibilities lie acknowledged Evenson. "But
Only belatedly, in a Dec. 13 first phase, according to Liz Muthaura and Hussein Ali, in addressing the threats and there is a hope that this helps
announcement suspect for its Evenson, senior counsel in the according to Ocampo. Kenyatta ensuring that there is nothing that instill confidence that justice is
timing, did President Mwai international justice program at also deputized the fearsome derails the process." possible."
Kibaki make mention of his Human Rights Watch. But they Kikuyu street gang, the Mungiki, Among the threats are the Lauren Gelfand is a freelance
intention to create a local tribunal constitute a first step "toward to act on his behalf, particularly in "persistent concerns" that not journalist and analyst now based
to try those complicit in the justice for the victims of the post- Nairobi and particularly targeting enough is being done to protect in Nairobi, Kenya, with an
violence that roared up the Rift election violence," she said. Luo supporters of Odinga, the the witnesses who are preparing interest in security and defense
Valley and through the slums of The suspects represent both sides prosecution says. to testify against the six suspects. issues. After beginning her career
Nairobi in the aftermath of the of the political turmoil that Others among the victims were That they are no longer in Kenya as a wire service correspondent,
December 2007 polls. followed the announcement that thrown off their land and fatally has done little to ensure their working on three continents for
This parallel judicial mechanism Kibaki had won the presidential beaten when they tried to return, protection: Media reports suggest Agence France-Presse, she
has been repeatedly discussed, but p o l l s d e s p i t e w i d e s p r e a d in a plot fomented more than a that supporters of some of the currently serves as Middle East
ultimately little progress has been allegations of voter fraud voiced year earlier by Kosgey, Ruto and suspects have gone to great and Africa editor for Jane's
m a d e d u e t o p o l i t i c a l by the supporters of his opponent, Arap Sang, who threw the weight lengths -- and traveled great Defence Weekly magazine. She
machinations and backroom current Prime Minister Raila of their Kalenjin ethnicity behind distances -- to intimidate or
wrangling by both the executive Odinga. the Luo candidate to prevent a corrupt potential witnesses. ICC page 21
20 World News/
Will South Sudan Be Ban Ki-moon's Finest Hour?
(World Politics Review: Articles)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 6:01:00 AM
For Ban Ki-moon, the past few
weeks have arguably been the
most dramatic he has encountered
since becoming United Nations
secretary-general nearly four
years ago. In Côte d'Ivoire, U.N.
peacekeepers are guarding the
internationally recognized winner
of this month's presidential
election while the country slides
toward chaos. Meanwhile, in New
York, the Security Council spent
Sunday locked in fruitless debates
on the simmering Korean crisis.
Ban, as South Korea's former
foreign minister, can do little to
shape the council's discussions of
his home country's security. He
has based his tenure on
maintaining good relations with
both Washington and Beijing, and
taking a forceful stance on the
Korean situation would inevitably
alienate one or both. As a result,
Ban must focus on Africa instead.
That doesn't just mean Côte
d'Ivoire, though. Ban and his
advisers are painfully aware that
another crisis is in the making in
South Sudan, which is slated to
hold a referendum on
independence from Khartoum on
Jan. 9. Unless the poll is delayed
or rigged, it will almost certainly
result in a vote for independence.
The resulting tensions could tip
into major violence, either
immediately or, more likely, later
in 2011.
The Sudanese situation represents
a greater threat to the U.N.'s
reputation than the crisis in Côte
d'Ivoire. Although the U.N. has
more than 7,000 troops and police
in Côte d'Ivoire, neighboring
West African states and France,
the former colonial power, have
usually taken the political lead
there. So however badly the
current crisis plays out, Ban will
not take the main blame.
Indeed, Ban has so far handled
the Ivorian crisis well. He was
quick to recognize the electoral
victory of Alassane Ouattara over
President Laurent Gbagbo,
speaking out days before the
Security Council could agree on a
statement. This weekend, he flatly
refused a demand by Gbagbo to
pull U.N. forces out of the
country.
Ban knows that Western and
African governments are solidly
on his side in this case: Even
China backs Ouattara's cause.
Nonetheless, his firm line is a
welcome break from his
frequently stated preference for
soft-spoken diplomacy. Ban's
many critics, both inside and
outside the U.N., believe that he
tends to equivocate and has too
little interest in the U.N.'s peace
operations. This time, he has
raised his game.
But he will need to raise it even
more in the wake of South
Sudan's referendum. The U.N. has
had peacekeepers -- currently
numbering nearly 10,000 soldiers
-- deployed in South Sudan since
2005, tasked with overseeing a
peace agreement that ended two
decades of civil war between the
Southerners and Khartoum. Next
year's referendum was stipulated
in that agreement, but U.N.
officials took a long time to focus
seriously on the vote.
Until late-2008, the U.N.
Secretariat and most major
powers were primarily concerned
with the separate crisis in Darfur,
and the South languished on the
agenda. At the start of last year,
with Khartoum playing games
around the referendum and
persistent low-level violence in
the South, international attention
switched again. The U.N. has
since sent some of its best senior
officials to Sudan to get a grip on
the situation, although its slow-
moving bureaucratic systems
made it hard to overhaul the U.N.
mission there completely.
The Sudanese government has
found innumerable ways to
complicate the U.N.'s work, from
blocking officials from entering
the country to placing flight bans
on the large peacekeeping force in
Darfur. U.N. officials seethe but
have typically tried to resolve
these problems quietly, as a full-
scale row with Khartoum could
do even greater damage.
With the referendum drawing
near, the U.N. is now trying to
envisage the "morning after"
scenarios. What will happen if the
poll descends into chaos, with no
credible result? What if there is a
clear vote for independence, and
the U.N. is asked to take the lead
in building a functioning state in
South Sudan? What if the region's
ethnic groups splinter, risking
civil war?
Parts of the U.N. Secretariat have
devoted serious thinking to these
issues, and the U.S. and EU have
also been doing contingency
planning. But, fearful of
accusations of prejudging the
referendum outcome, Ban's top
advisers have avoided drawing the
various strands of planning into a
coherent whole. No surprise there:
The U.N.'s disparate arms --
peacekeepers, development
advisers, humanitarian specialists
and so forth -- struggle to lay out
integrated plans in far-smaller
places than South Sudan, notably
Haiti.
From next month onward --
assuming a credible vote for
secession -- Ban's top priority
must be overseeing the U.N.'s
evolving role in Sudan. That will
mean cutting through the
organization's lackadaisical
bureaucracies and endless turf
wars to offer the Security Council
a compelling vision of what the
U.N. can achieve in the South.
And it will mean mixing quiet
diplomacy with crisp public
statements as and when local
forces, from both North and South
Sudan, interfere with the political
process.
Ban admits he is not the greatest
orator, but he will need to speak
out on Sudan. He should take
comfort in the broadly positive
reception that his statement on
Côte d'Ivoire received.
The secretary-general has other,
entirely worthy interests, most
obviously climate-change
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diplomacy. He is said to feel that
his predecessor, Kofi Annan,
invested too much time and
energy on peacekeeping and too
little on the U.N.'s other activities.
But Ban's first term in New York,
set to end on Dec. 31, 2011, will
be defined by peacekeeping in
Sudan.
Ban is known to want a second
term, and the U.S., China and the
U.N.'s other big powers are
rumored to be inclined to give it
to him. But he can win this second
term in one of two ways. One is
by default, as there are no other
serious candidates for the job yet.
The second is by showing that, in
addressing South Sudan, he can
lead the U.N. system through its
toughest assignments. Anyone
who values the post of U.N.
secretary-general should embrace
the second course.
Richard Gowan is an associate
director at New York University's
Center on International
Cooperation, and a policy fellow
at the European Council on
Foreign Relations.
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oriented publishing, as well as to
the rise of blogs and new media.
For example, Dan Drezner, a
pioneer of academic blogging on
international relations, currently
works at the Fletcher School at
Tufts University. Because of their
political focus, policy schools
may have greater appreciation for
scholarly intervention in public
debates, rather than in articles
geared toward academic journals
and publishers. However, the full
implications of the concomitant
growth of the foreign-policy
archipelago and the rise of new
media for the academic profession
have yet to play out.
The practice of how foreign
policy is studied in the United
States has itself been under-
studied. The emergence of the
foreign-policy archipelago clearly
hasn't gone unnoticed, as many
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for a variety of publications.
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found temporary or permanent
positions on one of its islands.
Nevertheless, few systematic
investigations of the growth of the
archipelago or of its impact on
U.S. foreign policy exist. But the
growth and operation of what can
be considered the greenhouse of
U.S. foreign policy deserves a
closer look. And over the course
of future columns, I intend to give
it just that.
Dr. Robert Farley is an assistant
professor at the Patterson School
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Mobile TV Coming to 20 U.S. Markets by 2011
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 10:26:30 AM
The Mobile Content Venture
(MCV), a joint effort by U.S.
broadcasters, recently announced
its roadmap for its mobile TV
network. The roll-out plans to
have 20 U.S. markets covered by
the end of 2011. And we should
see mobile TV-compatible
devices by the second half of
2011.
Could it be true? A real,
broadcaster-led, freemium mobile
TV service is launching next
year?
Sponsor
The consortium includes 12
broadcasters: Fox, NBC, Belo,
Cox Media, E.W. Scripps,
Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst
Television, ION Television,
Media General, Meredith, Post-
Newsweek Stations and Raycom
Media.
The markets MCV has
announced are New York, Los
Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia,
San Francisco, Dallas,
Washington D.C., Atlanta,
Houston, Detroit, Tampa,
Phoenix, Minneapolis, Orlando,
Portland, Cincinnati, Greenville,
West Palm Beach, Birmingham
and Knoxville. About MCV
You may remember hearing
something about a new mobile
TV initiative earlier this year from
a group calling itself Pearl (Pearl
Mobile DTV Company, LLC).
That's actually the same group of
broadcasters, it has just changed
its name.
In April, MCV, then called Pearl,
announced its plans to re-use
broadcast spectrum for mobile
digital TV services to provide live
and on-demand video, sports and
entertainment programming and
local and national news. The
broadcast partners are providing
the spectrum, marketing resources
and capital to the venture.
As technology blog GigaOm
described it at the time, the
decision to re-use spectrum was
due to a "use it or lose it" push
from the FCC, which was
attempting to reclaim 120 MHz of
spectrum for mobile broadband
services. The broadcasters
decided instead to keep the
spectrum and launch the mobile
TV venture, saying that it would
lead to additional revenue streams
and would help alleviate the strain
on carriers' mobile networks,
already clogged by delivering
mobile video.
The Burden of Mobile Video
Mobile video usage has grown
substantially over recent months,
contributing heavily to the mobile
data traffic surge. In February of
this year, for example, Cisco
pegged mobile data traffic at 40
exabytes for 2010 (one exabyte =
1 billion gigabytes), much of it
due to mobile video. In fact, Cisco
said that by 2014, 66% of all
mobile data traffic would be
video.
This morning, new data from
video site MeFeedia again
confirmed this trend, showing an
increase in video traffic in 2010 -
up 60% this year, it's saying.
iPhone, Android and iPad devices
have contributed to this growth,
with traffic up 22% since April on
iPhone, up 200% on Android and
up 325% on iPad. Is MCV Really
Happening?
Consumers may wonder whether
or not this announcement means a
whole lot at this point. Burned by
previous attempts at mobile TV
efforts (see, for example,
Qualcomm's now closing FLO TV
service), there's a bit of " I'll
believe it when I see it" sentiment
out there these days regarding
mobile TV ventures.
For what it's worth, the analysts
at iSuppli are somewhat bullish
on the possibilities for MCV,
citing three main aspects to the
service that provide it with a
better chance than prior efforts.
First, the technology it uses
(ATSC M/H) is cheaper than
others (DVB-H or MediaFLO, the
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latter which was used by
Qualcomm) because it leverages
existing infrastructure. Second,
the venture is broadcaster-led,
meaning it will have a good
content portfolio and will be
better designed to match up with
consumers' viewing habits and
exceptions. And third, the 17 Facts About China
technology (ASTC M/H) is That Will Blow Your
backed by handset makers LG and
Samsung, which will help bring Mind (FXI)
devices to market. Gus Lubin (Money Game)
iSuppli also notes that MCV is
likely to go for a business model
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involving both free and paid-for
For all the crazy stories you've
content to help push consumer heard about China, the world's
adoption.
biggest country is going to keep
That being said, there are also blowing your mind.
several challenges MCV must
The speed and size of economic
overcome. It needs to get operator development going in China right
commitment to integrate with
now has never happened before.
cellular networks, and it needs to In just ten years, a small emerging
be able to offer handset subsidies,
market has transformed into a
mobile billing and produce geopolitical bruiser that can go
nationwide marketing campaigns.
toe-to-toe with Ben Bernanke.
In fact, mobile operator support Like it or not, China plays a
for MCV is key, without it, the
critical role in the global economy
initiative will probably not from here out. Let's hope it hope
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Consumers Prefer Operator Billing to iTunes, PayPal Accounts
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:20:10 AM
Consumers prefer operator billing
for mobile content purchasing,
according to analysts at Strategy
Analytics. In a new report
authored by Paul Brown, the firm
asked consumers in the U.S. and
Western Europe to rate their
interest level for several different
mobile payment options.
Surprisingly, operator billing
came out on top, even over the
use of pre-registered accounts
such as iTunes or PayPal and over
the use of credit cards/debit cards.
Sponsor
For the survey, Strategy
Analytics asked 1,000 consumers
in the U.S. and 1,500 in Western
Europe to rate how they would
prefer to pay for apps, using a
scale of 1 - 5. The percentages
reported below are based on those
who responded either 4 or 5 from
the scale provided (4 = interested,
5 = very interested).
In the U.S., 38% of respondents
said they would prefer operator
billing and 40% said the same in
Western Europe. And in both
regions, paying for purchases via
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iTunes or PayPal are preferred
over entering either credit card or
debit card details.
Preferred Billing Methods
In the U.S., the breakdown is as
follows (remember, participants
were asked interest levels for each
item, not to pick their favorite -
these responses aren't meant to
total 100%):
• 38% - Operator billing
• 31% - Pre-registered accounts
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• 31% - PayPal
• 22% - Credit or Debit Card
entry, where information is saved
• 22% - Credit or Debit Card
entry, where you re-enter it each
time
In Western Europe, the responses
were:
• 40% - Operator billing
• 26% - PayPal
• 18% - Pre-registered accounts
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• 16% - Credit or Debit Card
entry, where you re-enter it each
time
• 11% - Credit or Debit Card
entry, where information is saved
By Plan Type
When responses were broken
down by plan type (pre-paid, post-
paid or family plan), responses
varied a bit. In the U.S., pre-paid
users said they preferred PayPal, a
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pre-registered account or their
credit card, while those on post-
paid and family plans still
preferred operator billing.
However, in Western Europe,
both pre-paid and post-paid
respondents showed interest in
operator billing, with 44% or post
-paid respondents and 30% of pre-
paid respondents interested. The
second most popular option was
then PayPal. Content Ownership
The report also looked at how
consumers prefer to pay for
mobile content - via ads, fees or
rentals, for example. Not
surprisingly, people said they
prefer free content.
• In the U.S., nearly half want
free, ad-supported content and
27% said they want to pay a one-
time fee to own the content.
• In Europe, 40% prefer ad-
supported content, while one and
five prefer a one-time fee to own
content.
• Only 10% in the U.S. and 8% in
Europe said they were interested
in renting content.
The full report is available via the
firm's website here. Discuss
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Yola Inks Distribution Deals with HP
and AOL for its Easy-to-Build Sites
Sarah Lacy (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:59:26 AM
Last time I was in Cape Town, I
was hanging out with Vinny
Lingham, founder of Yola, a
service that allows small
businesses to create a site in about
five minutes. He was incredibly
spazzy about some big deal he
was about to close that would
have a material effect on the
company, but he wouldn’t tell me
what it was. That’s OK I think I
found out anyway.
It’s HP, according to these
screenshots below, and that’s a
whale. HP sells two computers
per second or more than 60
million computers a
year, according to HP Executive
Vice President Todd Bradley.
I asked Lingham about the
screenshots, and he said he
couldn’t comment aside from
confirming he had a
“relationship” with HP and that
it’s not limited to the US. He
wouldn’t confirm which countries
but did say that Yola will soon be
available with seven payment
currencies and in six additional
languages: Spanish, French,
Portuguese, Italian and German.
HP’s sweet spot is not-so-tech-
savvy small businesses, and now
they’ve got a Yola install icon on
their desktops. I hear that Yola
beat out large competitors like
Intuit’s Homestead to win the
deal, not to mention other startup
competitors.
E-reader News Edition
Skype Is Down, 8 Million
Lost Connection in Last
Hour
Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 10:59:56 AM
Popular voice over Internet
protocol (VoIP) client Skype
appears to be down for millions of
users this morning and Twitter is
abuzz with complaints.
Complaints vary from users
saying they are unable to log into
the service to saying that the
program is crashing across all should be able to continue using
While digging, I also heard that option to build a larget company, platforms, whether on their Skype as normal," said Parkes.
Yola has signed a distribution aside from amassing a huge feet- mobile device or PC. The complaints on Twitter don't
deal with AOL to be part of o n - t h e - s t r e e t s a l e s f o r c e . So, if you woke up this morning appear to be in any one language
AOL’s Product Central along with Considering Intuit is one of the to call your family for the or region and Skype's Twitter
o t h e r t h i r d p a r t y s o f t w a r e most trusted small business holidays or to get in touch with account is silent on the subject so
providers like McAfee. (It’s not software brands on the planet it’s your business contacts and found far. We gave Skype-to-Skype
on the site now, because I’m told surprising and impressive that yourself unable, you certainly are voice calling a quick try and it
it kicks off in 2011.) Lingham Yola beat them out for the HP not alone. worked just fine, as does group
confirmed that deal too, but deal. Sponsor text chatting. The problems don't
wouldn’t give me any more It’s possible that the wave of We have watched the number of appear to be universal, but several
details about it. Groupon-like coupon sites and users online drop over the past ReadWriteWeb staff have
Yola’s market is a hard one to services like Foursquare could hour from more than 21 million reported that the Skype app keeps
reach but a surprisingly juicy one. push Web-holdouts online faster online to a current low of 12.5 crashing or that they are unable to
Believe it or not, nearly half of in the next year. And unlike million. That's around 8 million use it entirely.
small businesses still don’t have a Yola’s Israeli competitor Wix, people that just dropped off the Parkes offered the following
Web site. At some point that will Lingham bet on HTML-5 over service and some of them are statement: Some people may have
change; the big question is how Flash– a crucial differentiator in going to Twitter to try to ferret problems signing in to Skype at
long it takes. Small businesses are the iPad/iPhone world. I wouldn’t out the problem. the moment. We're investigating -
notoriously late technology be surprised to see a venture Update: The number of users apologies for the disruption.
adopters. For more than decade round for Yola in 2011 too. online has continued to drop, as People can follow @skype on
Intuit’s biggest competitor for CrunchBase Information Yola just over 10 million users are on Twitter for updates.
products like QuickBooks has I n f o r m a t i o n p r o v i d e d b y the service now. According to Parkes said that he didn't have
been pen-and-paper and basic C r u n c h B a s e Peter Parkes, communications any additional information on
Excel files. That’s why lead with Skype, the problem is why the service was unavailable
distribution deals by brands small with logging into the service. "If for some users, but that engineers
businesses trust are the only real you're already signed in, you are looking into it. Discuss
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Smart-building biz to grow to $2.4 Over half of late-20s

billion crowd own cell phones
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:48:29 AM
to Pike Research.
The report also predicts that
health care, university, and
only
(CNET News.com) Overall, the CDC found that 26
The Empire State Building in commercial facilities will be the
conjunction with the Clinton three biggest areas of growth, and Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:23:04 AM percent of U.S. homes used only
Climate Initiative is attempting to that as contracts for existing wireless phones, while another 16
set an example when it comes to Fifty-one percent of 25- to 29- percent received all or almost all
building management systems
energy retrofits and year-olds live in households that their calls on a cell phone even
come up for review or renewal
management.(Credit: Empire have kicked the landline habit, though they still have landlines.
most companies will choose to
State Building Company) according to a new report from The findings in general and
switch to a BEMS.
As more companies realize the the Centers for Disease Control among the various age groups are
The report directly coincides with
savings involved in running large and Prevention. significant because they show that
a Lux Research report released
commercial buildings more That is the first time that wireless cell-phone-only households aren't
earlier this month that predicted a
efficiently when it comes to -only households have surpassed prevalent just among younger,
wave of acquisitions with regard
energy, sales of automated landline households among any single people, according to
to building management and IT.
building energy management age group, according to the CDC's Stephen Blumberg, the report's
The Lux report predicted major
systems are poised to soar. report released yesterday. The a u t h o r . B l u m b e r g t o l d t h e
energy management systems building management companies
The U.S. market for such systems report, which surveyed 17,619 Associated Press the numbers
market more specifically, are will continue to acquire smaller households over the six months suggest that young adults who use
will grow to $2.4 billion annually
emerging as hot growth areas due companies with BEMS products, that ended in June, also showed a cell phones alone continue that
by 2016 compared to seeing $900
to the strong return on investment while tech heavyweights like 2 point rise of cell-phone-only habit as they have families.
million in revenue for 2010,
that such deployments can bring Microsoft and IBM will develop h o u s e h o l d s a m o n g l a t e - "It's a sign that wireless-only is no
according to the"Building Energy
t o b u i l d i n g o w n e r s a n d their own systems and try to pick twentysomethings compared with longer strictly tied to a lifestyle of
Management Systems" report
managers," Jevan Fox, research up business in the space. the previous six months. being young and restless,"
released today by Pike Research.
analyst at Pike Research, said in a This entry passed through the Looking at other age groups, B l u m b e r g t o l d t h e A P .
Products include optimization Full-Text RSS service — if this is
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needs, as well as analytics that tap
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"Commercial building efficiency
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rely on cell phones alone.

The worst name for a knockoff cellphone, ever

Chris Ziegler (Engadget) they're ripping the Oppo logo. see our terms for use of feeds.
The worst name for a knockoff
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:24:00 PM Permalink| CrunchGear| Email
cellphone, ever originally this| Comments
And in case you're wondering, appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:24:00 EDT. Please
26 Technology/ E-reader News Edition

Red Nova is fast and fun but needs a little work

Victor Agreda, Jr. (TUAW) Lunatic Fringe had the same the upper right shows kills and
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:30:00 PM angle, the same frenetic feel and power-ups. Incoming enemies
the same attitude as Red Nova. have a warning indicator that
In the game Red Nova(for Yet where Lunatic Fringe was moves along the edge of the
iPhone, iPad and iPod touch) you s i m p l e , R e d N o v a i s m o r e screen when the baddies are in
play a lone ship against a bunch complex. This is not necessarily a range.
of flying enemies in a 3/4 angled, good thing. Gallery: Red Nova review
fast-paced arcade space shooter. Interface I played both the iPhone Continue reading Red Nova is
Red Nova launched to some and iPad versions and must say I fast and fun but needs a little
acclaim and I can see why. The found both challenging. The work
sound is great, the graphics, while limited real estate on the iPhone Red Nova is fast and fun but
low-polygon, are good and the made it sometimes tricky to see needs a little work originally
animation and feel is quite nice. your enemies approaching. The appeared on TUAW on Wed, 22
You can tell a lot of time and iPad, on the other hand, could be Dec 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please
attention went into the game. The tricky in that the control scheme iPhone due to the somewhat and to some extent the iPhone, the see our terms for use of feeds.
story is pretty worn out (protect requires you to use the screen in a chunky nature of the low-poly text is so washed out or small and Source| Permalink| Email this|
the mother ship) but the gameplay set of quadrants, with each one models used in the game. Still, the in a funky font that you may find Comments
reminded me a bit of one of my allowing you to perform various frame rate at which everything yourself squinting to read it. The
favorite games ever: Lunatic tasks in the game. More on this in happens is terrific if you like usual meters for shields and
Fringe. People have drawn a moment. action. Unfortunately on the iPad, energy are in the upper left while
comparisons to Asteroids, but The graphics look better on the

Playbutton Puts Music on a Button, Going on Sale in Early 2011

Evan Selleck (SlashGear) the Playbutton believes that February of 2011, and it’s going As for the design, it’s as simple
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:25:08 AM having one album, on an MP3 to be up to the artists who release as it gets: an MP3 player that’s
player as small as a button, may the MP3 players to pick the price. meant to look like a small bade, or
If listening to music is something be the future of music. As Dangerfield puts it, “If you say button. Controlling the music is
you like to do, but telling those At least, one part of the future of to people, ‘It’s an MP3 player and just as simple as the design. Three
around you (who ask) what you’re m u s i c . D e s i g n e d b y N i c k it’s $25,’ they say it’s cheap. But buttons on the back of the button:
listening to isn’t, then the Dangerfield and his cohorts at if you say, ‘It’s an MP3 player play/pause, skip back, and skip
Playbutton could be the next MP3 Playbutton, the aptly-named MP3 and it’s already got a good record left. There’s no way to take the
player for you. Especially if you player is meant to not only let you inside,’ they think it’s expensive.” music off the badge, and there’s
only want to listen to one album listen to an album simply and Dangerfield confirmed that there no way to put music onto it. You
at a time, and show off to the easily, it’s also meant to show off will be 8 different “smaller” also can’t shuffle the music on the
world who you’re listening to. who you’re listening to. In a bands that are featured at the button, either.
While most MP3 players are world where pirating music is a Playbutton’s launch. Artists like [ via BBC UK]
meant to let you have plenty of real threat to the music industry, that everyone can see it. Germany-based Oval, and New
artists, or individual songs, ready Playbutton wants to let those who Dangerfield is planning on York-based “indietronica” band
to go at all times, the designer of buy their music show it off, so having the Playbutton released by Javelin.
E-reader News Edition
Skype outage affecting users around
the globe
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 10:58:10 AM
The message Skype displays after
attempting to place a call.(Credit:
Screenshot by Don Reisinger/
CNET)
Skype appears to be suffering an
outage.
Twitter users around the globe
are taking to the social network to
report that Skype is down for
them. The tweets started hitting
Twitter this morning and continue
as of this writing. Users are also
reporting that their mobile
applications, including those on
Android and on the iPhone, are
inoperable.
I tested the Skype app on my
Mac and it is down as of this
writing. My Skype iPhone app is
also down. CNET's Rafe
Cameron Diaz and George Clooney
Meet Up in Mexico
Molly Goodson (PopSugar)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 7:47:27 AM
Cameron Diaz, Alex Rodriguez,
and his daughter Natasha ran into
none other than George Clooney
at lunch in Cabo yesterday.
Clooney also has his girlfriend,
Elisabetta Canalis, with him in
Mexico. Cameron and A Rod has been spending lots of time
have been south of the border for with Alex's kids in her many tiny
a few days now, and the actress bikinis. The resort is a favorite
Needleman had been experiencing
outage issues this morning, but
said that his service was soon
restored.
Skype wrote in an e-mail to
CNET this morning that it's
"assessing the matter now and its
extent. We apologize for the
inconvenience caused to our
users."
We will share details as we hear
more.
Updated at 9:18 a.m. PT to
include Skype comment.
If you have a question or
comment for Don Reisinger, you
can submit it here. However,
because our editors and writers
Technology/ Culture/ 27
Is This How Bank of
America Is Preparing For the
receive hundreds of requests, we
cannot tell you when you may
Next WikiLeaks Release?
receive a response. Audrey Watters
(ReadWriteWeb)
Don Reisinger is a technology
columnist who has written about Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:02:32 PM
everything from HDTVs to
computers to Flowbee Haircut Prior to his arrest, WikiLeaks
Systems. Don is a member of the spokesperson Julian Assange
CNET Blog Network, posting at hinted that the next batch of
The Digital Home. He is not an documents released would not be
employee of CNET. Disclosure. secret government information,
This entry passed through the but rather would implicate a
Full-Text RSS service — if this ismajor American bank. Assange
your content and you're reading ithas never confirmed which bank,
but rumor and speculation have
on someone else's site, please read
pointed to Bank of America as the itself. But MarkMonitor, which
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ describes itself as "the global
content-only/faq.php target.
In a defensive move, Bank of leader in enterprise brand
Five Filters featured site: So, protection," is also listed as the
Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing America now seems to be buying
up domains for its senior registrant for the
Again?. bankofamerica.com domain.
executives and board members,
including their names along with Of course, it seems unlikely that
this strategy will be terribly
"sucks" or "blows." Domain
Name Wire reports hundred of effective in shutting down online
critiques about Bank of America.
domain name registrations on
December 17 alone. For example,
the company registered a number
There are still a variety of slurs
and top-level domains to go, and
of domains for CEO Brian
M o y n i h a n :
as BoingBoing quips, grabbing
them all would exceed the bank's
capital reserves. (There's a
vacation spot for George and b r i a n m o y n i h a n b l o w s . c o m ,
Elisabetta as well, and this time brianmoynifansucks.com and so government bailout joke to make
they have her parents with them on. It also nabbed the .net and .org here, but I will refrain).
for the holiday season getaway. versions of several of these names Last week, Bank of America
George and Elisabetta earned a as well. announced it was joining PayPal,
spot in our 50 hottest celebrity Sponsor Mastercard, and Visa and cutting
make-outs of the year, and The names were registered by off payments to WikiLeaks.
Cameron and A Rod have ample b r a n d - m o n i t o r i n g c o m p a n y Discuss
opportunity to close out 2010 by MarkMonitor, not by the bank
joining the PDA pantheon under
the sun. View Slideshow ›
28 Technology/ Culture/
Call of Duty: Black Ops Gets New 1.05 Patch,
Continues to Try and Fix Multiplayer
Evan Selleck (SlashGear)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:05:32 PM
The patches just keep on coming.
Despite the fact that Treyarch has
said in the past that it tends to take
a month before patches can be
issued to consoles, here’s patch
1.05 just one week after 1.04
landed on the PlayStation 3.
Despite the hot fix that was also
released earlier in the week,
Treyarch seems to be at a constant
race to try and make the
multiplayer experience what they
wanted it to be, right out of the
gate. Unfortunately for
PlayStation 3 owners especially,
that just hasn’t been the case.
However, with this latest patch,
Treyarch is positive that most of
Apple looking to hire voice technology, speech recognition
specialists
Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:30:00 AM
Apple is looking to hire several
voice and speech recognition
experts for iOS, according to four
new postings on Apple's job
board. The new hires would join
the iOS Application Framework
team and would be working on
"speech-related development
activities." These multiple listings
come hot on the heels of the
the glaring holes have been filled.
Mainly, the 1.05 patch is meant to
improve the party reliability,
especially when you try and leave
a game with your party. Other
inclusions in the patch are the
ability to mute players in the pre-
public release of several patents
detailing contextual voice
commands for the iPhone. If you
add in Apple's acquisition of Siri,
you have the possible beginning
of a robust voice control system
for the iPhone and other iOS
devices.
Improved speech recognition
would be a welcome addition to
t h e i O S p l a t f o r m . I n m y command on the iPhone is
e x p e r i e n c e , t h e c u r r e n t mediocre. While third-party
implementation of voice
E-reader News Edition
freezing from time to time, and
you’ve noticed that it happens
most often when two or more
explosions happen in a
concentrated area, you’ll be happy
to know that it’s not your How Do You Get Things
imagination. And Treyarch is Done on an Airplane?
working on it.
So for now, as we wait for the [Ask The Readers]
golden multiplayer egg that we all Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
hope can be hatched, how is the Submitted at 12/22/2010 10:00:00 AM
game now working for you
PlayStation 3 owners out there? What's cramped, hardly private,
We suggest, if it’s still not and an uncomfortable working
game lobby, as well as kick
working to your liking, that you environment? An airplane! So
certain players from private
sit back and watch this LEGO how do you get things done when
matches, and in parties.
version of Black Ops. It’s worth you're 10,000 feet above ground?
And yes, Treyarch has already
it. More »
said that more patches, and hot
[ via Joystiq]
fixes, are coming. If you’ve
managed to experience your game
applications like Dragon Dictation navigate to a destination or place
are superb, native speech control a call with increasing accuracy.
is wrong as often as it is right. [via 9to5& CNET]
Apple needs to refresh this Apple looking to hire voice
portion of its mobile OS as it is technology, speech recognition
falling behind Android in voice specialists originally appeared on
control technology. TUAW on Wed, 22 Dec 2010
Google recently added support 11:30:00 EST. Please see our
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the app can be fine tuned to your
voice so you can dictate a text,
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AUDEO PFE 022 + Mic Earbuds Unboxing and
Hands-On
Chris Burns (SlashGear)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:17:11 AM
Woo look what we got in the
mail, a nice firey read green and
white package from AUDEO
containing some brand new PFE
022 + Mic earbuds. This is the set
that they say are a perfect fit, have
perfect bass, and perfect
protection for maximum sound
quality even at the lowest
volumes! Take a peek as we open
the package, the package inside
the package, and the box and the
taped up plastic container – these
buds are seriously more protected
from damage than most laptops.
Inside the UPS pack, inside the
manilla envelope, aside the fact
sheet, inside the box, and beyond
the taped plastic package, THERE
you will find your very own set of
earbuds from AUDEO – the PFE
022 + Mic. Such a tiny little mini
set of buds for such a ginormous
set of packs. BUT take not that
you’ll probably end up buying
these in the store in which case
the box is probably pretty much
the minimum for such a nice pair
of audio blasters.
Aside from the buds, you’ll find a
tiny zip plastic package with 6
rubber earbud covers (3 sets) – a
set of these will need to be
Technology/ Culture/ 29
The 50 Hottest
Celebrity Make-Out
Pictures of 2010!
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 9:13:50 AM
Is it getting hot in here or is it just
our 50 favorite Best of 2010
celebrity make-out pictures? It
was a love-filled year in
Hollywood and the sexy stars
couldn't keep their hands off each
other. Some coupled up in new
relationships while others kept the
flame alive after years of
marriage. The PDA was out in
full effect with lip-locks from the
deck of their luxurious yachts to
watching their adorable daughters
hit the soccer field. Be prepared to
swoon - check out the hottest
applied to the main earbuds
candid celebrity kisses of the
before you jam them in your ears.
year!
You’ll see there’s three user
Don't forget to check out all our
guides, each one in a different
Best of 2010 coverage across the
language, and a single quick-start
PopSugar Network! View
guide. And that’s about it! Look
Slideshow ›
for a full review of these sassy
little buds in about a week and a
half (a little further out than
normal because of the quickly
approaching holidays.) Hooray!
30 Technology/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

TUAW TV Live at 5: The

Christmanniversary Show
Steven Sande (TUAW)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 1:00:00 PM

Today's TUAW TV Live marks

two special events -- the
upcoming Christmas holiday and
the first anniversary of the show.
Yes, believe it or not, TUAW TV
Live has been on the air almost
every Wednesday afternoon since
December 23, 2009, with
The Handstand: An iPad commentary, demos, live reviews,
and the occasional guest. Today's educational show, come on back originally appeared on TUAW on
Case… For Your Hand! show will feature more of the
same, with some live and
recorded demonstrations of new
to TUAW just before 5 PM ET (2
PM PT, 10 PM GMT) and you'll
Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:00:00 EST.
Please see our terms for use of
John Biggs (TechCrunch) doctor or something and needed find a post containing the live feeds.
software and accessories for your streaming video, the chat room, Source| Permalink| Email this|
Submitted at 12/22/2010 10:40:10 AM to make rounds. Otherwise, this is
favorite Apple products. And of and instructions on how to join in Comments
kind of a hindrance to normal
Do you carry an iPad? Do you existence, especially considering course we'll have a lot of the if you're on an iPhone or iPad.
need it always stuck to your hand? the iPad is strapped down pretty regulars visiting and hanging out TUAW TV Live at 5: The
This is the product for you. This hard to your hand. It’s not in the chat room. Christmanniversary Show
$60 case protects and attaches uncomfortable by any stretch, but To join in on the fun and usually
your iPad to your hand, ensuring it’s pretty hard to yank off if you
you can be “that guy” when need to get at your sidearm or
people mention iPads. I ran this katana.
Reese Witherspoon Treats Herself to a
old girl through her paces and For $60 this is a pretty pricey
thanks to a very special assistant I single-use item and I wouldn’t
discovered that having an iPad recommend it as an “around the
Spa Day
Molly Goodson (PopSugar) busy Christmas weekend with her office, but with the holiday break
stuck to your appendage is not a home” device. However, if you’re family. She was once again coming up, perhaps it will pick up
Submitted at 12/22/2010 8:23:00 AM
fun way to live. This patent using the iPad for any inordinate sporting her Theory rain jacket some steam. In the new year it'll
pending device offers a more length of time on a daily basis, it’s Reese Witherspoon stepped out and bright red scarf, which added already be time to look forward to
ergonomic way to hold your iPad worth a look. in LA's seemingly never-ending a pop of color to the dreary her next project, Water For
and encourages proper posture, Click through for my hands-on rain to visit the spa yesterday. She afternoon. Her new movie How Elephants, and just the first trailer
tapping, and Rolfing positions. video. didn't let the nasty weather get in Do You Know had a rough was enough to get us excited.
Why would someone use this? Read more… the way of her pampering before a opening weekend at the box View Slideshow ›
Probably because they were a
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While the pay is a pretty good
deal for the university presidents,
what about for their students?
To find the answer, I compared
these top-paid presidents with two
measures of student success: 1)
the graduation rate of students
who obtain a bachelor's degree in
six years, and 2) the percentage of
borrowers who default on their
student loans within two years of
graduating or dropping out. The
graduation rate is as fundamental
a measure of success as there is.
The default rate is one of the only
measures we have of how well
students do in the labor market
upon leaving school.
The 30 schools on the Chronicle's
list are distinguished by the high
compensation received by these
university presidents. For that
kind of money, one might expect
them to have led their students to
top academic performance. But
this isn't the case.
A $4.8 million payday
One school--Touro College in
New York-- stood out. The
college is classified in Barron's
magazine's exhaustive Profiles of
American Colleges as "very
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competitive," which means its
students ranked in the top 10%-
20% in high school.
Truly stunning, though, is that in
2008, Touro paid its president,
Bernard Lander, a total
compensation of $4.8 million
(about three times higher than the
average of all school presidents
making more than $1 million).
Yet Touro's six-year graduation
rate was only 57%, eight
percentage points lower than the
average performance of all four-
year colleges in the "very
competitive" category. In
addition, Touro's student loan
default rate, according to the U.S.
Department of Education, is more
than twice its peer group average.
Within Barron's "highly
competitive" category, the
graduation rates of more than half
the universities that had paid their
presidents more than $1 million a
year lagged behind their peers.
The University of Tulsa, for
instance, paid its president $1.6
million, though the school's
graduation rate was 12 percentage
points lower than the average of
its peer institutions. Its student
is out with another beta, and this
one has mostly bug fixes—more
than 1,000 of them, actually. But
Mozilla has simplified and
loan default rate was more than
twice the average rate of its peers.
Weak results
In Barron's "most competitive"
category, about half the
universities whose presidents
reached the $1 million-plus
threshold lagged behind their
peers. While the president of the
University of Miami was paid less
than average for the group of 30
(a paltry $1.18 million), her
school's graduation rate was 13
points lower than others in the
same Barron's group. In addition,
among the "most competitive"
schools, 10 universities--among
them Yale and New York
University-- have above average
student loan default rates.
What does all of this mean? Well,
university boards of trustees rely
on many factors when they set
presidents' compensation levels.
Success in fundraising, building a
good football team and moving a
school up in the much-hated, but
much-watched, U.S. News and
World Report rankings all figure
into these calculations.
Nonetheless, student success--
measured by both a timely
improved the process for setting
graduation and labor market
prospects--should figure into
compensation as well. In view of
these findings, it seems unlikely
that student results count much.
At a time when tuition increases
are out of control, it's an added
insult that students are
underwriting the big salaries for
college presidents who aren't
delivering results. Trustees must
exert better oversight. Students
and their families deserve better.
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scholar at AEI.
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Drug Administration (FDA)
announced that rosiglitazone
(Avandia), a diabetes drug
m a n u f a c t u r e d b y
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), would
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be the subject of a stringent Risk
Evaluation and Management
Strategy (REMS) that will
undoubtedly greatly reduce its
use. At the same time, the
European Medicines Agency
(EMA) announced that marketing
of rosiglitazone was suspended,
but formal approval had not been
revoked. FDA also halted the
Thiazolidinedione Intervention
with Vitamin D (TIDE) trial, a
head-to-head cardiovascular
safety comparison of rosiglitazone
and a similar drug, pioglitazone,
which GSK had undertaken at
FDA's request. FDA halted the
trial because of doubts about
whether it would yield useful
results or was even feasible in the
face of safety concerns about
5 Largest Diamond Heists
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Judging by the raging success of
diamond thieves in Hollywood
movies, one might think walking
away with millions in diamonds is
a snap. Or at the very least, a sure
thing with the right amount of
planning, cunning, good looks and
some sort of inside connection. In
the real world, of course, slipping
out with the gems takes more than
two hours of careful
consideration.
But such heists do work
occasionally and happen pretty
frequently. Every couple of years
rosiglitazone. In addition, GSK
agreed to cease all promotional
activities for rosiglitazone.
These coordinated
announcements were the
culmination of more than three
years of sometimes impassioned
debate over the safety of
rosiglitazone. This episode is not
over. FDA has commissioned an
independent assessment of an
important, but flawed, safety trial
of rosiglitazone (the RECORD
trial discussed below). If the
published RECORD results hold
up, rosiglitazone could yet be
freed from the strict REMS
imposed in the United States and
could even be restored to the E.U.
market. In any case, this episode
is revealing much about the
or so, a team of thieves gets away
with a diamond heist. A heist is
no mere robbery. It's a feat of
patience and engineering that
yields some of the biggest payouts
in history. The weird thing is, it's
hard to tell if the thieves ever see
the cash, since in almost every
major heist, the diamonds are
never found.
Are they buried under the
floorboards of an abandoned
basement somewhere? Were they
sold to foreign princes on the
down-low? Do evil collectors
have them on display in
underground lairs? Or is that
diamond in the jewelry store's
continuing evolution of FDA drug
regulation.
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scholar at AEI.
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window the very same that was
stolen from the Antwerp Diamond
Center in 2003 and laundered
through middlemen until it was
clean enough for a legitimate
jeweler to give it a second glance?
We'll probably never know. But
this much is for sure: The thieves
who go for the high-security
diamonds have guts.
In this article, we'll look at five of
the biggest diamond heists in
history, all of which went down in
the last decade. We'll see how the
thieves got the goods, how much
they stole and what happened in
the aftermath. Each heist in this
article is the stuff of legend. How
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Ten Economic
and Investment
Themes for 2011
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1. US Municipal Bankruptcies In Defense of Commercial
Head to Center Stage
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bankrupt, they just have not It know it's ridiculous, but I have
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disappear while under 24-hour
city to go bankrupt will cause a
surveillance without a trace?
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That's exactly what happened in
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34 Economy/
Fatally Flawed "End the Fed" Proposal from Rep. Kucinich would
Allow Congress to Print Money into Existence for Essentially
Anything
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
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Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:25:00 AM
Representative Dennis Kucinich
has introduced a bill to end the
Fed. Unfortunately his proposal
grants Congress ability to create
money at will for virtually any
purpose. Kucinich specifically
mentions full employment,
stabilizing social security, and to
"lend new money into circulation
as authorized by Congress and to
provide means for public
investment in capital
infrastructure".
In other words Kucinich want
Congress to have the power to
print money into existence for any
reason it wants. Here are a few
snips from Kucinich's End the Fed
Bill that show what I mean. IN
T H E H O U S E O F
REPRESENTATIVES Mr.
KUCINICH introduced the
following bill
To create a full employment
economy as a matter of national
economic defense; to provide for
public investment in capital
infrastructure; to provide for
reducing the cost of public
investment; to retire public debt;
to stabilize the Social Security
retirement system; to restore the
authority of Congress to create
and regulate money, modernize
and provide stability for the
monetary system of the United
States, retire public debt and
reduce the cost of public
investment, and for other public
purposes.
To enable the Federal
Government to invest or lend new
money into circulation as
authorized by Congress and to
provide means for public
investment in capital
infrastructure.
SEC. 201. ENTRY OF U.S.
MONEY INTO CIRCULATION.
The Secretary shall cause United
States Money to enter into
circulation by and through any of
the following means:
Any origination or disbursement
of funds to accomplish Federal
expenditures authorized and
appropriated by an Act of the
Congress.
Any disbursement to retire
outstanding instruments of
indebtedness of the Federal
Government or the Secretary of
the Treasury as such instruments
become due.
Any exercise of "lender of last
resort" emergency authorities
under the emergency procedures
specified in section 305.
Any other means, and for any
other purpose explicitly
authorized by an Act of the
Congress that becomes law after
the effective date of this Act.
Support for the Bill
I saw this bill a few days ago
thinking it was so insane no one
could possibly stand up in favor
of it. I was sadly mistaken.
I am hoping Karl Denninger's
excuse is he failed to read the
entire bill. Otherwise I am at a
loss to explain Dennis Kucinich:
Delete The Fed
I'm stunned.
Really.
Dennis Kucinich, which many
people have (properly) labeled as
one step removed from a
communist in the past, and who
has a reputation as having a hard-
core left slant in his politics, has
just written up and introduced a
bill that will fundamentally
restore the free market - for real -
to banking and credit.
We're about to find out if people
like Ron and Rand Paul really
stand for what they claim, or if
they're empty suits. If they do,
then I expect to see them on the
Tee Vee within hours demanding
passage of this bill, and joining
with Mr. Kucinich in making sure
that it is immediately reintroduced
in the new Congress - and passed.
If that does not happen then these
two claimants of a demand for
"sound money" have been
immediately and permanently
exposed as FRAUDS, as will any
so-called "Tea Party" members of
Congress.
This is a bill that must become
law. I'm Stunned Too
Denninger is not the only one
who is stunned. I am stunned that
anyone could support this
preposterous idea, assuming they
read it and are sober.
Neither sound money nor the free
market comes from printing
money into existence. Arguably
the only thing worse than the Fed
printing money out of thin air is
Congress printing money out of
thin air for the purpose of full
employment and/or any other
absurd ideas Congress has.
The last thing we need, the very
last thing we need is Congress
lending money into existence to
pay the bills or to do anything it
wants for any reason. Those
looking for hyperinflation can
find the roots of it in that bill.
Kucinich did mention abolish
fractional reserve banking, in a
clumsily worded paragraph
difficult to interpret precisely. A
second paragraph was more
precise "fractional reserve lending
is ended".
I am 100% in favor of
eliminating fractional reserve
lending.
Ironically, Denninger once
challenged me on that score,
defending the practice. Please see
Fractional Reserve Lending
Constitutes Fraud for the debate.
Hopefully Denninger has
changed his mind.
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All things considered, and in
spite of horrendous flaws, it may
be a plus that someone has
actually submitted a bill in
Congress to end Fractional
Reserve Lending. Now all we to
do is throw away the entire rest of
the bill and let Ron Paul draft a
proper bill ending FRL as the
central idea.
Fractional Reserve Lending Is
Fraud
There are two easy to read, and
free online books that make the
case.
• What Has Government Done to
Our Money?
• The Case Against the Fed
Here are hardcopy versions you
can order.
• The Case Against The Fed by
Murray Rothbard
• What Has Government Done
To Our Money by Murray
Rothbard
• End The Fed by Ron Paul
If you haven't read them, read
them. If you have read them, read
them again. Then meet with your
legislative representatives and get
them to read the books. Better
yet, buy them a hardcopy so you
can be sure of it.
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Europe will be Italy, a country not
on anyone's front burner. Italy
will come under intense credit
market pressure, and when it does
the whole Eurozone comes
unglued. Europe's banks are
insolvent and ECB president Jean-
Claude Trichet will have a choice,
haircuts or massive printing.
3. Cutbacks in US Cities and
States
With Republican governors
holding a majority of
governorships, with Republicans
holding a majority in the House,
and with a far more conservative
Senate, there is going to be little
enthusiasm for increasing aid to
states. There will be some aid to
states of course, but nowhere near
as much as needed to prevent
cutbacks. Expect to see a huge
number of layoffs and/or cutbacks
in services. Cutbacks in cities and
states will be a good thing, but
that will counteract other gains in
employment. The unemployment
rate will stay stubbornly high.
4. Public Unions Under Intense
Attack
Public unions will face increasing
hostility, not only in the US but
also the Eurozone and UK. Look
for Congress to consider
legislation to kill collective
bargaining. If it passes, the
president would veto it. The
problem however will not go
away. Cities and states in distress
will increasingly outsource every
contract they can.
5. China Overheats, Multiple
Rate Hikes Coming
China, everyone's favorite
promised land, has a hard landing.
China will grow at perhaps 5-6%
but that is nowhere near as much
as China wants, or the world
expects. Tightening in China will
crack its property bubble and
more importantly pressure
commodities. The longer China
holds off in tightening, the harder
the landing.
6. Property Bubble Bursts Wide
Open in Australia and Canada
Australia, having largely avoided
the global recession runs out of
luck this time around. Look for
the Australian economy to fall
into outright recession. Look for
Canada to slow dramatically as its
property bubble pops. The US
property bubble is much further
progressed, by years, than
Australia, Canada, and China.
This matters immensely.
7. US Avoids Double Dip
The tax cut extensions and the
payroll tax decrease will keep the
US out of recession. However,
growth estimates are still too high.
The tax cut extensions do nothing
more than maintain the status quo
while the payroll tax deduction is
just for a year. Most will use it to
pay down bills. Look for GDP at
2.0-2.5%. That is the stall rate.
8. Year That Something Matters
For the global equity markets,
this will be the year that
something matters. Certainly
nothing mattered in 2010, and
optimism for equities is at
extreme levels. I have no targets
other than a suggestion this is an
extremely poor time to invest in
darn near anything.
9. Decoupling in Reverse
I do not think any countries
decouple in 2011, including
China. However, on a relative
basis, the US could. Europe is a
basket case, China is overheating,
Australia is headed for recession,
the UK is going nowhere, and 2.0-
2.5% growth in the US just might
look damn good compared to
anything else. Bear in mind far
more than 2.0-2.5% US growth is
priced in, but on a relative basis
that is likely to smash the
performance of the Eurozone,
Australia, and Canada. China may
grow 5.0-6.0% but with 10%
priced in, overweight China, the
emerging markets and the
commodity producing countries is
a serious mistake. Actually,
equities are a mistake in general
and so are commodities. Finally,
falling commodity prices would
be US dollar supportive and
supportive of a decreasing US
trade deficit as well, especially if
grain prices stay high while oil
sinks. Should grains stay firm
while other commodities sink, it
would help boost US GDP.
10. US Dollar to Strengthen
Look for the US dollar to
strengthen because of the net
effect of all the above issues.
Relative Performance Examples
On a relative but not absolute
basis I like the US. On a currency
adjusted basis I especially like
Japan. Here is a hypothetical
example: Should foreign equities
drop 20% and the US dollar
strengthen 10% the loss to US
investors would be 30%. Should
Foreign investors buy US equities
and face a loss of 20% and a 10%
rise in the dollar, they would see a
10% loss. US investors of course
would see the full 20% loss. Japan
looks attractive in nominal terms
but strengthening of the dollar
compared to the Yen could negate
some if not all of that. Equities in
general, with the possible
exception of Japan do not look
attractive.
Miscellaneous Issues
The order in which the above
themes play out could be
important. If a muni crisis hits the
US before a sovereign crisis in the
Eurozone and a slowdown in
China, the dollar may not initially
perform as expected. Similarly, if
the US strengthens more than
expected in the first quarter while
Europe and China stagnate,
another leg down in treasuries
may be in store with the US dollar
quickly blasting higher.
I have no firm conviction for
gold, silver, or US treasuries other
than gold is likely to hold its own
and then some should the ECB
decide to print its way out of this
mess.
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US treasuries are now in no-
man's-land dependent on the order
of things and the reactions of
foreign central banks as the crisis
plays out. Seasonally, treasuries
are generally weak until June
(think tax purposes). However,
there are so many factors now,
including Fed purchases, it is hard
to estimate.
2010 was a lull in the global
economic crisis. Don't expect
2011 to be the same. Something,
indeed many things, are likely to
matter in 2011.
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UK Budget Deficit Hits Record High; Cut in Public-Sector
Pensions 'Non-Negotiable'; Cameron Still Too Generous
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
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Submitted at 12/21/2010 8:15:00 PM
In the UK, unions are howling
over Prime Minister David
Cameron's plan to cut public-
sector pensions. However,
something has to be done as the
UK budget deficit balloons to
record high
Britain's public borrowing
unexpectedly hit a record £23.3bn
in November, the Office for
National Statistics (ONS) said on
Tuesday.
The figure, which excludes
financial interventions by the
Government, was a marked
increase on the £17.4bn a year
earlier and beat the previous
highest monthly borrowing record
of £21.1bn in December 2009,
according to the official figures.
The bigger-than-expected figure
will be seen by Chancellor
George Osborne as supporting the
need for recent austerity
measures, which include an £81bn
package of spending cuts and a
hike in VAT next year.
Jonathan Loynes, chief
economist at Capital Economics,
told PA: "Given that the economy
has expanded rather more quickly
than anticipated over recent
quarters, we might have expected
somewhat lower current
borrowing, even allowing for the
usual lags."
The unprecedented £5.9bn leap in
borrowing was mainly due to
Government spending – up 10.8pc
on last year. EU contributions and
spending on health and defence
were particularly high last month,
the ONS said, while VAT
receipts dipped by 0.1pc.
Net debt is now £863.1bn, which
represents 58pc of gross domestic
product (GDP) – another monthly
record. Cut in Public-Sector
Pensions 'Non-Negotiable'
No doubt soaring deficits were on
Cameron's mind when he
proclaimed Cut in Public-Sector
Pensions 'Non-Negotiable'.
The Government has ruled out a
change of heart on raising public
sector pensions in line with the
CPI measure of inflation, saying
the matter was "non-negotiable".
The Government announced in
June's emergency Budget that it
intended to scrap the link between
public sector pensions and the
retail price index (RPI) in favour
of the consumer prices index
(CPI). As the CPI tends to be
lower than the RPI, the effect is
likely to be a reduction in
pensions.
Mark Serwotka, the head of the
Public & Commercial Services
Union (PCS), said that when he
asked David Cameron at the
Downing Street meeting about the
switch to the CPI, the Prime
Minister "said flatly it was non-
negotiable".
The switch to the CPI has also
been attacked by the Royal
Statistical Society. Jill Leyland,
its vice-president, said that, while
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between October and November
compares with a rise in the CPI
rate of 0.1 percentage point during
the same period. The CPIY has
not risen in line with the CPI in
part because air passenger duty is
excluded from CPIY: the CPIY is
therefore unaffected by the
November 2010 increase.
Consumer Prices Index at
constant tax rates (CPI-CT)
The CPI-CT is the same as the
CPI except that tax rates are kept
constant at the rates they were in
the base period (currently January
2010). Cameron Too Generous
Going forward I have no opinion
as to what the UK CPI is going to
the index was “acceptable for point in the CPI 12-month rate do relative to the RPI. However, a
macroeconomic purposes”, the between these two months. quick look at the charts shows
RSS did “not believe its coverage The slightly larger increase in the C a m e r o n i s t o o g e n e r o u s ,
is generally appropriate for RPI 12-month rate is mainly due especially in light of budget
inflation compensation purposes” to air transport. Air transport has a deficits mentioned above. How
in areas such as pensions. CPI vs. far lower weight in the RPI than about the lowest of CPI-CT,
RPI the CPI so the downward effect C P I Y , C P I , o r R P I w i t h a
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RPI Compared to CPI The CPIY is the same as the all of the above measures. For 2008,
All items Retail Prices Index items CPI except that it excludes that would have been -1.5%, a
(RPI) price changes which are directly real reduction, not a fake one as is
In the year to November, the all due to changes in indirect taxation being debated now.
items RPI rose by 4.7 per cent, up (such as the increase in air If it comes down to cutting public
from 4.5 per cent in October. The passenger duty, which came into -union pensions or raising the
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At first it worked. A fixed
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Debt Crisis in Pictures
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
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Submitted at 12/21/2010 2:13:00 PM
Here are a few charts that show
the current state of tension in
regards to the European sovereign
debt crisis. The charts also show
why E-Bonds, the wet dream of
Jean-Claude Juncker, is not going
to happen.
Jean-Claude Juncker is President
of the Euro Group and Prime
Minister of Luxembourg (not to
be confused with Jean-Claude
Trichet, President of the ECB).
Junker's plan, supported by the
IMF is to combine the bonds of
all the Eurozone countries into
one entity, with a statement that E
-bonds would end the crisis.
The plan has long been dead as
France nixed the idea as well, and
the charts show why: Germany
and France do not want their
borrowing costs to rise. The charts
also show persistently high
tension in the PIGS.
Click on any chart or the links for
a sharper image.
Germany Government Bonds
Ireland Government Bonds
Greece Government Bonds
Do You Skip
DVR?
Portugal Government Bonds
France Government Bonds
Belgium Government Bonds
Italy Government Bonds
Thanks to Chris Puplava at
Financial Sense for the list of
symbols for this post. The charts
all courtesy of Bloomberg.
Given that the crisis is not
contained nor is there any chance
of it being contained until there
are haircuts, look for this crisis to
come to a head in 2011.
For more on the crisis, please see
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Nanny State"; Is Germany unfit
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Filed under: TV News To fast
forward or not to fast forward?
That's the question faced by DVR
users about eight times an hour --
every time yet another
commercial break rolls around.
Do you watch as if you didn't
have the power to move time
forward (woah, it sounds really
serious when you put it like that),
or do you zoom through those
suckers on 3x speed?
Back in the Tivo heyday, one of
the main selling points of the
service was the power to pause
live TV. The lesser-advertised
benefit was the fact that an
hourlong show took just 42 actually go up by 44 percent when
minutes to watch when you DVR playback within three days
skipped through the commercials is taken into account. "Some
-- though it's understandable why people still say, 'Nobody watches
they wouldn't be too vocal about commercials.' That's not true,"
that fact, since the networks (and said Patricia McDonough, senior
their advertisers) would likely get vice president of planning, policy
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Brian Switek (Wired Top
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Submitted at 12/22/2010 6:00:00 AM

Humans have been finding the

traces of extinct creatures for
thousands of years. Unaware of
their true identity, a variety of
cultures have interpreted fossil
footprints, shells and bones as the
remnants of gods, heroes, saints
and monsters. The cyclops,
griffins and numerous other
beings of myth and legend were
not just figments of human
imagination but monsters restored
from the remains of creatures
dead for millions of years. It was
no different among the Native
Americans of North America. The
Tuscaroras, Iroquois, Onondagas
and many other tribes had legends
inspired by fossils, including the
Lenape of the Delaware Valley.
At the time Europeans arrived in
North America the Lenape
occupied the land from northern
Delaware to the Hudson Valley of
New York, and in the blood-red
sandstone of this range they saw
three-toed, clawed footprints.
According to one tale, passed
down by Richard Calmet Adams,
some of these were said to be the
footprints of the primeval
progenitor of all the great
monsters of the land and sea. It
was a living horror, the destroyer
of all it could dig its claws into,
but perished when it was trapped
in a mountain pass and obliterated
by lightning.
Europeans that settled in the
Connecticut Valley noticed the
tracks, too. While plowing his
father’s field in South Hadley,
Massachusetts, around 1802 a
young man named Pliny Moody
turned up slabs of rock indented
with weird footprints. At least one
of these curiosities was
appropriately put to use as a
doorstep, and visitors to the
Moody farm sarcastically
remarked that the Pliny’s family
must have raised some hearty
chickens if they left footprints in
solid stone. The physician Elihu
Dwight, who later bought the
slab, had a different interpretation.
To him the tracks were made by
Noah’s raven when the biblical
Deluge subsided.
Such tracks were hardly unique.
The abundant three-toed
footprints were often called
“turkey tracks” (although many
indicated turkeys bigger than a
full-grown human), and a cache of
the impressions were discovered
by laborers quarrying flagging
s t o n e s n e a r
Greenfield,Massachusetts, in
1835. These were brought to the
attention of the local physician
James Deane, who knew they
were not made by antediluvian
poultry or biblical birds. Just what
had created them, though, Deane
could not say, and so he contacted
Amherst geology professor
Edward Hitchcock and Yale
academic Benjamin Silliman for
their opinions.
Hitchcock was initially skeptical
of Deane’s claims. Some
mundane geological phenomenon
could have produced tracklike
marks, the professor cautioned,
but Deane was adamant that the
footprints were genuine. Deane
sent Hitchcock a cast of one of the
footprints to support his case, and
despite his doubts Hitchcock was
intrigued. Hitchcock soon set out
to have a look at the Greenfield
tracks for himself and found that
Deane was right. The impressions
were the footsteps of ancient
creatures that had trod the
Connecticut Valley long before
humans had settled there.
One of the many track-bearing
sandstone slabs that enthralled
Edward Hitchcock.
Hitchcock became enthralled by
the tracks. He collected and
purchased as many as he could.
He fancied himself a scientific
pioneer. Although Deane was also
researching the tracks, Hitchcock
was the first to publish on them in
an 1836 issue of the American
Journal of Science. There was a
variety of footprint types, each
given a unique binomial name to
indicate a different species, but
the three-toed ones were some of
the most remarkable. They ranged
from giant tracks over seventeen
inches long to tiny impressions
less than an inch from front to
back. A few large slabs even
showed the strides of the animals,
and the only reasonable
conclusion was that they had been
made by birds that flocked along
the ancient shoreline. “Four out of
five, I presume, would draw this
conclusion at once,” Hitchcock
noted, and he thought that the
tridactyl footprints were made by
extinct equivalents of storks and
herons that strode along the banks
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of an ancient lake or river.
Hitchcock was deeply inspired by
the varied assemblage of birds
that had once lived in the
Connecticut Valley, and he
attempted to do justice to his
fascination in the anonymously
published poem “The Sandstone
Bird.” In the geologist’s verse,
science is placed in the guise of a
sorceress who conjures up the
most majestic of the primeval
birds:
Bird of sandstone era, wake!
From thy deep dark prison break.
Spread thy wings upon our air,
Show thy huge strong talons here:
Let them print the muddy shore
As they did in days of yore.
Pre-adamic bird, whose sway
Ruled creation in thy day,
Come obedient to my word,
Stand before Creation’s Lord.
So restored, Hitchcock’s fictional
bird could only lament the dismal
state of the modern world. The
earth was cold and the impressive
giants it knew so well were all
gone. Even the trees were so
Lilliputian that the dinosaur “
Iguanodon could scarce here find
a meal!” The haughty bird could
not stand the sight of what had
become of its home.
. . . all proclaims the world well
nigh worn out,
Her vital warmth departing and
her tribes,
Organic, all degenerate, puny
soon,
In nature’s icy grave to sink
forever.
Sure ’tis a place for punishment
designed,
And not the beauteous happy spot
I loved.
These creatures here seem
discontented, sad:
They hate each other and they
hate the world,
I can not, will not, live in such a
spot.
I freeze, I starve, I die: with joy I
sink,
To my sweet slumbers with the
noble dead.
The sullen bird was then
swallowed up by the earth,
leaving the geologist with no
evidence to prove what he had
seen. Hitchcock was in a similar
bind. No skeleton had been found
to reveal the true form of his
birds. Storks and herons provided
fair analogs, but even the largest
of the living wading birds was
puny compared to the birds that
made the largest fossil tracks.
Without skeletons, Hitchcock
could only guess what they
looked like.
At the same time that Hitchcock
was researching the Connecticut
Valley tracks, Richard Owen was
examining a strange chunk of
bone from New Zealand. It was
said to have belonged to an
enormous eagle, but Owen took it
to be part of the femur of a
gargantuan, ostrichlike bird he
called Dinornis(commonly known
as the moa). From the osteological
scrap he reconstructed an entire
skeleton, and it was later proven
to be correct when more remains
of the flightless birds were found.
Owen had raised a giant bird from
the dead, and it provided the
perfect proxy for the sandstone
birds.
For Hitchcock, though, there
were more than just scientific
lessons to be learned from the
tracks. What he saw in the fossil
record spoke of God’s
benevolence, and he expounded
upon this belief as a
Congregationalist pastor and
professor of natural theology at
Amherst. (Part of his inspiration
for collecting so many tracks was
to build a testament to God’s
glorious works in nature.) He was
astonished by the vast array of
stupendous creatures that crawled,
swam, flew, and dashed over the
surface of the earth in time
immemorial. Though facts from
the geological strata were shaking
the foundations of a literal
interpretation of Genesis,
Hitchcock attempted to bridge the
gap between geology and
theology as the Bridgewater
Treatises had in England. In his
Ichnology of New England
Hitchcock concluded:
And how marvellous the changes
which this Valley has undergone
in its inhabitants! Nor was it a
change without reason. We are apt
to speak of these ancient races as
monstrous, so unlike existing
organisms as to belong to another
and quite different system of life.
But they were only wise and
benevolent adaptations to the
changing condition of our globe.
One common type runs through
all the present and the past
systems of life, modified only to
meet exigencies, and identifying
the same infinitely wise and
benevolent Being as the Author of
all. And what an interesting
evidence of his providential care
of the creatures he has made, do
these modifications of structure
and function present! Did the
same unvarying forms of
organization meet us in every
variety of climate and condition,
we might well doubt whether the
Author of Nature was also a
Providential Father. But his
parental care shines forth
illustriously in these anomalous
forms of sandstone days, and
awakens the delightful confidence
that in like manner he will consult
and provide for the wants of
individuals.
If God provided for birds that
could neither sow nor reap their
own food surely He would have
also cared for the enormous
avians of old (and even more so
the human “lords of creation”).
Hitchcock believed that only God
could have so perfectly fitted
organisms to their surroundings,
but this view of nature crumbled
as naturalists increasingly tried to
understand nature on its own
terms and not as a moral lesson.
Charles Darwin’s 1859 treatise
slammed the door shut on the
concept of natural theology as
science, which Hitchcock
subscribed to, but this new
perspective on life’s history raised
new questions.
Birds were so different from
other vertebrates that they
appeared to be perched on their
own lonely branch in the tree of
life. How could they have
evolved? Hitchcock’s tracks
hinted that true birds had been
present nearly as long as reptiles
41
and amphibians, and the
discovery of a fossil feather in
1860 from Solnhofen, Germany,
did nothing to change this
quandry. Found in the Jurassic-
aged limestone of a quarry mined
for stone to make lithographic
plates, the delicate fossil was
acquired by the German
paleontologist Christian Erich
Hermann von Meyer. In 1861 he
named it Archaeopteryx
lithographica, the “ancient feather
from the lithographic limestone.”
Not long after von Meyer
described the feather, another
nearby limestone quarry produced
an enigmatic skeleton. The
jumbled creature had a long bony
tail but was surrounded by feather
impressions; it was as much a
reptile as it was a bird. Rather
than going straight to a museum,
however, the specimen was given
to the local physician Karl
Häberlein in exchange for medical
services.
Rumors of the specimen began to
circulate among naturalists, but
Häberlein would not part with it
easily. He stipulated that the fossil
would only be sold along with the
rest of his fossil collection, raising
the cost beyond the reach of many
prospective buyers. Richard Owen
and George Robert Waterhouse,
certain that Archaeopteryx would
bring prestige to the British
Museum, were able to convince
the trustees of the institution to
forward £700 for the fossil (or
what the museum would normally
have spent on new fossil
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acquisitions over the course of
two years). By November 1862
the fossil was in London.
Some German naturalists were
upset that the slab had been
expatriated to England, but the
august University of Munich
professor Johann Andreas Wagner
had opposed efforts to acquire
Archaeopteryx for his college. He
was sure it was not all it seemed.
Although Häberlein tried to
restrict access to the specimen
amid rumors it was a fake, a
verbal report and sketch of the
fossil reached Wagner, who
argued that rather than a bird, it
was a kind of reptile he called
Griphosaurus, or “riddle reptile.”
Wagner’s fears over evolution
had spurred his impulsive
description. Archaeopteryx
sounded like just the type of
transitional form that would throw
support to Darwin and Wallace’s
evolutionary theories, and
Wagner’s warnings about the
fossils were among the last of his
publications before his death.
Owen’s description of the fossil
was read before the Royal Society
in 1863. He appraised it as the “by
-fossil-remains-oldest-known
feathered Vertebrate.” More than
that, the fossil was most certainly
a bird despite its reptilian
characteristics, and Owen upheld
von Meyer’s original name
Archaeopteryx. This diagnosis
allowed Owen to make a
particular prediction. The head of
Archaeopteryx was missing, but
Owen reasoned that “by the law
of correlation we infer that the
mouth was devoid of lips, and
was a beak-like instrument fitted
for preening the plumage of
Archaeopteryx.”
While some naturalists felt that
Owen’s description was rather
crude, the news of the fossil was
welcome among evolutionists. In
an 1863 letter to Darwin the fossil
mammal expert Hugh Falconer
beamed,
Had the Solenhofen quarries been
commissioned — by august
command — to turn out a strange
being à la Darwin — it could not
have executed the behest more
handsomely — than in the
Archaeopteryx.
This news made Darwin eager to
hear more about the “wondrous
bird,” yet he ultimately did little
to present Archaeopteryx as a
confirmation of his evolutionary
ideas. In the fourth edition of On
the Origin of Species published in
1866, Darwin primarily used
Archaeopteryx and Hitchcock’s
tracks — by now thought to have
been made by dinosaurs — to
illustrate that the fossil record still
had secrets to divulge. “Hardly
any recent discovery,” Darwin
wrote of Archaeopteryx, “shows
more forcibly than this how little
we as yet know of the former
inhabitants of the world.” Even as
it hinted at a connection,
Archaeopteryx was too weak to
unequivocally bridge the gap
between reptiles and birds by
itself. The necessary evidence
would be supplied by the
anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley.
Huxley began his scientific
career in 1846 by studying marine
invertebrates while serving as an
assistant surgeon aboard the HMS
Rattlesnake. His work was well
received by other naturalists, and
when he returned to England in
1850 he was set to establish
himself among the scientific elite.
Like the man who would become
his rival, Richard Owen, Huxley
was most concerned with the
underpinnings of anatomical
form, but where Owen cloaked his
work in pious rhetoric, Huxley’s
distaste for religious interference
in science may have attracted him
to Darwin’s theory of evolution in
the first place. While Huxley
disagreed with Darwin on some
key points, natural selection was
the best mechanism yet proposed
for evolutionary change. For
natural selection to make sense,
however, the absence of graded
transitions in the fossil record had
to be accounted for, which Huxley
explained through the concept of
“persistent types.”
Throughout the fossil record
there seemed to be little
evolutionary change; crocodiles
looked like crocodiles no matter
what strata they came from.
Instead of being evidence against
evolution, however, Huxley
proposed that the persistent forms
were echoes of evolutionary
changes that had occurred in a
time so distant that it was not
recorded in the rock. If most of
evolution happened during “non-
geologic time,” then the inability
of naturalists to explain the origin
of major groups of animals with
fossil evidence became a moot
point. The caprices of geology
kept them out of science’s reach.
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Party: What We'll
Be Watching in 2011
Maureen Ryan (TV Squad)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 5:45:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free, Stay
Tuned As 2010 winds down, my
fellow podcaster Ryan McGee
and I set our sights on the new
year and the TV that will arrive
then.
In this week's Talking TV with
Ryan and Ryan podcast, we
chatted about 11 of the shows we
are really looking forward to in
2011.
This is by no means a
comprehensive look at all the new
and returning shows that will
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Dec. 22, 1882: Looking at Christmas in a New Light
Tony Long (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 6:00:00 AM
1882: An inventive New Yorker
finds a brilliant application for
electric lights and becomes the
first person to use them as
Christmas tree decorations.
Edward H. Johnson, who toiled
for Thomas Edison’s Illumination
Company and later became a
company vice president, used 80
small red, white and blue electric
bulbs, strung together along a
single power cord, to light the
Christmas tree in his New York
home. Some sources credit Edison
himself with being the first to use
electric lights as Christmas
decorations, when he strung them
around his laboratory in 1880.
Sticking them on the tree was
Johnson’s idea, though. It was a
mere three years after Edison had
demonstrated that light bulbs were
practical at all.
The idea of replacing the
Christmas tree’s traditional wax
Hide Your Gifts: Antoine Dodson Debuts "Chimney Intruder"
Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 10:34:00 AM
Antoine Dodson
There's another intruder in
Antoine Dodson's house — and
this time he's after the eggnog.
Watch videos of Antoine Dodson
Dodson — the Internet sensation
whose Auto-tuned TV
candles— which had been around
since the mid-17th century —
with electric lights didn’t, umm,
catch fire right away. Although
the stringed lights enjoyed a
vogue with the wealthy and were
being mass-produced as early as
1890, they didn’t become popular
in humbler homes until a couple
of decades into the 20th century.
A general distrust of using
electricity for indoor lighting, still
widespread in the late 19th
century, kept the popularity of
Christmas lights low. They were
most commonly seen ringing the
seasonal display windows of big-
city department stores.
In 1895, President Grover
Cleveland (a New York stater
himself) supposedly ordered the
family’s White House tree
festooned with multicolored
electric lights. If he did, it barely
moved the needle on the
popularity scale. Even so, General
Electric began selling Christmas-
light kits in 1903.
interview"Bed Intruder" song
became the biggest YouTube hit
of the year— debuted a Christmas
-themed edition of the tune,
"Chimney Intruder," on Tuesday's
Lopez Tonight, warning jolly ol'
Saint Nick to stay away.
"He's climbing in your chimneys,
snatching your cookies up," And hide your eggnog 'cause he's
Dodson sings. "So ya'll need to taking everything up in here."
hide your gifts, hide your trees.
Culture/ TV/ 43
With his brothers, Sadacca later
started a company devoted solely
to the manufacture of electric
Christmas lights. He succeeded in
roping a few competitors into a
trade association, which
proceeded to dominate the
Christmas-light industry into the
1960s.
Source: Various
This article first appeared on
Wired.com Dec. 22, 2008.
Photo: The 2009 White House
Christmas tree in the Blue Room
is adorned with LED lights.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP
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Editors' Picks: Best Books of 2010

TNR Staff (The New Republic - - Michelle Cottle, Senior Editor Diaghilev and the Golden Age of perhaps more penetratingly) about
All Feed) Bloodlands: Europe Between the Ballets Russes 1909– 1929, the thing made. Sondheim, in
Submitted at 12/21/2010 11:00:00 PM Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Edited by Jane Pritchard and Finishing the Hat, discusses the
Snyder Geoffrey Marsh lyrics to every musical of his
The Bars of Atlantis: Selected Between 1933 and 1945, 14 Diaghilev: A Life by Sjeng produced between 1954 to
Essays by Durs Grünbein million people were murdered in Scheijen 1981—from Saturday Night, his
Reviewing this collection of Eastern Europe. Bloodlands: This year has seen a deepening work of apprenticeship, through
essays by Germany's pre-eminent Europe Between Hitler and Stalin interest in the life of Sergei West Side Story, Sweeney Todd,
c o n t e m p o r a r y p o e t , H e l e n catalogues how, where, and why Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes. and eight other shows, to Merrily
Vendler wrote that "If Yeats’s aim t h e s e m i l l i o n s d i e d . T h e In addition to the fine exhibition We Roll Along. The book
was to hold in a single thought cumulative effect makes you “Diaghilev and the Golden Age of provides the complete lyrics for
r e a l i t y a n d j u s t i c e , t h e n reconsider every aspect of modern the Ballets Russes, 1909–1929” at every production (some of the
Grünbein’s is to hold in a single Europe and World War II. Along London’s Victoria and Albert words tweaked by Sondheim for
thought poetry and philosophy." t h e w a y , S n y d e r a c h i e v e s Museum (closes January 9th), the book), along with critical
This book contains my favorite something more vital: he wrests there are two beautiful new books annotations and discursive
quote of the year. "I don't want to back some human dignity for on the Impresario and his art. The comments by the author. The
frighten you," Grünbein writes those who died, without treating first is the catalogue to the commentary is a master class in
slyly, "but have you ever thought them solely as victims. exhibition, which is lavishly song craft—and one often fiercely
about what happens to people - Eric Messinger, Intern/Online illustrated and with strong essays critical of the work at hand, as
who aren't artists?" C by Tom McCarthy pastoral, historic, metaphoric, on everything from costume classes by the most exacting
- Ruth Franklin, Senior Editor C is a weird, allusive, brilliantly argumentative—that enlarge design to the nitty-gritty dealings masters can be. Indeed, Sondheim
The Big Short by Michael Lewis v i s u a l i z e d h i s t o r i c a l n o v e l modern literature. To quote of dancers and artists as they is so rough on himself that
The Big Short is at once an masquerading as an avant-garde Galassi: “Among the canti are the worked to get ballets to the stage. passages of Finishing the Hat
artfully done story about some w o r k . M c C a r t h y ' s p l a y f u l first truly modern lyrics, the The second is an engaging and seem almost self-punishing, and
speculators who figured out that pastiches of Dickens, Forster, wellspring of everything that lively biography written by the one need not find satisfaction in
the housing boom was a huge Mann, Freud, and others, as well follows in the European poetic historian and Russianist Sjeng that fact to derive pleasure from
Ponzi scheme and got very rich as his theorizing about the birth of tradition.” One hundred pages of Scheijen, whose account of this exhaustive and deeply
from selling short, and a ringing the information age, have gotten notes make this an essential D i a g h i l e v ’ s e a r l y y e a r s i s instructive look at Sondheim at
condemnation of the big Wall more attention from critics than edition. particularly enlightening. work.
Street firms that got even richer the book's real strength—its - Henri Cole, Poetry Editor - Jennifer Homans, Dance Critic - David Hajdu, Music Critic
off the suckers who bought and meticulously imagined set-pieces, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Finishing the Hat by Stephen Heliopolis by James Scudamore
sold subprime mortgages. If you in which McCarthy shows us Commentaries by Helen Vendler Sondheim One of the books I most enjoyed
think the Obama administration what it would have been like to Dickinson continues to entertain I mean neither to demean this year was James Scudamore's
was too tough on the banks—the use an early radio set, or fly a a n d e n l i g h t e n m e . V e n d l e r Stephen Sondheim as a songwriter Heliopolis(first published in
current CW around Washington biplane over a World War One manages to clarify and illuminate nor to glamorize my Uncle Tony January 2009, but distributed by
and Wall Street—and needs to battlefield. Dickinson’s poetry without as a carpenter when I say that I Europa in 2010), a novel about a
appoint a CEO to replace Larry - Adam Kirsch, Senior Editor oversimplifying the work of a could listen all day to either of young man, Ludo, born in the
Summers, read this book. Canti by Giacomo Leopardi complex mind. Her succinct but them talking about his craft. slums of São Paulo, Brazil and
- John B. Judis, Senior Editor Jonathan Galassi’s long-awaited astute readings of Emily When anyone can make thrust into high society when his
Because you have to love a writer t r a n s l a t i o n o f t h i s l o n e l y , Dickinson’s poetry are little something complicated, can do so mother is hired as a cook for the
who can make synthetic subprime sensitive, asthmatic, hunch- kernels of insight into a wickedly exceptionally well, and knows family of a rich businessman. In
m o r t g a g e b o n d - b a c k e d backed, Italian genius, who died keen poetic mind. why, he or she is interesting, if Scudamore's hands, São Paulo is
collateralized debt obligations in 1837 at the age of thirty-eight, - Hillary Kelly, Assistant Editor/ not in the same way as someone
both accessible and entertaining. gives us poems—lyric, didactic, The Book who can talk more abstractly (and EDITORS' page 45
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one of the most interesting
settings for a novel I’ve seen. It
has a vaguely futuristic tint: the
poor live in hot, packed favelas
while the wealthy cruise overhead
in helicopters, flitting between
skyscrapers and their weekend
countryside retreats. This is a
funny, artful story that works well
as both a portrait of a man and of
a city, as Ludo straddles two
halves of a metropolis sharply
divided by class. Even as the plot
ultimately settles itself a bit too
tidily, Scudamore’s clever
handling of personal and urban
identity makes this an excellent
read.
- Laura Bennett, Assistant
Literary Editor
Life by Keith Richards
I like the Rolling Stones, but I
love this book. It’s a guilty-
pleasure read, sure, but not an
empty one as it’s full to the brim
with tales of Richards’s grim and
gritty childhood, the rough and
tumble early years, the
phenomenal later success of the
Stones. (He wrote “Satisfaction”
in his sleep! Read the book and
you’ll see what I mean.) But the
real gems of Life are not the
predictable components of such
an act of self-commemoration, but
the surprising and moving
moments that are interspersed
along the way: the shock and
horror of losing a son; the
crushing drag of drug addiction;
strange scenes from Long Island,
where Richards stationed his
young son and his aging father in
mansion far too large for these
two lost boys. In the end, it’s a
story about post-war Britain, rock
and roll, love affairs, and musical
obsessions. If that’s not enough
for you, Richards throws in a
recipe for bangers and mash.
- Chloë Schama, Assistant
Managing Editor
Making Toast by Roger
Rosenblatt
As usual, I stuck firmly to
nineteenth-century literature this
year, but one of the contemporary
gems that stood out was Roger
Rosenblatt’s Making Toast. The
book is everything a memoir
should be—sweet and poignant,
but not sappy or overreaching. A
chronicle of the months following
his daughter’s unexpected death,
Rosenblatt eloquently expresses
the out-of-time emotions that
accompany a devastating loss. It’s
a quick read that leaves a lasting
mark.
- Hillary Kelly, Assistant Editor
Moses Montefiore: Jewish
Liberator, Imperial Hero by
Abigail Green
In writing the biography of
Moses Montefiore—the Victorian
philanthropist whose missions on
behalf of persecuted Jews took
him to Damascus, Morocco,
Romania, and beyond—Abigail
Green has also written an
important new chapter in modern
Jewish history. Green shows how
Montefiore's role as ambassador-
at-large for Jewish causes
catalyzed a new, international
Jewish consciousness, and how
his many trips to Palestine helped
create the conditions for the birth
of Zionism. In no small part
thanks to Montefiore's efforts, the
way nations treated their Jewish
minorities became a barometer of
civilization in the nineteenth
century, before the rise of
ideological anti-Semitism
changed Montefiore's Europe
beyond recognition.
- Adam Kirsch, Senior Editor
Mourning Diary by Roland
Barthes
I love this sad, gentle, intelligent
little book of grieving written in
October 1977 after Barthes’
mother died. Though called a
diary, it’s more like a long lyric
sequence giving an intimate X-ray
of loss. The excellent translator,
Richard Howard, has given us a
fragmentary masterpiece.
- Henri Cole, Poetry Editor
Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
Of all the novels I read this year,
this was the one that I read most
eagerly, consuming it in eager
gulps, dismissing other
obligations. (And, yes, I did read
the famously readable Freedom.)
Adam Ross’s debut novel starts
with a murder and has been called
a thriller, but it’s as much about
love and marriage as it is about
violent events, and there is
nothing conventional about its
structure or language, which draw
from real-life crime, video games,
and M. C. Escher. At times, the
twists and turns are a bit fanciful,
but this was a novel that excited
me far more often than it
disappointed me. It’s a
remarkable book that achieves
some spectacular highs. I will be
following this writer.
- Chloë Schama, Assistant
Managing Editor
Novels and Stories by Shirley
Jackson
Jackson's belated and much-
deserved induction into the
Library of America was one of the
important literary events of the
year. The revelation of this
collection, for me, was the
juxtaposition of Jackson's well-
known psychological horror novel
The Haunting of Hill House with
her humorous short stories about
her life as a wife and mother,
signaling the dark undercurrents
beneath domestic life.
- Ruth Franklin, Senior Editor
Shigeru Ban: Complete Works,
1985-2010 by Philip Jodido
Philip Jodido is one of the most
prolific authors of architecture
picture-book compendiums, and
he is also among the most
reliable. This book, magnificently
produced by the art book
publisher Taschen, tops my list
less because of Jodido’s writing,
incisive but honing close to
building descriptions and
biographical narrative, than its
subject, the Japanese architect
Shigeru Ban. Ban’s justly
deserved international celebrity
rests on elegant formal
innovation, often in unusual and
sustainable materials,
demonstrating his profound
conviction that architecture can be
artistically inspiring while
meeting the real world needs of
people, even of the most needy.
Ban entered the international
limelight with his disaster relief
emergency housing for the United
Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees in Rwanda, where he
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used recycled or recyclable
cardboard tubing for structural
skeletons. Subsequently, he went
on to produce elegant and thought
-provoking designs for all manner
of architectural programs in all
manner of architectural materials.
New Yorkers may remember his
celebrated Nomadic Museum, a
traveling museum in which
disused shipping containers, steel
wire, and cardboard tubing were
assembled into a breathtaking
exhibition space that evoked the
otherworldliness of a gothic
cathedral. If Ban’s not a finalist
for this year’s Pritzker Prize, he
should be.
- Sarah Goldhagen, Architecture
Critic
Silver Roses by Rachel
Wetzsteon
Silver Roses is the fourth and
presumably last collection of
poems by the late Rachel
Wetzsteon, TNR’s former poetry
editor, and it contains some of her
best writing. These deftly formal
lyrics about melancholy,
loneliness, and hope are always
intelligent and always moving—a
reminder of how much was lost
with her passing.
- Adam Kirsch, Senior Editor
So Much for That by Lionel
Shriver
The latest novel from this
devastatingly smart writer is
nominally about health
insurance—a man winds up losing
his life savings after his wife is
diagnosed with a rare and virulent
cancer. But it's actually a novel of
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Newsprint and Transcendence

Jed Perl (The New Republic - But I now think it is possible to
All Feed) see here a dialogue between the
Submitted at 12/21/2010 11:00:00 PM public and the private, the
political and the aesthetic. At least
There were wonders to be this is how Giacometti’s sketches
discovered in New York on a affect me this December, when
recent cold, clear, brilliant each morning I find myself
December day. Eykyn Maclean, dreading the pages of The New
an elegant new gallery with space York Times, the news of a
on two floors of a narrow building stubborn recession, a confounding
on East 67th Street, had mounted conflict in Afghanistan, a surging
an exhibition of work by Alberto Tea Party. With Giacometti, the
Giacometti. While there was a relation between his drawings and
great deal of sculpture and much the texts and photographic images
else to see, what I found myself in the newspapers and magazines
thinking about was Giacometti’s is complex, ambiguous, mercurial.
curious habit of drawing on the Sometimes he appears to be
pages of books or on newspapers commenting on the news of the
and magazines, effacing an day, as when he repeatedly draws
author’s words or journalism’s a nude woman on a 1964 France-
daily dose of reality with his Soir that contains a photograph
masterful renderings of figures and an article about Christine
and faces. Something in the tidal Keeler, the showgirl involved in
wave of unmediated information the Profumo scandal. He is
in which we live today—the sense reinventing Keeler as a
of words and images as detached Giacometti woman, he is
from reasoned meanings in our undressing her with his pen. On a
crazily wired and Wikileaked was in fact animated by a desire text page facing the reproduction drawing as parallel means of copy of L’Express with a story
m o m e n t — h a s s e t m e t o t o m a k e c e r t a i n k i n d s o f in John Rewald’s history of responding to the Dutch artist’s and a photograph of Lee Harvey
wondering about Giacometti’s judgments, to explore the relative Postimpressionism, my first a c h i e v e m e n t . T h r o u g h t h e Oswald, it is not entirely clear
willful obscuring or at least partial v a l u e o f v a r i o u s k i n d s o f impulse is to see this as nothing l a c e w o r k o f G i a c o m e t t i ’ s what Giacometti means to make
obscuring of words and images in e x p e r i e n c e . m o r e t h a n G i a c o m e t t i ’ s drawing, Rewald’s text can still of the assassin, perhaps he himself
some of his drawings. There can Surely Giacometti—friend of spontaneous response to van be read. Word and image become is not sure, but he is nevertheless
be something strangely Beckett, Genet, Sartre, Leiris, Gogh. He’s drawing on the paper t w o c o m p e t i n g f o r m s o f hard at work, reimagining the
illiberal—something almost C r e v e l , a n d m a n y o t h e r t h a t i s m o s t i m m e d i a t e l y knowledge, a modern-day version p h o t o g r a p h o f O s w a l d a n d
demagogic—in the surfeit of writers—was sensitive to the available, which means that he’s of the contests between the arts so inscribing on the magazine’s back
i n f o r m a t i o n a n d p s e u d o - weight of words. So what do we drawing over Rewald’s text. Now beloved of the masters of the cover heads and fragments of still
information we are grappling with make of the counterpoint he I am beginning to wonder if there Renaissance and the Baroque. -life, the ordinary stuff of his
n o w . L i b e r a l i s m m u s t b e creates as he works his virtuosic is not something more going on. I "Portrait de Van Gogh," Alberto w o r l d . C o u l d i t b e t h a t
grounded in distinctions and lines against blocks of prose? Is w o u l d n o t b e s u r p r i s e d i f Giacometti, 1961, Courtesy Giacometti’s newspaper drawings
discriminations, and the other day he defacing the text or somehow Giacometti admired Rewald’s Eykyn Maclean LP are his way of asserting some
I found myself wondering if celebrating it? Or are both writing, so perhaps when he As for the drawings Giacometti private authority in the face of a
Giacometti’s habit of drawing i m p u l s e s i n v o l v e d ? W h e n draws over Rewald’s text he’s did on pages of magazines and
over and around texts and images Giacometti copies a self-portrait suggesting a competition between pieces of newspaper, I used to NEWSPRINT page 48
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Ed Kilgore (The New Republic -
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Submitted at 12/21/2010 11:00:00 PM
The last few months of 2010
have been illuminating when it
comes to the priorities of the
Republican Party. By jumping at
the Obama-McConnell tax deal,
Republicans underscored the fact
that protecting the marginal tax
rates of high earners—not
reducing the federal deficit, and
not even denying Obama
legislative success—is their
party’s primary focus at the
federal level. It says something
that most conservatives who
opposed the tax deal did so on the
grounds that it was not permanent,
or that it did not completely
eliminate the estate tax. As ever,
to paraphrase Dick Cheney,
Republicans seem to think deficits
don’t matter.
Yet that’s not the half of it. For a
true litmus test of the lengths
Republicans will and will not go
to in order defend the incomes of
the very rich, you have to look to
the states, where budget deficits
are generally not allowed. There,
a new crop of Republican
governors and lawmakers—huge
numbers of which rode to power
on the Tea Party wave—are
focused not just on preserving
upper-income tax cuts, but
actually cutting taxes for the rich
while slashing services and
raising taxes on the poor and
middle class. All this is happening
at a crucial time, since the most
dire fiscal conditions in decades
are about get vastly worse, as
federal stimulus dollars run out.
One of the GOP’s biggest 2010
rock stars, Governor-elect Nikki
Haley of South Carolina, is an
especially instructive example:
During the campaign, Haley came
out for abolition of the state
corporate-income tax. Facing an
enormous and chronic state
budget shortfall, she breezily
suggested that her tax cut might
be paid for by eliminating a
recently enacted state sales-tax
exemption for food purchases,
because the exemption “didn’t
create one job.” This statement,
which seems to imply that eating
is an economically useless
activity, takes conservative
disdain for consumption as a
growth generator to new heights.
Instead of trying to keep food on
South Carolinians’ tables and
consumer demand high, Haley is
betting on a tax code tilted to
“producers” and “job creators.”
As Haley spokesman Rob
Godfrey recently explained:
We are a right-to-work state. We
keep the unions out. And if we
become a no--corporate-income-
tax state as well, we will become
a magnet for businesses to come
to South Carolina. And that means
more jobs for our citizens, more
con-tracts for our small
busi-nesses, and more growth for
our economy.
It’s hard to imagine a more
enthusiastic endorsement of the
old moonlight-and-magnolias
approach of making lower
business costs—including taxes,
wages, and all those inconvenient
regulations aimed at protecting
the workforce or the
environment—the sole strategy
for economic development, at the
expense of other public and
private goods.
A similar thing is happening next
door in Georgia, where outgoing
Republican Governor Sonny
Perdue created a heavily loaded
fiscal commission tasked with
addressing the state’s massive
budget gap. (Incoming
Republican Governor Nathan
Deal is expected to embrace the
report.) It suggests “redirecting
the state’s taxing emphasis to
what people buy and the services
they use rather than the income
they earn,” meaning adoption of a
higher sales tax, paired with
corporate and upper-income tax
cuts and cuts in government
services, and speaks somewhat
dismissively of “advocates for the
poor and elderly [who] stress that
those groups spend a higher
percentage of their income on
goods and services that would be
taxed under the Republicans’
scenario.” And Florida’s state
budget situation may be even
worse than South Carolina’s and
Georgia’s—education costs for
Haitian refugees are a major new
problem—but Governor-elect
Rick Scott is committed to both
the elimination of corporate taxes
and major reductions in property
taxes that support local schools.
This trend is by no means
confined to the South. Newly
elected Michigan Governor Rick
Snyder is insistently pushing for
reductions in business taxes,
which would double the state’s
current $1.5 billion budget
shortfall. In Pennsylvania,
Governor-elect Tom Corbett is
determined to cut corporate taxes
by nearly one-third while
increasing business deductions.
Wisconsin Governor-elect Scott
Walker, who made headlines by
turning down $810 million in
federal money for a high-speed
rail connection between
Milwaukee and Madison, has
pledged to cut corporate taxes for
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smaller employers, and also wants
to give a state tax break that will
encourage people to snap up those
hardy conservative pet rocks,
health savings accounts. Walker is
facing a two-year, $3 billion
budget shortfall. Ohio Governor-
elect John Kasich, who, like
Walker, turned down federal high
-speed rail money, is pushing to
restore a previously delayed state
income-tax cut, even though his
two-year budget shortfall is about
$8 billion.
This is what Americans got when
they voted for the Tea Party.
When the last comparable wave
of state-level Republicans took
office, in 1994, it happened to
coincide with the beginning of the
long boom of the ‘90s, which
allowed GOP officeholders to
make popular tax cuts without
reducing popular spending. Not
this time: Across the country,
Republicans are assuring that
budget adjustments will be real
and painful for everybody but the
rich.
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bewilderment with current
events? Could drawing on a
n e w s p a p e r o r a collages, and there have been
magazine—sometimes in an
easygoing, even comic spirit—be
his way of coming to terms with
the unfathomableness of the wide
world? Is this Giacometti’s way,
in twentieth-century Paris, of
cultivating his own garden, with
everyday reality the soil from
which a private garden grows?
After World War II, Meyer
Schapiro spoke of the need for
American avant-garde artists to
cultivate their own gardens.
Surely Giacometti must have felt
a similar urgency, living as he did
among intellectuals who were
immersed in postwar politics. The
Ekykn Maclean show includes
one of Giacometti’s drawings of
his friend Sartre, a political
animal if there ever was one.
Giacometti drawing on 'France-
Soir,' 1963, Courtesy Eykyn
Maclean LP
Giacometti drawing on
'L’Express,' 1964, Courtesy
Eykyn Maclean LP
Giacometti is by no means the
only twentieth-century artist who
incorporates newspaper in his
work. Picasso and Braque cut up
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Submitted at 12/22/2010 9:01:00 AM
Filed under: NFL Power
Rankings DeSean Jackson's punt
return has caused major
ramifications in NFL power
newspapers in order to construct
the counter-realities of their
many theories as to the
significance that these press
clippings have in Cubist collage.
It has been argued that if one pays
close attention to the journalistic
stories Picasso incorporates in his
work, one finds a reflection of
what some regard as his anarchist
sympathies in the years leading up
to World War I. Others have
thought that the juxtaposition of
various newspaper fragments
reflects the cacophonous
conversations in the Parisian cafés
during the Cubist years, the
cascade of cosmopolitan voices,
the heterogeneity of opinions. De
Kooning, in making his 1955
painting Gotham News, found a
very different way of using
newspaper, inserting the ghost of
the day’s news amid his jabbing
paint strokes. He would
sometimes press sheets of
newspaper into his wet paint,
apparently to keep the surface
from drying overnight. And when
he removed the pages the next day
and found that the ink had
adhered to the paint, he
occasionally left the black marks
rankings across the land, but the
top two have stayed the same.
A Falcons blowout of the
Seahawks and a tight Patriots
victory over a depleted Packers
team wasn't enough to convince
most power rankings to perch the
Falcons in the top spot. Only one
there, as a shadowy text.
Among the drawings at Eykyn
Maclean is one that Giacometti
made of Braque immediately after
the old master’s death in 1963.
Braque’s handsome head is an
isolated profile, totally real and
totally hieratic, as particular as a
study by Ingres and as generalized
as a figure in an Egyptian tomb.
Giacometti was a great admirer of
Braque’s paintings, with their
heartbreaking, exquisite
orchestrations of grays. Some
influence may have also gone the
other way, at least my thoughts
about Giacometti and newspapers
have made me think again about a
poster by Braque that I’ve lived
with for many years, one he
designed for an exhibition at the
Maeght Gallery in 1956. Braque
was obsessed in those years with
the image of a bird in flight, and
so the poster features one of his
emblematic creatures, the entire
body composed of a single
twisting, angling line. Only here
the bird is inscribed on a sheet of
newspaper that has been scumbled
with white paint in such a way as
not to totally obliterate the
columns of type, so that if one
comes close one can actually read
of the power rankings we follow
has the Falcons in the top spot,
and CBS Sports has had the
Falcons in the No. 1 spot for
weeks now. Everywhere else, it's
all Patriots.
But the Eagles have re-entered
top-fives, and the Giants are
the news and the advertisements.
What does it mean to find this
dreamy, mystical bird emerging
from the pages of a newspaper? Is
the juxtaposition of the newspaper
and the bird a juxtaposition of the
ordinary and the transcendent?
And could it be that Giacometti’s
drawings have some similar
meaning, if not for him, then
certainly for us? In drawing his
exquisite figures and faces on
pieces of newspaper, Giacometti
asserts a reality that complicates
everyday reality: the superior
reality of his eye, his sight. He is
m a s t e r i n g — h e i s
overriding—current events. These
drawings, so casual and so
gorgeous, trump their quotidian
supports. Springing from the
page, Giacometti’s line confounds
the day’s news with a glimpse of
eternity.
Jed Perl is the art critic for The
New Republic.
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plummeting. The Ravens have
taken a major jump up thanks to
their victory over the Saints, who
have dropped out of the top five
in all power rankings except our
own.
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'Skating With the Stars'
Finale Recap: Season 1
Winner Is Crowned
Sharon Knolle (TV Squad)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 5:00:00 AM
Filed under: Recaps The first-
ever'Skating With the Stars'
champ was named tonight and
awarded a pair of golden skates.
Judge Johnny Weir opened up the
show with a "fabulous" (to quote
host Vernon Kay) caged bird
routine choregraphed by fellow
judge Laurie Ann Gibson.
Among the returning skaters,
third place Jonny Moseley seemed
to have entirely lost his mojo,
stumbling several times during his
routine, but finishing with a smile.
So, who took home the golden
skates -- soap star Rebecca Budig
or reality queen Bethenny
Frankel?
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fury at an American system so
broken and dysfunctional that
people can no longer decently
conduct their lives. Funny how it
feels just as relevant now as it did
last spring, when it was published.
( Here's the link to the column in
which I wrote about it.)
- Ruth Franklin, Senior Editor
Solar by Ian McEwan
I am a loyal fan of McEwan, so I
sat down with this book the week
it was released—and didn’t really
get up until I finished it. While far
from the author’s best work, Solar
was still an engrossing read. It has
been called McEwan’s “funniest
novel,” which is true, as he delves
into comedy more overtly than he
ever has. And yet, true to form,
McEwan also delivers heavy
doses of darker themes:
misanthropy, disgust, doom,
claustrophobia, anger, fear, self-
loathing. He also makes his
signature interest in the sciences
(best-applied with the Dr.
Perowne character, a surgeon, in
Saturday) a more central aspect of
the book. (In this case, McEwan
examines climate change.) While
the ending left me somewhat
unsatisfied—it was too much all
at once—several points along the
UConn Women Get Congratulations from Barack Obama
FanHouse Staff (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 7:44:00 AM
Filed under: Connecticut The
UConn women set the all-time
Division I record for consecutive
wins last night, beating Florida
way were masterful. And so, I
remain a McEwan devotee.
- Seyward Darby, Deputy Editor/
Online
The Complete Works of W. H.
Auden: Prose: Volume IV, 1956-
1962, Edited by Edward
Mendelson
For anybody who admires the
easygoing, speculative spirit of a
great poet’s prose, the ongoing
publication of W. H. Auden’s
complete prose has been cause for
celebration. We’re in the presence
of a master wordsmith who’s
letting his hair down, who’s
happy to appear before his readers
in an informal, loose-limbed, what
-the-hell mood. “The mating of
minds,” he announces at the
beginning of a review of the
letters of Strauss and
Hofmannsthal, “is, surely, quite as
fascinating a relationship as the
mating of the sexes, yet how little
attention novelists have paid to
it.” Auden’s mind moves from
workmanlike journalistic
exposition to boldly personal
assertions with such speed that a
reader can feel a little
dazed—happily dazed. In a
review of Aubrey’s Brief Lives,
he argues that “The notion of
State for their 89th in a row.
Afterward, coach Geno
Auriemma was in his post-game
press conference when he
received a call from President
Barack Obama.
"No, you're not interrupting
anything," Auriemma told
endurance has become so foreign
to our thinking that a work of art
which is clearly intended to
endure strikes us as arrogant and
boring.” Auden certainly created
works of art that were engineered
to endure. As for his collected
prose, its endurance is of an
altogether different variety, an
unpremeditated endurance, an
intellectual spirit so lively as to
defy death.
- Jed Perl, Art Critic
To the End of the Land by David
Grossman, translated by Jessica
Cohen
David Grossman’s To the End of
the Land, elegantly translated by
Jessica Cohen, is a beautiful book.
It follows an Israeli mother, Ora,
who sets out on a long trek
through the Galilee hills in order
to stave off potential bad news
about her soldier son. Along the
way, she tells the story of her
son’s life, as if narrating small
memories could somehow keep
him safe. The sensitive details of
Ora’s descriptions give the novel
much of its emotional force and
Grossman inhabits the voice of a
mother so fully that, in the end, I
was startled to remember that the
writer was a man. In a postscript,
Obama. "If I called you with a
bunch of reporters around you,
you would be dying to take my
call. It's an incredible thing these
kids have done. .... We owe you
some gratitude for that lesson you
gave them on the White House
basketball court. It really paid
we learn that Grossman’s own son
died while serving in the Israeli
army before the novel was
finished. But even without this
tragic parallel, To the End of the
Land is one of the most affecting
and poignant novels I’ve read.
- Laura Bennett, Assistant
Literary Editor
White Egrets by Derek Walcott
This could be Walcott’s best
book, published in his eightieth
year. I wish the poem “Forty
Acres” had been read at Barack
Obama’s inauguration. The sea
that brings everything into life,
and then takes it back, is the
backdrop for this collection of
short poems and lyric sequences
full of pity, forgiveness, and
regret. The elegant impeccable
white egret “plucking up
wriggling insects” is Walcott’s
symbol for the place “beyond
desires” where we all hope to
arrive eventually.
- Henri Cole, Poetry Editor
off. ... We have not lost since you
were inaugurated. Let's keep that
streak for a couple more years."
Whitley: UConn Women Victims
of Realism, Not Sexism
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Denver Nuggets' Carmelo
Anthony won't play vs.
San Antonio Spurs
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:45:58 AM
Updated: December 22, 2010,
12:57 PM ET
DENVER -- Nuggets All-Star
Carmelo Anthony will miss
Denver's game Wednesday night
in San Antonio following a death
in his family.
The team announced the news
Wednesday morning. Nuggets
general manager Masai Ujiri said
in a release that the organization
supports Anthony "during this
difficult time for him and his
family."
Anthony has been the subject of
trade rumors since he spurned the
team's three-year, $65 million
extension during the summer.
He's averaging 24 points and 8.3
rebounds this season.
The 26-year-old Anthony
recently has bbeen hampered by a
strained right elbow, sitting out
the past two days of practice
leading up to the game with the
Spurs.
Copyright 2010 by The
Associated Press
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A year and a half after she of things that are different from about it much. They're two
shocked American Idol fans by the normal look of TV shows. different shows, and I think there's
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Submitted at 12/22/2010 9:27:00 AM
Storage Wars
When the renter of a self-storage
unit can't make the payments, the
stuff inside goes up for grabs —
and, maybe, right into Darrell
Sheets' hands. Sheets is one of the
professional buyers in A&E's new
hit Storage Wars(Wednesday, 10/
9c). We polled Sheets for his
greatest finds.
1. A Hulk-size comic-book
collection
Sheets hauled away seven
truckloads of titles, including the
very first Spider-Man.
2. Four Picasso paintings
Says Sheets, "I'm still not sure of
their value yet."
3. An Abraham Lincoln letter
The self-described "storage
addict" says the note sold for 15
grand. Honest!
4. Exotic furniture by R&Y
New study shows ID theft exaggerated
Consumer Reports Shopping
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Submitted at 12/22/2010 5:59:59 AM
New study shows ID theft
exaggerated
If you worry that your identity is
at risk of being stolen, a new
study by the U.S. Department of
Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics
should set your mind at ease. It
confirms that the identity-theft
“crisis” has been wildly
overblown, as we’ve previously
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theft used in the Fair Credit
Reporting Act: “A fraud
committed using the identifying
information of another person.”
But the new study now also
includes a more refined analysis
of the data that isolates a separate
category of what many would
argue is true identity theft, and
which consumers fear the most. In
that crime, a doppelganger uses
your name, date of birth, and
Social Security number to pose as
you and open new credit accounts,
tap your health insurance benefits,
earn taxable income, or commit
some other crime without your
knowing about it. You eventually
find out you’re a victim when bill
collectors, lawyers, Internal
Revenue Service agents, or police
officers come knocking on your
door to make you answer for
someone else’s crime.
Victims of these newly parsed
categories of “new-account” and
“personal information” ID theft
totaled 1.4 million, the BJS study
found. That’s a lot of people, but
it represents only 7/10 of 1
percent of the 235 million U.S.
population aged 16+. Stated
differently, the 56,480 people
surveyed in that age group had
less than a 1 percent chance of
being victimized by what we
consider true identity theft.
Better yet, that percent represents
the risk rate over a two-year
period spanning 2006 to 2008,
rather than an annual rate, because
respondents surveyed in 2008
were asked about their experience
over the previous two years.
Unfortunately, the annual risk rate
is not calculable from two-year
data, and you can’t simply divide
by two, says Lynn Langton, a
Bureau statistician and co-author
of the latest study.
The difference between true and
trumped-up ID theft is not just a
matter of opinion, it’s based on
important differences, also
supported by the BJS study. Only
11 percent of survey respondents
victimized by existing credit card
fraud were severely emotionally
distressed by the situation vs. 29
percent of new-account ID theft
victims. True ID theft is logically
more threatening than a lost credit
card, because the innocent victim
can unexpectedly become the
accused. When your credit card is
stolen, you simply report it and
get a replacement, and the card
issuer takes all or most of the
financial loss, not you.
The BJS study also shows the
low financial losses related to
most ID theft: 91 percent of credit
card fraud victims suffered zero
out-of-pocket costs. Ironically,
victims of the much scarier
personal information ID theft and
new account ID theft also suffered
almost no out-of-pocket losses,
with 90 and 95 percent,
respectively, incurring no costs.
ID theft involving an existing
bank checking or savings account,
however, was shown to be a more
serious affair, with 26 percent of
victims reported being severely
distressed by the attack on their
core financial accounts and 25
percent of victims losing money
out-of-pocket. Nevertheless, it’s
worthwhile for the fearful to note:
75 percent lost nothing.
Finally, varying perceptions of
the seriousness of different types
of ID theft are also revealed by
whether victims exhibit the
normal response to a
crime—calling the police. About
27 percent of victims of new-
account and personal information
ID theft called the cops, vs. 19
percent of existing bank account
fraud victims and 9 percent of
credit-card fraud victims.
Bottom line: You have a low
likelihood of becoming a victim
of true identity theft, and even if Dr. Santa’s 12
you are unlucky, your finances
will probably not suffer. Don’t tips for a
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services offered by credit- healthy holiday
reporting bureaus and other ID rss@consumerreports.org
theft protection companies. Most (Consumer Reports)
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reliability on hundreds of important health issues come up
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Roberto Alomar Should Be in Hall Already

Ed Price (FanHouse Main) players up for election to the .309 in 38 games but made little Alomar is anything but a slam-
Submitted at 12/22/2010 9:00:00 AM Baseball Hall of Fame in 2011. impact, missing two months with dunk Hall of Famer.
The results of the balloting will be a broken hand after being hit by a That Alomar DIDN'T get in a
F i l e d u n d e r : B l u e J a y s , made public on Jan. 5. pitch. year ago, in his first time on the
Diamondbacks, Indians, Orioles, Six years ago, I saw Roberto After being traded to the White ballot, still stuns me.
MLB Hall of Fame Over four Alomar at his worst. Sox in August, Alomar hit .180, I can't imagine under what
days this week, MLB FanHouse's Alomar spent the first half of his and the next spring, he retired. criteria Alomar is not a Hall of
Hall of Fame voters will break f i n a l s e a s o n w i t h t h e writer covering the team. He hit Here's the thing: Despite what I Famer.
down the particulars of select Diamondbacks, and I was a beat saw up close, I can't believe
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cute present—two colorful
wooden characters, with magnets
inside, who danced and spun on
the surface of a wind-up music
box. Our 18-month old niece
loved it—especially the way the
characters tasted. Within minutes
she had popped them in her mouth
and separated two other parts into
nice bite-size pieces. So much for
cute.
The problem of dangerous gifts
isn’t limited to toddlers. I
remember my first full-size bike. I
loved it, but my dad had to attach
wooden blocks so I could reach
the pedals. Suffice to say I took
some creative falls and ended up
with some interesting bruises.
And I have a friend who one
Christmas gifted himself with the
sports car of his dreams—and
promptly plowed it into a
telephone pole as he made a fast
right turn. Some risks, of course,
can be moderated. New bikes,
skis, and skateboards, for
example, should come with a new
helmet. (See our advice on
choosing helmets for kids.) And if
you’re in the market for a toddler,
see our advice for buying safe
toys.
Then, of course, there’s the risk
of just opening the presents. No,
not the paper and the ribbons, but
the plastic packaging inside. In
your frustration and impatience,
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you may well be tempted to stab it getting outdoors, even in the
Some Pick-Up Lines
with a sharp object. Don’t! Each
year, thousands of people end up
winter, and challenging yourself.
Just be sensible, OK? Should Be Criminal:
in an emergency room with — John Santa, M.D., M.P.H,
packaging-related injuries,
according to the Consumer
director of the Consumer Reports
Health Ratings Center
Woot Weads The Wire
Product Safety Commission. TIP 1 Don’t shop till you drop: (Woot! - One Day, One Deal) missing.
Many more suffer less serious How to navigate the holidays in a Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:00:00 PM WASHINGTON ( UPI) --
wounds, often from using sharp stress-free and healthful way. President Barack Obama huddled
tools such as knives, ice picks, or TIP 2 Lights, ladder, and candles: Every week in this space, we’ll for 90 minutes with 12 labor
box cutters to free products from Avoid holiday accidents. take a look at the news and offer leaders at the White House to
the hard plastic bubbles called TIP 3 Dr. Santa’s stocking- our own incisive blend of reassure them he was still
“clamshells.” To prevent those stuffers. commentary, analysis, and poop committed to them, union aides
injuries: TIP 4 What not to get for the jokes. The news you need, from a said.
• If you must use a knife or holidays this year: A cold or the voice you can trust, in the 90 Sources described the huddle as
another type of sharp object,
flu. seconds you have to spare: that’s adorable, and especially noted
cut away from your body. TIP 5 Over the river and to the Woot Weads the Wire. how cute it was when Obama
• If you must use scissors, use ER: What to do if you get sick NEW YORK ( UPI) -- Subway closed his widdle eyes and
ones with blunt tips. while traveling. riders at a pair of New York yawned a really big yawn.
• Wear protective gloves. TIP 6 Raise a toast—but not too stations said they were perplexed LONDON ( UPI) -- Interviewed
• Avoid opening tough-to-open many. b y s i g n s p r o m o t i n g r a p p e r after his release by a London
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• Don’t hold the product between yourself. to Paris." WikiLeaks denounced sex
your legs to keep it stable. TIP 8 Difficult holiday Fears were validated when the charges against him and pledged
conversations. C l a r k s v i l l e T o u r i s m b o a r d more revelations.
I have one final caution, as much TIP 9 Don’t be a holiday heart reported a 46% drop in visitors. Though Assange had no
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And while active video games straight to voicemail. Lady Gaga had to postpone a
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of the same health benefits as the UPI) -- Florida police said they Paris because snow prevented
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daughter of a man suspected of "Informer", was escorted from the
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Tennessee, and an angel who had return.
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Microsoft 250GB Hard Drive for Xbox CES 2011: HP/Palm to

360 debut WebOS tablet
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal) burden of living life that it pays your hard drive Carol Mangis (Consumer
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:00:15 AM no mind as its liberties and • Download and save hundreds of Reports)
freedoms erode around it. You’ll HD movies, television shows, Submitted at 12/22/2010 6:01:54 AM
Oh, sure. More video games. be bought and sold and all the videos, games, game add-ons,
That’s exactly what you need. while the “realistic” zombies will demos, CDs, and extra content CES 2011: HP/Palm to debut
Happy most wonderful time of explode in front of you as your from Xbox LIVE Marketplace WebOS tablet
t h e y e a r ! G l a d t o s e e y o u body gets weaker and your mind • Save your game, Xbox LIVE The tablet computer news (and
stumbled, bleary-eyed, out of bed gets feebler. When you’re forced gamer profile, game demos, and speculation) keeps rolling in:
and made it to the couch. I guess to go outside to honor your body’s custom soundtracks Palm (and its new owner, HP)
that’s going to constitute your temple with some Taco Bell you • Includes preloaded Xbox 360 will debut three new models of a
exercise for the day. You know note that the “outside” just can’t game demos, trailers, and an PalmPad tablet at the upcoming
Sprint's 4G network, and all
it’s not actually that cold outside, compare with the “incredible assortment of Xbox LIVE arcade Consumer Electronics Show in
models will feature both a front-
you could at least go for a walk. graphics” and “mind-stretching game trials (approved for children early January, according to
and rear-facing camera. It's
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3.0 port.
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First Look: 2011 Hyundai Elantra GLS Indianapolis Colts put

Consumer Reports Shopping
Blog (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 7:29:21 AM
Austin Collie on injured
arguable.)
So as all of these small sedans go
up-market, where does that leave
“preferred” package that adds
alloys and Bluetooth, our Elantra
stickered at $18,445.
reserveHyundai’s new 2011 Elantra?
First Look: 2011 Hyundai Elantra Like most Hyundais, it has about
Take a look at our First Look
video for more insights. We plan
GLS a $1,000-$1,500 price advantage to test the Elantra in the next few ESPN.com news services Despite missing five games and
You’ve got to wonder sometimes with comparable equipment. But weeks to see if it regains its (ESPN.com) more than a half in three others,
if the world’s automakers all meet also like other recent Hyundais, predecessor’s place on the top of Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:45:16 AM Collie leads all Colts receivers
in a hollowed-out volcano to especially the recently redesigned our small sedan Ratings. with eight touchdown catches, is
decide their master plans. How Sonata, it’s working hard to — Tom Mutchler Next Steps Updated: December 22, 2010, second in receptions (58) and
else do you explain a glut of appeal on more than the deal. The • Small Car Buying Advice: 12:45 PM ET third in yards (649).
redesigned new small sedans Elantra looks like a shrunken • Types of Small Cars| The Indianapolis Colts will have If the Colts (8-6) win at Oakland
appearing all at once? (Surely it Sonata--more than one of us have • Small Car Features| to make their final playoff push and beat Tennessee at home, they
can’t just be shared concerns over confused it at a glance for the • Small Car Brands without receiver Austin Collie. will win their seventh AFC South
r i s i n g f u e l c o s t s , a t o u g h silver Sonata Limited 2.0T we Collie, who on Sunday suffered title in eight years and earn a
economic climate, and the need to have in our test fleet. A l l S m a l l C a r R a t i n g s his second concussion this season, ninth straight playoff berth.
keep up with competition. That’s The new Elantra is roomier than S u b s c r i b e r s c a n v i e w a n d was placed on injured reserve due Information from The Associated
too logical.) the car it replaces. Our first compare all Small Car Ratings. to a concussion. Press was used in this report.
Chevrolet has the new Cruze, impression is that it’s also a lot Recommended Small Cars Look The Colts on Wednesday signed This entry passed through the
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generation Focus. Like the Cruze, you don’t have to buy a special Ratings, buying advice and S u n d a y ' s g a m e a g a i n s t content-only/faq.php
it’s also marched up-market, with “fuel efficiency” version to get r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f Jacksonville, when Jaguars Five Filters featured site: So,
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the idea that buyers will think it’s Elantra GLS. Equipped with an forearm as Collie went low to
nicer than a Civic. (That’s automatic transmission and the make a catch.

Rex Ryan Responds to Rumors of Michelle Ryan Foot Videos

FanHouse Staff (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 10:55:00 AM
Filed under: Jets Rex Ryan
wouldn't comment on a report that
his wife, Michelle Ryan, posted
foot-fetish videos starring herself
online.
On a Wednesday conference call
in advance of the Jets' upcoming
game against the Bears, Ryan
responded to a question about the
report by saying, "I know you
need to ask, it's a personal
matter."
Earlier Wednesday, the Jets
released a statement saying
essentially the same thing: "This
is a personal matter and Rex will
have no comment."
Deadspin reported on Tuesday
night that there was compelling
evidence that "ihaveprettyfeet," a
YouTube user who posted foot-
fetish videos on the service, was
the wife of the Jets coach.
According to Deadspin, which
also broke the news surrounding
Brett Favre and Jenn Sterger, the
timeline of the evidence lines up
with Ryan's stint as defensive
coordinator of the Ravens.
This is the just the latest scandal
to surround the Jets this year, after
the alleged harassment of reporter
Ines Sainz in the team locker
room, the sexting saga between
Favre and Sterger and the Sal
Alosi sideline tripping incident.
56 Sports/ Gaming/ E-reader News Edition

Los Angeles Lakers' Phil Jackson dislikes Christmas

Day games
Dave McMenamin (ESPN.com) York Knicks; the Boston Celtics middle of the afternoon on
Submitted at 12/22/2010 10:59:54 AM at the Orlando Magic; the Denver was manning the sidelines for the Christmas Day? That game is just
Nuggets at the Oklahoma City Bulls. real hard to measure how to bring
Updated: December 22, 2010, Thunder; the Portland Trail
1 1 : 5 9 A M E T B y D a v e Blazers at the Golden State
"It's like Christian holidays don't
mean anything to them anymore,"
focus to it."
Lakers home games usually tip
Black Ops PS3
McMenamin
ESPNLosAngeles.com
Warriors; and the Miami Heat at
the Lakers.
said Jackson, the son of a
minister. "We just go out and play
off at 7:30 p.m. PT but the Heat
game Saturday will be played at 2 multiplayer
Archive "I don't think anybody should play
LOS ANGELES -- It's an annual on Christmas Day," Jackson said.
and entertain the TV. It's really
weird."
p.m. PT.
"It is what it is," Jackson said. patched again
holiday tradition: put the star on "Soccer teams don't play this time The Lakers' much-anticipated "We have to go to work and we'll James Ransom-Wiley (Joystiq)
the tree and put the Los Angeles of year, they take a break. I don't matchup with Miami's Big Three do what we have to do and make Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:00:00 PM
Lakers on TV. understand it. won't feature both teams at their the best of it."
And Lakers head coach Phil "When I was in the CBA, we had best, according to the coach. IT'S When asked if he would bring up Are you a Black Ops player on
Jackson is tired of it. a commissioner who had a L.A., AND IT'S LIVE his issue with playing on PS3? Have you been experiencing
"It used to be two teams," Jackson Christmas Eve game. I had to call For more coverage of the Christmas to NBA commissioner unreliable parties? How about
said. "It used to be Phoenix and him up and say that's the holy complete Los Angeles sports David Stern, Jackson replied with loud mouths in the lobby -- or
L.A. and New York and Boston or time. ... You just have to keep scene, visit ESPNLA.com. » a smile, "He'll see it." worse: in your unreliable party?
N e w Y o r k a n d P h i l l y o r reminding them that this is a "I don't know if you can Dave McMenamin covers the Well, this probably isn't the game
somebody on the East coast. Now special day." adequately even prepare for these Lakers for ESPNLosAngeles.com. for you.
I see that they have like six games To get an idea of just how often games," Jackson said. "You don't Follow him on Twitter. Nevertheless, Treyarch continues
on Christmas." Jackson and the Lakers play on have a walk-through on the day of This entry passed through the to make amends for those who are
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Lakers blog from the Kamenetzky He has played more games on Christmas presents together, our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ developer deployed another Black
brothers. Blog Dec. 25 during his career than any there's all kinds of crazy stuff content-only/faq.php Ops multiplayer patch -- 1.05, for
There are actually five games other calendar date. going on and now your head's got Five Filters featured site: So,
scheduled by the league this year - Jackson coached a handful more to get focused on a game in the Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing BLACK page 58
- the Chicago Bulls at the New times on Christmas back when he Again?.

'Rayman 3D' rated in Australia

JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 1:00:00 PM
The Australian Classification
Board has rated "Rayman 3D" for
unspecified platforms. We can
think of two likely possibilities
for this game: first, that it's a
collection of ported Rayman
games, in 3D, for PS3, like the
recent Prince of Persia rereleases
and the upcoming Splinter Cell
collection, both from Rayman
publisher Ubisoft. Or it's a
Rayman game for 3DS.
Both seem equally plausible:
Ubisoft is continuing a recent
trend, or preparing a mascot
platformer for a new Nintendo
handheld. Ubisoft declined to
comment on this unannounced
product, but at the very least we
know there's some kind of
Rayman product on the way --
besides Rayman Origins, which is
decidedly 2D.
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Tomb Raider dev seeking multiplayer developers

Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:30:00 PM
Among listings for a technical
producer and a senior level
designer at Crystal Dynamics on
the forthcoming Tomb Raider
reboot, two positions popped up
that we didn't expect to see:
"multiplayer producer" and
"senior multiplayer game
designer." Though no multiplayer
of any kind has been announced
for the upcoming TR game, the
listings go a long way in
confirming it -- the job
descriptions explicitly say "Come
and work on the new Tomb
Raider," for instance. It wouldn't
be the first time a game starring
Ms. Croft contained multiplayer
functionality, as this year's Lara
Croft and the Guardian of Light
featured co-op play.
Crystal Dynamics is hoping to fill
the multiplayer producer position
with an individual who has
"demonstrable project
management experience," and can
"take on a major production role
in the multi-player part of an
upcoming action adventure title."
The senior multiplayer game
designer position listing notes
some potential info about what
the game's multiplayer might
have, cursorily detailing it as both
co-op and "player vs. player." The
latter position will also be
"responsible for the overall
multiplayer design vision for the
game," so, uh, good luck with
that, potential employees! A
Crystal Dynamics representative
gave us an official "No
comment," but wouldn't say
anything else regarding the
listings.
[ O r i g i n a l i m a g e :
GameInformer.com]
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Humble Indie Bundle 2 now includes Humble Indie Bundle 1

JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:30:00 AM
It just became so much easier to
compare last year's Humble Indie
Bundle with this year's Humble
Indie Bundle 2 in terms of value -
- because as of today, Humble
Indie Bundle 2 includes last year's
Bundle. It's official: these
developers have lost their damn
minds (for charity).
If you've already bought Bundle
2, you're free to download Bundle
1, which has World of Goo,
Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD,
Penumbra Overture, and Samorost
2, all playable on PC, Mac, and
Linux. If you haven't bought
Bundle 2 yet, you're only eligible
to get the bonus games if you
spend more than the average
payment of $7.34. You have
through Christmas Day to pick up
this year's offerings.
You can download these straight
from the site, but you can also
unlock them in Steam (by getting
a keys from the HIB site), with a
few caveats. The Steam keys are
"a little glitchy," lacking access to
Samorost 2 and lacking Mac
versions of Gish and Aquaria. In
addition, organizer Wolfire only
has 150,000 keys to hand out, so
if you already have the games on
Steam, or you can deal with just
downloading the games (DRM-
free) and not having that Steam
integration, perhaps you could
leave the Steam key for someone
else.
Humble Indie Bundle 2 now
includes Humble Indie Bundle 1
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continued from page 56
those keeping count -- through
PlayStation Network. The update
implements several fixes,
including "improved party
reliability" (when leaving with
party), mute functionality in pre-
game lobbies and kick
functionality in party and private
match lobbies. (The full patch
notes are posted after the break.)
Additionally, Treyarch is
continuing its work to further
improve party reliability, but in
the interim we suggest you try
making new friends. Future
patches may also address the
reported "infinite loading screen"
issue (which definitely sounds
like some shady MK-ULTRA side
effect) and a rare game-freezing
scenario that can be triggered by
"explosions occurring
Obama Signs Repeal of
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' Lauds
Alex
AmidWagner (Politics
applause, criesDaily)
of thanks
and chants of "Yes we can!,"
simultaneously in a concentrated
area" -- see? Didn't everyone say
the authentic Cold War-era ice
bombs would break the game?
In other Black Ops news, mod
tools are in development for the
PC community. So, for real,
someone make that ice bomb!
[Thanks, Jason]
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multiplayer patched again
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OBAMA on Wednesday
59
repealed the U.S. military's "
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Assange's rape charges (grabbing the
third rail)
(Scripting News) one gender doing it to the other.
Submitted at 12/22/2010 7:36:19 AM 7. Let's be smart. What do you
think the chances are that the
On Twitter I see random charges against Assange, coming
messages making broad in the middle of a political
statements about men re the rape shitstorm, from a country whose
charges against Julian Assange. I Prime Minister is closely tied to
think we're going into dangerous the US government, are exactly
territory, and there's a good what they seem to be? Suppose it
chance we're being manipulated, saying. But if you simply flip the were men making charges against
and before it goes too far, I want g e n d e r s , a n d m a k e b r o a d a w o m a n , i n s i m i l a r
to try to moderate it, and talk sweeping negative statements circumstances? Would your
about what we know and what we about women, I guess they bullshit detector be a little more
don't know. wouldn't have any trouble seeing alarmed? It shouldn't be, if you're
1. As far as I know there aren't the sexism. not being sexist.
a n y c h a r g e s a g a i n s t J u l i a n 5. I agree with and support 8. Let's seek balance. I'm not
Assange, in Sweden or elsewhere. feminism. The line I won't cross is going to stand up and say the
2. What I've read in the Guardian condemning men in the cause of charges are bullshit. But I'm not
about the charges sound to me feminism. Nor would I support it going to say they're not. In the
like he might not be a very nice the other way. If you want to US, the country I come from, the
person. But where I come from, speak up for your gender, or my standard is "innocent until proven
that is not a crime -- nor is it in gender -- great! But not if you're guilty." It doesn't say "except if
Sweden, which seems like a fair going to go negative on the other you're a man charged with rape." I
country. guys. like that standard a lot. Why don't
3. Rape is awful. But I think it's 6. One rule I try to remember: we stay there until there's a
almost as awful to falsely accuse We create each other. My mother verdict?
someone of rape, because that's was a woman. So was yours. Your 9. One more thing. This all
going to radically change an father was a man. Mine too. We should be kept separate from the
innocent person's life, for the learned their values, like it or not. work that WikiLeaks is doing.
worse. And it's so easy to do, it's I am who I am not solely because Please.
o n e p e r s o n ' s w o r d a g a i n s t I am a man, but also because I am I closed comments for this
another's. m y m o t h e r ' s s o n , a n d m y thread. I know I'm touching
4. Some people use these issues grandmothers' grandson. And the grabbing the third rail. If you have
as a way of saying sexist things student of all the women teachers something to say about this, put it
about men. General statements I h a d ( m o s t o f t h e m w e r e on your blog or tweet it or tell a
that indict a whole gender, or a women). And I am also the friend. I look for charged issues
big chunk of one (like "men in product of every relationship I've like this one to explore, because
tech," for example). I'm sure they had. It's a big mixed bag of these are the places where the
don't think every man is guilty, genders that form whole people. If greatest growth is available.
and if you stop them and say that, you want to find the cause of
they claim that isn't what they're something, it's never as simple as
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OBAMA
continued from page 58

Don't ask, don't tell" policy,
which for 17 years had banned
gay service members from serving
openly in the armed services.
Proclaiming that the policy "will
strengthen our national security,"
the president vowed that "no
longer will tens of thousands of
Americans in uniform be asked to
live a lie. Or look over their
shoulders in order to serve the
country they love."
Paraphrasing Joint Chiefs of Staff
Adm. Mike Mullen -- a leading
advocate of repeal -- Obama
added, "Our people sacrifice a lot
for their country -- including their
lives. None of them should have
to sacrifice their integrity as well."
Introduced by Vice President Joe
Biden -- who declared today "a
good day. It's a real good day!
This is a long time in coming, but
I'm glad it's here" -- Obama
signed the bill into law in a
ceremony at the Department of
the Interior. Speaking to an
audience of lawmakers and
service members, the president
acknowledged the bipartisan
support for the effort, and singled
out Sens. Susan Collins (R-
Maine), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.),
and Carl Levin (D-Mich.) in
particular for their support of the
legislation.
Acknowledging the prolonged
congressional battle to repeal the
policy, he said, "They held their
shoulders to the wheel in the
Senate," the president said. In the
lower chamber, he thanked Reps.
Susan Davis (D-Calif.), Barney
Frank (D-Mass.), and Patrick
Murphy (D-Pa.) for "keeping up
the fight in the House."
The president also recognized the
efforts of outgoing Speaker of the
House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.),
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-
Md.) and Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid (D-Nev.). He noted
that the law was "the culmination
of two of the most productive
years in Congress" and said it was
due in no small part to their work.
As to the timing on the actual
process of repeal, Obama said he
had "spoken to every one of the
service chiefs and they are all
committed implementing this
change swiftly and efficiently."
He promised, "We are not going
to be dragging our feet to get this
done."
The bill stipulates that DADT
will only be discarded after the
president, the secretary of
defense, and the chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff certify that
changing it will not hurt the
armed services' readiness, morale
or cohesion. After a 60-day
review by Congress, the Pentagon
is to develop procedures for
ending it altogether, a process that
could take months or years to
complete.
Addressing the apprehension that
some detractors of the bill had
expressed regarding the change in
defense policy, the president said
he remained certain that the repeal
would "strengthen our military
readiness." He added, "People
will look back on this moment
and wonder why it was ever a
source of controversy in the first
place."
Obama acknowledged that this
was a moment "two centuries in
the making" and that there would
"never be a full accounting of the
contribution" of gay Americans in
the military, saying, "Their
service has been obscured in
history." But he said that "at every
turn, at every crossroads, we
know that gay Americans fought
just as hard, gave just as much to
protect this nation and the ideals
for which it stands."
To gay service members still
serving in uniform, the president
offered, "Your country needs you,
your country wants you, and we
will be honored to welcome you
into the ranks of the finest
military the world has ever
known." Then, before signing the
bill, he declared, "We are not a
nation that says 'Don't ask, don't
tell.' We are one that says 'Out of
many, one.' "
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Smoked Salmon Pasta Salad

(Simply Recipes) are relatively easy to store. Better house the other day. It must be my smoked salmon do pretty much all
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:55:36 AMyet if it can use up holiday dad's midwestern roots taking the heavy lifting as far as flavor
feasting leftovers. Here is a hold in me. Of all the beautiful goes. There's just enough mayo so
One of the challenges of the simple smoked salmon pasta salad dishes at the table, including roast the salmon sticks to the pasta.
holidays is keeping everyone fed that used up the last of some goose and prime rib, the one I And the celery and bell pepper
when the family comes to town. smoked salmon we had for a kept going back to for seconds provide color, coolness, and
We're always looking for dishes gathering. I take no credit for the was this pasta dish brought by crunch.
that can feed lots of people well, idea; I shameless reproduced the Peg's friend Jackie. So simple, Continue reading "Smoked
had at my friend Peg Poswall's
without a lot of hassle, and that recipe from a lovely pasta salad I but so good. The little bits of Salmon Pasta Salad" »
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host Michael Savage has filed a
lawsuit against his syndicator
Talk Radio Network, claiming
TRN is attempting to force him
into “indentured servitude.”
Savage’s contract with TRN
expires at the end of the year, and
he has received an offer to move
his show to Courtside Radio,
which is headed by Norman
Pattiz, founder of industry giant
Westwood One.
According to court papers, the
proposed Savage network would
have links to the RightNetwork,
an on-demand video service
backed by actor Kelsey Grammer
and sports and media mogul Ed
Snider. Savage’s contract with
Pattiz offers him 1 percent of the
equity in the fledgling network.
TRN has the right to match an
outside offer and has attempted to
do so, but Savage asserts in his
suit filed Monday that TRN’s
proposal falls short of the offer
from Courtside Radio. For
example, he argues that TRN
can’t match the stock equity offer
proffered by RightNetwork.
Savage’s suit filed in federal
court in the Northern District of
California states: “Through the
use of illegal and unenforceable
contract provisions . . . and other
strong-arm tactics designed to
intimidate Dr. Savage, TRN is
attempting to force Dr. Savage
into accepting a sub-standard
agreement containing what can
only be described as an
indentured servitude provision.”
The suit claims the TRN offer
falls short financially and contains
anticompetitive provisions that
limit Savage’s negotiating rights
and other terms not in the
Courtside proposal.
The lawsuit also maintains that
Savage’s show — which currently
reaches about 8 million listeners a
week — would receive “greater
publicity” by moving to
Westwood One’s Courtside
Radio, and charges that TRN is
attempting to “force him into an
arbitration that wholly ignores his
due process rights.”
Savage seeks a declaration that
TRN failed to match Courtside’s
offer and that an arbitration
provisions in his TRN contract is
illegal and unenforceable.
Without a favorable court ruling,
Savage’s suit states, he faces the
“significant risk of losing the
Courtside opportunity, which is
valued at several million dollars,
and being forced to submit into an
illegal arbitration.”
TRN’s President and CEO Mark
Masters said: “Michael’s lawsuit
against us is unjustified and
frivolous” and “we are 100
percent confident that the courts
will justify our position.”
Talkers magazine reports that
Savage is the third-most listened
to radio host in the nation behind
Rush Limbaugh and Sean
Hannity, and his show is currently
aired on more than 300 stations
across the nation.
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Republican presidential candidate
Mike Huckabee chooses first lady
Michelle Obama over his possible
2012 opponent Sarah Palin. The
former governor of Arkansas says
the former Alaska governor was
wrong to mock the first lady’s
fight against childhood o besity in
the most recent episode of “Sarah
Palin’s Alaska,” Politico reports.
“With all due respect to my
colleague and friend Sarah Palin, I healthy eating and exercise since
then.
think she's misunderstood what
Michelle Obama is trying to do,” “Michelle Obama's not trying to
tell people what to eat or not
Huckabee said on the “Curtis
Sliwa Show.” trying to force the government's
desires on people,” he says.
Michelle Obama backs several
moves to encourage children to “She’s stating the obvious, that
we do have an obesity problem in
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2008 Republican vice presidential
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Angels and host of a program on
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for yourself, which you did --
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you're very svelte -- but you also
Republican Sarah Palin maybe fattening desserts. Christmas party probably isn’t the
promoted it in the schools and
doesn't get it when it comes to best strategy for a new senator –
Huckabee said the obesity every town in Arkansas that both
First Lady Michelle Obama's p r o b l e m i s r e a l a n d h a s just ask freshly elected West
the adults and the kids had to live
campaign against childhood ramifications, even for national Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin.
a healthier life and that it had to
obesity. He apologized Tuesday for
security: He noted that "25 start with diet."
Huckabee, a once and possibly percent of the people trying to get missing votes on the repeal of
Listen to his conversation with
future presidential candidate, told into the military today can't do so “don’t ask, don’t tell” and the
Huckabee below, courtesy of
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Joe Manchin Apologizes for Missing
Key Senate Votes, Cites Family
Gathering
Tom Diemer (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 10:12:00 AM
Correspondent West Virginia
freshman Sen. Joe Manchin,
sworn in only five weeks ago, had
to apologize for missing key votes
last weekend on immigration
reform and repeal of the ban on
gays serving openly in the
military. It seems the holidays got
in the way.
Manchin, the former governor of
the Mountain State, took office on
Nov. 15, replacing interim Sen.
Carte Godwin, the lawmaker he
had appointed to fill a vacancy
left by the death of Robert Byrd.
"Let me apologize to anybody and
everybody within our listening
and reading area," Manchin said
Tuesday in a conference call
reported by MetroNews of West
Virginia. "I 'm sorry for missing
the two votes." Manchin said he
was in Pennsylvania celebrating
an early Christmas holiday with
his oldest daughter and a
grandchild because the family
could not be together on Dec. 25.
The Democrat caught flak
immediately from the West
Virginia AFL-CIO, according to
The Hill newspaper. His absence
isn't "just a bad political
maneuver, it is ineffective
representation and leadership,"
said Kenny Perdue, head of the
union's West Virginia chapter.
For the record, Manchin said he
advised Senate leaders in advance
that he would miss the unusual
weekend sessions. He said he
would have voted against the
"Don't ask, don't tell" repeal --
which passed -- and also the
DREAM Act, which would
provide a path to U.S. citizenship
for the offspring of illegal
immigrants. It failed.
Manchin said he won't be missing
any more holiday season votes.
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California Mine Will Reopen
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Japan has already taken measures
to innovate and make deals
around China's monopoly on the
global supply of refined rare earth
elements, and the U.S. is now
doing the same. Rare earths
producer Molycorp has secured
the proper permits and clearances
needed to reopen the Mountain
Pass, Calif., mine that should be
able to cover the current domestic
demand for rare earths once it
reaches full production.
Mountain Pass would be the first
domestic producer of rare earths
in the U.S. in more than a decade,
when cheap Chinese imports
rendered the U.S. market
unprofitable. The 50-acre pit near
Las Vegas is about 500 feet deep
currently, but expansion will push
it down another 1,000 feet in
coming years.
By 2012, Mountain Pass is
projected to be capable of
delivering around 20,000 tons of
rare earth materials per year.
Molycorp says it has already lined
up contracts for a quarter of the
materials it will mine during that
first year of full production, and
already has letters of intent to sell
the rest in U.S., Japanese, and
European markets.
The materials that come out of
Mountain Pass will be used to
make high-strength magnets
necessary for electric vehicle
engines, wind turbines, and a
variety of other high-tech
products. However, the U.S.
possesses neither the technology
nor the licensing to manufacture
the neodymium-iron-boron alloy
necessary for their production. As
such, Molycorp has partnered
with Japanese firm Hitachi Metals
to manufacture the magnets in the
United States.
The development of a domestic
U.S. source of rare earths really
doesn't come as a surprise, though
it does add another wrinkle to the
ongoing rare earhts narrative that
is increasingly seeing the U.S.,
Europe, and Japan aligning
themselves opposite China in a
sometimes quiet, sometimes overt
struggle for these prized raw
materials that are necessary to
manufacture everything from
portable electronics to emerging
green technologies to high-tech
weaponry. Both the Department
of Energy and the Department of
Defense have voiced concerns
about a disruption in supply,
concerns that were exacerbated
this year when China quietly
imposed a brief and unofficial
embargo on exports to Japan.
[ Technology Review]
Merry Christmas From
Antoine Dodson, the “Bed
Intruder” Guy [VIDEO]
Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:06:23 PM
remixed Billboard Hot 100 jam
and his own sex offender app), we
Finally, a Christmas song more
really hope this song doesn’t
disturbing than “Grandma Got
make it into the Christmas canon.
Run Over By A Reindeer.”
Somehow attempted rape doesn’t
Everyone’s favorite witness,
quite spell “Happy Holidays,” if
Antoine Dodson, is out with a
you ask us.
carol titled “Chimney Intruder”
More About: antoine dodson, bed
that reimagines Santa as a rather
intruder, lopez-tonight, music,
sinister criminal.
television, viral video
Dodson, who found a place in the
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While we commend Dodson on
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his ability to make proverbial
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(with his Gregory Brothers-

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Solar Sail Arrays Could
On its Twitter account, the usage record, hosting 25 million Android, iPhone and iPad Be Used to Divert
company acknowledged an issue, people on its service concurrently, Incoming Asteroids by
tweeting: “Some of you may have speaking to both the ubiquity of Skype outage of 2007, which saw Shading Them From the
problems signing in to Skype – the service and the problem the service down for an extended
we’re investigating, and we’re created when it goes down. Let’s period of time. Sun
sorry for the disruption to your just hope this doesn’t rival the Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
S o lTechnology,
New a r SOLAR
Sails C o u l64
page d Divert
Science
Asteroids Like Apophis Olivier
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Boisard via SPACE
Most asteroid diversion schemes
tend to involve some kind of
impact - an explosion, a crash, a
violent shove - but a French
researcher has proposed an
intriguing plan to alter the course
of the asteroid Apophis before it
swings into Earth's neighborhood
in 2036: offer the asteroid some
shade. A fleet of solar sail
spacecraft could shift Aphophis's
course by simply shielding it from
solar radiation, the researcher
says.
The idea is to eliminate the so-
called Yarkovsky effect, a
phenomenon that produces a tiny
amount of thrust on the warm side
of an asteroid (named for Russian
engineer I.O. Yarkovsky). As the
sun heats one side of the rock it
emits more thermal radiation on
its near side, which affects the
asteroids orbit ever so slightly.
Small asteroids emit too little
radiation to matter and large
asteroids are too big for the effect
to move them, but Apophis is in
that medium-sized goldilocks
range that is just right.
A group of solar sailing
spacecraft flying in formation
could get between Apophis and
the sun, blocking solar radiation
and elimination the Yarkovsky
effect, altering Apophis's orbit
significantly over time.
Of course, it's not easy to predict
Apophis's trajectory that far into
the future with absolute certainty,
and there's no guarantee nudging
the asteroid might not make
things worse. And, as critics have
pointed out, if you're going to
launch a mission all the way out
to Apophis you might alter its
orbit just as easily by - that's right
- crashing a spacecraft directly
into it.
Regardless, the strides being
made in solar sail tech are
promising, and the versatile way
they are being employed - even in
theory only - show a lot of
potential for the nascent
technology.
[ SPACE]
GM Is Turning Recycled Deepwater
Horizon Oil Containment Booms
Into New Chevy Volts
Chevy TURNING
Volt, Recycled
pageGM
65

In The Tiniest Receiver Ever, Graphene Can Directly Detect

Radio Signals
Rebecca Boyle (Popular Stretched between two electrodes sheet radio has a special gate
Science - New Technology, and hovering over a third, the design that cancels out the
Science News, The Future graphene sheet works like a parasitic effect.
Now)
trampoline, resonating in response The technique is two orders of
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:05:21 PM to a voltage that changes with magnitude faster than the typical
Nano Radio via arXiv radio frequency signals. The radio signal mixing method. The
A graphene sheet stretched effect can be monitored by researchers were able to read out a
among three electrodes is the m e a s u r i n g t h e c a p a c i t a n c e radio signal of 33.27 MHz, but
tiniest device to directly receive between the sheet and the third they say a smaller, improved
radio signals, researchers say. electrode. device could reach the GHz range.
Nanoscale radio receivers could This is a major advance, The biggest drawback: the nano
be useful for sensing, physics according to Tech Review's arXiv together. This interference drowns bandwidth and makes it less radio works at -321° F, so it will
s t u d i e s a n d r a d i o s i g n a l blog- most nano resonators suffer out the actual radio signals, and effective. But Yuehang Xu and need some tweaks before it can be
processing, which could even from parasitic capacitance, a fixing it requires downmixing the colleagues at Columbia used in communications devices.
make them useful for mobile natural problem when small signals, which limits the radio's University say their graphene [ Technology Review]
phones. circuit parts are squished close
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As if it further needed to drive
home its eco-friendly, anti-oil
message, the Chevy Volt will
soon boast a body made partially
of recycled equipment originally
used in the Gulf oil leak cleanup
efforts. Specifically, GM will use
recycled plastic from oil booms,
which are sort of floating
containment walls meant to keep
oil in one place.
Oil booms are, generally
speaking, tube-shaped cylinders
of netting which contain some
material used to block the spread
of oil. In the case of the Gulf oil
leak, most of that internal material
was polypropylene, an oil-
absorbent plastic--and an awful
lot of it was used, saturated with
oil, and discarded. But GM is
taking a multi-step process to
recycle that plastic.
Heritage Environmental, a waste-
disposal company, collects the
booms, then passes the
polypropylene to Mobile Fluid
Recovery, which spins the
material to separate the plastic
from the oil and wastewater. Then
Lucent Polymers treats the oil-less
plastic, passes it to a GM plant
which creates parts from it, and
then to a GM assembly line.
The final product will make up
about 25% of an internal part used
to direct air around the Volt's
radiators, which sounds kind of
negligible until you realize that
this recycling will save over
100,000 pounds of polypropylene
from ending up in landfills. And,
of course, it's another way for GM
to sort of ironically note how
environmentally-friendly the Volt
is.
[ GizMag via Gizmodo]

Better Breakfast Rolls

(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks) treasured family recipe. However, daily allotment, according to the another 20 calories per portion. tradition.
with the knowledge of just how USDA. Using dark brown sugarwhich has Before | After
The Reader: Angela Thompson, much butter, sugar, and eggs go The Solution: Portion size was an a higher moisture content and Calories per serving
29, Cleveland, Ohio, product into the sweet pastry, Thompson issue here, so our first step was to stronger molasses flavor than light 835 | 275
manager decided she needed an updated increase the recipe’s yield from brown sugaroffers richness and Fat
The Recipe: Pecan Sticky Rolls version to enjoy these special six servings to 15 still generously preserves the stickiness of the 35.6g | 7.6g
The Story: For more than 50 treats while adhering to her sized rolls. Then we used skim sauce. We also used fewer high- Percent of total calories
years, Thompson’s grandmother, c o m m i t m e n t t o a h e a l t h f u l milk instead of whole and one- calorie pecans (and toasted them 38 percent | 25 percent
Philomena Olivo, has delighted l i f e s t y l e . half cup egg substitute in place of to intensify their flavor), cutting MaryAnne Gragg
friends and family with her The Dilemma: The dinner-plate- the egg to shave a few calories another 10 calories per serving. This entry passed through the
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had a private baking lesson with calories and about 36 grams of fat granulated sugar in the filling by Thompson looks forward to
her grandmother during which each, including 18 grams of one-third and the brown sugar in contributing to new memories
Olivo divulged the secrets of this saturated fat, about the maximum the sauce by one-fourth to drop associated with this family
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Michael Strahan
(Mensfitness.com)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 4:00:00 AM
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Former New York Giants
defensive lineman Michael
Strahan spent 15 years chasing
quarterbacks and tackling running
backs, but since he retired
(following the Giants win in
Super Bowl XLII in 2008) he's
had to adjust to a new life as a
broadcaster with the FOX NFL
Sunday crew. That means a whole
new workout routine, a different
meal plan, and a brand new idea
of what being "fit" really means.
How beat up were you physically
after Super Bowl XLII?
When I was in the Super Bowl I
had problems with my back and I
banged my right hip up pretty
good. My shoulders were not
100%. I had achy knees and
elbows to the point where when I
first started working out with my
trainer there would be certain
exercises where I would say 'I'm
not doing that, I can't do that.' Not
that I didn't want to, I just felt like
I couldn't because my body felt so
beat up. Now I'm able to train and
do whatever I need to do.
How do you train now that you're
retired?
Not as heavy and not as much
physical pounding on my joints.
My squats and leg presses now
use a lot more of my own body
weight and focus on range of
motion instead of brute strength.
What's the toughest thing you do
in the gym these days? What
moves do you hate doing?
I hate leg exercises. I hate one-
legged squats. I hate the hurdles
and the split squats. I hate all the
leg exercises. I know they help
me and I'm able to move around
and don't have knee problems and
my hip doesn't hurt anymore but
when my trainer tells me I have to
do them, I almost feel like my
body goes into convulsions.
What would surprise people most
about your new workout routine?
Probably the core stuff, like
doing the one-leg ab crunch on
the medicine ball. You're
basically doing a push-up but
your legs are up on the big rubber
ball and then you take one leg off
the ball and with the other one
you bring your knee up to your
chest. That's something that takes
a lot of core strength.
Let's talk about your diet. What's
a typical breakfast like for you?
I eat three egg whites and three
slices of turkey bacon for
breakfast. Now I eat more smaller
meals instead of just gorging
myself. As an athlete, you're
brought up with that mentality
that you finish everything you
start. If you're going to start a
meal, you're going to finish it
until the plate is clean. I had to
change that mentality to one of
where, 'I eat until I'm full and
leave the rest.'
Do you have any favorite protein
shake recipes?
I'll take two scoops of protein,
some flax seed oil, some
glucosamine and chondroitin
liquid for the joints, bananas,
strawberries, blueberries,
raspberries, a little bit of oatmeal
and every once in a while I'll
throw a scoop of peanut butter in
there too.
Do you miss training the way you
used to train?
I miss the routine. There's
something about the routine of a
professional locker room.
(Vikings TE) Visanthe Shiancoe
was my workout partner every
day. (Former Giants LT) Luke
Petitgout used to workout with us
everyday too. I miss joking
around with the weight coaches. I
miss when the rookies would
come in and you knew what they
were thinking because you were a
rookie once too. I remember the
first time I went into the locker
room and saw Phil Simms and
Lawrence Taylor and how amazed
I was. So when the rookies would
come into the weight room and
see you working out it's like,
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You're out here now with a bunch
of men and you have to step it up
to compete.'
What's your ideal time to train?
If my schedule allows I prefer to
workout in the afternoon. But
with the kids I get it in when I
can. A lot of times I go right after
they go to school, so usually
about 9 a.m. but sometimes it can
be 7 p.m. And when I do FOX
NFL Sunday I normally leave
around 5:30 p.m. and I'll get to the
gym by 6 p.m. and that'll give me
an hour to workout before they
close.
Do you miss the intensity of pro-
level workouts?
Even though the weight I'm
lifting isn't what it was when I
was playing, it's not like I'm not
lifting weights that are heavier
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dear will thank you. gift's finest attributes — a hint ubiquitous. The high Sierra passes
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FOR YOUR BEST BUD

Luke 2:8-11 (12-22-10)

(Verse of the Day) them, "Do not be afraid. I bring great heritage in Israel with considered spiritual. So when God appearance and reputation of a
Submitted at 12/22/2010 2:00:00 AMyou good news of great joy that Abraham, Moses, and David as chose to announce the birth of person colors the way I treat
will be for all the people. Today notable shepherds and God being Jesus to shepherds with his them. But today, I am convicted
And there were shepherds living in the town of David a Savior has identified through Psalm 23 as a contingent of angels he makes his of how much you want everyone
out in the fields nearby, keeping been born to you; he is Christ the great shepherd. But by this time in point clear: Everyone is loved by to know about your grace in
watch over their flocks at night. Lord." Israelite history, they were not God, everyone has access to God, Jesus. Give me a heart to love all
An angel of the Lord appeared to — Luke 2:8-11(NIV) Thoughts highly regarded. They smelled and everyone is desired by God. people and a passion to share your
them, and the glory of the Lord on Today's Verse... Shepherds and like sheep. They spent their time My Prayer... Holy and Almighty grace with them. In the name of
shone around them, and they were the glory of the Lord in the same with sheep. They were not really God, I confess to you that Jesus I pray this. Amen.
terrified. But the angel said to sentence. Shepherds enjoyed a clean and religious enough to be sometimes the outward
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agriculture -- logically, he
asserted, given that 90 percent of
the annual Sierra snowpack would
soon disappear.
#ad#While the state struggles with
flooding and blizzards, Governor
Schwarzenegger is advertising
himself to the Obama
administration as a possible
post–Van Jones green czar, to
regulate energy for the country as
he has done for a now insolvent
California. But then, once global
warming morphed into climate
change, too much rain, snow, and
cold could become as
symptomatic of too much man-
made carbon being released as too
little rain, snow, and cold once
were. Start that engine, and thou
shalt both burn and freeze in hell.
This week Attorney General
Holder was warning about the
threat of terrorism -- but not
terrorism in the usual liberal
Timothy McVeigh, “even
Christians can be terrorists” sort
of gobbledy-gook. Rather, Eric
Holder, as this Christmas’s new
Dick Cheney, is warning about
U.S. citizens who are stealthy
radical Islamists. Holder fears that
they wish to succeed where the
would-be Times Square, subway,
Portland, and Christmas airliner
bombers all failed. He assumes
that the terrorists among us for
some reason did not read the Al-
Arabiya interview, fully
appreciate the Cairo speech, see
the famous bow to the Saudi king,
or hear of administration pressure
on Israel. In short, “All religions
produce terrorists,” is now
followed by “But some religions
produce more terrorists than
others.”
So, gone for the moment at least
are we “cowards” who racially
stereotype, oppose the Ground
Zero mosque in Neanderthal
fashion, and fail to appreciate
Holder’s own commitment to
shutting down Guantanamo and
trying KSM in a New York
federal court. Much like his
colleague Harold Koh (who, as an
Obama State Department justice
official rather than a Yale law
dean, is no longer suing to put an
end to waterboarding at
Guantanamo, but is instead
opposing those who are suing to
stop Predator assassination
missions), Holder in a blink of an
eye went from trashing the Bush-
Cheney anti-terrorism protocols to
sighing that it is almost a matter
of when, not if, home-grown
Islamic radicals will kill lots of
us. Holder’s road to Damascus is
eerily reminiscent of the sudden
conversion in 1938 of British
intellectuals, who, as
Czechoslovakia was swallowed,
abruptly went from 15 years of
trumpeting League of Nations
pacifism to calling for British
military deterrence against
fascism. Unlike Holder, however,
they at least explained why they
had made their about-faces.
To be fair, the Obamaites are
simply channeling their
commander-in-chief, who spent a
near decade, from 2001 to 2009,
pontificating on the illegality or
superfluousness of the Patriot Act,
renditions, tribunals, Predators,
Guantanamo, and overseas wars,
and then as president embraced or
even expanded all of them -- with
not a word of remorse that his
earlier demagoguing might have
done great harm both to the
efficacy of the programs and to
the reputations of those involved
in them, as well as to his
country’s image abroad. I suppose
we are all Orwell’s farm animals
now, mystified but quiet as we
wake to see the commandments
on the barnyard wall crossed out
and written over#.
#page#On the matter of taxes, two
years after borrowing $2 trillion
to expand, stimulate, change, and
reset the economy, and after
talking of limb-lopping doctors,
fat-cat bankers, junketeering
CEOs on their way to Vegas and
the Super Bowl, and how “at a
certain point you’ve made enough
money,” Obama has now
embraced the abhorrent Bush-era
tax rates, and he is courting
CEOs. The latter are apparently
sitting catatonic on the sidelines,
with hundreds of billions in cash
but unwilling to expand
operations for fear that Obama
will adopt EU-like socialism. At
exactly what point did the
caterpillar of massive borrowing
and government spending emerge
from his chrysalis as the butterfly
of not raising taxes on anyone in a
recession and of balancing
budgets? At 8, 9, or 10 percent
unemployment? At 50, 48, or 43
percent approval? Or at the idea
of 30, 40, 50, or 63 lost House
seats?
#ad#Obama reset-button
diplomacy rested on two
assumptions: (1) all problems
abroad either started with or failed
to transcend George W. Bush; and
(2) multicultural non-
judgmentalism must replace neo-
conservative promotion of human
rights across cultures and nations.
Now? I don’t think anyone argues
that China, Russia, or Venezuela
has become a little softer on
dissidents, or that North Korea is
a little more quiet, or that Iran is a
little less likely to press ahead
with its nuclear proliferation, or
that Japan, Britain, or Eastern
Europe is a little more confident
in American leadership, or that
Iraq is lost or Afghanistan saved
because we put “our eye back on
the ball.” As a result, in six
months, U.S foreign policy will
probably be indistinguishable
from that of the second George
W. Bush term -- even as we
continue to hear sermons about
bold new multicultural initiatives
delivered in Nobel-laureate
rhetoric. When did “Bush did it”
become “And we did too!”?
When one loses one’s faith, the
aftermath can be startling. As gas
hits $3 a gallon at Christmas, with
fears of $4 by summer-vacation
time, expect suddenly to hear of
plans to tap more natural gas,
build more nuclear reactors, and
lift the suppression of offshore
drilling -- all beneath a loudly
trumpeted but very thin wind and
solar veneer. What are we to
expect next -- a few windmills
fastened atop a drilling rig in the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,
some solar panels on the domes of
new nuclear-power plants, a
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supercharger as an upgrade on the
Chevy Volt?
An unrepresentative but quite
influential intellectual elite -- in
the media, the universities, the
arts, and government -- is vested
in Barack Obama, in his
unpopular doctrinaire agenda, but
even more so in the symbolism of
his person. The result is
paradoxical. For his political
survival, Obama now accepts that
his faith-based ideas about the
environment, radical Islam, taxes,
stimulus, the economy, national
security, and foreign policy are
not supported by any evidence in
the real world. Yet he knows as
well that the more he must
become empirical, the more he
must assure his flock of believers
outside the farmhouse window
that he still walks on four rather
than two legs.
The wonder is not that politicians
change as politics dictate, but that
the most vehement leftism now
accepts nonchalantly what it not
long ago so ardently demonized.
The oddity is not that Obama
must back up after driving his
country into a brick wall at the
end of a dead-end street, but that
as he backs up, turns around, and
heads in the other direction, he
can still be praised as if he had
dematerialized and gone ahead
right on through the wall.
— NRO contributor Victor Davis
Hanson is a senior fellow at the
Hoover Institution, the editor of
Makers of Ancient Strategy: From
the Persian Wars to the Fall of
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America At Risk — The War With No Name
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Submitted at 12/21/2010 10:42:19 PM
[Editor's note: Below is the
transcript -- and video -- of Newt
and Callista Gingrich discussing
their new film at David
Horowitz's Restoration Weekend
in Palm Beach, Nov. 18-21.]
David Horowitz: This
presentation is going to be made
by Newt and his wife, Callista,
who is his partner now in the
wonderful films that they’re
producing and the programs
they’re putting on.
But I wanted to say a word about
Newt to begin this. As you all
know, I’m always talking about
that Republicans and Democrats
are not the same people with
different views of issues. They’re
different kinds of people.
Republicans learn their politics in
the Boy Scouts and Rotary Clubs
and Chambers of Commerce.
And they go to Washington to fix
government. Democrats learn
their politics in socialist children’s
camps, socialist organizations,
trade unions, which is the same
thing; and apocalyptic crusades to
save the environment.
For Democrats, politics is a
mission to change the world. And
when they lose, it’s like their lives
are over unless they become
college presidents and
indoctrinate students and recruit
them. Whereas for Republicans
it’s a business activity.
My benighted state of California,
which has gone to the dark side
and stayed there for a long time
— we had a a Republican senator,
Pete Wilson. He became
governor. He appointed a
businessman to the Senate seat —
he lost it. We now have Boxer
and Feinstein as a result. We
don’t have a statewide seat.
We just lost a gubernatorial
election. How? Well, the
Democrats ran somebody who got
into politics when he began to
walk. He grew up in a household
of a Democratic governor. Even
his sister ran for governor. He ran
for governor [in 1976]; he won.
Then he became Chairman of the
Democratic Party, then he became
mayor of Oakland. We ran a
business executive who had never
voted, until she ran for
governorship.
I’ve known Newt for 20 years.
And actually, it’s Newt who
sought me out because Peter
Collier and I had written a book
called “Destructive Generation.”
Newt understood politics the way
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and the good of the cause. But
Newt didn’t go over to K Street
and start a whole new business
career. He stayed in the battle. I
can’t keep track of all the things
that he’s done, but he’s formed
this organization, American
Solutions. You see him, he has
tried to do all the jobs that are
necessary to defend this country
and win it back. The policy — he
has policies, he’s figured out the
very complex problems that we
face. But he stayed in the battle.
This is the most brilliant
presenter of our case. You see
him practically every night on
television. He is the most
visionary architect of the
conservative future. And he is the
most dedicated and courageous
battler in the cause of freedom.
I am just privileged to have Newt
here and Callista.
Callista Gingrich: Thank you.
Thank you. Good afternoon and
welcome. Thank you for coming
to our screening of “America At
Risk — The War With No
Name.”
the Democrats do — as a war Newt and I would like to thank
conducted by other means. our producer, David Bossie; and
We had a sit-down dinner with our Director, Kevin Knoblock; as
him. He didn’t tell me at the time well as the entire team at Citizens
that he was planning to take over United, with whom we produced
the House and start, really, the this film.
second wave of conservatism. “America At Risk” vividly reveals
This is no longer the party of Bob the truth about the dangers facing
Michaels, and Newt is responsible our country today, nine years after
for that. the attacks on 9/11. The stories
When Newt lost five seats, only shared by the victims’ families are
five seats, he resigned as Speaker, heart-wrenching and highlight the
as leader of the congressional
party, for the good of the party AMERICA page 75
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The Would-be GOP Kings
Submitted at 12/21/2010 11:00:00 PM
With a heavy heart, I winnow the
field down for you.
W ho among us can contain their
excitement? The GOP presidential
-primary season has begun!
By my count, there are 24 people
who are beneficiaries of nontrivial
presidential buzz: Sarah Palin,
Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich,
John Thune, Tim Pawlenty, Mitch
Daniels, Mike Pence, Rick
Santorum, Haley Barbour, Mike
Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Paul
Ryan, David Petraeus, Ron Paul,
Jeb Bush, John Bolton, Bob
McDonnell, Jim DeMint, Chris
Christie, Herman Cain, Gary
Johnson, Judd Gregg, Marco
Rubio, and Rick Perry.
With a heavy heart, I take it upon
myself to winnow the field down
for you.
Half of these people are almost
surely not running.
#ad#Earlier this year, there was a
lot of talk about Petraeus running.
But then the Army general gave a
lot of dull, substantive speeches in
which he didn’t say anything
about ethanol or the Hawkeye
State’s divine right to hold the
first-in-the-nation contest. Seems
like he prefers Kandahar to Ames.
Rubio, Ryan, and Jindal,
respectively the incoming junior
senator from Florida, the
incoming chairman of the House
Budget Committee, and the
governor of Louisiana, are all
wisely sitting out the presidential
contest to concentrate on their to-
do lists, though the three golden
boys of the GOP are ripe vice-
presidential picks.
Former Florida governor Jeb
Bush and the current governors of
New Jersey, Virginia, and Texas -
- Christie, McDonnell, and Perry -
- probably aren’t running, though
they all enjoy deep reservoirs of
admiration on the right,
particularly Christie, whose
YouTube videos are passed
around like samizdat. Also,
there’s growing buzz that
Huckabee, the former Arkansas
governor and a fierce defender of
his top-tier contender status, may
not run because he’s got a big
new contract with Fox News in
the works.
DeMint, the South Carolina
senator and the Tea Party’s man
on the inside, has said he’s not
running but acts as if he might be.
Meanwhile, Gregg, New
Hampshire’s retiring senator, acts
likes he’s not running but hasn’t
ruled it out. (If he did run as New
Hampshire’s favorite son, it
would complicate things for
Romney.) Pence, the Indiana
representative, definitely wants to
run but now may switch to the
Indiana governorship instead.
Barbour, perhaps the sharpest
political operator with a natural
Southern constituency in a
Southern-dominated party, could
be a front-runner (and a hilarious
and adept debate opponent for
Obama), but his plans remain
murky.
That leaves eleven who are
probably, but not definitely,
running: Romney, Gingrich,
Palin, Pawlenty, Santorum,
Bolton, Daniels, Cain, Johnson,
Paul, and Thune.
Five of are unlikely to last long
as serious contenders, not least
because talk-show and grass-roots
popularity doesn’t necessarily win
in the “money primary.”
Paul’s issues -- gutting the
Federal Reserve, shrinking
government, foreign-policy
noninterventionism, drug
legalization -- are the ripest
they’ve ever been in the GOP.
But, at 75, that’s just about the
only way “ripe” and “Ron Paul”
can be used together in a
sentence.
Thune will probably discover
early that his Senate colleagues’
telling him to run isn’t necessarily
a compliment. In many respects,
Thune is the GOP version of John
Kerry: a candidate with very
presidential hair who seems
“electable” despite not having
done much of anything.
Bolton, the famously
mustachioed and gruff former
U.N. ambassador (like Gingrich, a
colleague of mine at the American
Enterprise Institute, where I’m a
visiting fellow), is a tireless and
brilliant guy, but he’s never run
for federal office. Presumably he
wants to highlight national-
security issues and, I hope, duke it
out with Ron Paul.
#page#Cain, the former chief
executive of Godfather’s Pizza, is
a charismatic superstar on the Tea
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Rome, and the author of The
Party circuit and in many rank- Father of Us All: War and
and-file conservative circles. An History, Ancient and Modern.
African-American who likes to Victor Davis Hanson
joke about his “dark-horse
candidacy,” he’s a lot more than
merely a sane Alan Keyes. But
it’s hard to imagine him
amounting to more than an
exciting also-ran.
Johnson, the former New Mexico
governor and a keynoter at last
weekend’s KushCon II, will focus
attention on pot legalization.
Meanwhile, Santorum, a former
senator, will focus attention on
Rick Santorum.
#ad#That leaves us with a top tier
of five front-runners: Romney,
Palin, Gingrich, Pawlenty, and
Daniels. Romney is the
organizational front-runner;
Daniels is the first pick of wonks
and D. C. eggheads; Palin
probably has the most devoted
following among actual voters;
Gingrich will dominate the
debates; and Pawlenty (vying with Taking Exception
Daniels) is the least disliked.
And, of course, all of this is to American
subject to change.
(Full disclosure: Jessica Gavora, Exceptionalism
an author and speechwriter, not to David Azerrad (The Foundry:
mention my wife, has worked Conservative Policy News.)
with Gingrich and, more recently, Submitted at 12/22/2010 10:11:38 AM
Palin. The views expressed here
are my own.) Posted December 22nd, 2010 at
--- Jonah Goldberg is editor-at- 11:11am in First Principles Print
large of National Review Online This Post
and a visiting fellow at the American exceptionalism is
American Enterprise Institute. © currently at the heart of a great
2010 Tribune Media Services, debate over the country’s future
Inc. Jonah Goldberg and, according to one presidential
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Internet Access Is Not a Civil Right
Submitted at 12/21/2010 11:00:14 PM
Net neturality is the Obamacare
of the Web.
W hen bureaucrats talk about
increasing our “access” to X, Y,
or Z, what they’re really talking
about is increasing their control
over our lives. As it is with the
government health-care takeover,
so it is with the newly approved
government plan to “increase”
Internet “access.” Call it Webcare.
By a vote of 3–2, the Federal
Communications Commission on
Tuesday adopted a controversial
scheme to ensure “net neutrality”
by turning unaccountable
Democratic appointees into
meddling online traffic cops. The
panel will devise convoluted rules
governing Internet-service
providers, bandwidth use, content,
prices, and even disclosure details
on Internet speeds. The
“neutrality” is brazenly
undermined by preferential
treatment toward wireless
broadband networks. Moreover,
the FCC’s scheme is widely
opposed by Congress -- and has
already been rejected once in the
courts. Demonized industry critics
have warned that the regulations
will stifle innovation and result in
less access, not more.
#ad#Sound familiar? The parallels
with health care are striking. The
architects of Obamacare promised
to provide Americans more access
to health insurance -- and cast
their agenda as a fundamental
universal entitlement.
In fact, it was a pretext for
creating a gargantuan federal
bureaucracy with the power to
tax, redistribute, and regulate the
private health-insurance market to
death -- and replace it with a
centrally planned government
system overseen by politically
driven code enforcers dictating
everything from annual coverage
limits to administrative
expenditures to the makeup of the
medical workforce. The costly,
onerous, and selectively applied
law has resulted in less access, not
more.
Undaunted, promoters of Obama
FCC chairman Julius
Genachowski’s “open Internet”
plan have couched their online
power grab in the rhetoric of civil
rights. On Monday, FCC
commissioner Michael Copps
proclaimed: “Universal access to
broadband needs to be seen as a
civil right . . . [though] not many
people have talked about it that
way.” Opposing the government
Internet takeover blueprint, in
other words, is tantamount to
supporting segregation. Cunning
propaganda, that.
“Broadband is becoming a basic
necessity,” civil-rights activist
Benjamin Hooks added. And
earlier this month, fellow FCC
panelist Mignon Clyburn,
daughter of Congressional Black
Caucus leader and number three
House Democrat James Clyburn
of South Carolina, declared that
free (read: taxpayer-subsidized)
access to the Internet is not only a
civil right for every “nappy-
headed child” in America, but is
essential to their self-esteem.
Every minority child, she said,
“deserves to be not only
connected, but to be proud of who
he or she is.”
Calling them “nappy-headed” is a
rather questionable way of
boosting their pride, but never
mind that.
Face it: A high-speed connection
is no more an essential civil right
than 3G cell-phone service or a
Netflix account. Increasing
competition and restoring
academic excellence in abysmal
public schools is far more of an
imperative to minority children
than handing them iPads. Once
again, Democrats are using
children as human shields to
provide useful cover for not-so-
noble political goals.
The “net neutrality” mob --
funded by billionaire George
Soros and other left-wing think
tanks and nonprofits -- has openly
advertised its radical, speech-
squelching agenda in its crusade
for “media justice.” Social justice
is the redistribution of wealth and
economic “rights.” Media justice
is the redistribution of free speech
and other First Amendment rights.
The meetings of the universal-
broadband set are littered with
Marxist-tinged rants about
“disenfranchisement” and
“empowerment.” They’ve
targeted conservative opponents
on talk radio, cable TV, and the
Internet as purveyors of “hate”
who need to be managed or
censored. Democratic FCC
panelists have dutifully echoed
their concerns about concentration
of corporate media power.
As the Ford Foundation–funded
Media Justice Fund, which
lobbied for universal broadband,
put it: This is a movement
“grounded in the belief that social
and economic justice will not be
realized without the equitable
redistribution and control of
media and communication
technologies.”
For progressives who cloak their
ambitions in the mantle of
“fairness,” it’s all about control.
It’s always about control.
--- Michelle Malkin is the author
of Culture of Corruption: Obama
and His Team of Tax Cheats,
Crooks & Cronies. © 2010
Creators Syndicate, Inc. Michelle
Malkin
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hopeful at least, will be “one of
the two or three deciding issues in
2012.” USA Today devoted its
cover story yesterday to the storm
of controversy that President
Obama’s off-the-cuff remarks on
the subject in Strasbourg last year
continue to generate. According
to a Gallup poll commissioned by
USA Today for the story, three
quarters of Americans fear that
the country is at risk of losing its
unique character.
Though the phrase “American
exceptionalism” does get tossed
around a lot, confusion reigns
over its actual meaning. Before
deciding whether American
exceptionalism is a good or bad
thing, whether it’s threatened or
not and whether the President
actually embraces it, shouldn’t we
first figure out what it actually
means?
Does it mean, as the USA Today/
Gallup poll asked, that America
“has a unique character that
makes it the greatest country in
the world?” Or does it only
indicate that “America has a
special place and role in the
world,” as Mitt Romney writes in
No Apology: The Case for
American Greatness?
Is it nothing more than a fancy
way to speak of patriotism, as
President Obama’s remarks in
Starsbourg suggest, suspecting as
he does that all people belive in
the exceptionalism of their
country? Or is it in fact a form of
jingoism, anchored in what The
Daily Beast’s Peter Beinart calls
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Implementing Repeal
Submitted at 12/22/2010 3:00:17 AM
differently. And this is the great allowed for the most part to serve would have a negative impact on
danger: that the repeal will be without interference. unit effectiveness.
Lifting “don’t ask” should be a expedited for political reasons no This will change once the repeal Perhaps the best we can hope for
step-by-step process. matter the impact on the military. is put in place, as outside groups is that implementation will be
N ow that Congress has decided The Pentagon report on the issue with a broader homosexual “staggered,” starting with the
to allow homosexuals to serve acknowledges that lifting the ban agenda are thrown into the mix. support establishments (where
openly in the armed forces, the will seriously and adversely affect The irony is that this agenda will unit cohesion is less important)
military faces the real challenge: the health and effectiveness of the be pursued at the expense of and leaving combat units for last.
Fewer Teen Moms but
implementation. U.S. military. To begin with, currently serving homosexuals, This would be in line with the More Babies Born to
The new policy will be put in lifting the ban will lead to who are more concerned about practice of other countries that Single Moms Than Ever
place when the president, the i n c r e a s e d a d m i n i s t r a t i v e serving their country than permit military service by open
secretary of defense, and the nightmares driven by outside validating a homosexual homosexuals. Rachel Sheffield (The Foundry:
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of political groups with goals that Conservative Policy News.)
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it can be done in such a way as to It is true that the Pentagon has the key to “overcoming imperative” of the U.S. military --
minimize any adverse impact on already addressed some of the resistance” is “training and fighting and winning the nation’s Posted December 22nd, 2010 at
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Admiral Mullen, chairman of the subordinate relations between e.g., sexual harassment and unit effectiveness, and readiness rates, stating:
JCS, has been pushing for repeal men and women, will apply to “diversity.” Once homosexuals of the force. Staggering As the nation continued to
for some time (indeed, he started homosexual relations as well; become a favored group, things implementation is a way to struggle in the recession in 2009,
before consulting with the service public displays of affection while will only get worse. The Marines minimize the adverse the rate at which U.S. women are
chiefs). in uniform are not permitted; no and the Army will receive consequences of Congress’s having babies continued to fall,
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readiness and effectiveness, and The fact is that homosexuals have combat, are the most “resistant” (FPRI). His book, US Civil- rate is good and well, such news
he has indicated that it could be always served honorably in the of all. Indeed, the report reveals Military relations After 9/11: seems to portray the idea that
some time before he certifies the military, and the “don’t ask, don’t that 45 percent of Army troops Renegotiating the Civil-Military single motherhood in the United
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Molly Norris Day
Jamie Glazov (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 12/21/2010 10:40:14 PM
Frontpage Interview’s guest
today is Karen Lugo, a professor
at Chapman College, Chapman
University School of Law.
FP: Karen Lugo, welcome to
Frontpage Interview.
Tell us about who Molly Norris
is and why you are promoting the
idea of a Molly Norris Day.
Lugo: Thanks Jamie.
I think that Molly Norris is the
first high-value casualty in the
campaign to Islamify America.
And, we let them take her down
without a whimper. Molly is the
woman who off-handedly
suggested that there be an
“Everybody Draw Mohammad
Cartoon Day.” She was surprised
by the reaction as the idea caught
on — worldwide. Pages devoted
to the campaign popped up on
Facebook and the Mohammad
depictions multiplied. Evidently,
westerners worldwide were quite
anxious to rebel against the chill
on speech accepted by publishers
— and the project took on a life of
its own. I posted several articles
that chronicled the raging success
of the idea, and my Facebook
page was shut down for half of
the “cartoon day.” Seems that the
Islamist threats against Facebook
were effective.
Ultimately, we are told that a
fatwa was issued against Molly
Norris and the FBI notified her
that they could not protect her. So,
she was instructed according to
press reports to “go ghost.” Molly
Norris is gone; same as dead. She
is no longer with us. There is a
talented cartoonist somewhere
with a new name, new home, new
community and new identity —
but her name is no longer Molly
Norris and she is totally cut off
from the life she knew. As we all
know, ghosts are supposed to pose
no threats to cultural stability and
Islamist sensibilities. But, I say —
not so fast! Molly must live as
inspiration in our cause to never
accommodate threats of retaliation
for exercising our fundamental
liberties. She should be named the
patron saint of Americans who
refuse to sacrifice free speech and
expression on the altar of political
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correctness.
FP: Why did our society let
Islamists take Molly Norris down
without a whimper? What has
paralyzed us?
Lugo: Like the parable of the
frog who is boiled to death by
incremental warming of the water,
our speech rights have been
chilled one ice cube at a time. We
now check our own speech; from
fear both of social condemnation
and Islamist reprisal. With every
act of self-censorship, we
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among Hispanics and African
Americans ( 50 and 70 percent,
respectively).
How can this be if teen moms are
fewer in number? Because the
large majority of single moms are
well beyond their high school
years. In reality, high-school-age
girls are responsible for fewer
than 10 percent of births
occurring to single mothers, while
women between 18 and 29 years
of age are responsible for roughly
75 percent of out-of-wedlock
births.
Yet most of the talk heard from
policymakers regarding this
matter centers around the need to
throw increasing amounts of
money at teen pregnancy
prevention programs, mostly
those that get birth control into the
hands of high school students.
While teenage birth is a modest
problem, the current out-of-
wedlock birthrate among women
in their 20s is a catastrophe for
mothers, children, and society.
Single parenthood and out-of-
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powerful human impact that
radical Islamism has had on our
country. Unfortunately, radical
Islamism continues to threaten
America, as proven by the
Christmas Day bomber in Detroit,
the massacre at Fort Hood, and
the car bomber in Times Square.
We made this movie because we
believe America is at risk. And
the dangers facing our country
today are real and growing. It is
clear that the freedoms we cherish
wedlock childbearing are the
predominant cause of child
poverty in the U.S. today. Data
clearly show that children raised
by single mothers are more than
five times more likely to be poor
than are children raised by
married mothers with the same
education level.
And access to birth control is not
to blame. Research shows that
single low-income mothers do not
report a lack of access to birth
control as the reason for having a
baby. They become pregnant
because they want to have a baby.
Unfortunately, marriage has
become all but obsolete in low-
income communities. Kathryn
Edin and Maria Kefalas’s research
on low-income communities
clearly paints the picture: Women
in low-income communities
desire to have children and do so,
yet fathers quickly drop out of the
picture. To these women and men,
marriage is regarded as a middle-
class institution, something to
enter into only when a couple has
are at stake. Yet today,
Washington refuses to tell the
truth about the war we’re fighting.
According to experts, many of
whom you’ll see in the film this
afternoon, we are at war with an
enemy that the current
administration refuses to identify
and does not understand. If we
can’t understand and accurately
describe our enemies, how can we
develop a strategy to defeat
them? Only by being honest
made it financially and proven
that their relationship will last. Of
course, having a baby as a low-
educated, single woman is more
likely to lead to a life of poverty
and welfare dependency than to
reaching any level of affluence
and building a stable family.
Unfortunately, recent research
shows that this decline in
marriage, as well as the increase
in children born outside of
marriage, is now moving into
middle America.
If the United States is really
interested in decreasing the out-of
-wedlock birthrate instead of
continuing to pretend that teen
pregnancy is responsible for this
problem, we must take steps to
support marriage in low-income
communities. First, policymakers
can start by eliminating policies
that penalize marriage. Also, the
U.S. should launch a campaign to
promote the benefits of marriage
in low-income communities.
Furthermore, marriage education
for low-income adults and high
about our enemies in this war can
America summon the clarity and
courage to win.
We are long overdue for a serious
global strategy in fighting
terrorism and the ideology behind
it. We must have the courage to
tell the truth and to act on that
truth. “America At Risk” is
designed to begin an important
and necessary dialogue about the
threats we face today, in an effort
to preserve a safe, free and
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school students should be put into
place to help couples learn the
skills to sustaining a healthy
marriage.
Fortunately, there is still hope for
American families, but if the
United States fails to act soon, the
ill consequences of declining
marriage rates and increasing
single-motherhood will only
continue its upward climb,
2010 Census Shows
leading to increased financial Folks Flocking to
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taxpayer and, more tragically, to a
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prosperous America. want to recognize Lauren
Thank you, and God bless. Fleming, who’s a key part of the
Newt Gingrich: Let me, first of Citizens United team. And we’re
all, say that after David was done thrilled that she’s here with us
with that rather over-the-top today and that she represents the
introduction, I began getting entire team that David Bossie has
excited about hearing from the assembled.
person. And Callista leaned over
to remind me it was me and not to
get too excited. But it was a very
generous introduction.
I also want to take just one
moment — Callista and I both
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“the lunatic notion that America is
the only truly free and succesful
country in the world” and what
Politico’s Michael Kinsley
dismisses as the “theory that
Americans are better than
everybody else”?
Let’s start with what everyone
can agree about: America does
stand out from other countries—in
particular other Western
countries—on a wide array of
measures. America’s economic
might and military capabilities are
unrivaled. Americans also give
more to charity than anyone else
and vote more frequently than
anyone else (there are, after all,
more offices open to election than
anywhere else in the world).
Comparative surveys also reveal
that Americans are more religious
than citizens of other advanced
democracies. They also have
more faith than anyone else in the
the power of individuals to shape
their own lives through hard
work.
Since the numbers don’t lie,
what’s all the big fuss about then?
America’s number one in
philanthropy, but Japan has the
longest life expectancy and
Luxembourg the highest per
capita GDP. Aren’t we all
statistically exceptional in one
way or another?
To really understand what sets
America apart, we need to go
beyond numbers to examine the
heart and soul of the nation: the
ideas of the Declaration of
Independence. Unlike other
nations that derive their meaning
and purpose from some unifying
quality—an ethnic character, a
common religion, a shared
history, an ancestral
land—America is a country
dedicated to to the universal ideas
of equality and liberty. The truths
we hold to be self-evident apply
to all men—not just all
Americans.
As G.K. Chesteron noted:
“America is the only nation in the
world that is founded on a creed.”
As such, there is an American
Dream—but no French, Greek or
Australian Dreams.
In the most fundamental sense,
America is an exceptional nation
not because of what it does—but
because of what it believes.
This understanding of American
exceptionalism in no way implies
that America has not often fallen
short of—and at times even
betrayed—these ideals. Nor does
it imply that Americans are better
than everyone else and are
therefore somehow exempt from
whatever rules may apply to
others. As to whether it makes
America “the greatest country in
the world,” as the USA Today/
Gallup poll asked, that depends on
how you define greatness and is
really a separate question
altogether.
American’s dedication to the
permanent truths expressed in the
Declaration of Independence does
however mean that it has a special
role to play in the world. America
has a responsibility to uphold
freedom and the cause of liberty
both at home and abroad.
America then, really is different.
Not just in the way that all
countries are different, Mr.
President, but different in a
different sort of way, so to speak.
Exceptionally different, shall we
say?
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diminish the potency of our most
effective weapon in the war
against radical Islam: forthright
and frank speech.
Our expressive rights, whether
drawing cartoons or publicly
declaring that shariah law is on a
collision course with our
Constitution, are the most
powerful tools we have to expose
the false claims perpetrated by
Wahhabists among us. Our
cherished constitutional principles
do not afford us many legal
methods to deal with a subversive
element that seeks to advance a
stealth agenda. But ridicule and
satire do provide the means to
expose the consequences of
piecemeal accommodation of this
aggressive socio-political belief
system. This is not about hate or
hostility but is about provoking a
long overdue debate.
This could-be-fatal tendency to
self-censorship is in full
manifestation on our college
campuses. As an appointee to the
California Advisory Committee to
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the U.S. Civil Rights
Commission, I recently
participated in a hearing on
California state university campus
speech rights. After listening to
“the powers” from key
administration staff, it was clear
that students are informed that the
right of one to “be free from
harassment” is equal to the other’s
right to “speak freely.” In other
words, the expressive rights
enshrined in our Constitution have
now been formally subjected to
what is considered by our courts
to be the Heckler’s Veto: a group
complains that government should
silence or restrict the speech of
one group so as to avoid
offending the other group. This
equal balancing of speech rights
and group feelings results in free
speech being held hostage to the
most vocal whiners among us.
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that embrace conservative
principles of governance are
growing, while those states that
stubbornly cling to progressive
policies are bleeding citizens, jobs
and influence. People are flocking
to states in the South and West
that offer low taxes and reject
mandatory collective bargaining.
The population increase in states
governed by conservative
principles has two components:
internal migration and
immigration. In the first case,
American citizens continue to
relocate into states where
government exerts a light hand. In
the latter, new immigrants
naturally flock to the states where
economic opportunities are the
brightest. Either way, the 2010
census provides a ringing
endorsement for the kind of free
market, limited government
principles that the electorate so
strongly supported in the last
election.
The big winner was Texas, which
saw its population swell by
twenty-one percent over the last
decade and which will gain four
seats in the House of
Representatives as a result. As a
“Right to Work” state and one
that imposes no state income tax,
Texas continues to serve as a
model of free market driven
prosperity, despite the long
recession. Last year the Lone Star
state added 129,000 jobs.
Compare that to California, which
lost 112,000 jobs in the same time
frame. Then, consider another
point of contrast: state and local
government spending in Texas
has held steady at about eighteen
percent of its private GDP, while
state and local government
spending in California ballooned
from nineteen percent in 1987 to
over twenty-six percent today.
According to Americans for Tax
Reform the states that will gain
seats in reapportionment have an
average top individual state
income tax rate of 2.8 percent,
while those states that will lose
seats have an average top rate of
6.05 percent. Almost 90 percent
of winning states have Right to
Work laws in place, while only 20
percent of losing states allow
workers to opt-out of paying
union dues. The net effect is
obvious. States that offer lower
taxes and that refuse to pay
homage to Big Labor attract
employers, who in turn attract
employees. People flock to cities
where jobs are plentiful, whether
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those people happen to be new
immigrants or whether their
families have lived in America for
generations. The 2010 census
makes it very clear that such cities
are located within states that still
believe in the American Dream.
Ohio and New York will lose two
seats in the House, while Illinois,
Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Missouri, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Louisiana will
each lose one. Of that group, only
Louisiana is a reliably red state,
and its population decrease is
attributable to the exodus that
occurred after Hurricane Katrina
wreaked her havoc, rather than the Google Spaces shows us
way the state is governed. In
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Environmentalists New Plan Same as Old Plan:
Higher Energy Costs, Fewer Jobs
Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:00:32 AM
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12:00pm in Energy and
Environment Print This Post
The Washington Post‘s Juliet
Eilperin reported yesterday that
“U.S. environmentalists are
engaged in their most profound
bout of soul-searching in more
than a decade” and are planning to
“redirect strategies” in the coming
year. Faced with the failure of cap
and trade and the defeat of “many
of their political allies on both the
state and federal level” the
enviros are shifting focus away
from “the toxic partisanship of
Washington” and back to “the
grass roots.” And just what type
of grass roots activism will the
left be pursuing at the local level?
Eilperin reports:
The Sierra Club, meanwhile, is
bolstering its long-standing
campaign to block the
construction of power plants
across the country, assembling a
team of 100 full-time employees
to focus on the issue in 45 states.
Our national unemployment rate
is 9.8% and the Sierra Club is
investing their resources in
blocking new power plan
construction. The Sierra Club is
blocking not only the jobs needed
to build power plants, but they are
also ensuring hiring energy costs
for the entire economy. No
wonder “many of their political
allies on both the state and federal
level” got shellacked at the polls
last month.
But really, this strategy is no
different than the one they
pursued in Washington over the
2035
2) Single-year GDP losses
reaching $400 billion by 2025 and
will exceeding $700 billion by
2035;
3) 90% higher household electric
rates and 58% higher gas prices
According to the CDA, a
renewable electricity standard
would:
1) Raise electricity prices by 36
percent for households and 60
percent for industry;
2) Cut national income (GDP) by
$5.2 trillion between 2012 and
2035;
3) Cut national income by $2,400
past two years. Both cap and trade per year for a family of four;
and renewable energy standards, 4) Reduce employment by more
the two biggest environmentalist than 1,000,000 jobs; and
pushes on Capitol Hill, are 5) Add more than $10,000 to a
premised on the same idea: family of four’s share of the
decreasing carbon emissions by national debt by 2035.
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How Islamic
Supremacism Is
Overwhelming
Democracy
Robert Spencer (FrontPage
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Submitted at 12/21/2010 10:35:55 PM
After 9/11, you may recall, the
United States was going to bring
democracy to the Islamic world.
Nine years later, we have Sharia
Constitutions in both Iraq and
Afghanistan. A Shi’ite client of
the Iranian mullahs rules shakily
in Iraq, while in Afghanistan the
U.S.-backed president is
increasingly hostile to America
and even threatens to join the
Taliban that he was supposed to
be fighting against.
But that isn’t even the worst of it.
Paradoxically, instead of bringing
democracy to the Islamic world,
the years since 9/11 have seen
only success after success in
Islamic supremacist efforts to
undermine democracy in the
West. Bending over backwards
not to appear “anti-Muslim” in
their anti-terror efforts, the U.S.
and Western Europe have allowed
in large numbers of Muslim
immigrants who hold to a
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radically undemocratic political
ideology, one that is rooted in
Islamic texts and teachings and
thus is not susceptible to
negotiation, compromise, or the
gentle pressure of “assimilation.”
It has all happened quite quickly,
and yet gradually enough to have
generally escaped the notice of
those who have been living
through it. Nonetheless, life in
Western societies has already
been utterly transformed, and
more changes – for the worse –
are certain to come. In the elegiac,
insightful and sweeping new book
Radical State: How Jihad Is
Winning Over Democracy In the
West, the American expatriate
Abigail R. Esman, who now lives
in the Netherlands, surveys the
Beta Tester Offers Look Inside Promoted Tweets
Todd Wasserman (Mashable!)
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:03:03 PM
Bidding for hot Twitter terms is
starting to drive up prices for
Promoted Tweets, but the
program seems to be an effective
marketing vehicle, according to
analytics firm Mongoose Metrics.
The company, one of 20 beta
testers for a turnkey Promoted
Tweets program from Twitter,
today published a blog entry
detailing its experience. Kathleen
Colan, director of marketing and
content for Mongoose Metrics,
says that bidding for most terms
starts at 10 cents per engagement,
which is defined as a retweet, a
favorite, a reply or a click. But not
damage.
It’s a profoundly moving,
personal account of how the
stealth jihad has advanced in the
Netherlands over the last decade
and more, written by someone
who was in the center of it all.
Esman knew Theo van Gogh,
murdered by Islamic jihadist
Mohammed Bouyeri in 2004 for
his film Submission about the
plight of Muslim women, and was
close friends with Ayaan Hirsi
Ali, the outspoken Somali ex-
Muslim who served for a time in
the Dutch Parliament and who
collaborated with van Gogh on
Submission, before death threats
led her to flee the country. She
watched as Dutch politician Pim
Fortuyn rose to international
all terms start at that rate. Colan
says “SEO” started at $1 per
engagement. “That was the first
kind of weird thing we saw,” she
says. “Bidding was supposed to
be 10 cents and all of the sudden
it was $1.”
Twitter rolled out Promoted
Tweets in April — initially on
Twitter.com, but later on
HootSuite as well. On November
1, the tweets began appearing in
user timelines.
In addition to broadening
syndication, Twitter keeps
refining the program to make it
more of a turnkey solution. Earlier
this month, Twitter began offering
a form on its website to let
businesses express their interest in
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prominence for his opposition to
5 Predictions for the
unrestricted Muslim immigration
and the Islamization of the Music Industry in 2011
Netherlands – and then was Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!)
murdered by a Dutchman who Submitted at 12/22/2010 11:45:30 AM
said he did it out of sympathy for
the nation’s Muslims. Esman The music industry continued
recalls: “There were those – and I suffering its hardcore identity
was one of them – who thought crisis in 2010, buffeted by the
Fortuyn was little more than a languishing major labels,
pretender, a narcissist with a big continued leaks/file-sharing and
mouth and glib tongue who would that most confusing of
quickly be exposed and then conundrums: How to get music to
forgotten. We were the most fans in a way that makes sense —
wrong of all.” without losing money.
Still, despite the industry’s
creative and diverse methods of
continuing difficulty to adapt to
releasing albums (via Ping,
the digital age in a truly profitable
Facebook and even mobile apps),
way, we have seen some stirrings
of change: the expansion of the PREDICTIONS page 80
online music video oeuvre, more
Twitter plans to roll out the about $30 per conversion. Colan
program publicly in late January concludes that “Promoted Tweets
or early February. Reps from is a valid marketing method for
Twitter could not be reached for generating conversions as well as
comment. brand awareness.”
Mongoose, which is running 14 More About: advertising,
distinct campaigns using MARKETING, Promoted Tweets,
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for #Mobile and another for For more Business coverage:
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generated respectable return. For Twitter
$2,067, Mongoose was able to • Become a Fan on Facebook
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Promoted Tweets, Trends or
impressions, 18,000 clicks, 220 channel
Products. Using that form,
retweets, 168 replies and 126 • Download our free apps for
businesses can purchase terms and
conversions. The latter, which Android, iPhone and iPad
set a maximum total spend.
Colan defined as someone who
Though businesses can fill out the
went to Mongoose’s site and
forms now, they can’t actually
downloaded a contact form,
buy anything, but Colan says
meant the company was paying
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and more mainstream, established
publications and institutions
embracing social media all the
more.
There’s a lot of noise out there in
the music world — and we’re not
just talking about the genre — and
we’re all hoping that out of that
tangle of ideas and sounds comes
the antidote that will fix a system
that is so obviously in flux.
Although I don’t quite see that
antidote being concocted this
coming year, I do see more trial
and error and creativity brewing
that could, in the end, lead to the
music industry’s eventual rebirth.
Either that or it will all implode
and we’ll live in eternal silence,
but somehow I doubt it.
And with that I bring you my
predictions for 2011. 1.
Subscription Services Will Be
Popular, But Not Profitable
If Spotify’s$26.7 million loss in
2009 is any indication,
subscription services still have a
ways to go before they’ll actually
become profitable. Hell, Last.fm
isn’t even turning a profit yet —
although it could be getting close.
Still, this year and the end of last
year saw services gaining even
more steam — MOG launched its
all-you-can-eat service in
December, followed by Android
and iPhone apps, and, most
recently, an app in the Chrome
Web Store. Rdio also launched to
much excitement, and Slacker
Radio announced that it would be
launching an on-demand offering
as well (possibly across a variety
of devices to be unveiled at CES).
Yes, streaming music services
have been around for a while
now, but what’s changed in the
past year is the number of devices
you can access them on —
everything from the iPad to Roku
to the Xbox Kinect to the
upcoming Chrome OS devices.
The ability to listen to music on-
demand across a variety of
devices is sure to be a hit among
consumers — it just remains to be
seen how these services will
monetize. 2. More Artists Will
Finally Get Social
You know your friend in that
band that never gets gigs? The
guy who basically has no idea
how to use Twitter and thinks
Foursquare is a playground game?
Well, even that guy is going to
start realizing in the coming year
that he can’t just keeping sticking
his head in the sand where social
media is concerned.
I mean, Billboard recently tapped
Next Big Sound to gather stats for
its“Social 50 Chart; we’re talking
about a publication that’s been
around since 1894 paying
attention to social metrics where
artist popularity is concerned.
Let’s hear that date again: 1894.
So basically the fact that you’re
over 30 is no excuse for not
having a social media presence.
Add to that MTV’s burgeoning
interest in the social space — its
assignation of a Twitter DJ and
the launch of its new music
discovery tool— and you’ve got a
lot of eyes on the digital sphere.
In the coming year, I see more
artists following in the footsteps
of socially savvy bands like
Kanye West(for better or worse),
Ben Folds and Pomplamoose, and
learning how to use social tools to
their advantage. 3. Music Videos
Will Continue Their Renaissance
Online
This past year, a very sizable
player entered the online music
video space: Vevo, which
launched at the end of 2009. In
just one year, Vevo has become a
very worthy adversary to sites like
MTV.com when it comes to
hosting music videos, and MTV,
for its part, has started amping up
its online/on-air video output as
well.
Now, we’re not saying Vevo has
single-handedly sparked the
renaissance of the music video,
but it has helped give the format a
kick in the you-know-what. That
platform, coupled with the
growing ability of artists like OK
Go, Arcade Fire and Kanye
West(he’s everywhere on this list)
to create true cinematic, and
sometimes interactive
masterpieces — which are the
bread and butter of the viral web
— have ensured that online music
videos will continue to be
eminently shareable in the coming
year. 4. Ping Will Never Take Off
— Never
Apple’s new social network,
Ping, launched to much
excitement this year, only to
disappoint those of us in the
media who were keen on
replacing MySpace with a new
locale for music discovery. Why?
Well, there were scant few bands
on the site at launch, and two
months out of the gate, the site
boasted only 2,000 artists. (The
process to get an account on Ping
is not as simple as creating a
username and logging in; Apple
needs to vet bands before granting
them access.)
In the ensuing months, Ping has
made an effort to become more
social, adding Twitter integration
and social playlists, but the site’s
focus — predictably — seems to
be more on commerce than social.
For example: Yes, you can create
and share playlists, but you can’t
use your own songs to build said
playlists — you must assemble
them from iTune’s song previews.
So, basically, by sharing playlists
users are creating free advertising
for iTunes rather than trading
tunes.
Yes, MySpace may be suffering
some financial woes(and a bit of
an identity crisis), but it’s
obviously a much more social
sphere than a place for commerce
(which may explain the financial
woes). Case in point: It just added
a suite of fan management tools
for artists. Ping may not die this
year — Apple is a tenacious beast
— but I don’t see it gaining any
traction either. 5. Music Piracy
Will Not Die
Despite the looming spectre of
the COICA Internet Censorship
and Copyright Bill, people will
continue to file share and steal
music. They’ve been doing it for
10-plus years and they’re not
stopping now.
Unfortunately, artists will
continue to have to find creative
ways to take advantage of the
leaky nature of the web by
adopting pay-what-you-wish
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models (a la Girl Talk and Trent
Reznor) and taking advantage of
the buzz that a leak builds (a la
The National).
That’s not to say that matters are
looking sunny for artists. It’s
likely they will have to continue
to diversify their methods of
garnering cash by ramping up
touring and licensing deals. More
Social Music Resources from
Mashable:
- How To Make Your Music
Video Go Viral: 10 Tips From
Cee-Lo, OK Go & More
- 4 Ways Bands Can Cash in
Online Without a Label
- Top 10 Twitter Tips for Bands,
By Bands
- 5 Great Ways to Find Music
That Suits Your Mood
- 5 Free Ways to Identify that
Song Stuck in Your Head
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Skyfire for iPad hands-on (video)

Sam Sheffer (Engadget) buttons along the bottom, four of experienced on the iPhone. The
Submitted at 12/22/2010 12:00:00 PM which are Facebook related. app is sadly not available in the
These buttons, referred to as App Store just yet, but hang tight,
What's better than using Skyfire "quick view" by the peeps at it's been submitted for approval
on a 3.5-inch screen? Using it on Skyfire, give you, well, a quick and should hit virtual shelves
a 9.7-inch one, of course! After view of the button you've tapped. soon.
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Westone 4 earphones boast four drivers, on sale

soon for $449
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