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What's Best for Kids: Bottled Water or Fountains?

(National Geographic News) Royte's 2008 book Bottlemania: installed before 1985. The school district decided it consumption is linked to higher
Submitted at 3/3/2010 2:54:28 PM How Water Went on Sale and (Related:"Cocaine, Spices, would be cheaper to provide body weight among adolescents.
Why We Bought It. Hormones Found in Drinking bottled water than testing and "Soda in schools has been such
This story is part of a special Transporting the bottles and Water.") remediation efforts. a huge problem for the last
series that explores the global keeping them cold also burns Schools that rely on their own Edwards applauds Baltimore's couple of decades, and getting
water crisis. For more clean fossil fuels, which give off wells are subject to regular decision. rid of sugar-sweetened
w a t e r n e w s , p h o t o s , a n d greenhouse gases. testing by the U.S. "I’m a huge proponent of tap beverages and shifting to bottled
information, visit National Groundwater pumping by Environmental Protection water, but if your child going to water should be a top priority,"
Geographic's Freshwater Web bottled-water companies also Agency (EPA). But the agency one of schools where pieces of Wootan said.
site. draws heavily on underground does not regulate drinking-water lead are falling into the tap The School Nutrition
As the U.S. taste for bottled aquifers and harms watersheds, quality for the rest of the water on a random basis, that Association is also advocating
water grows, environmentalists according to the environmental nation’s schools, which get their risk pales in comparison to the for the elimination of all sugar-
have been trying to sell people nonprofit the Sierra Club. And a water from local utilities. small cost of bottled water." sweetened beverages from all
on good old-fashioned—and 2008 investigation by the Most school districts do not test Sugar High schools when Congress takes up
free—tap water. nonprofit Environmental their water because of the costs Margo Wootan, director of the reauthorization of the Child
But tap water's place in schools Working Group found some associated with lead nutrition for the Washington, Nutrition Act in March 2010.
is thorny, since some experts bottled water is sullied with remediation, said Marc D.C.-based Center for Science Low-fat milk, 100-percent
say children should actually be untested industrial chemicals, Edwards, a civil engineer at in the Public Interest(CSPI), juices, and bottled water are the
drinking more bottled water to and may not necessarily be Virginia Tech. added that environmental groups new recommended beverages
head off two stubborn health cleaner than tap water. "Even when we offer to do the that have demonized bottled for school meal programs and
threats: obesity due to sugary (Related:"Bottled Water Isn't analysis for free, the majority of water should refocus their vending machines.
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beverages to bottled water, you Lead Dangers But some solutions are much "Environmentalists place a "There's more demand for
get a benefit to public health, But switching to tap water less costly than replacing a higher burden on people who bottled water now in schools,
b u t n o t s o m u c h t h e could be a bad idea in some whole pipe system, he said. drink water instead of soda, and and the beverage industry says
e n v i r o n m e n t , " s a i d K e l l y schools where the risk of lead Those range from putting filters that isn’t fair," Wootan said. they have public health in
Brownell, director of the Rudd c o n t a m i n a t i o n f r o m o l d on taps to remove lead, to School beverages, particularly mind," Yale's Brownell said.
Center for Food Policy and pipes—known to affect physical flushing water fountains after a sugar-laden soda and sports "But we're hoping to do a big
Obesity at Yale University. and mental development—is period of stagnation. drinks sold in vending campaign to encourage
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those plastic containers are not and other toxic substances from lead levels high than the EPA's Harvard nutritionists found
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Lord Ashcroft cleared of breaching electoral law with £5.1m

Tory donations
(Latest news, breaking news, watchdog would also be called front. uncertain of the money's said: "Following an 18-month
current news, UK news, world before the committee. The report said there was "no provenance by ascertaining its investigation, the Electoral
news, celebrity news, politics The Electoral Commission's 18- basis to conclude" that the donor "state of mind" in regard to the Commission has definitively
news)
month investigation was sparked was anyone other than Bearwood donations. concluded that donations made
Submitted at 3/4/2010 6:01:31 AM by a complaint from Labour Bearwood. The party's registered treasurer by Bearwood, the company in
Published: 2:01PM GMT 04 MP John Mann, amid Labour And it said there was assured commissioners in which Lord Ashcroft has an
Mar 2010 concerns that the billionaire's "insufficient evidence to writing that he was in "no interest, were legal,
An Electoral Commission money was being used to conclude, on the balance of doubt" as to the identity of the permissible and correctly
report rejected allegations that boost Conservative candidates' probabilities, that the party was donor, dismissing comments reported.
B e a r w o o d - w h i c h i s chances in key marginal seats uncertain as to the identity of suggesting that the party "It has now been put beyond
controlled by Ashcroft - was not in the forthcoming election. the donor when accepting the regarded the money as coming doubt that donations from
carrying on business in the UK But the long-awaited report donations". direct from Ashcroft as "loose Bearwood were entirely
and was therefore ineligible to found that Bearwood (BCS) met But it revealed that a number of language". legitimate. Separately, we also
donate money to political t h e r e q u i r e m e n t s o f a Conservative officers and staff And the report said: "The know that Lord Ashcroft is non-
parties. permissible donor by being declined to be interviewed on Commission asked various domiciled, putting him in
However, the Commission has registered at Companies House, the issue. The Commission has officers and staff within the exactly the same position as
asked to meet Conservative incorporated within the UK or no power to force people to party to attend interviews on a Labour and Lib Dem donors
officials to ensure that they are another EU member state, and attend interviews. voluntary basis, but these such as Lord Paul.
clear about their responsibilities carrying on business in the UK After studying internal party requests were not agreed to." "This means the Conservative
for complying with the law. at the time the donation is made. emails and documents, Mr Prentice wrote on his blog Party's clean bill of health with
The report came as it was It concluded: "No breach of including from constituency earlier: ''Just back from the the Electoral Commission
disclosed that Lord Ashcroft P P E R A ( P o l i t i c a l P a r t i e s , associations which had received Public Administration Select remains fully intact. It is now
would be called to appear Elections and Referendums Bearwood funding, the Committee where we agree to clear that the continuing attacks
before the public administration Act 2000) has been established Commission formed the view do a special one-off inquiry on Michael Ashcroft are part
select committee for a ''special a n d . . . n o l e g a l a c t i o n i n that "there was evidence to into the Lord Ashcroft affair. It of a politically motivated
one-off inquiry'' on March 18. relation to the Conservative suggest that at least since 2006 will be on Thursday 18 March. campaign orchestrated by the
Lord Ashcroft revealed this Party should be taken. the party would have reason to ''The issues fall squarely within Labour Party in advance of the
week that he did not pay UK tax "The Commission has, however, question whether the donor the Committee's bailiwick. We general election in order to
on his extensive overseas asked to meet party officials to was Lord Ashcroft rather than keep an eye on the Cabinet distract attention from the real
earnings, apparently at odds ensure that they are clear BCS". Office and the House of Lords issues facing this country.
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4 World/
Dinosaurs Ten Million Years Older Than Thought
(National Geographic News)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 12:36:46 PM
A new dinosaur relative found
in Tanzania is the oldest known
creature of its kind—a discovery
that pushes back the origin of
dinosaurs by at least ten million
years, paleontologists say.
Dubbed Asilisaurus kongwe,
the Labrador retriever-size
creature was a silesaur, the
closest relatives to true
dinosaurs. The newfound animal
lived 243 million years ago,
during the middle Triassic
period.
Since silesaurs and true
dinosaurs diverged from a
common ancestor, the two
groups should have existed
during the same time frame. But
the oldest known true dinosaurs
date back to just 230 million
years ago.
Finding a silesaur that's ten
million years older makes "a big
difference," said study co-author
Christian Sidor, curator of
vertebrate paleontology at the
Burke Museum of Natural
History and Culture in Seattle.
Asilisaurus' s age suggests that
some early forms of dinosaurs
must have also been plodding
around in the middle Triassic.
(See a prehistoric time line.)
"When people think about
dinosaurs, we think about the
extreme forms, the ones that
have gone off in their ... own
weird directions," such as
Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus
rex, said Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., a
vertebrate paleontologist at the
University of Maryland, who
was not involved in the
research.
"But they all came from a
common ancestor, and fellows
like Asilisaurus help us
understand what that original
dino state looked like."
Early Dinosaur Relative an
Omnivore?
Parts of at least 12 Asilisaurus
skeletons were found in 2007 in
southern Tanzania's Ruhuhu
Valley. With no intact specimen
to study, Sidor and his team had
to piece together a composite
skeleton.
What emerged looked nothing
like what paleontologists had
imagined.
Instead of resembling the
"typical hatchet-headed, blade-
toothed meat-eaters,"
Asilisaurus was a light, slender-
limbed animal with peg-like
teeth and a small beak-like
structure on its jaw, the
University of Maryland's Holtz
said.
The shape of the beak suggests
Asilisaurus tore into tissue,
which means the animal might
have eaten plants—or both
plants and meat, the researchers
say.
Mysteriously, the long-tailed
animal ran on all fours—even
though the vast majority of early
dinosaurs were two-legged
carnivores, according to the
study, to be published tomorrow
in the journal Nature.
"It's making the picture a little
bit murkier, because we have a
possible herbivore and
quadruped very close to the
dinosaur lineage," said study co-
author Sidor, who received
funding for the research from
the National Geographic
Society's Committee for
Research and Exploration. (The
National Geographic Society
owns National Geographic
News.)
Dinosaurs' World in Transition
In a way, Asilisaurus' s
discovery "is an elegant
fulfillment of a prediction," said
Christopher Brochu, a vertebrate
paleontologist at the University
of Iowa who also wasn't part of
the study group.
That's because paleontologists
know dinosaurs belong to the
archosaurs. Within this group,
dinosaur ancestors are divided
into two main branches: a line
that includes silesaurs and
shares skeletal features with
modern birds, and a line that has
more in common with
crocodilians.
Since a crocodilian dinosaur-
ancestor from the middle
Triassic had already been found,
unearthing an animal like
Asilisaurus was just a matter of
time.
But the new research goes
beyond that, Brochu said. "It's
part of a larger, growing
realization that the earliest
archosaurs were far more
diverse than we ever thought."
(Take a dinosaur quiz.)
In addition to finding
Asilisaurus, study leader Sidor
and colleagues have already
collected several other archosaur
species from the Ruhuhu
Valley—many more than in
other archosaur hot spots.
It's unknown why the lush, wet
valleys of prehistoric Tanzania
produced so many strains of
dinosaur relatives,
paleontologists say.
Whatever the reason, "what
we're seeing here is a picture of
a world in transition," Brochu
said. "It's really a fascinating
time in the history of life."
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Space Photos This
Week: Mars Streaks,
Cosmic Web, More
(National Geographic News)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 12:03:23 PM
Listening for Phoenix
Image courtesy NASA/JPL-
Caltech/University of Arizona
As spring embraces northern
Mars, surface ice has decreased
around the Phoenix Mars lander,
as seen in two aerial views taken
February 8 (left) and February
25 by the Mars Reconnaissance
Orbiter.
Phoenix, which arrived on Mars
in May 2008, worked for five
months before the onset of
Martian winter left the solar-
powered craft with too little
sunlight to stay alive.
Starting in January 2010,
NASA has been using the
orbiter to listen for radio signals
from Phoenix, in case the lander
rises again and is able to resume
even limited operations. So far,
no contact has been reported.
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Passengers on Mediterranean cruise ship hit by

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Glowing Animals: Pictures of Beasts

Shining for Science
(National Geographic News) Shimomura in 1956 was the be cyan, blue, and yellow. Yet
Submitted at 3/3/2010 2:37:31 PM result of crushing countless more colors were found in
jellyfish. fluorescent coral. He remixed
Bacteria After publishing his findings in these materials into glowing
Photograph courtesy UC San 1962, Shimomura studied GFP proteins such as "mPlum,"
Diego via AP in detail and realized that no "mStrawberry," and "mOrange."
How does it glow? extra fuel was needed to make it Though their inventions may
Multiple colors of fluorescent glow--other glowing substances have revolutionized the fields of
protein, introduced into its DNA need chemical additives to medicine, biology, and
(2008) shine. GFP, by contrast, just chemistry, the fluorescent
What can we learn? needed to be exposed to proteins also have creative
One of the team of scientists ultraviolet light. applications, as shown above.
that won a 2008 Nobel Prize for
green fluorescent protein--
Chalfie, the third of the GFP
Nobel winners, realized the
Fluorescent proteins have also
been used in the name of art to The Indelible Brilliance of
Osamu Shimomura, Martin maintenance-free protein could make sculptures out of glowing
Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien--
couldn't resist showing off their
be used to literally watch how
creatures work. He proved with
beakers and live glowing
rabbits.
Jack Donaghy, the World's
creation a bit. From Tsien's lab
comes this artful plate with
the intestinal bacterium E. coli
that GFP alone--with no fuel--
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. A a church. isn't considered a threat to how to win at marbles (you hide of Jack Donaghy:
monkey that has eluded capture Wildlife rehabilitator Vernon humans. them), Jack Donaghy is the man And one last one:
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macaque monkey was spotted. It even stopping to check traffic
8 Business/ Popular News/ Tech/
Website Uptime Means Happy Customers
Howard Greenstein (Inc.com)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 2:38:10 PM
Last week's piece about
keeping customers was more a
discussion of customer service.
This week, I'm profiling a
company that ensures your
customers can be kept - by
making sure your website, store
or service is up all the time. This
is very important for keeping
customers happy, especially if
the web is the primary method
by which customers reach you
or buy your products or
services.
Web service uptime is critical
for Jay Gave, CTO for edo
Interactive, a company that has
a technology that puts coupons
directly onto customer's debit
cards. edo has 27 employees and
works with large companies like
Coca-Cola for an under-the-cap
loyalty program, as well as the
financial institutions that issue
debit cards.
Jay told me "In the modern age
of service-oriented architecture,
if we're hosting a web service
for a customer, unless we can
prove it is up, they're going to
think it is down. We use
AlertSite DejaClick to track our
web site and web services for
Google admits its SEO could use a little work
Josh Lowensohn
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 2:36:00 PM
our clients. AlertSite monitors
East Coast, Central and West
Coast for us. We give customers
a report with the AlertSite logo
that shows we had 99.97 percent
or greater uptime. When you're
dealing with larger companies
as a startup organization, this
reporting helps your reputation.
You have to be prepared for an
extra level of scrutiny, but if you
want to be a successful startup
you have to be prepared for that
scrutiny anyway."
Ken Godskind, Chief Strategy
Officer of AlertSite opined "In
Small and Medium businesses,
they don't want to be monitoring
experts. They know their store,
blog, or website. With our Deja
Click product, you don't have to
be highly trained, you just have
to know how to click through an
application. It is designed so a
normal user can accomplish it."
The demo I saw allowed a user
to hit a 'record button' and
capture their path through the
site. If there were user names or
fields to fill out, the product
captured those. They can be
Google comes up a bit short v e r s i o n o f t h e r e p o r t f o r
after looking at its own search Webmasters to use on their own
engine optimization. As a result, sites.
it's made available a public
edited or conditional logic can
be added. It even worked on a
flash site I was shown. Setting
up the monitoring was not
rocket science - most site
owners could do it with little
help or coaching. AlertSite then
tests your site, using your script,
from data centers around the
country. They then report back
how long it takes for your site to
load, and ensure that the service
can successfully complete the
scripted transactions.
Godskind describes their
product set as services that help
customers make sure that
whatever the important thing
they're doing on line, it is
working well for end users. In
Retail, that may mean, "Can
shoppers go to home page,
search for products, view
products from a catalog, add to a
shopping cart and check out?"
Gave said "They can spit out
monthly reports, let us know
when we were up, and since
they're a 3rd party, they're
immediately more trustworthy
than if we reported to the client.
Originally posted at Web
We also share reports internally
with entire company so
everyone knows our uptime and
our reliability."
How big does your company
have to be to consider
monitoring services? "If you're a
web based business," Godskind
told me "and you're putting a lot
of effort into sharing a brand
feeling - and keeping customers
- you want to make sure your
site is available, functions
reliably, and you want to know
how your load time changes
during the day. There's a very
inexpensive, availability
monitoring service for
$10/month, but if you have
multi-step store transactions to
test, you can expect to pay more
like $100/month and up."
If your business lives and dies
by its website, $1,200 a year to
have peace of mind that your
site is up seems a pretty small
price to pay. Do you track your
online uptime and make sure
your customers can buy or
contact you at any time? How
do you do it? The comments are
Crawler
E-reader News Edition
Amazing Holi
pictures
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 5:26:00 AM
Holi is the festival of colors.
People in India and other
countries with large Hindu
populations celebrate it as
victory of good over evil.
Boston.com, as only
Boston.com can do, provides
thirty-seven amazing pictures of
Holi in The Big Picture.
I just found this FAQ with the
creator of these photo-
journalism stories: Alan Taylor.
Apparently, it’s his personal
vision. The Big Picture shows
why curation is a valuable skill.
See all the Holi pictures at
Boston.com.
More on India.
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Live blog
Thursday: YouTube
press conference
Josh Lowensohn
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 3:00:00 PM
YouTube is holding a press
conference at 10 a.m. PST
Thursday to discuss, well,
something. We'll be there live
for details on, well, whatever it
is.
Originally posted at Web
Crawler
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U.S. Cyber Security Czar Comes Out of the Shadows to

Reveal Defense Plans
Kit Eaton (Fast Company) Also speaking at the RSA
Submitted at 3/4/2010 8:45:12 AM conference, Microsoft's VP for
Trustworthy Computing Scott
The U.S.'s cyber security czar Charney suggested that one way
Howard Schmidt has obviously to raise the serious money to
been doing something apart fund national-level defenses
from tidying his desk in the against cyber attacks is to levy a
three months since being tax on Net usage. The plan
appointed: He's been coming up would obviously pay for some
with a cyber defense plan, of Schmidt's work, and
which he's just revealed to the presumably MS would be
World. hoping that it (along with its
Schmidt was speaking at the competitors) would see some of
RSA event in San Francisco, the cash, and use it to improve
and it's the first real showing their own defenses and code in
he's made since starting his job public and governmental use.
in December 2009. What he was But whereas Schmidt's speech
talking about were the aspects of may have been considered a
the freshly-upgraded breath of fresh air coming from
Comprehensive National a government figure, Charney's
Cybersecurity Initiative that presentation was not well
including the cloak-and-dagger educating the public as much as widespread cyber attacks that
have been declassified for received...and given MS's
counterintelligence stuff. Its working behind the scenes--he targeted Google, other
public consumption. And while shocking reputation for security
overall intent, revealed for the noted that the authorities have to companies and U.S. official
you may suspect that Schmidt loopholes in its OS and other
first time since its inception in "continue to seek out innovative bodies at the end of 2009. These
could only reveal the tiniest of software, as well as the
2008, is to be the first line of new partnerships--not only were internationally-sourced
details about such in important company's billions of dollars of
defense against immediate cyber within government, but also complex, penetrating attacks
plan, he actually spilled quite a business, this really isn't a
attacks, to defend against every among industry, government that could've wreaked untold
few beans in an attempt to get surprise.
possible kind of attack, and to [sic] and the American public." damage, and the actual events
academics and private [Via BBCNews, SeattlePI]
work to improve future And that's precisely why the are still being combed through,
companies to buy into the
cybersecurity. decision has been made to but cyberattacks at a more
government's plans.
Schmidt's speech suggests that declassify parts of the CNCI. personal level have also recently
The CNCI is a twelve-part
he'll be a figure appearing a lot His point is well made, coming been in the news with a huge
initiative that covers several key
in the media, with the goal of close on the heels of the phising scam affecting Twitter.
aspects of digital security,

Google tries again in search personalization

Stephen Shankland People were skittish about SearchWiki. Instead, they can Originally posted at Deep Tech
(Webware.com) elevating or deleting search now personalize results with
results using Google's stars.
10 Business/ Tech/ E-reader News Edition

Penguin Demonstrates iPad-Bound Books: Amazing, but Are

These Really "Books"?
Dan Nosowitz (Fast those examples are books. Lest
Company) you think I'm being a snob,
Submitted at 3/4/2010 3:25:08 AM clutching onto my glue-bound
tomes of pulverized tree pulp
If publishers (and, more after their expiry date, Penguin
importantly, the public) really doesn't even think these things
embrace the iPad, we're going to are books. I know that because
be seeing more than just black- Penguin intends to sell this
text-on-white books--if you digital content in the app store,
wanted that, you'd buy a Kindle, as individual apps, not in the
not a giant iPhone with Wi-Fi, a iBooks bookstore. There's
huge LCD, and a top-of-its-class nothing wrong with that--these
mobile processor. But then, are apps look great, and the
these crazy game/video/audio prospect of enriching the
hybrids really "books"? If definition of "book" is exciting--
Penguin's amazing examples are but as companies take advantage
a sign of things to come, we of the iPad, the publishing
may be asking that question industry is going to have to
quite often. expand in ways we don't quite
Said Penguin's CEO, John understand yet.
Makinson, at an event this Eventually, ebooks may have
stores, in HTML. section with a tap is likely far forums.
week: specific criteria, like an ebook
He wasn't kidding. Check out less fun for kids than frantic Moving onto the more adult
We will be embedding audio, has to consist of only text, or
this video. scribbling--but the point is, fare, the travel book looks like a
video, and gaming into any content that needs to be
That clip shows how dedicated frantic scribblng is possible too. far more comprehensive guide
everything we do. The .epub updated regularly is classified as
Penguin is to truly taking Vampire Academy, too, despite than say, a similar iPhone app,
format, which is the standard for an app. But those days are to
advantage of the iPad's its eye-rolling trend-hopping really taking advantage of the
ebooks at the present, is come. We'll see once the iPad
capabilities. That children's premise, is more of a game or big screen. Starfinder is actually
designed to support traditional and its ilk actually see release.
book that opens the clip is really community than a book, but an old idea; Google Sky Maps is
narrative text, but not this cool [ PaidContent via Gizmodo]
more a game than a book (kids, again, imagine the possibilities. a free download for Android
stuff that we’re now talking
of course, will likely see that as Extend the idea a little farther, (version 2.0 or later) and does
about. So for the time being, at
a positive). The "coloring book" and you've got workshopping the exact same thing, with more
least, we'll be creating a lot of
section is very clever, even if capabilities for budding writers, accuracy.
our digital content as
the idea of instantly coloring a or collaborative blogs and But here's the thing. None of
applications, to be sold on app

Unleash your inner food critic on Yelp for Android

Jessica Dolcourt A small but significant update publishing.
(Webware.com) lets you bookmark businesses Originally posted at Android
and draft a review for later Atlas
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Voice-Recognition Software Somewhat Sexist, Only Listens to
Women
Addy Dugdale (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 7:04:18 AM
Researchers at the Universities
of Edinburgh and Stanford have
discovered that voice-
recognition technology doesn't
work as well on men as it does
on women. The report, which
recorded phone conversations in
an attempt to understand why
those infuriating automated
booking lines don't work quite
the way they should, discovered
Pier 1 Issues Healthy Fourth-Quarter RSA 2010: Taking on
Forecast
Mark Fightmaster
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: Before the Bell,
Forecasts Retailer Pier 1
Imports ( PIR) issued fiscal
fourth-quarter earnings forecast
Thursday morning, saying it
expect earnings to come in at at
least 29 cents per share. A year
ago, PIR lost 33 cents per share
in the fourth quarter. Moreover,
the consensus estimate for the
retailer's quarterly earnings
checks in at 25 cents per share.
that it's all in the pitch. And, um,
the weird linguistic, err, tics that
apparently afflict, umm men
more than the, err, fairer sex,
have got a lot to do with it.
As have (...) pauses. I can't
decide whether this news is
good for women, meaning that
we are--hah!--better than the
opposite sex, or whether it just
reinforces the stereotype that
men are in greater need of a
secretary* than ever.
The findings are very
reminiscent of the problems
cyberthreats
This wasn't the only news from
PIR, as the company forecast
fourth-quarter merchandise
margins of 55.7%, which is
better than last year's 44.3% and
the Street's expectations. PIR's
same-store sales also increased
by 6.5%. A true bevy of good
news, but we could see the
jubilation tempered by the fact
encountered with Google Voice
in territories other than the
United States. For example,
Australian users of the iPhone
found that the word "Good day"
that PIR predicts its fourth-
quarter revenue will total $396
million while expectations call
for $406.02 million.
Continue reading Pier 1 Issues
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PA. Google has fixed this--its
voice recognition programs for
Android now come with
separate versions for American,
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'Google' Hackers
Big Lots Living Large Crude Awakening: Oil Had Ability to
in Q4 Pushes Through $80 Alter Source Code
Kim Zetter (Wired Top
Steven Mallas Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks) (BloggingStocks) Stories)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 9:20:00 AM Submitted at 3/4/2010 9:40:00 AM Submitted at 3/4/2010 6:13:00 AM

Filed under: Earnings Reports,
Wal-Mart (WMT), Target Corp.
(TGT)
Big Lots ( BIG) surely satisfied
its investors yesterday when it
reported double-digit earnings
growth. On an adjusted basis,
net income from continuing
operations jumped over 30% to
$1.31 per share during the
fourth quarter. Analysts couldn't
keep up, because they were
looking for $1.28 per share,
according to Earnings.com.
Total sales went up 7%, but
same-store revenue, the more
vital metric, was higher by
5.1%. Cash flow from operating
activities for both the quarter
and the full fiscal year
experienced significant
increases. Gross margin
expanded over both of those
periods as well.
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inventories are high, U.S.
unemployment has taken
millions of drivers off the road,
but the price oil is ignoring both
to trend higher: oil closed
Wednesday up $1.20 to $80.88
per barrel.
Further, Haag Sherman, chief
investment officer for Salient
Partners, told Bloomberg News
he sees oil moving above $90.
"You are going to see it
breaching $90 a barrel, up to
$100 barrel; $147, $150 is out
of the question in the near
term," Sherman said.
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Hackers who targeted Google
and other companies in January
targeted source code
management systems, security
firm McAfee asserts,
manipulating a little-known
trove of security flaws that
would allow easy unauthorized
access to the intellectual
property it is meant to protect.

Man Arrested in Connection With Deadly Ill. Home Invasion

(FOXNews.com) According to the Lee County looking for Nodarse, who was L. Kramer, 48, and their 20-year harmed.
Submitted at 3/4/2010 5:34:20 AM Sheriff, Jacob Nodarse, 23, was described as a suspect in the -old son Michael J. Kramer Click here for more from
taken into custody in Lehigh slayings. He apparently has were shot to death around 3 a.m. MyFoxChicago.com.
A man sought in the killings of Acres by a U.S. Marshals task relatives in Jasper, Fla., and in Tuesday inside their home in the Five Filters featured article:
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s a i d , a c c o r d i n g t o justice. Annunziato. Kramer’s 17-year-old girlfriend,
MyFoxChicago.com. Police in Darien had been Jeffrey R. Kramer, 50, and Lori were in the house but weren’t
Research Casts Doubt on Forensic DNA Technique
Brandon Keim (Wired Top Mitochondrial DNA can vary trouble for its use in forensics.
Stories) between cells, which could spell
E-reader News Edition Popular News/ 13

No is no: More men file sexual harassment claims (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) percent of all cases a decade chain agreed to pay $345,000 to complained to his supervisor this nauseous feeling in my
Submitted at 3/4/2010 5:28:03 AM ago, but the percentage has six male employees who and the theater's then-general stomach."
continued to rise even as the claimed they were repeatedly manager, he claims, she failed to The restaurant has denied the
WASHINGTON – John overall number of sexual sexually assaulted by a group of stop the harassment and instead charges. In a statement, the
Pilkington's boss wouldn't take harassment complaints has male kitchen staffers at a retaliated against the victim with company that owns Fleming's
no for an answer. declined. And last year, the Phoenix-area restaurant. unfair discipline and lower said the restaurant "has always
During more than two years as percentage of lawsuits the The EEOC said the abusers performance evaluations. been committed to providing a
a food runner at an upscale EEOC filed on behalf of male would drag some victims The number of cases filed by safe and healthy workplace free
steakhouse in Scottsdale, Ariz., victims hit an all-time high, kicking and screaming into a men has grown steadily since a of harassment for all of its
P i l k i n g t o n s a y s h i s m a l e making up 14 percent of all walk-in refrigerator, touching landmark Supreme Court ruling associates."
supervisor groped, fondled and cases. and grinding against the victims' in 1998 held that same-sex Many victims are hesitant to
otherwise sexually harassed him "It's certainly possible that genitals and take turns harassment is a valid claim come forward because they are
more than a dozen times. there's more sexual harassment simulating rape. The company under federal anti- afraid of being considered
"It was very embarrassing," of men going on, but it could denied the allegations but discrimination laws. That ruling unmanly or being derided by co-
Pilkington said. "I felt like I had just be that more men are agreed to make a financial involved an offshore oil rig workers, said Mary Jo O'Neill, a
to do something because the c o m i n g f o r w a r d a n d settlement and educate its worker who said he was subject regional attorney in the EEOC's
situation was just so bad." complaining about it," said employees and managers about to humiliating sex-related Phoenix District office.
Now Pilkington, a married Ernest Haffner, an attorney in sexual harassment. treatment by other workers, "All sexual harassment victims
father of two, is the star witness the EEOC's Office of Legal Susan Strauss, a consultant who including being sodomized in feel humiliated, lacking control
in a federal lawsuit against Counsel. advises companies about how to the shower with a bar of soap. and power," O'Neill said. "This
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & While some cases allege avoid sexual harassment in the In Pilkington's case, he claims has a different twist because
Wine Bar and one of a growing h a r a s s m e n t b y f e m a l e workplace, said she's seeing the restaurant's chef would everyone expects that they
number of men claiming they supervisors or co-workers, most more cases in which men are grope and pinch his genitals or would be able to handle it and
are victims of sexual harassment charges involve men harassing subject to a sexualized form of grab his backside when take care of it themselves."
in the workplace. other men. Sometimes it's hazing. Pilkington walked to the kitchen Pilkington has since moved on
F r o m 1 9 9 0 t o 2 0 0 9 , t h e unwelcome romantic advances. "If you don't fit the masculine or stock room. Despite his to another job. While he is
percentage of sexual harassment Other times, men are picked on stereotype or are viewed as complaints to the restaurant's embarrassed by the publicity his
claims filed by men has doubled because they are gay, perceived effeminate, you get picked on in operating partner, he says the case has received, he says it was
from 8 percent to 16 percent of as being gay or not considered a sexual way to demean you," conduct didn't stop. the right thing to do. The EEOC
all claims, according to the masculine enough for the work Strauss said. After one incident, Pilkington lawsuit seeks damages for him
Equal Employment Opportunity setting. Cases involving women making lost his composure and yelled at and other workers alleging
Commission. In the past, some employers unwanted advances toward men the chef, making a scene. Days harassment, along with back pay
W o m e n s t i l l f i l e t h e might have shrugged off such may also be rising as women later, he was fired — an action and compensatory and punitive
overwhelming majority of antics as "boys will be boys" make up a growing part of the he claims was retaliation for his damages.
sexual harassment claims with horseplay or fraternity-type work force. Last year, the Regal complaints. An EEOC lawsuit Five Filters featured article:
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the increase in complaints by wants to send a message that $175,000 to settle a lawsuit by a "I think maybe it's just harder
men — more than 2,000 were such behavior is unacceptable male employee who claimed a for males to come out and file a
filed in 2009 out of about and unlawful. female co-worker repeatedly complaint because of how
12,700 cases. In November, for example, the grabbed his crotch at work. embarrassing it is," Pilkington
Male claims made up about 12 Cheesecake Factory restaurant When the employee said. "When I talk about it I get
14 Popular News/ E-reader News Edition

Controller complacency could jeopardize air safety (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) nonessential conversation flying licenses of two pilots, Kennedy incidents appear to scheduled a forum this spring on
Submitted at 3/4/2010 6:23:12 AM during landing approaches. who are now appealing to have have felt free to break rules, pilot and air traffic controller
"The hair is beginning to stand them reinstated. which suggests supervisors professionalism.
WASHINGTON – For the third up on the back of our necks a _Last August, an air traffic tolerated such lapses, said In a statement responding to the
time in seven months, the little bit," said Jack Casey, an controller at Teterboro Airport Michael Barr, who teaches Kennedy incident, the National
judgment of those who operate aviation safety consultant and in New Jersey who handed off a aviation safety at the University Air Traffic Controllers
the nation's air traffic control former airline pilot. "When you private plane to controllers at a of Southern California. Association— the union that
system has been called into get complacency, you run a neighboring airport failed to FAA spokeswoman Laura represents controllers — said it
question and concerns raised h i g h e r r i s k o f h a v i n g a n correct the plane's pilot when he Brown said the incidents were doesn't "condone this type of
that complacency may be accident." read back the wrong radio "isolated occurrences" and not behavior in any way."
causing controllers and their Other recent incidents: frequency. Controllers at both indicative of a broader safety But Mary Schiavo, a former
supervisors to bend rules. _In October, controllers in airports later tried problem. Transportation Department
While major air crashes have M i n n e a p o l i s h a n d e d o f f unsuccessfully to reach the pilot. "The unfortunate behavior of a inspector general who has filed
declined sharply over the last responsibility for a Northwest The plane collided moments few individuals doesn't reflect a lawsuit against the FAA on
d e c a d e , t h a n k s l a r g e l y t o Airlines jet without alerting the later with a tour helicopter over the true caliber of our work behalf of the families of five
improved technology, aviation next controller that they had the Hudson River. Three people force," she said. Italian tourists killed in the
safety experts say they are been unable to make radio in the plane and six in the The FAA is implementing a Hudson River collision, said
seeing signs that vigilance may c o n t a c t w i t h t h e p l a n e . helicopter were killed. The new program that encourages air there needs to be a strong
have eroded. Supervisors also failed to follow Teterboro controller was traffic controllers to report message sent from the top. She
The latest incident was reported p r o c e d u r e s f o r a l e r t i n g a chitchatting on the phone with a safety problems, including their suggested Babbitt and
this week: A controller twice n a t i o n a l security female friend until seconds own mistakes, so that the Transportation Secretary Ray
brought a child to work at the communications network to the before the collision. The agency can spot trends and act LaHood call "an all-hands-on-
c o n t r o l t o w e r a t J o h n F . problem. As a result, the Airbus controller's supervisor had left to prevent future problems, deck meeting and make sure air
Kennedy International Airport A320 carrying 144 passengers the airport to run a personal Brown said. To encourage traffic controllers know it's
in New York, one of the nation's was out of radio contact for 69 errand. reporting, controllers aren't every rule every time."
busiest airports, and allowed the minutes before the security The incidents suggest a punished for errors they ___
child to radio instructions to network was alerted. Rules put casualness about rules that identify. On the Net:
pilots. The Federal Aviation in place after the Sept. 11, 2001, undermines safety, said Carol The agency has had a similar Federal Aviation
Administration said Wednesday terrorist attacks are supposed to Carmody, a former National program for pilots for nearly a A d m i n i s t r a t i o n :
the controller and his supervisor trigger an alert when a plane Transportation Safety Board decade. http://www.faa.gov
have been suspended pending an can't be raised by radio for 10 member and former FAA FAA Administrator Randy National Air Traffic Controllers
investigation of the incident last minutes. official. Babbitt, in speeches and A s s o c i a t i o n :
month. The larger issue at play in this "If they don't follow fairly rigid congressional testimony, has http://www.natca.org
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AP source: Black leaders to meet on Paterson fate (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) severe reports, his ability to he and others in his aide. But the panel said the aide, Cuomo is investigating whether
Submitted at 3/4/2010 6:22:11 AM govern effectively is called into administration had with a David Johnson, was one of Paterson or anyone from his
question," said a second woman who had accused a top Paterson's four guests, along staff or security detail
ALBANY, N.Y. – The Rev. Al prominent black leader in New aide of domestic violence. At with Paterson's son and a son's influenced the woman's decision
Sharpton is convening a group Y o r k C i t y w h o a t t e n d e d issue is whether Paterson or friend, getting tickets for the not to press charges after she
of black Democratic leaders Saturday's meeting and is others urged the woman to drop Oct. 28 World Series game told police that Johnson roughed
who could urge Gov. David invited to Thursday's meeting. her complaint. provided by the Yankees. her up.
Paterson, who is embroiled in "I got the impression that the Paterson was also accused Four days later, also in the "My side of the story will not be
two misconduct scandals, to seriousness of the charges Wednesday of breaking ethics Bronx, Johnson was accused of unsourced, it will not be in
resign, a party adviser told The against him has grown since the laws when he sought and domestic violence by his then- inaccurate, it will be the truth,"
Associated Press on Thursday. group met Saturday, and this obtained free Yankees tickets girlfriend, a case that now Paterson said Wednesday,
The meeting is set for Thursday presented an opportunity to re- for the 2009 World Series and threatens Paterson's job and taking a swipe at some media
n i g h t a t a r e s t a u r a n t i n evaluate or determine what is then may have lied about his administration. reports.
M a n h a t t a n ' s H a r l e m necessary to stake out another intention to pay for them, But the ticket scandal may The governor's chief of staff,
neighborhood and follows a position if necessary," the leader according to a state report. ultimately be more damaging to Lawrence Schwartz, said
flurry of calls overnight in said. He faces penalties of nearly the governor, especially given Paterson was meeting with
which many of the leaders The Democrat, who also spoke $100,000, and the case was the timing. legislative leaders and staff
reconsidered their support for on condition of anonymity referred to the Albany County "I, at all times, upheld the oath Wednesday and that the fiscal
Paterson. Those calls were also because of the sensitivity of the prosecutor's office and the state of my office and never at any crisis is Paterson's top priority.
voiced in a similar summit issue, said there is increased attorney general for possible point attempted to influence or Paterson has no public events
Saturday in Harlem, although pressure on Paterson to either criminal investigation into coerce anyone to do anything scheduled for Thursday.
the group overall supported tell his side of the story, which whether Paterson or anyone else they didn't want to do," Paterson "The governor is the governor,"
Paterson's plan to continue to the governor has said will gave false answers to questions told reporters Wednesday, Schwartz said. "He's in charge."
s e r v e . H e h a d e n d e d h i s exonerate him, or step aside. by the Public Integrity saying he intends to fight the ___
campaign for a full term the day The news about the Manhattan Commission or backdated a ethics charge. Associated Press writers
before. meeting contrasted with a check to pay for the tickets. Paterson told investigators that Colleen Long in New York and
The adviser spoke on the statement Thursday by an "The drum beat is awfully loud he always intended to pay the Valerie Bauman in Albany
condition of anonymity because organization of black police right now and not getting $850 for tickets for his son and contributed to this report.
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"I still believe the he's entitled to Still, the damage was mounting of a threat to Paterson's job. report said.
the presumption of innocence, in the wake of the scandal The ethics charge isn't directly In the other case, the office of
but as each day brings more plaguing Paterson over contact related to the scandal over the state Attorney General Andrew

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Congress slowly loosens its grip on Washington,
DC (AP)
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Submitted at 3/4/2010 12:24:26 AM
WASHINGTON – measure legalizing medical
Congresswoman Eleanor
Holmes Norton didn't flinch
when comedian Stephen Colbert
congratulated her on D.C.
becoming a state.
"Not quite," she replied during a
segment on his show not long
after President Barack Obama's
election.
Colbert may have been joking,
but with Democrats in control,
Congress seems increasingly
willing to loosen its grip on
Norton's city and allow it to
function more like a state. That's
no laughing matter for some
600,000 city residents.
Congress still must OK the
D.C. budget and it can veto laws
the City Council passes, though
that's rare. And despite some
optimism early in Obama's
administration, Norton still can't
vote on the House floor, though
she can introduce bills and vote
in committees.
But cracks in congressional
control have started to appear.
For the first time in recent
memory, Congress didn't attach
any restrictions, called "riders,"
when it approved the city's
budget in December. That lifted
bans preventing the city from
using tax money to help poor
women pay for abortions and
implementing a decade-old
marijuana.
And though Congress could
have killed a gay marriage bill
passed by the D.C. Council,
federal lawmakers allowed it to
become law without weighing
in. Same-sex couples started
applying for marriage licenses
Wednesday, though a three-day
waiting period means they can't
actually get married till next
week.
Now, Congress is considering
bills that would give the city
even more freedom. Norton,
who was elected in 1990 and
represents more people than live
in Wyoming packed in a city
1/17th the size of Rhode Island,
calls it a "moment of
opportunity."
Three-quarters of Washington's
registered voters are Democrats.
And now that Democrats hold
the House, Senate and
presidency for the first time
since 1992, there's support for
letting go of some federal
control.
Norton has introduced two bills
to give the city more control
over its affairs. The first would
eliminate the requirement that
Congress approve the city's
budget. The second would allow
city laws to go into effect
immediately, instead of waiting
for 30 or 60 days for a
congressional all-clear, as in the
case of the same-sex marriage
law.
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty
testified that the budget process
often causes delays in services
to residents. Most of the
hundreds of laws he signs every
year, from adoption to zoning,
"are of no interest to Congress
whatsoever," he said.
Longtime residents are used to
Congress having the ultimate
say. Gary Thompson, a lawyer
who has lived in the district
since 1992, said it seems like
every couple of years some
momentum to change that takes
hold, then stalls.
"I'm a little bit hardened and a
little bit cynical at this point,"
said Thompson, who heads a
neighborhood group and says he
will advocate for civil
disobedience, like blocking
entrances to government
buildings, if things don't change
soon.
The U.S. Constitution makes it
clear the city is under
congressional control. City
residents didn't get the right to
vote in presidential elections
until 1961. In the 1970s,
residents got the delegate spot in
Congress and the right to elect
their own mayor and City
Council.
Change is slow, however.
Norton predicted on Colbert's
show a year ago that she would
soon be a full voting member;
Colbert called her a "fake
congresswoman." But
momentum to give her voting
powers stalled when an
amendment was added in the
Senate that would repeal a strict
city gun registration
requirement, something
Democrats did not want.
Norton says she believes she
may now have found a way
around the amendment and will
get the bill passed early this
year.
Lifelong resident Jenica
Degree, who works at a store
that sells political memorabilia,
isn't convinced that having a
voting congresswoman would
change much. Not having one
"really doesn't bother me," she
said.
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US lifts lid on cyberwarfare plan Spidey Gets

(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition)
The Comprehensive National
Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI)
approaches have fallen short,
but says the federal government
"So this allows more people to
play and given that 85% of the Axed for
was introduced in 2008 by then- is moving forward in outlining critical infrastructure is not in
Submitted at 3/3/2010 2:53:09 PM
President George W Bush.
T h e W h i t e H o u s e h a s Going public
"grand challenges" for the
research community to help
government hands, it certainly
makes sense to include the rest
'Shopping
declassified parts of a top secret There are 12 parts to the CNCI, solve. of the expertise," Mr Markulec (Little Green Footballs)
plan outlining how government i n c l u d i n g c y b e r Mr Schmidt said the told BBC News. Submitted at 3/3/2010 5:12:31 PM

will protect the nation's counterintelligence and declassification would show that Hilton Collins of Government
computer networks from cyber d e t e r r e n c e s t r a t e g i e s . the government has a workable Technology Magazine agrees. Peter Parker, aka Spiderman,
warfare. For the first time the strategy for protecting the "The private sector has so much has been fired from his job as a
T h e a n n o u n c e m e n t b y government has published a nation's computer systems in the knowledge, power and money photographer because he
cybersecurity tsar Howard general description of what they event of a cyber attack. that for them to help the photoshopped some pictures.
Schmidt was made at the are on its website. Parts of the initiative that deal government innovate more Spiderman, the story goes,
world's biggest security event. The aim of the programme is with the nation's offensive plans technology security solutions is knows newspaper publisher J.
T h e m o v e i s a i m e d a t threefold: for cyberwarfare have not been the right way to go." Jonah Jameson, now mayor, is
e n c o u r a g i n g g r e a t e r c o - • to establish a front line of made public. The Electronic Privacy innocent of something heinous
operation between academia, d e f e n c e a g a i n s t t o d a y ' s 'Common sense' Information Centre (Epic), (it’s always something heinous,
government and the private i m m e d i a t e t h r e a t s Reaction to the announcement which had demanded the full isn’t it?), but the only way he
sector. • to defend against the full ranged from caution to praise. text of the CNCI, said it was can persuade people of that is to
"We have to fully recognise the spectrum of threats One supporter is Michael pleased about the digitally manipulate photos.
importance cybersecurity has in • to strengthen the future Markulec, chief operating declassification. He does and loses his job, so
our lives," Mr Schmidt said. cybersecurity environment officer for Lumeta, a company However the group said it still Spiderman becomes a victim of
"We must continue to seek out that provides large organisations wanted to see the full document the recession, although in these
innovative new partnerships - The CNCI funds a number of and government agencies with and what privacy safeguards are days of widespread layoffs at
not only within government, but sensitive projects including the secure network solutions. in place when assessing cyber newspapers prompted by
also among industry, government's Einstein "This move brings more people threats. economic forces, the superhero
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December 2009. that traditional security the government.

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Mr Obama said he looked
forward to signing health reform
into law
US President Barack Obama
has urged Congress to vote by
simple majority on healthcare
reform, as he makes a final push
to have his proposals adopted.
He said Congress should "finish
its work" and vote on the
legislation in the next few
weeks.
Healthcare has been a priority
for Mr Obama but the
legislation has been blocked by
the Republican minority.
Last week, a televised summit
hosted by Mr Obama in
Washington failed to break the
deadlock between parties.
'Implacably opposed'
The president wants Congress
to back the latest version of his
$950bn (£621bn) plan to cover
uninsured Americans and lower
premiums.
"I believe the United States
Congress owes the American
people a final vote on healthcare
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He said the proposed reforms
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from the Democrats and the
Republicans.
"I ask Congress to finish its
work, and I look forward to
signing this reform into law,"
Mr Obama said.
"At stake right now is not just
our ability to solve this problem,
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Mr Obama said he opposed
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comprehensive bills passed by
the House of Representatives
and Senate last year and begin
again with a more step-by-step
approach.
"For us to start over now could
simply lead to delay that could
last for another decade or even
more," he said.
Health care legislation is
currently stalled in Congress as
the Senate Democrats no longer
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the same kind of up-or-down
vote that was cast on welfare
reform, the Children's Health
Insurance Program, Cobra
health coverage for the
unemployed, and both Bush tax
cuts", Mr Obama said, referring
to other measures passed using
reconciliation.
But the BBC's Paul Adams, in
Washington, says the fact
remains that the Republicans are
implacably opposed to the sort
of overhaul the president wants.
If the Democrats decide to
force the issue to a vote on a
simple majority, they are still
going to have to fight every step
of the way, our correspondent
adds.
Senate Republican leader Mitch
have the 60-seat majority McConnell reaffirmed his
required to defeat blocking opposition to the president's
tactics by Republicans. plan.
Both chambers need to pass a "Americans don't want us to
unified version of the legislation tack a few good ideas onto a bill
for the president to sign it into that reshapes one-sixth of the
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Brazil rebuffs US Iran pressure

(BBC News | Americas | which enjoys good ties with as I wish for Brazil: To use the
World Edition) Iran, to support its push for a development of nuclear energy
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President Lula said he did not
want Iran to develop nuclear
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Mrs Clinton said that sanctions Council that Iran will negotiate many other issues, has not lived DVD owners to backup their course, there are a bunch of
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Mexico City gay marriage law in Interview with Zen

force Bound creators on iPad
(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition)
for the whole of society in
Mexico City," added Ms
Castaneda.
gay marriage licences; they have
so far been unsuccessful.
Despite the move in the capital,
and iPhone games
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Mexican capital has become a battle is with our people in
The law, which was passed by liberal and progressive island in Developer, iPad AppAdvice has
Mexico... Now we will have to
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leave our symbolic closet
December, gives gay people full conservative nation, says the Exit, the folks who made one of
because we will be [considered]
marital rights, including the BBC's Julian Miglierini in the best iPhone games of last
citizens and we have to go out to
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Mexico City. live in freedom."
Several gay couples are now But local gay activists say not only about that game and
In Latin America, only
expected to register to get homophobic attacks are still how the iPhone turned out to be
Uruguay has legalised civil
married as early as next week. frequent across the country, the perfect platform for them to
unions nationwide and allowed
Mexico City is one of the first where people continue to face start out on, but also about the
same-sex couples to adopt
capitals in Latin America to discrimination in the workplace iPad and what they're planning
children.
fully recognise gay marriages. for being gay or are attacked to do with it in the future.
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Argentina, Ecuador and
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The future of the Internet on display at Singularity University
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 5:00:00 AM
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California
--The Internet of the future is an
intelligent network capable of
proactively acting on our needs,
following us wherever we go,
helping provide focused health
care and possibly ushering in a
new energy paradigm.
That's the vision James Canton,
the CEO of the San Francisco-
based think tank, the Institute
for Global Futures, shared with
the students in the executive
program of Singularity
University Wednesday. A broad
-reaching, theoretical talk that
touched on many of the same
elements of an all-encompassing
network more or less overlaid
on people's consciousnesses as
science fiction by the likes of
Vernor Vinge, Canton's vision
nonetheless seemed plausible,
particularly in light of the
curriculum of so-called
exponential technologies being
taught here.
Canton's vision of this future
Internet begins with four key
drivers: Telepresence, mobility,
artificial intelligence and
specific vertical market
segments such as health care.
In a straw poll of the 40-odd
students in the SU program, the
majority felt that mobility was
the most important of those
drivers, and Canton said that
made sense given that the world
currently has 5 billion people on
the Internet and that that number
could skyrocket in the next few
years. The idea, then, would be
for the Internet of the future to
comprise large numbers of
networks talking to nodes that
are independently
communicating with each other,
"having their own
conversation," he said.
Indeed, Canton predicted a
future in which the Internet is
embedded just about
everywhere: in every imaginable
kind of devices, from TVs to
phones to walls in rooms and
that every kind of product or
device--or even people--one can
think of has an IP address. He
added that while such a picture
might seem distant, the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration
has already approved a chip that
could be embedded in people's
bodies. In Miami, he said, the
latest craze is women wearing
clothes with chips embedded
that can be scanned to verify
their identities so that they don't
have to carry purses.
Similarly, he said that
government workers in Mexico
City can't get into buildings
without having some sort of
wearable identification chip.
It will be a key component,
then, of the future of the
Internet, Canton predicted, that
everything will have an IP
address and that, therefore, we
will be living in what he called a
"blended reality," where
information is constantly
streaming at and around us
across physical and digital
artifacts.
Proactive search
Today, Canton said, in order to
find information online, we have
to turn on our computers and go
look for it. "But what if you
didn't have to do that," he asked
the executive students. "What if
it found you?"
The idea, he said, is a
worldwide system of intuitive
networks that pay attention to
us, and know our likes and
desires, and proactively feed us
the information we need to act
on them.
"We're on the cusp of that," he
said, the Internet "intuitively
sensing who you are, and what
your needs are and paying
attention to your behavior and to
what you think is important."
And such systems wouldn't just
be with you at home, but would
travel with you everywhere, he
suggested. The kinds of devices
we see as discrete today, our
phones, our computers, TVs and
cars, will "at the end of the day,
all...get mashed up," he said.
That means, he said, that each
of us will have our own
"personal Internet layer...that
lives in your own personal
Internet cloud [and] deciphers
what's next" for us.
It's not clear when such a
system will be functional, he
admitted, given that it would
require a great deal of artificial
intelligence that has not yet
made its way into consumer
technology, but it's not that far
off, he suggested. In fact, he
said that as much as 30 percent
of the technology necessary for
such things to be part of our
every day lives has already been
built. And what's in the lab
today, he pointed out, is in the
marketplace tomorrow.
And, he said, the model for
such AI-based systems will be
one that already dominates the
planet: biology. The networks of
the future will mimic living
ecosystems, he said.
At Singularity University, the
students are getting high-level,
intense lectures on fields of
study like nanotechnology,
biotech, AI, robotics,
bioinformatics and the like, all
of which fall under the rubric of
exponentially-growing
technology, and the Internet of
the future Canton was
illustrating is essentially a
mashup of these technologies,
he said.
As a result, the Internet will be
smart in a way we can barely
imagine today and could finally
help us solve systemic crises
like health care and poverty
while also helping create
thousands, or even millions of
new companies in the process,
or even entirely new markets
that never existed before.
Megacities
As the Earth's population
expands, it will result in the
blossoming of dozens of new
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megacities, Canton said, but
current data infrastructures are
incapable of handling the needs
of those new metropolises.
"There is not enough storage or
bandwidth to deal with this
reality," he said. "We have to
get better...at how we enable
that future to emerge."
Perhaps as many as 80 percent
of the next 100 megacities will
require next-generation Web
infrastructure, he predicted, and
society will have to find ways to
"migrate to that infrastructure."
Ultimately, the "one key bucket
of technology" that may drive
the future of the Internet is
quantum mechanics, Canton
said, and that will create new
dynamics like humans being
able to "design space and time"
and the possibility that the
contents of the entire U.S.
Library of Congress could fit on
something no bigger than a
thumbnail.
In the process, we may be able
to access and process in real
time so much medical data that
we will have the wherewithal to
eliminate huge numbers of
deaths or illnesses.
Internet 3, 4 and 5
Some may feel that it's too
early to be defining these things,
but Canton clearly isn't one of
them. He said that we are
currently living in the "middle
ages" when it comes to
computing networks, and that
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Feds weigh expansion of Internet monitoring

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 4:00:00 AM

Homeland Security Secretary

Janet Napolitano, who said that
Einstein 3 could only be
discussed in a classified setting,
speaks at the RSA conference
on Wednesday.(Credit: James
Martin/CNET)
SAN FRANCISCO--Homeland
Security and the National
Security Agency may be taking
a closer look at Internet
communications in the future.
The Department of Homeland
Security's top cybersecurity
official told CNET on
Wednesday that the department
may eventually extend its
Einstein technology, which is
designed to detect and prevent
electronic attacks, to networks
operated by the private sector.
The technology was created for
federal networks.
Greg Schaffer, assistant
secretary for cybersecurity and
communications, said in an
interview that the department is
evaluating whether Einstein
"makes sense for expansion to
critical infrastructure spaces" attempting to thwart in-progress Earlier reports have said that level of protection either for a space that's problematic from
over time. cyberattacks by sharing Einstein 3 has the ability to read federal government systems or a privacy perspective."
Not much is known about how information with the National the content of emails and other otherwise," Schaffer said. "As a If Einstein 3 does perform as
Einstein works, and the House Security Agency. messages, and that AT&T has practical matter, you're looking well as Homeland Security
Intelligence Committee once Greater federal involvement in been asked to test the system. at data that's relevant to hopes, it could help less-
charged that descriptions were privately operated networks may (The Obama administration says malicious activity, and that's the prepared companies fend off
overly "vague" because of spark privacy or surveillance the "contents" of data that you're focused on. It's cyberattacks, including worms
"excessive classification." The concerns, not least because of communications are not shared not necessary to go into a space sent through e-mail, phishing
White House did confirm this the NSA's central involvement with the NSA.) where someone will say you're attempts, and even denial of
week that the latest version, in the Bush administration's "I don't think you have to be Big acting like Big Brother. It can be
warrantless wiretapping scandal. Brother in order to provide a done without crossing over into FEDS page 25
called Einstein 3, involves
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Thumbplay launches music service for BlackBerry

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 5:00:00 AM

Thumbplay is set to launch on

Thursday the mobile version of
its subscription-based music
service for BlackBerry devices,
with Android and iPhone
versions to follow shortly.
Thumbplay is best known for
selling ringtones, but as that
market dried up, the company
shifted strategies and decided to
enter the subscription music
space, where it will compete
against longtime players like
Rhapsody, as well as a growing
number of new entrants such as
MOG and Spotify. So how does
it stack up?
Thumbplay Music's desktop
application. Can you find the
"shuffle" command?(Credit:
Screenshot)
The company gave me a 30-day
invitation to its beta and loaned
me a BlackBerry Bold 9000 to
test it on, and after a few days,
my impressions are mostly
positive, with a few big
problems. I'll start with the
positives. The starting price is
only $9.99 a month, and that
includes access from your
computer using a desktop
application (it's based on competitors for mobile there were a few performance and you can import songs from added," and it will only import
Adobe's AIR platform and subscription music services. lags over 3G when I tried to a memory card. If you have 200 songs on any given playlist.
works on Mac or PC), as well as Sound quality was very good, switch out of a playlist or find a iTunes on your computer, you Also, if Thumbplay doesn't have
from any supported mobile and I didn't notice any audible new song. Finding music to play can also import playlists from certain songs in its service, like
device. That's quite a bit cheaper differences when testing it over is quite easy--the search engine iTunes to Thumbplay, but it nearly all tracks from The
than Rhapsody To Go ($14.99) AT&T's 3G service versus my is adequate as long as you won't import auto-generated
or Spotify Premium (9.99 home Wi-Fi network, although restrict searches to artist names, playlists, such as "recently THUMBPLAY page 27
pounds in the U.K.), its main
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Dear Aunt TUAW: Does size matter (when it comes to iPads)?
Erica Sadun (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 3/4/2010 8:00:00 AM
Filed under: Apple, iPad Dear
Aunt TUAW,
I am planning on getting an
iPad WiFi+3G when they
become available, but I am still
undecided on which (storage)
size I should get. I currently
have a 16GB iPhone 3GS which
comfortably, for now, holds all
my media needs. While I have a
lot of music and photos and
some video I don't feel the need
to have it all on my phone at one
time.
Looking at what I store on my
iPhone I think an iPad 32GB
would more than fit my needs --
but will my media files be larger
on the iPad with the larger
format of the device? I don't
expect that my iTunes songs
will take up anymore than they
do on the iPhone, but will the
format of pictures and video
take up more storage space?
With AT&T increasing the
download size limit over 3G it
got me wondering if 32GB on
the iPad will be more like a
16GB iPhone.
At this point I would be
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deciding between the 32GB and
64GB. Just wondering if the
$100 price difference would be
better spent buying the 32GB
and putting the $100 toward a
year's worth of 3G connectivity?
Love, kissies & hugs,
Your nephew, RJ
Dearest RJ,
16GB data? Buy the 32GB
model, unless you can easily
swing the 64 GB one. Then go
for that.
Auntie has a pretty firm policy
on this kind of thing: always
buy the most storage you can
afford unless the storage on
offer is insufficient, whether
truly insufficient or plausibly
insufficient. Here's how it
works. Let's say you have about
30GB of data. There's a 32GB
item for sale and a 64GB item
for sale. Which should you buy?
Auntie's advice is to always buy
the 64GB item. There's plenty of
room there for you to grow over
time, and overbuying your
storage ensures that your device
will remain useful as your data
demands grow.
Now let's say, we're in the same
situation but with 16GB and
32GB units instead. Here's
where Auntie goes mental.
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In that scenario, my advice is to
buy low, just getting the 16GB
model. "OMG, Auntie," you're
saying to yourself. "How can
you give such poor advice? The
30 GB of data I currently use as
of today will fit comfortably on
that 32GB unit! What
the...um...heck?"
Here's the reasoning behind that
advice: Buying any
iPhone/iPod/iPad unit with just
2GB to spare is asking to pay
extra for not-enough-room
misery. You're going to ebay-
and-upgrade within six months
anyway, right? So why not just
save the money and wait until
something decent actually
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to 4GB and 8GB iPhones until
my beloved 32GB 3GS finally
debuted. The money I saved
helped underwrite the
equipment I actually wanted. Of
course, I'm now thisclose from
running out of room on my
newish 64GB iPod touch. And
my 3GS? Sadly, overburdened
already. (Although, to be fair,
it's had a really great year -- and
I've loved the storage space that
it added to my life.)
It's the same way with the iPad.
Top of the line 64GB simply
isn't going to cut it for me under
any plausible near term usage
scenarios. With movies and
books and lots of other iPad-
ready great digital resources that
go way beyond normal iPhone
use, my storage requirements
are constantly moving upwards,
not downwards. I'm buying the
16GB model until at least a
128GB (and, preferably a
256GB) model shows up.
Is this biting off my nose to
spite my face? (And, by the
way, that's physically harder
than you might imagine unless
you have a very flexible nose
and jaw, but I digress.) No, it's
keeping my eyes on what I
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really want instead of settling
for not-quite-good-enough. Over
time, prices drop. Storage
increases. So long as I have an
entry-level iPad to get started
with, I'll be fine -- at least until
my dreamPad finally debuts.
If you do have the spare cash
on-hand and don't have to count
pennies, well, buy the best unit
available. With that kind of cash
flow, you don't have to worry
about asking Auntie T.
questions about which unit
offers the best value. But if
you're like me, a tech addict on
a tight budget and unwilling to
compromise on quality, you
may consider buying down
instead of up until the right
model comes along.
Love & hugs,
Auntie T.
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service attacks.
On the other hand, civil
libertarians are sure to raise
questions about privacy, access,
and how Einstein could be used
in the future. If it can perform
deep packet inspection to
prevent botnets from accessing
certain Web pages, for instance,
could it also be used to prevent a
human from accessing illegal
pornography, copyright-
infringing music, or offshore
gambling sites?
"It's one thing for the
government to monitor its own
systems for malicious code and
intrusions," said Greg Nojeim,
senior counsel at the Center for
Democracy and Technology.
"It's quite another for the
government to monitor private
networks for those intrusions.
We'd be concerned about any
notion that a governmental
monitoring system like Einstein
would be extended to private
networks."
AT&T did not respond to a
request for comment on
Wednesday.
Cooperation, or a loss of
control?
At the RSA Conference here on
Wednesday, Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano
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stressed the need for more
cooperation between the
government and the private
sector on cybersecurity, saying
that "we need to have a system
that works together."
During a House appropriations
hearing on February 26,
Napolitano refused to discuss
Einstein 3 unless the hearing
were closed to the public. "I
don't want to comment publicly
on Einstein 3, per se, here in an
unclassified setting," she said.
"What I would suggest, perhaps,
is a classified briefing for
members of the subcommittee
who are interested."
Some privacy concerns about
Einstein have popped up before.
An American Bar Association
panel said this about Einstein 3
in a September 2009 report:
"Because government
communications are
commingled with the private
communications of non-
governmental actors who use
the same system, great caution
will be necessary to insure that
privacy and civil liberties
concerns are adequately
considered."
Jacob Appelbaum, a security
researcher and programmer for
the Tor anonymity project, said
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that expanding Einstein 3 to the
private sector would amount to a
partial outsourcing of security.
"It's clearly a win for people
without the security know-how
to protect their own networks,"
Appelbaum said. "It's also a
clear loss of control. And
anyone with access to that
monitoring system, legitimate or
otherwise, would be able to
monitor amazing amounts of
traffic."
Einstein grew out of a still-
classified executive order, called
National Security Presidential
Directive 54, that President
Bush signed in 2008.
While little information is
available, former Homeland
Security Secretary Michael
Chertoff once likened it to a
new "Manhattan Project," and
the Washington Post reported
that the accompanying
cybersecurity initiative
represented the "single largest
request for funds" in last year's
classified intelligence budget.
The Electronic Privacy
Information Center has filed a
lawsuit (PDF) to obtain the text
of the order.
Homeland Security has
published (PDF) a privacy
impact assessment for a less
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capable system called Einstein 2
--which aimed to do intrusion
detection and not prevention--
but has not done so for Einstein
3.
The department did, however,
prepare a general set of
guidelines (PDF) for privacy
and civil liberties in June 2009.
In addition, the Bush Justice
Department wrote a memo
(PDF) saying Einstein 2
"complies with" the U.S.
Constitution and federal wiretap
laws.
That justification for Einstein 2
"turned on the consent of
employees in the government
that are being communicated
with, and on the notion that a
person who communicates with
the government can't then
complain that the government
read the communication," said
CDT's Nojeim. "How does that
legal justification work should
Einstein be extended to the
private sector?"
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we are surrounded by dumb
devices and machines that
cannot think for themselves.
But he said an "Internet 3" will
be a "collaborative Web" that
will have at its root a
cooperation between people and
our machines.
His vision of an "Internet 4"
will include evolutionary
networking that has a major self
-organizing principle and which
has human reproduction as an
inspiration. And "Internet 5"
will mimic living ecosystems
and feature smart and aware
physical spaces, embedded
intelligence and systems that
can do things like transfer
energy amongst themselves as
they need them.
"It's not that far out," Canton
said. "I believe it's already
started."
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Michael Rose (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 3/4/2010 12:15:00 AM
Filed under: iPhone, App
Review
In the burgeoning market for
iPhone voice recognition apps,
the free Dragon Dictate clearly
holds the top spot. In fact, this
paragraph was dictated using
DragonDictate (with some
minor edits after the fact).
However, the application doesn't
always shine when it comes to
getting your text quickly and
easily into different places
where you might want to use it.
You can send an e-mail or a text
message if you want to, but you
can't update your Facebook
status or send a Twitter message
without copying and pasting.
Performing a search requires an
entirely separate app.
To make your dictation process
easier -- at least when it comes
to getting your text to go where
you want, when you want --
there's the latest update to the
Vlingo app, which we first
reviewed last June. Vlingo 2.0 is
trying to up the ante for text
recognition by putting all the
'next step' options in one
convenient place.
You can search (Google,
Yahoo, or Bing), find map
items, dial your contacts (with
optional contact name upload to
Vlingo's servers to improve
recognition) and update your
Facebook or Twitter status. For
email or SMS, you have two in-
app purchase options to extend
the free app's capabilities; it's
$6.99 for either SMS or email
action, $9.99 for both.
Vlingo has gotten a thorough
UI overhaul in this new version,
and it's quite a bit easier to use
than it was. The dictation button
can be used in hold-down or tap
-to-talk mode, and the app can
be set to recognize speech on
launch for maximum speed. You
can specify what action you
want by speaking it: "Email
Joey, Subject how about some
coffee, Message Got time to
meet me at Starbucks? You're
buying!" will create and address
an outgoing email for you, all in
one step.
In the burgeoning market for
iPhone voice recognition apps,
the free Dragon Dictate clearly
holds the top spot. In fact, this
paragraph was dictated using
DragonDictate (with some
minor edits after the fact).
However, the application doesn't
always shine when it comes to
getting your text quickly and
easily into different places
where you might want to use it.
You can send an e-mail or a text
message if you want to, but you
can't update your Facebook
status or send a Twitter message
without copying and pasting.
Performing a search requires an
entirely separate app.
To make your dictation process
easier -- at least when it comes
to getting your text to go where
you want, when you want --
there's the latest update to the
Vlingo app, which we first
reviewed last June. Vlingo 2.0 is
trying to up the ante for text
recognition by putting all the
'next step' options in one
convenient place.
You can search (Google,
Yahoo, or Bing), find map
items, dial your contacts (with
optional contact name upload to
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Vlingo's servers to improve
recognition) and update your
Facebook or Twitter status. For
email or SMS, you have two in-
app purchase options to extend
the free app's capabilities; it's
$6.99 for either SMS or email
action, $9.99 for both.
Vlingo has gotten a thorough
UI overhaul in this new version,
and it's quite a bit easier to use
than it was. The dictation button
can be used in hold-down or tap
-to-talk mode, and the app can
be set to recognize speech on
launch for maximum speed. You
can specify what action you
want by speaking it: "Email
Joey, Subject how about some
coffee, Message Got time to
meet me at Starbucks? You're
buying!" will create and address
an outgoing email for you, all in
one step.
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Beatles, you won't be able to get
them from iTunes to the
Thumbplay service. (That's
because you're not actually
importing physical tracks from
iTunes, you're importing
metadata.)
But the whole point of a
subscription service is to get
away from the songs you own
and explore other music. That's
where the excellent autoplaylist
feature comes in--select any
currently playing song, and it
will create a 15-song playlist
based on that song. It's like
having Pandora or Slacker
mixed in with your personal
music collection and on-demand
searches. (This feature is
provided by Thumbplay partner
The Echo Nest.) If you
absolutely have to own a song
you've been playing, Thumbplay
will let you download a
permanent MP3 and charge you
standard download rates
(between $0.79 and $1.29).
I was also impressed with the
speed of sync between the
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook in No Rush to Go Public
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 6:31:00 AM
Everyone is still trying to figure
out just how big a business
social networks are, how much
is Facebook worth, and how
much money it’ll be making in a
couple of years. Facebook CEO
desktop and BlackBerry
versions of the app. Whenever I
created or updated a playlist in
one place, it was almost
immediately updated in the
other. This is one of the greatest
benefits of using a cloud-based
music service, and it's nice to
see it working so well here.
There's also a nifty "save
offline" feature, which lets you
cache playlists on the phone so
you can play them when you're
away from a wireless
connection--great for subway
commutes or plane trips.
Unfortunately, there are also a
few areas that don't seem
finished. The search engine is
sketchy--querying "I'm New
Here," the name of Gil Scott-
Heron's new album, returned no
results, even though it's in
Thumbplay's catalog and is
currently featured among new
releases. You can't delete
playlists from the BlackBerry
app, and if you delete them
using the desktop application,
they still appear on the
Mark Zuckerberg, however,
doesn’t seem worried at all.
Asked about Facebook’s plans
to launch an initial public
offering (IPO), he said the
company will do it eventually,
but it’s “definitely in no rush.”
The reason for the leisurely Zuckerberg, is the simple fact
approach, according to
BlackBerry app (and reappear in
the desktop app the next time
you open it). You can't scroll
through a currently playing song
on the Blackberry app. In the
desktop app, there's no shuffle
command. Some of these
missing features will be added
in future releases, the company
confirmed.
The catalog also has some holes
--all the usual big names are
available, but when I tried to
create a playlist to prepare me
for Coachella 2010, some acts
like She and Him and The
Temper Trap were missing or
very sparse; both had more
songs available on Rhapsody.
That's not completely surprising,
as Thumbplay claims 8 million
tracks versus Rhapsody's 9
million. But Rhapsody's been
around much longer, and
Thumbplay has deals with all
the major labels and a lot of
indies, so hopefully these gaps
will be filled soon.
Finally, I have to mention that
as I was writing this post, after
testing it for a couple of days,
the BlackBerry Thumbplay app
froze completely and stopped
working. I had to remove and
reinsert the phone's battery
before I could get Thumbplay to
work again. The company
blamed this problem on last-
minute updates to the service
before it emerges from beta.
To sum up, if you've got a
BlackBerry and aren't satisfied
with your musical options on the
device today, Thumbplay is
definitely worth trying, but bang
on it a lot to make sure you're
satisfied before subscribing. The
free trial lasts for three days and
does not require a credit card to
get started.
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that Facebook doesn’t need
money.
“If you don’t need that capital,
then all the pressures are
different, and the motivations
(to go public) are not there in
the same way,” he said.
While estimates about
Facebook’s future earnings vary
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Android 2.1 Update
Available For Motorola
Droid and Droid Eris
Via Leaked ROM
[Android]
Kat Hannaford (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 7:12:55 AM
Droid owners have been
waiting and waiting for 2.1 to
materialize, but fortunately a
firmware update has leaked for
both handsets. Motorola and
Verizon have both promised
OTA updates, but it's anyone's
guess as to when they'll be
out—so this may just be the
fastest way to get the latest
Android flavor on your pocket-
friend. [ XDA-Developers via
Droid Life via Android and Me]
wildly, Facebook recently
turned cash flow positive, which
is a big deal for a company
many once thought was pure
vaporware. As long as Facebook
keeps it that way, it can
calculate and delay the IPO for
as long as it deems necessary.
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Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 6:23:32 AM
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the investigative work that no
concerned folks who are
organized (perhaps loosely, but
misled the public with a
misrepresentation of one paper,
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full-time journalist was doing quite effectively) to bring about a Cochrane review looking at Doug Aamoth (CrunchGear)
Last year, we wrote about a (and who says bloggers can't do massive change concerning the the effectiveness of various Submitted at 3/4/2010 6:40:18 AM
really troubling incident in the investigative journalism?) to BCA and chiropractor treatments for bed-wetting,
U K , w h e r e t h e B r i t i s h debunk the BCA's claims. marketing practices in general. claiming that the authors had This $70 Casio Exilim is purple
Chiropractic Association had While the lawsuit continues, the The article linked above also simply concluded that, "there but it’s priced at over $100 just
sued Dr. Simon Singh for noting loosely organized group of folks goes through more details of was weak evidence to support about everywhere else, so let’s
that there was little scientific who had been fighting back how this group has helped the use of [chiropractic]. One just go with it. It looks more
evidence to back up some of the against the BCA have continued dismantle the BCA's weak day someone will write a big pink to me, but Woot says it’s
marketing claims used by the to work their magic. Brandon attempt at showing scientific case study (or perhaps a book) purple and who am I to question
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classic Streisand Effect in steroids. In trying to hush up small collection of poor-quality This Story
action. What was also one critic, the BCA has trials. So it’s portable and purple.
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Is The Commerce Department Really USTR Responds To Sen. Wyden

About ACTA; Admits It Hopes
Ready To Regulate The Internet? ACTA Will Cover Patents Too
Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Freedom of Expression, those challenges. But, in doing
Mike Masnick (Techdirt) some of its problems. The
Submitted at 3/3/2010 10:30:00 PM Cybersecurity, Copyright and so, it may need to rethink how it
Internet Governance. approaches some of those Submitted at 3/4/2010 4:27:34 AM USTR claims that it is making
Larry Strickling, the head of the Obviously, I'm not convinced issues. sure there is "flexibility" in the
National Telecommunications that things like copyright really Indeed, in reading the speech, it Y o u m a y r e c a l l , a t t h e agreement to allow for that --
and Information Agency (a need much more government doesn't sound like he's really beginning of the year, Senator but the leaked documents show
division of the Department of intervention (there's been plenty, pushing for a change towards Ron Wyden complained about no such flexibility.
Commerce), gave a speech last thank you very much), but some suddenly massively regulating the secrecy surrounding ACTA Furthermore, the response
week where he outlined, in of the other ones are interesting the internet. Instead, I read it as and sent a series of questions to confirms what became clear in
broad strokes, a vision for issues where you could see a him realizing that these issues -- the USTR about the negotiations the most recent leak, that the US
"Internet Policy 3.0", which government role. which, for the most part, the behind ACTA. While the sees ACTA as covering not just
suggested a much more hands- The problem, of course, is what government is already active in USTR apparently replied in late copyrights and trademarks -- but
on approach to regulating the happens when you actually open regulating -- now present some January, both sides have only patents as well (though, some of
internet. This got some t h e s e u p t o r e g u l a t o r y different challenges due to the just revealed the contents of the the other participants are against
attention online, with some interference. Suddenly, they nature of what's happening on response(pdf). It's about what including patents).
c l a i m i n g t h a t t h e U S become political footballs. line. Given that, the US needs you would expect. The answers Finally, the USTR repeats the
was"rescinding" its "leave We've seen this with copyright, to think carefully through its leave plenty of wiggle room, bogus claims that it is being
internet alone policy." That may where it's become a case of policies and how they impact and a few seem to be blatant transparent about ACTA, noting
be a stretch from what was regulatory capture -- laws are the internet. At least, I hope falsehoods. For example, that it put up a dedicated web
actually said, but a lot of people pushed to protect entrenched that's what he meant. W y d e n i s c o n c e r n e d page. Well, doesn't that just
are wondering what this really interests, rather than to support While there are certainly (accurately) not just over solve everything?
means. What Strickling was what copyright is supposed to problems online, opening them whether or not ACTA will Permalink| Comments| Email
r e a l l y t a l k i n g a b o u t w a s do (promoting the progress). up directly to regulatory control change US copyright law, but if This Story
rethinking the general policy Rather than adopting some of risks turning them into tools of it will limit Congress's ability to
towards some of the bigger the more hysterical responses to special interests, rather than change copyright law to fix
internet challenges. this speech, the CDT put out a letting things develop in the
In his mind, "Internet Policy well-thought-out response, that most efficient manner. There US jobless claims fall back
3.0" would be about ensuring s u g g e s t s t h a t S t r i c k l a n d are risks and dangers online, but (Financial Times - US department figures showed on
users of the Internet are able to hopefully misspoke, or really if there needs to be any policy homepage) Thursday. That was better than
trust others that they deal with. meant to say something slightly towards online activities, it economists had projected and
Submitted at 3/4/2010 6:18:51 AM
This is certainly an issue to be different, along the lines of should use a very light touch. brought the less volatile four-
dealt with. And he then lists out admitting that there are real Permalink| Comments| Email The number of US workers week average down by 3,500 to
five areas where such concerns policy issues impacting the This Story claiming jobless fell more than 470,750.
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Microsoft’s First App Google: Desktops Will Shakira

for Android is Called
Tag
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 5:24:55 AM
Admit it: seeing Microsoft
release an application for
Google’s operating system
seems a little weird, doesn’t it?
Still, it’s true; Microsoft has
launched its first Android app,
called Tag.
We wrote about Tag a couple of
weeks ago; simply put, it’s an
app that lets you link physical
objects with content on the
Internet. You point your
smartphone’s camera at a
specially designed barcode, and
your smartphone opens a link to
any sort of online content:
video, image, or text.
At launch, Microsoft supported
most mobile operating systems
– Symbian, iPhone OS,
BlackBerry – with Android also
being on the list, but clicking on
that link actually revealed a
“coming soon” message. Now,
Bestowed with
Be Irrelevant in Three Honor from UN
Years’ Time (ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 3:34:00 AM
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 1:06:56 AM The United Nations presented
popstar Shakira with a medal to
Speaking at the Digital acknowledge her philanthropic
Landscapes conference at UCD, work for issues concerning
European Director of Google’s children and youth.
online sales John Herlihy said Shakira founded the Barefoot
that Google is mostly oriented Foundation in her native country
towards mobile devices, of Colombia. The organization
Android users can try out the claiming they’ll become more their domain — the cloud. provides proper nutrition and an
app too, but its significance lies important than desktop PCs. And if your data moves to the education to upwards of 6,000
in the fact that Microsoft has “In three years time, desktops cloud, and most of your daily children. It also extends its
created an application for will be irrelevant. In Japan, most online activities are done on outreach to the kids' parents and
Google’s Android. It’s not that research is done today on smart devices such as the Nexus One community.
big of a deal, since the same app phones, not PCs,” he said. and the iPad, where simple, At the ceremony in Geneva,
exists for the iPhone OS, True, with Android and Nexus widget-style applications cater Shakira made a call for others to
a n o t h e r c o m p e t i t o r t o O n e G o o g l e h a s s h o w n a to your precise needs, then yes, offer service: "It's not too late to
Microsoft’s Windows Mobile commitment to extend its desktop PCs as we know them k e e p o u r p r o m i s e t o o u r
and the upcoming Windows dominance from the online now will become a lot less children, but we must act now.
Phone 7 mobile operating world to the mobile world. But important. On the other hand, T o g e t h e r , w e c a n m a k e
systems. Still, in the epic battle will desktop PCs really become not many users are ready to education and decent work for
of Microsoft vs. Google, this is irrelevant? Depends on how you ditch the desktop just yet; we’ll all a reality."
another small victory for the look at it. Google isn’t really see if it all pans out according to
online giant from Mountain interested in how we edit our Google’s plans.
View. photos; it’s interested in where Tags: desktop, Google, Mobile
Tags: android, microsoft, we store them, and increasingly, 2.0, pc, trending
Mobile 2.0, Tag we do that at a place is a part of

Made-to-Order Headphones Show Your Favorite Music in 3D

[Concept]
Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 8:31:33 AM
Brian Garret Schuur is a clever
guy, and that's why rapid
manufacturer Freedom of
Creation has taken his design for
the Street Headphones. These
made-to-order headphones
feature the names of your
favorite bands and singers all
around them, in 3D. to blasting the volume up. [
They don't seem very Freedom of Creation]
comfortable, but I would be glad
if people used this way to show
their musical taste—as opposed
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The most awesome iPhone stand ever Jake Pavelka Reveals
made out of cutlery
Steven Sande (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 3/4/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: Accessories,
Humor, iPhone, iPod touch That
headline is probably a bit of an
overstatement, since this is
probably the only iPhone stand
made out of cutlery.
ForkedUpArt of North Salt
Lake, Utah, is actually selling
two different stands. ForkHead,
who you see standing at
attention at your right, and
SpoonHead, ForkHead's smarter
brother.
Sold through our favorite
iPhone accessory store,
Etsy.com, the ForkedUpArt
Funny Or Die Presidential Reunion Unites SNL
Stars for Web Hit [VIDEO]
Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 10:44:26 PM
Comedy site Funny Or Die has
brought together current and
former stars of Saturday Night
Live (plus Jim Carrey) to create
a skit called “Presidential
Reunion” that has racked up
more than one million views in
less than 24 hours.
When He Fell Head
Over Heals for Vienna
iPhone stands can be
customized if you want, and
according to the artist, "I'm
making these guys as fast as I
can."
The skit features Fred Armisen,
who currently plays Barack
Obama on SNL, Will Ferrell
bringing back his George W.
Bush, Darrell Hammond (Bill
Clinton), Dana Carvey (Bush
Sr.), Jim Carrey (Ronald
Reagan), Dan Akroyd (Jimmy
Carter), and Chevy Chase
(Gerald Ford). Maya Rudolph
plays Michelle Obama.
How much will one of these
unique items put you back?
About US$20, plus shipping.
That's less expensive than some
of the fancy-schmancy stands
you can buy through more
traditional sources, and let's face
it -- these stands are really cool.
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The video itself pokes fun of
each president’s idiosyncrasies
Tech/ Entertainment/ Politics/
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Submitted at 3/4/2010 5:08:00 AM
"The Bachelor"'s latest success
story, Jake Pavelka and Vienna
Girardi, cozy up on the couch on
"The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
Ellen asked when Jake knew
that Vienna was "the one" and
stood out from the rest of the
beautiful bachelorettes vying for
his attention. He said that
Vienna made her impression on
his heart when "she described
what she thought of love"
during a joint date with Gia.
and stereotypes, offering current
President Obama advice on how
to fix Washington. The ending
features an ad for Main Street
Brigade, an organization calling
for financial reform. Check it
out below:
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The bride-to-be revealed that
she and her fiancé "have been
sneaking around" for the past
three months until their
engagement was publicly
revealed Monday night on "The
Bachelor: On the Wings of
Love" season finale. During
their time under the radar, "We
have watched almost every
episode together," said Vienna.
"We haven't watched the finale
yet because we haven't had a
chance to. We lived it, we know
what happened."
Round Two
John B. Judis (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 12:37:11 PM
In his speech today in the White
House East Room, President
Obama clearly indicated that he
is going to press for a
comprehensive, and not a
piecemeal or “skinny,” health
care reform bill. He also made it
abundantly clear that he will
accept, if necessary, a party-line
simple majority vote in the
House and the Senate in order to
get the bill through.
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Reconciliation here we come.
Obama’s speech represents a
major departure from the
politics of his presidential
campaign and of his first year in
office. In his campaign, Obama
pledged to defy partisan
gridlock and to “change the way
Washington works.” During the
campaign, some liberal
commentators believed that he
was merely employing a clever
tactic to highlight the rigid
partisanship of his opponents.
“If we understand Obama's
approach as a means, and not
the limit of what he understands
about American politics, it has
great promise as a theory of
change,” Mark Schmitt wrote in
The American Prospect.
But it is now evident that
Obama’s approach was what he
understood about American
politics—it was the guiding
light gleaned from his years as
an Illinois state senator—and he
planned to apply it to
Congress. And it was, of course,
nonsense. Republicans were
able to use Obama’s naiveté
about their motives to
undermine his initiatives. As
Noam Scheiber explains in his
profile of Rahm Emanuel, the
principal obstacle to getting
health care reform through
Congress last year was Obama’s
dogged insistence last summer
that Senate Finance Chairman
Max Baucus continue to plug
away at nailing down a
bipartisan agreement. What
Obama got was not an amicable
agreement but a summer of
discontent, highlighted by
Senator Charles Grassley’s
denunciation of Democratic
“death panels” and by the
emergence of the Tea Party
movement.
But it’s not an easy job being
president. It took Bill Clinton
most of his first term to figure
out how to do domestic and
foreign policy. Like Clinton,
Obama has stumbled, but his
slip-ups have been more
dramatic because, with the
economy cratering and two wars
raging, the stakes have been
higher from the first.
However, in Obama’s speech
today, and in his artful
performance at the health care
summit last week, he showed
that he has learned something
from his first year in office.
Obama is now using the rhetoric
of bipartisanship as Schmitt and
other liberals thought he was
doing in 2008: He is using it to
paint Republicans as
intransigent. He clearly no
longer believes that a bipartisan
agreement on health care is
possible.
Moreover, he is now drawing
clear lines between the politics
of Democrats and the politics of
Republicans. "Republicans," he
said, "believe the answer is to
loosen regulations on the
insurance industry--whether it's
state consumer protections or
minimum standards for the kind
of insurance they can sell. I
disagree with that approach. I'm
concerned that this would only
give the insurance industry even
freer rein to raise premiums and
deny care.” And in summing up,
Obama said that that if
Republicans “truly believe that
less regulation would lead to
higher quality, more affordable
health insurance, then they
should vote against the proposal
I’ve put forward.”
Those are strong words. They
make clear that Democrats and
Republicans don’t share the
same politics. Obama portrayed
Democrats as the patrons of a
“middle class that gets
squeezed” by higher insurance
costs. Republicans, on the other
hand, were tarred as friends of
the insurance industry who are
willing to let the WellPoints of
the world run amok.
Where the speech still rang
somewhat hollow was in
Obama’s presentation of his
own policy. Here’s how he put
it:
I don’t believe we should give
g o v e r n m e n t
bureaucrats or insurance
company bureaucrats more
control over health care in
America. I believe it’s time to
give the American people more
control over their own health
insurance. I don’t believe we
can afford to leave life-and-
death decisions about health
care to the discretion of
insurance company executives
alone. I believe that doctors and
nurses like the ones in this room
should be free to decide what’s
best for their patients. The
proposal I’ve put forward gives
Americans more control over
their health care by holding
insurance companies more
accountable.
Well, yes, I suppose, we don’t
want a government
bureaucrat—one of those evil
fellows with a green eyeshade
sitting behind a desk piled high
with unread complaints from
angry citizens—to have control
over our health care. But this
kind of formulation concedes
too much to the anti-statist
rhetoric of the Tea Parties.
Let’s be clear about what
national health care reform does.
It narrows peoples’ choices, and
limits their control over their
health care, in one very
important way: It requires them
to buy health insurance. That is
how social insurance works.
You couldn’t have Social
Security or Medicare if
everyone eligible didn’t have to
sign up. But by virtue of this
requirement, the
government—bureaucrats and
all—improves, and in some
cases, vastly improves, the
choices Americans have in
obtaining health insurance.
Health care reform doesn’t
bypass government; it enlists it
on the people’s behalf.
Obama has now adopted a
strategy that will allow him to
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get his programs through
Congress, but he doesn’t yet
have the vocabulary that will
allow him to convince wide
swaths of Americans that these
programs are essential. And
that’s not an uncommon failing.
It’s not as if he lacks a
vocabulary that other liberals or
Democrats (like the writers on
these pages or his fellow
politicians) possess. How to
frame government initiatives in
a way that acknowledges but
also overcomes American anti-
statism has been, and remains, a
major political challenge for
Democrats. But in beginning to
draw clear distinctions between
the Democratic and Republican
approaches, Obama has taken
the first important step toward
meeting that challenge.
And let me say one other thing.
I hate political predictions, and I
have certainly heard my fill of
them lately. The recent
Conservative Political Action
Conference echoed with
predictions that the Republicans
would obliterate the Democrats
in November 2010. And the
esteemed Charlie Cook has
recently pronounced the
Democrats to be toast in 2010.
But—and there are some “ifs”
coming— if Nancy Pelosi and
Harry Reid can get the health
care bill through Congress and
on to Obama’s desk, and if
Obama has truly learned his
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Is a Voting Machine Merger Too Big to Stand?
(Newsmax - Politics)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 11:16:21 PM
The largest voting machine
company in the country bought
its biggest competitor six
months ago without advance
fanfare. Now the Justice
Department is investigating
whether to unwind the merger
that put a privately held
Nebraska company in control of
the voting machines in nearly 70
percent of the nation's precincts.
With midterm elections
looming and a battle for control
of Congress under way, a
coalition of election officials
from several states and voter
advocate groups is pressing the
Justice Department to
unscramble the combination of
two companies. Critics say the
merger could cause foul-ups at
the polls on Election Day, and
some even characterize it as a
national security risk.
The emergence of one
megaplayer in the electronic
voting machine industry may be
an unintended consequence of
reforms enacted after the
presidential election debacle in
Florida a decade ago. Few
companies can afford to get into
the business due to the expense
of developing the electronic
voting safeguards that reformers
insisted on.
Senate Rules Committee
Chairman Chuck Schumer, D-
N.Y., has raised concerns about
the purchase, in which Election
Systems & Software Inc. of
Omaha, Neb., bought the voting
machine subsidiary of Diebold
Inc. of North Canton, Ohio.
The Justice Department's
antitrust division is doing a post-
merger review that could result
in the government's trying to
persuade ES&S to sell off some
of its assets or face a court suit
to force a sell-off. An
announcement could come soon.
ES&S said it has been
cooperating with the division's
review. "We are committed to
exploring potential resolutions
that will address any concerns
about this transaction, while
ensuring that the election
services needs of the
jurisdictions we serve will be
met," a company statement said.
Separate from Justice's review,
competing voting machine firm
Hart InterCivic Inc. has sued
ES&S, alleging that the
company will now supply
voting machines in 68.2 percent
of the nation's voting precincts.
The New York State Board of
Elections urged the Justice
Department and the New York
attorney general to intervene in
the lawsuit challenging the
acquisition.
Another competitor is in court
alleging violation of
procurement laws in the award
of a $50 million contract to
ES&S in recent weeks by New
York City's elections board.
And elections board
commissioners are cooperating
with a probe of that contract by
the U.S. attorney's office, the
board's spokeswoman, Valerie
Vazquez, said this week.
As a privately held company,
ES&S issues no financial
reports. It didn't tell the Justice
Department about the Diebold
deal because the transaction
wasn't big enough to trigger the
federal law that requires the
government to be informed of
big mergers before they are
completed.
But the government can always
come in after a merger to try to
alter any deal it thinks harm
competition.
"If you end up with 70 percent
of the voting machines and the
people rely on them, and if entry
into the market is difficult or
impossible, it would certainly
seem to be a legitimate target
for antitrust enforcement," said
Charles "Rick" Rule, a longtime
Washington attorney who ran
the Justice Department's
antitrust division from 1986-89
during the merger-friendly
Reagan administration.
On Capitol Hill, Schumer's
committee has collected
information from opponents and
a few proponents of the merger
and commissioned an analysis
by the Congressional Research
Service. CRS's conclusion: The
merger means ES&S has a
presence in 90 percent of the
states, is the sole source for at
least 20 and has a market share
three or more times that of its
closest competitor.
"In the voting systems industry,
perhaps more than any other, the
failure of the market can affect
the public interest in a way that
goes to the heart of our
democracy," Schumer said in a
letter urging Attorney General
Eric Holder to take a close look
at ES&S.
In an industry plagued by
equipment malfunctions,
wrongly recorded votes and a
lack of transparency, the need
for increased quality
competition — not less
competition — is essential, John
Bonifaz, legal director of the
voter advocacy group Voter
Action, wrote Schumer.
Election failure on a large scale
has the potential to destabilize
the nation, so ES&S must divest
some of its assets, reduce the
scope of election jurisdictions
subject to its software and take
other steps to offset the
increased threat to national
security, a coalition of 19
election experts and groups
including Common Cause said
in a Feb. 12 letter to Justice's
antitrust division.
ES&S voting machines counted
approximately 50 percent of the
votes in the last four major U.S.
elections, says the company's
Web site, and ES&S boasts "one
-stop-shop full-service election
coordination from start to
finish."
On Wednesday, ES&S
defended its performance,
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saying that since the acquisition
last September, the company has
supported successful elections in
many jurisdictions that
previously were customers of
the Diebold subsidiary.
Changes enacted by Congress
after the Bush v. Gore vote in
Florida in 2000 require a
certification process for voting
machine companies that is so
time-consuming and costly it
discourages companies from
plunging into the business to
compete with ES&S, some state
and local election officials say.
"I'm surprised and strongly
believe the elections community
is lucky to still have as many
voting equipment vendors in
existence as we do today," Iowa
Secretary of State Michael
Mauro, a Democrat, said in a
letter to Schumer.
The secretaries of state in
California and Connecticut
expressed concern about the
merger, as did some local
election officials in Florida,
California and New Mexico.
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Election Systems & Software
Inc.: http://www.essvote.com/
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Anti-Government Voters Factor in Texas Race

(Newsmax - Politics) That analysis was backed up not reveal who he voted for for which state records are education, health care, industry,
Submitted at 3/3/2010 11:47:19 PM Wednesday by tea party because his group does not available. and any other areas D.C. is not
activists who weighed in on the endorse candidates, said Perry hammered away at an granted authority by the
Debra Medina was hardly the race, which now shifts to the fall Medina's position as a anti-Washington theme aimed at Constitution."
ideal candidate in Tuesday's general election. Perry will run government outsider and her veteran senator Hutchison. She said she wouldn't rule out
Republican primary: She didn't a g a i n s t t h e D e m o c r a t i c fiscal conservative stance helped And Hutchison created some seceding from the United States;
raise much money and came nominee, ex-Houston Mayor attract conservative voters. problems of her own. She never Perry also flirted with the idea
under fire for suggesting the B i l l W h i t e , w h o h a n d i l y "It didn't drive enough, did it?" left the Senate to campaign full of secession after a tea party
U.S. might have been involved disposed of six opponents in his he said. "I know the Glenn Beck time in Texas, even though she rally.
in the Sept. 11 attacks. Still, she primary. episode cost her. It cost her with said she would. She also failed Longtime Texas Republican
won nearly one out of every five "A lot of people wanted to some tea party members." to gain much traction on issues consultant Reggie Bashur said
votes, harnessing some support a t t r i b u t e D e b r a M e d i n a ' s That "episode" was an she was trying to use against Perry identified the anti-
i n t h e n a s c e n t t e a p a r t y campaign to the tea party. On interview with radio talk show Perry, such as Texas' high Washington sentiment just as
movement. balance, I think most of them host Beck on Feb. 11 in which school dropout rate. the tea party movement was
The growing influence of the were leaning toward Perry. I she said there were "some very Hutchison, who has still not taking off in early 2009. He said
movement could be seen in the think it's significant that he good arguments" that the United said when she will leave the the governor sensed a strong
GOP primary, but Medina, who avoided the runoff," said Greg States was involved in the Sept. Senate, won only 30 percent of anti-Washington feeling among
got 18.5 percent of the overall Holloway, a board member with 11 terrorist attacks. She later the vote. She has said she will voters.
vote, wasn't the biggest winner. Austin Tea Party Patriots. tried to back away from the leave after the health care debate Perry summed up that theme in
That was Texas Gov. Rick He acknowledged that Medina statement. is over. a television ad he used heavily
Perry, who avoided a runoff — a gun-toting, libertarian- Baselice, the Perry pollster, Tea party voters were in the final days of the
with U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey leaning businesswoman from found that as more Republican influential in other Texas races campaign. In the ad, Perry talks
Hutchison, winning 51 percent W h a r t o n — a p p e a l e d t o voters heard or read her remarks as well. A Republican ally of of the 10th Amendment to the
of the vote, in part because of discontented Texans. Medina about 9-11, the more her support Texas House Speaker Joe Straus U.S. Constitution, which speaks
his own push for tea party fought her way into the two tapered off or dropped. in East Texas, Rep. Tommy to the powers of the states. Perry
sympathizers. televised debates with the better Holloway, the Austin-based tea Merritt, lost to a conservative says it "is supposed to keep
"There's a growing movement -known Perry and Hutchison party activist, said those tea party activist. Another Washington from messin' with
afoot, but it's really more of an and held her own, boosting her statements "hurt her a lot." committee chairman under Texas."
attitude at this point than it is an statewide following. Meanwhile, other factors came Straus' Republican leadership is (This version CORRECTS
organized effort," Perry pollster "People really liked her view into play. heading into a runoff with a spelling of `Hutchison'
Mike Baselice said Wednesday that government in general had The Republicans' intense GOP tea party candidate. throughout.)
of tea party voters. become too big and wasn't competition spurred voter Describing herself as "David © Copyright 2010 The
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Muscle Shoals
E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New Republican ideas to their would pass under a simple appropriate to use reconciliation whom the service bill was
Republic - All Feed) proposals. Obama said he was majority vote would be a series "to improve or perfect the named.
Submitted at 3/3/2010 12:19:22 PM open to four more that came up of amendments that fit package," which is exactly what It was Kennedy, you'll recall,
during the health care summit. comfortably under the Obama is suggesting. who insisted that health care
WASHINGTON -- For those What he's unwilling to do, and "reconciliation" rules Hatch said that reconciliation was "a fundamental right and
who feared that Barack Obama rightly, is to give the minority established to deal with money should not be used for not a privilege." That's why it's
did not have any Lyndon veto power over a bill that has issues. Near the very end of his "substantive legislation" unless not just legitimate to use
Johnson in him, the president's deliberately and painfully article, Hatch concedes that the legislation has "significant reconciliation to complete the
determination to press ahead worked its way through the reconciliation would be used for bipartisan support." But surely work on health reform. It would
and get health care reform done regular legislative process. "only parts" of the bill. But then the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax be immoral to do otherwise and
in the face of Republican Republicans, however, don't why didn't he say that in the first cuts, which were passed under thereby let a phony argument
i n t r a n s i g e n c e c a m e a s want to talk much about the place? reconciliation and increased the about process get in the way of
s o m e t h i n g o f a r e l i e f . substance of health care. They Hatch grandly cites "America's deficit by $1.7 trillion during his health coverage for 30 million
Obama's critics have regularly want to discuss process, turn Founders" as wanting the Senate presidency, were "substantive Americans.
accused him of not being as "reconciliation" into a four-letter to be about "deliberation." But legislation." The 2003 dividends E.J. Dionne's e-mail address is
tough or wily or forceful as LBJ w o r d , a n d m a i n t a i n t h a t the Founders said nothing in the tax cut could muster only 50 ejdionne(at)washpost.com.
was in pushing through civil Democrats are just "ramming Constitution about the filibuster, votes. Vice President Dick E.J. Dionne, Jr. is the author of
rights and the social programs of through" a health bill. let alone "reconciliation." Cheney had to break the tie. the recently published Souled
his Great Society. Obama It is all, I am sorry to say, one Judging from what they put in Talk about "ramming through." Out: Reclaiming Faith and
seemed willing to let Congress big lie -- or, if you're sensitive, the actual document, the The underlying "principle" here Politics After the Religious
go its own way and was so an astonishing exercise in Founders would be appalled at seems to be that it's fine to pass Right. He is a Washington Post
anxious to look bipartisan that hypocrisy. the idea that every major bill tax cuts for the wealthy on columnist, a senior fellow at the
he wouldn't even take his own All of the Republican claims should need the votes of three- narrow votes but an outrage to Brookings Institution, and a
s i d e i n a r g u m e n t s w i t h were helpfully gathered in one fifths of the Senate to pass. use reconciliation to help middle professor at Georgetown
Republicans. place by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R- Hatch quotes Sens. Robert Byrd -income and poor people get University.
Those days are over. On Utah, in an op-ed in Tuesday's and Kent Conrad, both health insurance. (c) 2009, Washington Post
Wednesday, the president made Washington Post. Right off, the Democrats, as opposing the use I'm disappointed in Hatch, co- Writers Group
clear what he wants in a health piece was wrong on a core fact. of reconciliation on health care. sponsor of two of my favorite For more TNR, become a fan
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All In
Jonathan Cohn (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 9:30:23 PM
President Obama began his
remarks in the East Room on
Wednesday with a giving up on his hopes for what
reminiscence. Almost exactly
one year before, he noted, he
had stood in the very same spot,
formally launching his initiative
to reform America’s health care
system.
I happened to be there that day
and I remember it well.
Representatives of every interest
group were there, as were
congressional leaders of both
parties. In breakout groups and
then a question-and-answer
session that followed Obama’s
speech, there was much talk of
consensus--of a determination to
work together in good faith.
“The status quo is the one
option that’s not on the table,”
Obama had told his audience.
They seemed to agree.
Now that all seems very naive.
And Obama seems to know it,
as my colleague John Judis
observes. The insurers have
gone to war. The Republicans
are united in opposition. An
effort that was supposed to take
a few months has stretched into
a year, with weeks more still to
go. It threatens to destroy the
Democrats’ congressional
majority and, just maybe, the
Obama presidency too.
“Everything there is to say about
health care has been said--and
just about everybody has said
it,” Obama said to laughter.
Still, if Obama on Wednesday
was implicitly giving up on his
hopes for constructive,
bipartisan governing, he wasn't
governing would achieve. He
ran for president on a promise to
tackle the nation's most
challenging problems--and,
since winning election, he’s
gleefully defied those who
warned him he was trying to do
too much. On Wednesday, he
made clear that he hasn't
changed his mind about that:
At stake right now is not just
our ability to solve this problem,
but our ability to solve any
problem. The American people
want to know if it’s still possible
for Washington to look out for
their interests and their future.
They are waiting for us to act.
They are waiting for us to lead.
And as long as I hold this office,
I intend to provide that
leadership. I do not know how
this plays politically, but I know
it’s right.
That's not just bluster. At any
point in the last few months but
particularly in the wake of the
Massachusetts election, it would
have been easy to back away
from comprehensive reform--to
cut a deal, be done with it, and
move on.
Instead, Obama on Wednesday
committed himself more fully to
comprehensive reform than he
has at any time since this effort
started--rejecting incremental
reforms explicitly, refusing
Republican calls to start over,
and demanding an up-or-down
vote on his proposal.
This has been a long and
wrenching debate. It has stoked
great passions among the
American people and their
representatives. And that's
because health care is a difficult
issue. It is a complicated issue.
If it was easy, it would have
been solved long ago. As all of
you know from experience,
health care can literally be an
issue of life or death. And as a
result, it easily lends itself to
demagoguery and political
gamesmanship, and
misrepresentation and
misunderstanding.
But that’s not an excuse for
those of us who were sent here
to lead. That's not an excuse for
us to walk away. We can’t just
give up because the politics are
hard.
Will it work? Who knows. The
next few weeks will be
excruciating, as Obama works
with House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi to build the 216-vote
majority necessary to pass the
Senate bill through the House.
It'd be foolish to bet against the
two of them. (Pelosi has been, if
anything, even more determined
than Obama.) Wavering
members have every reason to
hold out for maximum leverage,
which means most won't
commit until absolutely
necessary.
Public support would obviously
help--a lot. And Obama made a
specific plea for it on
Wednesday:
I will do everything in my
power to make the case for
reform. And I urge every
American who wants this
reform to make their voice heard
as well--every family, every
business, every patient, every
doctor, every nurse, every
physician’s assistant. Make your
voice heard.
Of course, the public seems
pretty ambivalent about reform
these days. But perhaps that will
change, even just a little.
Americans always say they want
politicians who lead rather than
follow--who do what they think
is right rather than what they
think is popular. And liberals, in
particular, say they want
politicians who will think big
and pursue far-reaching reforms,
rather than triangulate their way
with incremental measures.
Say what you will about Obama
and his plan. Both, surely, are
flawed. But, particularly with
this latest statement, he's living
up to those ideals.
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of The New Republic.
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lesson and begins to draw a
sharp distinction between the
Democrats’ approach and the
Republican approach, and if he
begins to propose initiatives that
highlight this distinction, the
Democrats will retain the House
and Senate in November. They
will probably lose seats, but
they won’t get obliterated.
John B. Judis is a senior editor
of The New Republic and a
visiting scholar at the Carnegie
Endowment for International
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Gov. Applications
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Submitted at 3/3/2010 11:39:29 PM
Illinois' Democratic voters
picked a pawnbroker as their
candidate for lieutenant
governor, and that didn't exactly
end well. So perhaps they won't
mind if the next candidate
doesn't have a job. Or is still in
ILL. page 38
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Congress Slowly Loosens Its Grip On
Washington, DC
(Newsmax - Politics)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 11:44:02 PM
Congresswoman Eleanor
Holmes Norton didn't flinch
when comedian Stephen Colbert
congratulated her on D.C.
becoming a state.
"Not quite," she replied during a
segment on his show not long
after President Barack Obama's
election.
Colbert may have been joking,
but with Democrats in control,
Congress seems increasingly
willing to loosen its grip on
Norton's city and allow it to
function more like a state. That's
no laughing matter for some
600,000 city residents.
Congress still must OK the
D.C. budget and it can veto laws
the City Council passes, though
that's rare. And despite some
optimism early in Obama's
administration, Norton still can't
vote on the House floor, though
she can introduce bills and vote
in committees.
But cracks in congressional
control have started to appear.
For the first time in recent
memory, Congress didn't attach
any restrictions, called "riders,"
when it approved the city's
budget in December. That lifted
bans preventing the city from
using tax money to help poor
women pay for abortions and
implementing a decade-old
measure legalizing medical
marijuana.
And though Congress could
have killed a gay marriage bill
passed by the D.C. Council,
federal lawmakers allowed it to
become law without weighing
in. Same-sex couples started
applying for marriage licenses
Wednesday, though a three-day
waiting period means they can't
actually get married till next
week.
Now, Congress is considering
bills that would give the city
even more freedom. Norton,
who was elected in 1990 and
represents more people than live
in Wyoming packed in a city
1/17th the size of Rhode Island,
calls it a "moment of
opportunity."
Three-quarters of Washington's
registered voters are Democrats.
And now that Democrats hold
the House, Senate and
presidency for the first time
since 1992, there's support for
letting go of some federal
control.
Norton has introduced two bills
to give the city more control
over its affairs. The first would
eliminate the requirement that
Congress approve the city's
budget. The second would allow
city laws to go into effect
immediately, instead of waiting
for 30 or 60 days for a
congressional all-clear, as in the
case of the same-sex marriage
law.
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty
testified that the budget process
often causes delays in services
to residents. Most of the
hundreds of laws he signs every
year, from adoption to zoning,
"are of no interest to Congress
whatsoever," he said.
Longtime residents are used to
Congress having the ultimate
say. Gary Thompson, a lawyer
who has lived in the district
since 1992, said it seems like
every couple of years some
momentum to change that takes
hold, then stalls.
"I'm a little bit hardened and a
little bit cynical at this point,"
said Thompson, who heads a
neighborhood group and says he
will advocate for civil
disobedience, like blocking
entrances to government
buildings, if things don't change
soon.
The U.S. Constitution makes it
clear the city is under
congressional control. City
residents didn't get the right to
vote in presidential elections
until 1961. In the 1970s,
residents got the delegate spot in
Congress and the right to elect
their own mayor and City
Council.
Change is slow, however.
Norton predicted on Colbert's
show a year ago that she would
soon be a full voting member;
Colbert called her a "fake
congresswoman." But
momentum to give her voting
powers stalled when an
amendment was added in the
Senate that would repeal a strict
city gun registration
requirement, something
Democrats did not want.
Norton says she believes she
may now have found a way
around the amendment and will
get the bill passed early this
year.
Lifelong resident Jenica
Degree, who works at a store
that sells political memorabilia,
isn't convinced that having a
voting congresswoman would
change much. Not having one
"really doesn't bother me," she
said.
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LG's First Windows
Phone 7 Handset Will
Be Called Panther?
[Windows Phone 7
Series]
Kat Hannaford (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 7:57:17 AM
LG's first Windows Phone 7
handset, which got shown off
recently in the sweaty palm of a
Microsoft director at the
Engadget Show, will be called
the LG Panther. Apparently. We
know LG likes silly names, but
Panther?
Of course, there's a more
famous Panther in our
world—2003's OS X 10.3, from
Apple. The rumored names
comes via the UK site Best
Mobile Contracts, which we've
never heard of so can't vouch for
how solid this rumor is—but
after Cookie, Viewty, and
whatever else they've managed
to slip past their marketing
team, Panther is hardly the least-
flattering if indeed that's what
LG names it. [ Best Mobile
Contracts via WMPowerUser
via TechRadar]
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school. Or isn't actually a
Democrat.
At least that's what some
applicants for the No. 2 spot on
the Democratic ticket seem to
hope. The Democratic Party of
Illinois has received more than
70 applications since it began
accepting them on its Web site
this week. Applicants included a
former senior adviser to
disgraced ex-Gov. Rod
Blagojevich and an out-of-work
technician who answered the
question "Why are you a
Democrat?" with "Who said I
was?"
Democrats are looking for a
replacement for Chicago
pawnbroker Scott Lee Cohen,
who left the race less than a
week after winning the primary
election amid accusations he
abused his ex-wife and held a
knife to the throat of an ex-
girlfriend who was later arrested
for prostitution. Cohen has
denied the allegations, and
charges stemming from his
arrest were dropped when the ex
-girlfriend didn't show up in
court.
Cohen's exit left Gov. Pat
Quinn without a running mate
and gave members of the state
central committee a unique
opportunity to pick a candidate.
Party officials haven't set a
schedule for the selection
process, said Steve Brown, a
spokesman for Illinois House
Speaker Michael Madigan, who
is chairman of the state
Democratic party.
Brown said the committee
hopes everyone interested in the
position will apply online,
including the five Democrats
who lost to Cohen in the
primary. None of them had
applied as of Wednesday night,
creating a field dominated by
political newcomers.
A handful of hopefuls identify
themselves as Republicans or
independents on the five-
question application form, and
several say they are currently
unemployed. Many are
educators, lawyers and people
younger than 30. Almost all are
from the Chicago area.
Given their lacking political
experience, applicants have
been creative in describing what
they would add to the
Democratic ticket. One
suburban Chicago man listed his
"Jamaican wife and three kids"
among his strengths, while a self
-professed independent listed his
"ability to create an organization
of farmers, hunters and wizards
that will zoom with innovative
solutions."
Wizards?
Two Chicagoans listed just one
strength apiece: "I did not vote
for Rod Blagojevich in 2006,"
and "Transparency; all bimbo
eruptions & financial
catastrophes have been posted
on the worldwide web long
ago."
Many made clear that little
political backing and few
connections should be seen as a
benefit, and one young man
listed among his endorsements
"My wife and my upstairs
neighbor." He later withdrew his
application, as did a marketing
operations executive.
Cohen also was a political
novice, as is the Republican
candidate, Jason Plummer, a 27-
year-old southern Illinois
businessman.
It was Cohen's fiery departure
that helped thrust the typically
low-profile race into the
spotlight. Lieutenant governors
have few statutory
responsibilities, and Quinn was
the first lieutenant governor in
more than 30 years to ascend to
the governor's office. One
former lieutenant governor got
so bored with the job that he
resigned. Madigan, the state
House speaker, has even pressed
for the position to be abolished
altogether.
Of those who had applied as of
Wednesday, the few noteworthy
exceptions with political
experience included the former
mayors of several Chicago
suburbs and Bob Arya, a
longtime journalist who left the
industry to work for Blagojevich
in 2006 — only to leave in 2008
because of what he described as
the now-ousted governor's
ineptitude.
Blagojevich is currently
awaiting trial on federal
corruption charges that include
allegations he tried to sell or
trade President Barack Obama's
former U.S. Senate seat for
personal or political gain.
——
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http://www.ildems.com/
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Bradley Cooper Team
Up for 'The Dark Fields'
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Submitted at 3/4/2010 3:03:00 AM
Robert DeNiro will be joining
one of Hollywood's most
eligible bachelors, Bradley
Cooper, in 'The Dark Fields.'
According to Variety, the
suspense thriller follows
Cooper, a writer, who comes
across a magical drug that
brings him new levels of
intelligence and success.
DeNiro, whose character is a
brilliant financial mogul, is in
pursuit of Cooper.
Based on an Alan Glynn novel,
'The Dark Fields' begins filming
in May in Philadelphia, reports
Variety.
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A Blue Dog Dream
Neera Tanden (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 1:00:17 PM
So, rather inevitably, the fate of
health care reform now rests
largely with a group of Blue
Dog Democrats in the House.
More specifically, the question
is: Can Nancy Pelosi convince a
small fraction of her caucus to
endorse the Senate version of
the bill, even though they
initially rejected the House’s
iteration? She’ll need to flip
these members to her side
because the abortion provisions
in the Senate bill will
necessarily cost her some votes.
The media chatter is all about
these members' political
calculus: How unpopular is
health care reform in their
districts? Would they be risking
their careers with such a vote?
But there’s another component
of their decision that merits
discussion—you know, the
actual policy. The Senate bill,
while sharing the same basic
structure as the House bill,
contains some pretty important
differences. Would these
members now have a
substantive reason to switch into
the affirmative column?
In fact, the Senate bill, even
after the president’s proposed
modifications, addresses almost
all of the major concerns that
the Blue Dogs have raised. As a
matter of policy, the Senate bill
is a moderate Democrat's
dream. House moderates have to
ask themselves, apart from
political considerations, how
can they now vote against a bill
that senators Lincoln,
Lieberman, Landrieu and Bayh
have all voted for?
Let’s go issue by issue. The
Blue Dogs opposed the public
plan that featured so
prominently in the House bill.
Well, the Senate scrapped that a
long time ago. Blue Dogs
wanted more cost-containment
policies. Well, the Senate bill is
not just stronger, but
substantially so. It features
a robust Independent Payment
Advisory Board with authority
to lower Medicare payment
rates. The House bill doesn’t
even have such a commission.
The Senate bill also has stronger
provisions to push payment
reform through a new
“innovation center” that will
reward quality of care, rather
than the volume of care that
doctors provide. These are
important moves away from the
fee-for-service system.
Some House moderates
criticized the House bill for
taxing the rich. Lucky for them,
that’s barely in the Senate
bill. While the House bill used
the millionaire’s tax to raise
$460 billion in revenues, the
Senate bill has a Medicare tax
that raises only $87 billion from
high-income folks.
What about deficit
reduction? Both the House and
Senate bills would reduce the
deficit by upwards of $100
billion over the next decade, but
the Congressional Budget Office
gives the Senate bill better
marks over the next decade on
longer-term savings. The CBO
says the Senate bill “would
reduce federal budget deficits
over the decade after 2019
relative to those projected under
current law—with a total effect
during that decade that is in a
broad range between one-
quarter percent and one-half
percent of GDP.” Furthermore,
they should be suffering from
significantly less sticker shock.
The Senate bill costs nearly
$200 billion less over ten years.
Not a trivial difference.
In short, as a moderate House
Democrat said to me in
December after she voted
against the House bill, “I like
where the Senate bill is going
and I would vote for that.” Of
course, that was before
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Massachusetts. But the Senate
bill did not change. And neither [Reverse Psychology]
should her intentions. Maureen O'Connor (Gawker)
Now, most of these provisions
Submitted at 3/4/2010 4:28:06 AM
that should appeal to Blue Dogs
are a source of agitation for A new study throws every
liberals. But liberals seem to single PSA that relies on shame
have made the following into jeopardy, because when
calculation: In order to get a bill youth see images of humiliated
that covers 30 million people covered in their own
Americans, with insurance vomit, they don't see warnings.
reforms that protect consumers, They see inspiration. [ AdAge]
they will swallow hard and On the bright side, now alcohol
accept several provisions that companies know which strategy
anger them. It’s called to use when MADD browbeats
compromise—and, in some them into making PSAs: Ones
quarters, it’s also known as that shame, sexily. Do not watch
governing. Liberals shouldn’t be this video if you are under the
the only ones who bear the age of 21.
responsibility to govern. That
falls to the whole Democratic
Party—its right, left, and center.
Neera Tanden is the Chief
Operating Officer of the Center
for American Progress. She
served in the Obama and
Clinton administrations.
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LGF: Crazy But Clever Conflator
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 1:08:47 PM
The right wing blogosphere is
getting weirder and weirder:
Crazytown Watch: Charles
Johnson Conflates Some Fringe
Group With Rick Perry.
Once again, I’m accused of
being “crazy” because I find
groups like Repent Amarillo
disturbing. But not just “crazy”
— I’m also sneaky and evil
because I’m “conflating” Repent
Amarillo with Rick Perry.
Because I hate small
government, or I hate Texas, or
something like that. So I’m both
crazy and nefariously clever.
“Now why would he do that?”
wonders Melissa Clouthier,
hinting at dark ulterior motives.
It’s a head-scratcher, all right.
In a post about a religious
fanatic group in Texas, why in
the world did I bring up the
Pads' Gonzalez Brushes Off Trade Talk
FanHouse TV (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 2:28:00 PM
Filed under: Padres, MLB
Video, Spring Training
PEORIA, Ariz. -- The biggest
governor of Texas — who just
happens to have a history of
appointing religious fanatics to
influential positions in the Texas
government?
Clouthier continues:
Newsflash haters: Texans are
doing well because they’ve
clung to rugged individualism,
their guns, their God, their
independence, their fiscal
responsibility, etc. I know it’s
galling when secular humanistic
states like California are going
down the crap-hole. It’s tough to
see small government being
such a big win while big
government harms the very
people it’s supposed to help.
But that’s just the way things
roll, guys. Good luck finding
evidence that big social
programs are ever a cultural,
fiscal or social win. They
NEVER are a win because they
strip the individual of his ability
story in Padres camp continues
to be the Adrian Gonzalez saga.
Will the slugging first baseman
be traded before his contract
expires at the end of next
season, or will he be locked up
long-term?
to choose his own life. It is
axiomatic.
And by the way, Jerry Brown
has actual radical ties. Will that
disqualify him to run for
Governor in California? Why
no! No, it won’t.
This might set a record for
reading the most into an LGF
post. Secular humanism, small
government, big social
programs, rugged individualism;
these are all interesting
concepts, but if they have
something to do with what I
wrote, I must be missing it.
And meanwhile, notice that
Clouthier never gets around to
saying anything at all about the
“fringe group” that was the
whole point of my post.
P.S. I don’t hate Texas or
Texans, just for the record.
Reports have him potentially
E-reader News Edition
Creationist Dentist Gets
the Boot
(Little Green Footballs) Originally elected to the board
Submitted at 3/3/2010 6:06:42 PM in 1998, McLeroy was
persistently determined to
Texas Governor Rick Perry undermine the treatment of
may have won the Republican evolution in Texas’s public
primary yesterday, but one of schools. During the debate over
his main operatives, creationist biology textbook adoption in
dentist Don McLeroy, got 2003, he was one of the four
thrown out. members of the board who
In the March 2, 2010, primary misused the state science
election, avowed young-earth standards to oppose adopting the
creationist Don McLeroy e l e v e n t e x t b o o k s u n d e r
narrowly lost his bid to be the consideration. His attacks on
Republican candidate for the science education — including
District 9 seat on the Texas state his endorsement of a book that
board of education. As the described parents who want
Dallas Morning News (March 3, their children to learn about
2010) reported, “The fiercely evolution as “monsters” — were
contested race pitted McLeroy, a in part responsible for the state
dentist from College Station and senate’s refusal to confirm him
member of the board’s social as chair of the board in May
conservative bloc, against 2009, as NCSE previously
[Thomas] Ratliff, a legislative reported.
consultant and son of former Lt. This is a victory in the battle
Gov. Bill Ratliff,” who is against the forces who are intent
viewed as likely to side with the o n i n s t i l l i n g D a r k A g e s
moderates on the board. There is i g n o r a n c e i n T e x a s
no Democratic candidate for the schoolchildren, but the war isn’t
seat, so Ratliff is expected to be over. They’ll be back.
elected in November 2010.
going to the Red Sox for a the man himself how he thinks
package including Clay his future will play out, and
Buchholz or to the White Sox FanHouse TV's cameras were
for stud prospect Gordon there.
Beckham, and the list of rumors
goes on.
Tom Krasovic decided to ask
E-reader News Edition Politics/ Tech News/ Fashion/ 41

Confidential RNC Document Outlines Strategy of

Fear Mongering
(Little Green Footballs) “What can you sell when you do
Submitted at 3/3/2010 3:12:58 PM not have the White House, the
House, or the Senate…?” it
Good. Grief. asks. The answer: “Save the
Exclusive: RNC document
mocks donors, plays on ‘fear’.
country from trending toward
Socialism!”
Loeffler
The Republican National
Committee plans to raise money
Manipulating donors with crude
caricatures and playing on their
Randall Cutout
this election cycle through an
aggressive campaign
fears is hardly unique to
Republicans or to the RNC –
Booties
capitalizing on “fear” of Democrats raised millions off ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog)
President Barack Obama and a George W. Bush in similar Submitted at 3/3/2010 3:10:26 PM
promise to “save the country terms – but rarely is it practiced
from trending toward in such cartoonish terms. Johanna Cox, Contributing
socialism.” One page, headed “The Evil Editor, in Loeffler Rand all
The strategy was detailed in a Empire,” pictures Obama as the cutout booties
Bickhart to top donors and marketing, displaying an air of “These remind me of one of my
confidential party fundraising Joker from Batman, while
fundraisers at a party retreat in disdain for the party’s donors favorite Cushnie et Ochs
presentation, obtained by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Boca Grande, Florida on that is usually confined to the dresses.”
POLITICO, which also outlines and Senate Majority Leaders
February 18, a source at the barroom conversations of Photo: Kelly Stuart
how “ego-driven” wealthy Harry Reid are depicted as
gathering said. political operatives. Follow ELLE on Twitter.
donors can be tapped with offers Cruella DeVille and Scooby
In neat PowerPoint pages, it The presentation explains the Become our Facebook fan!
of access and “tchochkes.” Doo, respectively.
lifts the curtain on the often- Republican fundraising in
The presentation was delivered
cynical terms of political simple terms.
by RNC Finance Director Rob

Gesture Search Finds Everything on Android with Scribbles

[Downloads]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) phone data using your finger- in another letter to narrow the Google wants to test more.
Submitted at 3/4/2010 4:30:00 AM point chicken scratch. options down. There's a "pad" at Gesture Search is a free
Draw in a letter, and Gesture the bottom showing your letters, download for Android handsets
A n d r o i d 2 . 0 : D o y o u Search instantly narrows down and you swipe it to knock down running 2.0 and later. Gesture
d e s p e r a t e l y m i s s t h e the field of choices, letter by individual letters (right to left) Search[Google via Google
handwriting recognition of letter. A nice feature, though, is or restart entirely (left to right). Mobile Blog]
Palms and Newtons gone by? that in the case of letters that are It's a stand-alone app that begs
Google's created a Gesture somewhat ambiguous—like my for integration into contact
Search app that pulls up apps, terrible cursive "a" that might be Search keeps both possibilities
search or browser bookmarks,
contacts, bookmarks, and other a rounded, trailing "o"—Gesture in the results, letting you draw
but it's also a "Labs" release that
42 Tech News/ E-reader News Edition

Is XBRL The Key To Escaping Small Cap Hell?

Bernard Lunn do. Some are not very helpful, such Found: Momentum-chasing day
(ReadWriteWeb) as: "Does anyone know the traders.
Submitted at 3/3/2010 5:00:00 PM • Hire a strong investors future of $rnow ?" You want investors who will
relations team and send out lots SeekingAlpha: This has two buy into the quality of your
Small cap hell is where you end of press releases, be accessible posts that were specific to technology, understand your
up in about six months after to the press, go on road shows RNOW and they seemed high value proposition, like the
your IPO, when all the high and speak at conferences for quality. That is better than nine market you are in and think you
fives and champagne have investors. Your IR team can tweets that don't say much. are doing a reasonable job
receded into a distant memory. take care of the mechanics, but Covestor: This is interesting to managing the business. In other
Unless your company is big this is also a big time-suck for play around in. You can see the words, you want Warren
enough. How big is big enough? the CEO and CFO. (And you last 10 trades done by Covestor Buffett.
According to Investopedia, cannot say, "Sorry we missed members in RNOW. But you That is not what these new sites
small cap refers to companies our numbers we were too busy can "tell your story". For a while cannot drill from that to any are delivering. They do not
with "a market capitalization of schmoozing folks like you.") there will be an opportunity to rationale into RNOW. The seem to be the key to escape
between $300 million and $2 The result is a lot of work and use modern methods while your system is set up to do that, but from small cap hell. Let Your
billion." you have to do it - but the competitors are stuck with their there is just nothing there yet. Story Surface
That's right, to escape small cap payoff is small. Every other buggy whips. But that advantage Kaching: This gave good news The evolution seems to be:
hell you need to have a market small cap is doing the same will erode really fast. So this is aggregation on RNOW. It 1.0 Tell Your Story. This is
cap over $2 billion. thing. where the new Finance 2.0 sites looked better than standard investor relations. The
Sponsor • Buy back your own shares. like Seeking Alpha, Stocktwits, YahooFinance (still the starting updated version of IR is to be
To put that in perspective, that T h a t t e l l s e v e n t h e m o s t Kaching and Covestor may have point for lots of investors) but present where investors hang
describes one out of 14 publicly dimwitted investor that you the key. seemed to lack depth. Nor did it out, which today means online.
t r a d e d S a a S c o m p a n i e s think the stock is undervalued, I decided to test this on the 14 have any fundamental new But it is still the old broadcast
(Salesforce.com). So 13 out of and as you run the company you publicly traded SaaS companies. information. model.
1 4 a r e i n s m a l l c a p h e l l . probably know. This is fine if Finance 2.0 For Small Cap: It is So, from the limited perspective 2.0 Let The Crowd Tell Your
Actually, two out of the 14 are you personally are vastly Too Early To Tell of one small cap, these sites are Story. This is classic social
micro cap, i.e. below $300 wealthy or you have massive Select a classic small cap stock at this time not the answer. media - and it suffers from
million in market cap. This amounts of cash laying idle on in the SaaS Index. For example: What about "ye olde stock classic social media problems.
matters to all of us. A healthy the company balance sheet. In RightNow Technologies forum" on Yahoo Finance? You might trust a user-
public market for Web tech other words it is not an option (RNOW). At time of writing, Their message board for RNOW generated review on Yelp before
ventures ripples all the way for most companies they have a market cap of $525 for the same period of time has going to a diner, but you are
down to seed level investing and million. It is a cool company 28 posts, not including the likely to be a bit more nervous
drives the innovation economy. Social Media IR Rides To The that is growing fast and threaded replies. That puts them before investing your kid's
What Does It Feel Like To Be Rescue? delivering good results for way ahead of the college fund in a company.
In Small Cap Hell? Agoracom is a modern IR firm. customers. So how much newcomers.What about quality What we need is something that
Lonely. Nobody cares about They use online methods to tell coverage do they get on these you ask? What is the use of a lot reverses the flow, that lets
your little venture. To the team your story. That may not sound new sites? In my test I looked at of noise from anonymous investors discover you, that lets
that endured blood, sweat, toil like a big deal, but IR is a pretty RNOW for the period Jan. 1 to posters pushing the stocks they your story surface. This is where
and tears to get to $50 million in conservative business, so just March 1. own (or panning the ones they XBRL may help. (For a basic
revenues, and then go through using a few tools like Twitter StockTwits: There were nine short)? That seems to be the intro to XBRL read our earlier
all the SEC gyrations to become intelligently is a big step tweets about RNOW, and many problem with all these sources. coverage.) The Current XBRL
a public company, that is tough forward. of them mentioned RNOW Wanted: Patient, Long-Term XBRL page 47
to accept. Here is what you can Agoracom's pitch is that they among a list of other stocks. Investors
E-reader News Edition Tech News/ 43

Never Mind the Valley: Here's SXSW 2010

Jolie O'Dell (ReadWriteWeb) capital." With Michael Samson Australians are Virtual World gaming it to advance their own
Submitted at 3/3/2010 5:00:57 PM and Ross Kimbarovsky of Innovators popularity instead using it as a
CrowdSPRING. "Australia has suffered the platform to advance ideas and
A ReadWriteWeb Guide How Geeks Grabbed 'tyranny of distance' since exert influence. With great
For all of our startup friends Philadelphia by the Balls colonization. Now, for the first power comes great
from coast to coast and around "Ready to skip town because time, those barriers are responsibility - and in line with
the world, we look forward to you think it's played out? dissolving as the land your vision this panel would
s e e i n g y o u a t S X S W Techies aren't techie enough? downunder shifts timezones to b r i n g t o g e t h e r
Interactive! Creatives aren't creative be in a virtual playing field. figureheads/influencers from
More and more, we're seeing enough? We'll talk about how When you login as a virtual each of the 5 nationally
g o o d f o l k s c r e a t i n g g r e a t Philadelphia turned around in avatar there are no international prominent tech communities as
products outside the SF Bay just 2 years by embracing its calling codes, no day or night well as bring up possible
Area, and we love highlighting strengths and local flavor, businesses in South Africa - and only the funny accent conflicts and misconceptions
and showcasing vibrant startup helping to build new leaders, when no other realistic options remains distinctive. Hear how relating to each; that L.A. is full
communities in unexpected and inspiring an intense city o f f i n a n c e e x i s t e d . T h e panelists Keren Flavell, Bruce of "un-employeds, that New
areas. As it turns out, we're not pride. It's not as tough as you presentation will cover lessons Joy and Santosh Kulkarni spend Yorkers are shills for traditional
the only ones who have a think: blending socialization learned, and tips for replicating t h e i r t i m e m e e t i n g w i t h media, that people from S.F. are
penchant for non-Valley with education, this new the model in other regions." colleagues and prospective just Spocks with no social skills
startups! While you're in Austin, generation of Philadelphians With Eve Dmochowska of Idea clients in the USA and Europe or perspective. Rather than just
check out these ten panels, share their recipes for you to B a n k , B r e t t H a g g a r d o f by teleporting to meetings in pit influencers against each
parties and events focusing on take back and make your city Hypertext Media, Gareth Knight seconds, right from their desks other, our moderation would
entrepreneurialism outside the next big thing." With Alex of Technovated, Heather Ford of in Melbourne, Australia. This highlight the strengths and
Silicon Valley. Hillman of IndyHall and Geoff GeekRetreat and Justin Spratt of discussion will demonstrate how weaknesses of each and
Sponsor DiMasi of P'unk Avenue. Internet Solutions. the world is becoming flatter by hopefully faciliate a forum for
This is part of a series of The Silicon Prairie Party Don't Move! Build a Startup the day through technology dialogue and cooperation
ReadWriteWeb guides to SXSW "Join the speakers, organizers Community Where You Live creating a single place for between all members of what is
Interactive 2010. If this guide and attendees of Big Omaha to "As eyes are focused on places interaction and enterprise." With positioned to be global
isn't your cup of tea, be sure to party with the up-and-coming well-known for startups and Santosh Kulkarni of NICTA, phenomenon in the way people
c h e c k b a c k f o r m o r e entrepreneurs and innovators innovation, hear three up-and- Phil Tripp of IMMEDIA, Keren mobilize online and off." With
information soon! based on the Silicon Prairie. coming cities discuss how Flavell of Treet TV and Bruce Erin Broadley and Alwxia
"It is difficult to establish a There are big things happening they're building and fostering Joy of VastPark. Tsotsis of Village Voice Media.
startup no matter where you are on the Prairie and here's the t h e i r e n t r e p r e n e u r i a l Tech Scene Smackdown: LA How Austin Got Socially
in the world, but there are great opportunity to connect with communities. From Portland, vs. SF vs. NYC vs. Boston vs. Experienced
companies and events that those making an impact!" Boulder, Omaha, and beyond, Austin "While known as the live music
began life outside of Silicon Hosted by Big Omaha. exciting things are happening in "Presently the online social capital of the world, Austin is
Valley. Threadless, 37Signals, Crowdfunding: How The places you don't expect." With media space consists of hyper- making serious inroads as the
F e e d B u r n e r , B I G O m a h a SAfrican Community Financed Erin Kotecki Vest of the Queen localized most social media savvy city.
conference, and SXSW itself are Online Businesses of Spain blog and BlogHer, bifurcated tech communities: With major tech companies as
proof that technology life exists "The story of how otherwise Jeremy Tanner, Rick Turoczy of what is problematic is that many city residents, Austin tech
away from the coasts. These less unconncted South African S i l i c o n F l o r i s t a n d J e f f of the more successful cool kids leaders will provide attendees
- t h a n - o b v i o u s l o c a l e s a r e citizens pooled together their Slobotski of Silicon Prairie are guilty of being at every social media best practices and
becoming hotbeds of innovation money and resources, and thus News. single party and using the scene NEVER page 45
a n d a t t r a c t i n g t a l e n t a n d helped seed over a dozen online T i m e T r a v e l e r s : W h y as a way to fameball, i.e.
44 Tech News/
From the Tips Box: iPhone Videos, Hard Drive Sleeves, and
Alarm Clocks [From The Tips Box]
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 5:00:00 PM
Readers offer their best tips for
playing just the audio of video
files on the iPhone, cushioned
sleeves for external hard drives,
and making sure your alarm
clock wakes you up in the
morning.
Don't like the gallery layout?
Click here to view everything on
one page.
About the Tips Box: Every day
we receive boatloads of great
reader tips in our inbox, but for
various reasons—maybe they're
a bit too niche, maybe we
couldn't find a good way to
present it, or maybe we just
couldn't fit it in—the tip didn't
make the front page. From the
Tips Box is where we round up
some of our favorites for your
buffet-style consumption. Got a
tip of your own to share? Add it
in the comments, share it here,
or email it to tips at
lifehacker.com.
Play Just the Audio of iPhone
Video Files
Photo by Dan Taylor.
Rick Betita shows us how to
stop the video from playing and
draining battery on iPhones:
One of the most annoying
things about the iPhone is that
you can't listen to the audio of a
video file unless the video is
playing. Let's say I'm watching a
TEDTalk video podcast where
the visuals don't add much to the
content: if I lock my phone or
press the home button, playback
will stop (rather than continue
underneath like an audio file).
To get around it, I lock my
phone while I'm watching the
video (stopping the playback)
and double-tap the home button
to bring up playback controls on
the locked screen. From there, I
can press play and lock the
phone again, allowing me to
listen to my video file with the
screen locked.
If I want to do something else
on my iPhone while the audio of
the video plays in the
background, I press the home
button during video playback
and lock the screen immediately
afterwards. Then I double-tap
the home screen as before, hit
play, and unlock the phone. It
brings me to my home screen
while the audio continues to
play.
Use Drink Insulators as Hard
Drive Sleeves
kamosaurus gives us a nice
clever use for our portable
external hard drives:
I have found that the collapsible
koozies are perfect cheap
sleeves for portable external
E-reader News Edition
hard drives. They fit snug and
they give you a little "bump"
protection without you having to
go buy an expensive portable
hard drive case. I've never had a
case where the hard drive got
too hot from being in the koozie
but it's more about the transport
anyways.
The best part of all is that they
are cheap and customizable!
Move Alarm Clocks Around to
Ensure Waking in the Morning
Photo by Bernt Rostad.
virtourist shares his tips for
waking up in the morning:
The problem with my alarm
clock is that I've gotten so used
to the 'off' button that I can turn
off the first alarm and cancel the
second in my sleep. I have a
roommate, so I can't do
something ridiculous like put
the alarm clock on the other side
of the room.
My solution: Wrap the alarm
clock in a t shirt and always
place the clock in a different
orientation/location on the
nightstand. That way, I have to
be awake and coherent enough
to do some searching for the off
button without just using muscle
memory.
grewal12 adds his solution to
the mix:
I have the same thing going
on...kind of. I have two alarm
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E-reader News Edition Tech News/ Economy/ 45

Google Index to Go Real Time US consumers

Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
participate in a program much impact of such a move for small show readiness
like that. publishers. Right now many
Submitted at 3/3/2010 5:07:20 PM Sponsor
How The System Might Work
small sites get visited by Google
maybe once a week. With a
to spend
(Financial Times - US
Google is developing a system PuSH is a syndication system PuSH system in place, they homepage)
that will enable web publishers based on the ATOM format feeds they publish can be found. would be able to get their
of any size to automatically where a publisher tells the world Then Google would subscribe to content to Google automatically Submitted at 3/4/2010 5:41:15 AM

submit new content to Google about a Hub that it will notify those PuSH feeds to discover right away.
for indexing within seconds of every time new content is US chain stores saw more
new content when it's published. A richer, faster, more efficient evidence of a cautious readiness
that content being published. published. Subscribers then tell PuSH wouldn't likely replace internet would be good for
Search industry analyst Danny the Hub "when this Publisher by US consumers to spend
crawling, in fact a crawl would everyone, but the benefits in during February, with
Sullivan told us today that this posts new content, please be needed to discover PuSH search wouldn't be limited to
could be "the next chapter" for deliver it to me right away." So department stores and luxury
feeds to subscribe to, but the G o o g l e , e i t h e r . The
retailers reporting sales gains
Google. instead of the Subscriber real-time format would be used PubSubHubbub is an open
Last Fall we were told by c h e c k i n g b a c k w i t h t h e despite severe winter weather.
to augment Google's existing protocol and the feeds would be Gap, the largest US clothing
Google's Brett Slatkin, lead Publisher all the time to see if index. as visible to Yahoo and Bing as
developer on t h e there's new content, they just sit store chain, continued its sales
As Danny Sullivan told us they would be to Google. recovery, reporting a 3 per cent
PubSubHubbub(PuSH) real time and wait to be told that there is today, Google would have to " I a m b e i n g t o l d b y m y
syndication protocol, that he by the Hub. The Publisher gain in comparable sales across
implement some sort of spam engineering bosses to openly it business. Sales at its low cost
hoped Google would some day publishes something, then tells control and not just let content promote this open aproach even
use PuSH for indexing the web the Hub that it's available, then Old Navy stores in the US were
be pushed live to the index to our competitors," Slatkin up 5 per cent, while Banana
instead of the crawling of links the Hub goes and delivers it to unvetted. That was what says. That's a very good sign.
that has been the way search all the Subscribers. This can Republic was up 6 per cent. Its
happened in the earliest days of We expect this will be a very North American Gap brand
engines have indexed the web take as little as a few seconds. search and it was a real mess, he big deal and we'll be covering it
for years. Google senior If Google can implement an stores reported flat sales, as did
told us. The Advantages of a more extensively in the coming its international business.
product manager Dylan Casey Indexing by PuSH program, it Real Time Google Index days, as well as whenever
said yesterday at Sullivan's would ask every website to Five Filters featured article:
P u S H i s m u c h m o r e Google has something to Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
Search Marketing Expo in Santa implement the technology and computationally efficient for a n n o u n c e m o r e f o r m a l l y .
Clara, California that the declare which Hub they push to PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
Google but Slatkin says that D i s c u s s Term Extraction.
company plans to soon publish a at the top of each document, just even more important is the
standard way for site owners to like they declare where the RSS
NEVER
continued from page 43

insights during this interactive
panel." With Nigel Dessau of
AMD.
Innovation Overseas - The
European Startup Environment
"U.S. companies often know
little about the European startup
environment and the
opportunities to be found there.
Panelists will share both the
highs and lows of their startup
lives and will answer questions
regarding funding opportunities,
cultural idiosyncrasies,
legislation and differences
between Europe and America."
With Marten Mickos of
Benchmark Capital, Peter
Robinett of Bubble Foundry,
Felix Petersen of Plazes and
Reshma Sohoni of Seedcamp.
Coconut Valley - Building a
Tech Community on the Beach
"Starting from a mere handful of
people and growing into the
thousands, come learn how we
grew our tech community out of
the sand in South Florida. Learn non-Valley startups of all
tips and tricks for growing your stripes. If you've got suggestions
own tech community even in the or feedback, let us know in the
most unfriendly/untechy areas comments! See you in Austin,
of the world." With Brian folks! Discuss
Breslin of infinimedia and
Davide Di Cillo of Thirtynine.
Those are our SXSW
Interaction recommendations for
46 Tech News/ Game/
China's Top 3 Social Network Sites
Richard MacManus
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 2:10:48 AM
The leading social networking
site in China, renren.com,
started out as a blatant Facebook
clone - but it now has tens of
millions of users. Despite
obvious similarities to
Facebook, there is one
significant difference from the
U.S. in how Renren and other
Chinese SNS are used. The
bread and butter of these sites is
social games using virtual items.
Indeed, Farmville originated in
China!
In this first post of a series, we
outline the most popular social
network sites in China. In
follow-up posts, we'll look at
Twitter clones, online video,
and censorship. This series is
based on a discussion I had with
Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing-based
expert on China's Internet.
Sponsor
Kaiser Kuo is a Chinese-
American who lives in Beijing.
He currently works for one of
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clocks. One is the regular kind,
right next to my night stand. The
other one is my phone which is
on the other side of the room.
They both go off at the same
time. BUT, I have another alarm
on my phone that goes off 15
minutes later. So I have to go
through the menus and stuff to
China's leading online video
services, Youku.com, as a
consultant on International
Business. Previously he was
Group Director, Digital Strategy
at Ogilvy & Mather China.
There are 3 social networking
sites that are clearly in the lead
in China, according to Kaiser
Kuo.
Renren.com is the leading
social network. It began as a
Facebook clone called
Xiaonei.com - which means 'on
campus' in Chinese. In August
2009 it changed its name to
Renren, which means
'everybody.' Renren had 70
million registered users at that
point. The site is owned by Oak
Pacific Interactive and has had
over $400M pumped into it by
investors Softbank.
The site was founded in
December 2005, shortly after
Facebook began to ramp up. Its
founder Wang Xing later
founded Fanfou, a popular
Twitter clone (see our next post
in this series).
Xiaonei.com was literally a
turn it off. Because if I don't, it
goes off while I'm in the shower
and wakes everyone else up.
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Different Floors to Get Heart
Rate Up
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fisher.seth lets us know how he
keeps from feeling lethargic at
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typically come from a "first tier
city."
Kaiser noted that
Kaixin001.com is extremely
popular among people who
work for multinational First screens of
companies, ad agencies and
other white collar companies.
Platinum's Vanquish
Accordingly, the site is valuable aren't doing it for us
because of its relatively wealthy Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
user base.
The third social network that is Submitted at 3/4/2010 9:10:00 AM
Facebook clone when it started, very popular in China is 51.com,
sporting the same shade of blue which Kaiser said is mostly used It's not that the first screens
a n d t h e s a m e l a y o u t . by people who live in "lower from Shinji MIkami and
ReadWriteWeb guest writer tier cities" and even rural areas. Platinum Games' Vanquish look
Gang Lu wrote on this blog in He noted that it has a "lower bad necessarily -- far from it. It's
June 2008 that Xiaonei.com brow offering." just that ... well, they look a
"was like a simplified version of Each of these three hugely little common, don't they?
Facebook in Chinese when it popular social networks in We've flipped through that
was first launched." He noted China has its own niche; from gallery below a few times but
that it had "the same layout, the mainstream Renren, to the couldn't find an image that got
same color scheme and even a more prestigious Kaixin001, to us even a little more excited for
very similar logo," which he the populist 51.com. the futuristic shooter than we
said "made people wonder if In our next post in this series, were yesterday.
there was an official connection we check out China's Twitter It wouldn't be so bad if that first
with Facebook." trailer for the game hadn't
clones. Discuss
Kaixin001.com is another very seemed like such a breath of
popular social network. Kaiser fresh air. Oh well, these are just
said that its users are mostly a few still images. Let's
"white collar middle class" and withhold judgment until we see
it in action, hmm?
Gallery: Vanquish (360, PS3)
First screens of Platinum's
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Disconnect For Small Cap Is
Temporary
XBRL was not any help when I
was compiling the data for the
14 companies in the SaaS Index
for the Saas Insights Report (a
paid report for investors
a v a i l a b l e f r o m
CapitalMarkets.com.
Disclosure: The guest author
wrote this report). The reason is
simple. Only one out of 14
reported to the SEC in XBRL
format. That company is
Salesforce.com (CRM). The
reason for that is also simple:
The SEC currently mandates
that companies with a market
cap higher than $ billion report
using XBRL. That is what
creates the disconnect:
1. XBRL will enable the good
investments from small cap
companies to surface, but,
2. Only big cap companies
report using XBRL (and they
have no trouble reaching
investors).
Traders optimistic Greek crisis can be
contained
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 10:55:54 PM
21:15 GMT: Growing optimism
that the fallout from the Greek
debt crisis can be contained
helped calm forex markets and
The good news is that
disconnect is temporary. The
second wave of new XBRL
filers in 2010 is estimated to
include 1,500 - 2,000 reporting
companies, and the final wave
in 2011 is for about 10,000
additional companies. Imagine
the Information Discovery Tools
When I go to my local wine
store, the owner asks me what I
want and we have fun with my
standard reply that I want
something "incredibly delicious
and ridiculously cheap".
Investors want the same. Warren
Buffett got to be one of the
richest men in the world by
finding a few of those.
When all companies file in
XBRL (and some geeks have
created some neat tools to help
sip more effectively from that
firehose), ordinary investors will
be able to create really powerful
filters to find those "incredibly
valuable and ridiculously cheap"
companies.
encourage broader risk appetite
on Wednesday.
The FTSE World equity index
rose 0.8 per cent, the euro and
Greek sovereign debt firmed,
and commodities gained as
traders absorbed details from
Athens on the austerity package
Gadgets/ Economy/ 47
They won't find them among
the big cap companies. They
will find them among the
thousands of small cap, micro
cap (and yes, even nano cap)
companies. When the value
surfaces, they can reach out to
IR who can them tell their story. HP EliteBook 8740w specs
Of course, when all this pans
out, the opportunity to find the
bargains will disappear. That is
begin to take shape, ATI
the price of an efficient market.
But the value to all the
FirePro M7820 revealed
companies trapped in small cap Vladislav Savov (Engadget) your lap has ever seen. This is
hell will be immense. They can Submitted at 3/4/2010 8:26:00 AM aided by the low-voltage, but
focus on building value highly potent Core i7-720QM
knowing that the value they You've been wondering, we CPU and four DDR3 slots for
create will surface. know, why the newly unveiled up to 16GB of RAM on the
And that will have a great 2540p and 2740p EliteBooks 8740w. You have until the end
impact on the innovation from HP weren't accompanied of the month to figure out what
economy. by their heavyweight compadre, to do with all that power, which
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Make Scrambled Eggs and Bacon in
the Oven [Recipes]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 5:30:00 AM
Scrambled eggs and bacon are a
hearty, heart-warming way to
start a day, but they require a bit
too much stove-top work and
dish dirtying for a typical
morning. Not so if you follow
this oven technique, which
keeps your eggs fluffy.
The TipNut blog's recipe calls
for 12 eggs, but that's a number
you can easily break down into
smaller portions. Add a good bit
of milk and a bit of butter, add
the mixture to a greased pan,
place in an oven warmed to 350
degrees, and then:
When eggs begin to set (after
cooking for about 10 minutes),
take a spatula and push the eggs
from side to side to scramble
them (you'll notice the edges are
where the eggs first start
cooking), make sure to scrape
Strong demand for 10-year Greek bond
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 5:55:28 AM
Greece saw strong demand for
its make-or-break bond deal on
Thursday as Athens took an
the bottom and sides well.
Continue cooking for
approximately another 15
minutes, stirring every 5
minutes or so to scramble as the
eggs really start setting up.
The full post describes a
method for also cooking bacon
alongside the eggs. The
advantage of the oven is not
important step towards resolving
its debt crisis.
Athens will borrow €5bn in 10-
year bonds, calming investor
fears that the country would not
be able to tap the international
capital markets because of its
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Electric Green School
having to work about the direct
heat drying out the bottom of
motorcycle shows its rebel
your eggs, and cooking bacon in
the oven certainly condenses the nature by running Linux
clean-up. Tim Stevens (Engadget) temperature, etc.) as well as
If you've got a simplified GPS navigation and,
Submitted at 3/4/2010 9:21:00 AM
morning breakfast recipe, we'll presumably, on the go games of
certainly take your tips in the Electric motorcycles are getting Tux Racer. It's a one-off built by
comments. Fluffy Scrambled more and more common, and Green School Motorcycles and
Eggs In The Oven[TipNut.com] while we don't think they'll ever Akershus University College,
quite capture the rush of an a n d t h e r e ' s p l e n t y m o r e
internal-combustion engine information about it in a video
threatening to fly into bits as it at the source link below -- if you
deteriorating public finances. screams toward red-line, they speak Norwegian.
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Remains of the Day: 90 Million Copies of

Windows 7 Edition [For What It's Worth]
Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 4:00:00 PM
Windows 7 sells more than 90
million copies, Verizon users
suffer data outages, and Ubuntu
changes its default color palette
(pictured).
• Microsoft to Double Down on
HTML5 With Internet Explorer
9 Right now Internet Explorer is
at the back of the HTML5 pack,
but expect "broad support for
HTML5" in the coming-soon
beta builds of IE9.
[Webmonkey]
• Windows 7: More than 90
Million Copies Sold! Windows
7 continues making leaps and
bounds on desktops, having sold
over 90 million licenses. [The
Windows Blog]
• Ubuntu dumps the brown,
introduces new theme and
branding The familiar brown of
the default Ubuntu theme is
retired, to be replaced by dark
gray, orange, and purple. [Ars
Technica]
• Verizon suffering 'nationwide'
data outage (update: fixed)
Verizon users, if you
experienced problems with your
data connection this morning,
you weren't alone. [Engadget]
• Ballmer: Google leads
because 'they did it right first'
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer New Potato's FLPR IR
discusses his goals for Bing and
why Google dominates search. dongle gives your
[The Microsoft Blog] iPhone home automation
• 5 tips for using Google Buzz capabilities
on your phone A few tips from
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Google for all those Buzz-ers
out there. [Google Mobile Blog] Submitted at 3/4/2010 9:00:00 AM
NEW page 50

Google dude: “Desktops dead in three years”

John Biggs (CrunchGear) will be irrelevant. In Japan, most become desktop independent. desktops excel.
Submitted at 3/4/2010 5:58:38 AM research is done today on smart However, I have a constellation Desktops still have a place, but
phones, not PCs,” Herlihy told a of devices connected to my its shrinking. I could see a thin
A charming young buck by the baffled audience, echoing always-on PC that I wouldn’t client sitting on an office desk
name of John Herlihy of Google comments by Google CEO Eric have connected to my iPad. sooner than later, with email,
Europe believes, like most Schmidt at the recent GSM Even simple backup hardware is storage, and office apps in a
people in the Western World Association Mobile World hard to connect over the cloud. cloud. But for uber-nerds heavy
that desktop PCs will be dead in Congress 2010 that everything Granted, he did say “research” iron is what we crave and what
the next few years. However, he the company will do going and not “fragging zombies and we’ll buy. You can’t stick two
b e l i e v e s t h e y ’ l l b e c o m e forward will be via a mobile rendering DVD menus for your water cooled graphics cards into
irrelevant by the year 2013, lens, centring on the cloud, own rip of What About Bob,” so a laptop and still call it a laptop.
which may put a damper on computing and connectivity. there’s a good chance he meant What think you? Will PCs die
s o m e P C m a k e r s ’ s a l e s Now I’m of two minds here. that the general populace will out?
forecasts. Yes, I agree the desktop is going desktops these days and a nice use mobile devices for most via SiliconRepublic
Smiling John, shown here, said: the way of the dodo. Laptops are docking system can go a long Google-related activity and
“In three years time, desktops strong enough to stand in for way to let the average Joe desktops for the things at which
50 Gadgets/ Game/
NEW
continued from page 49
It's hard to say why we've seen
a glut of these adapters hit all
within the same week, but hey,
the more the merrier! North
Carolina's own New Potato
Technologies (yes, we're
serious) has followed up on
ThinkFlood and Power A's
efforts by introducing an
Infrared iPhone / iPod touch
dongle of its own. The
difference? This one connects to
the dock connector, and when
used with the accompanying
app, it can control lights, stereo
systems, home cinemas and
pretty much anything that
allows dictation via IR. The best
part just might be said app, as it
allows users to search a database
of over 14,000 device codes and
just add the products they
already own, which means that
you'll probably only be stuck
programming that LaserDisc
player you refuse to give up. It'll
start shipping today from the
company's own website for
$79.99, or you can consult the
middleman (read: Best Buy) on
starting on March 28th.
Continue reading New Potato's
FLPR IR dongle gives your
iPhone home automation
capabilities
New Potato's FLPR IR dongle
gives your iPhone home
automation capabilities
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RealNetworks to stop selling
RealDVD, your copyrights
are safe -- for now
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 7:59:00 AM
Remember when RealNetworks
said it wasn't giving up on
RealDVD, that it would fight
the good fight and appeal the
August ruling finding its DVD
copying application wasn't quite
legal. Well, a lot of things can
change in five months and now
it seems Real is caving in to the
inevitable crush of the movie
industry, setting the lawsuit filed
by the MPAA for $4.5 million
and instantly turning existing
copies of RealDVD into
collectors items. (Hope you kept
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Codes here! Get your
Blur multiplayer beta
codes here!
James Ransom-Wiley
(Joystiq)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 9:43:00 AM
Our Blur multiplayer beta
activation code* giveaway
needs no introduction -- it just
needs a link:
Get to it >>
What's up? You didn't click the
link yet? Here's what you need
to know: The beta is free. It's
only on Xbox Live. And our
codes are limited! Get. To. It.
*Codes are not redeemable
those boxes in mint condition!)
through Xbox Live. Use your
What's next for Real remains to
code to register for the beta at
be seen, as the company just
Blurgame.com. The online beta
spun off Rhapsody to be its own
begins Monday, March 8. Xbox
thing, but surely whatever it
Live Gold membership required.
comes up with will not involve
Codes here! Get your Blur
the copying of copyrighted
multiplayer beta codes here!
things onto other things.
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Entry level Sony VAIO M netbook coming
Doug Aamoth (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 6:20:07 AM
When Sony’s VAIO W was
announced, its $500 price tag
seemed a bit steep for a 10-inch
netbook. You did get some nice
extras, though, like a 1366×768
resolution and built-in
Bluetooth. It seems that Sony’s
gunning for the lower-end
netbook market with the
recently-discovered VAIO
M—a 10.1-inch affair with an
Atom N450 CPU and 1024×600
screen.
Bluetooth will again be a
standard feature, which is nice,
and you’ll get a 250GB hard
drive, 1GB of RAM, Windows
7 Starter, 1.66GHz CPU, and
b/g/n Wi-Fi, all at 2.86 pounds.
SonyInsider.com suspects it’ll
replace the VAIO W, which
almost seems like a step
backwards given the W’s better
screen. No US pricing or
availability info yet, but if this
new one’s priced anywhere near
$500 it’s going to sell like
coldcakes.
A UK-based store has it priced
at £299, which is equivalent to
Gadgets/ Economy/
about $450 but that doesn’t
mean it’ll cost $450 here. I’d
guess it might be priced at $399
or so—still a bit expensive.
New Sony netbook VPC-
M11M1E[NotebookReview.co
m via Sony Insider]
51
QOTD:
HealthCare
Debate
Barry Ritholtz (The Big
Picture)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 6:15:41 AM
I totally empathize with this
comment from MacroMan:
“Speaking of painful ordeals,
health care is now a banned
topic, except as it impacts
financial market pricing. There
is really no point having (or in
my case, hosting) a debate in
which a significant portion of
the participants essentially stick
their fingers in their ears, close
their eyes, and shout “ the
government are morons so
there’s no point even trying to
change anything!!!”
They are of course welcome to
that opinion, and should they
wish to express that view, they
should feel free to visit the
appropriate venue to vent. But
after another day of being told “
ooh, you Europeans just don’t
understand anything” by people
whose idea of exotic travel is a
visit to Bob’s Country Bunker,
I’ve had enough.
Off topic health care posts now
incur the risk of deletion.”
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How-To: Use Time Machine Over a Where is the money in
Network local blogging?
Andrew Flocchini
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 6:40:08 AM
I love Time Machine for its
simplicity and the fact that it’s
free. Apple did the right thing in
creating a backup utility that
was integrated into the OS and
was actually useful. Anyone
who has fought with Windows
Backup can tell you, this has
been needed for a long
time. Apple created a beautiful
backup utility and then made
money on hardware that
seamlessly works with it. For
the home user, nothing could be
more simple.
In the office environment
however, users tend to backup
to server shares and not local
external drives. So, let’s take a
look at how to use Time
Machine over a network. Setting
it Up
It’s easy to do this in Leopard
Xserve by sharing a backup
folder. Under Server Admin,
you can check the box “Enable
as Time Machine backup
destination.”
This worked great in Leopard
but in Snow Leopard, Time
Machine no longer saw this as
an available destination.
Luckily, changing a property for
System Preferences solves this.
Enter this command in
Terminal:
sudo defaults write
com.apple.systempreferences
TMShowUnsupportedNetwork
Volumes 1
This tells Time Machine to treat
network shares as possible
backup locations. Now, when I
go to select a disk in the Time
Machine preferences, I see my
mounted AFP share listed.
Restoring
So that’s how you get the Time
Machine backup working, but
what about restoring. Most
people don’t test the restore
functionality but it’s the most
important thing you can do. To
restore a Time Machine backup
over an AFP connection, first
boot off the Snow Leopard
install DVD. Then, Launch
Terminal by clicking on the
Utilities menu. In the terminal
window, type the following
commands.
mkdir /Volumes/TimeMachine
m o u n t - t a f p
afp://user:password@afpserver.l
o c a l / S h a r e N a m e
/Volumes/TimeMachine
This will mount your AFP
share and make it available to
restore from. Quit Terminal and
then run “Restore from Backup”
from the Utilities menu. You
will see your backup listed and
you should now be able to
restore from it.
Time Machine is a very nice
utility and if you aren’t using it,
you should be. I even have other
Xserves backing themselves up
to this share using Time
Machine. Sure, there are third-
party applications out there can
do so much more, but I’m for
just getting the job done.
Integration with the OS is also
important to me. It’s the main
reasons I use Safari as my main
browser. As with all backup
solutions though, you need to
test the restore functionality
once in a while. If anything, you
might sleep better at night
knowing your data is not only
safe but recoverable.
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 2:42:48 PM
I'm sitting in a class at NYU
listening to a discussion about
local blogging and the NY
Times. Rather than speak up to
the room, I thought I'd just write
a blog post that explains where I
think the money is in local.
First, where I don't think it is --
getting ad dollars from the local
pizza parlor or stationery store.
There may be nickels and dimes
there, but the mega-dollars come
from slicing the pie differently
from the geographic way people
are slicing local news up now.
Instead, pick the businesses that
generate billions of dollars in
the local economy that are
information-based, where the
information currently being
supplied is inadequate. That's
not restaurants and
entertainment.
When I started looking for an
apartment in Manhattan, one of
my requirements was FIOS. I
naively assumed I'd be able to
get it because my mother had it
in Queens. Manhattan is a
bigger, more lucrative market
than Queens, so of course
Verizon has it covered. Turns
out, for a variety of reasons, it's
not true. There's almost no FIOS
in Manhattan. But if you went to
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the Verizon site you'd never find
that out unless you punched in
every address in Manhattan and
found out that very few return
positive.
Time-Warner Internet is not
bad, in some parts of the city,
and awful in others. If you want
great Internet service, where
should you be looking? The
only way to find out is word-of-
mouth.
Business on the Internet is
driven by finding places where
dollars are spent, where people
need lots of good information to
make a decision they're going to
spend a lot of money on.
Become the place where people
go for that information and then
sell space on your site to
businesses that sell products and
services in that space.
This is local. But it's local on a
wide scale. This is where I think
the money is.
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Virgin America Kills Flash as a Result of
Apple/Adobe Conflict
Darrell Etherington
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 11:00:31 AM
It’s probably not the first site to
eschew Flash in favor of greater
compatibility with Apple’s
portable devices, but it’s one
that’s definitely big enough to
make waves. Virgin America
has launched a new, Flash-free
website with the stated intent of
reaching more customers on
Apple’s devices, where Adobe’s
rich web content application is
not welcome.
Honestly, I think this is only the
beginning of a new tide that will
see corporations retreating away
from either Adobe’s or
Microsoft’s proprietary
solutions for displaying
animations and other advanced
media elements in their
websites. When the goal is to
reach as many customers as
possible, it only makes sense to
take into account the limitations
of some platforms. Flash may
run on many portable non-Apple
devices, but that doesn’t mean it
does it well.
As reported by the Register, the
decision to go with only HTML
is about inclusion, even though
the move by Apple that
preceded it is all about
exclusion:
Virgin picked HTML to give
users of iPhones and other
mobiles the option in the future
of checking in through their
phone. The battle between
Adobe and Apple has seen Flash
deliberately excluded from the
Jesus Phone.
Virgin’s new site is designed to
let users check-in using their
Apple/ Economy/ 53
Weather influenced
initial claims data
about in line
Peter Boockvar (The Big
to HTML5 once it’s cleared by Picture)
the W3C.
Submitted at 3/4/2010 6:15:14 AM
Virgin America’s Chief
Information Officer Ravi
Initial Jobless Claims totaled
Simhambhatia added, in defense
469k which is about in line with
of the decision, that “[t]his year
expectations and down from last
is going to be the year of the
week’s spike to 498k. Because
mobile [for Virgin].” The
of the bad snow storms and
sentiment echoes Steve Jobs’
disruption that resulted in the
recent declaration that Apple is
data, its best to average these
now a mobile device company
weeks in order to get a better
first and foremost. There’s just
handle on the trend. The 4 week
no denying that if companies
average is now 471k vs 474k
want to be taken seriously on
last week but above 470k for a
the mobile scene, they need to
2nd straight week for only the
take into account, if not focus on
first time since late Nov/early
Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch, and
Dec. Continuing Claims fell by
the upcoming iPad.
134k and were 100k below
The message is clear: Apple
expectations but Extended
can succeed at stonewalling
Benefits rose by a net 197k.
Adobe. The iPhone has been a
Thus, there is still very little
massive success despite a lack
mobiles, using a system that of Flash support, and the iPad is evidence in this weekly, timely
issues electronic boarding poised to do the same when it data, of any big pickup in hiring
passes you’ll be able to show to l a u n c h e s l a t e t h i s m o n t h . outside of some modest
airport security staff. The plan is Magazine companies aren’t improvement. Tomorrow’s Feb
awaiting approval by the U.S. happy about having to choose, Payroll figure will also be
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'The New Adventures of
Old Christine' - 'Sweet
Charity' Recap
Jason Hughes (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 4:24:00 AM
(S05E15) As much as I don't
want to compare Julia Louis-
Dreyfus' new show to her old
one, I can't help but notice some
similarities with this week's
installment. Much of what
made'Seinfeld' work was in the
way people outside of that core
four reacted to just how
deplorable those people really
were. When we were in that
inner circle with them, it all sort
of worked and we didn't really
realize how bad they were.
Now, Christine Cambpell is far
more obviously a terrible person
than Elaine Benes, but as with
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Allison Waldman (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 9:29:00 AM Bloomberg
Grace is ready to try again.
Actress Debra Messing has
Surveillance
signed for a new television show Barry Ritholtz (The Big
called 'Wright vs. Wrong,' a Picture)
sitcom for ABC, and if you Submitted at 3/4/2010 3:15:14 AM
think this is going to be
anything like'Will & Grace,' >
think again. (Although if they're
smart, it better be just as funny!)
The premise of the pilot for
If you are anywhere near a
radio this mornings, I will be the
morning guest on “ Bloomberg
'Wright vs. Wrong' is that Debra
plays Evelyn Wright, a strong-
Surveillance,” with hosts Tom
Keene and Ken Prewitt from
7:35 – 8:30 am– 10:00 am.
minded, ambitious political
personality who espouses the
conservative, right-wing agenda.
UPDATE Tom Keene went
articulate in her goofy way, was home ill — I am guest hosting
'Seinfeld,' we often don't realize
However, while she has this of the liberal lefty variety. the full show.
just how horrible she is. Even C o n t i n u e r e a d i n g D e b r a You can catch it live, or via
tough, conservative personality
moreso, when put in the context Messing Will Be All 'Wright vs. podcast at either Bloomberg or
for the public, behind the scenes
of Christine, Richard and Wrong' at iTunes.
she's consumed by her foibles
Matthew, Barb often comes Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Its always a fascinating time
and flaws.
across as the only sane and Casting, Reality-Free with these two pros . . .
So she's half-Grace Adler, the
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Recap
Jason Hughes (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 2:30:00 AM

(S01E16) The Hecks went on

their first road trip, as we found
out something that Brick is
really good at, and something
that happens more often than
families would like to admit.
I've had my birthday forgotten

'Modern Family' - more than once by my busy

family, and it made me feel
about as small as Sue did.
'Fears' Recap However, I was never given the
level of power Frankie gave her how could he not be?
Jason Hughes (TV Squad) the first one to choke out a over the family trip to Chicago. Continue reading'The Middle' -
Submitted at 3/4/2010 3:01:00 AM genuine emotional response Guilt is certainly a powerful 'The Bee' Recap
f r o m m e . P h i l ' s c l o s i n g agent in making potentially poor Filed under: Other Comedy
(S01E16) What are you afraid monologue was touching, and decisions. Shows, OpEd, Episode
of? That was the question facing touched on another fear that all As for Brick, it shouldn't come Reviews, Reality-Free
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this exceptional comedy series. children growing up too fast. great speller. With his nose Comments
Whether it's a fear of roller That, and the fear that they're constantly in books his parents
coasters, tight places, passing going to kill someone in your probably couldn't even read,
your driver's test, getting asked car.
to dance, or that your daughter Continue reading'Modern
isn't connecting to you, it's how Family' - 'Fears' Recap
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of which were fantastic, this was
56 Entertainment/
Apolo Ohno: Pam Anderson's Breasts Are Too Big for
Dancing With the Stars [Gossip Roundup]
Maureen O'Connor (Gawker)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 6:50:16 AM
He thought he could call her
"heavy" if he said "top," first.
Ke$ha makes fun of Britney.
Kendra Wilkinson's baby weight
gave her postpartum depression.
" Jessica Simpson weighs in on
fat jokes." Thursday's gossip
roundup was teased as a child.
• He of the gold-tipped glove
and more medals than any other
American Winter Olympian,
Apolo Ohno, stepped in it on
Leno last night. Apolo won
Dancing with the Stars in 2007,
so he evaluated this year's
contenders: "Between, what is
it, Pam Anderson and Evan
Lysacek? Pam Anderson, she's a
little top-heavy. I think Evan is
going to do very well. Plus, he's
an Olympic medalist!" Seeing
Pam's and Evan's names next to
each other like that, I suddenly
realize that Heatherette designer
Richie Rich is totally going to
make a cameo this year. Pam is
his muse and Evan is a friend.
(Richie used to be a competitive
skater.) Sidenote: Does anyone
else get a gay vibe from Apolo?
It could just be a side effect of
growing up with a single dad
who styles hair for a living. [
TVWatch]
• accused Jackson matriarch
• Speaking of Apolo, he says he
can leg press a ton. Literally. [
TMZ]
• •
• Keha made fun of Britney
Spears for lip syncing: "I think
that's bullshit. ... I would never
do that to my fans. ... It's
treating people as if they are too
stupid to realize you are not
actually singing. ... My whole
record is super honest. I am
really honest." How badly do
you want Keha to have a lip
sync scandal right now? Keha,
Ke@ha, Ke:-(ha! [
ShowBizSpy]
• photo shoot with Terry
• Brangelina and their brood
continue to consume Italian ice
cream in Venice, for it is a time-
honored tradition that all
American families vacationing
in Italy must gorge themselves
silly on gelato. Luckily, the
superior genome of the
collective Jolie-Pitts means
nobody will get fat. [ DailyMail]
• high school junior. This story is
• All you need to know is the
headline: "Jessica Simpson
Weighs in on Fat Jokes." [ P6]
• • NBC honcho Lorne Michaels'
• The investigation into the near
-stun-gunning of Blanket
Jackson continues, and it's all
miserly Katherine Jackson's
fault. Last year Jermaine
Jackson's ex-wife Alejandra
Katherine of trying to pay child
support with gift cards to
Ralph's supermarket. Nary
twelve months later, Jermaine
spawn Jaafar would make like
his granny and purchase a
"credit card" from Ralph's (
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TMZ] [ TMZ] [ TMZ]
• Rihanna's baseball boyfriend
Matt Kemp threw her a surprise
party for her 22nd birthday,
featuring a heavily tattooed 4-ft.
stripper and dirty dancing. [
DailyMail]
•
• Purple magazine is all
Lindsay Lohan all the time.
With a Jesus-inspired cover
under her belt, LiLo now
embarks on revealing her butt [
fig.1] and boobs [ fig.2] in a
Richardson. [ HuffPo]
•
• Marie Osmond's 18-year-old
son Brian Blosil, who
committed suicide last week,
had struggled with substance
abuse and emotional issues
throughout his teen years. With
his mother struggling alongside
him, Blosil went to rehab as a
tragic in part because it is so
common. [ People]
•
new spin on the Conan fiasco:
"creative freedom." He
explained "You can't imagine
Conan being able to say what he
said [on NBC] at Fox or Disney
loophole!) which he would use or wherever." He continued,
to buy a stun gun online. "And that chaos and that look of
Further: 13-year-old Jaafar has a
brother named Jermajesty, and APOLO page 57
is super adorable. Case closed. [
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Labor Strife Abroad For NYT [Protests]
Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 9:31:00 AM
A tipster sends this dramatic
action photo of International
Herald Tribune staffers
protesting against their
penurious overlord NYT Co. for
"laying off people and forcing
them to go to Hong Kong or
quit." Solidaridad! Full internal
protest email below!
This email went out this
morning to the IHT rabble-
rousing socialists:
Date: Wednesday, March 3,
2010, 7:53 PM
Hello.
As you may or may not know,
management is planning to kill 6
jobs in Paris and is offering the
occupants of four of those jobs
the same position in Hong
Kong. The only newsroom
position affected is Sports
Editor. Their argument is that
the jobs could be done better or
as well from there, and that it
would save money. Those who
do not choose to go to Hong
Kong would be fired.
During several Comite
d'Entreprise meetings,
representatives of the various
employee groups disagreed with
those conclusions, except for the
economic grounds, and
proposed alternatives. Finally,
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continued from page 56
disorganization comes from a
better place, in my opinion. It's
not a button-down-enough
culture to shut things down."
He's also pro-Betty White. [ P6]
•
• With his incarceration delayed
due to a courthouse fire, Lil
Wayne celebrated his final
nights of freedom by attending a
Jay-Z show at Madison Square
Garden and going to the Empire
Hotel, where he "threw a
tantrum" after getting bounced.
Part of me wishes he got
arrested, because the layers of
criminality would have been
kind of thrilling. [ Gatecrasher] [
P6]
•
• An unfortunate coda to
yesterday's item about DMX's
l a s t T u e s d a y , t h e y a s k e d members is that this could set a and join the demonstration. gospel rap charity concert: Once
management to come up with precedent allowing management Another demonstration is t h e h o s t r e a l i z e d X w a s
alternatives. There were no to pick and choose who they planned for Friday morning, involved, they canceled the
substantial changes offered at a fire. 9:15. whole thing. [ TMZ]
Comite meeting today. As a result, a demonstration is No one thinks we can stop •
While only one newsroom planned in front of the IHT management from doing what • Kendra Wilkinson says she
position is affected, we are building at 2:30 p.m., March 4. they plan to do. But no one had postpartum depression:
opposed to the way it is being We plan to meet in the lunch expects it to stop at this one "After giving birth, I never
done and the consequences to room first before reassembling 'reorganization' plan. The hope brushed my hair, my teeth, or
the employee involved. By outside. Bring something to is to send a message that this is took a shower. I looked in the
picking just one position to make noise with. Signs will be not being taken lightly and that mirror one day and was really
t r a n s f e r t o H o n g K o n g , provided. There is a brown bag our opposition will mount if depressed. I thought, Look at
management has essentially lunch planned for 1:30 p.m. and their proposals become more me! I had this glamorous life in
targeted one individual to w e a r e h o p i n g t h a t t h e severe. LA and now [in Indianapolis] I
transfer or fire if he refuses to journalists attending will leave Please join us. didn't... a couple times, I even
go. The feeling among Comite that event if it is still ongoing said, 'I just have nothing to live
for.'" A valuable mental hygiene
lesson: When shallow people
suffer from mental health
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'Survivor''s Jeff Probst: continued from page 57
problems, the manifestation may
'Heroes' Are Becoming also be shallow. You must listen
to them on their own level, for
even the shallowest people may
'Villains' lose themselves in the depths of
depression, sometimes. [
(ETonline - Breaking News) most notorious people playing at AnythingHollywood]
Submitted at 3/4/2010 3:02:00 AM the same time. The last time we
did this was the All-Stars and
"Survivor" premiered its 20th that was six years ago. A lot has
season in February with an all- changed since then. On top of
Baylor's Griner Ejected
s t a r c a s t f o r " H e r o e s v s . this being another All-Stars, we
Villains," which stars some of have added another layer: you After Punching
the series' favorite players and a r e e i t h e r a " H e r o " o r a
some of the most reviled. But "Villain," or you are not here. I
the "Hero" and "Villain" labels think that was a pretty big
Opponent
may turn out to be a misnomer difference right off the bat. I FanHouse Newswire
(FanHouse Main)
a s r e t u r n i n g p l a y e r s a r e think what you are seeing this
r e v e a l i n g s i d e s t o t h e i r season is how much "Survivor" Submitted at 3/3/2010 4:00:00 PM
personalities heretofore not has evolved. In a way, this is a
seen. ET checks in with series bit of a retrospective. You have Filed under: Women's
host Jeff Probst to get his take people like Colby Donaldson Basketball
LUBBOCK, Texas(AP) --
on just what is happening on back from season two, Tom
"Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains." Westman from season 10, and Baylor's super freshman
ET: Can you talk in general then you have Russell Hantz Brittney Griner was ejected
about how you see this season from season 19. You can really from a game against Texas Tech
after she punched an opposing
and how it is differs from other see how fast the game has
seasons? become compared [to the player in the face.
Jeff Probst: I think the biggest b e g i n n i n g ] . Texas Tech's Jordan Barncastle
fouled Griner with No. 14
difference is we have 20 of our
Baylor up 55-39 with 9:01
remaining in the game
Wednesday night. As the Tech
player was moving away from
Griner, the Lady Bears' standout
swung and landed a punch on
Barncastle's face.
The game was stopped for
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Jack Nicklaus believes
Tiger Woods will play
in the Masters
Figures 1. & 2.
Bob Harig (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 11:18:16 PM
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The Count: How Did Canada Win
Medal Count? Follow the Money
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 2:11:04 PM
Which nation won the Olympic
medal race? Canada won the
most golds, the U.S. the most
medals, and other nations can
make other sorts of claims, as I
wrote several days ago. My
point was to show that such a
question doesn’t mean much,
since there are so many ways to
slice and dice the numbers.
Since writing that post, I’ve
come across still more ways to
rank medal hauls, adding
evidence to the case that
combining results from different
sports doesn’t make much sense.
Getty Images Olympic medals
may be priceless, but their metal
value is the basis for one medal-
count ranking.
On Yahoo during the Games,
Chris Chase suggested cutting
out any medals from judged
sports, such as figure skating. At
the time, that subtracted nine
medals from the U.S.’s totals,
and just two from Canada’s. At
the end of the Olympics, Chase
outlined a different system, one
that awards 25 points for gold
medals, 10 for silver medals and
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related to Woods, who has been the Masters.
on an indefinite leave from the
game. Woods reportedly
Woods, who has won 14 major
championships, is four behind
Canada also wins according to returned home Saturday after a Nicklaus' record. Earlier this
the metrics of Cyril Morong, an week of family counseling and year, Nicklaus had said, "If
economist at San Antonio has started practicing again. Tiger is going to pass my
College. He takes a purely "I've been very non-committal record, I think this is a big year
economic approach, weighting about everything because it's for him in that regard. If he
each medal by its actual market none of my business," Nicklaus doesn't play this year, obviously
value, should the medalists said. "My guess is as a golfer the chore is going to be a little
choose to melt them down. he's going to want to try and tougher."
five for bronze (emphasizing (Morong counted a medal in a play Augusta if he has his other Nicklaus then referenced the
golds more than the 5-3-1 and 3- pairs or team event just once, things in order." fact that Woods has won seven
2-1 weighting systems I tried). even though each winning Woods, 34, is a four-time of his 14 majors on this year's
Chase also doubled those point athlete gets a medal.) Using Masters champion. He has major venues: four at Augusta
totals for what he called the estimates of the medals’ metal- played the tournament every National, one at Pebble Beach
Olympics’ marquee sports: m a r k e t v a l u e , M o r o n g year since in 1995, when he was (U.S. Open) and two at St.
figure skating, Alpine skiing, calculated that Canada won the an amateur. His last victory at Andrews (British Open).
speedskating and men’s hockey. equivalent of $9,635 (American Augusta National came in 2005. "He obviously loves Augusta,
By this scheme, the U.S. edged dollars), barely edging Team But Woods has not played in a Pebble Beach and St. Andrews,"
Canada, 620 to 570. USA’s $9,377. If the U.S. men’s tournament since winning the Nicklaus said. "He basically
Canada wins by the reckoning hockey team had prevailed in Australian Masters on Nov. 15. owns all three of those places."
of David Roher, of the Harvard overtime of the gold-medal Woods gave no hint as to when Nicklaus, who won the Masters
Sports Analysis Collective. game, the U.S. would have won he would play again last week in six times, last played the
R o h e r u s e s a g o l d - h e a v y this monetary ranking. his first public comments since tournament in 2005. This year,
weighting system similar to That OT win was also crucial to the Nov. 27 SUV accident for the first time, he will serve
Chase’s — 4-2-1. He also Ton Tango, the sports numbers outside his home led to a as an honorary starter at the
counts each sport equally, no guru, whose count may seem scandal and admissions of tournament along with four-time
matter how many actual medals askew but would make sense to infidelity. Masters champion Arnold
it hands out. So a medal in many Canadians. “There were "I suspect he'll play something Palmer.
hockey, for instance, counts for 85 gold medals handed out in before Augusta," Nicklaus said. Bob Harig is the golf writer for
more than one in speedskating, the non-men-hockey division, "Your guess is as good as mine. ESPN.com.
w h i c h h a s s o m a n y m o r e and one in the hockey division,” I would be very surprised if he Five Filters featured article:
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of 38. Arnold Palmer Invitational,
where Woods has won six
times, including the past two
years. It is three weeks away
from, and two weeks prior to,
E-reader News Edition
In Beating Duke, Maryland Proves a Point
David Steele (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 6:15:00 PM
Filed under: Duke, Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Gary
Williams couldn't resist, and he
shouldn't have had to. A little
over a year ago, when it seemed
that his team couldn't do
anything right, couldn't reach
the end of the season without
sweating out an NCAA
tournament bid, didn't seem like
it belonged on the court with
programs like Duke, he took it
all personally and imbued his
players with the same sense of
resolve.
So on Wednesday night, after
his team held off the fourth-
ranked team in the country,
avenged an earlier thorough
defeat on the road, tied arch-
rival Duke for the ACC
championship and waded
through the throng of students
who had rushed the Comcast
Center floor, Williams praised
the trio of seniors who
spearheaded the 79-72 victory
and offered the back of his hand
to his longtime critics at the
same time.
"Those three guys are special,
because they've all come
Sports/ 61
Purdue, IU
Suffer in
Different Ways
Greg Couch (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 4:40:00 PM
Filed under: Indiana, Purdue
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - --
The natural order here is that
Indiana basketball has a God
complex and Purdue has an
inferiority complex. That's the
through some things,'' Williams 12-3 in the ACC), ranked 22nd teams were trading the lead back starting point when these
said afterward of guards Greivis and winners of five straight, was and forth throughout the final 10 schools play each other, as they
Vasquez and Eric Hayes and given a good chance to beat minutes, managed to go out true did Wednesday night.
forward Landon Milbourne. Duke (25-5, 12-3), even though to himself and his outsized Purdue crushed Indiana, as
"They've heard, especially last the Blue Devils had won eight personality. He tossed in a three everyone does. This one was 74-
year, that they weren't good straight, including a 21-point -pointer with five minutes left to 55, but winning and losing
enough. It's nice to see that they win at Cameron Indoor Stadium give Maryland a lead, launched wasn't as neat and orderly as it
are good enough to come last month. This time, though, a twisting runner on the right sounds. Indiana is a shambles of
through four years and win. the Terps' seniors, honored baseline with 3:49 left to put a program, and Purdue has had
"We kind of stuck it to some before their final home game, them ahead again -- and, finally, everything lined up perfectly to
people who didn't have some scored the first 12 points of the heaved up something again from f i n a l l y w i n t h e n a t i o n a l
very nice things to say,'' he game as Maryland jumped the right baseline that barely championship, including the
added. ahead 7-0, 10-2 and 15-5. qualified as a "shot'' with 38 Final Four in its home state.
The irony of it all, of course, They also were money in the seconds left, got it to bounce in, This has been the perfect year
was that by the time this game bank at the end, particularly the and gave Maryland a 73-69 for this Charlie Brown of a
arrived, Maryland(now 22-7 and volatile Vasquez, who when the cushion. program. And then, someone
pulled the football away again.
Robbie Hummel, the team's best
player, heart and soul, glue, -
you name it -- blew out his knee
a few days ago. He tore his ACL
PURDUE, page 62
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PURDUE,
continued from page 61
and is out for the year. Last
year, he cracked his vertebrae
when Purdue was looking good.
Now, Purdue is not going to get
a No. 1 seed, not going to reach
the Final Four. Deep down,
everyone here knows it, though
they say things like senior tough
guy Chris Kramer said
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light to be an 'original digital
experience'
Ludwig Kietzmann (Joystiq)
Submitted at 3/4/2010 7:51:00 AM
Crystal Dynamics has
announced its first new game
since the completion and launch
of 2008's Tomb Raider:
Underworld. Set to debut in
2010, Lara Croft and the
Guardian of Light will see the
roadworthy leading lady come
to undisclosed platforms -- via
download.
It wouldn't be the first time the
posh pot-smasher and exotic
animal extinguisher stars in a
downloadable format, as Tomb
Raider: Anniversary was
digitally distributed in the form
Wednesday night about why he
chose to come to Purdue out of
high school when the team was
awful.
"I could see the light at the end,"
he said.
of Tomb Raider: Legend DLC
on Xbox 360 before getting a
regular retail spot. Lara Croft
and the Guardian of Light,
however, is a standalone title
that Crystal Dynamics GM
Darrell Gallagher hopes will
defy expectations.
"This is a really exciting project
for Crystal Dynamics, we have
created something completely
new and very different to what
people might be expecting," he
said. "Lara Croft is such an
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Paris Fashion Week Fall 2010:

Dries Van Noten’s Covetable
Day-to-Night Collection
ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 4:35:15 PM

With temperatures still

hovering in the 30s, the fall
2010 looks hitting the runway
today in Paris make me want to
start shopping now (I can’t
possibly wait 6 more months).
Dries Van Noten’s collection,
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Peter Boockvar (The Big at a spread of about 300 bps to will elaborate more at 8:30 on
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Submitted at 3/4/2010 5:51:08 AM the 350 spread priced in the sale wanting to exit some of their
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64 Picture/ Economy/
FASHION,
continued from page 63
Bill Clinton-backed charity
which raises money for global
health causes, brought out the
fashionable set (Becka Diamond
wearing a Thakoon dress and
Jen Kao spring 2010 runway
shoes: “I’m lucky that I’m a
sample size”) as well as music
heavy-hitter Will.i.am. The
Black Eyed Peas front-man was
on hand to record a song that
will serve as an anthem for the
global movement, while a short
film by Spike Lee (starring
Mary J. Blige and Susan
Sarandon among others) was
played. Starting tomorrow, sites
Greece's fiscal crisis:
Now comes the pain
(The Economist: News
analysis)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 9:30:22 PM
Greece's fiscal crisis Greece’s
new austerity measures may
prove to be enough—if they are
fully implemented
Mar 4th 2010 | ATHENS |
From The Economist print
edition
G E O R G E
PAPACONSTANTINOU, the
overworked Greek finance
minister, likens the effort to
steer Greece away from
economic disaster to “changing
the course of the Titanic.” Until
this week it looked as if the
country was headed for an
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iceberg labelled default. Two
austerity packages had failed to
convince Greece’s European
partners—or the financial
markets—that measures to cut
the budget deficit this year from
12.7% of GDP to 8.7% would
work.
Critics in Brussels said that
Greece’s Socialist government
was relying too heavily on
pledges to cut tax evasion and
soak the rich, rather than slash
spending, especially on public-
sector pay and pensions. The
markets pushed spreads on
Greek bonds over their German
equivalents to record highs.
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Greece’s ten-year bonds were
offering mouth-watering yields
of some 6%, twice the German
level.
On March 3rd, however, the
mood changed. George
Papandreou, the prime minister,
at last threw his full weight
behind austerity. His
government announced some
severe measures: a rise in the
top rate of value-added tax,
from 19% to 21%, more
increases in excise tax on fuel,
tobacco and alcohol, a freeze on
pensions and an unprecedented
30% cut in civil servants’
Christmas, Easter and summer
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GREECE'S
Europe.view: Struggles, suffering and Skype continued from page 64

two months to roll over expiring

(The Economist: Daily create such itineraries the precarious present or unhappy Love Parade attracted young
columns) debt. If it can get it, more than
messages they reinforce are past. people from all over the world, half this year’s borrowing
Submitted at 3/3/2010 10:29:02 PM strong but wrong. Visitors to But elsewhere missed eclipsing memories of the city’s requirement of €53 billion will
eastern Europe expect beautiful opportunities are legion. How role in the Nazi era. have been covered and the
Europe.view Eastern Europeans old buildings (Hanseatic, Art many people attending Communist-imposed modernity markets’ pressure will ease, say
should strive to present a more Nouveau, Baroque, Ottoman or conferences in Warsaw, for defaced and debased cityscapes, bankers. One way forward
modern face to visitors Levantine) and miserable example, get to visit the language, manners and much might be to persuade other euro-
Feb 3rd 2010 | From The history, plus fiery drinks, spectacular university library more in the last century. area countries to buy Greek
Economist online unhealthy food, peasant (pictured, above)? It is one of Resisting it was a matter of bonds, perhaps by providing
I M A G I N E t h a t y o u a r e handicrafts and folk-dancing. the most impressive bits of national survival. But that era guarantees for euro-area
attending a conference (call it All the more reason, therefore, modern architecture between the ended 20 years ago. Modern investors. “We want to be able
Agenda 2010) in the capital city to offer them something that Baltic and the Black Sea, visitors find interesting, to borrow at the same rates as
(call it Klow) of a generic ex- s h a k e s t h e i r s t e r e o t y p e s , providing the visitor with a beautiful new things more other euro-zone countries,” Mr
communist country (call it e m p h a s i s i n g m o d e r n i t y , powerful impression of Poland’s attractive than sad, beautiful old Papandreou said, perhaps
Ruritania). The discussion will innovation, creativity, optimism intellectual and creative clout. ones. optimistically given Greece’s
be mostly about the present and and other notions not normally Varsovians are justly proud of The ex-communist region has record of huge budget deficits
the future. After a night-owl a s s o c i a t e d w i t h t h e e x - it—but most visitors to the some strong cards to play in and deceitful accounting. On the
session on “the impact of the c o m m u n i s t w o r l d . Polish capital never see it; they contemporary culture: festivals other hand, as he has also
economic crisis on regional Estonia seems to have got this are too busy going around the such as Karlovy Vary (film) and pointed out, Greece cannot
security”, you will stagger to a message. Those attending last Museum of the Warsaw Prague Spring (music) draw big afford to go on borrowing
red-eye breakfast on “Engaging year’s Lennart Meri security Uprising. international crowds. But such indefinitely at 350 basis points
Russia: how, when and where?” s h i n d i g ( d i s c l o s u r e : y o u r The contrast with other parts of events are not enough to over Germany. The gains from
But the cultural programme in columnist is a regular and Europe is sharp. The Basque dislodge the dead hand of austerity measures could be
the afternoon is resolutely appreciative participant) had region of Spain has a history of history. Cash-strapped swallowed up by such a high
backward-looking. An excursion two options. One was a tour of tragic struggles and exotic governments find it easy to cut debt premium.
to admire the beautiful historic Tallinn’s medieval Old Town ethnography to rival any ex- spending on cultural events, or Imminent visits by Mr
buildings includes a chance to led by the former prime minister communist country. But visitors spectacular new public Papandreou to Berlin, Paris and
goggle at the horrible Stalinist Mart Laar (who is an expert on head for the Guggenheim before buildings. But when successful, Washington, DC, could help to
ones. A mandatory stop is its ghosts, as well as on flat Guernica. In Catalonia it is the they put a country on the world resolve Greece’s debt problem.
something on the lines of “The taxes). But the other was a visit throbbing cultural and social life map far more effectively than The German chancellor, Angela
Museum of Ruritanian Struggles to NATO’s cyber-warfare centre of Barcelona that draws the any number of conference Merkel, has considered the
and Suffering”, which shows the outside Tallinn. This year the crowds, not the historical sessions. possibility of Germany
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a lot of historical myths. junkets highlight Estonia’s ultra- Pyramid that leave deeper marks still fret about moral hazard: a
When conference organisers modern aspects, rather than its in the visitor’s mind. Berlin’s bail-out would mean that Greece
gets away with years of
irresponsible fiscal policy and

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American health-care reform: The die is cast continued from page 65

could set a bad precedent for

(The Economist: News manoeuvres are necessary to This latter effort relies on a noted, however, that
analysis) other euro delinquents. The
pass his health bill. And finally, loophole, used by both parties in Republicans fired the previous German constitutional court
Submitted at 3/3/2010 9:52:53 PM he declared that he wanted to the past, that allows budget- Senate parliamentarian when ruled two decades ago that the
see “an up-or-down vote” in the related provisions to pass they found his rulings Maastricht treaty was acceptable
American health-care reform “next few weeks”. through the Senate with just 51 inconvenient. only if its no bail-out provisions
Barack Obama unveils his final Grand ambition aside, Mr votes rather than a filibuster- Despite these obstacles, were respected—so any bail-out
strategy for pushing health Obama’s decision remains a proof 60 (a margin the Democrats now seem eager to would have to be disguised to
reform in America huge gamble. The opposition Democrats no longer enjoy). push a package through. One avoid legal challenges. Yet
Mar 4th 2010 | remains unbowed. There are several potential reason, Mr Obama argued, is to German banks are on the hook
WASHINGTON, DC | From Representative Ron Kind, a snags in the House. One is that prove to a cynical public that the for so much Greek (and other
The Economist print edition Democrat, says his party is the Democrats simply may not federal government works: “At Mediterranean) debt that some
“EVERYTHING there is to say willing to incorporate those have the votes. The Senate bill stake right now is not just our kind of taxpayer support may be
about health care has been said Republican proposals into any contains no provision for a ability to solve this problem, but unavoidable.
and just about everyone has said final reform package—but that government-run insurer, which our ability to solve any France’s president, Nicolas
it…now is the time to make a prospect has not won over a angers leftists; some want to problem.” Sarkozy, seems readier to
decision.” So declared President single vote. John Boehner, the revive this controversial notion. A bigger reason, argues Mark help—though Greece may come
Barack Obama on March 3rd to Republican leader in the House, Abortion could also scupper McClellan, a former Bush under pressure to buy more
an audience of doctors and still wants to scrap Mr Obama’s things, as the Senate bill’s administration official now at expensive French frigates for its
nurses gathered at the White plan in favour of “step-by-step” provisions on the matter do not the Brookings Institution, a navy. This is not a deal that Mr
House. After a year of dithering, r e f o r m . B u t S e n a t o r R o n please some conservative House think-tank, is the fact that Papandreou likes, since Recep
he is now leaping into action. Wyden, a bipartisan-minded Democrats. And since the House Democrats are going to get Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s
His speech contained no policy Democrat, says incrementalism bill passed three Democrats attacked anyway for their past prime minister, has just
surprises, but is worth noting for cannot work. The pieces of have died or retired, while only votes in favour of reform. “Why proposed that the two formerly
t h r e e r e a s o n s . F i r s t , h e health reform are so interlinked one Republican has. not pass it,” he asks, “since hostile neighbours should make
i n s t r u c t e d c o n g r e s s i o n a l that any such scheme simply The Senate may also prove doing so now is clearly better a joint agreement to cut defence
Democrats to embrace several “does less but costs more”. problematic. In theory only for Democrats than failure?” spending.
Republican proposals—for Passing reform without financial provisions can be Readers' comments To strengthen his hand with the
example, modest measures to R e p u b l i c a n s u p p o r t w i l l passed using the reconciliation The Economist welcomes your rest of the euro zone, Mr
reform malpractice laws and p r o b a b l y i n v o l v e H o u s e approach; abortion, for example, views. Papandreou is threatening to
fight insurance fraud—that were Democrats passing an exact cannot. So all eyes are on the Five Filters featured article: turn to the IMF for a standby
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bipartisan summit on reform. by the Senate before Christmas. parliamentarian (its official PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, unlikely to be much harsher than
Second, he made it clear that he Both houses must also pass a adviser on procedure, currently Term Extraction. the latest austerity measures, say
now wants Democrats to forge “sidecar ” or “corrections” bill Alan Frumin), whose rulings Greek officials. But this could
ahead with whatever procedural to capture any other provisions. carry great weight. It must be also be too optimistic. The IMF
would probably tell Greece to
sack thousands of public-sector
workers and cut pensions
sharply. Even so, as one Greek
official notes, “at least with the

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fund you can stop worrying
about where to get the money to
finance the debt.”
Greek trade unions are
predictably furious over the
bonus cuts, which come on top
of a 4% pay cut they have
already swallowed. Strikes will
spread. Some strikers are
unpopular, for example the taxi-
drivers who have been
protesting over being obliged to
give passengers receipts. There
is more sympathy for
pensioners, who face a double
blow from a freeze in pensions
and the impact of tax rises.
Militant pensioners
unexpectedly broke through a
police cordon blocking the road
to Mr Papandreou’s office as he
was announcing the new
measures. They will soon be on
the march again, says their
union. “You cannot make ends
meet on 400 euros a month,”
declared one retired plumber. So
Mr Papandreou’s approval
ratings have held up, with more
than 60% of Greeks accepting
that tougher measures are
needed.
Fears loom over the timetable
set in Brussels for implementing
the new plans. Greece will
shortly complete an overhaul of
its tax legislation and come up
with proposals to reform state
pensions, which now eat up over
11% of GDP. A shortage of
competent bureaucrats makes it
harder to ensure that any new
targets are met. If Greece is to
stay on course, Mr
Papaconstantinou and his team
will have to keep putting in long
hours. Readers' comments
The Economist welcomes your
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FYI: Why Do Ducks Have Orange Feet?

Bjorn Carey (Popular Science
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News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 1:11:51 PM
Actually, many species of
ducks have feet-and legs!-tinted
a bluish green or gray. But for
the ducks that do have orange
feet, well, it's all about attracting
the ladies. Chicks dig orange.
Kevin Omland is an
evolutionary biologist at the
University of Maryland at
Baltimore County, and he
knows as much about mallard-
duck coloring patterns as
anyone; it was his graduate
thesis. "I looked at male
mallards and thought, gosh, they
exhibit so many wonderful
colors, I wonder which ones
females care about," he says. Do
lady ducks lust after the males'
green head plumage? Or maybe
it's the blue patches on the
males' wings? Then again, what
female duck can resist a nicely
proportioned set of white "neck
tie" feathers? After four years of
documenting mallard courtships,
Omland found that none of
those mattered. All they cared
about was the brightness of the
guy's yellow-orange bill.
Bright orange coloring suggests
that a male duck, also known as
antioxidants that can be
beneficial to the immune
system. "This indicates that his
behaviors and genes are good
enough for him to recognize and
eat the right food, or that his
immune system is strong
enough to produce bright orange
legs," Omland says. "The
female sees this as a very
attractive trait to pass on to her
offspring."
Omland's work only looked at
drakes' bills, but he thinks
a drake, is getting all his there's enough circumstantial
v i t a m i n s , p a r t i c u l a r l y evidence to say that ducks check
carotenoids, such as beta- out each other's feet, too. "Blue-
c a r o t e n e a n d v i t a m i n A , footed boobies have, obviously,
very blue feet, and it's very well
documented that they use their
feet in courtship and that
females do care about the
coloration of males' feet,"
Omland says. "Perhaps
mallards, like the boobies, have
a foot fetish."
Think you can stump us? Send
your questions to
fyi@popsci.com.
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In February, U.S. Job Creation Best in South, Worst in West

(All Gallup Headlines)
Submitted at 3/3/2010 7:00:00 PM

PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's
Job Creation Index -- based on
15,884 U.S. employees' self-
reports of hiring and firing
activity at their workplaces --
shows that perceptions of
current job market conditions
nationwide improved slightly in
February compared to January.
Conditions continue to be best
in the South and weakest in the
West, are improving in the
Midwest, and deteriorating
slightly in the East.
Twenty-five percent of
employees nationwide in
February told Gallup their
companies are hiring, an
increase from 23% in January;
23% said their companies are
letting people go (vs. 24% in
January). As is now well
recognized, firing is down
considerably from the level seen
during much of 2009. On the
other hand, hiring remains in the
same tight range it has exhibited
over the past year.
South: Remains the Best Job helped the keep the job situation -- up slightly from 22% in Midwestern job market West: Worst of the Regions but
Market in the South so positioned. January and 21% in December. conditions improved again in Showing Modest Improvement
Hiring in the South, at 27%, is East: Continued Deterioration The end of the financial crisis February. The source of the Conditions in the West
highest of any region -- and Job market conditions in the and the sharp gains on Wall improvement is an increase in improved modestly, with 22%
essentially the same as January's East continued to worsen in Street had led to a substantially hiring to 25% from 22% in hiring in February -- up from
26%, while the 22% "firing" is February, with 24% of improved job market in this part January; firing was unchanged 20% the prior month -- and 27%
tied for lowest with the employers hiring -- down of the country, but in recent at 22%. Midwest job market letting employees go (improved
Midwest. The South has slightly from 25% in January months, some of those gains conditions continue to benefit from 29%). While
generally had a stronger job and 26% in December. seem to have dissipated. from the improvement in the manufacturing and exports are
market than other regions over Simultaneously, 23% of Midwest: Continued manufacturing sector during
the past two years, and higher employers are letting people go Improvement recent months. FEBRUARY, page 69
year-over-year oil prices have
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helping job market conditions in
the West, this region continues
to suffer from some particularly
weak housing markets.
Commentary
Gallup's Job Creation Index
shows a slight improvement in
job market conditions in
February, and this is consistent
with Gallup's findings that
underemployment remained flat
and the unemployment rate
improved slightly last month.
Wednesday's ADP report
showed private-sector
companies letting go of an
estimated 20,000 employees in
February -- the fewest in two
years. In addition, the
Challenger, Gray, and Christmas
report showed planned layoffs
decreasing to 42,090 last month.
Friday's Bureau of Labor
Statistics unemployment report
for February is expected to show
an increase, possibly in part
owing to the weather, which
forced some businesses to close
temporarily and made it difficult
for employees to get to their
jobs. Seasonal adjustments will
also influence the government's
unemployment rate, while
Gallup's employment measures
are not adjusted in this way --
not to mention that they are
based on a significantly
different survey methodology.
Regardless of what numbers the
government reports on Friday,
Gallup data show that hiring
remains about as weak as it has
been over the past year, and that
about one in five Americans are
underemployed. It is little
surprise, then, that many
Americans continue to see the
economy, including
unemployment, as the nation's
most important problem.
Survey Methods
For Gallup Daily tracking,
Gallup interviews
approximately 1,000 national
adults, aged 18 and older, each
day. The Gallup consumer
spending results are based on
random half-samples of
approximately 1,000 national
adults, aged 18 and older, each
day. The Gallup Job Creation
Index results are based on a
random sample of
approximately 500 current full-
and part-time employees each
day.
Regional results for February
are based on Gallup Daily
tracking interviews totaling
more than 3,000 in each region.
For each total regional sample,
one can say with 95%
confidence that the maximum
margin of sampling error is ±3
percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with
respondents on land-line
telephones and cellular phones.
In addition to sampling error,
question wording and practical
difficulties in conducting
surveys can introduce error or
bias into the findings of public
opinion polls.
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Teleconferencing MeBot
Conveys Your Non-Verbal
Cues Over the Phone
Clay Dillow (Popular Science - glance, reproducing them via the
New Technology, Science robot sitting on the other party's
News, The Future Now) desk.
Submitted at 3/4/2010 6:41:52 AM If you lean toward the speaker
There's something cold and in an interested fashion, the
impersonal about the telephone - robot leans in as well. It mirrors
- like the inability to get in a hand gestures so you can pat
coworker's face and tell him coworkers on the back, point an
exactly how little you think of accusatory finger or simply
him. But MIT's MeBot ensures throw your hands up in disgust.
your icy-cold stares, interested And since MeBot is mobile, the
nods and quizzical glances will u s e r c a n r o l l a r o u n d a
never fall on deaf ears again. conference table or desk
Using a Web cam and a engaging more than one person
specialized software package, in a conversation at a time while
MeBot conveys all your controlling interpersonal
nonverbal signals via a tiny distance. Which means if needs
desktop robot. The idea is to be, you can get in someone's
i n c r e a s e t h e l e v e l o f face without flying halfway
communication between parties across the country to do it.
by relating all those nonverbal [ Hizook via CrunchGear]
cues; MeBot can capture nods
and shakes of the head or
changes in the direction of your
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Artificial Intelligence Brings Musicians Back From the Dead,

Allowing All-Stars of All Time to Jam
Clay Dillow (Popular Science - we all know, referred to Fats be opening up a can of
New Technology, Science Domino as the real King of copyright worms that may be
News, The Future Now) Rock and Roll. And so on. more trouble than its worth --
Submitted at 3/3/2010 2:08:44 PM New software, developed by the estate of Kurt Cobain, for
Want to know what a jam North Carolina-based Zenph instance, probably wouldn't be
session between Jack White and Sound Innovations, is something thrilled to find out his musical
Stevie Ray Vaughan might have like a Pandora for live musical style has been ripped by a piece
sounded like, or how Billie style; sophisticated software of AI software and is currently
Holliday would interpret the analyzes musicians based on touring the Midwest without
latest dreck from Avril Lavigne? how they sound on old, archaic permission. And previous
A d v a n c e s i n a r t i f i c i a l recordings. The software can efforts at creating music via AI
intelligence are resurrecting then reconstruct songs as they haven't necessarily received a
musical legends of the past, would have sounded if those warm welcome from some
tapping into old recordings to musicians had recorded in a audiences either, with critics
establish a musician's style and modern studio and on superior claiming that computers can't
personality, then applying those media. put the heart into creative works
attributes to newer recordings of But it doesn't end there. Zenph like humans can, and that comes
old songs, or even to songs the is working on a means to not through in the sound.
musician never played before. only recreate old performances, Then there's the issue of
Every generation has its but to dissect a style to the point nostalgia; a musician's sound
musical heyday. Then, just as that it can manifest an artist's reflects his or her time and place
one era is about to give way to personal touch into pieces he or in history, so do we really want
the next, the older generation she never performed in life. to know what Fats Domino
declares that music is dead, Meaning the software could The company plans to explore meaning it's possible that in the would've sounded like had he
claiming the greats of one small potentially lift Jimmy Page out all kinds of markets with the future, the company could put recorded in a modern studio,
epoch in musical history will of Black Dog and replace him technology, like licensing together phantom all-star bands with some actual bass and a
never be topped. This is why with, say, Jimi Hendrix, just so clearer versions of old melding musicians across sound more indicative of his
Kurt Cobain was never as good see how it sounds. recordings to films and creating decades, or recreate the Beatles natural talent? Actually, on
as Jimmy Page who couldn't Zenph has already created three software that will let you with virtual stand-ins for John second thought, that sounds
touch Lennon and McCartney "ghost" pianos that play the Clapton-ize your own guitar and George. pretty amazing.
who could never compare to likes of Rachmaninoff to the riffs. It's also working up virtual Wired's Eliot van Buskirk [ Epicenter]
Buddy Holly who owed a exact stylistic specifications -- versions of more instruments, points out that Zenph seems to
creative debt to Elvis who, as supposedly -- of Sergei himself.
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An Inconvenient
LED Shortage This Year Could Keep TV, Device Truth: Biofuels Have
Prices High a Carbon Footprint
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Clay Dillow (Popular Science - (Greentech Media: Headlines)
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now) Submitted at 3/4/2010 3:58:02 AM

Submitted at 3/3/2010 11:59:22 AM One of the biggest

The cool thing about economies controversies within the biofuels
of scale, and especially about industry is whether first-
cutting-edge gadgetry, is that generation biofuels have a more
generally the price goes down substantial carbon footprint than
over time (remember the $500 petroleum.
iPhone?). But that may not be On the surface, this seems to be
the case for ever-more-popular a no-brainer. According to the
LED-backlit LCD TVs this year, Department of Energy, a gallon
or for LED light bulbs for that of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel
matter. Accompanying the surge emits between 18.4-21.1 pounds
of LED use in electronics, a of C02 upon burning.
shortage of light emitting diodes Transportation sources
could put upward pressure on accounted for 29% of total U.S.
prices as device makers cut greenhouse gas (GHG)
deals to get their hands on the emissions in 2006 and are the
essential little components.
another 20 billion units to top fluorescent lamps used now might remain the same fastest-growing source of GHGs
The problem is a simple one of
100 billion in 2011, so even if previously. LEDs are also throughout the year and into in the U.S., accounting for 47%
demand outstripping supply, but
manufacturers manage to ramp popping up in car headlamps next. Which is annoying, sure, of the net increase in total U.S.
it's not such a simple problem to
up production to meet demand (Ferrari's latest makes them a but over the next couple of years emissions since 1990. These
resolve. Global industrial
this year, they face another key design element), and as the the market will likely find its estimates of transportation
capacity sits at about 75 billion
double digit increase in technology comes along, we'll way back to equilibrium. And GHGs do not include emissions
units according to market
production next year. see more light bulbs for the since that TV you've been from additional life-cycle
research firm iSuppli. In 2009,
Though lots of our daily tech home. eyeing won't be coming down in processes, such as the extraction
technophiles swallowed up 63
relies on LEDs, it's LED-backlit While the shortage may not price for awhile, we strongly and refining of fuel, transporting
billion units, but next year
LCD displays in televisions and drive the cost of new devices encourage you to pass the time the petroleum to and from the
demand is supposed to hit 80 refinery, the manufacture of
laptops that are really driving stratospherically higher, we'll by reading a magazine.
billion, creating a 5 billion unit vehicles, and a whole slew of
demand up; their superior probably lose the incremental [ CNET via Treehugger]
gap that can only be met if other variables that make
picture quality and low power decreases in cost that we're used
production speeds are increased. petroleum production and
needs make them an obvious to seeing in our technology. So
But that's not the only problem; consumption an environmental
step forward over cold-cathode the price of an LED television
demand is supposed to jump by catastrophe.
Yet, creating biofuels like corn
ethanol is an energy-intensive
process. The steps involved
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with growing a feedstock like
corn on an agro-industrial scale
-- think farm equipment,
fertilizer, harvesting,
transporting the feedstock to the
biorefinery, converting the
feedstock into ethanol/biodiesel,
and further transporting the
biofuel to a petroleum refinery
or service station -- require a
tremendous amount of energy,
especially when more than 10
billion gallons of biofuel are
being produced in any given
year in the United States (see
Ethanol and the Looming Blend
Wall). Similar to the need to
view the carbon contained in the
adjacent processes that facilitate
petroleum production and
distribution (and not just
combustion), any authentic
carbon audit of biofuels needs to
examine the carbon contained in
the materials and components
embedded within the up-front
fixed and operating costs.
While this might seem
straightforward, simplistic
models can break down as one
attempts to determine the source
of energy used in the process
(i.e., coal vs. renewable), the
distance between the field and
the processing facility, the way
that the feedstock and biofuel
are transported (truck vs. barge
vs. railroad), etc.
While the variables involved in
calculating the true carbon
footprint of biofuels are indeed
complicated, the complexity is
raised to an exponential power
when the simultaneously
abstract and tangible concept of
"Indirect Land Use (ILUC)" is
factored in.
The basic idea of ILUC is that
as biofuels from crop plants
proliferate, there is less cropland
available to grow food for
human and animal
consumption. As a
consequence, land, such as
forests, becomes converted into
crops. For example, the U.S. is
the largest grower and exporter
of corn in the world; it used 86.5
million acres to grow 13.2
billion bushels of corn in 2009.
Approximately 30% of this crop
is diverted to produce ethanol
(note that some of this is then
returned to the animal feed
market in the form of distillers
dried grains). The question is
whether the carbon footprint
associated with rainforests being
cleared in Brazil (see Brazilian
Ethanol Takes a Hit) and
Southeast Asia to "replace" corn
and oilseeds like soybeans that
are no longer exported by the
U.S. (due to ethanol and
biodiesel production) ought to
be counted when considering
the GHGs of biofuels. If so,
what methodology does one
use?
In Europe, the controversy over
ILUC was reignited this week
when a British government
report was leaked to the Times
of London claiming that
although the European
Commission requires each liter
of biofuel to reduce emissions
by 35% compared to petroleum,
biodiesel via palm oil actually
increases emissions by 31% due
to forests being converted into
plantations.
Why are forests so significant?
Forests can be thought of as the
lungs of the earth, serving a two
-fold function in mitigating
carbon. As deforestation
occurs, sequestered carbon
contained in the tree is released
into the atmosphere;
concurrently, those cut-down
trees are no longer able to
reabsorb C02 from the air.
More than one acre of forest is
cleared every second on earth.
This translates to 100,000 acres
per day and more than 34
million acres per year -- a
landmass the size of Greece.
While this is partially mitigated
by new growth, the net loss is
equal to 18 million acres.
Indonesia and Brazil are the
third and fourth largest
contributors to global warming.
These two countries account for
60% of all deforestation in the
world. Deforestation and land
use changes are estimated to
account for 12%-15% of global
C02 emissions.
As such, when organizations
like the pro-ethanol lobby group
Renewable Fuels Association
and Growth Energy publicly
cast doubt on the existence of
Indirect Land Use Changes and
attempt to mobilize their friends
in Congress to strip the EPA's
authority (see COP15: EPA's
Lisa Jackson Sings the Biofuel
Blues) to include ILUC in the
process of evaluating the carbon
footprint of biofuels, it is clear
that such groups are more
interested in self-serving politics
than environmental stewardship.
These groups' categorical
dismissal of ILUC is
reminiscent of the Gore-Bush
debate in 2000, when Gore
repeatedly cited economic data
attacking the deficit
consequences of Bush's
prospective trillion dollar tax cut
-- to which Bush responded
again and again with charges of
"fuzzy math."
Yes, calculating ILUC is
messy. The California Air
Resource Board (CARB) and
EPA (see EPA Issues
Renewable Fuel Standards) have
vastly different conclusions
about corn ethanol's carbon
footprint when they factor in
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ILUC. And while it is easy to
attack any environmental model
-- because by nature, models are
based on a series of
assumptions, variables, and
projections -- something as
serious as climate change and
creating policy that seeks to
mitigate it should not be left to
special-interest groups that are
allowed to define science
according to their own agenda.
If science suggests that first-
generation biofuels that come
from feedstocks like corn,
soybeans, palm oil, and
rapeseed are found to have a
higher per-unit carbon footprint
than petroleum, we need to have
the courage to be authentic
about it and examine whether
the billions of dollars of
subsidies that we provide to
these industries could better be
deployed to those advanced
biofuels -- such as algae -- that
do not need scarce cropland or
promote deforestation.
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Google Opens PowerMeter As
Console Wars Heat Up
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Now any smart thermostat can
link into PowerMeter.
Google has opened up the
application program interface
(API) to its household power
management tool, a move that
will make it much easier for
home networking vendors to
build links into their products
that connect back to
PowerMeter. AlertMe from the
U.K. and The Energy Detective
both make PowerMeter-
energized products, and Google
has been seeking more partners -
- but PowerMeter is hardly a
household word yet.
Putting out the APIs is the
equivalent of putting
PowerMeter on autopilot. The
terms are public and
straightforward; vendors then
choose whether or not to adopt
them. And vendors generally
adopt the popular APIs. It helps
reach a broader audience and the
software vendors ultimately
often start doling out market
development dollars.
Google, Microsoft, Intel and
others have all launched efforts
to control how consumers and
businesses monitor and analyze
their energy consumption. Why
the rush? Neither Google nor
Microsoft will charge
consumers for PowerMeter or
Hohm. However, advertisers
will likely pay both companies
for the opportunity to hawk
energy efficiency services and
other energy-related products to
consumers who use their
respective consoles. Both
companies will also mine the
data (after it has been scrubbed
to protect privacy) to utilities.
Don't worry about a loss of
dignity or privacy: you'll get a
coupon for ten percent off on a
new set of storm windows.
Intel, meanwhile, wants to sell
chips into thermostats. Last
year, Intel began to gripe about
how homes were largely analog,
often a prelude to a product
push. Then at CES, CEO Paul
Otellini showed off a prototype
management console. Intel has
already licensed it for free to an
Asian contract manufacturer.
But will it work? Intel's strategy
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makes a lot of sense. These
devices will need processors and
Intel can pop out chips at a
regular pace at low prices. But
thermostats and washing
machines won't need extremely
high levels of programmability.
So Intel will have to compete
against ARM and others.
Google and Microsoft,
however, have created business
plans that require at least some
level of customer interest and
engagement. Can energy
efficiency and home
management engage the
interests of consumers over a
sustained period. Put it another
way: when was the last time you
reset your programmable
thermostat? Maybe the
companies like Tendril,
EcoFactor and Silver Spring
Networks that are more focused
on systems that will let
consumers forget about home
management have a better idea.
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