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Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row save the government about $5.5 Wyss of Standard & Poor’s. “The
Washington) billion over 30 years (pocket biggest impact will be in the fall,
Submitted at 3/4/2011 4:33:53 PM change when the deficit is $1.6 because ‘back to school’ is going
trillion). to be ‘back to school with fewer
D o n ’ t u n d e r e s t i m a t e t h e Perhaps the government could teachers.’”
P o l i P s y c h i m p a c t o f t h e sweep up after a Justin Bieber For more of this story by Lisa
unemployment rate falling below haircut – one lock from the Lambert, read here.
9 percent for the first time in performer went for more than Gates warns Air Force to prepare
nearly two years. $40,000 on eBay (for charity). for range of threats
That number is the one which Here are our top stories from The U.S. military will face a
resonates with the public when Washington… complex array of security threats
candidates talk about jobs on the Senate to debate rival spending long after the Afghan conflict
campaign trail. bills next week ends, and the Air Force cannot
The economy is still shaking off Senate Democrats pushed for a fall back into the habit of planning
the doldrums so the White House vote next week on their new mainly for the wars of the 20th
did not want to be seen as proposal to trim $6 billion from century, Defense Secretary Robert
publicly reveling in what must s p e n d i n g w h i l e p r o t e c t i n g Gates warned. In a speech that
have been a privately gleeful President Obama’s healthcare touched on some of his most
moment after the 8.9 percent overhaul and other priorities. services all contributed to the most service industries. The loss difficult decisions as defense
February unemployment rate was Democrats offered their measure slightly stronger-than-expected o f 3 0 , 0 0 0 s t a t e a n d l o c a l secretary, Gates bid farewell to
revealed. as an alternative to a bill passed February payroll gain of 192,000 g o v e r n m e n t j o b s w a s a n the U.S. Air Force Academy and
President Barack Obama said the by the Republican-led House of jobs.The dip in the jobless rate to exception. “It’s belated evidence urged cadets to embrace “a
e m p l o y m e n t r e p o r t s h o w e d Representatives last month that 8 . 9 p e r c e n t a l s o s h o w s a the expansion is finally beginning comprehensive and integrated
progress in the economy, “but we would cut about $61 billion in strengthening labor market.For to make a dent in the jobs view of the service’s future needs
need to keep building on that spending. Both are expected to t h e F e d e r a l R e s e r v e , t h e problem that the country has,” “with equal emphasis on all its
momentum.” fall short of the needed 60 votes improvement will likely be seen s a i d o n e a n a l y s t . “ I t ’ s varied missions.”
Republicans were certainly not to clear procedural roadblocks, as a welcome sign of a self- encouraging but it also highlights For more of this story by David
going to praise economic data which would increase pressure on sustaining recovery, but the how far we have to go to regain Alexander, read here.
with a Democrat in the White both sides to find a compromise jobless rate remains far above our footing.” U.S. flies aid to Tunisia, plans
House and a presidential election and avert a government shutdown. normal, which means interest For more of this story by Lucia refugee airlift
next year. For more of this story by Andy rates will stay extraordinarily low. Mutikani, read here. The U.S. military was flying aid
House Majority Leader Eric Sullivan and Thomas Ferraro, For more of this analysis by Jobs outlook in public sector supplies to Tunisia on Friday and
Cantor said the unemployment read here. Emily Kaiser, read here. grows dimmer will return there on Saturday to
rate “is still too high and we need Finally, jobs data showing some U.S. employment rebounds from The jobs outlook is growing evacuate refugees who fled
to continue our efforts to make consistency winter gloom dimmer and dimmer for the U.S. violence in neighboring Libya, the
sure private sector employers Mystery solved? For the first Employers hired workers at the p u b l i c s e c t o r . F e d e r a l Pentagon said. A spokesman said
have sure footing to invest in new t i m e i n m o n t h s , t h e L a b o r fastest pace in nine months in employment data shows state and two C-130 transport planes were
employees and expand their D e p a r t m e n t ’ s j o b m a r k e t February and the jobless rate local governments shedding bringing 4,000 blankets, 40 rolls
businesses.” assessment matches up with slipped to a nearly two-year low t h o u s a n d s o f j o b s e v e n a s of plastic sheeting and almost
Congress will be looking for private surveys showing a pick-up of 8.9 percent, showing the Republican political leaders say 10,000 water containers from U.S.
creative ways to cut the deficit. in employment that is finally fast economy is finally kicking into a more layoffs are on the way. f a c i l i t i e s i n E u r o p e t o t h e
We came across a GAO report enough to put a substantial dent in higher gear. Employment rose “State budgets are in bad shape Tunisian city of Djerba. An
that finds replacing the one-dollar t h e u n e m p l o y m e n t r a t e . pretty much across the board — and that means you’re going to
note with a one-dollar coin would Construction, manufacturing and WASHINGTON page 3
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organized international airlift has
started to help some of the tens of
thousands of foreign workers who
have fled into Tunisia.
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Treasury touts success of TARP
as oversight ends
The Treasury’s last man in
charge of the $700 billion
financial sector bailout program
has two words for congressional
overseers: It worked. Testifying at
the Congressional Oversight
Panel’s final hearing, Treasury’s
bailout chief Timothy Massad
said the program “brought
stability to the financial system
and laid the foundation for
economic recovery.” The much-
maligned TARP is estimated to
cost taxpayers as little as $25
billion — a far cry from initial
projections — and even some of
the program’s harshest critics
admit it helped pull markets “back
from the abyss.”
For more of this story by
Rachelle Younglai, read here.
Government says BP’s Atlantis
platform is safe
A government probe of BP
Atlantis production platform in
the Gulf of Mexico found no
evidence of significant safety
breaches, the Interior Department
said. A former contractor,
Kenneth Abbott, filed a lawsuit in
2009 charging that the Atlantis oil
and natural gas platform lacked
key final engineering documents.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management said that, while its
investigation of the allegations did
uncover problems with the way
BP organized and stored its
engineering documents, there was
no proof that these deficiencies
“created specific unsafe
conditions” on the platform.
For more of this story by Ayesha
Rascoe, read here.
FDA: migraine drug ups risk for
oral birth defects
An epilepsy drug also used to
help prevent migraines can
increase the risk for oral birth
defects in babies born to women
taking the medication, health
officials said. The FDA said new
data shows expecting mothers
taking the drug, sold generically
and as Johnson & Johnson’s
Topamax, are about 20 times
more likely to have their infants
develop cleft lips or cleft palate
deformities than those who are
not treated.
For more of this story by Susan
Heavey, read here.
EADS: won’t protest “lowball”
Boeing tanker deal
Airbus parent EADS conceded
defeat in an epic, decade-long
contest to sell aerial tankers to the
Pentagon and confirmed it would
not protest the award of a $30
billion contract to Boeing. EADS
North America Chairman Ralph
Crosby expressed disappointment
after Boeing won the contract on
the third attempt, but said the
company had undercut the bid to
use European Airbus aircraft by a
total of $2 billion. “It’s clear that
there is no foundation for protest,”
he said.
For more of this story by Andrea
Shalal-Esa, read here.
Geithner to visit Germany ahead
of EU summit
Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner will make a quick trip to
Germany for economic talks, days
ahead of a key European Union
summit about beefing up a rescue
fund for debt-strapped bloc
members. Treasury said the one-
day trip was “to discuss the global
economic outlook and progress on
international financial reform” as
well as events in Libya and Iran.
Geithner told Congress that
European growth was trailing that
of emerging-market countries and
the United States, and he said the
region needed to do whatever was
necessary to help its most
indebted members.
For more of this story by Glenn
Somerville, read here.
Watchdog probing if SEC lawyer
had Madoff conflict
The top watchdog at the SEC has
launched an investigation into
whether the agency’s senior
lawyer should have been allowed
to handle Bernard Madoff matters
even though his deceased mother
had invested with the convicted
swindler. SEC Inspector General
David Kotz confirmed the probe
just a day after House Oversight
Committee Chairman Darrell Issa
and the Senate Judiciary
Committee’s top Republican
Charles Grassley announced their
own inquiry.
For more of this story by Sarah
N. Lynch, read here.
From elsewhere…
Harry Potter London studio tour
opens in 2012
Harry Potter fans can catch a
glimpse of how the movies were
made starting in spring next year,
when Warner Bros. opens the
doors of its Leavesden facilities
where much of the franchise was
filmed. Called Warner Bros.
Studio Tour London — The
Making of Harry Potter, the tour
will feature original sets,
costumes, props and effects used
in all eight “Harry Potter” movies.
Among the exhibits on the three-
hour tour is the set for the Great
Hall at Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry and
headmaster Dumbledore’s office.
For more of this story, read here.
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York, March 3, 2011)
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How the WWF Translocated a Wounded Wild Tiger in Nepal

Carter Roberts (Fast Company)
Submitted at 3/4/2011 5:05:34 PM

January 2011. We crawled

through the traffic of Kathmandu,
choked with motorcycles and
Indian transports, met Nepal’s
charismatic Minister of
Environment at a roadside stand,
and together made our way south
toward Chitwan National Park. It
was there that we would find a
young male Bengal Tiger who
was forced out of Chitwan, an
overcrowded haven, and was
recuperating from an injury. I’d
accompany WWF staff and the
Nepalese government to move
him to the safer and more prey-
dense forests of Bardia National
Park in the westernmost corner of
the country.
Wild tigers have become
something of an anomaly on
today’s planet. WWF scientists
across the 13 countries where they
still exist recently completed a
census and put the number at
about 3,200. Poaching for skins
and aphrodisiacs is perhaps the
biggest and most obvious
problem. But we all have a role
where this precipitous decline is
concerned. Products that we
consume or use each and every minimize the impact of raw conference in St. Petersburg, Our to-be-translocated tiger in hours. In about 18 months the
day--oils, energy bars, soaps, material extraction on tiger Russia, hosted by Prime Minister Chitwan would get set up with a collar is designed to drop and
coffee, tea, biofuels, candy--have habitat. Vladimir Putin. Saving the collar that would make it the send a signal so we can go pick
all torn up tiger habitat and have That number--3,200--is species, we’d decided, begins envy of any well-respecting cat: a it up, analyze the TrackTag data,
played a significant role in dangerously low. WWF, our with knowing the whereabouts TrackTag and GPS Plus-2010. and understand the roaming
obliterating 95% of the 100,000 conservation partners in the and behavior of all 3,200 of them. The TrackTag unit would take behavior of these big cats. The
tigers that once roamed the wilds NGO community, governments, Each and every one. Nepal is and record 60,000 locations GPS signal and a little help from
across Asia. That’s why I’m businesses and celebrities like leading the charge. (called fixes), one every 15 our friends at Google would give
reaching out to a long list of early Leonardo DiCaprio had all [ Click here for a slideshow and minutes on a single battery. The
adopter companies looking to recently drawn a line in the sand more on the translocation coupled GPS unit would send HOW page 5
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us something close to a live feed
and assist us if the animal
seemed to be heading in a
direction that would mean
trouble.
It’s not a cheap operation. The
equipment, tranquilizing, data
transmission and air time run
about $16,000 apiece. We’re
experimenting with cheaper
options, but for now that number
holds my attention, as does the
thought of keeping those data out
of the hands of people looking to
make a fortune off selling tigers to
wealthy individuals--particularly
in Asia, where vendors are eager
for the perceived prestige and
power of including tiger parts in
wine, ornamentation, and
pharmaceuticals.
Before we darted the tiger, I
approached and a roar unlike
anything I had ever experienced
transformed the scene--a good 20
yards from the cat and the
ground literally shook. As did my
hands when the sedative took
hold and I tightened the final bolt
of the collar of the sedated
animal as the chief vet shouted
“hurry up, hurry up” in Nepali.
All went according to plan. Tiger
dosed. Tiger's length, tail, paws,
and teeth all measured.
Everything bigger than expected.
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And the astonishing fur softer
than I imagined. We placed him
in a custom-built cage in the
back of a truck with a bumper that
reads: "Conservation for
Development," emblematic of the
human-based approach to
conservation in Nepal. Then 11
hours of driving across the
Southern end of Nepal--across
rutted roads glutted with
overloaded buses, Tata trucks
from India, motorcycles,
rickshaws, cattle, and people. We
passed through landscapes where
we are engaging this mass of
humanity in restoring forests and
rebuilding connections for tiger
corridors. This landscape, dotted
with parks, and rural poor
populations in between is known
as the Terai Arc landscape, one
of several last stands for reversing
the decline in tiger populations
and giving the world hope that we
can save this animal before it’s
gone.
We arrived in Bardia after dark,
and woke up early the next
morning, drove two hours into
the most remote section of the
park, set the cage, climbed
nearby sal trees, lifted the cage’s
cover and waited. Nothing. Not a
sound. All of us anxious for this
to work and to remain high
security forces will act against
anyone taking part in them, the
Interior Ministry said Saturday, a
day after about 100 members of
the Shiite minority staged a
enough to be safe. Just as the
nerves were approaching their
climax, someone slammed a
truck door and out shot the tiger.
He bolted though the forest. Out
of sight in under 10 heartbeats. I’d
never seen anything so powerful
move through a forest like this.
The next three days we retraced
our steps through communities
where we are using other
technologies to reduce their
dependence on forests, across a
landscape where a pioneering
combination of laser and satellite
imagery can inventory forest
carbon for sale on global markets,
and finally to Lumbini, the
birthplace of Buddha, who
according to legend was
reincarnated from a prince named
Namobuddha who sacrificed
himself to save a dying tiger in
the woods.
A week later my WWF-Nepal
colleagues sent me a note along
with a detailed map of where the
tiger, named Namobuddha, had
moved, and established his
territory:
"Carter--great news! We just
picked up a signal from our tiger
and followed him on elephant up
into the highlands. He made his
first kill and appears to be
adjusting nicely to Bardia."
protest in an eastern region of the
kingdom.
One reason this release took on
such importance was it
represented an opening to do
more. The Nepalese government
has committed to collaring 10
tigers in the coming months.
We all know that collars and
data aren't the final solution.
They're an important part of a
much bigger program both in
Nepal and globally to eliminate
poaching and to protect and
restore the tiger's habitat. A
central component to that job
hinges on measuring, valuing
and trading one of the world's
most abundant elements: carbon.
More on that later.
As President and CEO of
WWFUS, Carter Roberts leads
World Wildlife Fund’s work to
save endangered species and their
habitats through innovative
programs with governments,
businesses and local communities
throughout the world. WWF,
famous for its panda logo, is the
world largest conservation
network, with over 6 million
members and programs across
100 countries.
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Italian kids and caregiver to the
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popular rebellion, Serbia's ex-
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Sheriff: Miss. teen beaten, branded at on Sri Lanka over meets as deadly
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JACKSON, Miss. – A 15-year- Associated Press is not identifying adult, 18-year-old Dustin Shane AP - The United States is AFP - The Libyan opposition
old boy was beaten and branded the close family member to Armstrong, was charged with increasing pressure on Sri Lanka fighting to overthrow Moamer
w i t h h o t m e t a l a f t e r a protect the girl's identity. The AP aggravated assault and to investigate the deaths of Kadhafi announced its first formal
confrontation with a 12-year-old generally does not identify minors kidnapping. He was jailed Friday thousands of civilians at the end meeting Saturday as it counted its
girl at a party in Mississippi accused of crimes. The girl was on a $50,000 bond. It wasn't of its civil war. Human rights dead from fighting for a key oil
where teens had been drinking, charged as a juvenile. immediately clear if he had an groups contend a Sri Lankan town and clashes raged in a city
authorities said Friday. The relative said the 15-year-old attorney. government commission has near the capital.
Five people are charged in the boy, who was not invited to the Two minors, including the girl's demonstrated no intent of doing it.
case, including the 12-year-old home, knocked the girl down and 15-year-old boyfriend suspected Police: DNA confirms
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Lauderdale County Sheriff Billy said Randall took the girl to the
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RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi
Arabia warned potential protesters
on Saturday that a ban on marches
would be enforced, signaling the
small protests by the Shi'ite
minority in the oil-producing east
would no longer be tolerated.
"The kingdom's regulations totally
ban all sorts of demonstrations,
marches, sit-ins," the interior
ministry said in a statement,
adding security forces would stop
all attempts to disrupt public
order.
Inspired by protests in other Arab
countries there have been Shi'ite
marches in the past few days in
the east and unconfirmed activist
reports of a small protest at a
mosque in the Saudi capital
Riyadh on Friday.
The U.S. ally has not faced
protests of the scale that hit Egypt
and Tunisia that toppled veteran
leaders, but dissent has built up as
unrest has spread in Yemen,
Bahrain, Jordan, Libya and Oman.
More than 17,000 have backed a
call on Facebook to hold two
demonstrations this month, the
first one on Friday.
A loose alliance of liberals,
moderate Islamists and Shi'ites
have petitioned King Abdullah to
allow elections in the kingdom
which has no elected parliament,
although even activists say they
don't know how many of the
almost 19 million Saudis back
them.
Last month, Abdullah returned to
Riyadh after a three-month
medical absence and unveiled $37
billion in benefits for citizens in
an apparent bid to curb dissent.
For about two weeks, Saudi
Shi'ites have staged small protests
in the kingdom's east, which holds
much of the oil wealth of the
world's top crude exporter and is
near Bahrain, scene of protests by
majority Shi'ites against their
Sunni rulers.
Shi'ite protests in Saudi Arabia
started in the area of the main city
Qatif and its neighbor Awwamiya
and spread to the town of Hofuf
on Friday. The demands were
mainly for the release of prisoners
they say are held without trial.
Saudi Shi'ites often complain
they struggle to get senior
government jobs and other
benefits like other citizens.
The government of Saudi Arabia,
an absolute monarchy without an
elected parliament that usually
does not tolerate public dissent,
denies these charges.
The interior ministry said
demonstrations violated Islamic
law and the kingdom's traditions,
according to a statement carried
by state news agency SPA.
(Reporting by Ulf Laessing;
Editing by Matthew Jones)
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the next two years, the economy
Calculated Risk revisits the will need to add 200 thousand
employment to poulation ratios: jobs per month to hold the
. . . W h a t h a p p e n s t o t h e unemployment rate steady.
participation rate is an important That is why forecasting the
q u e s t i o n . I f t h e C i v i l i a n participation rate is important -
noninstitutional population (over and why reports of the number of
16 years old) grows by about 2 j o b s n e e d e d t o h o l d t h e
million per year - and the unemployment rate steady are all
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economy will need to add about confusing - and I'm guilty of using
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steady at 8.9%. term trends (updating graphs
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Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi's Lame Talk Underscores TED's

Awkward Adventures in Advertising
Anya Kamenetz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 3/4/2011 4:58:41 PM
You've heard about the lovely
and amazing, now let's hear about
the duds of TED.
“Only 5% of TED Talks have
been given by CEOs,” Pepsi chief
Indra Nooyi observed from the
stage at TED, before going on to
demonstrate why. Her bland
recitation of the accomplishments
of Pepsi Refresh, a decent, though
hardly groundbreaking corporate
social responsibility program, had
some attendees wondering if it
was a paid product placement.
That’s why I was surprised to hear
Chris Anderson, TED’s director,
single Nooyi’s talk out for special
attention at a lunch for journalists
as both a great talk and a stellar
example of corporate
communication.
The discordant note is an
example of TED’s at times uneasy
relationship to corporate
sponsorship as the nonprofit
organization pursues its future as
a global media brand focused on
learning and social change. While
product demos, especially of new
technology, have always been part
of TED, there were many who felt
that the balance of corporate
voices was off this year.
“There were four talks about cars
[ Bill Ford and Christina Lampe-
Ommerud, whose company makes
$100,000 TED prize require
significant corporate sponsorship.
One attempt to respond to this
increasing involvement with
sponsorship is the “ Ads Worth
Spreading” contest, wherein TED
asked companies to create long-
form video ads that were good
enough to share.
“To make a difference in this
world, you have to engage
corporations,” Chris Anderson
told the press. “We want to
change how corporations talk to
us--they should talk to us like
adults.” While many of the
commercials, which were shown
to TED’s paying audience, were
electric car batteries, as well as transportation is the single largest funny, heartwarming or inspiring,
Dennis Hong's car for the blind contributor to the problem.” it remains unclear, at least to me,
and Google's self-driving car], TED Talks now have over 400 h o w c o m m i s s i o n i n g m o r e
and two car commercials,” shown million views, and the self- appealing ads relates to TED’s
during TED, said Alex Steffen, organized TEDx program has core mission, or how it will really
author of Worldchanging and a gone viral, with over 1,800 events elevate the conversation.
longtime TEDster. “There were taking place around the world. [Image: TED Conference on
no talks by people who directly I n i t i a t i v e s s u c h a s T E D Flickr]
e n g a g e d t h e s c i e n c e o f o r Conversations, a set of new social
solutions to climate change, or tools on TED.com, TED ED, a
w h o p o i n t e d o u t t h a t new education site, and the

Higher Inflation Could Deflate Hartford's Outlook

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How Intel and GE Will Monitor Your Grandma--For Her Own
Good
Gregory Ferenstein (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 3/4/2011 5:56:13 PM
In-home monitors detect
behavioral patterns and predict
medical emergencies.
Simple hardware combined with
behavioral mathematics is helping
seniors live free of nursing homes.
Intel and General Electric's joint
healthcare product, QuietCare,
uses infrared sensors, like those
used for motion-sensing light
switches, to monitor patients as
they move throughout their home
and alert medical staff to deviant
behavior that suggests a medical
threat.
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Within about 7-10 days,
selectively placed infrared devices
map the patient's daily pattern of
movement throughout their home
and remote servers monitor
suspicious behavior. For instance,
Comfort Zone Investing: The Oracle of Omaha Is Optimistic
Ted Allrich (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 10:30:00 AM
Filed under: Berkshire Hathaway
(BRK.A), Comfort Zone
Investing
Warren Buffett, world's best
stock investor, writes an annual
letter to shareholders of Berkshire
Hathaway ( BRK.A), the holding
if a patient normally wakes up at
8 a.m. and the system doesn't
detect movement by 11am, it's a
red flag to send in a nurse,
neighbor, or medical authority.
Jim Pursley, general manager of
GE and Intel's Care Innovations
Independent Living department,
takes Fast Company through
another typical scenario. Speaking
company in which he does all of
his investing. Fortunately for the
world, he publishes it for
everyone to read. While it is full
of good investment advice, it also
shows the Oracle of Omaha has a
great sense of humor and a lot of
wisdom. Here are some excerpts
from his latest 2010 annual letter. always flow toward opportunity,
On uncertain times: "Money will and there is an abundance of that
hypothetically, he says, QuietCare
"knows that I use the bathroom,
on average, twice a night; last
night I used the bathroom seven
times--highly correlated with the
early onset of a [urinary tract
infection]," If a UTI can be caught
on day two, Grandma can get
treatment and the problem may be
easily solved. If "I catch it on day
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seven or eight, I'm lying on the
floor. I've got a 104 fever. I've got
a fractured hip, and now I'm
hospitalized."
Additionally, remote sensors are
placed on exits and refrigerator
doors to prevent seniors from
wondering outside late at night
due to dementia or ensure that
they're drinking enough water
in America. Commentators today
often talk of 'great uncertainty.'
But think back, for example, to
December 6,1941, October 18,
1987 and September 10, 2001. No
matter how serene today may be,
tomorrow is always uncertain."
Continue reading Comfort Zone
Investing: The Oracle of Omaha
Is Optimistic
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during a dangerous heat wave.
For now, QuietCare is being
piloted in senior living residences,
where the elderly live within the
vicinity of health professionals. In
the near future, GE and Intel are
hopeful that it will be available in
homes so that as the Baby
Boomers retire they can retain
some of the freedom that defined
a generation.
Read More: Most Innovative
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*Update: Our report that
QuietCare received FDA approval
has been removed. QuietCare
does not require FDA approval.
The annoucement of FDA
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10 Business/ Newstablet Edition

Rachel Maddow Won't Say Vibrator Mobile Traffic Explosion

On TV Creates Both Opportunity
Glynnis MacNicol (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 10:34:24 AM
Yesterday George Will,
frequently one of the few
remaining voices of reason on the
right these days, reflected on
Mike Huckabee's tour of verbal
gaffes this week thusly:
If pessimism is not creeping on
little cat's feet into Republicans'
thinking about their 2012
presidential prospects, that is
another reason for pessimism.
This is because it indicates they
do not understand that sensible
Americans, who pay scant
attention to presidential politics at
this point in the electoral cycle,
must nevertheless be detecting
vibrations of weirdness emanating
from people associated with the
party.
The most recent vibrator is Mike
Huckabee.
I'm going to hazard a guess Will
did not mean to insinuate
Huckabee is a vibrator in the
sense that most of the Internet
generation, and apparently Rachel
Maddow, understands the word
(though you never know!).
Nevertheless, during her first
ever live text message poll over
what was more embarrassing
Huckabee criticizing Natalie
Portman, Huckabee shilling for
his book, or George Will's use of
the word vibrator, Maddow
apparently felt vibrator was not a
word she could say on television.
Literally, she paused for nearly 3
seconds before saying ""Uh...I
don't think I can say that out
loud." Who knew.
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Saudi Arabia Announces Ban On All Protests, And Gives

Security Forces Carte-Blanche To Stop Them
Joe Weisenthal (Business Today it banned protests. protests, all of which are peaceful. know they're scared.
Insider) According to Gulf News, the ban And there's some belief that Join the conversation about this
Submitted at 3/5/2011 10:42:19 AM was announced on state perhaps the market is blowing story »
television, and security forces Saudi Arabian fears out of
Saudi Arabia's day of rage is were told to use "all measures" to So far there have been a few proportion.
scheduled for Friday, March 11. thwart them. But when you stuff like this, you
Newstablet Edition
One Of America's Biggest Food
Producing Regions Could Soon Be
Under Water
Gregory White (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 10:42:03 AM
After a nasty winter in which
winter storms blanketed large
portions of the U.S., the great
thaw is now threatening one of the
key corn producing regions of the
country.
The Dakotas, Minnesota, and
Iowa are all under threat.
From Reuters:
Accumulated precipitation this
winter through the end of
February, from northern Iowa into
the southern two-thirds of
Minnesota and westward to the
Dakotas, ranged from 125 percent
of normal to well over 200
percent, meteorologists say.
That raises the risk of major
flooding, especially in the big
corn, spring wheat and soybean
areas of North Dakota's Red River
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Illinois and Iowa alone produce
almost a third of corn and
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world's leading exporter of those
industrial crops. North Dakota
and Minnesota produce more than
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durum, the highest protein wheats.
considering that they get to see
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Gaddafi forces try to retake western Libyan town

(Reuters: Top News) over the town in a matter of hours. central square. • Share this One has to start to wonder who is
Submitted at 3/5/2011 11:07:08 AM Rebels pushed back an early The doctor said Gaddafi's tanks • Link this worse Gadhafi or those who
morning attack in which residents had fired at residential buildings • Digg this intend to replace him. If all the
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weapons dump near Benghazi fired high explosive rounds at "There is a lot of destruction in • Reprints the word Freedom, burn books
March 5, 2011. civilians and dragged people from the city, I look around and all I and fail achieve anything other
Credit: Reuters/Suhaib Salem their homes. see is destruction. Bombed leggett wrote: than their own demise because
B y M a r i a G o l o v n i n a a n d "We captured 3 APCs, two tanks buildings and burning cars Libya has had 40 years of peace their leaders have not a clue what
Mohammed Abbas and one pick-up after an hour and everywhere -- I cannot even count and prosperity with Gaddafi, I Freedom actually means in
ZAWIYAH/BIN JAWAD, Libya| a half of fighting," Youssef how many," he said. wonder who’s funding these practice. NEWSTIME2010 wrote:
Sat Mar 5, 2011 12:07pm EST Shagan, the rebel force Before the latest fighting, the rebels? markjuliansmith wrote: This mass events is not about
Z A W I Y A H / B I N J A W A D , spokesman in the town, 50 km (30 rebels appeared to have half a “Now with all the artillery, tanks Libya. It is about a much bigger
L i b y a ( R e u t e r s ) - L i b y a n miles) west of the capital, told dozen armored vehicles, a similar and armored vehicles, fierce fight plan. It is about a geopolitical belt
government forces launched a Reuters after the first battle. number of anti-aircraft guns and i s o n g o i n g a n d p e o p l e a r e from Yemen Egypt to Alger. In
second attack on the western town People opposed to Gaddafi's 41- numerous machine guns. One massacred in a way that we search for the battlefield for a
of Zawiyah on Saturday after year rule have been fighting his fighter vowed to fight to the haven’t seen in Iraq,” Abdul- final war where the Mediterranean
rebels drove them out in a forces in Zawiyah for more than a death. Fatah Az-Zawi, a Libyan in rebel Sea will be in focus for the super
morning of fierce fighting, while week, after rebels took over large "Gaddafi will never enter this city. sector” powers hunger. The Big Bomb
i n t h e e a s t , o p p o n e n t s o f parts of eastern Libya in an He will never set foot here. The So the Arab League, as are the Nuclear War getting closer for
Muammar Gaddafi pushed toward uprising inspired by the overthrow only way for him to enter the city hardline Islamists in the Libyan every day now.
his home town. of veteran rulers in Egypt and is when we are all dead. He has to o p p o s i t i o n a r e p r e p a r e d t o Not to wonder why China’s
"The fighting has intensified and Tunisia this year. kill us all to control the city," the sacrifice thousands of Libyans so defense budget has jumped up so
the tanks are shelling everything Residents said Gaddafi forces rebel, who gave his name as they can say hand on heart at least fast.
on their way. They have shelled stormed residential buildings and Ibrahim, said by telephone. we did not ask those ‘Imperialist This is a real nightmare for every
houses. Now they are shelling a killed people inside to secure the Rebels in eastern Libya said they pig dogs for assistance’. nation!!!!
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Libya Unrest Sows Fear of Civil War
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Submitted at 3/5/2011 11:09:56 AM
TRIPOLI, Libya -- Muammar
Qaddafi loyalists swept into the
opposition-held city closest to
Tripoli on Saturday, tightening
security around the regime-held
capital. To the east, rebel forces
captured a key oil port as the
country veered toward civil war.
The contrasting fortunes of the
two warring sides suggest that the
conflict in Libya could last for
weeks and maybe months, with
neither side mustering enough
military power to decisively
defeat the other. The government
is fighting fiercely to maintain its
hold in Tripoli and surrounding
areas and the rebels are pushing
their front westward from their
eastern stronghold.
Qaddafi, who has led the country
virtually unchecked for four
decades, has unleashed a violent
crackdown against those seeking
his ouster, drawing international
condemnation and sanctions.
Hundreds have been killed,
perhaps more, putting pressure on
the international community to do
more to stop the crackdown on
protests that began on Feb. 15,
inspired by successful uprisings in
Egypt and Tunisia, its neighbors
to the east and west respectively.
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insisted that Qaddafi must leave
and said his administration was
considering a full range of
options, including the imposition
of a "no-fly" zone over Libya.
So far, Qaddafi has had little
success in taking back territory,
with the entire eastern half of the
country and some cities near the
capital under rebel control. But
the opposition forces have had
limited success in marching on
pro-Qaddafi areas, leading to a
standoff that could last for weeks
and maybe months, with neither
side mustering enough military
power to decisively defeat the
other.
Saturday's assault on Zawiya, a
city of some 200,000 people just
30 miles west of Tripoli, began
with a surprise dawn attack by pro
-Qaddafi forces firing mortar
shells and machine guns.
Witnesses who spoke to The
Associated Press by telephone
with the rattle of gunfire and
explosions in the background said
the shelling damaged government
buildings and homes. The fighting
sparked several fires, sending a
cloud of heavy black smoke over
the city, and witnesses said
snipers were shooting at anybody
on the streets, including residents
who ventured onto balconies.
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Initially, the rebels retreated to
positions deeper in the city before
they launched a counteroffensive
in which they regained some of
the lost territory, according to
three residents and activists, who
spoke on condition of anonymity
for fear of reprisals.
By midafternoon, the rebels had
reoccupied central Martyrs'
Square while the pro-regime
forces regrouped on the city's
fringes, sealing off the city's entry
and exit routes, the witnesses said.
"We will fight them on the streets
and will never give up so long as
Qaddafi is still in power," said
one of the rebels, who also
declined to be identified for the
same reason.
Pro-Qaddafi forces on foot and
firing artillery, mortars and other
heavy weapons launched a new
attack on Zawiya in late afternoon
from the south and west, two
other witnesses said by telephone.
The anti-Qaddafi rebels fared
better elsewhere, capturing the
key oil port of Ras Lanouf on
Friday night, their first military
victory in a potentially long and
arduous westward march from the
east of the country to Tripoli.
Witnesses said Ras Lanouf, about
90 miles east of pro-Qaddafi Sirte,
fell to rebel hands on Friday night
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An Associated Press reporter
who arrived in Ras Lanouf
Saturday morning saw Libya's
red, black and green pre-Qaddafi
monarchy flag, which has been
adopted by the rebels, hoisted
over the town's oil facilities.
One of the rebels, Ahmed al-
Zawi, said the battle was won
after Ras Lanouf residents joined
the rebels.
Al-Zawi, who participated in the
fighting, said 12 rebels were
killed in the fighting, in which
rocket-propelled grenades and
anti-aircraft guns were used.
Officials at a hospital in the
nearby city of Ajdabiya, however,
said only five rebels were killed
and 31 wounded in the attack. The
discrepancy in the figures could
not immediately be explained.
"They just follow orders. After a
little bit of fighting, they run
away," said another rebel at Ras
Lanouf, Borawi Saleh, an 11-year
veteran of the army who is now
an oil company employee.
The march on Sirte, said al-Zawi,
would start after the rebels
regroup and reorganize.
In the rebel-held east of the
country, meanwhile, a large arms
and ammunition depot outside
Benghazi, Libya's second-largest
city, blew up Friday in a massive
13
explosion that completely
destroyed an area three times the
size of a soccer field.
Ambulance drivers told AP
Television News that at least 26
people had been killed in the
blast, which flattened entire
buildings, cars and trees. It also
deprived the rebels of arms and
ammunition needed to fight their
way westward toward Sirte on the
Mediterranean coast.
It was not immediately clear how
the depot blew up, but suspicion
immediately fell on Qaddafi
agents.
------
Schemm reported from Ras
Lanouf, Libya. Associated Press
writers Hamza Hendawi and
Sarah El Deeb contributed to this
report from Cairo.
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INXS’s Michael
Radio Host Leaves Show Over Islam Remarks Hutchence Musical
(FOXNews.com) topics on their show last Friday. organization seeking to restrict his anti-Muslim blogosphere."
Submitted at 3/5/2011 11:09:56 AM Though the segment was taken off broadcasts." "That claim is as credible as any in the Works
the radio's site, she described it. "WMAL remains committed to its other claim these hate mongers (Epoch Times | All headlines)
Fred Grandy, the former "Love She said that, on air, she quoted a goal of providing a forum for make," he told FoxNews.com.
Submitted at 3/5/2011 10:12:49 AM
Boat" star who served several rabbi who compared radical discussing a broad spectrum of "They make it up out of whole
terms in Congress before landing Muslims to Nazis, complained issues while delivering cloth." Fourteen years after INXS
a gig as a radio host, resigned that President Obama was not compelling programming Hooper said CAIR had not even frontman Michael Hutchence’s
from his show this week after he doing enough to help Israel, including Chris Plante, Rush made any complaints to the untimely death, his former
was pressured to stop talking so warned that "Shariah-compliant" Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and station about Grandy. manager Martha Troupe is
much about radical Islam, his i n d i v i d u a l s w o r k i n t h e Mark Levin," he added. The Washington Post reported helping to develop a documentary
w i f e , C a t h e r i n e , t o l d government and discussed several The sudden departure that Grandy's ratings had also and Broadway musical about the
FoxNews.com. other Islam-related topics. immediately triggered rumors that been trailing those of other right- musician.
Catherine Mann-Grandy, who Perhaps sensing she might have the Council on American Islamic leaning hosts. With the help of Los Angeles
s p o k e w i t h F o x N e w s . c o m stepped over a line, she warned on Relations, the country's largest But Lafferty alleged that WMAL talent agency APA and the
extensively about the details of air about the possibility that she Muslim advocacy group, was caved to pressure. The group Michael Hutchence trust, the
t h e i r s p l i t w i t h W M A L might not return the following somehow involved -- a charge called on listeners to call the group is trying to develop projects
management, confirmed that the week. CAIR denied. Mann-Grandy said station Monday and Tuesday to that highlight Hutchence’s
couple's critical commentary on Sure enough, she didn't. she thinks that's what happened, demand Grandy and his wife “musical genius.”
radical Islam was the driving Mann-Grandy said her husband though she doesn't have evidence. return to the show. A c c o r d i n g t o
f a c t o r b e h i n d G r a n d y ' s told her Tuesday that management "That is just my gut instinct," she Mann-Grandy, claiming she and MichaelHutchence.com, “There
resignation. told him she could no longer be said. Fred Grandy said he had "no her husband have gotten hundreds has been very little written,
"You're not allowed to talk about on the show. Further, she said her conclusive evidence." of e-mails of support, said she produced or released in the
w h a t ' s h a p p e n i n g i n y o u r husband was told to "really tone it WMAL, which carries several doesn't think they'll be asked to Australian or international market
country," she said. down on the Islam stuff." programs featuring conservative return but suggested she'd go back about Michael since his death. …
Fred Grandy, best known for his In response, Fred Grandy pundits, dumped host Michael on air. The unique opportunity exists to
role as Gopher in "The Love r e s i g n e d . Graham several years ago "I would be happy if someone restore, preserve, and celebrate his
Boat," had been on air as a host at Though he was not able to following comments he made else did that segment ... but legacy.”
Washington, D.C.'s WMAL since discuss his departure in detail for about Islam and a subsequent nobody's doing it," she said. In the past year, the remaining
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Newstablet Edition News Wire/ Technology/ 15

Cops: DNA Confirms 'East Coast Rapist' Suspect

(FOXNews.com) electronic billboards in the states would offer to paint or rake leaves records.
Submitted at 3/5/2011 11:09:56 AM where the attacks occurred and for neighbors. The assailant eluded police even
neighboring states. U.S. Marshal Thomas was known to ride his though the crimes were often
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- DNA Joe Faughnan said a tip from bicycle around the neighborhood, committed outdoors, law
confirmed that a man arrested Prince William County, Virginia, the neighbor said. She said there enforcement officials say.
Friday in Connecticut is the East directed them to Thomas. were children at his girlfriend's In some instances, the attacker
C o a s t R a p i s t s u s p e c t e d o f "Although the information and house. wore a mask or hooded sweat
terrorizing women with sexual i n v e s t i g a t i o n o f T h o m a s Police would not allow a reporter shirt to conceal his face. He
assaults from Virginia to Rhode developed quickly over the last to knock on the door. typically approached women
Island over 12 years, police said week or so, we should point out At a two-family house listed as outdoors on foot and threatened
Saturday. that investigators worked Thomas' address, a police officer them with a knife, screwdriver or
Lt. Julie Johnson said DNA was tirelessly for years pursuing this in uniform answered the door a handgun, investigators say. Facebook Working
c o l l e c t e d a n d s u b s e q u e n t l y case," Johnson said. "This was Friday night and said nobody The only attack in New Haven
matched by the state police truly a joint collaboration on all wanted to make a statement. The came on Jan. 10, 2007. Police said
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old Aaron Thomas was the East investigation and hope the arrest New Haven neighborhood, has a woman's bedroom through an Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb)
Coast Rapist. of Aaron Thomas brings some large porch and a white picket open window and threatened to
New Haven police have a warrant closure to our victims and our fence with a sign warning the kill her sleeping infant son before Submitted at 3/4/2011 6:45:00 PM

charging Thomas with first- communities." premises are protected by a assaulting her. Facebook is working a new
degree sexual assault and risk of Thomas could not be reached for security company. The last known attack occurred dashboard for developers to gain
injury to a minor and he was comment; it was not known if he A neighbor, 39-year-old Tom on Halloween night in 2009, when better insights about their
being held on $1 million bond, had legal representation. Thomas Chambers, said he often saw two teenagers on their way home Facebook applications, it was
Johnson said. Authorities in is scheduled to appear Monday in Thomas coming and going but he from trick-or-treating in revealed during a Tech Talk at the
Prince William County, Virginia, New Haven Superior Court. did not know him well. Woodbridge, Va., were raped, company's Seattle office this
are charging him with being a Johnson did not take questions "He was just normal," Chambers authorities say. week. The old analytics
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Regling sees no more countries using Fashion Week
EU safety net
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 7:37:36 AM
VIENNA/FRANKFURT| Sat
Mar 5, 2011 8:37am EST
V I E N N A /
FRANKFURT(Reuters) - The
head of the European Union's
safety net for countries struggling
with public finances said on
Saturday he did not think any
more members would have to tap
the euro zone rescue fund, for
now.
"At the moment it does not appear
so," Klaus Regling told Austrian
radio when asked if countries
other than Ireland would need
help from the 440 billion euro
($614.6 billion) European
Financial Stability Facility
(EFSF) he leads.
"For Spain I don't see a necessity
for this at all anymore. Portugal
certainly has more to do. Should it
come to this, we have enough
money at the moment to cover
these two countries but it doesn't
seem necessary at the moment."
However, he said countries on
Europe's periphery still had work
to do to get their finances in order
and warned that the debt crisis
that shook Europe was not over
yet.
GREEK SPECULATION
Regling dismissed speculation
China makes tackling inflation a priority to curb unrest
(Finance News - Business news
from the UK and world)
Newstablet Edition
(Epoch Times | All headlines) audience swooning. He seems to
Submitted at 3/5/2011 10:21:20 AM specialize in petite and large sizes
and does furs for both men and
Greece may have to restructure its refers to the competitiveness of F a s h i o n w e e k c o n c l u d e d women. He sent out coats and
debt and mark down its value by the individual countries," he said. recently, and here is a rundown on jackets of lynx, mink, chinchilla,
around 30 percent. "The euro safety net which we some highlights. and a $100,000 golden sable coat.
"At the moment you clearly have have on a temporary basis now I saw the Zebra Collection by Many minks had intricate designs
to note the markets have a will become a permanent safety Bruce Gregg, which should be worked into the fur. There was a
different view of the situation mechanism. Now we have to nail popular for summer. True to its sheared mink man’s coat that
than do the officials who are down the key parameters for this name, everything—from separates from a distance looked like
responsible for this," he said. permanent crisis mechanism." to handbags—is in a zebra leather worked into the design.
"But we learned in the financial Regling, a German economist pattern. I had a chance to speak to
crisis -- sometimes very painfully a n d f o r m e r t o p E u r o p e a n Each piece, whether shorts, tops, Kostos. The designer said that
learned -- that markets are not Commission official, was not strapless dresses, or tote bags, is first, one must respect the fur and
always right...I assume the asked in the interview about about $100. The clothes are all then you can do something
markets are again misjudging the market speculation he could be a made of nylon/spandex. Gregg beautiful. Well, I respect his fur
situation, which is one reason why successor to European Central doesn’t yet sell in any stores, but like crazy! Every other woman
interest rate spreads are so high." Bank President Jean-Claude you may contact him through his did, too. He has two salons, one in
He said he had not proposed that Trichet, who steps down this year. official website. Manhattan and another one in
the ESFS be allowed to buy back (Reporting by Michael Shields in Someone I’m really impressed Cold Spring Hills, Long Island.
sovereign debt as a way to relieve Vienna and Christoph Steitz in with is a jeweler by the name of I’ll tell you more next time.
pressure on Greece. Frankfurt; editing by Keiron Alejandra. Her pieces are all real, Miriam Silverberg is a freelance
"There is a clear belief among the Henderson)) one of a kind, and absolutely journalist and the owner of
IMF, ECB and the European • Share this stunning. She showed me a citrine Miriam Silverberg Associates, a
Commission that 'Plan A' -- the • Link this and pearl multi-strand bracelet boutique publicity agency in
m e a s u r e s t h a t a r e n o w • Digg this with a vintage look that I loved. A Manhattan. She may be reached at
implemented in Greece -- will • Email blue topaz ring she had just silverbergm@mindspring.com.
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China's government said it curb inflation and close a divisive social unrest.
planned to raise social spending, rich-poor gap to dampen growing
Newstablet Edition
3 Interesting Reads on Node.js
Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 11:10:00 AM
Node.js had a busy week. Joyent
relaunched its Node.js hosting
service and O'Reilly Media posted
a draft of Tom Hughes-Croucher's
Up and Running with Node.js
book.
Node.js was also the star of a
lengthy piece in the Register and
pulled ahead of Clojure in Google
Trends this week. To top it all off,
Travis Glines gave us an idea of
what building websites with it is
really like.
Sponsor
Node.js had a busy week. Joyent
U2 Makes Good at relaunched its Node.js hosting
service and O'Reilly Media posted
a draft of Tom Hughes-Croucher's
Glastonbury Up and Running with Node.js
book.
(Epoch Times | All headlines) iconic about that stage, so we're Node.js was also the star of a
Submitted at 3/5/2011 9:57:20 AM all looking forward to coming lengthy piece in the Register and
back to pick up where I left off. pulled ahead of Clojure in Google
Bono ( Dave Hogan/Getty … We're so excited to get to play Trends this week. To top it all off,
I m a g e s ) T h e b a n d U 2 h a s in front of the world's greatest Travis Glines gave us an idea of
confirmed that they’ll headline festival audience. We'll see you what building websites with it is
really like. The Node Ahead:
Friday night at this year’s there!”
Glastonbury Festival in Somerset. Other headliners for the June JavaScript Leaps from Browser
Last year was supposed to be the festival include Coldplay and Into Future
The Register's lengthy profile of
group’s Glastonbury debut, but Beyonce.
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he added: “I have to say there is Guardian's Economics Editor. ( TrendHunter.com) It might
something really special and sound like the last thing you'd
News Wire/ Technology/
Node.js does a great job
explaining what Node.js is and
why it's important. The paper
interviewed Hughes-Croucher and
Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, and
covered some of the various ways
the framework is being used in
real settings. Hughes-Croucher
makes the case that Node.js is the
new PHP:"For a while, I called it
The New Rails," says Tom
Hughes-Croucher, the author of
the upcoming O'Reilly tome Up
and Running with Node.js
(preview PDF) and the chief
evangelist at cloud computing
outfit Joyent, Node's primary
steward. "But then I realized it
was getting more views on github
than Rails. So now I call it The
want to do as an online retail
store, but Asos Fashion Finder is
actually a brilliant new social
media innovation that will allow
customers to view and shop for...
17
New PHP." What it's like building
a real website in Node.js
"It seems more and more so that
people are interested in building
their applications in node.js yet
there are few reviews on what it's
actually like to work with the
framework," wrote Travis Glines
as to why he decided to write a
review of Node.js. Glines found
that there was a steep learning
curve, but he also found that the
support was great and server stuff
was easier to handle among other
things. Node.js Surpasses Clojure
in Popularity
Arnor Heidar concluded his post
about Node.js surpassing Clojure
in terms of total search volume by
writing "I don't really want to turn
this into a language flame war or
give my theory of why one
language is more popular than the
other." I have to say the same. I'm
not sure how significant it is that
Node.js has passed Clojure in
particular, but the charts Heidar
drudges up are a good
demonstration of Node.js's
growing popularity. Discuss
18 Technology/ Finance/ Newstablet Edition

Vimeo videos go fine art at Volta N.Y.

(CNET News.com) of mind-blowing computer- is a lot of listening to a track produce the imagery. Marshall charming stop-motion production
Submitted at 3/5/2011 8:00:00 AM generated abstractions that could repeatedly for a long time while subsequently used the system he by Kirsten Lepore, who
make a fractal fan jump for joy allowing images to form in my developed here to produce video apparently cranks out promos for
editor's notebook This week, (or an early 20th century pioneer mind. I have never been a work for Peter Gabriel, as well as the likes of MTV when she's not
New Yorkers are enjoying even like Viking Eggeling or Hans practitioner of Dali-style lucid the Zio app for the iPhone and the laboriously creating Chaplinesque
more than their usual outsized Richter weep over not being born dreaming--but I find it important Eyegasm app for the iPad. Says romances involving creatures
share of art, with something in the in the Adobe era). But some of the to be able to detach from the Marshall: "My ultimate aim was made of sand and snow. I have to
neighborhood of 10 different fine- less-techie films are fun (and/or world as much as possible, close to have the computer generate say I love the use of sound in this
art marketplaces happening compelling) as well, so I've one's eyes, and really allow spontaneous, random animation, film (as I do the use of sound
simultaneously in the city. And included one of those too. I hope oneself to discover images and which looked as natural and effects in this iPad spot). And the
artsy YouTube rival Vimeo is you like what you see.'Pororoca' movement that would not occur if interesting as any other form of ending here seems just about
taking advantage of the situation by Scott Pagano one didn't actively attempt to human created art."'Locus' by right; it makes Lepore's effort a
to burnish its brand, promote In this promo film for musician detach from the swarming hectic Masaki Yokochi work of, well, art (as well as an
some of the artists who use its Laura Escudé's titular debut chaos that surrounds our lives. Yokochi used Cinema 4D and appropriate companion piece to
site, and spice up people's elevator album, Pagano uses 3D modeling Apparently, even for a cutting- After Effects to create this very "Nuit Blanche"--bravo to the
rides. tools Houdini and Maya, along edge digital artist, there's short exploration, which features curators for that).
In concert with the art- and tech- with 2D tools After Effects, Final something to be said for shutting an affecting sequence of a There are several other offerings
minded PR firm Culture Shock Cut Pro, other Adobe products, down the computer and switching pagodalike structure collapsing, in "Projection," including the
Marketing, Vimeo is serving up and a variety of After Effects plug off the smartphone once in and a surprising section wherein a engagingly mechanical " Four
"Projection," a program of short -ins to create a sometimes aquatic awhile. wavelike form spools in on itself. Letter Words," which features an
films--including some dazzling -looking, sometimes Gigeresque The second vid here offers a side- Locus from Masaki Yokochi on ingenious old-school-ish
digital animations--as part of fantasy world. by-side, before-and-after Vimeo'Nuit Blanche' by Spy contraption that busily produces
Volta N.Y. The international art As he told Toolfarm last year, comparison that reveals a Films all the letters of the alphabet. You
fair for collectors and the casually P a g a n o ' s t e c h n i c a l p r o c e s s surprisingly mechanical structure Fans of Marc Caro and Jean- can find each of the films here.
curious began midweek and runs "involves a lot of procedural beneath the seemingly organic Pierre Jeunet's "Delicatessen" and For now, though, I leave you with
t h r o u g h t h e w e e k e n d , w i t h animation where I will set up a forms (and gives an inkling of the "City of Lost Children" will "Bottle" (and I raise a glass to the
attendees treated to the Vimeo- system that reacts and animates to amount of work involved in probably appreciate this short, Saturday matinee).
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films in a blog item for your Pagano had this to say in the same become the artist. The piece And last, but not least, my chosen Guardian's Economics Editor.
enjoyment. The first few are interview: employs mathematics and code to represenative for the low- (or low
decidedly high-tech, with the sort With music-driven projects there let the computer spontaneously er at any rate) tech category: this

China's addiction to GDP highs could kill Five-Year plan

(Finance News - Business news China's 12th Five-Year plan is biggest economy - the point when m o r e d o m e s t i c a l l y - d r i v e n ,
from the UK and world) billed in Beijing as a watershed China to wean itself off exports consumption-based economy.
moment for the world's second- and investment towards a greener,
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RIM Finally Sees The Light. Unfortunately, It’s An Onrushing

Train – Or Is It?
Jon Evans (TechCrunch) was in part about how RIM would qualify — if it didn’t have open source; anyone can fork it.
Submitted at 3/5/2011 8:11:26 AM should embrace Android, he said to tether to BlackBerries. RIM could build an Android-plus
slightly smugly. Since then, Unfortunately, that apparently OS, running on the Dalvik virtual
Strange things are afoot in my Samsung has released the Galaxy remains RIM’s policy, even machine atop QNX, able to do
hometown of Waterloo, Canada, Tab, Dell the Streak 7, and though it’s like chaining an everything Android does and offer
which doubles as Research In Motorola the Xoom; next week, Olympic swimmer to an anchor security and messaging features
M o t i o n ’ s h e a d q u a r t e r s . the iPad 2 will emerge — and yet and telling her to win a medal. that Android doesn’t. They
ShopSavvy says that someone the PlayBook still has no firm But undoing that horrible mistake couldn’t license Google’s
there has been running their ship date. But at least RIM have still won’t save them. If RIM Android apps or Android
Android app — on BlackBerry been busy on the BlackBerry abandon them, but the simple c o e r c e s t h e i r d e v i c e s i n t o Market — but if RIM built their
devices. Separately, Bloomberg front, right? I mean, in the last truth is that Research in Motion’s supporting Android apps and also own Android marketplace,
h a s r e p o r t e d t h a t R I M ’ s four months, they have announced products are not remotely as good releases their superior email and existing Android developers
forthcoming PlayBook tablet will or released … er … exactly zero a s t h e i r c o m p e t i t o r s ’ . messaging software to the would surely copy their apps over
run Android apps. A video from n e w h a n d s e t s . ( T h e y h a v e , BlackBerries have an antediluvian Android Market, then they’re en masse, and they could replace
the Mobile World Congress however, announced three new OS, a bad browser, an inferior app tacitly admitting that their App Google’s browser, maps, and
allegedly shows a BlackBerry V a p o r B o o k s . I ’ m s o r r y , ecosystem, and hardware and World is dead. After all, what email apps with ease.
employee confirming “We’ll also PlayBooks.) Perhaps they were pricing that is at best on par with developer would ever want to Again, this is pure speculation,
support Android apps.” Their UK focused on shoring up their Apple and Android. They do have write a Blackberry-only app but it could explain most of the
managing director refuses to inferior app-development tools? s o m e w h a t b e t t e r e m a i l , again? And apps are like Dune‘s strange rumors cited above; it
comment on the subject. And if Ask this developer, whose caustic messaging, and security – but who spice; whoever controls a device’s might at long last give people a
rumours of the mountain en route and hilarious rant about RIM’s really cares about that? And apps controls its universe. That’s reason to buy a BlackBerry, other
to Mohammed aren’t enough, extreme developer-unfriendliness before you answer “enterprises,” why the Android Market, unlike than “the IT department demands
there are also reports of went viral in the hacker bear in mind that most of the A n d r o i d i t s e l f , i s t i g h t l y it”; and it would set the stage for a
Mohammed travelling to the c o m m u n i t y l a s t w e e k . Fortune 100 have already adopted c o n t r o l l e d b y G o o g l e . titanic struggle between RIM and
mountain: BGR claims that RIM RIM remains highly profitable, the iPad. So let me speculate. Most people Google for Android supremacy.
will soon release their prized a n d i t s s a l e s a r e s t i l l The PlayBook is beginning to are suggesting that RIM will Pass the popcorn, and don’t count
BlackBerry Messenger as an increasing—but the same was true look like RIM’s last, lone hope. support Android apps via some RIM out yet. Maybe, just maybe,
Android/iOS app. of Nokia, which last month leapt It’s allegedly a terrific piece of sort of emulation mode. Some they’re about to get back in the
Thus far it’s all just smoke and off its burning platform into hardware, running their sleek new have arged that they should game.
rumors, no confirmed fire … Microsoft’s icy embrace. RIM too QNX OS, and I think there’s a lot officially adopt Android, as Nokia Image credit: e27singapore/
which is also how one could seems on the verge of its come-to- of room in the market for a good considered. But there is one other Flickr
describe the PlayBook itself. RIM Jesus moment. They have a little little tablet. The Streak 7 and p o s s i b i l i t y : m i g h t R I M b e
first announced the device back in more time, because the corporate Galaxy Tab aren’t it, but a developing an entirely new
S e p t e m b e r . M y v e r y f i r s t behemoths who have adopted PlayBook that runs Android apps handset OS which is a superset of
TechCrunch post in November BlackBeries will be loath to Android? After all, Android is

The InteracTee is your new employee recruiter [photo]

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Weekly Wrap-up: Ashton Kutcher's Twitter Account Hacked,

iPad 2 Specs, Light Painting Wi-Fi, and More...
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Top 10 Ways to Rock Your Resumé [Lifehacker Top 10]

Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker) Whether you're looking for a new creating a successful resumé.
Submitted at 3/5/2011 9:00:00 AM job or just pruning up your Here are our top 10 ways to make
paperwork, one of the keys to nabbing the job you want is sure yours stands out. More »
Newstablet Edition Technology/ Obituaries 21

Wow. Just… Wow: Facebook Hits Record $75

Billion Valuation On SecondMarket
MG Siegler (TechCrunch) up: PM EST – Completed transaction
Submitted at 3/4/2011 8:53:51 PM To Facebook market participants: documentation due from buyers
This week’s SecondMarket
Last week, in our weekly report auction successfully cleared
on the insanely hot Facebook 115,000 shares at a per share price
and sellers
- Friday, March 11 at 7:00
PM EST – Notice sent to
Christian
stock trading going on behind the of $30.00. Read more details in
scenes on SecondMarket, I wrote the attached auction results report.
the following: “ Do I hear $75 Next week’s auction will require
Facebook, Inc.
By reading this email, the World
recipient acknowledges and
billion next week?” I was sort of a minimum sale and minimum
kidding. But it looks like the joke purchase of 10,000 shares. If you
agrees that all of the information
contained herein is confidential
Adoption
is on me! are bidding for fewer than and that the recipient will keep noreply@blogger.com (Ad
Sure enough, Facebook did hit a 100,000 shares, you are required this information confidential. The ServeRSS) (AdServRSS Feed)
$ 7 5 b i l l i o n v a l u a t i o n o n to open a brokerage account with recipient further agrees that it will
accepting Seller Information Christian World Adoption is one
SecondMarket this week, a new SecondMarket. Please email not copy, reproduce, or distribute
Forms, Buyer Information Forms of the largest international
record. XXXX@SecondMarket.com to this email in whole or in part.
and Brokerage Account Opening adoption agencies in the United
I thought my prediction might be receive a Brokerage Account Please contact us at
Forms States. Since 1991, Christian
a little too optimistic give that it Opening Form and return the XXXX@SecondMarket.com or
- Monday, March 7 at 5:00 World Adoption has placed
was at a “mere” $70 billion a completed form by Monday, XXX.XXX.XXXX if you have
PM EST – Brokerage Account thousands of children from
week ago. Shares were trading at March 7, 2011 at 5:00 PM EST. any questions.
Opening Form due, if bidding for Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and
$28 a share then, after rallying Please email your completed Please note that the information
fewer than 100,000 shares Latin America. These children
back from a few weeks of actually Seller or Buyer Information in this email does not constitute
- Wednesday, March 9 at now enjoy the love and security of
being down. But they jumped a F o r m s t o an offer to sell to, nor a
12:00 PM EST – Seller and Buyer a forever family. Christian World
full two dollars this week, to be XXXX@SecondMarket.com by solicitation of an offer to buy
Information Forms due Adoption currently offers
trading at $30 a share. With about Wednesday, March 9 at noon from, nor shall any securities be
- Wednesday, March 9 at adoption programs in Bulgaria,
2.5 billion shares outstanding, EST. To verify receipt of your offered or sold to, any person in
5:00 PM EST – Participants China, Ethiopia, Guatemala,
that’s trading at a $75 billion o r d e r , y o u m u s t r e c e i v e a any jurisdiction in which such an
informed of auction results Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia
valuation. confirmation email from offer, solicitation or sale would be
- Wednesday, March 9 at and Ukraine. Explore our website
This blows by the$28.26 and XXXX@SecondMarket.com. If unlawful.
8:00 PM EST – Transaction to learn more about international
$70.65 billion valuation record set you do not receive a confirmation Regards,
documentation distributed to adoption. Then, when you’re
in mid-January. And it puts the email, your order has not been Terrence CrunchBase
buyers and sellers ready, call our friendly adoption
valuation a cool $10 billion past received by SecondMarket and Information Facebook
- Thursday, March 10 at 5:00 counselor, toll free, at
the$65 billion valuation that m a y b e e x c l u d e d f r o m t h e Information provided by
PM EST – Wire of 100% of gross 1.888.97ADOPT.
a General Atlantic investment (in auction. Responses are typically CrunchBase
purchase price to escrow account
private shares) will apparently sent within one hour.
due, if allocated fewer than
give the social network. Next Week’s Auction Timeline:
100,000 shares
Below, find the full email sent - Friday, March 4 at 7:00 PM
- Friday, March 11 at 4:00
out of the folks buying this stuff EST – SecondMarket will begin

Former Nepal PM Bhattarai dies (AFP)

(Yahoo! News: Obituaries) AFP - Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, who played a key role in the 1990 country, has died at the age of 87.
a former Nepalese prime minister restoration of democracy to the
22 Technology/ Newstablet Edition

Nook Color Android hacks are being sold on eBay

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 8:58:46 AM

Hacks for the Nook Color are

being sold on eBay, pre-installed
on microSD cards.(Credit: eBay)
Hacking or rooting the Barnes &
Noble Nook Color has become a
commercial venture for some, and
that has plenty of Android
enthusiasts calling foul.
In recent days folks on eBay have
started selling hacks for the Nook
Color pre-installed on microSD
cards, which start around $60 for
4GB cards and work their way
upwards. Installing one of the
cards in the Nook Color's
microSD slot allows users to
override Barnes & Noble's
"closed" Android-based Nook
firmware with an open Android
system that supports running a
multitude of Android apps.
"Modders" have been"porting" to their respective locales' laws), market with step by step, easy to sell a lot of e-books through its e- Equipped column, which carries
various "rooted" versions of the but the fact that people are paying follow, instructions for accessing reader, and that's part of the the tag line "The electronics you
Android OS to the Nook Color, this much for a pre-loaded SD the Android market," he says. "No reason the Nook Color is priced as lust for." He's also the author of "
including a preview version of card baffles me. See, the nice other dealer is offering step by reasonably as it is. Knife Music," a novel that's
Honeycomb (Android 3.0), which thing about the internet is that step instructions for this process." Any way you look at it, we'd available at Amazon, bn.com, and
is designed for tablets. This has there are instructions for things Others on the Internet are, of strongly encourage you not to buy as a Kindle, Kindle UK, or Nook
made the affordable though like this that pretty much anyone course. And more hardcore one of these cards on eBay. They e-book.
slightly underpowered Nook with a few minutes of time and modders will point out that are, as the Android Police says, a This entry passed through the
Color ($250) a popular item with the ability to read can follow. running a hack off the microSD "ripoff." Full-Text RSS service — if this is
Android enthusiasts who don't Typically, an 4GB microSD card card is for novices; you get better If you have a question or your content and you're reading it
want to shell out bigger money for costs less than $10 on Amazon. performance running it from comment for David Carnoy, you on someone else's site, please read
true Android tablets like the $799 An 8GB card goes for around internal memory. can submit it here. However, our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
Motorola Xoom. $16. How many people are "rooting" because our editors and writers content-only/faq.php
Over at the Android Police Will Android Guy, the listed seller of their Nook Colors is unknown, receive hundreds of requests, we Five Filters featured article:
Shanklin was dismayed at the turn the above item, is marketing his but we suspect that the numbers cannot tell you when you may Comment Is Free But Freedom Is
of events. He urged readers not to card as superior to competing remain relatively small (as an receive a response. Slavery - An Exchange With The
pay money for a Nook Color SD products on eBay. "This auction overall percentage) or Barnes & Hunkered down in New York Guardian's Economics Editor.
card that runs Honeycomb. provides you with a 8gb microSD Noble might try to take more City, Executive Editor David
People have the right to buy or cards with a root that will run action to combat it. Obviously, Carnoy covers the gamut of
sell whatever they want (subject Android 3.0 Honeycomb with app Barnes & Noble's intention is to gadgets and writes his Fully NOOK page 23
Newstablet Edition
Inside The Mitsubishi Mobile Marketing Showroom: Massive
82 and 92-inch 3D TVs
Rue Liu (SlashGear)
Submitted at 3/4/2011 5:10:10 PM
Currently the world’s largest
mass-produced rear-projection flat
screen, the Mitsubishi 92-inch 3D
TV was first unveiled at CES
earlier this year. But this morning
we got an up close and personal
look at the mammoth flat screen
along with its 82-inch sibling at
the Mitsubishi Mobile Marketing
Showroom. It is truly an
immersive cinematic experience
to be had if you can afford the
price, the space, and don’t mind
looking like a complete dork
sometimes—as illustrated below.
Mitsubishi’s 3D Home Cinema
TV series uses an integrated 3D
emitter that functions with special
battery powered 3D viewing
glasses. The pair I was donning
was a super durable rubberized set
used for high-volume demo
purposes. For regular home use
there’s a slightly more flattering
alternative as well as third-party
options. However, the glasses are
not included with the purchase of
the TV. They come in a bundled
kit for $399 that includes two-
pairs of glasses and a Blu-Ray
Disc of 3D Disney content. You
can also purchase single pairs for
$149.
The minimum comfortable
viewing distance is roughly 9 to
NOOK
continued from page 22
11 feet away for the 92-inch
model and likely greater for those
prone to motion sickness. I was
able to sit about 6 feet away from
the 82-inch model without any
discomfort and that may have
been due to the sharpness of the
picture quality. The series
employs the same DLP
technology used in most 3D
cinema screens with a 1080p
resolution and 1000x faster pixel
response time from a 120Hz sub-
frame rate for smooth and crisp
Technology/ 23
Mitsubishi’s Unisen 5.1 Surround
Sound that consists of 16 to 18
speakers beamed separately for an
immersive audio experience
without requiring additional
speaker components. And should
you wish to add a subwoofer, it
can be connected wirelessly. This
eliminates the usual mess of
speaker cables and wires, and
should keep the missus happy.
Mitsubishi’s Director of Product
Development, David Naranjo,
was kind enough to talk with us
and confirmed that pricing would
be $6000 for the 92-inch model,
which won’t be available until
mid-summer. The first video
below is a short interview and the
second video is a demo of the
Unisen 5.1 Surround Sound.
Relevant Entries on SlashGear
• Mitsubishi unveils massive 149-
fast action scenes. enabled so that music can be inch OLED display
The image below of the 82-inch streamed from cellphones or other • Dallas Cowboy stadium gets
model gives you a better idea of Bluetooth enabled devices. The into Guinness record book
just how big are these displays. Mitsubishi TV Control app is • Mitsubishi unveils
T h e 9 2 - i n c h m o d e l — n o t available for download from AA192AA01 19.2-inch TFT-LCD
pictured—measures a whopping 4 iTunes that converts your iPhone, Module with odd 16:3 aspect ratio
feet tall, 6 feet wide, and almost 2 iPod Touch, or iPad into a TV • Mitsubishi unveils
feet deep. remote. Future developments may RDT262WH, 26-inch H-IPS
Connectivity features include allow for streaming content from monitor
StreamTV that lets you access the your mobile devices. Other • Mitsubishi 65 LaserVue TV
internet for various services connectors include four HDMI coming Q3: twice LCD color at
including VUDU 3D movie inputs, a USB media player, and a half the power
streaming, Pandora, Facebook, PC/DVI port.
and Twitter. The TV is Bluetooth As for sound, the series features
24 Technology/ Newstablet Edition

Surfsens released by Pukas, Tecnalia

Kevin Fubar (SlashGear) by feelings. The driving forces Check out these links for video
Submitted at 3/4/2011 4:25:10 PM behind this joint project, PUKAS and pictures from the release.
and TECNALIA, aim to “turn Pukas – Tecnalia Surfsens project
Spanish company Pukas teamed feelings into facts and figures” from Pukas Surf on Vimeo.
up with partner Tecnalia to and provide as yet unquantified Tecnalia’s Photostream
release the Surfsens surfboard data that can be directly applied to [via Pukas and Tecnalia]
diagonistics package. Surfing is i m p r o v e t h e f e a t u r e s o f Relevant Entries on SlashGear
an iconic sport worldwide, and s u r f b o a r d s , t h e t e c h n i c a l • Zoo Hospital to be released for
never before have surfers had the performance of surfers and/or the Wii
ability to track their movements. measurement of parameters • Halo 3 gets a released date
Not only will this allow surfers to during competition. • HD DVD 2.0 Firmware Getting
analyze their turns and motions, Pukas has been making Released Today
but this could revolutionize surfboards in La Concha Bay in • New (old) Guitar Hero tracks
j u d g i n g a n d s c o r i n g i n San Sebastián, Spain since 1977. available for download, and a
with a gyroscope, accelerometer, tested the board mentions that it
competitive surfing competitions. T h e y t e a m e d w i t h S p a n i s h surprise
GPS, compass, and flex sensors. feels heavier, but the whole sensor
The Surfsens board is the first of technology company Tecnalia • Windows Home server goes
The data is saved on the board’s and computer package only adds
it’s kind. recently to produce the Surfsens RTM, will be released sometime
internal computer for later 650 grams to the weight of the
Pukas: package. The Surfsens board in September
display. One of the surfers who board.
Surfing is still a sport governed watches every twitch of your toes

International travelers are best off with the AT&T iPad 2 Wi-
Fi + 3G
Michael Grothaus (TUAW) and use it on Wi-Fi networks one of Apple's data partners in the
Submitted at 3/5/2011 11:00:00 AM when you land in a specific UK. If I had a Verizon iPad 2, on
country, you won't be able to buy the other hand, I'd be out of luck
With the iPad 2, many people are a data plan in most countries if for 3G data service while in the
sure to be excited that Apple is you have the Verizon iPad 2. The UK. Just something to think about
offering both AT&T and Verizon reason for this is simple: the before you let your frustration at
versions of the iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G. AT&T iPad 2 features a GSM AT&T's service push you into the
After all, many out there bemoan chipset, which is the near- open arms of the Verizon iPad 2.
the less than desirable 3G service universal global standard. The Click these links for a full list of
offered by AT&T, so it's nice that Verizon iPad 2 3G uses a CDMA GSM and CDMA countries.
those people can buy an iPad 2 chipset, which, globally, is International travelers are best off
which allows them to opt for nowhere near as universal as with the AT&T iPad 2 Wi-Fi +
Verizon's 3G service. However, if GSM. 3G originally appeared on TUAW
you are a frequent international Of course, I'm assuming that you lot, the Verizon iPad 2 will work better off going with the AT&T on Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:00:00
traveler like me, you'll want to travel to most places I do, like just fine for you since both those iPad 2. When I leave the US with EST. Please see our terms for use
make sure you buy the AT&T Europe, Russia, Asia, and South countries have wide CDMA my AT&T iPad 2 and land in the of feeds.
version of the iPad 2. America. If you are going to be networks. However, for most UK, I can whip out my iPad and Permalink| Email this| Comments
While you can buy any iPad 2 traveling to Canada or Mexico a other parts of the world you're buy a 30-day subscription using
Newstablet Edition
NashMoney’s custom Sneakerspeakers
Kevin Fubar (SlashGear)
Submitted at 3/4/2011 5:06:32 PM
London artist, Alex Nash, has a
lifelong fixation with athletic
footwear. In a nod to his life-long
obsession he created this custom
set of desktop speakers as part of
Intercity’s Inspired Ingenuity
project. This project is meant to
showcase pieces of artwork that
show inspired ingenuity by taking
normal objects and turning them
into something completely
different. Nash took a pair of Nike
Air Force 1 sneakers and
constructed them into a pair of
amplified speakers. The project is
challenging artists to create pieces
that take the everyday and turn it
into something other. One winner
will be chosen every month
through June.
Nash started with the sneakers.
He then cut through the sole of
each in a number of places,
leaving space for speakers, and
the wires. This took a lot of
meticulous measurement so that
the speakers, boards, and wires
would all fit perfectly into the
finished product. He also built,
sanded, and varnished the stands
himself. He says about the
process, “I’ve always had to
tackle problems and learn new
skills or techniques with most of
my customs/designs, but I never
thought electronics and carpentry
would be one of them.” This is
some beautiful work from the
man known as Nashmoney.
[ via Art and Sole]
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• Custom Action Figures from
Hero Builders
• Tyukalov Custom Wireless
Mice
• Fresh Fiber custom iPad cases
look for startup funds on
Kickstarter
• Small custom PC builders to
ship Windows 7 early on custom
PCs
• Custom USB memory can
survive rough & tumble
Technology/ 25
Hacker Poll: Which
Browser-based IDE
Is Most Promising?
Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 3/4/2011 7:25:00 PM
We've asked you before what
your favorite IDE is. And we've
covered a few developer-centric
text editors for the iPad. But what
if you want to develop apps from
your browser? There are a few
options available, including Ace,
Cloud9 IDE(which uses Ace),
CodeMirror, Eclipse's Orion and
the Chrome app SourceKit(which
also uses Ace).
Do you use any of these? Which
one is most promising?
Sponsor
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Most Promising? Market
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26 Technology/ Health/
Plextor Unveils USB 3.0 Ultra Light
Portable Hard Drives
Rue Liu (SlashGear)
Submitted at 3/4/2011 4:50:25 PM
Plextor has announced its newest
portable hard drive that is USB
3.0 compatible and also
backwards compatible with USB
2.0. The PX-PH500U3 is super
light weight at 162 grams–roughly
1/3 of a pound–and comes with
500 GB of storage. The hard
drive will come with a USB 3.0
cable and a leatherette case.
The small yet sturdy looking hard
drive is encased in ‘aircraft
aluminum’ and has no need for an
external power adapter since it
will be powered via the USB
connector. Plextor has also
preloaded some software onto its
speedy new hard drive making it
ready to interface with different
system setups. Users will be able
to maximize read and write
speeds with the Turbo HDD
utility and can backup and restore
their data with FNet PC Clone
EX.
Plextor plans to release a 750 GB
version as well, the PX-PH750U3
sometime in April. The 500 GB
PX-PH500U3 will be on sale in
Europe starting in March for £90
and the 750 GB version can be
yours for £120.
[ via GeekyGadgets]
Relevant Entries on SlashGear
• Plextor debuts new PX-64M1S
and PX-128M1S SSDs
• Plextor announces new optical
drives
• Fujitsu brings their notebook
hard drives up to 250GB
• Seagate announces FreeAgent
Go Drives in many colors
• Plextor PX-B120U USB-
Powered External Blu-ray Drive
Costs Only $100
(Founder Stories) Foursquare’s
Dennis Crowley: “Stop
Sketching, Start Building”
Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 10:35:10 AM
All this week, we’ve been
running segments of our Founder
Stories interview with Foursquare
CEO Dennis Crowley(see links at
bottom for past episodes, or watch
the whole 45 minute interview
below). In this final episode
(video above), Crowley answers
some rapid fire questions from
host Chris Dixon. What was his
best business decision ever?
What does he like least about
being a CEO? Who are his
mentors? What are his favorite
iPhone apps? And what advice
does he have for other founders?
You’ll have to watch the clip
above to find out, but I will tell
you his answer to the last
question. “Forget about where
you want to be and go out and
build stuff. Dodgeball came from
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being bored at work, . . . things
happen because you make them
happen. Stop sketching, and start
building.” Good advice.
Crowley also talks about how he
is still fascinated with “the idea of
having the phone coming alive
and telling you what to do,” and
other startups he thinks are
exciting like GroupMe and
Beluga.
This is the final installment of the
Crowley interview. You can also
watch Part I(on Foursquare’s
origins), Part II(on building a
company), and Part III(on
inventing the future), or you can
watch the entire unedited
interview below. You can
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Top reviews of the week

(photos) Wicked Gamer
Washrooms - The Super
(CNET News.com) The bottom line: Despite Mario Bros Bathroom is
Submitted at 3/5/2011 6:00:00 AM retaining the same price and look
as last year's model, the new 13- a Tribute to the Little
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Devine on the iPad for ever stared at the bland walls of
your powder room and wondered
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WiebeTech RTX220-QR RAID:

SSD speeds at HD prices
Steven Sande (TUAW)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 10:00:00 AM
If you're looking for a 2-bay
RAID setup for doing either
mirrored (RAID 1) or striped
(RAID 0) storage or backup, what
do you want? Something pretty
and shiny, or something that looks
like it can withstand a direct
attack by a squad of Marines who
are having a bad day?
My guess is that you'll want the
latter, and the WiebeTech
RTX220-QR fits the bill
perfectly. It comes in an black
aluminum enclosure with a sturdy
handle on top, and could easily be
mistaken for a car battery charger
instead of a RAID array. Inside
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absorbing TrayFree drive bays;
these are SATA (1 and 2) bays
that you simply insert a drive into
and close the door. The drive
clicks into place, and you're ready
to roll.
I had an opportunity to try out an
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what I found was a solid, fast, and
incredibly configurable array.
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Paperless from Mariner Software, scanners that include a boxed Paperless: A solid, easily
There are several bloggers here at formerly known as ReceiptWallet, version of Paperless. Yes, the customizable document manager
TUAW who are slowly moving aims to pull all of the paper pieces irony of including a boxed version for OS X originally appeared on
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Judge Allows Sony’s Request For Ben Bernanke is a Fiscal Moron

Identifying Information For Anyone
Who Visited Hacker’s Sites
Devin Coldewey (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 3/4/2011 7:34:42 PM
This is a rather disturbing turn of
events. Federal Magistrate Joseph
Spero has approved a request by
Sony to subpoena the hacker
GeoHot’s web host, as well as
YouTube, Google, and Twitter,
for identifying information on
anyone who has accessed,
commented, or viewed
information relating to the hack.
At best this is lazy on Sony’s part
and irresponsible on Magistrate
Spero’s, and at worst it is a
deliberate and malicious
wholesale violation of privacy.
The pretense for this wildly
overreaching action is that Sony
needs this information to prove
the case should be tried in San
Francisco, in federal court and
noreply@blogger.com (Michael proposal would reduce economic about a Congress addressing mere
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
growth by 1.5 to 2 percentage
points during the second and third
$61 billion of it. Bernanke warns
against attempts "to do everything
Submitted at 3/4/2011 6:48:00 PM quarters of this year. immediately” hoping to spread
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke likes Bernanke attributed the lower that $61 billion out over a decade.
to bitch about Congressional Federal Reserve estimates to some Bear in mind that $61 billion is a
interference in Fed monetary “differences in assumptions.” mere 4.36% of what needs to
policy yet Bernanke repeatedly “We’ve tried to do a realistic happen. Is Ben Bernanke a fiscal
t e l l s C o n g r e s s w h a t t o d o analysis of what those cuts would moron or what?
regarding fiscal policy. do over a couple of years,” he As an added bonus for those who
I think neither should tell the said. may have missed it, please
other what to do because the Fed Boehner called Zandi the “pet consider Hello Ben Bernanke,
should not exist at all. economist” of House Democratic Meet "Stephanie"
With that remark out of the way, L e a d e r N a n c y P e l o s i o f Mike "Mish" Shedlock
please consider Republicans, Fed California, citing his support for h t t p : / /
Clash on Job Impact of Spending an economic-stimulus bill that the globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.
close to Sony’s headquarters. Cuts“We need to address the
White House once estimated com
Why? Because it’s in Sony’s deficit; that’s very important,”
would keep unemployment below Click Here To Scroll Thru My
terms of service. This after B e r n a n k e t o l d t h e H o u s e
8 percent. Boehner cited a Recent Post List
another judge noted previously Financial Services Committee in a
statement signed by 150 Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a
that by Sony’s standards, “the March 2 hearing. “But I think it
economists sent to President registered investment advisor
entire universe would be subject would be most effective if we did
Barack Obama calling for representative for SitkaPacific
to [her] jurisdiction.” that over a timeframe of 5 or 10 s p e n d i n g c u t s . Capital Management. Sitka
Continue reading… years and not try to do everything Stanford University economist Pacific is an asset management
immediately.” John Taylor, a Treasury firm whose goal is strong
The Fed chief said the House undersecretary under former performance and low volatility,
Republican plan to slash $61 President George W. Bush, says regardless of market direction.
billion from 2011 government both Zandi and Goldman Sachs Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com
spending could also subtract “a relied on a flawed methodology. /account_management.html to
couple of tenths” of a percentage He wrote that he found “no learn more about wealth
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over several years. budget-cutting bill would reduce preservation strategies of Sitka
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by Goldman Sachs last month We have a freaking $1.4 trillion
f o u n d t h a t t h e R e p u b l i c a n deficit and Bernanke is bitching

2010 in Pictures
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 8:00:56 AM
On Jan. 12, a 7.0-magnitude
earthquake struck Haiti, a nation
widely considered the poorest in
the Western Hemisphere. Disaster
relief experts estimated that
230,000 lives were lost during the
earthquake and in its aftermath.
Later in the year, another disaster
struck Haiti: a cholera outbreak.
In mid-November, more than 900
people were dead from cholera
and another 14,000 were
hospitalized.
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Big-Box Retailers Reconsider Size; Saturation, Online Sales

Affect Store Expansion Plans and Hiring Needs
noreply@blogger.com (Michael and Gap Body, it is shrinking office supplies and copy and mail • You do not have to waste time model, another commercial real
Shedlock) (Mish's Global them and stacking them back services that account for 93% of and money traveling estate boom remotely close to the
Economic Trend Analysis) inside its namesake Gap stores. the bigger stores' sales, said Kevin build-out that occurred in 2005-
Submitted at 3/5/2011 1:45:00 AM Best Buy Co. last week became Peters, Office Depot's North Online Sales Have States Furious 2007 is not in the cards.
Online shopping not only has the latest retail chain to go American retail president. Over Lost Sales Taxes Moreover, residential housing is
state departments of revenue smaller, announcing last week "Our box was just too big and Cash strapped states are furious still dead.
pulling their hair out over lost that it was slowing growth of new didn't work for our customers," with Amazon.Com over sales tax Together, the picture just does
sales tax revenue, it also has big-box stores this year in favor of Mr. Peters said Wednesday. "We collections. Several states passed not add up to the 200,000+ jobs a
retailers like Best Buy, Sears, adding 150 Best Buy Mobile are reinventing Office Depot as a laws or have sent Amazon bills. month many economists and
KMart, and Home Depot l o c a t i o n s , f o c u s e d o n convenience retailer. Think CVS Amazon's response in every case market cheerleaders expect.
questioning, the merits of the big- s m a r t p h o n e s . and Walgreens." Key Word is so far is to leave the state. Mike "Mish" Shedlock
box mentality itself. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. also said Saturation For details, please see Amazon h t t p : / /
The Wall Street Journal reports last week that it was accelerating The "bigger is better model" that May Cut Ties to California Over globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.
As Big Boxes Shrink, They Also t h e r o l l o u t o f s m a l l e r collapsed with residential real Tax Issues; Texas Distribution com
Rethink Major big-box retailers locations—40,000 square feet or estate, has expanded to its big Site Closed Over Similar Issues Click Here To Scroll Thru My
have been shifting to smaller less—after it reported a seventh brother, commercial real estate. Last Month; Litigation Issues Recent Post List Mike
stores—and scratching around for straight quarterly decline in sales The problem is not the size of the Move to Forefront "Mish" Shedlock is a registered
more profitable ways to fill under- at U.S. stores open at least a year. stores, but the sheer number of Last week I went to Best Buy to investment advisor representative
used spaces as they go about The retail giant, which rose to them. Areas that got by with a buy a particular cable I needed. f o r S i t k a P a c i f i c C a p i t a l
reinventing themselves. dominance with 185,000-foot single Home Depot, now have 2 They did not have it. I ended up Management. Sitka Pacific is an
Sears Holdings Corp. is letting Supercenters, plans to open its Home Depots, a Lowes, and a ordering it from Amazon. If stores asset management firm whose
prospective tenants browse an first Walmart Express store in the Menards. shrink, and they do not have what goal is strong performance and
online list of Kmart and Sears second quarter of this year, If they all shrink, does it do any customers want, customers will low volatility, regardless of
stores with space to rent. though it won't say where. of them any good? just buy more stuff online. market direction. Visit http://
Sears reached a deal to lease The miniature Staples carries just Store Advantages Big-Box Decisions Affect Store w w w . s i t k a p a c i f i c . c o m /
34,000 square feet of store space 1,200 of the retailer's most high- Hiring Plans account_management.html to
in Greensboro, N.C., to Whole volume sales items, compared to • Those who need something and I am wondering, do we really l e a r n m o r e a b o u t w e a l t h
Foods Market Inc. for a grocery 8,000 items in traditional stores. want it now need "Walmart Express" at all? At m a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a l
store set to open in 2012. Office Depot Inc., meanwhile, • Those who want to make best it is a sign of total saturation preservation strategies of Sitka
Home Depot Inc. is selling off quietly began opening new shops comparisons and see a product in of big boxes and a turf battle for Pacific.
portions of its parking lots to fast- the size of convenience stores in person smaller cities and neighborhoods.
food chains and auto repair shops. December. The new 5,000-square As such, think about store hiring
Gap Inc. is reverting to a Russian -foot Office Depot stores are Online Shopping Advantages plans now vs. store hiring plans in
nesting-doll strategy: after years barely a fifth the size of the the midst of the big-box
o f e x p a n d i n g b y a d d i n g company's traditional locations, • It's invariably cheaper online commercial real estate boom.
standalone stores such as GapKids yet still manage to contain the • There is frequently no sales tax With the new "smaller is better"

Nepal's former Prime Minister Bhattarai dies at 87 (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Obituaries) AP - Nepal's former Prime Bhattarai, who led a popular democracy in 1990, has died at
Minister Krishna Prasad movement to restore multiparty age 87.
Newstablet Edition Economy/ Culture/ 31

Online Sales Aren't Just Killing Tax Revenue, They're

Slamming Big Box Stores Too
Mike "Mish" Shedlock (Money Russian nesting-doll strategy: the size of convenience stores in • Those who want to make Hiring Plans
Game) after years of expanding by December. The new 5,000-square comparisons and see a product in I am wondering, do we really
Submitted at 3/5/2011 10:07:00 AM adding standalone stores such as -foot Office Depot stores are person need "Walmart Express" at all? At
GapKids and Gap Body, it is barely a fifth the size of the best it is a sign of total saturation
Online shopping not only has shrinking them and stacking them company's traditional locations, Online Shopping Advantages of big boxes and a turf battle for
state departments of revenue back inside its namesake Gap yet still manage to contain the smaller cities and neighborhoods.
pulling their hair out over lost stores. office supplies and copy and mail • It's invariably cheaper online As such, think about store hiring
sales tax revenue, it also has Best Buy Co. last week became services that account for 93% of • There is frequently no sales tax plans now vs. store hiring plans in
retailers like Best Buy, Sears, the latest retail chain to go the bigger stores' sales, said • You do not have to waste time t h e m i d s t o f t h e b i g - b o x
K M a r t , a n d H o m e D e p o t smaller, announcing last week Kevin Peters, Office Depot's and money traveling commercial real estate boom.
questioning, the merits of the big- that it was slowing growth of new North American retail president. With the new "smaller is better"
box mentality itself. big-box stores this year in favor "Our box was just too big and Online Sales Have States Furious model, another commercial real
The Wall Street Journal reports of adding 150 Best Buy Mobile didn't work for our customers," Over Lost Sales Taxes estate boom remotely close to the
As Big Boxes Shrink, They Also l o c a t i o n s , f o c u s e d o n Mr. Peters said Wednesday. "We Cash strapped states are furious build-out that occurred in 2005-
Rethink smartphones. are reinventing Office Depot as a with Amazon.Com over sales tax 2007 is not in the cards.
Major big-box retailers have been Wal-Mart Stores Inc. also said convenience retailer. Think CVS collections. Several states passed Moreover, residential housing is
shifting to smaller stores—and last week that it was accelerating and Walgreens." laws or have sent Amazon bills. still dead.
scratching around for more t h e r o l l o u t o f s m a l l e r Key Word is Saturation Amazon's response in every case Together, the picture just does
profitable ways to fill under-used locations—40,000 square feet or The "bigger is better model" that so far is to leave the state. not add up to the 200,000+ jobs a
s p a c e s a s t h e y g o a b o u t less—after it reported a seventh collapsed with residential real For details, please see Amazon month many economists and
reinventing themselves. straight quarterly decline in sales estate, has expanded to its big May Cut Ties to California Over market cheerleaders expect.
Sears Holdings Corp. is letting at U.S. stores open at least a year. brother, commercial real estate. Tax Issues; Texas Distribution Mike "Mish" Shedlock
prospective tenants browse an The retail giant, which rose to The problem is not the size of Site Closed Over Similar Issues h t t p : / /
online list of Kmart and Sears dominance with 185,000-foot the stores, but the sheer number of Last Month; Litigation Issues globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.
stores with space to rent. Supercenters, plans to open its them. Areas that got by with a Move to Forefront com
Sears reached a deal to lease first Walmart Express store in the single Home Depot, now have 2 Last week I went to Best Buy to Click Here To Scroll Thru My
34,000 square feet of store space second quarter of this year, Home Depots, a Lowes, and a buy a particular cable I needed. Recent Post List
in Greensboro, N.C., to Whole though it won't say where. Menards. They did not have it. I ended up Join the conversation about this
Foods Market Inc. for a grocery The miniature Staples carries just If they all shrink, does it do any ordering it from Amazon. If story »
store set to open in 2012. 1,200 of the retailer's most high- of them any good? stores shrink, and they do not
Home Depot Inc. is selling off volume sales items, compared to Store Advantages have what customers want,
portions of its parking lots to fast 8,000 items in traditional stores. customers will just buy more stuff
-food chains and auto repair Office Depot Inc., meanwhile, • Those who need something and online.
shops. Gap Inc. is reverting to a quietly began opening new shops want it now Big-Box Decisions Affect Store

Fix Your Bad Posture By Embracing The Slouch [Health]

Dave Drager (Lifehacker) complaints of the "always at a ergonomically to creating a way you might attack this issue is
Submitted at 3/5/2011 8:00:00 AM computer" lifestyle is that your standing computer desk, many to embrace the slouch. More »
posture takes a major hit from have attempted to fix this problem
One of the most commonly heard hunching over the keyboard. From setting up your workspace while at your computer. Another
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Business Insider Is Giving Away

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Saudi Arabia Announces Ban On
All Protests, And Gives Security
Forces Carte-Blanche To Stop Them
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
So far there have been a few
Submitted at 3/5/2011 10:42:19 AM protests, all of which are peaceful.
And there's some belief that
Saudi Arabia's day of rage is perhaps the market is blowing
scheduled for Friday, March 11. Saudi Arabian fears out of
Today it banned protests. proportion.
According to Gulf News, the ban But when you stuff like this, you
w a s a n n o u n c e d o n s t a t e know they're scared.
television, and security forces Join the conversation about this
were told to use "all measures" to story »
thwart them.

Who's scanning all these QR codes? [infographic]

(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 10:31:00 AM
It was predicted that QR codes
would blow up this year. And
they were right. You can’t look at
a newspaper, poster, or cereal box
anymore without stumbling upon
one of the black and white
scannable squares. But just
because you see one, doesn’t
mean you’ll pull out your phone
and scan it.
QR code-focused JumpScan has
compiled an infographic that
o f f e r s i n s i g h t i n t o w h o ’ s And you know what else is really
interacting with them. Read the neat? You can scan every QR
infographic below to learn more code in the infographic.
about who’s scanning QR codes, Full story at Mashable.
what devices people use to do it, All the top tech tidbits.
and which brands are running QR Permalink| Leave a comment »
code campaigns.
Newstablet Edition Economy/ Culture/ Food/ 33

One Of America's Biggest Food Gadget Lab Podcast:

Producing Regions Could Soon Be iPad 2, Kinect Hacks,
Under Water Zombie Ants
Gregory White (Money Game) Brian X. Chen (Wired Top we’re more interested in Apple’s
Submitted at 3/5/2011 10:42:03 AM
Stories) business strategy in the
Submitted at 3/4/2011 5:57:00 PM accessories game than in the
After a nasty winter in which product itself.
winter storms blanketed large In this week’s Gadget Lab We wrap up the podcast with
portions of the U.S., the great podcast, we kick off the show some of our favorite hacks for the
thaw is now threatening one of the with a quick look at some weird Microsoft Kinect. Some clever
key corn producing regions of the fungus that’s apparently turning nerds have hacked Microsoft’s
country. certain ants into zombies. Gross Kinect controller to use it to
The Dakotas, Minnesota, and and awesome. control music, give themselves
Iowa are all under threat. Moving on to gadget land, we boob implants and create 3-D
From Reuters: waste some time playing with models, among other applications.
Accumulated precipitation this Zibits, puny robots controlled Like the show? You can also get
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Dakotas, ranged from 125 percent soybeans in the United States, the Don't miss: 10 ways weather is the highlights of Apple’s new Gadget Lab audio podcast. Prefer
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TED 2011: This Week at the TED Industrial Complex

Steven Levy (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 3/4/2011 8:05:00 PM

LONG BEACH, California —

It’s a problem shared by Google,
Facebook, and just about any
organization that begins from a
relatively intimate core: When
success comes, how do you scale
to more ambitious heights without
losing the intimacy and passion
that was a hallmark of your
original offering?
Here at Long Beach, during the
four-day TED Conference —
which has grown from a relatively
cloistered boutique gathering to
an elaborate production designed
to ultimately present its products
to hundreds of millions — it’s
clear that what was once a
conclave known for a funky kind
of serendipitous magic has
evolved into more of an efficient
delivery service for
enlightenment, astonishment and
inspiration. Judging from this
year’s program, which ranged
from quantum physics to paper-
cutting, TED has smoothly made
the pivot.
For three years now, the hub of
the TED Industrial Complex has
been the Long Beach Convention
Center, an auditorium several nary a flaw. (One exception was a huge hall to bask in the TEDness. drawn from “some of the best homegrown events by “TED
times the size of the conference’s demo of a 3-D iPad app, where Spread around the grounds are baristas in the world.” (At the Associates” who pay to stream the
former longtime home in the presenters were almost several “simulcast” areas, some Google Dome I had a macchiato talks to friends and colleagues in
Monterey, California. For most of comically unable to point their hosted by corporate sponsors like prepared by the Norwegian offices or homes. Finally, and
the 12 sessions, it’s totally devices towards the camera.) Blackberry, where the champion.) most emphatically, TED talks are
packed, including the balcony. All There are also three morning proceedings are shown on high- That’s in addition to a group of offered free online, and have
in all, there are more than a sessions of short talks known as quality video displays. (People more than 500 watching at become hugely popular. There’s
hundred speakers, and virtually TED U. lounge on couches and peck on TedActive in a Palm Springs
every one of them goes off with But you don’t have to be in the their iPads while sipping coffee ballroom and more than 70 TED page 36
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Singel-Minded: With Facebook Comments, Another 'Good

News, Bad News' Proposition
Ryan Singel (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 3/4/2011 7:05:00 PM

Facebook unleashed a new

commenting system this week that
promises to help online
publications clean up their
commenting cesspools, while
simultaneously extending
Facebook’s tentacles further into
the web outside its walls.
Unfortunately for those with
visions of a non-Facebook
dominated web, this initiative has
the potential to dramatically
expand the ginormous social
network’s already imperial reach.
The new system lets website
owners replace their current
commenting system with
Facebook’s simply by dropping in
a few lines of Javascript. Then,
commenters have to sign in using
either their Facebook or Yahoo
IDs, an attempt to ensure a
commenter is a real person.
Commenters can opt to have their
comment posted as an update,
along with a link to the original
story, which spreads the story link
inside Facebook’s walls.
This offers publishers a number
of benefits. They get more links to
their site from inside the net’s
most popular website. A lot of
people are “registered” to
comment on their sites. And, they
have a system designed to
discourage vitriol because it’s
easy for the site owner to ban a
user and tough for a user to create
a new identity.
For Facebook, the benefit is also
clear. Users now have even more
incentive to be constantly logged
into Facebook (those who are
already logged into Facebook
don’t have to do anything to
comment on a website using its
system). Additionally, even more
of Facebook’s users’ net activities
flow through its site, since by
default comments — and replies
to them — post to a Facebook
user’s wall. That deepens users’
ties to Facebook, adds more
content to Facebook, and gives
people more reason to check their
Facebook newsfeed for the
increased information flow.
It also builds on what’s becoming
Facebook’s most important
function: being the identity
provider and validator for the
wider net. The system opens the
door for what’s likely inevitable:
having news sites rely on
Facebook to identify its users and
eventually to serve ads to its
readers based on their individual
Facebook pages.
The Facebook system competes
most directly with Disqus (a
system Wired.com has just
starting using), which also creates
a single, central profile used to
comment on any site that uses the
system. Facebook offers its plug-
in for free, while Disqus
commenting requires premium
accounts for the features a large
site needs to have.
The immediate drawbacks of
Facebook’s commenting system
match the larger issues of the
social networking site. There’s no
way to export the comments if a
publication decides to drop the
system — just as Facebook
jealously holds onto the e-mail
addresses of the people you are
connected to on Facebook so you
can’t re-establish your network on
some other site. Facebook will
likely create some sort of export
system, if only to assuage
potential publications, though
given Facebook’s history with
exporting, it will likely be bare
bones and not particularly useful
in practice.
Facebook’s entry into this arena
presents sites with three choices
— none particularly ideal.
Continue reading …
The first is to gamble that your
site is important enough to your
readers that you can get away
with requiring them to have a
specific login for your site, and
that you have the technical
resources to build that out. But
even if you don’t use Facebook
Connect, the movement seems to
be away from a collection of site
profiles and passwords and
toward a single one that gives you
entry to your collection, be it from
Google, Yahoo, OpenID or
others.
The second option is to go with a
service like Disqus and pay that
company annually to uphold the
belief that there should be
multiple identity providers on the
net and hope they have enough
staying power and stickiness to
appeal to your readers.
Or, you can go with Facebook,
tacitly acknowledging that the
SINGEL-MINDED: page 37
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TED
continued from page 34
also a series of privately held, but
officially sanctioned one-day
TEDx events that adopt the
format and spirit — more than a
thousand so far, held everywhere
from the Amazon to the
Berkshires.
Supersizing the conference to
nearly 1,500 attendees — a
number clearly off the Dunbar
scale— has its effects. It’s
possible (though admittedly
unlikely) to go several days and
still not run into someone you
know — or not catch a glimpse of
Renee Zellweger. And the official
nighttime events are fairly
denuded of bigwigs, who
generally hobnob in private
dinners.
But there’s still plenty of
opportunity for any old TEDster
to say Hi to the bold-faced, and
enough of an egalitarian spirit that
they will talk back. In typical
encounters this year, I came
across Peter Gabriel on an
elevator in the Westin Hotel
across the street from the Long
Beach Center — twice. During
one session, Bill Gates sat four
seats to my right and Jeff Bezos
was directly behind me.
And I got to give some notes to
Julie Taymor to assist in her epic
struggle to get Spider-Man right.
(When I told her I would prefer a
louder guitar for the Edge-like
riffs that festoon the score, she
told me that since my visit to the
show last January that had already
been taking care of. )
And what about the TED Talks?
Over the years, largely because of
the wide web exposure, a Ted
Talk has been a genre in itself, a
blend of personal revelation,
geeky science, love of Africa and
glaciers, and stirring proof of the
indomitability of the human spirit,
all wrapped up in a neat 18-
minute package that ends with a
standing ovation.
(So common are those standing
o’s that this year TED’s MC and
chief honcho Chris Anderson — a
different guy than my boss at
Wired — suggested the first day
that TEDsters should ease up on
the ecstasy inflation and
recalibrate their responses to a
tougher standards. It didn’t work.)
It did seem to me that this year
didn’t present didn’t any of the off
-the-charts, life-changing,
rhapsodic explosions that TED
has occasionally produced. (When
I mentioned this to Anderson, he
objected, citing three
spontaneous, joyous standing o’s
that seemed to fit that category.
Also, I’m writing this before the
final Friday sessions, and for all I
know Gen. Stanley McCrystal
will send angels down from the
heavens during his time on stage.)
But that might have been because,
by and large, the quality of the
talks were of a uniformly high
level, as consistent a quality as
I’ve ever seen at a TED.
The talks had their share of hand-
wringing over the world’s
problems: world slavery, dull
teaching and climate crisis. (As a
TED conference progresses, the
probability that a speaker will
show a slide of a polar bear
approaches 100 percent.) But this
year they seemed less proscriptive
and more based on a novel
approach to a problem or a
scientific breakthrough.
Also, in contrast to the program
two years ago, where there was
hardly a mention of the
catastrophic financial meltdown
that was the major issue of the
day, this year the TED stage had a
speaker from Al-Jazeera
addressing the democratic
uprisings in the Middle East. And
even more impressively, a feed
from a satellite Tedx event in
Cairo carried a stirring speech by
Wael Ghomim, the Google
executive who was a key figure in
the Egyptian revolution.
Which were the consensus
favorites? Everyone loved Salman
Khan, the former hedge-fund
analyst who makes 12-minute
educational lectures that now are
being proposed as the center of
curricula in actual schools.
A performance poet named Sarah
Kay blew down the house with
her passionate wordplay. Julie
Taymor shared a bit — just a bit
— of her crucible in the midst of
her artistic siege over Spider-
Man.
Composer and conductor Eric
Whitacre delighted TEDsters by
showing how he assembled a
virtual choir on YouTube.
Everyone gasped as surgeon
Anthony Atala demonstrated how
he literally printed a replacement
kidney from a 3-D printer geared
for tissue replacement.
And one of the heroes of TED
this year was Bill Gates, who
curated a session that included
Khan’s talk and later delivered a
withering TED U presentation
that eviscerated state governments
for their budgetary misdeeds. Less
successful was the CEO of
PepsiCo, trying to engage
TEDsters in a dubious earmark
project that seemed too baldly self
-promotional.
All of it, of course, will
eventually be found on video on
TED.com. But as of 2011, the
best way to do TED is still in
person. That Norwegian barista
makes one nasty macchiato.
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Fashion has so many rules: You
should never wear tights with
open-toed shoes. How about you
wear tights with those open-toed
shoes? Never wear socks with
sandals. It'd be so cute if you
paired some colorful socks with
those strappy sandals. Never wear
a belt over your shirt -- that's so
'80s. Wear a belt over your shirt --
the wider the belt, the better; it'll
make you look thin.
It's enough to give even the most
jaded fashionista whiplash! Of
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to be broken. And spring is here,
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world’s largest social network has
won the identity wars and getting
in on the spoils without paying an
annual fee and agreeing to be an
occupied outpost in Facebook’s
empire.
Online publications are desperate
for a commenting system that
encourages civility, and too many,
including Disqus, veer closer to
the land of YouTube comments
than to the ideal of comments on
sites like MetaFilter and Hacker
News.
Sites that can afford to do so will
likely continue to have their own
login systems, if only so that they
can collect e-mail addresses,
which are still considered
incredibly important for
marketing and for “owning” a
customer. But doing so leaves a
site open to the bad PR of being
What to do when you hate your clothes (and have no money)
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 6:10:00 AM
It’s that time of year again where
it’s too cold for those spring
frocks and winter colors start
draining your will to live. Fear
not, though, thanks to Sadie Stein
at Jezebel, who has a few pointers
for the poor among us to spruce
up the wardrobe and attitude ‘til
the crocuses bloom.
- Get things fixed up. First things
first. Take those clothes to the dry
hacked (like Gawker Media) and
without work by either the site or
the software maker they use to
publish, they will fall behind on
the benefits of a social web.
Facebook is clearly gaining more
of a presence around the web with
its ubiquitous Like buttons and its
easy-to-use login system for sites,
including its often-creepy
automated login system on sites
like Yelp and Pandora. And with
its comment system, it gains even
more ground.
It’s yet one more promising
avenue for Facebook to encourage
users to be constantly logged into
Facebook, and lays more track for
Facebook to become not only the
net’s identity provider, but also its
largest referrer of traffic and its
biggest provider of ads.
Is it any wonder then that
-cleaner, get your shoes shined
and your heels repaired. You'll
feel a lot better, trust me.
- Clean out your closet. You may
find clothes you forgot about! At
the very least, you may see your
clothes with new eyes. And your
closet will be clean.
- Change up your coat. After it's
cleaned, that is. Try a wide leather
belt with your coat: you may be
surprised at how well it works.
Add a brooch to the lapel. I
recently had 4" chopped off my
investors keep pushing
Facebook’s valuation higher and
higher? How much would you
pay for an empire that
encompasses nearly the entire
web?
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winter coat; it feels like a new
garment. Yes, I may regret this in
a year.
- Do a clothing swap. I'm a big
New microscope can
produce 3D movies of
live cells
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 10:38:00 AM
Never have tiny cells been this
‘big’. A new microscopic
breakthrough has allowed
researchers to use a minuscule
sheet of light to produce 3D
movies of living cells. That means
that scientists can now witness
mitosis in action (and in real-
time) in the greatest detail ever
seen to date. The technique uses a
fan of the "temporary swap" when
you and your friends loan each
other clothes just to add a little
novelty to your wardrobe. Plus,
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highly focused, super-thin beam
of light similar to the type used in
supermarket checkout scanners.
It's called Bessel beam plane
illumination microscopy, and it
could also be the best way to film
cells in action without harming
them.
Full story at PopSci.
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it'll be fun.
- Break into the summer clothes.
There are few things cuter than a
flowered dress with a heavy,
belted cardigan. And sandals with
tights can be chic and fun. Ditto
shorts and stockings, maybe with
a pair of boots.
Full story at Jezebel.
Fun and almost free fashion.
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Fair bash. Kate was back to her
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Leaves LA With Her Baxter's Abuse Claims
Precious Cargo Charlotte
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mom, she'll also be back on the
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will be taking on an acting
Classic New Orleans
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New Orleans cuisine has a clear
French influence, but the city was
also ruled by Spain for a time, and
this dish is likely a descendent of
Spanish paella. Rice is cooked
with tomatoes, sausage, and
shrimp to create a hearty, filling
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David Birney
David Birney has denied ex-wife
Meredith Baxter's claims that he
abused her during their marriage.
Baxter's claims are "an appalling
abuse of the truth," Birney told
People in a statement.
challenge as she plays twins in a Meredith Baxter: David Birney
new pilot for CBS this Fall. View hit me
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her new memoir, Untied. She said
Birney's abuse was "so sudden
and unexpected, I couldn't tell you
which hand hit me, or even how
hard." Baxter spoke at length
about it this week on Today and
The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Birney, who already denied
Next New Orleans Bread Pudding Baxter's claims to Today, added
with Bourbon Sauce that the actress "conducted a
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all, especially the children,"
Birney's statement said. "The
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occasion."
Family Ties' Meredith Baxter to
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The two continued to share
custody until their children went
to college. "This current recycled
version of our family story is no
more credible now than it was
then," Birney said, adding that he
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absurd" that Baxter "is unable to
reclaim a single instance of joy or
pleasure in all that time" in her
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memoir.
"Nothing from our first meeting to
divorce. Nothing, in 16 years.
Really?" he continued. "This
blanket omission, this unrelieved
denial of even a single instance of
joy or pleasure in the creation of a
family, the substance and amazing
joy of raising children together, of
simply being together with them
during that time, is
incomprehensible. And sad.
Meredith's own account of these
years is its own rebuke to her
credibility. "
Family Ties' Meredith Baxter:
I'm a lesbian
Baxter and Birney married in
1974 after meeting on the short-
lived sitcom Bridget Loves
Bernie. Baxter, a former Family
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k West Ham v Stoke
Afternoon all: How are things?
Probably not a good day to be
near the bottom of the league
today, is it? Given the concertina-
esque nature of the lower half of
the table - there are just six points
between Everton in 11th and
Wigan in 20th (the same gap as
between Arsenal in second and
Man City in third) - this
afternoon's fixtures may have
some bearing on who is going
down.
Birmingham City will be waking
up today in a familiar state to
much of the country (and your
correspondent). Heads will be
bleary, clothing will be strewn
liberally around the bedroom and
eyes will be bloodshot. Can they
find a bacon sandwich and a
Beroca in time to ward off what
we'll inevitably be calling a
Carling hangover if they don't
beat West Brom in their
relegation dogfight? Is there
anything more clichéd than
suggesting a team will have a
hangover after winning a big
game? But then you don't come
here for searing insight do you?
You do?
Uh-oh.
12.34pm: The Birmingham v
West Brom game off at 12.45, so
this clockwatch will be taking a
ponderous peer at their progress,
before moving on to the rest of
today's games:
Arsenal v Sunderland
Bolton v Aston Villa
Fulham v Blackburn
Newcastle v Everton
Manchester City v Wigan
It's not really a super Saturday, is
it? More a survival Saturday with
West Ham, Fulham, Blackburn,
Aston Villa and Everton all in the
bottom half of the table and all to
some degree involved in a
relegation scrap.
Talking of survival. It's cold out
there. A day on the terraces is
going to be an ordeal - though,
probably not as much of one as
reading this - anyone got any tips
on keeping fingers warm? A
friend of mine, a fan of a club
who probably ought to remain
nameless, would buy two pies a
game, one for kick-off, one for
half-time. Each of these pies, he
claimed, was tasteless, but was so
super-heated from the cafe
microwave, that it would keep his
hands warm for 45 minutes. In
extreme circumstances, he wasn't
above dipping his fingers in said
pie - the nuclear option. Anyone
else? Or is it all those hi-tech,
inner-pocket, crackable hand
heaters these days?
12.35pm: Ding, ding, ding: Sky
presenter Ben Shepherd sets off
the clichometer alarm as he makes
an early mention of a Carling Cup
hangover for Birmingham.
12.36pm: Ding, ding, ding: Sky's
man interviewing Alex McLeish
asks the Birmingham manager
about a Carling Cup hangover. He
responds by talking about food
and fluid intake, which is a good
way to get over any hangover.
12.39pm: Team news:
Hangover FC: Foster, Carr,
Johnson, Davies, Ridgewell,
Beausejour, Fahey, Bowyer,
Bentley, Jerome, Martins.
Subs: Doyle, Murphy, Larsson,
Phillips, Zigic, Parnaby, Mutch.
West Brom: Carson, Reid,
Olsson, Meite, Shorey, Brunt,
Mulumbu, Scharner, Thomas,
Morrison, Fortune.
Subs: Myhill, Tchoyi, Vela,
Odemwingie, Tamas, Cox, Jara.
Referee: Mike Jones (Cheshire)
12.40pm: Team analysis, ripped
straight from the wires and
delivered here without pause for
thought:
Birmingham boss Alex McLeish
made five changes - three
enforced - from the Carling Cup-
winning side for the home
Premier League clash with West
Brom. Midfielders Barry
Ferguson and Craig Gardner plus
defender Martin Jiranek were
ruled out through injury while
Sebastian Larsson and Nikola
Zigic were named amongst the
substitutes. Curtis Davies was
handed his debut at the back
alongside Roger Johnson. David
Bentley, Jean Beausejour,
Cameron Jerome and Wembley
goal hero Obafemi Martins also
came into the first eleven.
West Brom made one enforced
change from the side which drew
at Stoke with midfielder Graham
Dorrans (ankle) replaced by
James Morrison.
12.41pm:"Pie warmers are de
rigueur on fashionable Bold Street
in Liverpool," writes Ian
Copestake. "It matches the curlers
and dressing gown look favoured
there."
BREAKING NEWS ...
BREAKING NEWS ...
BREAKING NEWS: The
International FA Board for
sticking their nebs into things
have announced that the wearing
of snoods in matches will be
banned from 1 July.
Peep, peep: If the pictures in
front of me are to be believed, this
Midlands kickabout has been
launched.
12.50pm: West Brom attempt a
couple of attacks up the left wing,
with a cross eventually coming
over for Chris Brunt to nod at the
Dry-mouth United goal. Foster
saves comfortably.
12.52pm: Johnson plays a
dreadful ball across the back to
Carr and West Brom's Thomas
latches onto it, then goes darting
into the box. He makes a bit of
room but his shot doesn't trouble
Memory-loss Argyle's goal.
12.52pm:"I believe eggs are good
for a hangover. So perhaps this
should be
'Scrambled Saturday' or failing
that 'Hair of the Dog Saturday,'"
emails the irrepressible Ian
Copestake.
12.54pm: West Brom have
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brought a passing game to St
Andrews. They're whipping the
ball about the pitch with one- and
two-touch passing. It's given
Looming Sense Of Regret City
something to think about and
they've dropped back and are
defending quite deeply.
12.57pm: Bleary FC win their
first corner after wiping their eyes
and heading into West Brom turf.
The corner is worked to Lee
Bowyer, outside the area and
unmarked, but his cross is too
high for Roger Johnson and goes
sailing into touch.
12.59pm: Fortune and Jerome
Thomas combine on the left as the
latter, again, wangles his way into
Hangover FC's box. Steven Carr,
though, comes powering in to
clear.
1.00pm: A long ball into the
West Brom box from Cameron
Jerome is hastily bundled behind
for a corner. A heavily bearded
Scott Carson claims. You don't
get many heavily bearded
goalkeepers, do you? Would be
great to see a full ZZ Top between
the sticks.
1.01pm:"Concerning the cold
hands/warm pies scenario," emails
Ross Hendrie, "A colleague of
mine who lives further out of
London than is feasibly
imaginable with a daily commute
in mind has a similar technique
when taking his dog for a walk in
the morning: Cooking two
potatoes in tin foil in the oven
overnight, that come the morn are
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transferred swiftly into the
pockets of his wax jacket
providing eco friendly hand
warmth for a couple of hours and
a spot of lunch. Living the
dream." That is a sensational hand
-warming technique. More please.
1.03pm: Another corner for
Bloodshot Eyes Orient, defended
poorly by West Brom, who allow
Lee Bowyer to nip in unmarked
again. This time he shoots but his
howitzer is deflected by Meite,
ambling amiably towards him.
1.07pm: Obafemi Martins uses
all of his many (many) years of
experience to work his way out of
a tight hole with a bit of shimmy-
shammery in the footwork dept.
Very neat footwork. Hangover FC
then win a freekick on the left
wing, which is pinged in well by
Bentley but cleared by Meite. It
falls to Fahey, who has a shot
from a good 35 miles out, with
fairly predictable results.
1.09pm: Fortune bursts into the
box, but is offside, then Shorey
attempts a bit of risky/brave
footwork at the other end as a ball
is launched box-wards by
Hangover City.
1.11pm: Ding, ding, ding: Sky
summariser Alan Smith sets of the
hangover alarm once again.
1.13pm: Cameron Jerome
intercepts a Scharner pass and,
with the ball bobbling a bit, hoofs
the ball wide of Scott Carson's left
-hand post from outside the area.
Not a good connection, but at shot
somewhere near the goal
nonetheless.
1.14pm: Carson Yeung is
giggling away in the stands about
something, meanwhile the
Birmingham crowd is trying to
get their team going (and,
possibly, keep themselves warm
what with pie and potato heat no
doubt beginning to wane half an
hour into the game). It's having an
effect and Hangover Town are
beginning to get on top.
1.15pm: Jerome has another shot
from the edge of the box after
bludgeoning a path up the West
Brom left. A deflection makes the
save an easy one for Carson.
1.16pm:"Players these days (I am
over 40 so I can say this) are more
likely to get a tattoo of a beard on
their faces than grow one," writes
the increasingly wine-fuelled Ian
Copestake of Scott Carson's facial
furniture. Certainly teams
managed by Roy Hodgson seem
very keen to get busy with the
tattoo gun, Liverpool proved.
1.18pm: Thomas goes on a canter
across the pitch, before offloading
so that a cross can be launched
into the Hangover FC box.
Scharner is on the end of it and,
rather summing up his game in
the last five minutes, he makes
something of a hash of things.
Hangover take the ball, run up the
other end, then sort of peter out a
bit.
1.21pm: Brunt feeds Jerome
Thomas who goes tearing up the
pitch, beating Davies as he goes.
With Brunt screaming for the
return pass, Thomas attempts to
go it alone but then passes to late.
Hangover FC clear, giving Brunt
ample opportunity to make his
views clear on exactly what he
thought of Thomas's play. There's
a little bit of shoving too, which is
always spicy.
1.22pm: Bentley jinks inside
from the right wing but can't find
Bowyer. A minute later, a long
ball is played into Beausejour's
feet. He chips the ball into the box
and Jerome goes down on his
knees to head the ball just wide of
the post. Probably the best
opportunity he's had in a fairly
chance-free half.
1.28pm:"I know a farmer who,
presumably understanding the
value of a spud, prefers to sell
them rather than use them as hand
warmers. However, he uses a
similar principle as the spud-
based hand-warming technique
mentioned earlier, but with
stones" writes Ben Hollander.
"Many's the time he's had to
explain why he's jiggling the
stones in his pocket to keep
warm."
1.28pm: If we're being honest
here, this game's a bit low on
quality.
1.32pm: Bentley makes an effort
to inject some excitement into
things, by pointlessly beating two
men before passing the ball to the
wing. The cross that comes is
weak. Ridgewell then attempts a
cross of his own which is also on
the poor side. It's a curious sort of
hangover that just leads to bad
crossing. Mine generally lead to
self-loathing, a dicky stomach and
brain-cleaving headaches. And
with that, the referee puts the half
out of its misery.
1.34pm: A half-time poser from
Steve Richards: "Watching the
League Cup final last week, I
remembered that it was four years
since Arsenal were again in the
final, but lost to Chelsea. On that
day Frank Lampard lifted the
trophy for Chelsea. It is also 28
years since Bob Paisley lifted the
trophy in his final season as
manager. On both occasions,
neither of the people to lift the
cup was the captain as John Terry
was in hospital and Graeme
Souness was making a
magnanimous gesture to a soon
retiring and magnificent manager.
In the 2001 FA Cup Final,
Liverpool captain Sami Hyypia
was robbed of the honour of
lifting the trophy despite finishing
the game (Robbie Fowler as team
captain and substitute, and the
suited Jamie Redknapp as club
captain did the honours). Have
any other victorious team captains
been robbed of the honour?"
1.43pm:"I'm a bit miffed by
McLeish dropping Zigic to the
bench after I drafted him into my
fantasy side to capitalise on
Birmingham playing twice this
week," writes Kristian Brock.
"Zigic is their highest scoring
striker (in fantasy points). He
dropped Larsson too, his highest
scoring (fit) midfielder. Who do
these arrogant managers think
they are? It's like they think they
know better than The System.
He'll never win anything."
McLeish mentioned in his pre-
match presser, oddly, that ruining
Kristian Brock's fantasy side was
high on the agenda. "He'll never
win anything now," he said with a
leer.
1.47pm: Substitute Peter
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Odemwingie was given a stiff
talking to Woy Hodgson on the
touchline just before half-time,
and he's now on for Marc Antoine
Fortune, who's looked a bit
ineffectual. Second half is about
to kick off.
GOAL! Birmingham 0-1 West
Brom (Mulumbu, 46):
Odemwingie makes an instant
impact, creating the chance for
Mulumbu, who goes darting into
the box and lifts the ball over
Foster. DING DING DING, the
hangover-ometer goes off in the
Sky box
GOAL! Birmingham 1-1 West
Brom (Beausejour, 48):
Birmingham go straight up the
other end, pausing only for a
Resolve on the way, and prove
they are over their hangover. The
ball is sent whizzing across the
face of goal and the Chilean jabs
out a foot to lash the ball into the
net. Woy indulges in a spot of
light face-rubbing. It's not the full
sandpaper to the bonce we saw
when he was Liverpool's boss, but
it's getting there.
1.55pm: Bowyer gets himself a
yellow card for a firm challenge.
He tells the referee to eff off on
receiving it. Which is nice. Much
more excitingly Scharner and
Ridgewell indulge in a bit of
wrestling on the outside of the
box. They collide, grapple, fall
into the box and then Ridgewell
wedges Scharner's head into the
ground and refuses to let him get
up. Both get a yellow card.
1.57pm: More on that snood ban.
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Fifa believe they are dangerous
and have forbidden them from 1
July. Presumably they only
become dangerous in July, or
you'd imagine they'd ban them
from now. Are they worried about
the dangers of Carlos Tevez and
other snoodanistas overheating on
their holidays?
1.58pm: Bentley flings over a
corner and Carson has to punch it
clear lest it drop under the bar.
This game has finally come alive.
Although Carr does his best to kill
it again, by taking several hours to
take a throw-in.
GOAL! Birmingham 1-2 West
Brom (Morrison 57) Bang! What
a finish. Morrison takes three
touches to dismantle the
Birmingham defence, the last of
which is to juggle the ball onto his
foot, just outside the area, and
send the ball screaming into the
back of the net.
2.03pm: What's going on?
Birmingham race down the other
end and Bentley blasts a shot at
goal. It comes whizzing back out
and Bowyer and Martins queue up
to try and nudge it in. All fail but
this game has gone from
desperately tedious to mental.
2.04pm: Cameron Jerome tries to
find Martins in the box but West
Brom clear up the left.
Odemwingie is marginally offside
as he hopes to latch onto a
through ball into the box. He's
made such a difference to the
blunt West Brom attack since his
arrival.
2.05pm:"In my fantasy league,
my closest rivals have Zigic as
captain and Foster in goal
respectively (fools), so I'm hoping
for a Birmingham defeat," writes
Matt Wilde, from fantasy land.
"Odemwingie is my cheap striker
too, so things are looking good as
it stands. Fantasy football is just
about the pinnacle of civilisation
as far as I'm concerned, I can't
remember what Saturdays were
like without it."
2.07pm: Birmingham ping the
ball into the box from a variety of
different angles. West Brom ping
it back out from an equally
diverse range of varieties.
Hangover FC are in the
ascendancy here for a while but
there are few people in the box for
their crosses to find.
2.10pm: West Brom's Jerome
Thomas is coming off and
Gonzalo Jara is coming on,
suggesting Woy is now hoping to
hold on to this lead. For
Birmingham Kevin Phillips
comes on for Beausejour,
suggesting Alex McLeish is
hoping to raise the average age of
those on the pitch by a thousand
years.
2.11pm: A double miss from
West Brom! Brunt fires in a
spectacular surface screamer from
outside the box, which pings off
the post and into the path of
Odemwingie (who might have
been offside, looking at it again).
The assistant referee didn't flag
though, but rather than tap the ball
into the net, Odemwingie blasted
it a good 10 yards over the
crossbar.
2.13pm:"Since the Guardian's
football community seems united
in loathing snoods because they
make the wearer seem a great
effeminate wuss, shouldn't their
preferred method of staying warm
in the stands involve growing a
pair and thus stop whingeing you
big girl's blouse, you?" emails
Randal Boyd from Canada, where
they know about such things as
cold and, indeed, nutting up.
2.14pm: Birmingham have a half-
hearted penalty shout as
Ridgewell goes down in the West
Brom box after a challenge from
Jara. It was probably more a case
of Ridgewell falling over than
anything, which is probably why
he didn't make too much of a fuss
over it.
GOAL! Birmingham 1-3 West
Brom (Scharner, 71) Birmingham
switch off at a corner and
Morrison floats the ball into the
far post. The cross finds Scharner
on the byline and, from a very
tight angle, he nods it back across
the face of the goal. Unsure of
whether the header is going in or
not, Ben Foster makes sure, by
flapping at the ball and knocking
it in himself.
2.19pm: Scharner chips the ball
over the Birmingham defence for
Odemwingie to run onto. Good
idea, but it's slightly over-hit, and
Foster claims. "I keep my hands
warm in winter by living in the
Caribbean," writes a chirpy Ben
Bamford, smugness oozing from
every letter of his email.
2.21pm: James Morrison comes
off after scoring one and setting
another up. Gabriel Tamas is his
replacement. Odemwingie then
tries to fashion another chance,
forcing Foster to come hurtling
from his goal-line to deal with
him. The ball, though, gets
knocked back to Scharner who
attempts to lob the ball over
Foster and into the goal. The
keeper just wins the race back
though.
2.22pm: David Murphy comes on
for Liam Ridgewell, his
appearance on the pitch being
greeted with an overwhelming
round of indifference from fans of
Hangover FC.
2.25pm: Scharner puts over a
good cross to near(ish) the penalty
spot. Odemwingie makes rather a
hash of the header though,
directing his effort more towards
the corner flag than the goal.
2.27pm: Scharner, who suddenly
seems to be involved in
everything, heads clear a
Hangover FC corner. But the ball
falls to Bowyer, who shoots from
outside the area. Carson stops
growing his beard for precisely
long enough to catch the ball. He
hoofs upfield and then resumes
beard-growing duties.
2.31pm: Mulumbu is not picked
up in the area, and he brings
Tamas's freekick down, before
doing that half-interested in
scoring but also half-interested in
running the clock down thing and
sort of runs goalwards, but not
really. Keith Fahey gets a yellow
to exactly coincide with the
moment the stadium PA
announcer gives him the man of
the match award entirely
unfathomably.
2.33pm: Ding, ding, ding: The
Carling Cup hangover-ometer
goes off in the Sky commentary
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box again. There will be four
minutes of stoppage time for
Birmingham to score two goals.
Well, that's not what the stoppage
time is actually for, but it's what
Birmingham would be well-
advised to use it for.
2.35pm: The West Brom fans
sing Ole as their team pass the
ball about the pitch in a usefully
time-consuming manner.
2.36pm:"With snoods being
banned as they pose a risk of an
on-pitch garotting, will we
eventually see the outlawing of
that ever-looming menace, the
collar?" emails Andrew Fitchett,
with furrowed brow. "Or will the
big wusses just stitch a snood into
their shirt and claim it's a high
neckline?"
Peep, peep: It's a proper ear-
bleeding hangover for Hangover
FC. The final whistle is blown on
a 1-3 defeat against their local
rivals. That means West Brom go
16th for now, with Birmingham
17th.
2.40pm:"I've just noticed that one
of the advertisements at the side
of the pitch says "Official
England Supplier Nivea For
Men". What do they supply?
Because I don't think it's
working," writes Martin Stannard.
"By the way, I may be mis-
reading it, because I'm drinking
Chinese red wine, and that leads
to lots of misses." Chinese red
wine? In honour of Carson
Yeung? Or because there's no
white spirit or similarly throat
stripping juice?
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Tory spring forum under way
Andrew Sparrow (The Guardian
World News)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 10:56:13 AM
Andrew Sparrow is in Cardiff as
the party leadership gathers for its
Welsh conference and spring
forum
4.45pm: Oliver Letwin wants
Britain to be more like France - at
least in terms of productivity. In a
speech he gave in his capacity as
chairman of the Conservative
Policy Forum, he identified
raising productivity as one of the
challenges he wanted the forum to
address.
The French, who are notorious,
should I say, or perhaps famous
for living the good life do actually
live the good life. They produce
more per hour, and hence for
roughly speaking the same
domestic product as we produce,
they work fewer hours. This
would be a nice thing to be able to
do. How do they do it? What can
we do to match them? Or indeed
to use the extra hours to work
more and be richer than they are?
That at least is a choice we have if
productivity rises.
The other challenges for the
policy forum that Letwin listed
were: achieving higher
employment; getting more
regional balance in the economy;
producing more affordable
housing; tackling child poverty;
improving the well-being of
children; improving the life
chances of looked-after children;
ensuring that care for the elderly
is properly funded; protecting
"natural capital"; and reducing the
scale of central government
bureaucracy.
4.19pm: A story in the Daily
Mail this morning said that Eric
Pickles would deliver"the
strongest attack to date from the
government on Labour council
bosses" in his speech this
afternoon. I thought that was
standard tabloid hyperbole. But,
having read the speech, I think
this assessment is spot on. The
full text of the speech is on the
Conservative party's website. But
here's a flavour of what Pickles
had to say.
The Labour Mayor of Lewisham
says openness is "interfering."
Actually, the new government far
from interfering is scrapping ring-
fencing.
We are abolishing Labour's box-
ticking inspection and
interference.
The Labour leader of Bradford,
another charmer, said it would be
"embarrassing" if different firms
were "able to sell to the council
more cheaply".
When I was leader of Bradford,
I'd be embarrassed if firms were
ripping my taxpayers off.
Some advice to Labour:
Incompetence is no reasonable
excuse for secrecy.
And the Labour leader of
Nottingham say openness is too
expensive.
- No, openness saves money.
Business experts, Experian, have
estimated councils are spending
£150 million a year - just on
paying the same bills twice by
accident.
4.15pm: ConservativeHome's
Tim Montgomerie has posted his
verdict on George Osborne's
speech. He sees it as evidence that
Osborne is looking increasingly
credible as a future prime
minister.
There are no TB/GBs in this
government. The fact is that if
Osborne succeeds the government
succeeds. If the economy is fixed
- after what he described as a
long, hard road - Osborne will be
the hero. Sometime in the middle
of the next parliament - if, if, if
the Conservatives are re-elected -
when there are a few more grey
hairs on Osborne's head - he may
well become Cameron's
successor.
4.09pm: Labour have already
called for VAT on petrol to be
cut. Following George Osborne's
speech this afternoon, the
opposition has also come out in
favour of the rise in fuel duty
being postponed. Angela Eagle,
the shadow chief secretary to the
Treasury, makes this clear in the
statement she's issued about the
Osborne speech.
George Osborne's empty speech
exposed that he still has no plan
for jobs and growth to get the
economy moving again and
nothing more than platitudes for
millions of families facing the
squeeze.
With record high prices at the
petrol pump, people want action
not warm words from George
Osborne. He should listen to
Labour's campaign and act right
now to help millions of families
by reversing the Tory VAT rise
on petrol, which has added £1.35
to the cost of filling up a 50 litre
tank.
In the budget he should look
again at the annual duty rise due
in April. The last Labour
government often postponed
planned duty increases when
world oil prices were rising, as
they are now.
If George Osborne wants to
tackle the forces of stagnation he
should look in the mirror. He
should rethink his reckless plan to
cut too deep and too fast which
has sent the economy into reverse
with unemployment now rising
again and the economy shrinking.
And he needs to wake up to the
fact that without more jobs and
strong economic growth you can't
get the deficit down.
With so little of substance to say
the Chancellor would have been
better off cancelling this speech,
like the one he had to cancel
earlier this week.
Her comment about Osborne
cancelling a speech earlier this
week refers to this.
3.14pm: I've just been reading the
Osborne speech in detail. The full
text is now on the Conservative
party website. I've already
covered the main points, but I
think it's worth quoting a bit more
from his passage about Libya
because, in some respects, this
was the most surprising section in
the speech. We expected Osborne
to talk about the economy, and the
budget, and fuel duty. But he's not
Politics-Left/ 43
responsible for foreign policy and
did not need to say anything about
Libya. Instead he included a
passionate section (see 2.18pm)
about how the Libyans want
freedom.
There is no one precise model for
all countries and all the
governments.
But let's be clear.
Freedom and peace are not
alternatives - they are indivisible.
Democracy and stability are not
alternatives - they are indivisible.
British interests and the values of
liberty and open society are not
alternatives - they are indivisible.
The British people and the cause
of freedom - we are indivisible.
This does not necessarily mean
that Osborne is coming out in
favour of a no-fly zone. But it
does mean that Osborne wants
people to know taking a hawkish
stance on the key foreign policy
issue of the day.
2.38pm: Osborne has finished
now. I'll post a bit more on the
speech when I've read the text
properly, but the story is pretty
clear: the fuel duty increase is not
going to happen. Ministers have
been saying for some time that
they want to address this issue,
but Osborne's comments probably
merit that hoary journalistic
cliché, "the clearest sign yet". He
did not quite commit himself to
ruling out the increase, but he left
very little doubt as to where he's
heading.
2.28pm: Osborne confirms that
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Team news
Fulham v Blackburn Rovers
Fulham: Schwarzer, Baird,
Hughes, Hangeland, Salcido,
Duff, Etuhu, Murphy, Dempsey,
Johnson, Dembele.
Subs: Stockdale, Kelly,
Gudjohnsen, Kakuta, Zamora,
Greening, Davies.
Blackburn: Robinson, Salgado,
Hanley, Samba, Givet, Hoilett,
Jermaine Jones, Nzonzi, Olsson,
Roberts, Diouf.
Subs: Bunn, Emerton, Kalinic,
Pedersen, Andrews, Santa Cruz,
Rochina.
The players' friend: Mark
Clattenburg (Tyne & Wear)
Bolton v Aston Villa
Bolton: Jaaskelainen, Steinsson,
Wheater, Cahill, Robinson,
Elmander, Holden, Muamba,
Petrov, Kevin Davies, Sturridge.
Subs: Bogdan, Taylor, Mark
Davies, Klasnic, Moreno, Alonso,
Lee.
Aston Villa: Friedel, Walker,
Clark, Baker, Luke Young,
Reo-Coker, Delph, Albrighton,
Ashley Young, Downing, Bent.
Subs:
Marshall, Pires, Agbonlahor,
Bradley, Heskey, Petrov, Herd.
Referee: Kevin Friend
(Leicestershire)
Arsenal v Sunderland
Arsenal: Szczesny, Sagna,
Djourou, Koscielny, Clichy,
Denilson, Wilshere, Nasri, Diaby,
Arshavin, Bendtner.
Subs: Almunia, Rosicky,
Ramsey, Squillaci, Eboue, Gibbs,
Chamakh.
Sunderland: Mignolet, Ferdinand,
Mensah, Bramble, Bardsley,
Henderson, Muntari, Malbranque,
Richardson, Sessegnon, Gyan.
Subs: Gordon, Riveros, Welbeck,
Colback, Elmohamady, Knott,
Noble.
Referee: Anthony Taylor
(Cheshire)
Newcastle v Everton
Newcastle: Harper, Steven
Taylor, Williamson, Coloccini,
Jose Enrique, Simpson, Tiote,
Nolan, Gutierrez, Best,
Lovenkrands.
Subs: Krul, Guthrie, Perch,
Ameobi, Ferguson, Richardson,
Kuqi.
Everton: Howard, Hibbert,
Jagielka, Distin, Baines, Osman,
Neville, Rodwell, Arteta,
Beckford, Saha.
Subs: Mucha, Heitinga,
Bilyaletdinov, Coleman,
Anichebe, Duffy, Baxter.
Referee: Howard Webb (S
Yorkshire)
West Ham v Stoke
West Ham: Green, Tomkins,
Upson, da Costa, Bridge, Noble,
Parker, Hitzlsperger, Piquionne,
Cole, Ba.
Subs: Boffin, Gabbidon, Spector,
Hines, O'Neil, Obinna, Jacobsen.
Stoke: Begovic, Wilson, Huth,
Shawcross, Pugh, Pennant, Delap,
Whitehead, Whelan, Walters,
Carew.
Subs: Sorensen, Collins, Jones,
Fuller, Diao, Etherington,
Wilkinson.
Referee: Andre Marriner (W
Midlands)
2.52pm: Handshake dept: Just
what sort of palm-pressing
shenanigans will Mark Hughes be
involved in this week? Up against
his former club Blackburn
Rovers, and a manager most
would struggle to pick out of a
line-up, is there the very real
danger that he might simply not
recognise Steve Kean and thus
inadvertently kick off another
handshake-gate? Let's hope so.
2.58pm: What does Bendtner's
inclusion mean? That he's in the
firing line to face Barcelona and
that this is his chance to prove his
form? Or that Chamakh is being
rested for the game? Meanwhile,
at West Ham, Avram Grant's
playing three up front - which
could make things quite exciting/
funny depending on your
viewpoint.
Aston Villa manager Gerard
Houllier appears to have swapped
his weakened team for his
weekend one, with no-one yet any
the wiser as to why, precisely, he
was resting players against Man
City.
We're off: Cold hands Saturday is
underway. Sunderland nearly kick
things off with a goal but, thanks
to Clichy, they don't.
3.04pm: Newcastle's Tiote and
Neville have had a coming
together, and the Everton captain
has come off worse. He's
wheezing around the pitch trying
to catch his breath. Stephen
Ireland, tipped to make his debut
today, is not even on the bench
incidentally.
3.06pm: Half a penalty shout at
Upton Park. The ball was fed in
by Scott Parker, but Ba was
blocked as he tried to shoot. He
had a bit of a whinge about the
challenge but referee Andre
Marriner told him to get over
himself. Which he did.
3.09pm: Fans are trickling in late
to watch that West Ham match,
according to reports from the ever
-intrepid Jacob Steinberg. Some
sort of public transport issue
involving farces, women trapped
in doors, shambles and lots of
capital letters if his Twitter feed is
anything to go by.
3.09pm: Fans of prompt goals,
get ready to have your day made:
The fastest goal in England was
scored by Clayton Donaldson
(Crewe) v Burton Albion after 1
minute and 57 seconds.
3.13pm: A good save from
Mignolet at Arsenal prevents
Bendtner from opening the
scoring at The Emirates.
GOAL! Bolton 0-1 Aston Villa
(Bent, 15) The visitors go ahead
at the Reebok. Walker skipped
between two Bolton players,
whipped the ball across the box
and Darren Bent tapped the ball in
for his 14th of the season. He
always scores against Bolton,
doesn't he?
3.18pm: Sometimes, having a
lack of information makes things
sound a lot more exciting than
they are. This is all I have: Red
card, Lee Peltier, Huddersfield,
14, Violent Conduct. No idea
what he did to get sent off that
early, but it sounds good, doesn't
it? Antyone want to hazard a
guess?
3.19pm: A glorious save by Steve
Harper keeps the score at
Newcastle v Everton at 0-0.
3.20pm: More goalkeeper news:
burgeoning comedian Wojciech
Newstablet Edition
Szczesny does his stand-up career
a good deal of harm by putting in
a competent save to deny
Sunderland the lead.
3.21pm: Another red card for
what sounds like quite an exciting
incident: Joe Welch, Histon, 19,
Foul & Abusive Language. Tasty.
GOAL! West Ham 1-0 Stoke
(Ba, 21) A howler! Stoke keeper
Begovic comes flying out of the
box to clear the ball, mis-kicks
spectacularly, and Ba capitalises
to put the Londoners ahead.
GOAL! Newcastle 1-0 Everton
(Leon Best 23) You know what
we said about things being more
exciting when you don't have any
information? Well, that's what
we're going to have to stick with
as, due to a technical error on the
site, I missed the Newcastle goal.
Let's say it was a bicycle kick
from the half-way line and move
on.
3.29pm:"Did Lee Peltier get sent
off for throwing an almighty
roaring strop on the halfway line
when they didn't bring him his
nyom-nyoms?" asks Neil
Goodwin. Possibly. Or possibly
he just wanted to be able to watch
Leon Best's Newcastle goal and
got himself sent from the pitch. I
hear it was some goal. An
overhead kick from the halfway
line, apparently.
GOAL! West Ham 2-0 Stoke
City (Da Costa, 29): Stoke switch
off at a set piece and Da Costa
rises, swan-like, and nods the ball
home.
3.32pm: Matt Bridle shatter some
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Libya fighting shifts towards all-out civil war

David Batty (The Guardian The Gulf state's Shia majority has number of migrant workers borders," Guterres told David government says. No one is
World News) held daily demonstrations in a bid coming across the border, from a Frost in an interview on al- saying when they will head in.
Submitted at 3/5/2011 11:03:28 AM to loosen the Sunni monarchy's peak of 20,000 several days ago Jazeera. As we reported earlier, the troops
grip on power. The news agency to 1,400-1,800, AP reports. Only 2.34pm: Reuters reports that involved are the Black Watch 3rd
• Gaddafi counter-attack marks reports that no police were in 500 had crossed into Tunisia by Gaddafi loyalists have shelled the Battalion of the Royal Regiment
shift towards civil war sight and organisers said some midday on Saturday, according to the central square of Zawiyah. of Scotland. Reuters is saying that
• Benghazi rebel council meets for members of the Sunni minority a UN official at the border. "The attack has started. I see more represents about 200 soldiers.
the first time joined the latest protest. People fleeing for Tunisia said than 20 tanks," one resident in the 1.20pm, Oman and Saudia
• Foreigners and refugees flock to 4.05pm: Reuters has more on the they had to pass through dozens square told the news agency. Arabia: Protests demanding
Tunisian border latest attack on on Zawiyah by pro of checkpoints on the way from A second resident said Gaddafi's economic reforms by Oman's
4.45pm: Here's a round-up of the -Gaddafi forces involving heavy Tripoli to the border. All said they forces were using "tanks and ruler have reached a key oil
main developments so far on shelling by tanks and mortars. had been robbed by Gaddafi's mortars". region, AP reports.
Saturday. "The fighting has intensified and security forces. The incursions into Zawiyah by Workers have staged a sit-in at a
• Fighting has resumed in Zawiya, the tanks are shelling everything Sony Attakora, 30, said he and pro-Gaddafi forces and the main oil field in Haima, about 300
50km (30 miles) west of Tripoli, on their way. They have shelled several dozen other men from western advance of the rebels miles (500km) south-west of the
after rebels earlier repelled a dawn houses. Now they are shelling a Ghana arrived in Tunisia on from Bin Jawad suggest that the capital, Muscat, demanding more
attack by pro-Gaddafi forces to mosque where hundreds of people Friday, after having money and conflict in Libya could last for state investments in the area,
retake the city. Government are hiding, said local resident Abu cell phones taken by Libyan weeks and maybe months, AP government officials have told the
forces have encircled the city and Akeel. "We can't rescue anyone forces. He said the group had tried reports. news agency.
residents says the centre is under because the shelling is so heavy." to travel last week but was The news agency says neither The Times reports that
heavy bombardment by tanks and Another resident in the main ordered back by Libyan troops side is currently mustering enough continuing unrest in the Arab
mortars. Around 70 are reported square said: "The attack has because of heavy fighting. military power to decisively world could push the price of
to have been killed and 300 started. I see more than 20 tanks." Egyptian foreign ministry official defeat the other - a view echoed crude oil to US$250 and double
wounded. Some reports suggest more than Nagui Ghaba said evacuees told by the Guardian's Martin Chulov: the price of petrol to £2 a litre.
• Elsewhere opposition forces 70 have been killed and more than him that people are afraid to make Benghazi's rebels are coming to Meanwhile, Reuters reports from
h a v e c o n t i n u e d t o a d v a n c e 300 wounded. the trip to the border because the terms with a revolution that's Saudi Arabia that the royal family
westward towards Tripoli. The 3.56pm, Egypt: Seven people Libyan army was regrouping and stalled less than half way to the has banned all protests and
rebels say they have captured Bin were injured after a state security there was the possibility that those capital. marches in a bid to curtail Shia
Jawad, having taken the oil port building in the coastal city of fleeing might get caught in the 2.03pm: More details are protests in the oil-producing
town of Ras Lanuf on Friday. Alexandria was set alight on fighting. "We are afraid that the emerging of Britain's preparations eastern provinces.
• The UN says most of the Saturday, Reuters reports. situation in Libya is getting to send troops and personnel into Security forces would use all
thousands of foreign workers in It is not yet clear who started the worse," Ghaba said. Libya if necessary. Reuters is measures to prevent any attempt
Benghazi have been evacuated. blaze, according to the news 2.51pm: The UN high reporting that a diplomatic to disrupt public order, according
But officials remain concerned agency. Some witnesses said they commissioner for refugees, taskforce including Foreign to Saudi state news channel al-
about thousands of African h a d s e e n p o l i c e b u r n i n g Antonio Guterres, has raised Office officials is being readied to Ekhbariya.
workers still in Libya, as some documents in the building, while concern over the plight of African go into Benghazi and make "The kingdom's regulations totally
have been targeted by rebels who the police blamed civilians. workers trapped in Libya. contact with opposition leaders, ban all sorts of demonstrations,
believe they are pro-Gaddafi 3.40pm: The UN refugee agency Aid agencies have reported along with a battalion of troops to marches, sit-ins," the interior
mercenaries. says most of the thousands of attacks on sub-Saharan Africans aid humanitarian and evacuation ministry said in a statement,
4.12pm - Bahrain: Thousands of foreign workers in Benghazi have suspected by rebels of being pro- efforts. adding security forces would stop
Shia protesters in Bahrain have been evacuated and about 10,000 Gaddafi mercenaries. This is being cast as a fact- all attempts to disrupt public
formed a huge human chain others are heading for a border "There are hundreds of thousands finding and the rebels will not order.
around the capital, Manama, AP crossing at Salloum, Egypt. of African workers in Libya, and given arms as an international
reports. There has been a sharp fall in the very few have shown up at the embargo is in place, the LIBYA page 48
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he will set up enterprise zones in
the budget.
Today I confirm that in the
budget we will introduce new
enterprise zones across parts of
Britain that have missed out in the
last ten years.
They will be centres for new
businesses and new jobs where
taxes will be even lower and more
restrictions on growth removed.
They will be in places in our land
with great potential – but which
need that extra push from
government and local
communities working together.
I am delighted that Nick Bourne
and the Welsh Conservatives have
said they want to make these new
enterprise zones work here in
Wales too.
We need to set people free again.
2.25pm: Osborne says the budget
will be "unashamedly pro-
growth". And he says he wants to
promote growth not just in the
south of England, but in the rest
of the UK too.
Do you know one of the greatest
scandals of the Labour years?
For every ten jobs created by
business in the south, just one job
was created in the north and the
midlands.
2.22pm: Osborne turns to fuel
duty.
When it costs £1.30 for a litre of
petrol; £80 to fill up a family car;
I know people feel squeezed.
And I say this to people
watching:
I hear you.
This April I'm freezing council
tax, cutting income taxes for 23
million people and increasing
child tax credits payments to the
low paid.
But we've got another of the
Labour Party's pre-prepared rises
in petrol tax also coming this
April – one penny above inflation.
I won't take risks with economic
stability, or wreck the public
finances.
But I promise you I am doing
everything I can to find a way to
help.
• Osborne signals that he will
cancel the planned increase in fuel
duty in the budget.
2.18pm: On foreign policy,
George Osborne is known to be a
hawk, virtually a neo-con,
according to some accounts. He
does not talk about foreign policy
often. But, in a passage on the
Libyan crisis, he expresses strong
support for those fighting for
freedom.
While we are all righty focused
on the threat from Islamic
extremists, Conservatives have
always understood that there is a
far more powerful force.
The desire of people everywhere
to be free.
Not just something for the people
of London, Edinburgh and Cardiff
to enjoy.
But on the streets of Tripoli and
Benghazi, in the internet cafes of
Tunis and Cairo – they want the
same thing as we want.
To have a voice and be heard. To
have a stake in our world. To
leave something better to our
children.
They want what we want.
Freedom.
2.16pm: Now Osborne is giving
the audience an Ed Miliband joke.
Ed Balls, and Ed Miliband, don't
want to confront the truth about
what needs to be done to clean up
the mess - because they can't
handle the truth: it's their mess.
Of course they had different
responsibilities.
Ed Balls should have taken more
care in writing Gordon Brown's
budgets.
And Ed Miliband should have
taken more care in photocopying
them.
Osborne also says that Balls and
Miliband are leftwing politicians
"who don't understand anyone
who wants to get up and get on,
anyone who want a better life for
their family, anyone who want to
create wealth, and start a business,
and create jobs, and leave
something to their children."
2.13pm: Osborne says the
government deserves credit for
low interest rates.
Our fiscal policy allows our
independent Bank of England to
keep interest rates lower than they
would otherwise be.
Today, Britain has a budget
deficit greater than that of Spain
or Portugal.
But our businesses and families
can borrow at interest rates
similar to those of Germany and
France.
That is the boost we have
provided to our economy.
If the government were to
abandon its deficit reduction
programme, there would be panic
in the markets, he claims.
2.12pm: Osborne defends the
government's decision to tackle
the deficit. But he says the
government protected the NHS
budget. "It's shameful that the
Labour/Nationalist Welsh
Assembly government is cutting
the NHS budget when I've given
them the resources to protect it,"
he says.
2.08pm: Osborne defends the
decision to form a coalition. And
he says it was right to agree to a
referendum on the alternative
vote.
This Party has never been afraid
of letting the people decide.
Let me shock you: on AV, I
agree with Nick Clegg.
It is, as he says, a 'miserable little
compromise'.
Let us go out there, over the next
eight weeks, and make the case
against the alternative vote.
It is unfair on voters.
It means politicians are
unaccountable.
And the party leader who gets the
most votes can end up losing.
If you don't believe me, just ask
David Miliband.
2.04pm: George Osborne has just
started speaking now.
1.37pm: In her speech Lady
Warsi made a point of saying that
David Cameron is a Conservative
prime minister "delivering
Conservative priorities based on
Conservative promises". But,
according to Lord Mandelson,
Cameron is more-or-less a
Blairite. Mandelson has written a
fascinating essay on the
contemporary political scene for
the new paperback edition of his
autobiography, The Third Man. I
finished reading it on the train to
Newstablet Edition
Cardiff. His comments about Ed
Miliband have already been
reported, but his analysis of
Cameron is also intriguing. Here's
what he says:
I suspect that [David Cameron] is
temperamentally more at ease in
leading a coalition than he would
be leading a government of his
own party. Not just in
campaigning and presentation, but
in a number of policy areas, the
signs have been more of a
continuity with New Labour than
an old-style Tory unravelling of
what proceeding Labour
administrations had put in place ...
Still - and I make no apology for
saying this - some of the early
policy initiatives are consistent
with the reforms that New Labour
started, including reforms, in
areas like the extension of
academy schools, or welfare and
benefit changes, which we did not
manage to get fully done. They
may also turn out, if implemented
intelligently, to be the kind of
decisions that will resonate with
the political middle ground that
most of Britain inhabits
There's plenty more stuff in the
chapter worth reporting. It's a bit
"off-topic", but if I get a chance
I'll post the highlights this
afternoon.
1.13pm: Here's a lunchtime
summary.
• Labour have suggested that
George Osborne's plan to revive
enterprise zones is a gimmick.
The Treasury has already trailed
the plan, which Osborne will
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illusions: "The Newcastle goal
was a tap in from Best after a save
from a NHolan shot..."
GOAL! Newcastle 1-1 Everton
(Osman 31): Leon Osman gets
Everton back into the game.
Everton haven't won in eight
attempts at St James' Park,
perhaps this is the day they can
change that.
3.36pm: The various oohs and
aahs in the Soccer Saturday studio
suggest there has been more
action ... and it's been at West
Ham, where Stoke have blown a
chance. Incidentally, it sounds as
though Stoke are playing their
usual brand of free-flowing,
attacking and beautiful football.
Always such a watchable side.
GOAL! Newcastle 1-2 Everton
(Baines, 37) Baines whips in a
free kick and Leighton Baines
arrives to side foot into the net.
And GOAL! Fulham 1-0
Blackburn Rovers (Duff, 37) The
winger scores against his and his
manager's old club.
3.40pm: Just listen to the
weariness, the yearning and the
resignedness in this email from
Sumner Hill: "Watching the
Arsenal v Sunderland game- it has
all the markings of an uninspired
0-0 draw or Sunderland snatching
a 0-1 win - I've seen this game
several times over the last few
years." Bendtner, though, has just
gone close. He drilled the ball at
the top corner but Mignolet, the
Sunderland stopper, leapt
impressively to save.
3.44pm:"Re. that Everton goal,"
hollers Rory Cleeson. "That
Baines is some player getting on
the end of his own free-kick." He
really is, Rory, it's a goal that will
live long in the memory. Or, in
actual fact, it was Baines taking
the free-kick and Phil Jagielka
slotting it home. Apologies.
GOAL! Fulham 1-1 Blackburn
(Hanley, 45): Blackburn had gone
a bit flat against Fulham. The
home side failed to clear the ball
and Hanley lashed the ball at the
goal. But a massive deflection
took it in the opposite direction
and into the inside of the net.
Meanwhile GOAL! Bolton 1-1
Aston Villa (Cahill, 45) The
defender gets a free header from a
corner and nods it home.
3.53pm: Right, the Premier
League half-time scores look like
this:
Arsenal 0-0 Sunderland
Bolton 1-1 Aston Villa
Fulham 1-1 Blackburn
Newcastle 1-2 Everton
West Ham 2-0 Stoke
See all the half-times in the
country here.
3.55pm: Right, I'm off for a Kit
Kat and something a bit more
prosaic. Anyone else got a half-
time ritual? Back in a bit.
4.01pm: A mildly interesting*
stat, courtesy of Opta: that's the
first time Damien Duff has scored
in two consecutive games since
December 2004.
* This stat is not really mildly
interesting at all, is it?
4.05pm: The latest of our
international snood
correspondents is Graeme
Shotton: "Reading the updates
from my hotel room in Bali,
shivering as the A/C is stuck on
max setting. Any footballer
wishing to donate a redundant
snood please send by courier
ASAP." Without wishing to be
rude, Graeme, could you not just
step outside. It must be 80 degrees
in Bali.
4.08pm: Blackburn's Chris
Samba keeps everyone on their
toes at Craven Cottage, he spoons
a clearance onto his own bar and,
with Paul Robinson beaten, the
ball bounces off the crossbar and
behind for a corner.
4.09pm: James Tomkins hits the
post as West Ham continue to
outplay the elegant footballers of
Stoke.
4.12pm: Newcastle have come
out of the blocks well in the
second half, they're pegging
Everton back. Incidentally, Alan
Pardew says he has started
scouting players and still seems to
be suggesting he will have some
of the £35m Andy Carroll fee.
One of the people he has his eye
on, reports suggest, is John Arne
Riise. That's John Arne Riise.
4.14pm: Arsenal are struggling to
find a way through a hard-
pressing Sunderland side.
Arshavin is, by all accounts, a
pretty but useless bauble glittering
ineffectively on the Emirates
pitch. Likely to be subbed soon.
4.15pm:"Unfortunately for
Graeme in Bali today is the
religious holiday Nyepi, meaning
everyone has to spend 24 hours
indoors," writes Paul Collins.
"Hence the stepping outside
option isn't on the cards." Is
opening the window allowed?
4.16pm: Another fine chance for
Aston Villa. In fact, Downing has
just missed the goal from two
yards out. Ashley Young then had
a second chance a minute later -
he smashed the ball goalwards but
Jaaskelainen saved. Arteta
attempts to put Everton 3-1 up but
Steve Harper has made a fine
save.
4.17pm: Fulham 2-1 Blackburn
(Duff, 59) 20 yards, and with his
left foot, Duff pings the ball past
Paul Robinson and beats the
keeper at his nearpost. Poor
keeping.
4.18pm: Re. The Bali conundrum
"What about just wanging the a/c
with a very large spanner, that
should solve the need for a snood.
But possibly create the need for a
very large umbrella," chortles
Robin Hazlehurst.
4.20pm: Shola Ameobi has two
efforts against Everton. The first
was turned around the post for a
corner, the second was hit low
and straight at the keeper. Phil
Neville decides he's had enough
and limps off to be replaced by
Johnny Heitinga.
4.21pm:"Seeing as Stoke are
bizarrely proud of being a team of
giants and cloggers, what is the
general consensus of opinion
regarding Tony Pulis amongst
journos such as yourself?" asks
Phill Wainwright, mistaking me
for a journalist. "As a fellow
Welshman I'm inclined to like the
guy, but have no idea of how
much/little regard his coaching/
management skills are held in."
He's a 53-year-old man who
wears a baseball cap in public.
Let's leave it there.
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HONK, HONK, HONK The
snood alarm has sounded.
Chamakh has come trotting from
the bench and out onto the
Emirates pitch. And what's that
around his neck? It's one in the
eye for Fifa: it's a proud and now
endangered snood. In your face
Blatter. IN YOUR FACE!
4.25pm: GOAL! Bolton 1-2
Aston Villa (Albrighton 64)
Downing crosses for Marc
Albrighton and, six yards out, he
bounces the ball in front of the
keeper and into the top of the net.
At Craven Cottage, GOAL!
Fulham 2-2 Blackburn (Hoilett,
65) David Hoilett has volleyed
into the corner to equalise.
4.30pm: PENALTY SAVE!
Bolton 1-2 Aston Villa Ashley
Young was fouled in the box and
the referee gave a just penalty.
The winger steps up to take the
shot himself, against the advice of
much of the rest of his team, and
Jaaskelainen saves!
4.31pm: Mignolet makes another
great save to keep Arsenal from
scoring. Must be getting a bit
dicey at The Emirates now.
4.33pm: Chamakh, perhaps
hampered by that snood, hammers
a header into the bar.
4.33pm: Two conflicting views
on those Riise to Newcastle
rumours: "Rafa Benitez had many
(many) flaws but it was
impressive how quickly he
showed Riise the door when it
was obvious his legs had gone.
That was two years ago. Two
years ago Mr Pardew," writes
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The Independent reports that the
Saudis have mobilised thousands
of troops to quell growing unrest
in the country's north-eastern Shia
provinces.
12.46pm: Up to 35 of Gaddafi's
tanks are approaching Zawiya, al-
Jazeera reports.
Reuters reports that Gaddafi's
forces have retreated from the
centre of Zawiya but have
encircled the city and set up
checkpoints at the gates. Around
30 civilians were killed in the
clashes on Saturday, according to
the news agency.
"At least three rebels have been
killed and many civilians. They
[Gaddafi's forces] have bombed
civilian cars trying to flee. Cars
are still trying to evacuate the
casualties," a doctor told Reuters.
"There is a lot of destruction in
the city, I look around and all I
see is destruction. Bombed
buildings and burning cars
everywhere – I cannot even count
how many."
Another resident said the bodies
of eight people had been taken to
a mosque for burial.
12.16pm: In this Sky News audio
report from Zawiyah,
correspondent Alex Crawford
says she has seen the bodies of
half a dozen to a dozen pro-
Gaddafi fighters killed in the
fighting earlier today.
The rebels also captured several
government tanks, she adds.
12.06pm: The British
government has confirmed that its
troops are on standby for
deployment to Libya.
The Black Watch 3rd Battalion of
the Royal Regiment of Scotland is
ready to deploy at 24 hours'
notice, according to the Ministry
of Defence.
The troops are prepared to assist
with humanitarian and evacuation
operations but not combat, the
MoD has stressed.
11.49am: Reuters has more on
how the revolt in Libya is
affecting its oil production. The
country is usually the world's 12th
largest oil exporter but production
has been slashed since the
uprising against Gaddafi, which
has seen rebels gain control of the
east of the country – where most
of the oil is produced.
Fierce fighting around oil
installations, most recently in Ras
Lanuf, has left many facilities
standing idle or working at well
below capacity.
The news agency reports that the
offices of Harouge Oil Operations
in Ras Lanuf were looted after
being abandoned on Saturday.
"We have a right to these cars and
more," one armed looter, Nasr al-
Abdili, who was taking a pick-up
truck, told Reuters. "Gaddafi stole
from the people and now the
people are taking it back."
An oil worker told the new
agency that looters had "stolen
more than 300 4x4s" and broken
into offices. At another oil firm in
the town, Libyan Emirates Oil
Refining Company, concrete
barricades had been put up across
the entrance.
Oil sources told Reuters that
Harrouge and another Ras Lanuf
exporter have not been exporting
for several days. The fall in
production has led to spiralling oil
prices.
11.22am: Gaddafi has given a
defiant interview to a Serbian TV
channel in which he claimed "the
Libyan people are fully behind
me".
In the telephone interview with
Pink TV, Gaddafi again denied
the bombing of civilians,
claiming: "The Arab media tried
to bribe [the Serbs] to say that
they bombed [the civilians]."
The Serbian government has
been criticised for failing to join
worldwide condemnation of
Gaddafi's bloody crackdown.
Serbia's defence ministry has
rejected Arab media reports that
Serb mercenaries flew Libyan jets
that bombed protesters in the
eastern city of Benghazi.
AP reports that it is "almost
certain that some of the
ammunition fired by Gaddafi's
troops against pro-democracy
protesters in Libya was made in
Serbia, and that some of the air
force pilots who targeted rebel-
held positions were trained by
Serbs".
11.09am: The last batch of
Chinese workers in Libya has
been flown home, according to
China Central Television. The
plane carrying more than 300
Chinese workers arrived in the
southern city of Guangzhou on
Saturday, AP reports.
An estimated 30,000 Chinese
were working in Libya, mostly in
the construction and oil industries,
before the revolt.
10.47am: More on the westward
advance of the rebel forces after
capturing the oil town of Ras
Lanuf from forces loyal to
Gaddafi.
Rebel soldiers say they now
control the small town of Bin
Jawad, according to Reuters and
AFP.
There are reports that opposition
forces have advanced further east
of Bin Jawad, which lies about
60km (38 miles) west of Ras
Lanuf and 525km (330 miles) east
of Tripoli.
"They're in Harawa, 12 to 15km
after Bin Jawad. We're getting
calls from there and people are
coming back from there," Ghraib
Anaizi, a civilian who is
supporting the rebels, told
Reuters.
The death toll from Friday's
fighting around Ras Lanuf and
Benghazi has reached 26 and
could rise further, doctors have
told the news agency.
A doctor at Martyrs' hospital in
Benghazi, where most of those
killed when pro-Gaddafi forces
bombed an arms depot at Rajma
were brought, put the death toll
from that incident at 19 so far.
The bodies of 12 who died there
were brought here and the other
main Benghazi hospital has seven
more dead.
The doctor added that he
understood six more ambulances
were on the way to the hospital
with bodies.
Most of the dead were residents
in houses that were close to the
military base.
Ramadan Salem, a doctor at a
hospital in Ajdabiya, another
eastern rebel-held town, said eight
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dead had arrived from Ras Lanuf.
Two were Gaddafi loyalists and
six were rebels. There were also
25 injured.
Gaddafi has sent more troops
towards Zawiyah in the wake of
the rebels' successful defence of
the city from an attack by his
soldiers at dawn, al Jazeera
reports.
10.36am: Here's more on the
fighting in the western city of
Zawiyah, where rebels claim to
have repelled a major assault by
pro-Gaddafi forces. The battle,
which began at dawn, could prove
significant to the regime's defence
of Tripoli, which lies 30 miles
(50km) to the east.
"They entered Zawiyah at six in
the morning with heavy forces,
hundreds of soldiers with tanks.
Our people fought back ... We
have won for now and civilians
are gathering in the square,"
Youssef Shagan, the rebel force
spokesman in Zawiyah, told
Reuters.
"We captured three APCs, two
tanks and one pick-up after an
hour and a half of fighting. A lot
of civilians fled when the fighting
started," he said, adding that there
were government snipers in the
town.
Another rebel fighter in central
Zawiyah, the closest opposition-
held city to Tripoli, told the news
agency that Gaddafi's forces were
regrouping at the entrance to the
town after being pushed back on
Saturday morning.
"Gaddafi will never enter this city.
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continued from page 46
formally announce in a speech to
the Conservative spring
conference this afternoon. But
John Denham, the shadow
business secretary, accused
Osborne of just chasing positive
headlines. He put out this
statement.
George Osborne will have to
show how his new enterprise
zones will be more effective than
those in the 1980s. Independent
analysis of enterprise zones at
home and abroad show they have
limited impact and the cost of job
creation is far higher than
alternatives like the future jobs
fund. The Tory-led government
has wrecked regional
development agencies and
ignored Labour pleas to give
[local enterprise partnerships] real
powers over skills and resources.
Britain needs a plan for growth,
not a plan for headlines.
• Lady Warsi, the Conservative co
-chairman, has said that winning
the referendum on the alternative
vote is more important than doing
well in the local elections. For the
Tories, "winning" means securing
a no vote. In part this reflects a
recognition that the party will do
badly in the Scottish, Welsh and
English local elections on 5 May.
Warsi said as much in an
interview published this morning.
But it is also a response to fears
that "losing" the AV referendum
could damage the Tories' long-
term prospects of forming a
majority government. Warsi urged
activists to "fight every single
Liberal Democrat backing the
other side" on this issue. (See
12.40pm.)
12.40pm: Here are the main
points from Lady Warsi's speech.
The full text is now on the
Conservative party website.
• Warsi said that the referendum
on the alternative vote was more
important than the Scottish,
Welsh and local elections on 5
May.
On May 5th, I want you to
defend the seats we hold. Of
course, we've got to take the seats
we can. But above all on May 5th,
we need to win the one election
which will affect every single
general election to come.
This is interesting because it
reflects the concerns of some
commentators, like Paul
Goodman at ConservativeHome,
that the Tories have so far been
underplaying the importance of
the AV referendum. It also marks
a contrast with the stance taken by
senior Labour figures, who have
generally been arguing that the
local elections are more important
than the AV poll.
• She urged her audience to fight
the Lib Dems. This should not be
a surprise, of course, but it made
my ears prick up, because you
don't often hear Tory ministers
now talking with relish about
attacking the Lib Dems. Warsi did
this in the context of AV, in a
passage that is not in the printed
version of her speech released to
the media.
Go out and fight every single
Liberal Democrat backing the
other side because the
Conservatives are voting no.
• She warned that the party could
do badly in the local elections.
Let's remember where we're
starting from. We hold almost half
of all English seats, gaining many
when Labour were rock bottom in
the polls. So we have a high base
to defend.
She was even more explicit about
this in an interview in today's
Daily Telegraph."We will do
badly in the local elections and
Labour should do very well
because of where we are in the
electoral cycle," she said. I've
already heard one Tory
commentator here complaining
about this, on the grounds that a
party co-chairman should not be
conceding defeat before the local
election campaign has already
started.
• She insisted that the government
was "led by a Conservative prime
minister" and "delivering
Conservative priorities based on
Conservative promises". This
seemed aimed at those
Conservative party members -
58% of the membership,
according to this
ConservativeHome poll- who
think that Cameron is making too
many concessions to the Lib
Dems.
12.34pm: Lady Warsi, the
Conservative party co-chairman,
has just finished speaking. It
wasn't one of the great speeches
of the year, but it was more
interesting than many of the
speeches you'll hear at sleepy
conferences like this at 12.30pm
on a sunny Saturday. I'll post a
summary in a moment.
12.07pm: In the comments hilltop
predicted that I wouldn't be
fighting for a seat in the press
room. He was right. There are
about nine of us here at the
moment.
But the conference hall itself
looks reasonably full. Admittedly,
it's not the Albert Hall. It's a
smallish auditorium. There are
probably about 200 people in it
now listening to the end of the
Welsh debate.
Nick Bourne, the leader of the
Conservatives in the Welsh
Assembly, spoke earlier. He set
out what amounts to a mini-
manifesto for the assembly
elections. He proposed:
• Enterprise zones across Wales.
• A voluntary charter mark to
recognise businesses that promote
the Welsh language.
• Free bus travel and other
benefits for members of the armed
forces in Wales.
• Reversing Labour's health cuts
in Wales.
• An extra £3m a year for the
Welsh air ambulance service.
11.36am: This is appropriate. The
conference is taking place at the
SWALEC stadium, the home of
Glamorgan cricket club.
Conservatism, like cricket, is an
essentially English passion that
has never been fully embraced by
the Welsh.
I've arrived and I'm just getting
my bearings. I'll post again soon.
10:31am: I'm writing this on the
train to Wales. It's the weekend of
the Conservative spring
conference (or spring forum, as
they call it – anyone know why?)
and over the next 48 hours we'll
49
hear from at least 10 cabinet
ministers, as well as David
Cameron, who will be giving the
closing speech tomorrow
afternoon.
Spring conferences can be low-
key affairs, but with the economy
wobbling, severe spending cuts
coming into effect, the Libyan
crisis deepening, Ukip beating the
Tories in the Barnsely Central
byelection and the budget
looming, it will be odd if this
event doesn't generate some solid
political news.
Today's main story seems to be
about the budget. George Osborne
is speaking this afternoon and the
Treasury has already revealed that
he will announce plans to create
the "enterprise zone" championed
by the Tories in the 1980s. The
budget will be "unashamedly pro-
growth", he will say, and it will
include plans to set up enterprise
zones in 10 areas of the country.
My train arrives in Cardiff mid-
morning and so I'm going to miss
the first hour or so of the
conference, which is about what
the party has been doing in Wales.
(The Welsh Conservatives
normally have their own spring
conference; this year their event
has merged with the national
spring forum.) But here are the
main events I'll be covering.
• 12pm: Lady Warsi, the
Conservative co-chairman, gives a
speech.
• 2pm: George Osborne, the
chancellor, opens a session on
economic growth with a speech.
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Niall Mullen. But Stephen
Armson has this to say on the
matter: "What's with the sarcastic
repetition? Riise to Newcastle
sounds a pretty good bit of
business for Newcastle - if they
can get him for, say, £4m or less.
At the very least you're
guaranteed two or three 30-yard
screamers a season. Ace!"
4.34pm: GOAL! Bolton 2-2
Aston Villa (Cahill, 75) Holding
swings over a corner, and Gary
Cahill doubles his tally for the
day. Ashley Young must be
kicking himself for missing that
penalty.
4.36pm: Victor Anichebe has just
been booked for having a bit of a
ding dong with Kevin Nolan. And
this in the week after Anichebe
was awarded a six figure out-of-
court settlement since Nolan's two
footed tackle put him on the
sidelines in 2009.
4.39pm: Newcastle's Leon Best
gets the ball into the back of the
net against Everton but the goal is
disallowed after the striker was
adjudged to have pushed a
defender.
4.44pm: GOAL! West Ham 3-0
Stoke City (Hitzlsperger, 83) The
Hammer has struck for the
Hammers. A trademark, rifled
shot from the German.
4.45pm: At Arsenal v Sunderland
Welbeck forces a save from
Szczesny and then Titus Bramble
blazes over from the resulting
corner.
4.46pm: GOAL! Bolton 3-2
Aston Villa (Klasnic, 86)
Sturridge crosses, Wheater heads
down, then Klasnic drives the ball
home, low and hard, into the
bottom corner. Ashley Young
must want to eat his own head
after missing that penalty.
4.46pm: Penalty at Fulham.
Given against Hanley ... can
Fulham seal this...
4.47pm: GOAL! Fulham 3-2
Blackburn (Zamora, 89 PEN) The
striker, off the bench, marks his
return with a goal from the spot.
4.49pm:"If Arsenal fail to win
then they should be awarded all
the unused snoods soon to be left
hanging on dressing room pegs, as
nothing would be more fitting for
such a bunch of chokers," snigger
Ian Copestake. Well, they've just
missed another chance.
4.50pm: Arsenal are pressing,
flinging the ball into the box, but
Ferdinand and Mensah have been
defending like demons. Are
Arsenal going to blow their
chance?
4.51pm:"Thank God Ged rested
all those players against City in
midweek," sighs Niall Mullen. "I
guess that's why he gets paid the
big bucks."
4.51pm: Bendtner nods the ball at
the Sunderland goal and
Mignolet, who has had a fantastic
game against Arsenal, saves yet
again.
4.53pm: It's all over at The
Emirates! Arsenal 0-0 Sunderland
and Arsene Wenger has a filthy
look on his face. He stomps off
down the tunnel, perhaps furious
at the assistant referee who
adjudged Arshavin was offside
when he got the ball in the net,
but had it disallowed.
4.54pm: It's finished at Upton
Park, West Ham 3-0 Stoke City.
4.55pm: Bolton 3-2 Aston Villa
is now a result, Houllier's decision
to rest half his squad in the FA
Cup comes back to bite him.
4.55pm: Fulham earn their win
against Blackburn thanks to that
late penalty. Fulham 3-2
Blackburn Rovers.
4.56pm:"Now I'm not an Arsenal
fan, but there were two big
mistakes by refereeing there,"
writes Kevin Smith. "Arshavin
wasn't offside, though it was very
close, but he was also clearly
pushed from behind while in the
box. Should have been a penalty,
probably a red card as well for
denying a goalscoring opportunity
and last man back."
4.57pm: It's all over at St James'
Park and it's Newcastle 1-2
Everton.
4.59pm: Full time Premier
League results:
Arsenal 0-0 Sunderland
Bolton 3-2 Aston Villa
Fulham 3-2 Blackburn
Newcastle 1-2 Everton
West Ham 3-0 Stoke
Birmingham City 1-3 West Brom
See all the results in the country
here.
5.04pm: So Arsenal finish the
day three points behind
Manchester United, with both
having played 28 games. Fergie
will be sleeping a shade easier
tonight and has much to thank his
old mate, the Sunderland manager
Steve Bruce, for.
Meanwhile, at the other end of
the table, West Ham have lifted
themselves out of the relegation
zone finally, but Birmingham City
now find themselves in it after
their defeat earlier today. And do
Aston Villa have cause for
concern? They may be in 13th but
they're only three points ahead of
their Midlands neighbours with 33
points. Stoke, remaining on 34
points, can't consider themselves
safe either, despite being in 12th.
Could be a thrilling relegation run
-in.
Thanks all your emails/abuse. I'm
off.
• Premier League
• Arsenal
• Sunderland
• Birmingham City
• West Brom
• Bolton Wanderers
• Aston Villa
• Fulham
• Blackburn Rovers
• Newcastle United
• Everton
• West Ham United
• Stoke City
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There will then be a panel session
on regional growth, with MPs and
AMs (members of the Welsh
Assembly) speaking.
• Around 3pm: Eric Pickles, the
communities secretary, gives a
speech.
• Around 3.30pm: Oliver Letwin,
the Cabinet Office minister and
chairman of the Conservative
Policy Forum, gives a
presentation. There will then be a
discussion on developing
economic policies for the future.
• Around 4.30pm: Cheryl Gillan,
the Welsh secretary, closes the
session.
I'll post again after 11am, once
I've arrived.
• Conservatives
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He will never set foot here. The
only way for him to enter the city
is when we are all dead. He has to
kill us all to control the city," said
the rebel, who gave his name as
Ibrahim.
Earlier witnesses told AP that
Gaddafi's forces had broken
through rebel lines after heavy
mortar shelling and machine gun
fire, which damaged government
buildings and homes.
They said snipers were shooting
on sight anyone on the streets or
residents who ventured out on
their homes' balconies.
The witnesses added that rebels
had retreated to positions further
inside the city.
"We will fight them on the streets
and will never give up so long as
Gaddafi is still in power," one of
the rebel fighters told the news
agency.
10.12am: Good morning, this is
David Batty with Saturday's live
coverage of the ongoing conflict
in Libya where rebels and forces
loyal to Muammar Gaddafi are
engaged in fierce fighting.
Here are the main developments
overnight and this morning:
• Rebels in Zawiya, west of the
capital, Tripoli, said they had
repelled an attack by pro-Gaddafi
troops. But the government forces
said they had broken through the
town's defences, forcing the rebels
to retreat deeper inside the city.
• Rebel fighters and defecting
troops have captured the oil port
town of Ras Lanouf and are in
control of the town of Bin Jawad
– about halfway between Tripoli
and the rebel stronghold of
Benghazi.
• Libya has asked the United
Nations to suspend sanctions that
it imposed last month on Gaddafi
and four of his aides in response
to the violent crackdown.
• The opposition national council
declared in Benghazi is about to
meet for the first time. It will
gather in secret for fear of the
long reach of Gaddafi's forces,
AFP reports.
• Arab and Middle East protests
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• Muammar Gaddafi
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(Verse of the Day)
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We know also that the Son of
God has come and has given us
understanding, so that we may
know him who is true. And we are
in him who is true -- even in his
Son Jesus Christ. He is the true
God and eternal life.
— 1 John 5:20(NIV) Thoughts on
Today's Verse... Jesus came to
reveal God to us. He has given us
the clearest picture yet of what
God is really like. Because of
Jesus, we can know God, the only
one who is truly genuine. Because
we are in Christ, we share that
special bond with the Father and
find in him a whole new quality
of life. This life won't end when
our bodies die, and eternal life
begins in this life, as we walk
with him each day and extends
unto forever. For the eternal and
transcendent God to make himself
known to us is grace. For him to
do it in Jesus is salvation! My
Prayer... Holy and awesome
Father, I know that because my
life is joined to you through Jesus,
I will enjoy your presence forever.
I love you for all you have done
for me and the terrible price you
paid to redeem me from my sins. I
love you for creating me and
having a plan for my life when no
one else knew I was even
conceived. Most of all, I love you
for being God and choosing to be
the kind of Father who wants his
children to know and love him. In
Jesus' name. Amen.

Soap Round-Up: Amber's Near-Death Experience

on 'B&B' ... and More
Allison Waldman (TV Squad) thing, please comment and join Bill saw a branch knock Amber
the conversation. over the cliff. He hurried away,
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For instance, on'The Bold and the urging Steffy to leave. Thomas
The Walking Dead: 10
Filed under: Reality-Free, Recaps Beautiful,' were you shocked took Dayzee to a charity ball. Things From the Comics
Welcome to the Soap Round-Up, when Bill left Amber for dead on Steffy discovered Amber hanging the Cast Can't Wait to
our weekly recap of all the soap the cliffs of Malibu? Will Steffy on to the cliff and rescued her.
action this past week. Each week, blackmail Bill now? Share your Steffy confronted Bill about his Play
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If you don't want to know what was obsessed with killing Amber. was dating Dayzee. Hope and The Walking Dead
aired already, consider this a Steffy confessed that she came Liam broke up. At the lookout, WALKING page 53
SPOILER ALERT. ... Oh, one last home to steal Bill from Katie.
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continued from page 52
[Warning: This story contains
major spoilers from The Walking
Dead comic series (and possibly
the TV show it inspired). Read at
your own risk.]
While the writers of AMC's The
Walking Dead have only just
begun to discuss what will happen
in Season 2, speculation about
how close the series will stay to
the comic book series that
inspired it runs rampant — even
among the actors.
The Walking Dead creator on
Season 2: "This world will get
more dangerous"
Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Wayne
Callies and the rest of the cast
shared their thoughts on which
comic book story lines they feel
would be great to bring to the
screen during Friday's
PaleyFest2011 panel, moderated
by TV Guide Magazine's Michael
Schneider.
10. Shane Lives: Jon Bernthal,
who plays Rick's partner, Shane,
has already outlived his comic
book counterpart, who was killed
off in Issue 6. "I was really
surprised how quickly Shane
bought it," executive producer
Frank Darabont said. "Once you
start fleshing these characters out
... you really are loath to get rid of
them too quickly." This is great
news for Bernthal, who can't wait
to see what comes next. "There's a
lot more that they can squeeze of
this character," he said. "I'm
relieved. I'm glad I still have a
job."
9. Lori's Love Triangle: In
Season 1, Lori (Callies) had an
affair with Shane because she
thought her husband, Rick
(Lincoln), was dead. In Season 2,
Callies hopes to dissect the
"consequences of telling Rick or
not telling Rick," Callies said.
"It's no longer just a martial issue
of whether her husband will be
mad at her. This is also an issue of
sharing something with Rick that
may drive a permanent wedge
between Rick and Shane, which
could put everyone at risk because
these two men are our best
protectors." And for the comic
enthusiasts who worry this will
turn into a soap opera love
triangle, Bernthal said it will be "a
triangle like you've never seen
before."
8. Glenn's Lover: In the comic
series, the group's next stop is
Hershel's farm, where Glenn (
Steven Yeun) meets and falls in
love with Hershel's daughter,
Maggie. "Glenn doesn't have a
reason to live, which is why he's
so reckless," Yeun said. "Once he
finds something and someone to
live for, that's really going to
change his character and I'm
really excited to play that." His
dream casting for his potential
love interest? Natalie Portman.
The Walking Dead's Robert
Kirkman on Season 1's explosive
finale and what's next
7. Rick's Many Missteps: With
Rick's police background, he's
become the de facto leader of the
group, but that doesn't mean he's
perfect. The comics read like a
handbook on what not to do
during a zombie apocalypse, and
that's due, in large part, to Rick.
"And yet, people still listen to
him," Lincoln said cheekily.
"What I'm most excited about is
to see the deterioration — to see
the guy be poisoned and to start
not being able to be the leader
anymore and maybe make some
calls that are a terrible decision."
6. Andrea Becomes a Warrior:
Over the span of the comics,
Andrea becomes quite handy with
a gun. Unfortunately, the one
thing Laurie Holden is looking
forward to — hint, hint — is the
one thing she can't share. "I know
it's going to shake some fans up a
bit," Holden said. "Andrea is
going to do some stuff that's very
unexpected that you will never
see in the comic book. You're
going to go, 'Oh my god!'"
5. Lori's Pregnancy: Even after
Shane dies in the comic book,
Lori deals with an impending
baby that may not be Rick's. "I'm
really interested to see the way
Lori navigates this pregnancy
knowing that this is a renaissance
pregnancy," Callies said. "There's
no pain medication, there's no
doctor, there's no prenatal
vitamins." Fortunately for Callies,
the slow pacing of Season 1 may
mean she won't have to sport a
fake baby bump for a while. "It
certainly would not make Atlanta
cooler unless I can fill the baby
bump with ice cubes," she said.
"At this pace, I would be pregnant
for the next 13 seasons."
4. The Governor: Several actors
expressed their excitement for
The Governor, the one-armed
lawless leader of a town that feeds
strangers to the zombies they use
for gladiator-like games. While
many have speculated that Merle (
Michael Rooker) could become
The Governor, since he too is
missing a limb, Darabont was
quick to shoot down that idea.
"Merle will not be The Governor
because what a lame and obvious
course that would be," he said.
"[But] I could change my mind
because I'm willing to be lame
and obvious just like everybody."
Added comic creator and
executive producer Robert
Kirkman: "It doesn't make Merle
any less important a character to
have him not be The Governor."
Check out photos of The Walking
Dead cast
3. Rick's Lost Hand: Speaking of
the armless, The Governor
eventually cuts off Rick's right
hand, disabling the leader greatly.
Fans "loved it because it means no
one is safe," Lincoln said. "It was
great to show the extremity of the
situation, but I think we've shown
that already. I'm not sure that it's
an essential part yet."
2. Andrea and Dale: The Season
53
1 finale, which saw Dale ( Jeffrey
DeMunn) convince Andrea to exit
the Centers for Disease Control
before its destruction, may have
foreshadowed what's ahead for the
couple. Yes, the couple. "It was
totally unexpected," Holden said
of Andrea's hook-up with Dale in
the comics. "I wasn't warned
about it. I literally turned a page
and saw my naked comic book
character with Dale. They couldn't
have hired somebody better to
play this, and we're going to really
honor the relationship well."
1. Lori's Death: Callie said she
stopped reading before the death
of her character. "I know how
badly it ends," she said. "I've seen
that frame, and I think it's
emblematic of our show. You
can't pull any punches."
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Win at NAACP Image Awards
Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com:
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Submitted at 3/5/2011 10:04:00 AM
LL Cool J
Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls
topped the 42nd NAACP Image
Awards with three trophies,
including Best Picture.
Tyler Perry leads NAACP Image
Awards nominations
The film also took home the
director and supporting actress
awards Friday for Perry and
Kimberly Elise, respectively.
Perry had a great night overall:
His TV series, Tyler Perry's
House of Payne, won Best
Comedy Series, while his other
show, Tyler Perry's Meet the
Browns, earned Best Actor in a
Comedy Series honors for star
David Mann.
Halle Berry snagged Best Actress
for her work in the drama Frankie
& Alice, which also won Best
Independent Film. Denzel
Washington( The Book of Eli)
and Samuel L. Jackson( Mother
and Child) won the lead and
supporting actor prizes,
respectively.
See photos of Halle Berry
For television, Grey's Anatomy
won Best Drama Series, while
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A Short Sale House, Only To Watch Wells
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Ben Popken (The Consumerist) kitchen appliances, and even a lot can go wrong.
Submitted at 3/4/2011 4:00:00 PM locked, and lost, mortgage rates. That's why getting your hopes up
Finally, last week we get an and buying the new appliances
Nestor and his wife have been official letter that we're approved. and furniture may have been a
working for months to buy a Hooray! We celebrate and start little bit of counting your eggs
house listed as being a short sale. m a k i n g o u r i n s p e c t i o n a n d before they're hatched. With a
They even bought new furniture m o v i n g p l a n s . short sale, you should bank on it
and kitchen appliances for it in Then, today we get a call that the being torture that will probably
expectation, stowing the items in bank foreclosed the house. Just end fruitlessly, and then be
their garage. They had finally like that. pleasantly surprised if it's
gotten approved and were making The past 7 months are completely anything better.
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moment, Wells Fargo decided a garage full of stuff we now can't close track of the house's status
Actors in Limbo: they'd rather not take Nestor's use. No amount of calling and
money and would prefer to being transferred to various
foreclose instead.
and maybe you can bid on it when
it gets auctioned off on the
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About 7 months ago my wife and for over a year and will remain so
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Newstablet Edition
Alcohol hand sanitizers and driving
don’t mix
rss@consumerreports.org
(Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 6:59:59 AM
Alcohol hand sanitizers and
driving don’t mix
A colleague who works in our
Vermont office recently had a
close call with the law.
At four in the afternoon driving
through a small town, he was
pulled over by police for having
an expired inspection sticker. As
he was handing over his license
and registration, the officer asked,
"Have you been drinking?"
“My shock must have been
evident,” our colleague reports, “I
said rather quickly ‘Goodness
sakes, no! Why would you even
ask, officer?’ ” Well, you reek of
alcohol," the policeman said
sternly. “How much have you had
to drink?"
He explained that he hadn’t
touched a drop except the root
beer he had just picked up at a fast
-food restaurant—and then it hit
him that he had used an alcohol-
Google Docs: now supporting mobile editing in 45 languages
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 9:22:00 AM
Never mind the fact that you'll
need to have a basic grasp of
English to even understand this
report -- if you're an avid user of
based hand sanitizer before eating
his fish sandwich. There are a lot
of viral infections going around
Vermont, and this health
researcher wasn’t taking any
chances.
A little too much sanitizer had
come out of the bottle and he
vaguely recalls some spilling onto
his jeans. After being grilled by
not one but two policemen, he
was finally let go with a warning
about the inspection sticker.
Morals of the story: Keep your
inspection up-to-date. Keep your
hands clean. But go easy on the
hand sanitizer.
More seriously, the story also
reminds us that it pays to take
special precaution when you get
Google Docs on your Android
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a n y i O S 3 . 0 + d e v i c e a n d Would it make it any clearer if we
accomplish the same thing.
behind the wheel, as things that
are safe and innocuous in other
settings can have more serious
implications when you’re in the
car.
That includes not only texting but
also putting on makeup, reading,
or wearing headphones. (See our
recent report on distracted
driving.) In addition, many drugs
can make you groggy or slow
your reflexes, increasing the risk
of car crashes, or magnify the
effect of alcohol, making just one
drink feel like two or three. (See
our list of drugs that can interact
with alcohol.)
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Continental Kills Free
Snacks In Coach
Chris Morran (The still have free pretzels, cookies
Consumerist) and peanuts. And then there's
Submitted at 3/4/2011 3:45:00 PM Frontier with its baked-on-board
chocolate chip cookies.
Continental and new spouse The United-Continentals recently
United Airlines have begun to announced that continental jets
d e c i d e w h i c h o f t h e i r p r e - would eventually be outfitted with
marriage belongings to keep and United's "Economy Plus" seats,
which to discard. One thing that which offer more legroom for an
has already gone in the dumpster: extra fee.
free snacks in coach. Last year, before the merger,
A s o f M a r c h 1 , d o m e s t i c Continental became one of the
Continental flights stopped last airlines to get rid of free
handing out free pretzels to coach meals on domestic flights.
economy passengers on most Continental Airlines ends free
flights; a projected costs savings p r e t z e l s f o r e c o n o m y - c l a s s
of $2.5 million a year. customers[Cleveland Plain
"As a cost savings initiative and to D e a l e r ]
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Parker returns as Spurs pummel skidding Heat
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 11:20:32 AM
Team Stat Comparison
Miami
San Antonio Points 95 125 FG
Made-Attempted 37-78 (.474) 46-
82 (.561) 3P Made-Attempted 7-
20 (.350) 17-28 (.607) FT Made-
Attempted 14-20 (.700) 16-23
(.696) Rebounds (Offensive-
Total) 6-40 5-40 Assists 23 29
Turnovers 14 8 Steals 3 7 Blocks
2 1 Fast Break Points 16 22 Fouls
(Tech/Flagrant) 22 (0/1) 18 (2/0)
Largest Lead 0 31
Top Performers Miami San
Antonio L. James
Points: 26
Reb: 8
Ast: 7
Stl: 1
Blk: 0
M. Ginobili
Points: 20
Reb: 3
Ast: 7
Stl: 2
Blk: 0
Research Notes
From Elias:
ESPN Stats & Information
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO -- Spurs coach
Gregg Popovich had looked
forward to the Miami Heat testing
his team with some stiff
competition.
This wasn't it.
This wasn't even close. Fast Facts
• The Spurs won their 22nd
straight home game, extending
their franchise record for a single
season. The Spurs have the NBA's
best record both at home (29-2)
and overall (51-11).
• Eight different Spurs scored in
double figues. Manu Ginobili led
the way with 20 points.
• The Heat lost for the second
straight night and dropped their
third straight overall.
• The loss is the Heat's largest
defeat of the season (30 points).
Miami is 1-8 against the Spurs,
Celtics, Mavericks, Bulls and
Lakers this season.
• After blowing a 24-point lead to
the Magic Thursday, the Heat
trailed by 24 at the end of the first
quarter against the Spurs (36-12).
-- ESPN Stats & Information
In the most lopsided loss this
season for LeBron James and
Miami, the Spurs crushed the
Eastern Conference contenders in
humiliating fashion, winning 125-
95 on Friday night and handing
the slumping Heat their fourth
loss in five games.
"We basically got blitzed," Miami
coach Erik Spoelstra said.
Manu Ginobili led the NBA-best
Spurs (51-11) with 20 points. He
scored 11 of those during a
runaway first quarter that left the
Heat looking as rattled as they did
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Thursday night, when they blew a
24-point lead in a stunning loss to
Orlando.
After only the first quarter in San
Antonio, the Heat were already
down 24.
Tony Parker made a surprise
return to the starting lineup and
had 15 points and eight assists,
less than a week after the Spurs
feared their point guard might
miss up to a month with a strained
calf muscle.
Popovich joked that his French
star's quick turnaround was thanks
to a "foie gras and truffle"
treatment that really worked.
The Heat? They weren't in such a
light mood.
Miami's previous worst loss was
a 28-point blowout against
Denver on Jan. 13. That came in
the midst of the Heat's last
meltdown, when they were stuck
in another stretch of losing four of
five.
Here they go again. HEAT
INDEX
We've taken our talents to South
Beach. Check out the Heat Index.
"We're still a confident bunch,"
James said. "We know it's a tough
stretch for us right now. We lost
three games in a row, but I feel
like all it takes is one win."
James scored 26 points and
Dwyane Wade had 19. It won't
get much easier for the Heat, who
return home to play Chicago on
Sunday. Then they'll face
Portland, the Los Angeles Lakers
and Memphis before hosting the
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NFL, NFLPA agree to 7-day extension of talks

ESPN.com news services to fix the system as the game p.m. ET. Smith did the same on a certainly indicates neither side if team owners participated in
(ESPN.com) moves forward. Story sidewalk in front of the NFLPA's was ready to make the drastic mediation next week, a step that
Submitted at 3/5/2011 7:45:43 AM With the CBA expiring on March headquarters about three city move of shutting down a league could indicate discussions were
3, NFLPA executive George blocks away. that rakes in $9 billion a year and reaching a critical stage.
Updated: March 5, 2011, 8:45 Atallah breaks down how the Referring to next week's round of is more popular than ever. The "It's time for us really to dig -- to
AM ET players and the union view the bargaining, Smith said: "We look past two Super Bowls rank No. 1 dig deep -- and try to find
WASHINGTON -- Timeout, crucial talks. Story forward to a deal coming out of and No. 2 among most-watched solutions," Pash added, "and try to
NFL. And NFLPA. • NFL labor history since 1968 that." TV programs in U.S. history. be creative and try to compromise
Buying time to try to close big • Sando: 10 things to know But when asked whether trust Cohen said that since he began in a way that will work for
gaps on big issues, the NFL and • NFL Labor: Topics page between the sides has been mediating talks Feb. 18, he has everybody."
the players' union agreed Friday "It's a challenge," NFL general rebuilt, Smith replied: "When you been able to encourage the sides Goodell dismissed the notion that
t o e x t e n d t h e d e a d l i n e f o r counsel and lead labor negotiator say something about 'trust' or "to fully, frankly and candidly talk the NFL became more willing to
negotiating a new collective Jeff Pash said. "We've got very when you raise issues about to each other" and that they are negotiate after Tuesday's decision
bargaining agreement by a week. s e r i o u s i s s u e s . W e ' v e g o t things like 'confidence' -- none of having "constructive discussion." by U.S. District Court judge
The current labor deal had been s i g n i f i c a n t d i f f e r e n c e s . " those things are repaired quickly." The key issues all along have David Doty that sided with the
set to run out Thursday night. But Most significant: money. McManus: Progress being made been: union in a case about whether the
the sides used an initial 24-hour In addition to the owners' LaDainian Tomlinson is among • How to divide revenues, league can have access to about
extension to discuss and vote on proposal Thursday, the union also the NFL players encouraged by including what cut team owners $4 billion from TV contracts. The
the second, lengthier delay. Now has made concessions in the latest the news that the NFL and its should get up front to help cover union accused the NFL of
the league and union will take a negotiations, sources on both players' union have extended their costs such as stadium construction improperly negotiating deals to
break over the weekend to assess sides told ESPN senior NFL collective bargaining agreement and improvement. Under the old have money available in event of
their positions, resume mediation analyst Chris Mortensen. The by seven days, writes Jane deal, owners received about $1 a lockout, and Doty -- who has
Monday, then have until the end details of those concessions are McManus. Blog billion off the top. They entered jurisdiction over NFL labor
of next Friday to talk. unknown. If the sides hadn't extended the these negotiations seeking to add matters under the old CBA --
"We're obviously having a lot of Earlier Friday, sources familiar CBA, the union was prepared to another $1 billion to that. agreed.
dialogue," commissioner Roger with the process told ESPN NFL decertify Thursday, meaning it no • A rookie wage scale, and where Asked whether there is any truth
Goodell said Friday, the 11th day Insider Adam Schefter that the longer would represent the money saved by teams under that to the idea that Doty's decision got
t h a t h e a n d N F L P l a y e r s sides narrowed the financial gap players, who would be giving up system would go. the league back to the table,
Association executive director between them by roughly $5 their rights under labor law and • The owners' push to expand the Goodell said: "No. We've been at
DeMaurice Smith have spent time m i l l i o n p e r t e a m p e r y e a r . instead take their chances in court regular season from 16 games to the table."
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a lot of days. And we are going to team per year. With 32 teams in The owners, meanwhile, could • Benefits for retired players. we're continuing this dialogue is a
meet for more." the league, the gap equates to have locked out the players, Under terms of the seven-day positive sign."
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Spurs on March 14.
San Antonio isn't getting a break,
either. The Spurs have another
tough one Sunday against the
Lakers.
But unlike the Heat, things
couldn't be going better for the
Spurs.
"It's just better when the best
teams come in here and you can
really lock in and see what we
have," Spurs forward Tim Duncan
said.
San Antonio hit a franchise-
record 17 3-pointers, including
eight in the first quarter. Matt
Bonner was 4 of 4 and Ginobili
went 3 for 4.
So stunning was the lopsided
surge that the typically reserved
Duncan mouthed "game over"
while the Heat sulked to the bench
after calling another timeout.
It was still the first quarter.
"That's a ridiculous night as far as
3s go," Popovich said. "It's very
rare. We had it tonight and we're
thankful for it. It made for a
wonderful night."
Spoelstra preached "adversity"
and "collective resolve" with
reporters before the game. He said
that following the Heat's
incredible collapse against
Orlando on Thursday night, team
president Pat Riley joined him in
trying to brainstorm ways to get
the team out of another funk.
Instead, they came up speechless.
"Part of the conversation was ...
just sitting there, in silence, while
both of us were trying to think
about what we can do next,"
Spoelstra said.
San Antonio, meanwhile, crossed
another opponent off its list.
Beating the revamped Heat in
their first meeting left the Spurs
with a victory over every NBA
team this season except Boston --
which extended its East lead over
the Heat to three games.
The Spurs host the Celtics on
March 31.
Bonner finished with 18 points
and Duncan had 11 points and 14
rebounds. Richard Jefferson
scored 11 points and DeJuan Blair
had 10 as every Spurs starter was
in double figures.
Gary Neal added 14 points off
the bench.
The Spurs extended their
franchise-record home winning
streak to 22 games. It's just
another milestone in what is so far
the best regular season in team
history.
Chris Bosh had 17 points and
Mike Miller 12 for the Heat. Erik
Dampier, making his sixth
straight start, had no points and
two rebounds before being ejected
for shoving Parker hard to the
ground in the third quarter.
Maybe it was frustration.
"We don't want to hear anything
about that's not going to happen
this year for us, or it takes a long
time for championship teams to
be built," Spoelstra said before
tipoff. "Or it takes battles or the
proverbial wars together."
Game notes
The Spurs signed F Steve Novak
for the remainder of the season. ...
Texas Gov. Rick Perry sat
courtside with Spurs owner Peter
Holt.
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Kayak to provide travel and flight
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Oregon asked to provide documents

related to recruiting advisor to
NCAA
ESPN.com news services request the documents later in the Seastrunk's mother, Evelyn, said
(ESPN.com) day. Thursday night that she didn't
Submitted at 3/5/2011 10:00:37 AM "We have been asked to provide a know Lyles received $25,000
series of documents by the NCAA from Oregon.
Updated: March 5, 2011, 11:00 and intend to fully cooperate," "Willie said he was a trainer,"
AM ET Mullens said. "I reiterate that it is Evelyn Seastrunk said. "Now
Oregon says it has been contacted our belief that the purchase of Oregon says he's a scout? Is he on
b y t h e N C A A t o p r o v i d e such services is within the Oregon's payroll? If Willie Lyles
documentation about its use of a allowable NCAA guidelines." collected $25,000 off my son he
pair of recruiting services. Documents show the Ducks paid needs to be held accountable. The
The NCAA's request comes in $25,000 to Lyles of Complete
the wake of Ducks officials telling Scouting Services in Houston.
ESPN.com the school paid a man Lyles has a mentoring relationship
NCAA must find out for me. I
don't know how to digest
someone cashing in on my son."
WRUP: Hello PAX
$25,000 in the spring of 2010 for w i t h D u c k s r u n n i n g b a c k
recruiting services. Seastrunk and is also tied to
Sources close to the inquiry told running back LaMichael James, a
The Ducks went 12-1 this past
season, falling to Auburn in the
BCS title game. They were ranked
East, bye GDC
Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) a couple gaming panels hosted by
ESPN.com that NCAA officials Heisman trophy finalist. No. 3 in the final Top 25. James our Editor-in-chief Chris Grant.
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Using DNS as a thin ID

system
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 3/4/2011 3:39:16 PM

Just thinking out loud here.

Suppose a user had control of a
name that can be looked up
through DNS.
Something like: dave.me or
dave.easy.com, for example.
The former would be done
through a registrar, the latter by a
Dark Souls screens show web service.
Suppose in both cases the user

off environments, one could define a file whose name

would only be known to him.
That's the password. When you something like a feed or an
pseudo-NSFW monster sign in you'd enter the domain and
the name of the file where
OPML file with info about the
person. Basic stuff that any
authenticated site is allowed to
Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) screens show off environments, username and password are
Submitted at 3/5/2011 12:30:00 PM one pseudo-NSFW monster requested. have.
Dark Souls screens show off Then the site requesting a Seems that's about as thin as an
These new screenshots of Dark environments, one pseudo-NSFW validated ID would make this ID system can get.
Souls are all fun and moody dark monster originally appeared on request: And there's nothing innovative
games until you see "it." You'll Joystiq on Sat, 05 Mar 2011 http://username/password about it. We just need something
know when you gaze upon the 12:30:00 EST. Please see our If what came back is a 404, like this that's quick easy for users
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Obama Woos GOP During Budget Talks, But so Far, Detente
Is Still a Dream
Alex Wagner (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 3/4/2011 8:25:00 PM
For Vice President Joe Biden, a
man not known for his brevity,
the statement on Thursday said it
all. The veep had been in
budgetary talks that afternoon
with Republican heavyweights
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
and Speaker of the House John
Boehner (R-Ohio), and the public
was eager to hear how his
bipartisan pow-wow had gone.
The verdict? "We had a good
meeting, and the conversation will
continue," read Biden's official
statement.
Full stop.
For a man the White House has
consistently relied upon for
grinning optimism and a can-do
attitude, even in the worst-case
scenarios -- images of Biden criss
-crossing the country last year
pitching the administration's ill-
timed "Recovery Summer"
initiative come to mind -- the
words were less than convincing.
This week, the White House
made a concerted effort to woo
the GOP -- or at least let the
Grand Old Party know that the
administration was interested in
casual friendship. The effort was,
perhaps, not so surprising -- given
the fact that Friday marked the
date when both parties needed to
agree on a short-term funding
measure for the federal
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government (known as a page 2 of the Republican
continuing resolution, or CR) -- or Handbook, using " Democrat"
risk shutdown. instead of the arguably more
While members of the media respectful "Democratic" to
pontificated on whether a describe the other side. It was,
shutdown was in the cards -- and ever so slightly, a marking of
what that might mean in terms of territory, a subtle sign that
poll numbers and favorability conveyed, I may be up here with a
ratings for each party -- Democrat[ic] president, but I'm
congressional leaders sparred via still a proud Republican.
press releases regarding "what the After the week that was, would
American people want," each side President Obama use the occasion
differing wildly in its prescription to exhibit magnanimity -- or at
for the budget. least some warmth -- toward a
On Tuesday, the White House, member of the Bush family? He
sensing the tension in the room, took to the stage and said, "Jeb of
bipartisan hearts aflutter. inconclusive that even Biden
extended an olive branch. Press course is best known as the
Moreover, if the government couldn't conjure his usual
Secretary Jay Carney announced brother of Marvin Bush." Then
really was likely to shut all sunshine.
at a news conference that "the continued, "Apparently, the rest of
operations that day, presumably At least there was Florida --
president, about 40 minutes ago, the family also did some work
such a trip would not have been where it's always warm. For many
made a phone call to Speaker of back in Washington back in the
planned. Americans, it was indeed an odd
the House John Boehner to day." The room erupted with
Indeed, on Wednesday, Congress sight to see: a prominent member
discuss the progress being made laughter, as Bush looked on --
passed a short-term continuing of the Bush clan warmly
on the negotiations for a sheepishly.
resolution that will keep the introducing a Democratic
continuing resolution. It was Ah well -- nobody ever said love
government running for another president -- one who had been
about a 10-12 minute phone call, was easy.
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Mike Huckabee Holds Strong Lead Among
Conservative Christian Bloc
David Gibson (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 3/4/2011 8:25:00 PM
Religion Reporter Mike
Huckabee has been making waves
lately for his comments about
Natalie Portman's out-of-wedlock
pregnancy and Barack Obama's
"anti-colonial" boyhood, but a
new poll shows the former
Arkansas governor and
Republican presidential hopeful
still seems to be the hands-down
favorite of conservative Christian
voters who will be critical to
securing the nomination.
The survey from the Barna
Group, a leading Christian
research organization, also
indicates that Huckabee could go
toe-to-toe with all Republican
challengers, and he would be the
toughest foe for President Obama
in November 2012.
Huckabee, a former Baptist
pastor, is strongest among
evangelical Christians -- the 7
percent of the population that
Barna defines by the strictest
criteria of traditional faith and
biblical literalism -- with an 88
percent favorable rating, followed
by former Alaska governor and
2008 GOP vice-presidential
candidate Sarah Palin, with a 79
percent favorable ranking.
The field tails off considerably
from there among evangelicals,
with Newt Gingrich and Mitt
Romney -- who are widely
expected to be among the first to
throw their hats in the ring --
clocking 57 and 56 percent
favorability ratings, respectively.
President Obama registers a
meager 6 percent approval rating
among this group, and an eye-
opening 94 percent unfavorability
rating.
Among "born again Christians" --
a pivotal and largely Republican-
leaning group in the last three
elections that Barna describes as
"considerably less conservative
than its evangelical subset" --
Huckabee still leads, with a 58
percent favorability rating. But
Romney surges to a 49 percent
positive ranking, just behind Palin
at 53 percent. Gingrich polls at
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GOP Rejects Obama's Budget
Strategy
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
Republicans used their weekly
address Saturday to reject
President Barack Obama's
approach on the budget.
"You may have heard President
Obama say that we need to make
sure 'we're living within our
means,'" said freshman Rep.
Diane Black, R-Tenn. "He's right
about that. Unfortunately, his
budget doesn't match his words.
"It continues out-of-control
spending, it adds to our $14
trillion debt and it adds to the
uncertainty that makes it harder to
create jobs. Maintaining the status
quo — and refusing to offer a
credible plan to cut spending — is
just unacceptable and
inexcusable," she said.
"The American people want us to
keep the government running
while cutting its cost," Black said
On Saturday, Obama appealed
for common ground in his weekly
radio and Internet address. He
said he's willing to make deeper
spending cuts if Congress can
compromise on a budget deal that
would end the threat of a
government shutdown.
But his remarks lacked specifics
on how to bridge the $50 billion
gulf that divides the White House
and Democratic budget proposal
from the deeper reductions
offered by Republicans.
The competing plans are headed
for test votes in the Senate in the
coming week; neither is expected
to survive, setting the stage for
further negotiations.
The government is running on a
temporary spending bill that
expires March 18, so the parties
have until then to come up with a
plan to pay for the remainder of
the budget year through
September.
"We need to come together,
Democrats and Republicans,
around a long-term budget that
sacrifices wasteful spending
without sacrificing the job-
creating investments in our
future," Obama said.
"My administration has already
put forward specific cuts that
meet congressional Republicans
halfway. And I'm prepared to do
more," said Obama.
But the claim that Democrats are
meeting Republicans halfway
only stands up under the
Democratic explanation of the
intricate numbers game being
played on Capitol Hill.
"We'll only finish the job together
— by sitting at the same table,
working out our differences and
finding common ground," the
president said.
Facing a federal deficit of $1.6
trillion, Republican leaders are
under pressure from tea partiers to
stick to a deep lineup of $61
billion in spending cuts for the
current budget year that's been
passed by the GOP-controlled
House.
Obama has threatened to veto
that plan, and a Democratic offer
of $6.5 billion in cuts — on top of
$4 billion already signed into law
— restores money the House
GOP cuts from education, health
and other programs.
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Clueless About Budget
Realities
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Submitted at 3/5/2011 4:07:58 AM
Saturday, 05 Mar 2011 10:07
AM
By Henry J. Reske
The American public is
demanding serious cuts in the
federal budget while remaining
ignorant about what is actually in
the budget. Poll after poll has
shown that the public believes the
country's deficit woes can be
solved by cutting foreign aid and
reducing waste and fraud when in
actuality those areas account for
miniscule parts of the budget, the
Washington Post reports.
Recent public opinion polls show
that large numbers of the
American public believe that 42
percent of every federal dollar is
wasted, that three-quarters want
cuts to foreign aid that the
majority believes sucks up more
than 25 percent of the budget. In
reality, estimates on fraud and
abuse show it is small and foreign
aid amounts to about 1 percent of
the budget, a Post fact check
showed.
Programs such as Medicare,
Medicaid and Social Security
consume about 40 percent of the
budget, followed by the military
at about 25 percent. Domestic
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discretionary spending takes up
just over 12 percent and interest
on debt 6.5 percent, the Post said.
A recent study by the University
of Maryland found that when
presented with the facts on the
budget, Democrats were in favor
of "cutting spending more than
Republicans -- and members of
both parties agreeing to raise
taxes." "There should be little
excuse for not knowing the basic
facts about how the U.S.
government spends taxpayers'
money," the Post concluded.
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Obama to GOP: Let's 'Step Up Our Poll: Big Entitlement

Game' and Nail Budget Deal Cuts Not a Cure for
Tom Diemer (Politics Daily) administration countered with an budget, proposed for 2012,
Submitted at 3/5/2011 9:45:00 AM offer to cut $6.5 billion on top of
$4 billion included in the current
"doesn't match his words" about
government living within its
Deficit
Correspondent President Obama stopgap budget. That leaves a $50 means, said Rep. Diane Black (R- (Newsmax - Inside Cover)
said Saturday he has already met billion void for the Senate to Tenn.) "It continues out of control Submitted at 3/5/2011 4:02:34 AM

Republicans halfway in the on- cover in the next two weeks. spending, it adds to our $14
going budget dispute and is "We need to come together trillion debt and it adds to the Saturday, 05 Mar 2011 10:02
"prepared to do more" in an effort around a long-term budget that uncertainty that makes it harder to AM
to responsibly cut spending and sacrifices wasteful spending create jobs," Black said. By Charles J. Little
avoid a government shutdown without sacrificing the job- Obama delivered his statement Nearly two-thirds of self-
later this month. creating investments in our from a high school classroom in described tea party supporters
A temporary two-budget that future... we'll only finish the job Miami during a visit to Florida reject “significant” cuts to Social
kept the trains running expires on together by sitting at the same Friday. Watch it here. Filed Security as a way to close the
federal deficit, according to a new survey with Democrat Peter Hart.
March 18 as Republicans and table, working out our differences Under: Senate, House, Democrats,
Wall Street Journal/NBC News The support for means testing
Democrats wrangle over how and finding common ground," the Republicans, Budget, Education,
poll. The overall margin for and later retirement gave hope to
much to trim from a longer-term president said. "... And it can't be Obama Administration, Congress,
preserving entitlements is even one Social Security trustee,
plan that would fund government just about how much we cut. It's Conservatives, Deficit, Barack
higher, with nearly three-quarters former Bush administration
operations through Sept. 30, the got to be about how we cut and Obama
of respondents “across all age official Chuck Blahous, who said
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Jean-Jacques Jihad
Submitted at 3/5/2011 3:00:34 AM
There is a reason leftists and
Islamists collaborate:
totalitarianism.
T he one thing that absolutely
could not be tolerated was true
freedom, the liberty of the
individual. For Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, the “social compact”
would otherwise be “an empty
formula.” The irreducible core of
the utopia he envisioned, the
“undertaking which alone can
give force to the rest,” was quite
simply this: “Whoever refuses to
obey the general will shall be
compelled to do so by the whole
body.”
Ah, yes, the “general will.” For
this, every modern totalitarian
movement is indebted to the 18th-
century Genevan philosopher who
claimed, in The Social Contract,
that a man’s compulsory servitude
to the state -- the embodiment of
this general will -- “means
nothing less than that he will be
forced to be free.” Rousseau was
what we today call “Orwellian”
long before there was an Orwell.
“Freedom” was nothing more than
submission.
That is why Rousseau so admired
Islam.
#ad#The history of Islam and the
modern Left is one of cooperation
when there is some obstacle to
their divergent concepts of “social
justice” and the perfect society.
These are always marriages of
convenience, enduring no longer
than the enemy that drives them
into each other’s arms. But,
reliably, it is they -- the Islamists
and the leftists -- who come
together when there is a third
party in the mix. Rarely will one
collude with a common enemy
against the other. Today, the
common enemy of Islamists and
leftists is individual liberty,
especially the social, economic,
and political freedom guaranteed
by the American Constitution, as
conceived by the Framers.
Conceived, that is, by men who
saw government as a necessary
evil to be rigorously limited lest it
devour true freedom -- not as an
essential good to be empowered
for the very purpose of enforcing
servitude.
Collaborations between Islamists
and leftists -- past examples and
those happening right before our
eyes -- are numerous, so much so
that I admit to being
dumbfounded by the frequency of
the question of whether they
really happen. That there is
collusion is undeniable.
That collusion is a major theme
of my book The Grand Jihad:
How Islam and the Left Sabotage
America-- “grand jihad” and
“sabotage” being the Islamists’
own terms for what they describe
as their plan to “destroy Western
civilization.” By the time the book
was published last spring, the
Center for Constitutional Rights, a
New Left flagship created by
radical lawyer William Kunstler
in the 1960s, had spent nearly a
decade spearheading the
representation of jihadists
captured making war against the
United States. The Muslim Public
Affairs Council (MPAC) -- whose
founders were ardent admirers of
Hezbollah and the Muslim
Brotherhood, and whose current
executive director said, right after
the 9/11 attacks, that “we should
put the State of Israel on the
suspect list” -- was at the forefront
of Islamist organizations then
campaigning for the enactment of
Obamacare, when MPAC wasn’t
otherwise occupied by the
numerous executive-branch
agencies that regularly seek its
input on any number of issues.
This should have been no
surprise, for history is littered
with Islamist/leftist
confederations -- e.g., the Muslim
Brotherhood’s support of the
military coup led by Soviet
puppet Gamal Abdel Nasser to
overthrow the British-backed
Egyptian monarchy; the avowed
“Islamic socialism” of the
Pakistan People’s Party; the blend
of Islamists and leftists that has
always composed the Palestine
Liberation Organization. Let’s say
that this hadn’t been the case,
though. Let’s pretend that the last
30 years hadn’t seen everything
from Iranian Communists rallying
to support Khomeini’s revolution
to last summer’s “peace flotilla,”
a joint effort by Islamist
operatives and avowed
Communists such as Bill Ayers to
break Israel’s blockade of Hamas-
controlled Gaza. The everyday
cooperation between Islamists and
leftists right under our noses
would still be manifest.
The interesting question is not
whether it occurs, but why. To
anyone who studies the matter, as
the liberty-loving Muslim
reformer Zuhdi Jasser has, the
Islamist enthusiasm for statist
schemes like Obamacare is easy
to decode. Islamist organizations
are collectivist groups, Dr. Jasser
explains. They fall squarely in
line with the socialist platform of
the Muslim Brotherhood, which
is, as Dr. Jasser puts it, to
“increase the power of
government through entitlement
programs, increased taxation, and
restricting free markets whenever
and wherever possible.” That
platform is the legacy of
Brotherhood founder Hassan al-
Banna and of Sayyid Qutb, the
Brotherhood’s most formidable
theoretician. Decades after their
deaths, both these men remain
required reading for budding
Islamist activists in Brotherhood-
inspired redoubts like the Muslim
Student Association, the Islamic
Society of North America, and the
International Institute of Islamic
Thought.
An animating goal of these
organizations is to have Islamic
principles recognized by
government and enforced through
the state’s coercive power. These
principles needn’t be known as
“Islamic” any more than leftist
pieties are advertised as “leftist.”
They need only reflect what
Islamists, like leftists, call “social
justice.”
#page#This is perhaps most
clearly illustrated in Qutb’s tract,
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Social Justice in Islam. The book
teaches that Islam is about the
collective, and that those who
resist the Muslim ummah must, as
Rousseau would have said, be
“forced to be free.” According to
Qutb, “integrating” humanity in
“an essential unity” under sharia
is “a prerequisite for true and
complete human life, even
justifying the use of force against
those who deviate from it, so that
those who wander from the true
path may be brought back to it.”
The overarching principle is the
“interdependence and solidarity of
mankind,” with the individual’s
well-being achieved by his
submission to the Islamic state.
And “whoever has lost sight of
this principle must be brought
back to it by any means.” Thus,
Qutb elaborates, sharia makes
“unbelief” a “crime” that is
“reckoned as equal in
punishment” to the “crime of
murder.” Forms of treason such as
apostasy and fomenting discord in
the ummah are capital offenses.
As in all totalitarian systems,
freedom is an illusion: security
through enslavement.
#ad#Thus is Islam virulently
opposed to capitalism, true
freedom’s economic form. Qutb
expounds on Islamic economic
tenets: Human life is demeaned
by great agglomerations of
personal wealth and by the
enrichment financiers attain by
collecting interest on loans (which
sharia forbids). These
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Arid Uka’s Gratitude
Submitted at 3/5/2011 6:00:31 AM
Multiculturalism says he’s as
German as Helmut and Franz.
Except he’s not.
A ccording to Bismarck’s best-
known maxim on Europe’s most
troublesome region, the Balkans
are not worth the bones of a single
Pomeranian grenadier. Americans
could be forgiven for harboring
similar sentiments after the
murder of two U.S. airmen in
Germany by a Kosovar Muslim.
Remember Kosovo? Me neither.
But it was big at the time,
launched by Bill Clinton in the
wake of his Monica difficulties:
Make war, not love, as the
boomers advise. So Clinton did —
and without any pesky U.N.
resolutions, or even the pretense
of seeking them. Instead, he and
Tony Blair and even Jacques
Chirac just cried “Bombs away!”
and got on with it. And the Left
didn’t mind at all — because, for
a modern Western nation, war is
only legitimate if you have no
conceivable national interest in
whatever war you’re waging.
Unlike Iraq and all its supposed
“blood for oil,” in Kosovo no one
remembers why we went in, what
the hell the point of it was, or
which side were the good guys.
(Answer: Neither.) The principal
rationale advanced by Clinton and
Blair was that there was no
rationale. This was what they
called “liberal interventionism,”
which boils down to: The fact that
we have no reason to get into it
justifies our getting into it.
#ad#A decade on, Kosovo is a
sorta sovereign state, and in
Frankfurt a young airport
employee is so grateful for what
America did for his people that he
guns down U.S. servicemen while
yelling “Allahu akbar!” The
strange shrunken spectator who
serves as president of the United
States, offering what he called “a
few words about the tragic event
that took place,” announced that
he was “saddened,” and expressed
his “gratitude for the service of
those who were lost” and would
“spare no effort” to “work with
the German authorities” but it was
a “stark reminder” of the
“extraordinary sacrifices that our
men and women in uniform are
making#...#”
The passivity of these remarks is
very telling. Men and women “in
uniform” (which it’s not clear
these airmen were even wearing)
understand they may be called
upon to make “extraordinary
sacrifices” in battle. They do not
expect to be “lost” on the shuttle
bus at the hands of a civilian
employee at a passenger air
terminal in an allied nation. But
then I don’t suppose their
comrades expected to be “lost” at
the hands of an army major at
Fort Hood, to cite the last “tragic
event” that “took place” — which
seems to be the president’s
preferred euphemism for a guy
opening fire while screaming
“Allahu akbar!” But relax, this
fellow in Frankfurt was most
likely a “lone wolf” (as Sen.
Chuck Schumer described the
Times Square bomber) or an
“isolated extremist” (as the
president described the Christmas
Day Pantybomber). There are so
many of these “lone wolves” and
“isolated extremists” you may
occasionally wonder whether
they’ve all gotten together and
joined Local 473 of the
Amalgamated Union of Lone
Wolves and Isolated Extremists,
but don’t worry about it: As any
Homeland Security official can
tell you, “Allahu akbar” is Arabic
for “Nothing to see here.”
Bismarck’s second best known
maxim on the region is that the
Balkans start in the slums of
Vienna. The Habsburg imperial
capital was a protean
“multicultural society” wherein
festered the ancient grievances of
many diverse peoples. Today, the
Muslim world starts in the
suburbs of Frankfurt. Those U.S.
airmen were killed by Arid Uka,
whose Muslim Albanian parents
emigrated from Kosovo decades
ago. Young Arid was born and
bred in Germany. He is a German
citizen who holds a German
passport. He is, according to
multicultural theory, as German
as Fritz and Helmut and Hans.
Except he’s not. Not when it
counts.
Why isn’t he a fully functioning
citizen of the nation he’s spent his
entire life in? Well, that’s a tricky
one.
#page#Okay, why is a Muslim
who wants to kill Americans
holding down a job at a European
airport? That’s slightly easier to
answer. Almost every problem
facing the Western world, from
self-detonating jihadists to
America’s own suicide bomb —
the multi-trillion-dollar debt —
has at its root a remorseless
demographic arithmetic. In the
U.S., the baby boomers did not
have enough children to maintain
their mid-20th-century social
programs. I see that recent polls
supposedly show that huge
majorities of Americans don’t
want any modifications to
Medicare or Social Security. So
what? It doesn’t matter what you
“want.” The country’s broke, and
you can vote yourself
unsustainable quantities of
government lollipops all you like,
but all you’re doing is ensuring
that when, eventually, you’re
obliged to reacquaint yourself
with reality, the shock will be far
more devastating and convulsive.
#ad#But even with looming
bankruptcy America still looks
pretty sweet if you’re south of the
border. Last week, the former
director of the U.S. Census
Bureau, Steve Murdock, told the
Houston Chronicle that in Texas
“it’s basically over for Anglos.”
He pointed out that two out of
every three children are already
“non-Anglo,” and that this gap
will widen even further in the
years ahead. Remember the
Alamo? Why bother? America
won the war, but Mexico won the
peace. In the Lone Star State,
Murdock envisions a future in
which millions of people with
minimal skills will be competing
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for ever fewer jobs paying less in
actual dollars and cents than they
would have earned in the year
2000. That doesn’t sound a recipe
for social tranquility.
What’s south of Europe’s border?
Why, it’s even livelier. In Libya,
there are presently 1 million
refugees from sub-Saharan Africa
whose ambition is to get in a boat
to Italy. There isn’t a lot to stop
them. Between now and mid-
century, Islam and sub-Saharan
Africa will be responsible for
almost all the world’s population
growth — and yet, aside from a
few thousand layabout Saudi
princes whoring in Mayfair, they
will enjoy almost none of the
world’s wealth. Niger had 10
million people in 2000, and half a
million of them were starving
children. By 2010, they had 15
million, and more children were
starving. By 2100, they’re
predicted to hit 100 million. But
they won’t — because it would be
unreasonable to expect an extra
90 million people to stay in a
country that can’t feed a
population a tenth that size. So
they will look elsewhere — to
countries with great infrastructure,
generous welfare, and among the
aging natives a kind of
civilizational wasting disease so
advanced that, as a point of moral
virtue, they are incapable of
enforcing their borders.
The nations that built the modern
world decided to outsource their
future. In simple economic terms,
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JEAN-JACQUES
continued from page 67
arrangements are said to enslave
debtors and the working classes,
making men the gods of other
men. To be sure, Islam endorses
private property -- nominally --
and it is less indifferent than the
Left about incentivizing human
achievement. But this is only
because individual achievement is
ultimately a corporate asset,
increasing the dominance of the
ummah. The property “owner” is
merely a custodian; his wealth
belongs to Allah. It is subject to
confiscation by Allah’s agent on
earth, the Islamic state, for what is
deemed to be the collective good
of the Muslim Nation.
This is Islam’s version of the
general will: sharia’s enforcement
of the central conceit that there is
no God but Allah. Freedom, for
Qutb, was a release from the
servitude of men to men. Not,
however, a release from all
servitude. Freedom was
“submission” to Allah -- and not
just spiritual submission, but total
submission. Authority in Islam is
unitary and indivisible. It
recognizes no distinctions
between the sacred and the
secular. Sharia is not simply a set
of spiritual principles. Islam is a
comprehensive political,
economic, social, and military
program with its own legal code,
governing every aspect of life.
There can be no
compartmentalizing or narrowing.
To narrow the breadth of sharia --
as Qutb put it, “to confine Islam
to the emotions and ritual cycles,
and to bar it from participating in
the activity of life, and to check
its complete dominance over
every human secular activity” --
would reduce it to something
other than the divine law. It would
no longer be Islam. Therefore,
mankind is not at liberty to
constrict Allah’s law, much less to
enact provisions that contradict it.
Legislatures in the Islamic state
are not democratic in the Western
sense, even if they have been
elected by the community. In a
sharia state, as Brotherhood guide
Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi has
observed, legislators don’t really
legislate; they are merely vessels
of the divine law, which has
substantially been set in stone for
more than a millennium.
In Islam, it is Allah’s sharia that
fills the role of Rousseau’s
general will. Thus did Qutb
observe of Rousseau’s great
upheaval, the French Revolution,
that what it “theoretically
established by human laws . . .
was established as a matter of
practice by Islam in a profound
and elevated form more than
fourteen centuries earlier.”
Such symmetry had not been lost
on Rousseau, for whom statism
would be the “religion of the
citizen.” Above all, it would
merge the sacred and the secular
under a single authority. As in the
pagan states of antiquity,
Rousseau’s vision of the ideal
regime included
its gods, its own tutelary patrons;
it has its dogmas, its rites, and its
external cult prescribed by law;
outside the single nation that
follows it, all the world is in its
sight infidel, foreign and
barbarous; the duties and rights of
man extend for it only as far as its
own altars.
The similarity to Qutb’s Islam is
striking. For the Islamist, all the
world is divided into
irreconcilable spheres: the perfect
social justice of Dar al-Islam, the
realm of the Muslims, and the
unenlightened darkness so
tellingly called Dar al-Harb, “the
realm of war” -- infidel, foreign,
and barbarous.
Small wonder, then, that
Rousseau lavished praise on
Islam. But not just any Islam; his
accolades were reserved for the
early Muslims, Islam’s first
generations. “Mahomet held very
sane views,” Rousseau opined in
The Social Contract. The prophet
“linked his political system well
together,” the civil and the
spiritual as one. “As long as the
form of his government continued
under the caliphs who succeeded
him, that government was indeed
one, and so far good.” It was only
when “the Arabs” departed from
this model -- when, “having
grown prosperous, lettered,
civilised, slack and cowardly,”
they were “conquered by
barbarians” -- that Islam fell
victim to what Rousseau (and
Qutb) saw as the Christian
dystopia: “the division between
the two powers” of religion and
the state.
The Muslim Brotherhood, it
bears remembering, preaches a
Salafist ideology: a retrenchment
to the principles of the salafia, the
“rightly guided caliphs” who were
Mohammed’s immediate
successors. The reform of Islam
urged by Banna and Qutb was a
purge of the same barbaric
influences -- particularly Western,
Judeo-Christian influences -- that
Rousseau had seen as so
corrupting.
Islamists and leftists have several
significant differences. Qutb saw
communism as far preferable to
capitalism but too obsessed with
an economic determinism that
discounted the spiritual. The two
camps part company on the
equality of women and of non-
Muslims, on matters of sexual
liberty, and on abortion. If the
world were populated only by
Islamists and leftists, they could
not coexist. Their marriages of
convenience can have savagely
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unhappy endings once the
common enemy that has drawn
them together has been overcome.
In Egypt, the Islamists were
brutally persecuted by Nasser; in
Iran, the secular leftists were
routed by Khomeini.
Nevertheless, for all their
differences, what unites Islamists
and leftists is stronger than what
presently divides them. They both
support totalitarian systems. They
would both attempt to recreate
mankind, intending to perfect us
by indenturing us to their utopian
schemes. Their general will
cannot abide free will. They both
abhor individual liberty,
unfettered reason, freedom of
conscience, equality of
opportunity rather than result, and
bourgeois values that inculcate a
devotion to bedrock Western
principles and traditions.
That is why Islamists and leftists
work together. It is why they will
continue working together as long
as there is resistance.
— 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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Government Shutdown? So What? continued from page 68

the arithmetic is stark: In

Submitted at 3/4/2011 4:00:31 PM
Reading through various reports overspending, borrowing, and The message from the states is America, the boomers have
from the Wall Street Journal and taxing than it was in 1995. Most clear: Lower spending is condemned their shrunken
It’s a minuscule price to be paid Washington Post, you get the important, taxpayers will benefit necessary a) to stop the progeny to the certainty of poorer,
f o r f i n a n c i a l s o l v e n c y a n d sense that no great harm will from a shutdown. That’s the key bankruptcy and b) to return meaner lives. In sociocultural
economic growth. come from a shutdown. Social point. And voters will reward taxpayer money to citizens, small terms, the transformation will be
A ccording to news reports, Security checks will be mailed. leadership. businesses, and families. Each even greater. Bismarck, so shrewd
T e a m O b a m a a n d H o u s e Other benefit payments will be So this is a moment when GOP spending-cut dollar in effect and cynical about the backward
Republicans are at least $50 met. Air-traffic controllers will do promises to slash spending must translates to an equivalent tax-cut Balkans, was also the father of the
billion apart in the budget their jobs. Border protection and be kept. dollar. That’s pro-growth, pro- modern welfare state: When he
negotiations for FY2011. I’m military operations will continue. But let me reiterate: Any budget jobs, pro-lower-unemployment, introduced the old-age pension,
willing to bet that Team Obama Uniformed military personnel will deal should include some clear and pro-financial-prudence. you had to be 65 to collect and
and Senate Democrats won’t be exempted. The Post Office will rules on budget-spending But Washington Republicans Prussian life expectancy was 45.
agree to even $20 billion in do its business uninterrupted. And limitation. Several Republican must join the state-by-state battle Now life expectancy has near
spending cuts. incoming revenues can be senators, including Bob Corker by waging their own war against doubled, you get your pension a
And that’s a far cry from the designated for interest payment on and Mike Lee, want to limit bankruptcy, high taxes, and decade earlier, and, in a vain
GOP’s annualized $100 billion the debt. federal spending as a share of the overwhelming debt. attempt to make that deformed
pledge-to-America mark, and an Doesn’t sound that bad to me. It economy to around 20 percent. Frankly, a government shutdown math add up, Bismarck’s
e v e n f a r t h e r c r y f r o m t h e sure isn’t the end of the world. Today it stands at 25 percent. If a in Washington is a minuscule successors moved the old East/
hundreds of billions of dollars in Back in the the early ’80s, when I proper spending-limit rule were price to be paid for the greater West faultline from the Balkans to
cuts that are necessary over the s e r v e d i n t h e O M B u n d e r put in place, strict budget-cutting good of financial solvency and the main street of every German
next five to ten years. As I recall, President Reagan, we went penalties would be automatically economic growth. If the city.
the Simpson-Bowles deficit through several brief government triggered when the rule is broken. Republicans can’t get the right Americans sometimes wonder
commission suggested more than shutdowns. Yes, the Washington This kind of budget rule is deal for full-fledged spending cuts why, two decades after the
$1 trillion in cuts to the domestic Monument and a bunch of public essential to any deal. The GOP and a clear budget-limitation rule collapse of the Warsaw Pact, the
discretionary baseline over ten parks closed. So what? Non- should not settle for anything less. with severe budget-cutting U.S. Army still lives in Germany.
years. I think the Paul Ryan plan essential personnel got a holiday. Why? Because this is the moment. penalties, they should go ahead The day is approaching when they
would do the same. The rest of us had to work. This is the upshot of last fall’s and shut down the federal will move out — if only to avoid
# a d # S u r e l y t h e T e a P a r t y But non-essential programs were elections. government. any more “tragic events” “taking
advocates will push the GOP to not funded during the shutdown, Governors like John Kasich in Message to House Republicans: place.”
stay on message and stay the and their unused budgets were Ohio, Scott Walker in Wisconsin, Don’t pull your punches. Hang — Mark Steyn, a National
c o u r s e . T h a t ’ s w h a t l a s t subsequently rescinded. Savings Rick Scott in Florida, Mitch tough. Stand tall. Review columnist, is author of
November’s elections were all were significant. Daniels in Indiana, and Chris -- Larry Kudlow, NRO’s America Alone.© 2010 Mark
about. And if a satisfactory deal Of course, in the event of a Christie in New Jersey are making Economics Editor, is host of Steyn. Mark Steyn
cannot be reached, one that keeps shutdown, the political blame- the good taxpayer fight to curb CNBC’s The Kudlow Report and
the GOP spending-cut pledge and game will run full hog, like it did spending with strict limits on author of the daily web blog,
includes a spending-limit rule during the mid-1990s. But the government unions -- even if Kudlow’s Money Politic$. Larry
with real teeth, then why not shut public mood today is far more government shutdowns are part of Kudlow
down the government? hostile to big-government the battle.
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Education’s Federal Compliance Burden

Lindsey Burke (The Foundry: and local school leaders. The one school district out of the
Conservative Policy News.) GAO discovered states employed 13,924 school districts in
Submitted at 3/4/2011 5:30:43 PM 13,400 full-time individuals to America.
implement federal education For LCPS, this required 532
Posted March 4th, 2011 at programs. At the time, the federal hours of staff time at an estimated
6:30pm in Education Print This government imposed 41 percent cost of $25,370, which translates
Post of the administrative burden, yet into diverting 82 instructional
O n T u e s d a y , t h e H o u s e paid just 7 percent of the total days away from students.
Education and the Workforce cost. Hatrick’s example is just one of
Committee held a full committee While those figures are over a many that could be found to
hearing on the impact of the decade old, the situation hasn’t illustrate the burden handed down
federal government’s role in improved. In fact, it’s gotten from Washington and placed on
education; the mandates handed worse. … States and local school states and schools.
down from Washington, the districts work 7.8 million hours In order to limit much of this
associated paperwork burden, and e a c h y e a r c o l l e c t i n g a n d bureaucracy, state and local
the hurdles created for teachers d i s s e m i n a t i n g i n f o r m a t i o n leaders should be empowered to
and schools as a result. (If that required under Title I of federal direct how their education dollars
sounds like a handful, it is.) education law. Those hours cost are spent. Allowing states to opt
The hearing’s $64,000 question more than $235 million. The children, would put education you an example. The Office of out of heavy-handed federal
was whether these regulations burden is tremendous. back on this path. Civil Rights (OCR) reporting programs would help focus more
have led to improvements in As Congress considers During the hearing, Edgar B. requirement comes with no dollars and manpower where
academic achievement. The reauthorizing the Elementary and H a t r i c k , S u p e r i n t e n d e n t o f f u n d i n g a n d i g n o r e s t h e they’re most needed: in the
answer, not surprisingly, seems to Secondary Education Act (now Loudon County Public Schools in availability of this information classroom.
be no. Congressman John Kline known as No Child Left Behind), Virginia, also testified on the from State Education Agencies. This entry passed through the
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The nation’s education system is decision making to state and local requirements. His testimony was aggregating and disaggregating our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
clearly broken, despite escalating leaders in order to reduce much of enlightening: more than twelve categories of content-only/faq.php
intervention by policymakers in t h i s f e d e r a l r e g u l a t i o n a n d When compliance with reporting data, with more than 144 fields Five Filters featured article:
Washington over the last 40 years. bureaucracy. Proposals such as A- requirements becomes the focus for each of our 50 elementary Comment Is Free But Freedom Is
I n 1 9 9 4 t h e G o v e r n m e n t PLUS, which would allow states of implementation it sends a schools and 263 fields of data for Slavery - An Exchange With The
Accountability Office conducted a t o o p t o u t o f m a n y o f t h e powerful message that the process each of our 24 secondary schools, Guardian's Economics Editor.
review of federal education programs funded under NCLB is more important than the f o r a t o t a l o f 1 3 , 9 4 4 d a t a
regulations at the K-12 level and and direct federal dollars in a way product. … I’d like to share with elements. And this was just for
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New Survey on Abstinence and Sexual Activity: The Good

News and the Bad News
Rachel Sheffield (The Foundry: academically, are more likely to of children at greater risk for a
Conservative Policy News.) attend and graduate from college, host of social problems.
Submitted at 3/4/2011 7:00:39 PM have better emotional health, are While it is good news that teens
less likely to contract sexually in the United States seem to be
Posted March 4th, 2011 at transmitted diseases, and are also realizing that abstinence is the
8:00pm in Family and Religion protected from becoming a single best choice for their good, it
Print This Post parent: a factor linked with a remains critical that young adults
On Thursday, The Washington significantly increased rate of understand the importance of
Post heralded the findings of a poverty. marriage as well.
new survey reporting on sexual Furthermore, the Post also notes To encourage strong marriages,
activity in the United States. that the rate of teen pregnancy has we should place increased
While the study pronounced such declined since the 1990s. This is attention on supporting healthy
positive findings as an increase in also good news. marriage in low-income
abstinence among teens and However, the majority of births communities. Policymakers
college-age adults and a decrease among single women occur to should also eliminate laws that
in teen pregnancy, there is bleaker females who are in their 20s. And penalize marriage. Healthy
story that cannot be ignored: the this rate has soared since the marriage and family are essential
ever-increasing rate of unwed 1960s. becoming dependent on persist even after adjusting for for a strong civil society and a
childbearing in the United States. Today, over 40 percent of government welfare. Of all differences in family income … prosperous nation.
On Thursday, the U.S. Centers children are born outside of families with children dependent [indicating] that the father brings This entry passed through the
f o r D i s e a s e C o n t r o l a n d marriage. Among black and on these programs, nearly 75 more to his home than just a Full-Text RSS service — if this is
Prevention released its seventh Hispanic populations, this number percent are those headed by single paycheck.” your content and you're reading it
round of the National Survey of is significantly higher at roughly women. Unfortunately, however, many of on someone else's site, please read
Family Growth. The Post notes: 70 percent and 50 percent, Beyond the financial these single mothers—often from our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
Among 15-to-24-year-olds, 29 respectively. implications, children in single- low-income communities—never content-only/faq.php
percent of females and 27 percent The high rate of single-parent parent homes are at greater risk of receive the message on the Five Filters featured article:
of males reported no sexual f a m i l i e s i s d e v a s t a t i n g f o r experiencing a variety of social benefits of marriage when it Comment Is Free But Freedom Is
contact with another person children, families, and society. and behavioral problems. While comes to having children. In Slavery - An Exchange With The
ever—up from the 22 percent of Children born to single mothers some of these problems are many low-income communities, Guardian's Economics Editor.
both sexes when the survey was are nearly five times more likely connected to the higher poverty the concept of childbearing has
last conducted in 2002. to live in poverty than are children rates in single-mother homes, “ become separated from marriage.
This is good news. A wide swath born to married parents. As a improvements in child well-being And the results are tragic: high
of research shows that youth who result, these families are at that are associated with marriage rates of poverty and a generation
r e m a i n a b s t i n e n t d o b e t t e r significantly greater risk of
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Preserving the Peace: Modernize

Now, Save Later
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Foundry: Conservative Policy
News.)
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Supporting America’s armed
forces in times of war and peace
is a fundamental obligation of
government as part of its
responsibility to provide for the
common defense and protect the
nation. A decade of combat
operations and two decades of
Dog: Man’s Best
underinvestment have left the
U.S. military too small and
inadequately equipped to meet all
insufficient in number. Meeting George Washington asserted in
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upon men and women in uniform.
the military’s full modernization
requirements will “require a
substantial and immediate
his First Annual Message,
delivered in 1790, the “most
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Last summer, a bipartisan Charlie White (Mashable!) via social networks between
additional investment that is peace” is “to be prepared for
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sustained through the long term.” war.”
“train wreck” if Congress does among 407 adults with even
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meet tomorrow’s needs, the tools
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of national security must be
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6 Successful SXSW Startup Launch Stories

Sarah Kessler (Mashable!) Without further ado, here are five sponsored by Microsoft Bizspark, Community Lead. 6. Tim Ferriss
Submitted at 3/5/2011 9:24:42 AM companies (and an author) that is a two-day competition in which Author Tim Ferriss gave a
have effectively leveraged the selected startups pitch to a panel presentation about his first book,
As part of this year’s SXSWi, multi-industry conference into a of VC and angel investor judges The Four-Hour Workweek at
Mashable presents the Mashable launchpad for their success. 1. something ready to launch at for a grand prize of a “most SXSW 2007 in an overflow room
SXSWi House, featuring private Twitter SXSW — it gave us a deadline to innovative” title. But it’s more that could seat a mere 100 people.
events, open houses, meet-and- Although Twitter is probably the shoot for,” says co-founder than that. But that talk, combined with some
greet opportunities and two nights most-cited company when it Naveen Selvadurai. “We weren’t “The night before the Accelerator minor marketing efforts, was
of parties. Learn more here and comes to SXSW launches, it’s not sure if people were going to presentation, all participants were enough to launch his career.
register for public events on e x a c t l y t r u e . “ C o n t r a r y t o embrace us or laugh us out of the invited to an event called Tech “If I had not gone to SXSW, I
Eventbrite. common belief, we didn’t actually room for features like badges and Cocktail, where Accelerator almost definitively can say that I
Startups vie for a chance to be launch Twitter at SXSW — mayorships, but everyone in s t a r t u p s w e r e g i v e n t h e would not have been able to build
part of the SXSW Accelerator SXSW just chose to blow it up,” Austin really seemed to get it.” opportunity to mix and mingle the writing career that I did, nor
competition for the opportunity it wrote Twitter co-founder Evan The startup raised its first round with the very same VCs and angel the startup, investing and advising
brings — 41% of the companies Williams in a Quora response to of funding six months after its investors they would be pitching career that I did,” he says. “I
that have participated in the first the question, “What is the process SXSW launch. 3. PhoneBooth to 24 hours later,” says Jonathan really view that first SXSW as a
t w o c o m p e t i t i o n s r e c e i v e d involved in launching a startup at Free Hunt, GameSalad’s director of pivotal inflection point for me.”
funding after the event. Only 40 SXSW?” Phonebooth sent a team of 11 and communications. “Within one Ferriss says size doesn’t matter
companies are selected, but that Even though Twitter had shipped five phone booths to hour, GameSalad had secured its when it comes to audience. What
doesn’t mean your startup can’t launched nine months prior to its SXSW 2010 for the launch of its first investment check.” matters is that you talk with the
make a splash in Austin. Just d e b u t a t S X S W 2 0 0 7 , t h e free small business calling Hunt attributes more than $1 right people and make a strong
being at SXSWi and exposing a conference did help the micro- service, Phonebooth Free. “The million in investments over the impact on those people — which
solid product to the conference’s b l o g g i n g p l a t f o r m g a i n booth itself drove hundreds of next five months directly to the he did for his 100-person crowd.
14,000 attendees and a 1,500- m o m e n t u m . people to sign up for Phonebooth Accelerator contest. Since then, “If you hit the right 100 people at
person-strong media swarm can According to Williams, Twitter Free on the spot, and they told the company has tripled in size, SXSW with Twitter and so forth,
ignite a business. paid $11,000 to put a visualization their friends about the product, and more than 2% of the games you can effectively hit everyone
But it can’t be engineered with of the service on flat-panel too,” says Phonebooth Senior currently available on the Apple there if you have a strong
snazzy swag and marketing screens in the hallways (“We Vice President and General App Store were built on its impression,” he says.
dollars — you have to have great knew hallways were where the Manager Jim Mulcahy. “The platform. 5. Foodspotting [Disclosure: Microsoft BizSpark
credibility and a great product. action was,” he says), and created launch at SXSW got us several Foodspotting was a finalist in the is a Mashable sponsor.] Join
“As a marketer, I’m happy to call an event-specific feature that thousand users within the first two 2010 SXSW Accelerator. The Mashable at the Mashable SXSWi
out other marketers who think that allowed attendees to text a days and a ton of visibility with company, which makes it easy for House
SXSW launch success can be message in order to sign up press and influencers. By the end foodies to share photos of dished, If you’re going to be at SXSWi,
engineered or bought — it has to automatically and follow a of March, we were still seeing the launched its iPhone app just join Mashable at the Mashable
instead be earned with so much handful of “ambassadors” at effects of the SXSW launch on before the event. It is taking the SXSWi House. Located at
elbow grease and good will,” SXSW. 2. Foursquare n e w - u s e r a c q u i s i t i o n . ” 4 . same approach this year with its Buffalo Billiards, the Mashable
explains Josh Jones-Dilworth, Foursquare is another of the most GameSalad Android app. SXSWi House is hosting a variety
who has worked on SXSW’s PR well-known SXSW launches — Free game creation tool “We found that the most of public and private events such
a n d s e r v e s o n t h e S X S W but unlike Twitter, the location- GameSalad participated in the important thing for us was being as VIP dinners, the Geek Games,
Accelerator advisory board. “If based service actually did launch SXSW Accelerator in 2009. At present at SXSW and having open networking opportunities
a n y t h i n g , S X S W - g o e r s a r e at the event. “We started building t h e t i m e , i t h a d j u s t f i v e people see our “I Camera Food” t- and parties, including the third
marketing-averse, super-savvy Foursquare in late 2008, but we employees and was searching for shirts — gaining that brand annual MashBash SXSWi party
and able to triage credibility (or really kicked things into gear in funding to expand. awareness and exposure is key,”
lack thereof) with a sniff.” early 2009 so we’d have The Accelerator, which is says Fiona Tang, Foodspotting’s SUCCESSFUL page 77
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What the Egyptian Revolution Taught Al Jazeera About

Digital
Adam Ostrow (Mashable!) people didn’t protest because of people e-mail their cable
Submitted at 3/4/2011 11:28:36 PM Twitter,” he said. providers requesting they carry
That said, the network quickly the channel, and more than 7,000
Much has been made of the role discovered how it could more Twitter uses tweeted with the
that social media played in the effectively use Twitter as the #demandaljazeera hashtag.
Egyptian revolution, including the crisis in Egypt escalated. In spite of the success stories and
way international news network Nanabhay said, “When you go to his role in formulating digital
Al Jazeera used social media in its 24/7 rolling news, the way people strategy — including getting the
reporting. But the crisis also e x p e c t t h e i r c o n t e n t t o b e network on YouTube way back in
taught the organization a number delivered is different. We used to 2007 — Nanabhay still views Al
of lessons about digital media — be hesitant to send out too many Jazeera’s first responsibility as
lessons we’ll see the impact of as updates [on Twitter]. But when reporting the news.
Al Jazeera continues to cover it’s 24/7, they want to be flooded; “What’s behind [our social media
ongoing turmoil in other parts of they want to know [even if it’s not success] is excellence in world-
the Middle East. big news].” class journalism. The social
“ I ’ v e a l w a y s p u s h e d o u r Noticing this trend, Al Jazeera media campaigns have been
newsrooms to… go out and find shifted resources to ensure that on methods to get people to watch
stuff where people are putting it every shift, the network had that content and make up their
already,” said Al Jazeera English someone whose sole task was to minds. Once you see it, you’ll be
online chief Mohamed Nanabhay, keep the Twitter feed updated. hooked and come back for more.”
w i t h w h o m w e h a d t h e The organization also began to Wadah Khanfar Speaks at TED
opportunity to speak earlier this see some of its viewers tweeting Director General of the Al
week at the TED conference in information based on its on-air Jazeera Network Wadah Khanfar
Long Beach, CA. Don’t Call It a reporting quicker than they were much time] in the lead story… but dropped off Tumblr. But then a spoke on stage at TED. You can
Facebook Revolution tweeting it on their own account. if you look at the numbers, people user put up a graphic asking Al watch his talk in the video below:
N a n a b h a y i s q u i c k t o In these cases, Nanabhay said, were on the live blog hitting Jazeera to come back, so it did; More About: al jazeera, Egypt,
acknowledge the role social media they simply started retweeting refresh. [So] we threw more and the organization have been media, middle east, social media,
played from a newsgathering their viewers. Live Blogging and resources into that,” Nanabhay updating its Tumblr ever since. TED, ted2011
perspective in Egypt, but he also Tumblr Emerge said. New Appeal With U.S. Viewers For more Media coverage:
dismisses some of the hyperbole The demand for real-time The popularity of the live blog Demand for Al Jazeera in other • Follow Mashable Media on
t h a t h a s e m e r g e d i n t h e reporting also saw Al Jazeera’s inadvertently pushed Al Jazeera places — most notably on U.S. Twitter
revolution’s aftermath. live blog grow immensely onto a new platform: Tumblr. television networks — also got a • Become a Fan on Facebook
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revolution… It’s an Egyptian were three times more people on due to heavy traffic, the company during the Egypt protests. • Download our free apps for
revolution. Social media and the live blog than on the main quickly set up shop on Tumblr to According to Nanabhay, the Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
mass media were important and story [on Al Jazeera’s homepage]. keep its updates coming. When company’s“demand Al Jazeera”
had multiplying effects, but Your editor usually invests [so its live blog came back up, it campaign saw more than 45,000
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Roger Ebert’s Inspiring Digital Transformation
Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/5/2011 12:44:07 AM
With the help of his wife, two
colleagues and the Alex-equipped
MacBook that he uses to generate
his computerized voice, famed
film critic Roger Ebert delivered
the final talk at the TED
conference on Friday in Long
Beach, California.
Prefacing his remarks with a
scene from Stanley Kubrick’s
2001: A Space Odyssey, Ebert
opened by telling the audience
that he “became operational on
June 18, 1942. [And] like HAL
9000, I also speak with a
computerized voice” — the same
remarkably realistic computerized
voice he shared with the world on
Oprah last year.
From there, Ebert and friends
took the audience on his inspiring
journey, from the near-death
experience in 2006 that left him
without a voice to his search for
the technology that creates Ebert-
sounding text-to-speech to his
present-day prolific use of social
media for sharing his commentary
on both movies and life with the
world.
Ebert credited a life-long love
affair with technology for giving
him the inspiration to both find
his “voice” and continue his
career on the Internet. “I joined
Compuserve when it had fewer
users than I have followers on
Twitter,” he joked.
“For me, the Internet began as a
useful tool and now has become
something I rely on for my actual
daily existence… [if this had
happened before], I’d be isolated
as a hermit; I’d be trapped inside
my head. Because of the digital
revolution, I have a voice, and I
do not have to scream.”
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life saver for me.”
Meanwhile, the technology that
enables Ebert to “speak”
continues to see improvements —
for example, adding more realistic
inflection for question marks and
exclamation points. In a test of
that, which Ebert called the “Ebert
test” for computerized voices, the
critic closed by telling the
audience a joke, saying, “If the
computer can successfully tell a
joke as well as Henry Youngman,
then that’s the voice I want.”
Judging by the laughter, tears and
standing ovation from the crowd
that followed as Ebert left the
T h a t ’ s n o t t o s a y E b e r t ’ s stage, it would seem that voice
e x i s t e n c e i s n o t w i t h o u t may have already arrived.
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Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad termites lurking in the walls of
You know those scanners that your apartment, and help in the
peep your naughty bits at the diagnosis of skin disease. The
airport? Well, a team of camera's creators are working on
researchers have been working on a smaller, one-sided version of the
a handheld camera that sports the device that could have mass-
same technology, and while market appeal -- we just hope this
they're touting its future impact on thing stays in R&D long enough
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