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The complicated question of Haiti’s orphans
By Deborah Zabarenko (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 3:10:22 PM
The devastation caused by
Haiti’s earthquake has extended
to some of its youngest and most
powerless victims: orphans
awaiting clearance to join
adoptive families in the United
States.
The U.S. government has
already said it will allow
orphaned children from Haiti to
come to the United States
temporarily for needed medical
treatment, and on Wednesday
expanded its effort.
Now three departments — State,
Homeland Security and Health
and Human Services — say
they’ll join together to deal with
what is a complicated question,
according to Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano.
“It is something that needs to be
handled very carefully, because
there are many issues involved in
terms of making sure that …
children that come to us are
indeed orphans, until all the
search and rescue is done, or
other families are located,”
Napolitano told a Senate hearing.
She was responding to a direct
plea for help from Senator Jon
Tester of Montana. Tester said
five of his constituents “have
completed all the paperwork to
get the children from Haiti …
and yet, they’re being held up.”
“I need to get a commitment
from you that the Citizenship and
Immigration Service, an agency
within your department, will
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Gene Barry obituary
By Ronald Bergan (World
news and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:10:51 AM
Elegant star of US TV series
from the 1950s onwards
For any regular television
viewer in the 1960s and 70s, the
elegant actor Gene Barry, who
has died aged 90, was
inescapable. Most prominent was
his portrayal of the Los Angeles
police captain Amos Burke in 81
episodes of Burke's Law (1963-
66). No ordinary cop, Burke was
an immaculately dressed, jet-
setting millionaire bachelor who
left his Beverly Hills mansion in
a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce
to investigate a murder. Barry as
Burke, a wisecracking,
sophisticated ladies' man, was
the nearest thing on TV to Cary
Grant.
Each episode – bursting with
Hollywood guest stars, one of
whom was revealed as a
murderer – allowed Burke to
deliver an aphorism such as
"never drink martinis with
beautiful suspects: Burke's Law",
or "never ask a question unless
you already know the answer.
Burke's Law".
Before playing Burke, Barry had
triumphed in the western TV
series Bat Masterson (1958-61).
The opening song says it all:
"Back when the west was very
young, there lived a man named
Masterson. He wore a cane and
derby hat … A man of steel, the
story says, but women's eyes all
glanced his way. A gambler's
game he always won. His name
was Bat. Bat Masterson!"
Stylishly dressed in a black
derby, fancy waistcoat and
jacket, and preferring to use his
gilt-tipped cane rather than a gun
to defend himself, Barry played
the western hero with his tongue
firmly in his cheek. "The
costume dictated my
performance," Barry remarked.
"It changed my life. Every role
I've done since has been a guy
who looked good in clothes."
Despite coming so early on in
his long career in films, TV and
stage, Bat Masterson and Burke's
Law were his greatest successes,
though almost two decades later,
Barry, still the dandy, almost
topped them with his
performance as the gay owner of
a drag nightclub in the Broadway
musical La Cage aux Folles
(1983).
Barry was born Eugene Klass
into a Russian-Jewish family in
New York. His parents, who
worked in the jewellery trade,
sent him for singing and violin
lessons as a child. While
attending high school in
Brooklyn, the young Eugene
won a singing contest and
consequently a scholarship to the
Chatham Square school of music
in Manhattan.
Changing his last name to
Barry, in homage to his idol,
John Barrymore, he began his
career as a singer in leading roles
in Broadway operettas, using his
rich baritone in a revival of
Sigmund Romberg's New Moon
(1942); in Rosalinda (1942-43),
an English-language version of
Johann Strauss's Die
Fledermaus; and in Franz Lehár's
The Merry Widow (1943-44).
He met his future wife, Betty,
during rehearsals for Catherine
Was Great (1944-45), written by
and starring Mae West (Betty
was fired before the opening
night as West could not tolerate
another blonde in her show).
After being offered a contract by
Paramount, Barry left New York
for Hollywood, where he had
leading roles in 14 movies,
bringing as much charm as he
could to rather dull roles. Many
of his films were products of
cold war paranoia. In his debut
feature, the low-budget thriller
Atomic City (1952), Barry is a
nuclear physicist whose young
son is kidnapped by Russian
agents who demand the secrets
of the H-bomb as ransom. Evil
Martians attacking the Earth
were, more or less, surrogates for
the Soviet Union in the producer
George Pal's impressive The War
of the Worlds (1953), an
updating of HG Wells's novel to
contemporary California.
Intermittently bespectacled –
always a Hollywood signifier of
intelligence – Barry was again
the hero scientist who survives to
see the defeat of the godless
enemy, mainly through prayer.
His final part was to be in the
2005 remake.
In Edward Dmytryk's Soldier of
Fortune (1955), Barry had the
thankless role of a
photojournalist held prisoner and
tortured in China, waiting to be
rescued by Clark Gable. The
main interest in Sam Fuller's
simplistic China Gate (1957) is
the racist character played by
Barry, an American explosives
expert helping the French defeat
the Chinese communists. In a
studio backlot cheapie, Hong
Kong Confidential (1958), he
played a US spy, posing as a
nightclub singer, sent to rescue a
kidnapped Arab prince from the
Russkies. Barry also appeared in
two minor Technicolor musicals,
as a saloon owner in Those
Redheads from Seattle (1953)
and as a stereotypical Latin lover
in Red Garters (1954). His last
film, before working almost
exclusively on TV, was as a
tough treasury agent who proved
to be the nemesis of the
moonshine trader Robert
Mitchum in Thunder Road
(1958).
After his long stint on Burke's
Law, Barry played another
debonair millionaire in 44
episodes of The Name of the
Game (1968-71). This time, he
was a magazine owner. Many
years later, Barry said
regretfully: "I have not been able
to play just an ordinary human
being … a man who is not the
elegant head of an industry. I
didn't like it much – the fact that
I trapped myself or got entrapped
in that type of performance."
He gave variations of "that type
of performance" in scores of TV
World/ 3
roles over the next 30 years,
including appearances in Fantasy
Island, The Love Boat, Charlie's
Angels and The Twilight Zone,
plus a reincarnation of Captain
Burke in Burke's Law (1994),
now a widower working with his
detective son.
However, Barry was highly
praised for his creation of
Georges in the Jerry Herman
musical La Cage aux Folles in
1983. As the suave partner of the
flamboyant drag queen Albin
(George Hearn), Barry was
nominated for a Tony. He had
the less showy part but brought
realism and humanity to the
proceedings, and delivered two
nostalgic songs. "I was not
playing a homosexual. I was
playing a person who cares
deeply about another person," he
recalled. "I didn't camp him up,
and that's what the gay
community loved. I played him
sensitively, caringly."
Barry was almost fired during
rehearsals, but, finally, the
director, Arthur Laurents, asked
him to look into Hearn's eyes
more often to convey a greater
sense of tender affection and to
introduce the club acts with more
panache.
Barry, whose wife of almost 60
years died in 2003, is survived
by two sons and a daughter.
• Gene Barry (Eugene Klass),
actor; born 14 June 1919; died 9
December 2009
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Peter Fraenkel obituary

(World news and comment pumping house or lock been Palmer and Tritton, specialising misappropriation of funds. infrastructure and into improving
from the Guardian | restored. The Fraenkel report in heavy marine engineering Chastened, but with important governance. Fraenkel kept the
guardian.co.uk) (1975) argued persuasively that projects. His most notable job lessons learned, Fraenkel moved firm afloat by breaking into the
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:16:51 AM there was a case for restoring was the Port Talbot harbour in into the next decade by turning UK highways sector, where there
much of the network, aided by south Wales. The presentation of his attention to the far east and was a boom in bypass building.
Award-winning civil engineer central government funding. this project at the Institution of south-east Asia. After winning the Bicester
r e s p o n s i b l e f o r w o r l d w i d e This report, for the Department Civil Engineers led to his being Notable projects included a southern bypass, he opened an
projects of the Environment, was a awarded the Telford medal, the dockyard built in a mangrove office in Leicester and undertook
Peter Fraenkel, who has died catalyst for some early projects, most prestigious in its field. swamp for the Thai navy at Pom many other highways schemes in
aged 94, was a civil engineer at such as the restoration of 39 He took the bold step of setting Prachul, near Bangkok, in 1980; the east Midlands. When the
the heart of a movement of locks on the Kennet and Avon up his own consultancy in 1972. the Rama IX bridge in Bangkok, UK's road-building programme
British consulting engineers canal and the restoration of the It grew rapidly, winning projects which – when it was completed came to a halt in the mid-1990s,
responsible for infrastructure all Avoncliff aqueduct, which Peter all over the world, and received in 1987 – was the longest cable- Fraenkel, by then an
over the rapidly developing post- Fraenkel and Partners (PFP) the Queen's award for enterprise stayed bridge in the world, with octogenarian, refocused the firm
colonial world of the 1970s and carried out. By the turn of the in 1982. Projects in the UK a main span of 450m; and a back into the heavy marine
80s. He built up a 160-strong millennium, he was able to look included the loading jetties at the highway in Malaysia from engineering that had made its
p r a c t i c e t h a t p r o d u c e d back with pride at his role in the Sullom Voe oil terminal in Sandakan to Kinatanga, which name. He remained involved in
innovative, heavy engineering UK-wide regeneration of the Shetland, completed in 1978, and aided economic development in the firm into his 90s, and was
solutions to such problems as 1 8 t h - a n d 1 9 t h - c e n t u r y the floodgates to protect the the east of the country. In Hong remembered by colleagues as a
how to support the world's then w a t e r w a y s . entrances to the Royal docks and Kong, PFP designed the Tolo shrewd operator.
longest cable-stayed bridge in Fraenkel was born in Breslau, Tilbury docks, east of London, highway (1985), built along land He is survived by his wife of 62
Thailand and how to build the Germany, now Wroclaw in which were threatened by the reclaimed from the sea from years, Barbara, and by two
biggest road projects at that time Poland. His German parents – rise in the water level after the Shatin to Tai Po in the New daughters, Laura and Sarah.
t h r o u g h t h e c h a l l e n g i n g his father was Jewish, though completion of the Thames barrier Territories. Another Hong Kong • Peter Fraenkel, civil engineer,
topography of Hong Kong. Peter was brought up as a in 1982. triumph in the mid-1980s was born 5 July 1915; died 18
In the UK, he quickly made a Lutheran – horrified at the rise of Overseas, Fraenkel opened an the enlargement and realignment November 2009
name for himself by carrying out nazism, sent Peter to London office in Nigeria in 1976 and of the congested King's Road. • Engineering
r e s e a r c h t h a t l e d t o t h e aged 16. He rapidly learned worked on 600km of highways, By the late 1980s, however, • Road transport
regeneration of Britain's stricken English and won a place to study including the 200km highway work overseas began to dry up,
canal network. Fraenkel was civil engineering at Imperial from Biu to Maiduguri, in the as foreign consultants from the guardian.co.uk© Guardian
asked to put together teams to College. north of the country, which US and elsewhere challenged the News & Media Limited 2010 |
walk along some of the country's When the second world war required clever solutions to market-leading UK engineering Use of this content is subject to
3,100km of canals to research broke out, Fraenkel was assigned ensure that the road and bridge consultants. Project funders, our Terms & Conditions| More
the feasibility of bringing them to the Ministry of Works to structures resisted flash flooding such as the World Bank and the Feeds
back into commercial use. Many supervise the building of brigade in the rainy reason from the Asian Development Bank, had
had fallen into dereliction and c a m p s n e e d e d f o r s o l d i e r Ngadda river. He opened another also begun to redeploy their
only through the efforts of training. After the war he joined short-lived office in Cameroon support for developing
enthusiasts had the occasional the consulting engineers Rendel and lost a lot of money due to the economies away from

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Obama announces dramatic crackdown on Wall Street banks

By Jill Treanor (World news former Federal Reserve chairman Fresh from the historic loss of a and reducing the proportion of the US coffers.
and comment from the Paul Volcker. Democratic senate seat in the revenue allocated to pay from An EU proposal to tax banks in
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) He also wants to prevent further Kennedy-stalwart state of 48% in 2008 to 35.8% in 2009 – Europe also gained ground
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:13:45 AM consolidation of the financial Massachusetts this week, the lowest on record. yesterday when a Swedish
system in the US and will ban Obama's assault on Wall Street The 141-year-old New York- proposal to introduce a levy on
President announces "new Glass takeovers and mergers among followed the release of near- based bank has been pilloried as profits was backed by Spanish
-Steagall Act" to prevent banks American firms in the sector. record profits from Goldman the exemplar of banking pay finance minister Elena Salgado,
that take customer deposits from Obama said the new proposals Sachs and bonus average pay for excess. Its London-based whose country currently holds
taking risky investment bets, and would keep taxpayers from being its 32,000 staff of $500,000. employees will be subjected to the EU presidency.
p r o m i s e s a c r a c k d o w n o n "held hostage" by banks that Obama made it clear that he was the chancellor's 50% special tax Salgado said the tax, which will
financial mergers to prevent have become "too big to fail" appealing to the electorate. on bonuses of more than £25,000 be set aside in a stability fund,
institutions becoming "too big to and that pose a risk to the entire "Over the past two years more and expects to a receive a will be examined at an informal
fail" financial system. than 7m Americans have lost contribute "hundreds of gathering of European finance
President Barack Obama today Wall Street was nervous ahead their jobs; rarely does a day go thousands of dollars" to the UK ministers in Madrid.
declared his intent to take on of the announcement, with the by that I haven't heard from folks exchequer. Goldman has pushed The meeting in April could
Wall Street by announcing plans Dow Jones Industrial Average who are hurting," he said. back against criticism although endorse the tax, which Sweden
for stringent rules on the banking down more than 160 points "Even as we dig our way out this its chief executive Lloyd believes could raise £7bn, before
s e c t o r t h a t p r o m p t e d before he spoke and then falling deep hole it is important we do Blankfein was recently going forward to the
comparisons with the draconian a further 40 points once he had not lose sight of what got us in lambasted for claaimed that his Commission.
regulations introduced after the finished. The FTSE 100 index in this hole in the first place," employees were doing "God's • Banking
Great Depression. London fell sharply in afternoon Obama said, referring to the work". • Barack Obama
In the boldest move taken by trading as the markets feared the taxpayer bailout of Wall Street in Lord Oakeshott, the Liberal • Financial crisis
any government around the impact on UK banks such as October 2008. "While the Democrats' Treasury spokesman • US politics
world to respond to the financial Barclays and RBS. financial system is far stronger said: "It's restraint, but to • United States
crisis, Obama told banks they "We simply cannot return to today than it was one year ago, it everyone else it's gross greed.
would no longer be able to take business as usual," said Obama. is still operating under the exact they are on a different planet." Jill Treanor
risky bets with their own capital His words were immediately same rules that led to its near Shares in Goldman were hit guardian.co.uk© Guardian
to make money on the financial interpreted as a Glass-Steagall collapse." hard by Obama's announcement, News & Media Limited 2010 |
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money to take bets on markets, prevented commercial banks "restraint" in its bonus payouts restrain Wall Street through the
run hedge funds or make private w h i c h t o o k d e p o s i t s f r o m by demanding its 400 partners "financial crisis responsibility
equity investments through what customers from carrying on donate a combined $500m to its fee" he announced last week to
he called the "Volcker rule" after investment banking activities. charity, Goldman Sachs Gives, bring in $90bn over 10 years into
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Photographs by 'Snowflake Bentley' go on sale in

New York
By Ian Sample (World news
and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:17:26 AM
In the late 19th century, at the
age of 19, Wilson A Bentley had
the bright idea of taking
photographs of snowflakes
through a microscope. The
results are still spectacular
Vintage photographs of
snowflakes taken by the first
person ever to capture them with
a camera went on sale yesterday
at an antiques fair in New York.
The pictures are just a fraction
of a lifetime's work comprising
thousands of spectacular images
taken by the self-taught
photographer and Vermont
farmer Wilson A Bentley at the
end of the 19th century.
Ten of Bentley's snowflake
images are up for sale at $4,800
(£3,000) each at the American
Antiques Show. They appear
alongside other work by the
photographer of winter
landscapes.
"They're remarkably beautiful,"
Carl Hammer, whose Chicago art
gallery is selling the images,
said. "There are imperfections on
the outer edges of the image
itself and on the paper, but the
images themselves are quite
spectacular."
Bentley's obsession with snow
crystals began when he received
a microscope for his 15th
birthday. He became spellbound
by their beauty, complexity and
endless variety.
He told a magazine in 1925:
"Under the microscope, I found
that snowflakes were miracles of
beauty; and it seemed a shame
that this beauty should not be
seen and appreciated by others.
Every crystal was a masterpiece
of design and no one design was
ever repeated. When a snowflake
melted, that design was forever
lost. Just that much beauty was
gone, without leaving any record
behind," he said.
Bentley started trying to draw
the flakes but the snow melted
before he could finish. His
parents eventually bought him a
camera and he spent two years
trying to capture images of the
tiny, fleeting crystals.
He caught falling snowflakes by
standing in the doorway with a
wooden tray as snowstorms
passed over. The tray was
painted black so he could see the
crystals and transfer them
delicately onto a glass slide.
To study the snow crystals,
Bentley rigged his bellows
camera up to the microscope but
found he could not reach the
controls to bring them into focus.
He overcame the problem
through the imaginative use of
wheels and cord.
Bentley took his first successful
photomicrograph of a snow
crystal at the age of 19 and went
on to capture more than 5,000
more images. Kenneth Libbrecht,
a physics professor who grows
ice crystals in his laboratory at
California Institute of
Technology, said Bentley's
photographs were so good
"hardly anybody bothered to
photograph snowflakes for
almost 100 years."
Stacy Hollander, senior curator
of the American Folk Art Just How Miraculous
Museum, which is hosting the Could an Apple Tablet
fair, said: "Everyone's fascinated
by snow. It's just magical, and he Be? [Blockquote]
captured that magic in these By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
beautiful photomicrographs." Submitted at 1/21/2010 1:00:00 PM
In his local town of Jericho,
Bentely's fascination with According to this tale by Fake
snowflakes earned him the Steve Jobs, the Apple tablet isn't
nickname Snowflake Bentley. A just great—it actually cures
museum there is dedicated to his lupus. In other words, Dr.
life's work, housing 2,000 of his House's entire diagnostic team is
vintage prints. A book of his pretty much out of a job as of
photographs, Snow Crystals, was next week. [ FakeSteve]
published in 1931. The same
year he died walking home in a
blizzard.
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Submitted at 1/21/2010 12:00:00 PM
Filed under: Personal finance
Around the new year, many
people set goals to stick to a
budget or to manage their money
better. It can be hard and
sometimes it is only a matter of
weeks before they fall back into
the bad habits.
No matter how much money
you make, at times it seems like
it is never enough. People who
make $20,000, $50,000 or
$100,000 can all be caught in the
financial pickle and much of it
has to do with how those
incomes are managed. Here is a
challenge for you to help you
watch your spending.
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Team Living Water: Running for a
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Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:36:40 PM
Team Living Water’s first major
event—the annual Chevron
Houston Marathon—was a huge
success, with more than 70
runners teaming up to raise
money and awareness for the
world water crisis.
Team Living Water runners,
clad in their bright yellow
jerseys, gathered at Houston’s
George R. Brown Convention
Center on Sunday, January 17th
to participate in the Chevron
Houston Marathon, the Aramco
Houston Half Marathon, and the
El Paso Corporation 5K (EP5K).
Because of the dedication and
perseverance of Team Living
Water, more than $58,000 has
been raised to date for clean
water!
Team Living Water consisted of
runners from Living Water
International’s staff, friends of
the organization, and many who
simply believe in the cause.
Living Water’s Senior Director
of Communications, Jonathan
Wiles, ran the half-marathon,
saying, “It’s great to be able to
be involved with the local
community in an event that has
an impact on the global
community.”
Each member of Team Living
Water raised awareness and
funding as part of “Run for a
Reason,” the Chevron
Marathon’s initiative for linking
runners with a local non-profit
organization. 2010 was Living
Water’s first year to take part in
this program. Matt Morris, Team
Living Water’s top fundraiser,
ran the full marathon and raised
more than $12,000.
Cheryl Thornton, Living
Water’s Director of Special
Events, called the race “a huge
success—one that will be even
better next year.” Already well
over the original fundraising goal
of $50,000, Living Water
anticipates more funds coming in
through the February 15th
deadline.
“Our team morale was
incredible, and the energy they
brought really spread through the
entire marathon. People who
weren’t even a part of Team
Living Water stopped by the past
-race party tent to show their
support, ask questions, and even
express interest in joining next
year’s team,” Cheryl notes. “We
built a lot of momentum with
this first race. It was a great
day.”
Being part of Team Living
Water is your chance to be an
advocate for the thirsty. Educate
yourself about the global water
crisis and what you can do about
it here. Help us spread the word
about clean water, and join Team
Living Water for next year’s
marathon on January 30, 2011!
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Department's latest report on Continue reading Jobless Claims
initial jobless claims. The Log an Unexpected Jump
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Spanish Starchitect Calatrava Tackles Designing Sets for NYC

Ballet
By Linda Tischler (Fast recurring themes of movement May 22; Melissa Barak on June
Company) and flight, an inspiration made 5 (for whose ballet fashion
Submitted at 1/21/2010 1:04:33 PM
visible in his work for the designer Gilles Mendel will
Milwaukee Art Museum, whose create costumes), Mauro
Santiago Calatrava has often roof sports two steel "wings" Bigonzetti, premiering June 10;
been called the most lyrical of made of 36 fins that can open and Peter Martins, premiering on
the current crop of starchitects. w h e n t h e w i n d o f f L a k e June 22. The Martins work will
Today, the New York City Michigan isn't too stiff, and his be set to a commissioned score
Ballet announced that it will give design for the transportation hub for violins by Esa-Pekka
the Spaniard a chance to apply at the World Trade Center, Salonen, formerly of the Los
his architectural and engineering w h o s e s p i k y r o o f l i n e w a s Angeles Philharmonic, and now
skills to the most lyrical of the inspired by the idea of a child with the London Philharmonic.
performing arts. releasing a dove. Calatrava's sets will be built in a
NYCB's ballet master Peter By designing for the ballet, warehouse in Manhattan.
Martins has invited Caltrava to Calatrava joins an elite company "Architecture and Dance." It will arts complex is nearing the [Photo by Martien Mulder]
design several multi-functional of architects. Philip Johnson was feature seven world premiere completion of its multi-year
stage sets for four world- the only previous architect to be ballets, and four commissioned rehab by architectural firm
premiere ballets during the invited to design for the ballet, scores, all dedicated to Lincoln Diller Scofidio and Renfro.
company's spring season, which and that was way back in 1981. Center's 50th anniversary. Calatrava's set designs will be
begins on May 4. The sets are Fittingly, the ballet's season is Architecture will be a theme the staging for ballets by
expected to embody Calatrava's centered around the theme of outside the halls as well, as the Benjamin Millepied, premiering

Smart Mud: The New Plastic?

By Ariel Schwartz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 11:41:12 AM
We recently asked if you would
feel safe driving across this
sturdy-looking recycled plastic
bridge--but how would you like
if the plastic was replaced with
mud? Researchers at the
University of Tokyo, Japan think
that their special mixture of
water and clay could one day
replace plastics, which require
massive amounts of oil to
produce.
The researchers' mud is made of
100 grams of water, a few grams
of clay, a thickening agent called
sodium polyacrylate, and an
organic molecular glue that holds
the whole thing together. The
resulting hydrogel forms in just
three minutes and can form a 3.5
centimeter wide self-standing
bridge--not exactly real-world
bridge material, but impressive
nonetheless for a mixture made
with 98% water.
Eventually, the Japanese
researchers hope their mud can
form a new class of materials
increasing the quantities of
water, clay, sodium polyacrylate
and glue. The process is simple
enough that knowledge of the
chemical processes going on
inside isn't required, and that
means it shouldn't be difficult to
mass produce the super-strong
mud. The next big hurdle, of
course, will be to convince
that are tough, long-lasting, and consumers that mud is an
have the ability to self-heal. acceptable substitute for plastic.
Lofty goals, but strengthening [Via New Scientist]
the mud is apparently as easy as
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China Wants Its Own Version of the NYC High Line

By Cliff Kuang (Fast overwhelming the street life that of the lanterns would be linked
Company) has grown up around it by an underground complex,
Submitted at 1/21/2010 11:33:10 AM
organically. According to the containing a food court and
architects, the solution was to gallery spaces. That passageway
An award-winning proposal is have five "lanterns"--a powerful would also connect four metro
similar to New York's famous symbol in Chinese culture--rise lines currently under
elevated park--except huge. above the street and serve as construction.
Massive. Ginormous. both bridges and public spaces. No word yet on whether budget
Cities from San Francisco to The design above--by young clearances are in place, although
London have caught High Line New York architecture firm the competition was
fever, attempting to build WORKac, with engineering by commissioned by the city's
elevated parks inspired by New Arup and landscape design by planning bureau. But don't the
York's own. China is joining the Balmori--won out over several Chinese build these types of
fray now, and the results, as others in a competition to like: shopping district for gadgets.
massive projects every other
you'd expect, are mammoth in reimagine Hua Qiang Bei Road, However, each lantern would O t h e r s w o u l d s e r v e a s a n
day?
scale and ambition. hold a different function. One "information hub," a design
Shenzen's main commercial [For more pics, check out Arch
T h e m a i n p r o b l e m w a s artery. The pic below shows would be an electronics museum, museum, and a public park.
Daily]
renovating an urban hub, without what a single lantern would look since the road is a central And then things get nutty. Each

Coming Soon: Solar-Powered iPhones? Seesmic makes

By Ariel Schwartz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 11:39:03 AM
The U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office has been a goldmine for
green-minded Apple fans
originally filed in 2008. Novothink's solar charger case Twitter pretty,
According to the patent, such a for iPods and iPhones is certified
device would include built-in by Apple--but this is the first with Look
solar cells on its front and back time Apple has expressed By Rafe Needleman
for an increased surface area to interest in making solar power an (Webware.com)
collect power. Since solar cells integral part of its portable
can be made with rigid materials, devices. Submitted at 1/21/2010 7:00:00 AM

recently. Last week, the
technology giant filed a patent
for an " intelligent power
monitoring" system, and now
Apple has revealed a design for a
solar powered portable device
(i.e. an iPod or iPhone) in an
advancement of a patent
Apple imagines that the entire No word on when we might see Now you can consume Twitter
front and back of the device a solar-powered iPhone in stores, without contributing, or even
could potentially be covered in but Apple's move to update its 2 logging in.
solar cells. It would also have year-old patent makes us think Originally posted at Rafe's
circuitry to monitor the battery's that the company still has solar Radar
state and determine whether to later use. on the brain.
recharge using external solar It's already possible to juice up [Via AppleInsider]
power or store solar energy for an iPhone with solar power--

Mozilla forges ahead with Firefox 3.6

By Seth Rosenblatt Mozilla debuts Firefox 3.6, faster, help it render content Originally posted at The
(Webware.com) introducing significant under-the better, and a few visual tweaks, D o w n l o a d B l o g
-hood changes that make it as well.
10 Gadgets/ Tech News/
BlackBerry Magnum prototype spotted, canned in
favor of something better?
By Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 12:45:00 PM
Okay, before we get too far
here, keep your excitement in
check: you'll apparently never be
able to buy this. The good news,
though, is that CrackBerry seems
to have it on authority that the
phone you're looking at here --
an early Magnum prototype --
has been scrapped in favor of
something better, the "Dakota,"
possibly a stealthy tribute to
diehard BlackBerry user Dakota
Fanning. In all seriousness,
though, both devices are centered
around the concept that you'd
Dave Smith's Mopho keyboard prototype wows analog
fanboys at NAMM (video)
By Joseph L. Flatley
(Engadget)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 12:01:00 PM
Dave Smith's name is as revered
in the synth business as those of
Tom Oberheim and "Handsome
Ron" Casio. Having had his
hands in everything from the
Prophet 5 synth to developing
the MIDI specification to his
own company (Dave Smith
Instruments), the man has given
have a touchscreen up top, a
traditional Bold-style keyboard
down below, and scrap the
trackball / optical pad altogether
-- a new concept for RIM.
Differences between the
electronic musicians plenty to be
thankful for. The boutique's
latest, the Mopho Keyboard
(seen here in prototype form at
NAMM 2010) takes the existing
Mopho synth module -- a pretty
sweet deal with its sub-octave
generators, audio input (you
know, for modulating stuff), and
feedback options -- and adds a
thirty-two key keyboard and a
whole mess of controls. Like
original, this new Mopho has a
Magnum and Dakota are a little
hazier, but one notable change is
apparently a move to liquid lens
tech for the camera; considering
how much these guys innovated
(or over-innovated) with
100 percent analog signal path, Look for it in the near future for
ships with a sound bank editor around $800. Video after the
for both Windows and Mac, and break.
it sounds pretty, pretty bad ass. Continue reading Dave Smith's
SurePress, we wouldn't be
surprised. Prototype BlackBerrys
have a tendency to leak like an
old faucet, so we sure it won't be
long until we get some more
intel on these bad boys.
BlackBerry Magnum prototype
spotted, canned in favor of
something better? originally
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Nathan Fillion Talks
Firefly, Dr. Horrible, and
Why Kids Need to Read
By Matt Blum (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 6:43:00 AM
Nathan Fillion has, in the space
of seven years, risen to the status
of a geek icon. Beginning with
his best-known role as Captain
Mal Reynolds on Firefly, his
work on several of Joss
Whedon’s projects has
transformed the former soap
opera actor into a huge draw for
the geek crowd. But there’s a lot
more to Fillion than tight pants
and a pistol — and a heck of a
lot more than a shirt with a
picture of a hammer on it.
Mopho keyboard prototype
wows analog fanboys at NAMM
(video)
Dave Smith's Mopho keyboard
prototype wows analog fanboys
at NAMM (video) originally
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21 Jan 2010 12:01:00 EST.
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Hold your Bad Idea

Jeans up with this
Playboy spy camera belt
By Doug Aamoth
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:30:00 AM

3D stole the show at Free dating tip: If the girl you’re

New (Possibly) CES 2010
talking to isn’t impressed by
your Playboy belt, make sure to
mention that it’s got a built-in
Touchscreen BlackBerry By Ben Drawbaugh
(Engadget)
Whether or not the technology spy camera capable of recording
will be seen in history as a DVD-resolution video footage. If
Bold Spotted [BlackBerry] Submitted at 1/21/2010 1:15:00 PM
success in the market place is that doesn’t work, then clearly
obviously still up in the air, and she’ll never be impressed by
By Brian Barrett (Gizmodo) it—in stores. With the Not sure why we've been putting much like a finely crafted anything. Time to move on.
Submitted at 1/21/2010 12:45:26 PM BlackBerry Storm having had this off, but we'll just come right episode of Lost, 3D at CES this The belt costs $43 and is
touchscreen capability for some out and say it: there's no doubt year was littered with more compatible with memory cards
RIM has already been moving time, it's only natural to see that that this was the year for 3D at questions than answers. up to 16GB. Apparently it also
away from the trackball to the technology infiltrate other CES. We walked the show floor Continue reading 3D stole the serves as a USB webcam, too.
trackpad, but this new image of a brands. for countless hours and can tell show at CES 2010 Hold on, let me take off my belt
yet to be released device shows But what do all you BlackBerry you that just about everyone was 3D stole the show at CES 2010 and put it on top of my monitor
neither. All signs point to the e n t h u s i a s t s t h i n k ? I s t h i s showing something related to 3D originally appeared on Engadget real quick. Oh, you want to see
first touchscreen BlackBerry s a c r i l e g e , o r p r o g r e s s ? at their booths. Most of these H D o n T h u , 2 1 J a n 2 0 1 0 who else is at the meeting?
Bold. UPDATE: Crackberry is demos required a bit of a wait to 13:15:00 EST. Please see our Okay, everyone, look at my
T h e r e ' s n o t m u c h m o r e reporting that this is almost experience them (thanks, hype), t e r m s f o r u s e o f f e e d s . crotch and wave to everyone in
information available beyond the definitely an early Magnum and everywhere you went people Permalink| | Email this| Zurich. Hi, Zurich! Great fourth
picture, but it's certainly a relief prototype, which sounds right to were talking about 3D. Granted, Comments quarter numbers, Zurich!
to see an improvement over me. So expect to see a lot of not all of that talk was positive, Belt Design Spy Camara with
earlier touchscreen prototypes. these design elements sometime but it was talk nonetheless. USB Webcam[ShopKami.com
And it's even better to see RIM this year, though probably not via ChipChick]
continuing to innovate, although this exact design. [ Cell Guru via
it's likely months before we see FoneFrenzy]
this—or the final version of
12 Gadgets/
Archos 5 gets Android
1.6 update, for real this
time
By Donald Melanson
(Engadget)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 12:23:00 PM
Archos disappointed quite a few
users last month by pushing out
an Android 1.6 (a.k.a. "Donut")
update for its Archos 5 internet
tablet only to yank it shortly
thereafter due to a "last-minute
major issue," but it now looks
like it's finally set things right --
the update is once again
available for download, and it
apparently works just fine this
time. Among other things, the
update optimizes applications for
the Archos 5's high resolution
screen, and adds features like
Quick Search to help you find
music, contacts and other
information more easily. Hit up
the link below for all the
necessary upgrade details.
[Thanks to everyone who sent
this in]
Archos 5 gets Android 1.6
update, for real this time
originally appeared on Engadget
on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:23:00
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The Apple Tablet: 'A First-
Generation iPhone That's Met Its
Match With a Rolling Pin' [Rumor]
By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 1:27:41 PM
According to AppleInsider's
sources, this flickr image is the
closest mockup of the Apple
Tablet that anyone has seen to
date. And yes, it's essentially a
big, first-gen iPhone that's "met
its match with a rolling pin."
Rather than a plastic back, AI
claims the Tablet will have the
same, two-tone aluminum look
of the original iPhone. But while
this image is thought to be very
close to Apple's final design, it
E-reader News Edition
DIY Car Mount:
Two dollars, ten
minutes
By Doug Aamoth
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:00:00 AM
Most in-vehicle device mounts
are expensive given their
purpose. Please hold my phone
in one place, here’s $30. Bah!
Using few pieces of pipe, some
craft foam, and a bit of plastic-
doesn't sound like a full-fledged
OS X will be on board. Why?
The Tablet will have an iPhone-
coated wire, you can create your
own vehicle mount quickly and
cheaply.
inspired Home button (along
Perhaps most importantly,
with a 10-inch screen, 3.5-mm
there’s no need to stick anything
stereo headphone jack, built-in
on your windshield and you
speaker grills, a microphone,
don’t need any adhesive. No
GPS, 3G connectivity and a 30-
drilling holes in your dashboard,
pin dock connector, if
either. The end result wedges
AppleInsider has it right).
itself in between your steering
Personally, I never grew tired of
column and dashboard, and
the iPhone's original look, and
keeps your device right in front
I'd love to see the design in tablet
of you without actually blocking
form. What about you? [
your view of the road.
AppleInsider and flickr]
Make a $2 Adjustable
Smartphone Car Mount in 10
minutes[Instructables via Make]
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Netflix Exec Claims That

Baby crying again? Find
Mass Effect 2 for the out why with Cry
Translator. If you want,
Delaying Movie Rentals For
A Month Benefits Customers
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 8:34:00 AM
With Netflix caving in to
Warner Bros. and agreeing to
delay offering DVDs for 28 days
after release in order to get
movies to stream online, it
certainly pissed off a bunch of
Netflix subscribers. But, you've
apparently got it all wrong. A
Netflix exec is now trying to
explain how the deal is pro-
customer because it will keep
demand down for the DVDs,
of creating a sell-through
window ahead of rental, for us,
and hopefully that they'll find
enough value in that it'll extend
to other retailers and other
studios will take note and it'll
extend across other studios as
well. The net savings derived
from technically creating a better
customer experience have been
redeployed in additional
streaming content for all
customers. I'm still trying to
parse this, but it really does
sound like he's saying that

Xbox 360 has leaked. no one’s forcing you or

anything like that.
meaning that when they finally
do come out, you may have a
better chance to rent them.
Netflix couldn't handle the
demand for new releases before,
so by getting rid of them
So, you know. By Nicholas Deleon
(CrunchGear)
Seriously: The most practical
reason is that the savings derived
entirely, it may be able to handle
them on the 29th day, since
By Nicholas Deleon already playing the game. Yes, from this deal enable us to be in fewer people will care about
(CrunchGear) the game has leaked. Granted, Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:30:08 AM stock completely on day 29. renting that movie then. Now,
it’s only a few days before the Remember that we're a you could claim that's a better
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:00:41 AM
Crying baby? There's an App for subscription service and the way customer experience if you
game actually comes out, but
Oh, the ironing. Big Daddy still, the biggest release of the that! (Boo!) It's called Cry that you manage the economics ignore the 28 days in which no
C o o l , J o h n B i g g s , j u s t year (so far) is now available Translator, and it takes the of a subscription service is to one on Netflix can rent the
interviewed Casey Hudson, from where you find such things. I’ll various shouts and screams of manage the demand of any disc, movie (though they can get it
BioWare, about Mass Effect 2. It be getting the PC version via your baby and "translates" them depending on the economics of elsewhere). But if you realize
was streamed live! The beauty is, Steam, thank you very much. to proper language. the disc. In the case of the most that you're now taking away the
while they were talking about the (There’s nothing after this. expensive disc, which in this ability to serve all of your
game, kids with modded Xbox Clicking Read More is a waste of case is a Warner Bros. disc, customers for nearly a month at
360s all over the world were your time.) purchased through a 3rd party, the point when their demand is
those discs were out of stock for likely to be the highest... well,
Firefox Fitness: 3.6 Is Faster, More Capable far longer than 29 days for most
Netflix subscribers.
that doesn't seem very customer
friendly at all.
By Scott Gilbertson (Wired open source browser has arrived. support for emerging web So what were able to is create a Permalink| Comments| Email
Top Stories) Webmonkey puts Firefox 3.6 standards like HTML5. deal with them that gave them a This Story
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:00:00 AM
through its paces and finds it little open running room in terms
worth a download, thanks to
The latest version of Mozilla's speed improvements and better
14 Tech/ Politics/ E-reader News Edition

Skribit Helps Fight Writer’s Block The Guantanamo

By Christina Warren sign up for a Skribit account How do you tackle writer’s
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Facebook’s Privacy Push: Right Move, Wrong Time?

[OPINION]
By Pete Cashmore
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:06:03 AM
Facebook’s new approach to
privacy is bold, pushing users to
be increasingly public with their
data.
This public sharing is the new
“social norm”, said founder
Mark Zuckerberg in a recent
interview. But is Facebook
changes or simply encouraging Telegraph newspaper. Read the
the type of behavior that will full column on The Telegraph >>
help the company to grow Tags: facebook, telegraph
fastest? Possibly both.
really responding to cultural That’s the topic of my guest
column today in the UK’s
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AT&T Is an Apple Tablet Dealbreaker

[SURVEY]
By Christina Warren applications than men. seemed willing to entertain the
(Mashable!) Another interesting tidbit? idea of spending more than $700
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:22:55 AM
Despite 39% of the respondents for the device. While this data is
saying that 3G was a must-have interesting, it isn’t very Tea Partiers? Where?
The industry — and gadget fans feature, 44% of respondents said conclusive, even for this survey.
— are all hotly anticipating that a monthly data plan would For instance, what percentage of Oh, You Mean The
Apple’s January 27th event, prevent them from buying the users would be OK with Ones in the Front Row?
which is expected to shed light new Apple device. How 3G data spending $600 on a device? (Little Green Footballs)
on the long-fabled Apple Tablet. can be reconciled with no Granted, of those that are
Shopping site Retrevo surveyed additional monthly plan is Apple almost always nails willing to spend above $700, we Submitted at 1/20/2010 2:26:04 PM

500 of its customers to see what interesting, and it looks like product pricing. As consumers, assume that the expectations and
we might lament that the price At his victory party, supporters
features the tablet will need to consumers (or at least the ones features of the device are going
isn’t lower or more competitive, of Scott Brown wave the New
have to warrant purchase — and that Retrevo surveyed) want to have to seem worth that price.
but it would be hard to make the Flag of the Second American
the features that could keep it Apple to follow in Amazon’s That’s why trying to gauge
argument that Apple doesn’t Revolution.
from earning a place in their footsteps with the Kindle and pricing thresholds on an
know what it is doing, especially And people tried to tell me
collections. offer 3G data as part of the unknown device is so difficult.
when you look at its sales figures Brown wasn’t sailing on the seas
eBooks and 3G Good, AT&T or device, sans additional service Still, there are plenty of people
and margins when compared of tea.
Monthly Data Plans Bad plans. Of course, having a free that seem to be ready to fork
with the rest of the industry. That (Hat tip: KT.)
When asked what features the data service for a device that over their cash or credit cards
said, if the Apple Tablet is to UPDATE at 1/20/10 2:38:01
Apple Tablet absolutely needs to mostly transmits text and free just as soon as the new device is
follow in the footsteps of the pm:
have to make it worth buying, data for web browsing and other available.
iPod and the iPhone and become Also see: Scott Brown Held Tea
the consumers Retrevo surveyed media-rich activities are two What features or lack of features
a mainstream consumer device, Party Fundraiser Before
made it clear that a long battery very different things. make the Apple Tablet a
the pricing is going to have to Professing To Be Unfamiliar
life, the ability to connect to 3G What will also keep users from dealbreaker? What is the
reach a certain level. With Tea Party.
and an eBook store were all top buying an Apple tablet? AT&T. maximum you are willing to
In Retrevo’s survey, 70% of UPDATE at 1/20/10 2:47:30
must-have features. What we It appears that Luke Wilson isn’t spend on this type of device? Let
respondents said that any price pm:
find really interesting was that enough to make consumers want us know!
more than $700 would prevent And in case you’re tempted to
the women surveyed were even to deal with another device Tags: Apple Tablet, retrevo,
them from buying the tablet. believe there were just two of
more keen on having access to h a m p e r e d b y t h e s e r v i c e surveys
Thirty percent of respondents these flags at the party, see here
eBooks and existing iPhone provider. That Whole Price Issue
and here.
Postal Service to Test Electric Truck To Create Jobs, Build Public Transit,
By Tony Borroz (Wired Top electric truck for the postal
Stories) service to test. The plan is to Not Roads
Submitted at 1/21/2010 8:30:00 AM
convert the UPS' entire fleet of By Keith Barry (Wired Top fewer people to work. We're
mail trucks to EVs. Stories) about to make the same mistake
The guys who brought us the T with the Jobs for Main Street
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:15:00 AM
Zero and Mini-E will deliver an Act.
The federal stimulus bill favored
highways over transit, putting
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Mozilla forges ahead with Firefox Microsoft warns of flaw

3.6 in 32-bit Windows
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:03:00 AM
Peek will have to wait for
another revision. Currently, these
can only be activated by
insignificant, because even with
Google Chrome grabbing more
than 4 percent of the browser
kernel
(CNET News.com) valid logon credentials and be
Mozilla debuted Firefox 3.6 c h a n g i n g s e t t i n g s i n market in its first 16 months,
today, introducing significant a b o u t : c o n f i g . Firefox maintains a commanding Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:13:00 AM able to log onto a system locally.
under-the-hood changes that Several notable improvements 24 percent that hasn't stopped Once logged on, the attacker
make it faster, help it render keep Firefox abreast of current growing, second only to Internet Microsoft is warning customers could elevate privileges to the
content better, and a few visual browsing tech. Significant under- Explorer. of a hole in the kernel of 32-bit administrative level and run any
tweaks, as well. Available for t h e - h o o d c h a n g e s i n c l u d e A deeper change to the browser versions of Windows that could programs, Bryant said.
Windows, Mac, and Linux, the blocking third-party software is that it is now running scripts a l l o w s o m e o n e t o i n s t a l l Microsoft said it will work on a
most apparent change in Firefox from encroaching on Firefox's asynchronously, which can help programs, change data, or create patch, but in the meantime
3.6 are improvements made to file system turf to increase to load a Web page faster by new accounts with full user suggested as a workaround that
the TraceMonkey JavaScript stability; support for the Web putting off some work until the rights. customers disable the Windows
rendering engine, making it Open Font Format, which means high-priority chores are The vulnerability, caused by the V i r t u a l D O S M a c h i n e
about 20 percent faster than many non-English browser users complete. Firefox 3.6 also Windows kernel not properly ( N T V D M ) s u b s y s t e m t h a t
when it debuted in Firefox 3.5 should see faster load times for isolates out-of-date plug-ins so handling certain exceptions, enables Windows NT and later
according to Mozilla. Although Web pages via downloadable they do not become a security a f f e c t s 3 2 - b i t v e r s i o n s o f versions of Windows to run DOS
this makes it more competitive fonts; and support for the File risk. Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, and 16-bit Windows software.
with Google Chrome, but not interface, which can help with Unlike Firefox 3.5, which was and Server 2003 and 2008, The Microsoft warning comes
faster, there's more to Firefox 3.6 tasks such as uploading multiple more about keeping the browser a c c o r d i n g t o t h e s e c u r i t y one day after Google engineer
than speed. photos and is part of the draft current rather than blazing new advisory released on Wednesday Tavis Ormandy disclosed the
Firefox maintains its reputation HTML5-standard effort. Open, trails, Firefox 3.6 is once again night. It does not affect 64-bit vulnerability in the Windows
a s t h e m o s t c u s t o m i z a b l e native video can be displayed taking some small but innovative versions of Windows. Virtual DOS Machine subsystem
browser around, introducing full screen and supports poster steps. Expect more new features "We are not currently aware of on the Full Disclosure security e-
default support for the next frames, which is the preview to debut in minor-point updates any active attacks against this mail list. Ormandy said he
generation of Themes, called image you see before a video as the browser works towards vulnerability, and Microsoft informed Microsoft about the
Personas. Users will no longer b e g i n s , a n d t h e n e w C S S Firefox 3.7. believes the risk to customers, at hole in June 2009.
have to download the Personas attributes gradients, background Five Filters featured article: this time, is limited," Jerry Five Filters featured article:
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s k i n n i n g p o w e r . H o w e v e r , work in Firefox 3.6. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, manager at Microsoft, said in a PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
Windows 7 interface support, HTML5 support debuted in Term Extraction. statement. Term Extraction.
including tab previews using the Firefox 3.5, and Firefox remains To exploit the vulnerability an
Ctrl+Tab hot key, jump lists, and the leading Web browser that attacker would need to have
multiple tab previews in Aero s u p p o r t s i t . T h i s i s n o t
A new Rebooting The News essay
(Scripting News) it's in the business of selling. walling themselves off from it. reading and thinking before
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:01:30 AM There is a very simple idea that, R e b o o t i n g T h e N e w s : A commenting. Thanks!
if done right, could solve all their breakthrough for the Times?
The Times has something very money needs and get with the Clear your desk and your mind.
valuable that it isn't selling, that flow of the web, instead of Sit down and spend five minutes
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Hulu to Charge Monthly Fee for
Access to Unlimited TV Episodes
[RUMOR]
By Jennifer Van Grove
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:44:51 AM
Hulu has always been free, but
there’s long been speculation
that would change. Now the L.A.
Times is reporting that in six
months Hulu may introduce a
$4.99 per month subscription
option that would give viewers
access to TV show episodes
beyond the five most recent
already offered.
As things stand now, any Hulu
user can watch the five most
recent episodes for a particular
show, but those episodes
eventually expire and are
replaced with new ones. This
makes it especially difficult for
Hulu viewers to watch a full
season or relive a favorite
canceled show without tracking
down or purchasing the content
elsewhere. That could soon
change.
According to the report:
“One plan being considered
Brittany Murphy's Husband Says Medications Were His
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 8:21:00 AM
The husband of Brittany
would allow users to view the
five most recent episodes of TV
shows free but would require a
subscription of $4.99 a month to
watch older episodes. Hulu
believes it will need at least 20
TV series — both current ones
and those no longer on the air —
to make such a pay service
attractive to users. A firm pricing
model could emerge within six
months, the sources said.”
The $4.99 monthly fee could
certainly appeal to the set of
super users who want access to
every episode of their favorite
shows at all time. Given that it
wouldn’t disrupt the current five
free episode model, this
subscription service could be the
Murphy continues to talk to the
press about questions
surrounding his wife's sudden
death at age 32, saying most of
perfect compromise. Plus, should
the Apple tablet live up to
expectations and transform how
we experience online media, then
we could see a premium Hulu
offering doing quite well. The
only hiccup in the plan is the fact
that most of the networks already
support full-season episode
viewing on their own sites for
free.
The rumored offering is said to
be the result of ongoing
discussions around introducing
fees for a service that would
“strike a balance between what
people expect to watch free
online and what they would be
willing to pay for.”
Would you pay $4.99 per month
for access to your favorite past
TV episodes? Let us know your
thoughts in the comments.
[ Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
Danijelm]
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media, money, subscription, tv
the medications found were his.
Simon Monjack tells the
"Today" show that there was
nothing to indicate she was in
Tech/ Entertainment/ 17
Prisons And Hair Dressers Latest
To Push Back On Ridiculous
Collection Society Demands
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) to music in a prison apparently
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:44:00 AM requires a separate performance
license.
We've noticed lately that music The second story involves
collection societies have been Spanish hairdressers who are
going overboard in demanding similarly refusing to pay and,
more and more money from instead, are telling customers to
pretty much anyone who listens bring their own MP3 players to
to music, claiming "public listen to their own music,
performances" and assuming that privately.
they're worth a lot more than The really ridiculous thing is
t h e y r e a l l y a r e - - a l m o s t that in both cases all this is really
everywhere you turn. mikez sent doing is harming musicians.
i n t w o n e w s t o r i e s a b o u t When places play music, it
collection societies -- both actually acts as advertising for
involving operations pushing that music -- and these collection
back on the demands. societies are basically demanding
The first involves prisons in the to be paid for having people
UK who are refusing to pay the promote the music of various
licensing fees, and thus are artists. So the artists get less
telling prisoners (hey look, real promotion and don't get money
thieves!) that they can't listen to from places like the examples
music any more in any area above refusing to pay. Everyone
where multiple people might be loses!
( t h e k i t c h e n , w o r k s h o p s , Permalink| Comments| Email
restrooms, etc.) since others This Story
might overhear it. Yes, listening
any trouble leading up to her Murphy said during the joint
death. interview. "[But] she had it the
"We had all had a little bit of ... least."
[the] flu," her mother Sharon
18 Tech/ Entertainment/
Bankers warming up to offshore
wind
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:52:47 AM
Offshore wind turbines with
ScanWind's direct-drive
components are currently being
tested in Norway.(Credit:
General Electric)
Offshore wind capacity in
Europe is expected to grow from
1.3 megawatts in 2008 to 18.8
megawatts by 2015, according to
estimates from research group
Frost & Sullivan.
The change will come from an
increased interest from the
banking industry in offshore
wind project investment.
Previously, there was a high risk
associated with offshore wind
farms because of a relatively
untested permitting process, the
expensive initial layout for
turbines and equipment, and the
difficulty of installing offshore
wind farms in comparison to
onshore wind farms.
But as the U.K. and German
governments began offering
more support to make the permit
process easier in 2009, the
perception of high risk is
declining, and more banks will
partner with each other to fund
projects, according to a report
Former friend of Lady Gaga — [Pullquote]
By Gabriel Snyder (Gawker)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 1:19:07 PM
from Gouri Kumar, industry
analyst at Frost & Sullivan.
"As installed capacity continues
to grow, and market share
increases, the banking sector will
continue to become
progressively more involved in
this industry," Kumar said.
While banks will be increasingly
interested in capitalizing on the
offshore wind industry, they
won't want to go it alone, and
will therefore form partnerships
on projects with other banks to
dilute their risk, according to
Kumar's report.
"Investors are trying to overcome
these risks with innovative
an anonymous woman who says
she had a falling out with the
alien fashion plate formerly
approaches and out-of-the-box
thinking," Kumar said.
Kumar is not alone in his
thinking. In September, General
Electric bought ScanWind, a
manufacturer of offshore wind
turbine components, for $18.5
million. At the time, GE cited
industry statistics predicting the
offshore wind industry in Europe
to grow significantly by 2020.
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App Store Overload?
Kindle Gets An App
Store
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) is going to make people miss out
Submitted at 1/21/2010 7:20:00 AM on the fact that web-based apps
(that don't need to go through
It's amazing how people see one any app store) may overtake
semi-successful concept and client-side apps. We've already
suddenly everyone has to pile on. gone through this on the desktop,
The iPhone's app store has and one by one, web-based apps
certainly been a success -- much have come along that match (or
more in terms of making the s o m e t i m e s e x c e e d ) t h e
iPhone more attractive than for functionality of client-side apps,
most developers. But it has all leading many to turn away from
sorts of people thinking that client apps altogether.
"apps" are in again, and we're Separately, adding another app
seeing app stores pop up in a store to another device may only
variety of different places. The serve to confuse (or annoy) some
latest is Amazon's Kindle, which users. If you have an iPhone and
hopes to make the ebook reading a Kindle, and there are the same
device more valuable with more apps on both, which are you
apps. going to use? It may depend on
It does make me wonder, the app, but my guess is that in
though, if people are betting too most cases the phone is going to
strongly on app stores, and not win out over an ebook reader.
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in some areas. I also wonder if This Story
focusing on apps and app stores
when she was first starting out in
New York City, to the New York
Post.
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Make your personal iPhone app in Apple meeting with

just 10 minutes "nearly all 6" largest
By Steven Sande (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
trade publishers
By Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
Submitted at 1/21/2010 11:45:00 AM Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Filed under: Software, Submitted at 1/21/2010 1:30:00 PM

Blogging, iPhone, App Store,

iPod touch Have you ever
secretly wished that you could
have your own personal iPhone
app? An app that you could give
to friends, relatives, and your
adoring fans?
Now you can have your own
iPhone (or Android, if you swing
that way) app featuring all of
your personal feeds from sources
such as Twitter, Flickr,
YouTube, Posterous, Tumblr,
and more. The really cool thing
is that it's not going to take you
much time, nor will you need to
learn how to program. Through a
new service called iSites, you
can take all of your life feeds and
have an iPhone app created just
for you. The cost? Only US$25.
If you think that your hordes of
faithful followers are going to
download and use the app, you
can spend another $99 to
integrate AdMob ads into your
personal app, meaning that you
might be able to become rich
(you're already famous, right?)
beyond your wildest dreams by
giving away your app in the App
Store.
Everything about the iSites app
you create is customizable; the
feeds that make up the content
(see photo above), the colors,
even your icon and store banner.
Anyone using your app can
easily share an article with others
via Twitter, Facebook, or email,
and the app has support for
video, image thumbnails, and the
ability to mark a post as a
favorite.
I'm not sure that I'm ready to
bore the world with my personal
iPhone app, but when I finally
get to that point, I'll probably use
iSites to create it.
[via Mashable]
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Filed under: Apple Corporate,
Rumors Electronista is reporting
today that Apple is in talks with
"probably all six" of the largest
publishers in preparation for the
tablet's release (I think it's safe to
officially call it real now).
Publishers Marketplace notes
that it's all going down in New
York City, with ebooks being the
topic of conversation,
specifically pricing and all of
that good stuff.
It's assumed that Apple will sell
books through iTunes with a
revenue-sharing model similar to
what's currently behind the App
Store. The report states that the
publishers are keen to control
pricing and retain access to the
files themselves. It's interesting
to note that Amazon recently (as
in yesterday) announced a
revised and similar business
model for the Kindle, scheduled
to go into place on June 30th.
Now, just because Apple is in
talks with all six publishers
doesn't mean each deal is a lock.
At least not before next week's
dog-and-pony show. Expect a
demo, some partner
announcements (with select
CEOs briefly sharing the stage)
and a fanboy-crushing delay of 4
-5 months.
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Mixup over prayer brings bomb squad to Pa. airport (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Christian buzzed up: Court eases 28 seconds ago 2010-01- Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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27-inch iMac shipping delays
extended 3 more weeks
By Steven Sande (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 1/21/2010 1:00:00 PM
Filed under: Retail, iMac, Apple
Did you order one of those sweet
27-inch iMacs from the Apple
online store recently? Well, if
you did, expect to see a delay in
getting it.
AppleInsider is reporting that
the 27-inch models currently
have a three-week shipping time.
Earlier this week, Apple's web
store showed estimated shipping
times of less than a week.
The delay could be due to
several factors. First, initial users
of the 27-inch model had been
experiencing screen flicker
issues, which caused orders
made in December to be delayed
about two weeks. Apple released
a software patch for the big-
screen iMac on December 21st
that was meant to resolve the
screen flicker issues, but many
purchasers are still experiencing
the problems. It could be that
Apple is slowing the pace of
manufacturing until the situation
is resolved.
Another possibility not
addressed in the AppleInsider
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Nirenberg dies at 82 (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:14:41 AM
post could be that the demand for
the 27-inch iMac is reaching a
new peak. The iMac line made
up the best-selling desktop
computers in the U.S. in the last
quarter of 2009, with the 21.5-
inch model topping the charts.
It's not entirely out of the
question that demand at Apple
resellers, including the Apple
Stores, is finally being met by
the supply of the 27-inch model
and that fewer of the machines
are available for purchase online.
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If you're looking for a 27-inch
iMac, we'd recommend visiting a
local Apple reseller rather than
attempting to purchase it directly
through the online Apple Store.
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Amazon Backs Down On
Demanding Publisher Use Only Its
Own Print-On-Demand Solution
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) agreed to pay the legal fees of
Submitted at 1/21/2010 5:31:00 AM the publisher. Amusingly, a
monetary reward was on the
Back in 2008, we wrote about table, and the publisher turned it
Amazon's questionable demand down -- and wanted it written
to book publishers that if they into the settlement that it refused
wanted to offer print-on-demand to take money -- but Amazon
books, they had to use Amazon's didn't want that mentioned in the
own POD solution. A few official settlement. Still, it seems
months later, a class action unfortunate that at least one
lawsuit was filed, and after a publisher had to go through all
judge refused to throw out the this trouble just to use the print-
case, it looks like Amazon on-demand offering of its own
quickly agreed to settle(thanks choosing. And, while it's great
Achura). Unfortunately, from for this one publisher, it leaves
the wording of the agreement, out the fact that many others
even though this was filed as a caved in and agreed to deals that
class action, it's not clear if it required them to only use
only applies to this one publisher Amazon's solution.
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the publisher to keep using
alternative solutions and also
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White House unveils
iPhone app
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:20:32 AM
The White House's new iPhone
app(Credit: The White House)
If you can't catch the president's
next speech on TV, no problem--
you can watch it on your iPhone.
The White House has hit the
iTunes market with its very own
app designed to keep all good
U.S. citizens updated on the
latest goings-on of government.
In addition to offering news,
blogs, photos, and videos, the
app can tap into a live news feed,
letting you watch such events as
the president's annual State of
the Union speech set for next
Wednesday.
Washington is also promising
more for the portable market. A
mobile version of the
WhiteHouse.gov Web site will
soon be launched for other
phones and devices.
Compatible with both the
iPhone and iPod Touch 2G, the
new White House app seems to
be a hit with the American
voters, so far winning 73 five-
Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller Hearing
Postponed
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:00:00 AM
ET has the latest...
star ratings from the App Store, click-wheel iPod, and even the
only 15 one-star reviews, and iPod mini.
about a dozen split down the Here is the Google Translation
middle.
And unlike most things in Store new Apple USB Power
Washington, this one won't cost Adapter page.
you any money.
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The hearing that was scheduled
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Brooke Mueller has been
postponed.
Apple releases new,
slimmer European power
adapter for iPod/iPhone
By Michael Grothaus (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: Accessories, iPod
Family, Peripherals, iPhone A
quick note to our European
readers. Apple has released a
new, slimmer USB power
adapter for iPods and iPhone.
This new adapter supports all
iPod nanos, iPhones, iPod
Touches, iPod classics, the
second and third gen iPod
shuffle, the fourth and fifth gen
link to the Norwegian Apple
The hearing, which was
scheduled for Friday, has been
pushed to February 8th.
Mueller's mother told People her
Tech/ Entertainment/
Thanks to reader Christian S.
who sent this in.
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daughter is suffering from
pneumonia in both lungs and her
kidneys are filled with infection.
21
Dr. Drew: If Tiger is in
Sex Rehab, He May
Have to Contact Alleged
Mistresses
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 8:50:00 AM
Dr. Drew Pinsky offers up his
professional outlook on reports
that Tiger Woods is in a
Mississippi treatment center for
sex addiction.
Dr. Drew has not met Tiger nor
treated him, but in his expert
opinion says the key to the pro
golfer's reported rehab will be
for him to admit that he is
powerless against his demons.
"In my experience it comes from
a sense of total desperation,
disgust and a fear that you're
going to die if you keep going
down this path," the "Celebrity
Rehab" doctor explains.
In addition to his wife Elin
possibly being involved in the
healing process, Dr. Drew says
that if Tiger is in sex rehab, his
alleged mistresses may also play
a part in his treatment. "It [is]
possible, in fact likely, that as
part of his recovery, Tiger will
have to contact some of these
women."
22 Politics/ Entertainment/
Dems Have Only Themselves to Blame
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 3:00:00 PM
Democrats owe Joe Lieberman
an apology. Not that he should
expect one.
He and other Senate moderates
have been reviled by the left
during the health care debate.
But if someone had listened
more carefully to them,
Democrats might already have
passed health care reform and
incoming GOP Sen. Scott Brown
would not be driving to
Washington in his pickup truck.
Moderates were always the key
to getting health care reform
done. For many months, the path
to passing health care was clear.
Democrats would have to accept
most of what Sens. Lieberman (I
-Conn.), Bayh, Landrieu,
Lincoln, Baucus, Conrad,
Carper, both Nelsons and other
moderate Senate Democrats
wanted. And realistically, they
should have secured the votes of
moderate Republican Sens.
Olympia Snowe and Susan
Collins, too.
Democrats had numerous
chances to make a deal with
moderates but continued to hold
out in the belief that something
more progressive might prevail.
In Context It Was Apparently Not So Hopeless Sounding
[Health Care]
By Pareene (Gawker)
The date that should stick in
everyone's head is Oct. 13,
nearly two months before
Democrat Martha Coakley won
her primary in Massachusetts
and when no one had even heard
of Brown. Oct. 13 was the day
the Senate Finance Committee
voted 14-9 for a health care
reform package. That vote won
the support of a number of
influential moderate Democrats
and also Snowe. With only a
small bit of tweaking, this
approach might have brought on
other Democratic moderates not
on the committee and Collins,
Snowe's Maine colleague.
Democrats should have taken
that deal and run. It would have
given Democrats 80 percent of
what they were looking for, and
it would have been a major
change of policy in a Democratic
direction, at a time when health
care reform still polled
reasonably well.
But what followed was an
endless set of negotiations to
reflect more progressive
concerns. Majority Leader Harry
Reid's decision to merge the
Finance Committee's bill with
the more liberal Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions
Committee version fed liberal
"I don't see the votes for [passing
the Senate bill] at this time."-
hopes for a robust public option.
Even when the final Senate bill
moved closer to Senate
moderates' preferences (although
losing Snowe's vote), the House,
too, wanted to renegotiate the
deal, to reflect its progressive
priorities.
The result was three months of
messy public debate within the
Democratic Party.
To give President Barack
Obama credit, in negotiations
with congressional leaders, he
has been the voice in favor of
cutting a deal and accepting
moderates' wishes. He
questioned Reid's decision to
fight for a more progressive bill
rather than coalesce around the
more moderate Finance
Committee approach.
But Obama also deserves some
blame. He did not put his foot
down and insist on cutting a
compromise deal early in the
process. Nor did Speaker Nancy
Pelosi or Majority Leader Reid.
Whatever you think of President
George W. Bush, he understood
how to cut a deal. He had smaller
congressional majorities but
followed a formula of having the
House pass a bill close to his
priorities quickly and then
negotiate one deal with a few
key Senate moderates.
Even Democrats' slow approach
might have yielded a health care
reform bill but for the fact that a
special election in Massachusetts
was scheduled for Jan. 19 and
that the phenomenon that is
Brown took advantage of the
brewing discontent about health
care, the economy and other
issues.
The importance of his victory
should not be underestimated.
Even in Democratic
Massachusetts, Brown tapped
into voters' worries that health
care was too much change, too
expensive and taking up
legislative time that should have
been dealing with more
immediate economic problems.
Yet even after this political sea
change, Democrats are still
ignoring their moderate
members. Many liberals continue
to hold out for a more
progressive approach through
delaying seating Brown (not
going to happen) or using
reconciliation to pass a more
comprehensive bill with only 51
votes in the Senate.
Even the more pragmatic
president and Democratic leaders
like Steny Hoyer favor the
House passing the Senate's
Nancy Pelosi
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version of health care, getting it
done quickly and with a better
deal than one could get with only
59 Democrats in the Senate.
But the Brown victory has
shaken the political earth. What
might have been acceptable
ground for moderates to stand on
a month ago has crumbled away.
Today, leaders will find that
many moderate Democrats
would rather drop health care
reform altogether than be seen as
shoving health care down the
throats of an electorate that just
sent a strong message to
Washington in opposition.
Substantial health care reform is
effectively dead--not because
Republicans oppose it but
because Democratic moderates
will see the prospect of quick
passage in the face of voter
discontent as political suicide in
the fall.
And Lieberman can say to his
critics: "I told you so."
John C. Fortier is a research
fellow at AEI.
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(AEI.Org: Articles) means necessary, and, on the the overcharged atmosphere of government work.)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 3:00:00 PM other hand, the growing majority 2010 remains equally unlikely. If and when the adults re-enter
of overburdened Americans For the moment, we are stuck in the health policy discussion, I
The most honest analysis of last hoping for something better another stage of political hope they will encourage an end
night's shocker in Massachusetts someday but willing to accept a stalemate despite a serious need to the artificial urgency and
is "Wow, I didn't see that one political ceasefire. We do not for limited, but essential, health apocalyptic desperation of the
coming (until everyone else did h a v e s u s t a i n a b l e p o l i t i c a l policy reforms. However, there current debate. We need to
just a few days ago)." But there majorities for any destabilizing remain several past historical restart with neither a blank page
w i l l b e n o s h o r t a g e o f policy changes. Trying to do less examples of health policy nor an overcrowded pile of 2,500
profoundly updated analyses i n W a s h i n g t o n w o u l d changes that followed initially pages. After we listen more
(and excuses) by the many accomplish more everywhere disastrous overreaches by carefully to the often-
pundits who got most of this past else. majorities that misread their contradictory messages coming USC's Michael
year's health policy debate and We will know more over the mandates. In 1996, a more from anxious voters and count
its larger political context wrong. next week about the calculated limited set of reforms under the more of their ballots this Cooper Apologizes to
On the other side, one can find response of the president and Health Insurance Portability and November, a healthier restart and UCLA for Expletive
exaggerated claims of a mandate Democratic leaders to seeing Accountability Act was passed reconnection with them is both
By Michelle Smith (FanHouse
to move in an opposite direction, their defeat on this front snatched on a bipartisan basis--just two possible and necessary--next Main)
rather than simply calling a from the jaws of imminent years after the collapse of year. That will be the next annual
timeout and reflecting before victory. The temptation to double ClintonCare. In 1997, the "once in a lifetime" opportunity. Submitted at 1/20/2010 12:23:00 PM

reloading. down, Vegas-style, on an unwise Balanced Budget Act Last night, Scott Brown
Filed under: UCLA, USC, Pac-
Hence, before the next round of bet to make health policy history incorporated many of the reminded us that "we can do
10, Women's Basketball Michael
clichés and conventional through more procedural Medicare policy changes so better." This past year, we've
Cooper had made a great first
w i s d o m , a m u c h h u m b l e r shortcuts and backroom deals vigorously resisted when already nearly done much worse.
impression as the new USC
reflection would start with remains great (at least inside the proposed by a new Republican- Thomas P. Miller is a resident
women's basketball coach.
r e c o g n i z i n g t h e p r o f o u n d central command bunker), but controlled Congress in 1995. (To fellow at AEI.
His second impression needs
disconnection between, on the pursuing this course would not be sure, these were much more Photo credit: iStockphoto/Luca
some work.
one hand, the relentless push of only be self-defeating, it would political process di Filippo
Cooper, the former NBA star
the White House and the current stress the larger political culture accomplishments, because the Five Filters featured article:
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apology Wednesday to UCLA
overhaul provisions by any less partisan compromise amid often is close enough for
coach Nikki Caldwell after
directing an expletive at the
Lorne Michaels: Conan O'Brien Always Welcome Bruins on Sunday.
Cooper came into the interview
at 'Saturday Night Live' room following USC's 70-63 win
over UCLA at the Galen Center
and said, "My opening statement
(ETonline - Breaking News) "Saturday Night Live" producer there." weigh-in on who's to blame for
Lorne Michaels at the TV "It's not what you call genius the debacle! is [expletive] UCLA."
Submitted at 1/21/2010 8:38:00 AM
Academy Hall of Fame induction decision making," Betty White
" Conan O'Brien is one of the in Hollywood. "So of course, chimed in about the late night
two or three funniest people I've he'd always be welcome at shake up.
ever known in my life," says 'Saturday Night Live.' He started Watch the video to see the stars
24 Politics/ Sports/ Game/ E-reader News Edition
Mass Effect 2
Calling the Ex launch trailer is the
By Seyward Darby (The New the relief effort, the two ex- funds to dole out grants for The tsunami fund that Clinton
Republic - All Feed) presidents immediately began specific relief projects--and, in and Bush 41 set up continued to
last one, we promise
Submitted at 1/20/2010 9:00:00 PM
appearing on television to each case, early media raise and distribute money for By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
encourage Americans to donate. appearances and appeals years after the immediate crisis. Submitted at 1/21/2010 1:00:00 PM
Last Saturday, President Obama "[I]f somebody can give $1 seriously kick-started donations: In December 2005, the ex-
tapped the unlikely duo of million, we'd like to have it, but, The Chronicle of Philanthropy presidents announced that they We know, we know -- there's
George W. Bush and Bill Clinton if you've got $5 or $10, if you're reported that, as of Tuesday would distribute an initial$90 been a constant flood of Mass
to lead a massive campaign to eight years old and you're afternoon, the Haiti fund had million from their new Katrina Effect 2 media over the past few
help Haiti. It isn't the first time listening to us, don't think your already collected $11.7 million. relief fund, and they continued to weeks. What with your SyFy
former presidents (and political dollar doesn't count," Clinton 2) They Sustain Relief Efforts. seek donations until July 2007. channel specials and your six
rivals) have led major relief said on Fox the day that the But former presidents can do Spokesmen for the presidents' trailers being released at once,
efforts: Clinton and George effort launched. Four days later, more than convince people to efforts told The Houston we can appreciate that you might
H.W. Bush worked together after the former presidents appeared in open their wallets right after a Chronicle in late 2008 that the feel a bit overwhelmed. That's
the 2004 tsunami, Hurricane a public service announcement disaster; they can keep a crisis in tsunami fund had raised a total of why we're promising that today's
Katrina, and Hurricane Ike. "This a s k i n g p e o p l e t o g i v e . I n the philanthropic spotlight for $1 billion, while the Katrina fund clip -- the launch trailer, mind
is a model that works," Obama F e b r u a r y , t h e p a i r v i s i t e d longer than the fickle public and had raked in $135 million. And, you -- will be the very last bit of
noted. But how, exactly, does Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, press might otherwise allow. already, Clinton and Bush 43 media you see for the game on
that model work? Why do we and the Maldives, bringing "There is a window of have said long-term efforts are a Joystiq before the game
call on former presidents to help further media attention to the opportunity for educating the priority for their Haiti fund. "Bill launches. That is, of course,
after disasters? need for aid. (That same month, population and keeping the Clinton and I want the people of unless there's something really,
1) They Get People's Attention. the UN appointed Clinton as its public engaged," says Oxfam Haiti to know that once the really amazing released in the
They're presidents. They have special envoy for tsunami America President Raymond immediate crisis [has] been next five days. But, ya know, it'd
high profiles. People listen to recovery, giving him an even Offenheiser. "What you will see stabilized, we won't forget you," have to be pretty sweet. Like, the
t h e m . A n d h a v i n g b o t h a larger role in relief; he is also is that the media attention to Bush told Voice of America. sweetest.
Democrat and a Republican on special envoy to Haiti.) Clinton these events shapes the length Five Filters featured article: Gallery: Mass Effect 2
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nonpartisan issue. and, earlier this week, Clinton able to do is extend the window Term Extraction. originally appeared on Joystiq on
A week after the tsunami and Bush 43 appeared together because they are traveling or Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:00:00 EST.
slammed Southeast Asia, when to rally support for Haiti. meeting with philanthropies or Please see our terms for use of
then-President Bush placed his After all four disasters, the getting on TV and talking about feeds.
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It's Ovechkin vs. Crosby! Or Is It?
By Adam Gretz (FanHouse Thursday is in Pittsburgh as the semifinals and, as always, much
Main) defending Stanley Cup champs of the attention will be pointed in
Submitted at 1/21/2010 1:45:00 AM
take on the best team in the the direction of Alex Ovechkin
Eastern Conference. It's the first and Sidney Crosby. Crank up the
Filed under: Capitals, Penguins time the Penguins and Capitals hype machine.
The game of the night on last year's Eastern Conference
have faced off since Game 7 of
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Tea Party 'Hero' Arrested For Rape, What Democrats Should

Stolen Grenade Launcher Discovered Do Now
(Little Green Footballs) evidence on that charge, they anymore. I’m not hiding from (AEI.Org: Articles) State of the Union speech
Submitted at 1/20/2010 6:11:16 PM found a grenade launcher that ATF. Not hiding from FBI. Any Submitted at 1/20/2010 3:00:00 PM himself.
matched the description of one of organization. If they want to Interim Sen. Paul Kirk, he
A former Marine and current three that were reportedly stolen come get me I’m not going to be Twenty-four days ago, on Dec. announced, had completed his
member of the Oathkeepers from an Army post in California. afraid,” Dyer said. “Patriots we 28, state Sen. Scott Brown, the work in Washington. There
m i l i t i a g r o u p , w h o w a s a More incriminating evidence are not overpowered. If we Republican nominee in the would be no 60th vote for a
featured speaker at the July 4th against Dyer has surfaced in a united under one banner and Massachusetts Senate election, health-care bill. The president
tea party in Oklahoma, has been YouTube video. The video fight for our children’s liberity promised he would be the 41st was always welcome in
arrested on suspicion of rape — shows Dyer, a former U.S. and the constitution, our resolve vote against the Democratic Massachusetts, he said. And then
a n d w h e n h i s h o m e w a s Marine, talking proudly about is invincible to any standing health-care bill. Almost no one Mr. Brown channeled Franklin
searched, police discovered a domestic terrorism. “Join the army,” Dyer said. noticed. Mr. Brown was trailing Delano Roosevelt's riposte to the
grenade launcher stolen from a military?”, said Dyer. “Depends Here’s video of Dyer speaking Democrat Martha Coakley by 20 attacks on his dog Fala by saying
California Army base: Domestic on what you want to do with it. at the Oklahoma tea party, about points, and she was still on her that he resented Mr. Obama's
Terrorist In Texoma. Me? Im going to use my training his duty to uphold his “oath to six-day Christmas break from attacks on his truck.
A Stephens County man is a n d b e c o m e o n e o f t h o s e the Constitution” and resist the campaigning. Click here to read the full text
behind bars on a rape charge. domestic terrorists that you’re so federal government.[Video] Twenty-two days made a from the Wall Street Journal.
“We come home and those afraid of from the DHS reports.” UPDATE at 1/20/10 10:55:46 difference. On Tuesday night, Michael Barone's comment is the
bastards want to talk about how The video of Dyer on YouTube pm: Mr. Brown strode to the platform third entry.
we’re domestic terrorists and a shows him with some friends at a And here’s the video mentioned at the Park Plaza Hotel and Michael Barone is a senior
threat to this country. It makes paintball facility in California. in the news story above, in delivered his victory speech. fellow at AEI.
me so angry,” said Charles Dyer, Dyer’s comments in the video which Dyer talks about using his While Washington reporters P h o t o c r e d i t :
w h o h a s b e e n a c c u s e d o f are not only powerful but military training “to become a were busy speculating on vgm8383/Flickr/Creative
committing rape. disturbing and show his domestic terrorist.”[Video] whether President Obama would Commons
Dyer has been charged with first c o n t e m p t f o r a u t h o r i t y . (Hat tip: pnw_pirate.) use his State of the Union speech Five Filters featured article:
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Review: Cougar Town - Stop Dragging My Heart Around

By Joel Keller (TV Squad) she doesn't want to be tied down, among its ensemble, even if future.
Submitted at 1/21/2010 11:52:00 AMLaurie and Grayson hook up we're starting to set up one of Continue reading Review:
because of their various those eye-rolling situations Cougar Town - Stop Dragging
(S01E13) Wow. Didn't think I'd relationship issues, and Andy where people start to sleep with My Heart Around
miss so much in one week. But gets a lot of agita from keeping each other and always end up Filed under: Episode Reviews,
the episode I had to pass on to all the group's secrets. finding out. Hopefully, this is Reality-Free, Cougar Town
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Jules breaks up with Jeff because but that's a good thing. This dominate the storytelling in the
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How to Put Your PC to Good Use While You're Sleeping
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By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:00:00 AM
The great part about your
computer is that—unlike you—it
doesn't require any sleep. Take
advantage of your PC's insomnia
by automating time- and
processor-intensive tasks while
you're counting sheep.
Photo remixed from Remko van
Dokkum and Ian Wilson.
Note: We're all for powering
down your PC to save energy
overnight, but you can easily
schedule your computer to shut
down at specific times using
several methods, so there's no
harm in putting your PC to sleep
an hour or two after you doze
off—or an hour or two after you
leave for work, or whatever
times you might want to take
advantage of a few extra CPU
cycles while you're away from
your PC.
On Tuesday we asked you what
apps and maintenance tools you
run while you're sleeping. Below
we've aggregated our favorite
overnight computer uses,
including some of your favorite
methods of squeezing a few
more overtime hours out of your
computer along with ours.
Backup, Update, and Clean
Ah maintenance; it's the stuff
that boring work is made of.
Rather than incorporate it into
your regular computing
hours—and staring listlessly at
your computer while your
maintenance tasks
complete—make computer
maintenance an overnight task
that your computer performs
without you.
Note: All of the below
suggestions, naturally, can be set
to run on a schedule.
Backup your hard drive: We've
emphasized the importance of
backup time and again, and even
if you've already got some form
of backup in place, there's still a
good chance that you're doing it
wrong.
The bummer about backup: It
can take a very long time,
especially when you're
performing an off-site backup
over the internet (which you
should be doing!). We've
detailed how to automatically
backup your hard drive to an
external drive and/or FTP server
in the past. Backing up to a
second local hard drive—like a
connected USB drive—is the
most important of these two,
since most people don't
necessarily have an off-site FTP
server they can back up to.
Instead, for your off-site backup
needs, we'd suggest signing up
for a service like Mozy. An
annual subscription to Mozy will
cost around $55 a year for
unlimited backups (free for up to
2GB), but let's say worst comes
to worst and your computer is
robbed, lost to a fire, or your
hard drives up and crash. That
small cost for insurance will
likely seem very much worth the
money. I personally use and can
vouch for Mozy, but you might
want to read up on it and other
options in our recent Hive Five
Best Backup Tools.
Some command-line savvy
readers also opt to do their
backups using the venerated
rsync command line tool. If
you're interested in taking the
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rsync route, check out our guide
on how to mirror files across
systems with rsync.
Make your hard drive repair
itself: You can't do much to save
a hard drive from dying if it's
fated in the stars, but you can do
your part to keep your disks
healthy—specifically by
regularly defragmenting and
checking for and repairing any
disk errors. Our oldie-but-goodie
guide to the self-repairing hard
drive will allow you to schedule
this maintenance once or twice
per week, while you're sleeping,
so you can rest easy that you've
done all you can to keep your
disks running in tip-top shape.
Keep your computer up to date:
This one's kind of a no brainer,
but still very worth the reminder.
Granted, some power users
would prefer vetting each and
every Windows update before it's
applied, but for most folks,
there's not much of a reason not
to automate this process while
they're out. To schedule updates
via Windows Update, just launch
the Update tool from the Control
Panel, click the Let me choose
my settings link, and choose
your preferred automated update
settings.
OS X users, your Software
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about setting specific times for
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By Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 12:45:00 PM
For years we've waited for the
news, patiently biding our time,
but we need wait no longer.
Somewhere in Hertfordshire,
UK, 21-year-old Lisa Courtney
... has caught 'em all. Her 12,000
-piece Pokémon memorabilia
collection has landed her in the
Guinness Book of World
Records 2010 Gamer's Edition,
and if a 12,000-piece set doesn't
constitute'em all, then we don't
want to know what does.
Now, if you'll excuse us, we
have to go tell Griffin about this
so he can start writing Lisa
creepy love letters.
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updates, but Macworld's
Christopher Breen has some
clever tips for scheduling
Software Update that'll do the
trick.
Clean house: Whether you're
talking antivirus, crap cleaning,
or other general PC cleanup,
there's no better time to run those
scans and maintenance tools than
while you're catching some Z's.
It may depend on your antivirus
application of choice, but you
should have some sort of built-in
scheduling option for running
antivirus and spyware scans.
And for the CCleaner crowd, the
How-To Geek details how to set
up CCleaner to run automatically
every night. Download, Encode,
and Fold
Now that you've got your PC
taking care of its most important
maintenance tasks overnight,
let's look at a few other common
overnight uses.
Downloads: When we asked
about overnight PC use,
downloading using tools like
BitTorrent ranked very high
among those who responded, and
for obvious reasons: Downloads
can take a long time, and those
hours you're sleeping are hours
that big downloads can be
completing. But rather than keep
your PC on all night long—even
after it completes your
download—most popular file
downloaders have built-in
options for shutting down,
hibernating, or otherwise
powering off your computer
when the download in question
completes. Everything from the
popular BitTorrent client
uTorrent(whose options are
pictured above) to download
managers like DownThemAll
have these options built in.
Video encoding: Many of us
will never know the time it takes
to do some seriously heavy video
encoding (we're none of us
Pixar), but if you've ever tried
ripping a DVD (here are five of
the best ripping tools out there),
you know how much time and
CPU cycles video encoding can
take. Outsource your ripping and
other encoding jobs to the night
so you can actually use your
computer the next day.
Share your computing power
with researchers: Distributed
computing tools allow
researchers across the globe to
use your extra CPU cycles to run
a few algorithms of their own in
the background using your
computer. That might not seem
like much, but with enough
computers, researchers can do
some serious work with
distributed computing.
(Wikipedia notes that
Folding@home, the most
popular distributed computing
network, has up to 400,000
active machines running at a
time and has reached computing
speeds of over 5.0 native
petaflops.) If you're interested in
putting your PC to use to help
the world while you're sleeping,
you've got plenty of
options:There's Folding@home(a
project to understand protein
folding), BOINC, the World
Community Grid, and
LHC@home, to name a few
popular options. And a few other
smart ideas
Clever (or just less common)
overnight uses for your PC
suggested by Lifehacker readers
included:
• Updating your applications:
Reader Matthew Giacomazzo
uses previously mentioned
software update tool Ketarin to
check for and download software
update packages for installed
apps. Rather than automatically
install them, he has Ketarin
output updates to a text file on
his desktop so he can review the
downloaded updates and decide
whether or not to install them in
the morning.
• Compiling code: Compiling
code from source can be an
intensive process, and reader
perlhacker uses his overnight
cycles to update and compile
software on his Mac and
OpenBSD machines.
• Renaming files: Lifehacker
reader prupert runs scripts on his
home theater PC to rename and
copy television recordings on his
MythTV setup, then scans the
recordings for advertising,
removes them, and converts the
files to MKV.
• Creating local backups for data
in the cloud: Reader mojo
schedules a Google Docs backup
to give a little redundancy to data
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in the cloud.
Just Turn It Off Already
Okay, fine. Sometimes the best
thing you can do with your
computer is simply turn it off.
You save on electricity, you lose
one extra hum and a few flashing
lights in your home at night, and
you may stop thinking, "Oooo,
maybe I should google that"
while you're laying in bed with
your pre-sleep mind wandering.
Remember, though, very few of
the options highlighted above
should require an entire night's
worth of your powered-on
computer. Check out our guide
to automatically shutting down
your computer at a certain time
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30 Tech Tips/
No Time Like the Present to Choose Strong Passwords
[Passwords]
By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 8:30:00 AM
We harp on the importance of
strong passwords a lot here at
Lifehacker and for good reason,
it's important and most people
consistently use terrible
passwords. The analysis of the
32 million user password breach
at RockYou certainly highlights
that.
Last December the password
database of RockYou—a service
that lets people create
multimedia slideshows and other
media creations for social
networks like Facebook—was
completely compromised. The
login and password information
of 32 million users was captured
by a single hacker who released
the passwords—sans matching
logins—to the public.
Security firm Imperva went
through the entire 32 million
entries and analyzed the
passwords. They published their
finding in a small paper "
Consumer Password Worst
Practices" that highlights the
shortcomings of the RockYou
user's password selections and
laments how little times have
changed:
In 1990, a study of Unix
password security revealed that
password selection is strikingly
similar to the 32 million
breached passwords. Just ten
years ago, hacked Hotmail
passwords showed little change.
That means that users, if allowed
to, will choose very weak
passwords even for sites that
hold their most private data.
How weak were the RockYou
passwords? Almost 300,000
users had the password "123456"
and if you count the number of
users from the Top 10 section of
the password analysis that used
variations of numbers like
"12345" and "1234567", the
number creeps towards nearly
half a million. Astoundingly
61,958 users had the password
"Password" and 22,588 used the
name of the service "rockyou" as
their password. Just in case you
thought we were overlooking
other shockingly bad passwords
"Qwerty" was used by nearly
14,000 users.
So what can you do? Imperva
highlights some things you can
do to create more secure
passwords but none of what
they're saying is reinventing the
wheel. It's the same advice that
security experts have been giving
for decades and users have been
ignoring. Nonetheless, it bears
repeating and if you're not doing
it right now you need to start:
• Passwords should be longer
than six characters and include a
mix of uppercase, lowercase, and
special characters.
• Your password should never
be a name, a slang word, or any
word in the dictionary. It should
never include part of your name
or your email address.
• Use passphrases instead of
E-reader News Edition
passwords. Even if you're limited
on the number of characters you
can use, turn a long phrase into a
jumbled short one. "I like bread
and butter, especially at breakfast
time." can become "Ilbab$eabt!".
• Use a different password for
every single site you access
.
The last one is extremely
important. RockYou stored all
their passwords in plaintext
which isn't—shockingly!—as
uncommon as you would think.
If your password is compromised
because of the stupidity of the
people running the service you
use, it doesn't matter if you had
an awesome password of
enormous length and variety. If
you use that awesome password
on other services those services
have now been compromised.
If you're freaked out about your
crappy passwords—and you
should be!—now would be a
great time to review some of the
numerous guides and resources
we've shared over the years on
the topic like how to choose and
remember great passwords, how
to create a perfect password,
eight great KeePass plug-ins to
master your passwords, and how
your passwords aren't as secure
as you think.
You can read more about the
RockYou password and get more
TIME page 31
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security tips at the link below.

Have your own tip or trick for
crafting great passwords? Let's

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By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) What's new? The video above • WOFF support: More
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Windows/Mac/Linux: The oft- • Instant themes: Point 3.6 at the
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Firefox 3.6 Released
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(ReadWriteWeb)
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3 Tools to Sync Your Files with Google Docs

By Sarah Perez Docs. In the software program, backed up in multiple places Google Docs files.
(ReadWriteWeb) files and folders already online online too. Another benefit to The software works on
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:06:23 AM
are downloaded to your Syncplicity's service is its Windows PCs and is available
computer. Local files not yet "restore" feature which lets you for personal users of Google
When Google announced an online can then be moved to the undelete files using their web Docs or Google Apps. An
upgrade to their Google Docs appropriate Google Docs folder users for $50 per user per year. application. Those accidentally Enterprise version provides the
service earlier this month, a via drag-and-drop. The service is Memeo Connect itself costs an deleted files are immediately same functionality to business
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94 secret Windows 7 shortcuts

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E-reader News Edition
Amazon Allows Some Publishers
and Authors to Opt Out of E-Book
DRM
By Frederic Lardinois
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:50:37 AM
Amazon quietly made a major
change to its Digital Text
Platform last week that went
largely unnoticed: small
publishers and individual authors
who use the Digital Text
Platform can now opt out of the
Kindle's digital rights
management (DRM) program.
While this change only affects a
relatively small number of
publishers and authors for now,
this move could hint at a larger
change in Amazon's DRM
policy. Right now, Amazon's
DRM policy means that its
customers can't transfer their
books to a non-Kindle e-reader.
Sponsor
For Amazon, it makes sense to
experiment with this new option
on the Digital Text Platform.
Given that this is a self-
publishing tool, the company
12 ways to spice up your water
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:07:00 AM your drinking water.
You know you should drink • slices of cucumber
eight glasses of water a day. But, • mint leaves
let's be honest, it gets boring. • chopped strawberries
doesn't have to explain this
change to its partners in the
publishing industry while
allowing the company to
experiment with a DRM-free
solution. Most publishing houses
tend to be very conservative
when it comes to DRM-free e-
book solutions. In the self-
publishing world, however,
DRM-free books are very
common. Self-pulishing platform
Smashwords, for example,
doesn't even offer a DRM
solution.
Right now, you can't take your
Kindle e-books to a Sony
Reader, for example. While the
Kindle is a huge success for
Amazon, the current DRM
solution is surely holding quite a
few potential customers back
from making the jump to e-
books. The Beginning of the End
Here are twelve ways to spice up
Why not try adding:
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Guardian Launches
Search Engine for
Government Data
By Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:55:44 AM The Guardian quotes developer
for E-Book DRM? Ben Fry on the future of
The UK Guardian, ostensibly a
If the e-book world follows the searching government data,
newspaper but a major proponent
same path as the music industry, "This is only going one way:
for opening data held by
however, chances are that there is no trend towards less
governments to use by outside
restrictive DRM solutions will data."
software developers, has
disappear over the next few Following an era when the
launched some software of its
years. At least for Amazon, quantity of data available online
own: a search engine that
giving its self-published authors increased in orders of magnitude,
unearths datasets and pathways
and small publishing houses this thanks largely to easy publishing
to data sets provided by
option is a first step in the right tools for end-users like blogging
governments around the world.
direction. For O'Reilly, and social networks, many
World Government Data Search
publishing DRM-free e-book has people expect the next era of
is now live.
turned out to be an advantage. development online to focus on
Yesterday the UK government
Hopefully, other publishing strategic moves to make the most
released its new data site,
houses will also realize that valuable data available in
data.gov.uk, to rave reviews (
DRMed e-books do very little standardized formats that
including ours). The new
Tip of the hat to Nieman Lab's facilitate innovation by 3rd
Guardian search engine searches
Joshua Benton for noticing this parties independent of the
across the UK, US, New Zealand
change first. original sources of the data.
and Australian governments' data
Image Credit: Nieman If large, standardized data sets
sites. The company also offered
Journalism Lab. Discuss are a new language, then it's time
up a gallery of the 10 best
for a new period of literature to
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Rumor Has It: iPhone OS 4.0 Details Leaked Early

By Liam Cassidy gestures we get now in apps like the latest build of the iPhone OS And Then There’s That Tablet
(TheAppleBlog) Photos and Safari are sensible (3.1.2) can be on first generation (Again)
enough, (double-tap and pinch Perhaps the “few new ways” iPhones. Apple is so concerned Don’t forget that the established
Submitted at 1/21/2010 8:12:36 AM
zooming are useful in those refers to a sandboxed memory with guaranteeing a consistent, wisdom of the Rumor Mill has it
I’m pretty sure that late January apps) but do we need multi- “space” that runs in the elegant user experience they kept that iPhone OS 4.0 and the
is traditionally that time of the touch everywhere? How will the background, sort of like an app cut & paste out of the OS for Tablet’s operating system are
year when the Apple rumor mill addition of OS-wide gestures for keeping-alive portions of years before they felt the solution pretty much built upon the same
starts heating-up in anticipation make the OS more elegant, more other apps, even when they’re was good-enough to publish. So core code — hence the reason
of the impending iPhone OS intuitive and easier to use? Now, not currently front-and-center. they’re hardly going to support for Apple’s delay in seeding the
update. A young tradition, to be I’m not suggesting any sort of Maybe. Whatever it is, you can their latest and greatest OS on 4.0 build to developers. (Since
sure, but a tradition nonetheless. m a j o r c a l a m i t y ; I ’ m j u s t be sure there won’t be a task the ageing first-generation the code is so similar it’s pretty
This year, however, the media experiencing something of an manager. iPhone because the experience likely that tablet functionality
frenzy around the mythical-but- imagination-failure here. “Many graphical and UI changes will be terrible. will be easily discovered by a
completely-certainly-probably- “A few new ways” to run to make navigating through the I would wager, too, that core few minutes spent digging
real Tablet seems to be getting applications in the background OS easier and more efficient. We location services have been through iPhone OS 4.0’s bundled
all the attention — rather like a — multitasking.” haven’t had this broken down, greatly expanded and even more APIs. Apple has held-back on
new born baby stealing the So, the elusive Multitasking is but we can only hope for tightly integrated with the entire seeding the next major iPhone
limelight from its three year old coming to iPhone? I’m not improved notifications, a OS, making the original location- OS build for this very reason —
sibling. convinced. Speaking from my refreshed homescreen, etc.” ignorant iPhone a bit of a silly they don’t want to give away
At least BoyGeniusReport — in many years of experience using What do you think? A new, platform for 4.0. (Don’t forget clues as to what’s in store with
the past a reasonably accurate Windows Mobile, it seems to me refreshed UI style, perhaps? Or that patent for a location-aware the Tablet — that sort of
source of information on that Apple’s approach to an iPhone version of Exposé? home screen…) information will leak fast.)
upcoming iPhone OS updates — memory management on the The latter sounds horrid, but still, “The last piece of information is So while the world’s press
hasn’t forgotten the tradition and, iPhone is pretty much perfect. Soptlight can’t be the only the most vague, but apparently salivates over the upcoming
even though no one is paying the Sure, it doesn’t multitask — but solution to quickly navigating there will be some brand new tablet and forgets completely
least bit of attention, they in almost three years of iPhone through 10 pages of apps. syncing ability for the contacts about Apple’s other major
resolutely committed to web- o w n e r s h i p , t h a t h a s n e v e r “The update will supposedly be and calendar applications.” products, spare a thought for
page what they think they now presented an insurmountable available for only the iPhone 3G Since I’m one of the five or six iPhone OS 4.0. It’s likely to be
know about iPhone 4.0. problem for me. And the (ahem- and 3GS, but will “put them people in this world who pays the most important — and
So what’s the latest? From late) introduction of Push ahead in the smartphone market for a MobileMe subscription I impressive — update in the
BGR: Notification Services was a very because it will make them more never really think about iPhone’s history. And, unless
“There will be multi-touch welcome compromise. like full-fledged computers” contacts/calendar syncing. It just you have your money ready to
gestures OS-wide. (Would make I have since discovered, more than any other phone to happens for me, quietly, no fuss. splash on the Tablet, iPhone OS
sense […] as the rumored OS for however, that I don’t need date. Everyone is “really I’ve never synced any other way, 4.0 is the most likely next “new
the iTablet is close if not the Facebook to notify me about excited.” so I have no experience of the thing” you’re going to get from
same as the iPhone) every poke or thrown sheep, and Makes sense. The 3G and 3GS perils and pitfalls of syncing via Cupertino.
I’m not sure I understand what I especially don’t want to be have more memory than the different methods. I’ll leave you
this means if I’m honest with notified of every tweet from my venerable first generation to tell me what you think this
you. I mean, the few multi-touch Twitter stream. No thank you. iPhone. Consider how sluggish means and why I should care.
E-reader News Edition
New Year’s Resolutions iPhone Apps: Save
Money
By Alfredo Padilla
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:30:11 AM
Finishing up our series about
using your iPhone to achieve
your New Year’s Resolutions,
today we’ll be looking at iPhone
apps that will help you save
money.
2009 was no one’s idea of a
great year from a business
standpoint, except maybe for
Apple. I imagine that many of us
are looking at our bank accounts
after holiday spending sprees and
figuring out how we’re going to
be a bit wiser with our money.
Thankfully there are a ton of
good choices to help you manage
your money on your iPhone
whether it’s saving on the things
you buy or keeping an eye on
your budgets.
Note: All links point to iTunes
store.
PocketMoney
Price:$4.99(free lite version also
available)
Rating: 3.5 Stars
If you want to manage all of
your finances on your
iPhone, PocketMoney is the app
for you. It supports multiple
accounts and acts as a simple
check register, but also includes
the ability to create and manage
budgets and allows you to get a
good overview of your spending
with attractive charts. You can
also export your data to back it
up or import data from a desktop
application.
DebtTracker Pro
Price:$2.99(99 cent lite version
also available)
Rating: 3.5 Stars
The premise is simple, track
your debt and set up plans to pay
it off. The interface is attractive
and easy to use. You can also see
what your debt ratio is and track
how much you’ve been able to
pay off. If you don’t like the
default payoff approach, you can
create your own custom payoff
plans as well. Getting rid of that
high interest credit card is a great
way to start saving for the new
year.
RedLaser
Price:$1.99
Rating: 4 Stars
The perfect comparison
shopping app, simply scan any
barcode to get a list of competing
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Teacher Killed
Outside School;
Husband in Custody
(FOXNews.com)
Mortgage Calculator Pro
Price: 99 cents Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:33:53 AM
Rating: 3.5 Stars LIVINGSTON, Ala. A west
If you’re thinking about making Alabama teacher is dead and her
any major purchases in 2010, it’s husband is in custody following
a good idea to have a program a shooting outside Livingston
like Mortgage Calculator on your High School.
iPhone. Despite the name, you The city administrator in
can calculate car and credit card Livingston, Johnny Meadows,
payments as well as mortgages. said Thursday a teacher was shot
A nice feature is that you can in front of the school about 3
save loans so you can look at
prices from a variety of sources. them later and compare options. p.m. Wednesday. Classes already
You can email yourself a list of Y o u a l s o g e t a c o m p l e t e had dismissed but students were
scanned products for comparison amortization table to peruse. on campus.
shopping later and you can add 20 Minute Meals The educator died later at a
custom URL’s to search for if Price:$4.99 hospital; no one else was injured.
there’s a retailer that’s not in Rating: 4 Stars The woman's husband was
their database. arrested about 30 minutes later
One of the biggest money sinks
iBank after a chase ended in a wreck
out there is eating out, so having
Price:$4.99 near Demopolis, which is about
a good recipe application on your
Rating: 3.5 Stars 30 miles from the school.
iPhone to give you fast and easy
The companion to the popular meal ideas you can make at Police haven't released the name
Mac desktop finance manager, home is a great way to save of the victim or the man who
iBank doesn’t offer as wide a money. 20 Minute Meals only was arrested. But Meadows says
range of features as some of the has 55 recipes, which isn’t much city police plan to file a murder
other finance applications out considering the $5 price tag, but charge.
there for the iPhone. It more than i t a l s o i n c l u d e s a h e l p f u l Livingston High School is
makes up for these deficiencies, shopping list feature and videos closed Thursday and Friday
however, with easy to use to help you prepare the meal. because of the shooting.
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best bet. Note that iBank for the
Mac will cost you an additional
$60.
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US Supreme Court
One Tablet for All: Apple’s Slate as a Shared lifts campaign
Media Device finance limits
(Financial Times - US
By Darrell Etherington device so that it is intuitive to report. It should be much more
(TheAppleBlog) share. This person said Apple appealing to education users than homepage)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 8:01:10 AM
has experimented with the ability the Kindle DX, which currently Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:08:40 AM
to leave virtual sticky notes on represents its main competition,
The Apple tablet, when (and if) the device and for the gadget to since it will be able to support In a sweeping decision that will
released, will be a multimedia a u t o m a t i c a l l y r e c o g n i z e interactive applications and color change the face of the 2010 US
device. There’s little to no individuals via a built-in camera. display, which Amazon’s 9.7- mid-term election and beyond,
question about that. It’ll play It’s unclear whether these inch reader cannot, though apps the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4
video and music, allow you to features will be included at are reportedly in the works. Price decision on Thursday to lift
browse photos and web content, launch. limits on corporate spending in
belonging to one member. To will probably be the biggest campaigns.
and play games. But that Even with only that little then take that natural inclination factor. Both students and schools The long-awaited decision is
simplistic definition of what it information, I begin to see the
and make it the actual focus of a will be wary of something with a expected to open the floodgates
does doesn’t actually capture the marketing wisdom in such a
new hardware platform is a high per-unit price tag, unless on corporate money in elections,
s i g n i f i c a n c e o f t h e t a b l e t , design. Let’s face it, the tablet
stroke of marketing genius. A p p l e c a n m a k e u p t h e reversing restrictions that have
according to a new report at the will be entering a market that is
I f t h i s i s t r u e a n d t h e difference by offering significant been in place since the 1940s
Wall Street Journal. already fairly computer-rich, development of the tablet really discounts on the content side. that prohibited corporations from
In the report, the WSJ talks especially among the Apple Marketing the tablet as a
did focus along these lines, then buying campaign ads from their
about how during development, faithful. If every member of a household or shared device has
think of what it might be able to own treasuries. It also reversed
the focus with the tablet was on h o u s e h o l d h a s t h e i r o w n the additional benefit of breaking
do. You could pause a movie rules that prevented corporations
what its role would be in homes computer, how best to sell them up the cost in the mind of the
you were watching and go out from explicitly supporting
and classrooms, rather than on another device that really has the consumer. A $1,000 price tag
for a run, then your wife could candidates in campaign ads.
h o w i t c o u l d b e u s e d b y same capabilities in a different won’t look nearly as daunting if
pick it up and instantly be taken Five Filters featured article:
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When you got back, if it was living on my own, though, that
a fairly novel way of designing computer, without the bulk,
available, you could pick it up consideration wouldn’t enter into
personal electronics. startup/shutdown hassle and and the camera would see your my decision. Would it help you
Here’s how the device is other inconveniences associated
face and resume the movie at the justify the cost?
tailored to household or group with a proper desktop or laptop.
p o i n t w h e r e y o u l e f t o f f , Related GigaOM Pro Research:
use: The idea probably came Rumored Apple Tablet:
seamlessly.
One person familiar with the naturally enough as an extension
Apple is also looking at pitching Opportunities Too Big to Ignore
matter said Apple has put of what families were already
the device to the education
s i g n i f i c a n t r e s o u r c e s i n t o doing with iPhones and iPod
market, according to the WSJ
designing and programming the t o u c h e s i n t h e h o u s e h o l d
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How-To: Create a Chiptune in GarageBand
By Andrew Flocchini
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:21:04 AM
Chiptunes are everywhere and if
you’ve been intrigued by them,
this article will help you create
your very own. Chiptunes are
traditionally created using sound
chips from old computer systems
and game consoles. Some of the
best examples of chip music can
be made using Commodore 64’s,
GameBoy’s and the original
NES. Since these pieces of
hardware only could generate
sounds and tones over a few
channels, there is difficulty in
creating complex songs. Along
with the fact that this kind of
circuit bending is not for a
novice like myself and the
learning curve tends to be very
high. I wanted to find a way to
accomplish this without
spending days learning and
researching software or
hardware.
I am not trying to devalue
chiptunes in any way, it
definitely is an art form. I just
want to present an alternative for
those that are curious in creating
their own masterpiece. So if
we’re not going to need
hardware and complicated
software, what are we going to
use? Using GarageBand 09, a
plugin and a midi file, you can
convert a song you already know
and love into a chiptune. First
thing is to find a midi version of
a song you want to create. I just
went to Google and searched for
“Muse midi” and quickly found
a Muse song that would work.
Save the midi file on your
computer for later. Now we need
to download the Magical 8-bit
Plugin from the YMCK website
a n d p u t t h e
magical8bitPlug.component file
in the following folder.
\Libraries\Audio\Plug-
ins\Component
• Startup GarageBand and start
new project by selecting the
Piano. This will create a single
track project that we can import
our midi file into.
• Now drag your midi file into
GarageBand and you will see it
create new tracks for each voice
in the midi file.
• Double-click a track to change
the instrument from the Piano to
our chiptune instrument.
• Click the Edit tab and then
click the drop-down where it
says “Piano” and select
“Magical8bitPlug”
Apple/ Economy/ E-reader News/
• Now if you want to tweak that
tracks sound, click the Plugin
logo and play around with the
settings.
• This needs to be setup for
every track except the drums.
Use your creativity and change
the track sounds to match the
instrument they’re representing.
The drum track needs some
special attention and since the
plugin won’t work for this, I did
the following.
• Change the drum track sound
to the Hip Hop drum Kit.
• Add a new effect to this track.
Use the Bitcrusher effect and
select whatever settings sound
good to you. I used Wave
Deconstruction.
Now you may have to tweak the
volume levels on each track to
your liking but for the most part,
you are done. Export an MP3
and amaze your friends! Well
maybe not if they read this
article too but with this
knowledge you could create your
own music and use the chiptune
sounds as your instruments. I
know this is not as hardcore as
true circuit bending so don’t
send me angry emails. It’s more
of a fun little project to please
your creative side. Share your
own creations with us through
the comments and check out my
final results in the audio clip
below.
37
Goldman Sachs
earnings soar past
forecasts to $4.95bn
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:34:52 AM
Goldman Sachs on Thursday
became the latest US bank to
bow to pressure over pay,
slashing compensation as it
reported stronger than expected
fourth-quarter profits.
The Wall Street bank said it
would pay $16.19bn to staff for
the full year, the lowest pay-out
as a ratio of net revenues since
Goldman became a public
company in 1999.
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Kindle Software (PC
World via Yahoo! News)
(Yahoo! News Search Results
for e-readers)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:20:11 PM
UnK buzzed up: Obama steps
up campaign against Wall Street
banks (AP)
22 seconds ago 2010-01-
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Twitter is SMS 2.0 Stocks tumble as Obama takes

(Scripting News)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 5:45:44 PM
I wrote a too-short and too-
cryptic piece last week that begs
a more to-the-point treatment.
There was the web and then
there was Web 2.0. The
difference is dimension. The first
version of the web, though it was
never the intention of the
designer, was one-way.
Publishing was hard, very few
people did it. Lots of reading, not
much writing. Blogging changed
all that, writing got very easy,
then richer, to the point where
lots of professional publications
now use blogging software.
Mission accomplished.
Texting was always a read-write
medium, and very simple, but
like 1.0 of the web, was one-
dimensional. Texts were limited
Two and a Half Men's Jon Cryer, the FBI and a
in how they could be combined
and routed. Enter Twitter, a
puzzle -- what the frack is it? We
spent three-plus years puzzling it
out, in the end it has a rather
simple explanation -- it's the next
version of SMS. You can do
everything in Twitter you can do
in SMS, and so much more. But
essentially it feels very much like
SMS, the same way blogging is
very much like the web (so much
so that that statement seems
ludicrous).
If this is true, what can be done
with this observation? I think a
lot.
All of today's great handheld
computers, the iPhones and
Droids and Pres etc can do SMS
as a very basic function. But
what about a phone that's
designed to do SMS 2.0 out of
the box? How would that be
different from the phones we're
using today? A thought exercise,
perhaps an opportunity for brain
explosions.
on banks
(Financial Times - US The president said he wanted to
homepage)
end the mentality of “too big to
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:56:51 AM
fail” in financial markets. “If the
banks want a fight, it’s a fight
17:35 GMT. Stocks dropped I’m willing to have”, he added.
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NBC Orders More
Original Episodes
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 8:27:49 AM
NBC is high on original
episodes, reports The Hollywood
Reporter. It picked up additional
episodes of several series,
including "Law & Order" (three)
and "Law & Order: SVU" (two),
which can help fill gaps created

death threat by the departing "Jay Leno

Show." At 9 p.m, it ordered
"Trauma" (four), "Community"
By Allison Waldman (TV investigating a threat on Jon wife about her involvement.
Squad) (three) and "Parks & Recreation"
Cryer's life. The FBI doesn't Nobody has been arrested, but
(two).
mess around. They're like the the FBI worked on the case for a
Submitted at 1/21/2010 1:00:00 PM Five Filters featured article:
IRS, you know -- no sense of week.
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plot to kill Two and a Half Men's Apparently, Jon Cryer is Half Men's Jon Cryer, the FBI
Term Extraction.
Jon Cryer, I thought it had to be involved in a very nasty custody and a death threat
a joke. Jon Cryer? Seriously, dispute with his ex-wife. The Filed under: Other Comedy
what could "Alan Harper" have situation is so intense that Cryer Shows, OpEd, Celebrities,
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What's On Tonight: The Deep End,

Fringe, Supernatural, Burn Notice
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) Housewives of Orange County at
Submitted at 1/21/2010 12:12:00 PM 10.
• MTV has a new Jersey Shore
at 10.
• At 8, ABC has the series • Current has a new InfoMania
premiere of The Deep End, then at 10, then a new Rotten
new episodes of Grey's Anatomy Tomatoes Show.
and Private Practice. • Also at 10: FX has a new
• NBC has a new Community at The Mentalist. Archer.
8, followed by new episodes of
Parks and Recreation, The
• TLC has a new American
Chopper at 9.
• ESPN2 has more coverage of
Check your local TV listings for
Review: Nip/Tuck - Joel
Office, 30 Rock, and The Jay
Leno Show.
• FOX has new episodes of
The Australian Open at 9.
• Spike has a new TNA Impact!
more.
After the jump, the late night
talk shows.
Seabrook
at 9. By Jonathan Toomey (TV his power to just walk away.
Bones and Fringe. Continue reading What's On Squad)
• The CW has a new Vampire • Current has a new SuperNews Tonight: The Deep End, Fringe, It's becoming increasingly clear
Diaries at 8, then a new at 9. Supernatural, Burn Notice Submitted at 1/21/2010 12:32:00 PM
that Sean is the key to all
Supernatural. • At 10, USA has a new Burn Filed under: Late Night, McNamara/Troy's success and
Notice. ( S07E03)"This is something I the closer he gets to reclaiming
• History Channel has a new Programming, Celebrities, Talk
• Lifetime has a new Project want to do. Something I the life he always wanted, the
Modern Marvels at 8, followed Show, What To Watch Tonight,
Runway at 10. probably should've done a long more on edge Christian is
by the series premiere of Food Reality-Free
• There's a new Ace of Cakes on time ago." - Sean becoming. The problem with
Tech. Permalink| Email this| |
Food Network at 10. Nip/Tuck's final season that? Their conflict is starting to
• At 9, CBS has a new CSI, Comments
• Bravo has a new Real continued last night and the deep spill over into the lives of their
followed by a new episode of
examination of Sean and loved ones.
Christian's relationship got
MediaDailyNews: Movies fleshed out even further as the
rift between the two of them
Continue reading Review:
Nip/Tuck - Joel Seabrook
Filed under: OpEd, Nip/Tuck,
Coming To YouTube continued to grow. These two are
set on a collision course by the
Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
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(MediaPost | Media News) pits Google's YouTube in end of the season, though Sean Comments
Submitted at 1/21/2010 8:37:55 AMcompetition with Amazon and seems to be doing everything in
Netflix, among others. The first
Movie rentals are coming to YouTube rentals will run $3.99
YouTube, which is making its for a 48-hour viewing period.
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40 Entertainment/ Sports/
Prop 8 Trial: Great Lawyer on Side
of Good for Once [Lawsuits]
By Pareene (Gawker)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 1:06:18 PM
Ted Olson, the attorney who
won Bush v. Gore, also won
today's Supreme Court campaign
finance decision. He is basically
terrible! But here is the twist: he
is arguing for gay marriage in the
ongoing Proposition 8 suit!
The guy has a great record of
convincing the Supreme Court to
hurt America. Will he be able to
convince one wacky California
judge to help America? We are
actually going to go out on a
limb and say "yes, probably."
But the real test will come when
the losers appeal. The anti-gay
case so far has been, "marriage is
only for making babies and gays
can be cured" (those are literally
the best arguments they have).
This is part of the reason why
the anti-gay people really, really
did not want this trial televised
or streamed online: their expert
Pistons Owner Officially Puts Team on Market
By Tom Ziller (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 1:16:00 AM
Filed under: Pistons The Pistons
are available! And I'm not
talking about Tayshaun Prince
and Rip Hamilton. Well, I
suppose I am, because I assume
witnesses are crazy bigots who
matter-of-factly say vile things
about gay people. Like William
Tam, who should be testifying
today! Tam, a chemical engineer
and self-proclaimed expert on
gay-child-sex, was an original
sponsor of Proposition 8 and one
of the voluntary defendant-
interveners in the lawsuit. Then
he tried to withdraw from the
you get Tayshaun and Rip for
free if you buy the Pistons
franchise. Karen Davidson, who
took over the Pistons when her
husband, longtime owner Bill
Davidson, died last year, told
reporters during halftime of
Detroit's home win over Boston
Wednesday that she is in fact
suit because he was concerned
that people would notice how
bigoted he is.
The Prop 8 Trial Tracker is a
wonderful resource for keeping
up with what is going on as it
happens, in lieu of video. But
video does exist! We are just not
allowed to see it. The Equal
Rights Foundation actually
claimed to have video for
broadcast earlier today, but that
claim has been removed from
their press release (and it
might've just been language left
over from when the trial was
going to be streamed, before the
Supreme Court intervened).
It should go without saying that
it would probably be totally
wrong and immoral for someone
to like sneak a Flip camera into
the gallery and then send video
of the trial to a scummy gay
gossip blog.
looking for bidders for the
New York Times Tells
Employees Why They All Got
Diarrhea [Internal Memos]
By Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 1:05:27 PM
Good god. Remember that little
outbreak of a mysterious
intestinal illness at the New York
Times that shut down the
company cafeteria earlier this
month? Well, they've run some
tests, and...we don't know how to
tell you this...it's... Norovirus. (*
Checks Wikipedia.*) Dang that
makes you throw up and poop!
From: NYTIMES MAIL
Date: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:42
PM
Subject: Illness Update
To: NY TIMES INTERNET
Dear Colleagues,
The New York City Department
of Health has completed the
testing of samples taken during
the recent occurrence of
gastrointestinal illness among
some of our colleagues.
Norovirus was the likely cause
franchise.
Earlier this week, the Detroit
News reported that Davidson has
recently asked commissioner
David Stern for advice on
attracting potential buyers. One
rumor is that the Ilitch family,
owners of the Red Wings, who
desperately need a new arena,
E-reader News Edition
of the recent illness.
Norovirus, a highly contagious
stomach virus, recently has been
confirmed at many local business
and schools. As we witnessed,
norovirus can spread easily from
person to person. For more
information about norovirus,
p l e a s e g o t o
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/do
wnloads/pdf/cd/cdnor.pdf.
We appreciate the cooperation
of employees who kept us
informed about who was ill and
your understanding while the
investigation took place. Moving
forward we continue to stress
good hand-washing hygiene and
ask employees to stay home if
they are ill.
We anticipate that this will be
our last communication on the
matter. Thank you.
Scott Heekin-Canedy
could be interested in buying the
Pistons and building an NBA/
NHL arena in Detroit. The
Pistons currently play in the
Palace of Auburn Hills, a two-
decade old gym an hour out of
town renowned for its amenities
but aging quickly.
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Will Any U.S. Players Remain Standing in South Africa?

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) something that the U.S. has hitter hasn’t been signed for the Penguins ousted Alexander
Submitted at 1/21/2010 7:47:44 AM rarely, if ever, been able to say. upcoming season. At the New Ovechkin’s Washington Capitals
That statement, and the level of York Times’s Bats blog, Tyler in an epic seven-game series last
The U.S. will need all of its Dempsey’s form come June, are Kepner doubts Damon would spring. In the Pittsburgh Post-
firepower when it opens World now in doubt. It’s not enough to return to the Yanks for a low Gazette, Dave Molinari writes
Cup play in South Africa on June assume that when Dempsey base salary plus incentives. Big that this is no humdrum regular-
12 with a match against England. returns to training he’ll be back League Stew’s David Brown season game. (And fans who
But first it’ll have to overcome to his best. Who knows what doubts Damon will retire.* * * love the NBA and NHL equally
an injury bug that has sidelined lingering effects there will be F o r n o w F a v r e i s n ’ t N.C. State hadn’t beaten Duke will need to get their picture-in-
defender Oguchi Onyewu with a from the injury or how it will contemplating retirement, but 38 at home since 2004, but that picture ready: Kobe Bryant’s Los
torn patellar tendon and forward affect his confidence?” -year-old Kurt Warner is. If he changed Wednesday night when Angeles Lakers visit LeBron
Charlie Davies, who may not be ESPN’s Andrew Hush blogs quits, the Arizona quarterback the unranked Wolfpack shocked James’s Cleveland Cavaliers
fully recovered from a car that the forced break could certainly didn’t go out on top — the No. 7 Blue Devils, 88-74, tonight, too.)
a c c i d e n t b y t h e t i m e t h e benefit Dempsey, who has the Cardinals were throttled by behind Tracy Smith’s 23 points. Crosby will face enormous
tournament starts. So you can bet played 85 games for his club and the Saints last weekend — but In the Raleigh News & Observer, pressure next month to deliver
there was a huge sigh of relief country since the start of 2008. he’s been at the pinnacle. Luke DeCock marvels at the Olympic gold for Canada, as will
when an injury to the right knee At the New York Times’s Goal “What’s left to prove? He’s been unpredictability of ACC games Ovechkin for Russia. The
of Clint Dempsey last Sunday blog, Jeffrey Marcus names three MVP twice. He’s played in three this season. “Get one big night Americans aren’t expected to
wasn’t as severe as initially p l a y e r s w h o c o u l d t a k e Super Bowls. Won one,” ESPN’s f r o m o n e b i g p l a y e r , a n d contend for gold in Vancouver,
thought. The Fulham midfielder Dempsey’s place if necessary. Rick Reilly writes. “Been Walter anything can happen — even one and goalie Ryan Miller will have
will likely return to his Premier Bleacher Report’s Andrew Payton NFL Man of the Year. of the biggest, and perhaps most to be as sharp in nets for the U.S.
League club before the end of Jordan assesses the chances that Set several all-time postseason unexpected, wins of the Sidney as he’s been for Buffalo for the
the season and play in the World Davies and Onyewu, two key NFL passing records. His story Lowe era,” DeCock writes. Americans to compete for a
Cup. Associated Press Clint pieces in the U.S. attack, will — the Hy-Vee grocery stocker “Duke is clearly ahead of the medal, Helene Elliott writes in
Dempsey, center, would prefer recover in time for the World w h o l i v e d i n h i s i n - l a w ’ s field, but the losses to Georgia the Los Angeles Times.* * *
the use of both knees in South Cup. “For both of these players, basement and wound up torching Tech and N.C. State illustrate Jack Nicklaus, who won a
Africa. 2009 was a breakout season,” the NFL for 12 seasons — how small the gap is, and there’s record 18 majors and 73
The loss of Dempsey would be a Jordan writes. “Davies was able should be a major motion-picture no gap between everyone else tournaments during his
particularly tough blow for the to secure a starting spot on the release. He’s a first-ballot Hall of bunched in one big mess down illustrious career, turns 70
A m e r i c a n s . H e ’ s b e e n a n team after a great Confederations Famer and if he’s not, they ought the standings.” Thursday. The Golden Bear’s
offensive juggernaut, scoring six Cup, and Onyewu was able to be to melt it down and start over. There’s nothing predictable PGA success is impressive, but
goals for Fulham this season, a rock in the US defense in the Chew on this: His numbers are about March Madness, either — so too is his commitment to
including this beauty. “There’s same tournament, which earned better then 16 other QBs already well, except when a top seed family. “His hosannas have been
n o q u e s t i o n t h a t p r i o r t o him a three-year contract with in the Hall, including Roger faces a No. 16. Which is why so sung from the rooftops by
Sunday’s mishap, Dempsey had AC Milan.”* * * Staubach, Terry Bradshaw, and m a n y p e o p l e c o n s i d e r t h e experts and peers for decades,”
been in the best form of his The ageless march of Brett Joe Namath.” tournament the best sporting Steve Elling writes at CBS
career, scoring seven times this Favre continues Sunday when The Arizona Republic’s Paola event. To keep it that way, the Sports. “But few are aware that
season in all competitions,” the Minnesota Vikings face New Boivin sees reasons for Warner’s W a s h i n g t o n P o s t ’ s T r a c e e as a parent, he’s always been a
ESPN’s Jeff Carlisle writes. “It O r l e a n s i n t h e N F C return, including his health and H a m i l t o n a d v i s e s a g a i n s t scratch player, too. Nobody’s
raised the likelihood that, along Championship. Last weekend, his outstanding statistics. expanding the tournament to 96 patriarchal scorecard is posted on
with [Landon] Donovan, the the 40-year-old Favre became Johnny Damon isn’t ready to teams from 65.* * * the tour website, and it’s hard to
U.S. would have two attackers the oldest quarterback to win a r e t i r e , b u t t h e N e w Y o r k Two prolific NHL stars meet up
playing at their peak headed into playoff game when the Vikings Yankees left-fielder/designated Thursday, for the first time since WILL page 43
t h e W o r l d C u p . T h a t ’ s routed Dallas. Sidney Crosby’s Pittsburgh
42 Sports/ E-reader News Edition

Former USC Trojans coach Tim Floyd: Departure not an

admission of guilt
By ESPN.com news services ban for this season and vacating situation where the athletic about the protection of the nation's most highly sought
(ESPN.com) all of USC's wins from 2007-08 - director was more worried about athletic director and his own recruits, was not induced into
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:04:19 AM
- Mayo's one season playing for himself than our program. institutional control attending USC.
Floyd and the Trojans. Everything we had done to investigation." On Jan. 3, USC announced that
Former USC coach Tim Floyd, Floyd resigned in June 2009 establish that program as one of Garrett could not be reached for it had self-imposed sanctions on
who abruptly left the Trojans' after allegations surfaced that he the top national-level programs comment, the newspaper its men's basketball program for
bench in June as allegations paid $1,000 to Mayo associate in the country was being reported. violating NCAA rules related to
about the improper recruiting of Rodney Guillory, who helped destroyed from within. Players Earlier this month, Garrett said Mayo and his relationship with
O . J . M a y o s u r f a c e d , s a i d steer Mayo to USC. being released, the treatment of Mayo refused to cooperate with Guillory, a former runner for
Wednesday that his departure "Why I left was not in any way our coaches, the treatment of me USC's investigation into BDA Sports Management.
was related to his deteriorating an admission of guilt," Floyd as the head coach. ... And at this allegations that he accepted The sanctions, beyond this
relationship with athletic director said, according to the Times- point in my career, I didn't feel improper gifts and benefits while season's postseason ban and the
Mike Garrett and had nothing to Picayune. "It was a complete like I needed to stay there and he played for the school during vacating of wins from 2007-08,
do with the allegations, the New testament to a lack of support by deal with that. I felt I'd done the 2007-08 season. also include a reduction in
O r l e a n s T i m e s - P i c a y u n e my administration and how we enough over 33 years of being in "No, he has not participated," scholarships, restrictions on
reported. were treated after four years of this business to never have my Garrett told ESPN's Shelley recruiting, and returning money
Floyd, now a New Orleans doing everything the right way. integrity challenged and did not Smith. "But as you read in the the school received from
Hornets assistant, and Mayo, And that is what I've gone on appreciate it." paper, he says, you know, 'I love participating in the NCAA
who played for Floyd at USC record as saying. Floyd said relationship was so USC' and things like that so, tournament.
and now starts for the Memphis "The day the story broke, my frayed that he did not speak with that's about all I know about USC is scheduled to appear at a
Grizzlies, shared a hug before athletic director called me and Garrett during his last six weeks that." Feb. 19 hearing before the
t h e t w o t e a m s t i p p e d o f f asked me where I was," Floyd on the job, according to the In May 2008, on ESPN's NCAA Committee on
W e d n e s d a y n i g h t i n N e w said, according to the report. " ... report. "Outside The Lines," Louis Infractions. The NCAA is also
Orleans. He asked me if I'd read the story. "The last six weeks I was there, Johnson, a former associate of investigating whether former
“ I said, 'Yes. And I did not do the only communication I had Mayo and Guillory, accused Trojans running back and
Why I left was not in any way what I'm accused of doing.' Two, with my athletic director was Guillory of providing Mayo with Heisman Trophy winner Reggie
an admission of guilt. It was a 'Where are you?' 'I'm in New through courier," Floyd said, improper benefits while Mayo Bush received extra benefits
complete testament to a lack of Orleans.' The third thing he said according to the report. "A knock played for USC. during his sophomore and junior
support by my administration was, 'You need to get your ass on my door at 10:30 at night Mayo, who has avoided seasons (2004 and 2005).
and how we were treated after back to Los Angeles, so I can with a courier I'd have to sign for commenting on the matter, Information from The
four years of doing everything decide what I'm going to do with something, send it back, then declined to speak to the Times- Associated Press was used in this
the right way.”-- Tim Floyd you.' " hire an attorney to respond to my Picayune Wednesday. report.
That relationship was at the "That did not register well with boss. Or a knock on my office Mayo's agent, LaPoe Smith, has Five Filters featured article:
center of USC's internal probe me, did not sit well with me, " door, with a courier handing me said Mayo did not take cash or Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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program's self-imposing of only stay at a place as long as I university were being treated like inappropriately at USC." He said
sanctions, including a postseason was wanted there. It was a I was being treated, and it was all Mayo, at the time one of the
E-reader News Edition Sports/ 43
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The Count: Three Great QBs — and Mark continued from page 41

apply a yardstick to paternal

Sanchez success. Screw the quantification
— he was quite possibly more
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) listed, and they don’t always for Sanchez to clear. The successful as a dad than as a
Submitted at 1/20/2010 12:34:14 PM match. This past season’s following year’s quartet was player.”
numbers haven’t been equally impressive: Marino, – Tip of the Fix cap to fellow
Peyton Manning will appear in incorporated. Still, in general the Young, Joe Montana and Kelly. Fixer David Roth.
the AFC championship game on numbers are reasonable: Hall of (I counted Montana even though Found a good column from the
Sunday. Afterwards, Brett Favre Famers have higher numbers he shared snaps with Dave Krieg world of sports? Don’t keep it to
and Drew Brees will square off than journeymen. in the game. In general I counted yourself — write to us at
in the NFC championship game. Also, I used lifetime AV totals, the QB with the better overall dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll
Together the trio could be the even if the QBs were near the quantified, though his AV total résumé who played in the consider your find for inclusion
best to appear in conference- beginning of their careers, which for a generally disappointing conference-title game.) Some in the Daily Fix. You can email
championship games since the biased my measure towards long campaign won’t be high. r e c e n t s e a s o n s c o u l d l o o k Garey at ris84rap@gmail.com.
AFL-NFL merger four decades -ago quartets — and, in recent But the other three — Favre, impressive down the line,
ago. Getty Images Brees has years, to older quarterbacks with Manning and Brees— already depending on how quarterbacks’
some work left to match Favre’s a longer track record. This rank as the third-best trio in 40 careers turn out. Last year’s
and Manning’s career marks. lifetime measure doesn’t account years, even without the benefit of quartet of Donovan McNabb,
Oh, and Mark Sanchez will be for great quarterbacks who their AV from this season and Kurt Warner, Ben Roethlisberger Joe Namath sees
playing, too. weren’t great in the season they any future seasons. Favre’s AV and Joe Flacco has potential, as
To rank the quarterback quartets made the conference-title game of 151 is the fourth-highest total do Favre, Tom Brady, Eli similarities between
of conference championships — nor does it credit those who since 1950, and the highest Manning and Philip Rivers, who 2009 New York Jets and
p a s t , I u s e d P r o F o o t b a l l had success elsewhere before among quarterbacks. Manning’s appeared in the conference- Super Bowl III winners
Reference’s approximate value coming to the NFL, such as 144 ranks seventh, and the only championship games after the
measure, the best way I’ve seen former CFL star Dieter Brock, 2007 season. By ESPN.com news services
QB besides Favre ahead of him (ESPN.com)
t o c o m p a r e p l a y e r s f r o m whose career AV of 9, from a is Dan Marino, at 146. And A Manning-Favre Super Bowl
different positions and different single NFL season at age 34, Brees stands at 83, which is matchup would be the best ever Submitted at 1/21/2010 8:59:02 AM
eras. There are some notable ranks as the lowest besides impressive considering he’s by AV, topping Favre vs. Elway
caveats. It is, as its name Sanchez’s of any quarterback to played in fewer than half as in 1998. But having the better Jets-Colts Prediction Jets-Colts
suggests, merely approximate. reach the Final Four. Nor does it many games as Favre. quarterback is no guarantee of a Prediction VIDEO PLAYLIST
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Joe Namath is excited by the
New York Jets' playoff run --
and sees more than a few
similarities between his old
team's current success and the
team he led to a shocking Super
Bowl victory 41 years ago.
There's the matter of Namath's
famous guarantee prior to Super
Bowl III -- and coach Rex Ryan's
comments about the Jets being
"favorites" to win Super Bowl
XLIV and his team itinerary,
which accounted for a trip to the
Super Bowl and a parade in New
York afterward.
"The team has bought into it,"
Namath said, according to The
Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J.
"Whether [Ryan] said it in jest or
whether he was sincere, we all
listen and enjoy. Some people
want to see him fall flat, but the
bottom line is winning and
losing and right now he has those
guys in the championship game."
And then there's the fact the Jets
are playing the Colts, the
franchise they upset 16-7 in
Super Bowl III despite being 18-
Ducks Following a Familiar Script
By Susan Slusser (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 4:00:00 AM
Filed under: Ducks Isn't this
exactly what they did last year?
The Anaheim Ducks must enjoy
their drama: they fall way behind
quickly, scramble the rest of the
way and then try for a last-
second save to the season.
point underdogs.
The Colts infamously left
Baltimore in 1984. The Orange
Bowl, where Super Bowl III was
held, has been demolished. New
York's Shea Stadium and
Baltimore's Memorial Stadium
are memories as well. But the
Colts' uniforms are practically
unchanged since that game was
played in 1969. They're still
favored -- and the Jets are still
confident underdogs.
"Hell yeah, it's interesting,"
Namath said, according to the
Star-Ledger. It was Namath who,
three days before Super Bowl III,
guaranteed the Jets would upset
the Colts, thus creating his
legacy.
"It's a whole lot of history with
the Jets and Colts," Namath told
the Star-Ledger. "[Former Jets
coach] Weeb Ewbank was their
coach before coming to the Jets
and we beat the Colts.
"Rex Ryan was down there in
Baltimore with the new franchise
[the Ravens]. This is the first
time the teams have met in a
They don't do anything the easy
way, case in point their most
recent win -- over Eastern
Conference power Buffalo, of all
teams. Anaheim jumped all over
Ryan Miller's backup, Patrick
Lalime, for four goals in the first
11 minutes, and then had to hang
on tight to win 5-4. They've
made a habit of coming back to
win despite third-period deficits,
championship game since the
Super Bowl win."
What will it take to beat the
Colts this time? Namath says
putting pressure on Colts
quarterback Peyton Manning--
who Namath says is "the best
I've ever seen" -- will be crucial
to the Jets' chances, according to
the report.
"If our defensive line gets
pressure, I don't think the Colts
offensive line has been tested
like this. It's organized chaos
with that defense," Namath said,
according to the report. "There's
no guarantee the Colts are going
to play their best because the
Jets' defense isn't going to let
them."
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including in three consecutive
home games earlier this month.
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Mo Williams of Cleveland
Cavaliers out vs. Los Angeles
Lakers with sprained left shoulder
By Associated Press like the guys in this locker room
(ESPN.com) and I'm confident other guys will
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:06:15 AM
step up. It's part of the business.
You hope he gets better soon but
CLEVELAND -- Cavaliers you have to keep going forward."
starting point guard Mo Williams Williams injured his shoulder in
will miss Thursday's game T u e s d a y n i g h t ' s w i n o v e r
against the Los Angeles Lakers Toronto. The team originally
with a sprained left shoulder. said he had strained his shoulder.
The Cavaliers did not say how Williams got hurt in the third
long they could be without quarter but returned to the game
Williams, their second-leading and made a key 3-pointer in the
scorer. The team said Williams, fourth quarter.
who scored 28 points against the The absence of Williams will
Lakers on Christmas Day, was give playing time to Daniel
being evaluated at the Cleveland Gibson, who recently lost
Clinic. minutes.
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Source: Dallas Cowboys
sign coach Wade
Phillips to three-year
extension
By ESPN.com news services
The Ducks are 7-1-0 in their (ESPN.com)
past eight games, 9-3-1 in their
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:03:52 AM
last 13. Two weeks ago, they
were a dozen points removed More on the Cowboys
from a playoff spot; now they are Calvin Watkins and Tim
four points out of a playoff spot, MacMahon have the Cowboys
and if they sneak in this year, blanketed for ESPNDallas.com.
they'll again be a first-round Check in with their constantly
opponent whom no one really updated coverage. Blog
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The Dallas Cowboys have
signed coach Wade Phillips to a
three-year contract extension that
runs through 2012, a league
source tells ESPN NFL Insider
Adam Schefter.
The Cowboys picked up
Phillips' option for 2010 and
tacked on two more years,
according to the source.
On Tuesday, Cowboys owner
Jerry Jones told ESPN he was
working on a contract extension
for Phillips that would extend
beyond 2010.
Phillips won the first playoff
game of his head-coaching
career when Dallas beat the
Philadelphia Eagles in a first-
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By Alexander Sliwinski
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TAKE-TWO
continued from page 45
round game. It ended the Thursday 21 January
Cowboys' 13-year streak without 70-something kilos. I've given
a playoff victory. up on weighing in lbs, kilos are
The team's season ended Sunday so much kinder.
with a 34-3 loss at Minnesota. Food consumed today:
Under Phillips, the Cowboys are Anything that makes me look
33-15 in the regular season and suave and like I know what I'm
have claimed two NFC East titles doing. Think I'm on my fifth
in three seasons. This year, his martini, but I lost count after the
defense allowed the fewest fourth.
points in the NFC. Early morning, sun looks lovely
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NPD: New Super Mario Bros. Dearest Diary, can I call you
Di? Good. Oh, Di, why does
Carl Icahn have to be such a
Wii sales have surpassed meddler? You know what, I'm
gonna start calling him iCahn,
Super Mario Galaxy like an obnoxious Apple product.
Hehe, iCahn. So, this guy ... this
By Alexander Sliwinski doesn't explain why Galaxy, iCahn, he comes in and buys up
(Joystiq) which has had far more time on 11.3 percent of the company a
Submitted at 1/21/2010 12:15:00 PM
retail shelves, was passed by so couple months ago and now he
quickly. We'd posit that there's wants to put three of his own
New Old Mario is stomping all s o m e t h i n g n o s t a l g i c a b o u t
iBoys on the board of directors--
over the mark left by his NSMBW, which makes it stand
actually, I'm pretty sure one of
globetrotting counterpart, with apart from Galaxy and speak to
them is an iCahn-mini: Brett
sales of New Super Mario Bros. the Wii's demographic. Of
Icahn.
Wii having already surpassed course, Super Mario Galaxy 2
I ain't mad, Di. Let iCahn have
Super Mario Galaxy in the US. will have the benefit of being
his iPods on the board, I've been
According to the NPD, Galaxy quite familiar too ...
doing my thing since taking over
has sold approximately 4.1 NPD: New Super Mario Bros.
Take-Two in 2007. He's got the
million units in the two years Wii sales have surpassed Super
right to put some guys on the
since its November 2007 release, M a r i o G a l a x y o r i g i n a l l y
board and shape things, bring
while NSMBW has amassed 4.2 appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 21
balance -- distract some monkeys
million sales in about 45 days. Jan 2010 12:15:00 EST. Please on my back. Who knows, maybe
As IGN notes, the Wii's install see our terms for use of feeds.
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another project and he holds less the iCahn originally appeared on

than five percent of the company Joystiq on Thu, 21 Jan 2010
stock, the iPods agree to leave 13:15:00 EST. Please see our
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Sophomore on Film: Chrissie Miller

Presents Her Spring Collection Van Cleef's Parisian
By ELLE.com (ELLE News (pictured at left). Wearing a
Blog)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:21:08 AM Romance simple and sexy Sophomore
mini, Matulova said that filming
the ten-minute movie on the By ELLE.com (ELLE News course, because she takes her
Surrounded by close friends boardwalk at Coney Island was a Blog)
(Jessica Stam, Vanessa Traina, fun and sentimental experience. time) and the man is the minute
and director Josh Safdie With changes to the Brooklyn Submitted at 1/20/2010 12:21:28 PM
hand.
included), Sophomore designer landmark looming, the film Every hour, the two move closer
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Sartorial Sitdown with The Washington Post’s Betsy Lowther
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 1:22:31 PM
As a freelance fashion writer
living in the Far East, Betsy
Lowther once interviewed Alber
Elbaz in the back of a pedicab.
As a fashion blogger(a title she’s
held for more than a decade),
Lowther has been invited to lend
her distinct, cheery-airy style of
writing to very high-profile
campaigns for the Houses of
Gucci, Chanel, and Dior. Having
recently given up the freelance
life for a desk job—her first in
years—Lowther is now a senior
editor at the The Washington
Post’s year-ish old luxury
fashion magazine FW(think of it
as T Magazine’s D.C.
equivalent). Serving as both a
writer and a stylist, Lowther and
team are actively changing the
face of fashion in our nation’s
capital through bold editorials,
fresh, real-time NY Fashion
Week reporting, and nabbing
interviews with industry darlings
like Jason Wu and Scott
Schuman.
Named one of this year’s best
dressed by Washington’s super
hip Brightest Young Things,
Lowther’s closet is filled with as
much new and eBay-ed all-black
Lanvin and Lim as it is floral-
burst Manish Arora and Tuleh.
And behind all of that? Racks of
stunningly executed DIY, Asian
marketplace accessories, mint
condition thrift shop bin finds,
and a library of first-edition
fashion books. Whenever I’m
tempted to judge someone for
being too Carrie Bradshaw, I
always stop and think of Betsy(’s
closet) and remind myself there
are people out there who
genuinely love to do it up one
way one day and do it up a
whole different way the next.
That’s Bets, and that’s just one
of the reasons why Washington
was so very fortunate to land her.
Enjoy!
You were a very successful
freelancer up until fairly
recently—what made you decide
to take an office job? And why
did you choose The Washington
Post?
For a lot of writers, going full-
time freelance is the ultimate
goal — but I did it for five years
and was ready for a change. It's
definitely nice to work in your
jammies most of the time, but I
missed being part of the editorial
process — from assigning stories
to planning photo shoots to
crafting layouts. As the writer,
I'd usually only be responsible
for the article, and once that was
in and done, the rest was out of
my hands.
Plus, it can be kind of lonely.
Sometimes, I'd be working so
hard at my laptop that I wouldn't
speak to another person all day.
Whether my colleagues want to
or not, there is usually at least
one thorough discussion per day
about Jersey Shore.
I got very lucky that, at the time
I was thinking of going back to
an office, the Post launched a
new fashion glossy, FW. I
wouldn't have given up the
pajamas for just any job, but one
popped up that was the perfect
fit.
Besides getting to write in your
pajamas, is there anything else
you miss about working from
home and on the road?
Probably the best thing about
freelancing is that I never knew
where it was going to take me.
My experience was somewhat
unique because I was based in
Asia for four years, and my
assignments often sent me all
around the continent: riding
around Beijing in a pedicab with
Alber Elbaz; getting an inside
look at the beauty industry in
Japan; following one of the top
chefs in Mumbai to his favorite
hole-in-the-wall eateries. Now, I
mostly travel from my desk to
the coffee shop down the street.
I also miss my gold frequent
flier status and the lovely express
lines and airport lounges that
came with it.
Most editors write or style, but
you do both—which is your
greater talent, in your opinion?
Which do you enjoy more?
Most of my career has been
spent focused on writing, and it's
probably still my strength. But
lately, I've been doing a lot more
styling — it's an entirely
different skill set, but I really
love it. I feel pretty lucky that I
work at a publication that allows
me to do both — when I worked
in magazines in New York, you
were either a features editor or a
fashion editor, and that was that.
I'm happiest when I don't have to
choose.
Tell us a little bit about FW: its
genesis, its audience, the process,
etc.
FW is The Washington Post's
luxury fashion glossy, and it
currently comes out five times a
year. The idea behind the launch
(about a year and a half ago) was
that D.C. was finally starting to
embrace fashion and was ready
for a local publication that kept
them in the know about shop
news and styles that were most
relevant to the city. Our audience
is a real mix — from older Oscar
de la Renta fans to the young,
hip creatives that are invading
the city.
You also help edit the style
section in the Post’s heavily read
commuter paper, Express. How
do you choose style stories for a
paper that has such a wide but
likely not fashion-enthusiastic
readership?
Doing style coverage for
Express is a ton of fun, because
the idea is to be trendy, hip and,
ultimately, accessible. Because
the fashion/lifestyle section
comes out every week (on
Fridays), there's also more
opportunity to experiment — this
week, our main feature was a
round-up on new sales shopping
strategies; next week, we've got a
concept shoot on cool wintery
hats. We stick to more
mainstream, affordable fashion
concepts — Express readers are
Fashion/ 47
more likely to head to Ann
Taylor than Dior for their daily
attire, but they still seem to
appreciate the regular infusion of
new ideas and products to perk
up their wardrobes.
You’ve worked in fashion
publishing in both New York
City and Washington. Give me
one pro and one con about each.
Just walking down the street in
New York is inspiring to me; it
attracts the most clever, creative,
and driven people in the world.
But I also find it to be, at times,
very cutthroat and catty. One
thing I love about D.C. is how
friendly everyone is; no one's
going to judge you for wearing
two-year-old Prada. (No one will
probably even recognize it.) But
as you mentioned, fashion is still
a relatively nascent concept here
— even those who dress
perfectly well still tend to play it
safe when it comes to
experimenting with their style.
My kingdom for a little more
fashion risk-taking!
Recently, a bunch of teenagers
in LA were charged with
burglarizing the closets of
Audrina Patridge, Lindsay
Lohan, and Paris Hilton, among
others. If jail weren’t a
consequence, whose closets
would you burgle?
Well, definitely not Audrina
Patridge's. (What were the
burglars even thinking?) When
Katie Holmes gets it right —
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Alaïa, Lanvin, Jil Sander — she their fashion sense. I lived here 'n pantyhose rut, but they can
really gets it right. But I'll leave briefly about seven years ago, still appreciate Dries Van Noten
her the grungy flannel and jeans and the city felt absolutely when they see it.
(and also Tom Cruise — he does devoid of fashion. Now there are You have 5K to spend at
nothing for me). small but strong pockets of Barney’s—in what department
I’ve been gone from DC exactly personal style. At this rate, I like do you start and what do you
one year now. Has anything to think it won't be long before buy?
changed, style-wise? Has the Alaïa arrives. I'd squander it all on
Michelle Obama’s influence led Finish this sentence: Style-wise, approximately 1.5 utterly
to more Moschino blouses and what DC lacks in ___________, gorgeous Lanvin pieces, and it
Alaïa belts on M Street? it more than makes up for in would be completely wonderful
Well, you can buy McQueen on ____________. and worth it.
M Street now — at Hu's Wear, a effort, appreciation … On a Photos: Courtesy of Betsy
great little boutique that opened daily basis, people who don't Lowther
up last spring — and I like to look particularly stylish
think that's a promising sign. themselves never fail to stop me
D.C.'s always going to be a city
where looking classic and
understated reigns supreme, but I
on the street to compliment my
shoes (or bag, or dress … you
get the point). They might
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Elizabeth Edwards: 'Whole family feels relieved' (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) the fall. statement amounted to a public August 2008, Edwards has Edwards initially denied being
Submitted at 1/21/2010 10:18:31 AM Edwards released a statement acknowledgment of something largely gone into seclusion. He the father. But he added that
admitting paternity of the girl, that was known privately. has acknowledged a federal Edwards was "very pleased" to
RALEIGH, N.C. – Elizabeth Frances Quinn Hunter, who was He said Hunter did not have an investigation into his campaign finally set the record straight.
Edwards says her "whole family born in 2008 to videographer immediate comment. It is not finances while both Young and "To say that life has been hard
feels relieved" now that her Rielle Hunter as the result of an clear where she and the child are Hunter — with her child — have for John Edwards for the past
husband has come forward to affair Edwards has already living. made appearances at a federal year would be an enormous
claim paternity of a child he confessed to. In an excerpt of an ABC News courthouse in Raleigh. understatement," Smith said.
fathered out of wedlock. "It was wrong for me to ever interview released Thursday, In his statement, Edwards said, "His life has totally fallen apart.
Edwards said in an interview deny she was my daughter," he Young says that Edwards asked "I will do everything in my It's been a very difficult time for
with The Associated Press that said, adding he was providing him to arrange a fake a paternity power to provide her (the child) him. He recognizes that he has
she believes John Edwards is financial support for the child test. with the love and support she been at fault."
also relieved to put the matter and mother. "I am Quinn's "Get a doctor to fake the DNA deserves. I have been able to Edwards, a former U.S. senator
behind him. She said she hopes father." results," Young said Edwards spend time with her during the representing North Carolina from
the declaration will help end The admission comes ahead of told him. "And he asked me ... to past year and trust that future 1998 until his vice presidential
publicity around the family's the Feb. 2 release of a book by steal a diaper from the baby so efforts to show her the love and bid in 2004, acknowledged in
matters. former Edwards aide Andrew he could secretly do a DNA test affection she deserves can be May that federal investigators
She declined to talk about her Young that is expected to to find out if this (was) indeed done privately and in peace." were looking into how he used
marital status, saying, "My describe how Edwards worked to his child." Edwards also said, "It was campaign funds. Grand jury
m a r r i a g e s h o u l d n ' t b e o n hide his paternity with Young's An Edwards spokeswoman wrong for me ever to deny she proceedings are secret, and the
anybody's radar screen except help. declined to comment on the ABC was my daughter and hopefully U.S. attorney's office in Raleigh
mine." Young initially claimed he was interview. one day, when she understands, has declined to confirm or deny
Elizabeth Edwards' cancer the child's father shortly before Elizabeth Edwards, whose she will forgive me." an investigation. Smith declined
returned in March 2007 in an the 2008 presidential primary cancer returned in an incurable "I have been providing financial to comment Thursday about the
incurable form. She said the contests began. Word that Young form in March 2007, has stood support for Quinn and have probe.
cancer got worse for a period but was naming Edwards as the by her husband despite the affair. reached an agreement with her Edwards adamantly denied
has recently been improving, father first came when details of She has said that it does not mother to continue providing during an interview with ABC
with some signs of tumors his book proposal were reported matter to her whether her support in the future," the News last summer that he had
shrinking. by The New York Times in husband fathered a child with statement said. "To all those I fathered a child with Hunter, and
"You hate to tempt cancer," she September. Edwards' lawyer at Hunter, saying, "that would be a have disappointed and hurt, these he welcomed a paternity test. He
says. the time declined to comment. part of John's life, but not a part words will never be enough, but said then that the affair had
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS The child was born Feb. 27, of mine." I am truly sorry." ended in 2006. That year,
UPDATE. Check back soon for 2008, indicating that she was Harrison Hickman, a longtime Edwards' attorney, Wade Smith, Edwards' political action
further information. AP's earlier conceived in the middle of 2007, friend of John Edwards who said Edwards wrestled with the committee had paid Hunter's
story is below. several months after Hunter worked as his political pollster, decision to come forward but video production firm $100,000
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — stopped working for Edwards. said Elizabeth Edwards was took so long to do it because for work.
Former Democratic presidential John and Elizabeth Edwards supportive of the decision of her "he's not the only person __
candidate John Edwards finally renewed their wedding vows in husband to come forward. involved in this." Associated Press Writer Geoff
admitted Thursday he fathered a July of 2007 to celebrate their "She's hoping, like a lot of "It's a complex family situation, Mulvihill in Haddonfield, N.J.,
child during an affair before his 30th wedding anniversary. people are hoping, that its the and he had to keep in mind that contributed to this report.
second White House bid, Hunter's lawyer, Michael beginning of the end of the other people have concerns and Five Filters featured article:
dropping long-standing denials Critchley, said the admission is public part of this," Hickman worries about it," Smith said.
just ahead of a book by a former "good for everyone." said. Smith said there would never be ELIZABETH page 52
campaign aide who initially took Critchley said Edwards' Since admitting the affair in a logical explanation for why
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California braces for 4th day of rain, wind (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) brunt of the storm was expected cars through the icy, snowy Deputies warned it might not be of preparations in burn-area
Submitted at 1/21/2010 8:54:30 AM by midmorning. The National Tejon Pass section of Interstate possible to rescue those who stay neighborhoods from northeastern
Weather Service predicted up to 5, the main highway between behind and asked them to fill out Los Angeles through La
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, 3 inches of rain throughout the Los Angeles and Northern forms stating they'd been advised Crescenta, Glendale, La Canada
Calif. – Los Angeles County day, accompanied by gusts up to California. The pass, known as of the danger. Los Angeles Flintridge and Altadena.
authorities say the week's fourth 50 mph and up to 20 inches of the Grapevine, was closed for officials reported only about 40 Southern California has a
rainstorm is likely to cause snow in the mountains. hours Wednesday because of percent compliance by residents history of fatal debris flows: 30
significant debris and mud flows Waves of 15 to 20 feet pounded poor conditions. of 262 hillside homes in that killed and 483 homes destroyed
and everyone who has been the coast, bringing the threat of On Wednesday, 2 to 3 inches of jurisdiction. in 1934 in the Los Angeles-area
ordered to evacuate should now flooding in beach communities. rain fell in many areas. Police Chief Charlie Beck foothills, and 16 killed in 2003 to
leave. Flash flood watches were up for As the rain fell in sheets on the sternly urged the rest to go, the east in the San Bernardino
Officials say no major incidents foothill communities below fire-scarred mountainsides above saying: "We're not doing this Mountains.
have occurred yet, but many of mountains that were denuded by La Canada Flintridge, Lynn because your carpet is going to In Northern California, 50
the flood-control debris basins wildfires last year. A week's Thompson barricaded her front get wet; we're doing it because homes were ordered evacuated
protecting homes below wildfire- w o r t h o f r a i n h a s s o a k e d door and windows with plywood your life is at risk." as a central coast river rose near
scarred mountains are now full. hillsides in the San Gabriel and stashed her family photos at Henrik Hairapetian, 40, who Felton Grove in the Santa Cruz
Fire Department Chief Deputy M o u n t a i n s n o r t h e a s t o f her daughter's house. builds custom 4-by-4 vehicles Mountains, but it receded later in
John Tripp used a televised press downtown Los Angeles, where Like hundreds of foothill for a living, said he was the day.
conference to warn people who 250 square miles of forest residents, Thompson packed her undeterred because his Hummer The Grapevine stretch of
have failed to evacuate that if an burned in a summer wildfire. possessions and evacuated her H-1 would help him and his Interstate 5 was closed for hours
incident occurs rescuers would The rain filled catch basins with home of 32 years, but not before family escape the mud. due to snow and ice in Tejon
likely not be able to reach them. muddy slop. her load of laundry dried. "I've driven through some hairy Pass north of Los Angeles.
More than 1,200 homes have But the basins, sandbags and "Sometimes you have to pay big stuff and I'm sure we can get out Since the beginning of the week,
been ordered evacuated in concrete barriers along foothill bucks for these views, both if we need to," he said. more than 300,000 Southern
foothill and canyon communities streets were holding and no emotionally and financially," she Hairapetian's neighbors all California Edison customers had
a l o n g t h e S a n G a b r i e l serious problems were reported said Wednesday. evacuated their homes, leaving lost power.
Mountains. The new storm is by early Thursday morning. As Los Angeles Mayor Antonio him to guard their small cul-de- ___
expected to reach the area at "We're crossing our fingers," Los Villaraigosa toured the sac next to a burned hillside, Associated Press writers Daisy
midmorning. Angeles County sheriff's Riverwood Ranch development where little tufts of grass were Nguyen and Robert Jablon in
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS spokeswoman Nicole Nishida in Tujunga to urge them to beginning to sprout where the Los Angeles, Juliet Williams in
UPDATE. Check back soon for said. "I think if we can get evacuate, cars were parked in summer's wildfire consumed the Sacramento, Sudhin Thanawala
further information. AP's earlier through today, we'll be OK." driveways, horses were still in vegetation that would normally in San Francisco and Gillian
story is below. More than 1,000 homes barns and smoke rose out of capture or slow runoff. Flaccus in Orange County
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, remained under mandatory fireplaces. A few blocks up the street, contributed to this report.
Calif. (AP) — With more than evacuation orders in foothill Even though police officers and public works crews checked Five Filters featured article:
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prepared Thursday for a fourth b a r r i c a d e s a n d c o n d u c t e d evacuation orders. Officials said the 28 flood-
powerful storm and mudslides roaming patrols to protect Nishida said about 75 percent of control debris basins protecting
below fire-scarred mountains. emptied homes. the people contacted by sheriff's the area were near capacity but
Only scattered showers were Farther north, the California deputies at more than 500 homes continue to function as designed.
reported before dawn but the Highway Patrol was escorting agreed to leave. The storms were testing months
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Haiti to relocate quake homeless
(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:56:40 AM
Haiti is planning to house
400,000 earthquake survivors in
new tented villages outside the
capital, Port-au-Prince, officials
have announced.
Interior Minister Paul Antoine
Bien-Aime said 100,000 people
would initially be sent to 10
settlements near the suburb of
Croix Des Bouquets.
He gave no timeframe, but said
the moves would start as soon as
possible.
An estimated 1.5 million people
were left homeless by the 7.0-
magnitude quake, which killed as
many as 200,000.
At least 75,000 bodies have so
far been buried in mass graves,
the government has said. Many
more remain uncollected in the
streets.
Improvised shelters
On Thursday, Mr Bien-Aime
said public buses had already
been sent out to take survivors in
Port-au-Prince to the south and
north of the country, where
tented settlements able to
accommodate 10,000 people
each would eventually be built.
"The government has made
available to people free
transportation. A large operation
is taking place," he told
reporters.
At least 500,000 people are
currently living outdoors in 447
improvised camps in Port-au-
Prince, according to the
International Organisation for
Migration (IOM).
Of the 350 settlements assessed
by the IOM, its partners and the
Haitian government, only 179
had improvised shelter material
and tents, and only three had
access to potable water, the IOM
said.
The Geneva-based UN body
said it was distributing tents,
blankets and plastic sheeting
provided by the US, Japan and
Turkey, but warned that more
permanent shelter would soon be
needed.
"Tents will not work in May
when the long rainy season
begins and later when hurricane
season starts, but at this point
there is not much choice," said
IOM Chief of Mission Vincent
Houver.
"Assessments must take place
and best construction methods
and durable materials need to be
discussed," he added.
Seaport reopens
In a bid to deliver greater
quantities of aid, the US military
is now operating at four airports
in the area - Port-au-Prince and
Jacmel in Haiti, and San Isidro
and Barahona in the
neighbouring Dominican
Republic.
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UK staffed field hospital in
Haiti
The head of US Southern
Command, Gen Douglas Fraser,
said 1,400 flights were on a
waiting list for landing slots at
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vessels had docked by Thursday
morning.
Much of the port was destroyed
by the earthquake, but engineers
have decided some parts of one
pier are strong enough to handle
limited amounts of cargo.
Everywhere you go, you see
people scrabbling in the rubble.
Many are salvaging corrugated
iron and curtains, which are
being used to get a semblance of
privacy as they live on the streets
and also some shelter from the
boiling sun.
On the edge of the rubble, those
with goods to sell are setting up
tables with small stocks of tinned
milk, matches and soap.
A few shops have opened their
doors again, and in the main
market there are cabbages,
Port-au-Prince's airport, which
carrots and charcoal for sale. But
can handle 120 to 140 flights a
prices have rocketed because of
day. The airport, which is under
the limited supplies. And since
US military control, has only one
even the few people who have
2,900m (9,600ft) runway.
jobs have seen their workplaces
The US military is currently
destroyed, many cannot afford to
giving the "highest priority" to
fill their stomachs.
shipments of water donations to
However, correspondents say
help meet the "overwhelming"
the aid that has so far arrived at
need for water.
the port is being driven for 45
Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
minutes across the city to the
has said five of its planes
airport, where it is piling up and
carrying a total of 77 tonnes of
not being distributed to those
medical and relief supplies have
who need it.
been turned away in the past
The US and UN World Food
week. Only one has been able to
Programme insist the distribution
land.
of food and water is well under
The US Coast Guard has
way, but the BBC's Adam
meanwhile partially reopened the
Mynott in Port-au-Prince says
capital's main sea port, which
should improve the rate at which
aid supplies get into Haiti. Three HAITI page 56
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Attorney: Va. Killing Suspect Had Mental Problems

(FOXNews.com) trench in it." quite sure why we chose him, because Emily's older sister person, not quick to anger, and
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:48:54 AM Lynchburg attorney Henry other than that he was a resident Megan worked there about three find ways to get out of problems
Devening, who handled legal of Virginia and lived with the years ago. without using force or violence,"
APPOMATTOX, Va. A matters for Speight's family, said grandparents at the time." "Emily and Morgan were just in Speight wrote in his application.
woman was not trying to kick the Thursday he does not understand Police found most of the bodies Monday," she said. "It's just a He renewed it in 1997, 1999 and
brother accused of killing her how Speight could have thought in or near the house. Speight smack in the face because we see 2004.
and seven other people out of the anyone was throwing him out. gave himself up to police early them all the time, and when Neighbor Monte W. Mays said
house they shared, a family He said Speight's sister was Wednesday after leading everybody told us, we're just Speight was cordial and friendly.
attorney said Thursday. trying to do right by him, last investigators on an 18-hour like, 'No, it's not Jon and Karen. He had long been a gun
Christopher Speight, 39, was week signing a deed that put the manhunt through the woods. No way.' And Megan's getting enthusiast and enjoyed target
charged late Wednesday with Appomattox property in his Police said he fired several times married in a few months. ... It's shooting at a range on his
one count of murder and is likely name as their grandparents had at a state police helicopter, just hard right now. All this big, property, Mays said. But the
to face additional charges. asked in a 2006 trust. rupturing its fuel tank and good stuff was about to come up, shooting recently became a daily
T h e v i c t i m s o f T u e s d a y "My relationship with these folks forcing it to land near the and then something like this occurrence, with Speight firing
morning's rampage included w a s p u r e l y b u s i n e s s , b u t shooting scene. A bomb squad happens to her family." what Mays said were high-
Speight's sister, Lauralee Sipe, Lauralee was a great person," found explosives in the home, The three teenagers were powered rifles.
along with Sipe's husband, 16- Devening said. "Very motivated and crews were detonating the students at Appomattox County "Then we noticed he was doing it
year-old daughter and 4-year-old to take care of the family. I can't devices into the night. High School. Dorinda Grasty, at nighttime," and the gunfire
son. The others were the 16-year imagine why he would turn on State police identified the superintendent of the started going deeper into the
-old's friend and her parents, who her." victims as Lauralee and Appomattox County school woods, Mays said.
were either dropping off or Speight had an apparent learning Dewayne Sipes, both 38. system, said crisis teams and No court date has been set for
picking up their daughter, and a disability and history of mental Devening said they were guidance counselors were at all Speight. Officials declined to
third teen. problems, and "ran away" from husband and wife and 15-year- of the county's schools Thursday allow an Associated Press
Police have refused to offer a his sister's Georgia home during old Morgan Dobyns was assisting grieving students. reporter see him Thursday and
motive for the slayings, but a breakdown in 2007, Devening Lauralee's daughter from a "This horrific tragedy will leave had no record of him having an
David Anderson, who owns a said. previous marriage. Also killed a tremendous scar and willful attorney. Elton Blackstock,
market where Speight sometimes Devening said he does not know was their son, 4-year-old Joshua pain in the lives of all of our administrator of the Lynchburg
worked as a security guard, said i f S p e i g h t w a s t r e a t e d o r Sipe, and 15-year-old Emily students and staff in our school Adult Detention Center,
Speight was worried about being hospitalized but said the family Quarles, a friend of Morgan's, system," Grasty said. described Speight as cooperative
turned out of the house where the decided then that his sister and along with her parents, Karen Friends described Speight as a with staff at the 600-inmate jail.
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owner of the Sunshine Market not want the responsibility of waitress at the Corner Grill in him to work at night and carry
grocery store in Lynchburg. "I being the trustee," Devening quiet, downtown Appomattox, large amounts of money.
thought he was going to wear a said. "Looking back, I'm not said the family were regulars "I am a dependable, hardworking
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Hillary Clinton: "We look to the
Chinese authorities to conduct a
thorough review"
The US has called on Beijing to
investigate the recent cyber
attacks on Google, which have
prompted the search giant to
threaten to leave China.
Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton said that companies such
as Google should refuse to
support "politically-motivated
censorship".
She also said China along with
Tunisia and Uzbekistan had
boosted censorship.
Google says hackers tried to
infiltrate its software coding and
the e-mail accounts of human
rights activists.
The BBC's Kim Ghattas at the
State Department says Mrs
Clinton's remarks are bound to
anger the Chinese authorities,
who have sought to play down
the incident.
China says the row should not
be linked to relations with the
US.
Vice-Foreign Minister He Yafei
said the rift with the web
company should not be "over-
interpreted", according to state
news agency Xinhua.
Transparency call
In a wide-ranging speech at the
Newseum journalism museum in
Washington, Mrs Clinton said
the internet had been a "source of
tremendous progress" in China,
but that Beijing should
investigate the attacks on
Google.
"We look to Chinese authorities
to conduct a thorough
investigation of the cyber
intrusions," she said.
"We also look for that
investigation and its results to be
transparent."
Again in reference to China, she
said that any country which
restricted free access to
information risked "walling
themselves off from the progress
of the next century".
The US intended to address
issues of internet freedom within
its relationship with Beijing, she
added.
Separately, she called for tough
action against people and states
that carried out cyber attacks.
"Countries or individuals that
engage in cyber attacks should
face consequences and
international condemnation," she
said.
"In an interconnected world, an
attack on one nation's networks
can be an attack on all."
Mrs Clinton addressed a number
of other issues in the speech:
• S h e n a m e d T u n i s i a , commercial speech and were
Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Egypt, therefore harming their own
as well as China, as countries interests
where the "free flow of
information" was threatened Mobile launch postponed
• She said the US was
supporting the development of hackers had tried to infiltrate its
new tools to enable citizens to software coding and the e-mail
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accounts of Chinese human
rights activists, in a "highly
sophisticated" attack.
The California-based company,
which launched in China in
2006, said it would quit the
country unless the government
relaxed censorship.
On Tuesday, the Chinese
government said Google and
other foreign companies had to
obey the country's laws and
traditions.
The same day, Google said it
was postponing the launch of
two mobile phones in China.
When Google launched
google.cn four years ago, it was
criticised for agreeing to
Beijing's demands to make
certain search results off-limits -
including those relating to the
circumvent politically motivated
1989 Tiananmen Square protests,
censorship
Tibetan independence or Falun
• Internet technologies were a
Gong.
mixed blessing, used by terror
China has more internet users,
groups to spread hatred and by
about 350 million, than any other
authoritarian governments to
country and provides a lucrative
crush dissent
search-engine market worth an
• She cited Saudi Arabia as an
estimated $1bn (£618m) last
example of countries which
year.
blocked access to information
Google holds about a third of
about religions, including Islam
the country's search market, with
• Countries that employed
Chinese rival Baidu having more
censorship could make no
than 60%.
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Relatives of Americans Missing in Haiti Angry
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Submitted at 1/21/2010 6:26:22 AM
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla.
Family and friends of missing
Americans have searched the
ruins themselves. They've hired
private rescue teams. They've
pleaded with the U.S.
government to do more to help
bring home loved ones who
disappeared amid the rubble of
earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
More than a week after the
quake rocked the country, the
grief of not knowing has become
unbearable. Frustration and
hopelessness has boiled into
anger against the U.S.
government.
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"We know our daughter was
there and we want them to find
her!" yelled Leonard Gengel,
hammering his fist on a table.
Gengel's 19-year-old daughter
Brittany is one of four Florida
college students still missing.
Two of their teachers are also
believed buried at the Hotel
Montana in Port-Au-Prince.
It remains unclear exactly how
many Americans are missing.
The U.S. Embassy in Port-Au-
Prince had so far accounted for
at least 9,400 of up to 45,000
Americans who were in Haiti
before the quake. But some
Americans may not have been
affected by the devastation, and
others may be OK but haven't
contacted officials.
At least 35 Americans have
been confirmed dead, with U.S.
officials investigating reports of
an additional 21 potential U.S.
fatalities.
Friends and relatives want the
Americans brought home —
dead or alive.
"I think everyone has accepted
the fact that they're not going to
find everyone alive, but we at
least want to bury our loved ones
on American soil and not under
the rubble," said Forrest Masters,
who is in Haiti helping search for
a family friend.
Confusion has added to the
frustration. At one point, Gengel
was told by the university his
daughter had been found, but the
news turned out to be "bad
intelligence" from a rescue crew
in Haiti.
The school, Lynn University in
Boca Raton, has hired private
rescue teams to help search for
the missing faculty and students,
who were there to distribute food
and visit schools and
orphanages. Eight of their
classmates escaped and have
returned home safe.
"These kids went down there on
a journey of hope, that's what it
was called, and it's turned into a
journey of hell," said Gengel, of
Rutland, Mass.
Sally Baldwin, of Fort Worth,
Texas, is praying for any word
about her son, Brendan Beck, 35.
He also is believed lost in the
rubble of the Montana.
Beck, an engineer doing
consulting work in Haiti,
checked into the hotel for a night
to catch a flight to another part of
the country the next day. His
mother is angry that she's not
getting information from the
government; U.S. officials say
they're doing what they can
under difficult conditions.
"Given that most Americans do
not register with the embassy ...
it is often impossible to say in
these situations how many are
missing," State Department
spokesman Gordon Duguid said.
"As for sharing information, we
can always do a better job ... I
think we have been sharing the
information we have, but many
times it is just not enough to be
of help to families in anguish."
According to the White House
there were 43 international
search-and-rescue groups in
Haiti with more than 1,700
personnel, including more than
500 from the U.S. Altogether,
they had rescued more than 120
people from the rubble as of
Wednesday.
The United Nations, which is
coordinating the rescue teams,
recently determined no
additional search-and-rescue
groups were needed. Rescue
efforts will eventually give way
to recovery of bodies, and there's
a chance some may never be
found.
But even a week after the
earthquake hit, teams emerged
from the rubble with improbable
success stories — including the
rescue of several people. That
leaves some hope for John
Gianacaci, of Hopewell, N.J. His
22-year-old daughter, Christine,
is one of the missing Lynn
students.
"This is the United States of
America. They perform miracles
all across the world ... Where's
our miracle?"
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NYC Tells Electric
Car Owners to Get
Their Own Outlets
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Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:57:16 AM
New York City often startles
people, and it stayed true to form
in a recent analysis done by
McKinsey & Company for the
city's PlaNYC planning group,
"Exploring Electric Vehicle
Adoption in New York City."
In particular, one of the report's
conclusions may come as a
shock to many electric-vehicle
advocates: It turns out you really
don't need very many public
charging points to get people to
use EVs.
Over the next five years, the
likely early adopters will simply
adapt their behavior to the
limitations of the EVs:
Early adopters do not appear to
need a high-density public
charging network. While the
availability of charging at retail
and curbside locations may be
reassuring to the average driver
concerned about range
limitations, the study suggests
that the earliest consumers will
be willing to change their driving
behavior and parking location,
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US President Barack Obama: "I
am proposing simple, common
sense reforms"
US President Barack Obama has
proposed limits to the size of
banks to try to prevent future
financial crises.
"Never again will the American
taxpayer be held hostage by
banks that are too big to fail," Mr
Obama said.
He recently announced a
$117bn (£72bn) levy on banks to
recoup money US taxpayers
spent bailing out the banks.
US stocks - especially banks
such as JPMorgan Chase and
Bank of America - fell sharply as
Mr Obama announced the
sweeping new rules.
"While the financial system is far
stronger today than it was one
year ago, it is still operating
under the exact same rules that
led to its near collapse," Mr
Obama said.
His proposals also include limits
on the amount of risk banks can
take, and banning retail banks
from using their own money in
risky financial transactions.
That prevents commercial banks
from investing in hedge funds,
private equity funds or engaging
in so-called proprietary trading.
"Banking reforms do not come
bigger than those proposed by
President Obama," the BBC's
business editor Robert Peston
said.
This may mean that some of the
US' biggest banks, such as Bank
of America and JP Morgan,
whose shares were badly hit,
may have to be broken up.
Our business editor added that
the UK's shadow chancellor
George Osborne had told him
that if the Conservatives win the
next general election, they would
impose an identical dismantling
of UK banks to those suggested
by the US president.
Tough new rules
Mr Obama's move is his first
proposal since Republican Scott
Brown's shock victory in
Massachusetts to win a Senate
seat.
The Republican victory may
make it harder to get Mr
Obama's proposals passed in the
Senate, as they are more likely to
get held up in political
wrangling.
Banks have also been lobbying
against more stringent
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The tax will claw back some of
the losses from a $700bn
taxpayer bail-out of US banks
known as the Troubled Asset
Relief Program (Tarp).
It was drawn up in the midst of
the financial crisis in 2008,
following the collapse of US
investment bank Lehman
Brothers and rescue of insurance
giant American International
Group (AIG).
Mr Obama's proposals appear to
be a return to the principles
underlying the Glass-Steagall
Act.
That law - from the 1930s in the
aftermath of the Great
Depression - separated
commercial and investment
banking and was eventually
abolished in 1999 under
regulation.
President Bill Clinton.
"If these folks want a fight, it's a
Mr Clinton's financial secretary
fight I'm ready to have," Mr
at the time, Robert Rubin,
Obama vowed.
previously worked at Goldman
The president dubbed his
Sachs and went on to be an
proposals on limiting bank risk
advisor to Citigroup until last
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continued from page 54
given their strong desire to
purchase EVs.
Thus, a dense public charging
network will not be a strong
priority for early adopters.
Needed: easier installation
Instead, it makes more sense to
help those early adopters by
streamlining the process for
installing charging equipment in
their homes, apartment buildings,
or local garages:
Given the likely strong demand
among early adopters and the
limited short-term supply of
vehicles, initial actions would be
most effective if they focused on
helping early adopters enter the
EV market.
Survey respondents ... voiced a
desire to have a convenient and
easy-to-understand process to
install necessary charging
equipment, at home or in a
commercial garage.
"Range anxiety"
This counterintuitive conclusion
flies in the face of the received
wisdom, which says drivers will
HAITI
continued from page 51
many people have still seen no
international relief at all.
An official from the mayor's
office in the suburb of
Petionville said he understood
the logistics involved in
distributing aid had slowed the
process down, but warned that
many people were now very
hungry and increasingly angry.
avoid using electric cars unless
they can be sure there are public
quick-charge stations available
wherever they may need them,
because "range anxiety" makes
them nervous that they'll run out
of juice and be left stranded.
But at least some EV advocates
and urban planners who are now
sketching out local and regional
networks of EV infrastructure
think the report is right on target.
People quickly learn their
electric car's range, they say, and
pick the appropriate vehicle for
the day's travel.
In multi-car households, many
drivers will take a compact car to
deliver a kid to school or
commute to work. But if there's
sports practice after school that
requires hauling six teenagers,
they'll take the family minivan
instead.
For "compact car," substitute
"electric vehicle," and you see
how it works.
100 miles enough
Sure, things come up
Doctors are warning that many
survivors have wounds that have
gone untreated for nine days,
putting them at risk of infection
and disease.
"The next health risk could
include outbreaks of diarrhoea,
respiratory tract infections and
other diseases among hundreds
of thousands of Haitians living in
unexpectedly. But in cities and
suburbs, it's very rare that short
local hops suddenly change to
trips of more than 100 miles--the
stated range of the upcoming all-
electric 2012 Nissan Leaf, to
pick one example.
And the "range anxiety" concern
is only relevant for battery-
electric vehicles; both extended-
range EVs like the 2011
Chevrolet Volt and plug-in
hybrids like the 2012 Toyota
Prius Plug-In offer hundreds of
miles of range, using their
gasoline engines for longer
distances.
Demand exceeds supply 'til
2015
Among the report's other
conclusions:
-A large group of early adopters
will change their behavior to
accommodate the limits of early
electric vehicles;
-The number of those early
adopters is greater than the likely
supply of EVs until at least 2015;
-It won't be necessary to provide
overcrowded camps with poor or
nonexistent sanitation," said Dr
Greg Elder, deputy operations
manager for MSF.
The World Bank has meanwhile
announced that it is waiving any
payments on Haiti's debt for the
next five years and trying to find
a way to cancel it altogether.
Haiti owes the institution about
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tax incentives or other subsidies
to these early adopters, but they
would like to be recognized;
-Charging electric vehicles poses
no threat to the stability of the
electric grid as long as it's mostly
done off-peak (at night); and
-Collaboration among the City of
New York, electric utilities, and 19 facts
automakers will be required to
make it all happen.
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extremely tight security.
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Europe.view: The centre cannot hold

(The Economist: Daily Iceland? The Ural mountains? in the film have first-hand illegal labour and squalid living poorest and most neglected
columns) The methodology of some claims experience of the atrocities of the that awaits those who make it country.
Submitted at 1/20/2010 10:31:01 PM
is unclear. The more exotic ones past century. Their grasp of the across. The mantra of EU and NATO
bear as little relation to geopolitics is sometimes hazy, The film is partly paid for by the expansion has been “Europe
Europe.view The borderlands of geography as the Loch Ness but their memories of shootings EU. It should be compulsory whole and free”. That may have
Europe should not be left behind Monster does to aquatic biology. and deportations are sharp. Lines viewing for anyone who works now outstripped the willingness
Jan 21st 2010 In other words, their purpose is on the map drawn by outsiders in a consulate or visa office of voters in the luckier and richer
From Economist.com to attract tourists. But at least for have divided families and farms, dealing with people from what parts of Europe to pay the taxes
PLENTY of places have a claim the Ukrainians visiting Dilove to bumping them around like one might call “left-behind” and accept the dislocation of
to be Europe’s geographical b e p h o t o g r a p h e d b y t h e shuttlecocks between different Europe. Some of the local staff further expansion.
centre. French geographers monument, this is as far west as countries and political systems. there seem to have been hand- But opportunities are opening
calculated in 1989 that it lies on they can get. The creation of a solid eastern picked for their rudeness. up in Belarus (wriggling away
a hill near Purnušks in Lithuania. “ W h e r e E u r o p e E n d s ” , a frontier to the EU hardly matches Corruption is still troublingly from Russia), Moldova (with its
Belarusian cartographers think it powerful new film by Alina the horrific consequences of the prevalent. The system for visa reformist, pro-European, pro-
is near the town that Russians Mungiu Pippidi, a Romanian Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, but applicants often appears to have American government) and even
call Vitebsk (Vitsyebsk in scholar and activist, shows the the victims are the same people. been designed to deter, rather post-election Ukraine, assuming
Belarusian). In 1887 in the then effect of the European Union’s People left behind by history are than enable, travel to the west. It that the political paralysis of
A u s t r o - H u n g a r i a n e m p i r e , expansion in dividing Europe. often those who find coping with may be unrealistic to expect a recent years ends. Treating the
geographers erected a monument The combination of physical the present day most difficult. big liberalisation of visas in the centre of Europe as a hopeless
at Dilove, in what is now the decay and human dislocation is Humble farmworkers in rural short term. But it is hard to see and irrelevant borderland cannot
U k r a i n i a n p r o v i n c e o f poignant. The footage of areas find it hard enough getting any arguments against being be right. Readers' comments
Transcarpathia, marking what disintegrating churches, ruined Ukrainian or Moldovan officials polite, honest and efficient. The Economist welcomes your
they reckoned was Europe’s real public buildings, shabby homes even to issue a travel document. Enlargement has brought huge views.
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Lessons from the tsunami: Too much of a good

thing?
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analysis) generosity amounting to $1 destroyed 75 tonnes of out-of- was worst there, the province
Submitted at 1/21/2010 2:44:08 AM
billion so far. date medicine. And sometimes had been riven by rebellion in
The experience of the tsunami aid was worse than merely the 1990s and 180 different
Lessons from the tsunami suggests that agencies will not be useless. There was a fashion for NGOs were operating there at
Lessons for aid workers in Haiti able to spend it. Nine months on, financing new fishing boats after one point.
from the 2004 tsunami governments and non- the tsunami. A UN agency found Organisational problems may be
Jan 21st 2010 governmental organisations that a fifth of the boats given to worse in Haiti, which before the
From The Economist print (NGOs) had disbursed just 39% Sri Lanka were unseaworthy. earthquake had more NGOs per
edition of the money they had promised Much reconstruction work was head than anywhere else in the
AFTER the Indian Ocean t o s p e n d . A F r e n c h N G O , shoddy. A private company with Americas. But Aceh managed to
tsunami of December 2004, aid M é d e c i n s S a n s F r o n t i è r e s no medical experience built bring a measure of control to the
agencies clubbed together to (MSF), stopped emergency fund- health centres in the Indonesian flood of aid by setting up a
review their efforts. The main raising, saying it did not need province of Aceh. special agency. Paul Collier, an
conclusion was sobering: “It was more. It was criticised for this, Because reconstruction work economist at Oxford University
local people themselves who but in retrospect was justified. takes longer to organise than who has advised Haiti’s
provided almost all immediate As the tsunami evaluation put it, emergency relief, it has to begin government, says it and the UN
life-saving action.” But “ a l l o c a t i o n a n d right away. Sri Lanka built should do something similar.
“international agencies often programming…were driven by 40,000 transitional Readers' comments
brushed local capacities aside.” the extent of public and media shelters—something between a The Economist welcomes your
This lesson is relevant to Haiti i n t e r e s t , a n d b y t h e tent and a proper house—in six views.
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becoming an aid stampede. Like Viagra, ski jackets and Father governments. Aceh, the
the tsunami, the earthquake has Christmas costumes were all sent tsunami’s epicentre, had huge
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China's rampant economy: Central
heating
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China's rampant economy Is
China's economy growing too
fast?
Jan 21st 2010 | HONG KONG
From The Economist print
edition
BEIJING recently suffered its
lowest temperature in 59 years,
but the economy is sweltering.
Figures published on Thursday
January 21st showed that real
GDP grew by 10.7% year on
year in the fourth quarter.
Industrial production jumped by
18.5% in the year to December,
while retail sales increased by
17.5%, boosted by government
subsidies and tax cuts on
purchases of cars and appliances.
In real terms, the rise in retail
sales last year was the biggest for
over two decades.
A year ago many economists
were fretting about
unemployment and deflation.
Now, with indecent haste, they
have shifted to worrying that the
Chinese economy is overheating
and inflation is taking off. The
12-month rate of consumer-price
inflation rose to 1.9% in
December, an abrupt change
from July when prices were
1.8% lower than a year before.
The recent rise in inflation was
caused mainly by higher food
prices as a result of severe winter
weather in northern China. In
many cities, fresh-vegetable
prices have more than doubled in
the past two months. But Helen
Qiao and Yu Song at Goldman
Sachs argue that it is not just
food prices that risk pushing up
inflation: the economy is starting
to exceed its speed limit. If, as
China bears contend, the
economy had massive
overcapacity, there would be
little to worry about: excess
supply would hold down prices.
But bottlenecks are already
appearing. Some provinces
report electricity shortages and
stocks of coal are low. The
labour market is also tightening,
forcing firms to pay higher
wages.
If the economy’s slack is
shrinking fast, then the
extraordinarily rapid growth in
money and credit over the past
year could quickly spill into
inflation. The growth in bank
credit slowed to 32% in the year
to December, but that is still far
too fast. The central bank has
started to drain liquidity by
lifting banks’ reserve
requirements, and some banks
have been told to reduce their
lending. The bank will probably
not raise official interest rates
until inflation breaches 3%, but
that could be as soon as
February.
In 2009 government officials
gave three reasons for holding
the yuan stable against the dollar:
falling exports, weak GDP
growth and negative inflation.
Now, with double-digit growth
in both GDP and exports, and
inflation rapidly rising, it has no
excuse. Readers' comments
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Brien's Next Trick: Turning
McCann Worldgroup Around
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 5:15:15 AM
Nick Brien is smart. He's
ambitious. He's pugnacious. He
also, apparently, is the new CEO
of Interpublic's venerable
McCann Worldgroup, arguably
the most important advertising
services division within the
storied Madison Avenue holding
company. And the reason for
that, most likely, is that Brien
may something else: a magician,
having turned Interpublic's
beleaguered media services
brands into one of the most
competitive forces on Madison
Avenue, and according to some,
a model for how agencies should
handle media services in the
future.
This month, MediaDailyNews
sister publication, Media
magazine named Mediabrands,
the unit Brien created to oversee
and resuscitate Interpublic's
media services operations,
its"Agency Holding Company of
the Year," largely because it was
doing a better job than bigger
peers, including WPP's GroupM
and Publicis' VivaKi, at
restructuring and repositioning
its portfolio - and its organization
- for the future. Not all of the
ideas Brien infused into the new
Mediabrands model are
necessarily original, but he and
his team have executed them
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quicker, and with more of an
organization-wide commitment
than Interpublic's peers, in part,
because they had less to lose. It
worked. And Brien has won.
Now we will find out if he can
perform similar magic with a
model - the global brand agency
network - that some say isn't just
broken, but is also an
anachronism.
It won't be Brien's first role in
managing a global portfolio of
marketing services. Before he
joined Interpublic in 2008,
initially to turnaround its
beleaguered Universal McCann
unit, and ultimately to manage its
entire media services portfolio,
Brien was head of Publicis' Arc
Worldwide unit. Prior to that, he
was part of the team inside
Publicis that created Starcom
MediaVest Group, and helped
move it to the pinnacle of the
media services industry during
its time.
It will be interesting to watch
how Brien attempts to do the
same for McCann Worldgroup,
and chances are he will utilize
tactics from his basic playbook:
Borrowing the best ideas from
others, and raiding the best
people to implement them.
During his tenure as head of
Interpublic's Mediabrands, Brien
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has largely repopulated the Initiative, Tara Comonte,

Rollercoaster: It'll Be Up -- And senior most positions within the
organization, including the
appointment of a half a dozen
Mediabrands' COO and CFO,
Matt Freeman, the recently-
named CEO of Mediabrands
Down As Well former CMOs into key positions
servicing the needs of, well,
Ventures and Matt Seiler, CEO
of UM. A decision concerning a
(MediaPost | Media News) better: "Things are up. But it's also been touting big double- Interpublic's client CMOs. new CEO for Mediabrands is not
Submitted at 1/21/2010 8:15:12 AM not a runaway scatter. There's digit CPM increases over the According to an announcement contemplated until 2011, but
not that much more money. It upfront with some volume gains, b y I n t e r p u b l i c e a r l y t h i s Comonte was recently promoted
Don't be fooled by the new appears real strong, but that's still it seems no single cable morning, Brien will succeed long from CFO to COO, if that means
surge in some TV ad spending -- because scatter has been real network can have a big impact in - t i m e M c C a n n c h i e f J o h n anything.
- there's more going on than soft." the marketplace. Dooner as CEO of the Five Filters featured article:
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research group says that this networks to sell. But, according h a s a l w a y s b e e n a s t r o n g Mediabrands will be led by an
year's Olympic games will to most experts, those overall indicator of how the upfront will "Office of the Chairman,"
g e n e r a t e $ 4 8 8 m i l l i o n i n scatter dollars gains may be go. reporting directly to Brien. The
"incremental revenue," much of perhaps $100 million or so. That said, the upfront should see office will be comprised of
it going to TV platforms. But These numbers would be stronger pricing than last year's R i c h a r d B e a v e n , C E O o f
this is way down from the $650 significantly lower than in years big retrenchment. But total
million in incremental revenue past, where it was customary for volume gains might be
d u r i n g t h e 2 0 0 6 W i n t e r networks to grab $200 million to disappointing -- certainly with
Olympics in Torino, Italy. $250 million or more in one some broadcast networks and
That's not all. Many broadcast particular fourth quarter scatter syndicators, less so with cable
network executives says while period. networks.
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One veteran media buyer puts it And while cable networks have
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Amazon Adds Apps to the Kindle, Speeding the Death of E-

Readers (Fast Company Magazine)
(Yahoo! News Search Results
for e-readers)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 5:54:20 AM

Amazon, mere hours after

announcing a fairer (if stricter)
revenue share for publishers, has
pulled another rabbit out of its
hat: It's letting developers build
apps for the Kindle. Fascinating
idea, but can it save the Kindle
before the Apple Tablet arrives?
Here's how Amazon's spinning
the news in its press release: For
the past two years, Amazon has
welcomed authors and publishers
to directly upload and sell
content in the Kindle Store
through the self-service Kindle
publishing platform. Today,
Amazon announced that it is
inviting software developers to
build and upload active content puzzles" and EA is working on implemented the KDK ages ago. downloaded over 3 billion times. device's capabilities.
that will be available in the some games too. The e-ink screen on the Kindle is Following on Apple's heels came And while Amazon makes much
Kindle Store later this year. The clear intention from so slow to update that it's not many others, of which the most of those "#1 bestselling, most
It's pretty momentous news, and Amazon is to expand the useful even for Web browsing notable is the Android one--it wished for" claims for the
Amazon notes that it's a direct Kindle's capabilities so that it (which is why Plastic Logic left launched in October 2008, and Kindle, it's worth noting that the
response to numerous requests offers more of a value the facility out of its competing now has just 10,000 apps. Both International edition is
from developers over the years to proposition to its customers than Que e-reader) and it's hard to Nokia's and BlackBerry's something of a joke. And even
access the Kindle's code so they a single-purpose e-book reading imagine many apps, let alone versions trail well behind this, more interesting is the fact that I,
can build software and plug-ins device. We imagine that as part games beyond a basic level of with mere thousands of living in Europe and being an
for the e-readers. Hence the new of the Amazon.com ecosystem sophistication, working on the apps...and that's despite Nokia's avowed gadget fanatic, have
"Kindle Development Kit" with that supports the Kindles, screen. commanding position as the never seen anyone, ever, using a
"programming interfaces, tools Amazon will be crafting some Furthermore, Amazon's now World's biggest cell phone Kindle--even Americans on
and documentation" and a kind of app store to serve up all very, very late to the App Store maker. Of course mere app count holiday. In fact I've never seen
simulator so that developers can these lovely software nuggets. game--a game Apple has alone isn't an indicator of success anyone reading an e-reader of
make active content for the But look at the facts: Amazon practically invented, led, and for these stores, but it does any kind. Laptops, smartphones,
device. Amazon says that waited two years for this, now dominates. Its iPhone App clearly illustrate customer iPhones by the thousand, iPods
Handmark is building a dynamic patiently ignoring those system launched in July 2008, enthusiasm for the platforms by the million: Yes. E-Readers:
Zagat guide, Sonic Boom is supposed calls from developers-- and now has well over 100,000 concerned, and how excited
building "word games and when presumably it could have apps which have been developers are by the relevant AMAZON page 62
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E-Readers and Tablet PCs Are About to Get Screen-Tastic
(Fast Company Magazine)
(Yahoo! News Search Results
for e-readers)
Submitted at 1/20/2010 1:39:20 PM
Developing screens for
computers and cell phones may
sound like boring business, but,
as customer demand for portable
devices that can handle HD
video, e-books, and Web
browsing increases, the need for
screens that are both awesome
and efficient has become
paramount. There were several
new screens on display at CES a
few weeks ago. As we've
mentioned, Pixel Qi's
transflective LCD screen, which
can switch between backlit and
reflective modes in an instant,
was particularly impressive (see
the transflective technology in
action in the video below).
But e-reader screens from
Qualcomm and a new company
called Liquavista are also pretty
damn exciting. While Pixel Qi's
technology is about making LCD
screens better, Liquavista has
developed a new technology that
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No.
So in summary, the Kindle app
system is late, intended to
expand the usefulness of a device
which is possibly very limited in
capability, and it's likely to be an
extremely U.S.-focused affair. It
is, let's face it, a desperate move
they claim is superior to LCD.
The company spun out of Philips
a few years ago after the
engineers who developed the
screen technology bought the
patent rights. What makes the
Liquavista screen (pictured right)
unique is its"electrowetting"
technology. The resulting screen
is capable of reflective,
transmissive, and transflective
by Amazon to garner some news
headlines and possibly a few
thousand more customers before
Apple's tablet PC arrives. This is
a machine that will slot into the
already-successful iTunes
ecosystem, will launch globally,
will have a fast processor and
modes just like Pixel Qi, but
Liquavista claims their new
technology beats out LCD
screens in the optical
performance category.
But there's a downside to
developing a brand new system:
Unlike Pixel Qi, Liquavista had
to develop a separate
manufacturing process to
produce their screens. As a
color display, a touchscreen, and
Apple's design cachet. It'll beat
the Kindle on every single front,
except price--but when you look
at the slew of powers it'll have
versus Amazon's limited ones,
many consumers will work out
that you get what you pay for.
E-reader News Edition
Liquavista in the mobile
computing market, especially
since the company is focusing on
e-readers and mobile phones.
Ditto for Qualcomm's Mirasol
screen (pictured left), which is
expected start appearing in e-
readers in the fall. Like the
Kindle and Nook, the Mirasol
screen is all-reflective, meaning
there's no power-draining backlit
mode. Plus, the Mirasol also
supports color and video, a major
improvement over existing e-
reader screens. Qualcomm has
been marketing the technology
as an "e-ink alternative," which
is all well and good if the
conversation is limited to e-
result, the company was still
readers. But with the emergence
looking for hardware partners at
of tablet PCs that function as e-
CES earlier this month while
readers plus netbooks, a
Pixel Qi's screen has already
reflective-only screen like the
appeared in one new Tablet PC--
Mirasol that only works in direct
Notion Ink's Adam--and is
light starts to make less sense.
expected to turn up soon in
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DARPA's Economic Fix: Run All Industries Like the

Semiconductor Industry
By Clay Dillow (Popular research, trials, and FDA
Science - New Technology, approval just handing over its
Science News, The Future investment to a third party that
Now) likely also does business with its
Submitted at 1/21/2010 8:31:30 AM rivals. Nor does it seem
particularly efficient for the
Ask a GM employee, any manufacturer; stamping out a
barstool economist, or your dad, few-hundred thousand
and they'll all likely tell you the semiconductors is one thing, but
same thing: American the nuances of tweaking
manufacturing ain't what she chemical compounds until
used to be. But who will think us they're just right seem more
out of this economic box we've suited to trusted in-house
trapped ourselves in? DARPA, experts.
of course. DARPA's director told Then there's the thorny issue of
the President's Council of outsourcing; if we separate our
Advisors on Science and creative process from the
Technology (PCAST) that by manufacturers who create the
replicating the successful model products, what's to stop U.S.
that the semiconductor industry companies from seeking less
is built upon, other costly labor on foreign soil?
manufacturing sectors can Implementation also seems
experience similar booms as difficult. How would America,
well. as a policy, force businesses to
DARPA -- better known for divorce their manufacturing
creative companies down with and relies on semiconductor In proper DARPA fashion,
seeking flying cars and weather operations from their product
costs associated with maintaining foundries to manufacture -- even details concerning this great
control devices -- is currently development arms?
manufacturing facilities. "The to prototype at the prototype economic panacea are scarce.
integrating more than 20 But criticisms aside, this
seams between each stage of stage -- their products. These That's probably because, while
programs that have implications wouldn't be the first time
development; between design fabrication-less firms focus on this sounds good from a macro
in the manufacturing sector, DARPA stunned us with a game-
a n d p r o t o t y p i n g , e a r l y innovating and leave the core perspective, a closer look at
synthesizing ideas that changing idea that the skeptics
production runs, limited, and manufacturing to the foundries, America's manufacturing sector
collectively have $200 million didn't quite comprehend until
large scale manufacturing ... which distribute their costs reveals diverse industries across
federal dollars backing them up. later -- remember the time they
create extensive rework and are across the products of many w h i c h t h e s e m i c o n d u c t o r
The key tenet of DARPA's plan: invented the Internet? We'll
the source of production delays, companies. The result is greater paradigm might not necessarily
decouple the manufacturing and remain cautiously optimistic for
surprises, and cost overruns," e f f i c i e n c y o n b o t h e n d s ; fit.
design processes. now.
Dugan said in her statements to designers focus on innovating For instance, it's difficult to
The problem, DARPA director [ Physics Today]
PCAST. and manufacturers are never idle i m a g i n e a p h a r m a c e u t i c a l
Regina Dugan told PCAST, is
The semiconductor industry, on waiting on the next big idea from company that spends tens (or
this: vertical integration has
the other hand, designs products upstairs. hundreds) of millions on
become inefficient, dragging
64 PopSci/
A Faster Yacht, Trading Sails For a Wing
By Corey Binns (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 7:47:59 AM
The BMW Oracle Racing team's
boat--with an enormous wing for
a sail--could win it all at the
America's Cup race this month
This year, the rules have all but
disappeared for competitors in
the world's oldest international
trophy competition, the
America's Cup sailing race.
Motorized sails are fine, the
single-hull rule is out, and in the
case of the BMW Oracle Racing
team's boat, even sails are
optional. Instead, the largest
wing ever constructed could
catch enough wind to make the
yacht the fastest yet.
Conventional fabric sails are
unreliable. "Wind speed and
direction change by the second,"
says Mike Drummond, the
design director for the BMW
Oracle Racing team. "The crew
must constantly maneuver the
mainsail to maintain maximum
speed." A sail's leading edge
often ripples, particularly when
tacking into the wind, increasing
drag and causing the sail to lose
the airfoil shape that helps propel
the boat. In contrast, it takes just
one sailor a few clicks on a
computer to immediately swing
the 190-foot-tall carbon-fiber-
and-Kevlar wing into position,
where it will hold its shape
regardless of conditions. With
the wing, Drummond says the 90
-foot trimaran can sail up to 5
percent, or about one knot,
faster.
In the months leading up to the
February 8 race day,
Drummond's team noticed a few
drawbacks to the new design. In
strong winds, where sailors
would normally shrink a soft
sail, the one-size wing can grab
too much wind and destabilize
the boat. And in choppy waters,
the extra weight can cause the
craft to pitch front to back. "Still,
overall, it's obvious that the boat
goes faster," Drummond says.
"We used to measure
performance gains in hundredths
of a knot. Now we measure it in
tenths of a knot or more." WING
The 7,700-pound wing includes
a single piece that rotates around
the mast and eight flaps that
catch or shed wind in different
directions for thrust. Engineers
claim that the wing-80 percent
longer than a Boeing 747's-can
achieve twice the power of a soft
mainsail. MAST
Fiber-optic sensors in the mast
and hull reflect light differently
when stretched. A computer
converts these changes into
stress loads in real time to
predict material failures and alert
the crew if strong winds could
snap the mast. SAIL
A camera system photographs
the soft sail, analyzes its shape
and height, and compares the
measurements with past
performance data to suggest the
optimal setup.
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Moscow's Stray Dogs
Evolving Greater
Intelligence, Including a
Mastery of the Subway
By Stuart Fox (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:15:04 AM
For every 300 Muscovites,
there's a stray dog wandering the
streets of Russia's capital. And
according to Andrei Poyarkov, a
researcher at the A.N. Severtsov
Institute of Ecology and
Evolution, the fierce pressure of
urban living has driven the dogs
to evolve wolf-like traits,
increased intelligence, and even
the ability to navigate the
subway.
Poyarkov has studied the dogs,
which number about 35,000, for
the last 30 years. Over that time,
he observed the stray dog
population lose the spotted coats,
wagging tails, and friendliness
that separate dogs from wolves,
while at the same time evolving
social structures and behaviors
optimized to four ecological
niches occupied by what
Poyarkov calls guard dogs,
scavengers, wild dogs, and
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New Clay-Based Hydrogels Could Be an

Ecologically Safe Replacement For Plastics
By Stuart Fox (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 1/21/2010 9:58:13 AM

The invention of plastics in the

mid-1800s changed human
civilization as profoundly as our
earlier mastery of fire, bronze,
and steel. Unfortunately, the
environmental and health effects
of plastic offer a significant
downside to such a useful and
affordable material. Now, their use. But by adding a small polymer chains. By grabbing all University of Tokyo researchers
scientists at the University of amount of clay to the mixture, the elements, the polymer forms fail to address the cost of this
Tokyo, Japan, have developed a the researchers succeeding in a rigid scaffolding that supports new hydrogel. One of the key
clay-based hydrogel that they imbuing the hydrogels with the the other molecules, and creates advantages of plastic is the low
hope will perform the same stiffness needed to make the solid material. Plus, because the cost, and no material can be
functions as plastic, but do so material more versatile. material is mostly water and considered a viable replacement
without endangering people or The clay enhances the hydrogel clay, with only a little bit of for plastic until someone can
the planet. because the polymer used to bind polymer, the material has none manufacture it just as cheaply.
Scientists have been using the water into a gel of the toxic qualities of plastic. [ Ars Technica]
hydrogels in medical technology simultaneously adheres to the In their paper in Nature
since the 1980s, but their lack of clay, the water, and other describing the new material, the
rigidity and durability limited
MOSCOW'S
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beggars.
The guard dogs follow around,
and receive food from, the
security personnel at Moscow's
many fenced in sites. They think
the guards are their masters, and
serve as semi-feral assistants.
The scavengers roam the city
eating garbage. The wild dogs
are the most wolf-like, hunting
mice, rats, and cats under the
cover of night.
But beggar dogs have evolved
the most specialized behavior.
Relying on scraps of food from
commuters, the beggar dogs can
not only recognize which
humans are most likely to give
them something to eat, but have
evolved to ride the subway.
Using scents, and the ability to
recognize the train conductor's
names for different stops, they
incorporate many stations into
their territories.
Additionally, Poyarkov says the
pack structure of the beggars
reflects a reliance on brain over
brawn for survival. In the beggar
packs, the smartest dog, not the
most physically dominant,
occupies the alpha male position.
The evolution of Moscow's stray
dogs has been going on since at
least the mid-1800s, when
Russian writers first mentioned
the stray dog problem in the city. Futurismic]
And that evolution has been
propelled by deadly selective
pressure. Most of the strays
arrive on the streets as rejected
house pets. Of those dogs kicked
out of their homes, Poyarkov
estimates fewer than 3 percent
live long enough to breed. To
survive those odds, a dog really
does have to be the fittest.
[ Financial Times, via