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Gallup poll gives Obama some good news on terrorism issue

By David Morgan (Front Row Washington)

46 percent. That three-point gap is well within the Jan. 8-10 survey’s 4 percentage point Submitted at 1/13/2010 7:23:42 AM sampling error. Approval is also President Barack Obama’s way down from May, when 55 approval ratings may have percent of Americans endorsed slipped in some polling data. But his handling of terrorism. there’s a tiny bit of good news But the latest numbers are up for him on an issue that his from the days before Umar Republican critics have been Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly whacking away at for weeks tried to blow up a Detroit-bound now: terrorism.

Northwest Airlines flight. Back A USA Today/Gallup poll says then, only 45 percent of the public approval for Obama’s public approved of Obama on handling of terrorism has risen terrorism, vs. 47 percent who since the Christmas Day bomb disapproved. attempt, with more Americans That’s interesting because t h a n n o t g i v i n g h i m t h e i r Republicans have been doing approval on a political issue their level best since Christmas likely to rank high in this year’s to criticize Obama’s response to congressional election campaign. the failed attack, in hopes of The numbers still aren’t great making voters think the president for the president, however. The and the Democrats are soft on thumbs up comes from less than national security. half of the public — 49 percent Bottom line? “President – a n d t h o s e e x p r e s s i n g Obama’s response to the disapproval are close behind at Christmas Day bombing attempt

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— including a review of the incident and the government’s inability to prevent it, and the outlining of new steps designed to prevent a similar occurrence — seems to have had a marginally positive effect on Americans’ views of how he is handling the terrorism issue,” Gallup said.

However, the poll has some notso-good news for Obama’s approval ratings on two key domestic issues — the economy

(40 percent) and healthcare (37 percent). The president is usually stronger on domestic issues than he is on the international front.

But Gallup called his current ratings on the economy and healthcare the lowest of his presidency to date. Those issues tend to have a more direct impact on the lives of Americans than national security and could be most important to voters come November.

Last time, 44 percent of the U.S. public approved of Obama on the economy while 40 percent supported him on healthcare.

Photo credits: Reuters/Yuri Gripas (Obama); Reuters/Chip East (Police at JFK International Airport); Reuters/Larry Downing (Unemployed workers in Virginia) Click here for more political coverage from Reuters

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission liveblog

By Reuters Staff (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 1/13/2010 5:42:13 AM

Reuters liveblog of Bank CEOs testimony before the Congressional Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission which is investigating the roots of the financial meltdown.

The Audi A8 Google Earth integration gets a video demo

By Matt Burns (CrunchGear) Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:30:04 PM

The Audi A8 is a nerdgasm on wheels. It was the only car that had a line to sit in it yesterday during the last press day at the Detroit Auto Show. So I skipped it. Shame on me. Good thing The German Car Blog was there and got a nice demo of the car’s Google Earth app.

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Presidential choices: Avatar and “resisting pie”

By Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:25:14 AM

President Barack Obama’s favorite movie is the blockbuster“Avatar” and he also likes“Away We Go.” And while first lady Michelle Obama is able to keep her iPod current with music from Grammy nominee Ledisi, the president has found it difficult to keep his selections updated.

“My iPod is kind of stuck. I just haven’t had time to sit down at a computer,” Barack Obama says in an interview with People magazine about the First Couple’s first year that will appear in the Jan. 25 issue.

“And there’s nobody that can do that for you, sir?” the magazine asked.

To which Obama replied that he could ask his aide Reggie Love to update his iPod tunes, but that request would come with another

set of issues.

“You know, there’s Reggie Love, but then all I get is Jay-Z, and I love Jay-Z, but once in a while I might want some Yo-Yo Ma or something.”

Obama says he still hasn’t fully adjusted, and hopes he never does, to life in a bubble. “Day-to -day spontaneous interactions are missing from my life.”

Beta-testing the video adsupported Free All Music

By Matt Rosoff (Webware.com) Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:36:00 PM

Free All Music began a private beta test this week, and I'm

satisfied with the value proposition, as the ad-viewing and MP3-downloading process is surprisingly painless.

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And on a personal level, what does the president want to be better at this year?

“Resisting pie.”

For more Reuters political news, click here Photo credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni (Cast member Zoe Saldana poses at premier of “Avatar”)

Help Barbie Choose Her Next Career, You Guys!

By Alissa Walker (Fast Company)

for a job and she needs your help. Choose from forwardlooking careers like Submitted at 1/13/2010 3:36:29 PM Environmentalist ("works to You know times are tough when protect the planet, conserve a best-selling plastic icon who energy, help animals and more!") has been steadily working since and Computer Engineer ("They 1959 finds herself unemployed. can do anything from building Maybe the lifeguard thing was computers to making video seasonal. Perhaps she was games!"). But we think Barbie honorably discharged as a might be exceptionally suited to Marine Corps officer. Why she be an Architect since her very gave up her lucrative career as a being is a mastery of structural soda fountain waitress, no one impossibility. knows, but we all know the We're actually kind of surprised multiple presidential runs didn't that she hasn't been a News work out. Then again, for Anchor yet, but we're not seeing someone who's had 120 jobs in a real competitive advantage for the last 50 years, that doesn't her there: She looks exactly the really show any kind of long- same as everyone else in TV term dedication, does it? news.

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Will Google stand up to France and Italy, too? | Rebecca MacKinnon

By Rebecca MacKinnon (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:30:01 PM

The stand against China will rightly be lauded. But western states also imperil internet freedom Google's stand against Chinese censorship and surveillance – triggered by suspicions that China had been trying to hack activists' -accounts – will be rightly lauded by defenders of human rights. But when it comes to upholding Google's vow not to "do evil" by its -users, China is by no means the company's only headache. Before those of us in western democracies get too high on our horses about Google and China, we should remember that the Chinese are not the only ones putting pressure on Google in ways that are arguably harmful to freedom of expression, even when intentions are honorable. A growing number of governments – many democratically elected – share an attitude that internet companies should be expected to act as "net nannies" for their citizens.

In the past several years, internet censorship has spread rapidly throughout a range of political systems. According to the Open Net Initiative, a consortium of academics and computer

scientists who track censorship trends, the number of countries that censor the internet has gone from a handful a decade ago to almost 40 today – and the censorship club's fastest growing membership segment consists of democracies.

Google's woes in many countries have to do with something lawyers call "intermediary liability": the intermediary service – which serves as a conduit for customers to post videos, photos or blogs, send messages, search for web content, or whatever – is held liable and can potentially be sued, prosecuted or otherwise punished for what its users do on its service. In the US, intermediaries are not held directly liable for users' postings and communications. If they were, Google executives are quick to point out, it's unlikely that YouTube, Facebook or Blogspot could have got off the ground. The risk of getting sued into oblivion or being sent to jail for aiding and abetting crime would have been too high – or the staffing costs required to monitor content in order to prevent those two things from happening would have been prohibitive for a startup company.

China's system for censoring domestic websites – including domestically operated versions

of foreign-branded sites like Google.cn – relies on intermediary liability. Websites located outside China that the state doesn't want people to see are blocked by the infamous filtering system known as the " great firewall of China". The Chinese government has no influence over what actually appears on those sites because the people running them are not physically in China and the data isn't being kept on computers in their jurisdiction. Websites operating inside China, however, are controlled more directly – by holding them liable. Operators are held legally responsible for everything appearing on or passing through their services.

They are expected to delete offending content in a sufficiently timely manner, or risk being shut down.

Dozens of Chinese web and mobile companies that failed to police their content adequately have been forced to close their doors over the past year for this reason. Google.cn, as a domestically operated service, has likewise been held responsible for what its users search and find. It has been under growing pressure from the authorities over the past year due to its failure to remove objectionable links from its search results to their satisfaction.

Ironically, David Drummond – Google's chief legal officer who penned its stunning announcement this week – is facing criminal charges in Italy.

Why? Because last year YouTube staff failed to act quickly enough to remove all copies of a video clip of an autistic child being bullied by his classmates. The core issue is a tough one for democracies: when awful people put ghastly video on the internet, with devastating consequences to innocent people, who should be held responsible and punished? Google's lawyers argued that staffers acted in good faith and removed the offending video as soon as they were made aware of it. The Italian prosecutors countered that Google had failed to do enough to prevent harm to an innocent child.

In France, President Sarkozy's government has created a new agency called the Higher Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Copyright on the Internet. It requires internet service providers to monitor users for piracy of copyrighted music and video and send warnings to violators. A violator who ignores all warnings and persists would be brought before a judge and, if found guilty, could have their internet service cut off. While free speech activists pushed for a

court hearing to be included in the legislation – the original bill didn't even involve the due legal process of a court hearing – serious concerns remain about the extent to which ISPs will be required to monitor the actions of their users, and whether these surveillance functions could be abused.

The UK's digital economy bill would involve similar measures – sparking similar concerns from civil liberties groups about privacy and surveillance, and whether there will be sufficient public oversight and accountability of the system to prevent abuse.

In India, a law that went into effect last October holds domestic and international internet companies – including Yahoo!, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter – accountable for helping to maintain "public order, decency, or morality".

Companies are expected to be proactive about removing potentially inflammatory material. Failure to comply can result in jail terms for executives of up to seven years. The main impetus behind the law is religious violence – an ongoing problem in India that can be inflamed by hate-filled postings.

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Google in China: US calls on Beijing to explain hacking claims

By Tania Branigan (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

Tuesday night that it was no longer willing to censor search results on its Chinese servicehttp://googleblog.blogspo Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:05:16 PM t.com/2010/01/new-approach-toChina unsure if Google will quit china.html. country after search giant said it It said the decision followed a was not willing to censor content cyber-attack that it believes was after hacking attacks aimed at gathering information The United States has on Chinese human rights intervened in Google's challenge activists, and cited a clampdown to the Chinese government, on the internet in China over the urging Beijing to answer claims past year. b y t h e http://www.guardian.co.uk/techn http://www.guardian.co.uk/techn ology/2010/jan/13/china-google- ology/2010/jan/13/google-retreat hacking-attack-ussearch giant of -china-crackdown-censorshipIt a massive hacking attack. acknowledged that it might have Chinese authorities responded to withdraw from China. "We c a u t i o u s l y t o G o o g l e ' s have been briefed by Google on announcement that it was no these allegations, which raise longer willing to self-censor in very serious concerns and China. In the government's first questions," said Hillary Clinton, public remarks, issued several the US secretary of state. "We hours after the news broke, an look to the Chinese government official said it was "seeking more for an explanation. The ability to information". operate with confidence in The unnamed official from cyberspace is critical in a modern China's state council information society and economy." office – the cabinet spokesman's In a CNBC interview, David office – added: "It is still hard to D r u m m o n d , s e n i o r v i c e say whether Google will quit p r e s i d e n t o f c o r p o r a t e China or not. Nobody knows." development and chief legal Google announced late on officer, and author of the Google

Blog announcement, said: "We are not saying one way or the other whether the attacks are state-sponsored or done with any approval of the state. We do know that it was very organised and the attack came from China and political dissidents and people interested in human rights in China were clearly targeted."

Google spoke to the Chinese government yesterday but has not disclosed what form the contact took or who was involved. "We have talked to the Chinese authorities and we will be talking to them more in the coming days," it said.

News portals in China were reportedly told to downgrade coverage of the issue, but articles on several sites including the English language Xinhua site carried accounts of Google's decision, including references to censorship, but not hacking.

While campaign groups such as Human Rights Watch praised the firm's decision, it received a mixed reception in Beijing, even among admirers. Several people left flowers at the entrance to its headquarters, along with a sign reading: "Google – a real man."

However, a prominent liberal blogger, Ran Yunfei, wrote: "Google leaving China is definitely not good news."

Comparing the company to dissidents who emigrate, he added: "Those who would remain are obedient citizens and [that is] satisfactory to the authorities."

But Isaac Mao, a Chinese blogger who in 2007 published a widely circulated open letter to the firm criticising it for selfcensorship, said: " I think Google has eventually made the right decision to fight back based on their principles."

When it launched google.cn in 2006, the company said it believed the benefits of increased access to information for people in China outweighed the negative impact of selfcensorship.

schools of thought on this. One says that this is a mere smokescreen of sanctimony meant to hide a retreat from a market Google was unable to conquer for business reasons ...

The other is that this is a true act of moral bravery."

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Google had briefed the Obama administration before its China announcement. He said the president believed in the "freedom of the internet".

Rebecca MacKinnon, page 34 Leader comment, page 36 • Google • China • Internet • Censorship • Privacy and the net • Data and computer security • Hillary Clinton • United States • Digital media

http://www.guardian.co.uk/techn ology/2010/jan/13/google-chinacensorship-indexGoogle has around a third of the Chinese search market, lagging far behind the domestic firm Baidu. Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing-based expert on the internet, said: "There are two

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What Made You Fall in Love with Tech? [Commmunity]

By Joel Johnson (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:45:18 PM

For me it was the Radio Shack

TRS-80. (My family had every model up to the 4P.) Trying to load tapes to watch a little ASCII man dance in a proto- Dance

was hooked.

D a n c e R e v o l u t i o n ? M u s i c , games, synthesis, tinkering—I

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Google quits: Wake-up call or humiliating retreat?

By Jonathan Watts (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

business in China, will have been determined by a cost-analysis taking account of brand value as well as profit.

Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:59:26 PM In financial terms, Google.cn's Lost revenue in China and a filtering of information on boost to rival Baidu could be politically sensitive topics has offset by growth in credibility not been well rewarded. While for Google the Chinese internet market has While Chinese netizens laid expanded to 338 million people, wreaths outside the Google Google's business in China has headquarters in Beijing today a been undermined by clashes with s h o r t d i s t a n c e a w a y t h e the censors and an uneven executives of Baidu, the biggest playing field. Guge, as the firm Chinese search engine, must is known locally, has got 12%have been thinking of popping 17% of the queries, and 33% of champagne corks. the income in the Chinese search Google's decision to pick a market. Baidu has almost all the public fight with the censors is rest. almost certain to cement Baidu's While Google's 800 staff could control of the world's fastest lose their jobs now, the impact growing internet market, in on the firm's global revenues will w h i c h d o m i n a n c e r e q u i r e s be small, perhaps 1%-2% of the compliance. total. This has prompted While the move has won cynicism over its motives behind p l a u d i t s f r o m f r e e d o m - o f - the decision to champion free expression groups, business - speech. minded critics said Google had Rumours about the firm quitting made a strategic error.

China had been circulating since "This is the most stupid decision September, when Kai-Fu Lee, its in their history," Tang Jun, a former chief executive, left to set former president of Microsoft up his own venture.

China, told Eastday.com.

Several other leading US "Giving up China means giving internet companies, including up half of the world." eBay and Yahoo, have beaten a But the binning of the "devil's retreat or changed strategy in bargain", accepted by many recent years after failing to foreign firms in order to do challenge -Chinese rivals. If

Google is pushed out of this market now for adopting a -confrontational stance, it could regain lost credibility overseas.

Kaiser Kuo, a consultant to Youku, a video-sharing website, said of Google's position: "It looks like a smokescreen of sanctimony … being done to draw the eye away from the ignominy of a humiliating retreat. But I suspect their motives are more earnest.

Google may have a paltry market share compared to Baidu, but this is not a market to be sneezed at."

In the long-term, analysts said, China's domestic market would be a loser, too.

"If Google goes Baidu will be the only giant in China's search engine market. A monopolised market can't be healthy," said Cao Junbo, chief analyst at iResearch.

Google's move also reflects badly on firms that do comply with the censors.

Hu Yong, a new-media academic, said: "Google's market share is not very big, but their loss would definitely not be good for the Chinese market. It damages the image and credibility of the internet industry."

Baidu declined to comment on

the fate of its competitor but said it had no intention of following suit by challenging the censors.

"Baidu will always go along with Chinese laws," said a spokesman.

Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco accept that principle, but human rights groups said Google's revelations on the hacking and its stand on censorship could set an example.

"This is a wake-up call to the international community about the real risks of doing business in China, especially in the information communications technology industry – an industry essential to the protection of freedom of expression and privacy rights," said Sharon Hom, executive director of Human Rights in China.

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Google rules search in December, Bing drops

By Don Reisinger (Webware.com)

No surprises here: Google is far behind. Also, Microsoft's Originally posted at The Digital dominating the search market, Bing search lost market share Home while Yahoo and Microsoft trail since November, Nielsen says.

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Why Google Has Lessons to Learn from Real-World Customers

By Brian White (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:40:00 PM

Filed under: Consumer experience, Google (GOOG) Google ( GOOG) is finding out the hard way that a sleek new piece of gadgetry comes with high consumer expectations. The Google Nexus One, which was just released over a week ago for direct sale by Google without a contract from partner T-Mobile USA, is losing the bloom (off the rose, that is).

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Supernova Wind Solves Galaxy Formation Mystery

By Ron Cowen (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:00:00 PM

Scientists have finally figured out what gives shape to galaxies, by simulating the effects of supernova winds.

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Haiti earthquake: Twitter updates from the disaster zone

WILL continued from page 3

services have become powerful tools for opposition parties, political dissidents and whistleblowers around the world.

(World news and comment in Port au Prince.. people still PauP @asger_leth But their power may be from the Guardian | screaming but the noise is dying 10pm @RAMHaiti guardian.co.uk) as darkness sets Just came back from -market. It c o n s t r a i n e d , e v e n i n 6pm @RAMHaiti looks like ground zero. people democracies, as intermediary Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:27:55 PM If U Need To get in Touch With are trapped it's dark we need liability is seized upon as the easy way to fight crime, porn, oh shiet heavy earth quake right Friends & Family in Haiti. Send light and cell phone service defamation and intellectual now ! in haiti me a Private Message with 10pm @fredodupoux 5pm@fredodupoux(Haiti time) names and Phone Numbers. I'll Things aren't good at Montana.. property piracy.

Voters in democracies are Earthquake 7 Richter in Haiti, get Back to U! 7pm @carelpedre an 8 story building behind me is just happening. #Haiti Port au Prince is dark except for rubble @MillaV daniel morel understandably appalled at the 5pm@FutureHaiti a few fires has photos on Twitter..find ways in which bad people can use these sites to do awful were ok at the oloffson..internet 7pm @RAMHaiti photomorel things. Companies are is on !! no phones ! hope all are if anyone in haiti is reading this, 11pm @RAMHaiti okay..alot of big building in PAP please go out and help in the Again another aftershock at u n d e r s t a n d a b l y s e e k i n g are down! streets, it's very ugly out there if 00:18 ET with 5.2 magnitude government help in dealing with 6pm@RAMHaiti you haven't seen it #haiti @eq #Haiti #HaitiQuake #HelpHaiti piracy. But if democracies decide that the primary solution to all there is a tsunami alert ! 8pm @fredodupoux 1am @InternetHaiti everyone stay safe !! fires seem After Shock every 10 Mns! I A l l t h e v i c t i m s o f t h a t these internet-era problems is to to also be burning in downtown can't stay where I am! I have to earthquake, my condolences, and h o l d i n t e r n e t a n d m o b i l e PAP be in a safe place! I got All the may the souls of the ones who companies heavily liable for 6pm @RAMHaiti Message! I will do my best To passed away rest in peace! God policing users – rather than finding some other way to fight In touch again with my friend, a Call ur family be with us! 2am @mikaben crime and address other socially new aftershock just happen, lot 8pm @carelpedre • Haiti undesirable behaviour – o f e m o t i o n s . . . # H a i t i people in large -numbers are • Twitter #HaitiQuake singing prayers downtown • Natural disasters and extreme authoritarian leaders around the world can also breathe a sigh of 6pm@InternetHaiti 9pm @RAMHaiti weather relief that the so-called free Please PRAY people, PRAY as It's really ugly, just like in a bad much as you can, and if you can, dream. people need help, get out guardian.co.uk© Guardian w o r l d i s m o v i n g i n t h e i r JUST GO OUT THERE and and help ! #haiti @eq News & Media Limited 2010 | direction rather than the other HELP!!!! CAUSE ITS VEERRY 10pm @fredodupoux Use of this content is subject to way round.

SCARY AND .....well... :( Phones are mostly down but our Terms & Conditions| More 6pm@mikaben sometimes you get lucky.. I hear Feeds Just about all the lights are out that epi center of quake was near

So, for that matter, can incumbent politicians in many democracies, who would rather not have to face internetorganised grassroots citizens' movements empowered by YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, and whatever innovations might come after them. Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

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Avatar, The Videogame (Atari 2600 Edition) [Image Cache]

By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:20:00 PM

I don't want to say that ILM and Weta did a bad job on Avatar's visual effects, but an Atari 2600

edition of Avatar would still get

most of the point across. [ Penney Design via GameSetWatch via Kotaku]

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Goldman Sachs Looks To Haiti survivor's story: 'I fear for them. The horror has only just begun' Block proxy Access For (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:22:30 PM

Troy Livesay works for a Christian NGO, World Wide Village, and lives with his family in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The following witness account appeared on his blog "The sun is about to come up.

The aftershocks continue. Some more noticeable than others.

There is no way to even begin to share the things we've heard and seen since 5pm. To do so would take hours that we don't have right now. Some feel wrong to tell. Like only God should know these personal horrible tragedies.

The few things we can confirm – yes the four-storey Caribbean market building is completely demolished. Yes, it was open.

Yes, the National Palace collapsed. Yes, Gov't buildings nearby the palace collapsed. Yes St Joseph's boys home is completely collapsed. Yes

countless other houses, churches, hospitals, schools, and businesses have collapsed. There are buildings that suffered almost no damage. Right next door will be a pile of rubble.

Thousands of people are trapped. To guess at a number would be like guessing drops in the ocean. Precious lives hang in the balance. When pulled from the rubble there is no place to take them. Haiti has an almost non-existent medical care system.

I cannot imagine what the next weeks and months will be like. I am afraid for everyone. Never have I seen people stronger than Haitian people. But I am afraid for them. For us.

When the quake hit it took many seconds to even process what was happening. The house was rocking in a way I cannot begin to describe. It felt fake. It felt like a movie. Things were crashing all over the house. It felt like the world was ending. I do not know why my house stands

and my children all lie sleeping in their beds right now. It defies logic that my babies were spared while thousands of others were not.

There are friends and coworkers that are missing. People no-one can account for. People we work with and love. More than I can name, but in particular we wait on one friend who lived near the Hotel Montana – which has reportedly collapsed.

The horror has only just begun and I beg you to get on your knees – I truly mean ON YOUR KNEES – and pray for the people of this country."

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Dissident Shareholder

By Zac Bissonnette (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 1/13/2010 5:20:00 PM

Filed under: Goldman Sachs Group (GS) The New Yorkbased Nathan Cummings Foundation is seeking the support of other Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ( GS) shareholders for a proposal that would ask the company's compensation committee to produce a report comparing the earnings of the company's top executives to average employees -- and assess whether pay might be excessive and in need of change.

But the foundation tells Reuters that Goldman informed it that it would ask the SEC to block the proposal from appearing on the proxy ballot sent to shareholders -- effecting stopping the plan

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What Google might leave on the table in China

By Stephen Shankland (Webware.com)

By Tom Krazit (Webware.com)

Submitted at 1/13/2010 6:57:00 AM

Mozilla expects to release a snappier version of Firefox in

January. Next, version 3.6.5 is planned for this quarter with a significant crash-proofing feature.

Originally posted at Deep Tech

Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:01:00 AM

Walking away from one of the 21st century's most promising

technology markets could have a significant long-term effect on Google's finances.

Originally posted at Relevant Results

dead in its tracks.

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Dear Jeffrey Deitch: Free Ideas for Your New Museum

By Alissa Walker (Fast Company) Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:39:15 PM

New MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch might have just accepted the art world's most controversial position, but if there's one thing everyone can agree he's great at, it's throwing a party. And now, he's got a bright, blank new L.A. canvas to work with. We asked artists, curators and critics to provide some guidance for Deitch's new gig.

Time to pitch a MOCA reality show to one of the major networks now that you're in L.A. The concept is your life: "ACK! The economy's gone to shit so now I'm a newbie museum director." During this 13-episode series viewers will watch you navigate museum politics, get lost in L.A. and schmooze with celebrities and art glitterati.

Show title: Sink or Swim! The prize: Glory--and the USA's best museum stays open.-Paddy Johnson, Art Fag City Deitch should expand his plans with James Franco and General Hospital and embrace Los Angeles' soap opera scene. How about filming a couple of scenes at one of the museums? Surely there's an evil twin/stolen baby/back from the dead/amnesia/murder mystery that can take place at MOCA. Imagine electrocuting mobster Sonny Corinthos with a Dan Flavin sculpture. Or his main henchman Jason Morgan has

unfortunate meeting with the business end of a Giacometti sculpture to the back of his head.

Or poor Lulu Spencer is crushed by a giant Serra installation. Or her brother Lucky fails to live up to his name and meets an untimely end when he is injured by an exploding Robert Gober Cigar sculpture. The possibilities are truly endless.-Marissa Gluck, Curbed LA I heard the LAPD has quite a few artists in their ranks. Maybe

a "cop art" show? They could advertise it on the backs of police cars, next to the "There's No Excuse for Domestic Violence" stickers.-Aaron Rose, artist, writer and independent curator The first thing Jeffrey Deitch should do is to have a insane big Art Parade bringing the whole city together, painting ourselves as Art from MOCA downtown all the way down to Santa Monica, where we baptize

ourselves in the Ocean as celebration. Second thing is to bring together artists from all around L.A., and paint the outside of City Hall from the base to the Tom Bradley Room at the top!

Then he should pick a dozen contemporary artists and give each one access to one major Hollywood motion picture studio. Each creates an art performance film using either their archives or production

facilities and having a red carpet --or maybe blue, black, or green-premiere in conjunction with MOCA and Grauman's Chinese Theater.-Gary Baseman, artist Years ago the Christmas window displays in L.A.'s downtown department stores featured multimedia installations that drew huge crowds. So many people gathered that they blocked traffic. Despite the DEAR page 9

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hopeful buzz of boosters, this vibrant and populated downtown is a culture as lost to us as that of the Toltec or the Maya. We know MOCA and Deitch Projects can bring stunning spectacles to art world sophisticates, but how about extravaganzas accessible to regular folks? We call on Jeffrey Deitch to see the potential in the empty storefronts surrounding MOCA and to transform them into zones of creative discovery.

L.A. still boasts one of the geniuses who created those 1950's window spectacles: master puppeteer Bob Baker.

Why not hook Bob up with Paul McCarthy and turn downtown's windows into the weirdest high art puppet and monster shows anyone's ever seen? Welcome to L.A., Mr. Deitch. Now let's block some traffic, and blow some minds.-Kim Cooper and Richard Schave, Esotouric bus adventures A massive group show taking over all of MOCA that explores the extreme racial disparity in the art world and how it is mirrored in the extreme segregation of Los Angeles along racial lines.

Deitch could scour L.A. for emerging and unknown contemporary African-American and Latino artists to fill the museum to attract a largely under -served segment of the market.

The hip, super smart street/graf/urban show, centered of course around Kehinde Wiley (no one will question the old

business connection since he's one of the top African-American artists who will definitely attract loads of kids) will bring in a whole new audience into MOCA that generally gets ignored while generating huge revenue streams.

He can stock the gift shop with music, posters, magazines, a half -pipe, t-shirts, and hats all designed by the hottest graf/street artists in L.A. and New York for corporate sponsors like Puma! (Deitch is excellent at getting corporate sponsorship.)

The socially conscious exhibition will finally help desegregate Los Angeles through the utopian promise of art that for too long has gone unfulfilled.

This will help Deitch deliver on his promise to attract the young, untapped audiences that will fill the museums coffers, while promoting real diversity in a city haunted by racial violence and the persistent problems of drugs, gang violence, and poverty that plague minority communities in L.A. For Deitch, this show could save MOCA and redeem the souls of white, rich men like Eli Broad. The show could then travel around the world bringing greater balance to the palid complexion of the art world.William Powhida, artist L.A. is 80 miles wide. It doesn't need big centralized museums. It needs lots of small ones that travel. My advice: Deitch should repurpose his gallery's ice cream truck and hit the road with works from the MOCA permanent

collection. He could get a Twitter feed and update followers on his whereabouts.

(Sample Tweet: "At Marukai Market in Gardena eating Hawaiian plate lunch with several Jason Rhoades pieces from Swedish Erotica series. DM me for deets.") In no time, I'm positive he'd have more followers than the Kogi truck.

(Okay, not really, but I'm sure he'd be close.)-Carolina A. Miranda, C-Monster If MOCA is to survive, it has to expand its reach. MOCA needs to create new audiences by showing Angelenos how to understand the vocabulary, the grammar, the syntax and the historical context of contemporary art. MOCA must provide the public with the tools to understand what art is to develop an educated audience and collector base. Shows need to be curated by museum quality professionals using local artists from local galleries to demonstrate how art can be formally understood though subject matter, color, composition, materials, the use of grids, patterns, lighting--and all the other variants--in addition to considering the artist’s personal intent.

These shows should inhabit vacant stores in shopping areas to reach people who do not attend art galleries or museums.

The art should be for sale and the proceeds split equally among the artist, the non-profit space

and the dealer. And having the art pre-vetted by professionals will make it easier for first time buyers to risk that first purchase and have their first opportunity to live with a piece of art. Lastly, if anyone is interested in any artist, they would be referred to the artist's gallery, thus supporting the entire art food chain.-Brady Westwater, LA Cowboy How about pop-ups at gas stations where people sell carpets, statues, boxing ring bags and other detritus. All you need are some easels and a security guard.-John Chase, Urban Designer, City of West Hollywood Deitch should incorporate a subway/Metro element to the MOCA. Have an artist create a map for people to take around L.A. (can be downloaded or printed from MOCA website).

Each participating Metro stop will have a theme or design that makes it a unique artistic destination and will also serve as locations for clues to an art mystery hunt leading to the museum. The buses or Metro cars could be wrapped or outfitted with images or graphics that are part of the hunt. They could either be trivia messaging, directions or clues leading to MOCA. Once at MOCA, guests get a specially-designed postcard or prize showing they completed the hunt as well as a sticker they can wear. Museum could also

have a photo booth that takes photo of all participants who have completed the hunt and have it projected on a wall in the museum or on their site. The postcard/prize and sticker would only be for guests who took the Metro. Museum should encourage people to do this in groups. The more the merrier!Meg Wells, FLUX Relaunch The Art Parade in L.A., running it through Bunker Hill. The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black should perform as a way of transitioning the tradition. Kembra Pfahler, TVHOKB leader and L.A. native, would replace all her regular crew with MOCA board members. Eli Broad will play drums, using the exhumed skull of John Fante as part of his kit.

Why stop with promoting "young" artists? Go for the fetal.

In a collaboration with his new neighbors at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Deitch could have pregnant artists ride skateboards on Gehry's dying-to-be-askatepark walls while Dan Zanes blasts Black Randy and the Metrosquad covers from the roof of Deitch Project's decommissioned ice cream truck(on blocks). Casey Spooner will be draped over the steering wheel, made up to look like he's been shot in the head. When Zanes hits the choruses, Spooner will lift his head and sing harmony through a megaphone.DEAR page 10

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Brent Burket, Brooklyn-based writer and curator, Heart As Arena(He is totally bummed about Jeffrey Deitch leaving the East Coast. He frets that Snooki will be next.)

I propose that Jeffrey Deitch hold a series of open, public (real and virtual) forums to directly engage and document the opinions, ideas and passion that his appointment triggered. It could be streamed live online and then edited into a publication.-Bettina Korek, ForYourArt Jeffrey Deitch is the king of art in downtown New York City. As the new director of MOCA, he will live in Los Angeles, which has several downtowns,

depending on who you talk to.

Deitch has expressed an interest in bringing his world famous art parade to Los Angeles, whose freeway systems are often referred to as the world's largest parking lot. I don't believe a parade could move very far or fast here. Deitch also claims that he is interested in attracting a "new, younger audience that is not a professional art-going audience, but that is very interested in art."

I propose Deitch host an art parade-like event to unite the city through art...but in the sky.

It would be a day of art for everyone. The MOCA would map out several downtown points across the city and anchor

them with clusters of hot air balloons. Each balloon will represent one living artist in the area (i.e. Chuck Arnoldi in Venice or Mister Cartoon in Downtown L.A.). Each "downtown" will have a path leading back to the MOCA with mapped out art destinations to go to. It could be a day of "art on the run"--part treasure hunt--all art, all day.-Souris Hong-Poretta, Hustler of Culture Deitch photo via Scribe Media Got an idea for Deitch at MOCA?

Gmail to get secure Net connection by default

By Stephen Shankland (Webware.com) Submitted at 1/13/2010 9:29:00 AM

HTTPS encryption makes snooping on network activity harder, and after a hack attempt on Gmail, Google is switching it on by default its e-mail service.

Originally posted at Deep Tech

Rather's Appeal Rejected (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 1/12/2010 3:22:24 PM

Looks like Dan Rather’s lawsuit against CBS for breach of contract is now an ex-lawsuit: NY Top Court Rejects Dan Rather Appeal in CBS Case.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York State’s highest court on Tuesday declined to hear former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather’s appeal of a decision dismissing his $70 million lawsuit against CBS Corp.

Space Tourism Update: Virgin Galactic Can Play Ball on Florida Field

By Ben Paynter (Fast Company) Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:37:31 PM

Richard Branson gained another small step toward the great leap of space tourism yesterday, when Cecil Field, a commercial airport in Florida, announced they have achieved federal license to the company's new breed of planelike spacecrafts.

Rather than shoot into the

atmosphere like rockets, Branson has designed a six-passenger, two-pilot craft capable of suborbital flight by taking off horizontally. It has a big booster pack, though, so it will need much of the 12,500-foot long, 200-foot wide tarmac to do that.

Passengers are already plunking down $200,000 per person for a 2.5 hour slingshot ride offering about six minutes of actual Superman-like weightlessness.

Branson hopes to make more money by using his fleet to launch small satellites while up there, too.

is building another in New Mexico. After all, space tourists on the East Coast would likely loath spending five plus hours to cross the country on a commercial airliner when it now takes about half that time to leave the planet.

[Via Reuters Image: Cecil field offers a particularly http://www.flickr.com/photos/jur great launchpad for the mogul, vetson// CC BY 2.0] who has already secured an additional site in California and

Thousands Feared Dead in Haiti After Earthquake (Little Green Footballs)

Sky News video shows the terrible destruction from last

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South Korea's Sejong City Could Be Competition for Abu Dhabi's Masdar City

By Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company) Submitted at 1/13/2010 3:11:32 PM

First Abu Dhabi announced the ultra-sustainable Masdar City, and now South Korea has decided to build its own selfsufficient city, dubbed Sejong City or the Multifunctional Administrative City (MAC). The MAC, located 100 miles south of Seoul, is slated for completion by 2020.

The $14.6 billion city wasn't always meant to be a model of sustainability. When it was first planned in 2005, the MAC was supposed to house a number of ministries and public agencies-hence the name. But the government decided it would be a waste of national resources, and so the current model of

Submitted at 1/13/2010 5:00:00 PM

Filed under: Stocks to Buy, Intel Thinking about shorting Intel's stock? Think again. Bellwether Intel Corporation ( INTC), the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer, is signaling that the global economic recovery is strengthening, which is why I'm

MiniGuru Keyboard Makes Typing Quicker

By Keeping Your Fingers On The Home Row [Keyboards]

By Sean Fallon (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:10:00 PM

The MiniGuru keyboard has three layers of functions designed to keep your fingers on the home row. Theoretically, that means you could type more Sejong City was born.

Center in the city by 2015. And efficiently. It would also mean a Sejong City is envisioned as a the Korea Advanced Institute of major overhaul to your typing hub of education and science. Science and Technology and technique.

The government is already K o r e a U n i v e r s i t y p l a n o n Special modifier keys can be planning on building the Korea constructing research campuses held down with a free thumb, Rare Isotope Accelerator, the in the city as well. On the allowing the user to cycle Basic Science Research Institute, electronics front, companies through layers of programmable and the Convergence Research including Hanwha, Woongjin, key functionality. For example: hold down the modifier and J, K, L and ; can become arrow keys.

There is also a mouse pointer in the center of the board if you reiterating my buy rating for the results. company's shares, first Continue reading Intel In choose to take this whole home key thing to the limit. recommended on March 30, Uptrend Again, the options for the 2009 at a price of $14.72. If you Intel In Uptrend originally bought Intel in March, you're up appeared on BloggingStocks on k e y b o a r d a r e h i g h l y 40%.

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:00:00 EST. customizable, with changes Look for Intel's FY2010 revenue Please see our terms for use of saving to the firmware—but it's to increase 11-15%, as customers feeds. Permalink| Email this| going to take a lot of convincing when this thing comes out at the re-build inventories to prepare Comments end of the year. I'm set in my for ramping demand for thoroughly explains why typing ways dammit. Don't try computers, and chip-needed institutional investors (IIs) have and change me. [ Guru Board via d e v i c e s , e a c h o f w h i c h looked past INTC's poor FY2009 ZDNet]

Intel In Uptrend

By Joseph Lazzaro (BloggingStocks)

Lotte, and Samsung are setting up shop in Sejong. Eventually, South Korean officials hope to have a quarter million jobs available in the city. It's not that big of a stretch--private sector businesses have agreed to hire 23,000 workers with a decade to go before the city is finished.

Sejong City will be considerably larger than Masdar City, which will house just 40,000 residents when all is said and done. But we still hope that the two cities are the start of a larger movement. With so much cash being poured into clean energy technology, surely there must be room for another Sejong or Masdar.

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Ray of Light: Confidence in Global Economic Recovery Rises

By Joseph Lazzaro (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:20:00 PM

Filed under: International markets, Good news More modest good news on the global economic front, as confidence in the world economy rose amid a pick-up in both manufacturing and service sector activity, a new Bloomberg News survey indicated.

The Bloomberg Professional

By Ariel Schwartz (Fast existing HDTV screens. single light bulb.

G lobal Confidence Company) The LPD system uses lasers to Sound too good to be true? It is, Index(BPGCI) rose to a recordexcite phosphors that generate at least in the short term. Prysm high 66.6 in January from 58.9 in Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:36:22 PM h i g h - r e s o l u t i o n p i c t u r e s . initially plans to market its December, Bloomberg News It's becoming increasingly According to Prysm, "As the t e c h n o l o g y t o c o m m e r c i a l reported Wednesday. Further, the difficult to keep track of all the lasers scan across the surface the vendors, so it's likely that we'll index remained above 50 for the acronyms for high-definition TV phosphors emit in the red, green see LPD in sports arenas long s i x t h c o n s e c u t i v e m o n t h . technology--plasma, LED, LCD, and blue colors with very rapid before we see it in our living Readings above 50 mean there DLP, OLED, and now...LPD? A r e s p o n s e . T h e l a s e r s t h e n rooms. And we have yet to see a w e r e m o r e o p t i m i s t s t h a n Silicon Valley-based startup modulate by turning on and off d e m o n s t r a t i o n o f L P D called Prysm has developed a for each pixel to create an technology, so it's hard to say Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) i m a g e . " I n c o m p a r i s o n , how efficient it really is. But that supposedly consumes 75% c o n v e n t i o n a l d i s p l a y s u s e apparently, Prysm has been less power than other display backlights that always remain on, covertly working on LPD since t e c h n o l o g i e s . P r y s m a l s o consuming considerably more 2005. In other words, LPD is promises that LPD can provide energy. Prysm claims that its probably long past the concept crisp screens that are cheaper to technology is so efficient that a stage. build, have a lower carbon single 55 inch LPD display panel [ Prysm]

By Gina Trapani (Lifehacker) footprint, and last longer than consumes less power than a

Move Over, Plasma, LED, and OLED: LPD Is in Town

pessimists in the survey.

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A new-to-me Android 2.1 shortcut: if you want to use voice input without hunting down the microphone button on the

keyboard, swipe your fingertip across the entire keyboard to start it instead. Start at 0:25 into the video to see it in action.

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3D Porn? The studios are way ahead of you.

By John Biggs (CrunchGear) Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:15:49 PM

For years the central question when any new television technology comes out is whether explicit entertainment providers will adopt it. In the case of 3D TV, friends, there’s no question: 3D TV is here and its here to stay… but will it be popular? We talked to someone close to the industry, Kathee Brewer, who offered some insight on the future of 3D pr0n.

Kathee is a former editor-inchief of trade journal AVN Online and a co-founder of irreverent sex, politics and culture site DailyBabylon.com.

These days she plagues readers and editors across the spectrum with freelance articles about all sorts of useless information but today she sat down with us for in IMterview about the future of 3D in porn – and why it’s already a moot point.

CG: So 3D porn. Great or amazing?

Kathee: uh…. How about “Too soon to tell?” There are some really good things about it, and some, frankly, scary things about it.

CG: Well, remember the old days when we were all like “Porn will define who wins, BluRay or HD DVD?” Is this the same thing or is it still too weird?

Kathee: How could I forget? I think 3D porn may loom toward the “too weird” end of the scale this time. Don’t get me wrong —

it’ll be popular, but I’m not sure how quickly it will catch on CG: Did porn define the winner in that last race, do you think?

Kathee: In the Blu-ray vs. HDDVD battle? I think Hollywood got that one. It’s still a challenge for adult content producers to find Blu-ray duplication facilities CG: What’s holding that back?

People don’t want to touch the stuff?

Kathee: Most duplication facilities make the majority of their money off mainstream content, and studios like Disney absolutely will not allow their product to be produced in the same facility as pr0n.

CG: nice. CHILLING EFFECTS! Kathee: Very much so! lol CG: So in terms of HD cameras, it probably wasn’t so hard for them to move over. But 3D

cameras? Have you talked to anyone about that? Would they invest in the hardware?

Kathee: 3D cameras are no challenge for adult, really.

Sometimes, the difference in the way adult producers think has to evolve in order to make 3D pr0n interesting, and THAT can be challenging the gadget? Heck, adult content folks are all over every new gadget that comes down the pike.

Studios already are investing in the hardware. One gay adult studio made the leap to 3D porn about a year ago.

CG: They did, now, did they?

I mean is it like Michael Jackson in Captain EO 3D?? With like wieners instead of flying things?

Kathee: LOL! Now there’s an image for you….

CG: So bottom line: How popular will this be? Hasn’t

streaming killed most physical media for these guys?

Kathee: I honestly think it’s too early to tell. The gay studio says it’s doing well, but consumers tend to either love or hate the stuff CG: Well, there’s the vertigo!

Kathee: Consumers aren’t so wild about having to wear special glasses to view pr0n although some really love feeling like they’re “in” the scene. I’m not quite sure how comfortable I’d be with a 3D pr0n closeup.

CG: I mean HD is bad enough with the stretch marks and the hair and whatnot Kathee: Exactly! Now imagine viewing in 3D all those physical things most people hope others never see….

CG: Good lord Kathee: Not a particularly pretty picture, is it?

CG: Kittens are pretty, though. i like kittens in baskets. wearing bonnets Kathee: Did you get to check out Bad Girls in 3D’s new “home 3D porn delivery system”[SFW] while you were in Vegas?

CG: No. No i did not Kathee: That company is hoping to combine 3D adult content with IPTV delivery CG: See, i could definitely see that. I can see it in my head right now.

Kathee: IPTV actually is a growing market segment for adult, especially in Europe and 3D IPTV has lots of promise, if the kinks get worked out. In order to make 3D ANYTHING work in a home environment, though, there are variables that PORN? page 14

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have to be just right or the experience is disappointing.

CG: And who wants that?

Kathee: Sexually explicit content, though, probably won’t be held to as high standards in 3D as mainstream content, just as it hasn’t been held to Hollywood’s standards on any other scale.

CG: So low quality 3D porn.

Sounds delightful Kathee: Doesn’t it? Porn has gone big time into HD content.

In fact, I’m not sure anyone is producing anything in standarddef anymore. I know they’re not shooting in standard-def, except in rare instances. Even the Web studios are shooting in HD, though HD can’t be delivered via the Web yet.

CG: So they take new technologies and just future

proof.

Kathee: Many studios that started out on the Web now are producing DVDs for the brickand-mortar market, as well. So right — porn is big into “futureproofing.”

CG: I mean what else do they have to spend their money on?

Sets? Scripts?

Kathee: One of these days, some enterprising future archeologist is going to uncover some enormous stash of future-proofed porn and come to all kinds of interesting conclusions about 21st Century humans.

CG: So 3D porn is already here and the big guys like Sony and Samsung are rushing to offer ways to view the content.

Kathee: I’m sure the big guys like Sony and Samsung are hoping no one ever discovers

they’re rushing to offer ways to view adult content, if they are.

Sony isn’t hot on porn appearing on ANY of its platforms: PlayStation, Blu-ray, you name it.

CG: But soon it will all be 3D. Imagine the possibilities.

Kathee: Did you see the sex robot in Vegas? Now THERE’s real 3D. So there you have it: porn is basically way ahead of the studios on this one and when you buy your 3D TV rig, porn will be right there alongside you, offering gentle encouragement and larger than life 3D genitalia.

Welcome to 2010.

US Court Brings Back Price Fixing Lawsuit Against Major Record Labels

By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

the district court back in 2008, but in a surprising move, the 2nd circuit appeals court has revived F o r m a n y y e a r s , w e ' v e the lawsuit, claiming that the wondered why the major labels e v i d e n c e i s " s u f f i c i e n t t o haven't gotten in trouble for what plausibly suggest" price fixing appears to be clear price fixing-- by the major labels with regards having all of the major labels to digital music. So now it goes band together to both demand back to the lower court. I still identical wholesale pricing and doubt this will really have much attempt to dictate retail pricing of an impact, but it's nice to see by partners as well. There have some recognition of what's been various investigations by seemed pretty obvious for quite both local and federal officials, some time. along with a few lawsuits -- but Permalink| Comments| Email nothing has really gone very far. This Story One lawsuit was tossed out by Submitted at 1/13/2010 10:38:00 AM

The 2009 Engadget Awards

By Joshua Topolsky (Engadget)

This year we've got 24 categories up for grabs, with 48 total awards to be decided. All Submitted at 1/13/2010 5:00:00 PM finalists for Engadget Awards F o r y o u r v o t i n g ( a n d are reader-nominated, and the nominating) pleasure, we present editors of Engadget will then the sixth annual Engadget s e l e c t t h e b e s t o f t h o s e Awards! The premise is simple: nominations (usually somewhere 2009 may have slipped through b e t w e e n 4 - 6 d e v i c e s o r our fingers, but all the memories t e c h n o l o g i e s ) a s f i n a l i s t s . of gadgets-past are still with us There are two awards per (some in a more favorable light category, Reader's Choice (voted than others). Here's your chance on by you!), and Editors' Choice to sound off on what you loved (selected by us). The vote will in 2009, and tell us what you're take place in a few weeks once psyched about for 2010. the nominees are picked, and

winners will be announced shortly thereafter.

You can find all the info and nominees on a landing page we've built this year which

should make it easier to get all your selections in (and vote once we've picked the finalists). Just click right here.

You've got until 11:59PM ET on

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 to get your entries in. Now, go nominate, or use the handy list after the break!

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Segway Inc. bought by Segway UK?

By Donald Melanson (Engadget) Submitted at 1/13/2010 5:35:00 PM

Four percent of American gamers are pirates~!

This one has been flying under the radar for the past day or so, but talk is starting to heat up on some forums that Segway Inc. has effectively been bought out

By Nicholas Deleon results are the results. so damn trivial to find a torrent by one of its own dealerships.

(CrunchGear) Also, it’s not that four percent of of Popular Game, and let it That initial word seems to have respondents admitted to piracy. download for a few minutes. c o m e f r o m a S e g w a y I n c .

Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:30:40 PM However many people admitted Then off you go. Compare that s h a r e h o l d e r , w h o s a y s h e Pirates are normal people, not to piracy in the survey, the NPD to Xbox or Wii piracy where you recently received a stockholder shady ne’er-do-wells then applied the usual statistical have to fiddle with your system letter informing him that Segway Four percent of U.S. gamers wizardry that pollsters use for to make a pirated game work.

Inc. would be "merging" with admit to pirating video games, elections and whatnot. So that The same report also touched on J W H H o l d i n g s , w h i c h i s according to a new NPD report f o u r p e r c e n t s h o u l d b e t h e i d e a o f v i d e o g a m e apparently a company formed by that apparently we’re not cool interpreted as, four percent of distribution. On the console side, Segway UK simply for the enough to get directly from the Americans admitted to video 90 percent of all sales were via purpose of this merger. What's NPD. I’m going to guess that game piracy. retail (that is, not Xbox Live m o r e , w h i l e t h e d e a l i s more than one of you fall into Presumably the study also took Arcade, PSN, and Wii Shop), apparently being called a merger, that four percent. i n t o a c c o u n t p e o p l e ’ s while 70 percent of other sales So yeah, the NPD (those are the t r u t h f u l n e s s . (including PC) were retail. guys who release monthly sales So for the purposes of this here Meaning that things like Steam reports) had a little survey that post, let’s just say that four are gigantic. asked 8,000 people if they had percent of Americans have The last PC game I bought at By Scott Gilbertson (Wired ever pirated a video game. Only pirated video games. Simple retail was The Sims in the year Top Stories) four percent of respondents enough.

2000. Granted, I wasn’t a PC admitted to it, which is patently As you might expect, 72 percent gamer till a few weeks ago, but Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:30:00 PM ridiculous: the number has to be of all piracy took place on the now? It’s all Steam, baby.

The social web is in dire need of much, much higher. Still, the PC/Mac, probably because it’s an easy-to-understand visual

the letter itself reportedly confirms that it's more of a complete buyout, with current CEO Jim Norrod supposedly set to be replaced by Tricia Laidler, and Segway UK's Wayne Mitchell stepping up to be the new COO. Still nothing in the way of official statements from either party just yet, but we'll let you know as soon as we hear anything one way or the other.

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system for outlining site privacy

policies, which differ greatly and change often. One designer has a possible solution that uses ideas borrowed from the Creative Commons and from Firefox's phishing protection system.

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Something About Booze, Vomiting, Art, Music and a Toilet [Hacks]

By Sean Fallon (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:00:00 PM

I...I just don't know what to make of this Nunk on Droise performance art by Stéphane Perrin.

Simply put, the performance consists in dynamically generating noise music from the alcohol drunk by the performer during the performance. During the performance, the performer drinks alcohol and several breathalyzers are used to generate sounds and interacts

with the visual. In addition, the abuse of alcohol inevitably leads to uncontrollable results and the body of the performer becomes itself a musical instrument.

Several alcohol sensors output each a voltage that depends on the alcohol content in the breath of the performer. These voltages are measured by an Arduino board and sent to a program written under OpenFrameworks that processes them and sends sounds from the received data. In them through OSC (Open Sound addition, the use of a microphone Control) to a Pure Data patch. allows the sound emitted by one The patch dynamically generates

of the (un)desirable effects of the consumption of various alcohols in a very short time, namely vomiting, to be processed too by the Pure Data patch.

Yes...simple. All I know is that I want some sort of warning system where my toilet calls me up and magically plays the menacing Jaws theme when my stomach is on the verge of retaliating against my alcohol consumption. [ Nunk on Droise via Make]

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We’ve noted before that LED lights are, while energy efficient, a bit cool in color, leading to the “my house looks like an operating room” effect. There have been attempts to warm them up (with“quantum dots”) but this panel looks a hell of a lot more promising, even if it’s not particularly bright.

J.H. Jou, a Taiwanese researcher, has found that with a

particular species of OLED, he can vary the voltage and produce a huge portion of the temperature gamut: …this plain driver-IC can

automatically modulate the voltage to render any desired color temperature between 2200 and 8000 K… If they can get these bright

By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:40:00 PM

5 inches by 3.7 inches—that's the diminutive footprint of the fully loaded conga-BM57 Core i7 motherboard.

Despite its small stature, the conga-BM57 features an impressive spec list, including a 2.66 GHz Core i7, 8GB of RAM, integrated intel graphics, 5 PCI enough, it’d be a huge boon to Express lanes, 8 USB 2.0 ports, photographers. Although we 3 SATA, 1 EIDE and Gigabit work in RAW now for the most Ethernet—plus support for dual part and can change the color displays over VGA, LVDS, temperature of the whole image, HDMI, DisplayPort or SDVO. individual light setups with The price and release date are d i f f e r e n t t e m p e r a t u r e s a r e still unknown, but at this size, it integral to setting up a scene. would make one heck of a HTPC These panels won’t reach the that could double for some brightness of the megabulbs used gaming. [ SlashGear] in cinema lighting for a while, but the variable color temperature will certainly make them worth keeping tabs on. [via OLED-display.net]

Color-temperature adustable OLED lighting? Yes, please

By Devin Coldewey (CrunchGear)

This Tiny Core i7 Motherboard Could Almost Fit In Your Pocket [PCs]

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Palin on Fox: Asking Questions (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:00:22 PM

Philips Cam, Muse and Ariaz mark a renaissance for the boring PMP

Here’s Sarah Palin making her debut on Fox News, admitting that during the lead-up to her 2008 vice-presidential debate with Joe Biden she “questioned” whether Iraq might have been responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks. (This is the second half

By Paul Miller (Engadget) flash, SD expansion and HDMI of her appearance on the out for a mere $50 more. The Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:32:00 PM O’Reilly show.)[Video] Ariaz finds a simpler calling, Interviewed by Fox News’s Bill This is soon enough to market with a 2.4-inch LCD, HDMI, O’Reilly on his show “The that it's hard to blame the iPod 8GB and an $80 tag. We'll have

By Nilay Patel (Engadget) since we're big fans of touch-to- n a n o s p e c i f i c a l l y f o r i t s to play with these to see if O’Reilly Factor,” Palin trashed focus. As for the rest, well, appearance, but either way it they're worth taking home from many of the critical accounts of Submitted at 1/13/2010 3:29:00 PM they're Lumix point-and-shoots - seems that the Philips Cam is the Walmart, but we're glad to see her candidacy in the new book We're just cleaning out the rest - they all seemed competent and newest member to the oh-so- Philips is trying to stay in the “Game Change.” But one story of our memory cards from CES, sturdy, and we can't wait for the small club of MP3 / camera game -- we can't all be lucky from the book that Palin did not and we totally forgot this day when Panasonic hires a combos. The new player is enough to be Zune HD owners. say was “made up” or “a lie” was moment of unintentional hilarity design team to clean up that joined in its life of crime by the Philips Cam, Muse and Ariaz the description of her uncertainty while grabbing a quick hands-on straight-from-1983 all-caps new Muse and Ariaz, which at mark a renaissance for the boring as to whether Iraq had a hand in with Panasonic's new point-and- interface. Check out the rest in last offer a higher-end aspect to PMP originally appeared on the planning of the Sept. 11 attacks. shoot line-- that's the new the gallery!

Philips' long-lackluster PMP Engadget on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 touchscreen DMC-FP3, asking Gallery: Panasonic 2010 point lineup. The Cam does up a 1.8- 16:32:00 EST. Please see our “I did talk a lot to [campaign strategist] Steve Schmidt about for the name of our baby. Sadly, and shoot hands-on inch screen, 8GB of storage and terms for use of feeds. Permalink we were not able to provide it Panasonic 2010 point and shoot a 2 megapixel camera for $100, PlayerBites| iMP3.net| Email the history of the war and where the attackers could have come with one, and it responded by line hands-on originally appeared but the Muse has a full 3.2- this| Comments from,” Palin said of her debate continuing to have a somewhat on Engadget on Wed, 13 Jan inches of touchscreen, 16GB of prep during the fall of 2008 — wonky hybrid touchscreen-and- 2010 15:29:00 EST. Please see more than five years after the buttons control scheme. We're our terms for use of feeds. start of the war in Iraq and seven assuming some of the lag we saw Permalink| | Email this| years after the terrorist attacks had to do with an early software Comments that hit New York and build -- we'll see if things are Washington. cleared up when this guy ships, “I do admit to asking questions about that,” she said.

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Samsung announces 64GB moviNAND flash, 32GB microSD card

By Donald Melanson (Engadget) Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:01:00 PM

It's been quite a while since Samsung announced the first actual memory device to result from its 30nm manufacturing process, but it's now back with an announcement for another pair of memory products that should both be hitting the market relatively soon. The larger of those is a new 64GB moviNAND embedded memory device, which joins the company's exisiting 32GB, 16GB, 8GB and 4GB options, and measures just 1.4mm thick while still packing 16 30nmclass 32Gb MLC NAND chips and a controller. That's joined by a new 32GB microSD card, which fully doubles the capacity of the highest capacity microSD

cards currently on the market, and is apparently now being sampled by OEMs with mass production slated to begin sometime next month.

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First Direct Measurement of Exoplanet Light Spectrum

By Alexis Madrigal (Wired Top Stories)

atmosphere, has been directly measured for the first time in what could be a dress rehearsal Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:40:00 PM for future attempts at The light spectrum from a u n d e r s t a n d i n g E a r t h - l i k e glowing Jupiter-like planet, e x o p l a n e t s . which contains clues about the composition of the planet's

The Tianjin Jinke A6 and A9 series ebook readers

By Matt Burns (CrunchGear) Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:00:15 PM

Just in case you need another ebook reader option instead of the Kindle or Nook or iRiver Story or Sony Reader or the upcoming Skiff, here’s the T ianjin Jinke A6 and A9.

At this point it’s not the the hardware is all that bad on all the random ebook readers leaving

Asia. It’s just that they simply lack a digital delivery system or are too similar to products already on the market from household brands.

These two are no different. Both use SiPix panels with have multitouch-compatible capacitive touchscreens. They also both use a 400MHz Samsung ARM9 CPU and have 2GB of memory, along with 802.11b/g, an SD card slot,

and optional EV-DO, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA 3G wireless. Both models also have an optional QWERTY keyboard. The A6 uses a 600×800 6-inch display while the A9 has a 768×1024 panel.

No word on pricing or availability yet — not that it really matters.

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How Conceptual Metaphors are Stunting Web Innovation

By Venkatesh Rao (Mashable!)

Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:49:23 PM

Venkatesh Rao is a researcher in the Xerox Innovation Group, and the project manager for Trailmeme, a research beta technology that allows users to blaze and follow trails through web content and the Trailmeme for WordPress plugin. He blogs at ribbonfarm.com.

As much as we focus on developing new technologies, it is also essential that we break free of certain metaphors that bind and restrict our thinking about what these technologies can ultimately achieve. The familiar “document” metaphor, among others, has cast a long shadow on how we think about the web, and is standing in the way of some innovation. The Conceptual Metaphor In his classic study of media theory, Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan wrote, “We look at the present through a rear -view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”

Consider these terms: page, scroll, file, folder, trash can, bookmark, inbox, email, desktop, library, archive and index. They are all part of the document metaphor, a superset of the “desktop” metaphor. Some elements, such as scroll, desktop and library pre-date the printing press, but all are based on some sort of “marks on paper-like material” reference.

It is important to understand that the document metaphor is more than a UI metaphor. It is in fact a fundamental way of understanding one domain in terms of another. For better or worse, we continue to understand the web in relation to how we understand documents.

Unlike figurative metaphors, such as “he was a lion in battle,” which are simple rhetorical statements, conceptual metaphors like document-ness are pre-linguistic, and quietly ubiquitous. They infiltrate how we think about things on a much more basic level.

Did it ever occur to you that the phrase “the stock market is up” is actually a particular spatial metaphor for what is really just a number? As a result, we think of the stock market as a geography, which has non-trivial ramifications for how we make decisions about it.

This is often a good thing — conceptual metaphors can be helpful. In dealing with novel phenomena, we often have no choice but to understand the new in terms of the old, the complex in terms of the primal, the abstract in terms of the tangible (companies often pitch themselves according to this logic, i.e. “we’re like FriendFeed for dating”). Accordingly we often conceive of new features, new business lines, and new market opportunities in the same way. The Tyranny of the Document Metaphor

Conceptual metaphors aren’t always a good thing, though, helpful as they may be. A conceptual metaphor enriches your thinking in some directions and impoverishes it in others. It can become a crutch, and a burden.

Consider the terms open and close for digital documents.

Serviceable though they were in the early eighties, they make little sense for the live, constantly evolving web “page.”

For a rapidly changing page, the pause, play and rewind metaphor borrowed from music player UIs is more appropriate, something the Google Wave team has recognized, for example.

As a technology evolves, the metaphor struggles to keep up. It becomes increasingly strained.

McLuhan’s “ medium is the message” phenomenon starts to really kick in, as users encounter the limits and biases of the medium.

In the early days of computing, we needed only a few terms, such as click and double-click, to mitigate the deficiencies of the document metaphor. Today, we make new demands of the metaphor every day, and it fails

us regularly. Consider the irony of your Twitter home “page” that can “scroll” much faster than you can “read.”

The solution? Look for new conceptual metaphors. Liberating the web, Conceptually Let’s continue with the Twitter example.

The conceptual metaphor of a party, with many overlapping public conversations, works much better than the document metaphor. Sophisticated users keep Twitter in their peripheral vision, where it behaves more like an oral medium that you “listen” to in the background, rather than “seeing” it in the foreground, which the “document” metaphor encourages. Note the deficiencies of the conversation metaphor though: it does not cover the Twitter link economy, or asymmetric following. These are better understood through a “marketplace” metaphor, which, however, downplays the conversational aspects.

Likewise, the metaphor that we currently seem to be embracing for the web is “the stream.”

The emergence of the real-time web has finally precipitated the need for a more dynamic framing, and while the stream is accessible and understandable, it is not without its limitations. The flow of information and our “jumping in and out of the stream” may actually point us in a dangerously passive direction.

We may dam a stream, redirect it

or harness its power for other uses, but the stream remains a metaphor that emphasizes precisely our inability to control or effectively influence or filter it.

Such are the trade-offs in engineering new metaphors.

Google Wave is based on a flux metaphor. YouTube borrows a “channel” metaphor from television. The research project I manage, Xerox Trails, is based on the tricky “trail” (as in hiking) metaphor first proposed by Vannevar Bush in 1945.

Conclusion Central to all these programs of metaphor re-engineering is a recognition that the hyperlink is the basic building block of the web. Our conceptualization of the web still does not truly reflect its non-sequential, branching texture, created by hyperlinks.

We still haven’t truly understood that click and link are as fundamental today as read and write.

All in all, throwing off that burden is an immensely difficult task. It is much easier to create technology that conforms to dominant metaphors. What we need to do as we enter the third decade of the web, however, is consider what we want the web to be rather than awkwardly fitting that vision into older descriptive paradigms.

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Ethanol alternative gains ground with new plant (CNET News.com)

companies picked by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:40:25 PM Renewable Energy Laboratory Cobalt's facility restricts water forum in 2008 as an example of consumption by recycling water a viable renewable energy used in its fermentation company. Cobalt also received process.(Credit: Cobalt Biofuels) $25 million in Series C funding Fuel tech start-up Cobalt in October 2008 from a group of Biofuels launched a California investors that included Pinnacle plant on Tuesday that will Ventures. produce biobutanol from forestry And Cobalt is not the only byproducts. company looking to produce a Biobutanol, butanol made from low-carbon butanol from nonbiomass as opposed to fossil feedstock biomass. fuels, already has approval for made from inedible wood and Wilson said in a statement.

In August 2009, oil giant Total use in fuel blends for vehicles plant waste. announced it was investing in California Governor Arnold under U.S. Environmental G e v o , a Colorado-based W h i l e t h e p r o d u c t i o n o f Schwarzenegger, who clearly Protection Agency guidelines. cellulosic ethanol--ethanol sees Cobalt as a poster child for company developing biobutanol Cobalt and others have claimed produced from forestry or clean-tech investment in his m a d e f r o m s u g a r c a n e o r that biobutanol has an advantage agricultural waste--is predicted s t a t e , a t t e n d e d t h e p r e s s agricultural byproducts. Though over ethanol, which has been to increase, much of the world's conference in part to push his it's more of a research and known to have corrosion issues ethanol is still produced from initiative to pass legislation development facility than an in some older fuel systems and corn and grain. Many remain exempting sales tax on green actual plant, materials science pipelines and is conventionally concerned that ethanol has manufacturing equipment. giant Dupont has partnered with used in fuel blends and in newer caused soaring food prices and In addition to making biofuel for BP on a biobutanol plant in the cars with ethanol-ready engines. shortages, since food producers cars that meets California's low U.K. And earlier this month, Biobutanol can be used as a are forced to compete against carbon fuel standards, the Canadian start-up Syntec Biofuel s t a n d a l o n e f u e l e v e n i n energy companies for grain company will provide the state announced plans to develop a c o n v e n t i o n a l g a s o l i n e c a r supplies. biobutanol made from wood and with some much-needed jobs. engines, in addition to being B i o b u t a n o l c a n a l s o b e "Cobalt shows us that what is agricultural waste in partnership used in gasoline and diesel fuel converted into jet fuel or used in good for the environment can w i t h t h e E n e r g y & blends. plastics and paint products. also be good for the economy. In Environmental Research Center Cobalt's c u r r e n t "We are on track to build a fact, within the next few years, at the University of North biobutanol/gasoline blend, which commercial facility within two Cobalt has plans to build an even Dakota (UND). mixes 12 percent biobutanol with years, and we are currently larger plant that will create 1,300 Five Filters featured article: conventional gasoline, reduces building a network of strategic p e r m a n e n t j o b s , " s a i d Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: greenhouse gas emissions by as partners in the fuels, chemicals, S c h w a r z e n e g g e r .

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We need to finally begin articulating the metaphors that will move us beyond the book, and the document.

Understanding the rhetoric of the hyperlink may be the most essential challenge we must meet before we are able to move our thinking forward and accommodate our digital ambitions.

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Obsessed With the Internet: A Tale From China

By Christopher S. Stewart (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:00:00 PM

In China's rigid, hypercompetitive society, the internet explosion represents more than a disciplinary annoyance; it is seen as an existential threat. But when Deng Senshan's parents checked him into an internet-addiction camp in rural China, they expected a cure — not a tragedy.

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2009 PC shipments inch into positive territory (CNET News.com)

confident for to move into a new refresh cycle ... Most of the decision makers at companies The PC industry ended 2009 on look for three to four quarters of a positive note. sustained growth. That puts us in Worldwide shipments for 2009 the second half of 2010 before were up 2.3 percent compared to we see progress."

2008, according to the IDC In the meantime, the year end Quarterly PC Tracker Report report card for the Top 5 released Wednesday. Several manufacturers in the world was months ago, ending the year with almost all positive--with the any shipment growth at all was exception of Dell, none saw looking unlikely. But after negative shipment growth to showing signs of life in the third round out 2009. In order, quarter, followed by a healthy Hewlett-Packard saw shipments fourth quarter, it appears that PC increase 10.4 percent, Dell was business is making a comeback. down 9.4 percent, Acer up 22.3 Sales of mini notebooks in the percent, Lenovo, 13.8 percent, U.S. helped push worldwide and Toshiba up 15.7 percent. sales up for 2009.(Credit: Dell) "In a sense, the U.S. consumer purchased, the margins on them In the U.S. only, there was a A combination of holiday has come again to save the are very thin. Though retailers s i m i l a r s t o r y r e g a r d i n g shopping, pent-up demand, and quarter," he said Wednesday. and manufacturers are selling manufacturers' marketshare: good reviews of Windows 7 "And by doing so, they've also more, they're selling them for everyone gained except Dell. HP have led to 15.2-percent growth lifted the worldwide market, less. inched up to 26.9 percent of PCs T h e o t h e r p r o b l e m : P C shipped for the year, Dell for worldwide shipments during (which) was anticipated to grow the fourth quarter compared to 11.3 percent, but grew 15.2 manufacturers are still waiting dropped slightly to 24.5 percent, percent." for corporate IT departments Acer grabbed 11.3 percent, the same quarter a year ago.

The U.S. market saw even better But there's a flip side to many start buying computers again. Apple saw a slight increase to 8 growth: shipments were up 24 U.S. shoppers picking up laptops When that will be though is still percent, and Toshiba moved to percent during the fourth quarter, near the end of the year during up in the air.

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Rhett & Link Turn 'Local Commercials' Into Internet Love

By Brendan Seibel (Wired Top Stories)

The DIY comedic filmmakers hook up with small-town businesses, crafting clever

advertising spots that ape the low The resulting videos go viral in a - b u d g e t c h a r m o f l o c a l big way. television's penny-ante pitchmen.

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Pat Robertson: Haiti Paid for Making a Satanic Pact (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:29:44 PM

Pat Robertson has never met a disaster, natural or otherwise, that he couldn’t interpret as divine retribution from a vengeful deity, but his latest bizarre fantasy is a real corker: Haiti deserved that earthquake, because they made a deal with the Horned One. His Nibs. True story.[Video] “Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it,” he said. “They were under the heel of the French … and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you’ll get us free from the French.’

“True story. And the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal,’” Robertson said. “Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after another.”

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Microsoft brings kids developer tool to the PC (CNET News.com) Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:20:08 PM

Microsoft is bringing its Kodu development tool from the Xbox to the PC.(Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft researcher Matt MacLaurin came up for the idea for Kodu in his kitchen in the fall of 2006, noticing the way his three-year-old daughter watched her mom browse away on Facebook. MacLaurin noticed how different. While his Commodore Pet was like a lump of clay that he could mold by writing software in Basic, his daughter's generation were using computers whose functions were already set in stone.

So he set about creating a new developer language that would appeal to the current generation of kids. He settled on one that would work with just a game controller, using basic rules to do things like move an apple across the screen.

A few months later, the idea was working code. MacLaurin had created Boku, an all-new programming language that could be run on an Xbox using

only the console's controller to craft basic logic. MacLaurin showed it at the 2007 TechFest internal science fair and later that year at an emerging technology conference.

"That's just in our DNA," MacLaurin said. "We don't really trust something until it is on our screen."

Kodu, the final name for Boku, got its big-time debut in 2009,

when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed the program, as part of his keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Now, Microsoft is bringing Kodu to the PC. MacLaurin said that the company had to do a fair amount of work to make Kodu work with a mouse as opposed to the controller. Most of that work is

to use it without needing any special hardware.

The software has also become popular in his own home, where he and his daughter work on Kodu tasks together.

"We use it together," he said, noting that at 5, his daughter is still younger than the 9-year-old age at which kids really start gravitating to Kodu. What he likes, though, is the logic skills it teaches her and the kinds of questions it creates in her mind.

"It's an opportunity to have conversations you don't really have in other settings," MacLaurin said.

MacLaurin, who worked at Apple for five years, left after done, he said, but the company is working on the Newton to form releasing the PC version of Kodu his own company and joined as a technology preview to get M i c r o s o f t i n 2 0 0 3 . A f t e r more feedback before declaring spending most of his tenure in Microsoft's research labs, he the release final.

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Stephen Colbert is one of the Faces of America

By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:02:00 PM

PBS has a new documentary series debuting on February 10 titled Faces of America. Henry

Louis Gates Jr. (he of the famous "beer summit" at the White House last year) interviews many celebrities about their family history, including Stephen Colbert, Eva Longoria Parker,

Malcolm Gladwell, and Mario Batali. Here are three clips where Colbert (hard T) talks about his family.

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Interior Secretary sets deadline for Cape Wind (CNET News.com) Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:46:00 PM

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By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)

Updated at 2:30 p.m. PT with corrected time line.

Ken Salazar, secretary of the Department of the Interior, on Wednesday said a final decision on the controversial Cape Wind proposal will be made by the end of April.

Salazar met with interested parties on Wednesday in Washington to hear arguments for and against the offshore wind project, which would be first offshore wind installation in the U.S. Following the three meetings, there is now a formal process for deciding whether the Cape Wind project will be approved or rejected, which will include public comments until February 13, followed by a final decision.

The Interior Department needs to balance between two national goals--increasing renewable energy output and historic preservation, Salazar said during a press conference following the meetings.

The location of the proposed 130-turbine wind farm is Nantucket Sound, which earlier this month was ruled eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places because of the spiritual attachment of local Native American tribes to the area.

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wind farm.(Credit: Cape Wind) Either the parties could agree to a memorandum of understanding to "address the adverse impact and provide mitigation," Salazar said. Or, formal consultations between parties will be cut off and a final decision will be made by the Interior Department.

"I think nine years after an application was filed for a permit, to have it continuing to face a future of uncertainty is bad for everybody involved," he said. The project would cost more than $1 billion to develop and provide enough electricity to supply about 70 percent of Cape

Cod's needs.

Clean-energy advocates, native groups, and local government officials expressed their positions, which Salazar said were diametrically opposed.

But he did indicate that there was room for compromise by confining the area of the proposed turbines or decreasing the number of turbines. Moving the site of the proposed wind farm to the south of Nantucket Island, as suggested by the main local opposition group and native Indian representatives, would require a completely new application, he said.

The fate of Cape Wind will not define how the offshore wind industry develops along the Atlantic, which Salazar said will be "successful and robust."

There is concern among wind developers that listing a body of water like the Nantucket Sound under the Register of Historic Places will have a chilling effect on the development of offshore wind, something Salazar said he will consider in his final decision.

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So where has Matt Leblanc been since Joey left the air? I'm not sure, but he has a new show coming up on Showtime that has an interesting premise and could become one of those clever, quirky cable comedies that everyone tells you to watch. In it he plays Matt Leblanc, who has to audition to play, well, Matt Leblanc in a new series for Showtime.

Here's a clip that explains a bit more. Looks like Leblanc is having a fun time spoofing himself.

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Sizzlin' New Pics: The Glammed-Up Gals of 'Desperate Housewives' (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:02:00 PM

Take a stroll down Wisteria Lane and get an eyeful of all the glamorous gals of "Desperate Housewives" rocking the road.

Tune in to "Desperate Housewives" Sunday nights at 9 p.m. to see all the sex, scandals and sordid secrets!

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With RealNetworks' influence waning, CEO departs (CNET News.com) Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:30:00 PM

Rob Glaser built RealNetworks into a digital media power but the company's influence has waned.(Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET ) Rob Glaser, the CEO of software company RealNetworks, has stepped down according to a statement released by the company Wednesday.

"After nearly 16 years, I've decided it's time for me to step away from day-to-day operations," Glaser said in the statement.

Real said Glaser will remain at the company as chairman and appointed Robert Kimball as president and acting chief executive officer. The announcement comes a day after Real announced that John Giamatteo, the company's chief operating officer had resigned.

Glaser jumped from Microsoft after spending 10 years working for CEO Bill Gates to form RealNetworks. He built the company's proprietary software formats, RealAudio and RealVideo into powerhouses. In the early days of the Web, Real was nearly synonymous with

promote Rhapsody, Real's subscription music service on the MSN network. While that deal may have proved beneficial for Real, some of other Glaser's legal pursuits haven't.

In 2008, Real launched a legal campaign against the major film studios when it became apparent they were going to sue Real.

Hollywood wanted to prevent Real from selling RealDVD, claiming the DVD-copying software violated copyright law and contractual agreements.

Last year, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel placed a preliminary injunction on RealDVD sales, forcing Real to wait until the decision can be settled by a jury. Her decision was a blow to Real because the company had also planned to online video and audio. influence has been on the wane launch a new DVD-player that also recorded and stored digital But for some reason, Real was every since. eclipsed by MP3 and other Throughout Glaser's technology film copies. f o r m a t s i n m u s i c a n d t h e career he built a reputation for Whether Real plans to pursue company appeared to sit on its never backing down from a fight, the costly and legal campaign is heels when the video boom even when it may have made unclear.

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Richard Simmons gets way too close for William Shatner's liking

By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:30:00 PM

People seem to forget that there's a ninth hour of Today, hosted by Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb. But maybe you should watch, because something odd seems to happen on the show every other day. This clip shows Richard Simmons and William Shatner getting, um, chummy on a couch.

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Glasses Tattoo Dude Was Shilling For Ray-Ban [VIDEO]

By Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!)

Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:20:00 PM

A metal-drenched video of a man getting a tattoo of sunglasses on his face has been making the rounds these past few days. Turns out, Matthew — the tatted-out man in question — was hawking Ray-Bans.

Roughly two years ago, RayBan launched a campaign to promote its products via social media. Remember this awesome video: Sunglass Catch?

We’ve seen a lot of attentiongrabbing viral campaigns in recent months, and like past semi -racy maneuvers, this one seems to have struck a chord with viewers. The consensus seems to be: This guy is an idiot. Check out some of the comments from the Never Hide video site: “Good luck getting a job in the future. If you walked into my office I would laugh and send

you on your way.”

“This will be hilarious to him for a while, then the regret will set in the first day he wakes up and looks in the mirror and doesn’t laugh.”

“This is how you get your 15 minutes of fame.”

And the official Facebook page: “I can’t believe someone would be so stupid. Um…did you ever think about getting a job. Good luck working minimum wage stocking shelves in the back of some store at night. Only one you will ever get. Idiot.”

“Just wait til he wants a different frame design.”

“How can somebody be that

stupid to ruin his natural face appearance…”

People seem to mighty concerned with Matthew’s ability to find gainful employment.

Although tattoos have become much more common nowadays (hell, The New York Times reported a year ago that they were getting mainstream), and tattoo/advertisements are also nothing new, the choice to get shades etched on his face seems like a questionable life decision on Matthew’s part.

In fact, the whole ordeal leaves us wondering: Just how far is someone willing to go for a taste of being Internet famous? Check out the video, and Matthew’s Flickr stream, for more: [via Media Bistro, Agency Spy] Tags: ad, business, humor, money, ray ban, viral video

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Who's Behind The False Rumors That Facebook Might Start Charging?

By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

of rumors have been spreading about Facebook planning to charge, resulting in huge protest Way back when Friendster was groups in Facebook, and the the super hot social networking company needing to make a startup with an unworkable public denial of any plans to business model, there was charge. In Facebook's case, this suddenly a rush of rumors that is even more believable because the company was going to start the company claims that it's charging for use. Even though already profitable from existing the company never suggested ad sales. And, knowing how plans to charge, there was an Facebook operates, I can't see outcry among users -- and I a n y o n e t h e r e s e r i o u s l y remember getting messages from considering charging for use. people threatening to boycott T h e y k n o w t h e i d e a i s Friendster if it ever did charge. preposterous and would destroy In fact, many people started the site. suggesting alternatives... with So the only thing I'm wondering MySpace being a key one. It is who kicked off these rumors? wasn't long after this episode that Is it another social network? Is it many people really did start MySpace again trying to regain migrating over to MySpace. relevance? Or was it really just Later on there were reports that another malware scam to get the "rumors" about Friendster people to click on unsafe links, charging were actually started that then resulted in a misguided (and then spread) by MySpace panic? employees. And it worked.

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Tom Brady Says Family Doesn't Affect Football (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 1/13/2010 10:30:00 AM

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady chatted

about the family he's built with wife Gisele Bündchen and how he manages to keep his personal life off the football field.

"Hopefully, because I got

married, that doesn't affect how I play quarterback," Brady said during his weekly radio interview with the Dennis & Callahan show on WEEI Sports

Radio.

Brady wed Bündchen last year and welcomed a baby son named Benjamin this past December. "I think my life is focused. I

prioritized what's important to me, that's my family and my football career," Brady explains.

"There's nothing other than that."

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NY Police Destroy Counterfeit Clothes Rather Than Giving Them To The Homeless

By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

Not surprisingly, a lawyer representing various clothing designers was quite happy with Last week there was a big the news, saying that they don't controversy over the fact that want those clothes "back on the some stores in NY were caught street," which suggests that the destroying unsold garments designers may have pushed for rather than donating them to the police to destroy the clothes charities. After people got upset, rather than help the needy. Of the main store in question, H&M course, it's worth pointing out -promised that this wouldn't yet again -- the recent study that happen again. This week we've showed most people are not got a related, but somewhat fooled by counterfeits, and they different story, as the NY Police rarely represent a "lost sale." In have admitted to shredding and fact, many counterfeit purchases burning the counterfeit clothes lead to real purchases later on. service, it's tough to remember they've confiscated, rather than So the idea that they act as a that you can use it to remember giving them to the homeless, as "substitute" or somehow "harm" things, and for that reason I think had always been done in the past. a brand is not actually borne out that even with two million users, When asked to explain why, the by the research. And, of course, it's still very underrated. Libin police claimed "no one asked" some companies have learned sounds like he's on top of things, for the confiscated clothing -- but that there are ways to embrace though -- he promises that many charities insist they had, in counterfeiting to their own they're always working on not fact, made many requests for the advantage, as a form of price only helping users figure out clothing. Apparently, the differentiation. how to use the service, but also destruction is being felt at Permalink| Comments| Email in polishing it and making it clothing banks, who say they This Story have many fewer clothes on hand even easier and simpler.

TUAW Evernote's CEO: 5k new this year than in the past. users a day, but long-term retention is a problem originally appeared on The Unofficial (Holy Kaw!) Seth Godin may have it right Apple Weblog (TUAW) on about not allowing comments on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:30:00 EST. Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:29:00 PM his blog.

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Evernote's CEO: 5k new users a day, but long-term retention is a problem

By Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

over half of their two million users are using the iPhone app [ iTunes link]. As Libin says, the app is "very good" -- it's easy to Submitted at 1/13/2010 3:30:00 PM use (and free), the iPhone's Filed under: Software, Internet camera makes picking up even T o o l s , D e v e l o p e r , i P h o n e real-life scraps of information Mashable's Ben Parr sat down at super easy, and Evernote is CES with Phil Libin, CEO of designed to share information Evernote, which is not only a back to your Mac. Libin says TUAW favorite, but acts as your that "most" of the iPhone users "external brain," saving little do access their information back clips and bits of information both on other PCs. collectible from and accessible Libin also talks about power by any device you happen to users of the service -- there's one have with you. We love the app, in the system that has over a n d w h i l e i t i s n ' t a M a c 80,000 notes, though due to exclusive, there are both Mac privacy, Libin doesn't share what a n d i P h o n e v e r s i o n s , a n d they're keeping in there. And apparently they're doing very apparently one issue they're well. Libin tells us in the video d e a l i n g w i t h i s l o n g - t e r m that not only are they picking up retention. I can identify with that five thousand users a day (!), but -- while Evernote is a great

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Red Cross Raises $800,000+ for Haiti Through Text Message Campaign

By Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable!)

Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:37:06 PM

We’ve just confirmed that the Red Cross has already raised more than $800,000 for Haiti through their $10 text message donation initiative (text “Haiti” to 90999), which is backed by the United States State Department.

Susan Watson, director of battery life. While no date has marketing and visibility for the been announced by Apple for the Red Cross, tells us that they’re release of a new MacBook Pro, getting reports every half hour there's a possibility that such a with the latest donation numbers, device could be announced at the and the current total — as of rumored January 27th media 4:30 p.m. EST — is greater than $800,000 for text message event. donations alone. Watson says, [via The Mac Observer] TUAW Rumor: Intel's Core i5 “The needs are so tremendous in to show up in MacBook Pros this Haiti, and we are honored that month originally appeared on people continue to give to the The Unofficial Apple Weblog American Red Cross. Raising (TUAW) on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 this amount of money, $10 at 16:00:00 EST. Please see our time, is a true testament to the American spirit.” terms for use of feeds.

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Rumor: Intel's Core i5 to show up in MacBook Pros this month

By Steven Sande (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

processors. Existing MacBook Pro models use Intel's Core 2 Duo processors.

A loose translation of the Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:00:00 PM pertinent section of the email Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, shown above says: Macbook Pro Spanish website January prize draw: Win a faq-mac.com had an interesting MacBook Pro tidbit this morning. As seen in Increase sales this month and the screenshot from the site, an have two opportunities to win a Intel Retail Edge program email MacBook Pro equipped with the s h o w e d a g i v e a w a y f o r a accelerated response offered by MacBook Pro. While that's not the Intel Core i5 processor. A unusual -- a MacBook Pro makes MacBook Pro with a Core i5 a great prize for any contest -- p r o c e s s o r w o u l d h a v e the email showed that the substantially better performance MacBook Pros in question were than the Core 2 Duo-based equipped with Intel Core i5 model, while not reducing

General Motors Cuts Ties with Tiger Woods (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:25:00 AM

General Motors has reportedly ended its relationship with Tiger

Woods.

People.com reports that the company's endorsement contract with the golf star ended in 2008, but his driving deal was

extended through Decemeber 31, 2009. According to the mag, Woods will no longer be permitted to drive GM cars for free.

Gatorade, Tag Heuer, Accenture and AT&T have also cut ties with Woods in the wake of the scandal surrounding his alleged marital infidelity.

immediately set up the simplest donation method possible, but its social media presence and outreach, when combined with the State Department’s involvement, has turned this into a viral funding initiative, topping Twitter trends and inspiring action. The Red Cross is also contributing an initial$1 million from the International Response Fund.

If you want to help the cause you can text “Haiti” to 90999 to send a $10 donation to the Red Cross. There’s also this collection of organizations that are accepting donations online.

Tags: donation, Earthquake, haiti, red cross, social media

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Flash on the iPhone, in demo form

By Erica Sadun (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 1/13/2010 5:30:00 PM

Filed under: Software, iPhone Flash has finally made its way to the iPhone, with the help of some sneaky developers. The open source Gordon project, hosted over at github, has provided a JavaScript-powered Flash runtime. With it, you can actually load and view Flash's .swf files, even on the iPhone's Mobile Safari browser. I gave it a try earlier today and was delighted to find that several Flash demos ran fine on my 3GS, no jailbreaking or other installation necessary.

Admittedly, this is a very preliminary build, that supports just these SWF tags. Also, to

make this work, Flash developers will need to encapsulate the SWF into an HTML wrapper, importing the Gordon JavaScript source and then loading the swf, as shown

here. I am not a Flash expert by any means, but this seems like a pretty cool development for any iPhone enthusiasts who would be interested in seeing the platform support that technology. At this point, there's not much to show for it besides a few demos (and who knows what Apple will think about this), but at least there's a currently viable way to run and view Flash on the iPhone.

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UK Ministers 'Concede' Some Ridiculous Points in Digital Economy Bill In Attempt To Get Other Ridiculous Measures

By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

Section 17 provision.

Of course, the concessions Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:51:00 AM appear to be rather minor, and When Peter Mandelson's Digital my more cynical view is that E c o n o m y B i l l w a s f i r s t they knew they were going to do announced, many people were so this all along. The idea is shocked by the provision that simple. Introduce one section would let Mandelson or his that's even more ridiculous and successor change copyright law outrageous than the sections you at will, with no Parliamentary really want passed, and then let approval, that they started all the complaints and press focusing on that, rather than the coverage focus on that more expected problem with the bill, ridiculous section. Then, after like the fact that it could allow people get all worked up about it, people to be kicked offline "concede" just a little bit, and without a conviction. There has notice that most people no longer been a lot of pushback from have the energy to fight about some politicians in the UK and the other provisions. various amendments proposed to Permalink| Comments| Email fix the bill. And now it looks This Story like the gov't has agreed to make some changes to the infamous

If Banning The Internet For Sex Offenders Is Unfair, Is Banning The Internet For Copyright Infringers Fair?

By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 1/13/2010 8:12:00 AM

For many years we've questioned the logic of courts banning people from the internet for committing some sort of internet crime (mostly commonly sexual offenses online). Many courts have decided that it's

ridiculous to ban people from the internet in an era when the internet has become so integral to our lives and our jobs. And, as more content and services move to being online only, it gets even sillier. If you're banned from the internet can you use a Kindle? What about a VoIP phone? It gets confusing

fast. Luckily it looks like yet another court has thrown out an internet ban on a sex offender as draconian and a potential violation of the guy's free speech and association rights.

While there's been some split in the courts, it looks like many are starting to question such bans, given how ubiquitous the

internet has become. And yet... just as this is happening, we have the entertainment industry pushing hard to kick people off the internet for a small number of accusations (not convictions) for file sharing. Seeing as the courts are already claiming that internet bans -- even for online sex offenders -- is too draconian,

how can anyone justify an internet ban as being a fair and equitable "punishment" for being accused (not convicted) of sharing some music?

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Game Developers' I’m With COCO: Conan Conference to include O’Brien Tribute Takes iPhone Games Summit track

By Megan Lavey (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

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Happy 53rd anniversary, disk-shaped toy that people throw at each other!

By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) Submitted at 1/13/2010 5:00:00 PM

By Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable!)

I don't think I've thrown a Frisbee in 25 years. No surprise, Submitted at 1/13/2010 3:00:00 PM Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:21:14 PM of course. I don't belong to a Frisbee club, I don't like the Filed under: Gaming, Other In light of NBC’s blunderous beach, and there aren't many Events, iPhone Macworld reports maneuvers, its decision to push reasons for a writer to throw a that the 2010 Game Developers' back The Tonight Show, and Frisbee around. But today is the Conference will include an 8Conan O’Brien’s public 53rd anniversary of the invention class track on iPhone games. The statement on the matter, Conan of the Frisbee, so I thought I'd iPhone Games Summit, which fans are using social media communal display of solidarity, post this commercial for the disk takes place over two days, avatars to get their point across. which is becoming quite the from the 1960s. replaces an older format where see how these are attended and In fact, one man’s I’m With trend on Facebook and other Bonus: includes hula hoops! panels on the iPhone were mixed what changes they make next COCO image is speaking for social networks. TMZ reports Filed under: Video, in with those on gaming for other time around as well.

Facebook denizens everywhere. that even people who work for Commercials, Reality-Free mobile platforms or independent T h e G a m e D e v e l o p e r s ' Mike Mitchell created an image, NBC and The Tonight Show are Permalink| Email this| | development.

Conference will be held March 9 along with an accompanying participating in the avatar- C o m m e n t s Classes appear to be aimed -13 at the Moscone Center in San website and Facebook Page, that changing movement. Apparently toward niche development ("A Francisco. celebrates Conan and his widely even Conan O’Brien himself has Big Dash of Success: How to TUAW Game Developers' discussed hair. Now Facebookers seen the image that pays homage Capture the Female iPhone Conference to include iPhone are showing their support for the to him and his vibrant hair.

Gamer") and utilizing social Games Summit track originally l a t e - n i g h t f u n n y m a n b y So are you with COCO? networking and multiplayer appeared on The Unofficial changing their pictures to the Tags: conan, conan o'brien, capabilities for iPhone games. Apple Weblog (TUAW) on COCO image. facebook, tv The two most interesting classes Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:00:00 EST. Mitchell encourages this to me is a case study of one Please see our terms for use of company's year in the App Store feeds. and a class aimed at covering the Read| Permalink| Email this| finer points of the iPhone Comments contract. Given that this is their first year, it'll be interesting to (ETonline - Breaking News) The Associated Press reports the AP that Hall's cancer is in that Hall, 38, says he was complete remission and his Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:37:00 PM d i a g n o s e d w i t h H o d g k i n ' s treatment is ongoing.

"Dexter" star Michael C. Hall is lymphoma, a condition he calls reportedly being treated for "treatable and curable." cancer.

A spokesperson for the star tells

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Zillow to IPO in 2011

By Ben Parr (Mashable!)

Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:11:55 PM

Zillow, one of the world’s largest real estate websites, could opt for an IPO as early as next year. It’s a dramatic change from a year ago, when the recession pushed venture capital and technology IPOs to their lowest levels in years.

In an interview with BusinessWeek, Zillow COO Spencer Rascoff stated that Zillow is looking not only to go public in 2011, but is seeking ways to improve its valuation by courting new investors and solidifying itself as the world’s “fastest-growing real estate site.”

Zillow still faces a major challenge though: It’s still not

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Grab the Cheetos, it's time for TUAW TV Live (5 PM ET)

By Steven Sande (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:45:00 PM

Filed under: Humor, Video, Odds and ends Today marks the profitable. Still, we expect Zillow to do well in IPO. It has fourth episode of TUAW TV a recognized and fast-growing Live, our regular Wednesday brand that keeps innovating. Ustream broadcast featuring Zillow’s IPO performance could news, reviews, and discussion of be a strong indicator for how eveything Apple. other Internet companies will Join TUAW lead blogger Steve fare in the recovering market, Sande in the chat by watching the live stream in the window most notably Facebook.

Tags: business, ipo, market, below (starts at 5 PM ET, 2 PM PT), then using the chat tool to stock market, zillow add your voice to the chorus of Mac and iPhone goodness. You can also view the show by visiting http://ustream.tv/tuaw.

Past episodes are available for viewing at the same location on

Ustream.

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Beautiful time lapse video of Northern Lights (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:26:13 PM

Forget “Jersey Shore,” sometimes nature provides all the entertainment we need.

National Geographic traveled to Norway and captured the stunning beauty of the Northern Lights. The breathtaking video was shot over the course of one night and squished down to four and a half minutes for your viewing pleasure.

Get all the most interesting news from National Geographic.

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Martian Tendrils (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 1/12/2010 7:10:24 PM

A stunning image of the sand dunes near the North Pole of Mars, from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera: Phil Plait explains what you’re seeing: But what are those weird tendril

thingies?

In the Martian winter, carbon dioxide freezes out of the air (and you thought it was cold where you are). In the summer, that CO2 sublimates; that is, turns directly from a solid to a gas. When that happens the sand gets disturbed, and falls down the slopes in little channels, the bottom. But this disturbs the which spreads out when it hits red dust, too, which flows with

the sand. When it’s all done, you get those feathery tendrils. Note that at the tendril tips, you see blotches of red; that’s probably from the lighter dust billowing a bit before settling down.

Now, you might think I’m making this all up. How do we know this stuff is flowing downhill like that? Ah, because in this picture we’ve caught it in

the act! In this image, a closeup of a region just to the left of center of the big image, you can actually see the cloud of dust from an avalanche as it occurs.

Oh, baby. The cloud is only a few dozen meters across, and can’t be more than a few seconds old.

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Spice Up Your Sandwich Routine to Make Brown Bagging It More Appealing [Food Hacks]

By Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker) Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:00:00 PM

Everyone knows that packing your own lunch is an effective way to save money and eat healthier food, but it certain can get a bit predictable. Mix things up with these tips.

Photo by Steven de Polo.

Over at the money and frugalitycentered blog Wise Bread they've put together a list of ideas for increasing the appeal of the brown bag lunch, especially when you're fond of packing sandwiches. They echo some of the topics we shared with you during Food Week earlier this year in our guide to making your brown bag lunch more appealing like using interesting condiments and add-ons: These are the little nuggets of yum that help take your sandwich from hum-drum to hubba-hubba. One of my favorite items is those bulk jars of banana pepper rings you can purchase in the bulk aisle at Walmart. For under five dollars you've got a bulk supply of a zippy little sandwich add-on that won't spoil quickly like certain produce items (cough - tomatoes). Other

ideas include basil leaves, sliced bulk pickles, mixed organic spring greens, sprouts, and French-fried onions.

Pre-cooked bacon (a main ingredient in BLT sandwiches) is a flavorful accent in other sandwiches and upgrades them affordably to the status of "club."

For around eight dollars at my local warehouse store, I can purchase a bulk bag of precooked bacon that equates to four pounds of the raw equivalent. Since I can't buy uncooked bacon for two bucks a pound unless it's on a major sale and would have to deal with the stress of cooking it as well, I

consider this a major bargain.

They also cover using spreads, mixing up the content of the sandwich, and making sure not to neglect side dishes and preparation tips. Check out the whole article for more tricks on turning your daily sandwich from something that resembles a sad elementary school ham sandwich into a zesty deli offering. Have your own sandwich tips? Let's hear about it in the comments. Sex Up Your Sandwich: Ideas for Budget Conscious Brown Baggers[WiseBread]

The ChoKolate Linux Desktop [Featured Desktop]

By The How-To Geek (Lifehacker)

• Custom conky configuration

Impressive job, naaamo2004!

Want to see your own Linux Reader naaamo2004's Linux desktop featured here? Read up desktop sports a chocolate on how to customize Conky for colored theme that is slick, ambient Linux productivity, and polished, and beautiful, with an t h e n p o s t y o u r p r o d u c t i v e impressive Firefox theme to desktop over in the Lifehacker match.

Desktop Show and Tell Flickr The desktop is a combination of: G r o u p c o m p l e t e w i t h a • Kubuntu with the Plasma description of the programs and "aya" Theme tweaks you used (and preferably • Custom start page for Firefox links as well!), and we just might • Custom wp, qtcurve setup, feature it here. The ChoKolate colour scheme, deKorator Linux Desktop[Flickr] • Icons are ffw from gnome-look Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:00:00 PM

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Real Estate Search for iPhone Helps TechStars Boulder Now Accepting Applications For You Find Your Dream Home by Summer Mentorship Program Location [Downloads]

By Chris Cameron (ReadWriteWeb)

By Lisa Hoover (Lifehacker)

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iPhone/iPod touch only: The next time you're driving around a nice neighborhood and wonder if there are any homes for sale in your price range, whip out your iPhone and check with Realtor.com to find out.

This nifty app for the iPhone and iPod touch taps directly into the listings at Realtor.com to give you all kinds on information on nearby homes for sale. You can search by town, state, zip code, price, or the amenities you're looking for. You can even search by Multiple Listing Service (MLS) number assigned to a specific property if you happen to know it.

The app also checks your location and lets you know about any open houses going on in the area so you can scope houses from the inside out. If you want to know everything going on in the housing market in your area, save your searches and Realtor.com will email you every time there's an open house or new listing. Be advised, the app

updates every 15 minutes, so you may get a lot of alerts if you're searching a major metropolitan area.

Each listing contains tons of information about the home for sale, including the asking price, property details, agent information, and pictures if there are any. You can view the property on a map, email it to someone else, and even contact the listing agent, all without leaving the app.

If you're in the market for a new home, or just want to daydream about what's out there, then this app is a good start. It's a handy way to carry around a comprehensive overview of the housing market right in your pocket or purse. Realtor.com iPhone Real Estate App[iTunes App Store]

If you procrastinated on applying for TechStars Boston and missed Monday night's deadline but still want to attend a TechStars event, their summer program in Boulder, Colorado is now accepting applications.

TechStars is a highly competitive funding and mentoring program based in Boston, Boulder and Seattle that helps young startups jump-start their businesses. Their impressive list of over 50 mentors includes Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg, venture capitalist Fred Wilson and Foundry Group director Brad Feld.

Sponsor This summer's program will be the fourth class of companies to go through the Boulder program, and if last year's class is any example of how things will go this year, big possibilities await applicants. TechStars founder and CEO David Cohen announced last November that

six of the 10 companies from the 2009 Boulder class closed investment deals with venture capital firms.

One disadvantage Boulder applicants face is that any unselected applications from the Boston program are automatically rolled over into the Boulder applications, making the selection more competitive. The same thing will happen in Seattle, which means Seattle applicants will be ultimately vying for spots against the Boston and Boulder rejects.

The deadline to apply for this summer's Boulder program is Monday, March 22 at midnight Mountain Standard Time. Seattle applications open the following day.

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Make Your Own Snack Packs to Help Lose Weight [Diet Hacks]

Google Gained Ground on Baidu in 2009

By Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)

By Mike Melanson (ReadWriteWeb)

Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:30:00 PM

Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:23:00 AM

Even if you've hacked out some less-than-healthy food from your diet, it's still possible to over do it with healthy food. Use this simple hack to help control your portions.

Over at the parent-centric blog Parent Hacks they shared a really handy hack for parents with small children: use Ziploc bags and small Tupperware containers to create single-serving portions of snacks that are easy for kids to open and that help teach them portion control and keep them from eating the whole box of snacks.

Little kids aren't the only ones that can use the help of a little portion control education. Eating the proper amount of food is as important as eating good food—it's just as easy to pack on weight eating too many almonds

Whatever Google's reason for threatening to leave China, the latest numbers from StatCounter, a free online stat service, show that it certainly isn't for lack of opportunity. Google has been steadily gaining ground on China's premier search service, Baidu, since last August.

Sponsor According to StatCounter, Google held just 28% of China's search market back in August as it is eating too many chicken access to just-the-right-size and since has climbed to nearly nuggets. If you've resolved this snacks in your fridge and pantry. 43%. That's a 15-percentageyear to overhaul your diet, steal a For more information and tips point gain in just four or five page from the Parent Hacks check out Parent Hacks at the months. Yahoo and Bing account playbook and take a moment to link below. Have your own tip figure out what the proper for eating healthier? Let's hear portions of the new food, midday about it in the comments. Snack and evening snacks especially, Hack: Create Single Servings to you're incorporating into your Teach Portion Control and diet are. Bundle the individual Increase Independence[Parent portions up and you'll have ready Hacks]

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for just over 1% of China's search engine market.

While estimates put Google's projected 2010 income from business in China at around 2% of the company's entire revenue, the long-term implications of pulling out of the country are much larger.

If any company should just give up the ghost and get out of China before making any more PR (and human rights) gaffes, maybe it's Yahoo. Discuss

More ex-Friends news: ABC picks up Matthew Perry's show

By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) Submitted at 1/13/2010 3:30:00 PM

Earlier today we showed you a clip from Matt Leblanc's new Showtime series Episodes. His old Friends friend Matthew Perry was supposed to have a show on Showtime too called The End of

Steve, but the network passed on it. Now Perry has another show and ABC has signed him up.

Perry will star in Mr. Sunshine, a pilot that he co-wrote with Marc Firek and Alex Barnow.

It's about the manager of a sports arena who turns 40 and realizes and grow up. Fans of two other that he has to change his ways Perry projects, The West Wing

and Studio 60 on the Sunset Filed under: Other Comedy Strip, will be happy to hear that S h o w s , P r o g r a m m i n g , Tommy Schlamme is on board C e l e b r i t i e s , R e a l i t y - F r e e as a producer, and I bet he'll Permalink| Email this| | direct an episode or two as well. C o m m e n t s We're all getting older. Perry is now a man in his 40s, Leblanc has gray hair, and Courteney Cox is a cougar.

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Do the Size of Mobile App Stores Still Matter?

By Frederic Lardinois (ReadWriteWeb)

To some degree, Powers' comments about the size of today's app stores rings true.

Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:34:21 AM Maybe it really doesn't matter According to Mplayit CEO that the Android store only Michael Powers, the size of a features about 20,000 apps and mobile platform's app store is that the Apple App Store now now mostly irrelevant. Facebook holds more than 100,000. Maybe -based mobile app store Mplayit it is true that consumers tend to took a close look at the most offer more than enough apps and gravitate towards the same popular apps for Android, as long as people can find the brands on all platforms.

BlackBerry and the iPhone and apps they are looking for - and as At the same time, though, found that the most popular apps long as these apps are good - having more apps in the store on all three platforms tend to be most consumers will be happy. also means that there is a more very similar. As the popular app Most users simply don't need 50 active developer ecosystem stores continue to grow, users on different apps to write their around a given platform. While all the major platforms also drift grocery lists. iPhone developers rightly gripe towards the same known brands Looking at Mplayit's list of the about Apple's approval process, and hits like EverNote and most popular apps across the top we've seen a lot more innovative Pandora. platforms, it also becomes clear apps for the iPhone than for Sponsor t h a t q u i t e a f e w o f t h e s e Android.

Mplayit also found that one of categories are being dominated Is the size of the Android market t h e f a s t e s t g r o w i n g a p p by known brands like Shazam, holding you back from making categories across all the major P a n d o r a , E v e r n o t e a n d t h e s w i t c h ? D o y o u t h i n k platforms are barcode scanners. Facebook. Mplayit, of course, is Android has enough good apps A p p s l i k e S h o p S a v v y a n d in the business of giving app that make up for the smaller app RedLaser have clearly hit upon r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s a c r o s s store? Do you think the quality an unfulfilled need. Size Doesn't platforms and doesn't fail to note of today's BlackBerry apps is Matter that it's own store is a good good enough? Feel free to let us According to Powers, asking alternative for finding apps know in the comments. how many apps exist for a given outside of the standard top 20 Discuss platform is now a moot question. charts. Or Does It? All the major platforms now

Haiti: Where To Send Your Money [Disasters]

By Pareene (Gawker) Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:38:47 PM

The Red Cross is"out of medical supplies." The Daily Beast has identified the NGOs most deserving of your donations.( Watch out for frauds soliciting donations in the coming days.)

And the White House emails: This is also a time when we are reminded of the common humanity that we all share, and Americans have always responded to these situations with generosity of spirit. If you would like to support the urgent humanitarian effort in Haiti, I

encourage you to visit our website where you can learn more about how to contribute: http://www.WhiteHouse.gov/Hai tiEarthquake Americans trying to locate family members in Haiti are encouraged to contact the State Department at (888) 407-4747.

We will continue to stand with the people of Haiti and keep them in our thoughts and prayers.

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Internet Rallies to Help Haiti: Here's Sarah Palin's Daughter What You Can Do Right Now Bristol Reveals Celibacy Vow

By Frederic Lardinois (ReadWriteWeb)

Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:12:29 PM

As you probably know, Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake last night. According to the latest estimates, over 100,000 people may have died and large parts of the island's infrastructure have been destroyed.

Here is short list of things you can do right now to get help to Haiti. Just watch out for unsolicited emails. Quite a few scammers and spammers are trying to profit from this catastrophe and have set up fake donation sites and are running phishing scams.

Sponsor Text to Give Money As Twitter's Ev Williams just noted on the official Twitter blog, giving money to relief organizations has never been

Of course, all the major relief organizations also have websites and will happily accept your donations. Our friends at Mashable have compiled a good list of worthy organizations. Stay Informed Here are a few Twitter lists you easier. All you need is your can follow to stay informed.

• New York Times: follows phone: • The American Red Cross updates from organizations like allows anyone in the US to text the Red Cross, Catholic Relief HAITI to 90999 as an easy way Services and InternetHaiti to donate $10 to the recovery • CNN: following many of the effort. The money is billed to same news sources as the New your mobile phone account. York Times, but also features According to the latest tally, the updates from local bloggers and Red Cross has already raised Twitter users. over $800,000 through text • This local blogger is also posting regular updates. messages.

• Musician Wyclef Jean's HaitiIf you know of other news focused organization, Yele is also accepting text-message sources, local bloggers or donations. To donate $5, text organizations, let us know in the Yele to 501501 or visit the comments. Discuss foundation's web site.

(ETonline - Breaking News)

December 2008, also reveals that she'd like to promote safe sex and abstinence.

In a revealing interview for the "Tripp is the love of my life -- I upcoming issue of In Touch couldn't ask for a better baby," W e e k l y , f o r m e r G O P Bristol, who broke up with presidential candidate Sarah Tripp's father Levi Johnston, Palin and her daughter Bristol tells the mag. "But the reality is open up about the experience of I'm 19 years old and I have a 1r a i s i n g t h e i r t o d d l e r s o n s year-old. I wish I could be in my together -- and what their plans 30s with a baby, and not be 20. are for the future.

Just having him so young -- I In the issue, on stands Friday, have to work, and I have to Bristol says, "I'm not going to provide, because I'm a single have sex until I'm married…I mom." can guarantee it." Bristol, who gave birth to her son Tripp in Submitted at 1/13/2010 10:38:00 AM

Jay Reatard, Garage Rebel, Dead at 29 [Obits]

By John Cook (Gawker) Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:14:28 PM

Hard-living Memphis garagerock hellion Jay Reatard—real name Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr.—is dead at 29. He was found in his bed early this morning, and

Memphis police are investigating.

Reatard sang loud, nihilistic, tuneful, adolescent songs about how everything is awful and there is no hope. He dropped out of the eighth grade to play rock Fall, was released by Matador music; his last record, Watch Me l a s t y e a r . P i t c h f o r k h a s a

collection of his performances; here's "I'm Watching You" live in Brooklyn in 2008.

[Photo via Flickr by Redheadwalking.]

Microsoft and Hewlett -Packard Deal: The Cloud is not Cheap

By Alex Williams (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:21:39 AM

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You're hard pressed to find any sector of the tech economy that is getting more financing than cloud computing.

Today's announcement by Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft is a good example. The two tech giants announced a partnership today that is valued at $250 million.

Why are these ventures getting such an influx of revenue? If content is king, then infrastructure in the castle in the cloud.

Sponsor Castles cost a lot to build and so does a cloud service. The Microsoft-HP deal is a case in point. The two companies are building a cloud infrastructure that spans hardware and software integration. They are developing their own applications. It's like

an effort to build a massive data center network that works as one giant computer.

The investment includes the use of HP servers for Azure, the cloud platform developed by Microsoft. In return, Microsoft software, database programs and other applications will be loaded on the HP machines.

Both companies want to own the enterprise. It's apparent that the two feel this can only be done by having a deep cloud-based infrastructure that bundles a full suite of software and tools to optimize systems for business customers.

Stacey Higginbotham of GigaOm makes an excellent point in asking if optimization is the new code word for proprietary systems. There's a danger in that for customers as it

can lead to vendor lock-in.

But Microsoft and HP obviously see a need to form their own partnership to compete with the likes of Cisco, which has a deal with VMWare. Oracle, for its part, is still waiting for approval on its deal with Sun Microsystems.

Enterprise customers should be wary of these mega deals. The castle in the cloud may look nice but the enterprise customer may find itself in the dungeon if it makes too heavy an investment in proprietary systems that lock them into specific vendors.

Discuss

Victoria’s Secret Model Lindsay Ellingson’s Topless Bikini

By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 1/13/2010 9:55:00 AM

Leave it to Victoria’s Secret to concoct a one-piece bathing suit with so little fabric, it’s actually called a bikini. VS’s new “topless” bikini (reminiscent of the original monokini from the '60s), thankfully, comes with a removable bandeau for those not wishing to bare it all. Model Lindsay Ellingson does just that in the spring 2010 swim catalogue, though her long beachy waves keep things PG13. For a behind-the-scenes look

at Lindsay, sans bandeau, click here.

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Google China's New Take on 'Tiananmen Massacre' [Censorship]

By Ryan Tate (Gawker)

Google says it hasn't actually done anything yet. A spokesperson told the Daily Google announced it will stop T e l e g r a p h ' s S h a n g h a i filtering its China search engine correspondent the company has — or shut the site. And already, not changed its filtering since once-suppressed results are announcing its forthcoming showing up on Google.cn (see changes. That, presumably, is screenshot; top is current, bottom w h y y o u c a n s t i l l s e e a from June). That's the good disclaimer about censored search news. The bad news? results in black at the bottom left Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:34:30 PM

of both screenshots above.

And that's presumably why a

search for "tiananmen" still looks like this on Google.cn... ...and like this on Google.com (with the language set to Chinese): It's always nice to imagine a censorship free Google.cn, of course. It might even happen, some day. But don't hold your breath.

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many, is still unparalleled by its competitors. Built on a rock solid UNIX foundation and continually adding refinements that make interaction easier, OS X has a lot of powerful functionality that many users were unaware existed. One of these is the idea of “Smart Folders” and with a little primer, you can begin using them to make your Mac experience easier (and faster). A Brief History The idea of these Smart Folders are not unique to OS X. In fact, the idea started originally in the mid ‘90s with the now defunct BeOS. When Dominic Giampaolo, a software developer for Be, began working for Apple in 2002, some of the best elements of the BeOS made their way into Apple’s modern operating system. We know these features as “Smart Folders” and Spotlight, both of which launched in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, two years after Giampaolo began working for Apple.

A “Smart Folder” (or “Search Folder” as Windows Vista calls them when Microsoft introduced its version in 2006) is based on the idea that this folder is basically a “virtual folder” of its actual contents. This virtual folder doesn’t physically store copies of its contents inside but rather utilizes a database to store attributes about the files (defined either by the system or the user).

This offers several advantages:

they have a small file size, the ability for on-the-fly fine tuning of the criteria used to define the content as well as allowing the content to dynamically update as new files meet the criteria.

Whoa. What does all of that mean? We’re getting there.

Smart Folders Save Time In short, Smart Folders save you time. You basically give them a list of rules to follow and they automatically fill themselves with content based on the criteria you’ve defined. It’s important though, to realize that these Smart Folders do not actually represent copies of the content, but merely virtually link to them.

If you delete a file out of a Smart Folder, you’ve also deleted it from its original location. How To Make Smart Folders Making a Smart Folder is quite easy. In fact, if you’re running Leopard or Snow Leopard, several of them have already been created. You might recognize them due to their trademark purple folder icon (also used to serve the same role in other applications, but we’ll discuss that in future articles). In the left side of a default Finder window, you’ll see an area called “Search For” with entries for “Today,” “Yesterday,” “Past Week” and some more. These are built in smart folders that automatically search your entire system for files meeting those criteria. But we can do far more powerful things with Smart

Folders if we make our own.

• To get started, when in the Finder, go to the File menu and select “New Smart Folder.”

You’ll have a Finder window that looks like a search window.

(You can also start this process simply by searching from a Finder window.)

• Next, using the bar beneath the title bar of the window, select the location you’d like this folder to search. The default options are your Mac, your home folder and Shared (any other computers you may connected to). If you’d like it to confine the search to a specific folder, simply navigate to that folder and use the Spotlight function built into the Finder window. (Type something into the field to bring up a search; you can then delete what you typed to move to the next step).

• Unless you’ve specified some phrase or string in the Spotlight search region in the upper right of the window, at this point you’re not going to be seeing any search results. Let’s give it some actual criteria to search.

• Click the round plus (+) icon on the right side of the window to show another bar beneath the search location. Where it says “Kind” and “Any” is your first search criteria. These work in pairs. You can change “Any” to documents, images, movies or anything you want. Instantly, you’ll see your search results start to populate based on your

selection. Perhaps instead of searching by kind, you want to search by name, contents or date.

Clicking “Kind” will allow these changes as well as a mystical “other” option which gives you tons of options for a plethora of different uses. Since OS X is media friendly, you can also select criteria that corresponds to metadata in your media files, such as aperture value of a photo, sample rate for an audio file, video bit rate for video files and more.

• You can continue to add additional criteria by clicking the plus and adding another row of criterion. Each additional criterion further fine tunes your search. For an item to appear in the results, it will need to meet every rule you have created for it.

• If you want to save a Smart Folder search, click the Save button in the upper right of the window. Your searches are saved in “Saved Searches” inside the Library folder of your home folder. There’s also a checkbox to automatically add your new search to your Finder sidebar.

• Editing a Smart Folder is as simple as right clicking it in the sidebar and selecting “Show Search Criteria” or selecting the same option from the gears menu once you’ve double clicked a saved Smart Folder.

Again, the beauty and power of Smart Folders comes from the

fact that once you’ve defined the rules, this folder will automatically continue to update as new files are created or saved that meet its criteria. Folder Inspiration Smart Folders sound great and once you’ve set one up, you’ll see the process is pretty simple.

It’s also pretty powerful but, for inspiration, here’s a few examples of interesting and useful Smart Folders that you could create on your system.

Recent Documents: To view all your recent documents, set the kind to document and the last opened date to within the last 3 days.

Important Files: If you use Finder labels, select “Other” and choose “File label.” Then pick the file label that matches your desired results.

By Device: Have several cameras? You can use “Device make” and “Device model” to specify a particular camera (as well as any other EXIF data).

Do you use Smart Folders?

Have any tips you’d like to share or comments on this post? Let me know what you think; I’d love to hear your feedback.

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Opinion: Flash is the Real iPhone Killer

By Liam Cassidy (TheAppleBlog) Submitted at 1/13/2010 7:26:29 AM

When Flash appeared near the end of the last millennium it promised a bright new world of rich multimedia content creation and delivery via what would otherwise be drab old web pages.

At a time when Geocities was the best the Web had to offer, Flash was a tempting — and not to mention dazzling — new kid on the block.

Over the years, as web technologies evolved and matured, Flash proved to be problematic; for those who make websites (and care about accessibility and web standards in a way ordinary people just don’t) it has gradually aged into an unwieldy, outmoded platform.

Even for those enjoying the most remarkable fruits of early Flash labor — for instance, YouTube relied on the technology heavily in its formative years — Flash was simultaneously the bringer of video entertainment and the most common reason for all browser (and a great many System) crashes. Also — did I mention the security vulnerabilities?

I hoped (foolishly, it seems) that it was only the big movie studios who, paranoid we’re all stealing their stuff, were still insisting on Flash-based content delivery, but according to Erick Schonfeld over on TechCrunch, there’s a whopping two million Flash

developers out there, and they’re simply dying to bring their Flash -authored wares to the last platform on Earth that has, so far, remained blissfully Flash free — your iPhone. Limitations The iPhone has always been marketed as a breakthrough Internet device, in spite of two limitations considered by some people to be significant — the iPhone’s browser, Mobile Safari, has never supported Java or Flash.

While the absence of Java is no big deal (honestly, is there anything more horrid than Java web plugins?) the lack of Flash support on the iPhone was considered debilitating enough that, in the UK, the Advertising Standards Authority upheld viewer complaints and banned one of Apple’s iPhone commercials for ‘misleading’ customers with the line “All the parts of the Internet are on the iPhone.” It sounds rather like an over-reaction, but consider that in his 2008 WWDC keynote, Steve Jobs proudly announced, “Mobile browsing has gone from nothing to 98 percent with iPhone.” With so much mobile browsing going on, it seems any limitations matter profoundly.

So, after almost three years browsing the web on our iPhones, how has the lack of Flash truly affected us?

Here’s the answer to that in three succinct syllables; not at all.

Seriously, has it so greatly

supposed to replace a laptop or desktop-class machine. What the iPhone brought to mobile phones (both in terms of functions and ease-of-use) was revolutionary in ways we readily take for granted today. But just think again of that figure; 98 percent browsing?

That had never happened on mobile phones before, and it happened despite the lack of Flash. inconvenienced anyone that they Steve Jobs announces 98 were driven away from the percent of iPhone owners are iPhone forever? (That rhetorical using it for web browsing question will be read by our But while I (perhaps incorrectly) resident comment trolls as an assumed the lack of Flash was a open invitation to loudly usability consideration on proclaim their Android-based Apple’s part, Schonfeld thinks phones ‘superior’ because they the decision was motivated by a do support Flash.) less obvious, and far more Schonfeld offers an ominous cunning, desire. prediction for 2010.

[Apple] wanted a chance to Adobe is going to bring its 2 b e c o m e i n g r a i n e d w i t h million Flash developers to the developers. Apple had to hold iPhone, with or without Apple’s off Flash not so to control the blessing. As it announced in video experience on the iPhone, October, the next version of its but because it needed to establish Flash developer tools, Creative its own Apple-controlled iPhone Suite 5 […] will automatically SDK. The last thing it needed convert any Flash app into an was a competing developer iPhone app. So while Flash apps platform getting in the way. won’t run on the iPhone, any But Adobe Creative Suite 5 will F l a s h a p p c a n e a s i l y b e provide precisely the magic converted into an iPhone app. button developers need to port This is a bigger deal than many their Flash apps to the iPhone. people appreciate. …those 2 million developers will While Schonfeld thinks Apple’s be able to keep working with lack of Flash support represents Adobe tools and simply turn a “gaping hole in iPhone’s t h e m i n t o i P h o n e a p p s arsenal” I rather think the automatically. …if you thought opposite is true. For all the there were a lot of iPhone apps iPhone’s inimitable prowess as a now, just wait until the Flash m o b i l e c o m p u t e r , i t ’ s n o t floodgates are open.

This, frankly, scares me. I’ve rarely seen a flash site that I enjoyed. Even those which I thought impressive at first-blush rapidly became cumbersome and slow. And don’t get me started on the platform’s propensity for random crashing. If developers are granted the freedom to assault the stable, clean and comfortable world of my iPhone with gaudy, pointlessly-animated applications with inconsistent, ill -conceived UI’s, I can only hope there’s a quick and easy way to identify them in the App Store so I can avoid buying them altogether!

Schonfeld thinks CS5 will result in an avalanche of Flashauthored iPhone apps; I hope he’s wrong. Even on the desktop, Flash is something I prefer to avoid when I can. (I use three browsers — all of them employ a flash blocker — and as a result I feel my experience of the web improved markedly.) I honestly thought that, as 2010 gets under way, we’d all come to the same conclusion; that Flash is an antiquated technology whose security vulnerabilities and performance issues make it deeply undesirable.

If Apple can block these flashauthored apps, would it? Should it? Tell me how wrong I am, and why I’d better embrace it, in the comments below.

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time a new model of the iPhone is released, but those countermeasures are usually Submitted at 1/13/2010 7:45:13 AM pretty easily overcome. Apple An interesting article at the could do more on the software financial blog 24/7 Wall St. side, with apps themselves, but today estimates the total cost of that would only spark another pirated apps to the App Store, for arms race-type situation between both Apple and developers, to be the company and the hacking somewhere near the $450 million community, and allowing users -mark. That number depends on to jailbreak and pirate frankly a revenue estimate of between helps Apple sell hardware, which $60 million and $110 million per percent of the 3 billion app store is the real cash cow. quarter, which is probably less downloads, or 510 million, were It’s a troubling report for than the actual number since paid apps (though we found 1 in developers who can’t afford to those figures are based on a 4 in December, so that number just eat these kinds of losses the slightly older report by Bernstein seems to be growing), that means way Apple can. But it also makes analyst Toni Sacconaghi. that the number of pirated apps is the assumption that piracy will The article also notes that somewhere in the neighborhood continue to grow, which I think finding good solid numbers of 1.53 billion apps. Not a is a false one. Yes, it’s easier related to both the number of number you’ll see Apple using in than ever to jailbreak your jailbroken iPhones that are out its promotional material anytime iPhone, but as Apple continues there, and the number of those soon. to work on the operating system devices that are actually pirating Even considering that only behind the platform, there is less games is difficult to do. After around 10 percent of those who and less reason to do so. reviewing numerous sources of pirated apps would’ve purchased Many users only jailbreak to get information, 24/ Wall St. arrived them instead if the illicit option some extra functionality out of at the conclusion that an estimate was not available, this represents their device that already exists of 75 percent piracy rates for a loss of around $459 million for there, rather than being set on paid apps was most accurate. b o t h A p p l e a n d t h e a p p trying to get software for free.

That means that for every paid developers working with the As long as iPhone 4.0 introduces app download, there have been Mac maker. Doesn’t seem like true multitasking, I think we’ll three pirated downloads of the an insignificant number. see overall jailbreak rates fall off same app that result in no Insignificant or not, Apple isn’t considerably, and likely piracy r e v e n u e . G i v e n t h a t t h e doing much to quell piracy rates, numbers will follow, too. researchers behind the report either. Sure, it counters the most also estimated that around 17 recent jailbreak exploit every

The Last Safe Thing on Earth [Health]

By Hamilton Nolan (Gawker) Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:35:42 PM

Today in things that will kill you: Spaghetti-O's. Sex dungeons. Chinese jewelry.

Things that are no good for you: Catching up on sleep. Platelet-

rich-plasma injections.

Journalism. In fact, only one thing has been proven not to hurt you.

• Viagra.

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Shutting Down Rupert Murdoch's Social Experiments Lab [Rumormonger]

By Ryan Tate (Gawker) Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:10:15 PM

We hear News Corporation is winding down MySpace spinoff Slingshot Labs, a vestige of the media conglomerate's efforts to retain MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe. But the labs are hatching one last diabolical plot, on behalf of the Wall Street Journal.

Our spy tells us that half of Slingshot's lavishly-paid staff have been laid off, while the other half are completing a "LinkedIn killer" for the Journal.

A WSJ site for posting resumés and for professional networking sounds like a severely tardy effort, particularly if the goal is to try and unseat segment leader LinkedIn. One of LinkedIn's greatest strengths is its strong placement in Google search results. But News Corp. and the Journal in particular have been flagrantly antagonizing Google for indexing their content.

Perhaps the true goal is to build a smaller, better curated set of high -level executives and managers; that sort of site might actually take off.

In any case, it sounds like this will be the last idea to emerge from Slingshot. The tech "incubator" was started two years ago with $15 million in News Corp. money; we heard at the time that DeWolfe demanded the investment as a condition of renewing his contract. But the MySpace founder then got the heave-ho in April 2009, barely a

MySpace innovations. It wa 90 percent owned by News Corp. and 10 percent owned by staff; the idea was to sell innovations back to News Corp. and share in the tenth of the profits the media conglomerate didn't keep for itself. But no such sale ever happened; we're told the closest the lab ever came to such a sale was for a MySpace events app called Social Plan. Aside from that, the lab's biggest product was a me-too gossip website called DailyFill. There's also the list-sharing website Linfo and the dating site Catchme, neither of which took the world by storm.

Regardless of Slingshot's track record, News Corp.'s top managers could benefit from some high-tech experimentation year after the lab was set up.

Our tipster said News Corp. i n b e t w e e n t h e i r b o u t s o f seems intent on shutting down heckling the likes of Google. In Slingshot entirely, but this that sense, it's sad to see even an person couldn't rule out the underperforming tech lab fall by possibility that a successful the wayside. project for the Journal could save (Pic: Murdoch and DeWolfe at remaining workers' necks and the 2007 opening of MySpace's San Francisco office. Getty maybe even the lab itself.

Though technically independent, Images.)

Slingshot was mainly a lab for

Outrageous Pop Icons: Madonna vs. Lady Gaga

By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 1/13/2010 7:30:00 AM

How does Lady Gaga’s fakeblood-soaked “Paparazzi” performance at this past September’s VMAs compare with Madonna’s writhing “Like a Virgin” theatrics at the 1984 awards? Who’s made more infamous sartorial statements?

(Last we recall, the Material Girl never sported a costume composed of Kermit dolls.) And which diva stole the hair-pulling spotlight in SNL’s “Deep House Dish” catfight sketch? Cast your vote here.

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Kiffin, All-Star Staff Jilt Tennessee for USC (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Submitted at 1/13/2010 8:34:59 AM

Lane Kiffin barely even had time to learn the words to “Rocky Top” during his single season as head coach at the University of Tennessee. But it wasn’t Kiffin’s 7-6 debut year with the Vols that led to his replacing Pete Carroll as USC’s head football coach Tuesday.

While Kiffin’s years as an assistant under Carroll at USC doubtless helped his case, Kiffin’s biggest selling point was the posse of talented assistants he brings with him. In hiring Kiffin, USC essentially turned back the clock on its coaching staff, bringing in former USC assistants Ed Orgeron, an ace recruiter, and Monte Kiffin, Lane’s father and a revered defensive coordinator. Former Trojans offensive coordinator Norm Chow is a strong candidate to return as well. In short, USC essentially hired Faceman and got the rest of the A-Team for free. Associated Press Who says Lane Kiffin’s inexperienced? Don’t forget his five wins in 20 games with the Oakland Raiders.

But was Kiffin the right hire for USC? The sport-pundit consensus is decidedly mixed.

Given the NCAA investigation closing in on USC’s football program, Kiffin’s track record which includes, during his one season at UT, six secondary NCAA violations and two Vols

players dismissed from the team after an armed robbery appears rather worrying. The same goes for the feud Kiffin manufactured with Florida head coach Urban Meyer. “Kiffin did and said a lot of these outrageous things to stir things up; you know the old motto — there’s no such thing as bad publicity,” Chris Dufresne writes in the Los Angeles Times.

“Well, sometimes there is.”

While Sports Illustrated’s Stewart Mandel likes the Kiffin hire from a football perspective, he’s baffled by Kiffin’s seemingly unstoppable ascent through the coaching ranks.

“Kiffin marched into Knoxville armed with big talk and bigger plans to stockpile the nation’s top recruits, take down Florida and turn Tennessee back into a national power,” Mandel writes.

“He did none of those things, yet somehow he’s managed to land an even cushier job. Not even Don Draper could sell such a phony bill of goods.”

Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel agrees that Kiffin has been more a big talker than big winner in his coaching career, but thinks he might succeed at USC despite that. “I dont think this was the worst move by the Trojans,” Wetzel writes. “It tells you what you need to know about [USC A.D. Mike] Garrett and Kiffin, both of whom deserve plenty of ridicule.

In terms of potential wins and losses though, this might actually work out.”

The same probably can’t be said

for Tennessee, which is coachless just a few weeks before NCAA signing day. In the Nashville Tennessean, David Climer refuses to be surprised by Kiffin’s cutthroat move. “This is what you get when you hand over your program to a football mercenary like Kiffin,” Climer writes. At Fox Sports, Peter Schrager writes that Tennessee’s football program would’ve been better off if it hadn’t hired Kiffin in the first place.* * * There are cheap baseball teams and then there are the Florida Marlins, who have channeled their inner Scrooge all decade, payroll-wise. But what looked like another offseason of payroll paring for Florida took a surprising turn Tuesday. In a rare joint statement from the Marlins, the Major League Baseball Players Association and Major League Baseball, the Marlins pledged to spend more of the revenue sharing funds they receive from MLB on payroll.

“The Marlins were the only team mentioned in the joint statement,” the Miami Herald’s Clark Spencer reports. “There have been unconfirmed reports that a handful of teams,

including the Marlins, are raking in as much as $90 million each season through revenue sharing and other sources of income, such as TV-radio rights, merchandising and sponsorships.

Of that amount, some have speculated that $35 million of it comes from revenue sharing.”

The Marlins’ MLB-low 2009 payroll was just over $36 million.

The MLBPA has always had the right to review teams’ otherwise confidential spending records as part of the so-called basic agreement behind revenue sharing. But this was the first instance in which the union acted to force a franchise to honor its obligation to spend revenuesharing dough on players. “Dont expect [the MLBPA] to immediately chase after the Pirates or the Royals, or any other clubs that could be on their radar,” Maury Brown writes at The Biz of Baseball. “Thats because the precedent-setting agreement that singles out the Marlins should echo in those other markets. The MLBPA has been talking of doing something, and now they have. The message is clear: were more than watching, were willing to act.”

At ESPN, Rob Neyer sees the statement as a win for the MLBPA and its new executive director, Michael Weiner.* * * Tremendous payroll, tremendous success, tremendous international profile: it’s not for nothing that Manchester United

has been referred to as the New York Yankees of the EPL. But with United’s debts reportedly topping £700 million that’s an absurd $1.14 billion the comparison looks less and less apt. Manchester United is currently touring the globe with a series of “road shows” designed to attract investors for the £500 million (or $814 million) bond recently issued by team owner Malcolm Glazer. “If it sounds frantic, or indeed desperate, it is certainly an approach that throws up as many questions as answers,” Oliver Kay writes in the London Times. “With an unpredictable financial climate ahead, the Glazers have decided that a bond whereby the debts are secured against money borrowed from investors, who would in turn expect a considerable return on their investment when it matures in 2017 is the best way to secure their much-maligned regime at Old Trafford.”

The £80 million transfer fee from the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid got the Glazers and United back into the black for 2009, but the team’s finances appear to remain perilous. In the Independent, Sam Wallace reports that the team’s inability to balance its books could lead to disciplinary action from UEFA, European soccer’s governing body, which KIFFIN, page 45

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writes. Story Bolting Tennessee after just one season leaves Lane Kiffin with Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:05:01 PM zero credibility, Gene AD Disappointed For Tennessee Wojciechowski writes. Story Fans AD Disappointed For USC made a bold statement to T e n n e s s e e F a n s V I D E O the NCAA by hiring a guy who PLAYLIST was admonished by the NCAA • AD Disappointed For in his first few weeks at T e n n e s s e e F a n s A D Tennessee for a program already Disappointed For Tennessee under scrutiny. Mark Saxon Fans takes a look. Story • The Mood In Tennessee Post Talk to some former players, as Kiffin The Mood In Tennessee ESPNLosAngeles.com's Arash Post Kiffin Markazi did, and they seem • Lane Kiffin Says Goodbye To thrilled that Lane Kiffin's coming Tennessee Lane Kiffin Says back to USC. Story Goodbye To Tennessee Hamilton spoke at a news • Pat Forde On USC Hiring c o n f e r e n c e W e d n e s d a y Lane Kiffin Pat Forde On USC discussing his second coaching Hiring Lane Kiffin search in less than two years after Kiffin announced Tuesday K N O X V I L L E , T e n n . - - night his abrupt resignation to Tennessee athletic director Mike take the same job at USC. Kiffin, Hamilton said Wednesday he can hired 14 months ago, coached describe Lane Kiffin's tenure one season at Tennessee and was coaching the Volunteers in just 7-6. one word: "Brief."

According to Hamilton, Kiffin Reaction from ESPN.com told him Saturday that if the and ESPNLosAngeles.com USC job became available he Although losing Lane Kiffin to would be interested. By Tuesday, USC might sting the Vols for a Hamilton said Kiffin informed few days, Tennessee will be him that he was taking USC's much better off in the long run, offer.

Mark Schlabach writes. Story Hamilton said he is disappointed Lane Kiffin's meteoric rise up after giving Kiffin a chance to be the coaching ranks has reached a head coach and said he hopes new heights. Despite a mediocre to have a football coach in place record, he landed the USC job. in the coming days.

Maybe this is where he actually "I feel like we gave him a chance earns his station, Pat Forde and gave him a good job,"

Hamilton said when asked Wednesday if he felt betrayed at Kiffin's departure. "If I said I was anything less than disappointed, not personally disappointed ... I'm more disappointed for our kids and our fans."

For a replacement, Tennessee will make a run at Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp, a source close to the situation told ESPN.com's Chris Low. Texas has said that Muschamp will succeed Mack Brown as Longhorns head coach, but no timetable has been set for a transition. The source said that Muschamp is Tennessee's No. 1 target.

Hamilton said he could not foresee a scenario in which former longtime coach Phil Fulmer, who was replaced by Kiffin, would become a candidate.

Hamilton said the search to replace Kiffin started Tuesday and is "full blast" under way.

Tennessee has a recruit weekend scheduled for this weekend, and interim coach Kippy Brown said they will hold the event with prospects reporting Friday.

Brown called himself a candidate for the job, and he said he expects a coach to be hired by Friday. The athletic director would only commit to having a coach hired by Sunday.

"Hopefully it's going to get done

before recruiting's live again," Hamilton said.

Hamilton said he has met already with the eight recruits who enrolled early and told them to "go to class." Recruits who have begun the new semester and continue to attend class would be eligible to participate in Tennessee's spring practice.

"This is not the time [to have an opening]," Hamilton acknowledged.

National signing day for high school seniors is Feb. 3, and it remains to be seen how many verbal commitments Tennessee loses now that Kiffin has departed. According to Scouts Inc., defensive tackle Brandon Willis of Duncan, S.C., has decommitted for a second time and has given a verbal commitment to North Carolina.

Scouts Inc. also reported that defensive end Delvin Jones of Miami has decommitted and is considering written offers from Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Nebraska.

Mike & Mike in the Morning Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt says she's disappointed with football coach Lane Kiffin leaving Tennessee to coach USC. Summitt describes the feeling on campus in Knoxville.

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Kiffin, and assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator Ed Orgeron to USC with him.

Orgeron was with the Trojans for seven seasons before becoming the head coach at Mississippi and then an assistant with the New Orleans Saints.

Hamilton was quizzed about how much Kiffin strayed from Tennessee traditions and about the departing coaches contacting Vol recruits, trying to lure them to Southern California.

"Nothing surprises me anymore," Hamilton said about the calls to recruits.

Before coming to Knoxville for his first job as a college head coach, the 34-year-old Kiffin coached the Oakland Raiders.

Before then, he was a member of the USC coaching staff from 2001 to 2006, first as wide receivers coach and then as offensive coordinator under Pete Carroll.

Carroll left USC on Monday to become head coach of the Seattle Seahawks.

"It's good that USC acted quickly to get a coach connecting with our history," Carroll said Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles Times. "The players will feel comfortable and be able to follow some of the same kinds of lines of what they're accustomed to.

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"They're going to be good -- they have the best defensive coach in the history of the world. And

By Associated Press "I kind of realize what I did and I you can really say that makes "I'm just happy to be a part of it, Lane will hit it running and take (ESPN.com) feel like I had a dream season," you want to work harder or to make history with him," pride in recruiting and the whole said Johnson, who scored 16 anything like that, so it's kind of Titans quarterback Vince Young deal. Lane's going to do great."

Submitted at 1/13/2010 10:38:01 AM touchdowns (14 rushing), second a good thing and a bad thing me added. "He's going to be a great Kiffin's Tennessee contract calls NEW YORK -- That blur to Minnesota's Adrian Peterson, not getting the record." player. This is just his second for him to pay an $800,000 buyout for leaving after only one speeding away from opposing and tied the NFL mark with six AFC South blog year, that's the crazy part." defenses and running off with consecutive games rushing for at ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky No one has rushed for 2,000 season.

The Associated Press 2009 NFL least 125 yards. writes about all things AFC yards twice in a career. Titans Lane and Monte Kiffin and Offensive Player of the Year Johnson, who has run a 4.2 in South in his division blog. coach Jeff Fisher says it would Orgeron will hold a news award is Tennessee Titans the 40 and believes he'll remain • Blog network: NFL Nation be unwise to bet against Johnson conference on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET in the Heritage Hall running back Chris Johnson. the NFL's fastest player unless a Johnson's production was even setting that precedent, too.

Considered the fastest man in team signs Usain Bolt, has more impressive considering the "I think he's one player that has a Varsity Lounge at USC. Information from The pro football, Johnson was bigger dreams, too: breaking Eric Titans began the season with six chance to do it again. He's Associated Press was used in this uncatchable in setting a league D i c k e r s o n ' s s i n g l e - s e a s o n straight losses. He was a key young," Fisher said. "He's mark for yards from scrimmage rushing record of 2,105 yards, r e a s o n f o r T e n n e s s e e ' s special. He has the potential to report.

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Titans running back Chris the season I had, it seemed like, player had even done that in a of Indianapolis drew 1½ votes, Johnson easily won offensive `What more do they want me to career. He'll start next season and San Diego quarterback player of the year honors, as do?' That just felt like rookie of with a streak of 11 100-yard Philip Rivers got one. shown below, but he's perplexed the year; it's a quarterback thing I rushing games; Barry Sanders Johnson is the first Titan to win as to how he did not get a single guess." holds the record with 14 in 1997. the honor, but the third player in vote for league MVP in what he Atlanta Falcons quarterback In November, Johnson rushed franchise history. Quarterback calls "a quarterback thing."

Matt Ryan beat out Johnson for for 800 yards, the best month of Warren Moon won in 1990 as a He is the first NFL player to 2008 Offensive Rookie of the any running back in NFL history. H o u s t o n O i l e r , a n d E a r l finish with at least 2,000 yards Year.

By then, it was a one-man show Campbell took the award from rushing and 500 receiving (503). Of course, if Johnson keeps in the Tennessee backfield; as a 1978 to 1980 with the Oilers.

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Notre Dame's coach.

The Chiefs informed Pendergast early Wednesday that they would Submitted at 1/13/2010 10:56:07 AM be terminating his contract one As expected, the Kansas City year after hiring him from Chiefs on Wednesday officially Arizona, sources close to the hired Romeo Crennel to be their situation told ESPN NFL Insider new defensive coordinator.

Adam Schefter. Potential landing Crennel spots for Pendergast could When they take the field next include Atlanta, which did not season, the Chiefs will have the renew the contract of defensive same defensive coordinator, backs coach Emmitt Thomas. offensive coordinator and top Crennel will not start work for front-office executive who Kansas City for a couple of helped lead New England to w e e k s b e c a u s e o f a p r i o r three Super Bowl titles during commitment -- he'll be the head 2002-05. coach of the East Team in the Throw in quarterback Matt East-West college football allCassel, who backed up Tom star game on Jan. 23 in Orlando, Brady with the Patriots, and the Fla. N e w E n g l a n d - K a n s a s C i t y The New York Giants had also c o n n e c t i o n b e c o m e s e v e n expressed interest in Crennel, stronger as Scott Pioli attempts and talked with him by phone on to reverse the fortunes of the Monday. But he told them the long-suffering Chiefs.

Chiefs, who run a 3-4 defense Crennel, who replaces Clancy similar to what he coached in Pendergast, reunites with general New England, would probably manager Pioli and offensive be his first choice. coordinator Charlie Weis. Weis Crennel and Weis will be was hired by Kansas City last joining a franchise that has won week following his ouster as only 10 games in three years and

went 4-12 last year in Todd Haley's rocky rookie season as a head coach.

Besides their successful experience with the Patriots, the two new coordinators also have post-New England failure in common. Weis left the Patriots to become head coach at his beloved Notre Dame and did get off to a good start. He was fired Nov. 30 with a five-year record of 35-27.

Crennel, 62, left New England to become head coach in Cleveland. And five years later, he was fired with a 24-40 record, including 4-12 in 2008.

Both also face a big challenge to help Haley and Pioli get the Chiefs back into contention.

Kansas City showed some life near the end of the season, but has not won a postseason game since the 1993 season and is still only 6-35 in its last 41 games.

The Chiefs' defense had some of the worst games of any in the NFL this past season, twice sending opposing players into the record book with franchise-

best performances.

Miles Austin, in an overtime victory over the Chiefs, set the Cowboys single-game record with 250 yards receiving. Then later in the season in what many Chiefs fans consider the low point of the entire year, Cleveland backup Jerome Harrison rushed for an astonishing 286 yards, wiping out Jim Brown's team record with the third-highest singlegame total in NFL history.

The Chiefs pick fifth in the April draft. And they would seem to have a favorable schedule in 2010 with only three games against 2009 playoff teams.

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Just hours before Google announced late on Tuesday that China-based hackers had attacked its systems last month, China’s cyberwarriors were at work – this time defacing Iranian websites in retaliation for a hacker attack on the pages of a Chinese search engine.

If the idea of search engines as battlegrounds in a cyber-war is surprising, the motivations and prowess of Chinese hackers are well established. Unlike most of their counterparts in other countries known for malicious computer activity, especially eastern Europe, Chinese hackers are known for patriotism.

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If the quartet of NFL teams playing at home with a week’s rest win this weekend, it probably will be because they are better than their opponents, and not because of that rest or homefield advantage. Associated Press Jake Delhomme and the Carolina Panthers had a week of rest and home-field advantage against Arizona a year ago. The result?

A 33-13 loss.

That, at least, is what the historical record suggests. Home teams have done very well playing in the divisional round of the playoffs, after a week off during which their opponents played wild-card games. But they’ve done no better than one would expect given that they’re generally better teams to begin with — hence the bye — and playing at home. And in the last two years, home teams actually have lost five of eight games at this stage of the playoffs.

Before the last eight games upended expectations about the divisional round, Jason Lisk studied the effect of the bye week for Pro Football

Reference’s blog. He compared home teams’ average margin of victory at various stages of the playoffs with their expected victory margin, based on their ranking in Pro Football Reference’s Simple Ranking System(SRS). He found that home teams in the wild-card and divisional rounds of the playoffs tend to have a six-point homefield advantage, whether or not they got rest. This is higher than regular-season home-field advantage, which could reflect the chill of playoff weather at outdoor venues. For conferencechampionship games, home-field advantage averaged two touchdowns in cold climates, but was virtually nonexistent otherwise. Four of the five home losers in the divisional round over the last two years played indoors or in relatively warm weather.

These findings suggest an

especially slim advantage for this weekend’s home teams, since three play in domes and one — the Chargers — play in San Diego (the only chance of a coldweather game from here on out is an AFC championship matchup between the Ravens and Jets at Giants Stadium). Also, the matchups this year are atypical, in that by some ranking systems the rested home team is worse than the visiting opponent. By SRS, the Jets are better than the Chargers and the Ravens are better than the Colts. In the NFC, the Vikings and Cowboys are nearly equal, while among the home teams, only the Saints have a big edge, over the Cardinals.

Football Outsiders’ DVOA rankings have the Ravens, Cardinals and Cowboys as superior to their opponents. And Jeff Sagarin’s predictor ranking favors the Ravens, Jets and Cowboys.

So don’t be surprised if one or two — or three or four — visitors win this weekend, and don’t be too quick to call those outcomes upsets.

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has tried to end the trend of EPL teams living beyond their means.

“With the Glazer debt now at more than £700m and no Ronaldo to sell next summer to balance the books, it would appear that United will attract the interest of UEFA if they are still under the same ownership come 2013,” Wallace writes. “Their business plan includes a £75m rolling credit line which United could use in the transfer market.

Buying players on credit is the exact opposite of what [UEFA head Michel] Platini wants clubs to do.”* * * “What would be more jarring for a college hockey player?”

Yahoo’s Greg Wyshinski asks.

“Seeing a 29-year-old former NHL player lining up on his wing, or seeing one that served five years after pleading guilty in a failed murder-for-hire plot before being paroled?” It’s not a rhetorical question: Wyshinski is writing about Mike Danton. The recently paroled former St. Louis Blues forward has enrolled at Nova Scotia’s St. Mary’s University, and could play for the school’s hockey team during the second half of this season.

In the Globe and Mail, Roy MacGregor argues that Danton’s eligibility reflects a failure of common sense by CIS, Canada’s intercollegiate athletic association. In the Halifax Chronicle Herald, Chris

Cochrane applauds the university for giving the troubled Danton a second chance.* * * The baffling collapse of the much-anticipated bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao remains a bummer, but both fighters have moved on, and boxing fans should probably do the same.

Though both Mayweather and Pacquiao intend to fight on March 13, only Pacquiao has announced an opponent for that date. The prospect of Pacquiao squaring off at Cowboys Stadium with the very game Joshua Clottey is intriguing, but it’s still tough not to think about what might’ve been. Before you move on, though, your Fixer recommends that you read Tim Starks’ long-but-definitive autopsy of the now-quite-dead fight at the boxing blog Queensberry Rules. Spoiler alert: there is a lot of blame to go around.

— Tip of the Fix cap to reader Brendan Flynn.

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victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in Paul Brown Stadium, Ryan bemoaned what he claimed Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:01:38 AM is the near-certain loss of Schottenheimer Declines Bills Schottenheimer after this season.

I n t e r v i e w S c h o t t e n h e i m e r "I realize we're probably only D e c l i n e s B i l l s I n t e r v i e w going to have him for as long as Even though the Jets granted the we're in this tournament," Ryan Bills permission, New York said, "but we're enjoying it right offensive coordinator Brian now."

Schottenheimer declined the On Sunday, Schottenheimer chance to interview for the reiterated his comments from last Buffalo head-coaching job this week that he's content with the w e e k o r a f t e r t h e s e a s o n , Jets. He said he's fascinated by according to sources. their future with rookies such as AFC East blog Sanchez and Shonn Greene and ESPN.com's Tim Graham writes young Pro Bowl linemen Nick about all things AFC East in his Mangold and D'Brickashaw division blog.

Ferguson. • Blog network: NFL Nation "I'd love to be a head coach, but I Schottenheimer has remarked say that with an asterisk," throughout the season how much Schottenheimer said Sunday he enjoys working with new Jets after the Jets beat the Bengals in coach Rex Ryan and rookie the wild-card round of the quarterback Mark Sanchez, and playoffs. "That's my dream, but I how truly content he is with his want to be a head coach when current job as the offensive the time is right, when the coordinator of the league's top- situation is right. I don't want to ranked running attack. just take a job to take a job.

After Saturday's 24-14 playoff

"For the first time in three years, I'm really, really happy. I'm happy working for Rex. I love the area. I love the Jets fans. I love what we've done. I love the guys on our roster."

His words were reflected in his actions when he thanked the Bills for their opportunity but ultimately decided to remain where he is.

It also wasn't as if Schottenheimer needed the experience of interviewing for the job; he has interviewed for multiple head coach openings and is expected to have more opportunities in future years when he might be more willing to leave the Jets.

Adam Schefter is ESPN's NFL Insider. Information from ESPN.com's Tim Graham was used in this report.

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Filed under: Clippers, Western, NBA Draft, NBA Injuries It seems like only yesterday -actually, the end of last month-that Blake Griffin was looking forward to playing his first regular-season games.

It was supposed to be a matter of weeks, which would've put his putative return right around ...

Wednesday, actually.

Well, instead, the Clippers have announced that the No. 1 overall pick is done for the season: After experiencing some discomfort during his recentlyaccelerated rehabilitation program, Clippers' forward Blake Griffin was examined Tuesday afternoon by Dr. Neal ElAttrache in Los Angeles. As a result of that examination, it has been determined that the healing in his left patella area has not improved to the expected required level. Griffin will undergo a surgical procedure in the near future, with a recovery prognosis of four to six months.

Our sympathies go out to Griffin, his family, and especially the Clippers, who would've greatly strengthened their playoff chances with Griffin in the lineup. They also stood to gain some flexibility, financial or otherwise, by dealing Marcus

Camby-- no longer such a nobrainer should that opportunity present itself.

Griffin was thought to be head and shoulders above the rest of last summer's draft class, in part due to the ongoing obsession with tall people, especially athletic ones. We shouldn't jump to make an Greg Oden comparison, not in the least because Kevin Durant is really tall, while all the guards that have sparkled as rookies this season are short. Still, it's worth noting that again; we have a big man succumbing to injury, and smaller players starring from the get-go. Maybe size isn't such an asset after all.

The game has been getting smaller for a few seasons; the draft has been one of the last holdouts. Seeing as big men are less structurally sound than other players, and thus more likely to be injured, you have to wonder if future lottery teams might take a player's height into consideration as a negative.

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an anti-gravity treadmill.

The power forward developed pain in his knee, and an Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:26:06 PM examination Tuesday revealed Blake Griffin Done For The his recovery wasn't progressing Season Blake Griffin Done For properly. The Clippers said more The Season details would be announced LOS ANGELES -- Blake soon.

Griffin's first season with the Los After a loss in Memphis on Angeles Clippers is over before Tuesday, the Clippers will play it even began. at New Orleans on Wednesday Griffin night before returning to Los Griffin will have surgery on his Angeles for a road game against broken left kneecap, keeping the the Lakers on Friday.

No. 1 draft pick out for at least Griffin was the consensus four more months, the eternally college player of the year with star-crossed Clippers announced 22.7 points and an NCAA-best in a statement Wednesday.

14.4 rebounds per game last Griffin hasn't played a regular- season for the Sooners, and the season game yet for the Clippers Clippers eagerly chose him in after injuring his kneecap in their last June's draft. final preseason game Oct. 23, Griffin averaged 13.7 points and wincing in pain as he landed 8 . 1 r e b o u n d s d u r i n g t h e after a dunk. After resting the preseason, and coach Mike stress fracture for several weeks, D u n l e a v y a n d h i s n e w t h e f o r m e r O k l a h o m a s t a r teammates all expected him to be recently increased his workload a major part of their comeback in rehabilitation by running on season. Instead, Griffin has never

been fully healthy in Los Angeles, even straining his right shoulder during summer league play in Las Vegas.

Griffin's woes sadly can't be surprising to fans of a team with just two winning seasons in the last 30 years and just one playoff series victory since moving to town in 1984.

The Clippers also have a long history of disappointing draft picks, including a pair of No. 1 overall choices that didn't dazzle.

Danny Manning played just 26 games in his rookie season in 1988-89 after tearing his knee ligament and undergoing surgery, though he eventually became an All-Star before fleeing town.

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Four of Wall Street’s top executives offered some contrition and a defence of their actions on Wednesday, as the head of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission promised to

The Count: Unanswered Questions on McGwire and Steroids (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Submitted at 1/12/2010 3:28:55 PM

When did Mark McGwire use steroids? The exact timing could help reassess his gaudy career numbers — and also to examine how much performanceenhancing drugs actually enhance performance. Reuters Would McGwire have reached 70 homers in 1998 without the help of steroids?

McGwire’s statement, issued Monday, admitted to steroid use after the 1989 season, and again for a longer period starting in 1993, after he was sidelined with a heel injury. Baseball analyst Tom Tango notes that, if we throw out the initial period of usage and divide McGwire’s career into the part through 1993 and the part afterwards, he had nearly an identical number of plate appearances before and after steroids. Yet before he hit 229 homers, and after, 354. “Of course the McGwire+steroid era use wide-ranging powers to front as the Financial Crisis coincided with the jump in establish the causes of the Inquiry Commission, headed by o f f e n s e f o r n o n - s t e r o i d a l financial crisis and pursue any Phil Angelides, probed the bail- r e a s o n s , ” T a n g o w r i t e s . wrongdoing. out of AIG, risk management “Anyway, knock 50 HR from his Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman and executive compensation. stats, maybe 100 walks, and turn Sachs, Jamie Dimon, chief Five Filters featured article: them into outs. That removes executive of JPMorgan Chase, Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: about 150 runs, or 15 wins, John Mack of Morgan Stanley PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, turning him from Edgar Martinez and Brian Moynihan of Bank of Term Extraction. to Carlos Delgado. NOW can we America maintained a united

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move on?”

That does seem like enough cause to knock out McGwire’s Hall of Fame candidacy, but other writers won’t move on until they believe McGwire has come clean, fully, making it possible to fully assess his career. “McGwire’s usage patterns could go a long way in helping determine the true effect of steroids on hitting,” Will Carroll writes at Baseball Prospectus.

However successful McGwire is as a hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals, his prediction skills remain questionable, Rob Neyer writes at ESPN. McGwire told Bob Costas that Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols “will be probably the greatest baseball player to ever play this game.”

Neyer points out that even if Pujols doesn’t decline in his 30s, he’s a long shot to unseat Babe Ruth as the best player ever.

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neither of these wily geezers needed much more than a knee that supported weight.

Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:00:00 AM How much damage has Gilbert Filed under: Rockets, Western Arenas done to his body by Tracy McGrady's premature repeatedly trying to rehab too return was always a bad idea. aggressively from a cluster of Not just because this season's knee issues that involved a Houston Rockets, either a bunch microfracture treatment? Zach of inspired underdogs or the Randolph shrugged off recovery, NBA equivalent of a smart and lurched through 2005-06 -phone, are fine without him. Nor, and Z-Bo's a player hardly seeing as T-Mac's greatest dependent on lift or burst. importance to the organization is there's no shame in taking close McGrady had his surgery last his gigantic expiring contract, t o a f u l l y e a r o f f b e f o r e February, and since late fall has was it the distraction/bad blood returning. Amare Stoudemire been pushing himself to get back issue, and Kenyon Martin, the poster on the court. Not exactly the best To borrow from a great man children for athletic players course of action for someone whose name I forgot, it's the regaining most of their spring, whose body has a long history of microfracture, baby. Leaps and took the conservative road back being his worst enemy. bounds have been made in (Martin twice). Jason Kidd recovery from what once was a jumped right back in, as did early career-ending procedure. But success story Stockton, but

Donald Goerke Dies at 83 (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:19:23 AM

DELRAN, N.J. -- The Campbell Soup Co. executive who was behind the enduring brands SpaghettiOs and Chunky Soup has died.

Donald Goerke (GUHR'-kee) was 83. A Campbell spokesman confirmed that Goerke died of heart failure Sunday at his home in Delran in southern New Jersey.

Goerke was marketing research director of Campbell's FrancoAmerican line in the early 1960s when his group started dreaming up pasta in shapes that would

appeal to kids. He chose the o's.

They were marketed with the unforgettable tagline, "Uh-oh, SpaghettiOs." Later, he helped introduce Chunky Soup, a hearty ready-toserve soup that stood out from the company's traditional line of condensed soups.

The Waukesha, Wis., native worked for Camden-based Campbell for 35 years, retiring in 1990.

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Grizzlies Game Delayed Due to Emergency, Arena Evacuated

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the line, pushing L.A.'s lead to 12, when the fire alarms in the building started to sound, and the Submitted at 1/13/2010 3:37:00 AM following rather ominous Filed under: Clippers, Grizzlies, m e s s a g e a p p e a r e d o n t h e NBA Videos scoreboard.

Some scary stuff went down "May I have your attention Tuesday night in Memphis, please! An emergency has been when the Grizzlies' arena (FedEx reported. Leave the building by Foum for the uninitiated) was the nearest exit. Do not use the evacuated late in the third quarter elevators." of the home team's game against The fans scampered, teams the Clippers. Baron Davis was at waited on the Clippers' bus, and

media and other personnel were instructed to hang out across the street while the situation was sorted out. It turned out that a

broken water main was to blame for the alarm being tripped, and the game resumed, but with a decidedly different outcome than

we had been led to believe would be the case. The Clippers managed just 12 fourth quarter points, and dropped the game by a score of 104-102.

Here's what it looked like to those fortunate enough to be watching the game from the comfort (and safety!) of their own homes.

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Volunteers' Search to Replace Lane Kiffin Is Under Way

Investment Carroll Responds to Sanchez Responding to banks to bear brunt of levy Carroll

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Filed under: Tennessee In November of 2008, just 14 months ago, Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton(right) found himself in the exact same position that he is in today, searching for a new coach.

Hamilton's search, which ended in the hiring of Lane Kiffin offers a template for the modernday coaching search and, based on the details I reported in my book, "On Rocky Top", we have a pretty good sense of how this current search will play out.

The past isn't always prologue, but it's a pretty good road map.

During his last search, Hamilton ditched his car in Shoney's parking lots off interstate exits, traveled without his normal UT luggage, flew commercial, never

Filed under: NFL Pete Carroll, currently one step ahead of NCAA investigators, is the new Seahawks head coach. He met with the media in Seattle Tuesday and explained that, among other things, he wasn't leaving USC because of recruiting violations.

(Shutdown Corner writer and ardent Seahawks supporter Doug Farrar offered this: "Suuuuuure, Pete. Nothing to do with the timing at all. Gotcha!" Which is pretty much what everybody was thinking.)

In addition to talking about his new gig, Carroll also discussed former USC quarterback Mark Sanchez's recent comments("I

appeared publicly with any candidate, and eventually settled on Lane Kiffin after conducting interviews in six major metropolitan areas.

If you're interested in reading the full excerpts from the book about the last search, that link is right here. In the meantime, let's get inside Mike Hamilton's head and find out what he's likely to be doing as he seeks to replace Lane Kiffin.

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just wanted everybody to know I completely disagree with [Carroll's] decision [to leave USC for the NFL] ... Statistics show that it's not a good choice."), which were a tonguein-cheek reaction to Carroll a year prior.

Carroll responded to Sanchez's response to Carroll's initial remarks (and talked about the Seahawks, too) below:

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and other investment banks will bear a large share of the burden of the bank levy President Barack Obama is set to announce on Thursday.

People familiar with the matter said the levy will be based on the size of banks’ assets minus insured deposits and shareholder equity. Insured deposits are savings that are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in return for a premium paid by the bank.

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Armored Core 5: bigger fights, smaller robots

By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) Submitted at 1/13/2010 5:00:00 PM

As usual, Famitsu scans have beaten official sources to the punch, with scans of the magazine's reveal of Armored Core 5 now online. The article reveals that AC5 is a PS3/360

game, built, according to Siliconera, on the concept of "mayhem-like mecha action."

The "mayhem" is the result of the new "more complicated" three-dimensional stages, featuring many different heights from which to attack. These smaller mechs -- the robots will stages will be populated by come in at around five meters

tall, instead of ten as in previous Cores. The smaller mechs will be more maneuverable, according to Andriasang's summary of the article, and able to traverse smaller areas of the environments, and even hide in some corners.

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By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:30:00 PM

[ Image credit: Jeremy Brooks] With little in the way of solid information, the A.N. Group recently announced its acquisition of the intellectual property rights behind " The Rook." If you're unfamiliar with the time-traveling comic book character of the 1970s and 80s ... well, we're right there with you.

Apparently he's a descendant of the family from H.G. Wells' book The Time Machine that goes by the name Restin Dane?

Who knew! Anyway, the A.N.

Group has big plans for the name, intending to take it "from the pages of comics and print to television, film and gaming."

To clarify what that means, we asked A.N. Group representatives and were told "We've got some major plans ... it's really really interesting stuff."

More specifically, we asked if a Rook game will show up on major consoles or something more ... casual. "I would never frown on any format or any idea of that nature, but as far as the modules for the iPhones with touch -- I'm much more interested in the console or PC

format," creative consultant Brady Baya told us. "It's still very much in the infancy stage -I think there's some connections with EA, but really we're gonna

network with all the major players to see who has a take on what. I'm thinking there's huge potential for an MMO as well as an adventure platform as far as

where we wanna go with it."

This, of course, begs the question -- if Restin can travel through time, shouldn't he already know where he'll end up? Ohhh no, now we're having an existential crisis. Man, this always happens.

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Unlock Xbox finalists announced

By Andrew Yoon (Joystiq) Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:00:00 PM

Did you vote in last year's Unlock Xbox competition? If so, did your pick make the final cut?

Gamers and amateur designers were encouraged to submit their original ideas in the Doritossponsored competition. Out of over a thousand submissions, two will be turned into real (and free!) XBLA games. The three finalists to be considered by Microsoft execs are: • Harm's Way-- snipers and drivers team up in a game that

combines racing and blowing someone's brains out. Delicious!

• Avatar Crash Course-- inspired

by Japanese obstacle courses, you must "press buttons, wiggle sticks, and jump up and down to survive."

• Thrown-- "the whole point of

it is to smash into other vehicles in order to throw the driver from their car and then run them over." A feel good game!

We're somewhat surprised by the violence involved in some of these XBLA suggestions. But

perhaps we're looking in the wrong place for class, considering the last winner of Doritos' contest involved dinosaurs eating exploding trucks(seriously).

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Fla. Teen Accused of Lighting Boy on Fire Goes Free

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. A 13-year-old arrested after a South Florida boy was doused with an accelerant and burned won't face criminal charges.

Jeremy Jarvis was the youngest of five arrested for the alleged attack on Michael Brewer in October.

Sheriff's deputies recommended charges of aggravated battery because Jarvis watched the attack but did nothing to stop it.

Prosecutors said Tuesday there wasn't enough evidence to pursue the charges. They also haven't yet filed charges against a 16-year-old arrested on the same allegation. The state has more time because he is old enough to be tried as an adult.

The other three — who poured the alcohol, lit the flame and gave the order to burn Michael Brewer — are being prosecuted.

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Mega Man 10's Robot Masters revealed

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according to the short blurb accompanying his portrait. (You can see portraits of all eight over CoroCoro magazine has posted on the Mega Man Network.) c h a r a c t e r p o r t r a i t s a n d And after the break, see Dueling descriptions of all eight Robot Analogs' take on the new Easy Masters in Mega Man 10. While Mode, in which the cartoonist there are a few weird ones, for does his very best to make you the most part, the foes feature the feel ashamed of ever considering usual fire/ice/water/explosive it an option. themes we expect from Mega Continue reading Mega Man Man bosses.

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Longing for another chance to furiously draw circles around monsters? Good news, a third Pokemon Ranger game for DS is on the way. Serebii reports that the latest issue of Japan's Corocoro Comic features the first look at Pokemon Ranger: Hikari no Kiseki(Path of Light), which, like the others, puts the player in the role of a Ranger equipped with a "Capture Styler" that lets you draw energy circles around Pokemon to trap it.

This third entry takes place on an island setting and features tropical Pokemon like -- we're totally not making this up -Ukulele Pichu. You'll be able to use "Ranger Signs" to summon certain Pokemon that impart new abilities, in addition to the existing "Poke Assist," which essentially adds elemental

damage to your Styler.

Japanese gamers will be able to round up Hikari no Kiseki on March 9.

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From Berlin to the National Board of Mark Fast’s Signature Review (And Secretive) Knitters

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Yesterday was a landmark day for film as the most reliable predictor of who and what will win which Oscar (i.e., the National Board of Review Awards) was held last night at New York City’s Cipriani 42nd Street. Among the winners were Carey Mulligan for her lead performance in An Education, Anna Kendrick for her supporting turn in Up in the Air, Gaby Sidibe for her breakthrough role in Precious, Clint Eastwood for helming the Nelson Mandela biopic, Invictus, and for best picture, Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air. As much as we love the award

season to watch our favorite films and film industry talents earn recognition, we love it just as much—if not more if Tilda Swinton and Cate Blanchett are in attendance—for their runway to red carpet parade.

A few hours prior to last night’s honors, the cast of Sherlock Holmes attended the Berlin premiere of their film in just as high a style as their NBR attendee counterparts. Though Jude Law couldn’t be there, Diane Kruger was and somehow managed to make a metallic, laser-cut bolero over top a zipfront black mini with (upper) thigh-high leather boots look downright elegant. Not to be out RTW-ed at her own party, Sherlock Holmes’ leading lady,

Rachel McAdams, channeled Veronica Lake in a fitted, textured, one-shouldered gown in deep teal, one of the most favored colors of the SS10 season.

Judging from what we’ve seen so far, this year (fingers crossed) is looking to be the year simple n’ strapless won’t be Oscar night’s dominating trend.

Yesterday witnessed four very different but very striking red carpet turns, courtesy of (left to right): Rachel McAdams (in a modified Alberta Ferretti runway gown), Diane Kruger (in Karl Lagerfeld), Carey Mulligan (in Prada), and Maggie Gyllenhaal (in Lanvin) Photos: WireImage

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of his own sewing) and in part to a collection of eight, no longer in Submitted at 1/13/2010 7:45:05 AM production “knitters” he picked Winnipeg-born designer Mark u p i n S w i t z e r l a n d — t h i s , Fast is on a roll. Not only has his according to an interview in name been included among the today’s Canadian National Post likes of Todd Lynn, Meadham newspaper. After divulging he’d Kirchhoff and Peter Pilotto for been sourcing the discontinued prestigious design awards, but machines through eBay, Fast he’s also gained some serious clammed up, however, and red carpet stead (Rihanna, offered no further details.

Leighton, and Cassie are all fans) Here’s hoping no machine a n d b e e n o n e o f t h e f e w malfunctions between now and designers to walk the walk, so to London Fashion Week, where speak, on the too-skinny model Fast will introduce his AW10 issue, both of which no doubt collection next month. helped land the Central Saint Fast’s models do their finale Martins alum his own soon-to- walk in his knit-heavy SS10 come diffusion line for Topshop. show in London last September Fast’s design signature lies in Photo: Courtesy of WireImage his gauzy, almost cobweb-like Follow ELLE on Twitter. bodycon knits, a distinct effect Become our Facebook fan! the 29-year-old owes in part to his own technique (he does much

US soldiers die in Afghanistan (BBC News | Americas | World Edition)

in the south.

Little information was given about a bomb which killed two Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:12:16 PM more US soldiers.

A t t a c k s b y m i l i t a n t s i n A roadside bomb attack to the Afghanistan have left four US north-east of the capital, Kabul, and one French soldier dead, killed one French soldier. with the US death toll for 2010 Six international soldiers were now 14. killed in Afghanistan as a result Nato said that one American had of attacks on Monday, the died in fighting in the east while deadliest day for foreign troops another succumbed to wounds there in two months. suffered in a roadside bombing They were identified as three

Americans, a Briton and two French soldiers. One of the French soldiers was mortally wounded, and died on Tuesday.

'France undeterred' At least 100,000 foreign military personnel are deployed in Afghanistan under Nato and US command.

Of these, at least 74,000 are American and 3,300 are French.

The French soldier killed on Wednesday had been travelling

in a convoy in the Mahmud Raqi region, between the Nijrab and Bagram military bases, the French presidency said.

Two other French soldiers were wounded in the same attack.

President Nicolas Sarkozy offered his condolences to the dead soldier's family, adding: "Today's attack does not dampen France's desire to pursue its mission in Afghanistan."

A count by the French news

agency AFP puts the total number of French soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001 at 39.

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"All of a sudden everything was falling apart... there was no place to hide" Haitian President Rene Preval has said thousands of people are feared dead following a huge quake which has devastated the country's capital.

Mr Preval said the UN mission chief in Haiti was among the dead, but the UN cannot confirm this. It said 14 other UN staff had died and 56 were injured.

The 7.0-magnitude quake, Haiti's worst in two centuries, struck on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told US network CNN he believed more than 100,000 people had died.

The Red Cross says up to three million people are affected.

The capital's Catholic archbishop, Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot, is also among those killed.

In his first interview since the earthquake, President Preval told the Miami Herald newspaper in the US he feared thousands of his people had died.

Describing the scene in the capital as "unimaginable", he said: "Parliament has collapsed.

The tax office has collapsed.

Schools have collapsed.

Hospitals have collapsed.

"There are a lot of schools that

Ten Brazilians, three Jordanians and one Haitian had been confirmed killed, a senior UN official said, adding that the number was likely to rise.

Stressing a major international relief effort would be needed, UN Secretary General Ban KiMoon said the UN would immediately release $10m (ÂŁ6.15m) from its emergency response fund.

He said aerial reconnaissance showed Port-au-Prince had been "devastated" by the quake, although other areas were largely unaffected.

The airport in Port-au-Prince is operational despite the collapse of the control tower, the UN said, allowing aid to start arriving soon. have a lot of dead people in President Barack Obama vowed The quake, which struck about The Brazilian army, which has them." "unwavering support" for Haiti 15km (10 miles) south-west of the biggest UN contingent in Mr Preval later said that Hedi after what he called a "cruel and Port-au-Prince, was quickly Haiti, has said a large number of Annabi, the Tunisian head of the incomprehensible" disaster. followed by two aftershocks of its peacekeepers are missing.

UN stabilisation mission in Haiti He said he had ordered "a swift, 5.9 and 5.5 magnitude.

China has indicated in reports in (Minustah), had died after the co-ordinated and aggressive The first tremor had hit at 1653 state media that eight of its UN HQ building was destroyed. effort to save lives" and that the local time (2153 GMT) on peacekeepers are dead, with The UN said it could not first US rescue teams would Tuesday, the US Geological another 10 unaccounted for. confirm the news but that Mr arrive later on Wednesday.

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UN humanitarian spokeswoman for International Development people had died when the UN's "Unfortunately what we are saying there had been reports of (USAID), said US teams were on five-storey headquarters and two seeing is a large number of escaped inmates. t h e i r w a y t o H a i t i w i t h smaller buildings in Port-aupatients in critical condition," he A number of nations, including specialised rescue equipment and Prince collapsed. Around 100 said. the US, UK and Venezuela, are that some efforts were already were still thought to be missing, gearing up to send aid. under way on the ground. many feared to be under the 'THOUSANDS page 58 Speaking in Washington, US International effort rubble.

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who runs an airport security consulting business in Reno, Nev. "Most people don't say: 'I'm NEWARK, N.J. – A Georgia going to breach.'" man dashes through a checkpoint The bill proposed by Sen. Frank at the Atlanta airport and gets 10 Lautenberg of New Jersey will days in jail. A hairdresser in a call for the tougher penalties, but hurry bypasses security in he has not offered specifics other Philadelphia and gets a $500 than calling for allowing the fine. A drunken man stumbles federal government to charge onto a Chicago airfield and gets people who create scares — even 18 months' supervision. All those who are more bonehead caused major air travel delays than bomber. Such offenses are costing millions of dollars — now regulated by local law and and all got what critics call a slap often fall far down the scale of on the wrist. criminal offenses.

The recent shutdown of the The man charged in the Jan. 3 Newark, N.J., airport after a New Jersey case, 28-year-old similar breach is drawing calls Rutgers University graduate f o r h a r s h e r p e n a l t i e s a n d student Haisong Jiang, faces h i g h l i g h t s c o n c e r n s a b o u t only a $500 fine — the same as a punishments not much worse first offense for littering in New than what someone would get for Jersey — if he's convicted in tossing a hamburger wrapper out municipal court. Friends have the car window on the New s a i d h e w a l k e d t h r o u g h a Jersey Turnpike. terminal exit to say goodbye to At least one senator wants to his girlfriend before she flew to make such trespasses a federal Los Angeles. offense. Other ideas include six- A video shows a guard leaving figure fines and flying bans, his post right before Jiang slips though security experts and under the ropes. The guard, an traveler advocates doubt whether e m p l o y e e o f t h e f e d e r a l harsher punishments will deter T r a n s p o r t a t i o n S e c u r i t y anybody from breaking the rules. A d m i n i s t r a t i o n , h a s b e e n They suggest a better way to s u s p e n d e d . prevent breaches is by improving The violation delayed or training of airport security staffs canceled about 200 flights — and perhaps using new around the world, affected an technology to help them. estimated 16,000 travelers and "In most cases, it's a stupid may have cost airlines millions mistake," said Douglas Laird, as a terminal was emptied and Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:38:20 PM

passengers were rescreened.

The TSA now says it's evaluating its security practices.

There have been several other costly situations over the past decade in which the perpetrators have gotten off light: • A Georgia man was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 500 hours of community service — and barred from attending University of Georgia football games — for passing through a checkpoint at Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, one of the world's busiest, causing major problems just two months after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

• A British hairdresser whose sprint to catch a flight led to the shutdown of Philadelphia International Airport in 2002 was fined $500, plus $148 in court costs. A possible one-year jail sentence was suspended.

• A man who walked onto the airfield at Chicago Midway Airport in 2006 was sentenced to 18 months of supervision.

Laird, a former security director at Northwest Airlines, said the focus on wanderers is misplaced.

The vast majority people of who nearly breach, he said, don't know they're about to go astray and get turned back before there's any kind of problem.

He also pointed out that there's no record in the U.S. of a terrorist attack at the hands of someone entering a secure zone

through an exit.

Security guards had more incentives to catch scofflaws before the TSA was created as a response to the 9/11 attacks, he said. Back then, airlines had a bigger role in security, and they could be fined for each breach.

"With TSA now in the position of guarding the door, they don't fine themselves for their mistakes," Laird said.

Greater penalties for offending passengers wouldn't hurt, but unless officials impose fines that run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, they wouldn't pay for the damages they do, Laird said.

John Galasso, president of Empire Security Consultants Corp., a New York City-based company that works with airports, said that Jiang deserves to be punished — he suggested banning him from flying for a few years — but that he doesn't think that would deter this kind of breach.

"There's always one" person who doesn't realize the seriousness of airport rules, he said.

Hiring people with lawenforcement background to work for the TSA could help, he said, as would portals that could further limit access to restricted areas.

Rafi Ron, a private security consultant and the former security director at Israel's

famously secure Ben Gurion International Airport, said the issues exposed by the Newark breach go beyond something that could be solved by better technology or procedures.

"It's a failure to understand the meaning of information in security terms, and this is a very strong indication we have a problem with our analytic capacity, and we need much more understanding of security in the intelligence community," he said.

Michael Cintron, director of consumer and traveler affairs for the International Airline Passenger Association, said his group doesn't object to stiffer penalties for travelers responsible for breaches — as long as those penalties are clearly posted in the airport.

But he said it's hard to blame the travelers for problems when security guards don't do their jobs.

"The onus in that case is on those in charge of security for that location," he said. ___ Mulvihill reported from Philadelphia.

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Consumer chief warns: take cheap jewelry from kids (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)

legislation that would ban the toxic heavy metal from those products and toys.

LOS ANGELES – The country's New York Democrat Charles E. top product safety regulator is Schumer unveiled legislation warning parents and caretakers Wednesday that he plans to to take cheap metal jewelry away i n t r o d u c e w h e n C o n g r e s s from children out of concern resumes session next week. He they may be exposed to toxic said it would "put an end to the heavy metals like lead and use of cadmium in our children's cadmium. jewelry and toys once and for all Inez (EYE-nez) Tenenbaum, the ... whether it's made here or chairman of the Consumer China or anywhere else. It will Product Safety Commission just stop it cold." writes in a blog, to be posted It is the first specific legislative Wednesday evening, "Do not fix promised by a member of allow young children to be given C o n g r e s s f o l l o w i n g a n or to play with cheap metal Associated Press investigation jewelry, especially when they are that documented high levels of unsupervised." cadmium in jewelry bought at In making the recommendation, major chain stores in the United she cites an investigation by The States.

Associated Press, which reported Cadmium can hinder brain high cadmium levels in items development in young children, including bracelet charms from according to recent research, and Walmart and Claire's. is known to cause cancer. Lab Lead and cadmium can hinder tests conducted for the AP on brain development in young 1 0 3 p i e c e s o f l o w - p r i c e d children, according to research. children's jewelry found 12 items THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS with cadmium content above 10 UPDATE. Check back soon for percent of the total weight. Some further information. AP's earlier were as much as 90 percent story is below. cadmium.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — "It is just despicable that a Reports of high cadmium content manufacturer anywhere, in this in children's jewelry imported c a s e i n C h i n a , w o u l d u s e from China have prompted a something that's known to be senior U.S. senator to press for poisonous to children and put it Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:11:58 PM

in children's jewelry to save a few bucks," Schumer told reporters outside a dollar store in Rochester that sold charm bracelets with high cadmium content.

Schumer said he'll aim to put the proposal on the Senate calendar in the next month and seek unanimous consent to get it approved.

Other members of Congress have suggested that legislation might be necessary. Congress passed a major consumer product safety overhaul in 2008, following a series of recalls of Chinese made goods. That law barred the use of lead in products for children under 12; in response, some Chinese jewelry manufacturers have turned to cadmium.

While the Consumer Product Safety Commission has the power to go after items with high cadmium content under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act, the agency has never pursued an enforcement action against a product based on that authority.

In an interview, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said she wants to explore whether the CPSC has the power to limit cadmium in children's jewelry. If not, she said, "we'll have to turn

to legislation."

Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., called word of cadmium in jewelry "alarming proof positive that more must be done to protect our families — especially children — from dangerous substances that end up in toys and household items." He said he's drafting a bill that would shift responsibility to make industry, not government, responsible for proving that consumer chemicals are safe.

Several major retailers have not waited for guidance from government. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. pulled from store shelves several items cited in AP's report, including a charm bracelet and "The Princess and The Frog" pendants; on Tuesday, the jewelry and accessories store Claire's said it would stop selling a "Best Friends" charm bracelet.

Meanwhile, an official with China's product safety agency told AP it would examine the findings on cadmium contamination. "We just heard about this, and we will investigate," said Wang Xin, a director general for the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.

Officials from two Chinese government-affiliated trade

associations — the China Toy Association and the Gems and Jewelry Trade Association of China— said they had not received any instructions from Beijing to look into cadmium in children's jewelry.

"As far as we know, the big Chinese companies made technological innovation a few years ago, and lead, nickel and cadmium levels all met standards," said Shi Hongyue, secretary-general of Gems and Jewelry Trade Association. "We have over 1,000 member companies and we are still looking into the case."

An employee for the China Toy Association, who only gave her surname Qin, said the group hadn't received complaints from "toy-quality inspection departments of other countries." ___ Pritchard reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writer Charles Hutzler contributed to this report from Beijing.

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Peter Barron from Google: ''We should no longer agree to censor our results in China'' Internet giant Google has said it may end its operations in China following a "sophisticated and targeted" cyber attack originating from the country.

It did not accuse Beijing directly, but said it was no longer willing to censor its Chinese search engine - google.cn.

This could result in closing the site, and its Chinese offices, Google said.

Chinese rival Baidu called the move "hypocritical" and financially driven. In US trade on Wednesday Baidu's shares were up 10%, and Google's down 1.5%.

Google said the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists were the primary target of the attack, which occurred in December.

The search engine has now said it will hold talks with the government in the coming weeks to look at operating an unfiltered search engine within the law in the country, though no changes to filtering had yet been made.

Google launched google.cn in 2006, agreeing to some censorship of the search results, as required by the Chinese government.

It currently holds around a third of the Chinese search market, far behind Baidu with more than 60%.

Email targeted In a blog post announcing its decision, Google's chief legal officer David Drummond said: "A primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists."

The company said its investigation into the attack found two accounts of its online mail service - Gmail - appeared to have been accessed.

However, the attack was limited to accessing account information such as the date the account was created and subject line, rather than e-mail content, it said.

It said it had also discovered that the accounts of dozens of US, China and Europe-based Gmail users, who are "advocates of human rights in China", appeared to have been "routinely accessed by third parties".

It said these accounts had not been accessed through any security breach at Google, but "most likely via phishing scams or malware placed on users' computers".

At least 20 other large companies from a wide range of businesses were similarly targeted, it added.

'Makes me sick' In a blog, the chief architect of Baidu said Google's decision to quit was for financial reasons, rather than a human rights issue,

pulled out of China entirely.

BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan Jones said Google had also seen a significant amount of internal dissent over its decision to operate under censorship.

In 2008, it signed the Global Network Initiative agreement with rivals Microsoft and Yahoo, pledging better protection of online privacy and freedom of speech against government interference.

Those commitments, however, are weighed against the commercial opportunities that China provides as a fast growing market.

Nearly 340 million Chinese people now online, compared with 10 million only a decade as Google had failed to dominate ago. the Chinese search market.

Last year, the search engine "What Google said makes me market in China was worth an sick," he said. "If you are to quit estimated $1bn and analysts for the sake of financial interest, previously expected Google to then just say it." make about $600m from China The assumption has always been in 2010. that the China market is too big But unlike most markets, to walk away from.

Google comes second in search Foreign firms accept the in China. difficult commercial conditions, It has 31% of the market the tough competition, compared with about 60% government interference or controlled by market leader censorship because the prize is Baidu, which has a close worth it. relationship with the Chinese Google's decision to concede to government. Yahoo has less than China's demands on censorship 10%. in 2006 led to accusations it had Microsoft has a tiny share of the betrayed its company motto Chinese market with its new "don't be evil" - but Google argued it would be more GOOGLE page 58 damaging for civil liberties if it

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Across US, outpouring of grief and help for Haiti (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:31:33 PM

MIAMI – Hans Mardy has dialed the numbers hundreds of times, praying someone — his father, his sister, one of four brothers — will pick up the phone.

He waits, passport in pocket, ready to board the next flight to earthquake-ravaged Haiti. He writes frantic text messages.

"Are you alive? What happened?

Give me a sign of life."

No one answers.

Across the U.S., which has about 800,000 residents of Haitian descent, HaitianAmericans desperately tried to get word Wednesday from relatives and friends in the devastated island nation. Most, like Mardy, heard nothing back.

Some poured their energy into relief efforts, joining Americans with no connection to Haiti who collected bottled water, canned goods, medical supplies and money. Others bowed their heads in prayer or sat transfixed by their televisions.

In Evanston, Ill., Bernard Geto couldn't hold back tears as he watched CNN at Sweet Nick's

Caribbean restaurant, jumping each time his cell phone rang. In South Bend, Ind., Slandah Dieujuste learned an aunt lost her house but escaped. She could not get information about anyone else.

And as community organizers in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood tried to develop response plans, 29-year-old Katia Saint Fleur scoured Facebook, tears welling in her eyes.

"Please if you can, contact us any way, do so," she wrote on a cousin's page. "We are going crazy trying to reach you guys."

The State Department has established a toll-free number (888-407-4747) for people seeking information about family members in Haiti. The government advises that some callers may receive a recording because of the heavy volume of inquiries.

At the Haitian Consulate in Manhattan, diplomats struggling to locate their own families sobbed as they tried to help countless callers.

"It is indescribable," said counsel general Felix Augustine.

People did what they could to

mobilize aid to Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. The U.S. dispatched ships, helicopters, planes and a 2,000-member Marine unit.

Cabdrivers transported relief items to collection points, search -and-rescue teams headed to the island to comb through the rubble, and companies prepared to send heavy equipment.

In New York, which has a large Haitian-American population, Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged assistance and suggested residents donate money to established organizations rather than try to send supplies like food and water to a place that does not have the infrastructure to distribute them.

"We saw the world come to our aid back on 9/11," he said, and now New York wants to "make sure that the world comes to the aid of the Haitian people."

For many still waiting for word, the uncertainty made it difficult to focus on anything else.

"You have no life anymore," said Anel Calixte, a cab driver sitting with his friend Geto at Sweet Nick's. "You don't know what to feel anymore because your whole family there, your whole

family."

Some tried to hold out hope, blaming the lack of contact from relatives on Haiti's poor communication network, but the uncertainty was crushing.

Edeline Clermont of Miami got word that her 12-year-old nephew was dead. The boy's parents, brother and sister are unaccounted for. And all told, she has more than 20 relatives on the island she has been desperately trying to reach.

"I didn't sleep at all. I just lay there, waiting for answers," she said with tears in her eyes. "I'm afraid that everybody is gone." ___ Associated Press writers Christine Armario, Sarah Larimer and Lisa Orkin Emmanuel in Miami; Marcus Franklin and Cristian Salazar in New York; Don Babwin in Chicago and Matthew Barakat in Chantilly, Va., contributed to this report.

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Skinny-mini models have the month off over at fashion magazine V as the mag’s editors ready an issue dedicated to curvy beauties. V’s “Size” issue features a stunning centerpiece of voluptuous models donning swimsuits, bra tops and low-rise jeans with all curves prominently displayed.

The decision to ditch the size 0s has not come without controversy as many of the “real size” models measure a size 12 or 14, which is smaller than reallife plus-size women who wear a size 16 or 18. Other argue that celebrating overweight women is just as bad as celebrating underweight women.

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There were some reports of looting overnight.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and has suffered a number of recent disasters, including four hurricanes and storms in 2008 that killed hundreds.

With communications destroyed by the earthquake, it is not yet possible to confirm the extent of the destruction, although there were reports on Wednesday of many bodies piled in the streets.

People in the capital were lifting sheets on bodies to try to identify loved ones.

The authorities here say 11 soldiers have died and there have been several injuries, and there are fears this number could rise.

It has also been confirmed that Zilda Arns, a prominent Brazilian aid worker and paediatrician, has been killed.

She was a sister of the retired Cardinal Paulo Arns, a major figure in the Catholic Church here.

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difficult, even for the government.

Damage has also been reported in the towns of Jacmel and Carrefour, near Port-au-Prince.

Guido Cornale, a representative of the UN children's agency Unicef, in Jacmel, said it estimated more than a fifth of buildings there had been destroyed.

The Red Cross is dispatching a relief team from Geneva and the UN's World Food Programme is flying in two planes with emergency food aid.

The Inter-American Development Bank said it was immediately approving a $200,000 grant for emergency aid.

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it would co-ordinate with other international agencies to offer help as swiftly as possible.

The World Bank also said it was sending a team to assess the damage and plan recovery. It said its offices in Port-au-Prince had been destroyed but that most staff were accounted for.

The UK said it was mobilising help and was "ready to provide

whatever humanitarian assistance may be required".

Canada, Australia, France and a number of Latin American nations have also said they are mobilising their aid response.

Pope Benedict XVI has called for a generous response to the "tragic situation" in Haiti.

Emmet Murphy, who works for a non-governmental organisation in Haiti, told the BBC: "I was driving through the mountains on my way home to Jacmel when the car started to shake. It was like a very strong wind was blowing and I nearly lost control of the car.

"I drove further and found the road totally blocked by a massive landslide on the road. I just knew that if I had reached that spot five minutes earlier, I would have been killed."

Blogger Troy Livesay, in Portau-Prince, wrote: "Thousands of people are currently trapped. To guess at a number would be like guessing at raindrops in the ocean. Precious lives hang in the balance.

"When pulled from the rubble there is no place to take them for care. I cannot imagine what the

next few weeks and months will be like."

Have you been affected by the earthquake? If you have any information you wish to share with the BBC you can do so using the form below: You can send pictures and video to yourpics@bbc.co.uk, text them to+44 7725 100 100 or if you have a large file you can click here to upload.

Click here to see terms and conditions At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws.

The BBC may edit your comments and not all emails will be published. Your comments may be published on any BBC media worldwide.

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Exec: Ex-worker fired at random in Ga. rampage (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:11:46 PM

MARIETTA, Ga. – A former employee who last worked at an Atlanta-area truck rental company six months ago chose his targets at random when he went on a shooting rampage and killed two people, a company official said Wednesday.

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The Tel Aviv Cluster (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:05:00 PM

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employees while Marvlanda was a truck driver for a local food distributor that is a Penske MARIETTA, Ga. customer, said Brian Hard, the MARIETTA, Ga. -- A former president of Penske Truck employee apparently chose his Leasing. targets at random in a shooting "It appears to have been random, rampage at an Atlanta-area truck to come in and shoot one of our rental business that left two men customers who couldn't possibly d e a d a n d t h r e e i n c r i t i c a l have been involved in any c o n d i t i o n , t h e c o m p a n y ' s grievance," Hard said. president said Wednesday. Warren, who was denied bond Jessie James Warren, 60, was in a brief court hearing at the arrested in his pickup truck Cobb County Jail, worked at shortly after the Tuesday attack. Penske as a technician from June He is charged with two counts of 2005 until July 2009, said Hard. murder and five counts of He would not say why Warren aggravated assault. left the company, but the widow Police said a man dressed in of one of the victims said Warren camouflage stormed the Penske had been laid off.

T r u c k R e n t a l f a c i l i t y i n Police have not disclosed a Kennesaw, about 25 miles motive, although Hernandez northwest of Atlanta, in the d e s c r i b e d W a r r e n a s a nation's second fatal workplace "disgruntled ex-employee." Hard shooting spree this month. also said he would not provide Killed were 59-year-old Van any more details of Warren's Springer of Woodstock and employment pending the police Jaider Phillipe Marvlanda, 43, of investigation.

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Hard. "It is important that we let law enforcement do their job without interference."

Barbara Springer, wife of Van Springer, said that Warren had been laid off recently and that "he had some issues," though she would not elaborate. She said her family is trying to pull together but they are "not (doing) very good."

It was the second fatal U.S. workplace shooting this month.

Timothy Hendron, an employee at an ABB Inc. electrical plant in St. Louis, is accused of shooting hundreds of rounds of ammunition through the sprawling plant as about 50 workers sought refuge.

Authorities say he killed three men and injured five others before killing himself.

In the Georgia case, about two dozen employees were working at the Penske office, consists of a couple of large buildings with bay doors, Penske spokesman Randy Ryerson said.

The gunman first confronted someone in the parking lot before moving to the truck bay

area, shooting victims along the way, said Hernandez. He did not try to enter the building's second floor, which houses a small administration office.

A man who witnessed the arrest said the suspect looked "out of his mind" and "all drugged up."

"The cops walked up on both sides of the truck, he opened the door and they threw him on the ground. He pretty much just gave up," Michael Robertson told The Associated Press.

Lights were on but no one appeared to be home Tuesday night at an address listed for Warren in Temple, a rundown house with an overgrown lawn on a rural stretch of two-lane highway. No one answered the door but a dog could be heard barking. A few neighbors contacted by telephone said they didn't know Warren.

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MediaDailyNews: CSPAN Airs Fox/FCC Profanity Case (MediaPost | Media News) Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:12:21 PM

C-SPAN will make the Fox vs.

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It will air on C-SPAN 2 starting at 9 p.m. In both cases, the language will not be bleeped, reports Multichannel News. The court first found that the FCC's finding, based on fleeting profanity, was an arbitrary and capricious change. However, the Supreme Court disagreed and remanded it back to the Second Circuit court.

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NYC cabbie returns $21,000 left in taxi (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:30:00 PM

Good news time! A New York City taxi driver drove 50 miles out of his way to return more than $21,000 in cash that an Italian grandmother had

accidentally left in his cab.

On Christmas Eve, 72-year-old Felicia Lettieri forgot her handbag, that also contained jewelry and passports, in cabbie Mukul Asadujjaman’s taxi and, rather than keep the purse, on Long Island he found with the Asadujjaman drove to an address

money. Lettieri and her family were thrilled to be reunited with the lost goods, saying the good deed saved their vacation.

Asadujjaman, also a medical student, refused any reward.

Asked if he was tempted to keep the money, he said that, as a

devout Muslim, he could not accept it and added, “I’m needy, but I’m not greedy. It’s better to be honest.”

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donned camouflage and opened fire at the Penske Truck Rental facility Tuesday, authorities said.

Warren was arrested about a mile from the facility and a judge denied him bond in a brief court hearing.

Killed were Van Springer, 59, and Jaider Phillipe Marulanda, 43, said Cobb County Police Officer Joe Hernandez. A third victim, 31-year-old Roberto Gonzalez, was pronounced dead at WellStar Kennestone Hospital late Wednesday but his body was on life support so he could donate organs, said spokesman Keith Bowermaster.

Four victims were Penske employees while Marulanda was a truck driver for a food distributor that is a Penske customer, said Brian Hard, the president of Penske Truck Leasing.

"It appears to have been random, to come in and shoot one of our customers who couldn't possibly have been involved in any grievance," Hard said.

Warren, who asked a judge for a court-appointed attorney, worked at Penske as a technician from June 2005 until July, said Hard.

He would not say why Warren left the company, but Barbara Springer, a widow of one of the victims, said Warren was laid off.

Barbara Springer said Warren "had some issues," though she would not elaborate. Police described Warren as a "disgruntled ex-employee."

"We are all still trying to understand what happened and we are fully cooperating with law enforcement officials," said Hard.

It was the second fatal U.S. workplace shooting this month.

Timothy Hendron, an employee at an ABB Inc. electrical plant in St. Louis, was accused of shooting hundreds of rounds of ammunition through the sprawling plant, killing three men and injuring five others before killing himself.

In Georgia, about two dozen

employees were working at the Penske office in suburban Kennesaw, a city about 25 miles northwest of Atlanta. The Penske complex consists of a couple of large buildings with bay doors.

The gunman first confronted someone in the parking lot before moving to the truck bay area, shooting victims along the way, said Hernandez. Warren did not try to enter the building's second floor, which houses a small administration office.

Injured in the shooting Zachariah J. Werner, 35, and Joshua B. Holbrook, 27. The two men were in critical condition, said Bowermaster.

After the shootings, authorities said the gunman hopped in his pickup truck and sped away.

Cobb County authorities soon surrounded his vehicle and arrested him. He has been charged with two counts of murder and five counts of aggravated assault.

A man who witnessed the arrest said the suspect looked "out of

his mind" and "all drugged up."

"The cops walked up on both sides of the truck, he opened the door and they threw him on the ground," Michael Robertson said. "He pretty much just gave up."

Warren is listed as living in a rundown house with an overgrown lawn off a two-lane highway in the rural west Georgia town of Temple. No one answered the door at his house Tuesday night. Several neighbors said they didn't know him. ___ Associated Press writer Kate Brumback in Atlanta contributed to this report.

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More than 100 neglected animals found at Nev. farm (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:55:03 PM

RENO, Nev. – In one of the worst cases they can remember, Nevada agriculture officials have cited a woman for animal cruelty for neglecting more than 100 barnyard animals, including 35 starving horses and a goat that died from eating wool off a sheep carcass.

Jan Lemley of Battle Mountain faces 42 counts of animal cruelty. Each count carries a civil fine of $1,000, said Nevada Department of Agriculture spokesman Ed Foster.

Lemley did not immediately return a telephone call from The Associated Press on Wednesday.

She told The Battle Mountain Bugle, which first reported the incident, that her attorney had advised her not to comment.

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Nestle Revamps Cookie Dough Amid E. Coli Concern (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:14:30 AM

CHICAGO — Nestle USA will begin using heat-treated flour in its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough, months after the company temporarily pulled the product off of store shelves after

the Food and Drug Administration found evidence of E. coli contamination.

The unit of Nestle SA said it will halt production at its Danville, Virginia, plant from Wednesday until Jan. 25 in order convert the plant to use heattreated flour.

In June, Nestle recalled the cookie dough after the FDA said it was investigating possible E.coli related illnesses that might have been related to the eating of raw cookie dough.

The company resumed production at the plant using standards that included testing

ingredients before they enter the facility, rigorous environmental sampling throughout the facility and testing of finished product before it is shipped to customers.

On Monday, two samples of cookie dough tested positive for E. coli, Nestle said. The contaminated product was

discovered before it was shipped and dough on store shelves is not affected, it added.

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NEW YORK NEW YORK -A young American aid worker -trapped for about 10 hours under the rubble of her mission house that was destroyed in Haiti's earthquake -- has been rescued by her husband.

Frank Thorp told CBS's "The Early Show" by phone from Haiti on Wednesday that he drove 100 miles to Port-auPrince once he learned of the quake, and dug for over an hour to free his wife, Jillian, and her co-worker Charles Dietsch. The two were trapped under about a foot of concrete, he said.

"It was absolutely terrifying," Thorp said.

Thorp said he was in an area about 6 hours north of the capital when the temblor struck. He got a quick call from his wife telling him she was trapped, and that was all. So he began his long drive toward the devastation.

Meanwhile, the woman's father said, other colleagues were feverishly working to dig the two out as she directed them where to focus the search.

Arriving at the destroyed house, Thorp said he saw his wife's hand from under the rubble and heard her tell him to keep it together and just get her out.

"We had to pull bricks and bricks and bricks and wood and doors and metal away for at least an hour before we were able to get her and her co-worker out," he said.

Clay Cook, the woman's father, told CNN his son-in-law drove through the night and pitched in for the final hour.

"He literally lifted her out of the hole when they finally got her free," Cook said.

Thorp is the son of retired Rear Adm. Frank Thorp, who retired in August as the Navy's chief information officer.

The executive director of Haitian Ministries for the

Diocese of Norwich, Conn., Emily Smack, told CBS a security guard at the mission house is still missing. A housecleaner had severe injuries and may lose both legs, she said.

Cook, of Old Saybrook, Conn., describes his daughter and son-in -law as "a strong couple" who each had their own trial to endure.

"Jill was pinned in the rubble and Frank was driving through the darkness, not sure what was waiting for him at the end of the drive," he said.

The 7.0-magnitude tremor caused massive destruction in the Haitian capital. Untold numbers remain trapped, and the death toll has so far been impossible to calculate.

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any criminal charges would be filed.

Lander County Sheriff Ron Unger said two of the horses, three llamas, three goats and two sheep died at the rural property in Battle Mountain about 220 miles east of Reno.

Foster said a state veterinarian became physically ill upon arrival at the scene last weekend.

"It's the worst case of animal cruelty they've ever witnessed," Foster told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "It's really sad."

The two horses — which a neighbor had described as "walking skeletons" — died from severe malnutrition and at least one of the starving goats died from ingesting wool, Foster said.

"There was nothing to eat, so they started eating wool off the sheep carcasses," he said.

Unger did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

He told the Bugle that 53 goats, 24 llamas, 20 sheep, six pigs and an assortment of chickens and rabbits remained on the property under the control of Lander County and the sheriff's office.

Foster said one of the horses was dead when inspectors arrived and the other died the

following day. The 33 surviving horses have been transferred to an undisclosed location where they are receiving round-theclock care from state veterinarians.

Unger said a judge will decide what happens to the horses.

Sid Slate, a neighbor who moved to the area six months ago from Lyle, Wash., was one of the people who reported the abuse. He said he was sickened by what he saw.

"From the last month driving by, we could see the ribs on the horses," he said. "I saw a few horses that looked like nothing but walking skeletons."

State brand inspector Blaine Northrup, who also visited the site, said Wednesday he'd never seen such hungry animals.

"This is the first time I've ever run into a barnyard and had chickens running toward me," he said.

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media whirlwind since the incident disturbance outside his Florida home.

Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:21:27 PM He has since admitted being C a r m a k i n g g i a n t G e n e r a l unfaithful to his wife, and is M o t o r s ( G M ) h a s s a i d a n taking a break from professional a r r a n g e m e n t t h a t a l l o w e d golf. troubled golf star Tiger Woods On 12 December Gillette free access to its vehicles is over. became the first major sponsor of The world's number one golfer Tiger Woods to distance itself had an endorsement contract from the golf star after the storm with GM's Buick brand, but that over his private life. ended in 2008.

It said it would limit Woods's However, an arrangement role in its marketing while he remained that allowed him to took time off to repair his keep several GM motors on loan. personal life.

A company spokesman has now Two days later the giant said the deal ended at the end of management consultancy firm 2009.

Accenture ended its sponsorship Woods has lost a number of with Woods, saying the golfer endorsements since crashing his w a s " n o l o n g e r t h e r i g h t car on 27 November. representative".

A GM spokesman said the loan Nike support arrangement had previously been On 31 December telecoms giant s c h e d u l e d t o e n d o n 3 1 AT&T said it would no longer December. sponsor Woods, but gave no Time off reason for its decision.

Woods has been engulfed in a Apart from AT&T, Accenture

and razor maker Gillette, the watchmaker Tag Heuer has scaled down its use of the star, while drinks manufacturer Gatorade discontinued a line of Tiger Woods-branded energy drinks.

A recent University of California study suggested the total economic damage of the Tiger Woods affair to all involved parties could amount to as much as $12bn.

But sports equipment giant Nike, which pays Woods a reported $40m a year, has given its support.

Meanwhile, electronic game maker Electronic Arts is is to go ahead with plans to roll out an online game featuring the golfer.

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they take. “It’s almost as if you’re at a blackjack table where you can never really get wiped out,” he said to Mr Dimon.

Mr Dimon kept to the stock response about being paid in stock, arguing that as people become more senior, they pay a price when the company pays a price. However he acknowledged that in some ways it is one sided.

An unimpressed Mr Angelides retorted that, “the downside compared to most Americans is not nearly the same.”

12:15pm Mr Angelides digs in further to find out what Mr Blankfein’s responsibility is when Goldman Sachs’ name is on a security.

“You weren’t just a market maker, you were securitising mortgages,” Mr Angelides said.

In response, Mr Blankfein stuck to his story that he was dealing with sophisticated investors who sought that exposure.

“I know it’s become part of the narrative that people know what was going to happen at every minute,” Mr Blankfein said. “We didn’t know what was going to happen.”

12:13pm With the few extra minutes remaining Mr Angelides lays into Mr Blankfein a little more.

12:08pm Commissioner Bill Thomas promises all the CEOs that all of the information they will be sending to the commission will be handled appropriately. He also promised to be “pushy” to

get timely responses if needed.

11:59am Blankfein on AIG: “A failure of risk management of colossal proportions”.

11:53am Still facing heat for shorting products that Goldman sold, Mr Blankfein argued that the bank was purely following its risk management protocols. He said that as a syndicator of certain products, Goldman found themselves to be long on them and that they were trying to get “closer to home”. He also said that while the bank has been producing research that was downbeat on the housing market in 2006, he was first alerted to serious problems in the subprime market by reading them in the press.

11:48am Mr Blankfein said that Goldman had $10bn in exposure to AIG. As it began to pull back, it had $7.5bn in cash and took out $2.5bn in credit protection against AIG’s default.

11:45am Commissioner Peter Wallson, before digging into Goldman’s exposure to AIG, said he does not envy the fact that Mr Blankfein’s name begins with a “B”, forcing him to take each question first.

11:32am Commissioner Keith Hennessey peppers Mr Blankfein on the idea of “too big to fail”. He asks if he thinks that the government would rescue Goldman or any of

the other banks being questioned if they were about to collapse.

“At some level the government would intervene,” Mr Blankfein said, noting that shareholders would not feel any relief from this. “There would be something done because of the fragility of the system.” He went on to say that he was not sure if this would have been true a year and a half ago or a year from now.

11:29am Still on the hot seat, Mr Dimon faced a good question about what it means for the economy that bank compensation has drawn so much talent away from fields such as engineering. The CEO replied using his brother who has a PhD in physics as an example, claiming that he would never pretend to get into something as “mundane” as trading and that the trend might reverse at some point. “Different strokes for different folks,” he said.

11:26am Mr Dimon, putting the financial crisis in perspective, reminds the panel crises happen every five to 10 years. “It’s not a surprise or a mystery”, Mr Dimon said. He went on to make the point that there needs to be a regulator that can see the bigger picture and understand how emerging problems can boil over.

11:23am: Mr Mack contends that the US needs a consolidated regulator with more resources that is tied to other regulators across the

world. This “super-regulator” would need to be able to keep up with the accelerating complexity of financial products and practices. The idea of a global regulator has been highly controversial because some argue it would mean outsourcing US lawmaking to other countries.

11:17am They’re back. Commissioner John Thompson is back on Mr Blankfein, who said it was “amazing” that post-Enron offbalance sheet risk remained a problem. “I think it’s quite a big lapse,” Mr Blankfein said.

However, Mr Blankfein went on to argue that one of the biggest challenges to re-regulating the economy is to resist taking all the leverage, or risk, out of financial markets so that the “growth engine” of the economy stalls.

11:07am The panel is taking a 5 minute break.

11:03am Defending the intentions of himself and his colleagues, Mr Blankfein said that the mistakes of banks were due to failures of risk management. “Most of the problem wasn’t the cynicism of companies that held these products and knew they were toxic,” he said. “They didn’t know they were toxic.”

10:58am Mack on mortgages: “We did eat our own cooking and we choked on it”.

10:55am Mr Holtz-Eakin probed Mr Dimon on how it was possible that so many mortgages went bad in the US. JPMorgan’s chief blamed bad products (such as option arms), bad actors (shady mortgage salesmen) and speculation (people buying homes purely as investments).

10:52am On the rating agencies, Mr Blankfein acknowledged that higher ratings created a sense of complacency. “To some extent I also had been deferring to a rating agency,” Mr Blankfein said.

10:45am Commissioner Douglas HoltzEakin, who advised John McCain’s presidential campaign, is hammering away at risk management practices. Mr Blankfein, who is probably starting to wish his name began with a Z, called for more internal stress testing. Jamie Dimon acknowledged that while his bank did stress test many areas, they did not have stress tests showing that US home prices would fall 40 per cent.

Rationalising his mistakes, he said, “If you do everything right in business, you’re going to make mistakes”.

10:38am Mr Blankfein, back in the hot seat, is continuing to dance around the compensation question.

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Google and China Jan 13th 2010 | BEIJING From Economist.com Google's plan to leave China may be as much about poor business prospects as ethics “WE’RE in this for the long haul”, wrote a Google executive four years ago when the internet giant launched a self-censored version of its search engine for China. Now Google says it might have to pull out of the country because of alleged attacks by hackers in China on its e-mail service and a tightening of restrictions on free speech online.

Google’s “new approach to China”, as the firm’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, called it in an official blog posting on Tuesday January 12th, will infuriate the government in Beijing. Official sensitivity to foreign complaints about internet controls in China was evident in November during a visit by President Barack Obama. His obliquely worded criticism of online censorship was itself expunged from official media reports. If the firm were to quit China, Google would be the first big foreign company to do so while citing concerns about freedom of speech.

Mr Drummond’s posting also involved unusually direct fingerpointing by a foreign firm at

China as a source of hacker attacks. He said that in midDecember Google detected a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack” on its corporate computer systems “originating from China”. Its investigations found that at least 20 other large companies from a wide range of industries had been targeted. A primary goal, he said, appeared to be to gain access to the e-mail accounts of Chinese humanrights activists who use Google’s Gmail service. The hackers managed to penetrate partially two accounts.

The Gmail accounts of dozens of other advocates of human rights in China based in America, Europe and China itself had also been “routinely accessed by third parties”, Mr Drummond wrote. Unlike the mid-December attack, these breaches appeared to involve phishing scams or malware on the users’ computers rather than direct attacks on Google’s systems. He said these attacks, combined with “attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web”, had led Google to “review the feasibility” of its business in China.

The company has decided to stop censoring the results of Google.cn, its China-based search engine. Mr Drummond said this might result in having to shut down Google.cn and Google’s offices in China. In the face of much criticism from

Western human-rights advocates, Google justified its decision to set up Google.cn in 2006 by pointing out that China often blocked its uncensored Google.com search engine.

Better to offer a censored service (with warnings to users that results were filtered), the company argued, than offer nothing at all. China would certainly not allow an uncensored search engine to be based on its territory.

In Silicon Valley, the home of Google, the decision has been widely applauded. But some are asking whether it was “more about business than thwarting evil” to quote TechCrunch, a popular website. Despite its concessions to the Chinese government, the argument goes, Google had not made any headway against Baidu, China's leading search engine—and probably never will. In any case Google's revenues in China are “truly immaterial”, according to Mr Drummond, and its costs are not. It employs about 700 people in China, some of them royally paid engineers. Hacker attacks and censorship, critics say, may be convenient excuses for something Google wanted to do anyway–without it looking like a commercial retreat.

Nor had Google’s acquiescence to self-censorship of its searches made China any less wary of the company’s other, non-censored, services. Google’s video-sharing site, YouTube, has been blocked

since March, because it carried footage of Chinese police beating Tibetan monks. Its photo -album site, Picasa Web Albums, has since suffered the same fate.

Access to Google’s blog service, Blogger, has long been intermittent. (It is currently unavailable in Beijing.)

Google’s frustrations are widely shared. Before the Olympic games in Beijing in August 2008, China lifted longstanding blocks on several websites in an effort to present a more open image to visitors. Since then, controls have been stepped up to unprecedented levels. Internet access throughout the western region of Xinjiang has been all but cut off since the eruption of ethnic riots there in July. The unrest also prompted a nationwide closure of foreign social-networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

The role of such sites in Iran’s upheaval in June had already alarmed the government. Its fear of dissent erupting around the 60th anniversary in October of the founding of communist China prompted even greater vigilance against sensitive debate online. Since then there has been no sign of relaxation. In recent weeks, officials have tightened restrictions on the registration of websites under the .cn domain name (businesses only may apply). A crackdown on internet pornography has led to closer scrutiny by internet-service providers of non-porn websites.

In December, Yeeyan, a site providing translations of articles from foreign newspapers including the Guardian and the New York Times, was closed down for several days. It was allowed to reopen after putting tighter controls in place on the publishing of politically sensitive pieces. Ecocn.org, a site offering Chinese translations of articles in The Economist, was also shut down briefly as officials trawled for pornography, but re-emerged unscathed. The volunteers who maintain the site make sensitive articles available only to users they trust.

The anti-porn drive turned up the heat on Google too. Last year Google.cn was among several search engines in China accused by the authorities of providing links to pornographic sites. The state-controlled media gave particular prominence to Google’s alleged transgressions, which the company promised to investigate. The Chinese media have also published frequent criticisms in recent months of Google’s alleged violations of Chinese copyright in its Google Books search facility.

But China is clearly fearful that the company’s stand against censorship will be celebrated by many Chinese internet users.

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10:29am Keeping pressure on pay, which has been among the most politically sensitive subjects, Commissioner Robert Graham asked John Mack what Morgan Stanley means when he talks about performance in relation to pay. Mr Mack said that performance generally means profitability and how much risk is required to achieve that profitability.

10:20am Mr Blankfein, who has faced all of the questions so far, defended Goldman’s pay practices, arguing that compensation was down by 50 per cent last year and that he is paid mostly in stock. He also reminded the commission that he must hold 90 per cent of his shares until he retires. “Pay of senior people at Goldman Sachs has always correlated with the success of the firm,” he said.

10:15am Heather Murren hits Mr Blankfein on AIG, regulation and compensation.

10:05am Saying that he’s not trying to get Mr Blankfein to “cry uncle”, Mr Angelides continued to press the issue. In response to Mr Blankfein’s comparison to the financial crisis as being similar to an earthquake or hurricane, Mr Angelides retorted: “Acts of God will be exempt, these were acts of men and women”. Next question.

10:03am

Goldman’s CEO, leaning halfway across the table, said that while the position that the bank was in was difficult, it was not planning on relying on government assistance. He reminded the commission that the bank still had access to the capital markets and that neither he nor anyone else can know what would have happened without government support.

9:56am Mr Angelides tore into Goldman’s vaunted risk management abilities. He listed a litany of ways that Goldman benefited from government assistance. He asked: “When you look at the amount of leverage that you had, do you really believe that your risk management was sufficient for you to survive were it not but for the government assistance that you received?”

9:52am Mr Blankfein, getting defensive, claims that Goldman is merely a market maker and can be a winner or a loser after such a transaction. Speaking over each other, Mr Angelides says that Mr Blankfein’s actions are like selling a car with faulty brakes and then buying an insurance policy on it. Voices raised, Mr Blankfein reminds him that the institutions Goldman is dealing with are “professional” investors dedicated to this business.

9:50am Mr Angelides asks Mr Blankfein about how Goldman

can justify betting against securities, mostly subprime, that the bank was selling to institutions and investors. Mr Angelides called the action “cynical” and said that it appeared to undermine the market.

9:43am Prepared testimony is over.

Asked what he would apologise for, Mr Blankfein said that his bank participated in elements that caused “froth” in the market, pointing to overuse of leverage.

However, he refused to call it misbehaviour, noting that in the context of the world they were in, those were “typical” actions.

9:41am Echoing the populism that Congress is looking to hear, Mr Moynihan said, “Over the course of this crisis, we as an industry caused a lot of damage. Never has it been clearer how mistakes made by financial companies can affect Main Street, and we need to learn the lessons of the past few years.”

9:40am Up now is Brian Moynihan, BofA’s new boss. He breaks the crisis down into four parts: (1) a mortgage crisis in the US and abroad; (2) a capital markets crisis; (3) a global credit crisis; and (4) a severe global recession.

9:36am Mr Mack also hammered away at the idea of banks being too big to fail. He called for a systemic risk regulator and said that oversight and regulation have not

kept pace with the complexity of financial products. “They were meant to spread risk, but they had the opposite effect,” he said.

9:33am John Mack, speaking more deliberately than Mr Dimon, called the last two years unlike anything he has seen in the last 40.

9:26am Jamie Dimon, speed-talking and peering over his spectacles, boasted about JPMorgan’s performance throughout the crisis, reminding the commission that the bank never suffered a quarterly loss, thanks to its strong loan loss reserves and high levels of liquidity. The CEO resisted placing any blame on regulators, but argued that no institution should be “too big to fail”. Instead, he said, shareholders and creditors, rather than taxpayers, should be the ones bearing risk.

9:19am Mr Blankfein acknowledged that Goldman Sachs benefited from the government support that was used to rescue the financial system and said that the support was “without question” needed for stabilising the economy. He argued that in the future, there should be more frequent public stress tests and a system that allows private capital to be deployed to cushion future collapses rather than government funds. Finally, he pointed to a lack of scepticism about the rating agencies that ultimately

underestimated risk-taking.

9:07am Phil Angelides, head of the FCIC commission, stared down Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, John Mack and Brian Moynihan and reminded everyone of the anger being felt among the American people. “They have a right to be. This forum is the eyes, ears and voice of the American people”. Ten minute testimonies begin in alphabetical order with Lloyd B. - AR 8:30am ET Live coverage of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission begins here at at 9am. Congress will first probe chief executives of top US banks about the causes of the financial crisis, with free reign to question them on everything from their pay packets to the financial instruments that sparked the meltdown. Regulators will also be on the hot seat, with Sheila Bair, FDIC chairman and Mary Schapiro, SEC chairman, due to face questions. - Alan Rappeport Tags: banks, Blankfein, BofA, Goldman Sachs January 13, 2010 1:51pm in Business| Comment Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Art.view Jan 13th 2010 From Economist.com The rarefied world of Chinese export porcelain THE West’s trade with China has been at the forefront of globalisation since the days of Marco Polo. Pieces of eight, minted out of South American silver, crossed the Pacific and were used up and down the coast of Asia. Indeed, interruptions in this silver trade ultimately helped bring on the collapse of the Ming dynasty in China in the early 17th century. Later exchanges of tea, spices and then opium served to enrich Western merchants, particularly from Britain.

By the 18th century, British, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish and American trade with China was so well established that the new wealthy merchant class it created had taken to emulating the trappings of the landed gentry, designing coats of arms and commissioning entire porcelain services on which to flaunt them.

No marriage or promotion was

complete without a specially made plate to commemorate it.

This upward social mobility gave rise to a new phenomenon, the manufacture of Chinese porcelain and paintings for the export market.

Two centuries on, Chinese export porcelain attracts a quite different collector from those seeking Chinese porcelain proper. Whereas all Chinese treasures—whether jade, porcelain, lacquer, bamboo or rhinoceros horn—have an aesthetic appeal that prizes rarity, delicacy and symbolism above all, export porcelain speaks to the academic collector or, less politely, the “anorak” or “trainspotter”. The form is based on Meissen or other soft-paste porcelain, but it is not really European. Nor is it particularly Chinese, although it was made there.

Instead, it is a bit of a mishmash. It appeals to buyers who seek to complete a particular series defined by decorative patterns, special coats of arms or links between different families.

Elinor Gordon, who died last July at the age of 91, was the consummate American dealer/collector of Chinese

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export porcelain. She bought widely in Britain, Holland and Portugal, and for more than half a century sold her wares from her Pennsylvania home and at antiques fairs up and down the East Coast. Her private collection, which will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York on January 23rd, shows just how much American-related export porcelain she managed to gather together.

Many of the pieces feature complicated combinations of different coats of arms. Several pieces stand out, such as a grandly decorated orange oval platter of modest size, which boasts an American eagle (pictured above). Estimated at $12,000-18,000, it belongs to a pattern known as “Fitzhugh”, of which so few pieces were made it is suspected that they all were once part of the same service.

Several other pieces are connected to a single ship, the Empress of China, which in 1784 became the first American vessel to trade directly with China. The Society of the Cincinnati was founded in May 1783 for commissioned officers who had served in the continental army or navy during the American

revolution. The founder’s aidede-camp, Major Samuel Shaw, was responsible for ordering all the services decorated with the society’s badge. He first travelled to China on Empress of China, and spent more than ten years working the same route, dying at sea on a return trip in 1794. A plate from one of the earliest Cincinnati services, which is believed to have belonged to George Washington, is estimated to fetch $30,00050,000, and another smaller, later Cincinnati plate $12,000-18,000.

John Morgan was a carpenter on the same first outward journey on Empress of China, and died on the return. The ship’s log notes that his effects included two punch bowls. Ms Gordon owned several Morgan pieces, including a small tureen estimated here at $3,000-5,000 and a larger version, both with lids, estimated at $7,000-9,000.

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actions. Chinese web portals buried the story. Many internet users in China have become adept at finding ways of circumventing China’s blocks on overseas websites, including the installation of “virtual private network” software. Numerous tributes to Google that rapidly appeared on Chinese internet discussion forums, and flowers laid outside Google’s office in Beijing, showed that the authorities’ attempts at censorship had failed. Few, however, believe that the company’s announcement will dissuade China from keeping on trying.

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much of the mission’s building, five storeys high, was destroyed.

The initial tremor struck for Submitted at 1/12/2010 8:27:51 PM some 35-40 seconds shortly Haiti's earthquake before five in the afternoon, with Jan 13th 2010 | MEXICO CITY an epicentre 10 miles (16km) From Economist.com Perhaps south-west of the capital and a thousands are killed as Haiti is mere 6 miles underground, struck by a powerful earthquake leading to particularly severe THE capital of Haiti, Port-au- shaking at the surface. The Prince, suffered a devastating tremor was the strongest in the e a r t h q u a k e m e a s u r i n g 7 . 0 Hispaniola region since 1946 and magnitude on Tuesday January was felt as far away as eastern 12th. Much of the city was Cuba. A series of powerful flattened and at least hundreds- aftershocks followed the first and probably thousands-of tremor. people have been killed. The The island of Hispaniola, shared country is desperately poor and by Haiti and the Dominican densely populated. Most of the Republic, sits on a tiny tectonic 2m residents of the capital city plate squeezed between the are squeezed into tin-roof shacks North American and Caribbean that are perched on steep ravines, ones. Seismologists say it is which are extremely vulnerable vulnerable to infrequent but to collapse. violent earthquakes. Haiti itself Little reliable information was is used to natural disastersimmediately available, in part hurricanes regularly batter the because phone systems were country-and to coping with knocked out. The UN reported endemic political instability and that many of its staff in the violence. But the country is illcountry were missing and that equipped to respond to an

earthquake. Dysfunctional state institutions will struggle to provide more than minimal emergency aid.

The destruction wrought by the quake was indiscriminate. The magnificent rotunda of the presidential palace caved in, although the president, Rene Preval, was reported to be safe.

Across the city rubble poured into the streets, blocking rescue workers’ routes, as screams filled the air. The only illumination as night fell came from fires near the shoreline, from burning buildings and from torches, although the light was obscured by a cloud of dust and smoke that hung over the city.

Outsiders are responding.

Within hours of the quake, countries in the region were preparing to deliver aid. The United States sent a hospital ship and other craft to Haiti and the Inter-American Development Bank said it would provide $200,000 in immediate emergency help. The World

Bank reported its offices destroyed but said a team would be sent to the country to start planning for recovery and to minimise the impact on the economy. Mexico’s government said it would be sending a search -and-rescue team, as well as doctors specialising in wounds from building collapses. A peacekeeping force of some 9,000, led by Brazil, if it is able to function, is likely to be called on to preserve order and prevent looting. Despite generous international assistance, Haiti had struggled to recover from a series of tropical storms in 2008.

This calamity is likely to prove to be far graver yet.

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Days after leaking restructuring moves at Fox Network Group to a handful of publications, News Corp has issued confirmation.

Peter Rice, chairman of entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Group, will now be chairman of entertainment for the Fox Networks Group, overseeing Fox Broadcasting and FX Networks' FX and Fox Movie Channel.

All sports networks and properties will also be under one roof -- headed by David Hill, chairman/CEO of Fox Sports.

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cruises will have meet-and-greets with characters, interactive game shows and other programming A f t e r a b a n d o n i n g s h i p , related to the kids' channel.

Nickelodeon has a deal with Nick had an arrangement with Norwegian Cruise Line to Royal Caribbean that led to two integrate the network's brand into branded cruises in 2009, but the its voyages. replacement Norwegian deal Under the three-year deal, some runs year-round.

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Norwegian, as Royal Caribbean before it, was trying to attract more families.

Nick's recreational licensing initiatives also include a branded hotel in Orlando and a theme park in the Mall of America in Minneapolis.

Later this year, the network was

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"Idol" took a dip in premiere ratings versus the previous season. Some of this decline If one barometer of network could be attributed to new earlyTV's health comes with its round judges; the departure of b i g g e s t - r a t e d s h o w , t h e n longtime judge Paula Abdul; and "American Idol" tells us we're the soon-to-be on screen new holding steady. The two-hour p e r m a n e n t j u d g e E l l e n season premiere of "American D e G e n e r e s .

Idol" on Tuesday night posted an As usual, "Idol" left a lot of N i e l s e n p r e l i m i n a r y 1 1 . 8 damage around the network rating/29 share among 18-49 schedule. The biggest hit was viewers in its ninth season start, NBC's "Biggest Loser," which virtually dead-on to its numbers was down 30% to a 3.2 rating/7 of a year ago. share versus its premiere a week Good news: younger viewers, ago.

18-34, witnessed a small ratings Damage at CBS was somewhat rise, 8%, to a 10.6. Not-so-good less -- "NCIS" was down 2% to news: Overall viewership slipped 4.3/11. "NCIS: LA" wasn't as 2% to 29.8 million from 30.4 lucky, down 19% to a 3.0/7. million the year before.

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Good Wife" posted a 3.0/9, the same versus the week before.

NBC's "Leno" 1.9/5 was in line with its usual seasonal average, getting a nice lead-in draft from the big 5.0 season premiere ratings from "Loser."

Also at 10 p.m., ABC new show "the forgotten" seems to be increasingly forgotten by viewers, landing at a 1.2/4.

For the night, Fox won big time among 18-49ers, 11.7/29; CBS was next, a 3.5/9; NBC, a 2.8/7; Univision, a 1.4/3; ABC, a 1.0/3; and CW a 0.3/1.

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Fuel TV as well as the company's joint venture sports businesses Stats, LLC. and Big Ten Network.

Both Rice and Hill will continue to report to Tony Vinciquerra chairman/CEO of Fox Networks Group.

John Landgraf, president and general manager of FX Networks, will now report to Rice.

Reporting to Hill will be Randy Freer, president of Fox Sports Networks; David Nathanson, EVP/GM of Fox Soccer Channel; Hunter Nickell, president of Speed; Dermot McQuarrie and Raul De Quesada, senior vice president and co-Assistant General Managers, Fox Sports en Espanol; and CJ Olivares, senior vice president and General Manager, FUEL TV. Odd man out appears to be Rich Battista, who was president of Fox National Cable Networks.

He is in discussions about a new position within the company.

Obama Approval on Terrorism Up to 49% (All Gallup Headlines)

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Peter Rice became chairman of entertainment of Fox Broadcasting Company in March 2009. Previously, he was president of Fox Searchlight, where he championed movies such as "Slumdog Millionaire," "The Wrestler," "Little Miss Sunshine," "Sideways" and "Juno."

David Hill has been chairman/CEO of Fox Sports Television Group since 1999.

Before that, he was chairman and CEO of Fox Broadcasting Company from 1997 to 1999.

Hill arrived in the U.S. back in 1993 to become the first president of Fox Sports just after Fox grabbed its first NFL rights deal.

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U.S. Fear of Terrorism Steady After Foiled Christmas Attack (All Gallup Headlines) Submitted at 1/13/2010 5:30:00 AM

PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup polls bracketing the 2009 Christmas Day terror incident -in which a Nigerian man attempted to explode a bomb hidden under his clothes on a Northwest Airlines flight -document little change in U.S. public concern about being victimized by terrorism.

Just prior to the incident, a Dec. 11-13 Gallup survey found 39% of Americans either "very" or "somewhat" worried that they or a family member could be a victim of terrorism. In the latest USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted Jan. 8-10, 42% are worried. Across the same period, the percentage saying they are "not worried at all" did fall slightly, from 28% to 22%.

Americans' current level of anxiety about terrorism is close to the average seen on this Gallup measure since Sept. 11, 2001 (which is 41%). Since then, the highest recorded percentage saying they were very or somewhat worried was 59% in early October 2001 and the lowest was 28% in January 2004 (a few weeks after Saddam Hussein was captured in Iraq).

Anti-Terror Steps Get Mixed Reviews After his receipt of an intelligence report detailing failures that led to the Northwest Airlines incident, President Obama stated in a Jan. 7 speech

that the U.S. is at war, and outlined several new antiterrorism directives.

Four in 10 Americans (42%) believe Obama's prescriptions for preventing terrorism in the wake of the Christmas Day terror incident fall short of what is needed, but nearly as many (38%) say these measures are about right, and 4% say they go too far.

No partisan group, including Democrats, is widely satisfied with the new actions being proposed. Among the three major groups, the percentage saying the measures are about right ranges from 50% among Democrats to 35% among independents and 27% among Republicans. Substantial

country from terrorism.

Among the more visible antiterrorism measures Obama ordered in his Jan. 7 speech is funding for body scanners for screening airline passengers.

While most Americans favor using this technology at airports, far fewer -- 38% -- believe the entire set of new initiatives is sufficient to protect Americans.

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