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U.S. terror threat at highest since 9/11:
Napolitano (Reuters)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) –
Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano warned
Wednesday that the threat of
terrorism against the United States
was in some ways "at its most
heightened state" since the
September 11, 2001 attacks.
In addition to the threats by al
Qaeda, the militant group behind
the attacks nearly a decade ago,
Napolitano said the country faces
new threats from those inspired
by the group and those already
inside the United States.
"The threat continues to evolve
and in some ways the threat today
may be at its most heightened
state since the attacks nearly 10
years ago," Napolitano told the
U.S. House of Representatives'
Homeland Security Committee.
She also said in her testimony to
lawmakers that U.S. officials
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believed there may be individuals
who want to carry out attacks
already in the country and that
"they could carry out acts of
violence with little or no
warning."
Individuals associated with al
Qaeda and the Taliban have tried
to carry out several attacks against
the United States, including by a
Nigerian man who allegedly tried
to blow up a U.S. airliner with a
bomb hidden in his underwear
and another individual who
plotted to attack the New York
subway system.
"As I have said before, we cannot
guarantee that there will never be
another terrorist attack, and we
cannot seal our country under a
glass dome," Napolitano said.
"However, we continue to do
everything we can to reduce the
risk of terrorism in our nation."
The head of the National
Counterterrorism Center, Michael
Leiter, told the committee that the
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al Qaeda off-shoot based in
Yemen, al Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula (AQAP), at the moment
represented the biggest threat to
the United States.
Leiter said that the parent al
Qaeda group, believed to be
hiding in the Pakistan-
Afghanistan border region, was
probably at its weakest point since
the September 11, 2001 attacks
but remained a "very determined
enemy."
"I actually consider al Qaeda in
the Arabian Peninsula with
(Anwar) al-Awlaki as a leader
within that organization probably
the most significant risk to the
U.S. homeland," Leiter told the
committee, noting that it has a
large Internet following.
Al-Awlaki, a Muslim cleric who
is U.S. citizen but left the country
in 2001 and joined al Qaeda in
Yemen, has been tied to plots
against the United States over the
last two years.
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The group has claimed
responsibility for the 2009
Christmas Day thwarted attack
aboard a U.S. airliner and a more
recent attempt to blow up two
U.S.-bound cargo planes with
toner cartridges packed with
explosives.
Al-Awlaki also communicated
with a U.S. Army Major Nidal
Malik Hasan who in November
2009 allegedly went on a shooting
rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that
killed 13 and wounded 32. Leiter
said that it appeared to be more
"inspiration rather than direction."
(Editing by Vicki Allen)
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AP - Thousands of state workers
and impoverished Egyptians
launched strikes and protests
around the country on Thursday
over their economic woes as anti-
government activists sought to
expand their campaign to oust
President Hosni Mubarak despite
warnings from the vice president
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Washington Extra – Let’s do lunch

Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row The Obama administration will with reduced penalties. “It gives
Washington) propose raising the cost of loans people a chance to come in before
Submitted at 2/8/2011 4:37:14 PM backed by the Federal Housing we find them,” Internal Revenue
Administration as part of a plan to Service Commissioner Doug
Mending fences is clearly the reduce government support of the Shulman said.
White House play of the week. mortgage market to below 50 For more of this story by Kim
First a visit to the U.S. Chamber percent, sources said. The White Dixon, read here.
of Commerce, now lunch with House is considering shrinking Lawmakers want answers on
Republican leaders from Capitol Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s exchange hack attacks
Hill. What next? $1.5 trillion mortgage portfolios Senior lawmakers demanded
President Barack Obama at 12:30 within 10 years. The plan would answers from regulators and
p.m. tomorrow will host House give the private sector a dominant financial exchange operators
Speaker John Boehner and his role in the housing market and about computer hacking attacks.
lieutenants Majority Leader Eric reduce the government’s support Already under investigation by
Cantor and Republican Whip to below 50 percent within five to the FBI, the attacks were
Kevin McCarthy (that’s two of seven years after the plan is acknowledged over the weekend
the three “Young Guns” of adopted. by the operator of the Nasdaq
Capitol Hill). For more of this story by Corbett Stock Market. News of the
Discussion will be heavy on the B. Daly and Rachelle Younglai,
For more of this story by Phil on a bare-bones plan to determine incursions came amid growing
economy and spending. But if the read here.
Stewart and David Alexander, which market players other than concern about the stability of high
Republicans are hoping for a U.S. praises military restraint in
read here. b a n k s s h o u l d b e d e e m e d -speed, computerized trading
heads-up on Obama’s budget Egypt protests
Clash looms over extending US “systemic,” subjecting them to systems that can drive wild
p r o p o s a l , t h e y w i l l b e Defense Secretary Robert Gates
surveillance methods costly oversight. The Federal market swings. A “flash crash”
disappointed. “We will save that praised Egypt’s military for its
The Obama administration urged Reserve released a proposal on that occurred on May 6 of last
f o r t h e m a n d f o r y o u f o r restraint while the White House
Congress to extend for nearly how it would define these firms, year saw U.S. stock markets
M o n d a y , ” W h i t e H o u s e criticized its government for
three years key powers to track including a two-year test to plunge 700 points within minutes.
spokesman Robert Gibbs told h a r a s s i n g p r o t e s t e r s a n d
terrorism suspects, setting up a determine if a firm’s predominant For more of this story by Sarah
reporters. journalists as demonstrations p o s s i b l e c l a s h w i t h S e n a t e business is financial, but the N. Lynch and Jonathan Spicer,
(So who’s going to be pumping swelled anew. Egypt’s military —
Republicans who have urged proposal still leaves insurers and read here.
whom for information at that l o n g t h e b a c k b o n e o f t h e
making them permanent. The hedge funds guessing if they will Climate skeptics unpersuaded by
table?) government in Cairo — has methods, originally adopted fall under the stricter rules. Under extra warm 2010
They will break bread at lunch, b e h a v e d i n “ a n e x e m p l a r y Remember 2010? U.S. and
shortly after the September 11, the financial reform law, the new
but it’s not exactly a tea party… fashion” by standing largely on international scientists reckon it
2001, attacks and set to expire at risk council has the power to
Take a look at today’s story by the sidelines during the uprising tied for the warmest year on
the end of this month, permit create a list of “systemic” firms
Corbett Daly, Rachelle Younglai a g a i n s t P r e s i d e n t H o s n i record, supporting findings of
r o v i n g w i r e t a p s , t r a c k i n g that are so big and interconnected
and Margaret Chadbourn in which Mubarak’s 30-year rule, Gates u n e q u i v o c a l g l o b a l climate
suspected foreigners who may be they could impact the stability of
they obtained from sources details told a news conference. “I would change. Climate skeptics remain
acting alone in plotting attacks, financial markets.
a b o u t t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n ’ s say that they have made a unconvinced. Those who study
and accessing certain business For more of this story by Dave
proposal to reduce government contribution to the evolution of the climate skeptic position say
records. Clarke, read here.
support of the mortgage market. democracy and what we’re seeing this raises echoes of scientific
For more of this story by Jeremy U.S. starts new offshore amnesty
Here are our top stories from in Egypt,” he said as Egyptians controversies of the past,
Pelofsky, read here. for tax cheats
Washington today… staged one of their biggest Bare “systemic” proposal keeps Wealthy tax evaders with assets including the debate over the
US plans to raise cost of govt protests yet demanding Mubarak
hedge funds guessing stashed offshore can come clean WASHINGTON page 3
backed mortgages-sources step down immediately. Regulators put a bit more flesh under a new amnesty program
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health hazards of tobacco. In
Washington, the most vocal
denier of human-caused climate
change is U.S. Senator James
Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican
who has repeatedly dismissed the
idea as a hoax.
For more of this story by
Deborah Zabarenko, read here.
Probe clears Toyota’s electronic
throttles
A government investigation
showed no link between
electronic throttles and
unintended acceleration in Toyota
vehicles, a victory for the world’s
top automaker battered by recalls
over runaway vehicles. The
encouraging result for Toyota
stems from a 10-month probe
following recalls of nearly 8
million of its best-selling models
in the United States over defective
floor mats and accelerator pedals
that hurt its reputation for quality.
For more of this story by John
Crawley and David Lawder, read
here.
Novel devices could see faster
U.S. reviews
Health regulators are seeking to
speed up reviews of promising
medical devices and boost
research for new technologies in
hopes of getting novel products to
AP IMPACT: At CIA, grave mistakes, then promotions
(AP)
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Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:39:30 AM
AP - In December 2003, security
market faster. Its first candidate is
an artificial arm from DOD’s
Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency that uses a
microchip in the brain to control
the device’s arm, hand and finger
function.
For more of this story by Susan
Heavey, read here.
US proposes moving phone
subsidy focus to Internet
Communications regulators
proposed new rules that they say
will help bring broadband to all of
rural America. The rules would
shift government subsidies for
landline telephone service to fund
the buildout of high-speed
Internet services in rural areas.
“We won’t fully realize the
promise of broadband and the
fundamental promise of American
opportunity if large swaths of our
country are left out,” FCC
Chairman Julius Genachowski
said.
For more of this story by Jasmin
Melvin, read here.
France confident US tanker deal
will be “fair”
France is confident that the U.S.
will conduct a “free and fair”
competition between Boeing and
Europe’s EADS for an order of
refueling planes valued at up to
forces boarded a bus in
Macedonia and snatched a
German citizen named Khaled el-
Masri. For the next five months,
$50 billion, French Defense
Minister Alain Juppe said. “We
are confident in the process …
We are certain that this
competition will be free and fair,”
he said.
For more of this story by Andrea
Shalal-Esa, read here.
What we are blogging…
Is Rand Paul a U.S. Senate action
hero?
It didn’t take Rand Paul long to
become Captain America of the
Senate. He’s tough-minded,
strong-willed and he’s ready to
battle the most dangerous titans
on the political landscape, like
Social Security and Medicare.
And he tells ‘Morning Joe’ that a
courageous and comprehensive
plan for fixing America’s public
finances will soon be on the
march. If all goes as planned,
much may be accomplished
before the start of this year’s
Major League Baseball season.
“Within two to three weeks, I’m
going to propose a fix for Social
Security,” he says.
For David Morgan’s full post,
click here.
From elsewhere…
Shark attacks rise globally but
drop in Florida
Shark attacks on humans
el-Masri was a ghost. Only a
select group of CIA officers knew
he had been whisked to a secret
prison for interrogation in
increased worldwide last year but
declined in Florida, which still
had more shark attacks than any
other state, University of Florida
researchers said. Florida’s year-
round swimming weather and
long coastline make it the nation’s
leader in shark attacks and that
didn’t change last year, when 13
attacks were reported, according
to the university’s annual Shark
Attack File report. But 2010
marked the state’s fourth straight
year of decline and the total was
significantly lower than the yearly
average of 23 over the past
decade.
For more of this story, read here.
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Palm's TouchPad Tablet
Revealed, a 10-Inch iPad
Lookalike Running
WebOS
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 12:56:34 PM
Palm has been reborn: It's new
owner HP has just revealed a new
Palm-designed webOS device:
Meet the TouchPad--Palm's
modern-generation tablet PC, the
newest challenger to the iPad's
tablet throne.
The smart guys from PreCentral
turned up at HP's press event and
won the prize: They successfully
snagged information on Palm's
tablet PC. It's called the
TouchPad, formerly codenamed
Topaz.
The TouchPad is 13.7 mm thick,
and sports a 9.7-inch touchscreen
with 1024 by 768 pixels in an IPS
LCD unit. Touch sensing is
provided by a high quality
multitouch capacitive system.
This shuns the current vogue
among Android tablet makers
who are often choosing a 7-inch
unit.
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Introducing the First Real Taxi Meter Innovation in 100 Years

David Zax (Fast Company)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 12:42:39 PM

Meet the taxi meter that would

take over the world. World Moto
wants to bring meters--durable,
advertising-enabled, black-box-
housing, tamper-proof meters--to
the 200 million motorcycle taxis
that are so popular in the
developing world.
As gadgets go, it's hardly the
sexiest. It's a meter. For taxis. For
motorcycle taxis, to be precise.
And yet it might just be a $3
billion dollar idea.
Paul Giles, President of World
Moto, whose new Moto-Meter
hits the streets of Bangkok in
March, remembers when he first
got the idea for his product. An
American ex-pat in Bangkok,
Giles was hanging out with some
motorcycle taxi drivers. It's a
common profession in Thailand,
where traffic often clogs the path
of cars, leading some 700,000
Thai men and women earn their
living by weaving moto-taxis in
and out of traffic. In recent years,
moto-taxis have become wildly
popular not only in Thailand but
across the cities and towns of part of tourists and taxi drivers don't they have a meter?" hyphenated and compound- another America-to-Thailand ex-
Asia, Africa, and South America. alike, each mistrustful of the Giles hopped on Google worded permutation he could pat, Chris Ziomkowski, now
In mega-cities like Bangkok, other. immediately, convinced someone think of: "moto-taxi meter," World Moto's Chief Technical
Laos, and Sao Paolo, their growth As Giles talked with some of his else must have had the idea before "motorcyle taximeter," and so on. Officer. The more the two
has been exponential. taxi-driving acquaintances back in him. He entered "motorcycle taxi Nothing, nothing, nothing. "No researched, the more opportunities
But moto-taxis have sprung up as 2003, he got to wondering, why meter" and pressed search. "It's one had even thought of it, not they realized there were for
a mostly unregulated industry. don't moto-taxis have meters? "It's amazing, you can close your eyes even in any blogs, not even in innovations in motorcycle
Lacking meters, moto-taxis' fares interesting because it's such a and type on the keyboard a blogs where people talk about the taximetry.
are subjective--the sort of simple idea," he tells Fast random set of number and letters, pricing of taxis." He started The first problem to tackle was
situation that leads to knowing Company. "When it hit, it was and you'll get results on Google," buying up domain names. durability. Were you to take a
admonitions in Lonely Planet like a lightning bolt. I thought, my he says. But his search query He began working on the idea,
guides, and surly behavior on the God, they're everywhere, why turned up nothing. He tried every joining forces in 2008 with INTRODUCING page 5
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standard taxi meter and simply
jerry-rig it onto your motorcycle,
it would not be long for this
world. Says Ziomkowski: "The
standard meter isn't sealed against
environmental hazards. Road
dust, rain, splashing water--the
standard meter out of a taxi would
quickly fail."
That was an obvious one. The
team soon realized, though, that
apart from digitization, the taxi
meter had barely been revised
since it had been invented in
1891. They came up with idea
after idea--"feature creep," they
call it--taking their time
implementing each one.
Take advertising, for instance. In
recent years, interactive screens
have appeared in taxis in New
York and elsewhere, bringing in
ad revenue. But there's no reason
why advertising can't play a role
on even a relatively low-tech taxi
meter. Moto-Meter enables simple
LED-display ads to run for the
duration of a ride, earning revenue
for the driver and for World
Moto. "I've shown the drivers, and
it's like Homer Simpson and
beer," Giles says.
For Easterners, this winter
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more so than this year across the
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report seeing a spike in strained
"Ooh...advertising!"
Another innovation is the black
box -- a device recording data in
the event of an accident. These
are familiar from airplanes, of
course, and have also made their
way into automobiles, initially as
part of the airbag system. Since
motorcycles don't have airbags,
there was never a similar
evolution in data recording for
bikes. "Why not?" says
Ziomkowski. "They [black boxes]
reduce accidents. Just the
knowledge that someone is
monitoring driving behavior tends
to change the way drivers drive."
The black box will record speed,
acceleration, braking information,
crash force, and even when
passengers are sitting and when
they're ejected from seats, all data
of interest to law enforcement and
insurers. Thousands die each year
in Thailand from motorcycle
accidents (though moto-taxi
drivers tend to drive much more
safely than those who merely
dabble in biking), and World
Moto wants to help reduce that
figure.
Finally, the team also developed
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sidewalks, and dangerously low
blood banks as fewer people AP - A second powerful blizzard
in a week roared through parts of
venture out.
the nation's midsection on
an anti-tampering feature to
further assure customers they're
paying a fair rate. If motorcycle
taxis tamper with the meter, it
shuts down.
They poured about $1 million, all
told, into the development of the
device.
"There will be uses for [Moto-
Meter] we can't even predict,"
says Giles. "I didn't come to
Thailand to build a meter for
motorcycle taxis," he adds, with a
tone of marvel and bewilderment.
(He had come, at first, to run a
security business for hotels.) "But
once we own that space above the
handlebars, there are so many
things we can do with that."
The device runs about $180,
cheaper than a standard taxi
meter, says Giles. With moto-taxi
drivers making a nice middle-
class wage in Thailand--in
Bangkok, they make more than
teachers, nurses, and construction
workers, he claims -- they can
afford it. And by reducing
acrimony and averting lost
potential fares, it should pay for
itself soon, goes the logic. The
market for the device is
Blizzard roars through US's
snow-weary midsection (AP)
potentially enormous, with 20
million moto-taxis in the world
and counting. Hence the potential
$3-billion figure Giles estimates.
Different markets will demand
different models: in one country, a
government might require the
meter; in another, consumer
demand might drive the purchase;
in another, a taxi union might
adopt it. In Bangkok, among the
drivers he knows and has shown
the device to, Giles finds that they
are excited at the prospect of the
legitimacy afforded by a
standardized gadget. "I've seen it
in the eyes and tone of voice of
guys I've spoken with," says
Giles. "It's just a feeling of, 'I've
been marginalized for such a long
time. Here's a device I can feel
proud of myself with.'"
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Bombs kill 7 in
ethnically tense
Iraqi city (AP)
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Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:38:18 AM
AP - A suicide bomber posing as
a dairy deliveryman struck a
Kurdish security headquarters
Wednesday, setting off a series of
rapid-fire attacks against the oil-
rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk that
killed seven and wounded up to
80 people.
Republicans grill
Bernanke over
inflation threat (AP)
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Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:10:24 AM
AP - Members of Congress
sharply questioned Federal
Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
Wednesday over whether the
Fed's policies are raising the risk
of rising inflation in the months
ahead.
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Blizzard roars through 'Candy Licker'
India begins billion-plus head count US's snow-weary singer Marvin Sease
midsection (AP)
for census (AP) dead at 64 (AP)
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(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) country, however, with a yearly until March 5 and the final census Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:45:48 AM
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:28:04 AM
Submitted at 2/9/2011 4:31:52 AM growth rate of about 1.4 percent, reports published over the next
while China — with about 1.3 two years. AP - A second powerful blizzard AP - Marvin Sease, a blues and
NEW DELHI – Millions of billion people — is growing at a India has appointed some 2.7 in a week roared through parts of soul singer known for his 1980s
census workers fanned out across m u c h l o w e r 0 . 4 9 p e r c e n t , million census-takers, many of the nation's midsection on hit "Candy Licker," has died after
India on Wednesday as they according to 2010 estimates listed them school teachers, who are Wednesday, bringing biting winds a lengthy illness. He was 64.
began a mammoth effort to by the CIA World Fact Book. also collecting name and address and dumping more than a foot of
document every person in the Indian officials say the national details to be used later in issuing snow on areas still digging out
world's second most populous count, taken every 10 years, is identity cards as part of a National from last week's major storm.
country over the next three weeks. crucial for both the government Population Register, for which
President Pratibha Devisingh and private sector to set relevant citizens will also have to provide
Patil was the first of the estimated policies, programs and budgets.
1.17 billion Indians to be counted This is the second phase of the
fingerprints and be photographed
at some later date.
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Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:34:14 AM 2008, the first time a Democrat
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Egyptian VP Predicts Drop in Economic Growth

- Voice of America
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Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:01:43 AM strike.
Numerous international
VOA News February 09, 2011 companies have shut their
Photo: AFP, Al-Masriya TV operations in Egypt and laid off First underground
An image grab taken from workers. Norway's Statoil said it
Egyptian state television Al- was no longer drilling in Egypt. cave photographed
Masriya shows new Egyptian The country's stock market is still
Vice President Omar Suleiman closed and not scheduled to
on the moon
speaking during talks between the reopen until next Sunday. Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:44:00 AM
Egyptian regime and several Consumers are facing sharply
opposition groups, including the higher prices, with meat prices High-resolution images have
Muslim Brotherhood, Cairo on quadrupling, and many shelves confirmed for the first time the
February 6, 2011 emptied at food stores. NEW: presence of an underground cave
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Suleiman says the ongoing Twitter Images taken by the Lunar
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US Midwest braces for new round of Is MasterCard's Stock

snow - AFP Headed to $300 and
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Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:00:00 AM Beyond?zero and minus 10 degrees
Fahrenheit (-18 to -23 Celsius),
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due to taper off over the Carolina
US Midwest braces for new the National Weather Service coast and southeastern Virginia by Joseph Lazzaro
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said. Thursday morning, with the cold
(AFP) – 2 hours ago It predicted snow and sleet falling front expected to move off the Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:30:00 AM

CHICAGO — A large swathe of as far south as central Texas Florida peninsula by late
the US South and Midwest still before dumping rain and snow Thursday. Filed under: MasterCard Inc'A'
digging out from last week's huge across the Deep South and Last week's epic storm affected (MA), Stocks to Buy
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major storm of the season forced on Thursday. In all, more than 18,500 flights price of $176.06, and shares have
several states to close schools and Arkansas, accustomed to milder were canceled across the country, vectored toward $250 resistance growth to continue, as a result of
kept many residents homebound. winters free of major snow or ice while Chicago got nearly two feet after a dip to $215 this winter. I the U.S. and global trend toward
The powerful winter storm began storms, braced for subfreezing of snow, its third biggest snowfall obviously still like the business increased use of credit cards.
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What Will HP Unveil at Today's WebOS Event?

David Zax (Fast Company) smaller seven-inch one called be three announcements today,
Submitted at 2/9/2011 12:38:56 PM with the codename "Opal." The one corresponding to each of the
design is rumored to be button- sentences in the tagline. "Think
A tablet, a phone, and more--we free, to have a front-facing big"--the PalmPad. "Think small"-
hope. camera, a micro USB port, and -one or more phones. "Think
At an invitation-only event in San three speakers (two on the left, beyond"--generally, more
Francisco today, HP is expected one on the right, enabling a stereo information on webOS 2.0, which
to unveil its first webOS hardware effect in both landscape and PCMag has speculated might be
since buying Palm in April 2010 portrait). WiFi-only, AT&T 3G, used as a secondary or pre-boot
for $1.2 billion. What exactly and Verizon LTE versions of environment for Windows PCs, or
might we be seeing today, at 10 Opal could hit stores as soon as as an OS for simple netbooks. We
AM Pacific? September of this year, with an might also learn about new cloud-
We hope it will be HP's answer to AT&T LTE version by July 2012, based services accessible from
the iPad, the "PalmPad" (not, according to the rumors. webOS devices.
probably, it's real name). We don't During CES this year, HP's Todd Stay tuned to this space. We'll be
know much about HP's tablet, but Bradley told CNBC that HP was of a let down. big. Think small. Think beyond." covering the announcement as it
here are some of the rumors being going to do the iPad one better. That said, it's altogether possible No company would boast of unfolds!
bandied about. "You and I will talk about that on that we may only hear about a "thinking small," unless it were a Follow Fast Company on
It looks like HP actually has two the 9th," he said. With a line like smartphone or two today. An pun about small gadgetry--in Twitter:@fastcompany.
tablets in mind, a larger, nine-inch that, if the event doesn't unveil a invitation for the event back in other words, a smartphone. If we
model called " Topaz," and a webOS tablet, it'll be something January had the tagline: "Think had to wager, there will probably

Gates Foundation Bets on Facebook App To Help Kids

Graduate
Anya Kamenetz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 12:53:50 PM
We're used to thinking of
Facebook as, at best, a distractor
for college kids and at worst, a
resume-destroyer. But the Gates
Foundation, in its first-ever
venture investment of $4 million
in a little-known Facebook app
platform called Inigral, is betting
that it can actually make a
measurable improvement in the
rate of students who complete
college, which hovers at a dismal
56% nationwide.
After economic factors, the key
driver of persistence in college is
student engagement--a tough-to-
measure factor of how much
students are immersed in
intellectual and social life at the
school. Inigral's Schools App
connects prospective students,
students, and alumni with each
other over common interests in a
Twitter or Yammer-like format.
"Some call it kin to a virtual
student union," says CEO Michael
Staton, who talked with Gates for
a year prior to the investment.
introductions of the Schools App
at colleges that serve lots of lower
-income Pell Grant recipients.
Inigral is not the only company
trying to leverage social media to
improve outcomes for students.
Red Rover is a similar, web-based
tool, while ConnectEdu functions
as a virtual college counselor as
well as providing a recruitment
and retention platform for
" S t u d e n t s u s e i t t o s h a r e University of Texas at Tyler, c o l l e g e s .
information, express themselves, prospective frosh who signed up
find friends start projects, and find for the app were five times more
opportunities to get involved." At likely to attend the school.
o n e o f t h e i r s c h o o l s , t h e The Gates investment will fund
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Verizon iPhone Makes RIMM Top Oil Services Favorites:

Short Play Schlumberger, National
Jason Schwarz (Business showing that Verizon Blackberry computer called the Playbook.
Insider)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:56:48 AM
users can’t wait to switch to the
iPhone. 66 percent of users
How does a company expect to
have success against Apple’s iPad
Oilwell Varco
indicated a probable switch upon when they arrive to the Steven Halpern
The iPhone has not been kind to availability. This report comes on (BloggingStocks)
marketplace one year late with an
Research in Motion stock. In the heels of a December research inferior product? Steve Jobs was Submitted at 2/9/2011 12:40:00 PM

2008 RIMM was at $140, in 2009 report by ITG showing that correct when he mentioned how
RIMM fell to $80, in 2010 it fell B l a c k b e r r y h a s a l r e a d y difficult it would be to compete Filed under: Newsletters,
to $65...where is this stock relinquished its spot as Verizon’s with the iPad. The Playbook has Schlumberger Limited (SLB),
headed now that the iPhone is top smartphone; one year ago a smaller screen, offers limited Commodities, Oil, Stocks to Buy
available at Verizon? We might Blackberry accounted for 90% of battery life, and is supported by "Oil had a good year in 2010,
be looking at the final nail in Verizon smartphone sales, its an app store that is billions of rising 15 percent, and 2011 looks supplier of energy technology,
RIMM’s coffin. Every tech share is now below 20 percent downloads behind Apple’s App to be even better, as a stronger project management, and
company who tries to thrive as a because of Google’s Android. If Store success. If RIMM were global economy pushes demand information solutions.
one trick pony is destined to walk the uSamp survey can be trusted, smart they would skip the tablet for resources higher," says Continue reading Oil Services
in the footsteps of former one hit it is likely that RIMM will craze altogether and come out Stephen Leeb. Favorites: Schlumberger, National
wonders like Word Perfect and quickly become an irrelevant, with the next big tech hit...but The editor of The Complete Oilwell Varco
Palm. Sometime over the next 18 single digit market share player. they’re not innovative enough to Investor explains, "Oil service and Oil Services Favorites:
months they’ll be looking to hire a As an investor, it can be easier to do it. For RIMM it was the equipment companies are the Schlumberger, National Oilwell
former Apple employee to make forecast the losers than it is to physical keyboard or bust and most leveraged way to play rising Varco originally appeared on
one last stand before they decide forecast the winners. RIMM’s now it’s bust. We’re initiating a oil prices. Here's a look a BloggingStocks on Wed, 09 Feb
to sell the company for $1.2 troubles became apparent back in 2% allocation of January 2012 Schlumberger ( SLB) and 2011 12:40:00 EST. Please see
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Online survey firm uSamp RIMM prepares to release its
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Liberty rocket proposed to replace Space Shuttle

Submitted at 2/9/2011 8:08:00 AM
A pair of leading rocket
companies have submitted a joint
bid to Nasa to build a vehicle to
replace the aging Space Shuttle. only means for astronauts to get project, following concerns in the
It's called the Liberty rocket. to and from the International US congress that it'd leave Russia
The Shuttles are due to be retired Space Station. Nasa is seeking in a strong position. Continue
later in 2011 when it'll have commercial solutions that'll let reading...
completed 135 launches, leaving the Russian Soyuz craft as the America play its part in the
12 Business/ Technology/ Newstablet Edition

SpeakerText Raises $600,000 To

Transcribe Your Videos
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
(Business Insider)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:59:00 AM

SpeakerText, a startup that

transcribes your videos into text,
has raised $600,000 from a bevy
of Silicon Valley angels,
including Lotus founder Mitch
Kapor and superangel Dave
McClure, co-founder and CEO
Matt Mireles has told us.
SpeakerText's service is
interesting because transcribing
makes it easier to search through
videos, find quotes, etc. -- it also
makes videos easier to find by
HOUSE OF THE DAY: Larry
Google, which is a big deal for
content publishers. SpeakerText
Ellison Buys An Incredible $43
limit. Mireles wouldn't tell us how story »
works by using a blend of
computers and humans: because many customers he has. See Also: Million Golf House In California
computers can't do vocie We think SpeakerText has a good • Groupon May IPO At $15 Leah Goldman (Business February 2010 for $75 million,
recognition really well, their road ahead -- it's solving a real Billion Plus Insider) dropped it to $55 million last fall,
algorithms transcribe most of the problem for many companies. • Launching A Startup? Do It In and marked it down again for
Submitted at 2/9/2011 12:00:42 PM
text and then humans iron out the And as AOL's leaked master plan Chile, Where The Government Is Ellison.
kinks and transcribe what the shows, content publishers are Spending $40 Million On L a r r y E l l i s o n j u s t a d d e d Porcupine Creek covers 249
computers couldn't. Mireles told betting on video in a big way and Entrepreneurs Porcupine Creek to his growing acres of land and the main house
us his system gets smarter the are ever dependent on Google, so • The Startup Behind Kinect list of California real estate. He has a whopping 16 bedrooms.
more people use it. a service like this might make Raises A Big New Round bought the estate, which has a 19- Here's a bird's eye view of the
The company charges $2 per sense for them. h o l e g o l f c o u r s e , f r o m incredible estate
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Michael Douglas Is "Shocked" You
Went Into Investment Banking Because in latest search rankings
You Wanted To Be Gordon Gekko
Courtney Comstock (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:51:11 AM
If you work in i-banking, there's
probably a 30% chance you're
there because you were inspired
by Gordon Gekko, the Wall Street
character made famous by
Michael Douglas.
(30% is based on the number of
times Douglas says he's had
people come up to him and say,
"Gekko was the person who
influenced me and inspired them
to go into investment banking.")
But just like Oliver Stone had no
clue that everyone who saw his
movie would glorify Wall Street
from that day forward, Douglas
had no idea that he was playing
Gekko as the "awesomely bad"
guy.
He said recently that he continues
Curious Musical Prosthetics - The Virginia's first
Serendiptichord Device Encourages black chief justice
Interaction for Sound (GALLERY) dies
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Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:28:04 AM
( TrendHunter.com) The
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interesting piece which can be
Bing up, Google down
to be "shocked" when people tell
him they went into finance
because of the character, a rich
evil tycoon (who unfortunately
ends up in jail).
He said:
"I was always shocked when so
many people who saw Wall Street
said that I (Gekko) was the person
who influenced them and inspired
(AP)
considered a musical extension of
our bodies. A wearable, sculptural
piece of technology, it receives
and releases sounds via motion
and...
them to go into investment
banking. I'd say to people, 'Well, I
was the villain,' and they would
say, 'No, no, no', they didn't see
me that way, so it was all very
seductive I guess."
Join the conversation about this
story »
Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:09:47 AM
AP - Virginia Supreme Court
Justice Leroy Hassell Sr., the
state's first black chief justice, has
died. He was 55.
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(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:24:22 AM
results returned. For the month,
Bing/Yahoo scored an 81 percent
success rate, according to the
Though Google is still king of the data, surpassing the 65 percent
search engine arena, Bing is rate achieved by Google and
creeping up, according to a report virtually the same as the rates in
released yesterday by market December.
researcher Experian Hitwise. Google and Bing were both on
Looking at the global search the warpath recently after Google
engine market in January, Google accused its rival of stealing its
took home almost 68 percent of search results following a surprise
all searches. But that marked a 2 sting operation. Reps from both
p e r c e n t a g e p o i n t d i p f r o m companies found themselves in a
D e c e m b e r . T h e n u m b e r o f heated exchange at a conference
searches run at Bing.com and last week debating the accuracy
Bing-powered sites collectively and validity of Google's findings.
r o s e b y 6 p o i n t s , g i v i n g Launching such a sting operation
Microsoft's search engine a 27.4 could be a sign that Google is
percent cut of the market. growing more concerned about
Breaking down the Bing results, Microsoft's rising chunk of the
Bing.com by itself accounted for search engine market. Google
12.8 percent of all searches, a 21 CEO Eric Schmidt recently told
percentage point jump from reporters that he sees Microsoft
December. Searches conducted at and not Facebook as a major
Yahoo sites powered by Bing slid competitor, calling it the company
4 points, giving those 14.6 percent with "more cash, more engineers,
of the market, said Experian more global reach."
Hitwise. This entry passed through the
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14 News Wire/ Newstablet Edition

Let's Do Lunch — And Cut the Fat?

(FOXNews.com) years would have dumped the payments to favor high priorities. Boehner comes one step closer to Arab world, we find that the
Submitted at 2/9/2011 9:58:25 AM document and then dared Democrats have countered with facing members who are calling perennial losers have little public
Republicans to react. increasingly dire warnings about for hardcore spending measures. support.
Unappetizing Menu for Obama This is part of an overall rollout the consequences of the nation Leaders can afford to lose a few The big danger spot today seems
and Boehner; Losers not Lovable of the president’s spending plan, reaching the ceiling. votes on debt and spending issue to be Yemen, where what had
in Arab World; Payroll Tax Hike which is expected to be a blend of Since Obama and the trio have no because of the help of Blue Dog been well organized protests led
Scorned; Heady Hearings on the new spending, modest debt cordial relationship, the lunch is Democrats, but it would be much by the sanctioned opposition
Hill; CIA’s Complicated Mission containment measures, a state more likely to be the start of a better for the GOP to stay united. threaten to give way to angry
Luncheon Summit Between bailout and changes to the tax bargaining process rather than a A lack of party agreement on mobs. The ruling quasi-despot has
Obama and House GOP Comes code. All the House Democrats fruitful discussion. such central issues now would promised not to run again and
Amid Spending Clash will be getting briefed today on Boehner, Cantor and McCarthy bode ill for the fights to come. hasn’t interfered with
"This sort of quid pro quo, that if the president’s budget in a closed- will return to the House to face In Middle East, the Loyal demonstrations, but if the bombs
Washington acts to whatever it is door session with Obama budget many questions from members Opposition Lacks a Loyal start flying, Yemen is ripe for
the president is proposing - boss Jack Lew, so you can expect about what Obama wants and Following collapse.
w h e t h e r i t ’ s r e d u c i n g t h e lots of leaks by day’s end. what the Republicans will "If you think Facebook will Obama Payroll Tax Hike Plan
corporate rates or whether it’s But the real topic at the lunch demand. The specifics of the change Yemen, you're crazy. We Flops
passing trade bills - that somehow today will be the coming collision House spending plan for the don't even have electricity." “$183 per worker”
business owes it to the country to of three fiscal issues – Obama’s current year are due out this week -- An unidentified member of -- Cost of a tax increase to be
do x, y, z, I think that misses the budget, the House Republicans’ and time is running short on the Yemen’s ruling People's General proposed by President Obama to
mark.” plan to fund the government for debt demand, so members are Congress Party to the Wall Street pay for unemployment benefits.
-- House Majority Leader Eric the remaining seven months of the getting antsy about how far their Journal. The Wall Street Journal estimates
Cantor, R-Va., talking to reporters f i s c a l y e a r a n d t h e leaders are going to push the issue The world is waiting anxiously to that the cost to a business with
about President Obama's speech administration’s pending request of fiscal austerity. see if any legitimate secular 500 employees under the Obama
to the Chamber of Congress. for an increase in the $14.3 The defeat Tuesday night of a opposition can arise in Egypt that administration proposal to raise
The top three House Republicans trillion debt ceiling. Republican effort to pass a will offer a middle way between payroll taxes to cover state
a r e h e a d i n g t o l u n c h w i t h The absence of Budget Chairman reauthorization of the Patriot Act the continued rule of President unemployment benefits would be
President Obama at the White Paul Ryan suggests that this will in fast fashion with a Hosni Mubarak’s ruling claque more than $90,000 a year.
House today, and the subject not be a discussion of fiscal policy supermajority vote came as a and Islamist radicals. For whatever reason, the first
m a t t e r w i l l n o t l i k e l y a i d but a presentation of political result of eight libertarian-minded But the problem is that in Egypt, proposal from the president’s
anybody’s appetite. grievances. Republicans who unexpectedly as in other authoritarian states in 2012 budget, due out Monday, to
Obama’s invitation to Speaker We have yet to hear from the joined Democrats in opposing the the Middle East, the opposition be floated publicly is a plan to
John Boehner, Majority Leader Republican leadership exactly measure. parties allowed to function are postpone repayments of $42
Eric Cantor and Majority Whip what they will demand from The bill will yet pass and the sort of like the foils for Harlem billion owed to the federal
Kevin McCarthy, is part of the Obama in return for again raising Republican leadership doesn’t Globetrotters, the Washington government for states’ shares of
p r e s i d e n t ’ s n e w c o u r t e s y the borrowing limit. Proposals on need a supermajority to advance Generals. Nobody thinks they will unemployment benefits.
offensive in which he will be the Republican side include a legislation under normal win so nobody roots for them in The Center on Budget and Policy
talking with Republicans instead balanced budget amendment, deep circumstances, but the surprising elections. Priorities estimates that states face
of just talking about Republicans. cuts in 2012 and deeper cuts to defeat suggests that there may be The U.S. has long provided a combined $124.7 billion budget
T h e p u r p o s e , g i v e n t h e spending levels. some problems with either unit support for these persistent shortfall in 2012. California leads
hierarchical guest list, is likely to Republicans have bolstered their cohesion among the membership failures on the grounds that fake with $25.4 billion and Illinois
be the president’s budget, due out bargaining position by proposing or vote counting among the democracy is better than nothing, comes in second with a $15
n e x t w e e k . T h i s b r i e f i n g a plan by which the government leadership. Democrats are but as our government looks to billion shortfall.
represents a shift for the might not default on its cackling over the stumble. these groups to stand up while the
administration, which in previous o b l i g a t i o n s b y s e q u e n c i n g Today’s lunch means Team old order crumbles across the LET'S page 15
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continued from page 14
What the administration will
propose won’t help states cut into
those shortfalls directly, but
would prevent automatic hikes in
state payroll rates to cover the
state obligations that are written
into current law. Avoiding those
taxes may help states hold on to
taxpaying companies and,
especially in places like Illinois
where lawmakers just decided to
jack up rates or California where
Gov. Jerry Brown is seeking a
sharp increase.
Think of this as a continuation of
part of the Obama stimulus. The
initial plan gave states money to
augment unemployment rolls, this
would do the same, but in the
form of debt forgiveness, rather
than direct subsidy.
Remember also that a lot of the
money states owe is obligated to
federal programs. Medicaid is the
biggest part of many state budgets
and matching funds on other
welfare programs and
infrastructure projects take big
bites. The path to the next state
bailout could be in debt
forgiveness rather than direct
subsidies.
The idea paying for this bailout
with an employment tax has
induced widespread sputtering
and disbelief. There are many
portions of the president’s budget
that will never get through the
House, but increasing taxes on
companies for hiring people will
be defeated with particular relish.
The plan may be part of a larger
concept of broadening
unemployment benefits on a
permanent basis. The 26-week
insurance program has turned into
a 99-week welfare program
during the protracted recession.
But whatever its objective, the
plan’s destination will still be
defeat.
Another quick complaint about
the bailout proposal came from
the 20 states not in arrears on their
unemployment obligations, states
that have allowed automatic
payroll tax hikes to kick in to
cover the gap instead of delaying.
Consider what Paul Trause,
employment security
commissioner for Washington
State, told the Wall Street Journal:
"The current proposal provides no
recognition or reward for the
employers in our state that have
paid higher taxes for a number of
years to ensure that our trust fund
remains solvent during tough
economic times."
EPA Hearing Will Bring Noise
Pollution
"Simply put, you can't work if you
can't breathe,"
-- Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.,
rebutting Republican claims that
stringent new EPA regulations
would cost the nation jobs.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson
heads to the House today to
answer questions about her
agency plan to address concerns
about Global Warming by
classifying carbon dioxide – the
fourth most common element in
the earth’s atmosphere – as a
hazard to human health.
She may want to bring some
barrels and some rodeo clowns
with her, because the bulls will be
charging hard today. Jackson has
been openly defiant of the
bipartisan call for her agency to
step back, and promised that
President Obama will protect the
controversial carbon plan with a
veto if necessary. Republicans
and carbon-state Democrats will
have some very pointed questions
for Jackson, which she will work
hard to obstruct.
If the hearing goes particularly
poorly it could set of a FOIA and
subpoena battle between the
House and the administration.
Oversight Committee Chairman
Darrell Issa already got brushed
off by Homeland Security for a
document request. The battle
could broaden today.
The acrimony will be so intense
that it will likely overshadow the
contentious hearing around the
corner as Ben Bernanke faces
seriously peeved Republicans.
Bernanke has so far declined to
take any responsibility for
mounting inflation anxiety, but
Republicans believe his
aggressive cash dumps – the
current one is $600 billion – of
conjured money is pushing prices
up.
The EPA hearing will offer more
drama, but the Bernanke
testimony may be more
consequential. He faces Budget
Committee Chairman Paul Ryan,
the top numbers guy on the GOP
side. If Ryan walks away
unsatisfied he could add big
momentum to extend for the first
time House oversight to
Bernanke’s secretive central bank.
It likely did not help Bernanke’s
status in the majority caucus when
he pooh-poohed a Republican
plan to avoid default without
increasing the debt ceiling as
“playing around.”
Jackson and Congress are already
deeply at odds, but Bernanke is
only viewed with a skeptical eye.
If he can’t win back some
confidence today, things will
devolve quickly.
Report Finds Obama CIA
Rewards Agents Who Botched
Missions
“It's not about retribution. It's
about maintaining discipline and
order and responsibility up and
down the command chain.
Otherwise trust is eroded."
-- John Maguire, a former senior
operations officer who spent 23
years at the CIA, talking to the
Associated Press.
Consider the case of Raymond
Davis, a former Special Forces
soldier who is currently at the
center of a huge diplomatic
standoff between the U.S. and
Pakistan.
Davis, who now works in
“security” at the U.S. consulate in
Lahore, shot and killed (with a
total of nine bullets) what he says
were two Pakistani street thugs on
motorcycles who were trying to
rob him (if so, they picked the
wrong car to jack). When local
police arrived, they detained
Davis and found in his possession
a pocket telescope, a headband
flashlight, a camera with lots of
pictures of Pakistani buildings of
dubious aesthetic or cultural value
and various identification cards
that show him simultaneously to
be a Defense Department
15
contractor and a State Department
employee.
Pakistan was already burning
with resentment toward America
and the West for the secret war
our intelligence agencies are
fighting in that country. Our
diplomatic stations in Pakistan
have grown massively in recent
years and are believed by locals to
be something more akin to tactical
headquarters for spying and
covert operations than outposts of
cultural understanding.
But the deaths of these two
young Pakistanis, said by local
police to be unarmed, has further
inflamed the citizenry. The U.S.
has told the teetering government
of President Asif Ali Zardari that
Davis must be handed over under
the conventions of diplomatic
immunity. Zardari, facing popular
unrest and the massive threat of
Islamists in his country, has so far
declined to intervene. The wife of
one of the dead men has killed
herself and the local press is in
more of an uproar than usual. It is
an open question whether Zardari
could even get the local
authorities in the 81-million
resident Punjab Province, now an
Islamist hotbed, to release Davis.
In a move that sorely tests the
credibility of the concept of a
state visit, Zardari is due in
Washington next month for a red
carpet reception at the White
House. The visit is a payback for
having the leader of Pakistan’s
detested rival, India, for such a
visit in 2009 (thence came the
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Deadly Protests Erupt In Southern Egypt

(FOXNews.com) video of the panorama. The said she had heard of recent Democratic Party after his release we have been mistrusting the
Submitted at 2/9/2011 9:58:25 AM protesters suspect these are detentions involving "lower-level and urged him to quit because his regime. If we leave, the police
undercover police documenting harassment" of people party was "rotten." will come back."
Three people are reportedly dead who is attending the protests and approaching Tahrir Square with In the interview, Ghonim joked: Many just do not believe the
and 100 others were wounded fear that if they don't win far- blankets and other supplies, or for "It looks like I might be government will deliver. They
when clashes erupted in southern reaching concessions soon, an alleged violations of a nightly kidnapped again after this." have heard similar promises
Egypt Wednesday, an official told e m b o l d e n e d s e c u r i t y curfew. Though they have not reached before, but the changes never
AFP. establishment will identify and "There are new reports every their ultimate goal of pushing came to pass.
This latest violence comes after round them up, one by one. day," said rights activist Heba Mubarak out, two weeks of And they see a basic conundrum
l a s t w e e k ' s d e a d l y c l a s h e s "We've heard about plainclothes Morayef. "It's not all targeted." protests have already brought the in the promises of reform: How
b e t w e e n a n t i - g o v e r n m e n t security milling about in the The Arab Network for Human most far-reaching concessions the can those who created an
demonstrators and pro-Mubarak crowd," said Salih Abdul Aziz, Rights Information, an Egyptian regime has ever offered. Mubarak autocratic system, built on
supporters. 39, who first joined protests at the group, said a prominent Egyptian sacked his Cabinet and appointed privileges for the few and the
A U.S.-based human rights watch square on Jan. 28, a day of intense blogger has been missing since a new one, including the first vice repression of many, be
group believes nearly 300 people clashes with riot police. "We are Sunday night. president he has ever designated. responsible for dismantling it?
are dead since protests erupted careful in what we say to each Abdel Kareem Nabil disappeared He promised he would not seek re Within the same week, the
three weeks ago. other. And we don't talk politics after leaving Tahrir Square, said -election later this year and the government made extraordinary
The Jerusalem Post is reporting very much to people we don't Gamal Eid, a group activist. Nabil government also assured pledges not to harass protesters
that the Muslim Brotherhood will know." was released in November after protesters his son Gamal would and to investigate election fraud
not field a presidential candidate For decades, Egyptians have four years in jail for writings not run, as many had feared. The and official graft while hinting
for Egypt's September elections. endured brutality and corruption deemed insulting to Islam and for leadership of the ruling party was darkly at foreign influence in the
"The Muslim Brotherhood is not at the hands of police, and fear is calling Mubarak "a symbol of purged. protests.
seeking power. We will not have a part of their fiber. A 30-year-old tyranny." In addition, the new vice That was a slap to a movement
a presidential candidate," an t e a c h e r w h o h a s m e t w i t h Eid said his group has recorded president, Omar Suleiman, that, by most accounts, is
official said, according to the government officials to discuss around 40 people missing, and offered to embark on a far- homegrown even if it drew
paper. reforms said one of the protesters' believed to be in detention, since reaching set of reforms to include inspiration from the revolt in
The Muslim Brotherhood also main demands is the annulment of Jan. 28. He said it was not a amending the constitution to Tunisia, another North African
says they "reject the religious Egypt's repressive emergency comprehensive list and that his provide for greater political Arab nation.
state," the Jerusalem Post reports. laws, which the government has group was still compiling data on freedoms and competition in Suleiman, who has been
Protesters are beginning to worry promised to lift eventually. missing people. elections for both parliament and managing the crisis, is just an
that President Hosni Mubarak or "This must happen. Otherwise we On Monday, the government the presidency. extension of the problem for
leaders he has chosen may hang are not safe. We can be arrested freed Wael Ghonim, a Google However, many protesters are many denizens of Tahrir Square.
on to power. anytime," said the teacher, who Inc. executive who was behind a deeply mistrustful of those They see the former intelligence
If they do, there is a growing fear only gave her first name, Heba, Facebook page that rallied support promises. chief and army general as an
that the entrenched regime will try for fear of government retribution. for the protest movement. The Ahmed Hosni, a 38-year-old incarnation of his boss.
to exact revenge in the way it has The emergency laws expand government has promised to disabled man, said he lost his leg In this shifting landscape, it is
done so many times before — police powers and sharply curtail release other detained protesters, to an accident in 2003 because hard for protesters to know
m a s s a r r e s t s a n d a b u s e o f rights to demonstrate and organize though it has not commented on when he was moved to a hospital, whether they are winning or
detainees. politically. The restrictions were the numbers and location of there was not enough equipment losing, whether the concessions
Many in Tahrir Square, the imposed after the assassination of people it is holding. to treat his simple injury and he amount to a real victory as long as
epicenter of the protests in Cairo, President Anwar Sadat in 1981, Talking to an Egyptian station, was left bleeding. the president of nearly three
have noticed some in the crowds which led to Mubarak taking station Dream 2 TV, Ghonim "We cannot leave the square decades is still in his palace.
who look out of place. They hold power. described how he met the new because we don't trust the
mobile telephones aloft, recording A Human Rights Watch worker head of the ruling National regime," he said. "For 30 years, DEADLY page 18
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Bernanke says job growth, inflation still too low
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:02:48 AM
Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Ben Bernanke testifies on the
state of the U.S. economy before
the House Budget Committee on
Capitol Hill, February 9, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
By Pedro da Costa and Mark
Felsenthal
WASHINGTON| Wed Feb 9,
2011 12:02pm EST
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - U.S.
unemployment is too high despite
an improving economy, Federal
Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
told Congress on Wednesday,
suggesting the central bank has no
intention of cutting short a $600
billion bond-buying program.
In testimony to the House of
Representatives Budget
Committee that largely echoed a
speech he delivered last week, the
Fed chief also warned about the
dangers of unsustainable budget
deficits.
Acknowledging a recent pickup
in the economy, Bernanke said a
sharp drop in the jobless rate to 9
percent in January from 9.8
percent in November, the biggest
two-month decline since 1958,
was "grounds for optimism."
However, he noted hiring is still
anemic.
"The job market has improved
only slowly," he said, noting the
economy had only made up just
over one million of the more than
eight million jobs lost during the
deepest recession in generations.
"This gain was barely sufficient to
News Wire/ 17
accommodate the inflow of recent bond purchases were eroding the lenders and credit card
graduates and other new entrants dollar's value. companies, along with a 24%
into the labor force and, therefore, "There is nothing more insidious interest rate, people do not have
not enough to significantly erode that a country can do to its sufficient credit available to
the wide margin of slack that citizens than debase its currency," conduct business or the desire
remains in our labor market," he Ryan said. make personal purchases. Many
added. However, Bernanke said the Fed are using their savings for some
In November, the Fed launched a was focused appropriately on purchases and others are simply
plan to buy $600 billion in underlying domestic inflation, keeping their wallets in their
government debt to keep a lid on which has been hovering near pockets and are waiting to see
long-term borrowing costs and record lows. which direction we take. All of
support a fragile economic On the budget, the Fed chairman this results in a sluggish economy.
rebound. delivered a message he has Further, the impact of the federal
That program drew ire from offered repeatedly: either government is no longer trusted.
many policy-makers in emerging legislators bring deficits under Therefore, the recovery will last
markets, who accused the United control or the markets will force longer. It is time to turn the
States of unfairly driving down them to. government around and get back
the value of the U.S. dollar to • Share this to the basics – stop government
boost exports. At home, many • Link this expansion and spending and let
Republican lawmakers attacked • Digg this the citizen consumer keep his
the program as potentially sowing • Email money, etc…Monty Weddell
the seeds of inflation. • Reprints Dallas, TX rick121x wrote:
Bernanke said inflation remains Sometimes I can hardly believe
quite low in the United States, a moweddell wrote: that I am so ignorant: Bernake’s
tough message to deliver amid What did Bernanke expect? The n o t i o n t h a t i n f l a t i o n i s
headlines of rising food and unemployment rate published independent or rising food and
commodity costs across the globe. c u r r e n t l y a t 9 % i s f a l s e . commodity costs. Is it that these
He also said expectations of Beginning Jan. 1, the last years are “global” that makes them
future inflation had remained unemployed, both for the annual independent? Or is it that his
"stable," suggesting little worry an year ending, and the expired income is such that it he does not
inflationary psychology was benefit recipiants were dropped notice these effects? When food
building despite rising gasoline off the state lists. This accounted goes up, does not the price
costs. for about 1.5%, thus yielding a inflate? It seems to me that it
"Inflation is expected to persist real recent unemployed at 10.5% does!
below the levels that Federal nationally. Further, the “Bail Out” …just so dumb these days! Or
Reserve policymakers have programs were in the most part m a y b e i t i s n o t m e ? ? ? ?
judged to be consistent" with their distrubuted to the very ones b a j a p o l e d a n c e r w r o t e :
mandate, Bernanke repeated. causing the economic disaster. The Bernack is in his
DEFLECTING CRITICS Little of these funds got into the world….yes simple things such as
The chairman of the committee, pockets of the actual major food and gas for the car are not
Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of contributors to the national even on his radar! We are in such
Wisconsin, took issue with the economy – the consumers and a mess that has been building up
Fed Chairman's sanguine view. In the Fed's policies as providing the small business. With the tight
opening comments he criticized fuel for future bubbles and money policies of the major BERNANKE page 20
inflation, suggesting the Fed's
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Egypt counts cost of turmoil, protesters undaunted

(Reuters: Top News) on to the state radio and television government to end emergency law immediately. So what is this single idea,
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:28:33 AM building on Friday, the day of the and implement more political • Share this faction and ideology which
next big scheduled demonstration. reform, echoing comments made • Link this certain demonstrators and
P r o t e s t e r s t a k e f a m i l y "I think people outside will make by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden • Digg this commentators believe will bring
p h o t o g r a p h s o n d e s t r o y e d crowds outside the radio and on Tuesday. • Email nirvana – it simply does not exist.
v e h i c l e s d u r i n g m a s s television ... President Mubarak The Obama administration • Reprints The fact is Mubarak represents a
demonstrations inside Tahrir will fall soon, in three or four appears worried that Mubarak's constituency and this
Square in Cairo February 9, 2011. days," said Mohamed Sadik, a government will not make Anthonykovic wrote: constituency’s ideology as well as
Credit: Reuters/Dylan Martinez Cairo engineer. meaningful changes in the most The US should unequivocally those demonstrating from various
By Yasmine Saleh and Patrick The television building, populous Arab nation, a strategic support the Egyptian people rather fractions need to be dealt with in
Werr surrounded by armored army U.S. partner due to its peace treaty than that dictator Mubarak. The an appropriate constitutional
CAIRO| Wed Feb 9, 2011 vehicles, is on the Nile about one with Israel and control of the Suez masses who partook of the Iranian manner otherwise it will create
12:28pm EST km (half a mile) north of Tahrir Canal. revolution remembered how the chaos not harmony.
CAIRO(Reuters) - Egyptians Square. Protestors said they might Vice President Omar Suleiman, US supported the brutal Shah of Clearly one has to go back to the
counted the economic cost of also try to spread toward the two who has been holding talks with Iran …. and look what happened: beginning the ethic which forms
more than two weeks of turmoil houses of parliament which are opposition groups, has said there they have been vehemently anti- the rock upon which a
on Wednesday as protesters on also nearby. was now a road map to hand over American ever since. Obama constitution is based and if it is
Cairo's Tahrir Square looked " B U L W A R K A G A I N S T power, but protesters have been would be wise to learn from ‘Enabling the independence of
ahead to their next big push to M I L I T A N T I S L A M " unmoved by the plan. history. Anthonykovic wrote: other first’ then maybe Egyptians
oust President Hosni Mubarak Three people were killed and A constitutional committee, The US should unequivocally citizens will achieve the type of
later in the week. several suffered gunshot wounds appointed by Mubarak, has agreed support the Egyptian people rather Democracy others dream of.
A day after Egyptians staged one in clashes between security forces on six articles that should be than that dictator Mubarak. The Certainly women will not be
of their biggest protests in the and some 3,000 protesters in a amended and said further articles masses who partook of the Iranian holed up in houses covered from
capital, Tahrir Square remained desert province far from Cairo on could also be changed, the official revolution remembered how the head to toe in black.
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"What motivated me, and so many
other people, was to make
Mubarak go," said Ahmad Issam,
a 31-year-old engineer in a suit
and tie who came to protest in
Tahrir Square after work. "Then
the brainwashing attempts: the
rumors, the media, showed that
the regime hasn't changed."
The Associated Press contributed
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Whale Rescue: Big Hearts Needed to Help Stranded Pilot

Whales (Photos)
(Epoch Times | All headlines) few died, the majority made it so big, yet fragile!
Submitted at 2/9/2011 4:55:34 AM back to sea on the overnight high [ Story continues following
tide. slideshow]
By Cindy Drukier and Charlotte The following day, however, “Others are stuck on their sides.
Cuthbertson Project Jonah reported that 41 We can right them, but they need
Epoch Times Staff Created: Feb whales had become restranded to be held up until they get their
9, 2011 Last Updated: Feb 9, and immediately put out an urgent balance back. Gentle rocking can
2011 alert for volunteers to help refloat help once they are afloat. The
One of dozens of pilot whales the mammals. babies can swim first in the
stranded on the beach, a long way Claire Webster and Kyle shallower water so they hone
from the sea near Puponga, New Mulinder are two volunteers who around like little cow-sized
Zealand, on Feb. 4. (Courtesy of answered the call. missiles checking out
Kyle Mulinder) For now, the pilot Claire's Story everyone—very cute.
whales that were most recently (Diana Hubert/The Epoch Times) “Once they all get afloat they
stranded on a remote beach in Claire Webster, an environmental have a big talk and those who are
Puponga, New Zealand, appear to educator in Golden Bay, answered the worst off are held up by
be safely out at sea. But the local the call both times to help the others—very moving to see. Then
office of the Department of whales, as she’s done many times we make a people wall to try and
Conservation (DOC) and whale before. slowly push them into one group
protection organization Project “At one stage I was helping look and then out to deeper water. As
Jonah will continue to monitor the after a really big pregnant female “The whales have beautiful relax. Imagine lying face down
the tide is huge here, once we
situation closely. voices—out t h e i r with your arms stuck back up
and every time I stopped touching finish its about a 1 km [0.6 miles]
On Jan. 20, 24 pilot whales her and talking she would get blowholes—when they are in the behind you instead of hanging
walk back through the water to
stranded themselves on a beach at upset—I was with her about two water and you put your head down a bit. They need to be kept
shore.”
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Next: Kyle's Story
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since 1913. Think about for a
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minute…in just 1970 a new
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Sophie Lavers, Miss World Ms. Lavers felt Shen Yun was
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lesson in history and culture as
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Arts International Company on She felt the Shen Yun costumes recommend it to all my friends.” “I think it’s a perfect way and an 4,200) and had a pymt of approx
opening night at the Capitol also told a story, more than just Also a dancer, Ms. Lavers says interesting way for people to learn $150/month. Now I make about
Theatre on Tuesday, Feb. 8. material, an inner beauty which she has done a lot of classical more about the Chinese culture, the same income or less 40 years
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Germany's Deutsche Boerse is in
advanced talks to buy NYSE
Euronext, and the London Stock
Exchange has agreed to buy
Canadian stock market operator
TMX, as exchanges globally look
for ways to boost their markets
and cut costs.
Together, Deutsche Boerse and
NYSE Euronext would dominate
exchange trading in continental
Europe. The companies said they
could cut costs by 300 million
euros ($408.7 million) a year.
The combined group would have
headquarters in New York and
Frankfurt, with Deutsche Boerse
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built a helmet equipped with
razors that can shave your head
shareholders holding about 60
percent of the combined company
and NYSE shareholders holding
the rest. The companies disclosed
their talks on Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, LSE said it
would buy TMX, forming the
world's fourth-largest exchange
and a top center for trading
mining and energy shares, with
$4.1 trillion of stock changing
hands a year. The exchanges are
looking to regain market share
lost to upstart electronic trading
platforms.
Other exchanges could face
similar pressure to merge,
analysts said.
"These mergers don't take place
on a one-off basis; they come in
clusters," said Thomas Caldwell,
chief executive of Caldwell
Securities Ltd in Toronto, which
invests in exchanges.
One exchange seen as a possible
acquisition target is CBOE
Holdings Inc, experts said.
Options exchanges have been
growing fast, while stock market
trading volume has been moving
while you wear it. It's a bit like a
headcrab, but with fewer zombie-
related outcomes.
Four razors mounted on Teflon-
coated rails take on the job of
away from traditional exchanges
and toward electronic trading
venues like privately held BATS
Global Markets. CBOE shares
rose 9.6 percent to $26.88.
"The next logical step would be
for the Nasdaq or CME Group or
even the ICE to take out CBOE
Holdings Inc," said Jon Najarian,
a co-founder of web information
site Optionmonster.com in
Chicago.
LSE shares rose 9 percent after
the TMX deal was announced,
which is unusual; acquirers' share
prices often fall. The rising price
signals LSE could be getting a
good deal, which in turn could
mean another buyer might offer a
higher price for TMX.
But some bankers dismissed such
speculation.
"You would need to put a cash bid
on the table and a premium,
which might require cuts at TMX,
and the Canadian regulators
would not like that one bit," one
banker said.
If the combination survives likely
political opposition in Canada, a
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value of 4.3 billion pounds ($6.9
billion) based on Tuesday's prices,
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Salahis). A 21-gun salute for the
leader of a country so infested
with corruption and Islamic
radicalism that Zardari’s regime
seems to function on a day-to-day
basis was already going to be
tough to pull off before the Davis
debacle.
If Zardari doesn’t obtain Davis’
release, though, the visit could be
off – which would likely be a
relief for President Obama – and
the relations between the two
countries would descend from
strained cordiality to open
confrontation – which would be a
relief to no one.
Davis may simply be a security
contractor out scouting locations,
but he looks like a spy to the
Pakistani public. And the incident
highlights the complications and
perils of fighting a shadowy war
against unconventional foes in
terrible parts of the world.
A new report out today from the
Associated Press documents
numerous occasions when serious
failures by CIA operatives –
snatching the wrong guy in a
botched rendition, accidentally
killing a detainee, and most
seriously, allowing an al Qaeda
double agent into a U.S. base to
One Really Good Chart For The Bulls Today
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:50:38 AM
The major indices are off a bit
detonate a suicide bomb last year
– have resulted in uneven,
sometimes negligible,
consequences.
The AP found that officers
responsible for such failures have
been promoted repeatedly, and
demonstrates an almost endearing
credulousness when expressing
surprise that officers who did such
things “under the Bush
administration” have not been
drummed out of the service with
Obama in the White House. This
is one of the most notable forms
of Washington press thinking:
when guys with guns do bad
things in the employ of
Republican presidents it is
described as part of a reckless
cowboy culture, when they do the
same things under Democratic
presidents, reporters lament the
executive’s inability to bring
reform to ossified and brutish
agencies.
CIA old timers defend the lax
penalties for top officers who
blow missions on the grounds that
agents need to feel free to take
risks in defense of national
security. This is not the court
system, they would argue, this is
espionage and counterterrorism
today -- which is tantamount to a
HUGE loss these days -- but
here's something to cheer.
Consumer discretionaries are
and bad things happen.
But, the CIA now has tens of
thousands of employees and an
unknown number of contractors
who aren’t just doing spy stuff but
acting as frontline soldiers in the
war against Islamists. The drones
killing baddies in Pakistan and
Yemen and covert operations
around the world are CIA jobs.
Those calling for reform in light
of the AP report, including some
other old timers, suggest that
because the job and mission of the
agency has changed so much
since the cloak and dagger days of
the Cold War that the CIA needs
something more akin to a military
command and accountability
structure to prevent excesses.
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Attracting More Than One
Million Monthly Job Views
Leena Rao (TechCrunch) ask for a recommendation or job
advice. Jibe uses a credit system
Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:33:44 AM
that allows applicants to apply for
We’ve covered TechCrunch 50 jobs. Applicants can earn credits
c o m p a n y J i b e ( f o r m e r l y by linking their Jibe account to
LocalBacon), which is a next- their various social networks,
g e n e r a t i o n j o b b o a r d t h a t broadcasting their job search,
leverages Facebook, LinkedIn and sending private messages through
Twitter to help job seekers find the system, or updating their work
the best positions in the job history profile.
market. On the enterprise side, Jibe
Jibe has signed up 25 percent of allows companies to add a social
the Fortune 50 as clients and is layer to the evaluation and vetting
announcing that the site has process. And Jibe, which has
grown 454 percent since the start raised $875,000 in seed funding,
of 2011, surpassing more than one says that large companies like
million monthly job views. In Amazon, MTV and HP are
January alone, more than 540,000 adopting Jibe because it can be
job seekers visited JIBE to apply easily integrated into existing
for jobs at Amazon, Bank of recruiting software.
America, Intel, AT&T and Merck. Job boards are dying as social
On Jibe, job seekers sign in with networks like LinkedIn and
Facebook Connect. The platform Facebook (i.e. BranchOut) take
will then pull in their work and over professional networking and
education history from their job search. But Jibe actually
F a c e b o o k p r o f i l e a n d f r o m combines a job seeker’s LinkedIn
LinkedIn to pre-populate their and Facebook social graphs,
Jibe profile. Then for every job which helps the site stand out
posting, they can see if they are from competitors. CrunchBase
connected to anyone at that Information JIBE Information
company. Jibe allows members to provided by CrunchBase
message those people directly to
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Like Home -app purchases ring up
(FOXNews.com) "We've become more says Manning, "is to try to
Submitted at 2/9/2011 9:58:25 AM experimental about the way we
offer education to children,” says
provide opportunities that kids in
any school, public or private,
$1,400 in charges
Anne Gebhardt’s kids are David Chard, Dean of the School have.” Megan Lavey (TUAW)
learning about geography -- in her o f E d u c a t i o n a n d H u m a n One of Anne Gebhardt’s kids Submitted at 2/9/2011 1:00:00 PM

dining room in Bedford, Texas. D e v e l o p m e n t a t S o u t h e r n says she feels anything but

It’s not your typical schoolhouse, Methodist University. "Many deprived. Eighteen year old It's not exactly a new thing, but
but it’s one that Gebhardt says is parents are able to provide strong Meghan Gebhardt graduated from the Washington Post reported on
serving her six children well. "We educational opportunity for kids," home school last year and has the latest episode of a child
can teach our religious values to he added. been taking online college classes spending hundreds -- actually
o u r c h i l d r e n f r e e l y , ” s a y s But it’s not all about reading, while planning her next move. $1,400 -- on in-app purchases. In
Gebhardt. “We can teach anything writing and arithmetic. Chard said She said she feels like her this case, the 8-year-old was
that we want." he worries home schooled education was better than what buying Smurfberries to decorate
Gebhardt is part of a growing students may be lacking in less she could have received in any the Smurfs' Village app. You can
trend. Across the county, an tangible subjects, things like traditional school, public or spend up to $99.99 for a single in-
estimated 1.5 million children are developing social or coping skills. private. “The parent, because she app purchase of the berries. Apple a credit card with a very small
home schooled and that number's Programs have sprung up over knows the kids, she knows how provided the family a refund after credit line that cuts off when it
growing. In the span of eight the years to help with that. In they learn,” Meghan Gebhardt the mother received the bill. reaches its limit.
years, home schooling has grown Texas, the state with the largest said. “She can shape the way she The article points out that these Apple is not the only company
nationally by almost 75 percent. number of home schooled kids, teaches so they can learn better." sorts of purchases are being out there to have in-app or in-line
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Marketing Corner: Tweet Me or Tweet Me Not
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 6:47:52 AM
TWEET-MARKETING: The
Twitter homepage appears on a
screen in Washington on Sept. 3,
2010. Sending "tweets" presents a
marketing opportunity for small
businesses. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP
/Getty Images) Sending “tweets”
is one of the hottest trends among
American adults, and small-
business owners should look into
whether this is a viable platform
to promote their businesses.
Many adults participate in this
activity daily. As to be expected,
women, city dwellers, minorities
(African-Americans and
Hispanics), and those under the
age of 30 with a higher level of
education are the heavier users of
Twitter. Plus, consumers who use
Twitter spend more time viewing
videos on this social platform than
on any other.
Here’s the burning question of
the day for small-business
owners: Just how useful is this
vehicle to drive sales? Well, this
vehicle shouldn’t be looked upon
as a sales mechanism.
However, it should be looked
upon as a means to cultivate a
Say Hello To The Palm Touchpad
John Biggs (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:09:51 AM
It’s official: HP/Palm is releasing 13mm thick and has a front
a new tablet called the Touchpad. webcam as well as up to 64GB of
Precentral has some hot news storage.
dialogue with social media users.
By virtue of this method of
communication allowing constant,
on-the-go interaction and having
viral possibilities, it allows for the
users to discuss those things of
interest—ranging from the
personal and work-related, to
news headlines, and so on.
Identify touch points that
resonate with consumers and then
encourage a dialogue using social
media vehicles such as Twitter.
Since “tweets” are sent multiple
about this new 10-inch Palm slate.
It is a touchscreen device running
WebOS. It weighs 1.5 pounds and
times within a day, it does provide
an advantageous opportunity for
business owners by “tweeting”
your own topical messages. It
would be the hope that these
messages generate interest with
other “tweeters.” Hence, the
message becomes viral.
Of course, these message
placements should not be a hard
product sell. That approach would
just turn off the “tweeter” and
defeat the purpose of why your
company engaged in the dialogue
Robert Scoble, of all people, also
from the start.
Small business owners should
strongly think about the high
engagement rate consumers have
with videos. Given the time spent
watching videos, “Tweeters,” in
particular, are an especially
attractive audience to target with
this vehicle. Videos should be
another component sought to
compliment any social media
campaign. Again, just ensure it is
relevant!
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advertising consultant with 20+
years experience, freelance writer,
and soon to be published author of
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Over the Horizon:
Egypt's Army and
Military Professionalism
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Submitted at 2/9/2011 12:27:00 AM
One simple rule of revolution is
that regimes fall when their
security services refuse to fire on
protesters, while uprisings often
falter when security forces do go
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ahead and shoot. The situation in
Egypt remains fluid, but thus far
the Egyptian army has not
violently put down the protest
movement. Why? The answer is
complicated.
Mark Thompson argued at Time's
Swampland blog that the exposure
of Egyptian military officers to
norms of professionalism and
civilian control in the United
States may have been
determinative in the Egyptian
army's decision not to crush the
anti-Mubarak protests.
Thompson's argument draws on
several strands of thought on how
military-to-military contacts make
a difference(.pdf). While it's
almost certainly an exaggeration
to assert that ties with the U.S.
military caused the Egyptian army
to observe restraint, it's quite
likely that changing norms of
military professionalism did play
a role in the army's decision.
Nevertheless, there are reasons to
be skeptical of an account of
Egyptian army behavior focusing
on military-to-military ties. The
Egyptian army has many reasons
for behaving as it has, including a
reluctance to damage its hard-won
position in Egyptian society.
Senior Egyptian officers may also
have feared that junior officers
and enlisted personnel would
disobey orders to fire on the
protesters. Even to the extent that
relations with the United States
did have an impact, the direct
provision of military equipment
and training may have played a
greater role than the diffusion of
international norms.
The Egyptian army certainly has
good reason to be wary of the
current uprising. Revolutions can
sometimes result in the isolation
of a country's military community
from its international peers.
Following the Iranian Revolution,
for instance, those officers from
the shah's army who continued to
serve the Islamic Republic found
themselves cut off from the
international military community.
Similarly, the Russian Revolution
separated the Soviet Union's
professional officer corps from its
counterparts in the West, leading
to the development of an
alternative community.
But people do not operate solely
according to the logic of
consequences. The logic of
appropriateness also informs our
behavior. And if social norms and
mores do not dictate behavior,
they certainly inform it. The
integration of Egyptian soldiers
into an international community
of professional military officers
has inevitably helped to spread
the norms associated with that
community. For military
professionals, those norms
increasingly include a reluctance
to engage in direct, explicit
political activity, and a respect for
objective civilian control of the
military.
Professional military officers
constitute an international
community of individuals with
similar interests, education, and
norms. Military officers from
different countries regularly meet
to discuss technical issues, to
smooth over difficult problems,
and to facilitate cooperation on
common problems. Other
community-building activities
include bilateral and multilateral
military exercises, officer
exchanges, technology-oriented
training missions, and a wide
variety of conferences and other
events. For example, the
International Fellows Program at
the Army War College includes
officers from 40 different
countries. While this process is
not as simple as a direct transfer
of norms and training from the
U.S. Army to the Egyptian army,
initiatives like the International
Fellows Program facilitate the
development of a sense of
community.
One of the key norms that the
community of military
professionals can inculcate is
respect for civilian control of the
military. In many parts of the
world, the military still plays an
active, explicit role in politics,
either through the seizure of
power or through the intimidation
of civilian authorities. However,
in others, the idea that the military
should refrain from direct
intervention in politics has
become a settled question. In
Latin America, for example, the
incidence of military coups has
dropped dramatically over the
past 30 years. In Turkey, the
military has largely stood aside as
a democratically elected Islamist
government has increasingly put
its mark on the country's domestic
politics and foreign policy.
As always, complex phenomena
have complex causes, but the
development of norms against
political intervention within the
professional military community
may have played a significant role
in the reduced incidence of direct
military interventions in those
areas where such a reduction has
taken place. Carol Atkinson of the
University of Southern California
has argued that military-to-
military ties with the United
States, which often include
interaction with the international
community of officers, tend to
produce more-liberal outcomes.
Officers become socialized to
particular roles within the social
structure that rule out certain
actions and make others
appropriate.
However, the diffusion of the
professional, objective model of
civilian control can't be taken for
granted, even when foreign
military officers study in the
United States. Attentiveness to
rules and norms doesn't happen
solely by osmosis; it also depends
on the active effort to teach and
transfer new ways of behavior.
Even the degree of emphasis put
on norms of professionalism can
matter in an army's behavior.
During the Cold War, many South
American military officers studied
in the United States at the well-
known School of the Americas
and elsewhere. These officers
went on to have a notoriously
poor record on upholding civilian
control, as well as on respect for
human rights.
For the United States at the time,
the maintenance of friendly
regimes in Latin America was far
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more important than the respect
for law or for orderly democratic
transitions. Consequently, many
senior officers in South America
came to understand that
overthrowing democratic
governments of a leftist bent
would be seen as necessary and
appropriate, and would be
tolerated and even welcomed by
Washington. Accordingly, even
though interactions with
American officers may have
inculcated some professional
norms, appreciation of these
norms was secondary to the
perceived need to hold the line
against communists, whether real
or perceived.
It's impossible to say the degree
to which contact between the
Egyptian army and the U.S.
military has mattered for Egyptian
decision-makers. However, there
is good reason to believe that U.S.
policymakers have thought along
the lines suggested by the "norms"
argument. A 2004 Brookings
Institution report(.pdf) by Steven
Cook on civil-military relations in
the Middle East identified Egypt
as a military-dominated regime.
Cook argued that the socialization
of Egypt's military into the norm
of objective civilian control
through military-to-military
contacts with the United States
could "alter the prevailing ethos
held within the officer corps that
justifies their influence and
intervention," representing one
step toward liberalization and
reform. Indeed, Cook suggests
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Mexico's Drug Cartels: Musical Chairs or Atomization?
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Submitted at 2/9/2011 1:47:00 AM
Mexico is not known for its start-
up ventures, whether in legitimate
business or in organized crime.
What Telmex and Televisa are to
the world of legal commerce --
unrepentant monopolists or
oligopolists, ruthlessly opposed to
new players in their respective
industries -- the Sinaloa cartel and
the Zetas are to the nation's
underworld.
Yet that appears to be changing,
at least in the criminal realm. The
past 12 months in Mexico have
been marked by a more
significant upsurge of previously
unknown groups than at any point
in recent history. Among the new
gangs: the Resistance, the New
Generation Jalisco Cartel, the
Independent Cartel of Acapulco
and the Pacific South Cartel.
And while these bands were
virtually unknown on a national
scale a year ago, they are already
capable of serious mayhem. The
recent bloodshed in Acapulco,
which includes the kidnapping
and murder of 20 Mexican
tourists last year and the
decapitation of 15 people in early
January, is attributed to the latter
two groups. Members of the
Resistance were recently arrested
outside Guadalajara with a rocket
launcher in their possession, and,
in a tactic new to the region, have
set up blockades to impede
pursuit by authorities.
The rise of the new gangs follows
an unusually tumultuous year for
the highest level of Mexican
traffickers, the capos. After being
largely spared during President
Felipe Calderón's first three years
in office, the capos have been
caught or killed with striking
regularity since cartel leader
Arturo Beltrán Leyva died in a
shootout with Mexican marines in
Cuernavaca in December 2009.
In the months following Beltrán
Leyva's death, Teo García,
Ezequiel Cárdenas, Ignacio
Coronel, Sergio Villarreal and
Edgar Valdez -- all major figures
representing a wide spectrum of
competing groups -- were either
killed by government forces or
taken into custody. Nazario
Moreno, a leader of the pseudo-
cultish gang known as La Familia
Michoacana, also died at the
hands of the federal troops in
December 2010. Even before his
death, La Familia was in disarray,
offering a truce with the
government in November, and
then announcing its dissolution in
January. Even the ostensibly
untouchable head of the Sinaloa
Cartel, Joaquín Guzmán Loera,
better known as El Chapo, has
lost a couple of lieutenants in
recent weeks.
According to official
explanations, the emergence of
new organizations is a byproduct
of the turmoil at the top of the
drug trade. The two groups from
Acapulco, the Independent and
Pacific South Cartels, are the
remnants of erstwhile members of
Beltrán Leyva's and Valdez's
networks. A few hundred miles to
the north, authorities, who have
offered various and sometimes
contradictory versions of the new
mafias' genesis, have said that the
New Generation Jalisco Cartel is
connected to Guzmán as well,
while the Resistance is made up
of former members of the
Cárdenas' Gulf Cartel and La
Familia.
There are two possible
explanations for the rise of the
new blood: In the first, they
represent the replacement of
fallen heavyweights, essentially
the younger generation rising up
to replace the older. In this
version, the growth of new
organizations is the industry's
natural, inevitable, and not
profoundly significant response to
the arrests of the past year. This is
just another case of musical
chairs, not qualitatively different
from the process by which
Guzmán came to the national fore
a generation ago.
Alternatively, the increased
turmoil may indicate the opening
of a very different stage for
Mexico's drug trade. Analyzing
the significance of developments
within a clandestine industry in
real time lends itself to
misinterpretation, but the
emergence of newer, smaller
gangs, especially if it were to
continue in months and years to
come, offers evidence of the
possible atomization of the
Mexican drug trade. That would
not be a new round of musical
chairs, but rather a brand new
game.
Atomization, a long-sought-after
result in which the large,
hegemonic networks divide into
fragments, would bring with it
both benefits and drawbacks.
Among the benefits, a nation full
of smaller, shorter-lived gangs
would eventually adopt a less
confrontational stance toward
Mexican authorities than we see
from the largest organizations
today. Endowed with less cash,
less geographic reach, and
consequently less influence
among government officials, the
smaller bands would present a
diminished threat to Mexico's
governing institutions.
But atomization wouldn't be a
panacea for all of Mexico's ills.
Colombia underwent a similar
transition in the 1990s with the
fall of the Medellín and Cali
cartels, and the country remains
both exceedingly violent -- far
more so than Mexico, despite
media depictions of a Colombian
security miracle -- and the world's
foremost producer of cocaine.
In the short term, all the turmoil
makes it unlikely that any
Mexican administration, whether
that of Calderón or his successor,
will have the political space to
ease up on its aggressive pursuit
of organized crime. The U.S. will
also face pressure to continue
supporting Mexican efforts to
tamp down on drug gangs, most
notably through bilateral
agreements like the Mérida
Initiative.
Down the line, however, if the
challenge becomes one of scores
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of smaller groups rather than a
handful of very big ones, the
governmental response will have
to adjust as well. American
support, especially in the form of
the helicopters on which much of
the Mérida Initiative is based, will
be less important than Mexican
policing capability, from the elite
Federal Police units down to the
local-level municipal beat cops.
And while Mexico would be
happy to be rid of its most
powerful kingpins in such a
scenario, the painstaking
institutional reform required for
such a transition could turn out to
be just as daunting. One of the
most enduring lessons of the war
on drugs is that the consequences
of a given policy shift are
impossible to gauge ahead of
time.
Patrick Corcoran is a student of
international relations at Johns
Hopkins' School of Advanced
International Studies. He lived in
northern Mexico from 2005 to
2010, and blogs daily about
Mexican security and politics at
Gancho.
Photo: Mexican troops at
checkpoint, March 2009 (photo
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that the U.S. should similarly
engage military officers in Syria.
If engagement with the Egyptian
army did help prevent a massacre
in Tahrir Square, then there's a
good case for expanding existing
institutions that facilitate military-
to-military ties.
The Egyptian officer corps faces
multiple dilemmas. If it allows a
revolution to go forward, it runs
the risk of Iranian-style isolation
from the international community,
which would limit its access to
technology, training, and
socialization. On the other hand,
if it helps put down the protesters,
it similarly runs the risk of
violating some of the key norms
that have come to constitute
appropriate, professional military
behavior. That might lead to a
similar level of exclusion, not to
mention dishonor and the loss of
the respect of the Egyptian
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people. We cannot know the
weight of the various factors
impacting the current decision-
making process of the Egyptian
army. However, while we cannot
say with certainty that the
institutionalization of military ties
between the U.S. and Egypt has
been the key factor influencing
the Egyptian army's behavior, we
also can't reject the potential
importance of such ties. In any
case, continuing programs that
inculcate the military profession
with respect for norms of civilian
control and human rights should
remain a U.S. priority.
Dr. Robert Farley is an assistant
professor at the Patterson School
of Diplomacy and International
Commerce at the University of
Kentucky. His interests include
national security, military
doctrine, and maritime affairs. He
blogs at Lawyers, Guns and
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Irony Alert: In the Middle of
Anti-Jailbreaking Lawsuit, Sony
Tweets Code to PS3 Jailbreak
Audrey Watters
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:08:29 AM
Sony's fictional spokesperson
Kevin Butler inadvertently
retweeted the jailbreak code to the
Sony Playstation 3 yesterday.
"Lemme guess, you sank my
battleship?" read the tweet
from@TheKevinButler, who then
retweeted the code that'd been
directed to the account by@exiva.
That account, Travis La Marr's discovery demands." Sony has
according to his Twitter profile, demanded that Google turn over
gave the code with a message to the IP addresses of those who
Sony: "come at me." have viewed or commented on the
Sponsor jailbreak video on YouTube. It
That challenge is a reference to has also demanded that Twitter
Sony's recent legal actions against provide the identities of those
jailbreaking. The game-maker is who revealed the hack.
in the middle of a lawsuit against Sony has been granted a
George Hotz, a well known temporary restraining order
against Hotz, who's removed his
hacker in the jailbreaking
community, who published code information about the hack from
the web. For its part, Sony
and a YouTube video online in
appears to have deleted the tweet
January, with details on how to
containing the code. But as the
company may be realizing with its
failure to shut down Hotz, it's not
so easy to delete information from
added more fuel to the fire, the Internet. Discuss
arguably, with what Wired
describes as "aggressive pretrial
28 Technology/
Former Nokia Exec Claims CEO's "Burning Platform" Memo
a Hoax
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:36:40 AM
Consultant, author and most
importantly, former Nokia
executive Tomi T. Ahonen, is
claiming that the widely-reported
memo sent from new Nokia CEO
Stephen Elop to Nokia company
employees may be a hoax.
According to Ahonen, there are
several parts of the memo that
"don't ring true" - and not just odd
turns of phrase, either, but
"astonishing errors" and "obvious
missing pieces." He believes the
memo may in fact be an out-and-
out hoax put forth by an American
mobile analyst, or someone who
shares that same point of view.
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Nokia's "Burning Platform"
Memo
To catch you up, Engadget first
reported on the details of this
memo, reportedly sent from
Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop to
employees in order to "shake
things up" at the company. Then,
in an update to the original blog
post, Engadget said they had
heard from multiple, trusted
sources that the memo is, in fact,
real.
The full memo is available here.
We won't repost it on this site, but
you should certainly click through
and have a read.
The name of the memo - the
"Burning Platform" as it's now
being called - comes from the line
below:
"We poured gasoline on our own
burning platform. I believe we
have lacked accountability and
leadership to align and direct the
company through these disruptive
times. We had a series of misses.
We haven't been delivering
innovation fast enough. We're not
collaborating internally. Nokia,
our platform is burning."
To outsiders not closely
following Nokia's moves in the
mobile industry, the memo seems
legit, the typical rallying cry of a
failing empire determined to
climb back on top. It's certainly
not the first time such a memo has
been seen. Yahoo's peanut butter
manifesto from 2008 is another
memorable example of an internal
company document leaked to the
press, with a similar message: we
must change or we're doomed!
Former Nokia Exec Pokes Holes
in Memo, Calls it a Hoax
But Ahonen says this particular
memo has holes - glaring, gaping
holes that make it sound like
either the memo is a hoax, or
worse, Elop has no idea what he's
talking about. (Ahonen's betting
on the former, however). He says
the memo sounds like a U.S.
analyst writing what he wishes
Nokia would say, from a U.S.
viewpoint.
The full breakdown of these
errors is here, but these are the
notable bullet points:
• The memo claims Apple owns
61% of the "over 300 dollar
phone' segment: Ahonen says this
is patently wrong, and is based on
U.S. market share, not global
market share.
• The memo mentions Apple and
Google, but not Chinese brands
like ZTE, Huawei, G'Five, etc., all
of which compete on the low-end
handset front with Nokia devices.
• A top Nokia competitor is
Samsung. With its highly
successful bada OS, which has
passed Nokia in dumbphones in
Europe and is gaining in Asia, and
especially China, is ignored. That
makes it sound like the CEO
doesn't understand Nokia's
competition or how Samsung is
moving into the smartphone
space.
• Elop supposedly writes Nokia
"missed big trends." But Nokia
watchers know that the company
was ahead of the curve on many
trends. Perhaps it executed poorly,
says Ahonen, but it did not "miss"
them. Some examples he gave of
where Nokia has innovated, often
first: touchscreens, Internet
phones, consumer smartphones,
gaming phones, an app store,
maps, mobile money, near field
communications and dual SIM
phones. Ahonen says there's no
way a Nokia CEO would be
unaware of these innovations.
• The memo says Nokia is "years
behind," but on what? Ahonen
says the Ovi App Store is second
to Apple's, Symbian S^3 is on 5
million handsets and NFC is
already on handsets (in other
words, years ahead). The problem
isn't that Nokia's behind, but that
it is executing poorly, which is the
message a Nokia CEO would
want to send out, Ahonen claims.
• Qt, a major initiative to simply
development for Nokia phones
and a centerpiece of Nokia's
strategy is not mentioned in the
entire memo.
• Android now leads in
smartphones, the memo says. This
refers to the Canalys numbers
from Q4 2010, which Ahonen
says is not true(...yet).
• The memo says there will only
be one MeeGo phone in the
market by the end of 2011. What's
odd about that statement is that it's
only February. The CEO could
accelerate MeeGo development if
he wanted to.
• The memo makes no mention of
Nokia's MeeGo partner, Intel or
DoCoMo, Nokia's largest partner
in Symbian.
• The memo calls North America
a "leading market." Ahonen says
that the most advanced market is
Japan, then South Korea, then
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other Asian economies, then
Western Europe.
• When discussing markets and
loyalty, the memo neglects to
mention China and India, despite
the fact that Nokia has been losing
market share in those countries.
A Hoax? Taken out of Context?
A Misguided CEO?...Or Real?
There's a lot more to each item
above, of course, but the bottom
line is that the memo doesn't
sound as if it was written by a
Nokia CEO...unless "Nokia is led
by a delusional psycopath who
willingly suspends reality,"
Ahonen writes. While that might
be taking it a bit far, there are
certainly some valid points made
here.
A third possibility - besides the
memo either being a hoax or
written by a "deluded" CEO - is
that the memo is real, but this is
only a part of it, taken out of
context. Perhaps these items were
in the memo under a heading
"others are saying this about us,"
Ahonen says.
And of course, despite what
Ahonen believes, there's also the
possibility that the memo is
entirely real, as has been reported.
It's up to you to decide if you
agree with that.
Legit or not, the memo's overall
message - that Nokia has changes
to make - is on point. Nokia needs
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DOE designs energy-saving AC
units
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:21:05 AM
Prototype of high-efficiency
rooftop air conditioning unit
designed at DOE national
laboratories in conjunction with
the Commercial Building Energy
Alliances.(Credit: U.S.
Department of Energy)
The U.S. government has
released specifications for a
highly-efficient rooftop air
conditioning unit it believes could
save the country a plethora of
electricity, and commercial
properties a considerable amount
of money.
The U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE) had announced its
laboratories were working on such
a rooftop air conditioning (RTU)
in fall 2010. However, it became
clear on Tuesday that the project
was successful when the DOE
announced it would be holding a
Webinar on building high-
efficiency RTUs to interested
manufacturers on February 23 via
its list of upcoming forums posted
on the Building Technologies
Program Web site.
"High-efficiency rooftop units,
when built according to the
criteria of the new specifications,
are expected to reduce energy use
by as much as 50 to 60 percent
compared to the current ASHRAE
90.1-2010 standard, depending on
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industry partners, DOE national
laboratories, including Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, the
National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, the Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory, and Oak
Ridge National Lab, will provide
technical assistance to
manufacturers or developers who
want to build the more efficient
location and facility type," the units. Interested manufacturers
DOE said in a statement. will receive assistance in
In the meantime, the DOE has d e s i g n i n g , c o n s t r u c t i n g ,
HP TouchPad
released a summary ( PDF) and measuring, and testing the new air
f a c t s h e e t ( P D F ) r o u g h l y conditioner units produced to this
outlining the specifications for the specification," said the DOE.
confirmed: HP Topaz
ten-ton capacity air conditioning In conjucntion with the release,
unit. the DOE's Pacific Northwest tablet gets early outing
Manufacturers of RTUs might National Laboratory (PNNL) has Chris Davies (SlashGear) on before getting any more details
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Parents Protest In-App Purchases for
Kids' iPhone and iPad Games
Audrey Watters
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:30:29 AM
A story in yesterday's
Washington Post follows a pretty
common narrative of parents, kids
turned loose with technology, and
sticker shock when a bill for that
comes in. News of outrageous
phone bills from texting charges
have been commonplace. But the
latest furor is over in-app
purchases, virtual goods that kids
are buying from within iPhone,
iPod, and iPad games.
The opening anecdote: 8-year-
old Madison who spent $1400 to
decorate her mushroom home in
the iPhone game Smurf's Village.
She didn't realize the
Smurfberries she was buying were
real purchases. "After all," says
reporter Cecilia Kang, "lots of
children's games require virtual
payments of pretend coins,
treasure chests and gold to
advance to levels."
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Madison's mother says she thinks
"the app preyed on children,"
pointing out that the Smurf game
says it's for those age 4 and up.
Madison's story isn't the first, and
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to reveal its smartphone strategy
and needs to do it quickly before
it falls further behind in that
market. The question on
her family's problems aren't
unique. Indeed, these sorts of
purchases have made kids' games
like Smurfs' Village incredibly
popular - and profitable. But
parents (anyone, really, Smurf
fans or not) balk at the $99 charge
for a wagon of Smurfberries.
The New Economy of In-App
Purchases
In-app purchases have been
available in Apple's apps, and
Google just introduced these for
its Android phones and tablets as
well. The Washington Post calls
these purchases part of a "new
economy." In October of last
year, ReadWriteWeb's Sarah
Perez reported that these
purchases generate more revenue
than do mobile ads.
everyone's mind today is whether
Nokia will continue with MeeGo,
partner with Microsoft or Google
or do some sort of combination of
But is this sort of thing coming at
the cost of unsuspecting parents
and children?
Smurf Village and other similar
games have added warnings to
their apps, reminding users that
the virtual goods cost real money.
And for its part, Apple says it tries
to prevent episodes like Madison's
by requiring a password when
making in-app purchases. Parents
can change the settings to restrict
downloads and transactions as
well.
Cult of Mac reports today that the
Washington Post story has
prompted U.S. Congressman
Edward J. Markey to write a letter
to the FTC, urging the
commission to investigate in-app
purchases.
In the meantime, parents who
hand over their iTunes passwords
to their kids would be wise to set
the restrictions on their devices.
For the iPhone, you can do so by
going to General Settings, then to
Restrictions, and click the "In-
App Purchases" to "off," which
will prevent that content from
being purchased and downloaded.
Discuss
all those things. Whatever the
case may be, it sounds like next
week's Mobile World Congress
will reveal some interesting
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Verizon iPhone hands-on: better
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Lip-Smacked Bathroom
My6sense Injects A Relevance-Based Tweet Tissues - The
Affectionate Kissy Kiss
Stream Into Twitter.com Toilet Paper
(TREND HUNTER - The Latest
MG Siegler (TechCrunch) of idea here, but parsing only the
ever-flowing Twitter data. Trends)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:00:16 AM
The idea is a good one. A lot of Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:16:02 AM
Twitter’s greatest strength is also users would value a way to
often its greatest weakness: it’s a surface tweets based on relevancy ( TrendHunter.com) Wipe
simple, constantly-updating rather than simply time. There yourself down with affection
stream. This keeps information have been whispers of Twitter every time you use a square of
fresh and flowing, but it also themselves working on similar this Kissy Kiss Toilet Paper. Each
means that if you step away for a concept as well, but they would two-ply piece features bright red
few hours (or even a few days — likely focus on user relevancy, lip-smacked patterns that cover
crazy, I know), you’re likely to rather than tweet relevancy. And the entire roll. Turn your
miss a lot. And it means that the truth is that my6sense hopes bathroom...
scanning your Twitter stream can that Twitter.com is just another
sometimes be tedious. A new stop for their technology. RBS's Stephen Hester
product launching from my6sense The Israel-based startup hopes to
today aims to alleviate both those spread their attention graph across and Lloyds' Eric Daniels
issues. the web to all kinds of different accept multi-million
The my6sense Chrome browser sites. VP of Marketing, Louis pound bonuses
extension takes your tweet stream Gray, cites Quora as on particular
and completely rearranges it. If treasure trove of data they’d love (Finance News - Business news
that thought scares you, fear not, to get their hands on. from the UK and world)
this is done in a new tab area that tweets your favorite, the tweets the mobile applications that You can find the Chrome Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:32:18 AM
t h e e x t e n s i o n c r e a t e s o n you retweet, the author of the my6sense makes for the iOS and extension here, and the plan is to
Twitter.com. This area holds a tweets, the keywords in those Android platforms. Those take release a Firefox extension shortly The chief executives of Royal
stream sorted by tweets that are tweets, etc. It all is monitored by into account a few different social a s w e l l t o b r i n g t h e s a m e Bank of Scotland and Lloyds
likely to be most relevant to you. this extension and then used to signals (Twitter, Facebook, functionality to a larger segment Banking Group have accepted
These tweets can be hours (or serve tweets back to you. And it Google Buzz, etc), and gives you of the web. big bonuses on the same day
even days) old, or they may be works well. Once the extension a stream of information you’re George Osborne unveiled details
brand new. It all depends on the got a sense for what I was likely to care about. And that of a deal with UK banks that
relevancy. interested in, pretty much my works because when you’re on should cut pay-outs.
So how does my6sense determine entire stream became Apple news. the go, you may not have time to
this relevancy? A number of Perfect. read through all of your social
ways. The links you click on, the The concept is an extension of streams. Again, it’s the same sort

Alanis Morissette Debuts Her Son, Ever, on a Walk in LA!

Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 9:39:17 AM
Alanis Morissette beamed
yesterday while out on a walk
through LA's Brentwood
neighborhood with her month-and
-a-half-old son, Ever! She and her
husband, Mario Treadway,
welcomed the little one just last
Christmas, and even posted an
initial photo of their family on
Alanis's Twitter page recently.
Pregnancy suited Alanis just as
much as motherhood seems to, as
she bared her bump in a bikini
while on vacation in Cabo last
November. She and Mario are
among the many stars who are
happy new parents - test your
knowledge of celebrity baby
names by taking LilSugar's quiz!
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My6Sense Chrome Extension Filters Japan's Growing Sense

Your Tweet Stream on Twitter.com of Crisis
Mike Melanson button to your Twitter page, (AEI.Org: Articles) Prime Minister Naoto Kan
(ReadWriteWeb) which allows you to view your Submitted at 2/8/2011 5:00:00 PM continues to make public
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:00:00 AM Twitter stream on the Twitter missteps, most recently when he
website as personalized by the As Japanese follow Egypt's admitted he was unaware that
My6Sense, the personalized my6sense engine. Once the uprising, they may also ponder S t a n d a r d a n d P o o r ' s h a d
recommendation engine for both extension is installed and running, how the evolution of Japan's downgraded Japanese government
iOS and Android, comes to the it can filter your Twitter stream democracy has taken another debt. His cabinet's approval rating
desktop today with a Chrome for the most relevant content from detour as the initial euphoria in December was just 21%, and
extension that brings the the past six, 12, 24 or 48 hours. surrounding the Democratic his latest gaffe will do him no
my6sense experience to As ReadWriteWeb's Marshall P a r t y ' s r i s e t o p o w e r h a s favors.
Twitter.com. What exactly is the Kirkpatrick noted when he placed dissipated. Since its victory in This article is available in full by
my6sense experience? my6sense my6sense on his " Top 10 RSS Lower House elections in August subscription to the Wall Street
uses what it calls " digital and Syndication Technologies of 2009, the DPJ has stumbled Journal. The full text will be
intuition" to determine what parts somewhere like CNN.com," said 2010", a key factor for the badly. It lost its top leader to posted to AEI.org on Monday,
of your stream, whether Twitter, G r a y , " a n d h a v e i t s o r t e d company is that it is "focusing on corruption charges and watched February 14, 2011. Michael
Facebook, Google Buzz or RSS a c c o r d i n g t o y o u . " monetizing a commercial API" its first prime minister, Yukio Auslin is a resident scholar at
feed, are most relevant to your This is the long and short of and "that's a good business to be Hatoyama, resign after just a year AEI.
interests. my6sense's vision of the Web - a in." Now, the company appears to in office. Its public support Photo Credit: Flickr user Foreign
We met up with Louis Gray and personalized version of the Web be playing that angle by showing evaporated. and Commonwealth Office/
my6sense CEO Barak Hachamov for each person, based on how how its "digital intuition" engine The DPJ victory was due to the Creative Commons
last month to take a tour of the you interact with content. And the c a n b e a p p l i e d a s a n o t h e r , will of the Japanese people to This entry passed through the
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18 Memorable TV Theme Songs

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A great TV theme song can tell
you everything you need to know
about a show in less than a
minute. Better yet, if you can sing
a few lines at work the next day
and everyone joins in, you know
you're on to something worth
watching!
The best shows on TV, such as I
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Why native USB 3.0 for Mac won't

happen
Matt Tinsley (TUAW)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:00:00 AM

Mac Life has put together an

interesting article on why we
probably won't see USB 3.0
natively on the Mac. It's worth a
read, but the long and short of it is
this: Light Peak -- the ultra fast 10
Gbps, one size fits all (USB,
Ethernet, FireWire, SATA and
PCI Express) optical cable
replacement that's been dangled
before our eyes, but not made a
reality, yet.
Light Peak was first
demonstrated by Intel back in
2009 on a hackintosh running
Mac OS X -- which ruffled a few
feathers. At the time, Engadget
reported that Apple was behind
the technology, with discussions
between the two companies
developing the technology dating
back to 2007, and that (according
to an extremely reliable source)
Light Peak would be introduced
to the Mac line-up in the autumn
of 2010 with iPhone
implementation in 2011.
Since then, we've seen USB 3.0
come to market (to a small extent,
and not natively on the Mac), but
there's been no sign of Light Peak.
Unfortunately, at the 2010 Intel
Developer Forum, Electronista
reported that the chip-maker said
it didn't expect Light Peak to
come to market until 2012 --
making its original"...maybe not
next week, but soon" comment a
little overly optimistic.
Regardless, and getting back to
the Mac Life article, it's unlikely
that we'll see Apple natively
support USB 3.0 because Light
Peak is on the horizon -- be that a
distant one. In my humble
opinion, with the slow adoption of
USB 3.0, and its imminent
obsoleteness with Light Peak
around the corner, it wouldn't
make sense for Apple to introduce
The Eurozone Crisis Is Back
As 10-Year Portuguese Yields
Zoom To A New Record
Gregory White (Money Game) yields in, rather then sending them
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:06:00 AM out. It seems the threat of
uncertainty in the area is a
Yields on the Portuguese 10 year stronger force.
have surged higher on today's The yield has spiked to 7.255%
uncertainty regarding the future of today.
the ECB, and continued worries Don't miss: The next dominos to
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paradoxical as that might sound, president would be bringing
Light Peak will not be an upgrade,
it will change the way we connect Improve Remote Desktop
peripherals to our computers,
which is likely why it's worth the
Performance on Windows with a Few
wait.
Why native USB 3.0 for Mac
Settings Changes [Remote Desktop]
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Flightless birds
(Holy Kaw!) pale grey ground-living bird with
Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:54:00 AM a funny walk just like its parents.
Kagus do use their patterned
Join us on Facebook for more wings for displays and gliding,
incredible footage, photos and but their primary way of getting
stories. around is to run extremely fast
By Arj Singh over short distances before
People might wonder why some standing stock-still and doing it
birds have wings but don’t use again.
them and maybe see it as a 2. Penguin
strange evolution, or that the birds Penguins may be birds but
haven’t evolved appropriately. sometimes they resemble fish
It’s actually the opposite. The more closely having adapted to
theory goes that the birds evolved live in the cold ocean water of the
to become flightless due to a lack Southern Hemisphere. But
of predators where they lived. despite their amazing ability to
They didn’t have many enemies, swim, using their wings like
Apple OLED ambitions tipped by so didn’t really need to escape. flippers, one penguin parent will
We’ve picked a few videos of our walk 250 miles in search of food
favourite flightless birds for you, while the other guards the young
patent applications? so enjoy!
1. Kagu
chick.
Read more at the BBC Earth
Chris Davies (SlashGear) talk of an Apple OLED HDTV integration makes most sense – While this young kagu might not Posterous blog.
Submitted at 2/9/2011 9:53:34 AM with integrated streaming would present the most affordable enjoy the meal it is being given Permalink| Leave a comment »
functionality. entry point for end-users. we hope it’s grown up to be the
Apple has filed three OLED OLED sets – such as LG’s [ via OLED-Display]
patent applications, leading to breathtakingly narrow 31-incher
speculation that the company is at IFA 2010 – are probably still
looking to the low-power, color- some way off, but slimmer OLED
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notebooks, iPad-style tablets and investment suspected to be in • Apple patent shows alternative camp says she filed for divorce
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s m a r t p h o n e s a n d P M P s a s for the next few years, a push into
too erratic, and they're denying we'll keep you updated on more
potential recipients of the tech. OLED isn’t entirely unlikely, and
that any third party was involved. news about this shocking
Meanwhile, a throwaway mention starting at the smaller end of the
Breaking news - according to breakup! View Slideshow ›
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TMZ, Ashlee Simpson has
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36 Technology/ Culture/ Finance/
CNBC: Apple should be world's
most valuable company
Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 12:30:00 PM
Apple's latest earnings report has
been available for three weeks
and analysts are chiming in with
their 2011 assessment of the
Cupertino company. Though
Apple's stock dipped slightly after
Steve Jobs announced another
medical leave of absence, the
release of the Verizon iPhone and
Apple's 2011 forecast is causing
the stock to rebound to an all-time
high. Currently, the stock is
trading at US$356, which is more
than $160 higher than the 52-
week low.
Apple's stock is trending well and
will continue to climb upward
according to several analysts who
have placed price targets as high
as $550, though most are
projecting an average price of
$467. At its current trading price,
Apple market value is hovering at
$326 billion. A 32% increase into
the upper $400's would push
Apple's market value to $433.7
billion and propel it past Exxon
Mobil which currently has a
market value of $423.2 billion.
This continued climb has
Zac Efron Looks Hot in Aviators as He Lands at LAX
Lauren Turner (PopSugar)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 9:34:34 AM
Zac Efron arrived back in LA last
night and signed autographs for
prompted some to question
whether Apple is ripe for a stock
split. The Cupertino company last
split its stock in February 28,
2005 when it was trading at
$88.99 per share. Now that it is
690% higher than its 2005 level,
some analysts are suggesting
Apple may be ready to drop the
price on its stock and let smaller
investors into the fold. There are
pros and cons to a split, not the
least of which is Steve Jobs' desire
fans on his way out of the airport.
He's home again after a quick trip
to NYC, where he caught a
preview of Spider-Man: Turn Off
the Dark and also did some
to see the stock price climb
higher. Apple won't comment on
this possibility officially stating
"We have not announced any
plans for a stock split."
[Via Fortune]
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shopping. He was apparently in
the market for shades, as he was
spotted trying on a few pairs at a
sunglasses store with Jake
Gyllenhaal. Zac browsed the
Morning Links - See the
First Photo of Alanis's
Baby!
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Submitted at 2/9/2011 8:34:16 AM
• See the first photo of Alanis
Morissette's newborn son- Us
Weekly
• Jake and Zac meet up at the
sunglasses shop- People
• The Bristol Palin and Kathy
Griffin feud continues-
Huffington Post
• Colin Firth prepares his
handsome self for the BAFTAs-
Lainey Gossip
• Jewel's husband Ty talks about
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PopEater
Deutsche Borse and NYSE Euronext in
talks to create TransAtlantic powerhouse
(Finance News - Business news
from the UK and world)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:33:41 AM
The New York Stock Exchange
and Deutsche Borse have
racks closer to home with his
brother last week, and he's even
had time to spend with a new lady
when he isn't indulging in some
retail therapy. View Slideshow ›
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• An LA district attorney is
interested in Lindsay's shady ways
- TMZ
• The Situation weighs in on
rumors Snooki's getting married-
Wonderwall
• Heidi Montag to become a Real
Housewife?- Celebitchy
• Marisa Miller shares her hopes
for this year's Sports Illustrated
swimsuit issue- Fox 411
• See what ridiculous outfit
Momsen wore to Bieber's
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• Did Gaga copy Kylie?- The
Blemish
confirmed they are in advanced
merger talks in a deal that would
create the biggest stock exchange
in the world worth $24bn
(£14.9bn).
Newstablet Edition
HP Pre3 and HP Veer webOS
smartphones leak
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:56:21 AM
Hot on the heels of the HP
TouchPad tablet comes yet
another leak ahead of the official
webOS launch, this time about a
new smartphone. According to
Robert Scoble, HP is readying a
tiny webOS handset so compact
“it’s like a large pebble in your
hand.” It looks like the
smartphone could well be the HP
Veer, which PreCentral spotted
has been added to the HP Deals
tab on the shopping page.
There’s also the TouchPad and
the HP Pre3, which is presumably
a replacement to the existing Pre
2.
Palm devices became known for
their relatively compact displays
in comparison to handsets running
rival platforms; the Pre had a 3.1-
inch panel, for instance. Scoble
suggests that the device is being
targeted at those who want a
capable smartphone OS but a
compact, featurephone-style
casing. SlashGear is at the HP
event this morning, and we’ll be
bringing you all the news as it
happens.
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• Palm Pre’s OS 1.2 Gets Leaked
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• HP set to launch new webOS
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• HP bought Palm for webOS IP,
not smartphone future
• HP Promises webOS Will
Appear on Slates and Web-
Connected Printers
• HP printers to get print-by-
email feature
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10 Reasons to Disclaim
an Inheritance
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Google VP snipes at Nokia with
turkey trash talk
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:05:29 AM
Google VP of engineering Vic
Gundotra has made what seems to
be a dig at Nokia ahead of the
company’s Capital Markets Day
event on Friday, February 11,
taking to Twitter to suggest that
“#Feb Two turkeys do not make
an Eagle”. The snub would
certainly appear to suggest that
any talks between Nokia and
Google haven’t resulted in the
Finnish company adopting
Android as its platform salvation.
Android had been one of the
persistent suggestions – alongside
Windows Phone 7 – for a
potential OS switch for Nokia, on
the back of CEO Stephen Elop’s
comments that the company has
to do better in the ongoing
The ultimate computer history quiz
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:38:00 AM
Computers are so much a part of
our daily lives that it's sometimes
hard to believe that only 60 years
ago, they were rare, massive
machines that were the size of
ecosystem war. Whether this is
Gundotra’s attempt to criticise
both Nokia and Microsoft, or
Nokia’s two existing platforms
Symbian and MeeGo, remains to
be seen.
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Show what you know at
Artist paints himself to
blend into background
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:47:00 AM
Artist Liu Bolin paints himself to
perfectly blend in with any
background—anything from
stacks of books to a phone booth
to a graffitied wall. The 35-year-
old from Shandong, China spends
up to 10 hours at a time perfecting
his camouflage for a single
photograph.
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Check out some of Liu’s
incredible work:
Does anyone remember that
made-for-TV horror flick “When
a Stranger Calls Back” where the
killer paints himself to blend into
the background? Maybe that’s
where Liu got the idea.
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Newstablet Edition Policy/ 39

Budget Cuts Threaten America's Smart Power

(AEI.Org: Articles) law in other societies. The result percent of the budget! Americans percent of where we are. So, I'm waste, fraud and abuse. Cutting
Submitted at 2/8/2011 5:00:00 PM provides freedom and justice for want cuts in foreign aid, too-- waiting for the politician to get up personnel does not result in
them, infertile territory for down to about 10 percent of the and say, 'There's only one way to immediate or short-term savings
Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen-- terrorists, and markets for our budget. do this: You dig into the big four- and can result in chaos. Leaving
and we don't know which Middle goods and services to enable us to It would be wonderful if, in this -Medicare, Medicaid, Social them aside means much larger
Eastern country will next face maintain our edge in the global time of need for real and long- Security and defense.' And cuts in other agencies. The
serious stresses and strains of economy. Ronald Reagan, the term fiscal austerity, we had a anybody giving you anything National Institutes of Health? The
popular uprisings against progenitor of the National meaningful debate that could sort different than that, you want to Centers for Disease Control and
autocracies. The United States has Endowment for Democracy, the out wheat from chaff, spending walk out the door, stick your Prevention? The biggest
a vital interest in making sure that National Democratic Institute, the that is a wise investment in finger down your throat, and give vulnerabilities are in areas where
those popular protests for freedom International Republican Institute America's future and a necessary them the green weenie." there are lots of grants, meaning
are not squelched--and that they and the U.S. Institute of Peace, cushion for those who cannot fend Unfortunately, it looks as if we education and health. And, of
do not cascade into upheaval that and George W. Bush, responsible for themselves or are victims of will have to give the House the course, foreign aid.
results in extremist regimes or in large part for the Millennium economic devastation that is not green weenie for its approach to The green weenie will hit the fan
instability that provides breeding Challenge Corp., among other our own doing from that which is the current fiscal year's budget. in a matter of weeks; will
g r o u n d f o r t e r r o r i s t s o r innovations, both understood this more frivolous or wasteful. Our Leave aside the question of Americans respond well to the
opportunities for them to find safe point. aid programs could use serious whether it is wise economics to idea of massive cuts in education
havens. In Egypt, we did not use our oversight. In Egypt, we did not cut now in the face of a and health research? What about
So far, the Obama administration leverage to pressure President use our leverage to pressure continuing weakness in our farm subsidies? Will we have a
has navigated through difficult Hosni Mubarak to stop harassing President Hosni Mubarak to stop economy and in the global real debate on national priorities
w a t e r s i n E g y p t , t r y i n g t o nongovernmental organizations harassing nongovernmental economy. The House majority has or a real education for Americans
encourage needed change, reduce and imprisoning moderate leaders organizations and imprisoning taken a near-monomaniacal focus on what is actually in the budget?
b l o o d s h e d d u r i n g t h e of Egypt's civil society. moderate leaders of Egypt's civil on that one-eighth of the budget Or will we descend into the abyss
demonstrations, foster democratic I am on the board of the Center society. We have not done enough that is nonsecurity discretionary of name-calling and government
e l e m e n t s a n d h e l p c r e a t e for U.S. Global Engagement. This to identify the wonderful things domestic spending, with Budget shutdowns?
conditions for free and fair b r o a d c o a l i t i o n o f l e a d e r s , we do in impoverished countries, czar Paul Ryan calling for cuts Norman J. Ornstein is a resident
elections. The Egyptian Army including hundreds of four-star often letting China get much more this year that would amount to scholar at AEI.
could have been a much more generals, admirals and other credit for much less aid--which in 16 percent to 19 percent across Photo Credit: Flickr user Nasser
destructive element, using its military brass, have joined leaders turn means more Chinese the board in nearly all Nouri/Creative Commons
force to put down protests a la of both parties to support the contracts and trade. But there is a departments and agencies. This entry passed through the
Tiananmen Square. It did not, in robust use of smart power by the strong case to be made for But as Scott Lilly, former staff Full-Text RSS service — if this is
part because of the relationships U.S. across the world--which in spending more tax dollars on director of the House your content and you're reading it
built over the years between the turn means a robust international smart power. Appropriations Committee and on someone else's site, please read
U . S . m i l i t a r y a n d p o l i t i c a l affairs budget. That budget, which But as Alan Simpson wisely if now at the Center for American our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
decision-makers and the Egyptian incorporates foreign aid and impolitely said on CNN: "If you Progress, has pointed out, the cuts content-only/faq.php
military officers, many of them diplomacy, makes up barely one hear a politician get up and say, 'I cannot be across the board. Five Filters featured article:
educated and trained here. cent on the dollar of the total know we can get this done. We're Agencies like the FBI have nearly Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In
That is the power of smart power federal budget--as good an going to get rid of all earmarks; all their budgets applied to The Crosshairs.
--the ability to use aid, diplomacy investment as we could possibly all waste, fraud and abuse; all personnel (96 percent for the
and the military as synergistic have for the future. But it is high foreign aid; Air Force One; all FBI); the same principle applies
forces to pursue our national on the target list of budget cutters, Congressional pensions'--that's to border security, prisons, air
interest while also enabling the and of most Americans, who think just sparrow belch in the midst of traffic control and other programs
economic prosperity and rule of that it makes up 25 percent to 30 the typhoon. That's about 6, 8, 10 that few among us would call
40 Policy/ Politics-Left/ Newstablet Edition

Lieberman, Harman and Vanishing Democratic Moderates

(AEI.Org: Articles) Committee when Democrats won president Al From in 2009. From, presidency in 2008 with a larger liberal stands on cultural issues
Submitted at 2/8/2011 5:00:00 PM control of the House in 2006. an aide to Louisiana Rep. Gillis percentage of the popular vote but by his opposition to
For years now, Republican voters Long, founded the DLC in 1985 than any Democratic nominee Obamacare.
Political pundits of a certain have disregarded the pundits in the wake of Ronald Reagan's except Andrew Jackson, Franklin The constituencies targeted by
stripe have been lamenting the u r g i n g t h e m t o n o m i n a t e two victories in which he won the Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. moderate Republican strategists--
disappearance of Republican moderates, and practically the electoral vote by 1,014 to 62. The political philosopher James labor union members, high-
moderates for years. It's time now only Republican moderates left in The DLC championed policies, Carville wrote a book predicting income professionals, Jewish
to lament the disappearance of Congress are Sens. notably welfare reform, intended Democratic dominance for 40 voters--have grown smaller or
moderate Democrats. Last month Harman's Los Angeles beach- not to expand government but to years. Daily Kos bloggers, have become heavily Democratic.
S e n . J o s e p h L i e b e r m a n town seat is heavily Democratic, make it work better. It gave early spewing hatred, argued that the Republicans have been able to
announced he wouldn't seek re- and as one of the richest members national prominence to a young party could afford to purge the win without them.
election. He lost the Democratic of Congress she could self-finance governor of Arkansas of whom likes of Joe Lieberman and Jane The constituencies targeted by
primary in Connecticut in 2006 her campaigns. But she won her From used to say, "Clinton really Harman and the Blue Dog DLC strategists--Southern whites,
because of his support of the Iraq 2010 Democratic primary over a gets it." Democratic moderates in the urban ethnics, blue-collar workers
War, but won in November as an left-wing opponent by 59 to 41 After the 1988 election, House. Better off without them! --are growing or are not shrinking
independent. percent--a narrow majority for Democratic leaders, fundraisers Maybe not. Of the 53 blue dogs as much, and at least in 2010 they
The irony was that the 2000 longtime incumbents who usually and voters were convinced that in the 111th Congress, only 26 voted heavily Republican. It's not
Democratic nominee for vice win 2-to-1. old-time liberals could not win (including Harman) were re- so clear that Democrats can win
president was re-elected largely Harman and Lieberman were and were ready to take a chance elected in 2010. Another 21 were without them.
by Republicans who spurned their both Democrats in the JFK and on Clinton. And aside from the defeated for re-election, and all Michael Barone is a Resident
party's little-known nominee. But FDR mold--liberal on most debacle of Hillarycare, he six Blue Dogs who retired were Fellow in American Politics at
Republicans seem likely to field a domestic issues (Lieberman delivered. Democrats lost five of replaced by Republicans. If AEI.
stronger candidate in 2012, almost single-handedly pushed six presidential elections between Democrats had held those 27 seats Photo Credit: Harald Dettenborn/
leaving Lieberman little room in through repeal of the ban on open 1968 and 1988. They have carried they would still have a majority in Wikimedia Commons
the middle. gays in the military in December) the popular vote in four of the five the House. This entry passed through the
Then last week Rep. Jane and supporters of the use of held since. For years now, Republican voters Full-Text RSS service — if this is
Harman announced she would American military power to But over the past decade have disregarded the pundits your content and you're reading it
resign soon to become head of expand freedom and democracy in satisfaction with the political urging them to nominate on someone else's site, please read
Washington's Woodrow Wilson the world. But there doesn't seem successes of Clinton-type moderates, and practically the our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
Center. Harman, who voted for to be much room for them in the governance was replaced by rage only Republican moderates left in content-only/faq.php
the Iraq War resolution and Democratic Party today. against the works and deeds of Congress are Sens. Olympia Five Filters featured article:
supported robust foreign and Last week also saw the George W. Bush. That rage Snowe and Susan Collins of Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In
defense policies, was announcement that the seemed vindicated when Maine and Scott Brown of The Crosshairs.
conspicuously passed over by Democratic Leadership Council Democrats won congressional Massachusetts. And it's notable
Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the would close its doors, after the majorities in 2006 and when that Brown won his upset victory
chairmanship of the Intelligence r e t i r e m e n t o f i t s l o n g t i m e Barack Obama won the early last year not by stressing his

Swan Fake
Jennifer Homans (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 2/8/2011 11:00:00 PM
Black Swan was a spectacular
idea. This is not a movie about
ballet—it is a ballet:
Tchaikovsky’s evening-length
Swan Lake transposed into a
modern psychosexual thriller, an
edgy cinematic re-make of a
dance classic. The film’s director,
Darren Aronofsky, spent years
circling the cloistered world of
ballet trying to find a way in: he
watched dancers work and
perform and talked to them about
their art; he marveled at ballet’s
uncanny mix of melodrama,
camp, eroticism, and high art, and
above all at its grueling physical
demands.
Newstablet Edition Economy/ 41

Money Heaven
noreply@blogger.com (Michael those homes were worth $250,000 impossible for everyone to cash
Shedlock) (Mish's Global in 2002 and $450,000 in 2006, out then, or cash out now.
Economic Trend Analysis) with a few of sales at varying Thus, most of the money went to
Submitted at 2/9/2011 1:58:00 AM prices, but no sales since 2006. "money heaven" which is to say
Via email, reader Denis wonders Now let's assume one person has nowhere at all. It was not really
"Where did the Money go?" to sell now and all he can get is "money" in the first place, but
Hello Mish $220,000. Poof. Conceptually, Such repricing events happen all the way up and the same amount rather unrealistic valuations (and
I read many times on your blog the entire subdivision was just the time in the stock market as on the way down. in regards to real estate, a
how bubbles created by the Fed repriced on one sale. well. On an ongoing basis, broker- mountain of debt that cannot be
led to the overpricing of assets Disregarding that sale, no money For example, in premarket dealers and CEOs take their cut paid back).
such as real estate and stocks. went anywhere (except of course trading of as little as 100 shares, (and huge bonuses as well). Here Valuations went up, then down,
Someone paid those overpriced via rising property taxes over the stocks can rise or fall 5% or more is a case-in-point: Anthony repriced over time (with Wall
valuations. So, where is the years to pay overly generous easily. Money does not go Mozilo, CEO of Countrywide Street siphoning off a bit in both
money? At some point will that wages and pension benefits to anywhere per se. Rather Financial, single-handedly cashed directions). This helps explain
money be used to mitigate the police, fire department and other valuations change, just as out over $1 billion in shares and why the rich get richer and the
economic doom? government workers). happened in my housing example options (but that was over the middle-class continually shrinks.
Denis On a percentage basis, few above. course of a decade). Millions of lives, late to each
Illusion of Wealth bought or sold during the years in To understand how valuations Will Mozilo use his $billion to bubble-blowing party, take on too
Let's take a look at a real estate question. change over long periods of time, help mitigate the economic doom? much debt and are destroyed in
example, then the stock market. In general terms, the winners please consider Negative How far would it go, even if he the process. Bernanke's policies
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42 Economy/ Culture/ Newstablet Edition

How the Junk Bond Bubble Supports Rising

Equity Prices
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 2/8/2011 5:49:00 PM
Yesterday, I was asked about
statements I have made on
numerous occasions that the
recovery of the junk bond market
helps explain the rise in equity
markets. Here is the specific
question: Mish,
Can you explain why you
frequently say that the corporate
bond market supports the equities
market? I don't see why it would
have the major effect you seem to
claim it does. Let's go over the
reasons once again.
• Companies that cannot get
financing go out of business.
• In March of 2009 many
corporations poised to go under
because they could not get
financing had exceptionally low
stock market valuations. Even GE
was on that list. Those stocks rose
many multiples after Bernanke
managed to revive the junk bond
market.
• When companies issue long-
term debt at lower and lower
yields, their interest expense
drops.
• The entire atmosphere of
chasing yields lower is a sign of
increased speculation across the
board. One should expect stock
prices to at least be firm in such
conditions.
Everything changed when
Bernanke stabilized junk bonds.
Interestingly, Bloomberg
discussed this situation today in
Top Stories.
Maturity Wall Crumbles as $482
Billion of Debt Refinanced The
wall of bonds and loans maturing
through 2014 has crumbled by
$482 billion, or 44 percent, since
2009, reducing the threat of
defaults and allowing companies
to bring riskier deals to market.
The amount of debt due in the
next four years dropped to $671
billion, from $1.2 trillion in 2009,
according to JPMorgan Chase &
Co.
Some $163 billion of bonds and
loans come due in 2011 and 2012,
or about 60 percent of the
refinancing activity in 2010. Clear
Channel Communications Inc.
said it plans to sell $750 million
of bonds to repay $500 million of
short-term loans.
Stronger economic growth and
the Federal Reserve´s decision to
keep benchmark interest rates at
almost zero, while pumping $600
billion into the financial system
by purchasing Treasuries, have
driven down yields and spurred
demand for low-rated debt. That´s
allowed companies to seek new
borrowings with fewer provisions
that protect investors.
"The wall of worry has been
greatly reduced," said Sabur
Moini, the high-yield money
manager at Los Angeles-based
Payden & Rygel, who oversees
about $2 billion of speculative-
grade debt. "You've had a big
rally for the last two years and
that's allowed companies and
underwriters to be more
aggressive." How much better can
things get, especially with
treasury yields soaring?
I believe junk bonds are priced
for perfection and equities priced
well beyond perfection.
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Newstablet Edition
Why Ben Bernanke Is Really The Central Banker
Of 40% Of The World's Economy
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:25:03 AM
Foro those who are in the QE-
creates-inflation camp, this chart
from Morgan Stanley's Spyros
Andreopoulos is useful.
It shows that via the US, China,
and the other countries that peg
their currencies to the dollar,
Bernanke directly and indirectly
controls 40% of the world's
economy on a purchasing power
parity basis.
Meanwhile, MS sees a prisoner's
dilemma:
How to break out of the loop.
Preventing the global inflation
loop from spiralling upwards
requires a circuit breaker. This
would mean normalisation of
global monetary conditions
through either hikes in DM or EM
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Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 9:00:00 AM
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our desks every day, and while it
may not look like it, it can wreak
havoc with our bodies. Here's how
to set up a healthy, ergonomic
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regaining some of their monetary
independence through allowing
substantial currency appreciation
against the dollar. (Note that the
latter would mean a one-off
increase in DM inflation; the loop,
however, would be broken.)
Neither of these seems on the
comfortable and injury-free. More
» Make it at home without straining
cards. On our forecasts, the Fed
(and the ECB) won’t tighten until
1Q2012. And EM currency
appreciation sufficient to choke
off the global inflation loop seems
difficult – many EM economies
will want to wean themselves off
their export-led development
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Economy/ Culture/ TV/
strategy only gradually.
Are global monetary conditions
becoming a prisoner’s dilemma?
We are therefore concerned that
global monetary conditions might
end up becoming a hostage to a
prisoner’s dilemma-style game
between DM and EM
policymakers. In a prisoner’s
dilemma (PD) game, two parties
acting in isolation in the pursuit of
their own self-interest will
achieve an outcome that is
undesirable for both. In this case,
neither side chooses to tighten.
That means tightening is delayed,
and the inflation genie will be out
of the bottle.
Join the conversation about this
story »
43
What's On Tonight:
'Live to Dance,' 'Friday
Night Lights,' 'Mr.
Sunshine,' 'Justified'
Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 6:30:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV
Previews Here's what's on TV
tonight (all times Eastern). Check
your local TV listings for the full
schedule.
8PM
ABC:'The Middle'
CBS:'Live to Dance'(season
finale)
NBC:'Minute To Win It'
FOX:'American Idol'
PBS:'Nova scienceNOW'
G4:'Campus PD'
8:30
ABC:'Better With You'
Food Network:'Throwdown With
Bobby Flay'
After the jump, the rest of the
schedule and the late-night talk
shows.
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Feb. 9, 1969: Boeing 747 Makes First Flight
Tony Long (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 6:00:00 AM
1969: Boeing successfully tests
its new 747 jumbo jet.
As commercial air travel boomed
in the 1960s, the need for a plane
capable of handling more
passengers than Boeing’s reliable
old warhorse, the 707, became
obvious. But the technology of jet
-engine design was changing
rapidly, too, and the feeling was
that any new aircraft built using
existing subsonic engines would
soon be made obsolete by planes
capable of supersonic flight.
So the 747 was designed to be
easily convertible to hauling
cargo, which Boeing believed
would ensure its long-term
sustainability.
Configured for commercial
passenger service, the original
747-100 could carry more than
twice as many passengers as the
707, between 366 and 452. It was
propelled by four Pratt & Whitney
high-bypass turbofan jets and
Joke About Tom Bergeron's Wife Highlights Tosh Web
Redemption (VIDEO)
Nick Zaino (TV Squad)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 5:40:00 AM
Filed under: TV Replay Is Tom
Bergeron's wife hot? Bergeron
obviously thinks so, and so did
one of the "judges" on a'Dancing
With the Stars' spoof
designed with a number of
redundancies and backup systems
to ensure maximum safety of the
aircraft. The first 747 entered
commercial service with Pan
American Airways in 1970.
In the end, commercial
supersonic flight proved a bust,
for various financial,
environmental and technical
reasons. The 747, meanwhile,
on'Tosh.0'(Tuesdays, 10PM on
Comedy Central). Bergeron
appeared on 'Tosh.0' as a guest in
one of the show's Web
Redemption spots, where host
Daniel Tosh danced with
YouTube viral sensation Judson
"Evolution of Dance" Laipply.
expected to be obsolete after 400
were built, surpassed 1,000
aircraft in 1993 and, with several
series modifications, remains in
production to this day.
Source: Boeing, Wikipedia
Photo courtesy Arpingstone
An earlier version of this article
appeared on Wired.com Feb. 9,
2007.
See Also:
Bergeron introduced the dance
• Video: Extreme Flying, 747-8
Style
• We Fly Boeing's New 747-8
• Boeing 747 Gets an Efficiency
Makeover to Challenge A380
• 747 Flies With A Big Hole In
Its Fuselage … for Science
• At Long Last, Boeing's 787
Flies
• Jan. 9, 1969: Concorde Takes to
segment, for which Tosh wore a
skimpy sequined dress, before
going to the judges' panel.
"Because this is 'Dancing With
the Internet Stars,' our judges are
just ordinary jerks with
webcams," he said.
Judge "Snatch Master" was
Newstablet Edition
the Skies; Turbulence Ahead
• Jan. 15, 1969: White-Knuckle
Ride
• Jan. 16, 1969: A Rendezvous,
and a Rough Ride Home
• Feb. 9, 1969: Behemoth Aloft
• April 7, 1969: Birth of That
Thing We Call the Internet
• June 22, 1969: Umm, the
Cuyahoga River's on Fire …
Again
• July 20, 1969: One Small Step
… One Giant Leap …
• Sept. 2, 1969: First U.S. ATM
Starts Doling Out Dollars
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Requiem for the DLC
Ed Kilgore (The New Republic -
All Feed)
Submitted at 2/8/2011 11:00:00 PM
After a good quarter-century run,
the Democratic Leadership
Council (DLC) has announced it
will close its doors this month. Its
original mission has long been
accomplished: This small but
famous—or, depending on your
o r i e n t a t i o n ,
infamous—organization was
founded in the wake of the 1984
Walter Mondale debacle by two
House Democratic Caucus
staffers named Al From and Will
Marshall, who enlisted an
assortment of elected officials
with names like Clinton, Gore,
Gephardt, Nunn, Babbitt, and
Robb. Its goal was to lay the
“message” and policy
groundwork for a successful
Democratic presidential run, at a
time when Republicans were said
to have an “Electoral College
lock.” With an eight-year Clinton
presidency on the books and
Obama looking pretty well
positioned for reelection, it’s past
time to conclude that the lock has
been picked.
In fact, there’s a case to be made
that the DLC’s immediate raison
d’etre was fulfilled in 1992, when
Bill Clinton beat George H.W.
Bush. At that point, the council
had already evolved from a
clubhouse for elected officials
disgruntled with the ineptitude of
the national party to an idea
factory for its prize pupil and tutor
(Clinton). Having decided to
sojourn on, it became a well-
established political fixture that
managed a distinctive ideological
brand while occasionally
engaging in high-profile factional
battles with “the Left,” a term it
often applied to orthodox liberals,
as well as antiwar activists and
various interest and identity
groups. Sometimes, the DLC even
disagreed with Clinton, as it did
on HillaryCare (supporting,
instead, an approach to health care
reform close to what Barack
Obama offered upon becoming
president).
After Bill Clinton left office,
however, they—perhaps I should
say “we,” since I served as a
policy director there for about a
decade before I left in 2006, and
I’m still a part-time fellow at the
Progressive Policy Institute (PPI),
originally the DLC’s think
tank—clearly experienced
something of an identity crisis.
Beginning in 2000, the DLC
determined to rebuild its bench
and recapture its original role as a
home for non-Washington
Democrats left behind by the
national party. It engaged in an
immensely useful, but not very
visible, effort to build a network
of state and local elected officials,
focused on training and fostering
policy cross-pollination among
state legislators, mayors, county
officials, and sub-gubernatorial
statewide officeholders. That
network has a pretty impressive
alumni list, ranging from Obama
cabinet members Tom Vilsack,
Kathleen Sebelius, and Janet
Napolitano to new Senator Chris
Coons and California Lieutenant
Governor Gavin Newsom. Yet,
with “New Democratic” ideas
permeating almost the entire
Democratic Party, it was clear that
the DLC was searching for new
ways to be useful, if not a new
rationale.
Strangely, just as the DLC was
reorienting itself away from
Washington, the myth that the
DLC served as a shadowy and
very powerful link between
corporate lobbyists and Beltway
Democrats began to grow and
grow—fueled by a series of noisy
verbal joists between DLC leaders
and Howard Dean during the
2004 presidential cycle, followed
by extended cold warfare with
progressive bloggers in the
aftermath of that election. None of
this had much to do with what the
DLC was doing every day, but it
sure got a lot of attention, most of
it negative, and preempted any
progressive appreciation for the
DLC’s policy work or its regular
savaging of Bush-era
Republicans.
In truth, the DLC was never the
ideological or political monolith
that its enemies—or even its
friends—sometimes imagined.
Yes, it was partially financed by
corporate money (mainly because
corporations wanted to hedge
their partisan bets, and because
the DLC was at least friendly to
them), and it undoubtedly went
far over the top in celebrating the
“New Economy,” along with the
deregulatory demands of the tech
industry and its financial allies.
But it also pioneered attacks on
“corporate welfare” in the federal
budget and tax code, opposed
state-level tax giveaways as an
economic-development tool, and
opposed most of corporate
America’s legislative priorities
(other than on trade policy), most
notably the Bush tax cuts and the
health care industry’s cherished
Medicare prescription drug
benefit. Yes, the DLC fought with
the labor movement over trade
policy, but it also supported the
Employee Free Choice Act
(EFCA), which could not have
pleased corporate donors, and, on
one occasion, PPI’s Will Marshall
co-authored an economic policy
manifesto with American
Prospect editor Bob Kuttner. And
yes, the DLC often scourged
Democrats for appearing to be
weak on defense, and it became
too closely associated with the
Iraq war (though it quickly split
with George W. Bush's policies
on Iraq after the invasion). But
DLC founder Sam Nunn led the
Democratic opposition to
Operation Desert Storm, and
many elected officials associated
with the DLC opposed the 2003
war from the get-go. The DLC’s
reputation for “Republican Lite”
policy ideas was never that well-
merited: At a time when these
ideas were outside even the
Democratic mainstream, the
group came out for public
financing of congressional
elections and GLBT rights.
Nor was the DLC all that
Politics-Left/ 45
monolithic in its political
allegiances. When five-term DLC
chairman Joe Lieberman ran for
president in 2004, his circle of
close advisers included his friend
Al From. But other top DLC/PPI
staff were at the same time
advising John Kerry and John
Edwards, and the standing joke
was that the DLC was pursuing a
“portfolio strategy.” When
Lieberman lost his 2006 Senate
primary to Netroots hero Ned
Lamont, From again supported his
friend’s decision to run as an
Independent, just as DLC
chairman Tom Vilsack promptly
endorsed Lamont. Even the
perception that the DLC was
locked in a perpetual war with the
“dirty hippies” of the progressive
blogosphere was more myth than
reality. One of my odder
assignments for the DLC was to
squire Markos Moulitsas—a
famously obsessive DLC-hater
who predictably celebrated the
DLC’s death in a post
yesterday—around a DLC annual
meeting, which he attended as
part of a reciprocal agreement
with DLC Chairman Harold Ford.
In one session, Markos called Joe
Lieberman an “asshole” and drew
robust applause. This naturally
delighted him but, unfortunately,
didn’t make him think twice about
his understanding of the DLC
itself.
Meanwhile, on the right, it’s
laughable to read the reactions
from conservatives like the Wall
REQUIEM page 48
46 Politics-Left/
Requiem for the DLC
Ed Kilgore (The New Republic -
All Feed)
Submitted at 2/8/2011 11:00:00 PM
After a good quarter-century run,
the Democratic Leadership
Council (DLC) has announced it
will close its doors this month. Its
original mission has long been
accomplished: This small but
famous—or, depending on your
o r i e n t a t i o n ,
infamous—organization was
founded in the wake of the 1984
Walter Mondale debacle by two
House Democratic Caucus
staffers named Al From and Will
Marshall, who enlisted an
assortment of elected officials
with names like Clinton, Gore,
Gephardt, Nunn, Babbitt, and
Robb. Its goal was to lay the
“message” and policy
groundwork for a successful
Democratic presidential run, at a
time when Republicans were said
to have an “Electoral College
lock.” With an eight-year Clinton
presidency on the books and
Obama looking pretty well
positioned for reelection, it’s past
time to conclude that the lock has
been picked.
In fact, there’s a case to be made
that the DLC’s immediate raison
d’etre was fulfilled in 1992, when
Bill Clinton beat George H.W.
Bush. At that point, the council
had already evolved from a
clubhouse for elected officials
disgruntled with the ineptitude of
the national party to an idea
factory for its prize pupil and tutor
(Clinton). Having decided to
sojourn on, it became a well-
established political fixture that
managed a distinctive ideological
brand while occasionally
engaging in high-profile factional
battles with “the Left,” a term it
often applied to orthodox liberals,
as well as antiwar activists and
various interest and identity
groups. Sometimes, the DLC even
disagreed with Clinton, as it did
on HillaryCare (supporting,
instead, an approach to health care
reform close to what Barack
Obama offered upon becoming
president).
After Bill Clinton left office,
however, they—perhaps I should
say “we,” since I served as a
policy director there for about a
decade before I left in 2006, and
I’m still a part-time fellow at the
Progressive Policy Institute (PPI),
originally the DLC’s think
tank—clearly experienced
something of an identity crisis.
Beginning in 2000, the DLC
determined to rebuild its bench
and recapture its original role as a
home for non-Washington
Democrats left behind by the
national party. It engaged in an
immensely useful, but not very
visible, effort to build a network
of state and local elected officials,
focused on training and fostering
policy cross-pollination among
state legislators, mayors, county
officials, and sub-gubernatorial
statewide officeholders. That
network has a pretty impressive
alumni list, ranging from Obama
cabinet members Tom Vilsack,
Kathleen Sebelius, and Janet
Napolitano to new Senator Chris
Coons and California Lieutenant
Governor Gavin Newsom. Yet,
with “New Democratic” ideas
permeating almost the entire
Democratic Party, it was clear that
the DLC was searching for new
ways to be useful, if not a new
rationale.
Strangely, just as the DLC was
reorienting itself away from
Washington, the myth that the
DLC served as a shadowy and
very powerful link between
corporate lobbyists and Beltway
Democrats began to grow and
grow—fueled by a series of noisy
verbal joists between DLC leaders
and Howard Dean during the
2004 presidential cycle, followed
by extended cold warfare with
progressive bloggers in the
aftermath of that election. None of
this had much to do with what the
DLC was doing every day, but it
sure got a lot of attention, most of
it negative, and preempted any
progressive appreciation for the
DLC’s policy work or its regular
savaging of Bush-era
Republicans.
In truth, the DLC was never the
ideological or political monolith
that its enemies—or even its
friends—sometimes imagined.
Yes, it was partially financed by
corporate money (mainly because
corporations wanted to hedge
their partisan bets, and because
the DLC was at least friendly to
them), and it undoubtedly went
far over the top in celebrating the
“New Economy,” along with the
deregulatory demands of the tech
industry and its financial allies.
But it also pioneered attacks on
“corporate welfare” in the federal
budget and tax code, opposed
state-level tax giveaways as an
economic-development tool, and
opposed most of corporate
America’s legislative priorities
(other than on trade policy), most
notably the Bush tax cuts and the
health care industry’s cherished
Medicare prescription drug
benefit. Yes, the DLC fought with
the labor movement over trade
policy, but it also supported the
Employee Free Choice Act
(EFCA), which could not have
pleased corporate donors, and, on
one occasion, PPI’s Will Marshall
co-authored an economic policy
manifesto with American
Prospect editor Bob Kuttner. And
yes, the DLC often scourged
Democrats for appearing to be
weak on defense, and it became
too closely associated with the
Iraq war (though it quickly split
with George W. Bush's policies
on Iraq after the invasion). But
DLC founder Sam Nunn led the
Democratic opposition to
Operation Desert Storm, and
many elected officials associated
with the DLC opposed the 2003
war from the get-go. The DLC’s
reputation for “Republican Lite”
policy ideas was never that well-
merited: At a time when these
ideas were outside even the
Democratic mainstream, the
group came out for public
financing of congressional
elections and GLBT rights.
Nor was the DLC all that
Newstablet Edition
monolithic in its political
allegiances. When five-term DLC
chairman Joe Lieberman ran for
president in 2004, his circle of
close advisers included his friend
Al From. But other top DLC/PPI
staff were at the same time
advising John Kerry and John
Edwards, and the standing joke
was that the DLC was pursuing a
“portfolio strategy.” When
Lieberman lost his 2006 Senate
primary to Netroots hero Ned
Lamont, From again supported his
friend’s decision to run as an
Independent, just as DLC
chairman Tom Vilsack promptly
endorsed Lamont. Even the
perception that the DLC was
locked in a perpetual war with the
“dirty hippies” of the progressive
blogosphere was more myth than
reality. One of my odder
assignments for the DLC was to
squire Markos Moulitsas—a
famously obsessive DLC-hater
who predictably celebrated the
DLC’s death in a post
yesterday—around a DLC annual
meeting, which he attended as
part of a reciprocal agreement
with DLC Chairman Harold Ford.
In one session, Markos called Joe
Lieberman an “asshole” and drew
robust applause. This naturally
delighted him but, unfortunately,
didn’t make him think twice about
his understanding of the DLC
itself.
Meanwhile, on the right, it’s
laughable to read the reactions
from conservatives like the Wall
REQUIEM page 48
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Flowers in the Desert

James Goldgeier (The New Long before the East European In 2011, the United States does NATO to work with countries like
Republic - All Feed) uprisings, the 1975 Helsinki Final not have the same standing in the Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, and
Submitted at 2/8/2011 11:00:00 PM Act’s human rights provisions Arab world with opposition Algeria. Just as the Partnership for
gave opposition figures like movements that it did in 1989 in Peace worked with the militaries
The wave of popular unrest that Polish labor leader Lech Walesa Europe, nor do these countries of regimes in transition in Europe,
has spread across the Arab world and Czech writer Vaclav Havel seek to join Western institutions. it could assist the Egyptian
in recent weeks, toppling the opportunities to build ties to the
regime in Tunisia, creating the West and helped create the civil
The West has not promoted a
Helsinki-type process in the
military in fostering democracy.
And, of course, the European
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mass protests in Egypt, and s o c i e t y t h a t e n a b l e d t h e
leading other governments in the development of democracy. After
Middle East that might have built
ties with opposition forces, nor
Union could provide financial
assistance to back democratically
offers a video
region to scramble to choke off C o m m u n i s m c o l l a p s e d , t h e
similar eruptions, has evoked United States and the European
fostered a broader regional
security framework that could
elected leaders struggling to
provide for their populations. But 'Orientation'
images of 1989, when Communist Union provided vast amounts of promote peace. Although Hosni until countries like Egypt and Iraq Andrew Yoon (Joystiq)
governments fell like dominoes in political, economic, and legal Mubarak won’t be around past become truly democratic,
Submitted at 2/9/2011 12:20:00 PM
Eastern Europe. Like today, those assistance. NATO and the EU September, President Obama successful, and stable to the point
earlier events unfolded with also provided a powerful impetus doesn’t have the kinds of carrots where they can provide a model In the first of Rockstar's
surprising speed, catching the for reform in the former Warsaw for reform that his predecessors for the rest of the Middle East—as "gameplay series" videos, you'll
West (as well as the oppressive Pact, by conditioning membership had in the 1990s. And even if the much more numerous Western see how it'll take much, much
regimes) off guard. But President in a free and united Europe on the Egypt makes a peaceful transition European nations did for their more than guns to break open a
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Jana Kramer Debuts Country Single on 'One Tree Hill'

Jean Bentley (TV Squad)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 5:00:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV
News'One Tree Hill' has a history
of promoting on-the-rise musical
acts, and last night's episode was
no exception. first country single, on the show I know how it feels to need
But this time, the up-and-coming last night. someone when you're going
singer in question was OTH star "It's about never giving up on through a hard time.
Jana Kramer, who announced last those that you love," Kramer said Permalink| Email this| Linking
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premiered 'I Won't Give Up,' her
Warner Music Nashville. Kramer feels like to be on both sides, and
48 TV/
REQUIEM
continued from page 46
Street Journal’s John Fund,
arguing that the DLC’s demise
proves there’s no room in
Obama’s Democratic Party for
“centrists.” The most immediate
cause of the DLC’s closure was,
of course, the departure of From’s
successor Bruce Reed—who
headed out to become Joe Biden’s
chief of staff, joining a large
group of his Clinton
administration colleagues in
prominent White House positions.
When you take stock, it’s clear
that Obama has campaigned and
governed using policies and
political strategies derived, at least
in part, from the DLC’s “New
Democratic” playbook.
In any event, the DLC is about to
become history now, and the
REQUIEM
continued from page 45
Street Journal’s John Fund,
arguing that the DLC’s demise
proves there’s no room in
Obama’s Democratic Party for
“centrists.” The most immediate
cause of the DLC’s closure was,
of course, the departure of From’s
successor Bruce Reed—who
headed out to become Joe Biden’s
chief of staff, joining a large
group of his Clinton
administration colleagues in
prominent White House positions.
When you take stock, it’s clear
that Obama has campaigned and
governed using policies and
political strategies derived, at least
in part, from the DLC’s “New
Democratic” playbook.
In any event, the DLC is about to
become history now, and the
passions it aroused, positive and
negative, have largely faded. It
doesn’t leave a big vacuum, since
it’s not as though no one else is
toiling in the same vineyard. PPI
is alive and well, and proud of its
decades-long championship of
Obama administration policy
staples like cap-and-trade and the
managed-competition approach to
universal health care. A group
named Third Way—never
formally associated with DLC but
self-consciously drawing on the
same heritage—has taken over the
care-and-feeding-of-congressmen
function that the DLC largely
withdrew from during the last
decade. A lot of the political
perspectives that “New
Democrats” (or as PPI likes to call
passions it aroused, positive and
negative, have largely faded. It
doesn’t leave a big vacuum, since
it’s not as though no one else is
toiling in the same vineyard. PPI
is alive and well, and proud of its
decades-long championship of
Obama administration policy
staples like cap-and-trade and the
managed-competition approach to
universal health care. A group
named Third Way—never
formally associated with DLC but
self-consciously drawing on the
same heritage—has taken over the
care-and-feeding-of-congressmen
function that the DLC largely
withdrew from during the last
decade. A lot of the political
perspectives that “New
Democrats” (or as PPI likes to call
Newstablet Edition
Christina Aguilera, Jennifer
them now, “pragmatic
progressives”) offered have been Hudson Part of All-Star Grammy
fully internalized by Democrats of
every stripe, to the point they Tribute to Aretha Franklin
need little tutoring. So, whether Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com:
you loved it, hated it, or were Breaking News)
indifferent to it, the DLC made its Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:47:00 AM
mark—and it awaits the
judgments of political historians, Christina Aguilera
who will probably give it a Christina Aguilera, Jennifer
chapter in the narratives of the last Hudson, Martina McBride,
25 years. Yolanda Adams and Florence
Ed Kilgore is a special Welch will perform an all-star
correspondent for The New tribute to Aretha Franklin at
Republic. Sunday's Grammy Awards.
The segment will feature
individual and collective
performances of some of the
Queen of Soul's classic hits.
Barbra Streisand to perform at
Grammys
It is unknown if Franklin, 68, will
attend the show. The 18-time Monáe; and Gwyneth Paltrow and
Grammy winner underwent Cee Lo Green.
t h e m n o w , “ p r a g m a t i c surgery for an undisclosed ailment
Marc Anthony, Jamie Foxx, John
progressives”) offered have been in December and said last month
Mayer, Pauley Perrette and
fully internalized by Democrats of that her health issues had been
Donnie Wahlberg have also been
every stripe, to the point they resolved.
added as presenters. They join
need little tutoring. So, whether Also added to the lineup is best
Miley Cyrus, Neil Patrick Harris,
you loved it, hated it, or were new artist nominee and jazz
Paramore, John Legend and Seth
indifferent to it, the DLC made its bassist Esperanza Spalding, who
Rogen.
m a r k — a n d i t a w a i t s t h e will perform with the members of
The Grammys will air Sunday,
judgments of political historians, the Grammy Jazz Ensembles and
Feb. 13 at 8/7c on CBS.
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Newstablet Edition
Wendie Malick and Susan Lucci Tangle in the Hot in
Cleveland-All My Children Crossover
Michael Logan (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:37:00 AM
Susan Lucci and Wendie Malick
Worlds collide — and so do soap
divas — when Hot in Cleveland
and All My Children engage in
crossover craziness. First, Susan
Lucci is seen as herself on
Cleveland(Wednesdays, February
16 and 23, at 10/9c, on TV Land)
feuding with Wendie Malick's
character, faded suds star Victoria
Chase. Then Victoria appears on
AMC(Thursday, February 24 at 1/
noon c on ABC) playing Erica
Kane's maid! TV Guide Magazine
sat down with the ladies on the
AMC set to get all the hot scoop.
TV Guide Magazine: In the
Cleveland season finale last
summer, Victoria finally won a
Daytime Emmy but couldn't get to
the ceremony due to a tornado,
and Susan accepted the award for
her. Where does this delicious
rivalry go from here?
Malick: Well, now that Victoria
has her Emmy there's a little heat
around her so she's invited to go
on All My Children as a guest,
and she's just thrilled. She's
already imagining a second
Emmy because, even though it's
just a one-day role, they've given
her this fabulously juicy speech
and a great death scene — and
you always win for death scenes!
Alas, it's a complete disaster.
She's totally sabotaged by that
damn Susan Lucci!
TV Guide Magazine: Susan, you
are royally spoofed on Cleveland
as a jealous pain-in-the-ass. Any
concern viewers will think this is
the real you?
Lucci:[ Laughs] Well, it's more
like I'm playing Susan Lucci- ish.
It's like Susan Lucci with a really
evil, naughty inside voice. But I'm
fine with it because the writing is
so funny and fantastic. I thought,
oh, why the heck not? I was on a
plane reading the scripts and
couldn't stop laughing. People
were like, "What the heck is
wrong with her?"
Malick: At least Susan got to be a
glamour puss. Once she's done
messing with my character, she's
stolen my Emmy-winning speech
and I end up mute and covered in
bandages! It's so horrible that Jane
Leeves' character, Joy, has to
blackmail AMC into having
Victoria back in a proper role —
it's shockingly revealed that Joy
once had a fling with Michael E.
Knight, who plays Tad, and it
went very badly. This all happens
on Cleveland. Then, when I go on
AMC we see that Victoria has
been re-cast as Erica's
housekeeper, Gertie. And she fires
me! Twice!
TV Guide Magazine: Why are
soaps such great fodder for
spoofing?
Malick: I specifically asked to
have Victoria be a daytime soap
actress because there's something
TV/ 49
move so fast it's insane. AMC
shoots 100 pages a day. There's
no time for rehearsal. You just
jump off the cliff. On Cleveland
we do 30 pages a week. When I
go back I'm telling Jane Leeves,
Valerie Bertinelli and Betty White
that they are lucky, lucky
bastards! These soap people have
to be on their game all the time,
all day long, and they work like
dogs yet they seem to be so
happy. It's like a party in the hair
and makeup rooms.
Lucci: What's hilarious is that
when Hot in Cleveland recreated
the AMC set they acted like we
have this massive craft service
so intriguing about the idea of TV Guide Magazine: As I recall, table in this giant room as big as
spending your entire adult life they made Sally Field kind of the all outdoors. They think we have
playing one character. I think reverse Lucci — they dressed and all this great food when, in reality,
there's a very interesting and coiffed her to look just like you the AMC craft service table
funny alter ego thing that can only instead of losing the Emmy consists of one coffee pot. And
develop. And having Susan be every year she'd always win. four bagels. To be split among the
Victoria's arch nemesis is just Lucci:[ Laughs] And maybe entire company. [ Laughs] I'm not
genius, because Susan is the all- that's why I didn't like it. I just kidding!
time queen of daytime and poor think a spoof needs to be true to Malick: It's true! Susan was so
delusional Victoria...well...isn't. [ be funny. But I love what Kelly grateful to come to our set just to
Laughs] did on Hope & Faith, and I love have some bits of cheese and a
TV Guide Magazine: Susan, you what Hot in Cleveland has done. I few of our berries.
run hot and cold on soap spoofs. w a s v e r y t o u c h e d t h a t t h e Lucci: This is also funny: The
You famously hated the movie Cleveland writers titled their two- Cleveland writers seem to think
Soap Dish yet you appeared in the parter "I Love Lucci." that Susan Lucci just snaps her
suds takeoff episode Kelly Ripa Malick: That's a great homage! fingers and things happen — and
did on Hope & Faith and now Lucci: Though after you see the that's so not true!
this. What's the difference? episodes...not so much. [ Laughs] Malick: I know! I came over to
Lucci: I only like these takeoffs TV Guide Magazine: Wendie's the AMC set looking for her
when they ring true, and Soap career started with a bit part on minions. I couldn't find any!
Dish didn't. I love Sally Field but AMC. How was it to go back? TV Guide Magazine: Will this
something about that movie just Malick: Fabulous, but I could
didn't work for me. never survive there now. They WENDIE page 50
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Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:51:00 AM
Nigel Lythgoe
Nigel Lythgoe is going country:
The prolific producer and his son,
Simon, will launch the country-
singing competition series CMT's
Next Superstar in April.
"We're looking for more than just
a singer, we want the complete
creative, talented package —
performer, personality and
writer," Lythgoe said. "We want
the next country superstar."
Check out photos of Nigel
Lythgoe
In the 10-episode season,
competitors will live together in
Nashville and be judged on their
songwriting, radio interviews and
music videos in addition to their
performances. Judges have not yet
been determined.
"One of the reasons this show
stands out from the rest is that it's
the only show where the
contestants take an active role in
deciding who's in the band,"
Simon Lythgoe said. "Whereas
contestants must sing in different
genres on other shows, this is all
about country music. Our
contestants will turn some world-
renowned songs from other genres
like pop or Motown, pour their
soul into it and make it country."
Get the rest of today's news
The winner will receive a record
deal and will be an act on this
summer's CMT tour.
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Night Lights'
Maureen Ryan (TV Squad)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 5:15:00 AM
Filed under: The Show Girl, Stay
Tuned Get out your hankies: The
series finale of 'Friday Night
Lights' airs Wednesday on
DirecTV, and the show's hourlong
swan song is as wonderful and
moving as you'd want it to be.
Most FNL fans are not going to
see the series finale until it airs on
NBC later this year (the show's
fifth and final season arrives on
NBC April 15, and if you can't
wait that long, you can get the
season 5 DVD set April 5). For
that reason, I'm not going to dwell
on the particulars of the finale
here (for those watching on
DirecTV, I'll post a piece on
'Always,' the final episode of the
show, on Thursday).
What follows is a non-spoiler-y
celebration of what the show
accomplished in the past five
seasons. 'Friday Night Lights' was
very good when it started, but it
quickly developed into one of the
most innovative, moving and
thoughtful shows of the modern
era. It wasn't perfect, but
television as a whole could learn a
lot from what FNL did well.
There will never be another
Dillon, Texas, but if the
storytellers of the small screen
take these lessons to heart, one
day, we might get a show that
touches our hearts as often FNL
did.
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Apple iPod 8GB nano (Current Generation) with 7
Accessories
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Submitted at 2/9/2011 12:00:15 AM
One Man’s nano is Another
Man’s Whatever
Sometimes, it’s the little things
that make us the happiest.
Oh man, Josh, you are not going
to believe what I just bought. No
really, it’s so awesome. I know, I
know, money’s really tight for me
right now, but I need to splurge a
little bit and buy myself
something that’ll make me
happy, you know? And I’ve heard
so many people go on and on
about how cool they are forever,
so I figured why not? So I’m out a
little scratch for the month. With
the amount of enjoyment I’ll be
getting out of this thing, it’ll
totally be worth the expense.
Totally.
I mean, just look at it. No wonder
everyone is after one of these
slick friggin’ armbands, dude. So.
Rad.
It just looks cool, you know?
Here, let me put it on my arm for
the full effect. What do you
think, huh? I look pretty
awesome, don’t I? And guess
what, dude? Plus, it came with a
3.5mm AUX Cable! Seriously,
how long have I been saying I’ve
wanted one of those, right? And I
also got this sweet USB AC
Charger, a DC charger, some
little “Screen Protector” stickers
for, I don’t know, something, an
FM transmitter that I can probably
use with my Walkman, and this
wee little silicone case that I
thought was a condom at first.
Oh, and an Apple iPod 8GB
nano. That came with it, too, I
guess.
But, dude, can you BELIEVE I
was able to get an armband with
all this other stuff at such a great
price? Here I thought I was just
lucky to find an armband at all!
Huh? I suppose it is the latest
generation iPod nano. I think it’s
somehow related to those mePads
or whatever they’re called.
Honestly, it doesn’t matter much
to me. But watch this! If I make
the armband really tight, I can
turn part of my arm blue. See?
See what I’m doing?
Yeah, Josh, it’s got Multi-Touch,
8 GB of space for music, pausable
FM radio, a pedometer,
VoiceOver gesture-based control,
BLAH BLAH BLAH. It just kind
of showed up with all the other
stuff and, frankly, I couldn’t care
less about the thing. If you’re so
interested, why don’t you just
keep it? Jeez, you try to show
somebody something cool…
Now, if I can have your attention
again, check out how sweet this
armband looks on the other arm!
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Warranty: 1 Year Apple
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• 3.5mm AUX Cable allows you
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devices from your car’s DC/
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• FM Transmitter is a fixed
frequency transmitter with four
preset FM frequencies to choose
from
• Silicon Case protects while
offering a soft and sleek feel
• USB AC Charger charges all
USB devices from any standard
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• Armband fits around the nano
perfectly
• Four self-adhesive, non-
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(includes soft card and applicator)
Additional Photos:
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• Package Contents(Minus
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Apple iPod nano
• iPod nano has been completely
redesigned with Multi-Touch but
now it’s half the size and even
easier to play
• Show off your album art,
photos, and the color-coordinated
wallpaper on the 1.5-inch color
display with 240-by-240 pixel
resolution
• iPod nano is 46 percent smaller,
42 percent lighter, and 100
percent made for music with
Multi-Touch
• Genius finds songs on your
iPod nano that go great together
and makes a Genius playlist for
you
• The FM Radio tuner shows the
artist, song, or program you’re
listening to. Just tap to see the
radio controls, flick the radio dial
to change stations, and tap to set
your favorites
• Pause live radio with a tap; you
can rewind as far back as 15
minutes or fast-forward to catch
up to the live broadcast
• iPod nano doubles as a
pedometer that keeps track of
your steps. Just clip it on and
walk on. You can create a daily
step goal and check your progress
when you upload all your data to
the Nike+ website
• iPod nano includes accessibility
features that help people with
disabilities enjoy music,
audiobooks, and more
• iPod nano features VoiceOver,
Products/ 51
the world’s first gesture-based
screen reader. Touch the screen to
hear a description of the item
under your finger, then double-
tap, drag, or flick to control iPod
nano. Use the optional Apple
Earphones with Remote and Mic
to control your music without
looking at the screen. VoiceOver
tells you the name of the song or
artist — and it speaks 29
languages
• If your hearing is limited in one
ear, turn on Mono Audio to route
audio into both earbuds so you
can hear both channels in either
ear
• If you prefer higher contrast,
iPod nano lets you change the
display to white on black in any
application, as well as on the
Home screen
In the box:
• Apple iPod 8GB nano (Current
Generation)
• Stereo Earbuds for nano
• 3.5mm AUX Cable
• DC Charger
• FM Transmitter
• Silicon Case
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• Armband
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CU files comments with FCC backing cell phone
'bill shock' rules
Carol Mangis (Consumer
Reports)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 7:45:38 AM
CU files comments with FCC
backing cell phone 'bill shock'
rules
Consumers Union (the nonprofit
publisher of Consumer Reports)
filed comments today with the
Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) in support of
the agency's proposed rules to
combat cell phone "bill shock":
the problem of customers hit by
unexpected charges on their
mobile phone bills. Included in
the submission were signatures
from over 47,000 people who
agree with the FCC's proposal to
require wireless companies to
notify customers before they
exceed their limits on minutes,
text, and data.
Parul P. Desai, policy counsel for
Consumers Union, responded to
industry groups that have
dismissed the proposed rules as
unnecessary, pointing out that
some carriers do not offer reliable
tools for consumers to keep up
with their limits and that the
current efforts of carriers have
clearly not limited the experience
of bill shock among customers.
"Consumers Union believes
consumers will benefit most from
consistent, industry-wide rules,
and thousands of consumers
agree," said Desai. "Consumers
cannot rely on voluntary industry
codes to protect them from
experiencing 'bill shock.' The
FCC should implement
mandatory, enforceable rules."
CU urged the FCC to act on this
issue in January 2011, citing a
Consumer Reports survey of
58,000 subscribers conducted in
September, 2010: One in five
respondents reported receiving a
cell phone bill within the past 12
months that was significantly
higher than they had expected.
Half of the bill-shocked
respondents said the bill was at
least $50 higher than expected,
and one in five said the bill was
$100 higher than they had
expected.
Don't let it happen to you: Take a
look at the CR story, " 5 ways to
avoid cell-phone bill shock."
Following are some of the FCC's
proposals to remedy bill shock,
from a press released issued last
October:
Over-the-Limit Alerts:
Consumers that have limited
bundles of voice, text, and/or data
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incur international or other
roaming charges that are not
covered by their monthly plans,
and if they will be charged at
higher-than-normal rates.
European
Easy-to-Find Tools: Many
wireless providers use some
PSN releases
technological tools to alert
consumers about their bills. For for February 9
can incur expensive overage example, iPad users automatically Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
c h a r g e s w h e n t h e i r c a p i s receive text alerts when they are Submitted at 2/9/2011 12:40:00 PM
exceeded. Without constant about to go over their data limits.
monitoring, these charges quickly But these tools are not widely Two heavyweights headline this
add up—particularly with "family available and too many consumers particular installment of the PSN
plans" where multiple people don't know about them. The Euro update: Double Fine's latest,
share the same bundle. The FCC's FCC's proposed rules would Russian doll-centric puzzler
proposed rules would require require clear disclosure of any Stacking, and Curve Studios'
customer notification, such as tools offered by mobile providers molecularly unstable action-
v o i c e o r t e x t a l e r t s , w h e n to set usage limits or review usage platformer, Explodemon. Man,
approaching and having reached balances. The FCC is also asking can you imagine if these two
monthly limits that will result in whether all carriers should be games could somehow merge into
overage charges. required to offer the option of one? It'd be about robots inside of
Out-of-the-Country Alerts: Many capping usage based on limits set robots inside of robots -- all of
American customers don't know by the consumer. whom are capable of exploding
that their "unlimited" minutes, —Carol Mangis Subscribe now! with little to no provocation.
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GE gets RAD by joining federal Circle Circle Dot Dot:

appliance disposal program Woot Weads The Wire
Consumer Reports Shopping effort.” Once in place, the (Woot! - One Day, One Deal) But experts are quick to point out
Blog (Consumer Reports) company claims, the initiative Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:00:00 AM that these findings do not remove
Submitted at 2/9/2011 8:46:38 AM will reduce landfill waste from the the need for regular cootie
refrigerators GE recycles by 85 Every week in this space, we’ll vaccination boosters.
GE gets RAD by joining federal percent. take a look at the news and offer NORTH GRAFTON, Mass. (
appliance disposal program GE handles appliance deliveries our own incisive blend of U P I ) - - M a s s a c h u s e t t s
GE has become the first for Home Depot and will begin commentary, analysis, and poop Environmental Police officers
appliance manufacturer to team the RAD program by hauling jokes. The news you need, from a said they rescued a wild coyote
up with the Environmental away refrigerators that have been voice you can trust, in the 90 after it fell through the ice on the
P r o t e c t i o n A g e n c y f o r i t s and PCBs from refrigerators, replaced through Home Depot seconds you have to spare: that’s Charles River.
Responsible Appliance Disposal freezers, air conditioners and purchases in New York, New Woot Weads the Wire. Officers treated and then released
program, “RAD” for short. humidifiers, but foam insulation Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ( UPI) -- the coyote, but did recommend he
Retailers Sears and Best Buy are c o n t a i n i n g o z o n e - d e p l e t i n g Virginia and North Carolina. The T h e M a s s a c h u s e t t s h e a l t h consider buying his rocket-
also RAD partners as are a s u b s t a n c e s ( O D S ) s u c h a s discarded units will be delivered economist behind President p o w e r e d i c e s k a t e s f r o m a
number of utility companies chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) can to a regional recycling center in Obama's healthcare plan said he is different company in future.
across the country. GE expects to legally be shredded. When they P e n n s y l v a n i a o p e r a t e d b y creating a comic book to help G A R M I S C H -
b e r e c y c l i n g h a u l e d - a w a y are, a substantial amount of the Appliance Recycling Centers of explain the overhaul to the PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (
refrigerators of any brand from ODS emissions are released into America, which has developed a country. UPI) -- Austria's Elisabeth Goergl
six states sometime this Spring. the atmosphere. The voluntary p r o c e s s t o s e p a r a t e t h e Sources say the comic format opened this week's world Alpine
About nine million refrigerators RAD program requires partners to r e f r i g e r a t o r ’ s f o a m w h i l e was chosen because it's the only skiing championships Tuesday by
are disposed of annually in the recover the foam and most other capturing the greenhouse-gas place where the plan might be w i n n i n g a s q u e a k e r i n t h e
U.S., and only a fraction have the c o m p o n e n t s o f a p p l i a n c e s blowing agents. likely to come back from the w o m e n ' s s u p e r G e v e n t .
insulating foam in the walls and collected through the haul-away —Ed Perratore Subscribe now! dead. The squeaker was later
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refrigerators in the U.S. are environment is growing,” said GE Ratings, buying advice and SpiderDan has been sentenced to and annoying everybody else.
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r e m a i n i n g f o a m a n d o t h e r i s p r o u d t o b e t h e f i r s t products. Update your feed climbing the Millennium Tower measure extending portions of the
materials typically go to a landfill. manufacturer to address the preferences in San Francisco on Labor Day. Patriot Act fell seven votes short
Federal law already requires the appliance-recycling challenge, Meanwhile his nemesis, the teen in the House as 26 Republicans
recovery of refrigerant, mercury, which has been a multi-year Bob Lynn, remains at large. joined Democrats in voting it
LONDON ( UPI) -- Boys are down.
more likely to pass on H1N1 Seismologists worry that the
influenza on to other boys, while shockwave from the collective
girls are more likely to pass it on American jaw dropping may
to other girls, a British researcher cause unexpected fault tremors
says. worldwide.
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FDA OKs MRI app for iPads and iPhones Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:27:41 AM

Updated: February 9, 2011, 12:27

Carol Mangis (Consumer
Reports)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 6:58:16 AM
FDA OKs MRI app for iPads and
iPhones
The Food and Drug
Administration has approved the
use of an app that lets doctors
view medical images on Apple
iPads and iPhones. This allows
them to make diagnoses on the
spot, without waiting for film or
returning to a radiology Reports' Health Blog story,"iPads
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The software, Mobile MIM, S u b s c r i b e t o The Lakers and the Denver
manufactured by Cleveland-based ConsumerReports.org for expert Nuggets have had preliminary
MIM Software Inc., compresses Ratings, buying advice and discussions about a blockbuster
radiology images and transfers reliability on hundreds of trade that would send Carmelo
them to the wireless devices products. Update your feed Anthony to Los Angeles,
through a secure network, preferences according to league sources. The
according to the FDA’s release. It interest. Lakers' package would be built
also allows physicians to carefully Read more about this and other around Andrew Bynum.
analyze the images, make p r o m i s i n g n e w m e d i c a l Talks are in the preliminary
annotations, and mark areas of t e c h n o l o g i e s i n C o n s u m e r stages, but it appears that another
option besides the New York
Knicks has materialized for the

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Nuggets.
"There have been discussions
between the two teams," one of
the sources said. "The Lakers are
definitely an option." Mike and
Mike in the Morning
ESPN NBA Insider Chris
Broussard shares the latest news
surrounding the Carmelo Anthony
trade rumors. Broussard says the
Knicks will look terrible if they
don't get Anthony. Plus, Anthony
would sign an extension with the
Lakers.
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It is believed that the Lakers have
not yet made an offer for Anthony
but that the two clubs have merely
had discussions.
Los Angeles has long viewed
Bynum as a building block and
potential star, but a series of knee
injuries throughout his six-year
career has frustrated the Lakers to
the point that one source said the
club would consider moving him.
Bynum missed the first 24 games
of this season while recovering
from offseason knee surgery and
also missed a game last week with
a bruised knee.
Pau Gasol starts at center in
Bynum's absence, with Lamar
Odom moving to power forward,
and the Lakers' record of 18-7
without Bynum this season is
better than their record with him
(18-9).
The Lakers' front office is not in
full agreement on dealing Bynum,
sources told ESPN The
Magazine's Ric Bucher. Jim Buss,
son of owner Jerry, was in charge
of the franchise when Bynum was
drafted with the 10th pick in 2005
and has consistently resisted any
attempts to move him, including a
deal for free agent-to-be Chris
Bosh last season.
A Lakers source told
ESPNLosAngeles.com Tuesday
that the deal won't happen, and
the New York Daily News cited
an unnamed source in saying that
the Lakers actually shot down a
deal with Denver that included
Bynum. But another league
source maintained that a potential
deal involving Anthony and
Bynum is not dead.
Of course, Anthony, who can opt
out of his contract after this
season, would likely have to agree
to sign a three-year, $65 million
extension with the Lakers for
them to part with Bynum. But Los
Angeles is believed to be a city
Anthony would be amenable to
playing in, as he and his wife, La
La Vasquez, bought a home there
last summer. Two people close to
Anthony said the Nuggets
superstar would sign off on a deal
that would make him a Laker.
More on the Lakers
For more news, notes and
analysis of the Lakers, check out
the Land O' Lakers blog from the
Kamenetzky Brothers. Blog
The Nuggets have no interest in
Lakers forward Ron Artest and
sources said they may not insist
on getting Odom either. A straight
-up trade of Anthony for Bynum
meets the financial requirements
of the collective bargaining
agreement, but more players
could be involved since Denver
would look to shed as much salary
as possible.
The Lakers first contacted the
Charlotte Bobcats last week,
looking to deal Artest for either
Stephen Jackson or Gerald
Wallace, sources told Bucher. The
Bobcats were initially intrigued
because owner Michael Jordan
has long appreciated Artest's
toughness, but talks ended during
the weekend after the Bobcats
learned Artest was not excited
about playing in Charlotte.
The Nuggets are also engaged in
talks with New York about a three
-way trade involving the
Minnesota Timberwolves. Initial
discussions centered around
Denver getting Wilson Chandler,
with Minnesota sending Corey
Brewer and a first-round pick to
Denver as well. But Denver wants
more than that and has its eye on
young Knicks assets Danilo
Gallinari and Landry Fields, along
with Chandler.
Minnesota, which would receive
Anthony Randolph and Eddy
Curry in the trade, also wants
more in return if it is to send a
first-round pick to Denver.
In a sign that the Denver-New
York talks have heated up,
Madison Square Garden chairman
James Dolan has had direct
negotiations with Nuggets owner
Stan Kroenke, according to the
New York Daily News.
One stumbling block to a
Nuggets-Knicks deal, however, is
the health of Chandler. The Daily
News reported Tuesday that he is
experiencing discomfort in his
surgically repaired left ankle.
Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni
r e f u t e d t h a t t o
ESPNNewYork.com.
What is clear is that with the Feb.
24 trade deadline approaching, the
Nuggets are weighing every
possible option, including holding
on to Anthony for the remainder
of the season while hoping the
owners can negotiate the right to
put a franchise tag on players in
the new collective bargaining
agreement. Under that scenario,
the Nuggets would be able to
"franchise" Anthony and keep
him in Denver. Photos: Carmelo
Anthony's career
Stay in Denver? Go to N.Y. or
L.A.? As MeloDrama plays out,
enjoy photos of
a star's career: Carmelo Anthony
The likeliest outcome, however,
remains that Denver will trade
Anthony before Feb. 24.
Lakers coach Phil Jackson,
another source said, would like to
see how his team performs in a
rematch against the Celtics
Thursday and in the remaining
five games on its current seven-
game road trip before deciding to
make such a dramatic move.
The Lakers' motivation to
upgrade their roster largely stems
from the struggles of Artest this
season. He was considered an
important component last season
in defending premier small
forwards such as Kevin Durant
and Paul Pierce, and the Lakers
may see either the Celtics' Pierce
or the Heat's LeBron James in the
Finals if they were to get that far.
But Jackson has not played Artest
down the stretch in a number of
games this season because he has
been ineffective both offensively
55
and defensively.
The Nuggets like Bynum's
immense upside and believe that,
at 23 years old, he can overcome
his health issues. But they
understand it would be a risk, and
are not entirely certain they would
trade for him, one source said.
A source close to Bynum said
Tuesday that he relishes the
opportunity to defend the Lakers'
championship. He was limited in
the playoffs last season due to his
knee. But he realizes that until he
becomes a free agent he can't
control where he plays, according
to the source.
Acquiring Bynum is not a huge
financial risk for Denver,
considering his great potential.
Bynum has two years and $31
million left on his contract, but
the final year is a team option for
$16.5 million. If Bynum
experiences another injury next
season, the Nuggets could decide
not to pick up the option and thus
be on the hook for just the $15.1
million he's due next season.
Bynum is averaging 11.3 points
and 7.4 rebounds per game in 27
games this season. In five full
seasons with Los Angeles, Bynum
has averaged only 56 games per
season because of injuries.
Anthony is coming off a 50-
point, 11-rebound outing Monday,
but the Nuggets lost to the
Rockets.
Chris Broussard covers the NBA
for ESPN The Magazine.
Information from
ESPNLosAngeles.com's Dave
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Jerry Jones on Wednesday saying About 1,250 fans were displaced If fans choose the first option of t h e P a c k e r s , S t e e l e r s a n d
they were deceived by not getting after some temporary seating next year's game plus the $2,400, Cowboys to track down all of the Albert Pujols'
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For the Love of Hockey, and a Family of 25

Christopher Botta (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 8:00:00 AM
Filed under: FanHouse
Exclusive, Minor League Hockey
BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Venture to
arenas where men are paid to play
ice hockey with room and board
and very little cash, and the scored the game-winning goal in career.
stories can sometimes top their 4-2 victory in Cape Cod on He'll also tell you he plays to
anything you've heard before. Saturday. Ask him why he is honor his family: Ronald and
In an arena at Floyd Bennett playing for $250 a week at a level Carol Felten of Cashton, Wis.,
Field on Flatbush Avenue in below the East Coast Hockey and Jesse's 23 siblings.
Brooklyn, wearing number 20 for League, and Felten will tell you
the New York Aviators of the about his love of the game and
Federal Hockey League, is a 5- Jesse Felten. The Aviators have how he sees these winters as a
foot-8, 170-pound center named won 14 straight games, and Felten stepping stone to a coaching
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ALBERT
continued from page 56
16, making that the deadline for
his contract negotiations with the
St. Louis Cardinals, sources told
ESPN. Albert Pujols#5 1B
St. Louis Cardinals
2010 STATS
• GM 159
• HR 42
• RBI 118
• R 115
• OBP.414
• AVG.312
Pujols and the Cardinals had been
negotiating under the player's
original deadline of Feb. 19, the
first day he was scheduled to
arrive in training camp. After he
begins spring training, Pujols does
not want his agent, Dan Lozano,
to discuss a contract with the
Cardinals because he doesn't want
to have any distractions, a stance
he has taken throughout his
career.
The understanding within the St.
Louis front office is that Pujols
will not accept any trade going
forward, sources told ESPN The
Magazine's Buster Olney on Jan.
29. He has the right to veto any
trade proposal, and would do so.
This means there are only two
possible results in the negotiations
in the Pujols talks: Either he signs
a contract extension with the
Cardinals, or he will become a
free agent this coming fall.
What happens after that remains
to be seen, but the choices facing
the Cardinals are expensive in
different ways. Either St. Louis
will negotiate a deal along the
lines what Pujols has asked for --
probably something in the
neighborhood of the 10-year,
$275 million deal that Alex
Rodriguez signed with the
Yankees in fall 2007 -- or the
Cardinals will pay for the
backlash after Pujols walks away.
The Cardinals would receive two
picks in the 2012 amateur draft if
Pujols signs with another team
this offseason.
Pujols led the National League
with 42 homers last season and
won his first league RBI title with
118. He also tied Matt Holliday
for the team batting lead at .312.
The three-time NL MVP, who
turned 31 on Sunday, has played
his entire 10-year career in St.
Louis.
Pujols noted last month that
speculation regarding his future,
and whether the Cardinals are
willing to pay top dollar for the
three-time NL MVP, has been
swirling for several years. The
Cardinals have four other players
making more than $10 million a
year in outfielder Holliday and
pitchers Chris Carpenter, Adam
Wainwright and Kyle Lohse.
Pitchers and catchers report to
Jupiter, Fla., on Feb. 13 with the
first workout the following day.
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Of Mark Sanchez and
the Pratfalls of
Teenaged Romance
Clay Travis (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:51:00 AM
Filed under: NFL Quarterbacks
New York Jets quarterback Mark
Sanchez is 24 years old and has
already won four road playoff
games in his career. But he was
no match for a 17-year-old
ingenue whom he met in a New
York City nightclub.
Now that Deadspin and the New
York Post have tag-teamed this
story, we know that Sanchez and
the17-year-old high school girl the girl in this case is no victim
had a sexual relationship of sorts. and Sanchez didn't do anything
Somewhere the writers for wrong. Reflexively, that's the
"Gossip Girl" are kicking response, blame the older man, in
themselves for not exploring this this case the quarterback. That
storyline, pro quarterback dates isn't fair in this case.
popular high schooler. (And you Consider what we know, first the
thought hooking up in high school 17-year old finagled her way into
was tough when you only had to a New York city club that was for
compete with high school ages 21 and up. Second, when she
quarterbacks). met Sanchez at this club and gave
Sanchez is already coming in for him her number according to
a degree of criticism that I don't Deadspin she actually referenced
remember existing for Jerry her age: "You know I'm 17,
Seinfeld or Kobe Bryant, two right?" she remembers saying.
other grown men who dipped "Well, we can still talk, but I can't
down and dated 17-year-olds. The see you until you're 18," Sanchez
Seinfeld story is even more said. "Actually," E.K. (Deadspin
absurd. He was picking up his chose not to picture or name the
girlfriend, Shoshanna Lonstein, at girl in question, but the New York
her high school when he was 40. Post had no such qualms) replied,
What I want to focus on is this: "17 is legal in New York."
58 Sports/ Food/ Newstablet Edition

LeBron Does It All as Shane Battier Eyes Being Cardio

Miami Heat Get High School Teacher Blast
Revenge on Pacers When Playing Days Done (Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)

Sticking to a cardio routine is no

Chris Tomasson (FanHouse
Surya Fernandez (FanHouse Main) cakewalk. Unpredictable weather
Main) may short-circuit your plans for a
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Filed under: Rockets One too much machine time can turn
Filed under: Heat, Pacers MIAMI your routine into a rut. Our cardio
publication has dubbed Shane
-- The Indiana Pacers embarrassed plan busts boredom by mixing up
Battier the smartest player in the
the Miami Heat on their last visit the moves and working your body
NBA. So it seems appropriate he
to AmericanAirlines Arena on from head to toe while still
envisions one day standing in
November 22 and LeBron James elevating your heart rate. Better
front of a classroom.
personally made sure that still, it can be done indoors or our,
The Houston forward is 32, and
wouldn't happen again. late or early—no equipment
has gotten to the point where he's
In yet another dominating display necessary.
thinking about what he might do
of his multifaceted game, James Game Plan
when his playing days are over.
poured in 41 points to go along common sense that kids never • Do each exercise for 1 minute;
The 10-year man, who becomes a
with 13 rebounds and eight learn these days, like how to switch to the next move without
free agent this summer for the
assists. Even with his balance a checkbook, how to look resting.
first time, figures he's got three or
performance, the Pacers not only over a mortgage agreement or an • Make a 20-minute workout by
four seasons left before he
kept pace with the Heat but also the third quarter to an emerging auto lease. ... Teach them skills repeating the sequence 4 times.
embarks upon a new career.
held a lead from the second Pacers team that has won five of t h a t w o u l d r e a l l y m a k e a • Make a 30-minute workout by
"I've always loved to teach,''
quarter all the way up to midway its last six games but appreciated d i f f e r e n c e i n t h e i r l i v e s . ' ' repeating the sequence 6 times.
Battier said in an interview with
through the fourth quarter. While his team's turnaround down the Battier said it would be high • Perform the routine 3 times a
FanHouse about what he might do
the Heat created several flashy stretch. school students he might like to week in the beginning, resting 1
after basketball. "I could see
plays, including a pair of James "That's a good basketball team teach. And how would he want to day between. When ready, try
and they're playing with a lot of myself as a teacher helping young
dunks that brought the house be addressed in class? doing the workout 4 to 5 times a
people in some capacity. ... I've
down in the first quarter, the confidence right now," he said. "If I get the teaching degree, I'll week.
always thought about teaching a
Pacers' offensive game plan was "They play at a frenetic pace and be Mr. Battier,'' he said.
we got caught up a little on that life skills class. There's so much
unspectacular yet highly effective Next 1. Side Shuffles with Knee
with a focus on making the extra pace in the first three quarters but Raise
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Duke Nukem Forever preview: A night with the

king, baby
Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 12:05:00 PM
Duke Nukem Forever carries
fourteen years of baggage, packed
with a gameplay ethos from a
bygone era -- so very, very gone
by. After playing through the first
couple hours of DNF, it's clear to
me that this is a project ripped out
of time; an amalgam of ideas
that's difficult to separate into the
new and the old. Gearbox CEO
Randy Pitchford told me that
finishing Forever is about
completing the vision of the
original design.
DNF is sort of like the movie
A.I., where Steven Spielberg
picked up an unfinished Stanley
Kubrick project, and in the end
you couldn't really tell where
one's vision began and other's
ended. That's DNF, like a game of
telephone, or a (really slow) relay
race, or a dish prepared by a line
of chefs, each adding an
ingredient to the recipe along the
way. The end result of DNF may
be tasty, but it's visibly crowd-
sourced by several eras of game
design.
to enjoy DNF. I'd say it could
even be a sort of bonding
experience if you've got your own
teens now, but then they probably
hate your guts, and even if they
don't, it would be excruciatingly
embarrassing to play DNF with
them.
Gallery: Duke Nukem Forever (2
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EA, Bethesda, and
Sony Online vets form
Second Star Interactive
Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:50:00 AM
Hero's Journey may be no more
than a distant memory at this
point, but Simutronics'
HeroEngine -- the game engine
currently being employed by
BioWare to create Star Wars: The
Old Republic, among other things
-- is still going strong. After being
quietly scooped up by Idea Fabrik
in 2010, the HeroEngine is now
being used to create a game in-
house at a newly formed studio,
Second Star Interactive.
EA, page 60

Boehner Bracing for Obama's Budget

(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 6:25:15 AM
Wednesday, 09 Feb 2011 12:25
PM
House Speaker John Boehner
said Wednesday he was worried
that President Barack Obama's
2012 budget proposal will be too
fat with spending and taxes.
"I'm concerned that it will have
too much spending, too much
taxing and too much borrowing,"
said Boehner, a Republican, as the
Democratic president was set to
unveil his proposed budget
Monday.
Boehner spoke to reporters ahead
of a lunch that Obama was
hosting Wednesday with the three
top House Republican leaders.
The meeting is the latest in
Obama's courtship of Republicans
since they took control of the
House in the November elections.
Democrats still hold the Senate,
though by slimmer margins.
A fight over the budget looms as
Obama releases his proposal Feb.
14. A fresh crop of fiscally-
conservative Republicans is
preparing plans that will
emphasize spending cuts.
House Majority Leader Eric
Cantor said Republicans planned
to talk with Obama about their
desire to cut government
spending, create jobs and ease
federal regulations.
"Hopefully we can find some
common ground so we can see
jobs growing in this country
again," Cantor said.
The third-ranked in the House
Republican leadership,
Representative Kevin McCarthy,
said he was looking forward to
having a "frank discussion" with
Obama about spending.
(Reporting by Thomas Ferraro,
Kim Dixon and Donna Smith;
Editing by Vicki Allen)
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Sony Online Entertainment devs
and execs, SSI intends on creating
an online game of some form that
will launch "later this year." The
release also notes that "a number
of third-party developers who
have licensed HeroEngine also
plan to launch games featuring the
technology before the end of
2011," which is especially
interesting as the two main
development houses working with
the engine are BioWare and
ZeniMax Online (parent company
of Bethesda Softworks and id
BioWare's big game, but we've
yet to hear anything about what
ZeniMax Online has planned.
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47 percent, said they approve of Obama the highest rating for his elections — is even worse. His
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approval rating for his handling of in Egypt, while 32 percent percent), and healthcare policy comes on foreign policy matters,
the federal deficit has fallen to a disapprove and 21 percent have (73 percent). most notably the situation in
new low — just 27 percent of no opinion. Republicans (34 percent) and Egypt, but even on these, his
Americans now approve, down On Afghanistan, 47 percent Independents (47 percent) both approval ratings register just
from 32 percent in November, approve of his handling of the percent to 40 percent), and the give him their highest approval below 50 percent.”
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Anti-abortion Group Releases Video of NYC

Clinic
(Newsmax - Inside Cover) they walk into Planned Live Action's president called staff at Planned Parenthood
Submitted at 2/9/2011 6:17:27 AM Parenthood clinics," Lila Rose, Planned Parenthoods' version of clinics in New Jersey and Virginia
president of Live Action, said in a events "the most absurd yet." engaged in similar encounters
Wednesday, 09 Feb 2011 12:17 statement. "We have made full, unedited with individuals claiming to be Anti-Abortion Bills
PM Planned Parenthood disputes that. footage available from each clinic sex traffickers.
A California-based anti-abortion "Had the teens in question come we've highlighted, and it is clear The New Jersey attorney Crowding Onto
group that has been waging a into our center, they would have
campaign against abortion met with a licensed social
that Planned Parenthood staff are
more than willing to aid and abet
general's office said it was
looking into the claims. Virginia
U.S. House Agenda
provider Planned Parenthood worker," the New York affiliate a self-identified sex trafficker Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli Tom Diemer (Politics Daily)
released a videotape Tuesday that said in a statement. "All teens with the exploitation of underage said he found a clip from a video Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:17:00 AM
t h e g r o u p s a y s s h o w s a n coming into Planned Parenthood girls," Rose said. of a Richmond clinic to be "very
employee at a New York City of New York City are screened Planned Parenthood said last disturbing." Correspondent
clinic giving advice to a man for child abuse and neglect." week that at least 12 of its clinics Danny Kanner, a spokesman for In a year when fixing the
posing as a pimp and seeking A spokesman for Planned across the country have been New York Attorney General Eric economy is expected to dominate
health services for underage sex P a r e n t h o o d F e d e r a t i o n o f visited by men claiming to be sex T. Schneiderman, said the office debate on Capitol Hill, abortion --
workers. America Inc., which has offices in traffickers. The organization, had received the video and will an issue that won't go away -- is
Planned Parenthood of New York New York City and Washington, which is the leading U.S. provider review it. crowding onto the Republican
City said the videotape does not D.C., said Tuesday that the videos of abortions, has asked federal © Copyright 2010 The Associated agenda.
accurately portray the agency's were "clearly doctored and cannot authorities to investigate and said Press. All rights reserved. This Two bills-- one permanently
practices and that the incident was be trusted." it has identified a man involved in material may not be published, barring taxpayer funding of
reported to law enforcement. "The two health center workers the visits as linked to Live Action. broadcast, rewritten or abortions and the other forbidding
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Moroccan Orange Dessert

(Simply Recipes)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 2:01:36 AM
Yum, Hank put together this
gorgeous dessert with some blood
oranges we swiped from my
parents' tree. ~Elise fun. But it was Valentine's Day had my dessert.
This was the first dessert I ever and I was making her dinner, so I Continue reading "Moroccan
made to impress a girl, years ago wanted something exotic and, Orange Dessert" »
when I was attending graduate well, sexy, to end the meal. When
school in Wisconsin. We were I read about this Moroccan classic
had mostly been about fuel, not
both athletes, and eating for us in one of my cookbooks, I knew I
62 Daily Word/ Politics/
ANTI-ABORTION
continued from page 61
Taxpayer Funding for Abortion
Act. It attempts to write into
permanent law the 1976 Hyde
Amendment, which prohibits
federal dollars from being use to
pay for abortions through
Medicaid or any other federal
program. The Hyde Amendment
must be renewed annually.
That bill, sponsored by Rep.
Chris Smith (R-N.J.), would also
re-impose a ban on government
funding of abortion in
Washington D.C. That provision
brought out about a dozen red-
bandana-wearing activists
protesting what they saw as an
infringement on the city's right to
self-govern. They made their
point and left the Capitol Hill
hearing room without incident.
A supporter of the bill, Kelly
Fiedorek, told the Washington
Post that consideration of anti-
abortion legislation is consistent
with a focus on jobs. "We are in a
financial crisis," said Fiedorek, a
staff attorney for Americans
United for Life, "so this ensures
that federal taxpayer funds are
going to things that are important
to the American people and not to
something like abortion."
The second bill in play would
amend the health care reform law
to ensure that it does not permit
abortion coverage. Advocates for
the law have argued that it already
rules out using any federal money
for abortions. President Obama
even signed an executive order
reiterating the restriction. But
many Republicans insist that
provisions of the law could
subsidize abortion providers and
they campaigned on the issue last
fall.
The measure, set for a hearing
Wednesday in an Energy and
Commerce health subcommittee,
has bipartisan sponsorship in
Reps. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) and Dan
Lipinski (D-Ill.) It also would
prevent the government from
denying funding to hospitals or
other institutions that don't want
to provide abotions.
Action on the abortion bills
comes as no great surprise, as
House Speaker John Boehner is
anti-abortion and promised to be
the "most pro-life speaker ever."
Boehner may well have enough
votes to get both bills through the
GOP-controlled House.
Even so, Nancy Keenan,
president of NARAL Pro-Choice
America, questioned, "What
happened to the jobs agenda?"
when the legislation was
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introduced last month. "How
Psalm 63:3 (02-09-11)
(Verse of the Day) short that time has been, today is
many people will be employed as
part of their campaign to attack a Submitted at 2/9/2011 2:00:00 AM THE perfect time to let God know
woman's right to choose?" how precious his mercy is to you,
Because your love is better than how liberating his grace is for
On Tuesday, Sen. Al Franken
life, my lips will glorify you. you, and how his love is more
was one of a half-dozen
— Psalm 63:3(NIV) Thoughts on important to you than life itself.
Democratic senators objecting to
Today's Verse... Sounds like the My Prayer... Loving Father, you
the House bills. "Supporting a
words to some modern love song, have sacrificed so much for me
woman's right to make decisions
doesn't it: "Your love is better and you have given so much to
about her health means ensuring
than life."? Well, it is a love song; me. I do not have adequate words
that women can access the full
it's just not modern. While in the t o e x p r e s s m y t h a n k s , m y
range of reproductive health care
desert, David spoke of his longing a p p r e c i a t i o n , a n d m o s t
services safely and with dignity,"
for the LORD. He recognized that importantly, my love for you. But
he said in a statement.
life would be worthless if he had please receive my words knowing
Sen. Barbara Boxer said, "We are
to live it without the love of God. the commitment and passion of
sending a clear message to House
When is the last time you've told my heart when I say, "Dear God, I
Republicans that their agenda on
God you loved him? When was love you." In Jesus' name I praise
women's health is extreme, it
the last time you sang a love song and thank you. Amen.
breaks faith with a decades-long
to Jesus? No matter how long or
bipartisan compromise and it risks
the health and lives of women."
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Sen. Jim Webb Won't
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Correspondent Sen. Jim Webb (D
-Va.) announced Wednesday that
he will not seek reelection next
year and will instead return to the
private sector, boosting
Republican George Allen's
chances of reclaiming his former
seat.
Webb, the former secretary of the
Navy and an acclaimed filmmaker
and author, said in a statement
that his decision to retire from the
Senate came "after much thought
and consideration."
He didn't offer specifics about his
post-Capitol Hill plans.
"Notwithstanding this decision, I
have every intention of remaining
involved in the issues that affect
the well-being and the future of
our country," he wrote.
Webb survived a bruising 2006
campaign against the incumbent
Allen. The Republican was
ultimately undone when he
referred to a Webb volunteer of
Indian descent as " macaca," a
racial epithet -- though Allen later
said he was unaware of its
derogatory meaning. Allen went
on to lose by 10,000 votes.
Last month Allen announced his
intentions to run again for his
former seat, which he first won in
2000.
In his statement Wednesday,
Webb thanked his campaign
volunteers and office staffers
while touting his
accomplishments in the Senate.
"Among other contributions we
have given our Post-9/11 veterans
the best GI Bill since World War
Two; we have taken the lead in
reforming our criminal justice
system; we have led the way
toward stronger relations in East
and Southeast Asia; and we have
been a strong voice in calling on
China to act more responsibly in
the world community," the
outgoing Democrat wrote. "We
will continue to work on these and
other issues throughout the rest of
my term."
Webb's retirement will have
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Democrats scrambling to find an
opponent formidable enough to
take on Allen, who has remained
popular in Virginia even after his
well-publicized gaffe.
Larry Sabato, a political scientist
at University of Virginia, said
Webb's sudden announcement
"leaves Democrats in the lurch"
and makes the commonwealth
"one of six shaky Democratic
seats" in 2012.
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touted press event just hours from internationally. There's no
commencing, it looks as if the guarantee that any of this will ship
web admins are testing the waters momentarily but seriously, why
with what's about to go down. On list something like this if all three
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Future Robots Could Use Manhole Covers To

Navigate Through Cities
Rebecca Boyle (Popular in cities, and Street View may not
Science - New Technology, be so not helpful at night. Maps
Science News, The Future
Now)
are helpful, but robots would still Video: 3-D Theater
need to check their position
Submitted at 2/9/2011 9:55:54 AM against some kind of Becomes a 33-Foot
Japanese Manhole Cover A
manhole cover in Osaka, Japan.
environmental landmark.
In Fujii's system, it's as simple as
-Long Touchscreen
OpenCage via Flickr manhole covers. Every cover Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
Forget GPS and streaming video would be scanned and its shape New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
- future legions of city-dwelling would be entered into a database
robots may navigate using for each city. Robots would be Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:56:13 AM

manhole covers.
The ubiquitous round metallic
covers each have different shapes
and sizes, occasionally for the
sake of aesthetics and certainly
when you account for wear and
tear. In Japan, manhole covers are
frequently works of art reflecting
something about their cities. And
every city has them - they're one
of the more permanent, reliable
fixtures of the built environment,
as New Scientist points out.
Hajime Fujii and colleagues from
Shibaura Institute of Technology
in Tokyo say robots could take
advantage of this and use the
covers to estimate their positions.
All you would need is a basic
metal detector attached to a
robot's foot.
Other robot-navigation methods
use GPS, laser-range scans and
even CCD cameras that compare
a robot's view to maps or even
Google Street View. But
environmental factors can skew
the data from these sources, Fujii
writes - GPS isn't always reliable
able to find the covers using a
metal detector, and swipe some
kind of scanner across the covers
to cross-check the database and
figure out where they are.
Of course, this would require
robots stepping into traffic to
check their whereabouts. But
when we all have flying cars, that
won't matter!
[ New Scientist]
From a 3-D Theater, a Massive
Touchscreen The screen used for
teaching mathematics and
computer science students
interactivity at the University of
Groningen in the Netherlands via
SlashGear
For a team of technology whiz
kids at the University of
Groningen in the Netherlands,
having a 3-D theater to work in
VIDEO: page 65

Facebook Opens Office in Hong Kong

Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) presence in the region, Facebook facebook, Hong Kong, office,
Submitted at 2/9/2011 7:54:26 AM will be able to directly provide social networking
full support to advertisers here For more Business & Marketing
Facebook plans to open an ad and help them create and execute coverage:
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largest search engine, Baidu. a f t e r o p e n i n g a n o f f i c e i n [via Asia Media Journal]
it’s available in Hong Kong and
“By continuing to build our Taiwan. This latest move by Singapore in September 2010. More About: asia, china,
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just wasn't enough. Using the fourth computer. Even with the
curved 33-by-9-foot 3-D screen, a old computers, they have enough
group there has created a processing power to detect 100
touchscreen capable of more than points of contact simultaneously
100 points of simultaneous with no delay. More points of
contact. touch are possible but the
To create their super-sized touch program starts to slow at that
panel, the team converted the 3- point, a problem that seems like it
millimeter dark acrylic screen could be fixed with some better
panel into a touch screen by hardware.
backlighting it with six full HD See it work in all of its touch-
projectors. The rest of the sensitive glory below, scored to a
hardware isn't particularly high- soundtrack that Tim Burton would
tech; to create the touch be proud of.
sensitivity they used six Optitrack [ SlashGear]
cameras, 16 inexpensive infrared
emitters, and 1,000 LEDs.
Three computers ( described by
the team as "old") are connected
to the cameras (two cameras per
computer) and feed data to the
visualization system running on a
An Industrial Robot Arm Turned
Performance Artist Steals the Show
Clay Dillow (Popular Science - acrobats interact with the the stage. It joins a
New Technology, Science powerful, massive robot arm. The piece, which ran last month
News, The Future Now) The robotic arm joins other at the London International Mime
Submitted at 2/9/2011 8:54:01 AM artistically-inclined robots at Festival (yup, that's real), required
Sans Objet center stage, positioned quite the stage manager to learn the old
Merging art and industry, a literally in the middle of the machine programming of the
performance art piece recently on p e r f o r m a n c e p l a t f o r m ( i t ' s aging robot and a lot of
display in London has at its center c o n t r o l l e d b y a n o p e r a t o r debugging. The result is a ‘bot
an unlikely star: an industrial backstage). The act portrays the that's sometimes purely
robot whose former career was in b a c k - a n d - f o r t h r e l a t i o n s h i p mechanical, and sometimes
automotive assembly. Conceived b e t w e e n h u m a n s a n d t h e i r surprisingly human after all. All
and directed by Aurelien Bory, technology; at times the humans that's missing is a Daft Punk
the show is a meeting between seem to control the stage, at other cameo.
man and machine, exploring the times the robot is clearly in [ New Scientist]
sometimes-blurry lines between charge, picking up the human
the two as two human actors/ acrobats and moving them around
66 Health/ Newstablet Edition

Six Reasons to Work Out with a Partner

(Mensfitness.com) squash. "You can also take turns being totally shallow
Submitted at 2/9/2011 4:00:00 AM leading new exercises and here—having thin friends is for
switching up the routine," your own good. Researchers at
by Lisa Freedman| Print Article| suggests Stonehouse. Maybe you Harvard University found that you
Email to Friend know a brutal leg lunge that you can "catch" obesity (along with
1. You'll be more motivated. used to do on your own? Teach it smoking habits and happiness)
Don't feel like working out after to your buddy one day, and the because it spreads like an
work? It's one thing to cancel next, let him teach you something infectious disease. The experts
plans with yourself but it's another new. "Your body adapts and found that a person's risk of
to cancel on y o u r becomes efficient at moves that becoming obese rises by two
friend—someone who's counting you've done again and again," percent for every five obese social
on you. "No one wants to be says Stonehouse. "The more you contacts they have. "There's
Debbie Downer by bailing and change up your workout, the definitely some truth to that,"
letting down your friend," says better your body is going to agrees Stonehouse. "If you're
Steve Stonehouse, the Personal respond." surrounded by people who are
Training Manager at Crunch gym 3. You'll work out harder. active and eat well, there's a good
in New York City. You're much "Whenever you're working out chance you're going to do the
more likely to meet your friend with someone else, the intensity is a personal trainer. will you have to count your own same." Related articles:
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How to Punch
(Mensfitness.com)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 2:00:00 AM
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OK, tough guy, you think you
know how to throw down? You
could probably use a few tips on
how to punch with maximum
power. Here they are, courtesy of
Ross Enamait, a boxing trainer
and former boxer in Vernon,
Conn.
In addition to being skills that
could save your life one day,
punches can make you leaner:
You can put combinations of
these punches together to make up
your own shadowboxing cardio
workout.
JAB
The jab is thrown with the lead
hand. Begin with the knees
slightly bent, feet staggered, chin
down, and hands raised by the
sides of your face (start from this
basic fighting position before
throwing any punch). Push off
your back foot and snap the jab
out quickly. The lead foot will
slide forward slightly before
impact. For maximum power,
twist your arm in a corkscrew
motion before landing.
CROSS
Also called the "straight right
hand" (if you're right-handed), it
starts from the face and follows an
imaginary straight line directly
into the target. Drive and pivot
from the rear foot, rotating the
hips forcefully as your body
weight shifts toward the front
foot. Extend your right arm
toward the target, snapping your
wrist downward. On impact, the
palm is down and the knuckles
up.
HOOK
Shift your weight toward the rear
leg as you rotate forcefully to that
side and pivot inward on the ball
of your front foot. At the same
time, whip the lead arm toward
the target in an L shape (the
elbow should be bent about 90
degrees). Turn your hips into the
punch. You can angle your hand
one of two ways: vertically, so
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your palm faces you on impact, or
horizontally, so the palm faces the
floor (as shown).
UPPERCUT
Subtly shift your weight to the
hip on the side of the rear leg. Dip
that side's shoulder as you crouch
down a bit. Next, with the palm
up and the arm bent 90 degrees,
forcefully rotate toward the side
of your lead leg and push off the
ball of your back foot, driving the
punch upward (aim for the chin of
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Do the Protesters Want Democracy?

Submitted at 2/9/2011 3:00:49 AM
of Egyptian Muslims are and not all of those protesting in #page#In fact, many Egyptians Brotherhood, are highly
secularists who regard sharia as, the streets are protesting for the are not terribly upset about organized, but they are most
If one factor unites them, it is not at most, a matter of private ethics, same reasons. Some actually Mubarak’s police-state tactics. certainly not the latter-day
Mubarak’s brutality but his not a roadmap for public policy. support Mubarak. That should That doesn’t mean they approve Madisons of Western media lore.
cupidity. Of these, many are strongly pro- come as no surprise: One doesn’t of these practices in the abstract. The Ikhwan only talks a good
B etween Twitter, Facebook, and Western, but a goodly number are hang on as an authoritarian ruler It means they have a better democracy game. The Brothers
the 24/7 news cycle (which seems a n t i - W e s t e r n L e f t i s t s o f a for 30 years without cultivating memory than we apparently do of will never walk the walk, because
to have a built-in 18/7 opinion N a s s e r i t e b e n t . the right elements of society. Life, the jihadist atrocities that their agenda is sharia. Democratic
cycle), we in the U.S. can learn in Most of the commentary, very however, could get considerably provoked and sustained the state processes are a serviceable route
real time what is happening on the much including conservative less comfortable for the pro- of emergency. Moreover, because to power, but democratic
ground thousands of miles away c o m m e n t a r y , i g n o r e s t h i s regime elements if their patron is they are forced to grapple with the principles would not guide their
in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Alas, diversity. It assumes a monolithic gone, so they want him to stick Islamist ideology that is all exercise of power.
instant awareness does not Egypt -- whatever monolith best around -- even at 82 and in failing around them, they don’t buy the Much is made, including by
translate into instant serves the particular health. Western psychobabble about how President Obama, of the fact that
understanding. commentator’s policy The anti-Mubarak opposition Mubarak’s iron fist is the the Brotherhood is a minority
Worse, the limited attention p r e f e r e n c e s . When encompasses a majority of the principal cause of Islamist rage. faction, popular with perhaps a
spans weaned on the news/ neoconservative enthusiasts of the country, but it is a mixed bag. If They remember that the Islamists quarter of Egyptians. That,
o p i n i o n c y c l e d e m a n d t h a t Bush democracy project look at there is one uniting factor, it is not were raging long before there was though, is a formidable plurality --
complex events be reduced to Egypt, they seem to see only the Mubarak’s brutality but his a Mubarak -- and know that the Bolsheviks probably had less
bumper stickers, reinforced by p r o - W e s t e r n s e c u l a r i s t s . cupidity. He and his family seem Islamist ideology will have them popular support in 1917. To be
endlessly recycled video loops. So Discounting profound cultural to have socked away a fortune raging long after he’s gone. effective, especially when things
we’re told that “the people” in differences between Islam and the larger than Egypt’s public debt, Other Egyptians -- those who are in disarray, a faction doesn’t
Egypt are revolting because they West, presuming instead that all making them billionaires 40 times seemed ready ten days ago to add need to be a majority. It needs to
crave “democracy.” That, we are people are essentially the same over. A number of Mubarak the president’s brass-knuckle be disciplined and better
to understand, accounts for their and have a common yearning for cronies are now billionaires, too, practices to the case for his ouster organized than its competition.
determination to oust Pres. Hosni f r e e d o m , t h e y m a r g i n a l i z e having skimmed off the regime’s -- are less sure about that now. Under one authoritarian regime
Mubarak, the despot who has Egyptians who do not fit the mold hammer-lock on industry -- and Violence, looting, and jail-breaks after another for generations, most
ruled the country under tyrannical -- as if these tens of millions were this, in a country with rampant will do that to you. Having stared Egyptians have been busy just
emergency powers for 30 years. some unrepresentative fringe or poverty, real unemployment at into the abyss, the heady desire trying to get by. Game-planning a
#ad#Egypt, however, is a complex the product of someone’s fevered over 20 percent, and many for “change” has, for these revolutionary reordering of
country of 80 million. There is no imagination. On the other hand, working Egyptians surviving on Egyptians, given way to the hard- society hasn’t been on their radar.
“ t h e p e o p l e . ” T h o u g h many other conservatives, only a few hundred dollars a year. headed question: Yes, we’d like But it has been the Brotherhood’s
p r e d o m i n a n t l y I s l a m i c , t h e justifiably alarmed over the Concern over Mubarak’s iron fist Mubarak gone, but what replaces obsession since 1928. Moreover,
country is home to about 8 million potential Muslim Brotherhood is what most animates the him? the Brothers have been gradualists
non-Muslims, mostly Coptic ascendancy, portray the Brothers Western press, which takes its #ad#That’s anything but clear, about their goals precisely
Christians. Of the 70 million–plus as if they were ten feet tall -- cues from progressive and calling for “democracy” in because they believed it would be
Muslims, a very sizable segment poised to roll effortlessly over intellectuals and self-styled this environment is not clarifying. important, when their moment
is devout and fundamentalist. secular Egyptians, hijack the human-rights crusaders. Among Secular, pro-Western Muslims finally came, to be ready to hit the
Indeed, in 2007, pollsters found armed forces, and begin bombing Egyptians, though, dissent over and Copts would certainly favor ground running.
t h a t a b o u t h a l f “ s t r o n g l y ” Tel Aviv by noon tomorrow. Mubarak’s brutality against something the West would They are ready. Even as a
supported implementation of Egypt is far more complicated Islamists and suppression of recognize as democracy. Still, technically outlawed organization,
“strict” sharia (Islamic law) -- and than these competing visions, and political opposition pales beside they are a minority and a the Brotherhood has become the
even more were “somewhat” others on offer, suggest. To begin revulsion over his financial disorganized one at that. The
supportive. Nevertheless, millions with, not all of Egypt is rebelling, corruption. Islamists, led by the Muslim PROTESTERS page 75
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Submitted at 2/9/2011 3:00:37 AM
Same cast of American
characters, different play
T he United States’ public
position on Egypt is “flexible.”
That in and of itself is not
surprising, given the ambiguities
surrounding the Cairo uprising.
Mubarak’s Egypt originally
offered the United States a
continuance of Anwar Sadat’s
Cold War anti-Soviet alliance,
and later provided a relatively
stable strategic partner in the
increasingly terror-ridden Middle
East. Mubarak’s own escalating
authoritarian tendencies were
mostly ignored by successive
administrations -- at best, because
he appeared less murderous than
the usual Middle East
authoritarians and postured as an
opponent of the radical Islamists
who would otherwise ostensibly
rise to power, and, at worse,
because realists worried only
about how Egypt figured into U.S.
strategic objectives, without much
concern for the human rights of its
citizenry. In any case, a
cumulative $50 billion–plus in aid
was felt to have given the United
States some influence in Egyptian
governance, should Mubarak have
deteriorated into something akin
to Saddam Hussein.
When the protests in Egypt
followed the Tunisian unrest, it
was hard to discern the breadth of
support of the dissidents or
exactly what their anti-Mubarak
demands boded -- anarchy,
eventual secular constitutional
government, Islamist democracy
in the fashion of Turkey, the
emergence of another strongman,
or a pathway to theocracy in the
manner of Iran. But it was easy to
see that a return of Egypt to its
hostile, anti-Western posture of
1952–1973 would be a strategic
disaster to the United States and
its allies.
#ad#Moreover, the U.S. has
always been aware of the
disturbing contradiction that Arab
authoritarians such as Mubarak
were in some sense more liberal
than the constituents whose rights
they so shamefully abused -- at
least in matters of anti-
Westernism, anti-Semitism, and
adherence to sharia law.
Plebiscites without true
constitutional government and an
independent judiciary most likely
would lead to a Hamas-like one-
vote, one-time climate of terror,
not a society like Switzerland’s.
Moreover, Westernized Arab
elites who talked eloquently about
human rights often did so from
abroad, failed to represent a
majority of their countrymen, or
located their idealism in the easy
landscape of anti-Americanism.
In other words, all that history
and ambiguity might have
prompted American officials to
maintain a solidarity and
uniformity in careful and guarded
public commentary, and to
consistently stress constitutional
principles and legal processes --
offering support for steady but
careful transition to consensual
government, and skepticism of the
Muslim Brotherhood -- rather
than to give wildly erratic
assessments of the main Egyptian
players. But that was not to be.
If we were to collate all the
pronouncements of Vice President
Biden, Secretary of State Clinton,
and President Obama, the
administration believes that
Mubarak is a dictator and not a
dictator, a strategic ally and an
embarrassing liability -- and that
he must leave immediately, soon,
perhaps as soon as possible, but
he should also transition Egypt
into a constitutional state right
now, this summer, next fall, but
then should leave if he is
somehow not already gone.
We can glean from all this that
there is no official policy
spokesperson. We can also
conclude that the administration’s
private conversations with
Egyptian officials will be
explained to the press in a way
that makes Obama, Biden, and
Clinton seem decisive, wise, and
formidable -- and increasingly
unreliable to their Egyptian
counterparts. And we will be told
that the Obama administration --
which on coming into office
jettisoned the entire Bush
approach to human rights in the
Middle East (“reset”) as
hopelessly neoconservative -- was
all along a strong promoter of
freedom and consensual
government and is in some way to
be credited for the protests (but
only if they do not descend into
permanent chaos). What is going
on here?
#page#To get some idea of how
politics trumps principles with
these three players, go back to the
September 10–11, 2007, “General
Betray Us” congressional
hearings. General Petraeus and
Ambassador Crocker presented an
entire corpus of data that
supported the success of the surge
in Iraq. Petraeus finished with an
upbeat summation: “Our
country’s men and women in
uniform have done a magnificent
job in the most complex and
challenging environment
imaginable. All Americans should
be very proud of their sons and
daughters serving in Iraq today.”
Ambassador Crocker shared this
appraisal of the surge’s effects,
albeit with a disturbing warning to
the wavering Congress: “I cannot
guarantee success in Iraq. I do
believe, as I have described, that it
is attainable. I am certain that
abandoning or drastically
curtailing our efforts will bring
failure, and the consequences of
such a failure must be clearly
understood.”
#ad#No matter. On the day before
the hearings even began,
Democratic senator Joe Biden --
who was chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, and
who had voted to authorize the
war in October 2002 -- had
assured the country that Petraeus
was “dead flat wrong.” During the
actual proceedings, Biden implied
the general’s statistics were
irrelevant, provided his own ad
hoc anecdotes about the
impossibility of traveling in Iraq,
Politics-Right/ 69
and promoted his own plan to set
up independent Kurdish, Shiite,
and Sunni enclaves -- a proposal
that he would soon push through
the Senate on a nonbinding
resolution, but that was thankfully
otherwise ignored. After his
advice was rejected, the surge
worked, and he became vice
president, Biden breezily
announced that a stable Iraq might
well become one of the Obama
administration’s “greatest
achievements.”
At the time, Sen. Hillary Clinton
(who also had voted to authorize
the war in October 2002) in most
polls led all her Democratic rivals
for the 2008 nomination. After
Petraeus finished his testimony,
she grilled the general, essentially
calling him a liar: “I think that the
reports that you provide to us
really require the willing
suspension of disbelief. Any of
the metrics that have been
referenced in your many hours of
testimony, any fair reading of the
advantages and disadvantages
accruing post-surge, in my view,
end up on the down side.”
It was hard to tell whether
Clinton was accusing Petraeus of
cooking the books, or simply of
offering a disingenuous and false
analysis of the otherwise reliable
data. In any case, her venom
apparently reflected her fear of
her chief Democratic rival, Barack
Obama, who -- while he had not
been a senator in 2002 when
Congress authorized the use of
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Brookings & the Brotherhood

Daniel Flynn (FrontPage be afraid of that; Egyptians, more Brotherhood.
Magazine » FrontPage) so. In 1948, a Muslim Brother Despite the Muslim
Submitted at 2/8/2011 10:43:16 PM assassinated Egyptian Prime Brotherhood’s 80-plus-year
Minister Mahmud Fahmi record of assassinations,
The Muslim Brotherhood is in Nokrashi; in 1954, a Muslim terrorism, and bigotry, Brookings
talks, which it threatens to break Brother attempted to assassinate Institution scholars talk as though
off any minute now, with the very Egyptian leader Gamel Abdel the group remains an enigma.
Egyptian regime that bans it as a Nasser; in 1981, Muslim Brothers “The real question—what the
terrorist organization. Not to assassinated Egyptian President Brotherhood is—is very much an
worry, say Brookings Institution Anwar Sadat. open question,” Brookings’ Dan
Middle East watchers. The actions of the Brotherhood Byman told PolitiFact. “In Egypt,
“Westerners should not lose sleep should have clued the Brookings in a way, we don’t know. It’s hard
o v e r t h e B r o t h e r h o o d ’ s Institution in to their extremist to know what part of its rhetoric
inclusion,” writes Brookings’ nature. Their words should have to believe.”
Shadi Hamid. “A pragmatic too. Would any Brookings scholar
organization at its core, the group The group’s motto would seem to express such agnosticism toward
will avoid getting tied up in u n d e r m i n e t h e g e n e r o u s Hosni Mubarak? Born in Egypt in
foreign policy, knowing that this assessment of the Brookings 1928 just like the Society of
might cause the international scholars: “Allah is our objective. Muslim Brothers, the Egyptian
community to withdraw support.” The Prophet is our leader. The president has made enough
Bruce Riedel, a Brookings senior Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our history for Brookings to rightly
fellow, assures readers at The way. Dying in the way of Allah is Especially instructive was his “yes” or “no” answer? The regard him as an autocratic thug.
Daily Beast that the Brotherhood our highest hope.” response to Spitzer giving him the Muslim Brotherhood’s ambiguity But a jury-is-still-out tone
“renounced violence years ago” Eliot Spitzer’s CNN interview opportunity to condemn 9/11. isn’t very ambiguous. Their pervades the Brookings Institution
and is judged by scholars to be l a s t w e e k w i t h M u s l i m “We are against whoever did this avoidances and evasions tell us as assessments of Mubarak’s
“the most reasonable face of B r o t h e r h o o d s p o k e s m a n to the civilian people,” Morsy much as any straight answer. Muslim Brotherhood enemies.
Islamic politics in the Arab world Mohamed Morsy illustrated the explained. “We are against this Alas, such forked-tongued There seems to be an
today.” Americans, he concludes, contrast between the face the act and we said we want a fair spokesmen enable Westerners unwillingness to believe that
“should not be afraid of the Brotherhood shows to the West trial, not just an accused, and if wanting to believe in the bad’s enemy is worse.
Muslim Brotherhood.” and its face in the Arab world. you prove by a fair trial—you Brotherhood to tout them as The very people who regard the
Had the Brookings Institution not Three times Spitzer attempted to Americans, if you prove by a fair credible reformers. Why not give mixture of religion and politics in
received word that Mohamed ask the Brotherhood spokesman if trial who did this, we are against them the benefit of the doubt, they America as incipient fascism
Atta, leader of the 9/11 hijackers, his group came to power would that whoever did it with you. We reason, particularly when they dismiss warnings about an Islamic
w a s a m e m b e r o f t h e they recognize the state of Israel. stand with you against whoever stand against as loathsome a takeover in Egypt as proof of
Brotherhood? What about Ayman Three times Morsy evaded, did this if you can prove really character as Hosni Mubarak? Western intolerance. Like the
al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second in labeling it a “heavy question.” It who did this.” [Emphasis added] After all, Morsy sort of Muslim Brotherhood, their
command? And Khalid Sheikh was “ridiculous to ask about the So many caveats; so few condemned 9/11, didn’t quite say Western flaks have one line for
M o h a m m e d , “ t h e p r i n c i p a l future,” he incredibly told the condemnations. Is 9/11 really that the Brotherhood wouldn’t the West and another line for the
architect of the 9/11 attacks,” former New York governor. He such a whodunit? What type of recognize Israel, and claimed his Arab World.
a c c o r d i n g t o T h e 9 / 1 1 assured the host that the renunciation of violence assigns group condemned violence. The Daniel J. Flynn is the author of A
Commission Report? Brotherhood condemned violence, euphemisms to violence Muslim Brotherhood understands Conservative History of the
Strange that so many odious then added the caveat that the committed by allies? Does an the Brookings Institution better American Left(Crown Forum,
characters came out of this one P a l e s t i n i a n s e n g a g e d i n inquiry about the recognition of than the Brookings Institution
organization. Americans should “ r e s i s t a n c e , ” n o t v i o l e n c e . Israel not lend itself to a simple understands the Muslim BROOKINGS page 72
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Secretary Sebelius Will Not Find the Right Formula to Fix
CLASS
Brian Blase (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 10:00:03 AM
Posted February 9th, 2011 at
11:00am in Health Care Print This
Post
According to Health and Human
Services (HHS) Secretary Kathy
Sebelius, the design of the
Community Living Assistance
Services and Supports (CLASS)
program has basic flaws, but the
bureaucracy will fix those flaws
with hard work and deep thinking.
Sebelius spoke on the CLASS
program on Monday at a Kaiser
Family Foundation briefing, and
she outlined the Obama
Administration’s updated
technocratic thinking on this new
government-run, long-term care
entitlement created under
Obamacare.
Sebelius was in part responding
to the recent assault on CLASS
from a wide breadth of experts.
According to the President’s
deficit commission, “The
program’s earliest beneficiaries
will pay modest premiums for
only a few years and receive
benefits many times larger, so that
sustaining the system over time
will require increasing premiums
and reducing benefits to the point
that the program is neither
appealing to potential customers
nor able to accomplish its stated
function. Absent reform, the
program is therefore likely to
require large general revenue
transfers or else collapse under its
own weight.” The commission’s
solution: repeal or radically
rework CLASS.
The American Academy of
Actuaries shares this skepticism.
It argues that “severe adverse
selection would result in very
high premiums that are likely to
be unaffordable for much of the
intended population, threatening
the viability of the program.” The
main reason is that CLASS is
guaranteed-issue, and premiums
cannot vary based on health
status. This combination will
likely lead to disproportionately
high number of relatively
unhealthy individuals in the
CLASS risk pool. Therefore,
CLASS can’t really be called
insurance at all. Rather, it is a new
entitlement program.
Sebelius remarked that the
bureaucracy would be able to
confront this seemingly
intractable problem. She
remarked, “Fortunately, the new
law also provides a lot of
discretion in structuring the
premiums to keep the CLASS
Program solvent.” According to
Sebelius, HHS can find the “right
cut-off point” on eligibility
between a low standard, where the
Politics-Right/ 71
enrollees will be
disproportionately likely to
eventually need the benefit, and a
high standard, which would
violate the principle that CLASS
will be “open to any American
regardless of health.”
How many hours and how much
taxpayer money will bureaucrats
waste trying to solve this
unsolvable problem? You can’t
make a voluntary, guaranteed-
issue program work without
varying premiums based on health
status. Regardless of how much
“discretion” the Secretary has, she
will not be able to find the “right”
formula.
Sebelius began her remarks by
stating that taxpayer funds will
not be used to bail out CLASS in
the event of insolvency. But a
taxpayer bailout is a real
possibility for several reasons.
First, premiums may be set lower
than the actuarially correct
amount. This is because there
isn’t a useful model for actuaries
to determine premiums, especially
given the uncertainties of enrollee
make-up. Second, within the
law’s provisions, if benefits paid
out are larger than anticipated,
then either premiums will have to
increase or benefits will have to
be cut. This is a move that would
be vigorously opposed by
interested parties. Beneficiaries
with a vested interest in
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Submitted at 2/9/2011 3:00:58 AM
The Obama administration
refuses to let the United Nations
pay us back.
T he United Nations’ Tax
Equalization Fund (TEF) owes the
United States nearly$180 million.
Don’t blame the U.N. -- the
organization reported last summer
that it was ready to remit the
overpayment. Only one thing has
kept it from doing so: The U.S.
didn’t ask for the money.
Aside from a few members of
Congress and some U.N. experts,
hardly anyone gave the situation
much attention. That is, until last
week, when House Majority
Leader Eric Cantor’s “ YouCut”
website included “Obtain Refund
of Funds Owed to the U.S. by the
U.N. Tax Equalization Fund” as
one of three options to cut
government spending. It won the
vote.
#ad#As a result, Rep. Ileana Ros-
Lehtinen introduced legislation to
seek the return of the funds. But
the State Department seems less
than enthused by the idea.
Esther Brimmer, assistant
secretary of state for international-
organization affairs, told
Congressional Quarterly that
“much of that sum -- up to $100
million -- already has been
repurposed to help enhance
security at the U.N. complex in
New York City.” Left unsaid is
that under this proposal, the U.S.
would be paying 100 percent of
the cost of the security upgrades
rather than the 22 percent that the
U.S. is paying for the current U.N.
renovation project to which the
security upgrades are related (the
“ Capital Master Plan”). As for
the rest of the credit, State intends
to use it to offset future dues. She
also said State had briefed
Congress “extensively” on the
matter last year.
Nothing in Brimmer’s statements
should dissuade Congress from
considering Representative Ros-
Lehtinen’s legislation. However,
the statements should lead
Congress to ask some tough
questions:
1. Why didn’t State ask for
reimbursement of these funds
when the U.N. informed the U.S.
about them? There seems little
reason to leave millions of U.S.
taxpayer dollars in U.N. coffers
for years on end and, needless to
say, $179 million would go much
farther than $79 million in
offsetting America’s dues to the
U.N.
2. Who gave the U.N. permission
to use the TEF funds for security
enhancements? And when did it
happen? The funds could not have
been “repurposed” without U.S.
approval.
3. At what point and with what
justification did State deem its
consultations with Congress
sufficient to make its decision?
Congressional staffers
characterize the briefings as
“cursory” rather than “extensive,”
noting that when the decision was
made, members had ongoing
requests for more information.
4. If the administration wanted to
give the U.N. an additional $100
million, why didn’t it make the
request through the normal
budgetary process? Giving the
U.N. permission to use the TEF
funds owed to the U.S. for the
security enhancements rather than
seeking a specific appropriation
for that purpose seems to be a
deliberate attempt to circumvent
congressional authority.
5. Why did State decide to ignore
Congress’s expressed intent? Last
December, in the FY 2011
Omnibus Appropriation Act--
which, to be fair, was not enacted
-- Congress included two specific
references (on pages 1,217 and
1,219) to the TEF money, stating
that it “should be used to offset
other assessed contributions to the
United Nations, subject to the
regular notification procedures of
the Committees on
Appropriations.” Congress clearly
wanted the funds reimbursed or
otherwise applied toward our
U.N. dues -- not used for security
enhancements at the U.N.
building in New York.
#page#6. When was State going
to announce its “repurposing”
decision? Despite the
department’s claims to have
briefed lawmakers extensively,
Congress clearly was unaware
that a decision had been made.
Had Congress known, the
language used in the “YouCut”
proposal would have reflected the
current situation.
7. On what legal basis did State
make its decision? State has yet to
point to the source of its authority
to “repurpose” the funds. Does the
administration believe it has the
power to authorize international
organizations to use taxpayer
dollars for purposes different from
those authorized by Congress?
#ad#With appallingly little
transparency and precious little
consultation with Congress, the
Obama administration decided to
let the U.N. use $100 million in
taxpayer dollars without going
through the normal budgetary
process. If Congress wishes to
retain the power of the purse, it
should take a very close look at
this and demand answers. If the
administration fails to cooperate,
Congress should subpoena
communications between State
and the U.N. on this matter and
request an audit by the
Government Accountability
Office on the proposed security
enhancements in New York and
past U.N. practices in funding
security upgrades in other
countries.
--- Brett Schaefer is the Jay
Kingham Fellow in International
Regulatory Affairs at the Heritage
Foundation. Brett D. Schaefer
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2008), Intellectual Morons(Crown
Forum, 2004), and Why the Left
Hates America(Prima Forum,
2002). He has appeared on Fox
News, MSNBC, CNN, Sky News,
PBS, CSPAN, and other broadcast
networks. He writes a Monday
column for Human Events and
blogs at www.flynnfiles.com.
Republicans
Are Weak on
Farm Subsidies
Submitted at 2/9/2011 3:00:57 AM
Congressional red-staters must
take on their own constituents.
L ast month, when the
conservative Republican Study
Committee released its plan for
$2.5 trillion in budget cuts over
the next ten years, one enormous
item of wasteful government
spending was conspicuously
missing -- farm subsidies.
Perhaps that reflects the fact that
24 of the RSC’s 165 members sit
on the House Agriculture
Committee, the notorious overseer
of farm-welfare programs. Total
direct government farm payments
to the districts of those 24
representatives alone costs
taxpayers more than $1 billion per
year. Numerous other RSC
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continued from page 72
members hail from farm states,
and therefore have a vested
interest in protecting payments to
their constituents. For example,
RSC chairman Rep. Jim Jordan is
not a member of the Agriculture
Committee but represents an Ohio
district that receives $30 million
in direct payments annually.
#ad#We are also seeing the usual
quadrennial pilgrimage of
supposedly fiscally conservative
Republican presidential
candidates to Iowa, where they
swear eternal fealty to farm
subsidies generally, but, even
worse, to ethanol subsidies in
particular. Perhaps the most
revolting example of this
spectacle was former House
speaker Newt Gingrich’s claim
that opposition to ethanol
subsidies and mandates stems
from “big city” folks who just
don’t like farmers.
But Gingrich is hardly alone.
Mitt Romney defends farm
subsidies as a “national-security
issue,” because somehow if
farmers don’t get an annual
government check, al-Qaeda will
hold our food supply hostage.
Romney, of course, is also a big
backer of ethanol subsidies, as is
former Minnesota governor Tim
Pawlenty, who once keynoted the
annual convention of the
American Coalition for Ethanol.
Sarah Palin? Mike Huckabee?
Sorry, they are on the farm-
subsidy/ethanol bandwagon too.
Indiana governor Mitch Daniels
sounded promising: “Farm
subsidies in general ought to go
away,” he says. But he too can’t
break the ethanol addiction. A
“national-security issue,” he says.
Incidentally, ethanol subsidies
were extended as part of the lame-
duck session’s compromise tax
agreement in December. It was
pushed in large part by six
Republican senators, including
John Thune, another putative
presidential candidate.
The level of hypocrisy is
breathtaking. For example,
conservatives rightly denounced
government subsidies to business
when the auto industry was at
issue. Why, then, are subsidies a
good idea when directed to, say,
Archer Daniels Midland?
Similarly, since the rise of the
Tea Party, many Republicans
have rediscovered fealty to the
Constitution. Witness the cheers
for Judge Vinson’s decision
striking down Obamacare on
constitutional grounds. One might
ask, therefore, where these
“constitutional conservatives”
find constitutional authority for
farm programs?
And it is hard to see how anyone
can claim to be a fiscal
conservative while supporting
$15–35 billion per year in
government spending that largely
goes to a group of people with
incomes above the national
average. Farm income for 2010
exceeded $92.5 billion. That’s a
34 percent increase from 2009,
and -- even if you subtract
payments from the government --
28.8 percent above the previous
ten-year average. While
conservatives often mythologize
small farms, most farm subsidies
go to large and corporate farms.
In fact, the largest 10 percent of
recipients receive 73 percent of all
subsidy payments.
#page#As for ethanol, this is a
program that cost taxpayers $7.7
billion last year while driving up
food and gasoline prices -- and
that causes more environmental
damage than it solves. The
national-security argument is far
more slogan than reality.
Ethanol’s impact on oil imports is
minimal, less than 1 percent
according to some studies. We
could plant subsidized corn on
every square inch of available
land, and we would not
significantly reduce our reliance
on imported oil (most of which
actually comes from such hostile
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countries as Canada).
#ad#Unsupportable as farm
subsidies are, they are part of a
larger context that will continue to
bedevil Republicans as they try to AT&T rolling out
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easier to cut the other guy’s
unlimited calling to
subsidy. And some of the most any mobile number
deeply “red” states are among the Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
biggest collectors of federal
Submitted at 2/9/2011 12:31:00 PM
largess. In 2010, solidly
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the US, regardless of carrier,
spending is going to require
starting tomorrow (currently, only
Republicans to take on their own
AT&T numbers qualify). There
constituencies.
are a few catches, of course:
Farm subsidies will provide an
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Middle East Security Deteriorates

Ariel Cohen (The Foundry: also credited with playing a key credited Tehran with a de facto
Conservative Policy News.) role in negotiations between Israel takeover of Lebanon. Iran turned
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:00:24 AM and the Palestinians and closing Hezbollah and Hamas into semi-
the Gaza–Egypt border to states, pushing their legitimacy
Two years of President Barak w e a p o n s s m u g g l i n g . up, whereas Israel’s legitimacy is
Obama’s Middle Eastern foreign The majority of speakers under attack. While some
policy, and especially its handling perceived the U.S. power in the speakers, such as Ephraim
of the Egyptian revolution, earned region in decline. The U.S. Halevy, the former chief of the
poor marks at Israel’s flagship initially decided to push Mubarak Mossad, said that the U.S. and
national security event, the out instead of engaging in Israel “are winning the war” to
H e r z l i y a C o n f e r e n c e . T h e “intimate dialogue between two stop the Iranian nuclear program,
prestigious conference attracted allies,” Israelis complained. It others (such as the American
NATO Secretary-General Anders looks now, however, that a Enterprise Institute’s Danielle
Fogh Rasmussen, U.K. Defense compromise may be in the Pletka and Ephraim Sneh, the
Minister Liam Fox, U.S. Assistant making, allowing Mubarak to former Deputy Minister of
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V e r s h b o w , I s r a e l i D e f e n s e Might inconsistencies in handling will not suffice. They called for a
Minister Ehud Barak, and many the Egyptian regime by the more robust effort regarding Iran,
others. Obama Administration suggest a including a credible military
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option and outreach to the Iranian
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leading opposition group in the
assembly. If there is a quick
transition, meaning popular
elections and a new government,
the Brotherhood is certain to
improve its position. In all
likelihood, it will not be a
majority party, but it will have
enough of a plurality to exercise
enormous influence over the
levers of power and perhaps to
decide who wields them.
The new Egyptian government
would be more Islamist, more anti
-American, and more hostile to
Israel. How much the tide would
turn from Mubarak’s pro-Western
tilt would depend on the military,
the upper ranks of which will not
want to return to a state of war
with Israel, regardless of the
Muslim Brotherhood’s desires
and the unpopularity of Israel
among the broader Egyptian
population. As I’ve argued
previously, while the military is
the most stable institution in
Egypt, we should be careful not to
overrate its promise as a bulwark
against the Islamist advance.
The question in Egypt is not what
happens at noon tomorrow but
what happens, incrementally, over
the next several years. While
some analysts look at Iran 1979 as
their guide, mine is present-day
Turkey.
There, by law, the military is the
guarantor of Atatürk’s secular
Muslim society. Like Egypt’s
armed forces, Turkey’s military is
highly professional -- indeed, it is
still (nominally) a NATO ally and
until recently had strong ties to
the Israeli defense forces. Yet
now, after 80 years, Turkey is
back in the Islamist fold and
overtly hostile to Israel.
#page#This did not happen
overnight. The Justice and
Development Party (AKP), a
disciplined, well-organized
Islamist faction with close ties to
the Muslim Brotherhood,
managed to squeeze into power in
2002, even though it was a
minority opposed by millions of
pro-Western, secular Muslims. It
increased its popularity by
foreswearing any intention to
impose sharia, avoiding the taint
of financial corruption, adopting
responsible economic policies,
and only gradually enacting items
on the Islamist punch-list --
beginning with the ones that
enjoyed broad support. Behind the
scenes, it used its power both to
infiltrate the military and to install
its loyalists in important
institutions (e.g., the banks,
bureaucracy, judiciary, and
education system).
Based on this performance, it
won reelection with a narrow
majority -- no small thanks to
cheerleading from Western
governments and commentators
about how Turkey under AKP
rule symbolized a modern,
“moderate” Islam. With that
cover, the AKP promptly stepped
up its Islamicization program,
ordered arrests of its political
opponents, and began challenging
the military. To see what the
Islamists could get away with, this
challenge started with the arrests
of a few officers. When there was
no pushback, more prosecutions
and harassment followed. It was
clear that the military would not
rise to the occasion, as the West
always assumed it would.
#ad#Emboldened, the AKP
regime has ended Turkey’s
military cooperation with Israel
and become an increasingly
strident supporter of Palestinian
“resistance.” Last spring,
Turkey’s government financially
backed the “peace flotilla” -- an
attempt by Brotherhood-tied
Islamists and anti-American
Leftists to break Israel’s blockade
75
of Hamas in Gaza. Turkey now
formally rejects the description of
Hamas as a terrorist organization,
referring to it as a democratically
elected political organization that
is merely defending its rightful
territory. The AKP government
has also cozied up to Hezbollah
and Syria while working against
Western efforts to halt Iran’s
nuclear program.
Here’s the part that ought to scare
us: Unlike Turkey, Egypt has
never undergone a rigorous,
decades-long effort to purge Islam
from public life. The AKP had a
higher mountain to climb. If the
Muslim Brotherhood gets its turn
at the wheel and steers as
shrewdly, the transformation of
Egypt won’t happen
tomorrow#...#but neither will it
take the eight years Turkey
needed.
— Andrew C. McCarthy, a senior
fellow at the National Review
Institute, is the author, most
recently, of The Grand Jihad:
How Islam and the Left Sabotage
America. Andrew C. McCarthy
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Who Will Shape Obama’s Policy on Egypt?
Ryan Mauro (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 2/8/2011 10:45:13 PM
The U.S. is almost certain to face
an Egyptian government under the
influence of the Muslim
Brotherhood sometime this year.
The Brotherhood and its
apologists have long tried to
influence the White House and
will try to convince the media and
the Obama administration that the
Islamist group is moderate. And if
the administration’s relationship
with the Brotherhood’s allies is
any indication, they’ll succeed.
The Obama Administration has
signaled its acceptance of the
Brotherhood in the next Egyptian
government, with the State
Department spokesman saying the
group is “a fact of life in Egypt.”
A secret meeting between a U.S.
representative and the
Brotherhood has been reported,
though any communication has
been denied. President Obama
downplayed the threat from the
Muslim Brotherhood in an
interview with Bill O’Reilly on
Sunday.
“I think that the Muslim
Brotherhood is one faction in
Egypt. They don’t have majority
support in Egypt, but they are
well-organized and there are
strains of their ideology that are
anti-U.S., there is no doubt about
it,” he said.
The unrest and future change in
government in Egypt will require
an overhaul of U.S. policy
towards the country, which will
be shaped by whose advice
President Obama listens to.
According to Steve Emerson, the
executive director of the
Investigative Project on
Terrorism, the administration has
extensive relations with groups
and leaders tied to the Muslim
Brotherhood.
“The Obama Administration has
opened its doors to Muslim
Brotherhood legacy groups such
as the Council on American-
Islamic Relations, the Muslim
Public Affairs Council, the
Islamic Society of North America
and other Islamic leaders who
come from Muslim Brotherhood
backgrounds,” Emerson told
FrontPage.
Even before Obama came into
office, he was choosing advisers
with relationships to Brotherhood
front groups. The director of his
presidential campaign’s outreach
to the Muslim community, Mazen
Asbahi, resigned after he was
criticized for frequently speaking
for groups like those mentioned
by Emerson and serving on the
board of a trust alongside an
imam tied to the Brotherhood and
Hamas. In the first month of
becoming President, Obama
selected Ingrid Mattson, the
president of the Islamic Society of
North America(ISNA), to take
part in the inaugural prayer
services. The federal government
has designated ISNA as an
“unindicted co-conspirator” in the
Holy Land Foundation trial, and
the Brotherhood’s internal
documents identify it as one of its
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condemned Hamas, he has called
on the U.S. to build a Muslim
coalition that is “not limited to
those who advocate Western-style
democracy, and avoid creating a
dichotomy between freedom and
Islamic society.” He has spoken
for ISNA since being appointed,
and has shared the stage with
officials from the Council on
A m e r i c a n - I s l a m i c
Relations(CAIR), another
Brotherhood-tied group that has
been listed as an “unindicted co-
conspirator” in the Holy Land
Foundation trial.
One of the members of the
President’s Advisory Council on
Faith-Based and Neighborhood
fronts. Partnerships is Dalia Mogahed.
Obama’s chief terrorism advisor, She has been described as the
John Brennan, spoke alongside “most influential person” in
Mattson at New York University crafting Obama’s speech in Cairo
despite this designation. The to the Muslim world. She is a
senior advisor and assistant to the close colleague of John Esposito,
president, Valerie Jarrett, was the perhaps the Brotherhood’s most
keynote speaker at ISNA’s 46 th prestigious apologist in the U.S.
convention in July 2009. He gave expert testimony on
President Obama chose Rashad b e h a l f o f t h e H o l y L a n d
Hussain to be his special envoy to Foundation during its trial and is a
the Organization of the Islamic vocal defender of CAIR, ISNA
Conference. He has long been a and the other organizations tied to
featured speaker at conferences by the Brotherhood.
Brotherhood-tied groups in the
U.S., and although he has
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Spy vs. Pakistan

Rick Moran (FrontPage Friday without legal
Magazine » FrontPage) representation or even a translator
Submitted at 2/8/2011 10:35:59 PM to help him understand the
proceedings. This proved to be
Raymond Davis, described by the too much for the State
State Department as “a US Department who blasted the
diplomat” affiliated with the Pakistani government, accusing
Lahore consulate, is being held them of not giving Davis a “fair
illegally in a Pakistani jail. Police hearing.”
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January 27th shootout in which another statement where they
two Pakistanis were killed. The “reiterated to the Government of
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incident has angered the Pakistani Pakistan today that his continued Joshua Topolsky (Engadget)
people and put their government detention is a gross violation of Submitted at 2/9/2011 12:32:00 PM
in an impossible position. With international law,” and that Davis
our alliance with Pakistan already “is entitled to full criminal We're inside and things are
strained by U.S. drone strikes, the immunity and cannot be lawfully getting underway -- the event
Davis affair threatens to do arrested or detained.” officially starts at the times below.
further damage to Pakistan-U.S The entreaties failed to make a Read along after the break to see
relations, and to destabilize the dent. The Pakistani court ruled what's happening right now!
The car fled the scene without release him because his status as a
government of President Asif Ali t h a t Davis must remain 07:00AM- Hawaii
picking up Davis, who was diplomat gives him immunity.
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arrested by Pakistani police and The plea has fallen on deaf
Davis was driving a rented car in while the police investigate the 11:00AM- Mountain
charged with murder. ears.The Pakistanis are
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Initial reports by Pakistani media challenging the status of Davis as
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sought to sensationalize the a diplomat. Indeed, Mr. Davis
intent on robbing him. He told incident appears to be a cut and 06:00PM- London
incident. The English language seems to fall into a gray area of
authorities he had just withdrawn 07:00PM- Paris
Dawn referred to the two robbers international law. He is identified dried case of self-defense. The
cash from an ATM. A gun battle 09:00PM- Moscow
as “commuters.” They quoted an as a “technical advisor” to the windows on Davis’s car were shot
ensued and the two would-be 11:30PM- Mumbai
“eyewitness” who accused Mr. consulate and owns a security out and a gun was found lying
robbers were fatally wounded. 03:00AM- Tokyo (February
Davis of gunning down the consulting business in Florida. next to one of the dead robbers.
Within minutes, an angry crowd 10th)
robbers in cold blood. In truth, it The Pakistanis insist this makes But the Pakistani people are
had gathered at the scene of the 05:00AM- Sydney (February
appears that the robbers had held him a civilian subject to local unconvinced. The families of the
shooting. According to Pakistani victims want Davis brought up on 10th)
up another victim just minutes justice.
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Primary Roulette
Alan W. Dowd (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 2/8/2011 10:40:19 PM
The Democratic Party held its
first debate of the “2008 primary
season” in April of 2007. It
doesn’t look like the GOP will
start the 2012 primary season
quite as early. In fact, as of this
writing, no one has officially
launched a campaign for the
White House. Regardless of when
the primaries start, the Republican
field will be big, probably bigger
than the eight Democrats who
initially ran in 2007-08.
There are at least two reasons for
this; both have to do with
President Barack Obama’s
performance.
First, the GOP is no longer
reeling, no longer the endangered
species it was in January 2009, no
longer flatfooted and without a
playbook. For about a year, it
appeared that the era of Big
Government and Big Spending
was not only back but here to
stay. That ended in March 2010,
after the healthcare bill was
rammed through Congress. The
growing size and reach of
government seemed to thrust
Americans back into civic
engagement. They gave the
president’s party what he called a
“shellacking” eight months later
and gave Republicans both a
chance to prove themselves and a
roadmap for making Obama a one
-term president—namely, spend
less of our money, tax less of our
wealth, intrude less in our lives.
Second, from the oil-spill
debacle, to the endless spending
binge, to the insatiable yearning to
push government deeper and
wider into our daily lives, to the
various Senate and House
campaigns he has sunk, Obama
has lost that aura of political
invincibility and inevitability that
he had in the final half of 2008
and first half of 2009.
So, who can capitalize on these
political realities in 2012?
To start with, there are 29
administration’s handling of the
oil spill. Haley Barbour of
Mississippi is a proven fundraiser
and has lots of favors he could
cash in. Rick Perry of Texas has
won three times in one of
America’s most populous states.
The problem with these
governors is that in a primary
setting, they could cancel each
other out or be canceled out by
other likely candidates: Daniels’
alacrity with facts and figures,
innovations and ideas, would be
matched by Newt Gingrich’s.
Christie’s fiscal record could be
checked by Daniels, and
Christie’s proven ability to win
over Democrats in a Democratic
Republican governors, many of state could be matched by Mitt
whom think they can be president, Romney.
and some of whom have strong Former Utah governor Jon
records to make that case. Mitch Huntsman, who recently resigned
Daniels of Indiana is constantly from his post as ambassador to
cited as a possibility in the China, will likely be checkmated
conservative media, and his tax- by his own record. Huntsman, as
restraining, smart-spending style The Wall Street Journal reports,
provides quite a contrast to “has supported same-sex civil
Obama. Likewise, Chris Christie unions as well as cap-and-trade
of New Jersey is taking on legislation,” which won’t win him
unions, waste and spending in a many fans in the GOP primaries.
way that terrifies the Left and Jindal would likely be
cheers the Right. Both could go o v e r s h a d o w e d b y b i g g e r
toe-to-toe with Obama in a personalities, like Barbour.
debate. Barbour’s homespun common
Bobby Jindal of Louisiana has sense will sound a lot like Mike
already gone to-to-toe with H u c k a b e e ’ s . A n d P e r r y ’ s
Obama, in a sense, over the populism is territory already
staked out by Sarah Palin.
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continued from page 69
force to remove Saddam Hussein
-- was trumpeting his longtime
opposition to the war.
Senator Obama lectured Crocker
and Petraeus for seven minutes
without pausing for a reaction
from either or posing a single
question. Then he concluded, “We
have now set the bar so low that
modest improvement in what was
a completely chaotic situation, to
the point where now we just have
the levels of intolerable violence
that existed in June of 2006, is
considered success, and it’s not.
This continues to be a disastrous
foreign-policy mistake.”
In fact, candidate Obama’s
assessment was mild compared to
his earlier assertions. In January
2007, he called for all American
combat forces to be removed from
Iraq by March 31, 2008. Later that
month, he greeted the
announcement of the Petraeus
surge with an especially
pessimistic forecast: “I am not
persuaded that 20,000 additional
troops in Iraq is going to solve the
sectarian violence there. In fact, I
think it will do the reverse.” Four
days later, he said, “I don’t know
any expert on the region or any
military officer that I’ve spoken to
privately that believes that that is
going to make a substantial
difference on the situation on the
ground.” Even as the surge
progressed, Obama declared it a
failure. While campaigning in
New Hampshire in July 20, 2007,
he said, “Here’s what we know.
The surge has not worked.”
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Jubilant Celebrations Mask Difficult Tasks for

Southern Sudan
Morgan Roach (The Foundry: since the Bush Administration
Conservative Policy News.) aided in the creation of the
Submitted at 2/9/2011 9:00:32 AM Comprehensive Peace Agreement
five years ago. The Obama
Posted February 9th, 2011 at Administration has developed an
10:00am in American Leadership agenda for U.S. engagement with
Print This Post Sudan up to the south’s official
The ballots have been tallied and independence on July 9. However,
the results are in: Southern the Obama Administration should
Sudanese voted overwhelmingly keep contingency plans ready
for independence from the should the situation deteriorate. It
government in Khartoum. With a should also devise plans for
total turnout of 97 percent and 99 relations after July 9 that take
percent of voters casing their account of a series of possible
ballot in favor of secession, outcomes ranging from the ideal
southern Sudan is on its way to to the disastrous.
becoming the world’s newest Today’s celebration in the streets
country. the will of southern Sudan and has conflict in Darfur, infrastructure could quickly turn into instability
Yesterday, President Obama welcomed amicable relations with and development in the south, and and conflict tomorrow, and the
c o n g r a t u l a t e d t h e s o u t h e r n its former adversary in the future. the establishment of a stable United States should be ready to
Sudanese on “a successful and Unfortunately, there is plenty of government in Juba will take a respond if the need arises.
inspiring” referendum. The cloud surrounding this silver long time to reconcile. This entry passed through the
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continued from page 78
#page#By the time of the
hearings, it was essential to
candidate Obama’s budding
foreign-policy reputation that he
stand by these pessimistic
appraisals. On national television
he, like other senators and the
pack of presidential candidates,
was not about to let the general
get away with the impression that
the surge was working. All this
posturing was quietly scrapped
from the Obama campaign
websites and literature in mid-
2008, when it became
indisputable that the surge had, in
fact, secured Iraq and would lead
a President Obama and Secretary
of State Clinton to adopt the Bush
-Petraeus plans of stabilizing and
SECRETARY
continued from page 71
preserving their CLASS payment
will likely lobby vigorously to
spread the pain through broad-
based tax increases.
CLASS made its way into the
health care law because it creates
the appearance of deficit
reduction; beneficiaries must pay
premiums for five years to
become eligible for benefits, so in
the early years of the program
there is an apparent surplus of $70
billion, according to the
Congressional Budget Office. But
the same money that is
supposedly paying down the debt
can’t also be deposited into the
CLASS trust fund. When those
obligations come due, the
withdrawing from Iraq in their
entirety.
I could go on, but one gets the
picture that the three senators had
no idea of actual events on the
ground in Iraq, but understood the
political calculus of pro forma
denouncing the surge, and
sometimes Petraeus along with it,
in their shared race for the
presidency.
#ad#Today, mutatis mutandis, the
same is generally true: All three in
their new roles are searching in
the same old manner for the
politically proper response
without any deep reflection about
or study of what the turmoil in
Cairo represents. They sound as
confused and political as they did
government will have to borrow
more money, wiping out the
illusory debt reduction. What’s
worse, premiums may fall well
short of what is needed to pay full
benefits. This is what the
President’s deficit commission
and Chief Actuary believe will
happen. Then, pressure will build
to borrow even more, leaving
tomorrow’s taxpayers will the
bill.
Instead of a technocratic model
of long-term-care financing that
empowers the federal
bureaucracy, we should move to a
personal responsibility model.
Public policies should focus on
increasing personal savings to
in 2007, but unfortunately, this
time around they are no longer
blustering senators with
presidential ambitions and
without responsibility for the
implementation of U.S. foreign
policy.
— NRO contributor Victor Davis
Hanson is a senior fellow at the
Hoover Institution, the editor of
Makers of Ancient Strategy: From
the Persian Wars to the Fall of
Rome, and the author of The
Father of Us All: War and
History, Ancient and Modern.
Victor Davis Hanson
fund anticipated expenses in old
age and on increasing the number
of private LTC insurance policies
to fund unexpected expenses.
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Funds Facebook Apps
for Students
Sarah Kessler (Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 7:40:35 AM
The Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation has contributed $2
million in funding to a Facebook
application with the hope that it
will help improve postsecondary
education graduation rates in the
U.S. This is the first time the
Foundation has made a direct
equity investment in a for-profit
company as part of its charitable
mission.
Inigral’s Schools App creates a
closed community of students
within Facebook’s platform. Retro
Venture Partners and Founders
Fund also contributed to what
totaled to a $4 million round of
Series B funding.
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About 11 schools use customized
versions of the app, which
Inigral’s CEO and founder
Michael Staton describes as “a
cross between Yammer and
Twitter.” Essentially, each student
gets access to two real-time
streams. One provides updates
from everyone at the school. The
other contains updates that only
pertain to topics the student has
indicated she or he is interested
in. Students can join groups and
interact without friending other
participants.
“The key is the way that we’re
designed is to help people who
don’t know each other get to
know each other,” Staton says.
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“Whereas Facebook is designed to

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each other stay in touch with each
other.”
Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable!) “Businesses are naturally hesitant
Schools App fills the void that
Submitted at 2/9/2011 6:46:22 AM to spend money, but they’re more
Facebook left when it removed
likely to spend money if they’re
New startup SNAP launches the requirement to sign up with a
bringing in money,” says
Wednesday to help businesses school e-mail address, its
Gossman. “We are incentivizing
automatically connect the dots education networks and courses
behavior at the transactional level,
between their existing in-store features in order to pursue a larger
and playing right along with the
loyalty programs and their market. The app, which launched
existing loyalty programs these
customers’ social media in 2009, turns the Facebook
businesses already have in place.”
behaviors. The SNAP service is platform into a school community
SNAP began its life as an
now commercially available after again — a function that turns out
incubated product at
having been piloted by Tasti D- to be quite important.
computerized point of sale
Lite for more than a year. Engagement with peers and
software maker pcAmerica, which
Once deployed, SNAP’s patent- school activities is widely
found an early test partner in Tasti
pending technology implicitly regarded as one of the most
D-Lite. SNAP was later spun out
“checks in” the customer to his or important factors in whether a
as its own entity and has since
her configured social networks student graduates. When the ACT
activity. The system is loyalty programs through branded grown into a mature and flexible
each time a transaction occurs. surveyed about 1,000 academic
sophisticated enough to SNAP sites, and can configure product.
The platform enables businesses officers in 2004 to gauge what led
understand ongoing levels of their social networks for auto The startup has yet to raise funds,
to automatically reward customers students to stay enrolled in
activity, which means a company posting, check out earned badges but has fielded interest from a
with points, badges, discounts and postsecondary schools, it found
could configure a type of “gold and see how they stack up against number of parties and is looking
the like for socially sharing that in first-year programs that encourage
status” that would be lost if the other customers on activity to raise an undisclosed amount of
-store activity back to Facebook, peer-to-peer interaction to be
customer did not maintain a leaderboards. venture capital in the months
Twitter and Foursquare. among the three greatest
certain threshold of activity. Brands running the SNAP ahead.
SNAP exists as a business layer contributors to retention.
Also included in the system, platform can even hook up with Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
that sits on top social channels. Schools pay between $10,000
which comes with a per-month each other to offer patrons extra fotofrog.
The system plugs into the APIs of and $50,000, depending on the
fee for participating businesses, is rewards, points or badges based More About: facebook,
Foursquare, Twitter and number of students, to use the app
detailed reporting that tracks on their combined activities. A foursquare, loyalty, loyalty
Facebook, but it has APIs of its each year. It’s an interest in
“checkins” per month, week, hour user could, theoretically, unlock a program, MARKETING, snap,
own that not only allow for rapid student acquisition as well as
or day, which can then be further special for dining out at healthy social media, tasti dlite, twitter
store integration at the server retention that drives this purchase.
segmented by social network. A restaurant and working out three For more Startups coverage:
level, but also enable SNAP to When deciding between the
business could use this data to times in the same week, for • Follow Mashable Startups on
receive and track transaction data schools they’ve been accepted to,
determine its most socially active instance. While still futuristic in Twitter
in real time. students are more likely to go to a
or inactive hours, and then run nature — Tasti D-Lite is the only • Become a Fan on Facebook
Businesses can configure badges school where they’ve already
promotions accordingly, says brand using the system at launch • Subscribe to the Startups
— trophies, stamps, kudos or started making friends online (at
CEO David Gossman. — the technology is capable of channel
anything in that vein — and least the that’s how the theory
Customers can sign up for the supporting these types of cross- • Download our free apps for
reward users for certain types of goes).
physical-to-digital business’s branded incentives today. Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
chain transactional or social One school that invites its
admitted students to join the
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school’s app, The University of parties are happy with the same

Tech & Social Media Texas at Tyler, has started using

participation in the app as a
predictor of student enrollment.
product seems like a small
miracle ( even Facebook is a fan)
— but the true test will be
Lauren Indvik (Mashable!) • The official Google Translate
Before the app, whether a student whether the payoffs are as equally
Submitted at 2/9/2011 7:32:22 AM for iPhone app is now available in
had attended a campus tour was distributed as the anticipation.
the App Store.
Welcome to this morning’s the best predictor. Students who More About: bill and melinda
• Meraki, a relatively new
edition of“First To Know,” a had made a trip to campus were gates foundation, facebook,
company in the cloud-networking
series in which we keep you in the three times more likely to enroll Inigral, Schools App
arena, has announced a$15
know on what’s happening in the than students who did not. For more Startups coverage:
million round of funding led by
digital world. We’re keeping our The school found, however, that • Follow Mashable Startups on
Sequoia Capital.
eyes on four particular stories of students were five times more Twitter
• Verizon plans to exhibit its new
interest today. likely to enroll if they had used • Become a Fan on Facebook
4G LTE (Long-Term Evolution)
Apple iPad 2 Now In Production, the application. • Subscribe to the Startups
voice network at next week’s
Boasts Front-Facing Camera The Schools App offers an channel
Mobile World Congress in
Sources familiar with the matter appealing value proposition for • Download our free apps for
Barcelona, according to reports.
new way for Twitter users to schools, a likely payout for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
have revealed a few key details
share their clips in a timely investors, and an intriguing
about the forthcoming iPad 2 to Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
manner. experiment for organizations, like
The Wall Street Journal. A DNY59
Reddit Announces New Hires the Gates Foundation, that are
tentative launch date has not been More About: first to know series,
Conde Nast-owned community focused on improving graduation
disclosed. iPad 2, iphone, reddit, verizon
bulletin Reddit has grown in rates. That all three of these
Verizon iPhone 4 Now Available For more Tech & Gadgets
popularity since rival Digg rolled
to Order coverage:
out an unpopular redesign; now
After a long, long wait, and a • Follow Mashable Tech &
it’s staff is growing too.
very short pre-order period last Gadgets on Twitter
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• Mozilla has released Firefox 4
finally order an iPhone 4 on both • Subscribe to the Tech &
Beta 11, the newest version of the
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Twitpic Brings Video to Twitter • Download our free apps for
a “Do Not Track” option to
Twitpic launched support for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
enhance user privacy.
video Tuesday, bringing about a
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Palm TouchPad leaked: 1.5 pounds, 13mm thick,
and just moments from official
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 2/9/2011 11:39:00 AM
According to PreCentral, Palm's
forthcoming tablet-- which we
suspect will be officially revealed
in just a few hours -- will be
dubbed TouchPad. They were
able to sneak in and hear a few
details during the event
preparation session, enabling
them to confirm that it'll weigh
1.5 pounds and measure 13mm
thick (just as we'd heard). If those
figures sound familiar, it's
because a fledgling startup in
Cupertino just so happens to have
a slate that aligns exactly to those
very specifications. Keep it
locked right here for our
impending liveblog -- we'll be
bringing you the blow by blow as
it goes down today in San
Francisco.
Update: Robert Scoble seems to
have let loose a bit of information
as well, confirming that a 10-inch
slate is indeed on the docket, as
well as "the smallest little phone"
he has ever seen. And before you
think that's a positive attribute, he
also mentions it being too small to
be taken seriously, and definitely
not as "a competitor for the
iPhone or Android." Ouch. Guess
we'll have to see for ourselves as
the day develops.
Update 2: Oh, boy! The HP Veer,
Pre 3 and TouchPad just leaked
Technology/ 83
on HP's official site. We're
cautiously optimistic that all these
will be on sale later today.
Palm TouchPad leaked: 1.5
pounds, 13mm thick, and just
moments from official originally
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Feb 2011 11:39:00 EDT. Please
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