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State-of-the-Union Bingo! By Deborah Zabarenko (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 1/26/2010 1:59:17 PM

Yes, of course, President Obama’s State of the Union address is a serious occasion, full of solemn portents for the nation and the world. But even Washington wonks have to have a little fun. Strangely enough, they’re likely to have fun this year by playing SOTU bingo. For the uninitiated, SOTU bingo involves modified bingo cards, usually filled in with various words or phrases the president is likely to utter. It’s pretty easy to figure out which bingo-cardmakers are friendly to Obama and which are foes. Some simply want to push a cause and hope Obama brings it up when he talks to Congress on Wednesday night. The Center for Global Development offers a sobersided set of bingo cards, with terms like “G-20,” “security,” “foreign aid” and “globalization” on its grid. “Will President Obama mention global

development during his first official State of the Union address? Will he discuss girls’ health, immigration, or the environment?” the group asked on its Web site, urging folks to tally up whether Obama mentions any of these as they fill in their cards. A more conservative slant shows up in a “Barack” card posted on various sites, including Chicks on the Right. Instead of the normal 25 spaces, it’s got 36,

featuring such Obama-isms as “let me be clear” and “make no mistake.” There’s a bonus if Obama says “greed on Wall Street” and even “I” could fill in a square — but only “if used five times or more in same sentence.” Obama isn’t the only public figure to face the bingo treatment. President George W. Bush got similarly lampooned during his State of the Union addresses. And former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s face was the center free space on bingo cards meant to be played during her October 2008 vice presidential debate with thenSenator Joe Biden. The cards featured some of Palin’s most memorable sayings, including “maverick,” “Joe Six-Pack,” “hockey mom” and “lipstick.” For more Reuters political news, click here. Photo credit: REUTERS/Fred Prouser (Bingo, a dancer with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band of New Orleans, performs at the Playboy Jazz Festival in Hollywood June 18, 2006.)

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Live coverage of the State of the Union By Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:36:33 PM

Trade Update: Realized Loss On GameStop By Steven Mallas (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:40:00 PM

Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT), Activision Inc (ATVI) My trade on GameStop Corp. ( GME) has come to an inauspicious end. Today, I sold out of my position, realizing a significant loss. It's always difficult to turn a paper loss into an authentic one. You worry if the stock is going to suddenly rise after you sold out. I'm sure that could happen in my case. In fact, at the time of this writing, shares were higher than the price at which I sold them. I ditched them at around

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Dylan at the White House: how much have the times changed? By Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 1/26/2010 7:02:38 PM

The announcement that music icon Bob Dylan was coming to the White House next month for “A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement” sent us scrambling to listen to his famous song “The Times They Are A-Changin’.” The lyrics from 45 years ago, eerily echo today. Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block up the hall For he that gets hurt, will be he who has stalled The battle outside is ragin’ It’ll soon shake your windows, and rattle your walls For the times they are a-

changin’ It was a year ago that President Barack Obama entered the White House on a platform of change – “Yes, we can.” But his early intentions became bogged down by a sour economy

and partisan politics, not to mention two wars. Now all eyes are on his State of the Union address to see whether he can make another fresh start. Obama has said that it was the civil rights movement that made it possible for him to be elected the first African American president of the United States. The concert on Feb. 10 will mark Black History month. Other performers attending include Natalie Cole, John Legend, Smokey Robinson, Seal, and Jennifer Hudson. Actors Morgan Freeman and Queen Latifah will serve as emcees. For more Reuters political news, click here Photo credit: Reuters/Lee Celano (Dylan at New Orleans jazz festival in 2006)

Closing Bell: The Wild Day That Wasn't As Wild As It Could Have Been (AIG, AAPL, T, BA, CAT, HGSI, SANM, TM, CTS) By Jon Ogg (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:00:00 PM

Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Toyota Motor Corp. (TM), Caterpillar (CAT), Boeing Co (BA), Amer Intl Group (AIG) Today was potentially a fairly quiet trading day when you consider how volatile the day could have been. We had Tim Geithner and Hank Paulson both getting grilled over American International Group, Inc. ( AIG) again in front a House Panel, we had an FOMC rate decision, and tonight is the State of the Union speech from President Obama. Throw in disappointing housing data in December new home sales and you had a potential powder keg. Stocks spent most of the day in the red, but a move late in the day wiped all that out. Here were the unofficial closing bell levels: Dow 10,236.09 +41.80 (0.41%) S&P 500 1,097.25 +5.08 (0.47%)

Nasdaq 2,221.13 +17.40 (0.79%) Top 10 Analyst Calls Top Day Trader Alerts Continue reading Closing Bell: The Wild Day That Wasn't As Wild As It Could Have Been (AIG, AAPL, T, BA, CAT, HGSI, SANM, TM, CTS) Closing Bell: The Wild Day That Wasn't As Wild As It Could Have Been (AIG, AAPL, T, BA, CAT, HGSI, SANM, TM, CTS) originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

Petrobras: Hold Shares By Joseph Lazzaro (BloggingStocks)

deteriorated, hence I'm placing a hold on the company's shares, first recommended, on April 22, Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:20:00 PM 2009, at a price of $32.99. Filed under: Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras remains on-track for (PBR) The stock chart of 5% to 6% oil/natural gas Petroleo Brasileiro SA ( PBR), production growth for FY2010 oil equivalent per day; longeralso known as Petrobras, has or about 2.55 million barrels of term, a roughly 7% to 7.5%

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We Googlistas want a global debate on information freedom. Why are others so coy? | Timothy Garton Ash By Timothy Garton Ash (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

life it may take a Goliath to beat a Goliath. Hence the fascination of "Google versus China". Or is it, in reality, the US versus China? In a speech last week, Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:00:00 PM Hillary Clinton, the US secretary Davos: A new digital cold war of state, laid out the American is afoot. At stake is something position in no uncertain terms. much larger than just a rivalry Technologies do not take sides in between the western and eastern the struggle for freedom and superpowers progress, she said, but the US Four cheers for Google. Risking does: "We stand for a single the loss of -potentially huge long internet where all of humanity -term profits in the Chinese has equal access to knowledge internet market, it has struck a and ideas." And she went on blow for one of the great causes e x p l i c i t l y t o c r i t i c i s e t h e of our time: global information censorship and persecution of f r e e d o m . T h e U n i v e r s a l internet users in countries as Declaration of Human Rights diverse as Iran, Saudi Arabia, says that everyone has the right Vietnam, Egypt and, yes, China. "to seek, receive and impart Ronald Reagan famously stood -information and ideas through before the Berlin Wall and said: any media and regardless of "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this frontiers". In practice, most Wall." Without using such people in the world still cannot c o n f r o n t a t i o n a l l a n g u a g e , exercise that right, partly because Clinton in effect said: "Mr Hu, of crippling poverty and lack of tear down this Great Firewall." education, but also because The US has also put its money governments stop them. where its mouth is; or a little of There is nothing automatic it, anyway. The state department about the triumph of these now has a modest funding wonderful new technologies of programme for initiatives to communication and information. enhance global information We (we of this persuasion) freedom. Some of those dollars celebrate every small victory of are given to people trying to find digital David over authoritarian technical ways to get around, Goliath, be it of the mobile over or under the cyberwalls of phone-using protester in Iran or c e n s o r s h i p . These the VPN-using blogger in China, "circumvention technologies" go but Goliath has defended himself beyond the traditional websites quite effectively so far. In real on the world wide web, which

depend on relatively easily blockable IP addresses, to use more elusive "peer-to-peer" (P2P), mobile phone or satellite TV forms of connection and dissemination. The big catch is this: every hole in the cyberwall you open up for the idealistic, informationhungry netizen is also a potential loophole for the child pornographer, the terrorist, the preacher of hate and the cybercriminal. In her speech, Clinton goes on to recognise that there are evils that free societies want to defend themselves against, and mentions the Council of Europe's cybercrime treaty. This criminalises the dissemination of child pornography, and authorises the sharing of stored computer data in the attempt to combat it. But there again: how can you stop the very same kinds of technology and internationally sanctioned legal provision that are used by a democracy to identify, censor, catch and imprison the paedophile from being used by a dictatorship to identify, censor, catch and imprison the dissident? And remember that, for someone like Li Changchunâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; the politburo standing committee member responsible for media â&#x20AC;&#x201C; talk of what Americans call "freedom", and of a "massacre" on Tiananmen Square, may be

the political equivalent of child pornography. This is "decadent thought", propagated by "hostile forces" to undermine the spiritual health of Chinese society. The policy of the US is denounced as -"information imperialism". This is not simply a digital cold war between the US and China, just as the original cold war was far more than just a straight geopolitical contest between the US and the Soviet Union. Now as then there are larger differences which don't always coincide with the interests of the leaders of those states at a -particular time. If I wanted to summarise the larger ideological argument here, I'd say: think of a boxing match between the ghost of Samuel Huntington and the spirit of Google. Huntington argued that a "clash of civilisations" could only be avoided if what he called the "core states" of competing "civilisations", such as America and China, basically let each other do things their own way in their own spheres of influence. This is a rule that many multinational companies in fact cleave to: when in China, do as the Chinese do. In their initial reactions to the Google-China stand-off, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft have seemed to be veering in this direction. And Yahoo took the principle to a

disgraceful extreme when it in effect shopped a dissident Chinese Yahoo-user to the Chinese authorities. He was subsequently sent to prison for 10 years. As between the commercially competing nations of Europe, so between competing -companies, the Chinese authorities can hope to divide and rule. The other way is one we can now again unreservedly identify, politically as well as aesthetically, with Google. This is the spirit of liberal universalism. It says that there are some universal rights it is not the prerogative of any state or "civilisation" to curb; and that, as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, the right to information freedom is among them. Just as with freedom of speech inside a country, this does not mean that anyone is free to say whatever they like to anyone about anything. There are always limits â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and some of them are indicated in other international covenants. What we need is a global conversation about what those limits should be. There will be some restrictions on which everyone agrees. For example: is there a state on earth that would argue that child pornography should be freely disseminated? GOOGLISTAS page 9

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Embattled US troops take cynical view of progress in Afghanistan By Jon Boone (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

cover for the men to dash to safety, rounds hitting the ground between their feet. None of this happened in the Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:54:46 PM southern badlands of Reintegration will be high on Afghanistan where the Taliban London agenda – but that might a r e e x a c t i n g a s e e m i n g l y be hard for some to swallow, not relentless death toll from mostly least the US soldiers in field US and UK forces, but in Bala It was meant to be a routine Murghab, in Badghis province in patrol. But when a group of 28 the far north-west. American paratroopers and A backwater in the war in A f g h a n s o l d i e r s f o u n d Afghanistan, nine miles south of themselves pinned down by the the border of Turkmenistan, it Taliban it almost ended in a has been neglected for years by bloodbath. both Nato and the Afghan As many as 90 insurgents government. But it is places like almost completely surrounded Bala Murghab, in a supposedly the platoon from the 82nd more secure corner of the Airborne as they walked across country, that expose the immense open ground. With machine gun difficulties the country has ahead and sniper fire coming from of it in building self-reliant almost all sides, the only place to -security forces and persuading a hide was a ditch a foot deep. new breed of increasingly Enemy rounds ripped into piled competent Taliban fighters to lay mud sending dust into their eyes. down their arms. The insurgents trained their fire "They are far more accurate in on anything that came into view t h e i r f i r i n g h e r e t h a n i n – kit, radios and helmets. Helmand," said Jason Holland, "We need help now!" Kell squad leader of the patrol. "In Anderson, the platoon's leader, Helmand we had more air bellowed into his radio, going on coverage and indirect fire. We to warn that they were fast were never pinned down like we running out of ammunition and were yesterday." about to take casualties. Major Todd Grissom, battalion Unable to clearly identify the operations officer, described it as insurgents' firing positions, the "the worst experience we have men could not call in mortars had here" since they arrived in and had to wait for a pair of October. aircraft to arrive and perform The fighting in Bala Murghab swooping gun runs to provide has been fierce ever since 4

November when the 82nd Airborne began painstakingly winning back an area where insurgent control began almost at the gates of the valley's small forward operating base. As foreign ministers meet in London tomorrow, the effort to create a patch of government control nearly 2 miles wide and 4 miles long highlights the power of the counter-insurgency techniques the Americans have been vigorously implementing, but also the difficulties. For one thing, a rapid "transition strategy" towards Afghan control seems out of the question in a valley where the support of the local population is still far from certain. The close working relationship the Americans have forged with the police and the army is exactly the sort of "embedded" training the US commander, Stanley McChrystal, has called for. But the local police chief is still crawling out from the shadow of the tribal mafia that did much to alienate the local people. Last Sunday one of the 205 Afghan soldiers working in the area was taken away by helicopter (the roads in and out being under insurgent control). He had been arrested on suspicion of helping the Taliban fire mortars on to the main US base. Even with extra troops it is hard

to see the Afghan National Army (ANA) ever being able to survive the sort of attack the paratroopers came out of unscathed on Tuesday. One soldier, Lieutenant Justin Heddleson, estimated it might require as many as three companies of ANA, compared with the three US platoons who currently do the job. "But there would be a far higher body count. The Taliban would come back within a year," he said. Extra Afghan troops are meant to be on their way, but none of the 40,000 US soldiers earmarked as part of Barack Obama's 18-month "surge". While non-US Nato allies have pledged many additional thousands for northern Afghanistan, they are often of limited use – particularly in Bala Murghab where a contingent of 235 Italians are hamstrung by national caveats imposed in Rome that prevent them from taking part in offensive operations. While the US platoon were watching bullets whistle over their heads their Italian colleagues with whom they share a house were unable to help, and spent the time paving their section of the compound garden. Standing up a clean and competent local government is an almost Sisyphean task in an

area where a powerful network, part tribal, part criminal, has its hands in everything. Some local officials are believed by the Americans to be passing on "taxes" and information to the Taliban's shadow district governor, while others have close ties to insurgents. At least one government official has not been seen for months, such is his fear of being arrested by the Americans for what they say is his corruption. In the town of Ludina, at the northernmost edge of the US security bubble, children may wear orange and blue anoraks with the logo of Nato's International Security Assistance Force, but there is little willingness among the town's men to help the Americans, despite gifts of cash and small reconstruction projects. This week a man passing the checkpoint outside the nearby platoon house had his hands sprayed with a chemical. They turned bright pink – a clear indication he had been handling explosives. To the anger of the Americans, some of whom narrowly missed serious injury from a bomb they encountered while on patrol, the suspect was freed after a delegation of Ludina elders argued his case with the local government. EMBATTLED page 8

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Yemen pledges to reform and wins support for fight against alQaida By Ian Black (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

concrete action" by Yemen to address "conditions conducive to radicalisation and instability". Brown convened the meeting in Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:20:27 PM response to the Christmas Day Foreign ministers from the US, attempt by a Nigerian, Umar Britain, Saudi Arabia and 20 Farouq Abdulmutallab, to blow other countries met to pledge not up a US passenger plane over to interfere in Yemen's internal Detroit – claimed by al-Qaida in affairs the Arabian peninsula and Yemen tonight won broad praised by Osama bin Laden. international and Arab support Abdulmutallab is alleged to have for fighting al-Qaida but was been trained and equipped in urged to carry out economic and Yemen. social reforms to address the Intercepted communications causes of its instability and stop "chatter" from Yemen led to the it becoming a failed state where decision last week to raise the extremism can flourish. UK terrorist threat level to Foreign ministers from the US, severe, the Guardian has learned. Britain, Saudi Arabia and 20 Alarm that al-Qaida is finding other countries met in London at safe havens in the country's Gordon Brown's invitation to "ungoverned spaces" – tribal back President Ali Abdullah areas beyond the reach of the Salih and pledge not to interfere cash-strapped government – has in Yemen's internal affairs. But triggered an intensive and largely they also issued a stark public clandestine US effort to assist warning of the dangers of Yemeni security forces with inaction. intelligence, equipment and "The challenges in Yemen are training. The Washington Post growing and, if not addressed, r e p o r t e d t h a t s e c r e t j o i n t risk threatening the stability of operations had resulted in the the country and broader region," deaths of six al-Qaida leaders in said a statement issued after two recent weeks. hours of talks at the Foreign The London meeting promised Office. It called for "urgent and to support Yemeni counter-

terrorist capabilities, enhance aviation and border security, and strengthen coastguard operations. Yemen pledged in return to pursue reforms and initiate discussions with the IMF. An existing 10-point plan includes scrapping fuel subsidies and public sector jobs. "We look to Yemen to enact reforms to improve the lot of its people and reduce the influence of groups like al-Qaida," said Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state. "If conflict and violence go unaddressed they will undermine the political reform and reconciliation that are essential to Yemen's progress." David Miliband, the foreign secretary, said: "Yemen faces a crisis that could have implications for the people of Yemen and the whole region." Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, Yemen's foreign minister, said: "We want to implement our national reform programme, combat terrorism and create an environment that will help us find political solutions through dialogue." Saudi Arabia, seen by the US and Britain as the key to support of its southern neighbour, agreed to host a follow-up conference

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next month to look at "the barriers to effective aid" – diplomatic code for the Sana'a government's shortcomings in terms of capacity, corruption and lack of transparency. An international conference on Yemen in 2006 pledged $5bn (£3bn) in aid, but only 7% of that was spent. "The money is there but we need a mechanism to ensure it reaches ordinary people," a Gulf diplomat said. Rising international concerns about instability in the Arab world's poorest country were underlined by the participation of the G8 countries, the EU and UN. The delegates were in London to attend Thursday's Afghanistan conference. References in the statement to Yemen's sovereignty and independence reflected nervousness in Sana'a at charges by the opposition and Islamists that the west is dictating terms. Yemen is keen to emphasise that it can fight al-Qaida by itself and will not tolerate the presence of any foreign forces. President Barack Obama has insisted he will not put American "boots on the ground". Saudi Arabia and the five other

members of the Gulf Cooperation Council will join a new "friends of Yemen" group to monitor the country's security, economic and development issues. No new financial pledges were made. Also in Yemen In Sana'a, a Yemeni official announced the building of an $11m US-funded rehabilitation centre for returning Guantánamo detainees. There are 91 Yemenis left in the prison. Washington suspended transfers to Yemen this month because of the security situation. The US wants Yemen to emulate Saudi Arabia, which has rehabilitated former jihadis by combining religious re -education with material and social benefits. • Yemen • Foreign policy Ian Black guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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Talk to Taliban for peace, says Afghan envoy By Simon Tisdall, Julian Borger (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

"If we are going to bring conflicts like Afghanistan to an end … that means some pretty unsavoury characters are going to have to be brought within the Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:40:53 PM system," Sedwill said, at • Nato representative says Karzai L o n d o n ' s F r o n t l i n e C l u b . must widen scope "Because if you don't bring them • 'Unsavoury characters' need to within the system in some way be involved … you risk whatever fragile N a t o ' s n e w t o p c i v i l i a n peace you build falling apart." representative in Afghanistan has Sedwill, named yesterday as warned that a lasting peace will N a t o ' s s p e c i a l c i v i l i a n require talking to some "pretty representative in Kabul, said unsavoury characters" with refusing to deal with Taliban appalling human rights records, leaders because of their past and bringing them within the would be hypocritical when there Afghan political system. were warlords responsible for Mark Sedwill, who was – until " a p p a l l i n g a b u s e s " i n t h e yesterday – Britain's ambassador government camp. It is just to Kabul, was speaking before worth remembering that when tomorrow's London conference, we talk about reconciliation with at which much of the focus will the Taliban. We have got to be be on the signals President c a r e f u l n o t t o b e m a k i n g Hamid Karzai sends to the hypocritical moral judgements Taliban in his opening remarks. a n d s a y i n g o n e g r o u p a r e The Afghan leader is expected absolutely beyond the pale to deal principally with a plan to b e c a u s e o f t h e w a y t h e y reintegrate Taliban footsoldiers conducted themselves while through internationally funded another group of people are in d e v e l o p m e n t p r o j e c t s , b u t the tent despite the way they Karzai's speech will also be conducted themselves." keenly watched for any peace Speaking to the Guardian on the overtures towards the leadership eve of the conference, Shah of the insurgency. British and US Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan's officials say any serious talk of foreign minister, said Pakistan reconciliation with Taliban was uniquely placed to help talks leaders is premature but Sedwill between the western alliance and said that ultimately such "hard the Taliban. choices" have to be made. "Pakistan is perhaps better

placed than any other country in the world to support Afghan reintegration and reconciliation. Why? We speak the same language, we have common tribes, a common religion, we have a commonality of history, culture and tradition," he said. "But it [Pakistani mediation] depends on whether we are asked to do so. If asked, the government of Pakistan would be happy to facilitate." Yesterday, in what was widely seen as an attempt to raise the incentives for defection or peace negotiations, and on President Karzai's request, the UN removed the names of five former Taliban officials who have left the insurgency from a sanctions list that subjected them to travel bans and the freezing of their assets. The US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, welcomed the move yesterday, calling it "a long overdue step". "That list … should be reexamined and scrubbed down. There are people on it who are dead. There are people on it who shouldn't be on it," Holbrooke said. The prospect of a deal being made with Taliban commanders has alarmed Afghan human rights groups and women's organisations, who are concerned that the gains since the fall of

Taliban could be negotiated away behind closed doors. Shinkai Karokhail, a woman MP from Kabul, said yesterday: "We really fear that this could happen in secret dialogue or contacts. We have met President Karzai and he has verbally promised us that those who do not respect the constitution will not be part of our government. Still, we want an international guarantee the government will not make these deals in secret." Holbrooke said women's rights would be one of the international community's "red lines" in any future peace negotiations with the Taliban. He also played down the prospect of imminent talks with the Taliban leadership, saying the focus of the Lancaster House conference would be the Taliban rank and file who, Holbrooke argued, were mostly not driven by the ideology of Taliban or al-Qaida leaders. • Afghanistan • Taliban • Nato • Hamid Karzai Simon Tisdall Julian Borger guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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Reintegration will be high on the London agenda – the attempt to persuade insurgents to lay down their weapons. But but that might be hard for some to swallow, not least the US soldiers nearly cut down by a bomb this week. • Afghanistan • Taliban • United States Jon Boone guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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Morrisons appoints Irishman Dalton Philips as new chief executive

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There will be others on which they disagree. Those disagreements run inside By Zoe Wood (World news founder Sir Ken Morrison. said. "He was born in Ireland, countries and civilisations, not and comment from the Investors will be keen to learn if but has spent most of his life merely between them. Some Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Morrisons' highly regarded working outside the UK and that Chinese wholeheartedly agree f i n a n c e d i r e c t o r , R i c h a r d shows he is able to work with all with Google; others with Li Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:28:14 PM Changchun. Some Americans Pennycook, who was on the kinds of people." N e w m a n a t t h e t o p o f short list for the job, will remain Before joining Loblaw Philips agree with Google and Clinton; Morrisons is relative unknown in committed. However, insiders ran another Weston business, others -(especially in what they UK said Pennycook's response had upmarket Irish chain Brown do as businesses, rather than Morrisons has appointed the been "pragmatic". Thomas. He has worked in 10 what they say on Sundays) with c h i e f o p e r a t i n g o f f i c e r o f Clive Black, a Shore Capital countries in a career that includes Huntington and Yahoo. Both Canada's largest retailer, Loblaw, analyst, said Philips was a "new a seven-year stint at Wal-Mart, t e n d e n c i e s a r e s t r o n g l y as the new chief executive of face" adding: "The decision to go latterly as chief operating officer represented here at the annual meeting of the World Economic B r i t a i n ' s f o u r t h - l a r g e s t outside these shores may reflect in Germany. supermarket chain. the exceptionally good skills of Gibson said he was "delighted" Forum in Davos, which would Dalton Philips, who is the son of Mr Philips and/or a lack of w i t h P h i l i p s ' a p p o i n t m e n t therefore be a good place to start. Bring on that debate. And a County Wicklow egg farmer, enthusiasm of others to apply for adding: "He has a tremendous broaden it out, please, beyond will succeed Marc Bolland in the job." retail pedigree and a wealth of M a r c h . H e h a s p r e v i o u s l y The Morrisons job is Philips's experience from senior retail the old cold war west and its worked at Wal-Mart, the owner first major chief executive role. positions around the world." traditional allies. There is a serious conversation to be had of Asda. The 41-year-old, who has a • Morrisons about what the limits to global The choice surprised analysts as degree from University College • Marc Bolland information freedom should be. Philips had not been previously Dublin and an MBA from • Supermarkets But one has to ask why linked to the job and is relatively H a r v a r d , h a s b e e n c h i e f • Ireland authoritarian rulers are so unknown in the British retail operating officer of Loblaw since • Canada reluctant to step out and have world. January 2007. The group is part • Asda this debate openly. If they think However Allan Leighton, the of the Weston family's global • Wal-Mart their system is better, why not f o r m e r A s d a b o s s w h o i s business empire and, with 1,000 make the case for it? Otherwise president and deputy chairman of stores and sales of £18bn, is one Zoe Wood Loblaw, is likely to have had a of Canada's largest retailers. guardian.co.uk© Guardian even their own citizens and hand in the appointment. L e i g h t o n s a i d P h i l i p s ' s News & Media Limited 2010 | netizens are bound to be left with Leighton shared the boardroom appointment was "good for him Use of this content is subject to the feeling that their rulers fear with Morrisons' current chairman and good for them". "Dalton is our Terms & Conditions| More the light. The only premise we Googlista Sir Ian Gibson during his tenure v e r y s m a r t , r e l i a b l e a n d Feeds liberal universalists cannot at Asda and is good friends with operationally very strong," he accept is that this debate is itself,

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in principle, illegitimate because the legitimate limits to information freedom are wherever the rulers of a given state at a given time say they are. But that is precisely what the world's most powerful opponents of global free speech want to claim. So the argument we first have to win is about whether we should be having this argument at all. It may prove the most difficult. • Censorship • Internet • China • Privacy • Hillary Clinton • Google • Privacy & the media • Intellectual property • Digital media • Privacy and the net Timothy Garton Ash guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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Obama to Announce Major High-Speed Rail Initiative in State of the Union By Cliff Kuang (Fast Company) Submitted at 1/27/2010 3:44:50 PM

The white whale of mass-transit advocates will be a centerpiece of the jobs-creation package to be announced tonight. Big news for urban planners and mass-transit fans: Tonight, President Obama will announce an $8 billion "downpayment" to build high-speed rail linkages in 13 areas, across 30 states. The plan is meant to be a centerpiece of his new focus on jobs creation; it'll be sold as a way to create thousands of jobs. Those funds were part of the original $787 billion stimulus package, but the HSR funds haven't begun to flow just yet, as the Federal government mulled what states would get funding. Why now? The news comes on the heels of news that the $20 billion of funds in the last stimulus package appears not to have created jobs, even though

they took high priority. Masstransit advocates have attempted an explanation. As Autopia reports: According to [Smart Growth America], public transportation spending leads more directly to job growth than highway spending for several reasons. First, less money is spent acquiring land, which means more money is spent

actually building something. Second, all those buses, trains and subways need people to operate them and maintain the infrastructure. And third, public transit requires a workforce with more diverse skills than highway construction. Even better, Schroeer said, public transit can help savejobs because it allows people to get to

work--and those are jobs Smart Growth America didn't include in its analysis. When transit programs are cut or don't exist to begin with, "there's a negative impact on folks' mobility to get to work, to get to education," Schroeer said. "It's part of the fabric of communities, whether you use it or not." Of course, $8 billion is a

piddling sum compared to the hundreds of billions that a highspeed rail network would eventually require. So "down payment" is really the operative word--the hope, presumably, being that with the government kicking in the initial sums, states will then have added momentum to sell bonds that will sustain the HSR programs. When the stimulus passed, extensive rail projects were squashed because they were seen as not "shovel ready," and thus unlikely to influences jobs in the near term. But mass-transit advocates say there are far more projects that could be close to groundbreaking than has commonly been assumed, including in Florida and California. [Via Washington Post. Image by OiMax]

iPad vs. iPhone: what does 3G cost you? By Chris Ziegler (Engadget) Submitted at 1/27/2010 3:25:00 PM

With the announcement that the iPad would continue Apple's often-rocky relationship with AT&T to serve up wide-area data, we wanted to know: exactly

what does an iPad cost you over the course of a couple years? Granted, the iPad doesn't support voice calling -- nor does it require a contract, unlike the iPhone-- but for anyone who uses an iPhone primarily for browsing and gaming, this could

make for a serviceable alternative that saves money over

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McGraw-Hill CEO Lets Slip New Apple Tablet Details By Courtney Rubin (Inc.com) Submitted at 1/27/2010 7:17:00 AM

Terry McGraw, get thee to media training! Speaking to CNBC Tuesday night, the McGraw-Hill Companies CEO appeared to let slip several new pieces of information about the highly-anticipated Apple tablet. He confirmed the device would be based on the iPhone operating system, and that it would double as e-book. (And – though the tablet is arguably the worst-kept secret in technology history – he confirmed the launch of the tablet itself. Apple's invitation coyly says only "come see our latest product," but when CNBC's Erin Burnett asked him whether McGraw-Hill would make its textbooks available on the tablet, McGraw responded: "They'll make their announcement tomorrow.") McGraw was being interviewed about the company's fourthquarter results when he seemed to break Apple's notorious omerta. (To see a video click here– it's about minute 2:50). Asked by Burnett about McGraw-Hill's links with Apple, he said: "Yeah, very exciting. Yes, they'll make their announcement tomorrow on this one." So far, so anodyne. Then he went on to say: "We have worked with Apple for quite a while – the tablet is going

Chasing Value: Ross Stores Discounting More Than Fashion By Sheldon Liber (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 1/27/2010 3:20:00 PM

to be based on the iPhone operating system, and so it will be transferrable. So what you're going to be able to do now... we have a consortium of e-books – we have 95 percent of all our materials that are in e-book format on that one – so with the tabloid you're going to open up the higher education market, the professional market. The tabloid, the tablet is going to be just really terrific." (At least he didn't let the name slip, calling it both a "tabloid" and a "tablet.") If it was a flat-out gaffe and not part of the campaign to build buzz, then Apple founder Steve Jobs – he of the flamethrower-

Filed under: Management, WalMart (WMT), Sears Holdings (SHLD), Wells Fargo (WFC), Chasing Value, Stocks to Buy, AOL (AOL) If I was making my 2010 picks list today, I might have found a spot for Ross Stores ( ROST), the holding company for Ross Dress for Less. Analysts have a hold or market perform rating on the stock, but that is meaningless to me. What does have meaning is 20% sales growth in a dismal year, contributing to a PEG ratio of .75 and an under market P/E of 12.66 (averaging trailing and future figures). These are very good numbers, however, in reviewing some of the data points with Raphael P., a helpful broker in the Pleasant

like temper – isn't likely to be thrilled that a content partner has put a crack in the tablet secret code. Jobs calls himself a"big bang guy"– building anticipation to feverish levels as part of the marketing game. Other people unlikely to be happy about McGraw's comments: executives at Amazon and Sony, who make their own e-book gadgets. Industry experts speculate that sales of the monochrome, button By Tom Krazit -operated Kindle and reading (Webware.com) devices like it will plummet Submitted at 1/26/2010 4:15:00 PM following Apple's expected launch of a touch-screen, full A rollover-activated pop-up window within Yahoo's home color tablet.

Hill, CA Wells Fargo ( WFC) office, I was reminded that different financial sites have varying numbers. They usually vary by small fractions, as did the Wells data compared to the Aol ( AOL) Money and Finance site, so I would encourage investors to check multiple sources. Continue reading Chasing Value: Ross Stores Discounting More Than Fashion Chasing Value: Ross Stores Discounting More Than Fashion originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Carlos Slim, Mexico's $59 Billion Man, to Build Crazy Art Museum By Cliff Kuang (Fast Company)

has been stretched and twisted so that it soars 150 feet into the sky, its curving upper contours Submitted at 1/27/2010 3:38:30 PM reminiscent of the bow of a ship. T h e s p h i n x - l i k e t e l e c o m The design is at once whimsical magnate is building a wildly and structurally daring...The futuristic art museum, designed entire project was designed by by his son-in-law. someone very close to Slim: his Carlos Slim, the Sphinx-like son-in-law Fernando Romero, Mexican telecom baron who also 38, who before setting up his owns a huge chunk of The New own practice in Mexico City York Times, seems studiously worked for four years with the plain. But it looks like he's ready O f f i c e f o r M e t r o p o l i t a n t o s t e p u p t h e f l a s h . A s Architecture under Pritzker Prize B l o o m b e r g r e p o r t s , t h e - winning architect and urbanist billionaire is erecting a wildly Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam. futuristic building that'll be both What a great in-law to have, if a n a r t m u s e u m a n d t h e you're an architect. headquarters for his company, At a rumored cost of $34 G r u p o C a r s o : I m a g i n e a million, the design itself is a bit gleaming aluminum cube that of an engineering miracle, and

guy whose employees still call him "The Engineer." Certainly, the look doesn't seem to be his thing: Slim's 66,000-piece art collection, while excellent, is about as straight laced as the man himself. Its crowning feature is a huge assortment of Rodins--the largest outside of France--and old masters dating back to the 15th century. Then again, what's $34 million to Slim? Probably just a nice little dowry, to get his son-in-law up required the combined expertise practice. The facade is comprised and running. Or maybe he's of Arup, which engineering the of 16,000 individual aluminum facing a 3/4 life crisis. Bird's Nest stadium in Beijin, plates, hung from 28 columns, [ Bloomberg via Core 77] and Gehry Technologies, the all of them shaped differently. engineering firm spun off from All of which had to have been Frank Gehry's architecture appealing to Slim, a numbers

Hey Kids! Who Wants to Be the Next Bruce Ratner? By William Bostwick (Fast Company)

plants, and other urban icons. Apparently, the rules state you don't need to own all the streets Submitted at 1/27/2010 3:55:41 PM on one block to start building Hasbro releases Monopoly: City there--eminent domain, I guess. Edition to train future real estate You can also build "hazards" moguls in eminent domain, (like trash dumps) next to your property devaluation, and rent opponents' residential properties dodging. to devalue them. Sounds like fun What do you get the next Monopoly is one of the most generation's up-and-coming widely-played game on earth: Bruce Ratners? How about 480 million people have played it Monopoly: City Edition. Just since it was invented in 1935. released, the game scraps houses There are Monopoly editions for and hotels for industrial parks, almost every country--and city skyscrapers, stadiums, power editions for their capitals--from

China to Caracas. (Cuba had an edition too, until Fidel Castro supposedly ordered all Monopoly games destroyed.) 2008's World Edition had

squares for 20 international cities picked in a global vote by Monopoly players. My favorite, though, will always be Star Wars Monopoly. Dot-

Com Monopoly("I'll trade you AskJeeves for AltaVista") from 2000 is runner-up. The worst? Michael Graves and Target's 2006 special edition: it came in a wacky, plastic capsule; the center of the board was a dizzying reflective hologram; and best of all Boardwalk was misspelled " Broadwalk." But hey, at least it's trash-heap-free. [Via Media Bistro]

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Apple's iPad Name Not the First Choice for Women. Period. By Alissa Walker (Fast Company)

the Maxi-Pad?" "I'm holding out for the iRag." Seconds after the name was Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:16:47 PM announced social networks lit up "Is it that time of the month with not-so-fresh one-liners from again?" both men and women (a CNBC " I t s o u n d s l i k e a s a n i t a r y anchor mentioned her very napkin." candid thoughts on-air). About "Will the next version have a n hour after the wings?" announcement#iTampon was a Of all the names that Apple had trending topic on Twitter. r e p o r t e d l y s e c u r e d - - A p p l e But it was the females in the Tablet, iTablet, Magic Slate, crowd who read more into iSlate--I think it's safe to say that Apple's menstrual pun. They no one truly believed that Apple seemed to think Apple's name would name their newest product was indicative of a male-helmed the iPad. Especially women. team oblivious to the fact that "So will the 64GB one be called t h e y w e r e p u s h i n g a n

insensitively-named product. "Surely no women were involved in naming it the iPad" was a widely-reTweeted sentiment. Another: "iPad: Proof not

Berkshire Hathaway Class B to Be Added to S&P 500 By Brent Archer (BloggingStocks)

has hit a low of $70.82 and a high of $73.28. As of 12:00, BRK.B is trading at $71.08 up Submitted at 1/27/2010 3:40:00 PM $3.09 (4.5%). The chart for Filed under: Major Movement, BRK.B looks bullish. Good news, Berkshire Hathaway Continue reading Berkshire (BRK.A), Options, Technical Hathaway Class B to Be Added Analysis, S and P 500 Berkshire to S&P 500 Hathaway Class B ( BRK.B- be added to the S&P 100. If you Berkshire Hathaway Class B to option chain) shares are are on think that the stock won't fall by Be Added to S&P 500 originally the move today after Standard & too much in the coming months, appeared on BloggingStocks on Poor's announced that the stock then now could be a good time to Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:40:00 EST. will be added to its benchmark look at a bullish hedged trade on Please see our terms for use of S & P 5 0 0 i n d e x , r e p l a c i n g BRK.B, which is now possible feeds. Permalink| Email this| Burlington Northern Santa with the recent 50:1 stock split. Comments Fe(BNI), which will be acquired BRK.B opened this morning at by Berkshire. BRK.B will also $73.28. So far today the stock

enough women work in the Apple Naming Department." Another call issued from the Twitterverse begged Jobs and Apple to direct all the newfound

attention to sanitary napkins towards initiatives like a UNICEF program which provides affordable menstruation products to women in developing nations. Kimberly-Clark is currently delivering feminine hygiene products to Haiti. If Apple really wanted to tap the female market they should have taken a cue from this MadTV spot from 2007 which predicted some other extremely useful features not offered on today's debut: Does Jobs' iPad have a vaginal firewall? I think not.

Nokia updates N97 with free Ovi Maps, just as promised By Richard Lai (Engadget) Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:07:00 PM

It was only a week ago when Nokia shook us with its free turn -by-turn navigation update, but the poor old N97 got left out in the cold. Not any more though, folks! In fact, the new Ovi Maps for N97 -- along with "improved touch screen scrolling" and "improved memory and battery performance" -- was delivered one day earlier than promised. Thanks, Nokia, but don't forget your N900 fans, too. [Thanks,@old_no_7uk]

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Review of the Boogie Board Paperless LCD Writing Tablet By Tablet (BestTabletReview.com)

a letter sized sheet of paper, Improv Electronics is working Submitted at 1/26/2010 6:24:47 PM on a larger legal pad size with Happy Tablet Eve from the recording capability. They are focused on bringing this product Boogie Board The Boogie Board Paperless into the school system and have L C D W r i t i n g T a b l e t w a s it replace traditional legal pad a n n o u n c e d b y I m p r o v and five subject notebooks. To Electronics on Friday. In case facilitate this, they are working you’re unfamiliar with it, the to include clear templates that Boogie Board is a monochrome would help students practice LCD screen that has resistive their handwriting and number pressure sensitivity which allows skills and even exploring a you to write on the screen as if it B o o g i e B o a r d t h a t w o u l d were paper. When you’re done recognize handwriting and simply press the erase button and convert it to text. Their goals are extremely it clears the screen within a admirable and, after playing with second or two. Think of it as an the Boogie Board for a while, we electronic Magna Doodle or dry erase board that costs a very feel quite achievable. Now on to the review. reasonable $30. We already know the Boogie Packaging Board is popular — it sold out in The packaging for the Boogie America within hours and Board is compact and simple. It worldwide in two days ( Improv has a fold out flab that allows Electronics says they’ll have you to see the entire board and more in stock early next month). t e s t i t y o u r s e l f w i t h y o u r So far most internet criticism fingernail. There is a cut in surrounds the lack of any showing the stainless steel recordable method. While that’s telescoping stylus and plenty of true with this version of the information on potential uses Boogie Board, we contacted printed on the sides. Upon Improv Electronics and they said opening you will find the Boogie t h e y w e r e w o r k i n g o n a Board resting on a cardboard recordable version that uses a SD insert along with a screen wiper card to record and USB to c l o t h a n d i n s t r u c t i o n s . transfer to a computer. They Surprisingly there’s absolutely expect to have it for sale by the no plastic elements to any of the end of the year and estimate it packaging which means its very easy to toss into the paper will be around $50. While this version of the Boogie recycling bin once opened. Board is the size of a small Build Quality The Boogie Board is very notepad or the horizontal half of

compact and thin, especially the screen/writing surface which is only 1/8th of an inch thick. It’s surprisingly sturdy and despite being so thin, is mounted to a very rigid piece of plastic. You can bend it slightly when you try, but any thoughts of it being fragile or possibly snapped in half are forgotten as soon as you pick it up. The top part of the board (where its innards and erase button is found) is twice as thick, but again is made out of rigid plastic. It has a decent amount of weight — nothing heavy, but enough that makes it comfortable to your hand. Any lighter and there would be the worry of it possibly blowing away. The included stylus has a simple but sturdy build as well. It certainly isn’t bendy or fragile like the Archos 9 stylus. It’s 4.5 inches in compact form and 6.5 inches when expanded. It’s easy to write with and comfortable to hold. The only small criticism is that it could have a finer point to allow for smaller writing. Still, the stylus point is smaller than, say, a Nintendo DS stylus. Function The pressure sensitivity of the Boogie Board is apparent as soon as you start using it. You can easily draw small chicken scratch lines by lightly brushing the surface. Conversely you can draw fine, wide lines with firm pressure. Coloring in solid parts of green is easy and there is no

black parts if you go over it finely with a stylus. Still, size is an issue. After performing a few handwriting tests we estimate that you can legibly fit 70-100 words on the screen. That might be enough space for a short meeting or to scribble a few notes on, but the lack of saving a screen means you won’t have much use for this in a business environment. We imagine if you had a finer stylus point you could increase the word count to 100-130 but that’s still rather limited. Click for larger view The only thing that really bothered us is that the screen picks up pressure from your knuckles. As you can see in the photo, you will have slight hand marks when drawing if you place your hand on the tablet as if you were writing naturally. With a bit of practice we were able to minimize the marks or even hover our hand above the board, but it was hardly natural. Skin contact doesn’t register unless there’s pressure placed behind it. This is also true when using the cloth to clean the screen — and you will be using it to clean the screen. It doesn’t register fingerprints, but it does show smudges after repeated use. The erase button is simple and fast. The screen will flash a few times and clear itself in about a second. There is no removable battery or easy way to access the tablet’s internals, but considering

the battery will last for 50,000 clears we can’t imagine ever needing to. Some complained about that, but the truth is even with heavy use you’re looking a years of function from this device. How many $30 products can that be said for? What we’d like to see There’s no doubt that lacking an ability to record what you write on screen limits the device. We’re looking forward to the next version that allows that. With it, the Boogie Board could morph from fun little device to office or school necessity. What would be even better would be a way to access previous screens and display them again on the tablet. For instance, if you wanted to access the previous page, simply flick up on the screen and the previous screen appears as you last modified it. We think that would make this a fantastic, must-have gadget. You’re also continually conscious of the Boogie Board’s small size when writing. They are coming out with a legal pad size which would be just about perfect. Improv Electronics has received feedback from teachers that say the same thing. Finally, we don’t know if it’s possible with the current technology, but we’d like to see the sensitivity increased so writing hand ghosting is eliminated. REVIEW page 16

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Apple iPad Just Tried To Assassinate Laptops [Apple] By Joel Johnson (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/27/2010 3:41:59 PM

Only way to interpret the launch of the iPad? Apple has declared the PC dead. Well-crafted but closed devices are their future of consumer computing. And if no one else can match the iPad experience, they may be right. "In many ways this defines our vision, our sense of what's next." â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jonathan Ive PCs will be around as expert devices for the long haul, but it's clear that Apple, coasting on the deserved success of the iPhone, sees simple, closed internet devices as the future of computing. (Or at the very least, portable computing.) And for the average consumer, it could be. It's the "internet device" vision of a decade ago all over again, except now Apple can offer what is arguably the best user experience for internet and media consumption combined with a very reasonable (for a brand new gadget) price. It may not be good for you, because you're an internet dork who wants to do heavy video editing or run Photoshop. (Or, you know, multitask.) But for the average person off the street walking into a Best Buy, their laptop money may now be going to an iPad. What happens when they find the iPad is all they needed in the first place? They never buy a laptop again. In the meantime, here are a few

things to think about for we fulltime dorks. Does it kill netbooks? If there's anything that you can take home from today's announcement of the iPad it's this: from here on out the battle between physical keyboards and touchscreen ones has moved beyond smartphones and into every other area of computing. Get ready to hear someone say "I touchtype just fine on a soft keyboard on my PC" very soon. I'd be lying if I said the giant bezel doesn't ward me off a bit, even if I understand why it's necessary to be there. But it isn't

as sexy as it could be, all things considered. But a 1.5-pound device with a (theoretical) 10-hour battery life? Done and done. Heck, I'll haul two. Yet I will buy the dock! Perhaps, even if I am frustrated to no end that they are not simply supporting the Bluetooth keyboard. But I suppose that is thatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this really is what Apple imagines the future of laptops to be. Belay that! A couple of you have pointed out that the Bluetooth keyboard is in fact supported! I am a'flutter.

But it's a lot more likely I'll carry around an iPad than a netbook. What about the add-on keyboard, though? I sort of love it, but it is so very un-Apple to have a keyboard attachment. And all the dongles. And only a VGA output, not DisplayPort! It seems like the iPad came from an alternate dimension. Productivity If typing on the iPad's soft keyboard is even slightly faster or more comfortable than typing on an iPhone, they could have a productivity winner here. But I sort of doubt it's going to be comfortable enough to use for

hours of typing at a time. For emailing, attachment browsing, and the like, though, I think it'll be a pretty powerful little device. Its form factor is perfect for pulling out of a little executive bag to check mail or show off a PDF to a coworker. The new cloud-based iWork looks amusing, but who really wants to switch from Office to iWork? Email and other webbased tech is still the most portable solution. On the other hand, a functional iWork is what convinces your CTO that you can use the iPad to display Powerpoints. Screen Aspect Ratio There was never going to be a perfect size, especially since movies are widescreen, but a single page of a magazine or book is decidedly not. Yet the aspect ratio, which is something close to 4:3 (if not exactly), surrounds widescreen movies with a lot of black, especially when you include the bezel. I would expect future iPad models to lengthen ever so slightly, but not much. 3G Access 250MB for $15 a month; unlimited for $30. No contracts. Unlocked SIM slot. Completely reasonable. Of course, it uses AT&T, so if you're in NYC or San Francisco you're screwed. But it also means you could switch in other carriers' SIM cards if you like. APPLE page 19

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The wait is over. The Apple iPad is finally here. By Tablet (BestTabletReview.com) Submitted at 1/27/2010 11:39:08 AM

Steve Jobs introduces the Apple iPad Can you think of a more hyped or anticipated media event? But it’s officially come and gone. Here’s the details. The Apple iPad is what we expected it to be — a large capacitive multitouch 9.7-inch 1024×768 resolution screened iPhone. It uses the same iPhone OS and applications, features speedy internet browsing through WiFi and 3G connection (provided by AT&T), a large virtual QWERTY onscreen keyboard, photo browser, video and music player and eBook reader. However, that means that there’s no innovative screen technology (just an IPS display) which will exclude the iPad from being a top eReader. That also means there’s not Flash support through it’s embedded Safari browser. The larger size places a significant frame around the screen that looks very un-Applelike. There’s also no camera in the device which is disappointing. The iPad is half and inch thick and weight 1.5 pounds (that’s pretty heavy, actually). It’s powered by an Apple 1GHz A4 chipset and 16GB, 32GB and

Conclusion The Boogie Board Paperless 64GB options for internal (uncharacteristically so) to not glorified MID device. While LCD Writing Tablet is a huge storage. The battery provides an block it. that’s exactly what some people s t e p i n a v e r y i n t e r e s t i n g excellent 10 hours of full-use The inclusion of iWork on the wanted, it’s not enough to get us direction. If you do any type of battery life. It also features WiFi iPad is something that is much overly excited. We can’t believe doodling or find yourself always 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1 needed. While we don’t think the they didn’t fix the multitasking reaching for the nearest pad to (whew!) as well as 3G through iPad offers nearly enough issue. That seems like a no- scribble down a quick idea then AT&T. While that may come as versatility to be a productive brainer. It certainly is smooth this is a very easy purchase. We a surprise to some, the AT&T computer device for a business and has the processing power to even gave it to a three year old to 3G offers a no-contract month-to professional, at least the iWork play HD videos and surf quickly, test for a while and it kept her -month rate that starts at $14.99 apps gives the ability to perform but everyone expected Apple to thoroughly entertained for a solid twenty minutes. For a parent, for 250GB and $29.99 for basic skills. Apple reworked the turn out a quality device. unlimited per month. The iPad entire OS to make it touch Still, if you don’t care about 3G those 20 minutes would be worth will also come unlocked. compatible. You can access then you have a very affordable the $30 all by itself. If you’re All of the current iPhone apps elements by touching them and product on your hands. The iPad looking at the Boogie Board for can be used on the iPad — either getting a drop-down menu to will certainly be a better product a more official capacity, wait at their native resolution (which make changes. Each iWork app than the Archos 9 and Camangi until the recordable version. Still, looks like a peephole) or by is only $9.99. WebStation(prices at $549 and at such a low price point, it’s fun doubling the resolution to fill the The non-3G 16GB version of $399 respectively) and, at a to just have around. Leave a screen. Apple calls this “pixel the iPad will run $499, 32GB for starting price of $499, sits right Reply doubling” which is basically $599 and 64GB for $699 while in the middle of affordability. Five Filters featured article: what Photoshop does when you the 3G enabled iPads will cost The 3G will cost you a lot of Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: view an image at 200%. Jobs you an additional $130 for each dough however, especially if you PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, also introduced iBooks — an version. That puts the iPad back go with top model. That’s Term Extraction. iTunes for eBooks — that will in the pricing structure we had spending $1,200 in the first year sell ePub format that you’re able predicted ($699-$899 was our on a tablet. The good news is to read on the iPad. For many guess). Just remember, that’s A p p l e r e a l l y l a i d o u t a eBook readers, however, having $829 for the 64GB 3G enabled smorgasbord of iPad varieties so the iPad use a backlit LCD iPad and that’s not counting the the consumer could choose what screen will be a deal breaker. An additional carrier fee for access. they wanted and how much they interesting thing to add is, with Apple is also (smartly) making wanted to pay for it. Leave a the ability to run iPhone apps, three accessories: a standard Reply what’s to stop people from using dock to display the iPad as a Five Filters featured article: the Kindle or Barnes & Noble photo frame, a keyboard dock ( Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: app to read on the iPad? This one of our wished for items) and PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, would take revenue away from a case. The WiFi models will be Term Extraction. iBooks and give it to Amazon or shipping in 60 days and the 3G B&N while still letting you use enabled iPads will be shipping in Apple’s device. Either Apple 90 days. forgot about this or they decided Overall, it seems to be a

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The iPad: our take By Devin Coldewey (CrunchGear) Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:51:01 PM

Okay, so it exists. What do your favorite tech personalities, the CrunchGear team, have to say about Apple’s latest opus? Join us as we pass judgment on the device sight unseen — though of course more in-depth analysis is forthcoming. Devin: It’s a big iPod. That much is clear — it’s not really a tablet computer. Of course, the benefits of a giant iPod are manifest: you can check email easily, movies and shows will look nice (though not full HD), and the e-books looked great. But the fact is you’re limited by Apple in every way they can limit you. It’s got all the same fetters as an iPhone and has no expandable storage or USB port. Until you hack it to run Chrome OS, you’re going to be using this thing exactly the way Apple tells you to. It’ll be nice if that’s what you want, but it’s not the universal tablet I was hoping for. Nevertheless, I see every secretary and PA carrying one of these in a month. Matt: Sorry, Apple. I was going to buy it until I found that the iPad doesn’t have an SD card slot. You’ve failed me again. John: It will be definitely be something I’m getting but I’m worried that it will be just “one

more thing” to carry around. That I definitely DON’T need. Doug: It looks really cool, aesthetically, but the battery life and screen can’t replace my Kindle, the lack of USB ports and expandable storage can’t replace my netbook, and I already have an iPhone 3GS. So it’d basically be $500+ for a bigger screen, a slightly faster CPU, and an external keyboard that I’d never carry around with me. I might buy one in a year or two once they’ve gone through a couple revisions.

Dave: I see the iPad as a great little device. Not as a music player, but as a portable movie player and web browser. I also use my iPod Touch to tether my DLSR when I’m taking pictures – the iPad would be ideal for this use. Greg: I refused to let myself get hyped up about the slate, simply because we’ve seen time and time again that the rumor mill sets expectations impossibly high. Even with my expectations set rather low, however, I walked away disappointed.

I’m guessing some of the other guys will tear into Apple for not including an SD slot, so I’ll leave that topic alone; the absence of a camera, however, I can’t avoid touching on. Now, I don’t care about the camera for taking pictures, as there isn’t a single situation I can think of where I won’t have my dedicated camera or iPhone but I WILL have this big ol’ 10 beast. The sole reason I’m disappointed: it means no augmented reality. The iPhone has proven that AR is a concept worth playing with, but

it falls a bit short on that device due to screen size. The iPad could have ushered in a whole new type of gameplay, but not without a camera. As a developer, I’m excited about it. As a consumer, not so much. Nicholas: I mean, I already did a whole spiel on CNN(what?!) why the iPad is sorta “meh” in my eyes, but to recap: I simply don’t get it. It’s not an iPhone replacement because it’s not a phone (duh); it’s not an iPod touch replacement because it’s not portable; and I already have enough “real” computers that I don’t need a tablet. I understand I’m not Mr. Average Consumer, but the iPad seems to fill a void that I simply don’t need filled. Maybe as an e-reader, but that entirely depends upon the book selection, which isn’t clear right now. For now, though: meh. There you have it. We’ll have hands-on video soon and of course a review once we’ve gotten our hands on one and put it through its paces. In the meantime, what are your thoughts? Apple phoning it in? True on-lap computing? Expectations too high? Sound off.

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8 Things That Suck About the iPad [Apple] By Adam Frucci (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:10:18 PM

My god, am I underwhelmed by the iPad. This is as inessential a product as I've ever seen, but beyond that, it has some absolutely backbreaking failures that will make me judge anyone who buys one. Updated Big, Ugly Bezel Have you seen the bezel on this thing?! It's huge! I know you don't want to accidentally input a command when your thumb is holding it, but come on. No Multitasking This is a backbreaker. If this is supposed to be a replacement for netbooks, how can it possibly not have multitasking? Are you saying I can't listen to Pandora while writing a document? I can't have my Twitter app open at the same time as my browser? I can't have AIM open at the same time as my email? Are you kidding me? This alone guarantees that I will not buy this product. No Cameras No front facing camera is one thing. But no back facing camera either? Why the hell not? I can't imagine what the downside was for including at least one camera. Could this thing not handle video iChat?

Olympus teases mystery camera, new Micro Four Thirds? By Donald Melanson (Engadget) Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:27:00 PM

Well, there's not much to go on with this one, but Olympus has just put the above notice on its website, which teases a camera of.. some sort. Given the apparent form factor, however, some folks are speculating that it could be a new Micro Four Touch Keyboard The Name iPad If you want to plug anything into Thirds camera to complement S o m u c h f o r A p p l e Get ready for Maxi pad jokes, this, such as a digital camera, Olympus' PEN offerings, or revolutionizing tablet inputs; this and lots of 'em! you need all sorts of ugly possibly something along the is the same big, ugly touchscreen No Flash adapters. You need an adapter lines of Sigma's DP2 compact. Either way, it seems pretty likely keyboard we've seen on other No Flash is annoying but not a for USB for god's sake. tablets, and unless you're lying dealbreaker on the iPhone and Update: Why stop at 8? Here are that we'll be hearing more about on the couch with your knees iPod Touch. On something that's more things we are discovering it at PMA next month. Olympus teases mystery camera, propping it up, it'll be awkward supposed to be closer to a that suck about the iPad. new Micro Four Thirds? to use. netbook or laptop? It will leave It's Not Widescreen No HDMI/HD Video Out huge, gaping holes in websites. I Widescreen movies look lousy originally appeared on Engadget Want to watch those nice HD hope you don't care about on this thing thanks to its 4:3 on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:27:00 videos you downloaded from streaming video! God knows not screen, according to Blam, who EST. Please see our terms for iTunes on your TV? Too damned many casual internet users do. checked out some of Star Trek use of feeds. Permalink Slash bad! If you were truly loyal, Oh wait, nevermind, they all do. on one. It's like owning a 4:3 TV Gear| Olympus| Email this| Comments you'd just buy an AppleTV Adapters, Adapters, Adapters all over again! already. So much for those smooth lines.

Elevation invests in Yelp, up to $100 million By Caroline McCarthy (Webware.com)

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Apple iPad first hands-on! By Joshua Topolsky (Engadget)

something to be marveled at. It is blazingly fast from what we can tell. Webpages loaded up super Submitted at 1/27/2010 2:37:00 PM fast, and scrolling was without a Here it is folks, the Apple iPad. hiccup. Moving into and out of The screen is gorgeous, tilting is apps was a breeze. Everything responsive, and the thing is super flew. thin. Still, if you've used the • There's no multitasking at all. iPhone before -- and you can see It's a real disappointment. All the two devices side-by-side here this power and very little you can -- there's not a lot of surprises d o w i t h i t a t o n c e . N o here so far. Here are some initial multitasking means no streaming thoughts on the iPad: Pandora when you're working in • It's not light. It feels pretty Pages... you can figure it out. It's weighty in your hand. a real setback for this device. • The screen is stunning, and it's • The ebook implementation is 1024 x 768. Feels just like a about as close as you can get to huge iPhone in your hands. reading without a stack of bound • The speed of the CPU is paper in your hand. The visual

is out for you, folks!

stuff really helps flesh out the experience. It may be just for show, but it counts here. • No camera. None, nada. Zip. No video conferencing here folks. Hell, it doesn't have an

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And the free Wi-Fi access in an AT&T hotspot—presumably only if you've paid for some AT&T access—won't hurt. That the iPad is unlocked, though, also means that TMobile could potentially roll in with a 3G option for even less money. Pornography It's simple: You can hold something that weighs 1.5 pounds in one hand. Relaxation A few have mentioned how sitting down with an iPad may feel casual, less prone to send one into "work-mode". I can buy that—but that will also serve to delineate use-cases between laptops and iPads, making the iPad seem more like a toy. Reading

Don't call it a Kindle killer. Books on iPad will probably be more expensive than Kindle's titles, at least at first. And there's nothing about the iPad's screen that will make it better for reading than, say, a laptop. But having a dedicated iBooks store? That's good for everybody, including iPhone and iPod touch users. And for anything color—comics, children's books, magazines—the iPad will destroy what e-paper can do. Multitouch Here is the thing to know: When it comes to multitouch, consider the iPad the harbinger of all the interface tricks that will be coming to iMac and MacBooks

in the relatively near future. VoIP It has a microphone. There's no reason to think it won't be able to do VoIP. All in all, I think they've got a category-straddling winner here, but it's a bit of a gangly pseudopodal mutant at the same time. It doesn't kill the laptop or the PC quite yet, but you can at least see how Apple intends to choke the life out of those markets. Don't like that? Better get to work on a better tablet.

SMS app! • It's running iPhone OS 3.2. • The keyboard is good, not great. Not quite as responsive as it looked in the demos. • No Flash confirmed. So Hulu

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Oracle buys Sun, becomes hardware company Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:54:00 PM Oracle sues Rimini Street, After endless rumors and alleges 'massive theft' s p e c u l a t i o n , A p p l e f i n a l l y China: Law-abiding Android unveils its tablet. CNET reporter phones are OK Erica Ogg was on hand for the Police set up Olympics e-crime announcement in San Francisco teams and she details the device. Plus, PS3 has landed at Hong Kong Oracle's acquisition of Sun is airport n o w o f f i c i a l . L i s t e n n o w : Five Filters featured article: D o w n l o a d t o d a y ' s p o d c a s t Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Today's stories: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Apple's iPad: What you need to Term Extraction. know

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The Archos 7 Android Delta Electronics to use Bridgestone’s QR-LPD color screen Internet Tablet is on the way! tech in 13.1 inch eReader By Tablet (BestTabletReview.com)

we first talked it up. We even mentioned it as one of our four color screen technologies that Submitted at 1/27/2010 7:59:22 AM will be the future of tablet An early prototype of the 13.1- displays. Bridgestone’s screen is inch QR-LPD color eReader closer to E-Ink than most color Computer World broke a story screen technologies in that it uses early this morning about Delta bistable color powder instead of Electronics bringing two new electronic monochrome ink to eReaders to the market. One display text and graphics on a w o u l d b e a 8 . 1 - i n c h E P D screen. It’s capable of displaying touchscreen. The other would be 4,096 colors and uses the same a 13.1-inch color touchscreen p o w e r c o n s u m p t i o n a s a device that would finally bring traditional EPD screen (which is Bridgestone’s QR-LPD color to say very little). With that screen technology to the market. however comes a screen refresh We’ve been keen on QR-LPD (or “the flash”) commonly ( w h i c h s t a n d s f o r “ Q u i c k associated with E-Ink screens. Response – Liquid Powder The QR-LPD’s refresh is only Display”) technology ever since

0.8 seconds (the fastest on the market) but it’s still there. Delta is planning on selling the A4-sized 13.1-inch color eReader in the mid-part of this year and will bundle it with 3G and WiFi. There’s no price as of yet, but we see this as a huge step in the right direction and an eReader that would lend itself perfectly to digital magazine reading. Source: Computer World Leave a Reply Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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The Archos 7 Android Internet Tablet gets outed Archos has had a hit with the Archos 5 Internet Tablet and a disaster with the Archos 9 PC Tablet. It looks like they’ve hedged their bets and sought the middle ground now with the Archos 7 Android Internet Tablet. The Archos 7 will take its ques from its smaller relative — the Archos 5 — and be an Android functioning MID tablet. Form and function (except for the obviously larger 7-inch screen) will mirror the A5 and provide an option for consumers that wanted a larger device or thought that a 5-inch screen was too small. We are a little disappointed that Archos went with the same screen resolution

(800×480) as the A5. It seems like an excellent opportunity to upgrade to a 720p screen for true HD playback. The A7 will have a mic and front-facing webcam (yay, Skype!), measures 8 x 4.2 x 0.47 inches and weighs under 10.5 ounces. The UK site Data-Mind had the 8GB A7 Internet Tablet briefly listed for preorder at £ 149.99 but that page has now been removed. It’s supposed to hit shelves in March but there’s been no official listing or availability given for the U.S. market. Source: Archos Fan s via Slashgear and eBook Test Leave a Reply Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Olympus E-P3 Spied Behind Rudely-Placed Hand of Leaked Campaign [Cameras] By Kat Hannaford (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:00:15 PM

What a curious day for Olympus to launch a teaser campaign for

the E-P3. Their next micro four thirds camera has been glimpsed through a few fat fingers, but hey—at least we know it exists! All we can determine from the

few millimeters of surface area

seen behind that rudely-placed hand is that there'll be a flash hotshoe and it'll come in a nice steel-grey color. The Olympus site says "you can't hide

innovation," but evidently you can. [ Olympus Teaser via Electronista]

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Apple iPad's Myriad Optional Dongles: USB, SD, AC, BBQ [Apple] By Dan Nosowitz (Gizmodo)

The USB and SD adapters are billed as the "Camera Connection Kit," which may The iPad really is a giant mean they're sold together and iPhone—so much so that if you may also mean their features are w a n t t o g e t a l a p t o p - l i k e limited to importing photos and experience out of it, you'll need videos. From Apple: adapters to change the typical 30 The Camera Connection Kit -pin connector into USB, SD, or gives you two ways to import AC power. Correction: photos and videos from a digital In addition to the keyboard camera. The Camera Connector attachment, there will also be lets you import your photos and dongles, attaching to the 30-pin videos to iPad using the camera's dock connector, that give a USB USB cable. Or you can use the port and SD card slot. In terms of SD Card Reader to import charging, there's no built-in photos and videos directly from MagSafe connector or anything, the camera's SD card. so they'll also be shipping an Neither release date nor pricing iPod-to-AC cable as an optional has been revealed on these extra. Correction: The 10W USB accessories, but we'll let you -to-AC cable will be included in know as soon as we have them. [ the box, not an optional extra as I Official Page, Our Apple iPad wrote earlier, in the heat of the Coverage] battle (and Apple events are battles, at least for us). Submitted at 1/27/2010 3:29:50 PM

Apple has a solution for the iPad’s missing SD card slot and USB port: adapters By Matt Burns (CrunchGear) Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:16:56 PM

Don’t you worry about the iPad lacking an SD card slot and USB port. Apple has you covered with adapters! How nice of Lord Jobs. Instead of building in two industry standards, users are forced to buy extra items with their new iPad. It’s not like the these standards are large and would take away from the oh-soimportant design. But it really is ridiculous that the iPad doesn’t have an SD card slot built-in. USB port, fine. Apple is sticking with its massive dock connector, but an SD card slot — or microSD card slot — would actually open the iPad to some niche markets. Just think about photographers. The SD card slot would allow them to quickly and efficiently preview their shots on a large screen. The USB port would

even allow them to control some DSLRs directly from the iPad with the right app. But nope, can’t do it without an adapter. Even then, they would only be able to use one at a time because of the single dock connector. So it seems that the iPad is designed to milk every last penny out of buyers. You see, having a flush-mounted SD card

slot would allow consumers to get away with buying the 16GB model and increasing the storage themselves. That’s clearly not in Apple’s financial favor, but it’s not like anyone expected Apple to look out for the buyer anyway. This is a dealbreaker for me.

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iPad vs. iPhone... fight! By Paul Miller (Engadget) Submitted at 1/27/2010 2:36:00 PM

At last, the moment you've all

been waiting for! Two minimalistic slate-style devices, together at last. Check out our full hands-on for the rest of this holy war.

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Legal Fight Over Billboards About Trademarks On The Hotness Of Your Wife By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 1/27/2010 10:38:00 AM

iWork 2010 announced, will support iPad’s multi-touch controls (and your regular Mac, too) By Nicholas Deleon (CrunchGear)

Store. So, if you only want Keynote, if for no other reason than to makes a slide-show Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:30:39 PM presentation using your fingers, Another year, another release of then you’ll only be out $10. iLife. This time, though, with Of the three, Pages seems to full iPad support. Yes, Apple benefit the least from the multishowed off iLife 2010 at its big touch. Plain old text entry does press conference today, and the just fine with a keyboard. updates are about what you’d And yes, all three applications expect from the application suite: will be available for non-iPad incremental and filled with one Macs. or two things that make you say, We’re guessing the new iWork “Wow, neat.” That being the will be released alongside the multi-touch support. iPad, but hard info is a little hard The three applications that make to come by right now. Let the up iWork—Numbers, Pages, and dust settle for a little bit. By John Biggs (CrunchGear) Keynote—will be sold separately for $10 a pop on the iTunes Submitted at 1/27/2010 1:00:48 PM

This one's a bit old, but somewhat amusing. Chris Mikaitis alerted us to the story of an air conditioning company suing another air conditioning company for trademark infringement over competing billboards. Apparently, the first air conditioning company came up with a billboard advertising campaign that read, in large letters:"YOUR WIFE IS HOT -BETTER GET YOUR A/C FIXED." The competing company put up its own billboards, that read:"YOUR WIFE IS NOT HOT! Because you called All Year Cooling to replace your A/C rather than the other guys." This seems like a pretty amusing response. While the first company claims trademark infringement, suggesting confusion, it seems like perfectly reasonable competition. I'm reminded of a skeletonized face. You’ll notice a billboard that Informix put out a second’s hand, an AM/PM decade or so ago right in front of indicator, and a GMT hand front Oracle on the side of highway and center. It is 48mm wide and 101 in Silicon Valley reading "You just passed Oracle. So did limited to 30 pieces. I’m not amazed by this thing but we." It was amusing (if not I ’ m a m a z e d b y t h e p r i c e : particularly accurate), but as an 109,000 euros. Clearly we’re all advertising dig at a competitor, it seemed perfectly reasonable. in the wrong business. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

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iPad; however, what is the purpose of this device and will it succeed? When Apple dropped the Apple's Tablet, in a nutshell Newton line of palm-computing At first glance, the device does devices in the late '90s, many not look like much, and, as p e o p l e w e r e s e v e r e l y rumored, it basically resembles a disappointed. The project was large iPhone, complete with a abandoned by Apple, but die- home button and glass touch hard Newton fans hunkered screen. True to the style that has down and kept the systems going come to define Apple products, for years afterward. To give the device looks simple and wellcredit to Apple, the Newton built, with a rigid glass display MessagePad was designed well and a inch or so of bezel area enough so that even today it is around the display. The display still considered a viable option is a full capacitive multitouch b y s o m e p e o p l e . T h r o u g h panel, as was expected, but is Apple's ups and downs, there has also an LED-backlit IPS ( Inbeen speculation on whether or Plane Switching) display that has not Apple would revive the a great viewing angle. The back Newton, and while recently it is aluminum, and there are has been clear Apple's Newton various connectors on the sides days are over, the hope for the for power, sleep, and volume company to return to palm and controls. tablet computing devices had not On the inside, Apple has given faded. us a surprise. The device uses an Though the iPhone can be Apple-designed chip it is calling c o n s i d e r e d A p p l e ' s n e x t - the "A4," which runs at 1GHz generation MessagePad, after a n d i s u s e d f o r m a n a g i n g much speculation Apple's long- everything: processing, graphics, rumored entrance into tablet and I/O. The system has between computing has finally arrived. In 1 6 a n d 6 4 G B o f m e m o r y , the past few weeks the hype has contains Bluetooth and EDR ramped up all over the Web, with wireless connectivity, has a fake images, speculation based speaker, and microphone, and on domain name registrations, a l s o c o n t a i n s A p p l e ' s "leaked" advertisements, patent accelerometers, ambient light investigations, and comments sensors, and digital compass from various tech and media with assisted GPS technologies. CEOs, all of which have built There is a 30-pin connector for quite a stir around the latest a t t a c h i n g t h e d e v i c e t o "creation" from Apple. Today computers, but it also uses Apple has put the rumors to rest Bluetooth and Enhanced Data with the announcement of the Rate technologies for fast Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:31:00 PM

wireless access up to 3Mbps. The device has a powerful battery that gives up to 10 hours of usage, and nearly a month of standby time. Apple has not omitted the option for 3G connectivity. The system contains 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-fi options, but also can directly tap into UMTS/HSDPA and GSM/EDGE 3G wireless networks, and come unlocked and without any contract so if your wireless carrier uses a GSM micro SIM, it should "just work." Despite this, the capability to make phone calls does not appear to be available, but then again it is not a phone. The one missing feature in the iPad is an internal camera, but there may be ways to add one as an accessory, though Apple has not mentioned any support for this. In terms of software capability, similar to the iPhone, the device seems to be limited when it comes to multitasking. As for the price, despite rumors of Apple targeting around $1,000, it has been able to provide all of this in the range of $499 to $699, and we should start seeing them hitting store shelves in about two months. When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, he promoted it as an allin-one communications device for music, telecommunications, Web, and computing, and not just a phone that includes these other features. Given that the features of the iPad are similar to the iPhone's, Apple clearly

intends for this device to be used in a variety of areas to offer an all-in-one package for connectivity, computing, gaming, and any other task you might think of. The popularity of the iPhone has made it a raging success, and it, along with other "smart" devices, has shown Apple and other manufacturers that consumers are ready for a tablet. In order to create its tablet, Apple had to ride a wave of consumerreadiness and incorporated the technologies and approaches to computing that have come to define computing in the modern era. Apple leading the industry Over the years the computer industry has taken a variety of turns, with numerous trends and speculation on where technology will go. There have been dives into multiple GPUs, Netbooks, and solid-state storage, all of which have been beneficial, but none that offered anything unique. These advancements have helped the industry; however, they all essentially took the same existing concepts and made them faster. In contrast, Apple's contributions have been key steps forward in how we use our computers. â&#x20AC;˘ Bondi-blue iMac: Simplicity goes mainstream In large part, I would argue that this computer was the beginning of the modern era of computing. With one product Apple did away with the notion of computers being both

complex and difficult to assemble and use, and presented users with the first "Internet" Mac. It got rid of old ports and protocols, and thrust modern USB, Firewire, and Ethernet networking upon everyone (though they still kept modems). It also killed the notion that computers had to be in bland beige boxes, and made computing attractive to the average person. Once the iMac debuted, the race was on to add simplicity, along with style and luster to computing. â&#x20AC;˘ OS X: A slick and adaptable operating system The OS X operating system is by far the enabling factor behind all of Apple's breakthrough products. The system is built in a way that allows Apple to strip it down and customize it for a variety of applications. While we all know of it as the "Mac" OS, its foundation and supported technologies are also used in the iPhone, iPod Touch, and AppleTV. â&#x20AC;˘ iPod: Portable computing "in your pocket" Portable audio has been around for ages, and since the Sony Walkman there have been a variety of options. However, with the iPod, Apple not only introduced a simple and stylish media player, but also brought extreme portability to computing. In addition to playing music, it had options for APPLE'S page 25

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Apple on Wednesday finally unveiled its tablet computer, called the iPad, at an invite-only event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in downtown San Francisco. The device, which looks like a larger version of Apple's iPod Touch will be available in two to three months, and starts at $499. Read on to get a quick overview of everything that was announced, and why it matters. New hardware: The iPad Apple's CEO Steve Jobs introduces the iPad(Credit: James Martin/CNET) Proving rumors right, Apple unveiled the iPad, a device that looks akin to a large iPhone or iPod Touch. It sports a 9.7-inch LCD touch-screen display, which makes use of the same multitouch technology found on the iPhone, Apple's Magic Mouse, and its notebook trackpads. It also has the same in -plane switching display technology that made its debut in the latest crop of iMacs. Like the iPhone and iPod, it sports a finger-friendly OS with an on-screen QWERTY keyboard, and an accelerometer that can detect whether the device is in portrait or landscape mode. It has a 30-pin dock connector, built-in Wi-Fi, and a home button that jumps users back to the main screen of the OS. It also has a volume rocker

compatible with existing iPhone and iPod Touch applications. Apps with smaller screen resolutions are simply scaled up to fit. Apple is giving developers a way to modify their applications to work with both sets of hardware. Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrated the tablet running numerous first-party apps, including iTunes, a photo gallery, its Safari Web browser, iCal, e-mail, Google Maps, and YouTube. Many shared traits of what's been seen on the iPhone, just with more screen real-estate. This was most evident in Apple's Mail app, which now features a two-up panel display. According to Jobs, all of its apps were rewritten to fit natively on the bigger display. Several companies also demonstrated their new iPadand a mute button--just like the modem built in. iPad users who 1024x768 (the iPhone/iPod is optimized apps: Gameloft showed off a largeriPhone. want to make use of the 3G 480x320) resolution version of its hit firstAlong with a big screen, it's service, which is being offered It can playback 720p HD video, person shooter Nova, which will sporting a 1Ghz custom Apple by AT&T, can pick up one of though video output to external be out "later this year." chip (from its pick-up of PA two plans for that: $15 a month sources is limited to 480p. It has Semi back in 2008) and will for 250MB of data, or unlimited the same oleophobic coating that The New York Times demoed a come in 16, 32, and 64GB for $29.99 a month. made its debut on the iPhone tablet-friendly version of its app, capacities for $499, $599, and The iPad with just Wi-Fi will be 3GS. This helps face and finger which mimics the layout of $699, respectively. Apple says it shipping in the next 60 days, grease bead up and wipe off reading a newspaper in portrait mode, except with video links can get 10 hours of video, which with the 3G version in the next easier. that open up within an embedded is about four more than the iPod 90 days. Bigger apps Touch, and the same as the latest Other noteworthy specs: As for apps, the iPad's screen player. g e n e r a t i o n i P h o n e . T h i s The Wi-Fi antenna supports runs larger that what can be Brushes, a popular iPhone app, translates to "a month" of 802.11 a/b/g/n f o u n d o n A p p l e ' s s m a l l e r demoed the upcoming iPad standby time. The iPad weighs just 1.5 portable devices, which means version of its image editing Besides its different capacities, pounds. The version with 3G is developers have more screen real software, which now makes use the iPad will also be available in .1 pounds heavier. estate to work with. At the same APPLE'S page 27 models with a 3G wireless T h e s c r e e n r e s o l u t i o n i s time, the iPad is backwards

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storing notes, contacts, and calendars, and even included games. It also could be used to store personal files, and, through third-party hacks even be used to run Linux. Its popularity skyrocketed, and the race was on to get smaller, lighter, and more "in your pocket". • iPhone: Easy and customizable communication Another major advancement was communication. With broadband connectivity being readily available on a variety of network types (both public and private), the iPhone became the pinnacle of style, portability, and connectivity in computing. Finally you could have many of the benefits of Apple's other products rolled into one. • Gestures: A natural approach to input Along with the iPhone, Apple introduced the last major advancement in consumer computing: Gestures. Touchbased electronics have been around for ages, but in Apple's implementation touch has come to mean a lot more than "no buttons." Apple's incorporation of "Gestures" has taken advantage of how we naturally use things. Sure Microsoft and other companies have had "Magic Tables" and other large multitouch devices, but Apple

was the first to truly implement it appears to be one but really is into the computers and other not. devices we use on a daily basis. The biggest advancements have been in mobile smartphones, and Did Apple invent the particularly those that t e c h n o l o g i e s b e h i n d t h e s e incorporate touch. However, advancements? Absolutely not. u n t i l n o w t h e t o u c h However, it did make optimal implementations, even when use of them and did so in ways done well, have been rather that made them both last and limited. This is mainly because p r o p a g a t e t h r o u g h o u t t h e of the small areas that have been industry. The majority of Apple's available upon which to do them. advancements have seen a In Apple's products, the iPhone number of imitations crop up and MacBook trackpads are from other manufacturers, but q u i t e s m a l l f o r e l a b o r a t e Apple's solid implementations gestures, and to avoid potential have keep them ahead of the confusion Apple has avoided game. enabling numerous alternative So where does the iPad fit in? gestures. The large surface of the There have been a number of tablet takes touch and gestures to efforts at creating the next big a whole new level, and really thing, and while the idea of allows people to interact with the "smaller and lighter" has been an device using their whole hand. understood concept, numerous With the iPad, Apple has finally attempts at applying this to made an attempt to blend all the computers have been less than recent advancements in modern exciting. Miniature Netbooks are computing into one product. nothing new, and I would argue Being a larger platform with that the popularity of them just support for a variety of gestures, reflects the desire to go smaller the new iPad brings all the and lighter, but does not reflect computing benefits of the iPhone any attraction to the ingenuity in with similar portability. Granted the developments so far. Most it will not exactly fit in your Netbooks have basically been pocket, but it is still small stripped-down laptops, and while enough to easily travel anywhere their size and weight is nice, I'd with you. much prefer to carry around a As for what you can do, Apple larger laptop than work on what has added a slew of unique

features to the iPad. In addition to running all the applications available for iPhone, it has a whole new "iBooks" store for browsing and building a book library. Apple has apparently worked hard with Amazon to bring this functionality to the iPad. Apple's iWork suite has also been brought to the iPad, offering full integration with the iPad's photo features, and a new set of interfaces to make working with multitouch more intuitive and appealing. It appears the current options for this device are only the beginning, and we will see what the thing is truly capable of when third-party developers start revealing their applications for it. Questions? Comments? Post them below or e-mail us! Be sure to check us out on Twitter and the CNET Mac forums. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Forklift Fiasco Holds Up Haitian Aid By Vince Beiser (Wired Top Stories)

Vince Beiser reports on the difficulty getting the right kinds of heavy machinery to unload

planes loaded with supplies as infrastructure and the future of p a r t o f W i r e d ' s o n g o i n g Haiti. investigation into technology,

Official Apple iPad Demo [VIDEO] By Christina Warren (Mashable!) Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:33:23 PM

Even though the Apple iPad won’t be available for another 60 or 90 days (depending on the model), Apple already has its official iPad website up and running. In addition to showing off some of the applications, features and design and technical specifications, the website also features an eight-minute video with Apple’s design and development team discussing the device and showing it off. If you love Johnny Ive and wellproduced promo videos, you’ll want to check it out! You can watch the video over at Apple.com here, but we’ve also gone ahead and embedded it below: What do you think of the iPad? Does the video make you want to see it in person? Let us know! Tags: Apple Tablet, ipad, video

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Will Apple’s iPad Change Mobile Gaming? By Samuel Axon (Mashable!)

the style of games like Halo and Resistance: Fall of Man. The basics of the control scheme Apple made gaming a big part are similar to those of the iPhone of its iPad tablet announcement version. For example, an ontoday. That wasn’t a surprise; screen directional pad handles Apple has had its eye on the movement. But the tablet opens gaming market since it launched u p s o m e n e w m u l t i - t o u c h the App Store for the iPhone and possibilities on its larger screen iPod touch. as well. In N.O.V.A. you can The company announced that slide three fingers over a door to iPhone and iPod touch games open it, slide two fingers across will be playable on the device, the screen to toss a grenade or and it invited established iPhone draw a targeting box around an game developers Gameloft and enemy. Need for Speed Shift Electronic Arts on stage at its Electronic Arts’ Need for Speed iPad unveiling event to show off racing game series has appeared two games in development for on just about every gaming the device: N.O.V.A. and Need platform under the sun. The for Speed Shift. touch controls make the iPad Both demonstrations were put experience unique. You can tap together in just a couple of the inside of the car to zoom out weeks, but even this early they of a chase view and into a firstgive us some sense of what we person driver’s seat view. From can expect from Apple iPad there, you can actually use your games. Here are our impressions. finger to switch gears on the N.O.V.A. stick shift. Gameloft has already released a Graphics in this game look version of N.O.V.A. for the better than iPhone graphics, but iPhone; it’s a critically acclaimed they aren’t as good as what you hand-held first-person shooter in see on high-end PCs, the Xbox Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:53:27 PM

night talking about a FarmVille app for the iPad, but that actually sounds like something this device would be perfect for. Just like the Wii and the Nintendo DS — the two most popular pure gaming devices in the world today — the iPad will attract casual gamers who 360 or the PlayStation 3. They a p p r e c i a t e n e w w a y s o f look comparable in detail to interacting, even if they’re not Nintendo Wii games, but the the most precise. We don’t know screen resolution is 1024 x 768, how many units the iPad will so we’re assuming that many of move, though, and until we do the games are going to be high we won’t know if it will be definition. Will the iPad Succeed worth it to developers to go nuts as a Gaming Device? with this thing. We’ll have to see more games to Keep your eyes open and your know exactly what to expect, of ears to the ground, gamers; it’s at course, but innovation is likely. least going to be interesting. If it Multi-touch on a 10-inch screen does catch on, you’ll have a will open up new possibilities for whole new kind of console to interaction with games. play with.[img credit: GDGT and While 3D games were presented Engadget] at Apple’s unveiling for the iPad, Tags: app store, apple, Apple better graphics won’t drive tablet Tablet, bay bridge, electronic gaming. We expect that other arts, gameloft, ipad, iphone, kinds of games will make this nova, software, video games device shine. For example, tech industry bigwig and celeb Jason Calacanis posted fake tweets last

Tuesday Night Music: Ralph Towner (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 1/26/2010 7:45:29 PM

Acoustic/classical/jazz guitarist/pianist Ralph Towner in a beautiful performance of “Tale of Saverio,” from one of his best solo albums, Ana.[Video] Here’s an Amazon widget to hear more music from this e x c e l l e n t E C M recording.[Video]

New Animations Take You Flying Over Mars By Alexis Madrigal (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 1/27/2010 11:45:00 AM

Beautiful new renderings of NASA data let you fly over Martian geology.

Honda Sued For Trademark Infringement For Suggesting It Wants To Save The Earth By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 1/27/2010 9:17:00 AM

Be careful suggesting that you want to "save the earth." Automaker Honda just did that in an ad with a guy wearing a

"save the earth" t-shirt, and for doing so, it got slapped with a trademark infringement lawsuit from the Save the Earth Foundation, which apparently has a trademark on that phrase (and has had it since 1972). The

saving the earth. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story foundation claims that the ad was implying endorsement by the

foundation. I wonder if morons in a hurry have any interest in

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of the larger screen real estate to conceal large pop-up menus. MLB.com unveiled a tweaked version of its app that adds video highlights, team info, virtual baseball cards, and more onscreen overlays. Apple also introduced an updated version of its iWork software. It's the first version of the software to run on one of Apple's portable devices, and makes full use of the iPad's touch screen. This confirms a rumor from The New York Times earlier this month. Worth noting is that iWork will be offered as three separate apps, all of which will cost $10 apiece. Having Numbers, Keynote, and Sheets will run iPad users $30, as opposed to the $79 price tag for the desktop version. Book distribution Jobs unveiled a new content delivery system called iBooks (not to be confused with Apple's former laptop line, the iBook). The new app features a virtual bookshelf with content from all

five major publishers: Harper Collins, Hachette, Penguin, Simon and Shuster, and MacMilan. Just like iTunes, books are split up into what's popular and by genre. Users can preview the first few pages before purchasing, and downloaded books are sent directly to the user's virtual bookshelf. They can then be read in a similar manner to what's already been available with Amazon's Kindle app. Users can read their books in portrait or landscape mode, change the size of the test, and hop around using a persistent table of contents. Other tidbits Apple will be selling a dock that comes with a keyboard for the iPad.(Credit: Apple) 250,000,000 iPods have been sold since 2001. Apple has 248 retail stores that have seen 50 million visitors. The App Store now has more than 140,000 applications. The new OS borrows a few cues

Settlement Rejected in 'Shocking' RIAA File Sharing Verdict By David Kravets (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 1/27/2010 11:47:00 AM

The Recording Industry Association of America is demanding $25,000 from the nation's first file sharer to take an

RIAA lawsuit to trial. Jammie Thomas-Rasset is rejecting the offer to close the case, a move days after the trial judge reduced the verdict from $1.92 million to $54,000.

from Snow Leopard, including the capability to change background wallpapers, and a 3D-style dock. 125 million credit cards are already hooked up to the iTunes and App Store. Apple is selling a number of first-party accessories, including a dock with a full-sized keyboard, a camera connection kit that lets users import images from their SD cards, and a case that doubles as a stand. Apple has not announced pricing for any of these items. Below is just one of our live videos from the event. Also, be sure to check out our Live Blog, which has many more pictures and details. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Controversial Church’s Next Picketing Project: Twitter HQ By Samuel Axon (Mashable!) Submitted at 1/27/2010 1:29:51 PM

Reverend Fred Phelps’s Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket Twitter’s San Francisco offices tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. PST. The Kansas-based church is picketing because it believes that “the people who run Twitter … don’t use their position & voice to warn a generation of rebels of the consequences of their rebellion.” The church knows how to get attention. It has been hit with a tsunami of criticism for picketing military funerals and waving signs that say things like “God Hates Fags” while claiming that America deserves its military losses because of its sins. Westboro even runs a website at www.godhatesfags.com. Members will also be protesting several Jewish organizations — including the Anti-Defamation League — in the hours leading up to its visit to Twitter. The church members will be tweeting about the Twitter HQ picketing rally as it happens. Don’t be too quick to point out the irony on that. The Westboro schedule says: “Now that should get interesting, WBC member(s) Tweeting as they picket outside

Twitter, Inc. Won’t a black hole or something open in the space/time vortex?” Remember: The church is neither protesting Twitter itself nor decrying it as a tool of human communication. Rather, it’s picketing the HQ because the bigwigs at the company aren’t using their places of power and influence to spread the word about the sins Westboro believes people commit and their expected consequences. Presumably picketing Twitter will also get them some web and social media exposure. The old “all press is good press” idiom doesn’t apply in this case, though; the exposure they’re seeking will probably just draw more ire and lead to more marginalization. [via ReadWriteWeb] [ img credit: harbor88] Tags: protest, twitter, westboro baptist church

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iBooks: Apple Answers the Kindle with a Digital Bookshelf Like No Other By Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable!) Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:08:20 PM

There’s no doubt about it, Apple’s newly unveiled iPad is the ebook reader that will change the game, especially since it is directly attacking Amazon’s Kindle. And Steve Jobs wasn’t being coy about it, saying this morning: “Amazon’s done a great job of pioneering this functionality with the Kindle. We’re going to stand on their shoulders and go a little further.” Taking it further is a bit of an understatement. iBooks is Apple’s brand new native application that enables users to discover, browse and download ebooks right from the Apple iPad. iBooks is backed by bigtime launch partners Penguin, Simon and Schuster, HarperCollins, Macmillian and Hachette, all publishing powerhouses in their own rights (notice that McGraw-Hill is not on the list). iBooks offers an impressively beautiful book reading

experience. Readers have their own digital bookshelves, and while consuming digital books they’ll be able to tap right or left to change the page and/or drag the page to manually move forwards or backgrounds in the text. Readers can also browse a book’s table of contents, change the font (something you can’t do on the Kindle without hacking it) and adjust font sizes for digital content. Plus, you can’t overlook how color is integrated into the entire experience. Much like the App Store, the iBookstore will serve as the store front for book purchases and be integrated into the iTunes experience. Here’s how Apple describes iBooks: “The iBooks app is a great, new way to read and buy books. Just download the app for free from

the App Store, and you’ll be able to buy everything from classics to bestsellers from the built-in iBookstore. Once you’ve bought a book, it’s displayed on your Bookshelf. To read it, all you have to do is tap on it and it opens up. The high-resolution, LED-backlit screen displays everything in sharp, rich, color, so it’s very easy to read, even in low light.” Also of note is that iBooks is comprised of ebooks using ePub format, which is an open book format that distinguishes the Apple ebook platform from Amazon’s offering. One thing we didn’t hear about is whether or not users will be able to highlight and annotate texts. But, given that iPad starts at $499 and iBooks offers such an impressive ebook experience, we have to wonder what Amazon could do at this point to stay competitive. iBooks Photos Tags: Apple iPad, Apple Tablet, ebooks, entertainment, iBooks, ipad, Kindle

Be Careful Writing About Tintin; The Lawyer For The Tintin Estate Might Sue By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

house and belongings seized." In response, many people are organizing a boycott of the new I've never quite understood how Tintin movie. Nice work. In various brands decide to go overstepping common sense about attacking their biggest bounds to try to squeeze a tiny fans, but sometimes common bit more money out of a fan who sense isn't so common. Robert w a s j u s t w r i t i n g a b o u t a Ring sends in a story from a few c h a r a c t e r , t h i s l a w y e r h a s weeks ago, about how the lawyer succeeded in getting people to who represents the estate of the proactively shun the movie. guy who created the cartoon Of course, the link above also character Tintin has been suing points out that the lawyer, Nick fans who have written about Rodwell, has a bit of a history Tintin, including a guy named making somewhat questionable Bob Garcia who had written five decisions in dealing with how essays about Tintin. According o t h e r s p e r c e i v e T i n t i n . to the original report:"One Apparently, last year, his own pamphlet drew links between his blog on Tintin.com had to be twin passions -- Tintin and shut down after he accused some Sherlock Holmes. Another journalist critics of not liking looked at the cinematographic him or Tintin because "the references in Herge's works. children of those critics had Two of the five, printed on autism and couldn’t appreciate a v e r a g e 5 0 0 t i m e s , u s e d Tintin." Oh, and did we mention 'graphical citations' of Tintin that the reason Rodwell is drawings." In the US, this would representing the estate of Tintin clearly be fair use. In the UK, creator Herge is because he where this is happening? Garcia married Herge's widow? "has been ordered by British Permalink| Comments| Email courts to hand over £35,000 or This Story face the possibility of having his Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:00:00 PM

NASA Sends Airborne Radar to Map Haiti Faults in 3-D By Betsy Mason (Wired Top Stories)

In the wake of the Haiti earthquake earlier this month and its aftershocks, NASA sends its

radar-equipped plane to the country to measure how much the quake changed the island

nation's topography.

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Yes, Three Strikes Laws Have iPhone OS 3.2 SDK Unintended Consequences That Even released, supports iPad Music Industry Execs Hate but covered by NDA By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

of the main topics), which seems a bit odd. However, I did randomly see a twitter message As noted earlier, I'm at the from the guy who runs a travel M i d e m m u s i c i n d u s t r y rental business here in Cannes, conference this week in Cannes, Lao Watson-Smith, pointing out in the south of France. France, that all these music industry of course, has been at the execs are complaining about all forefront of many of the debates their accommodations having over copyright issues, with its locked down WiFi(even when Sarkozy-backed push to be one it's offered free), and noting that o f t h e f i r s t c o u n t r i e s t o the only reason why these implement a "three accusations connections need to all be locked and you're off the internet" down is because of the three p o l i c y ( d e s p i t e S a r k o z y ' s strikes laws that they pushed political party's own long history through. And, indeed, it is rather of infringing). There really annoying. My hotel has "free hasn't been that much discussion wifi" (which seems to go down this year about the whole three regularly) but you still need a strikes thing (last year, it was one user name and password, and Submitted at 1/27/2010 6:44:13 AM

once you log in with one device it will not let you log in with any other device. You must use that one device exclusively. When the official WiFi went dead, I went in search of other networks, including one called "Free WiFi," but when I accessed that, it still asked me for my username and password (which I obviously don't have). It certainly is somewhat amusing to find out that the music industry execs are annoyed by the consequences of the law they so desperately claim they need. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

Take a Closer Look at Apple's New Tablet, the iPad By Priya Ganapati (Wired Top Stories)

After months of speculation, the specs and highlights of the Apple unveils a new tablet called device. the iPad. Here's a rundown on

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details. The idea of an NDA is great, and it is an agreement, but it's not going to deter people from sharing details if they want Submitted at 1/27/2010 3:45:00 PM to send an email or post in a F i l e d u n d e r : H a r d w a r e , forum. Granted, you won't be Software, SDK The Apple developing long if you do this, Developer Center is providing but doesn't that seem a little iPhone OS 3.2 beta, complete ridiculous? with iPad developer guides and This adversely affects honest s u p p o r t f o r A p p l e ' s l a t e s t developers who wish to share creation. Unfortunately, just as information. Looks like we'll Apple has done in the past, they again have to wait for books on have enshrouded the details of development to get the green developing for the iPad in yet light once Apple gives their a n o t h e r N D A , p r e v e n t i n g green light. Again. developers from discussing the TUAW iPhone OS 3.2 SDK OS outside the highly sanitized released, supports iPad but Apple forums. covered by NDA originally It's possible that Apple will lift appeared on The Unofficial the NDA once iPads start flying Apple Weblog (TUAW) on o f f t h e s h e l v e s ( o r c a r g o Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:45:00 EST. containers) in about 60 days, but Please see our terms for use of i t i s d i s a p p o i n t i n g t h a t feeds. d e v e l o p e r s c o n t i n u e t o b e Read| Permalink| Email this| hamstrung by what is, frankly, a Comments futile effort to contain SDK

Schumer, Hatch Back Payroll Tax Break (Newsmax - Politics) Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:42:54 AM

ALBANY -- Republican New York senators and Democratic U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer are proposing separate, but similar job-creating programs that would

use tax incentives to entice employers to hire the unemployed. The proposal by the state Senate's GOP minority includes a tax credit of between $2,500 and $3,500 for three years for an employer every time a new job is

created and filled. It would also end the state's corporate franchise tax for small businesses and roll back an income tax surcharge a year early. The proposal by Schumer and Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of

Utah would exempt businesses from the employer's share of Social Security taxes for the rest of 2010 when they hire workers who were unemployed at least 60 days. ÂŠ Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights

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iPad will ship with 802.11n Wi-Fi, 3G optional By David Winograd (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:00:00 PM

Filed under: Hardware, Other Events, One More Thing I've been unhappy with the 802.11g Wi-Fi in iPhones and iPod touches, so I was quite happy to see that the iPad will have 802.11 a/b/g/n built in. This will allow everyone running an

802.11n network to no longer cripple your upload and download speed as is the case if you have an an iPhone or iPod touch. The iPad will run at the full speed of an Airport Extreme, Express or Time Capsule. What's also interesting is that the 3G model will run on the the UTMS/ HSDPA 800, 1900, and 2100 MHz band with GSM/ Edge running on the 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz bands. This

means that it will run on just about any provider out there. And the SIM comes completely unlocked, so even if you don't want in on Apples $14.99 for 250mb or $29.99 unlimited payas-you-go plan with AT&T, you can find your own 3G provider. Don't forget, though, that you'll be waiting for an extra month, as the 3G models are releasing in 90 days, not the 60 days expected for the Wi-Fi versions.

Also included is Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology which is right in line with their previous products. TUAW iPad will ship with 802.11n Wi-Fi, 3G optional originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

A House Democrat is expressing concern about a massive Toyota recall that has led the automaker to stop manufacturing and selling vehicles linked to problems with gas pedals. Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak, who leads an investigative subcommittee, says his staff will meet with Toyota on Wednesday. Stupak says "we want to find out what Toyota knows" about the problem with sudden acceleration and what the company will do to protect consumers. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told WGN Radio in Chicago that the government pressed the company to stop building vehicles linked to the massive recall. LaHood said "the reason Toyota decided to do the recall and to stop manufacturing was because we asked them to." ÂŠ Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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After Three Months, Newsday's Grand Paywall Experiment Has 35 Paying Customers. Yes, 35. By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

To be fair, Cablevision never really seemed to view this much as a direct source of revenue, but Like many, we were amazed at rather as a churn reducer for its the decision by Cablevision to cable subscribers, who can get to try charging $5 per week (yes, the Newsday website for free. per week) for its paywall to Still I doubt there are really that Newsday content online. The many people who decide not to n e w s p a p e r i t s e l f i s n o t drop their Optimum Cable particularly good and doesn't service just because they get free really provide all that much in access to Newsday online. I t h e w a y o f e x c e s s v a l u e can't imagine that the $175, in compared to what else is out any way, makes up for the drop there. And $5/week is extremely in visitors and ad revenue. high. Yet, even so, we're a bit According to multiple online surprised that after three months, tools, the general estimate is that the paper has a grand total of 35 Newday has lost 50% of its web paying subscribers. Yes, 35. I'm traffic since putting up the sure that extra $175/week comes paywall. And in return, they get in quite handy. Oh right, they $ 1 7 5 / w e e k . Nice one, By Mike Schramm (The also saved on the salary of their C a b l e v i s i o n . Unofficial Apple Weblog popular columnist who quit, Permalink| Comments| Email (TUAW)) rather than have his work hidden This Story Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:30:00 PM behind a paywall. Submitted at 1/27/2010 8:00:00 AM

Apple's official iPad video, specs page

screenshots of all the different apps, and see folks like Johnny Ive and Scott Forstall chatting about how awesome it was to work on something so Filed under: Hardware, "unbelievable." Portables, Internet, Apple Apple Interesting things to note on the has updated their website with all official stats page: no camera at kinds of fun iPad information, all, no Flash support, and while including an official specs page they did talk about a month-long By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) a l l d o n e t o t h e t u n e o f and the video that was shown at standby battery life this morning, "Downtown" (original after the the end of today's event. The it's not actually listed on the stats Submitted at 1/27/2010 2:30:00 PM thing looks just plain beautiful, page (probably because they jump!) This is an extremely clever song Continue reading Lost + Petula but then again this is basically can't be certain of which month their first ad for the "magical and you're talking about). Also for the last season of Lost, Clark = awesome parody song courtesy The Fine Brothers. It Filed under: Lost, Video, Web, revolutionary" device, so you'd interesting that there are a total expect that. You can find of four buttons and controls on wonders if the writers of the Reality-Free show are actually going to Permalink| Email this| | answer all of the questions posed C o m m e n t s by the first five seasons. And it's

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the entire device, and the only connector looks to be the dock. We've got to give it to Apple -even though we haven't been able to touch it in person yet, this is a pretty amazing computer. TUAW Apple's official iPad video, specs page originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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AAPL goes on a rollercoaster ride By Megan Lavey (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

for any Apple event, though the big jump when price was announced is somewhat surprising. AAPL actually tends Submitted at 1/27/2010 3:00:00 PM to drop after an event, as there Filed under: Apple Financial are so many rumors flying T h e a b o v e i m a g e f r o m around ahead of time that SingularityDsgn graphically i n v e s t o r s a r e e a s i l y shows the wild roller-coaster ride underwhelmed. But it looks like that Apple's stock has been on especially the pricing news won today. It traded at roughly 1.5% their approval today. As always, below Tuesday's closing price t h i s i s n o t o f f i c i a l s t o c k h e a d i n g i n t o t o d a y ' s i P a d information, and you shouldn't announcement, but started make any buy or sell decisions climbing during the iBooks based on what you read here. announcement. AAPL's stock TUAW AAPL goes on a rollertook a major leap when pricing coaster ride originally appeared information was released, and is on The Unofficial Apple Weblog currently trading around 209.69, (TUAW) on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 up about 1.75% (please note that 15:00:00 EST. Please see our t h e s e n u m b e r s f l u c t u a t e terms for use of feeds. frequently). Read| Permalink| Email this| Lots of jumping is about right Comments

Apple making its own chips starting with the A4 By Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

CPU -- it's a homecooked !GHz chip called the Apple A4. Apple says it's designed for high performance and low power, Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:15:00 PM which is probably how they got Filed under: Apple Corporate, that crazy 10 hour battery life Hardware, Portables, Apple Even and one month (!) standby life. t h o u g h t h i s m o r n i n g ' s We guess that PA Semi presentation had Apple calling acquisition was a good idea. themselves the "largest mobile We've been hearing for a while device company" in the world, that Apple was picking up chip a p p a r e n t l y t h e y ' r e i n t h e designers and hiring specialists processor business now, too. The for chipmaking, and it looks like just-announced iPad doesn't the A4 is the first release (fourth carry any special Intel or Nvidia produced?) product of all of that.

It'll be interesting to see how their first major foray into silicon works out. TUAW Apple making its own chips starting with the A4 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Yelp Takes Up to $100 Michael Williams: GOP Must Reach Million in New Funding Out to Blacks By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!) Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:12:57 PM

Local reviews powerhouse Yelp has announced that it’s taking a $25 million investment from Elevation Partners, who will also “seek to increase its total investment in Yelp to $100 million through a planned purchase of shares from vested employees and other eligible shareholders,” according to a statement from the company. The investment comes at a time when local is red hot, with Yelp looking to capitalize further on it by expanding its mobile presence across platforms and introducing features like “check-ins” that help lend credibility to user reviews. The company cites mobile app

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Williams said. “We want to be about the business of making sure they can succeed and they Republicans must show they can save money and retire. We will solve the problems of black have to be about the business of Americans to gain their votes, doing that, and we will.” says Texas Republican senate Williams says he can help the process. “When I become a development as one of its uses candidate Michael Williams. Williams, a member of the member of the U.S. Senate, that for the new funding, and an updated Android app with check- Texas Railroad Commission and will be a game changer,” he said. in features is expected within the an African American, is running “That’s because I’ll be able to for the seat being vacated by have a very direct conversation next couple weeks. Yelp says that it passed 26 Republican Sen. Kay Bailey with the African American community about the direction m i l l i o n u n i q u e v i s i t o r s i n Hutchison. December, while we recently “We have to do the same thing not only of our party, but the reported that the site now we do with other voting blocs,” d i r e c t i o n t h a t w e t h i n k features more than 9 million total he told Newsmax.TV’s Ashley conservative ideas can enhance Martella. “We have to go in and what’s happening in the black user reviews. T a g s : e l e v a t i o n p a r t n e r s , talk to the American blacks in an community.” finance, money, venture capital, effort to solve the real problems Williams says he will have no they have.” problems taking on the powers yelp See Video: Texas Senate that be in Washington. “Not only candidate Michael Williams am I a consistently committed explains how the GOP can win conservative, I also have the t h e v o t e s o f t h e A f r i c a n courage to stand up to Harry American community - Click Reid, … even President Obama Here Now and the Republican And what are those problems? establishment if it becomes “Closing the education gap, … necessary.” bringing jobs into the inner city,” Unlike many politicians who Submitted at 1/27/2010 7:05:22 AM

Apple iPad: Love It or Lump It? [Snap Judgment] By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:45:00 PM

This morning Apple released the much-hyped Apple iPad, and now that you've had time to digest its offerings, we're

wondering: Who's interested? It's easy to get caught up in techno-lust amidst all the hype—and equally easy to lean toward hate as a reaction to the hype. So give yourself a second, think it over. If you heard about step back from all the buzz, and

this gadget for the first time today, what would you think? What Do You Think About the Apple iPad?( answers) Share your thoughts in depth in the comments.

advocate spending cuts, Williams has rejected pay raises for himself. The Texas legislature tried to give Commissioner Williams a pay hike three times, he said, which would have amounted to about $160,000. And why didn’t he accept? “I’ve been trying to make the case that it’s important for us as elected officials to hold the line on spending. It’s a whole lot easier to make that case when I’m not sticking my own hand in the cookie jar.” See Video: Texas Senate candidate Michael Williams explains how the GOP can win the votes of the African American community - Click Here Now © Newsmax. All rights reserved. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Is Obama Really Breaking up the Banks? By Noam Scheiber (The New Republic - All Feed) Submitted at 1/26/2010 9:00:00 PM

Judging from all the build-up, the one thing tonight’s State of the Union address is sure to include is some presidential feistiness toward Wall Street. Rhetorically, the president has spent the last week throwing elbows at his banker adversaries. Obama announced at a press conference last Thursday that “If these folks want a fight, it’s a fight I’m ready to have.” The day before, he seemed ready to initiate the beat-down whether or not Wall Street wanted any part of it. “We’re about to get into a big fight with the banks,” he warned George Stephanopoulos. During a speech on Friday, Obama used some form of the word “fight” 14 times. “I can promise you, there will be more fights in the days ahead,” he said when turning to the topic of banks. The substance behind this verbal barrage is twofold. Earlier this month, the White House announced a nearly $100 billion tax on banks to recoup the bailout money they took during the financial crisis. Then last week, the administration dropped what seemed like a bombshell—plans to downsize the megabanks and prohibit them from using governmentsubsidized money to fund risky trades. The latter in particular prompted much bleating on Wall

Street. It also captured the imagination of the nation’s headline writers. A Politico article blared “Obama Takes on the Banks” the way a playground instigator yells “fiiiight!” What was less clear once you sorted through the details was whether the moves represented a bona fide policy shift, as much of the reporting described it, or a mere adjustment at the margins. In fact, while the policy changes are hardly trivial, what’s more striking is the basic continuity in the administration’s approach. Since the reform debate began back in 2008, it’s centered around two broad theories for how to prevent a replay of the crisis. Both take aim at the socalled too big to fail problem, the idea that certain institutions are so big or interconnected their collapse would threaten the entire financial system. What’s more, because these firms know the government has no choice but to bail them out if they get in trouble, they have incentives to take on excessive risks. The first solution to this problem is the bust ‘em up approach embraced by the likes of former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson. Johnson argues that the problem with megabanks is as much political as it is economic. At a certain point, a big bank amasses so much political power it can stiff-arm regulators and chip away at regulations, even if the original rules may be sound. To

effectively rein in the banks, Johnson argues, you first have to crush their political power, which, in practice, means making them a lot smaller. (A corollary of this view is that the collapse of smaller, less interconnected banks doesn’t threaten the financial system, so a smaller bank can’t count on a bailout the way a big bank can, which means it’s less likely to take crazy risks.) The alternative theory is that shrinking overgrown banks is itself politically impossible. But, argue proponents of this view, just because you’ve accepted bigness doesn’t mean you’ve thrown in the towel. Instead, you force banks to shoulder the cost of their own bigness—by, say, forcing them to hold a lot more capital—which dents their profits and offsets the subsidy they get from being too big to fail. To that end, Diana Farrell, a top White House economic aide, recently explained that “in some sense, the genie’s out of the bottle and what we need to do is to manage [the megabanks] and to oversee them, as opposed to hark back to a time that we’re unlikely to ever come back to.” The approach is sometimes jeered as overly accommodationist, but it need not be. Even liberals like New York Times columnist Paul Krugman have signed on to its logic in some form. In the hours after the administration’s announcement

last week, many in the media saw a shift from the second approach to the first. Politico welcomed Obama to the “’big is bad’ bandwagon” and The Wall Street Journal hailed the coming of a “policy pivot.” It’s not hard to see where they got this idea. The administration was proposing limits on the size of certain financial institutions. And, perhaps more evocatively, it was vowing to stop banks that receive certain benefits from the government (like deposit insurance) from making bets for their own bottom line, a practice known as proprietary trading. At his press conference, Obama dubbed this proposal “the Volcker rule,” after the iconic former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, who spent the last several months drumming up support for the idea. But here’s the catch: When you talk to administration officials, it soon becomes clear that their underlying theory of reform hasn’t changed. Which is to say, they still believe that the most practical way to prevent big banks from taking destructive risks is by regulating them aggressively--and arming regulators with more powers-not breaking them up. For example, one of the key pieces of the reform proposal the administration unveiled last summer is known as resolution authority, which would allow regulators to liquidate a troubled megabank in an orderly way, so

that the government wouldn’t face the choice of either bailing it out or letting it bring down the financial system. Every administration official I talked to about this told me resolution authority is still the way they intend to deal with the problem of too big to fail. The latest ideas simply won’t shrink the banks by nearly enough to make it safe for them to fail on their own (even if, as one official allows, the big banks may “shrink a bit”). Many of the press accounts describe how Volcker persuaded members of the Obama economic team to back his approach—most famously during a two-hour Christmas Eve lunch with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. There’s an element of truth to this. But when you ask administration officials exactly what they were persuaded of, it’s not that their theory of reform was wrong-that, say, bank size was a major cause of the financial crisis, or that proprietary trading did the banks in. They were mostly persuaded that they could append Volcker’s ideas to their original approach while keeping its essence intact. “Our view is it’s not counterproductive,” says an official. That’s not to say they view it as pointless. At heart, the Volcker rule reflects the principle that big banks shouldn’t be allowed to OBAMA page 42

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There Will Be Oil By Michael Makovsky (The New Republic - All Feed) Submitted at 1/26/2010 9:00:00 PM

Last month marked a turning point in the United States-Iraq relationship. American influence is waning, while Iraq is taking steps to get on its feet economically. We suffered no combat deaths in December, and continue to reduce our presence, expecting to withdraw all combat troops by August. And Iraq concluded a major round of production deals with oil companies. This last development is a big deal. Oil is the key to Iraq’s economic growth and reconstruction, and, after several years of postwar stagnation, Iraqi oil production returned in 2009 to pre-war levels: 2.5 million barrels per day, of which 2 million are exported. But are these recent deals good news—for Iraq or for the United States? The Bush administration pressed hard for the enactment of petroleum laws that would encourage foreign investment, reorganize Iraq’s oil sector, and distribute oil revenue fairly across the country—to no avail. The Kurdistan Regional Government, meanwhile, boosted its economy in the north by concluding more than two dozen oil deals in the last several years, thanks to production sharing agreements, which give companies a negotiated share of

production. The federal Iraqi oil minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, decided to cut some deals even without new oil laws, before the national elections slated for March. The first round of deals began last summer, the second in December. Shahristani did not offer production sharing agreements. Instead, he held an auction for less appealing 20year service agreements under which Iraq would pay companies a very low fee—most successful bids ranged from $1 to $3 per barrel per day (before taxes and government fees)—for production beyond a specified level. This approach was a boon to state or national oil companies, such as China’s. National oil companies are less focused than private companies on profits, and were therefore better able to meet Iraq’s unattractive terms and offer lower bids. Some private oil companies did bid, although Chevron, despite its many dealings with Iraq before and after the war, did not. According to Lawrence Goldstein—a leading energy expert and member of the National Petroleum Council, which advises the U.S. Secretary of Energy—with national companies controlling up to 90 percent of global oil reserves, and with foreign opportunities scarce and the need to “book” additional reserves urgent, private companies wanted to get involved even on terms that were

less than ideal. But the result of the auctions, unsurprisingly, was that only one U.S. company, ExxonMobil, was a winning bidder as a majority partner, and only one other U.S. company, Occidental Petroleum, won as a minority partner. Chinese national companies, by contrast, were part of half a dozen winning bids. What has gone largely undiscussed is American culpability in this failure to increase U.S. business, jobs, and influence. Early in the summer of 2008, Shahristani sought to award several shorter-term service contracts to mostly Western oil companies on terms far better than those offered in 2009. But several U.S. senators and some in the media criticized those impending deals as lacking transparency and legitimacy, especially without passage of a national oil law. This criticism, according to a former senior State Department figure, emboldened the Iraqi opposition, and it took Shahristani another year to put forward a new arrangement. Fadhel Othman, a highly regarded former senior Iraqi oil official, argues that the use of an auction was unfortunate for Iraq because greater involvement of private oil companies would have advanced Iraqi oil production. Private companies are generally technologically superior to national companies, and their need to book reserves is

an important incentive for them to perform in a timely fashion. Thus, here was an unusual instance where an emphasis on transparency was counterproductive. Still, on balance, the deals offer many advantages for Iraq and ultimately even for the United States. First, the entry of the conservative ExxonMobil, after years of an arms-length relationship with Iraq, offers promise for Iraq’s oil sector and is an expression of confidence in its postwar society. Second, any increased investment by oil companies should boost security for southern Iraq, as they seek to protect personnel. Third, Iraq’s treasury stands to benefit. If subsequent Iraqi governments and the winning bidders fulfill their commitments—a big “if”—and if Iraq improves its energy infrastructure, then oil production could jump from 2.5 million barrels per day to 12 million barrels per day within ten years. This would bring in over $200 billion per year in oil export revenue, based on current prices and adjusting for rising consumer demand, versus about $39 billion in 2009 and $62 billion in 2008. Anything that improves Iraq’s economy and security benefits the United States, especially after we have invested so much blood and treasure in the country. Our economy also benefits from more oil on the market, and thus lower prices; and it is especially

advantageous to our national security when supply growth derives from a more diverse range of countries. Indeed, even if Iraq achieves only about half its stated goal, it will meet, according to Goldstein, a whopping 40 percent or more of estimated global oil demand growth over the next decade. Finally, the global oil market is a zero-sum game, and it is perhaps Iran, which threatens U.S. interests on several fronts, that stands to be hurt most by Iraqi oil growth. Whereas Iraq seeks greater energy wealth through increased production—and the Saudis through relatively moderate prices for their ample supply—Iran requires higher prices for its shrinking output. Iranian production has declined from 6 million barrels per day in 1974 under the shah to 3.8 million barrels per day recently because of the Islamic Republic’s technical deficiencies and its inability to attract sufficient foreign investment (owing partly to sanctions and partly to the government’s difficult negotiating approach). Oil revenue in 2007 accounted for over half of Iranian state revenue. This income is essential to a repressive regime’s ability to calm an increasingly restive population. Of course, while Iran may be THERE page 38

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The Bipartisan Trap - And How Democrats Fell Into It By Jonathan Cohn (The New Republic - All Feed)

Nebraska bargain, or many others, in the first place. Remember how we got to this Submitted at 1/26/2010 9:00:00 PM point--and how far President Critics of health care reform B a r a c k O b a m a a n d t h e have been hammering away at its D e m o c r a t s h a v e g o n e t o substance for months. But, since accommodate Republicans and l a s t w e e k ' s e l e c t i o n i n the conservatives they represent. Massachusetts, they’ve been The plan Obama outlined on the focusing their attacks more on c a m p a i g n t r a i l , t h e o n e the way reform has come Democratic congressional together in Congress. As the leaders endorsed, called for argument goes, Democrats wrote m a k i n g s u r e n e a r l y e v e r y the bill on their own and in American had insurance. But secret, producing proposals full accomplishing that would have of shady back-room deals that cost well over $1 trillion over 10 aren’t in the public interest. The years and, by some estimates, symbol of reform’s hidden closer to $2 trillion. That was corruption is the so-called more than conservatives could Cornhusker swindle: A promise, stomach. To get the price tag extracted by Nebraska Sen. Ben down below $1 trillion, they N e l s o n , t h a t t h e f e d e r a l settled on a plan that covered far government would pay the entire fewer people. cost of expanding Medicaid in The original Obama and his state. congressional plans all called for You can’t really defend the deal creating a public insurance on the merits. No other state got option, into which people could t h e s p e c i a l t r e a t m e n t t h a t enroll voluntarily. But that Nebraska did. But if you stop proposal, too, ran afoul of more and think about why Democratic conservative sensibilities--and leaders cut that deal, you’ll was summarily dropped. (The realize just how wrong-headed House ended up including a the broader critique of the public plan as part of its bill, but process is. If Democrats hadn’t House leaders signaled long ago been so determined to reach out their readiness to drop it in order to Republicans--and worked so to reach a compromise with the hard for an agreement that didn’t Senate.) seem overly partisan--they These moves didn’t make health w o u l d n ’ t h a v e m a d e t h e care reform more popular. If

anything, they had the opposite effect. A plan that spent more money would have required finding more offsetting revenue or savings. But it also would have provided clearer, quicker benefits for middle-class people-many of whom now fear the bill does too little to improve their lives. As for the public plan, poll after poll has shown that it is popular. And the really crazy thing is that the Democrats might have been able to keep both features--with, at most, minimal compromises--if only they’d been willing to go it alone, the way the critics insist they did. Under Senate procedures, the Democrats had the option of passing health care reform, or at least many of its elements, through what’s called the reconciliation process. In reconciliation, a simple majority of senators can pass a bill, without the threat of a filibuster. Rules limit what can and can’t be considered during the process, so it has definite drawbacks. But if Democratic congressional leaders were determined to pass something on their own--the way, say, Republican congressional leaders were frequently during the Bush years --they could have gotten much and maybe most of what they wanted.

But they didn’t--in no small part because they didn’t want to act in such a blatantly partisan way. Whether that was a matter of principle (i.e, they really believed bipartisanship is important) or a matter of perception (i.e., they thought voters would get mad), it ended up constraining them all year long. Instead of wrapping up negotiations and passing bills before the summer was over, the process dragged into the fall and winter. Over and over again, Democratic leaders (particularly Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus) reached out to Republicans, only to be rebuffed. When that didn’t work, they were left trying to deal with the most conservative members of their own caucus--culminating in the negotiations with Nelson and the promise to cover his state’s Medicaid expansion. If Senate Democrats hadn’t needed Nelson’s vote to break the expected Republican filibuster-if they could have passed health reform with a “mere” 59-vote majority--they could have told Nelson to take a proverbial hike. The same, by the way, goes for all of the other back-room deals made to pass this bill. If Obama and his supporters had a greater margin for error--if they could have passed health care reform

with a simple majority of votes, instead of the 60-vote supermajority forced by the threat of Republican filibusters-they wouldn’t have had to make so many concessions to special interests that wield influence over the Congress. But every special interest knew that the Democrats had a razorthin margin for success--and that gave them maximum leverage. They understood early on that, by trying in good faith to reach deals with Republicans and conservatives, Democrats were falling into a trap--the one that’s ensnaring them now. Jonathan Cohn is a senior editor of The New Republic. This column is a collaboration between TNR and Kaiser Health News. KHN is an editorially independent news service and is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente. For more TNR, become a fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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The PC Officially Died Today By Nicholas Carr (The New Republic - All Feed)

databases of the Internet—to “the cloud,” as the geeks say. And as the Internet has absorbed Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:50:04 PM the traditional products of The PC era ended this morning m e d i a — s o n g s , T V s h o w s , at ten o’clock Pacific time, when movies, games, the printed Steve Jobs stepped onto a San word—we’ve begun to look to Francisco stage to unveil the o u r c o m p u t e r s t o a c t a s iPad, Apple’s version of a tablet multifunctional media players. computer. Tablets have been The computer business and the kicking around for a decade, but media business are now the same consumers have always shunned business. them. And for good reason: The transformation in the nature They’ve been nerdy-looking of computing has turned the oldsmudge-magnets, limited by style PC into a dinosaur. A bulky their cumbersome shape and screen attached to a bulky their lack of a keyboard. Tablets keyboard no longer fits with the were a solution to a problem no kinds of things we want to do one had. with our computers. The The rapturous reaction to obsolescence of the PC has Apple’s tablet— the buildup to spurred demand for a new kind Jobs’s announcement blurred the of device—portable, flexible, line between media feeding- always connected—that takes frenzy and orgiastic pagan computing into the cloud era. ritual—shows that our attitude to Suddenly, in other words, the the tablet form has finally tablet is a solution to a problem changed. Tablets suddenly look everyone has. Or at least it’s one attractive. Why? Because the possible solution. The computing nature of personal computing has market is now filled with all changed. sorts of networked devices, each Until recently, we mainly used seeking to fill a lucrative niche. our computers to run software There are dozens of netbooks, programs (Microsoft Word, t h e d i m i n u t i v e c o u s i n s t o Quicken) installed on our hard t r a d i t i o n a l l a p t o p s , f r o m drives. Now, we use them manufacturers like Acer and mainly to connect to the vast Asus. There are e-readers like

Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook. There are smartphones like Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Nexus One. There are gaming consoles like Sony’s Wii and the Microsoft’s Xbox. In some ways, personal computing has returned to the ferment of its earliest days, when the market was fragmented among lots of contending companies, operating systems, and technical standards. With the iPad, Apple is hoping to bridge all the niches. It wants to deliver the killer device for the cloud era, a machine that will define computing’s new age in the way that the Windows PC defined the old age. The iPad is, as Jobs said today, “something in the middle,” a multipurpose gadget aimed at the sweet spot between the tiny smartphone and the traditional laptop. If it succeeds, we’ll all be using iPads to play iTunes, read iBooks, watch iShows, and engage in iChats. It will be an iWorld. But will it succeed? The iPad is by no means a sure bet. It still, after all, is a tablet—fairly big and fairly heavy. Unlike an iPod or an iPhone, you can’t stick an iPad in your pocket or pocketbook. It also looks to be a cumbersome device. The iPad

would be ideal for a threehanded person—two hands to hold it and another to manipulate its touchscreen—but most humans, alas, have only a pair of hands. And with a price that starts at $500 and rises to more than $800, the iPad is considerably more expensive than the Kindles and netbooks it will compete with. But whether it finds mainstream success or not, there’s no going back; we’ve entered a new era of computing, in which media and software have merged in the Internet cloud. It’s hardly a surprise that Apple—more than Microsoft, IBM, or even Google—is defining the terms of this new era. Thanks to Steve Jobs, a bohemian geek with the instincts of an impresario, Apple has always been as much about show biz as about data processing. It sees its products as performances and its customers as both audience members and would-be artists. Apple endured its darkest days during the early 1990s, when the PC had lost its original magic and turned into a drab, utilitarian tool. Buyers flocked to Dell’s cheap, beige boxes. Computing back then was all about the

programs. Now, computing is all about the programming—the words and sounds and pictures and conversations that pour out of the Internet’s cloud and onto our screens. Computing, in other words, has moved back closer to the ideal that Steve Jobs had when he founded Apple. Today, Jobs’s ambitions are grander than ever. His overriding goal is to establish his company as the major conduit, and toll collector, between the media cloud and the networked computer. Jobs doesn’t just want to produce glamorous gizmos. He wants to be the impresario of all media. Nicholas Carr is the author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google. His next book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, will be published in June. This piece is cross-posted on his blog, Rough Type. For more TNR, become a fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Elizabeth Edwards Separating from Husband John (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 1/27/2010 11:19:00 AM

The week after John Edwards

confirmed that he was the father A source tells ET that the pair of his former mistress’ toddler, are legally separating after over his wife Elizabeth is separating 30 years of marriage. Last week, from him. Edwards publicly confessed to

being the father of little Frances Quinn Hunter after denying paternity since he first acknowledged his affair with

Rielle Hunter in 2008. Elizabeth is currently battling terminal breast cancer.

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and even sidelining the phrase "war on terror." That Obama has Submitted at 1/26/2010 3:00:00 PM not fully succeeded in reversing The evidence is mounting that Bush's policies is not for lack of President Obama is following trying, but only because global not merely an erroneous anti- realities have made it impossible terrorism strategy, but one that is for even someone so determined increasingly incoherent and to succeed in just one year. i n c o m p e t e n t . T w o r e c e n t However, make no mistake: developments highlight his Obama has not given up. He failure: remains determined to First, senior administration r e v o l u t i o n i z e A m e r i c a ' s intelligence and homeland conceptual basis for dealing with security officials testified to terrorism. His approach is a Congress that they were not throwback to the pre-9/11 aware in advance that the paradigm of treating terrorism as Christmas Day terrorist, Umar a problem to be handled through Farouk Abdulmutallab, would be conventional law enforcement read Miranda rights, arrested and channels. That means full charged with crimes. Stunningly, constitutional rights, including it appears that these decisions Fourth and Fifth Amendment were essentially made wholly p r o t e c t i o n s a n d e v i d e n c e inside the Justice Department. restrictions, public jury trials and Second, the administration has more. conceded that some 50 terrorists But it is the President's attempt held at Guantanamo Bay could to reframe the war on terrorism neither be safely released nor that should be on trial. The tried and would therefore be held protections we afford criminal i n d e f i n i t e l y . T h i s f l a t l y defendants are important to us as contradicts repeated Obama citizens of a constitutional civil promises to close Gitmo. It also society, where lawbreaking is an undercuts the rationale for aberration, a problem to be Obama's planned civilian trials handled largely by postcrime for other terrorists and previous punishment of offenders. We decisions--including some by the reluctantly accept the existence Bush administration--to release of crime as inevitable because f a r t o o m a n y w h o s i m p l y overly intrusive measures to reverted to terrorism. prevent it are too threatening to Obama has strained mightily to h i g h l y p r i z e d l i b e r t i e s . m o v e a w a y f r o m f o r m e r Americans vigorously debate the President George W. Bush's balance among these competing "global war on terror," changing interests, but the overall theory is many of its underlying policies almost universally shared.

The war paradigm that Bush tried to follow after 9/11 is radically different because it sees the terror threat differently. Doubtless, the Bush administration did not get everything right. But at its core, the war paradigm recognizes that terrorists aren't looking simply to harm our citizens, as thieves and even murderers are; they are seeking to injure or destroy the society itself. This is why terrorist attacks are acts of war, not criminal acts. Perhaps the most visible evidence of the distinction is that terrorists proudly boast of their intentions and accomplishments, using trials as propaganda vehicles-unlike criminals, who approach trials trying to beat the rap or minimize punishment Obama argues that prosecuting terrorists in civilian courts and closing Guantanamo Bay demonstrate America is committed to the rule of law and thus eliminate important terrorist recruiting tools. In fact, it is the very idea of America, not some incidental manifestation, that motivates terrorists. Critically for us, therefore, the "war on terror" paradigm is entirely consistent with our deeply held commitment to the rule of law. One need only recognize reality: War necessitates a different legal framework than common crime does. Terrorism obviously differs from war between countries, but that hardly means it is simply an

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aggravated form of bank robbery. Indeed, much terrorism is state-sponsored, which is why the sponsors should be as much at risk of retaliation as terrorists themselves. Take Abdulmutallab as a case study. By treating him like a common criminal and affording him the rights to remain silent and consult a lawyer, the Justice Department assisted a terrorist in sealing his lips. Instead of interrogating him fully about other potential terrorist threats and terrorist networks, thus gaining real-time, actionable intelligence, Abdulmutallab's information was lost, perhaps forever. This is the perfect proof that we are fighting the terrorists with one arm tied behind our backs. We need a new public debate on the war paradigm versus the law enforcement paradigm, cutting through legalisms and concentrating on basic policy questions. Obama does not want such a debate, and for good reason: He is on the losing side, both from a national security perspective and politically. John R. Bolton is a senior fellow at AEI. Photo credit: White House/Pete Souza Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

threatened by Iraqi oil production, it can also turn the tables. Iran’s recent temporary takeover of Iraq’s Fakka oil well could be just another border dispute. Or it could be Tehran’s way of letting it be known that it could easily disrupt Iraq’s growing energy sector. So while there’s plenty of good news in the growth of Iraqi oil production, there are also reasons to be concerned—whether about the minimal role of the U.S. private sector, or the potentially large role of the country next door. Michael Makovsky, foreign policy director of the Bipartisan Policy Center, was a special assistant for Iraqi oil policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 2002 to 2006. For more TNR, become a fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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the gentlest word" to describe House Democrats' refusal to pass Submitted at 1/26/2010 3:00:00 PM the Senate health care bill. Her Republican Scott Brown's elegant ears must have burned in victory in Massachusetts' special that caucus meeting. S e n a t e e l e c t i o n w a s f o r Sens. Evan Bayh and Blanche Democratic leaders a moment Lincoln, up for re-election in that can be described in two Indiana and Arkansas and facing words, of which I will only print by far the most negative poll the first here, which is "oh." numbers in their long political Left-wing bloggers, liberal careers, let it be known that there columnists and the stray Nobel was no way they would support Prize winner-turned polemicist the reconciliation process, are all urging Democrats in requiring only 51 votes, to jam Congress to pass, somehow, through a health care bill. some way, a health care bill, and But more than health care many of them are calling for a legislation is in trouble. I have second and even larger stimulus not seen a party's fortunes bill. collapse so suddenly since But Democrats in Congress are Richard Nixon got caught up in replying, as politicians are wont the Watergate scandal and a to do when challenged by party president who carried 49 states wingers, that their name is on the w a s t h r e a t e n e d w i t h b a l l o t . N e w Y o r k T i m e s impeachment and removal from editorialists can opine that the office. Massachusetts result had nothing The victory of a Democrat in the to do with opposition to health special election to fill Vice care, but their life's work is not President Gerald Ford's House in peril. seat in February 1974 was a clear Democratic officeholders know indication that the bottom had theirs is. Some are heading for fallen out for the Republican the hills. Four well-regarded Party. Brown's victory last week veteran congressmen announced looks as if something similar has their surprise retirements in happened to the Democratic D e c e m b e r ; t w o l o n g t i m e Party. Democratic senators folded in Many people ask me whether January. Family concerns have the Democrats are in as much suddenly become very pressing. trouble as they were in 1994. Others are holding out against The numbers suggest they are in the bloggers. Speaker Nancy much deeper trouble, at least at Pelosi said that "unease would be this moment. Back in 1994 I

wrote the first article in a nonpartisan publication suggesting that the Republicans had a serious chance to win the 40 seats necessary for a majority in the House. That article appeared in U.S. News & World Report in July 1994. This year political handicapper Charlie Cook is writing in January, six months earlier in the cycle, that Republicans once again would capture the 40 seats they need for a majority if the House elections were held today. I concur. The generic vote question -- which party's candidates would you vote for in House elections -- is at least as favorable to Republicans as it was in the last month before the election in 1994. Nothing is entirely static in politics, and opinions could change. Barack Obama could shift to the center, as Bill Clinton did after his party's thumping in 1994; the economy could visibly recover and start producing new jobs; a crisis like 9/11 and a good presidential response could boost the president and his party as 9/11 boosted George W. Bush and his party in 2001 and 2002. But I sense that something more fundamental is at stake. Obama in his first year adopted the priorities of what pundit Joel Kotkin, a Democrat himself, calls the "gentry liberals." Obama called for addressing

long-term issues like health care and supposed climate change. He and his economic advisers, like many analysts across the political spectrum, underestimated the rise in unemployment. Talk about "green jobs" has proved to be just talk. Obama's conciliatory foreign policy and his attempts to mollify terrorists have produced no perceptible positive responses and run against the grain of most American voters. Questioning the Christmas bomber for just 50 minutes and then reading him his Miranda rights has left Obama open to charges that his policies fail to protect the American people. The cacophony of conflicting advice from left-wing bloggers, pundits and elected officials is a sign of a party in disarray, its central premises undermined by events. Massachusetts may have been a wake-up call enabling the Democrats to recover. But right now they're tossing and turning. Michael Barone is a resident fellow at AEI. Photo Credit: White House/Joyce N. Boghosian Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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I don't get excited that often about new episodes of Saturday Night Live, but I'll be watching this Saturday. Jon Hamm is the host again, and if it's as good as his previous hosting gig it's going to be well worth watching. The musical guest is Michael BublĂŠ. Fred Armisen is married to Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss. Filed under: Saturday Night Live, Video, Celebrities, RealityFree Permalink| Email this| | Comments

Brooke Hogan Models for Unretouched Photo Shoot (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 1/27/2010 10:26:00 AM

Brooke Hogan has a message for the haters. The buxom blonde is posing in a teeny bikini for Life & Style-without the help of photo retouching. The shoot is Brooke's way of getting back at the paparazzi for releasing unflattering photos of her.

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Senate Nixes Panel on Deficit and Debt (Newsmax - Politics)

White House officials and Sen. Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat and Budget A rare bipartisan coalition in the C o m m i t t e e c h a i r m a n , w h o Senate blocked a proposal proposed the original plan, are backed by President Obama to working on a backup plan that create a powerful commission to w o u l d e s t a b l i s h a s i m i l a r reduce the federal debt, fearing it commission through executive would raise taxes and cut order. It would not have the programs. same statutory authority to The commission's proponents r e q u i r e a v o t e o n t h e wanted the group to make commission's recommendations, recommendations on where to a sticking point with budget make cuts to reduce the debt and hawks on Capitol Hill, such as deficit. Congress would have to Mr. Conrad. take politically difficult up-or- "I continue to hope that we will down votes on the results. find a way to get a statutory "I think a commission may well commission," Mr. Conrad said be a good idea, but I think we after the vote on Tuesday. "But need to focus on spending," said time is running out. Let's be very Senate Minority Leader Mitch clear: Time is running out. And M c C o n n e l l , K e n t u c k y so we've got to search for Republican, who voted against alternatives that are credible." the plan. "Now that we've been The budget committee's ranking on this [spending] binge for a Republican, Sen. Judd Gregg of whole year and … we've got to New Hampshire, co-sponsored target — focus like a laser on the the amendment, but opposes spending problem." creating the commission through Democrats who opposed the executive order. amendment, meanwhile, were "I still feel an executive order is worried it would unfairly cut a car without an engine," he told federal programs. The Washington Times after the The amendment fell 53 to 46, vote. short of the 60 that were He said the only way a required. A coalition of 23 commission would be successful Republicans, 22 Democrats and is if it's bipartisan and its one independent knocked down recommendations would be the effort. required to be voted upon by Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:37:56 AM

Congress. "An executive order would be subject to the vagaries of any senator who wants to put a roadblock in the way," Mr. Gregg said. "You can't guarantee a vote here" through a promise from leaders in each chamber, as some have suggested as an alternative to establishing the commission through law. The amendment was tied to a pending proposal to increase the nation's debt limit to $14.3 trillion. Mr. Conrad said he won't support the debt-limit increase until a credible commission is put in place. Mr. Gregg said he will oppose the debt-limit increase, calling it "irresponsible" to do so without a statutory commission. The debt is currently hovering above $12 trillion and the annual deficit reached a record $1.4 trillion last year. Lawmakers are expected to vote later this week on another amendment that would impose caps on defense and nondefense discretionary spending. Sponsored by Sens. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, and Claire McCaskill, Missouri Democrat, it would cap budget increases for five years at an average of 1.5 percent for discretionary spending and 1.14

percent for nondefense discretionary spending. Mrs. McCaskill said Tuesday that she thinks they have the votes to pass the amendment. Meanwhile on Tuesday, Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, tried to stop the increase to the debt limit with a rarely used procedural tool that could stall the process. He broke his pending amendment into seventeen pieces, a procedure called a "clay pigeon." It could require a vote on each piece of the amendment, potentially stalling a final vote on the debt-limit increase. "What these amendments are designed to do is to get us doing what every American family is doing today — and that's start to make some of the hard choices about where we have excess, where we have inefficiency, where we have duplication, and eliminate it," Mr. Coburn said on the Senate floor. © Copyright 2010 The Washington Times, LLC Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Friend: Elizabeth Edwards separates from husband (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Submitted at 1/27/2010 1:16:20 PM

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Christina Aguilera and Muhammad Ali Team Up (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 1/27/2010 11:35:00 AM

On Tuesday we brought you behind the scenes as sports icon and global humanitarian Muhammad Ali and multiGrammy winner Christina Aguilera filmed a new Haiti relief effort PSA. Now we show you the final product! Appearing together in a new public service announcement, the duo are teaming up to raise funds for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Haitian relief effort. Donations will go directly to WFP's efforts to get food to survivors of Haiti's devastating earthquake. The PSA urges viewers to donate $5 by texting FRIENDS to 90999 or visit www.fromhungertohope.com. Your donation of $5 will feed 20 hungry children in the earthquake-ravaged country, according to the WFP.

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Why I Left the Right, John Birch Society at CPAC Edition (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 1/27/2010 10:08:17 AM

The Hatewatch blog has a report on this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), probably the most extreme right wing version of the event ever held, featuring creationists, Birthers, nativists, militias, Glenn Beck, the reascendant wackos of the John Birch Society — and many top Republican politicians: Conspiracy Central: Beck, Birchers to Converge at Conservative Conference. The John Birch Society, whose conspiracy theories eventually became so fantastic that it faded into irrelevance, has edged back toward the mainstream – or at least the mainstream of conservative thought. It’s listed as one of 87 co-sponsors of next month’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference [CPAC] in Washington, D.C. The conference is “the year’s must-attend event for the Republican establishment,” says POLITICO.com. Speakers at the Feb. 18-20 conference include Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich

and Tim Pawlenty – all potential GOP presidential candidates in 2012. The fanatically anticommunist John Birch Society was founded in 1958 by Robert Welch, who declared that President Dwight Eisenhower was a “dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy.” By 1961, when John F. Kennedy was president, the U.S. government was 50 to 70 percent communist controlled, Welch claimed. The Birchers have long maintained that the United Nations aims to establish a “oneworld socialist government.” Today’s conspiracy zealots call it the New World Order. The Birch Society also opposed the civil rights movement in the 1960s, in part because of a belief that communists had infiltrated it. The organization was against fluoridation of municipal water systems, claiming it was a communist plot to poison America. … The Birch Society isn’t the only far-right, conspiracy-minded group or individual invited to CPAC. Another co-sponsor is Oath Keepers, the

antigovernment organization composed mostly of active-duty law enforcement and military, as well as veterans. Its members pledge to defy 10 orders, including orders to place U.S. citizens in detention camps and orders to confiscate food or property. Another CPAC sponsor is Eagle Forum, founded by Phyllis Schlafly. Among other things, she has promoted the North American Union conspiracy theory that claims the United States will forsake its sovereignty in a merger with Canada and Mexico. She also wrote a book, A Choice, Not an Echo, that suggested a conspiracy theory in which the Republican Party was secretly controlled by elites who were dominated by members of the Bilderberger banking conference. [The annual, secretive, invitation -only Bilderberger conferences are attended largely by politicians, bankers and business moguls]. Yet another CPAC sponsor is Accuracy in Media, a far-right media watchdog that claimed Vince Foster, deputy White

Counsel to Bill Clinton, was murdered and that it was covered up. Many prominent conservatives who were hardly fans of Clinton said there no evidence of murder. Foster’s death was ruled a suicide. AIM also has asserted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has Marxist ties and that the United Nations is planning to impose a one-world government. More recently, AIM’s editor, Cliff Kincaid, promulgated the unfounded theories of the “birther movement.” The birthers claim President Obama is not a U.S. citizen and is, therefore holding office illegally. Then there is CPAC’s keynote speaker: Fox News personality Glenn Beck. And still people try to tell me that the bad craziness hasn’t gone mainstream. When leading GOP politicians aren’t concerned about political damage from associating with extreme groups and ideas like this, it’s more evidence that the fringe really has become the base.

The Nuclear iPad Price That Might Have Been [Rumormonger] By Ryan Tate (Gawker) Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:28:50 PM

Think back an hour or so to the iPad unveil. Jobs is on stage. He reveals his tablet, and then the price, $499, to rabid applause from everyone. Everyone, that is, except people who knew better. A few people, we're told, had been working with Apple on iPad-related products and services . When Jobs' big "$499" slide came up, they were, according to someone close to their operation, surprised and angry, since they had been told there would be a different number on that slide: $399, low enough to stupefy the world and nuke the netbook market. Alas, Apple went another way, whether due to manufacturing costs or profit considerations, we have no idea; if you can shed more light — or can shoot down this rumor entirely — you know how to reach us.

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gamble with taxpayer-subsidized money. Whether or not that gambling was a cause of the crisis, it’s still offensive. It became infinitely more so as the banks parlayed their subsidy into grotesquely large profits so soon after the crisis. The perversity of this gradually earned the ire of several members of the economic team, which made it easier to persuade them it was a principle worth enforcing. And, of course, standing up for such a principle can yield political benefits--not unhelpful in the current environment. “The perception that somehow this president, this administration, was showing favoritism toward Wall Street was a problem even though it was wrong,” says

another official. “Changing that perception is not why you do this. But I'd be lying if I said people weren't aware of that benefit." Ironically, then, the practical upshot of the Volcker rule may be to advance the administration’s original reform agenda. “It’s helped turned the tide a bit,” says an official. Whatever its substantive merits, the original idea was simply too hard to sell as an ambitious reform measure. “People in a lot of ways had gotten caught up in the complexity of the issue. … It’s not black over here, white over here.” That dynamic had allowed the banks to muddy the debate and gave the GOP cover to do their bidding. The beauty

of throwing the Volcker rule into the mix, by contrast, is that it forces political opponents to choose a side. “Now that we’re taking the fight to the Republicans,” the official says, “it should help get this thing done.” Noam Scheiber is a senior editor of The New Republic. For more TNR, become a fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Video: Nancy Kerrigan Arrives to Family's Home (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 1/27/2010 11:30:00 AM

Amid her family tragedy, Nancy Kerrigan arrived to her family's home. In the video, Kerrigan is seen gathering her belongings and carrying what appears to be her toddler daughter into her family's Massachusetts home. Earlier Wednesday, the

ACORN Sting Filmmaker Arrested at Sen. Landrieu's Office

Massachusetts state police told ET that Kerrigan's brother Mark, who was charged with assault after his and Nancy's father Daniel died following their alleged altercation, will not be allowed to attend Daniel's funeral. The ceremony will reportedly take place on Thursday.

A look into the past By Zack Sheppard (Flickr Blog) Submitted at 1/26/2010 4:18:25 PM

• About Flickr Flickr is a revolution in photo (Little Green Footballs) admitted to federal agents that he two men, Joseph Basel and phone, Rayes states. Basel and s t o r a g e , s h a r i n g a n d helping plan, coordinate, and Robert Flanagan, then entered Flanagan said they needed access organization, making photo Submitted at 1/26/2010 2:05:27 PM p r e p a r e f o r t h e a t t e m p t e d the office wearing blue denim to the phone system, at which management an easy, natural and Conservative activist James infiltration and wiretapping, and work pants, blue work shirts, point the staffer directed them to c o l l a b o r a t i v e p r o c e s s . G e t O’Keefe, who posed as a pimp in the two men who allegedly flourescent vests, tool belts, and the GSA office in the building, comments, notes, and tags on the infamous ACORN sting posed as telephone company carrying hard hats, and claimed according to the affidavit. They your photos, post to any blog, videos, has been arrested in New w o r k e r s h a v e a d m i t t e d t o to be workers for a telephone went there, were asked for share and more! Orleans in what appears to be an entering Landrieu’s office under company. credentials, and said they had left Five Filters featured article: attempt to wiretap the office of false pretenses. O’Keefe then recorded them their credentials in their vehicle; Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. O’Keefe entered Landrieu’s with his cell phone (which the neither of them actually work for PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Chris Good has details from the office and told a staffer there that staffer noticed) as Basel asked to a phone company, according to Term Extraction. FBI affidavit: he was waiting for someone to s e e t h e o f f i c e p h o n e , the affidavit. According to Rayes, O’Keefe arrive, according to the affidavit. “manipulated” the handset, and and another man, Stan Dai, have Special Agent Rayes states that tried to call it with his cell

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Apple's IPad is Born (Little Green Footballs)

like Jobs is going head to head with Bezos. UPDATE at 1/27/10 11:25:12 Apple’s new tablet computer, am: dubbed the iPad, was announced I saw articles predicting a price today; the device looks like an of $1000+ for the iPad, so it’s a oversized iPhone or iPod Touch, very nice surprise to see these runs iPhone Apps, and will be prices announced: shipping later this year. It weighs Wifi model: 1.5 pounds and has a 9.7 inch 16GB - $499 display, Bluetooth, 802.11n 32GB - $599 wireless, a battery life of up to 64GB - $699 10 hours, and a 1 GHz Apple A4 Wifi + 3G: chip. Haven’t seen a price yet. 16GB - $629 Engadget has a live-updating 32GB - $729 page with lots of photographs 64GB - $829 from the event: Live from the UPDATE at 1/27/10 11:58:59 Apple ‘latest creation’ event — am: Engadget. The promo video for the iPad is UPDATE at 1/27/10 11:00:16 now up at Apple: Apple - iPad am: The best way to experience the Apple also announced a new web, email, & photos. online bookstore, iBooks. Looks Submitted at 1/27/2010 10:51:14 AM

Brooke Mueller Almost Died, Says Step Dad (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 1/27/2010 11:41:00 AM

John Fiore is speaking out to ET about his step daughter Brooke Mueller, who is currently at Two Dreams Outer Banks drug and alcohol treatment center. John confirms that she's currently in the rehab facility. He tells ET that Brooke has been going through hard times with

being in the hospital, battling pneumonia and "almost dying." He says she's "majorly stressed" and has come to the realization she needs help. "She wants to get better and healthy," he says, adding that the kids are with her husband Charlie Sheen, their nannies and other family members.

AutoHotkey AutoInclude Organizes, Consolidates Your AHK Workflow [Autohotkey] By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)

Finally, when I run the script, I only have a single AHK process running! I love it. Ed note: We love AutoHotkey The only thing that is tricky is around Lifehacker HQ due to its the fact that "#Include"ing a powerful Windows tweaking bunch of files can cause possible skills, so we were thrilled when issues if the script needs an Reader Scott Rippey wrote in "Auto-Execute" section. The with this extremely smart script solution is as follows: for managing your AHK scripts. locations, but I still want some If a script needs to auto-execute, I'm ashamed to say that this is AHK code to be shared across then the first line of the file m y f i r s t c o n t r i b u t i o n t o the board. should be the comment "; AutoLifehacker. I say "ashamed" My AutoInclude script scans a Execute", followed by the autobecause I've been taking and list of folders for *.ahk, and execute code as usual, and there taking, and I haven't given creates a temporary AHK file MUST be a "Return" before any anything in return! So I thought that "#Include"s them all, and other code or hot-keys. The it was high-time I contributed my then executes the temporary file. AutoInclude script will put a most helpful AutoHotKey script. It allows me to keep all my label in front of the "#Include" I call it "AutoInclude". scripts VERY organized, allows statement, and will call a GoSub There are 2 problems that it me to determine which scripts to that label, thereby autosolves: first, as an avid reader of a r e a p p r o p r i a t e f o r e a c h executing it! Lifehacker, and a huge user of computer, and lets me edit my Take a look at the autoAHK, I come across dozens of scripts very easily! Finally, I put generated script: GREAT scripts that I want to all my AutoHotKey scripts into a You can download my incorporate into my own "main Live-Mesh-Synchronized folder AutoHotkey AutoInclude script script", but it can be quite a and share it across all my PC's. here. hassle combining them all into a On each PC, I modify the top of Thanks Scott! Want to get your single AHK file. Take a look at the file to only include the feet wet with AHK? Take a look all these scripts: folders that apply to that system at our beginner's guide to turning Second, I use AHK on my Work (such as All, XP, and Tablet, any action into a keyboard PC, my laptop, and my Media versus All, Dual Monitor, and shortcut with AutoHotkey. Center — and I have different Work) and I comment out the AHK needs for each of these rest: Submitted at 1/27/2010 11:45:00 AM

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Could No Camera Be an iPad Killer? By Mike Melanson (ReadWriteWeb)

camera. The lack of a camera on the iPad is a serious problem, we think. It Let's face it - the camera has cuts a big part of the "read, write, become an integral part of our Web" we write about here right W e b e x p e r i e n c e . W e p o s t out of the equation. Are we pictures of beautiful sunsets to really going to have to carry a share with friends on TwitPic separate camera with us and and we post videos of our kids connect it to the iPad to get it dancing to James Brown on onto the Internet? And what Facebook. And when we aren't about Skype, undoubtedly one of putting video or pictures on the By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) we also find relevant pages from Flickr. Just like the other social Web, our friends are. They the favorites when it comes to our friends and contacts. For results, social image results stream live video on UStream of keeping in touch with friends Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:30:00 PM example, if one of my friends appear under a special heading the concert we had to miss and family in far away places? Last April Google launched a has written a blog where he talks called "Results from your social because we had work the next Video chatting is out of the question. new Profiles service designed to about a great baby shop he found circle." morning. Images and video are a big part give you more control over how in Mountain View, this might Seeing your friends' content Minutes after the iPad your name shows up in search appear in my social results. I popping up in your search results announcement this morning, we of the interactivity on the Web results. Now they're taking that c o u l d p r o b a b l y f i n d o t h e r may be a little strange to begin all looked around and asked the that people have become used to, information, mashing it up with reviews, but my friend's blog is with, but it does actually seem same thing: Does it really have and we're not sure how they'll react to a device that, on the your contacts' info, and pushing more relevant because I know like a useful—and fun—tweak. no camera? surface, seems like it should it into regular search results. and trust the author. What do you think? Like the idea Sponsor The video above offers a good They've also added the social of seeing what your friends have These days, we expect more and have these capabilities but is explanation of how this might results to Google Image Search: to say about subjects you're more that our devices will do instead sorely lacking. work in practice—as does this Now when you're doing a search searching, or would you prefer everything we need. Take the And all of this isn't even taking example from the Official on Images, you may start seeing those results stick to the vanilla iPhone, for example. It is a into account one of the realms Google Blog: pictures from people in your results? Let's hear it in the phone, mp3 player, Web browser we've been most excited about With Social Search, when we social circle. These are pictures comments. Search is getting and digital camera all in one. f o r t h e u p c o m i n g y e a r search for [baby sleep patterns], that your friends and other more social[Official Google When Steve Jobs took the stage Augmented Reality. We'll have a few of AR's top players weigh in [swaddling] or [best cribs], not contacts have published publicly Blog] to announce the new iPad, he on the iPad and its future o n l y d o w e g e t t h e u s u a l to the web on photo-sharing sites made one thing very clear. The tomorrow, so keep an eye out for websites with expert opinions, like Picasa Web Albums and iPad was not here to compete that. with netbooks, as netbooks, In the meantime, is the lack of a according to him, are simply less camera as big of a deal to you as powerful laptops. We have to say it is to us? Will you just carry one thing in defense of the around a camera, too? Discuss netbook - at least it comes with a Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:27:00 PM

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Enable Firefox's Secret Mousewheel What the iPad Means Scrolling Acceleration [Firefox Tips] For Startups: Instant Demos By The How-To Geek (Lifehacker)

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Windows only: If you are accustomed to scrolling quickly through long documents, there's a secret Firefox 3.6 config setting that allows you to enable acceleration, which will scroll more quickly based on how many times you've scrolled. To tweak the acceleration for yourself, head into Firefox's about:config page, and then filter by mousewheel.acceleration to find the two settings that a p p l y — t h e mousewheel.acceleration.start setting actually enables acceleration by setting the number of times you need to scroll your mouse before the acceleration kicks in, while the mousewheel.acceleration.factor setting specifies how much

Submitted at 1/27/2010 1:20:00 PM

The media feeding frenzy around the newly released Apple iPad has finally reached critical mass as the device was unveiled to the masses today in San Francisco. Some people love it for its best features, like the$499 entry-level price tag, while acceleration to apply. but if you're unhappy with the others are disappointed to learn T h e n e w m o u s e w h e e l current Firefox scrolling, you the device lacks a camera. One of the biggest acceleration feature is disabled can play around with the settings announcements Apple made by default in Firefox 3.6 because to figure out your preferred level it can conflict with your mouse of acceleration. It only works in today was the updated versions drivers, especially if you've Firefox 3.6 on Windows, and o f t h e i W o r k p r o d u c t i v i t y enabled faster scrolling in the make sure to hit the link for a applications which will run on Mouse panel in Control Panel, full explanation on how it works. the iPad with full multi-touch but you can tweak the setting Faster! Accelerate Firefox 3.6 integration. Keynote, Pages and either way. It's not a setting that page scrolling[Mozilla Links via Numbers will all be available on the iPad when it goes on sale in a everybody will want to apply, Life Rocks 2.0] few months - and all at just $9.99 per app. Sponsor Startups and entrepreneurs will selling raffle tickets to benefit benefit immensely from the the American Red Cross Haiti ability to create documents, Relief Effort (with prizes from spreadsheets and presentations brands such as Coach, Cole on-the-go, allowing them to take Haan, Thierry Mugler, Fresh, their product pitches with them and Lancôme). Click here to wherever they go. When they register. meet people at events, they can —Erin Clements whip our their iPad and flip which she’ll highlight the major Follow ELLE on Twitter. planetary cycles and five eclipses Become our Facebook fan! expected in 2010. She’ll also be

Susan Miller on the Year Ahead By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 1/27/2010 9:20:54 AM

What do the stars have in store for you this year? Astrology Zone founder (and ELLE contributor) Susan Miller will host a daylong event on Saturday, February 6, at Manhattan’s Three West Club, at

through their Keynote presentation right then and there. Imagine never having to give a bland elevator pitch ever again. If an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist find themselves in the proverbial elevator ride, a VC will be pretty impressed by the startup that can pitch and demo their business in a matter of seconds while on-the-go. The Twittersphere is already exploding with iPad related tweets, completely taking over the trending topics save for Haiti. The forward looking tweeters, like Jonathan Markwell and David Gawlowski are already seeing the possible benefits of the iPad for startups. What other benefits could startups take advantage of from Apple's iPad? Let us know what you think in the comments below! Discuss

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Hide GUI Bars Lets You Selectively Was there an American Hide Your Firefox Interface Idol/Project Runway [Downloads] mashup last night? By Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)

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Firefox: If you want to maximize the screen real estate you haveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;netbooks anyone?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;you could switch to fullscreen browsing in Firefox. What if you want to keep certain elements visible while you browse? Hide GUI Bar can help. Hide GUI Bar is like a selective full screen mode for Firefox. You can specify which elements will be hidden and which will remain like the menu bar, navigation bar, tab bar, bookmark bar, and the status bar. Now if you need to keep the status bar visible but want the

American Idol is still marching along with its auditions, and last night's episode had us in Los Angeles. We had guest judges Avril Lavigne and Katy Perry, but those weren't the only familiar faces we saw. During a segment on contestants who rest of the screen available for works wherever Firefox does. were aping Adam Lambert, we b r o w s i n g , o r a n y o t h e r Have a favorite tool for tweaking saw a guy who said that he combination of hidden and your display, Firefox-related or would be the product of Susan visible elements, you can do so. otherwise, let's hear about it in Boyle and Adam Lambert having T h e d e f a u l t h o t k e y i s the comments. Hide GUI Bar[via sex. He seemed familiar, and now the folks behind Project CTRL+SHIFT+A but you can Firefox Facts] Runway have figured it out: It alter it to any other alphawas former Project Runway numeric combination. Hide GUI contestant Daniel Franco. Bars is a free extension and Franco appeared in not one, but two seasons of Runway, and was made out to be sort of crazy. He s e c o n d s t o c o m m u n i c a t e didn't win, and is apparently something scary? Send in the testing out other avenues in the clowns. Here are a few currently realm of reality television. He doesn't mention anything about or recently in circulation. Continue reading Terrifying this endeavor on his website, but then again, he hasn't updated his clown commercials Filed under: Commercials, blog since 2007. It doesn't appear Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | they get in there? Comments The fear is immediate, which is what makes clowns so effective in commercials. Just have a few

Terrifying clown commercials By Nick Zaino (TV Squad) Submitted at 1/27/2010 3:01:00 PM

Clowns are scary. I've known people who wouldn't flinch to kill a man with their bare hands who would run screaming at the first site of one of Bozo's children. Their faces are painted in permanent smiles, their hair is never a natural color, and they are always wearing a one-piece suit, which is mysterious. How'd

as though Franco got a golden ticket, so we'll never know how his singing ability stacks up to his design ability. More importantly, we're missing out on the Project Runway/American Idol mashup that we never wanted. Filed under: American Idol, Vs., Celebrities, Project Runway, Contestants Permalink| Email this| | Comments

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Apple Announces the iPad: WiFi, 3G, iWorks and an E-Book Store ($499 and Up) By Frederic Lardinois (ReadWriteWeb)

One plan, which will come with 250 MB of data will cost $14.99 per month; the unlimited plan Submitted at 1/27/2010 10:15:22 AM will cost $29.99 per month. Apple just announced the launch These plans will come without of the iPad, Apple's rumored contracts and can be activated tablet computer. Judging from right from the device. what we have seen so far, the For the rest of the world, Apple iPad is basically a very large is still working on making deals. iPod touch with a modified The iPad, however, will come interface. According to Steve unlocked and users will be able Jobs, the device will be far better to just put in their own SIM than an iPhone or netbook for cards. Hardware browsing the web. The iPad will The iPad will weigh 1.5 pounds also feature most of the standard and feature a 9.7-inch IPS apps we have become used to on display (the same size as a the iPhone platform, including Kindle). The device will feature maps, contacts and a calendar. a l l t h e s t a n d a r d w i r e l e s s Apple also announced a new e- n e t w o r k i n g f e a t u r e s l i k e book store and a version of 802.11n, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth iWork for the iPad. 2.1 + EDR. Sponsor The device will be powered by a Price and Availability 1 GHz Apple A4 chip and come The lowest-end version of the with anywhere between 16GB iPad with 16GB of storage will and 64GB of flash storage. retail for $499. The 32GB will Other hardware features include cost $599 and the 64GB version an accelerometer, compass, a will sell for $699. speaker, microphone and a 30The higher-end versions with pin connector. 3G connectivity will cost $130 The battery, according to Apple, more. will last for about 10 hours and The Wi-Fi versions of the iPad the device will be able to remain will go on sale in 60 days, and in standby mode for one month. the 3G models will go on sale in Unsurprisingly, the iPad will about 90 days. sync with iTunes over a standard I m a g e c r e d i t : G D G T 3 G Apple 30-pin USB connection. Connectivity Just like the iPod touch and the Some versions of the iPad in the iPhone, the iPad features volume U . S . w i l l c o m e w i t h 3 G control on the side and a home c o n n e c t i v i t y o v e r A T & T ' s button. network. Apple is also making a keyboard

Among the apps Apple demoed today was a newspaper application from the New York Times, which has already developed a native application for the iPad. Electronic Arts, too, demoed a racing game on the iPad that makes use of the iPad's accelerometer. Major League Baseball also announced a native app today. Image credit: GDGT iBooks App and iBooks Store dock and a stand. As rumored, Apple also Software All the standard apps like the launched its own e-book reader calendar and email apps have today. This new application, been redesigned for the larger named iBook, includes a built-in screen. The new interface, from iTunes-like e-book store. Apple what we have seen so far, looks already has deals with five extremely crisp and has been p u b l i s h e r s , i n c l u d i n g g r e a t l y s i m p l i f i e d t o HarperCollins, Simon & accommodate the multi-touch S c h u s t e r a n d P e n g u i n . interface. Runs iPhone Apps Books can include images and video. Apple hasn't announced (With Really Large text) According to Apple, almost any standard prices for these every current iPhone application books yet, though some of the will run- unmodified - on the ones that appeared on screen iPad. Judging from the images were priced around $14.99. Ewe have seen so far, however, books will come in the ePub the iPad just scaled these apps up format, which could mean that to the large screen, which doesn't the app could theoretically be necessarily look that well. able to read files from the Sony Games, though, seem to look and B&N e-book stores, too. extremely well on the large iWork: Office Apps for the iPad screen. Apple simply scales the Besides the new e-book store, Apple is also launching a version graphics up. Apple plans to release a new of iWork for the iPad, which SDK today that will make it easy features a new version of for developers to make use of the KeyNote, Numbers and Pages. large screen. Native Apps: A l l t h e a p p s h a v e b e e n NYTimes and Electronic Arts redesigned for the smaller screen

and the multi-touch interface. Slides, for example, can now be rearranged with just a few simple gestures, and images can be rotated by simply using the same gestures users are already familiar with from the iPhone. The iWork apps will sell for $9.99 each. Photos, Music and Videos The iPad will also feature an iPhoto-like application with integrated maps and advanced slideshows. Unsurprisingly, the iPad will also feature an iPod, which can display iTunes LP album art and videos. Maps During the presentation, Jobs also highlighted the maps application, which, thanks to the large interface, looks very nice, and also features Google's StreetView imagery. Before the event, there were quite a few rumors that Apple was going to announce its own mapping service, but judging from this, Apple will continue to use Google's maps. Image credit: GDGT Mac, iPhone and App Store Steve Jobs opened today's presentation by talking about the iPod ecosystem. According to Apple, the company just sold its 250 millionth iPod. Jobs also announced that Apple now has APPLE page 48

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284 retail stores that had 50 million people come through their doors last year. Developers have now created over 140,000 applications for the iPhone platform and consumers By Chris Cameron on and forget about Flower have downloaded over 3 billion (ReadWriteWeb) Garden, but when Apple released apps. In-App-Purchases last summer, Regarding the Mac platform, Submitted at 1/27/2010 10:05:00 AM he found his second, if not third Apple announced that it ended its With the highly anticipated wrote about the ups and downs wind. The graph below from holiday quarter with $15.6 Apple event finally underway in o f t h e A p p S t o r e t h a t h e Llopis' blog shows the effect in- billion in revenue from the Mac San Francisco, tech fans around witnessed first-hand with his app-purchases had on Llopis' platform. Most of the computers the globe are already speculating application, Flower Garden. The application, represented in Apple now sells are laptops. Jobs how Apple's new iPad might app allows users to plant seeds, yellow and green versus the stressed that Apple is now the change the state of computing. water them and watch their stagnant blue of the regular world's largest mobile devices A n o t h e r g r o u p o f p e o p l e virtual flowers grow over time. application. company. l i s t e n i n g i n t e n t l y t o t h e After some initial success after "Flower Garden Free was never Before talking about the tablet, happenings at the Yerba Buena the apps launch, Flower Garden a big player," Llopis writes. Center are iPhone application became what Llopis calls "a "But, as soon as the in-app developers, who are curious to strange in-between app" where it Flower Shop was released, see when they may be able to was more successful than 99% of downloads started climbing, and begin developing apps for the apps, but it still wasn't a chart on Christmas day they went By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) iPad. topper. Llopis tried to bolster his through the roof (relatively Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:24:00 PM As we've seen, the iPad is a less-than-thrilling sales by speaking)." blend of the iPhone OS and OS adding more features, like So with the new iPad released You really can't say you didn't X, and it opens up opportunities Facebook integration, and by today, iPhone app developers see this coming. ABC has for new business models fro releasing a "lite" version of the may have found a new platform a n n o u n c e d t h a t t h e y h a v e developers, so we thought we application. for their mobile app business canceled Ugly Betty. The final would point out a story of a man "Fortunately I was right and the models. If you have an iPhone episode will air this spring. ABC who rejuvenated his business by e f f e c t o n s a l e s w a s v e r y app whose sales have been says in a statement that "we've t a k i n g a d v a n t a g e o f n e w noticeable, pretty much doubling steadily declining, look to the mutually come to the difficult iPhone/iPod Touch business sales," Llopis writes on his blog. iPad or the existing options on decision to make this Ugly Betty's last season." models. "But it never really took off in the iPhone for new ways to raise I really loved the first season of Sponsor any significant way, and sales sales. Discuss Ugly Betty, and I continued to Noel Llopis, an indie game slowly declined over time." watch it into the second season, developer and author of the blog Llopis was nearly ready to move but somewhere along the line I Games from Within, recently just lost interest in it. It wasn't the cast, I think it was just that plots kept spiraling into directions I didn't think were interesting (or funny). But now that the show is ending I kinda feel bad about not watching it the

Jobs also recapped Apple's history in the laptop business. Specifically, Jobs wondered if there was space in the market for devices that fit between a laptop and a smartphone - a device you could use for watching videos, enjoying music, playing games and reading e-books. Jobs also took a jab at netbooks, which, according to him, aren't really good at doing anything. Discuss

ABC cancels Ugly Betty

last couple of seasons. So I guess this is the part where we all list our predictions on how the show will end, who Betty will end up, what will happen to Mode, and all that. At least they know the show is ending and can plan a good final episode. Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming, Cancellations, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

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Google Opens Social Search to All; Cuts Facebook Off at the Pass By Marshall Kirkpatrick (ReadWriteWeb)

content? You probably don't want that either. Google Social Search is a nice combination of Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:57:00 PM search and social. Facebook's Last Fall Google began search is terribly weak in experimenting with a new Y o u m a y n e e d t o g o t o comparison. That's where the feature called Social Search and Google.com/experimental to turn real competition is, not between we called it a big chess move on Social Search and you should Google and Bing or Yahoo. a g a i n s t F a c e b o o k . T o d a y try an Image search once you One interesting caveat, of Google Social Search is opening have. It will be turned on by course, is that most people have up in Beta for all Google users. default for an increasing number friend networks on Facebook, The experimental feature will of users over the next few days. not in Gmail or Google Reader. surface search results from the The feature requires you to be Your Facebook Friends aren't social streams (bookmarks, blog logged in and discovers your included in Google Social posts, photos, etc.) of a user's friend connections through your Search, as far as we can tell. contacts on services like Gmail, Google Profile. Update: Limited information Google Reader or Twitter. Last week we wrote about how from Facebook may be included Social Search still doesn't have a s o c i a l n e t w o r k i n g i s f a s t in Google Social Search, if your super-prominent place in the approaching the importance friends have associated their Google Search results pages, but online of search, in terms of web Facebook profiles with Google make no mistake: this is a very traffic. One vision of the future, Profiles, but after chasing the big step. What's your portal to though, has posited that social Google Social Search team t h e i n t e r n e t : G o o g l e ' s and search won't remain separate around on the phone for 15 algorithmic search of the web at forever. minutes and just getting a PRlarge, or your social circle of Do you want to have your answer about this, we're left to people on Facebook? That's the questions answered only via your conclude that the rivalry is as battle for the future that Google friends and their online content? heated as we originally reported. and Facebook are waging now No, probably not. But do you Give it a try and let us know and Google Social Search is a want to have your questions what you think. Discuss big move. Facebook search is answered without the input of nowhere near as good. your friends and their trusted Sponsor

Sources: New York Yankees ink Randy Winn, Johnny Damon left out By ESPN.com news services (ESPN.com) Submitted at 1/27/2010 1:17:25 PM

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Detroit, and the addition of Damon in left field would allow the Tigers to give Carlos Guillen more at-bats at DH. The Tigers traded leadoff hitter Curtis Granderson to the Yankees in December and lost No. 2 hitter Placido Polanco to the Phillies in free agency, so the top of their batting order is in a state of transition. Cincinnati's outfield alignment currently consists of Jay Bruce in right field, Drew Stubbs in center field and Chris Dickerson in left. The Reds' leadoff hitters also ranked last in the major leagues with a .650 OPS in 2009. The catch is, the Reds and Tigers don't appear to have much money left in the budget. Both clubs have been economizing this offseason, and that might be truer than ever now that Cincinnati has signed Cuban pitcher Aroldis Chapman and Detroit has added closer Jose Valverde. Both teams would probably have to get creative to make a run at Damon. Buster Olney is a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Justifying the iPad: The Single Discordant Note in Steve’s Presentation By Darrell Etherington (TheAppleBlog)

Jobs asked rhetorically at the close of his presentation, but was it a rhetorical question, or is Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:45:31 PM Apple actually unsure? I watched, along with my fellow Let’s make one thing clear: I writers and everyone else in the want an iPad. I want everyone to tech community (and beyond) as want one so that we can use them Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple creatively together. But I also iPad. And what he revealed was wanted a Sony Reader and a a very beautiful thing, with an Kindle. I want a chumby. I want aesthetically gorgeous design all kinds of things that ordinary and a seemingly amazing user people would never dream of interface. But is it precious? wanting. The iPad, if I try to By that I mean, in the true sense look at it dispassionately, is of the term, will the iPad be an essentially a media player that’s intensely attractive thing that is too large to carry around briefly coveted and then comfortably in your pocket, too forgotten? Right now, the small to be preferable for movie general sense from the tech press viewing to your TV, and could is that Jobs has done good, and even represent a significant that very few will be able to that struck me as odd. It almost understood, and once you demo recurring money drain if you get avoid picking one of these up seemed more like a stockholder the device, people will see why 3G service. It’s an e-reader, yes, when they become available in speech than the unveiling of an they need or want this device. but by and large, people aren’t the next two or three months. exciting new device to an eager Problem solved. yet really lining up to get at But will that enthusiasm transfer public. But not in the eyes of Jobs, those. to the general public? First, he established where the apparently. The end of his Don’t get me wrong, I think that I’m not the only one who isn’t product was needed. He visually p r e s e n t a t i o n t o d a y w a s if anyone can make this kind of so sure about that, judging by created a new category in which e s s e n t i a l l y a d r a w n - o u t product commercially viable, it’s Steve Jobs’ performance at the the iPad fit, which is something justification of why Apple’s iPad Apple. All I’m saying is that if Yerba Buena Center for the Arts many bloggers and tech writers is, in fact, a viable platform, and even Steve Jobs has to seemingly today. Sure, he showed off the had been wondering about. It not just an ultra-niche device that go out of his way to justify its iPad’s capabilities with the makes sense to address it once, most consumers could easily do existence, then how can I showmanship of the veteran and after having discussed the without. “Do we have what it possibly avoid doing the same? salesman that he is, but he also s u c c e s s o f y o u r e x i s t i n g takes to establish a third category framed the presentation in a way platforms. The connection is of products?” That’s what Steve

Once Overlooked, Now Hard to Ignore: Wallace Deserves All-Star Bid By Chris Tomasson (FanHouse Main) Submitted at 1/26/2010 5:00:00 PM

Filed under: Bobcats, NBA AllStar Game Check out the 2004 Charlotte Bobcats expansion draft. There was a Sampson. No, not Ralph. Jamal. There was a Peja. No, not Stojakovic. Drobnjak. There was a J.R. No, not Smith. Bremer. But on that list of mostly forgettable names there was a Wallace. Maybe it wasn't Ben or Rasheed, but Gerald Wallace has a chance to go down as one of the all-time greatest picks in an expansion draft. On Thursday, when East AllStar reserves are announced, it would be an injustice if Wallace doesn't hear his name called.

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iWork for the iPad: Productivity On- Serena Williams Pulls the-Go Off Exciting Comeback to Make Semis By Matthew Bookspan (TheAppleBlog)

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Well, I am sold. There is now a real reason to buy the iPad. As if all of the other functions weren’t enough (e-reader, iPod, photo viewer, browser, and more), I can now work on documents with complete ease. The iPad appears to be a real productivity tool with the launch of iWork for the iPad. This is a completely new version of iWork according to Phil Schiller, designed specifically for the iPad. Each application has a gorgeous user interface designed to make it easy to either create slides, documents or spreadsheets. Further, each App also integrates the Media inspector for easy access to your photos and music. Keynote From what we could see during Apple’s presentation, you can rearrange slides by pressing on each and then move them accordingly. In addition, there is a unique slide management feature in that you can tap multiple slides, and with a gesture, it moves the slides into a bundle. This should definitely be a timesaver for many folks.

Lastly, we learned that the iPad also has an optional cable for connecting with a projector, making it easy to use the device as your primary presentation tool. Pages Like its desktop counterpart, you can create publications with standard text and images. However, you can also use gestures (pinch for example) to move images around the publications and more. What’s interesting about this feature is that it could make placement possibly easier than using a mouse with the desktop version, as long as the proximity “drop” is accurate. Numbers From what was demonstrated at the Apple Event, the iPad version of Numbers automatically displays fields and sums (which then infers what the output will be). Otherwise, this

version seems relatively comparable to its desktop partner. What is the bottom line (price and more)? Interestingly enough, Apple is pricing the Apps individually at $9.99, instead of in a bundle like the desktop suite. This might change by launch time, although it’s a pretty reasonable price for each app, given the richness in functionality. Further, each app shares the desktop file format, so you can be sure not to lose any fidelity in your documents. And you can import Microsoft Office documents too. Lastly, these versions will allow you to email them in iWork ’09 and PDF formats. As a sidebar, this is an interesting tactic for Apple given that on the iPhone, they’ve ceded document creation/editing to both Documents2Go and QuickOffice (which both only support Microsoft Office file formats). This is a bold step for them to broaden the availability of the iWork suite at such a reasonable price. I wonder if Microsoft is taking notice, and more importantly, I wonder if we’ll see versions for the iPhone too…

By Chris Sesno (FanHouse Main) Submitted at 1/26/2010 5:15:00 PM

Filed under: Australian Open Just hours after Venus Williams was ousted from the Australian Open on Wednesday, younger sister Serena nearly fell to the same fate. Though she played far from her best tennis through the first 14 games, Serena Williams won the points that counted on her way to a miraculous comeback victory over Victoria Azarenka(4-6, 76(4), 6-2) in the Australian Open quarterfinals. There seemed to be little hope on the horizon for Williams, after she lost the first set 6-4 and then fell behind 0-4 in the second set. But just when all hope seemed lost, she turned on the jets. Williams made one of the most dramatic comebacks of her career as she won the next five consecutive games to go up 5-4 in the second set. Azarenka finally held serve to end the streak and they exchanged service holds to force a second set tiebreak. Trailing 3-1 in the tiebreak, Williams showed more confidence in her ground strokes

and used a couple of strong cross -court shots to win the tiebreak 7 -4. In the third set, both players held their first service games, but Williams controlled the tempo and committed only three unforced errors compared to 35 in the first two sets. This exciting match just serves as another example of why Serena Williams is the best in the world. While Azarenka has struggled to close out matches in the past, the No. 1 women's player has shown ability to win in the clutch. Williams will play 16-seeded Li Na of China in the semifinals for a chance to compete for the Australian Open title. Follow Us on Twitter Friend Us on Facebook

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Third Parties Already Developing for Jason McElwain Still Apple’s iPad Courting Success By Nick Santilli (TheAppleBlog)

The graphics and clarity look amazing! Apple is definitely publication to the iPad. Full going to hit the gaming industry Submitted at 1/27/2010 11:36:46 AM screen perusal of the newspaper hard with this device. MLB While the iPad will run all looks incredible (also demo’d One of the early demos when current iPhone and iPod touch earlier by Steve), and may be the third party apps came about was applications (either in 1x or 2x closest I get to reading the the MLB application for tracking s i z e s ) , t h e n e w e s t S D K morning news with a plate of game scores and live action. (available today) supports iPad chocolate chip cookies (as my Well they’re back, and this looks specific development. Below are dad used to do). Brushes cooler than ever. If you’re a a h a n d f u l o f a p p s f r o m An art browser and sketch pad MLB fan, this will be a nodevelopers who were given a t h a t a l l o w s y o u t o p a i n t . brainer for you. Using a live feed head start of about two weeks to Reminds me of the Caricature of data, the game data is modeled show what they could do for the artist’s drawing pads you find at in realtime, complete with actual iPad. Nova county fairs. It looks a lot deeper inline video feed of the game One of (if not the) largest game in capability than just caricatures itself. Oh, and Boxscores across developers in the App Store, of course , and I’m betting that the top to keep tabs on all the Gameloft demo’d their first this app will be somewhat of a happenings around the league. p e r s o n s h o o t e r , N o v a . defining demo for this type of So in just about two weeks, five Multitouch interaction with full device. Artists will likely love developers have turned out some screen first-person shooting t h e m a r r i a g e o f i P a d a n d seriously impressive apps to run glory — from the sounds of it, Brushes. Need for Speed: Shift natively in full screen on the not bad for only a couple weeks Need for Speed: Shift demo’d in iPad. Imagine what some of of lead time. The New York full-screen glory. An amazing those hundreds of developers Times driver-seat view of racing will do with this device and a In an extremely short time goodness, where you can touch month! We’ll get a chance to f r a m e , t h e 1 5 0 y e a r o l d the rear view mirror to get a find out in just 60 days. Until n e w s p a p e r h a s b r o u g h t a better view of the competition then, save your pennies. beautiful digital rendition of its fast approaching from behind.

By Clay Travis (FanHouse Main) Submitted at 1/27/2010 7:00:00 AM

Filed under: High School, Backporch Features GREECE, N.Y. -- It's a winter morning in Rochester, N.Y. Dirty, ice-caked snow rests up against the side of cracked concrete sidewalks. Old buildings, once bustling, are silent, as dim sunlight spills over the windy roads that lead from downtown, 15 miles west, to the suburban town of Greece. It was here, almost four years ago, that a young, autistic basketball player named Jason McElwain, then a senior manager, stepped off the bench and into celebrity. Then, as so often happens, the attention faded. Now, it's morning in Greece and outside his home an old basketball hoop where Jason learned to shoot, chipped black paint on the pole revealing the rust underneath, rises into the clear blue sky. The hoop is weathered, the lower left part of the backboard chipped away, and

there is no longer any color at all on the backboard, it's faded white, the paint rubbed off from overuse. Pass the hoop and a two-car garage rises alongside a brick house with a blue-paneled second story. Inside the house a sock-footed Jason McElwain, who as a senior hit six 3-pointers in a little over four minutes, stands with a cantaloupe in hand. "Hi," he says, "I'm eating breakfast."

Goldibuzz Goes to Paris Fashion Week By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 1/27/2010 10:52:05 AM

You remember how in that children’s tale the young girl

goes too far in both directions before ultimately settling into ‘just right’ comfort somewhere in the middle? Let’s hope Amber never follows suit.

Ms. Rose outside the shows

earlier this week (left to right): first Kris van Assche Men’s, then at Chanel Couture, and finally, in a dress that never gets old, at Givenchy Couture. —Johanna Cox

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iPad Accessories Detailed: Keyboard Dock, Case & More By Chris Brandrick (TheAppleBlog) Submitted at 1/27/2010 1:10:01 PM

During today’s unveiling of Apple’s long-awaited tablet, now officially known as the iPad, Steve Jobs also briefly detailed a couple of accessories that will be making their way to market to go with the new 9.7-inch device, one of which is a keyboard dock, with another being a protective case. The keyboard dock not only acts as a charging station for the iPad, but as the name suggests also offers an integrated full-sized keyboard. Jobs commented on stage that the need for a specific physical keyboard, versus that of the iPad’s on-screen offering, is useful for when “you really need to do a lot of typing”; giving the example “if you’ve got to write War & Peace, just plug your iPad in.” Apple has also since added that the keyboard dock features the typical 30-pin connector, which will allow for the device to sync

traditional devices? Beyond the keyboard dock, Apple revealed a protective case for their new device, dubbed the iPad Case. Although, while the attractive leather holder may protect the iPad from the elements, it also handily doubles up as a stand. The case can be used in a variety of positions which make propping the device in a position that suits your needs super easy. For example, propping it up to watch your favorite movie. Following the keynote, Apple’s official website updated with additional accessories. These included a dock, without the aforementioned keyboard to your PC or Mac while still this device, with the help of attached, a camera connection docked. The inclusion of the 30- accessories, can replicate a kit, which offers two ways to get pin connection also means that typical home experience, when your digital images on your iPad other compatible devices can of required. However, it’s clear that and a USB power adaptor. The course be attached. The dock one thing is missing; the mouse. full range of accessories can be also has an audio-jack so you can Of course, Apple showing no seen in more detail on Apple’s plug-in your speakers and enjoy p o i n t i n g d e v i c e i s v e r y - site now. a more full-on experience. intentional, but without having So, with Apple making it easy to that established and common setplug-in a keyboard and speakers, up would you be willing to it seems they are really hoping s w i t c h a w a y f r o m m o r e

Street Chic: Paris By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:00:00 AM

Black basics get a glam twist

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Report: PlayStation Motion Controller to have about 10 games this year By Justin McElroy (Joystiq) Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:31:00 PM

Here's some encouraging news for those hoping that the PlayStation Motion Controller(pleaseannouncethena mealready!) will give a reason to knock the dust off your old PlayStation Eye. According to a Nikkei report spotted by Andriasang, the device, which pairs with the Eye, will have "around 10 or so games" by year's end, including sports and pet raising titles. We've been disappointed by the game support for the Eye so far, outside of the ability to construct extensive scrotum-centric LBP sticker libraries. Here's hoping that these promised releases can take all the Eyes sitting on our shelves from novelty to necessity. Report: PlayStation Motion Controller to have about 10 games this year originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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iBooks App & iBook Store By Weldon Dodd (TheAppleBlog) Submitted at 1/27/2010 11:51:52 AM

The new Apple iPad, as widely anticipated, will have an e-book reader built-in to the device. The iBooks app displays a bookshelf of all your titles alá Delicious Library or the Classics iPhone app. When you tap a book to read, you can tap on the right or left edge to flip the page or drag the page manually. When looking at your bookshelf, there is also a button to the iBook Store to purchase books. The iBook Store will allow for browsing and purchasing books on the iPad. What is exciting is that this new feature will rely on the ePub standard rather than some proprietary Apple format. ePub was developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum and works on several devices and platforms like the Sony Reader and Adobe Digital Editions for your desktop computer. You can think of it as the “MP3 of e-book formats. Five large publishers (Penguin, Harper Collins, Macmillan, Hachette Book Group, and Simon & Schuster) announced support today and the store will be open to other publishers soon. Not surprisingly, McGraw-Hill was not on the list of large publishers today. So is the iPad a Kindle Killer? I think the biggest advantage that Apple will bring to the e-book

Super Bowl No Place for Tebow's Views By Jay Mariotti (FanHouse Main)

reader market is a reading experience that is on par with the Amazon Kindle, but on a multipurpose device that will have wider appeal. Apple has absolutely nailed the relationship between devices and content stores in the past with the iPod / iTunes Music Store and the iPhone / App Store and I expect that the iPad will nail the e-book experience on both the device and the store. Sure the iPad starts at $499 and the Kindle starts at $259 and the “E Ink” display is nicer to use outside, but I think a lot of people will consider the extra

$240 well spent to get all the extra features of the iPad. When you consider that the iPad offers a full-color LCD screen that can also support video embedded in the iBooks app, I think the iPad will be the biggest e-reader device yet. It will just appeal to a wider audience. The Amazon Kindle is dead. I am looking forward to curling up with one of these to see what the experience is like. I wonder if the Apple Store will stock the Maxell Blown Away chair that Steve was using on stage to go with it as an accessory?

humor," Kia letting the Nickelodeon monster Muno drive a Sorrento to Las Vegas, Submitted at 1/26/2010 5:30:00 PM Don Rickles returning as the Filed under: NFL, NCAA voice in Teleflora's flowers-in-aFootball, Super Bowl box ad, HomeAway Inc. Super Bowl Sunday is a chance bringing back the Griswolds for for America to unite around a Vacation spoof, Cheap Trick football, parties and, better still, h e l p i n g A u d i w i t h a c u t e those ambitious and occasionally environmental theme, Dr. Pepper hilarious 30-second ads. This h i r i n g G e n e S i m m o n s f o r year, we'll see such creative another KISS experience and ... m a s t e r p i e c e s a s E - T r a d e Oh, yes, Tim Tebow and his employing a new smart-aleck mother explaining why they baby, Danica Patrick dressed as oppose abortion, in an ad Marilyn Monroe for Go Daddy, financed by a conservative Boost Mobile using the 1985 Christian organization called Bears for a Super Bowl Shuffle Focus on the Family. reunion, Intel going for "geek

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Andrew Breitbart's Horrible Track Record of Picking RightWing Heroes [Teabuggers] By Pareene (Gawker) Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:16:00 PM

Andrew Breitbart has a bad habit of championing unreliable nuts with destructive tendencies, just because they're conservative. Alleged criminal activity aside, James O'Keefe might turn out to be less embarrassing than some of Andrew's other great conservative hopes. Matt Drudge Matt is the only reason any of us know who Breitbart is. Drudge, the original blogger, is a hermetic closeted weather- and Striesand-obsessed weirdo who lives in Miami. He became famous when he posted a Newsweek story before Newsweek did back in the 1990s. Breitbart served as young Drudge's "mentor" for a few years, and Breitbart, who has referred to himself as "Matt Drudge's bitch," was still handling the Drudge Report's afternoon shift through last year. And Matt is an odd duck. His 2000 memoir/manifesto featured 40 blank pages and lengthy conversations with his cat, Cat. He still holds disproportionate sway over what passes for "political dialogue" in this country, but after a brief postLewinsky flirtation with publicity, he's no longer trying to be a Right-Wing Hero. He's gone into hiding, and his only public

comment to reporter in years was to deny that he "loves" sex with men. Which is sad! Arianna Huffington Back in the wonderful Clinton era, Matt introduced Andrew to Arianna Huffington. At the time, Arianna was a famous conservative pundit. She was also well-known, even by 1994, as a loopy new-ager and cutthroat bitch. Eventually her husband, a former Republican Senate candidate, came out as gay (which everyone already knew). And Arianna came out as a liberal. Breitbart still helped her launch her little website, an Internet Newspaper of Celebrity Blogs and Nipple Slips and exhortations to never vaccinate your children. Pat Dollard People like Breitbart tend to believe that liberals "control the media" because they refuse to let conservatives write for newspapers and act in pilots, and not just because maybe liberals are more inclined to go into journalism or the performing arts. There is not a political litmus test to direct a movieâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;have you seen a movie, lately? But Breitbart's constant need to produce special conservative content for a special conservative audience leads to shoddy work, like on his Big websites, and complete disasters, like his championing of Pat

Dollard. Evan Wright's 2007 Vanity Fair piece on Dollard is a wonderful look at the life of the beneficiary of Hollywood Conservative Desperation. Pat Dollard was a Hollywood superagent with William Morris, until he was fired in the '90s for doing too many drugs and drinking too much even to be a superagent with William Morris. He was also one of those "9/11 changed everything for me" assholes who decided that the murder of thousands of innocents by fanatics meant that George Bush was a visionary hero and Michael Moore was fat. In 2004, a drugged-out midbinge Dollard flew to Iraq to make a "pro-war documentary."

He spliced his footage of Marines being manly heroes, actual videotaped cold-blooded civilian murder, and awesome explosions together with footage from Jackass and put it to a hardcore soundtrack. This, obviously, got him an audience on the internet, and endeared him to Breitbart, who began taking him around introducing him to the vast right-wing conspiracy. Breitbart believes Dollard is onto something important. "There needs to be a confrontation at the pop-culture level of the kids who are over there fighting versus the kids at home who are totally disconnected, immersed in this mindless Abercrombie & Fitchâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;MTV culture." Breitbart

adds, "There needs to be a revolution, and Dollard is the man who can kick it off. I don't care if older conservatives are offended by Pat Dollard. I was not looking for someone pristine. He brings to our cause this whole spirit of, like, the Merry Pranksters Two. Yes. His antics in Iraq do suggest a certain Hunter Thompson-meets- Full Metal Jacket charm, like when Dollard, in search of a whorehouse, robbed an Iraqi pharmacy at gunpoint. (Dollard kept admitting to these things and then retracting them, though he filmed most it... just like O'Keefe?) But in the end he's just some jerk-off coked-out Hollywood asshole playing at being a soldier and putting real Marines in harm's way with his irresponsible behavior. He never actually cleaned up his act, either. When he missed a meeting with HBO, he filmed a documentary of him fucking his friend's girlfriend on meth and decided to send them that, instead. Dollard enters the frame, totally nude, a decrepit satyr. A montage ensues of him performing various sex acts with her, intercut with close-ups of the girl smoking a glass pipe. There is unintended comedy: ANDREW page 56

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while Dollard is having sex with her on the couch, it catches fire, and the two fail to notice until flames engulf their feet. There is intended comedy: Dollard performs anal sex with her while simultaneously talking on the phone with an agent at William Morris. As you have probably gathered, he was a mess. But he still managed to make his appearances on Hannity & Colmes and Tony Snow's radio show, to praise war. The war that he loved because it felt to him like a particularly exciting acid trip. This is the sort of person Breitbart would rail against as an example of decrepit, hedonistic, vapid, vile Big Hollywood, if it was a liberal. The sort of person whose excesses he and Mark Ebner ridiculed and exposed in Hollywood, Interrupted. But, you know, he is a conservative! So let's throw him a party! In mid-January, Andrew

Breitbart hosts a conservative coming-out party for Dollard to celebrate his upcoming Fox deal. (According to Dollard, Fox News head Roger Ailes was "stoked" about bringing him into the Fox fold after viewing his Web site.) About 30 people gather at Breitbart's hillside home in Brentwood to view Dollard's clips. When I enter, Ann Coulter stands by a bowl of guacamole, eating tortilla chips and venting about the lack of spine shown by her own partisans. "I meet so many conservative men afraid to say they still support the war," she says. "Conservatives are pussies. That should be the title of my next book." Right. Well, Andrew Breitbart's Conservatives aren't pussies! Just incredibly irresponsible and reckless and embarrassing to the movement. Which brings us to the last, most embarrassing of Andrew

Breitbart's Friends: Andrew Breitbart Conor Friedersdorf, a smart young conservative who attempted to launch a "Conservative Slate" not too long ago (not a Conservative iPad, fyi), summed up"the Breitbart model" like this: The alternative — the Andrew Breitbart model — is to publish poorly reasoned, atrociously edited screeds on the cheap, on the assumption that ideologically friendly readers will keep clicking anyway. And that is accurate! (It's also wildly successful, of course—the fact that Breitbart's newsaggregating homepage is Matt Drudge's default source of wire stories does help drive the traffic, too.) Breitbart does himself no favors when he opens his mouth, too. Who can forget his classic column on how he made an obscene gesture at people who

were demonstrating against the use of child soldiers because they interrupted his dinner? He called the White Supremacist who shot up the Holocaust Museum a "multiculturalist just like the black studies and the lesbian studies majors on college campuses." He mocked the deaths of Michael Jackson and Ted Kennedy and repeatedly shouted"Abu Ghraibs for everyone!" for reasons that are still not entirely clear to us. And after we reprinted a Business Insider interview with him that might've slightly misquoted him, he flew off the handle, accusing that site of being a "front" for Gawker. No one he's championed is really as embarrassing as he is, himself.

MediaDailyNews: Audi's Social Media Supports Super Bowl Ad (MediaPost | Media News) Submitted at 1/27/2010 10:48:53 AM

Audi, the luxury car maker, has created a series of social media programs to buttress its third Super Bowl ad. Both the ad and the social media elements will introduce the Green Police, an enforcement team created to protect and conserve the environment. Fans can also take part in a Green Police quiz, to help the public understand how to become better global citizens. These videos are now live on a dedicated Green Police YouTube c h a n n e l a t www.Youtube.com/greenpolice. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

'Fallout Extreme' revealed as another nuked project By Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq)

development at Interplay's 14 Degrees East (which codeveloped Fallout Tactics). The Submitted at 1/27/2010 3:57:00 PM game was in the concept phase Fallout Extreme is another for "several months" during canceled Fallout project that has 2000, but never really got rolling e m e r g e d f r o m t h e w a s t e s . with a development team. Unearthed by Pawel " Ausir" The premise of the game was Dembowski and posted on the players would control a squad in Fallout Wikia, Extreme was a " T h e C a u s e , " a g r o u p o f "squad-based first- and third- revolutionaries in the Pacific person" shooter for Xbox, under Northwest. The game would

follow The Cause as they defeat the local Brotherhood, cross the Bering Strait, and conclude with a showdown in China's

Forbidden City. The premise sounds interesting, but, " Extreme?" Really? Might as well have just called it: Mountain

Dew presents Michael Bay's Fallout. 'Fallout Extreme' revealed as another nuked project originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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The Tablet Day News Dump [Journalismism] By John Cook (Gawker) Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:35:09 PM

Every idiot on TV and the internet won't shut up about Steve Jobs' new thing you need to spend $800 on ( though we'll take a free one if anyone's offering!), which means its a great day to release inconvenient news. Like, for instance, the fact that you and your dying wife are getting a divorce because you knocked up a campaign worker and lied about it forever and now a disastrously damaging book about the whole mess is coming out rendering the whole charade just too nauseating to carry on anymore. Smart move, Edwards family! What else don't you know about because it happened on St. Jobs' Day? Toyota Makes Death-Cars Toyota announced late yesterday that it's halting production of Camry and Corolla sedans until it can figure out how to prevent their accelerator pedals from getting stuck and hurtling families into other cars or stationary objects at high speeds. It's the sort of news that would normally be chewed over endlessly on CNBC on the day after it was announced if not

for...hey, it's got a 9.7-inch screen! Billionaire Ponzi Scheme Pleads Guilty Scott Rothstein, the Florida attorney who was a partner with political operative Roger Stone and once purchased a $52,000 birthday cake for Gov. Charlie Crist, has pleaded guilty to a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme. He might have some interesting

stories to tell the feds, and they could write them down on their iPads. Afghanistan is Surrendering to the Taliban Afghani president Hamid Karzai is set to announce " an ambitious, far-reaching plan to persuade the Taliban's foot soldiers to abandon their fight," almost certainly by buying them off with American and Saudi

dollars. Mayor Bloomberg Would Really Rather Not Host a Terror Trial Bloomberg rather politely expressed his discontent with the White House's plan to try Khalid Sheikh Muhammad in downtown Manhattan today: "It would be great if the federal government could find a site that didn't cost a billion dollars, which using downtown will." It's a great day to go on record against the plan for the benefit of your local constituents while minimizing the risk that it will get turned into a pissing match with Barack Oabama. Verizon is Laying of 13,000 This news came late yesterday, and would also be pretty high up on the list of things business reporters care about if not for the iPad. Marginal TV Star Got a DUI Heroes' Adrian Pasdar—husband to the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines—was arrested early this morning on DUI charges. Good day for it. The Holocaust Happened It's Holocaust Remembrance Day. You probably forgot, didn't you?

What's next? iTampon? (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 1/27/2010 1:43:10 PM

Apple took us all on a stroll down the feminine hygiene aisle today with the introduction of the iPad. With “iTampon” quickly emerging as a trending Twitter topic, it’s probably safe to say that many women found themselves cringing as they asked, “Do any women work at Apple?” CNBC’s Jane Wells couldn’t help but wonder if Apple will develop different versions of the new gadget with names like Maxi and Light Days. Or, when women want more discreet protection, the iPon. Apparently, the idea of an “iPad” came up long before talk of a tablet with MadTV suggesting what an iPad might look like three years ago (NSFW -ish): (Via CNBC) All the top iPad news in one spot (no pun intended). Permalink| Leave a comment »

MediaDailyNews: ABC Layoffs: NY Operations Group Hard Hit (MediaPost | Media News) Submitted at 1/27/2010 10:55:45 AM

ABC's broadcast operations and

engineering group laid off dozens of employees. Most of the cuts came from the New York work force, including

many from ABC's studios on West 66th Street, reports The New York Observer. Led by Preston Davis, the unit provides

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Comments of the Day â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Magic iPad Edition! [We Read You] By Richard Lawson (Gawker)

dialing while hoping you have a signal. Also, there's no chance in hell a Lithium battery is gonna Every D of the W, we stop to blow on you with a land line. look at good comments. Today And when it comes to notes I we are so mesmerized by the prefer a pen and pad. Things fancy new iPad that we can't seem to get lost and forgotten focus on anything else. So here easily on these ModCons. I'm are our favorite Pad-related only 26 but most of this stuff comments of the day. seems useless to me. Cheap Shot wondered about Mike Jahn had an interesting magazines: question about timing: I followed the liveblog closely Doesn't announcing it a few and I'm not sure a magazine hours before the State of the demo would work. Remember Union Address count as a Friday this is the introduction only and news dump? Does he not want it as you stated, even The New magazines represented on there, looked at too closely until a few York Times folks had little 'time' is having readers jump away million units have been sold? (sorry) to whip up a fitting from the page to look at a link. And a philistine in the corner How would you keep them named WretchedGnu issued a version of their title. The real conundrum to me is, if engaged? succinct criticism: the iPad makes the magazine BitchyD is a pragmatic Luddite: Crotch-rocketingly obsolete, then what do we call it I still use and prefer a land line. u n i m p r e s s i v e . in it's new digital form? e-zines? It works no matter what. It There you have it! Suspicious, doesn't go dead when the power unimpressed, anti-technology, mlogs? When does a magazine stop is out, there's no unwanted a n d c r o t c h - r o c k e t i n g l y being a magazine and just texting you have to pay for, you u n i m p r e s s e d . A r a n g e o f become a content page loaded just pick up the reciever and dial emotions. (Minus, like, good instead pushing a code and then ones.) with links. Lastly, a big danger to me for 1 or 2 other buttons before Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:35:00 PM

Civilized Sid Meier presenting revolutionary keynote at GDC 2010 By Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) Submitted at 1/27/2010 2:45:00 PM

Sid Meier, creator of Civilization and unwitting architect of countless break-ups over the past 20 years, will keynote the 2010 Game Developers Conference. Meier's presentation will argue that "realworld, historical and mathematical facts cannot form the foundation of a successful game design," but that "the driving force of a game's design should be the psychology of the player." Meier's keynote will dig deep into psychology, showing

designers that "egomania, paranoia and delusion" should be part of their toolkit. Hm, maybe Meier isn't such an unwitting participant in all those divorces after all? GDC will take place March 9-13 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, and Meier will reveal his tips for mainlining e-crack to the brain on Friday, March 12. Civilized Sid Meier presenting revolutionary keynote at GDC 2010 originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Things Were Surely Better Back in the Hypothetical Good Old Days [Recessionomics] By Hamilton Nolan (Gawker) Submitted at 1/27/2010 4:20:45 PM

The Way We Live Now: bicycling towards oblivion. Toyota's given up on cars. The young lady winking at you's a professional gold digger. And everyone who can't run fast enough to keep their job is getting whipped into submission. I remember when I was a little kid the popular bedtime story was all about how Toyota killed Detroit by making superior automobiles and improving the manufacturing and distribution and sales process and avoiding costly labor expenses, but now Toyota is almost getting the fuck outta the car business entirely, which makes you just shake your head and reflect what a long, sensible ride it's been.

That's more than you can say for the old men who just wanted to find themselves a little love and instead found 28 year-old Cher Thompson whose full time job was cozying up to old fellas with dementia and traumatic brain injuries and things like that and

sucking them dry financially only, which is a sad statement on the times we live in. And Whole Foods isn't doing any favors for the elderly and infirm and portly either, by giving big food discounts to skinny workers only, which

really seems to defeat the purpose. But even fat Whole Foods workers can be happy that they have a job, for now at least, since most everybody with steady employment has now been informed that we have to watch out for the "bullwhip effect," which is just a fancy economic term for when companies ramp up their inventory, which makes a lotta work and sure, that's great, everything lovely, until CRACK, that's the sound of the bullwhip snapping back the other way, and you're unemployed. All these secret aliens riding along inside our bodies really need to pay their own way. [Pic via]

MediaDailyNews: Ketchum Pleon Becomes Single Entity (MediaPost | Media News) Submitted at 1/27/2010 10:45:47 AM

Six months after Ketchum and Pleon merged, the company announced the creation of a single change management entity: Ketchum Pleon, which will operate in multiple locations across the globe with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, London and Munich. Ralf Langen will serve as president for Ketchum Pleon Change, operating out of the Munich office. Dr. David Rockland will serve as CEO of Ketchum Pleon Change. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

The games we want on iPad By Justin McElroy (Joystiq) Submitted at 1/27/2010 3:15:00 PM

Sorry Steve, but we're not necessarily interested in playing first-person shooters like N.O.V.A. on your newlyrevealed iPad. That doesn't mean we can't see the gaming

possibilities though. Don't get us wrong, we're excited to see that most of our iPhone games will work, but we think that's only the start of the story. Real time strategy: The interface just isn't big enough for detailed troop management on the iPhone, but the iPad's larger

display could be the perfect thing

for trying to keep up with a hectic battlefield while managing resources. A beefier processor means the game won't be held up by too many orcs/soldiers/space cars on screen. The apps we want: Command and Conquer, StarCraft 2. Continue reading The games we

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Tebow’s Pro-Life Super Bowl Ad Stirs Debate (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)

that it was always Pam Tebow’s choice as to what to do with her pregnancy: though doctors By the time Super Bowl XLIV advised her to terminate it, they rolls around, millions of words couldn’t force her to do so,” will have been written about the L a t o y a P e t e r s o n w r i t e s a t three quarterbacks involved. Of Jezebel. “The Tebows are now course Peyton Manning and taking the stance that the only Drew Brees will get more than permissible option is to not their fair share. The third signal t e r m i n a t e p r e g n a n c i e s , caller has never played an NFL effectively denying other women down. Associated Press Tim the choice that Pam Tebow Tebow wants to talk to you about herself was able to exercise.” your uterus. At Real Clear Sports, Art Pro prospect Tim Tebow, just Spander writes of the changing off his stellar career at Florida, dynamic for athletes. “Sport used will appear with his mother in a to be so clear. Athletes were controversial pro-life ad that athletes,” Spander writes. “They C B S p l a n s t o r u n . A s played games, signed autographs commercials go, it’s already and were invited out to dinner by generating lots of conjecture. In alums who might have been other words, it’s probably not the breaking NCAA rules but it standard Super Bowl spot that wasn’t like robbing a bank or aspires merely to be funny, such a n y t h i n g . T h e s e d a y s a r e a s t h e “ o f f i c e l i n e b a c k e r ” different. Players question commercials. coaches, support political Tebow relishes being a role candidates and prove they got model. The devout Christian something out of school other does missionary work, wears than a letterman’s jacket.” eyeblack with Biblical verses The Orlando Sentinel’s George and promises to remain a virgin Diaz doesn’t like mixing politics until marriage. In the and sports, preferring commercial, by the conservative commercials with “talking frogs. group Focus on the Family, Dancing lizards. Clydesdale Tebow’s mother, Pam, will horses falling in love. Danica recount how she ignored medical Patrick getting her sexy groove advice to have an abortion when on for GoDaddy.com.” medical problems threatened her DawgSport’s T. Kyle King life and gave birth to Tim, her defends Tebow’s choice to fifth child. appear in the ad. Not everyone is happy with the FanHouse’s Jay Mariotti, who Tebows’ message. “What both isn’t interested in Tebow’s views Tebows appear to miss in their during the Super Bowl, thinks passionate pro-life advocacy is there’s a lot of downside for any Submitted at 1/27/2010 8:23:59 AM

remains, for now, the polls’ top dog for the first time since 2003. In the Lexington Herald-Leader, John Clay calls Kentucky’s loss “an untimely fender bender.” The State’s Ron Morris exults over Downey’s efforts. “If he had not done so already, Downey team that drafts him. “Tebow is forever stamped his name in raising eyebrows across the U S C ’ s b a s k e t b a l l a n n a l s , ” NFL, where league and team Morris writes. “He may some executives must be conscious of day see his jersey No. 2 hanging public relations within their in the rafters, and he may go communities,” Mariotti writes. down as the most explosive “When kept in a proper context p a c k a g e o f A l l - A m e r i c a n and equilibrium, the missionary playmaker the school has ever and humanitarian work done by seen.” t h e T e b o w f a m i l y i s ESPN’s Andy Katz writes the breathtaking. But to grandstand w i n m a y c h a n g e S o u t h on the biggest stage in the world Carolina’s season for the better. makes me wonder if Tebow is Elsewhere in college hoops, the more interested in crusading than Journal’s Darren Everson writes about this weekend’s hotly playing the game.” However, Yahoo’s Jason Cole anticipated matchup between argues that Tebow’s popularity Harvard and Cornell, both Ivy could have an immense benefit League schools with strong when the NFL draft comes possibilities of going to the NCAA tournament. Two around. As for whether Tebow’s actually contending Ivy teams? That’s no good enough to quarterback an misprint.* * * NFL team, Digital Sports Daily’s Richard Harris is like a lot of T r a v i s D u n c a n s a y s i t ’ s other high-school basketball premature to make much out of players with aspirations of Tebow’s early struggles in playing college basketball. The practice for the Senior Bowl junior forward leads Surrattsville college all-star showcase.* * * High in Maryland with a 14.2Another week, another No. 1 point average and has the team suffers its first loss of the Hornets poised for a strong college-basketball season. On playoff run. If you haven’t heard Tuesday night, unranked South of Harris, it’s for good reason. Carolina got 30 points from His family has been working to Devan Downey in a 68-62 avoid comparisons to Len Bias, victory over Kentucky, which an uncle of Harris’s who was among the best players ever out

of Maryland and who died of a drug overdose shortly after the Boston Celtics drafted him. Josh Barr has the story in the Washington Post.* * * If you’re a Minnesota fan, you’re still upset with how the Vikings lost in overtime to New Orleans. The Saints won the coin toss and moved downfield far enough for Garrett Hartley to kick a game-winning 40-yardfield goal. The Vikings’ offense never had a chance. For Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times, the NFL must change its overtime rule. “The Saints won by taking advantage of the worst rule in American sports,” Plaschke writes. “Only in the NFL can a game be decided by an extension of play in which both teams might not have an equal chance to score. Only in the NFL can a game be contested for three hours by two full teams, then be decided in 10 minutes by only half of each team.” While Fixer Emeritus Carl Bialik argues for auctioning off overtime possession, Bleacher Report’s Joe Royston likes things the way they are.* * * Hockey continues to have problems with hits to the head. The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League suspended Patrice Cormier, a New Jersey Devils draft pick, for the rest of the season for his brutal hit Jan. 17 on Mikael Tam. At the New TEBOW’S page 61

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Australian Open: Li Na rallies to beat Venus Williams, reach first Grand Slam semifinals By Associated Press (ESPN.com)

from a two-year retirement, will play Zheng Jie in the other semifinal. Serena Williams was far from confident after the first hour of the match, thinking of her sister's loss. "It was obviously on my mind," Serena said of Venus' defeat. "I saw maybe one or two points, maybe three. I don't want to watch too much, I get too nervous watching. Obviously I was incredibly disappointed." So she started off tentatively. Complete results Need the scores from any match played in today's Australian Open? Results "I wasn't playing my best, especially in the first two sets," Serena said. "I was down the whole match from the first point. I wasn't surprised but I was definitely shocked." Instead of wilting, she fought back from her big deficit in the second set with two service breaks of her own, easily won the tiebreaker and dominated the third. "I think it's impressive the way she does it," Azarenka said. "She's a strong girl. She has very

powerful shots." Li and Zheng were the first Chinese pair to reach the quarterfinals at the same Grand Slam. With both in the semifinals, could the final be possible? Serena Williams and Henin, with a combined 18 Grand Slam singles titles (Serena 11, Henin 7) would seem to have the inside edge. But Li, who lost the first set and was twice down breaks in the second, says anything can happen. "In China, we say if you have tough time and then you return back, maybe have good luck," Li said. Venus had more mistakes than luck against Li, who called said the win made it the "best day of my life." She said she might celebrate with a beer Wednesday night. "It's important to put the ball in the court," said Venus, who served for the match in the second set. "I felt like sometimes I made some errors." That was an understatement. The pair's unforced error count surpassed 100 midway through the final set, which produced

eight service breaks in the first 10 games. "Unfortunately I let my errors creep in, and then I allowed her to dictate too much," Venus said. "But she played really well." Azarenka lost in her fourthround match with Serena here last year, retiring in the second set with a virus after taking the first set. This time, the 20-year-old Belarussian was undone by a trademark comeback by Williams, who is the only player to save match points on the way to three Grand Slam titles. She did it at Wimbledon last year and at the 2003 and 2005 Australian Opens. Initially, Azarenka looked as if she'd continue the Williams family woes. She broke Serena in the opening game and then, after fending off three break points, held her own opening serve in a game that lasted more than 15 minutes and went to deuce nine times. It was mostly one-way until Williams started her comeback in the second -- winning five straight games, then getting on top again at the end of the

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Serena Advances, Venus Falls Serena Advances, Venus Falls VIDEO PLAYLIST • Serena Advances, Venus Falls Serena Advances, Venus Falls • Venus Upset By Li In Quarters Venus Upset By Li In Quarters MELBOURNE, Australia -Serena Williams saved some family pride Wednesday at the Australian Open. After her older sister Venus' upset loss to China's Li Na in the previous match at Rod Laver Arena, four-time champion Serena was down a set and 4-0 in the second before she rebounded for a 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2 win over Victoria Azarenka of Belarus. Venus Williams couldn't make it to an expected sister semifinal, losing in a mistake-filled match against Li featuring a combined 110 unforced errors. The result is that Serena will take on Li, who beat Venus 2-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5. Justine Henin, playing in her first Grand Slam tournament after coming back

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tiebreaker. She dominated the third set, converting both her break-point chances. Li, who is forecast to go into the WTA's top 10 rankings after the tournament ends, was dominant in the third set when it counted against Venus Williams, who has five Wimbledon titles and two at the U.S. Open. "I don't like losing at all," Venus said. "No one does. I put in a lot of hard work to come out here and get a win [I'm] not at all pleased." She didn't take kindly to suggestions that grass might be her only Grand Slam title option in the future. "Like I said so many times before, if I would have, kind of gotten involved in what people said I would have never left the ghetto," Venus said. "So here I am playing pro tennis, playing well. The sky's the limit in this sport. I'm looking for that." Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Gilbert Arenas, David Stern meet face-to-face By Marc Stein (ESPN.com)

already has met with league investigators. ESPN.com reported Friday that Gilbert Arenas met face-to-face suspension lengths for Arenas with NBA commissioner David a n d C r i t t e n t o n w o u l d b e Stern on Wednesday for the first announced this week in the wake time since the gun incident that of a Dec. 21 confrontation in the put Arenas' future with the Wizards' locker room in which Washington Wizards in doubt. both players have admitted to One source with knowledge of displaying unloaded handguns. the meeting told ESPN.com that Arenas entered a guilty plea Jan. Arenas told Stern that he expects 15 in District of Columbia and deserves to be suspended for Superior Court to a felony the rest of the season, which is weapons possession charge after believed to be the punishment admitting to bringing four guns Stern favors. into the locker room following a The Washington Post reported heated argument with Crittenton on its Web site that Arenas also during a card game on the team told Stern that he would urge the plane. players' association not to fight a Arenas missed his 12th season-long suspension. consecutive game Tuesday night A source told ESPN.com's Chris a f t e r S t e r n a n n o u n c e d a n Sheridan that Arenas' teammate, indefinite suspension on Jan. 6, Javaris Crittenton, will be Arenas' 28th birthday. suspended for the remainder of Arenas awaits sentencing March the season. 26. His sentence could range Arenas -- just as Crittenton did from probation and community Tuesday -- met with Stern in s e r v i c e a n d a f i n e t o a what was regarded as the final recommended prison term of step before the league announces zero to six months. a f i n i t e l e n g t h t o A r e n a s ' The sentence Arenas receives is indefinite suspension. expected to be the determining One source told ESPN.com that factor for the Wizards regarding Arenas' suspension details could their intent to void the remaining b e a n n o u n c e d a s e a r l y a s four seasons of Arenas' $111 Wednesday afternoon because he million contract, which is valued Submitted at 1/27/2010 1:06:30 PM

at just over $80 million. Many league and legal experts contend that the Wizards could not successfully attempt to void Arenas' contract unless he is forced to serve jail time during the NBA season. Crittenton, who hasn't played a single minute for the Wizards this season, met with Stern on Tuesday after being sentenced to a year of unsupervised probation following his guilty plea to a misdemeanor gun charge. Prosecutors agreed to drop a second misdemeanor charge of attempted carrying a pistol without a license. It also remains to be seen whether the NBA Players Association appeals the length of suspension in either case. "[Union director] Billy [Hunter] has been consistent with his message and his tone of really kind of waiting until the NBA comes out with what their position will be going forward and until then we can't respond," players association president Derek Fisher of the Los Angeles Lakers told ESPN.com last week. "It's never happened before, so there isn't anything you can match it to, per se," Fisher said.

"If I was commissioner? Well, I'm not privy what he has to balance, what all is at stake in terms of what message he sends to fans, to sponsors, to team owners. So there's a lot more on his plate to contemplate before he makes a decision. "We respect that process, but from a union perspective we have to protect the short-term and long-term rights of our members, and when members do wrong things or make mistakes, they'll be rightfully punished, and we're just here to make sure that that doesn't go beyond what it should be under the circumstances." Wizards coach Flip Saunders told The Washington Post on Tuesday: "I think right now, the whole situation, we're all pretty much numb to the whole thing. We knew when it got to the point that it got to, nothing good was going to come out of it." Marc Stein is a senior NBA writer for ESPN.com. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Top 10 most followed users on Twitter (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 1/27/2010 1:00:00 PM

Twitter has officially gone mainstream. Even with the controversial “suggested user list”, the tech and social media people have lost the lead in number of followers on Twitter. Even Barack Obama is beaten out by… Ashton Kutcher? Here are #1-3 and their number of followers, click through for the top ten and how many loyal minions they have: • Ashton Kutcher—4,439,951 • Britney Spears—4,302,924 • Ellen DeGeneres—4,167,824 (Via Twittermaven) More on the social media gamechanger and its move to the mainstream. Permalink| Leave a comment »

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Source: Kurt Warner of Arizona Cardinals to announce decision Friday? By Adam Schefter (ESPN.com) Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:26:16 PM

Source: Warner To Announce Plans Friday Source: Warner To Announce Plans Friday Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner will announce Friday at a news conference whether he plans to retire, according to a Cardinals source. The widespread assumption -one that hasn't changed for weeks -- is that the 38-year-old Warner will step away from the game. One possible indication of Warner's intentions is that he already has begun gathering his family so they can attend Friday's news conference at the team's training facility, according to sources. Warner also has another added motivation for a quick decision: He has multiple promotional appearance commitments during Super Bowl week in Miami. Rather than answer retirement

questions then, Warner would prefer to remove the focus from his future as quickly as possible so it's not an issue next week, according to a source. Since the Cardinals were eliminated from the playoffs in a 45-14 loss to the New Orleans Saints on divisional playoff weekend, Warner has spent his days huddling over his decision with family and his agent, Mark Bartelstein. Warner has been voted to five Pro Bowls, won two NFL MVP awards and one Super Bowl and became the second quarterback in history to throw more than 100 touchdown passes for two NFL franchises. In the wild-card round against the Green Bay Packers, Warner didn't play like someone at the end of his career. He threw for 379 yards, five touchdowns and no interceptions during Arizona's 51-45 overtime victory. But next week in the divisional round, during an interception return, Saints defensive end

Bobby McCray leveled Warner with a hit that left the quarterback with a bruised chest. Earlier this season, Warner suffered a concussion. It was at least his third concussion, and he later estimated it was quite possibly his fifth. Warner also had the added memory of Cardinals wide receiver Anquan Boldin taking a hit that left him with a broken jaw last season. Warner told ESPN's Rick Reilly earlier this month that he contemplated retiring after witnessing that hit. "What happened to Q," Warner said, "was personal for me. You realize you're one hit from something that affects you long-, long-term." Warner has a year remaining on a two-year, $23 million contract. Adam Schefter is an ESPN NFL Insider. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Luis Miguel and Alex Gonzalez Make Over Their West Village Restaurant By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 1/27/2010 10:33:37 AM

When owners Luis Miguel and drummer Alex Gonzalez of the band Maná wanted to revamp their hot West Village restaurant DeSantos, they looked to the master of rustic interior design Jay Bearden, responsible, among other things, for the antler-clad Freemans on the Lower East Side. Bearden transformed the space with 1930s Asian-inspired lamps, carrera marble top, walnut stools, and bespoke chairs. So join Sienna Miller, Victor Glemaud, and Lauryn Hill (to name a few) who have been spotted there recently, and try the baked asparagus au gratin or the jewel-toned red and gold beet salad prepared with roasted corn and almond crusted goat cheese. Or treat yourself to Alo’s secret pasta recipe: whole-wheat pappardelle with veal Bolognese. With Gonzalez in charge you’ll be sure to hear an eclectic mix of tunes. Groove to the restaurant’s playlist on your own time: "Television" by Baaba Maal "Don't Explain" by Billie

Holiday "Private Life" by Grace Jones "Alice in Wonderland" by Angela McCluskey "Ambient Light" by Harold Bard and Bryan Eno "Stuck Inside a Mobile with the Memphis Blues" by Bob Dylan "Crazy Baldhead" by Bob Marley "Love in the Old Fashioned way" by Charles Aznavour "Alameda" by Elliott Smith —Laura Stoloff

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Match Forecast: Serena Williams vs. Li Na By Christopher Botta (FanHouse Main)

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Filed under: Australian Open, WTA Storyline: The No. 1 seed, Serena Williams, can avenge her sister's quarterfinal loss and return to the final with a victory over the surprising Li Na. The winner faces either Justin Henin or Jie Zheng for the championship on Saturday. Serena Williams (1) vs. Li Na (16) Semifinals: Thursday, first match Day Session Rod Laver Arena Matchup: Li upset Venus Williams is a horrific, unforced error-filled quarterfinal match, 26, 7-6 (4), 7-5, but that should not take away from her magnificent two weeks in Melbourne. The 27-year-old from China had never made it to the semis of a Grand Slam until now, and the chance -- however remote -- of facing Jie in an allChinese final is sure to be inspiring. This is the first time

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China has had two women advance to the semis at the same Grand Slam event. Williams struggled mightily in the quarters against Victoria Azarenka, losing the first set and trailing 4-2 in the second before finding her game and taking over decisively. The four-time winner at the Australian is now vulnerable to an upset as she battles through leg injuries and mounting fatigue after going the distance with Azarenka.

We went hands-on with many of the hottest e-readers to be announced this year. Check out our up close and personal shots of Plastic Logic’s Que, Spring Design’s Alex, and Samsung’s E101 and E6. Trackback URL: http://www.digitaltrends.com/ph otogalleries/hands-on-photos-oft h e - t o p - 2 0 1 0 - e readers/trackback/ blog comments powered by Disqus Head-to-Head: Williams leads 3 flight on Friday." -1, defeating Li in Stanford, Prediction: For anyone else, the Five Filters featured article: Calif., and Miami last year, but quote above would be disaster. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: losing to her in three sets in But this is what makes Serena PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Germany in 2008. tick, what will enable her to Term Extraction. Quote: The defending champion shake off frustration if she falls on falling behind to Azarenka -- behind to Li. Not that she likely "I didn't expect to win when I will. Williams in two sets. was down 0-4. I was like, 'Oh Follow Us on Twitter Friend Us well, at least I'm still in doubles. on Facebook I was actually thinking -- it wasn't a champion's thought -- if I lose today and I don't win in doubles, I guess I can catch a

How scientists have revealed a dinosaur's true colours (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:47:27 PM

The colours of dinosaurs have long been a mystery, since soft tissues aren’t preserved in the

fossil record. But for the first time, scientists have teased out colours from fossilized feathers to reveal the orange and white ringed tail of a 125-million-yearold dinosaur! The fascinating

article outlines the incredible

methods these brilliant paleontologists used, and how this development finally takes dinosaur colours out of the hands of artistry and places them into the realm of science.

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Hands-on: Apple iPad By Christopher Grant (Joystiq) Submitted at 1/27/2010 3:25:00 PM

Click for gallery Hey, so you know all about the iPhone, right? In the brief time we spent with Apple's new iPad, from a gaming perspective, there's not much more to add. It's a big iPod Touch -- both are missing the iPhone's camera -but iPad's got a flexible data plan option; no contract required. While Apple showed off some iPad-optimized games during today's keynote, neither Gameloft's new version of N.O.V.A. nor Electronic Arts' new version of Need for Speed: Shift were available for demo. Instead, we took some plain ol' apps for a spin, including Scrabble and Need for Speed: Shift(the current iPhone version; not the upcoming iPad one). The "2X" button indeed fills the screen with a simple tap, turning your low-res iPhone apps into full-screen experiences; however, the increase comes

with a graphical cost. The games are scaled up and look like it. That doesn't mean they're not entirely playable -- Need for Speed actually controlled better with the larger screen; tilting the iPad had less of an effect on the screen than doing the same on the iPhone's comparatively tiny display, meaning we were able to focus on the action while moving the screen around (something

many iPhone games simply don't do as well). Similarly, the larger surface means your big fat thumbs won't obscure as much of the screen as they do on the iPhone -- that means more room for on-screen pads, as shown in the iPad-optimized port of N.O.V.A. The Apple representative guarding the preview device told us that the iPad-optimized games

will be featured in their own part of the App Store. These aren't "combo" apps that work one way on iPhone or iPod Touch and another way on iPad -- they are separate apps. While the higherresolution graphics and iPadspecific optimizations will surely result in better gaming experiences on the iPad, we're not sure if existing owners of iPhone games will be interested

in the perceived "iPad tax" for an optimized version -- your regular iPhone games will work on both devices, after all. Perhaps enhanced iPad games will have "downscaled" versions for iPhone, or perhaps some developers will discover a way to bundle both together? It's not clear, but we're reaching out to Apple to clarify some of the App Store functionality and will talk with developers to get their take on the new device. The new SDK is available today, so many iPhone developers will be busy exploring what's new for iPad. Gallery: Hands-on: Apple iPad Hands-on: Apple iPad originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

Botkier Opens Nolita Flagship By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog)

the doors of its first flagship store at 246 Mott Street, offering variations on the classic Submitted at 1/27/2010 11:47:33 AM “Trigger” bag along with the Nolita’s family of stylish l a t e s t c o l l e c t i o n o f s n a k e boutiques like Tory Burch and lambskin hobos and satchels. Resurrection just welcomed a Creative director Monica Botkier n e w n e i g h b o r t h i s m o n t h . envisioned a plush atmosphere inspired ceilings mixed with a Accessory brand Botkier opened for her shoppers—Renaissance palette of warm grays, copper

infused purples, and metallic gold wallpaper—with the help of French-born NYC-based designer and interior decorator Valerie Pasquiou. Also new to the brand, a collection of washed python satchels in painted gold and chocolate brown, exclusive to the Manhattan store. These

styles are one-of-a-kind so we recommend stopping by ASAP. —Laura Stoloff Follow ELLE on Twitter. Become our Facebook fan!

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Conservative ties bind 4 La. phone plot suspects (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)

Pelican Institute and had recently criticized Landrieu for voting in favor of health care legislation NEW ORLEANS – Four men a f t e r s e c u r i n g a M e d i c a i d accused of trying to tamper with provision helpful to her state. Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary O'Keefe was a featured speaker Landrieu's office phones shared a at a Pelican Institute luncheon common experience as young days before his arrest, though i d e o l o g u e s w r i t i n g f o r institute president Kevin Kane c o n s e r v a t i v e p u b l i c a t i o n s . said Wednesday that he had no Federal authorities said two of idea what happened at Landrieu's the men posed as telephone office or what the four were workers with hard hats, tool belts doing there. Flanagan, son of the and fluorescent vests and walked acting U.S. Attorney for the into Landrieu's office in a New Western District of Louisiana, O r l e a n s f e d e r a l b u i l d i n g was a contract worker for the M o n d a y . A f e d e r a l l a w institute, mostly writing for its e n f o r c e m e n t o f f i c i a l s a i d blog. Wednesday one of the hard hats "Robert has done terrific work was rigged with a tiny camera. and I think very highly of him, The official spoke on condition and am very sorry to see him in o f a n o n y m i t y b e c a u s e t h e this difficult situation," Kane investigation is ongoing. said. The most well-known suspect is It's not yet clear whether the James O'Keefe, 25, who posed as plan was a prank intended to be a pimp for a hidden-camera captured on camera or a more e x p o s e t h a t d a m a g e d t h e serious attempt at political r e p u t a t i o n o f t h e l i b e r a l espionage, as claimed by state community-organizing group D e m o c r a t s w h o d u b b e d i t ACORN and made him a "Louisiana Watergate." conservative darling. Democratic National Committee O'Keefe and suspect Joseph spokesman Hari Sevugan said Basel, 24, formed their own R e p u b l i c a n s o n c e p r a i s e d conservative publications on O'Keefe as an American hero, their college campuses. A third "yet today, in light of these suspect, Stan Dai, 24, was editor deplorable and illegal attacks on of his university's conservative the office of a United States paper and directed a program senator by their champion, aimed at getting college students Republicans have not offered a interested in the intelligence field single iota of disgust, a whisper after 9/11. of indignation or even a hint of The fourth suspect, Robert outrage." Flanagan, 24, wrote for the New In October, Rep. Pete Olson, ROrleans-based conservative Texas, sponsored a resolution Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:35:22 PM

praising O'Keefe and the woman who posed as a prostitute, Hannah Giles, for their investigation of "fraudulent and illegal practices and misuse of taxpayer dollars" by ACORN. Thirty-one Republican congressmen signed on as cosponsors. In response to the arrests, Olson said that "if recent events conclude that any laws were broken in the incident in Sen. Landrieu's office — that is not something I condone." A witness told authorities O'Keefe was sitting in the waiting area of Landrieu's office and appeared to record Basel and Flanagan on his cell phone when they arrived posing as phone workers. Landrieu, who was in Washington at the time, said in a statement that the plot was "unsettling" for her and her staff. The federal official who spoke on condition of anonymity said one of the suspects was picked up in a car a couple of blocks away with a listening device that could pick up transmissions. Another official said Dai was the suspect arrested outside. All four were charged with entering federal property under false pretenses for the purpose of committing a felony, which carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. "It was poor judgment," Flanagan's lawyer, Garrison Jordan, said. "I don't think there was any intent or motive to

commit a crime." O'Keefe, Basel and Dai returned to the courthouse carrying suitcases Wednesday morning for private appointments with the department that handles arrangements with defendants before trial. None would comment as they entered and exited the courthouse. Flanagan, who was not with them, is the only suspect who lives in Louisiana. Basel is from Minnesota; O'Keefe, New Jersey; and Dai, the D.C.Virginia area. As O'Keefe left jail Tuesday with Dai and Basel, he said only "Veritas," Latin for truth. As he got into a cab outside, O'Keefe said, "The truth shall set me free." His father, James O'Keefe, Jr., of Westwood, N.J., said he had not spoken to his son in several days and did not know he had traveled to New Orleans, let alone why he went to Landrieu's office. "That would not be something that I can even imagine him doing," he said. "I think this is going to be blown out of proportion." The allegations were quickly condemned by ACORN, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now. Its political affiliates have registered hundreds of thousands of voters in urban and other poor areas of the country. O'Keefe's arrest "is further evidence of his disregard for the law in pursuit of his extremist

agenda," ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis said in a statement. The organization's Twitter feed commented on the news: "Couldn't have happened to a more deserving soul." Last year, O'Keefe used a hidden camera to record ACORN staffers who appeared to offer illegal tax advice and support the misuse of public funds and illegal trafficking in children. The videos were first posted on biggovernment.com, a site run by conservative Andrew Breitbart. In the past, Breitbart has said O'Keefe — now a paid c o n t r i b u t o r t o BigGovernment.com — is an independent filmmaker, not an employee. In an e-mail to The Associated Press, Breitbart said: "We have no knowledge about or connection to any alleged acts and events involving James O'Keefe at Senator Mary Landrieu's office." Dai is a former assistant director of a program at Trinity Washington University that taught students about careers in intelligence, university president Patricia McGuire said. It was part of a national effort to interest students at liberal arts colleges in careers in intelligence but did not teach spy craft, she said. He was listed as a "freelance CONSERVATIVE page 68

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Apple unveils iPad tablet device (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 1/27/2010 11:44:06 AM

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Steve Jobs unveils Apple's iPad device Apple has put an end to weeks of speculation by unveiling its tablet device, which it has called the iPad. Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive unveiled the touchscreen device at an event in San Francisco. Mr Jobs described the tablet, which will cost between $499 and $829 in the US, as a "third category" between smartphones and laptops. The device, which looks like a large iPhone, can be used to watch films, play games and browse the web. The firm has also done a deal with publishers including Penguin, Macmillian and Harper Collins to allow e-books to be downloaded directly to the device through a new iBook Store. "You can download right onto your iPad," said Mr Jobs. He also showed off magazines and newspapers on the device. 'Gold rush' He told an audience of journalists, analysts and industry peers that the device lets people "hold the whole web in your hands". "What this device does is extraordinary. It is the best

browsing experience you have ever had," he said. The iPad is in effect a giant iPhone which can do just about everything the phone can do but may provide a better way of watching video or playing games. The most interesting aspect is the launch of iBooks, the online book store with which Apple hopes to revolutionise publishing world just as iTunes transformed the music industry. That could spell trouble for Amazon's Kindle and other ereaders. But the big question is whether Steve Jobs is right in thinking there's a yawning gap between smartphones and netbooks which the iPad will fill.

movies straight to the device. 'Cheap laptops' It is not the first touchscreen tablet computer on the market. Earlier this month, manufactures such as Dell and HP showed off devices at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Some industry experts have questioned the need for another category of device, alongside laptops, smartphones and netbooks. Analyst firm CCSInsight said that it remained "sceptical" of the market. It described the iPad as "a supersize iPod Touch that would get little interest if not from Apple". Mr Jobs dismissed netbooks as "just cheap laptops". It's not entirely clear if a huge the iPhone. People with both can "Netbooks aren't better at number of people - apart from synchronise their apps between anything - they're slow and have dedicated early adopters - are the two devices. low quality displays," he told the desperate for yet another device. "We think it's going to be a audience. The device has a 9.7-inch multi- whole other gold rush for "They're not a third category touch display, allowing people to developers," said Scott Forstall, device, but we have something type directly on to the screen, as who runs Apple's app division. that we think is." well as manipulate pictures and Apple revealed that more than The cheapest iPad, which will move control the action in games 3bn apps have been downloaded come with 16GB of flash with their fingers. However, from its App store. memory and wi-fi will cost $499. u s e r s c a n a l s o p l u g i n a The New York Times showed The most expensive version, keyboard. off its app for the iPad, which with 64GB of storage and the Apple claim it has a battery life recreates the look and feel of the ability to connect via a mobile of 10 hours. newspaper but allows it to have 3G signal, will cost $829. It comes preloaded with twelve new features, such as video. Users will also have to also a applications - essentially multi- "We're pioneering the next monthly subscription for 3G touch versions of existing Mac version of digital journalism," connectivity, but in the US software such as iPhoto. said Martin Nisenholtz, a senior owners will not have to sign a However, owners can also executive at the newspaper. yearly contract. download third party apps - both It also includes the firm's iTunes specially designed for the iPad software built in, allowing APPLE page 70 and those already available for people to purchase songs and

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Florida Ex-Attorney Pleads Guilty in $1.2B Ponzi Scheme (FOXNews.com)

though federal officials have never accused her of being involved. "Two years ago when I FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. A married the sweetest man I'd disbarred attorney who courted ever met, I would never have politicians and star athletes and believed our future together led a flamboyant lifestyle even could come to this." b y f l a s h y S o u t h F l o r i d a Acting U.S. Attorney Jeffrey s t a n d a r d s p l e a d e d g u i l t y Sloman said the case is not over. Wednesday to federal charges Prosecutors have said former that he ran a $1.2 billion Ponzi Rothstein associates may face scheme. criminal charges, along with Scott Rothstein, 47, pleaded bankers and others who might guilty to all five counts against have been involved. him, including wire fraud, "We intend to pursue every lead money-laundering conspiracy and arrest those, prosecute those, a n d a r a c k e t e e r i n g c h a r g e who are criminally liable," commonly used to take down Sloman said. Mafia chieftains. The charges The plea caps a downward spiral carry a maximum sentence of that began in late October, when 100 years in federal prison and at court documents say Rothstein least $1.5 million in potential fled Florida on a chartered jet to fines. Morocco carrying $500,000 in Sentencing is set for May 6 cash after wiring another $16 before U.S. District Judge James million to a Casablanca account I. Cohn. he controlled. He returned to Rothstein said little during a face charges and has been in brief hearing Wednesday, other federal custody since the FBI than responding "guilty" to the arrested him Dec. 1. charges and answering the It was a swift fall for Rothstein, judge's many questions with who in the months before had "yes" or "I understand." hosted fundraisers or other His wife, Kim Rothstein, spoke events for state and national publicly about the case for the politicians including Florida first time, reading a statement to GOP Gov. Charlie Crist and reporters outside the courthouse. 2008 Republican presidential "Today is the saddest day of my nominee John McCain and his life," she said. She also denied running mate, former Alaska wrongdoing in the scheme, Gov. Sarah Palin. Submitted at 1/27/2010 9:25:54 AM

The state's Democratic and Republican parties and Crist have since returned hundreds of thousands in contributions from Rothstein, whose office was festooned with political and sports photos and memorabilia. He gave generously to dozens of charities, many of which are being forced to return the money. Prosecutors say it was all an elaborate facade, meant to lend an air of power and respectability to Rothstein's four-year scam. They say he used fake legal cases — at least once forging the signature of a federal judge — to lure people with promises of huge payouts over time in exchange for an up-front investment. "He presented a dangerous mixture of public trust with the opportunity to make purported easy money," said Martin B. Goldberg, a former federal prosecutor now in private practice. The ripple effects have been farreaching. Authorities have seized two dozen homes and other real estate once owned by Rothstein, along with 20 exotic cars — Ferraris, a Bugatti Veyron, a Maserati among them — as well as numerous bank accounts, an 87-foot yacht, expensive jewelry and other assets. All will

eventually be used to repay dozens of jilted investors, many of whom have filed lawsuits seeking at least some of their money back. The law firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler is now defunct, with as many as 50 of its 70 former attorneys under investigation by the Florida Bar for possible irregularities involving client trust funds, according to Bar spokeswoman Francine Walker. Also under investigation by Fort Lauderdale officials is the city's police chief, Frank Adderley, who once flew with Rothstein on a private jet to attend a Miami Dolphins football game at the New York Jets. City officials are rewriting rules that allowed offduty officers to provide security for Rothstein's home and business ventures. Meanwhile, the Florida Democratic Party returned $200,000 in contributions from Rothstein's law firm, with the state GOP returning some $150,000. Crist returned $9,600 that Rothstein and his wife had given to Crist's U.S. Senate campaign. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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consultant" in a Junior Statesmen program at the Central Intelligence Agency where he appeared as a speaker. O'Keefe and Basel were also active in conservative publications at their respective colleges, Rutgers University and the University of MinnesotaMorris. They gave a joint interview Jan. 14 to CampusReform.org, a Web site that supports college conservatives on student publications. "I happen to call what I do shoe leather journalism and not advocacy journalism," O'Keefe was quoted as saying. "So, I would consider it just journalism." ___ Associated Press Writers Kevin McGill in New Orleans, Pete Yost in Washington, Justin Pritchard in Los Angeles and Ben Nuckols in Baltimore contributed to this report. ___ Pelican Institute: http://www.pelicaninstitute.org/ BigGovernment.com: http://biggovernment.com/ U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's o f f i c i a l s i t e : http://landrieu.senate.gov/ Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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$90 annual fee they pay to register as a medical marijuana user. D E N V E R – C o l o r a d o William Chengelis said he can't lawmakers have an unlikely ally g e t h i s r e g u l a r V e t e r a n s in their first attempt to curb the Administration doctors to sign s t a t e ' s b o o m i n g m e d i c a l off on medical marijuana and marijuana industry: owners of said buying pot illegally and the some of the shops that sell paying the $100 fine would be pot. cheaper than paying a private Many dispensary owners say doctor for follow-up visits. they're on board with regulations "I cannot afford this bill," if they give them uniform Chengelis told lawmakers. guidelines and avert a more In response, the committee severe crackdown like one backed allowing the state to approved this week in Los waive the $90 fee for those who Angeles. Hundreds of Los can't afford it. Sponsor Sen. Angeles pot shops face closure Chris Romer, D-Denver, said he after the City Council voted would also see if there was a way Tuesday to cap the number of t o a l l o w d i s p e n s a r i e s t o dispensaries in the city at 70. reimburse veterans for doctor The Colorado proposal — visits. which a legislative committee While some advocates see any approved 6-1 Wednesday — regulations as a violation of the would make it more difficult for medical marijuana law passed by recreational pot users to become v o t e r s i n 2 0 0 0 , m a n y legal medical marijuana patients. dispensaries say they welcome It would bar doctors from the certainty that more regulation working out of dispensaries, would provide. make it illegal for them to offer "We're saying we really can't discounts to patients who agree operate without any rules," said to use a designated dispensary, M a t t B r o w n , a m e d i c a l and require follow-up doctor marijuana patient and leader of a visits. coalition of about 150 Most of the 150 people at the dispensaries and over 1,000 hearing opposed the bill. Many patients. of them worry it will cost them Erik Santos, who operates a hundreds of dollars on top of the dispensary out of an office Submitted at 1/27/2010 1:22:50 PM

building in a trendy part of Denver's downtown section, thinks it makes sense to limit large marijuana growers to industrial areas and keep dispensaries out of residential areas. He wants lawmakers to pass laws now before even more dispensaries open up and prevent those with possible criminal ties from giving the industry a bad name. Another bill still in the works could set up more regulations on dispensaries and suppliers. Colorado cities are also looking to lawmakers to pass regulations. Hundreds of dispensaries have popped up across the state — in empty storefronts, office buildings and even a historic movie theater. Some cities have passed moratoriums on pot shops as they figure out how to regulate them and wait for more guidance from the state. The Denver suburb of Centennial voted to ban dispensaries and close a shop that had already opened, but a court blocked that move. "Everyone is waiting to see what happens this (legislative) session," said Mark Radtke, a lobbyist for the Colorado Municipal League. Colorado already has some rules in place for medical marijuana

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dispensaries, including prohibiting dispensaries within 1,000 feet of schools, day cares and other dispensaries. Felons convicted within the last five years would be barred from running shops. Dispensary owners would have to be licensed, pass a criminal background check and pay a $2,000 application fee along with $3,000 a year to renew licenses. The rules are set to take effect March 1, although they could change depending on what state lawmakers to decide to do. Fear that dispensaries would attract crime has been raised by those concerned about the growth of dispensaries. But police in Denver are discounting that. Police say medical marijuana dispensaries were robbed or burglarized at a lower rate than liquor stores or even banks last year. A memo reported by The Denver Post on Wednesday says they were hit at about the same rate as pharmacies. Five Filters featured article: (BBC News | Americas | Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: World Edition) PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Submitted at 1/27/2010 8:20:07 AM Term Extraction. US President Barack Obama will outline a "hopeful track" for the year ahead in his first State of the Union address to Congress, his spokesman has said. OBAMA page 71

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With unemployment at 10% and a soaring deficit, correspondents say the speech will focus on jobs and the economy. Mr Obama has recently been rattled by a slump in voter confidence and victories for Republicans in three key states. In a recent BBC/Harris poll, 84% of Americans rated the current state of the union as negative. 'Angry and frustrated' Mr Obama is due to address a joint session of Congress in the House of Representatives at 2100 local time (0200 GMT). His spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president would address "the anger and frustration that Americans are facing about the economy - getting back on track". "The last year is one of the most challenging in our history," Mr Gibbs told MSNBC television, but he said the president was "more hopeful about the future than ever". Last year Mr Obama's main legislative priority was healthcare reform, but as the bill became mired in Congress and

unemployment rose to 10%, it became clear the public was more concerned about job creation and reducing the $1.4tn US deficit, says the BBC's Richard Lister in Washington. The deficit is forecast at $1.35tn in 2010, near its highest levels as a percentage of gross domestic product since World War II, figures from the Congressional Budget Office show. Mr Obama has indicated that he will call for a three-year limited freeze on domestic spending, but that has outraged liberals in his own party and drawn fire from Republicans who want deeper cuts. Republican power The Republican party will have more power over the agenda this year, thanks to their election victory in Massachusetts last week, which has denied the president sufficient Senate votes for healthcare reform and possibly new laws on emissions reduction too, our correspondent says. This year's State of the Union is a chance for Mr Obama to refocus his presidency and

reposition his party with one eye to the Congressional elections in November, he adds. Among the other topics expected to feature are immigration reform, cap-andtrade global warming legislation, education reform and rules to rein in Wall Street. The foreign policy portion of the speech will probably be limited to the US involvement in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Most polls show Mr Obama's popularity hovering around 50% or just below, but his overall approval rating and grades for handling issues like the economy have dropped significantly. A BBC/Harris poll has found that significant numbers of Americans believe Mr Obama has devoted too little attention to employment (59%), the budget deficit (56%) and the economy (48%). On the flip side, 44% think he has spent too much time on healthcare reform. The majority (51%) want him to focus on the economy during his speech, followed by employment (42%).

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Opinion on his overall performance is split, with equal numbers (20%) grading his first year performance as an A, a C, and an F. He has proved most popular in the western states and among people aged 35-44, and least popular in the southern states and with those aged 55 and older. The poll was conducted online over two days in January. It surveyed 2,010 adults in the US, adjusting for demographic factors and propensity to be online. You can watch President Obama's speech live on the BBC News website, as well as on BBC World News. Print Sponsor Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Man rescued in Haiti quake rubble (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 1/27/2010 2:40:55 AM

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The man was pulled from the rubble of a shop that had been frequently looted A man has been pulled alive from the rubble in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, two weeks after the earthquake which destroyed the city. He was rescued from the ruins of a building in the centre of the city, and taken to hospital by US troops. Officials said it seemed he had become trapped by an aftershock two days after the quake and was severely dehydrated. The rescue comes 14 days after the 7.0-magnitude quake, which killed as many as 200,000 people. Haiti has been rattled by at least 50 tremors since the original quake. MAN page 73

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groups that opposed the measure. The defense called just two expert witnesses during the trial. SAN FRANCISCO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Testimony More than a dozen witnesses ended Wednesday in a historic appeared for the plaintiffs, federal case challenging the including sociologists, legal constitutionality of California's experts and gays who talked ban on same-sex marriage. about the effect of the ban on The trial included nearly 12 their lives. days of wide-ranging testimony Lawyers for the two gay couples on the meaning of marriage, the that filed the lawsuit tried to nature of sexual orientation, and show the U.S. Supreme Court the role of religion in shaping has recognized marriage as a attitudes about both. fundamental right and that Chief U.S. District Judge denying gays the right to wed Vaughn R. Walker heard the causes them harm case without a jury and has said They also argued that extending he will take time to review the marriage to same-sex couples evidence before hearing closing w o u l d n o t u n d e r m i n e arguments, probably sometime in h e t e r o s e x u a l u n i o n s . March. Plaintiffs lawyer David Boies His verdict is likely to be said Walker had been provided eventually appealed to the U.S. with more than enough evidence Supreme Court. to strike down the ban. Lawyers for the sponsors of "We said on the first day of trial Proposition 8. the state's voter- we would prove three things," he approved ballot measure, have said during a news conference asked Walker to reserve their outside court. "Marriage is a o p t i o n t o p r e s e n t m o r e fundamental right, that depriving documents based on subpoenas gays and lesbians the right to they have issued to gay rights marry hurts them and hurts their Submitted at 1/27/2010 1:26:26 PM

children; and there was no reason, no societal benefit in not allowing them to get married." The defense countered that limiting marriage to a man and a woman serves a paramount social function that outweighs civil rights concerns. Andy Pugno, a lawyer representing Proposition 8 backers, credited the plaintiffs with "putting on a spectacular show" but insisted much of their testimony was irrelevant to proving California voters acted irrationally in approving Proposition 8. "To invalidate people's vote, the plaintiffs have a really tough job," Pugno told reporters. "They have to prove the people voted irrationally when they voted to preserve the traditional definition of marriage ... The question is whether the people have a right to decide what is best." The last witness to testify was David Blankenhorn, president of the New York-based Institute for American Values, who said the rights of same-sex couples

should come second to preserving the cherished social institution of marriage. Under cross-examination, Blankenhorn conceded there were many valid reasons for allowing gays to wed, but the considerations are outweighed by the likely damage it would cause the already weakened state of heterosexual unions. He acknowledged, however, that allowing gays to wed would have positive consequences for same-sex couples and society, such as scoring "a victory for the worthy ideas of tolerance and inclusion," reducing anti-gay prejudice and hate crimes, and creating a higher standard of living for same-sex couples. "I do believe it is almost certainly true that gay and lesbian couples and their children would benefit from having gay marriage," he said. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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The survivor, a man in his early 30s, was pulled from the ruins covered in dust. "He was buried in the rubble for 12 days. The man had a broken leg and severe dehydration," a statement from the US military said. The Associated Press named the man as Rico Dibrivell and said he was discovered initially by a group of Haitians who pulled him from the rubble of a shop that had been repeatedly looted. Although he had apparently been trapped by an aftershock rather than the initial earthquake, the man is the longest survivor so far under the rubble. A rescue team has also been digging into the rubble of a university, after a man said he had managed to phone his cousin who said she was trapped in a basement, along with several other people. Some bodies have already been pulled out but as yet the woman has not been found. On Saturday, Haiti's government declared the search and rescue phase over. It is estimated more than 130 people have been pulled alive by rescue teams in the Haitian

capital since the quake. However, many more have been rescued by ordinary Haitians, often with their bare hands. Aid call Earlier, Haitian President Rene Preval made an urgent appeal for more tents to house up to a million people left homeless by the tremor. Mr Preval said 200,000 tents were needed before the expected start of the rainy season in May. His call came as donor nations and organisations met in Montreal, Canada, to assess the aid effort. In an interview with the BBC, the president's wife, Elisabeth Preval, appealed for patience as criticism grew about the government's response to the disaster. "The president is working 24 hours a day, continuing to assess the damage, trying to direct the aid relief where the Haitian people need it" she said. She added that the administration had been overwhelmed by the disaster, but that ministers had managed to get on to the streets on the day of the earthquake to assess the damage.

The president, who lost his house in the quake, is planning to move into a tent on the lawn of the destroyed National Palace in the centre of the capital. The Haitian government wants to relocate some 400,000 people, currently in makeshift camps across the capital, to temporary tent villages outside the city. But aid workers warned that if the camps were too big they could pose security problems, including robberies, rapes and gang activities. Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she "resented" criticism of American assistance to Haiti. She pinpointed some media outlets which had "either misunderstood or deliberately misconstrued what was a civilian and military response". Print Sponsor Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

2 Mass. Teens Suspended in Cyber Bullying Suicide Case (FOXNews.com)

Smith said the bullying often surrounded arguments about teen dating, Boston.com reported. Two Mass. high school students In the letter to parents, dated have been suspended following Jan. 20, Smith addressed the the suicide of a teen girl who was d i s a g r e e m e n t s : " T h e s e allegedly bullied at school and disagreements centered on online, the BostonHerald.com r e l a t i o n s h i p / d a t i n g i s s u e s . reported. School personnel immediately Friends and school officials told intervened ... and both counseled MyFoxBoston.com that Phoebe and provided consequences as Prince, 15, had been picked on the situations required. It is what since moving to Massachusetts happened after those incidents from Ireland last fall. School were over that is cause for bullies reportedly taunted the significant concern.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; teen through text messages, Even after her death, bullies Facebook and other social posted disparaging messages on networking sites. her Facebook memorial page. South Hadley High School T h e c o m m e n t s h a d t o b e superintendent Gus Sayer said r e m o v e d f r o m t h e p a g e . there have been students Local police and the " d i s c i p l i n e d a l r e a d y i n Northwestern District Attorney connection with the incident," are investigating. First Assistant BostonHerald.com reported. District Attorney would not "Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still an investigation c o m m e n t o n w h e t h e r a n y going on, which may lead to criminal charges would be disciplinary action against other brought against any students, the students," said Sayer. paper reported. South Hadley High Principal Click here for more from the Daniel Smith sent out a letter to Boston Herald. parents of students at the high Click here for more from school. In the letter, he called MyFoxBoston.com. Prince "smart, charming, and as Five Filters featured article: is the case with many teenagers, Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: complicated ... We will never PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, know the specific reasons why Term Extraction. she chose to take her life," Boston.com reported. Submitted at 1/27/2010 6:59:02 AM

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she'll have a warm welcome," said Graves, one of about two dozen who helped with the WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah decorating project. "We'll keep Friends and family of a Utah hoping. We'll keep praying. woman missing since December We'll keep her name out there." have decorated her empty home Police contend that Josh Powell with purple bows and hearts in has not been forthcoming with hopes of renewing public interest information in interviews with in the case. detectives. Susan Powell, 28, was last seen "We have an open invitation to at home on Dec. 7. Her husband, Joshua to come down, or invite Josh Powell, told police he saw us up there, to clear up some his wife about 12:30 a.m. as he q u e s t i o n s f r o m h i s i n i t i a l left with the couple's young sons statements and help us verify for a winter camping trip on the what he has told us," West Pony Express trail west of Salt V a l l e y C i t y C a p t . T o m Lake City. McLachlan said. Josh Powell, 34, has been called New information and tips from the sole person of interest in the the public have recently slowed, case, but has not been arrested. so investigators appreciate He moved away from Utah efforts by family and friends to weeks ago to stay with family in keep Susan Powell's story in Washington state. His sister, front of the public, McLachlan Jennifer Graves, says the West said. V a l l e y C i t y h o u s e w i l l A telephone message left for eventually be sold. Josh Powell's attorney, Scott Messages taped to the house Williams, was not immediately Wednesday expressed love for returned Wednesday. Williams Susan and promised a continued h a s s a i d J o s h P o w e l l h a s effort to find her and bring her cooperated with police and has home. never been asked to take "If she comes back here, at least investigators to the place he Submitted at 1/27/2010 12:47:52 AM

camped. Graves and her husband said they were in Washington last Friday and had dinner with Josh Powell and his children — Charlie, 5, and Brayden, 3 — at her father's home. The couple declined to provide any details of their conversation with Josh Powell about his missing wife or his cooperation with police. "I've been disappointed with his efforts," Jennifer Graves said. "He's chosen to walk away. His job right now is to talk to the police." Graves said her nephews — both of whom celebrated birthdays in January — are doing well under the circumstances. "They are aware that (Susan) is 'lost,' that's what they have been told," she said. Graves said the family remains hopeful that Susan Powell is alive and will be found. "Just keep looking, keep looking for her," she implored. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Cops Confirm Remains Found Are of Va. Tech Student (FOXNews.com)

Harrington's family. Harrington, a 20-year-old junior at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, The human remains discovered hadn't been seen since October, T u e s d a y o n a s o u t h e r n when she was separated from her Albermarle County, Va., farm friends at a Metallica concert in are confirmed to be those of Charlottesville. missing Virginia Tech student The skeletal remains were Morgan Harrington, police said. discovered Tuesday morning on Dan Harrington, Morgan's the Anchorage Farm by owner father, issued a statement: David Bass. "Morgan's mother, Gil, and I are Bass told The Associated Press overwhelmingly saddened by he was feeding his cattle at the yesterday's discovery, but we are time and saw the remains from also relieved because our his tractor. He declined questions can now be answered a d d i t i o n a l c o m m e n t . and we can give our daughter a "I looked down and saw what proper burial." looked like a human skull and "We know that because of the my first thought was that it was good life Morgan led and the Morgan Harrington," Bass told love she created for everyone WTVR.com. around her, she is now in a safer, Click here to watch video from better place. We appreciate MyFoxDC.com. everyone's respect for our Click here for more from privacy at this difficult time and WTVR.com. we thank everyone who has The Associated Press helped us through this tragedy contributed to this report. and helped us find Morgan." Five Filters featured article: S L I D E S H O W : M o r g a n Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Harrington Vanishes at Concert PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Investigators said Wednesday Term Extraction. the confirmation was based on dental records provided by Submitted at 1/27/2010 9:44:51 AM