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Obama says football helmet will come in handy at State of the Union By Alister Bull (Front Row Washington)

the Union,” he said in Elyria, Ohio. Obama will give the address before Congress on Submitted at 1/22/2010 3:16:36 PM Wednesday. President Barack Obama, who “I could knock some heads with has taken some friendly fire from it,” he said, brandishing the his Democratic Party this week, g l e a m i n g f o o t b a l l h e l m e t was presented with a handy piece complete with the presidential of protective headgear on Friday eagle and his number – 44 – that he promised to put to good presented by the Riddell sports healthcare reform. use. company during a visit to “If I watch the game on Sunday I “I’ll need this during the State of promote policies on jobs and may have to wear it, to get in the

mood….you’d have to drink beer through a straw,” he said, gesturing to the comprehensive face mask. For more Reuters political news, click here Photo credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque (Obama holds football helmet with presidential seal)

Video: Peter Ha vs an 11-year old professional gamer By Matt Burns (CrunchGear) Submitted at 1/23/2010 6:52:26 AM

Watch and laugh as Peter Ha and Lev Grossman are pwnd by a 11-year old in Halo 3 and Madden. Tools. Just more proof that Peter Ha probably shouldn’t be writing about video games for a living. I’m kidding, Peter. Much love.

Earnings Highlights: Colgate, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Kimberley-Clark, Starbucks ... By Trey Thoelcke (BloggingStocks)

Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage on BloggingStocks: Submitted at 1/23/2010 12:10:00 PM • Advanced Micro Devices Inc.( Filed under: Earnings reports, AMD) shares declined despite an e B a y ( E B A Y ) , S t a r b u c k s earnings beat and a positive (SBUX), Advanced Micro Dev outlook ( A M D ) , B a n k o f A m e r i c a • Bank of America Corp.( BAC) (BAC), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), reported that its Q4 loss widened Goldman Sachs Group (GS), TD more than expected by Wall COF) reported better-thanAmeriTrade Holding (AMTD), Street. Kimberly-Clark (KMB) • Capital One Financial Corp.( expected earnings but shares

declined. • Colgate-Palmolive Co.( CL) is seen as on-track to record double -digit earnings growth in 2010. • Cree Inc.( CREE) strong earnings and revenue growth sent shares to a new 52-week high. Continue reading Earnings Highlights: Colgate, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Kimberley-

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Talking tough on censorship | Jonathan Fenby By Jonathan Fenby (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

dissidents electronically is more than welcome, while commentators linked Google to the White House, presumably as Submitted at 1/23/2010 11:00:00 AM part of what Li Changchun, the Hillary Clinton's speech on Politburo Standing Committee internet freedom was welcome. member responsible for media, But don't pretend China and the calls "hostile forces" seeking to US have shared values infiltrate "decadent thought" into For a western audience, Hillary the People's Republic through Clinton's speech about internet the internet. freedom and the need to counter The gulf between the two sides hacking was entirely welcome. is enormous, built on different For China, it amounted to value systems and different "information imperialism". political regimes. Whatever the For the west, the fact that access faults of the American way, it to sensitive links from websites has a basic belief in freedom of in China is blocked on official information. In China, on the orders is unacceptable, leading o t h e r h a n d , c o n t r o l o f Google to say this week that it information is an essential will disregard such controls and element in the power structure. thus risk having its Chinese For Li, as for remnant Maoists in language site closed down. For the 1980s, what used to be called Beijing, there is no censorship in "spiritual pollution" is not only a China, which has an "open" threat to the facade of puritanical internet system. Communist Party rule harking For the United States, hacking back to the Spartan days in their o f t h e k i n d r e p o r t e d i n t o wartime base (even if it is hugely G o o g l e ' s s y s t e m w i t h t h e belied by the extent of corruption copying of Gmail messages to by Party officials); it also unknown addresses is a major threatens one of the levers of infringement on a private domain authority. operation which puts users There is, thus, no way in which (including dissidents) at risk. For China is going to accommodate those authorities in the People's Google. But, as I suggested in a Republic, the ability to monitor Cif posting earlier this week, the

row has ramifications that reach far beyond this particular case. Clinton's speech ups the ante considerably. On the day that Obama told the bankers "if these folks want a fight, it's a fight I'm ready to have", the secretary of state appears to be sending much the same message to Beijing. If this is the case, it is heartening that somebody as highly placed as Clinton is setting out lines of engagement on the issue of free speech, particularly amid a renewed crackdown on dissidents on the mainland. As I argued in a CiF contribution at the end of last year, the west has not got very far in its dealings with a more assertive, selfconfident China, as was evident during Obama's visit to Shanghai and Beijing in November and at the Copenhagen climate change conference. The Treasury in Washington believed that a softly-softly approach on the currency issue would induce Beijing to raise the value of the yuan, but has achieved nothing at all. There are, of course, very evident difficulties in taking a tougher line. Most other US tech companies operating in China have distanced themselves from

Google. The contribution of cheap mainland production to their bottom line in hard times is not something American companies that have set up plants in the People's Republic want to lose. Nobody has anything to gain from war or a trans-Pacific slanging match that gets out of hand. The G2 concept may be a mirage but China and America have to find ways of working together; one of the big disappointments of the Obama administration to date has been its lack of creativity in seeking to do so. With the US fleet in neighbouring seas, US spy planes patrolling its borders, an edgy relationship with Japan, a potential collapse in North Korea, unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang, the Taliban across the border and the Taiwan issue far from resolved, Beijing has many reasons to feel jittery. A leadership that came to believe Obama had switched to an offensive stance would be even less inclined to compromise with the US than it was in 2009. Maoera fears of encirclement are never far away. That needs to be taken into account, as does the nature of

decision-making in China and the long tradition of rule by law (rather than rule of law), which leads to the automatic conclusion that the likes of Google have to abide by the regulations, whatever they may be, or face the consequences. But the important thing, in this case as in others, is to set out a clear position. Sweet words about shared values have their place. When, as in this case, values are not shared, those who do cannot accept the Chinese leadership's vision of the nature and flow of information should say so quite clearly – just as Beijing does on its side. • China • Hillary Clinton • Internet • Freedom of information • Freedom of Speech • Censorship • US foreign policy • United States Jonathan Fenby guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

Watch the PSP Go unassembled and reassemble itself By Matt Burns (CrunchGear) Submitted at 1/23/2010 4:12:12 AM

Ready to burn two minutes of

your day? I sure hope so, friend, because after the jump is what very well could be the most exciting deconstruction video

ever posted to our fine Internet. Here’s hoping that this will become the standard format for the obligatory gadget teardown. I

don’t think I’m the only one tired Anyway, click through to watch of looking at a stale pic of a the the PSP Go in a stop motion random device’s guts. “Yup, video. there’s a circuit board in there.”

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Terror level in UK raised to 'severe' By Vikram Dodd, Jenny Percival (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

-suspicious events to the appropriate authorities, and to support the police and security services in their -continuing efforts to discover, track and Submitted at 1/23/2010 8:50:02 AM disrupt -terrorist activity." Home Secretary says threat has He said the public should be i n c r e a s e d b u t t h e r e i s n o reassured by the UK's "very evidence to suggest an attack is adept and very focused counterimminent terrorism" services. The threat of international The terrorist threat has been at terrorism to the UK was raised -substantial, meaning an attack is from substantial to the second a "strong possibility", since July. highest level of severe last night, The independent reviewer of meaning an attack is "highly anti-terrorism legislation, Lord likely". Carlile of Berriew, said the Alan Johnson, the home government was right to secretary, said there was no announce the change in the threat intelligence to suggest an attack level. was imminent. "It is absolutely essential that The escalation reversed a there should be public vigilance decision in July to downgrade and the government has – quite the likelihood of a terror attack rightly – decided that if you don't from "severe" to "substantial". tell the public to be vigilant, they Johnson said the change was not are not going to be vigilant," he -specifically linked to the told the BBC. i n c r e a s e d t h r e a t f r o m "The message from the current international terrorism following change of assessment is not that the failed Detroit plane bombing we should be more afraid but on Christmas Day or to any other that we should be a little bit more incident. vigilant than we have been." He said the Joint Terrorism There are five -levels of terror -Analysis Centre (Jtac), a unit threat, ranging from low – within MI5, had taken the meaning an attack is unlikely – -decision based on a broad range to critical, when an attack is of -factors, -including the intent expected imminently. and -capabilities of international More security measures have terrorist groups in the UK and been taken to protect airports overseas. since the failed Detroit attack. Johnson said: "We still face a On Wednesday, Gordon Brown real and serious threat to the UK announced fresh measures to from -international terrorism, so track terror suspects and improve I would urge the public to remain airport security, including a vigilant and carry on -reporting suspension of direct flights

between Yemen and the UK and a "no-fly list" to stop suspected terrorists from travelling to the UK. A senior Whitehall security source said Jtac had assessed events, -including the Christmas Day bombing attempt and an -international counter-terrorism meeting on Yemen in London on Thursday, which will be held alongside a conference on the future of Afghanistan. The source added other factors which could not be discussed were also part of Jtac's decision. Security officials have no knowledge of a direct plot threat. The senior source said: "It is not based on a single piece of evidence or event. There is no knowledge of a new plot or an old plot moving on." Officials do not believe there will be a need to make arrests in the next 24 hours. The source added that a whole series of events and pieces of intelligence -stretching across continents had led to the decision: "Yemen is a part of it, events in London are a part of it. There is no specific threat to London." The Home Office said that the change in threat level would not cause "any discernable difference" for members of the public taking flights or going about their normal business. Rather than triggering additional security checks at airports or putting more police onto the streets, the new assessment will

send a signal to police and security officials to step up their activities behind the scenes. "From an operational perspective, there will be change, but that is something we cannot go into," a Home Office spokesman said. "There will be changes to security and police arrangements, but there won't necessarily be any immediately noticeable change for the public." Sources with knowledge of the discussions before the decision said the mood among security officials was sober and they had not been as worried as they had been during recent terrorist crises, such as the disrupted 2006 plot to smuggle liquid bombs aboard planes. Johnson briefed Janet Napolitano, the US homeland security secretary, about the development, which brings the UK on to a similar level of alert to the US. • Terrorism policy • Alan Johnson • UK security and terrorism • MI5 • Global terrorism Vikram Dodd Jenny Percival guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

Jar Lamps As Beautiful As They Are Simple [Lighting] By Kyle VanHemert (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/23/2010 12:01:19 PM

These lathed oak jar lamps, designed by Noon Studios, are an exquisite marriage of form and function. Removing all buttons and switches, a simple twist of their tops allows more or less light to spill from the jar. Most lamps looks like something you'd build with an erector set. London-based Noon Studio's Jar Lamps go for something a little softer, a little simpler, and a lot more beautiful. Instead of shining light directly on your desktop, these desk lamps throw a nice even glow on your workspace. There's no information on availability, as is often the tragic case with objects of beauty you find on the internet, but check out Noon Studio's site to see more of their work. [ Noon Studio via NOTCOT]

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Haiti ends quake rescue operations By David Batty (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

But she added: "Except for miracles, hope is unfortunately fading." Humanitarian relief efforts were Submitted at 1/23/2010 9:07:15 AM still being increased in Port-auGovernment has decided there is Prince, Jacmel, Leogane and little hope of searchers finding other areas affected by the more earthquake survivors, UN quake, Byrs said. says The magnitude-7 tremor killed The Haitian government has up to 200,000 people and has left declared an end to the search and more than 2 million others rescue phase of the country's homeless. Clinics have been post-earthquake operations after overwhelmed by an estimated deciding there is little hope of 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 w o u n d e d , w i t h finding more people alive, the shortages of surgeons, nurses, United Nations said today. medicine and supplies hindering The decision came the day after medical aid. two people, an 84-year-old Thousands more bodies remain woman and a 21-year-old man, buried in collapsed buildings in were pulled alive from the rubble the capital, according to the US in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Agency for International The UN Office for the Co- D e v e l o p m e n t . ordination of Humanitarian An 84-year-old woman, who Affairs said 132 people had been was pulled from a wrecked rescued from the rubble by building yesterday, remained in a international teams. critical condition in Port-auSpokeswoman Elizebeth Byrs Prince's general hospital, doctors said the move would not prevent said. rescue teams who were still Elsewhere in the capital, an searching through the rubble Israeli rescue team freed 21-year from carrying out any work they -old Emmannuel Buso from the felt necessary. "It doesn't mean rubble. From his bed in an Israeli the government will order them field hospital, Buso described to stop. In case there is the coming out of the shower when slightest sign of life, they will the quake hit. "I felt the house act." dancing around me. I didn't

know if I was up or down." Buso said he passed out in the rubble and sometimes dreamt he could hear his mother crying. The furniture in his room had collapsed around him in such a way that it created a small space for him amid the ruins. He had no food. When he got desperately thirsty, he drank his urine. "I am here today because God wants it," he said. Rescuers said yesterday they were encouraged that people were still being found alive nine days after the quake but stressed that few trapped people could survive for that long. "Statistically you can say that the chances of survival is very low," said Fernando Alvarez Bravo, a Mexican rescue worker. "But the hope it gives the population to recover and find their loved ones helps them to recover quickly. They don't feel abandoned." The end of the search and rescue effort comes the day after Michael Schuster, a volunteer US -doctor running a ward in the capital's general hospital, said thousands of lives could have been saved if aid efforts had focused more on injured survivors rather than rescuing

trapped people. "We end up chasing our tails. By the time we have the supplies for the masses it is almost too late. I think if we mobilised for the masses and put less media emphasis [on those under the rubble] many lives could have been saved," he said. It could take up to four months to restore electricity in Port-auPrince, where generators are currently being used. Amid a scarcity of goods, prices have tripled for some products in Haiti, a poor Caribbean nation where 80% of the population survives on less than $2 a day. "Inflation is eating them alive," said the UN Development Programme worker Eliane Nicolini. • Haiti • Natural disasters and extreme weather • International aid and development David Batty guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

Why buy an Acer LCD when you can get the same monitor under the Integral name? By Matt Burns (CrunchGear) Submitted at 1/23/2010 9:38:56 AM

Well, well. Harman International’s Lexicon brand isn’t the only company in the business of scamming buyers by simply re-badging competitor’s products. Integral, a Belarus brand for all we can figure out, apparently found it easier and cheaper to simply rebadge an Acer monitor and sell it under their name. After all, that practice isn’t that uncommon as we just found out. But generally, the rebadging is a bit more complex and thorough than Integral’s method. Check out what we mean below. [thanks for the tip, iSashaCH]

Parked Car Gets Multiple Speed Camera Tickets By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 1/22/2010 6:37:00 PM

We've seen all sorts of problems

with speed cameras -- like the time one clocked a brick wall traveling 58 MPH (watch out!). It seems that they've got a

problem with stationary objects. Reader Marshall points us to a story of a guy who parks his car on a road equipped with a speed

camera and has received two speeding tickets while his car was parked. Don't you feel safer now?

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Battle rages over Fellini's legacy By Tom Kington (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

Fellini's 1963 masterpiece 8½. Despite rumours in Rimini that she craved the limelight at the foundation, Fabbri Fellini said Submitted at 1/23/2010 10:20:04 AM the truth was she has been As a film inspired by the snubbed. "When the Fellini Prize renowned Italian director opens, was awarded to Sidney Lumet in his niece quits the foundation in November, no one bothered to Rimini that promotes his works introduce me to the American and takes his Oscars with her director," she told the Italian Federico Fellini, revered in Italy newspaper Il Resto Del Carlino. as a cine-matic great and cited "I had to chase him down the abroad as a key influence on corridor of the Grand Hotel in Martin Scorsese and Woody Rimini at the end of the evening Allen, is at the centre of a row in to meet him." his home town of Rimini. Fabbri Fellini said she was also C e l e b r a t i o n s o f t h e 9 0 t h left off the guest list of a dinner anniversary of the director's birth held in Paris in October to mark have been marred by a battle the 50th anniversary of the over his legacy between his niece release of La Dolce Vita– and the foundation set up in his F e l l i n i ' s s a t i r e o n R o m e ' s name to promote such classics as celebrity culture. "It should be La Dolce Vita. natural to think of me as Francesca Fabbri Fellini, the -Federico's ambassador to the daughter of Fellini's sister, has world. Look at Paloma Picasso. stormed off the board of the OK, she is the daughter, but it foundation, claiming that she still comes down to DNA," she was frozen out and has taken said. with her Fellini's personal library The "irrevocable" resignation and his -collection of Oscars. has rocked the town that Fellini A tale of money, blood ties and exposed for its narrow horizons, show business, the battle of even as he paid -tribute to its Rimini has upstaged the opening theatrical, seaside glitz in films in Italy of Nine, the musical film such as I Vitelloni, a thinly starring Daniel Day-Lewis and veiled portrayal of his youth. Nicole Kidman inspired by "Go to Rimini in winter today

and you will find the same out-of -season melancholy that Fellini put in his films," said Dante Ferretti, the Oscar-winning art director who worked with the man known as "Il Maestro". Set up in 1995, two years after Federico's death, the foundation took over two floors of the villa in Rimini owned by the family, opening a museum. Fabbri Fellini, 44, a journalist, lives upstairs. The trouble started, said the foundation's director, Vittorio Boarini, when Fabbri Fellini increased the rent and threatened to evict the foundation after board members protested. "Luckily the council stepped in with alternative premises, which is where we have decamped to," he said. Fabbri Fellini took care to hold on to -Fellini's 2,000-volume library and laid claim to four of Fellini's five Oscars – including Best Foreign Film for 8½– held in a town bank vault, hinting that she would set up her own museum as she announced her resignation from the board. "Francesca is what you might call a vivacious person," said Boarini. "She has resigned twice before. Last time she organised

Video: The Third and the Seventh (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 1/22/2010 5:54:38 PM

You may not believe it after you see it, but everything in this 12-

minute film was computergenerated. Absolutely everything. And even more amazing: it was all done by one person, using off

-the-shelf software and hardware to define a new state of the art for realistic CGI.[Video] If you’re skeptical that the whole thing took place entirely

an award in Fellini's name in Rome for Ingmar Bergman, who did not show up. We held an awards ceremony in Rimini for Martin Scorsese, who did." Speaking on Friday, Fabbri Fellini refused to be drawn on her next move, saying: "I don't want this to be reduced to a squalid row that is beneath my uncle." The foundation's president, Pupi Avati, himself a successful director, said that life was imitating art. "This is a typical of the small-town row you find in Fellini's film Amarcord," he said. "If it boils down to arguing over whether the Oscars go in my house or your house, you can be sure Fellini would have laughed hard," he said. "Francesca is a dear friend, but maybe she should be helping to find sponsors for the foundation to stop it closing down." • Italy

Haiti 360: Interactive Post-Earthquake Video Panoramas By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!) Submitted at 1/23/2010 12:00:55 PM

Technology has played an important role not only in getting relief to those affected by the Haiti earthquake, but in getting information out about how the quake affected the island nation. CNN contributes a new series of immersive information visualizations in these 360 degree panoramic videos, where you can completely control the camera’s view during playback as well as zoom in and out. Shot over the last week in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, Tom Kington the videos are powered by guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | technology from Immersive Use of this content is subject to Media— the same company that our Terms & Conditions| More helped power much of Google’s Street View. Feeds Have a look at the interactive videos at full size and let us know what you think. [via Gizmodo] Disclosure: Mashable has a on a computer’s hard drive, syndication partnership with here’s how filmmaker Alex CNN. Tags: cnn, haiti, haiti 360, Roman did it.[Video] [Video] interactive video, panorama, (Hat tip: LGF readers.) social media, video

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Haiti earthquake aid pledged by country: full data By Peter Walker (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

However, it does not cover the millions of pounds of private donations pouring into appeals such as that launched in the UK Submitted at 1/23/2010 8:00:40 AM by the Disasters Emergency Haiti's quake has apparently Committee- where you can also galvanised the world. Find out make a donation. how much different countries Relief Web is probably the best and organisations have pledged source - it publishes daily totals. to the aid effort - and how much But promising to pay for has actually been handed over something and actually doing it • Get the data are two different things. And Tracking the ever-increasing while a lot of money has been pledges of financial aid and other handed over by governments, assistance for quake-stricken there is still a gap in funded Haiti is a difficult business, but projects and promises to do so. t h e U N ' s O f f i c e f o r t h e We've added a new table which Coordination of Humanitarian shows that. Affairs(OCHA) is attempting to As some of you have pointed do just that. The OCHA has the out - the top level figures don't t r i c k y t a s k o f t r y i n g t o take account of individual orchestrate the efforts of the country contributions, ie ships or dozens of aid agencies either in aid trucks. So, take a look at the Haiti or on their way there. Google spreadsheet - that will Its list of donors tracks both give you exactly what each monetary sums and donations in organisation or country has the form of assistance and donated - look at the 'details' e q u i p m e n t , b o t h f r o m worksheet. governments and corporations. Download the data

• DATA: download the full datasheet • Get the latest update and spreadsheet from Reliefweb Can you do something with this data? Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at datastore@guardian.co.uk • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter Data summary • Haiti • Natural disasters and extreme weather • Disasters Emergency Committee • International aid and development Peter Walker guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

Earnings Highlights: American Express, Coach, GE, Google, IBM, McDonald's ... By Trey Thoelcke (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 1/23/2010 3:10:00 PM

Filed under: Google (GOOG), General Electric (GE), McDonald's (MCD), International Business Machines (IBM), Blockbuster Inc 'A' (BBI), American Express (AXP), Coach Inc (COH), Xerox Corp (XRX) Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage on BloggingStocks: • American Express Co.( AXP) doubled its bottom line in Q4 while its provisions for losses fell. • Blockbuster Inc.( BBI) warned of weakness in Q4 and lowered its guidance, sending shares lower. • Coach Inc.( COH) better-thanexpected Q2 earnings were

accompanied by sales growth, but shares fell. • Comerica Inc.( CMA) posted a smaller-than-expected Q4 loss, sending shares to a 52-week high. • CSX Corp.( CSX) posted Q4 earnings that topped estimates but its revenue fell short of expectations. Continue reading Earnings Highlights: American Express, Coach, GE, Google, IBM, McDonald's ... Earnings Highlights: American Express, Coach, GE, Google, IBM, McDonald's ... originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

Cold Weather Stock #2: Netflix (NFLX) By Jim Woods (BloggingStocks)

stay in and watch movies, and these days, most people get their movies from Netflix( NFLX). Submitted at 1/23/2010 1:00:00 PM The DVD rental pioneers were Filed under: Netflix, Inc. darlings of Wall Street last year, (NFLX), Stocks to Buy with the stock nearly doubling in What do you do when it's too 2009. But fears of an inability to forward, along with several cold to venture outside? You meet growth expectations going downgrades of the stock in

recent weeks, have knocked NFLX shares well off their highs. Continue reading Cold Weather Stock #2: Netflix (NFLX) Cold Weather Stock #2: Netflix (NFLX) originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sat, 23 Jan

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10 Must Have Blog Techniques By Maisha Walker (Inc.com)

care of two major tasks for you: 1) enabling visitors to sign up to receive an email when you make If you are considering using a new post to your blog; and 2) your blog to boost your search automatically send an email each engine rankings, make sure your time someone posts to your blog. blog supports all of the features This little tool is a quick and that search engines want to see in easy way to get your posts reyour content, such as explicit, tweeted to show their popularity. unique title tags and good meta Note that it doesn't work so well description tags. if your title tags are not unique. The same way you want to Make it easier to find things on know how your website is your blog. It's great to have succeeding, you'll also want to things organized by date but this know what's working on your isn't particularly intuitive to a blog. How many page views and reader who is looking to find out unique visitors are you getting? what you write about or looking Where are visitors coming from? for help or answers on a specific How do they find you in search topic. Use categories to help engines? Which posts and readers find what they're looking categories are most popular? for and put the categories in your You can either use the analytics sidebar. Don't be afraid to put a software your blog hosting post in more than one category. company provides, or install Remember the categories are for Google A n a l y t i c s . your *reader* so make them as WordPress.com has its own stats intuitive as possible to the tool and self-hosted WordPress reader. has a Google Analytics plug-in Feedburner and Feedblitz can that makes installation relatively also help you set up a feed and simple. do all kinds of neat things with As with most marketing, you your feed. But most blogging have to do it consistently in order software comes with an internal to maximize its value. But f e e d t o o l . I f y o u ' v e e v e r consistency can be awfully time- wondered what RSS is, it's a feed consuming. This is why we love that collects articles and content technology! Feedburner and from different online magazines Feedblitz are two great tools to and websites, similar to myAOL, use that simplify your blog email iGoogle or myYahoo. It allows marketing. They both will take you to see the most recent Submitted at 1/22/2010 1:19:48 PM

headlines from CNN or Inc. or The Economist without having to visit the site. The headlines are clickable. Click on the headline and it takes you to the article. Neat! You may also want to add links to related articles that you like and want people to read also. Captcha is the tool that asks users to type in a set of letters or numbers before submitting a form. This tool is now available as a plugin for websites and

blogs. (re)Captcha is captcha with a conscience. While commenters are typing in the confirmation text, they are also helping to decipher text from very old books being saved by digitizing them. If you allow comments on your blog, you will definitely want some sort of spam defense. Even though it will not eliminate all comment spam it will help A LOT. Commenting is an important

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part of the two-way dialogue you want to develop youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re your readers. Tap into the voyeur in all of us. Make sure that people who make a comment will be notified when others comment on the same post. Also, if you open your blog to comments (which you don't have to do) you must review the comments. You will get spam. Spam looks silly on your blog. You will want to prune your blog of spam on a relatively frequent basis depending on how much traffic you get. Make sure that if people like your style they have ways to connect with you. Enabling them to subscribe to your RSS feed and automated email update is great but how about you on Twitter? You on Facebook? You on LinkedIn? While you may not want to promote all three of these choose at least one and close that loop in the relationship with your reader. Make sure to include at least one call to action statement. Provide some indication of what you want people to do if they like your blog. Just read more? Consider hiring you? Buy a book? Come see you speak? Shop at your store? Make sure they know the next step.

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Polycom and Juniper Team to Solve Age-Old Telepresence Problem: Communication By Zachary Wilson (Fast Company) Submitted at 1/23/2010 10:20:35 AM

Video conferencing technology has been around for years, but most of us still don't spend our days sitting in large rooms staring at virtual counterparts of our distant coworkersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we prefer confusing conference calls or plain old Skype instead. Why is that? If video conferencing is the meeting of the future, a movement toward a world that is truly flat, why, in 2010, isn't everyone on it?Well, mostly because it's so damn complicated. Because it hogs bandwidth. Because the thingamajig in my office doesn't work with the thingamajig in your office. Because it's a big hassle. But today's partnership announcement from telecom leader Polycom and networking hardware company Juniper Networks hopes to make things run a lot smoother."We're of the same religion, with the same view of open collaboration," says Scott Stevens, vice president of technology at Juniper. "The way the industry is now, the left hand and the right hand don't talk. But because we're now able to communicate and collaborate between the network and the application, we're combing two worlds." Two worlds that previously didn't want anything

to do with one another.As it stands now, the network doesn't realize a teleconference is going on, so it continues to distribute bandwidth as if you were checking your email or surfing the web. Obviously this doesn't work for video conferencing, often ending with frozen video screens and a ring on the old fashioned telephone. Serious HD teleconferencers have a dedicated network only for conferencing, but it's expensive and wasteful when a conference isn't actually occuring. The partnership between Polycom and Juniper allows the Polycom

teleconferencing application to tell the Juniper network what it's doing and to move bandwidth accordingly.To an outsider, the problem seems overly complicated and the solution seems overly simplified. It's like if a Verizon phone couldn't call an AT&T phoneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it just doesnt make sense. But to those inside the industry, open collaboration between two companies has been a long and difficult challenge."We started this work about five years ago, exploring and doing exactly what we're doing now, and we've been working on the R&D for the last

year," says Andrew Miller, VP of global field operations at Polycom (and former CEO of Tandberg). "But now we have true integration. This is a milestone in our business."But what does it mean for Joe Blow Businessman? "All you're going to know is it's cheaper, its easier to use, and it works everywhere," says Stevens. In theory, cheaper and easier means higher adoption rates, and the more people who are on the system, the cheaper it becomes for each user. And what of the competition in Cisco and its acquisition of Tandberg? "A line in the sand has been drawn

between Cisco and Polycom," Miller says. Adds Stevens: "They're smart, and they'll adapt, working to catch up to us. But that's what they'll be doing: catching up. This is going to change the game, and it's something they can't do overnight."Will it change the telepresence game? We'll see as the companies' joint solutions begin to roll out toward mid-year 2010. But if nothing else, it's a step toward all thingamajigs being able to communicate with each other. Perhaps in a few POLYCOM page 9

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Almost Genius: Augmented Reality as a DesignGimmick for Urban Coolhunters

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years we'll all be meeting virtually after all.

By Cliff Kuang (Fast Company)

with no sense of timing. I'll bet that of the 22,735 people who've watched the Youtube video, Submitted at 1/22/2010 5:51:38 PM precisely two go on to buy the tThe world probably doesn't need shirt: Adidas shoes that have a "virtual And check out this AR cover of city" attached. Or 3-D magazine Wallpaper*, from the January articles. Or a T-shirt you can issue. Again who cares if you play rock/paper/scissors with. can see the cover in 3-D? Do you "Augmented Reality" is an care enough to fuss with your amorphous word. On the one computer? And doesn't the fact hand, you've got AR smartphone of 3-D animation seem kinda...so apps that lay data over the realwhat? world--e.g., restaurant ratings or If this is the future, I like the wayfinding icons. Those can be past better. pretty useful. On the other hand, Now, I'll grant that all of these you've got codes that you place are marketing gimmicks. They're (Little Green Footballs) in front of your Webcam, to probably not meant to be cool, but I bet almost no one anything more. But let's just step Submitted at 1/22/2010 9:51:32 PM reveal a 3-D animation. These faux-hawks or Hypercolor. have been bullshitty indeed-- Case in point, Adidas Originals, ends up using the AR aspect, back and call a spade a spade-gimmicks in 3-D. You know who are now trying to hype a which seems somehow just a tad and recognize that whatever who loves gimmicks? Hipsters new line of sneakers that come desperate, in its attempt to seem "augmented reality" becomes, and ad people. And I'm pretty with an AR code printed on the techy and cool: these projects probably won't sure that one day we'll look back t o n g u e . I n f r o n t o f y o u r Meanwhile, this t-shirt is sort of have much to do with it. o n 2 0 1 0 , a n d a l l t h e A R Webcam, the sneakers will a fun gimmick. It allows you to For more Almost Genius, click nonsense floating around, and reveal a city. To which I'd play rock/paper/scissors by here. laugh at it--like trucker hats or respond: So what? The colors are yourself, with a virtual opponent

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Cold Weather Stock #1: United States Natural Gas (UNG) By Jim Woods (BloggingStocks)

States Natural Gas( UNG), an ETF designed to replicate the performance, net of expenses, of Submitted at 1/23/2010 11:00:00 AM natural gas Filed under: ETF Investing, The logic for UNG is simple. Stocks to Buy The colder it is outside, the more Our first cold-weather stock isn't we need to heat our homes and actually a stock; it's an exchange offices, and most of us do this demand for natural gas should -traded fund (ETF). It is United via natural gas. The increased translate into higher natural gas

prices. Of course, sometimes this simple logic isn't quite that simple. Continue reading Cold Weather Stock #1: United States Natural Gas (UNG) Cold Weather Stock #1: United States Natural Gas (UNG) originally appeared on

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How Much Energy Will the 2010 Olympic Games Use?

Why Can't the Banks Break Up Themselves?

By Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company)

By Kevin Kersten (BloggingStocks)

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The world's growing interest in all things green--along with international conferences like COP15--have put pressure on Olympic organizers to prove that the 2010 Winter Olympics won't have a big environmental impact. That's why the International Olympic Committee enlisted help from energy conservation startup Pulse Energy in monitoring real-time energy usage at this year's games. The best part: Pulse's Venue Energy Tracker Web site lets anyone keep track of the amount of energy being consumed in Olympic sports arenas. According to Pulse Energy CEO David Halliwell, the idea for the energy tracker came about over a couple of years. "The Olympic organizers had so much other stuff going on that they weren't focused on keeping track of how things were going. But in the summertime, the committee suggested that they should keep track of how venues were performing in real time. They

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wanted to set a benchmark for how the Olympics should operate," he explained. So the Olympic Committee, Pulse Energy, and local utility BC Hydro teamed up to build an energy monitoring and reporting system for the majority of the Olympic venues in Vancouver. The system collects information from a wide range of sources, including electricity, gas, and hot water meters. It then calculates how each facility should be performing in real time under optimal conditions and compares it to other Olympic venues. "It can quickly shine a light on parts

of buildings that aren't working the way they're meant to," Halliwell said. Pulse's system isn't cheap--it cost a few thousand dollars to set it up in the Richmond Olympic Oval alone--but Halliwell says that payback comes in as quickly 6 to 12 months. And this is the first time the Olympics have kept track of energy usage at all. Most importantly, the information gleaned from Pulse's system will help Vancouver's venues maintain energy efficiency long after the games are over. [ Pulse Venue Energy Tracker]

3-D Gaming Is Waiting for Its 'Avatar' By Chris Kohler (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 1/22/2010 3:23:00 PM

Pricey television sets and to truly take advantage of the uncomfortable glasses aside, immersive experience promised designers will need to reinvent by 3-D technology. videogames from the ground up

Wall Street and they happen all the time. In fact, that's how many of the banks got so big. Continue reading Why Can't the Banks Break Up Themselves? Why Can't the Banks Break Up Themselves? originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

Removing Part of Pico Projector Film Skull Gives Better Fest Turns Ice Sculpture Into Screen Brain Scans By Scott Thill (Wired Top By Tia Ghose (Wired Top Stories)

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Scanning the brain with electroencephalography without the skull in the way makes for stronger, clearer signals. Neuroscientists hope this will lead the way to safer, lessinvasive neural implants.

The first-ever Showwx Film Festival attempts to swipe a little Sundance cool by showing arty features, shorts and animation on the weirdest screens in Park City, Utah.

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Questionable Trend of the Week: Expired Grocery Food Trading

Amazon Quietly Lets Publishers Remove DRM (Update: Or Quietly Adds DRM?)

By Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company)

By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

Submitted at 1/22/2010 6:36:22 PM

Fresh grocery food: it's just so...expensive. Perhaps that's why sites shilling out-of-date items have become so popular, with one U.K. site reporting a whopping 500% increase in sales from December 2008 to the same time in 2009. The Guardian reports: Food charities estimate that more than seventeen million tonnes of surplus food, including fresh produce, is dumped by supermarkets in landfill every year, with a sales value of more than ÂŁ18bn.Most of the goods sold on discount sites are past

their "best-before dates" but not the "use-by" dates, and have been bought at knocked-down prices from wholesalers, suppliers and supermarkets. The food sold on sites like Food Bargains isn't dangerous. And

once consumers get past the "ick" factor, they'll discover that expired Hershey's chocolate or canned tuna tastes the same as the fresh stuff. Expired food is cheap, too-- Approved Food estimates that customers save

75% compared to average retail prices. So far, it seems like the trend is limited to the U.K., but the U.S. has the same problem with expired-but-good food being tossed into the trash on a daily basis. At this point, most of the good stuff goes to organizations like Feeding America that distribute "unsalable" products like expired goods, bruised fruit, and items with missing labels to food pantries and soup kitchens. But would you turn down a slightly expired cart of groceries if it would save much-needed cash? [Via Guardian]

Google Voice Extension For Chrome Lets You Click and Call [Google Voice] By Kyle VanHemert (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/23/2010 12:47:07 PM

Yesterday Google updated their Google Voice extension for Chrome, allowing Voice-heads to call numbers directly from their browsers. If you love Google or hate retyping phone numbers, this one's for you. One of the great things about upgrading to a smartphone years

ago was that all numbers were links. The updated Voice extension for Chrome allows for a similar streamlining in your browser. The extension basically just turns phone numbers into clickable links, eliminating the need to cut and paste them across windows. It also adds a phone icon to Chrome, letting you quickly place calls and choose the number from which you do

so. While it's a nice step towards a lazier future, there are some caveats. Mac users, for example,

will need to install the latest Chromium build, not just the regular old Chrome, to gain the functionality. Some people might find this capability insignificant, but anything that makes it easier to order food from places I find on Yelp is worthwhile in my book. [ Google via TechCrunch]

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While everyone was focused on the new Kindle app store or the new royalty rates, perhaps a more interesting new thing slipped quietly by: without telling anyone, Amazon is now giving publishers the option to remove DRM from ebooks. It's odd that Amazon wouldn't publicly announce this, but I'm sure it has its own reasons. I doubt many publishers will actually go DRM-free for now, but at least a few can, and I would imagine that will make some Kindle users a lot more comfortable about buying those ebooks. Update: Hmm. In the comments someone points out that another take on this is that it's actually allowing some publishers who didn't use DRM before to use it. That would explain why it wasn't mentioned... Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

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Genzyme: Good; Genzyme Movie With Han Solo, George of the Jungle: Bad By Erica Westly (Fast Company) Submitted at 1/22/2010 8:23:11 PM

Genzyme, a leading biotech company that made our Most Innovative Companies list last year, makes its (fictional) film debut today, although, according to a recent Reuters article, the company isn't necessarily thrilled about it. For one, the movie in question, Extraordinary Measures, stars Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford. Together. Secondly, it doesn't exactly portray the company--called Zymagen in the film--in a positive light (Zymagen buys out the start-up

run by Fraser and Ford's characters and cancels their project in favor of its own). Last March, we praised Genzyme for its innovative biomedical treatments and a projected 20% increase in annual

earnings. But shortly after, the FDA shut down one of its manufacturing facilities over contamination issues--really, who saw that coming?--and its push to ramp up production of its Pompe disease treatment (the

very treatment depicted in Extraordinary Measures) combined with a wash of (arguably deserved) bad press left the company overextended. Its stock price dropped 26%. Now, just as Genzyme gets back on track, comes a movie portraying a thinly veiled version of it as the bad guy. Which would be pretty inopportune if Extraordinary Measures wasn't on the fast track to midday showings between With Honors and Six Days, Seven Nights on the Hallmark Channel.

Designers Unearth Apple Tablet Prototypes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; From 1983 By Priya Ganapati (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 1/22/2010 4:00:00 PM

Designers at Frog Design recently uncovered photos of Apple tablet prototypes they created for Steve Jobs more than 25 years ago.

Apple patent application two-fer: new gesture inputs, solarpowered iPods? By Donald Melanson (Engadget) Submitted at 1/23/2010 3:23:00 PM

We know it's been tough with the dearth of Apple-related speculation as of late, but it looks like we now finally have a few more clues about what the company might be up to courtesy of a pair of recently published patent applications. The first of those is a new type of gesturebased input device, which would not only be able to detect swipes

and other simple gestures, but things like brushing or scooping motions that take into account force and velocity (check out an example after the break). The other patent treads a bit of familiar territory for Apple, and describes a built-in solar power system for electronic devices -such as an iPod, as illustrated above. That could apparently include solar cells covering the entire device, which could be configured to function even if they're partly obstructed by your

hand. The system would also supposedly be able to detect if the battery is completely drained and rely solely on the solar cells to power up the device or,

alternatively, switch the solar cells to a "second operational state" if it detects that the battery is charged -- if it ever actually exists, that is.

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Hear What It Sounds Like Under Antarctica...Live First [Transmissions] blogger at Davos By Kyle VanHemert (Gizmodo)

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PALAOA, the Perennial Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean, listens to the waters below Antarctica for the sounds of whales and other marine mammals amidst a soundscape of constantly shifting ice. Here's what they're hearing right now. PALAOA's Livestream page has links to the audio stream in both MP3 and OGG-Vorbis. If you're expecting to tune in and instantly hear glorious, crystal-clear whale song, you might be disappointed. As the page explains: Please note, this transmission is not optimized for easy listening, but for scientific research. It is highly compressed...so sound quality is far from perfect. Additionally, animal voices may be very faint. Amplifier settings are a compromise between picking up distant animals and

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The World Economic Forum, the organization that puts on the annual conference at Davos, has published a 40-year history of the event. On page 200, under Social Media at the Forum, my longtime friend Lance Knobel is credited with establishing the first WEF blog, in 1999, Davos Newbies. not overdriving the system by o f c l i c k - l i k e i n t e r f e r e n c e : on the Ekström ice shelf. The Just after that it says, in "2000, nearby calving icebergs...A switching relais, electrostatic data is transmitted wirelessly to Dave Winer, founder and CEO, constant hiss pervading the discharges caused by snow drift, another base in Germany and UserLand Software Inc, became signal is partly due to electronic a n d s f e r i c s p r o d u c e d b y t h e n b e a m e d t o l i s t e n e r s the first blogger invited to attend the Annual Meeting." noise as we push the hydrophone thunderstorms ten thousands of w o r l d w i d e v i a s a t e l l i t e . Of course that's not quite amplifiers to their limits, but also kilometers away. If you're looking for some the natural ocean background Still, the idea is undeniably cool ambient noise to listen to while accurate -- Lance was also there noise made audible here through and there is some impressive you do some work or drift to that year, so it's a distinction we t h e u s e o f u l t r a s e n s i t i v e technology that makes it all sleep, it's hard to think of share. hydrophones. Additional broad happen. anything more amazing than this. Here's a Google query that returns my reports before, during band noise caused by wind, Two hydrophones capture the [ PALOAO] and after Davos. waves and currents adds to it on underwater audio outside a wind My favorite picture, and there occasion. There a three sources and solar powered observatory were many good ones, was of the lunch on the last day, halfway up one of the mountains that surround the town of Davos. And yes, I am wearing a jacket and its 2020 goal of detecting all tie! No kidding. (Holy Kaw!) to build an iPhone app that large asteroids that may collide Bottom-line: It's nice to be doesn’t suck. Submitted at 1/23/2010 7:38:01 AM with Earth, a new blue-ribbon remembered! Thanks! Total iPhone news coverage. panel of scientists has concluded. S t e v e M a r m o n , S t a n f o r d Permalink| Leave a comment » graduate student, explains how

Bigger, Better Telescopes Needed to How to build an iPhone app Find Near-Earth Asteroids that doesn't suck By Alexis Madrigal (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 1/22/2010 3:51:00 PM

The United States will not reach

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Laptop Mag’s cornucopia of system ratings is really quite thorough By Nicholas Deleon (CrunchGear)

regular users—like you!—are invited to give your thoughts, which will be compiled into a Submitted at 1/23/2010 9:00:59 AM sort of go-to glossary. Good What do you mean, show more idea. emotion? Being a Laptop Magazine We all know by now that HP is production, the first round of the largest PC seller out there. ratings cover netbooks and Good for HP. But when you’re notebooks. Let’s quickly look at shopping for your next system, it Toshiba to get an idea of what’s helps to know how Brand A going on. Also, I’ve never compares to Brand X. Our owned a Toshiba, um, anything, friends at Laptop Magazine have so it’ll be helpful for me, too. done just that, and put together a Yay. series showcasing the strengths • Only one out of the 14 and weaknesses of this brand machines reviewed by Laptop, versus that brand. Best part: one received a 5-Star rating (the

Mini NB205) • 43 percent of Toshibas received a 4-Star rating; 21 percent received a 3.5-Star rating; 29 percent received a 3-Star rating

Lenovo to launch Tianji iBook EB605 e-reader? By Richard Lai (Engadget)

MOBI. ZOL also spotted the SIM card-like icon at the top, which might suggest a thing or Looks like everyone wants a two about its wireless slice of that steaming-hot ecapabilities, and estimates a price reader action these days. Right in tag of under ¥2,000 ($293). No front of us here is the Tianji -- or word on international release yet, in our language, Phecda, a but hey, the more the merrier distant star -- iBook EB-605, either way! which is purported to be Lenovo to launch Tianji iBook launched by Lenovo at some EB-605 e-reader? originally point this year (and we first appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 heard about such plan back in subscription, music player, Jan 2010 12:24:00 EST. Please December). Features include a 6- picture browser and support for a see our terms for use of feeds. inch electronic ink display, variety of digital book formats Permalink Cloned In China| S a m s u n g A R M 4 0 0 M H z including EPUB ( hooray!) and ZOL| Email this| Comments processor, newspaper Submitted at 1/23/2010 12:24:00 PM

• Picking a needle out of a stack of needles, it looks like Toshibas excel when it comes to multimedia playback, what with dedicated buttons and whatnot

• On the bad side, Toshibas apparently have rubbish trackpads and mouse buttons And so on. There’s several of these ratings already online, including Apple notebooks, so if you’re either looking to kill a few minutes, or, gasp, actually learn a thing or two before whipping out your credit card, well, there you go. I use a lot of commas, yes. It’s how I talk in real life, too.

Stars Rolled Up in NY as Donors Dialed In for 'Hope for Haiti Now' Telethon (ETonline - Breaking News)

Sting with wife Trudie Styler, Chris Botti, Mary J. Blige, and Shakira arrive and depart from Stars glistened in NY to raise the philanthropic deed, the money for the victims of the "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon. devastating earthquake in Haiti. ET has special, candid moments ET was at the studio as the that you didn't see in the shining stars arrived to perform broadcast. and send out the message of If you'd like to make a donation, charity to millions of p l e a s e v i s i t households. HopeForHaitiNow.org or call Watch the video to see Madonna (877) 99-HAITI. with son Rocco, Jon Stewart, Submitted at 1/22/2010 9:57:00 PM

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What You Didn't See at Tonight's Star-Studded 'Hope for Haiti Now' Telethon! (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 1/22/2010 11:30:00 PM

ET was at the television lot in Los Angeles to welcome the biggest names in entertainment as they donated their time to the "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon. Taylor Swift lent her beautiful vocals to the cause. We also caught Zac Efron, John Legend, Ellen DeGeneres, Jeremy Piven, Halle Berry, Mark Wahlberg, Kimora Lee Simmons, Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts, By Chris Ziegler (Engadget) the deliciously underhanded Rainn Wilson, and Jared Leto "EWW" for CDMA). Now, filtering in and out from the Submitted at 1/23/2010 10:11:00 AM neither AT&T nor Palm have b u s t l i n g s t u d i o . T h e y a l l Pardon us if we're playing the given a lick of indication what graciously volunteered their role of Captain Obvious here, but two models they'll be releasing v o i c e s a n d n o t o r i e t y t o just a heads up: we've got some later this year-- but this is illuminate a spotlight on the pretty solid evidence before our c e r t a i n l y a c o n v e n i e n t earthquake ravaged Haiti. eyes that Palm has GSM c o i n c i d e n c e , i s n ' t i t ? Watch the video to see candid versions of both Verizon's Pre Palm crafting GSM versions of moments not included in the Plus and Pixi Plus in the pipe. the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus? widespread network broadcast. S a i d p r o o f c o m e s v i a t h e originally appeared on Engadget certification gurus at TUV on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:11:00 Rheinland who've listed both a EST. Please see our terms for P101UNA and P121UNA in u s e o f f e e d s . P e r m a l i n k their systems from Palm; P101 PreCentral| TĂ&#x153;V Rheinland and P121 are the numeric codes (P101UNA), TĂ&#x153;V Rheinland for the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, ( P 1 2 1 U N A ) | E m a i l t h i s | respectively, and "UNA" Comments indicates a GSM variant (versus

Palm crafting GSM versions of the Pre Plus Super Talent adds SandForce controller to and Pixi Plus? new TeraDrive SSDs By Vladislav Savov (Engadget) Submitted at 1/23/2010 1:48:00 PM

All we ever hear of that SandForce SF-1500 controller seems to be about how wickedly fast it is, so we'd be remiss not to inform you that it's found another home -- this time inside Super Talent's new enterpriseclass SSD line. Branded as TeraDrive FT2, these drives will range from 50GB to 400GB on MLC NAND flash, or up to 200GB on the even nicer SLCbased stuff. The only hurdle in all this glory is that the hardware seems destined primarily for non

-consumer markets, with OEMs getting samples now and expecting volume deliveries by the end of this quarter. Then again, if you really can't wait for these to filter through in consumer machines, we're sure OCZ and RunCore will be more than happy to sell you some of their own silly fast SandForceinfused gear. Super Talent adds SandForce controller to new TeraDrive SSDs originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Hot Hardware| Email this| Comments

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HTC leaking bad intel, playing dangerous game of counterespionage? By Tim Stevens (Engadget) Submitted at 1/23/2010 8:14:00 AM

Leaky faucets? Hate 'em. Leaked gadgets? We love those dearly, but a rather compelling accusation is giving us pause over some of the juiciest: those from HTC. The claim is that HTC has made a "controled [sic] leak of some devices," incorrect infos revealed by the company itself, designed to throw us all off the scent. It's a strong accusation that we'd be inclined to ignore if not for the source: Eldar Murtazin from Mobile

Review, who has brought no shortage of undisclosed bits of information to light himself. Eldar says that HTC has been trying to make people think the

Andy Dick Arrested on Suspicion of Sexual Abuse

Halo is a smartphone, but it's (ETonline - Breaking News) actually yet another Android Submitted at 1/23/2010 7:55:00 AM tablet. What's the truth? Can we handle the truth? Who does the No laughing matter: Andy Dick was arrested in West Virginia on Smoking Man work for? Saturday morning. Filed under: Cellphones HTC leaking bad intel, playing The 44-year-old comedian has dangerous game of counterespionage? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink|@eldarmurtazin| Email this| Comments

This Disgruntled Artwork Perpetually Sells Itself on eBay [Art] By Kyle VanHemert (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/23/2010 2:00:00 PM

Caleb Larsen's " A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter" isn't quite as menacing as its name makes it out to be, but it's definitely a flighty little fellow: it continually creates new eBay auctions for itself via a built-in Ethernet jack. No owner is quite good enough for this big-headed piece. Larsen's "Tool," a shiny, black

cube with an Ethernet jack, pings a server every ten minutes to determine if it is listed for sale on eBay. If it's not, it creates a new auction. Mind you, this isn't

only a conceptual function of the piece; it really is constantly auctioning itself and being purchased by new owners. You can view the current auction at

http://atooltodeceiveandslaughter .com/. The going price for the current auction, ending in five days, is $4,250. The piece has been in circulation since 2008. "A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter" isn't for art collectors with fragile egos. It will leave you. Unless, of course, you forget to plug it in. [ Caleb Larsen via Make]

been charged with two counts of felony sexual abuse in the first degree. He is presently awaiting arraignment and is being held in police custody.

Livestream of the Hope for Haiti Now Telethon [Hope For Haiti Now] By Gabriel Snyder (Gawker) Submitted at 1/22/2010 7:30:00 PM

Tonight at 8pm is the Hope for Haiti Now telethon, which will air on many TV stations and is being livestreamed on sites across the web, including here. Please support relief and recovery in Haiti. Funds raised will go to support the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, UNICEF, the American Red Cross, Yele Haiti, World Food Program, Oxfam America, and Partners in Health.

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Does a frozen camera improve its ISO capabilities? 4Chan says so. By Matt Burns (CrunchGear) Submitted at 1/23/2010 5:39:08 AM

Please, take this advice lightly. It came from the bowels of 4Chan, after all. But it seems that a user froze his Sony A350 DSLR and actually got better results when shooting at ISO 3200. The results he posted seem to validate his results, but once again, this is from 4Chan home of everything that is vile, rotten and antisocial on the Internet. I’m not advising anyone to try this. (unless you wanna) I mean, I certainly don’t have the cash to buy another camera if this trick really doesn’t work. (but maybe you do) And it’s not like it’s all that pleasant to hold a frozen camera. (you could wear gloves) So please, just because some

dbag at CrunchGear posted an Internet rumor that *might* improve your pictures, don’t stick your camera in the freezer. (use you wife’s) 4Chan(NSFW of course) via The Phoblographer via Photo Rumors

The Card Speaker At Least Thinks It Tops & Flops: A Week Sounds Good [Speakers] in Fashion! By Kyle VanHemert (Gizmodo)

its design principles, too: simple and clean. The company claims it "puts most every mp3 Submitted at 1/23/2010 1:00:00 PM accessory to shame with its good There's no shortage of portable, looks and crisp fidelity." The wafer-thin speakers for iPods, former may be true, though the iPhones and other pocketable latter remains to be seen. media devices. But the Card Still, if its packaging is any Speaker, designed by IDEA reflection on the Card Speaker's International, has the trappings to sound quality, it could live up to make it stand out from the pack. its description. The portable The Card Speaker is about the speaker comes in a handsome same size as an iPod and shares case with space for a short

3.5mm cord and a USB cable for charging. The Card Speaker's battery lasts up to five hours on a charge, certainly enough time for a stranger to notice your portable audio set up and compliment you on its elegance. The $75 Card Speaker comes in silver or black and can be had at The Ghostly Store. [ Unplggd]

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Sun CEO's internal memo: Beat IBM (CNET News.com)

T echnology from Sun, alongside our employees and partners, have changed the B elieve it or not, it's been more world. We've opened markets, than nine months since Oracle elections and economies. We've first announced their intent to helped build the world's most acquire Sun in April, 2009. And i m p o r t a n t a n d v a l u a b l e the 'interim' period has been businesses. We've played a key tough on everyone--on our role in discovering new drugs, in employees, and our partners and b r i n g i n g e d u c a t i o n a n d customers. Thankfully, that healthcare to those in need, and interim period is coming to an supplying the world with an end, with regulatory approval i n c r e d i b l e s p e c t r u m o f from the European Union issued entertainment, from smartphones today, and only a few hurdles to social networking. I doubt any remaining--before Oracle company has had such a f o r m a l l y e x p a n d s b e y o n d significant influence over the software to become the world's way we see or experience the m o s t i m p o r t a n t s y s t e m s world. I once told Scott McNealy company. he was the Henry Ford of the E ven though we're not quite technology industry, making across the finish line, I wanted to r e m a r k a b l e i n n o v a t i o n s leave you with a few final a c c e s s i b l e t o a n y o n e , a n d thoughts. creating an immense number of A ll in all, it's been an honor and jobs around the globe for those privilege to work together. In my that made use of them. I can't more than twenty years in the begin to tell you how proud I am industry, the last thirteen at Sun, of my association with that cause I've had a chance to work with and the people behind it, and the a n d a r o u n d a n e n o r m o u s value we created for ourselves diversity of companies, from and those that exploited our every sector you can imagine. I innovations. can say with conviction that I also know we've had more Sun's people have always stood than our share of very tough apart as the brightest, most challenges. Amidst the toughest passionate, and most inspiring. market and customer situations I've never had a bad day in my imaginable, I'm proud we've thirteen years for one very basic always acted with integrity, with r e a s o n - - I ' v e a l w a y s b e e n a sense for what's right, and not surrounded by the best and simply what's expedient. Over brightest individuals I've ever the years, I've heard time and come across. That's been an again, from those inside and honor and privilege, for which outside the company, "I like and I'm enormously thankful. I trust Sun." Submitted at 1/23/2010 11:06:00 AM

B uilding that good will is something to which you've all contributed. And you have every right to be very proud of it. M ake no mistake, it's been an enormous asset. So, to the sales and SE teams across the world who continually give their all to bring the numbers home--thank you for the trust you've built with customers, and the results you've delivered. I hope you're prepared to have the wind at your back, you deserve it. To the service professionals who every day build, maintain and run the world's most important data centers--thank you for your excellence and discipline, 7?24. To the professionals who run the functions and processes that are the company's spinal column-thank you, we'd be paralyzed without you. And lastly--to the engineers and marketers who've fostered a perpetual belief that innovation creates its own opportunity-thank you. You're right. Innovation does create its own opportunity. Like Oracle, we're an engineering company in our heart and soul, our potential together is limitless. Now many of you know that I came to Sun when a company I helped to found was acquired in 1996. I've also led, and been a part of many, many acquisitions at Sun, both large and small. From those experiences, I've learned one very clear lesson--

the single most important driver of a successful acquisition are the people involved--and how committed they are to the new owner's mission. And the most effective mechanism I've seen for driving that commitment begins with a simple, but emotionally difficult step. Upon change in control, every employee needs to emotionally resign from Sun. Go home, light a candle, and let go of the expectations and assumptions that defined Sun as a workplace. Honor and remember them, but let them go. For those that ultimately won't become a part of Oracle, this will be the first step in a new adventure. Sun has a tremendous reputation across the planet, well beyond Silicon Valley. It's a great brand to have on your resume. We're known as selfstarters, capable of ethically managing through complexity and change, for delivering when called upon, and for inventing and building the future. With the world economy stabilizing, I'm very confident you'll land on your feet. You're a talented, tenacious group, and there's always opportunity for great people. For those that have roles at Oracle, may you start with a clean slate, ready to take on the myriad opportunities ahead. With the same passion and tenacity for Oracle's success that you've had for Sun's, and a

renewed sense of energy around executing on a far broader mission. There is no doubt in my mind you, and Oracle, will be remarkably successful, beyond the market's wildest expectations. But it's important you come to work thinking, "Sun is a brand, Oracle's my company." Don't look for ways to preserve or dwell in "how we used to do things." Look for ways to help customers, grow the market, and improve Oracle's performance. Sun is a brand, Oracle is your company. And to that end, with nine months of getting to know them, I've found Oracle to be truly remarkable, led by remarkable people. From Larry on down, they understand the enormity of the opportunity before them, and they're more than prepared to execute on it--across the board. I've seen their commitment and focus, now they need yours. I'm confident you'll give it the 10,000% effort it deserves--and we'll all see the end result. So thank you, again, for the privilege and honor of working together. The internet's made the world a far smaller place--so I'm sure we'll be bumping into one another. Go Oracle! Jonathan Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Top 10 Most Popular Topics on Twitter This Week By Ben Parr (Mashable!)

been the crisis in Haiti. After a 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti, the world came to the people’s What did people buzz about the aid, raising millions via text most this week? Who was the m e s s a g e a n d o t h e r s o c i a l singer that people tweeted the m e t h o d s . most about? What issue caught - The Shorty Awards, which the world’s collective attention? recognize great twitter users and Social media is not only a great their content, trended for nearly medium for conversation, but it’s four days. It’s become more also an effective way to discover popular than even we predicted. and analyze the popular topics of - Both Martin Luther King Day the day. By aggregating and and the Massachusetts special picking apart the millions of election between Scott Brown tweets, status updates, and posts and Martha Coakley took up two generated on the web every day, trending topics. Martin Luther it’s possible to figure out what King Day was on Monday, while people care about in real-time. the Massachusetts election Starting this week, we will be occurred on Tuesday. publishing the top ten trending - In the realm of entertainment, topics of the last seven days, J u s t i n B i e b e r , t h e G o l d e n based on the amount of time they Globes, and Jersey Shore were trended on Twitter. This data is the most talked about items of provided to us courtesy of What the weel. The Trend, which tracks Twitter Be sure to scroll down to the t r e n d s a n d p r o v i d e s u s e r - end of the post for the full list. generated descriptions of those What Might Be Popular Next topics. What Was Hot This Week? Week What do you think will be the Here are some of our thoughts topics people discuss the most and observation on Twitter’s top next week? We have a few ten trending topics for the week: guesses, but we want to hear - Unsurprisingly, the most yours in the comments. discussed topic of the week has Some of our predictions: Submitted at 1/23/2010 9:41:54 AM

1. Apple’s announcement, including the Apple Tablet and the unveiling of iPhone 4.0. 2. The Grammy Awards, which air on 1/31, will garner a lot of discussion next week, along with some of its singers. 3. The plight in Haiti, as well as ways to help, will continue to dominate the discussion. Top 10 Twitter Trending Topics, 1/16 to 1/22 All descriptions are provided courtesy of What The Trend. Rank Topic Time Trending Change Max Index Description#1 Haiti 4 Days, 18 Hours 1 On January 12, 2010 an earthquake measured at 7.3 devastated the country’s capital, a week later on the 20th an aftershock of 6.1 struck, a telethon will be held on Jan 22, 2009 to raise funds for relief efforts.#2 Shorty Award 3 Days,

20 Hours 2 The Second Annual Shorty Awards honor the most popular producers of short content on Twitter. Award winners are recognized in 26 official and 100s of user generated categories.#3 Justin Bieber 1 Day, 13 Hours 3 Justin Bieber is a Canadian R&B/pop singer has a lot of fans who like to tweet about him!#4 Follow Friday 17 Hours 2 Follow Friday is a tradition where people tweet people they believe are fun/interesting to follow (on Fridays).#5 Scott Brown 1 Day, 3 Hours NEW 1 Republican Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate race, beating Democrat Martha Coakley.#6 Massachusetts 1 Day, 2 Hours NEW 1 Republican Scott Brown won a bitter Senate race in Massachusetts on Tuesday, dealing a stunning blow to President Barack Obama’s legislative agenda and casting doubt on the fate of his sweeping healthcare overhaul.#7 MLK 16 Hours NEW 2 Today is Dr. MLK Jr’s actual birthday. He was a civil rights pioneer, Morehouse College Alum, &

Disco Stick? [Pic Of The Day] By Brian Moylan (Gawker) Submitted at 1/22/2010 7:00:00 PM

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member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.#8 Martin Luther King 17 Hours NEW 2 On Jan. 18th, 2010 the U.S. is celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday in honour of the famous civil rights pioneer. President Barack Obama has given a special address to mark the occasion.#9 Jersey Shore 17 Hours 1 Reality show on MTV about 8 Italian youths enjoying life and living it up on the Jersey Shore. Season finale is tonight at 10PM Eastern. Reruns are currently on.#10 Golden Globes 16 Hours NEW 2 The 67th annual Golden Globe Awards was broadcast live on Sunday Jan. 17, on NBC. People are/were tweeting about the award winners and host, Rickey Gervais. Note: Our data excludes hashtags unless they are relevant to a news story or major topic of world discussion. Tags: trending, trending topics, twitter, What The Trend

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Apple and the Rise of the Machines: Don't worry, they're just here to rock By Michael Grothaus (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 1/23/2010 2:00:00 PM

Filed under: Multimedia, Music Whenever I heard "robots" and "Los Angeles" used in the same sentence, I thought of only one thing: the end of the freaking world as we know it. But all that's changed after I was lucky enough to get a sneak peak at a current rise of a group of machines happening at a company called KarmetiK, and what I saw there literally rocked me. If you're into Macs and music and live in the LA area, I've got a treat for you. The world premiere of The Machine Orchestra will take place at REDCAT Theater in downtown LA on Wednesday, January 27th at 8:30pm. If you're in the area, I highly recommend you check it out. What is a machine orchestra, you ask? Imagine a crate full of Apple computers, musical instruments, Terminators, and cutting edge technicians and musicians. Now take that crate, shake it up, and spill it out onto a stage. What you're left with is a group of robotic machines that play musical instruments alongside human artists - all controlled by software written for and running on Macs. The Machine Orchestra is the

brainchild of Ajay Kapur, Director of Music Technology at CalArts who wanted to breathe new technological life into the instruments and music normally found playing in traditional World Music ensembles. Students from the emerging Music Technology program at CalArts will not only play alongside audio pioneers like Perry Cook and one of the most

famous North Indian Classical musicians, Aashish Khan, but alongside robots as well. Man and machine work together to give the listener not only an auditory experience of the fusion between electronic and world music, but a visual one as well. Electronic music is computerbased by its very definition. The audience can't see the instruments used to create the

original sound. What's so cool about The Machine Orchestra is that it allows for the creation of electronic music using actual instruments controlled via Macs, all in front of a live audience. On the robot front you've got three stars: GanaPatiBot- a drum robot with multiple solenoid systems for striking. The back of GanaPatiBot is a "propeller Leslie system", where two

speakers are placed at either side of a spinning bar, which plays sounds and drones from an iPod Mini. MahaDeviBot is another drum robot with the ability to strike 12 different percussion instruments gathered from around India, including frame drums, bells, finger cymbals, wood blocks, and gongs. APPLE page 25

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Foursquare Beats Yelp and Gowalla in Reader Poll

Buzz Makers: Tiger Woods Sex Rehab Reports, 'The Bachelor' Drama & More!

By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)

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Week 2: - Tumblr vs. Posterous Submitted at 1/22/2010 9:12:51 PM - WINNER: Tumblr, 1809 votes It’s been another exciting week (Posterous: 1496 votes, Tie: 256 here in our long-running Faceoff votes) Series. We pitted three of the top Week 3: “ c h e c k - i n ” l o c a t i o n - b a s e d - Pandora vs. Last.fm mobile services against each - WINNER: Last.fm, 1187 votes other to find out which among (Pandora: 1156 votes, Tie: 122 them is the preferred choice for votes) Mashable readers. Week 4: The results are now in, and - Twitter vs. Facebook we’ve got ourselves a winner: - WINNER: Facebook, 2484 Foursquare takes the title! With votes (Twitter: 2061 votes, Tie: 47% of the vote, the service beat 588 votes) out check-in newcomer Yelp Week 5: with 26% of the vote. Coming in - WordPress vs. Typepad close to Yelp in third place was - WINNER: WordPress, 2714 Gowalla at 20% of the vote, and votes (Typepad: 267 votes, Tie: a 6% tie ballot rounded out this 357 votes) week’s faceoff. Week 6: Are you surprised by the - Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard results? Do you feel another - WINNER: Windows 7, 3632 candidate should have been votes (Snow Leopard: 3278 included in the check-in services votes, Tie: 121 votes) p o l l ? L e t u s k n o w i n t h e Week 7: comments. - TweetDeck vs. Seesmic Who would win in a fight: Yelp, D e s k t o p F o u r s q u a r e , o r G o w a l l a ? ( - WINNER: TweetDeck, 3294 answers) votes (Seesmic Desktop: 1055 Faceoff Series: Overall Results votes, Tie: 260 votes) Week 1: Week 8: - Mozilla Firefox vs. Google - Microsoft Office vs. Google Chrome Docs - WINNER: Firefox, 4600 votes - WINNER: Microsoft Office, (Chrome: 3310 votes, Tie: 911 1365 votes (Google Docs: 994 votes) votes, Tie: 315 votes)

Week 9: - Apple iPhone vs. Google Android - WINNER: Google Android, 3323 votes (Apple iPhone: 1494 votes, Tie: 228 votes) Week 10: - AT&T vs. Verizon - WINNER: Verizon, 1161 votes (AT&T: 538 votes, Tie: 118 votes) Week 11: - Google vs. Bing - WINNER: Google, 2180 votes (Bing: 519 votes, Tie: 97 votes) Week 12: - iPod Touch/iPhone vs. Nintendo DS vs. Sony PSP - WINNER: iPod Touch/iPhone, 704 votes (Sony PSP: 639 votes, Nintendo DS: 482 votes, Tie: 108 votes) Week 13: - Digg vs. Reddit vs. StumbleUpon - WINNER: Digg, 14,762 votes

(Reddit: 11,466 votes, StumbleUpon: 2507 votes, Tie: 1032 votes) Week 14: - Old versus new Twitter retweets - WINNER: Old style retweets, 1625 votes (New style retweets: 699 votes, Tie: 227 votes) Week 15: - Gmail vs. Outlook - WINNER: Gmail, 3684 votes (Outlook: 980 votes, Tie: 590 votes) Week 16: - Boxee vs. Hulu - WINNER: Hulu, 626 votes (Boxee: 591 votes, Tie: 106 votes) Week 17: - Nexus One vs. iPhone 3GS - WINNER: Nexus One, 6743 votes (iPhone 3GS: 2818 votes, Tie: 592 votes) Week 18: - Foursquare vs. Yelp vs. Gowalla - WINNER: Foursquare, 1182 votes, (Yelp: 661 votes, Gowalla: 509 votes, Tie: 143 votes) Tags: checkins, foursquare, gowalla, location, polls, web faceoff, yelp

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No. 7 Spartans rally past shorthanded Gophers By Associated Press (ESPN.com) Submitted at 1/23/2010 11:53:17 AM

Fast Facts • Kalin Lucas gave the Spartans their first lead of the game on a 3 -pointer with 1:27 to play as Michigan State rallied for its eighth straight win since losing at Texas. • The win also gave the Spartans their first 7-0 Big Ten start since the 1977-78 season. • MSU was 11 for 24 (45.8 percent) from 3-point range, but only 13 for 37 (35.1 percent) inside the arc. • Minnesota's last two losses have come by a combined four points. -- ESPN Stats & Information Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Apple rumor check: The MacBook Air 'delay' (CNET News.com)

address below). So, let's be clear: all laptops using power-sipping versions of Apple rumors can be stubborn Intel processors always ship later things. Repeated often enough, than laptops with standard-power they become stubborn facts. versions. Erik Reid, Intel's It's been more than a year since director of marketing for its the last refresh of the MacBook Mobile Products Group, told me Air. And for consumers waiting a t t h e r e c e n t C o n s u m e r impatiently for the update, this Electronics Show that this is still AppleInsider report would seem the case for the new Core i series to be a setback. of chips, including the new So, what's going on? The theory mobile Core i5. (However, Reid goes that the new MacBook Air- and other Intel folks at CES did -which, in the past, has used a say that low-power mobile Core i special power-frugal version of a chips will ship a bit sooner than standard Intel processor--has has been traditionally the case been delayed due to an Intel chip w i t h t h i s c l a s s o f I n t e l shipment snafu. processor.) It's an intriguing rumor--except Of course, it goes without that power-efficient versions of saying that nobody but Apple new Intel processors always ship knows what will ultimately later than standard models. And happen to the MacBook Air. Or this would be the case even if if Apple is going to use the Core Apple were to get special i5 processor in a new version of expedited orders of these chips the MacBook Air--or, even if from Intel. (That's not to mention Apple does use the Core i5, how the fact that there is no hard it may choose to implement the MacBook Air launch date to base processor, i.e., with or without a "delay" on--which I will Intel graphics. Submitted at 1/23/2010 10:21:00 AM

That said, we do know this about Intel's new low-voltage specifications, particularly for the low-voltage i5. (Low-voltage Intel processors, by the way, are typically referred to as ultra-lowvoltage or "ULV.") To date, Intel's ULV chips were rated typically at 10 watts--which is less than a third of the 35-watt rating of standard Intel mobile processors. But Intel is rejiggering this method of rating power efficiency a bit to account for the new "Arrandale" chip design that packages the graphics silicon together with the main Intel processor, according to Reid. So a Core i chip rated at, let's say, 18 watts will now be considered a ULV processor. Again, this is done to account for the additional power load of the graphics circuits that, before, were in a separate chip package called the chipset. Intel processor facts aside, what does all of this say about the nonstop, round-the-clock Apple

rumor factory? Because Apple rumors are so prolific, it's not a stretch to say that occasionally spurious connections are made between Apple and some industry trend or event. In this case, it seems that an established Intel tradition of staggering processor rollouts has been misinterpreted as a delay. Of course, everyone in the media (including me) these days is guilty of trading on Mac rumors, which is often an exercise in overstimulated imagination rather than fact checking. So, rumors aside, let's just say that I hope Apple really is updating the MacBook Air, considering-- as I said in a previous post--the fact that the Air has not seen a substantive redesign since it was introduced two years ago, almost to the day. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Five Burning Questions for WEC in 2010 By Mike Chiappetta (FanHouse Main) Submitted at 1/23/2010 12:00:00 AM

Filed under: WEC With 2010 freshly underway, MMA Fighting takes a look at some of the burning questions facing WEC during this year. Included in the discussion of the company's yearly outlook are whether WEC will produce a pay -per-view, if they're capable of developing another major star, whether a WEC-UFC merger is likely and more.

Cogs for iPhone, a mechanical puzzle game By Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

iPhone any day now, say developers Lazy 8. If you like puzzle games, you'll probably see in the trailer above why this Submitted at 1/23/2010 10:30:00 AM one is so fascinating: it takes the Filed under: Gaming, Software, old idea of slide puzzles (moving Developer, iPhone, App Store a grid of pieces around one by Cogs is a brilliant game that's one) to form actual machines of had an award-winning run on the all kinds, from pipes that blow PC, and it's due out on the up balloons to actual gears that

run simple engines and even more complex mechanical designs. The core gameplay is simple-- just move those pieces around by switching them -- but you're always building towards an overall picture that pays off with a nice mechanical reward. Good stuff. The game is apparently up for approval right

now and will be out very soon. There's no word on price yet -the PC version of the game sells for about $10 as a digital download, but we've contacted Chillingo to see how much they'll be charging on the iPhone. We'll keep our eyes out for it and try to get you a hands-on review when it releases.

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Review: Monoprice's iPhone leather-cased battery backup is another great deal By David Winograd (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 1/22/2010 6:30:00 PM

Filed under: Accessories, Hardware, Reviews, iPhone, iPod touch We like Monoprice around here. They are a wonderful source for cables and iPhone battery backups as well as lots of other accessories and add-ons. We covered their 2200 mAh battery dongle a few months back and nearly everyone who bought one was quite happy including our own Auntie TUAW. The price was great at US$14.50 when reviewed and currently up just about 75 cents to a still absurdly cheap US$15.23. One problem people had with it was that if left in your pocket, the dongle could get loose and stop charging the iPhone. Pushing it back into place corrected that, but it was an inelegant solution. Getting ready for my trip to the Macworld Expo I wanted something that would stay in place dependably no matter where I put it, so I went back to Monoprice.com, and found a leather case cover with a 2200 mAh battery built in that the iPhone snaps into. The price is

ridiculously low at US $20.75, just US $5.52 more than the dongle. This has been on sale for at least as long as the dongle, I hadn't heard anything about it, but decided to give it a try. What you get is a plastic case housing the battery that your iPhone 3G or 3GS snaps into. iPod touch users need not apply, since when plugging your device into the case, you'll be covering your speaker jack, making the product worthless to you. Connected to the top of the case is a leather cover that you flip to

protect your screen. On the left side is an input for the usual 30 pin dock cable to charge the unit. On the front is one light and a toggle switch marked on and off. As is usual with Monoprice, there are no instructions. You really don't need instructions since it's pretty obvious how it works. Slide your iPhone onto the case's 30 pin dock connector and the fit is nice and snug. Plug in a standard iPhone/iPod cable into the side and the light turns red until fully charged when the light turns

green. The on and off switch activates or de-activates the battery backup. I can't come up with a good reason to ever turn it off. The leather flip cover not only protects the screen, but also acts as a stand, when folded back a bit, holding the iPhone upright in either landscape or portrait mode. So much for those little flexible plastic holders. Another nice feature is that if you leave the switch set to on, you can charge both the battery backup and your iPhone at the same time using a standard 30 pin

iPhone/iPod cable. Its closest competor is the Mophie Juice Pack which has a smaller 1800 mAh battery, needs a mini-USB cable to charge, has no screen protection and costs $US 99.95. In its favor though, the Mophie comes in four colors while Monoprice ships only basic black. The downside of the Monoprice case: It adds a good deal of heft to the svelte iPhone. Batteries aren't light. The upside is that it's US $79 cheaper than the Mophie with a larger battery, screen protection, and you don't need to find that missing mini-USB cable. You'll also save another few bucks by not having to buy a stand. As with anything else I've bought from Monoprice, I recommend it highly. TUAW Review: Monoprice's iPhone leather-cased battery backup is another great deal originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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How Google's Nexus One censors cuss words (CNET News.com)

By ESPN.com news services (ESPN.com)

Submitted at 1/23/2010 11:33:45 AM

Some of you who have been basking in the beauty of your new Nexus One Googlephone may not have tried out all of its delightful features. And what I am about to tell you may lead you to utter some naughty words. Please, go ahead. I have heard them all, in several different languages. And I respect the vehemence of the vernacular. However, your Nexus One will not be so charmed by the vigor of your tongue. It will, dare I utter the word when referring to a product from the newly emancipated Google, censor you. You see, the pungently polite people at Reuters were playing with their Nexus One when they noticed something about its built -in voice-to-text feature. Every time they said something naughty into the phone, the naughty word came out as "####"--and not just "f---." It even censored the "S" part of BS. Reuters immediately called Google and screamed at them: "What the #### are you miserable ############# playing at?" It's a ####ing good phone, so I'm told.(Credit: CC Pittaya/Flickr) Oh, perhaps I have stretched the boundaries of possibility with

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that heartening notion. They probably asked a little more politely, given that they secured a really quite ingenious reply from a Googleperson. Apparently, the censorship is not because Google is trying to clean up the world and turn it into the nicest parts of Alabama. No, the company is worried about what might be transcribed. "We filter potentially offensive or inappropriate results because we want to avoid situations whereby we might misrecognize a spoken query and return profanity when, in fact, the user said something completely

innocent," Google told Reuters. Yes, the technology isn't quite perfect, so even the potential of a misplaced curse is being avoided at all costs. What interests me most is how Google chooses its list of naughty nuances. Is there some poor engineer over at the Googleplex whose sole task was to write software that immediately identifies expletive expressions? Do they take account of those who swear in Spanish, Italian, or, like me, Polish? And if you say "For crying out loud" a little too quickly, might

the transcription come out with a four letter f-word (or rather four hash marks) at the beginning? One other thing. I have a Croatian friend. If I ever got a Nexus One, I would like to be able to address him by his name. His name is Fuk. Would his name be transcribed, every time, as ###? How sad. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

NFC North blog ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert writes about all things NFC North in his division blog. â&#x20AC;˘ Blog network: NFL Nation Minnesota Vikings receiver Percy Harvin participated in the team's final practice and meetings Saturday and will travel with his teammates to New Orleans for the NFC Championship Game, sources close to the player told ESPN's Ed Werder. One source said the symptoms Harvin was suffering from with his migraine headaches were less severe but the problem still lingers. He was listed as questionable on the official injury report but his availability to play remained undetermined. Harvin, the AP's offensive rookie of the year, missed practice Thursday and was told by coach Brad Childress to remain home Friday. Childress said the missed practice time could not be made up and called the situation "less than ideal." Ed Werder is an NFL reporter for ESPN. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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If Data Centers Are Understaffed, What Does That Mean For Security? By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

understaffing included both the difficulty of finding qualified people for more technologically This post is part of the IT complex datacenters and general Innovation series, sponsored by economic cutbacks -- neither of Sun & Intel. Read more at which are particularly surprising. ITInnovation.com. Of The bigger question is what course, the content of this post impact this will have. Chronic consists entirely of the thoughts understaffing in a data center and opinions of the author. could lead to serious security W h i l e I ' m a l w a y s a l i t t l e issues, increased downtime skeptical of the numbers found (decreased reliability) and in vendor surveys, it wouldn't be c e r t a i n l y decreased too surprising to learn that the responsiveness to problems. recent findings that half of all W i t h m a n y o f t h e s u r v e y data centers find themselves respondents also claiming they're understaffed are at least close to hoping to decrease headcount accurate. About 16% of the total even further, this could become a surveyed claimed that their data bigger issue going forward. c e n t e r s w e r e " e x t r e m e l y The report also claims that the understaffed," with another 34% s u r v e y ' s c r e a t o r s w e r e saying they were just somewhat "surprised" to find out that midunderstaffed. Reasons for the market companies were more Submitted at 1/22/2010 4:47:01 PM

likely to experiment with new technologies, as compared to the big companies, but I don't find that surprising at all. Big companies are pretty resistant to change (especially if they have some big IT project that is "working.") Still, if those companies are finding their data centers regularly understaffed, it could create more difficulty in getting getting new projects successfully off the ground. So I'm curious how companies are dealing with these issues and trying to avoid problems with understaffed data centers, while still being able to try out new technologies and services. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

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MahaDeviBot even has bouncing head which can portray tempo to the human. Last but not least is (the simply-named) Tammy. Standing at six feet tall, Tammy plays instruments including the hand-crafted marimba, drone string, and bells. All the music and robots are performed and controlled via custom controllers and modified instruments like Arduinome and MLGI. "The ensemble is really an Apple powered beast, with over 10 performers (including our robotic counterparts) running on Apples," says Jordan Hochenbaum, one of the musicians in the show, who is currently a PhD student in Sonic Arts at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. "We mostly use Macbook Pros, although there is one Macbook, and we also have an iMac server which sends out 'sync' signals to keep everyone's Macs and robots in time with each other. We wrote custom client/server software to help address some sync issues we had using

standard sync from our music software, Ableton Live." Wednesday is going to be a big day for the Mac if that rumored tablet appears. If you're in LA, why not go out and celebrate by rocking to a bunch of Maccontrolled machines? Besides, when was the last time you saw a robot play a killer drum beat? Let's see the T-800 do that. Tickets can be bought here for $20 general admission/ $16 students. TUAW Apple and the Rise of the Machines: Don't worry, they're just here to rock originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

HP workers in U.K. stage one-day strike (CNET News.com) Submitted at 1/23/2010 11:41:00 AM

More than 1,000 staff at Hewlett -Packard Enterprise Services in the U.K. took part in a one-day strike on Friday as the result of a dispute over pay and job losses. The Public and Commercial

Services Union announced the action Thursday after talks broke down. The staff involved work for HP's Enterprise Services division at sites in Newcastle, Washington, Preston, and the Fylde Coast. They are mainly contract workers for the Department for Work and

Pensions, as well as the Ministry of Defense and General Motors, according to the union. The dispute relates to ongoing job cuts across the U.K. that followed HP's takeover of services company EDS in August 2008. EDS was renamed HP Enterprise Services. Since

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A DIY iPhone car mount for just $2 Give A Man A Fish... And Make It Illegal To Teach Fishing By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

to teach fishing.(found via Michael Scott): There are those Submitted at 1/22/2010 7:39:00 PM who think that making We've talked in the past about knowledge scarce, including how intellectual property rules criminalising private citizens seem to directly conflict with the owning and controlling their own p u r p o s e o f e d u c a t i o n a l communications technology, is institutions -- and yet, many of the only way to make it possible those institutions are now to pay authors/inventors for their starting to try to enforce those important contributions to rules. Taking that a step further, society. This ignores all the in response to Bono's recent experience and research to the confusion over ISP filtering, contrary. Whether you believe Russell McOrmond makes a this or not, you must admit that great point in updating the old deliberately making knowledge parable of "Give a man a fish scarce and thus more expensive and he eats for a day. Teach him greatly harms the interests of the to fish and he eats for a lifetime," worlds poor. to the more modern version of: The repercussions of Give a man a fish, make it illegal deliberately making knowledge

scarce will be an underlying issue that will show up in many global conflicts in the next decade, whether talking about poverty, western economic recovery or global climate change. Indeed. It's a scary world when people think that locking up naturally abundant information and knowledge somehow makes sense. All it does is lock away a natural resource that can be used at no cost to make the world a better place. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

13 ways to drive traffic to your blog (Holy Kaw!)

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Need a checklist to see if you’re doing all the right stuff to drive traffic to your blog? Maisha Walker has compiled a list of thirteen methods to increase blog traffic (via Inc.) Here are some of them:

• Posting comments in other blogs and public forums. • Cross linking.

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By Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 1/23/2010 12:00:00 PM

Filed under: Hacks, Tips and tricks, Odds and ends, iPhone So, like me, you've been doing a lot of driving around with your iPhone lately, and you've come to the conclusion that just having it sit next to you on the seat isn't the best way to do things. You need an in-car mounted dock, but you're not ready to shell out a bunch of money for something with "premium" in the title. Solution? Follow these directions and make your own. For just a couple of bucks in materials, you can build what looks like a pretty worthwhile way to mount your iPhone in the car. It's basically a little PVC pipe with some foam to hold it in place on whatever extra ridges or slots you might have free in your dashboard, and some plastic coated wire at the top to hold your phone for you. Hey, you get what you pay for -- it won't pair with your iPhone, and any charging it provides will have to come from an external charging

cable that you buy. But if you just want something to keep your iPhone handy and up off of the seat next to you -- or out of the cupholder, I do that one a lot, too -- this weekend project might just do the trick. [via Lifehacker] TUAW A DIY iPhone car mount for just $2 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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'Public' Consultation Over ACTA In Mexico Almost Required NDAs, Blogger Removed For Tweeting By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

apparently concerned as to why everyday citizens were in Submitted at 1/22/2010 5:37:06 PM attendance, and they even booed Geraldine Juarez writes in to let a lawyer who questioned the us know of her experience human rights angle. As for attending what was billed as a Geraldine, she tried twittering "public hearing" about the the event, and the industry folks ACTA treaty in Mexico(link in demanded she leave (and had a Spanish, Google translation guard escort her out). It's almost here), which sounded really like they're trying to make messed up. First, despite it being themselves into a caricature of a public hearing, originally those businesses plotting to harm the putting on the event wanted public. When others asked attendees to sign nondisclosure w h e r e t h e a c t u a l A C T A agreements. After pushing back discussions in Mexico would be on this, they finally agreed to held, they were told that was remove that requirement, but "confidential." It appears that there was a lot of confusion the public is certainly not about it and it may have kept welcome. people with serious questions Permalink| Comments| Email about ACTA from attending. This Story The room, then, was mostly industry people, who were

Obama's First Year: a feelgood trailer (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 1/22/2010 9:49:57 PM

What would happen if movie executives edited Obama's first year into a preview for a feelgood movie? Aw shucks, guys,

Slate takes a shot. See if your warm fuzzies match up to those during Obama's upcoming State of the Union on Wednesday. More from Slate. Permalink| Leave a comment Âť

University of Oregon shows off engraved MacBook Pros By Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

each laptop has a specific number engraved on the bottom of it, which helps prevent theft and helps the school track down Submitted at 1/23/2010 3:00:00 AM wayward laptops. Cult of Mac Filed under: Hardware, Apple, has a great little interview with Macbook Pro I've always been the engraver, with some fun jealous of the folks who get free insider info about how this is all laptops from their work or d o n e ( h e ' s e v e n e n g r a v e d school (back when I was in fingernails, which sounds a little school, I used a paper notebook gross). We've seen some cool and a pen and liked it!), but I'm engraving projects before, but I especially jealous of the folks like this one; functional and from the University of Oregon's good-looking. Center for Student Athletes, who TUAW University of Oregon n o t o n l y g e t s o m e s w e e t shows off engraved MacBook MacBook Pros to use courtesy of Pros originally appeared on The Apple and Nike, but have each U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g one laser engraved with the (TUAW) on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 school's symbolic O. 03:00:00 EST. Please see our T h e e n g r a v i n g i s n ' t j u s t terms for use of feeds. aesthetic; it's useful, too. In Read| Permalink| Email this| addition to the school branding, Comments

Jim Miller Wants Best UFC Has to Offer By Ariel Helwani (FanHouse Main) Submitted at 1/23/2010 3:11:00 AM

Filed under: UFC, FanHouse Exclusive, Videos After winning 5 of his first 6 UFC fights, Jim Miller says he is ready to fight the top 155-pounders in the world. His climb up the lightweight ladder continues, as less than a month after he defeated Duane "Bang" Ludwig at UFC 108, Miller is getting ready to face Mark Bocek at UFC 111 in Newark, N.J. The fight will serve as a homecoming of sorts for Miller, who lives approximately an hour away from the Prudential Center in Newark. MMA Fighting spoke to the 26year-old recently about his evolution as an MMA fighter, his recent victory over Ludwig and his preparation for Bocek. Check out the video interview below.

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Time-lapse Footage of Flight 1549 Exhumed from the Hudson [VIDEO] By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)

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Chinese car and battery maker BYD--which is 10 percent owned by U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway--will invest $3.3 billion over five years to build China's largest solar battery plant, a report said Saturday. Shenzhen-based BYD, which aims to sell 800,000 vehicles next year, will build the plant in China's Shaanxi province, a report in the South China Morning Post said, citing the Shaanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission Web site. The plant will have capacity to

produce a total of 5,000 megawatts of batteries, the report said. BYD's F3 sedan was the bestselling car in China in the first 11 months of 2009. BYD is expected to start selling its first electric car, the e6, in the first quarter. Story Copyright (c) 2010 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

After US Airways flight 1549 emergency landed in New York’s Hudson River last January, citizen journalism provided the first on-the-scene reporting, thanks to Janis Krums’ infamous Twitpic of the crash. More citizen journalism from David Martin resulted in the following time-lapse video embedded below, of the Airbus A320 aircraft submerged in the Hudson’s icy waters and eventually extricated by crane. It’s a strangely captivating book end to the crash landing, which thankfully saw all 155 passengers safely rescued by nearby watercraft.

By Greg Couch (FanHouse Main) Submitted at 1/23/2010 1:30:00 AM

After its chilly rescue, the Airbus A320 actually went on the auction block. It’s listed “as is,” so if you’re hankering for a salvaged aircraft sans engines, wings on the side, get on down to Kearny, New Jersey to claim your insanely large souvenir. [via CNet] Tags: Airplane, citizen journalism, Flight 1540, Hudson River, plane crash, twitpic, video

Pants on the Ground Epic YouTube Remix [VIDEO] By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!) Submitted at 1/23/2010 10:37:10 AM

When do you know a new internet meme has reached true legitimacy? A remix involving Auto-Tune passes 100k views on YouTube. The original Pants on the Ground already got some cover treatment from Jimmy Fallon as

Neil Young and keep-your-dayjob Brett Favre, and you can of course even pick up a t-shirt at this point. But YouTube user TimothyDeLaGhetto2’s remix features a video complete with trousers-around-the-ankles dancers and a moment of parental awkward silence. Check it out below and let us know

what you think. And if you just can’t get enough PotG, there are

Filed under: Australian Open MELBOURNE, Australia -Five days, huh? That's all it took for the Henin Effect to kick in and make the women's tour start trembling?

Tweetie users: Watch this video #tweetie (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 1/23/2010 7:31:00 AM

In this video, Loren Brichter explains how he created Tweetie. Tweetie is my favorite iPhone even more remixes awaiting you. app for Twitter. If only Loren What major recording artist would “lower” himself to do a should pick up the next Pants on Nexus One version too. the Ground remix? Total iPhone and Twitter [WARNING]: Some NSFW coverage. language in this video. Permalink| Leave a comment » Tags: internet memes, pants on the ground, tv, video, viral video, youtube

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Fresh on the Trail By Lydia DePillis (The New Republic - All Feed)

doing right, and what it’s doing wrong. The outside game: Clearly, Submitted at 1/22/2010 9:00:00 PM there’s a huge advantage in being The senate special election in able to marshall out-of-state Massachusetts was, for reasons manpower for a tight election. that have been articulated on this OFA sent an appeal to its 13site and others, a complete million-person email list, and disaster. The Coakley campaign volunteers around the country was hopelessly inept. The White r e s p o n d e d b y c a l l i n g House didn’t step in until too Massachusetts two million times. late. An insurgent tea party (They downloaded call lists from fringe was too much to beat the OFA website—if you ever back. gave your phone number to the It was also, however, the first Obama campaign, it’s available electoral test of the operation to anyone who signs up at that’s designed, in part, to www.barackobama.com.) One o v e r c o m e t h e s e s o r t s o f local organizer reported that they s i t u a t i o n s : O r g a n i z i n g f o r had burned through the entire America, the skeleton of Barack voter contact list two days before Obama’s campaign apparatus the election itself. t h a t m o r p h e d i n t o t h e In normal elections, there might D e m o c r a t i c N a t i o n a l be less remote assistance Committee’s grassroots arm. available for tight races, but Since its debut this time last presumably volunteers in safer year, the group has focused districts could still divert their almost exclusively on health care efforts to where they’d have reform; it also sent out a few most impact (not unlike voteemails on behalf of Democratic trading). Still, it doesn’t do much gubernatorial candidates in g o o d i f c a l l s b e c o m e Virginia and New Jersey. duplicative—robocalls from Once Martha Coakley’s peril Coakley and Barack Obama became apparent, OFA went into were also in the mix, and voters emergency rescue mode, sending were starting to get annoyed. many of its top operatives to Meanwhile, all of this help was Boston and mobilizing chapters likely dwarfed by the swarms of across the country to place calls tea party activists who actually into the state. It wasn’t enough to traveled into the state, swelling save Coakley’s candidacy, but it r a l l i e s a n d c a n v a s s i n g might have saved the Democrats neighborhoods for Scott Brown. from an even more embarrassing Unlike OFA, they just didn’t defeat. And, crucially for future have nifty web tools to quantify races, this first outing tells us a their “impact.” few things about what OFA is The ground game: Having out-

of-staters do the phone calls is perhaps most useful for freeing up local volunteers to canvass in person. But because of the late mobilization, precious little of this happened until the last two days of the campaign—which meant that Coakley may never have reached the independent voters who weren’t picking up their phones, or weren’t on an Obama call list (meanwhile, the Brown campaign was using a brand-new iPhone app to plan walk routes). Deep-blue Massachusetts typically exports its volunteers to swing states like New Hampshire, so the idea of knocking doors in their own backyard was not second nature for Democratic campaigners. The Coakley campaign, which had basically no field operation during the primary, was illequipped to organize direct voter contact—but OFA didn't remind them when it might have mattered. Online: Micah Sifry over at TechPresident broke down Coakley vs. Brown on tools like Twitter and Facebook. Brown’s clear victory here can certainly be laid at the feet of the Coakley campaign, but again, the power of OFA’s online tools were not brought to bear. However, OFA did add numbers to some of the local phone banks by allowing activists to register their events on my.barackobama.com (or MyBO, as it’s affectionately known) and sending them out in e-mail blasts.

The state chapter: John Spears, OFA’s 29-year-old Massachusetts state director, has been praised from all quarters. But as the only paid staffer for the entire state, he has his hands full (by contrast, other states have as many as ten people on staff). And for this election, rather than working with the local volunteers whom he’s gotten to know since he was hired in August, he was delegated to manage volunteers arriving from out of state. Overall, though, the state-level strategy seems confused: Spears says he was not planning to get involved in a serious way in the race, and only did so when asked by the Coakley campaign ten days before election day. OFA’s plan for getting involved with future campaigns—namely the midterm elections—remains unclear. “We’re thinking about how to be engaged,” Spears told me. “What extent depends on what campaigns want our help.” The grassroots: If the performance of the official OFA structure in Massachusetts is mixed, the Obama campaign’s real legacy—the networks of citizens who remain engaged in developing their own priorities—is alive and well. In the months after the 2008 election, a corps of about 25 organizers had formed Massachusetts for Change, and were coordinating events that loosely followed the OFA agenda. They’re happy to work

with John Spears, but don’t need instructions from Washington. And that’s a good thing, because OFA still doesn’t know how to harness their energy with a topdown, one-size-fits-all approach. One of those who kept working was Harmony Wu, a 38-year-old PhD and mother of twins in Scott Brown’s home district of Needham. After the election, she helped organize a group called Yes We Can Needham, which met independently of OFA all through 2009. When the senate primary rolled around, she backed Americorps founder Alan Khazei against Martha Coakley—the old Obama network went overwhelmingly for him and Michael Capuano, not the attorney general. Still, the organizers were willing to campaign for Coakley if she needed it in the general election. As the polls started looking bad, Wu was expecting either the Coakley operation, or OFA, to ask for her help—but they didn’t, until a friend of hers told a Coakley staffer, “You need to call Harmony.” The staffer did call, but continued to blunder, directing her to a phone bank in a neighboring town. “This isn’t how we do things,” Wu said, frustrated, the morning after the election. “This isn’t how we did things on the Obama campaign. Someone would have some cookies and beer, people would FRESH page 31

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Washington Diarist: Aftershocks By Leon Wieseltier (The New Republic - All Feed)

omit to explain it themselves, except perhaps to extol “lucidity,” which is of course not Submitted at 1/22/2010 9:00:00 PM the beginning of the answer but “ Think of our new village here the beginning of the question. as the home of Jesus Christ, not There is nothing analytical or the scene of a disaster,” the heroic about knowing the facts. Reverend Joseph Lejeune told And to regard all this suffering the smashed souls in a tent city as meaningless seems indecent. in Port-au-Prince. “Life is not One can always adopt the disaster. Life is joy! You don’t standpoint of the cosmos, and in have food? Nourish yourself this way detach oneself from the with the Lord. You don’t have pain and the perplexity, but then water? Drink in the spirit.” One o n e c a n n o t c a l l o n e s e l f a of the aftershocks in Haiti has humanist. Watching the charnel been the revelation that belief scenes in Haiti, I wonder, may be immune to experience. w i t h o u t m u c h m e n t a l The survivors are praying to the satisfaction, whether in such author of the destruction. Their circumstances it may not be the metaphysics is their shelter, and I highest achievement of the spirit would not deny them their to be stuck. For the relation of metaphysics as I would not deny b e l i e f t o e x p e r i e n c e i s a them a bed. Yet this is very complicated matter, and not only unVoltairean. Was not God in a catastrophe. It is as foolish buried in this rubble, as He was to assert that God does not exist buried in all the rubble that because I am unhappy as it is to preceded it? What happened in assert that God does exist Haiti ought to bring philosophy because I am happy. In the ruins back, except that nothing can of Haiti, I do not see how one bring philosophy back. In an can be nourished by the presence intellectual universe that consists of the Lord and I do not see how m a i n l y i n p o s i t i o n - t a k i n g , one can be nourished by the everyone comes away from the a b s e n c e o f t h e L o r d . T h e enormity with a tingle of e a r t h q u a k e l e a v e s t h e validation. The complacence of metaphysical problem where it the theists is matched by the found it. complacence of the atheists. The But the ruins of Haiti may cocktail-party Karamazovs shake provoke another crisis of another their fists at the live feeds and f a i t h . M a n y c o m m e n t a t o r s gleefully pounce on the latest rightly noted that the magnitude confirmation of their belief in the of the devastation was owed not cruelty of the deity that does not only to natural causes but also to exist. In their scorn for the human causes--to the country’s religious explanation of evil they history of social, political, and

economic abjection. Harrowing poverty, corrupt government, broken institutions, shabby infrastructure: those are not divine injustices, they are human ones. (In one of the more notorious sections of his Theodicy, the supreme masterpiece of the justificatory mind, Leibniz remarked that “one single Caligula, one Nero, has caused more evil than an earthquake.”) And America’s interventions, even when they have been for a right end, have often been shifting and thoughtless, a discouraging saga of unintended consequences. In the aftermath of the earthquake, the Obama administration and other governments and the NGOs and the international relief agencies are saying that this time it will be different. The magnanimity of American and other donors, public and private, has certainly been remarkable. The charitable energy, the pulse of compassion, is everywhere. And in one of the greatest hours in the history of human benevolence, as the angels of rescue and relief do their work, there emerged a kind of humanitarian happy talk. “There are great reasons to hope,” Bill Clinton and George W. Bush wrote. “We have a chance to do things better than we once did. … At our best, we can help Haiti become its best.” Ban Ki-Moon observed that “the disaster in Haiti shows once again that even amid the worst devastation, there

is always hope,” and cited the millennial goal of eliminating extreme poverty by 2015. Bernard Kouchner declaimed that “stubbornly and fearlessly, we must reach toward hope. … The sad truth is that when everything has been destroyed, anything becomes possible.” I know, I know. What else were they going to say? But something is amiss with this notion of policy as theodicy. For it may well be that anything is not possible. Haiti, like everywhere else, is thick with its past, and it will take more than “a very successful donors conference” (Hillary Clinton’s reassuring example on January 15) or the “development of clean energy” (one of Bill Clinton’s and George W. Bush’s prescriptions on January 17) to break its grip. Hope, like fear, is an easily exploitable emotion; and the disappointment of hope is not significantly different from despair. I am not sure what interests are served by talk of transformation, except the interests of cynics. The Red Cross has my money, but not because I expect to see a new Haiti. I do not. I also do not expect to see a lasting American commitment after the bodies are buried. I would like one, of course; but what I would like is not what counts. What counts is what we know about the inconstancy of men and the intractability of the world. That knowledge does not teach

quietism, not at all; but we must learn to distinguish between meliorative action and millennial action. The struggle against suffering should take place soberly, grimly, with what the poet called a heart for any fate, because it sets out from the prior actuality of suffering. It is born disabused, or it is a misunderstanding. I recognize the risk in such an intuition. In demanding too little of the world, we may become complicit with it. Fatalism is always, almost as a matter of definition, self-fulfilling. And yet intelligence must not be blinded by its tears. Tragedy cannot be adequately met with the confidence and the cheerfulness of Leibniz and Bono. This time it will be different. Looking at Haiti, why would anyone not believe it, and why would anyone believe it? We cut our deliverances to the scale of our disasters, but it is never measure for measure: we cannot overtake what the world has done to us, what we have done to ourselves. It is just not the case that the less you believe in God, the more you believe in man. It may be impossible to believe in them both. The short-lived nature of ethical alertness is one of the most rudimentary facts of individual and collective life. So let us quicken to the intervals between our indifferences, WASHINGTON page 31

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Friday Night Music: Bruce Hornsby For Whom Does the and the Noisemakers, 'Cyclone' Paperboy Toll? (Little Green Footballs)

Dealt down and dirty with unmarked cards eyes closed to dangers Here’s another great tune from Jealousy folds without playing the latest album by Bruce its hold card, romance raises Hornsby and the Noisemakers, grinning Levitate. (Here it is at the iTunes I spent several lifetimes there Store.)[Video] where I could not lose for Most of our years have flown winning away with nothing much decided When I was a boy there was Except the board were playing love for free on, how its to be divided Glad to be given and received Win more years yet die alone? by me The questions many-sided Rain came down where I made Got no answers of my own and my stand none have been provided And the cyclone rose with a When I was a boy there was wave of my hand nothing to know I believe I can still make the The wind followed me wherever cyclone rise Id go Just cant see it so well, with my Rain came down where I made fading eyes my stand A mystery to myself not And the cyclone rose with a everything now I was born to be wave of my hand All I know is when I wanted it There is a game thats only so, the wind itself rose for me played in a darkened room with You know, if it wasnt for love strangers I might just be a wandering man

But believe Ive made the better choice To sing about it with this band When I was a boy, I could summon the moon With a crook of the finger and a home-made tune I could ride the clouds when they sailed on by And sing all the words to a wildcats cry When I was a boy there was nothing to know The wind followed me wherever Id go Rain came down where I made my stand And the cyclone rose with a wave of my hand I believe I can still make the cyclone rise And the cyclone rose Wave of my hand Rain came down where I made my stand

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come with their cell phones and fucking call people.” The Coakley operation failed to tap into the deep well of Obamainspired volunteerism in Massachusetts. But OFA hasn’t done a much better job of cultivating and channeling the kind of movement from which it FRESH page 32

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in his article are the kind of people the Times would normally assign to the “wacko S h r i e k i n g h a r p y s a i d far right bigot” category. what?“He’s a traitor, a turncoat, Another nitpick: Dee implies a plant. We may not know for that I link too much to blog posts years what actually happened.” and articles about myself — does Insert sigh. that mean I shouldn’t link to his I h a v e a f e w s i g n i f i c a n t NYT article? Since I’m the guy disagreements with the angle whose name is on this blog, taken by Jonathan Dee in his should I just ignore everything profile for the New York Times, written about me? Or should I most of all his willingness to occasionally respond to the posts accept unverifiable anecdotal on other blogs that call me out information from people who by my real name? post comments on the Internet A while back I decided it’s best under fake names, to claim that t o o c c a s i o n a l l y r e s p o n d , their LGF accounts were blocked especially when there are factual simply for disagreeing with me issues at stake (not just ad — a claim which, in the vast hominem nonsense), because the majority of cases, is simply not best way to deal with defamatory true. statements on the Internet is to It’s a little odd to point out at the make sure your defense shows beginning of the article that there up in a Google search too. were extremist comments posted Note that if you go through the at LGF in the early days of the articles that appear on LGF’s blog, but then turn around and front page, only a very tiny imply that I’m over-reacting percentage fit Dee’s description; today by taking a firmer hand I consciously try to keep those toward policing said comments “meta” posts to a minimum. and commenters. Damned if you Guess I shouldn’t complain too don’t, then damned if you do. much, though; I expected a And it’s pretty surreal for a negative tilt after some of the writer in the New York Times to things I’ve written about the be treating anti-Muslim Birther New York Times over the past nutjobs like Pamela Geller as if decade. Could have been worse. their opinions are credible. Geller and the others Dee quoted Submitted at 1/22/2010 6:56:04 PM

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was born—there’s a disconnect. “I think it’s not about the campaign,” says Massachusetts grassroots organizing consultant Tony Mack, who’s involved with a similar group called Cambridge -Somerville for Change. “If they were doing real organizing, which is encouraging leaders to think for themselves and developing their own priorities, then people would be ready to mobilize more when the time came.” “The way you build up a strong leadership capacity is to give people independence and power,” Mack goes on. “They didn’t have that, and to some

degree, the OFA model right now ends up being that people wait for instructions.” Lydia DePillis is a reporterresearcher for 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.

Police Chief Defends Driver Who Didn't Intervene in Rape (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 1/23/2010 9:27:36 AM

TOLEDO, Ohio An Ohio police chief is defending a driver who called 911 but didn't do more to stop a woman from being raped along a street in broad daylight. Toledo Police Chief Mike Navarre says the witness did the right thing and could have risked her own safety if she tried to intervene. In an interview with The Blade published Saturday, the driver said she feels guilty and hasn't

been able to sleep well since the Tuesday attack. On the 911 call, the driver describes a man removing the pants from a woman lying on a sidewalk. Police say several other people called 911 but they weren't sure if it was a fight or something else. Police have charged a 15-yearold with rape and robbery. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Hide Thermostats in Plain Sight with a Photo Wall [Apartments] By Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker) Submitted at 1/23/2010 8:00:00 AM

No matter where you live, it's likely that you're stuck with some unsightly appliances, such as thermostats, door buzzers, or electrical boxes. If you can't hide them behind something, hide them in plain sight—by distracting the eye with photo frames. We've featured ways to hide ugly apartment appliances before, but sometimes certain solutions just don't work, especially with temperaturesensitive appliances that need air to circulate. Home improvement blog Apartment Therapy highlights a list of ways to camouflage ugly boxes on your walls, the easiest of which is to just wallpaper the area with other decorations: Weather in the Northeast being what it is, our in-wall thermostats, radiators and air conditioners are usually only used for a fraction of the year and the rest of the time they serve as unsightly additions to

our décor. Here are a few ideas ideas for hiding or disguising the offending boxes and we want to hear your tips as well. Hide it in plain sight: We love how the thermostat blends perfectly into Chancie's family photo wall. As part of the composition of frames it doesn't stand out - past house sitters have even had trouble finding it. As easy as this is, it certainly isn't the most obvious on the list of solutions, but it seems to work

very well (and it doesn't require the time that painting or other craftsmanship would). Have any other tips for hiding ugly appliances? Rattle 'em off in the comments! Tips for Camouflaging Thermostats, Radiators & Air Conditioners[Apartment Therapy]

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Top 10 Tools for Better Reading, Online and Off [Lifehacker Top 10] By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 1/23/2010 9:00:00 AM

Who has the time to read anymore? You do, if you make the time. It's easier than you might think, with these tools and tips that find, recommend, and format good reading anywhere you want to dive into it. Photo by Let Ideas Compete. 10. Make your reading bookmarks stand out If read-later services aren't your thing, your browser's bookmark bar can be a convenient place to stash articles and posts you plan to getting around to. You can do what Lifehacker reader leftymcrighty does, though, for better placement: reduce your permanent bookmarks (email, search sites, banking, etc.) down to icons by removing the names, and let your other bookmarks, with titles, serve as a reading list. Simple, no software required, and bound to get you reading more, lest your bookmark bar clutter up too much. 9. Read while working out If the cold weather or convenience put you on an exercise bike, elliptical, or other machine where you've got little to do but stare ahead, it's not that hard to get more selfimprovement done by reading at the same time. This Instructables post on a handlebar-mounted book holder shows that nearly

any model can be fitted with a cheap, easy-to-affix book stand. ( Original post) 8. Speed up your reading You should savor clever fiction. Your average memo, however, can and should be hacked through at a faster pace. Speed reading guide Kris Madden explains in the video above how voicing out "A-E-I-O-U" or "one, two, three, four" as you read actually cancels out your subconscious tendency to read with your larynx, just below the audible level. This not only moves you quickly through the text, but provides a more visual, memorable read. There are plenty of apps on the web, too, that can help you speed through a particular text and learn to do it

on any text: Spreeder, WordFlashReader, and ZAP Reader are just a few. ( Original post) 7. Read Better on iPhones with Stanza The Kindle's great, we're sure the Nook is a proper reader, and, sure, Sony's device is good at what it does. But when it comes to beautiful presentation of digital reading on a small screen, Stanza's got it all over those clients, at least on the iPhone or iPod touch. It has its own book store, offering copies of popular contemporary works, along with quite a few sources to grab free historical works, like Shakespeare's complete works, Edgar Allan Poe, and whatever else you're looking to get

GoodReads. (Original posts: What Should I Read Next?, WhichBook, BookArmy). 5. Convert any audio file to an audiobook If you've got a spoken word MP3, or an audiobook you ripped yourself, you'd probably want your MP3 player to save your place as you make your way through the narrative. Starting with iTunes 8, it's easy to convert files to audiobook format, complete with variable speed listening and place marking. 4. Find instructional and how-to PDFs Some how-to projects and tasks only require a single web page of educated on. ( Original post) instructions. Other times, you'd 6. Find your next read Not all of us have a local book really like a deeper read. Search s h o p s t a f f e d b y t h e m o s t PDF is a custom Google search knowledgeable and well-read that brings back only PDF files, w o r k e r s o n E a r t h . F o r opens them in Scribd's norecommendations on what you'd software-required viewer, and like, based on what you've just hones the search in on tutorials, finished, we can turn to many instructions, and manuals. For spots on the net. What Should I alternative PDF finders, there's Read Next? is a straight-up the ebook search at PDF Search recommendation service, fed by E n g i n e a n d s i m p l y u s i n g the reading list you provide. filetype:pdf in a Google search. ( W h i c h B o o k i s a b i t m o r e Original post) 3. Collect articles with subjective, asking you to move sliders to indicate how much of Instapaper & Read It Later any element (monsters, dystopia, Which mark-for-later, readromanceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;oh my!) you want in anytime app reigns supreme? your reading. For the social take Depends on how you like to use on what your friends have read, them. Read It Later tightly are reading, and recommend, try TOP page 35 BookArmy or the veritable

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From the Tips Box: Exercise Concentration, Back Massages, and Greeting Cards [From The Tips Box] By Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker) Submitted at 1/22/2010 5:00:00 PM

Readers offer their best tips for keeping your mind off the pain while exercising, getting knots out of your back without someone else's help, and keeping a secret stash of greeting cards for forgotten occasions. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons—maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it in—the tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for your buffet-style consumption. Got a tip of your own to share? Add it in the comments, share it here, or email it to tips at lifehacker.com. Use a Metronome to Keep Concentration While Exercising Photo by Nick Odolphie. Matthew Thornton keeps his time and his mind straight when exercising: Similar to the recent post about self distraction in order to help with exercise, I have found that if I have a metronome on then it helps me with push ups, since I focus on keeping in time, not on

the ache. Even better is if you put some music on in the background at the same tempo as the metronome. Use a Tennis Ball to Give Yourself Back Massages Photo by mylerdude. Aim4WhirledPeas keeps his muscles loose without anyone else's help: My back tends to get pretty knotted up, and I've found a new way to deal with it (besides soliciting massages from my girlfriend). Grab a tennis ball and

put it between your back and a wall (or lay down on it on the floor). As you move around, you can apply pressure and release the knots. It's so simple, but seems to work wonders. Keep a Secret Stash of Greeting Cards for Forgotten Occasions Photo by Clean Wal-Mart. Anthony saves himself from certain doom by keeping greeting cards to his wife for the future: I, like most husbands, don't intentionally try to forget to buy

minutes and around $20 for a fantastic marriage insurance policy. I refill my stash once a year and haven't taken a beating for quite a while now – at least not for forgetting her cards. I also pick up bonus "Awesome Husband" points for the "Just because I love you" cards that I drop on her a few times a year. This works even if you don't know who you're buying for—Hallmark and all those stores stock up so far in advance these days, you could make a few trips a year and stock up on cards for all sorts of holidays, so when your cousin's birthday rolls around you aren't stuck running to Hallmark the evening of. Add Documents to your Startup Folder to Remember to Work on Them Nicholas remembers his tasks for the day by keeping the a card for my wife's birthday, our documents themselves at the anniversary, or other special front of his attention: occasions. However, as the I used to keep my computer occasion approaches, time slips running far too long without away from me and I am restarting, because I didn't want sometimes left without a card on to close documents I was still the big day. This either leaves working on. I often keep stuff me scrambling or empty handed. open to remind me I need to My simple way to avoid the work on it. pain that comes from Now, I just drag a shortcut to procrastination is to buy 2-3 whatever document/file/folder extra cards for the various I'm working on into the Startup important dates throughout the folder, and can safely shut down year and file them away in case FROM page 35 of emergency. It only takes a few

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This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights] By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) Submitted at 1/22/2010 4:00:00 PM

This week we took at look at how to tie your shoes more efficiently, put your computer to good use while you're asleep, and polished our sushi etiquette. Photo remixed from Remko van Dokkum and Ian Wilson. • Ditch the Granny Knot to Tie Your Shoes More Efficiently The difference between shoes tied with a balanced, neat, and self-tightening knot versus those tied with an unbalanced, sloppy, and loose knot, is all in how you make your first loop. • Build a Wall-Mounted Kitchen Computer If you've been dreaming of having a computer in your kitchen but don't like the idea of hanging it from a cabinet or having it clutter up the counter, this guide can help you build a sleek in-wall computer. • How to Put Your PC to Good Use While You're Sleeping If you've been dreaming of having a computer in your kitchen but don't like the idea of hanging it from a cabinet or having it clutter up the counter, this guide can help you build a sleek inwall computer. • Five Best Photo-Printing Sites Digital cameras are fantastic for letting us experiment, take tons of photos, and search for the perfect shot. Digital picture frames and at-home prints are often poor substitutes for real

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or restart my computer. It will automatically open the next time I start! It's a really handy reminder. I can delete it from Startup once I'm done working with it.

Oil spilled at east Texas port as ships collide (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Submitted at 1/23/2010 12:40:48 PM

photos. • Lift Weights 10 Minutes a Day, 3 Days a Week to Lose Belly Fat Even if you don't care about having six-pack abs, studies show excess belly fat is unhealthy. Turns out just 30 minutes of weight lifting a week can make a big difference. • Google Wave Versus the Rest, Feature by Feature We got a great response to last week's frequently asked questions about Google Wave, and decided it's worth expanding further on the differences between Wave and the current crop of web-based collaboration offerings. • Top 10 Clever Kitchen

Repurposing Tricks It's all too easy to spend hard-earned money on unitasking kitchen gadgets that aren't all that helpful in the long run. Use the gear you already own, and some cheap household staples, to make your kitchen a better place. • Create a Minimalist "Undesktop" for Distraction-Free Productivity If you really want to get down to business and get things done, you need to create an environment conducive to productivity. I do it by eliminating everything that might distract me from accomplishing what I want. • Learn Proper Sushi Etiquette

to Make a Good Impression Like many aspects of Japanese culture, there's a certain etiquette to eating sushi. Take the time to peruse these helpful tips so you can make the best impression on your sushi chef or dining companions the next time you're downing some maki. • Build a Lego Router We love the Linksys WRT54GL router for its extreme hackability (it's what we used to turn our $60 router into a $600 router with DD-WRT or with Tomato), so we couldn't help but appreciate this fun WRT54GL Lego mod.

Lorenzo1027 buzzed up: Obama's State of the Union agenda: Yes, I get it (AP) 14 seconds ago 2010-0123T12:50:02-08:00 Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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integrates with Firefox through its extension, which also hosts your want-to-read articles offline, but also offers bookmarklets for every browser, including the iPhone. Instapaper seems to have the more focused iPhone app, but offers the same multi-browser bookmarklets. Come to think of it, they're both TOP page 36

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pretty great in their own way at making lengthy web reading accessible anywhere. 2. Get new books for old ones Unless you only read leatherbound first editions, there are probably a few books laying around your shelves that could find a better life in a book swap. The internet abounds with places to do it: Zunafish, currently offline but offering $1-per-book trades, PaperBackSwap, and the free BookMooch are just a few. If getting a new book isn't necessary, you could simply tag your book with a BookCrossing tag and watch it travel the world. (Original posts: Zunafish,

PaperBackSwap, BookMooch, BookCrossing) 1. Make web text more eyefriendly Instapaper and Read It Later, mentioned above, do a decent job of converting news articles and blog posts to a strippeddown, text-forward format. With customizable browser bookmarklets, though, you get your reading exactly how you want it. Readability is an early and popular entrant in the category, while Clippable and Readable App aim for even more minimalism and customization. If you're an RSS fan, Readefine Desktop, an Adobe Air app and

web project, can lay out your daily feed reading in newspaperstyle columns with minimal interruption. (Original posts: Readability, Readability 2/Clippable, Readable App, Readefine) What web, computer, or other tools do you use to make time for reading, make reading easier, or just find new things to read? Tell us all about your own little library tweaks in the comments.

Man in the News: Paul Volcker (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 1/22/2010 1:12:27 PM

By common consent, Paul Volcker is never happier than when he is casting for trout in a river or lake, far from the chaos of New York and Washington. Then, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve will happily wait long hours before landing a catch, and afterwards share in the bonhomie of his fellow

fishermen. “When he is away fishing he is a delight,” says Jim Wolfensohn, the former World Bank chief who hired Mr Volcker to join his investment firm on leaving the Fed. “He lets his guard down and nobody is interested in his views on interest rates.” Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

MinuteBase Creates Agendas and Manages Notes for Your Next Meeting [Meetings] By Lisa Hoover (Lifehacker)

together an agenda, email it to team members, then add minutes in real-time right from your Agendas and thorough notes are browser. Everything is stored as an important part of every you type so you don't have to meeting, but they're a hassle to keep hitting enter as you go. put together and hand out. Web- It's easy to follow up on tasks b a s e d m e e t i n g o r g a n i z e r you've assigned to individuals or MinuteBase's templates and tools entire teams, and the app will make the process a whole lot even track what's been done and easier. what still needs to be completed. MinuteBase helps you organize Want to share files? No sweat. and manage y o u r MinuteBase handles PDFs, Word meetings—from who attended, docs, and even PowerPoint to what was talking about and presentations with no problem. d e l e g a t e d . Q u i c k l y t h r o w Images are previewed right on Submitted at 1/22/2010 3:00:00 PM

the page, and files are grouped for easy download. One of the coolest things about MinuteBase is that it's editable by others so if someone misses a

meeting they can add their thoughts later. Completed meeting minutes are easily emailed, and you can also download a PDF for your files.

MinuteBase can do a whole lot of things, so if you work in a meeting-intensive environment you'll definitely want to check it out. The free plan allows for one administrator, 25 MB of storage, and PDF export; premium plans offer more features and benefits. While the app is in beta, all the plans are free, so head over and check it out now. MinuteBase

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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 23 January 2010 By Abraham Hyatt (ReadWriteWeb)

Enterprise Social 2.0: Rip or ROI? This senior executive event will Submitted at 1/23/2010 11:30:00 AM bring together decision makers This week we added six new from the Top Fortune companies events to the calendar, including to discuss innovative strategies one conference that has a cow in on how to maximise business a space helmet for a logo. performance through social Seriously. media engagement. The event H o w d o y o u l i k e y o u r will include keynote speeches, ReadWriteWeb events guide? As best-practice presentations as a world map? As a downloadable well as interactive discussion iCal (and Google importable) sessions. file? You can even import The summit will provide individual events using the link excellent opportunities for you to beside each entry. Know of hear international experts discuss something cool taking place that best practices on how to drive should appear here? Let us know business performance using Web in the comments below or 2.0 and social media. Key issues contact us. to be discussed include: Sponsor 26 January 2010: San Francisco, • How to integrate social media California programs successfully into Catalyst Conference business strategies? Vator.tv, a leading platform for • Building business momentum, entrepreneurs and innovators to visibility and market growth b r o a d c a s t t h e m s e l v e s , a n d through social media p r o v i d e r o f n e w s a n d • Measuring success and information through VatorNews, influence using metrics and and Girls in Tech, a social analytics: what are the tools and network enterprise focused on techniques education and empowerment of • Integrating viral marketing and influential women in technology, social media into traditional are seeking five women-led marketing mix startups across any stage to • Developing and activating p r e s e n t a t t h e C a t a l y s t audiences using social media Conference on January 26, 2010 c h a n n e l s s u c h a s T w i t t e r , at the Commonwealth Club in F a c e b o o k , b l o g s San Francisco. To be one of the f i v e , j o i n t h e C a t a l y s t 1 – 5, February 2010: New York competition today and win the City, Berlin, London, San chance to present. Francisco, Toronto, São Paulo 2 7 – 2 8 J a n u a r y 2 0 1 0 : Social Media Week Amsterdam, The Netherlands The second annual Social Media

Smith, August Capital VC Howard Hartenbaum and Google Ventures VC Bill Maris. Ten promising startups will also get to present onstage. Enter the Vator Splash competition if you want to present. ReadWriteWeb readers get a 25% discount on their tickets u s i n g t h e c o d e VatorReadWriteWeb. 8 February 2010: Tampa, Week conference will explore Florida the profound impact that social Social Fresh Tampa This is the social media media has on culture, business communications and society at conference that comes to you. Social Fresh is a one-day, caselarge. The conference is designed as a study-rich conference targeted series of localized events, which for marketers. Social Fresh city partners are responsible for Tampa will have 30+ speakers, organizing. Programs will span a including Chris Barger of GM, variety of formats, ranging from Maggie Fox of Social Media talks and panel discussions, to Group and John Andrews of interactive workshops, seminars Collective Bias (formerly of a n d n e t w o r k i n g e v e n t s . Walmart). Registration will open in January ReadWriteWeb readers get a 2010 and the majority of events 15% discount with the code will be free thanks to the global "RWW15". 10 February 2010: New York sponsors and event partners. You can find more information City Online Community a t http://socialmediaweekny.com. U n c o n f e r e n c e E a s t The Online Community 4 February 2010: San Francisco, Unconference East is a gathering California of online community Vator Splash Vator.tv, a leading platform for p r o f e s s i o n a l s - m a n a g e r s , innovators and entrepreneurs to developers, business people, tool broadcast themselves, is holding providers, investors - to discuss its inaugural Vator Splash event experience and strategies in the on February 4, 2010 at the Cafe development and growth of du Nord in San Francisco. Catch online communities. As we have onstage presenters: Zynga CEO found with our past events, the Mark Pincus, Smule CEO Jeff best source of information on all of these challenges is other

knowledgeable practitioners. The event runs from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Digital Sandbox. 11 February 2010: New York City NYC Venture Capital and Angel Showcase FundingPost is hosting a VC showcase where 20-plus VC funds and angel groups will be exhibiting their firms during a great cocktail party setting. Each fund will have their own table setup for the sole purpose of meeting great new companies. Additionally, there will be an optional pitching workshop from 2:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. The cost to participate in the workshop will be $400. This workshop includes the $125 ticket to the event, and a 1/4 page listing in the Venture Guide Magazine. This event is sponsored by Credit Suisse, and takes place at One Madison Avenue, from 69:15 p.m. 18 February 2010: Silicon Valley, California Future of Funding Active limited partners, top rated venture capitalists, and successful entrepreneurs are invited to Silicon Valley on February 18, 2010 to discuss the Future of Funding. The venture capital bubble has burst, and change is coming. Now is the time to have a constructive dialog about the future with all of the stakeholders at the table. READWRITEWEB page 39

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Weekly Wrapup: Topic Trackers, Facebook Privacy, Mobile Web Sensors, And More... By Richard MacManus (ReadWriteWeb)

Community Management Report. It too is coming in print soon, so watch out for it! Submitted at 1/23/2010 5:00:00 AM Web Trends In this edition of the Weekly The Facebook Privacy Debate: W r a p u p - o u r n e w s l e t t e r What You Need to Know summarizing the top stories of Facebook changed the world by the week - we continue our helping 350 million people analysis of Facebook's sweeping publish their thoughts, feelings, new privacy policies (plus tell comments, photos, videos and you how to protect yourself), shared links much more easily explore how mobile phones and than ever before. It's the King of sensors are mixing, look at the social networking. launch of the U.K. government's The network grew with a big data.gov website, present our promise of privacy at the center categorized list of the leading o f w h a t i t o f f e r e d : y o u r topic tracking tools, and more. information was by default And as usual we check in on our visible only to people you t w o m a i n c h a n n e l s : approved as friends. In R e a d W r i t e S t a r t ( o u r d a i l y December that changed, in a resource for entrepreneurs) and fundamental way. We offer in ReadWriteEnterprise(devoted to this post a summary of the 'enterprise 2.0' trends and changes that were made and key products). highlights from the debate that's Also read on for details about raging around the world about the newly released printed privacy, public information and edition of our current premium Facebook. report, about the Real-Time 2010 Trend: Sensors & Mobile Web. Phones Sponsor Last week in our Mobile Web Now Available: Printed Edition Meets Internet of Things series, of The Real-Time Web Report we looked at barcode scanning At the request of the librarian and RFID in the next generation community and people that just iPhone. We expect to see Apple like paper, we have made The and Android battling it out for Real-Time Web and its Future b o t h b a r c o d e a n d R F I D report available in print. supremacy this year. For those of you that prefer it Another key technology in the digitally, you can still download Internet of Things - where it. everyday objects are endowed D o n ' t f o r g e t a b o u t o u r with Internet connectivity - is

today. Open Thread: There's No Such Thing As Free Content So why do users keep expecting to consume it, reuse it, share it and store it without paying for it? Someone, somewhere ends up putting out money for everything you do online, every piece of news you read, every Web app you use. It takes professionals and hardware across a gigantic sensors. In fact we've seen the industry to make these things most activity so far in the work. In terms of overhead Internet of Things from sensor alone, content costs a lot. So why data. So in this post we explore do some users always kick and how mobile phones and sensors scream at the first suggestion of are mixing; and what to expect in paid content? Do you think content is worth paying for, and 2010. UK Launches Open Data Site; if so, what are you personally willing to pay? Puts Data.gov to Shame A new website dedicated to SEE MORE WEB TRENDS making non-personal data held COVERAGE IN OUR TRENDS b y t h e U . K . g o v e r n m e n t CATEGORY available for software developers ReadWriteStart has launched with the help of Our channel ReadWriteStart, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the s p o n s o r e d b y M i c r o s o f t inventor of the World Wide B i z S p a r k , i s d e d i c a t e d t o Web. Data.gov.uk is being p r o f i l i n g s t a r t u p s a n d slammed with traffic but six e n t r e p r e n e u r s . m o n t h s a f t e r t h e U . S . Startup Finance: Xero Powers government opened its Data.gov Accounting in the Cloud When New Zealand-based site the U.K. site already has more than three times as much entrepreneur Rod Drury began data than the U.S. site offers researching his market he could hardly believe what he was today. At launch, Data.gov.uk has seeing. As seen in Drury's nearly 3,000 data sets available comments last week on the state for developers to build mashups of the online finance ecosystem, with. The U.S. site, Data.gov, only a handful of players like has less than 1,000 data sets Saasu and MYOB were targeting

small business clients. While Drury saw that a number of cloud-based personal finance companies like Mint were gaining traction with users, small businesses had been stuck with the same tired desktop accounting software they'd been using for the last ten years. Drury built Xero with the intent to help small businesses manage their accounts in the cloud. Never Mind the Valley: Here's Austin Settled in the 1830s along the banks of the Colorado River and named for the Father of Texas Stephen F. Austin, the city of Austin is known for its thriving music scene and as the home of the University of Texas (UT) Longhorns. But in the past few decades, the Texas capital has built up a reputation of a different sort. With companies headquartered in Austin like Dell and Freescale Semiconductor, a spin-off of Motorola, the city has become a hotbed of information technology hardware and software. In the mid 1990s, Austin was put on the map by software companies like Motive, Vignette and Tivoli, the latter of which was quickly scooped up by IBM in 1996. SEE MORE STARTUPS COVERAGE IN OUR WEEKLY page 40

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Don't miss the opportunity to partake in this exclusive event hosted by TheFunded. Please visit www.futureoffunding.com to see speaker and event details. ReadWriteWeb readers use the code "RWW" and get 10% off. 22 – 24 February 2010: Miami, Florida The Future of Web Apps Miami The Future of Web Apps Miami is a three day event for Web application developers and entrepreneurs, and includes tutorials, inspiration and workshops taught by leading figures at the cutting edge of today's Web. Companies at the event include Twitter, Facebook, Mint.com, Palm, FreshBooks, Reddit and Mozilla. Topics include HTML5, jQuery, online marketing, funding strategies, measuring the success of your Web app, and Facebook Connect. Find more information at http://carsonified.com ReadWriteWeb readers use the code "RWW" and get $50 off. 25 February 2010: Miami, Florida Miami VC and Angel Event At FundingPost's next event, a panel of investors who will focus on early-stage venture investing. We will be discussing trends in early-stage investing, sectors that these Angels and VCs look at, things that are most important to them when they are considering an investment and the best and worst things an entrepreneur can do to get their attention. Entrepreneur summaries will be

given to the investor speakers and attendees - all of the investors will get your company description and contact info! Additionally, there will be an optional pitching workshop lunch where we will completely deconstruct your elevator pitch, and work with you on formulating a clean and concise elevator pitch giving the important information that investors need to hear to make an educated decision on your company! Then you get to give your new elevator pitch in person to the panel of investors during the event! Click here for more information. 4 March 2010: Silicon Valley Silicon Valley VC and Angel Conference At FundingPost's next event, a panel of investors who will focus on early-stage venture investing. We will be discussing trends in early-stage investing, sectors that these Angels and VCs look at, things that are most important to them when they are considering an investment and the best and worst things an entrepreneur can do to get their attention. Entrepreneur summaries will be given to the investor speakers and attendees - all of the investors will get your company description and contact info! Additionally, there will be an optional pitching workshop lunch where we will completely deconstruct your elevator pitch, and work with you on formulating a clean and concise

elevator pitch giving the important information that investors need to hear to make an educated decision on your company! Then you get to give your new elevator pitch in person to the panel of investors during the event! Click here for more information. 11 March 2010: Los Angeles, California Los Angeles VC and Angel Event At FundingPost's next event, a panel of investors who will focus on early-stage venture investing. We will be discussing trends in early-stage investing, sectors that these Angels and VCs look at, things that are most important to them when they are considering an investment and the best and worst things an entrepreneur can do to get their attention. Entrepreneur summaries will be given to the investor speakers and attendees - all of the investors will get your company description and contact info! Additionally, there will be an optional pitching workshop lunch where we will completely deconstruct your elevator pitch, and work with you on formulating a clean and concise elevator pitch giving the important information that investors need to hear to make an educated decision on your company! Then you get to give your new elevator pitch in person to the panel of investors during the event! Click here for more information.

15 – 16 March 2010: London, England 2nd Annual Social Networking World Forum — London The 2nd Annual Social Networking World Forum takes place at the Olympia Conference Centre in London. The two-day event features four dedicated conference streams: • Social Networking World Forum • Enterprise social media • Social TV World Forum • Mobile Social Networking Forum The event features key speakers from global brands, organizations, social networking publishers and developers, pioneering social media leaders, top agencies, content producers, and more. • Full workshop program within exhibition area • Evening networking reception • Pre-show online meeting planner for delegates • Free pass for exhibition only 7 – 9 April 2010: Sydney, Australia ConnectNow ConnectNow brings together international specialists and thought leaders in social media, emerging technologies and their intersection with business. Learn how the realtime web, location based services, augmented reality, ubiquitous computing and personalised services are changing marketing and

communications. Understand the importance of trust in relationship marketing and what is "social currency". For more i n f o e m a i l info@connectnow.net.au. 16 April 2010: Mountain View, California Under the Radar: Cloud Under the Radar: Cloud is mustattend event for dealmakers and heads of IT from large enterprises, SMBs, service providers, carriers and media companies who are responsible for helping their companies leverage new technology and innovation in the fast-evolving IT ecosystem. Join us for the 15th Under the Radar conference, featuring a handpicked selection of the world's most innovative cloud startups among 350 top tech, media, telcom and finance executives. For ticket and more information, v i s i t http://undertheradarblog.com. 16 – 17 April 2010: Royal Oak, Michigan FutureMidwest FutureMidwest is the region's largest technology and knowledge conference. Founded by Adrian Pittman, Jordan Wolfe and Zach Lipson, FutureMidwest is the fusion of two successful conferences held in Michigan in 2009 - the Module Midwest Digital Conference and TechNow. Both conferences highlighted READWRITEWEB page 42

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READWRITESTART C H A N N E L ReadWriteEnterprise O u r c h a n n e l ReadWriteEnterprise, devoted to 'enterprise 2.0' and using social software inside organizations. IBM's Project Vulcan: The Next Generation of Lotus Notes and a Rival To Google Wave William Shatner opened the IBM Lotusphere event this week, after which IBM launched Project Vulcan. This is a geek dream come true: a full-on collaboration environment with an open API and a name right out of Star Trek fame. Project Vulcan isn't set for developer release until the second half of this year, but its potential as an all-encompassing cloud-based collaboration service is causing many to compare it to Google Wave. Web Products Top Tools For Tracking Topics on the Web Tracking topics on the Web can be a painful process, due to the amount of noise and difficulty of filtering it. So to help you out, we've selected and categorized the leading topic tracking tools. This is based on the discussion that arose from our earlier post

about topic feeds, which are RSS feeds for keywords or phrases. During the process of analyzing these topic tracking tools, we discovered - to our surprise - that not many of these services output results as RSS. Some of the leading apps in this field require users to visit their service. With that in mind, here is our full list and analysis. The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now In December, Facebook made a series of bold and controversial changes regarding the nature of its users' privacy on the social networking site. The company once known for protecting privacy to the point of exclusivity (it began its days as a network for college kids only no one else even had access), now seemingly wants to compete with more open social networks like the microblogging media darling Twitter. Those of you who edited your privacy settings prior to December's change have nothing to worry about - that is, assuming you elected to keep your personalized settings when prompted by Facebook's "transition tool." The tool, a

dialog box explaining the changes, appeared at the top of Facebook homepages this past month with its own selection of recommended settings. Unfortunately, most Facebook users likely opted for the recommended settings without really understanding what they were agreeing to. If you did so, you may now be surprised to find that you inadvertently gave Facebook the right to publicize your private information including status updates, photos, and shared links. Want to change things back? Read on to find out how. Twitter's Growth Slows Dramatically After news about the landing of US Airways 1549 in the Hudson first broke on Twitter in January 2009, the microblogging service quickly captured the imagination of a new group of potential users. Throughout the first months of 2009, Twitter grew at a rapid pace, peaking at a growth rate of 13% in March 2009. Now, however, according to the latest data from HubSpot, Twitter's growth is slowing dramatically. In October 2009, Twitter's growth rate had fallen to 3.5%. On a positive note,

though, the average active user on Twitter today is more engaged than six months ago. Why France and Germany Got it Right: IE Must Go It looks like Microsoft has moved to the "sticks and stones" method for handling public relations gaffes. As we reported earlier this week, France joined Germany in suggesting that its citizens switch from Internet Explorer to, well, anything else. Now, Microsoft's UK security chief, Cliff Evans, has responded by saying that switching to other browsers will only open you up to more security vulnerabilities than staying with Internet Explorer. That's saying a lot for the browser implicated in the Great Google Caper of 2010; and we have multiple security experts who have said a lot on why it just isn't true. SEE MORE WEB PRODUCTS COVERAGE IN OUR PRODUCTS CATEGORY That's a wrap for another week! Enjoy your weekend everyone. Discuss

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Newest Aliens vs. Predator trailer explores the title's heritage By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) Submitted at 1/23/2010 1:00:00 PM

Rather than getting on Steam and playing gobs of classic Aliens vs. Predator leading up to the game's almost assured(though still " unconfirmed") February launch, wouldn't you rather spend the next three-ish minutes watching the folks at Rebellion speak about the history behind both games' development? We knew you'd see it our way! Regardless, the trailer you see above does plenty in the way of explaining the near-direct connection between the original game and the upcoming release. Hey, did you know that both games feature some aliens, maybe a predator or two, and lots of humans? It's true! Peep the trailer for more mind-blowing revelations like that one -- if you can handle them, that is. Gallery: Aliens vs Predator Newest Aliens vs. Predator trailer explores the title's heritage originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Friday Podcast Parade! The Wonderful World of Augmented Reality By Jolie O'Dell (ReadWriteWeb)

for making such a nifty tool for all us podcast lovers. First up, here's Daniel Klotz and Submitted at 1/22/2010 3:45:30 PM Ryan Mast, two Lancaster, PAOnce again, the weekend is based technologists, discuss the upon us - time to unplug, unwind social web and how our online and relax! activities increasingly "augment" But lest your brains turn to jelly our lives in the physical world. during your time offline and What does the future hold for us away from work, load up your as users of technology and as iPod with our weekly selection human beings? How do we of podcasts sure to entertain and remain civilized in a heavily inform. The topic of this week's augmented reality? This is a parade is augmented reality great podcast to start thinking (AR), the technology used to add about how AR works and what it a layer of data and visualizations does in general terms. over the real world in which we Download here or listen here. live. Download these discussions Running time: 32:43 of a hot new area of tech, and Next, we have critical give them a listen at your leisure! c o m m e n t a r y from Sponsor BusinessWeek's tech editor Peter This week, we owe a huge hat- Coy and Steve Wildstrom, who t i p t o o u r o w n M a r s h a l l feels that mobile AR isn't real Kirkpatrick, who is passionate enough yet. Wildstrom makes and informed about the state of the point that mobile devices AR and has curated these don't have accurate enough data podcasts at his Huffduffer page. to make AR work - not yet, at We also owe a huge hat-tip to least. While he praises some Huffduffer creator Jeremy Keith apps, such as a subway finder,

technology blog. They discuss how AR works and how it relates to geospatial technology. And they get to the point of many end users' concerns by questioning whether AR is simply a set of cool but essentially useless gimmicks or whether there are, in fact, real-world applications for these tools and - more importantly - money to be made in the AR market. Download here or listen here. Running time: 23:03 Finally, check out mobile but still finds that most of the developers Roger Brinkley and AR applications he's tested Terrence Barr talk to Kenneth haven't been particularly helpful. Andersson and Erik Hellman of Of course, Wildstrom does have Sony Ericsson about how to a few ideas on how to improve build non-visual AR apps, the state of mobile AR - listen on focusing on API access. for an idea of how developers Download here or listen here. and manufacturers should be Running time: 22:44 raising the bar. To subscribe to the Podcast Download here or listen here. Parade, check out our Huffduffer Running time: 8:36 page and feed, or just use this H e r e ' s a n i n t e r e s t i n g link to subscribe through iTunes. conversation between the editors Thanks for listening, and we o f A l l P o i n t s , a l o c a t i o n hope you enjoy! Discuss

Miguel Tejada Signs With Baltimore By Tom Fornelli (FanHouse Main)

agent market and he ended up signing a six-year $72 million deal with the Baltimore Orioles. Submitted at 1/23/2010 4:19:00 AM He would only spend four years Filed under: Orioles, AL East, with Baltimore before being MLB Rumors, MLB Hot Stove, traded to the Houston Astros for MLB Free Agency In December four prospects, but now that of 2003 Miguel Tejada was one Tejada is a free agent once more, Tejada has signed with the Orioles again, though this time of the biggest prizes on the free it's deja vu all over again.

Pre-orders for Dragon Age: Origins 'Awakening' expansion now available on Steam By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) Submitted at 1/23/2010 2:30:00 PM

Ever since Dragon Age: Origins' upcoming expansion, titled Awakening, was announced back in early January, we've been pining for the chance to drop the $40 on it well before the content actually releases. Thankfully for us, Steam has just opened up pre -orders for the expansion, meaning we can play the expansion in only one month, three weeks, three days and XX hours! We know, we know -- but you're gonna have to calm down. All that excitement could crash your computer. And then where would you be, hmm? No expansion at all! No chance to hang out with Skeletor! Gallery: Dragon Age: Origins Awakening (Retail Expansion) Pre-orders for Dragon Age: the deal isn't quite as lucrative. Origins 'Awakening' expansion All that's known at this point is n o w a v a i l a b l e o n S t e a m that it's a one-year deal, and the originally appeared on Joystiq on details of the contract have not Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:30:00 EST. been released. Though it's not Please see our terms for use of likely to be for $12 million like feeds. the last one. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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A Twitter App for Power Users: SocialVisor By Jolie O'Dell (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 1/22/2010 6:00:09 PM

Seemic's announcement of Look, their brave new Twitter client, had the tubes positively humming yesterday. Although it might be a great interface for newbies, this app isn't recommended for power users. But we just found one that is - for desktop use, anyway. It's an agile bit of hotness that's as responsive and unobtrusive as you'd ever want, and it can also provide you with a stock-tickeresque UI that will satiate all your info-social needs. Meet SocialVisor- the Twitter app. Sponsor It runs primarily as a scrolling ticker on the top of your screen: Here's the skinny: • You can run your social streams as a retractable bar above your desktop screen. • You can login to Twitter and Facebook and choose to see either or both streams.

• You can group your buddies any way you want, regardless of which site they use. • You can access DMs, retweets, replies and mentions. • You can see threaded conversations from Twitter. • You can share and view links, updates and pictures on either or both networks. And more other common features for third-party apps, such as retweeting, following or unfollowing, replying, liking/favorite-ing, commenting and more. And when you want to update, links are automatically shortened with bit.ly and character counts are tracked as you type, all from a simple bar above your other windows. If a user clicks his "exclamation" icon, there's a slim popout for Facebook notifications. If you need to focus on other tasks, no problem

- you can "pause" the entire firehose and resume any time you like. When you don't need it, it retreats conveniently into the background. There are no annoying popups flooding your screen when your stream gets a little noisy The app has been live for about a month, and it's just what the doctor ordered. It's an OSagnostic AIR application, so it'll play nicely with Linux, Windows or Macs. We can see ourselves running this on the daily. One issue we had is that, while the visor does optionally dock at the top of the screen, when it's locked on top, we were unable to access our menu bars for maximized windows. It's still in beta, and a bit buggy, but what kind of early adopters would we be if we didn't admit this app has huge potential, bugs and all? Give it a shot, and let us know what you think in the comments. Discuss

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how technology and digital tools have dramatically changed the way we do business and the effect this transition has had on companies. FutureMidwest kicks things up a notch with presentations, group breakout sessions, relationship-building opportunities and influencers who are taking action to redefine business in the digital age. Register here. 11 May 2010: San Francisco, California FinovateSpring FinovateSpring 2010 will again showcase the most cutting-edge financial and banking technology innovations to Silicon Valley and the world. With Finovate's signature mix of short, fast-paced onstage demos (no slides are allowed) from handpicked companies and intimate networking time with their executives, this conference packs a ton of unique value into a single day. Come see the cutting edge of banking and financial technology and network with hundreds of the leading financial executives, venture capitalists, press,

industry analysts, bloggers and fintech entrepreneurs. Early bird registration rates are available. 5 October 2010: New York City FinovateFall FinovateFall will return to Manhattan on Tuesday, October 5 to showcase dozens of the biggest and most innovative new ideas in financial and banking technology from established leaders and hot young companies. The Fall event is the original and largest Finovate and features a single day packed with our special blend of short, fastpaced onstage demos (no slides are allowed) and intimate networking time with top executives from the innovative demoing companies. FinovateFall is a unique chance to see the future of finance and banking before your competition and find the edge you need in today's market. Early bird registration rates are available. Download this entire events calendar in iCal format. Discuss

BBC wants back into the game biz By Justin McElroy (Joystiq)

According to MCV, the Brits are looking to change that, currently seeking out developers and The BBC has a ton of great IPs publishers to turn Doctor Who, under its publicly-funded belt, Top Gear, In The Night Garden but hasn't had a lot of luck and other properties into games transitioning those into quality for the Wii, DS, iPhone and OK, so it's not quite the Doctor Who adventure game that we i n t e r a c t i v e e n t e r t a i n m e n t . (hooray!) Facebook. Submitted at 1/23/2010 6:00:00 AM

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companies being built in a week or a weekend. If vendors asked for cash AND equity as part of Submitted at 1/22/2010 4:59:25 PM technologies should also build an the commercial license, I wonder If you asked startup founders equity agreement right into their h o w t h i s w o u l d c h a n g e whether they would rather give service contracts. McDemus d e v e l o p m e n t . away 5% equity in the company gives the example of Mint's While service providers risk or one of their toes, many would acquisition by Intuit and how if abandonment after startups get choose the toe. CEOs like Yodlee had taken some of Mint's acquired by bigger companies, Zynga's Mark Pincus have equity for providing the backend they may also risk abandonment a l w a y s a r g u e d f o r s t a r t u p of the service, the company for pursuing the equity route. founders to "own their destiny" would have made great money Alternatives to an equity-seeking a n d m a i n t a i n c o n t r o l a n d on the sale. While this might vendor might include open ownership of their company. sound like a good idea for source technologies, using That's why it was surprising to service providers who risk competitors who do not demand read VC Deal Lawyer Chris abandonment, the idea is likely equity, or in a worst case McDemus' recent article entitled to ruffle the feathers of many a scenario, building the core If You Provide a Strategic startup founder. technology from scratch. Technology or Outsourced The fantastic thing about startup If the bulk of your business' Service, Consider Taking Some companies in 2010 is that they're technology is built in association Equity in Your Fee Structure. iterating faster. Rather than with a commercial vendor and Sponsor stumbling in the dark for a few that vendor asked you for equity, Early-stage startup companies years before launching a product, would you give it to them? If are used to giving away equity to many have launched in a mere yes, why? If no, how would you advisors, IP lawyers and key six month engineering cycle. In cope? Discuss staff, but McDemus argues that f a c t , w e ' v e e v e n f e a t u r e d those vendors who provide core

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• Well this sounds interesting: "a science-fiction/fantasy historical fiction family adventure based on the Caldecott award-winning children's book, The Invention of Hugo Cabaret." Here's the kicker: it's going to be directed by Martin Scorsese. • Here's the review to go with the interview about • This is pretty exciting: E x t r a o r d i n a r y M e a s u r e s . Cinematical gets to interview • Who would you rather see star Harrison Ford about his new role alongside Cameron Diaz in the upcoming film, Bad Teacher? in Extraordinary Measures. • I kind of feel as though Tooth Bradley Cooper or Jason Segel? Fairy is the kind of movie that Filed under: Site you already know whether or not you're interested in regardless of Announcements, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | what the reviews say. Either you're into the idea as The Rock C o m m e n t s with wings, or you're not. You know? The folks at our sister site Cinematical are working hard to give you news and reviews of the best -- and worst -- the silver screen has to offer. Here are some of their musings on the latest blockbusters, indies, and everything in between:

Hawking channels Sagan with new space series By John Scott Lewinski (TV Squad)

network, Hawking (Ph.D., CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA...See what I mean?) is the centerpiece of Into Submitted at 1/23/2010 2:30:00 PM the Universe with Stephen Professor Stephen Hawking has Hawking-- will explore the more letters after his name to major questions confronting forge his own alphabet. And, modern science and physics. now he has his own television How did our universe begin? series heading our way from Could alien life be found on Discovery. distant planets? Does our galaxy According to a release from the have a life expectancy? Hawking

will lead an audience in a layman friendly exploration of those questions in the four part series. It's Hawking taking up the mantle of the late astronomer Carl Sagan and his 1980 PBS series, Cosmos. The above video looks back affectionately on that show with a little music remix. In the original show, Sagan would explain the seemingly

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is on the potential tablet, I expect a broader discussion of Apple’s mobile products in general, and Submitted at 1/23/2010 10:35:44 AM how they work together in This is the fourth in a series of 7 particular. posts in the 7 days prior to The hardware of the tablet is Apple’s January 27 media event likely to be much like an in which I explore various enlarged iPhone or iPod touch. possibilities for an Apple Tablet The software will be specifically a n d o t h e r p o t e n t i a l designed, however, for the larger announcements. screen, form factor, and intended If the Wall Street Journal is purpose of consuming media. c o r r e c t , A p p l e ’ s e v e n t o n Like the iPhone and Apple TV, January 27 will be about its t h e t a b l e t w i l l l i k e l y b e “mobile products,” and not just positioned as a satellite to a Mac the tablet. The current lineup that operates as a hub. It will includes iPods, iPhones, and have enough room to store MacBooks, and just about movies, music, photos, and everyone expects the iSlate, iPad multimedia so it will be useful o r C a n v a s t o b e t h e n e w even when not connected to a addition. Its Airport line of Wi-fi network, but will also seamlessly routers enables wireless access to connect to local networks and the the net, and Apple has mobile Internet for streaming media software products offered under from other devices or the cloud. t h e M o b i l e M e b r a n d , a n d iTunes Sharing and Home iWork.com. It’s building a large Sharing…Not So Much data center in North Carolina, The current state of sharing presumably to handle more content among Apple devices on intensive cloud computing needs, a home network is a bit jumbled. and Apple is expected to move With iTunes, you can share your into cloud-based media storage library, allowing other devices to in part based on its recent stream your content. But Apple purchase of LaLa. recently enabled a new feature In total, Apple has an impressive called Home Sharing, which array of mobile products, so allows multiple Macs to share there is potentially much to content by making duplicate discuss. And while the focus of copies of media and apps. With attention leading up to the event iTunes sharing, devices must be

on the same local network at the same time. With Home Sharing, each device has its own copy of the file, so they can be anywhere. But Home Sharing requires different devices to log into the iTunes Store with the same account, and family accounts are not supported (or at least it didn’t work for us). In our experience, Home Sharing, still in its infancy, is unreliable. Neither iTunes nor iPhoto are very good at enabling multiple users to access the same libraries. This is where I expect to see a great deal of emphasis for Apple’s mobile products,

Remote Access, and Screen Sharing, among other features. Seamless, Intelligent Sharing, Rethought From the Ground Up I see Apple taking several major steps away from its personal computer foundation and toward consumer electronics, following a trend that first appeared with the introduction of the iPod in 2001. It will be possible to buy a new Apple TV as a true media center, and iPhones, iPods, and tablets in particular as the Apple TV’s display. Content will “live” on the Apple TV, but can be consumed by any device on the network. Media will be able to be copied to the devices for use including the tablet. Apple needs when not connected to the local to rethink how users share network. All members of an d e v i c e s a n d c o n t e n t i n a Apple Family account will have household with a fresh approach permissions to access all media t h a t h a s t h e e l e g a n c e a n d associated with the account. simplicity of many of their Users will have the option to products. Sharing should simply store duplicate copies of their be sharing, with various levels of media on the cloud and access sharing available based on them from anywhere in the permissions and proximity, as world. opposed to two different features Virtually all of this is possible with different names, different today, but the experience is requirements and different levels convoluted. The introduction of of reliability. Apple already has the tablet is the seminal event t h e t e c h n o l o g y t o e n a b l e that gives Apple the opportunity seamless sharing of content to completely rethink how media among devices and users via and apps are used and shared these existing sharing features, among users and devices.

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we use, will disappear, probably a lot sooner than you think. I'm a very technical person, and I read a post over on the I've been aware of this issue Workbench blog asking about starting from the first day I wrote the writing of Leslie Harpold, an an essay that was published on early blogger who died in 2006. the web. I've been doing things Her family has let her domains to protect my writing. Yet, if I lapse and over time her writing were to for whatever reason, stop as gone away. tending my web presence, the I'm not glad, of course, that her whole thing would disappear web presence has gone away, but within 30 to 60 days. One or two I am glad that the topic is starting billing cycles before the hosting to get wider attention. It's a huge services cut off service. And then gap in our attention, as blogging no more than a year before the has grown. domains expire and become porn I've been getting emails from sites or whatever. people wanting my help in This is a terrible situation. getting their sites converted from And a business opportunity. Manila to some other format. It's Harpold's writing may be gone. totally predictable this would Whether it comes back is entirely happen, but this is the wrong up to her family and volunteers. time to be asking that question. But there are millions of others There's nothing that I, one whose work will not get this kind person, can do to help. The time of attention, and if they want to to ask the question is when do something to future-safe their you're putting the energy into work, right now, there is nothing creating your web archive. That's they can do. when you should be concerned What's needed is an endowment, about what could happen to it if.. a foundation with a long-term And there are lots of ifs. charter, that can take over the Fact is, most of the writing we're administration of a web presence doing now, no matter what tools as a trust -- before the author Submitted at 1/23/2010 6:30:39 AM

dies. This is something you can and should be able to ake care of yourself. My father, who died in October, did a fantastic job of preparing his estate so that it would require the minimum work of his successors. But there was nothing he could do for his web site, and as far as I know he didn't. I don't control his domain, even though I host his site. Luckily I'm technical enough to know how to do a permanent redirect, and I'm fairly confident that even if I can't gain control of the domain, we can preserve his writing. I'm also going to statically render it, so it doesn't require any special software. But even then, even if I host it as a sub-domain of scripting.com, what happens when I die? We need to focus as much attention on preserving the record as we did in creating easy to use web content tools. We've created a problem of monumental proportions, the hole gets deeper every day, and people are just beginning to come to grips with its scope.

What's On Tonight: SAG Awards, The Pregnancy Pact, Graham Norton By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) Submitted at 1/23/2010 12:29:00 PM

• At 7, Cartoon Network has a new Bakugan, then a new Super Hero Squad Show. • At 8, FOX has a new Cops. • TNT and TBS have The Screen Actors Guild Awards at 8. • HGTV has a new Divine Design at 8. • At 9, NBC has U.S. Championship Figure Skating. • FOX has a new America's Most Wanted at 9. • Lifetime has The Pregnancy Pact at 9. • CNBC has a new Suze Orman Show at 9. • BBC America has a new Demons at 9, followed by a new Graham Norton Show. • Hallmark has Ice Dreams at 9. • Also at 9: Cartoon Network

Security handover key for Afghan summit (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 1/23/2010 8:46:43 AM

Western powers plan to strike an agreement with Afghanistan’s government at a conference in

London next week to ensure foreign troops can hand over responsibility for providing security to Afghan forces as quickly as possible. The proposal forms the first item on a draft agenda, seen by

the Financial Times, reflecting a growing desire among Afghanistan’s allies to chart an exit strategy amid record casualty rates and growing public scepticism in troopcontributing nations.

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has a new episode of The Secret Saturdays. • At 10, CBS has a new 48 Hours Mystery. • ESPN2 has more coverage of The Australian Open at 10. • At 10:30, Food Network has a new Unwrapped. • At 11, FOX has a new Wanda Sykes Show. Check your local TV listings for more. Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality -Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

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One of the most famous stars of Submitted at 1/23/2010 3:00:00 PM daytime, All My Children's James Mitchell, died Friday, When Liza Minnelli guests on January 22 in Los Angeles. He Ugly Betty will the cast be was 89 and suffered from channeling their inner Glee? You chronic obstructive pulmonary know, do a song or dance or disease, complicated by two? That's my wish! Miss Liza pneumonia. He hadn't been on is reportedly slated to appear in a the show much of the past couple coming episode as a drama of years, but he did make it back teacher who has a profound for the AMC 40th anniversary effect on Justin, Betty's nephew. episode on January 5, and that Justin, as anyone who follows turned out to be his last the show knows, is already a professional appearance. theater fiend. In fact, Ugly Betty James Mitchell was a man with as a show has been very musicaltwo great careers. To soap fans, friendly (kind of like Pushing he was the indomitable Palmer Daisies was before ABC pulled Continue reading Liza Minnelli Cortlandt, a brilliant tycoon and the plug). will get all dramatic on Ugly businessman, but also a man There was the terrific Wicked Betty obsessed with his family and not themed episode that included the Filed under: Other Comedy above manipulation to get his song, "I'm Not that Girl," and S h o w s , O p E d , C e l e b r i t i e s , way. another episode in which Justin C a s t i n g , R e a l i t y - F r e e was stuck on a subway with his Permalink| Email this| | parents and enacted "Good C o m m e n t s Morning, Baltimore" from Hairspray.

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Tara VanDerveer is the coach of the Stanford women’s basketball team. Stanford, the alumni magazine of the university, profiles her in the Continue reading All My January/February issue. Her Children's James Mitchell passes story is very interesting: • Leaving a successful program away Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, for a “turnaround” situation at Celebrities, Obituaries, Reality- Stanford • Changes in her coaching style Free P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | | over the years • Impact she’s had on her Comments players • Taking up piano late in adulthood • Recruiting techniques • What her dogs mean to her • How she tweets

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The Hope For Haiti Telethon Music Highlights: Song! Dance! Donation! [Pop Culture Aneurysm] By Foster Kamer (Gawker) Submitted at 1/23/2010 2:15:00 PM

So! The Hope For Haiti Telethon was last night, and if you're like everyone else, it was Friday night, and you were out, you selfish fuck. Or all TEAM COCO. Either way, music happened. Timberlake! Beyonce! Swift! Hova! Gospel Choirs! There were more songs than were here - like John Legend not doing"Ordinary People," Mary J. Blige doing her thing, Dave Matthews and Neil Young being creepy, and Jennifer Hudson doing "Let It Be" (which was actually pretty great), but I picked out the ones I liked! So suck it. Also, here's what you need to know about the musical performances on Hope For Haiti: 1. Bono fucks everything with any kind of political slant up. He should stick to recording songs about shooting lasers or flying or whatever he does these days. 2. The Roots should be everyone's backing band, anywhere, always. 3. A gospel chorus makes everything, everywhere sound better. 4. If you don't donate to Haiti, you're a piece of shit. 5. They were all pretty decent! But I'm not sure who watched them because it was on a Friday night, when most people go out! And also, it was Conan O'Brien's

last night! They couldn't have done this on a Monday? Or a Thursday? It kind of just strikes me as, I don't know, unstrategic? Anyway, it lives on through the magic of YouTube. Here, make beautiful music for Haiti. Justin Timberlake and upcoming singer-songwriter Matt Morris' chilling cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." Would Leonard Cohen have been better? Of course! But it's a good song, so, whatever. AND IT WAS FOR CHARITY, SO STFU LEONARD COHEN FANS. Hang in there until the end for the last few notes and try not to tear up. Pussy. Chris Martin and Beyonce's Haitian "Halo." Beyonce subbed in the word "Haiti" for "you" or whoever the song's original "Halo recipient" is, which sounds really, incredibly tawdry, but somehow: kinda worked! It wasn't nearly as cheesy as it could've been, but oh, come on. This is such a good song. If you don't like this song, you're an awful person who's never had someone love them because they're awful and smell. Are you smelly and unloved? It sucks to be you. Maybe if you enjoyed Beyonce's music this wouldn't be such a problem. But, okay, if you already like the song, then "kinda worked" is the operative term, here. really, they should record this version

without all the references to Haiti and sell it and THEN GIVE THE MONEY TO HAITI because, listen, everybody loves the idea of Beyonce throwing down for Haiti, but how often is this version going to make the Middle School Dance rotation? It won't, in its current forms. So just take the throwdowns for Haiti out and boom! Hit record, proceeds go to Haiti. I'm in the wrong business. Jay-Z, Bono, The Edge, and Rihanna doing "Haiti (Mon Amour)" Okay, so, all things considered, it's pretty impressive that they managed to throw this song together in such a short matter of time, and that Bono actually let Rihanna take the lead on this song, but really, why would you write a song about Haiti? It's never going to become a hit record, because people don't want to jam a song about Haiti. If they wrote another "Empire State of Mind" that had fuckall to do with Haiti but that had all the proceeds moving in that direction, well: different story. But the song's kinda decidedly meh, which is what happens when you get Bono involved, I guess: beat-you-over-the-headlyrical-content that hammers the message home again and again and again and again. But at least the chorus is pretty great in that "Oh, I remember that moment" kinda way.

Coldplay's acoustic "A Message." Kinda enjoying the whole sparse-instrumentation aesthetic here! It's always nice to hear a paired-down version of a song you already enjoy. And if you don't enjoy this song, that's okay, because Chris Martin varies from awesome to insufferable depending on the day, like his band's music. BUT YOU BETTER LIKE IT ENOUGH TO GIVE IT MONEY FOR HAITI, ASSHOLE. Bruce Springsteen's tounge-y "We Shall Overcome," which sounded more like "We Sharrrlee Overcalllme," that was saved by the presence of a gospel choir, which, really, often serves as a great musical fix-all to save everything, so much so, in fact, that I now kinda wish I had a gospel choir singing my gossip roundups, and if you know any, you should have them give me a call. FOR HAITI. Taylor Swift covering a Better Than Ezra song. So many questions. Bullet points! • Taylor Swift knows what a Better Than Ezra is? • Better Than Ezra is still around? • They have songs people care about that aren't " Good" or " Desperately Wanting"? • Taylor Swift would cover a Better Than Ezra song that aren't one of those?

• Wonder if Taylor Swift likes 25 year-old Jewish bloggers who enjoy reading, travel, beaches, cooking, and Celebrity Penis Conspiracy Theories? *Makes "call me" sign with thumb and pinky* Madonna performing "Like a Prayer" with a gospel choir. Isn't this a song about giving blowjobs? FOR HAITI. Stevie Wonder performing "Bridge Over Troubled Water." Stevie Wonder could perform a song about drinking his own bathwater and it'd be awesome. But to do it with a gospel choir? As previously reported: exactly. Shakira performing "I'll Stand By You." Good thing she didn't shake her ass for Haiti, because talk about getting rocked, right? No? Okay. Well, if you watch this, be warned: Shakira does not shake her ass. But she's got a great voice! And this is a nice song. And it has a GOSPEL CHOIR IN IT. Kid Rock, Keith Urban, and Sheryl Crow performing "Lean on Me." The nice thing about "Lean on Me" is that the Mongolian Retard's Chorus could cover it in Pig Latin and it'd still sound great. Personally, I prefer the Club Nouveau version, But this was decent. Alicia Keys doing "Prelude to a HOPE page 51

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Can the Jersey Shore Kids Get Paid MTV's "Big" Bucks? [Labor Relations] By Foster Kamer (Gawker) Submitted at 1/23/2010 1:00:00 PM

The variables in The Most Important Sociological Experiment of Our Time—the castmembers of MTV's Jersey Shore—want cash: according to an item in this morning's Page Six, the Orange Creature Cadre are trying to get seriously paid. And by "seriously" we mean "fairly and proportionally": The "Jersey Shore" cast is bidding to bump its salaries up to a fist-pumping $10,000-anepisode following the wild success of their MTV show. The cast...earned only a few hundred dollars each per episode for the first season, and now want a huge raise for the next one. A few hundred bucks per episode? And they didn't even get to take the Duck Phone? I wonder if they have agents! Not because the number's so low, but because it's so patently reasonable, even though they've astutely noted that the castmembers of The Hills are grabbing $100K an episode despite lower ratings. So why'd they only bid at $10K, and why's it a smart move? 1. They'll never be sustainably famous. And there are reasons for this: (A) The entire existence of Jersey Shore: The Phenomenon is predicated on the extremities

the subversive intent to convince themselves—and then: us—that their drama is both real and scripted, on two levels (in the press, and on the show) like some kind of lucid Hollywood dream existence where nobody can wake up. That is a $100K/episode show. $100,000 buys you post-modernism. 2. They're easily replaced. The Jersey Shore kids have sworn to stick together through their negotiations. A source close to the crew told us, "They want $10,000 an episode, arguing that the stars from 'The Hills' get $100,000 per episode and that show doesn't even rate as high. They're hanging together like the cast of 'Friends' and saying if they don't all get the pay increase, none of them will return." Among their ranks, they should be less concerned about they inhabit that most of us have Whereas The Hills and The City Jersey Shore cast knows that defectors and traitors from the and never will consider. Nobody casts can position audiences in a their fame is almost, to an extent, hard-party line of negotiations, wants to be like them except for place to question their personal n i c h e f a m e : t h a t t h e y ' r e and more concerned over just a s m a l l s e g m e n t o f t h e fiscal, physical, and class s t e r e o t y p e s , t h a t t h e y ' r e how essential of a component the p o p u l a t i o n w h o a r e e i t h e r consciousness, the Jersey Shore e n c o u r a g e d t o a i d e t h e s e entire cast is to the show. Sure, already like them or, given a few kids—god love 'em—are scrappy stereotypes, that they are objects you could replace a few years, will be them. underdogs of celebrity who make of studied fascination who don't members, but that skews the (B) The cast of Jersey Shore us feel better about ourselves, carry the ability to provoke dynamic: some have lived a life makes nobody self-conscious, because we're not thicknecked, vicarious living, and that, as of celebrity, others haven't, so unlike the moneyed Aryan f i s t - p u m p i n g , m i s o g y n i s t , individual characters, they're much of the drama of the show is Celebrity of The Hills and The abusive, spineless, awareness- meaningless to the narrative. based around these specific City, the stars of which have the lacking neanderthal tribalists. Or This is unlike, say, The Hills, the characters' interactions with each inadvertent (or intended) power at least we're not to the extent castmembers of which have other. To take out some of the of destruction on the teenage girl they are. engaged in a two-step dance of CAN page 50 psyche, and reach beyond that. (C) They're self-aware. The careful cognitive dissonance with

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of the things parents worry about when their kids go to prison. And then some, because he's Andy Dick: Something about Michael Douglas' kid. Thing is, his penis getting in trouble. dollars to donuts most inmates Rihanna's about to break her won't even know who Michael man's umbrella off. Helen Douglas is. If I were Cameron, Mirren has a lesson for your I'd tell them my dad was Michael children about getting drunk and Keaton, who was batman, and stupid. Megan Fox's freaky who will fuck your shit up. t h u m b s ! P r e s e n t i n g y o u r Strategies, we have them. [ Page S a t u r d a y M o r n i n g G o s s i p Six] Roundup: • Batter up, legal eagles: Matt • Andy Dick, Andy Dick, Andy Kemp, the L.A. Dodger dating "Handy" Dick: What kind of Rihanna, is denying being in an fucked up shit have you gotten abusive relationship before yourself into now? Furthering his dating Rihanna, which the own fame as a perpetual motion woman he supposedly abused is machine of persona-as-punchline abusively trying to abuse him for Hollywood's best comics, the with using a two by four of the laff riot that is his life took a new TROOF, as opposed to the twist when he was arrested for titanium umbrella-ella-ella sexually abusing something that Rihanna's going to shove up his wasn't an inanimate object. ass when she inevitably finds out Details are vague, but to chance that there's some degree of truth a guess, let's say: monkey, to this. [ TMZ] iguana, person, or trying to play • Tory Burch just bought a "The Midas Game" with his $32.5M estate in Southampton. penis. To Dick's credit, he's Thirty. Two. Point five. Million. managed to put the word- For selling shit like this: Yes, scrambled "smug" in "mugshot," they're glorified ballerina flats. as he delivered the cops camera a And they probably cost a grip of Hollywood-born smirk. Enjoy. [ c a s h . T h e y ' r e n o t e v e n TMZ] bedazzled. They have some • Michael Douglas is worried stupid amulet-looking thing at about his kid, Cameron, getting the end. Meanwhile, I can't even his ass kicked in prison, or rent a campsite in Montauk and doesn't get WiFi. Related: WRONG BUSINESS. [ Page having his spirit broken, or any because it's out of my price range W E A R E A L L I N T H E Six] Submitted at 1/23/2010 11:30:00 AM

• Because the world has gone crazypants, the cast of The Most Important Sociological Experiment of our time, Jersey Shore, have become popular enough to overcrowd a New Jersey club and get it shut down. [ TMZ] • How do you know Sundance is totally, completely, unquestionably over? When Jon Gosselin shows up with his latest "video ho." [ People] • Bon Jovi purchased an antique guitar. Now he should sell his vintage career. [ Page Six] • This graphic the Daily News photo editor put together for this story on Bristol and Levi's child support battle is one-sheet level shit. The dramatization of this will be glorious. [ NYDN] • Not exactly news-y, per se, but of the public interest no less: TMZ now has a gallery exclusively of Megan Fox's Freaky Thumbs. [ TMZ] • Jeffrey Ross, who's about a step above Andy Dick when it comes to Hollywood punchlines, made a bunch of jokes about New Jersey. Some of them were funny. [ P6] • Joaquin Phoenix has resurfaced from his career as a bearded rapping hipster without ANDY page 50

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essential ingredients and replace them wouldn't be nearly as compelling as just—let's face it—replacing them completely. An entirely new cast of Jersey Shore creatures who aren't jaded by the antics of the first season, who see the potential celebrity that awaits them? They'll go harder, faster, stronger, juicier, orangey-er! You can't buy that kind of moxie, unless you buy it new, or shoot it through a hypodermic needle into your shrunken balls, which they've already no doubt tried. The Juice of Ron Ron will only take you so far. 3. Hollywood entitlement and celebrity corrupts the essence of Jersey Shore. The Hills and The City both strain to avoid discussion of their own celebrity, instead letting that dialogue play out in the press. The press will never be genuinely interested in where Snooki is showing up (instead, writing each item with an underlying theme of heh); they're more interested with the fact that other people are interested in where they're showing up, and their interest

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isn't genuine affection so much as (mostly) fascination and interest. And the entire fascination with Jersey Shore is, again, predicated on the fact that we've never seen anything really like this on TV before. If they become celebrities of celebrity—like the Kardashians, for example—they become the same product we see everywhere else: a typical, unoriginal commodity. They lose their mystique. And thus, their value to The Most Important Sociological Experiment of Our Time, Jersey Shore. The thing is: the audience does care for the cast of Jersey Shore! They are, somehow, lovable, and t h e y have—incredibly—endeared themselves to us in spirit and heart. So $10K an episode seems like a pretty fair shake for a second (and final) season for this cast to get paid, and move on, thus, setting a two-season term limit on the Keepers of The Duck Phone. Besides which, even underdogs have other options: But Snooki says that if the talks

fail, she plans to find herself a rich man. She told The Post's Kirsten Fleming: "If I am not tied up with work, I will get my own beach house in Belmar and live it up. There's mad-hot rich guys there." Unlike the hard-earned endearment the cast of Jersey Shore holds with their viewers, there's no shortage of mad-hot rich guys in Belmar, who are (apparently) limitless. And as New Jersey's native son Bruce Springsteen once sang: Well now, everything dies, baby, that's a fact.. But maybe everything that dies someday comes back. Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty, and meet me tonight... in Seaside Heights, where dreams and fair labor talks can come to life. Long live The Duck Phone.

the beard, or the rap, and he did it for charity. Not because his agent threatened to cut his throat and bleed him like an off-season game hunt. [ NYDN] • Kim Kardashian, who's—as Joel McHale famously noted—famous for having a big ass and a sex tape, now has a legitimately creepy stalker. Which sucks, for both parties: Who would be low-rent enough among stalkers to stalk a Kardashian, of all people? Only in Hollywood. Here, she couldn't even get a 2 at 7, let alone come up with a stalker. Related, here's footage of Kim Kardashian getting punched in the face really, really hard. For charity! [ NYDN] • Mama always said: don't get a tat when you're shitfaced. Helen Mirren didn't listen. Now she regrets it. When I have kids, I'm gonna be like, you wanna tatTOO??!? So you TOO can be a conformist? You know what Helen Mirren has to say about that? DO YOU WANT TO THROW AWAY YOUR F U T U R E ? D O YOU?!!?!adko;faslfjks;lk;lk [ People]

Official rescue efforts end in Haiti (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 1/23/2010 6:28:09 AM

Haiti has officially abandoned the search and rescue effort to

find survivors from the earthquake which devastated much of the capital, Port-auPrince. In the 11 days since the disaster, 132 people have been pulled

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• I wonder if you still have to say hi to your mother for Mark Wahlberg after you lost a $100,000 golf game to him. [ P6] • How often do you think about Rosie O'Donnell having sex? Obviously not enough. She's moving in with her new ladyfriend. Which means they'll be having tons more sex. And she told it to Oprah. What's that do for you? [ NYDN] So, the lesson? Don't become a fat, fucked up, perverted tattooed child-of-a-celebrity junkie (or, you know, a real one, for that matter). Good morning, friends! We've got more on the way, in the mean time, please start your Glorious Days of Life Outside The Hoosegow with this solemn, beautiful, epic rock opera tale of everything that has yet to go wrong. We've got an entire weekend to make it happen, so magic: get worked. Sha la la la, man. [ Photo via Getty Images]

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Kiss," which I never realized really kinda sounds like the opening notes of "Imagine," right? Anyway, this was the opening number, and it was beautiful. They should ban Alicia Keys music from being played in retail environments so it doesn't get ruined, or so it doesn't ruin people's lives. Because if you were having a bad day and heard this song in the grocery store, you know it'd fuck your shit up right, right? Sting doing "Driven To Tears." Dude busted out a Police song! Talk about doing your part! "Desert Rose" doesn't bring in the big donation bucks: the man clearly knows this. Good on him. Also, glad he didn't offer to heal

Haiti with twelve hours of Tantric sex. That wouldn't have gone over well. Wyclef Jean performing "Rivers of Babylon."'Clef's charity, Yele Haiti, and their financial issues aside, we can't forget: this guy used to be in the Fugees, the most overrated rap "supergroup" of all time! Even though Lauren Hill is kind of insane and then there's Pras and don't get me started on John Forte. Anyway, key to any performance of "Rivers of Babylon" is the "OH FROM THE WICKED!" shout, which 'Clef nails! And then he starts singing in Creole, which is pretty wonderful, too. And then they kick it up a notch into a "Rebuild Haiti" dance and Clef

does a freestyle proving just how weak of a rapper he is and, then, you know, that's that. I prefer the Sublime cover. Does that make me a bad person? I don't think so. It just makes me someone who once enjoyed Sublime. And still does. For Haiti. X-Tina Agularia doing "X Gone Give It To You." Okay, so she actually did "Lift Me Up" and it was the best performance of the night. There. Now give money to Haiti, you fucking pieces of ungrateful, awful shit.

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Aggressive Draft Philosophy Helped Build Jets By Dan Graziano (FanHouse Main)

four picks to move up and take him with the first pick of the third round. These coaches and Submitted at 1/23/2010 12:21:00 AM scouts were sure Greene was Filed under: Jets, NFL Playoffs, worth it -- that he was the best N F L Q u a r t e r b a c k s , N F L running back in the draft for the Analysis FLORHAM PARK, style of team they were building. N.J. -- Jets coaches and scouts T h e o n l y p r o b l e m w a s liked Shonn Greene. A lot. So c o n v i n c i n g G M M i k e much so that when the Iowa Tannenbaum to make the deal. running back was still available "The last thing I wanted to do on the second day of last year's w a s t r a d e u p t w i c e , " draft, they decided they should Tannenbaum, who'd already trade three of their remaining moved up to take quarterback

Street since the 1930s. Bank shares on Friday bore the brunt of a stock market sell-off triggered by fears that they will be hit hard by President Barack Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Mark Sanchez at No. 5 the day before, told FanHouse on Thursday. "But our guys were persistent, and we had a first-

round grade on Shonn. So ultimately, to trade a third, fourth and seventh-rounder for a guy we had a first-round grade on, it became a no-brainer." It also became the fifth trade-up deal the Jets have made in the past three drafts, establishing them as an aggressive drafting team that considers it more important to get the player they want than to stockpile late-round picks for depth.

Entertainment Studios, an independent producer and distributor of syndicated television programming for broadcast, will launch a threehour, Educational/Informative kids block in HD for teens agss 13-16 in fall of 2011. The new HD E/I block will complement three newly created HD E/I series, "PETS.TV" and "The Young Icons" and "Career Day" -- set to debut next year. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Orioles president of baseball operations Andy MacPhail recalled Saturday asking Tejada Submitted at 1/23/2010 12:10:34 PM to move from shortstop during Miguel Tejada will return to his final year in Baltimore. Baltimore after agreeing to a one "He said he didn't think it was -year, $6 million deal with the time. He went to the National O r i o l e s , t h e s l u g g e r t o l d League after I traded him there ESPNDeportes.com's Enrique and was the All-Star shortstop Rojas on Saturday. for two years," MacPhail noted. The free agent shortstop played "So, who's to say Miggy wasn't in Baltimore from 2004-07, right?" before being traded to the Now, however, Tejada appears Houston Astros in December willing to switch to the hot 2007 for five players. corner. And MacPhail is The deal includes around $1 confident Tejada will capably million in incentives for playing handle the position. time registered, Tejada said. "From what I've read, he's made " I a m h a p p y t o r e t u r n t o it clear that's something he Baltimore, it's like my home," would entertain," MacPhail said. Tejada told Rojas. "We have "He's probably aware that at this great young talent, and I think point in his career, that's the right many good things could happen move. He's certainly not the first with the club in 2010." shortstop, if he ends up playing According to The Baltimore third, that made that change." Sun, which first reported the Orioles Hall of Famer Cal story, the deal is pending a Ripken Jr. went from shortstop physical that's expected to take to third in the latter stage of his place in the next couple of days. career and played the position He is now tabbed for third base well. with the release of Melvin Mora. "You don't know until you get Cesar Izturis is expected to stay there," said MacPhail, who was at shortstop. questioned by reporters at "Mentally and physically I was FanFest, a function at the getting ready to play third base Baltimore Convention Center since the season ended last year," d e s i g n e d t o c o n n e c t t e a m Tejada said. officials and the players with

fans. Tejada was the first high-profile player convicted of a crime stemming from baseball's steroids era. In February 2009, Tejada pleaded guilty to misleading Congress and admitted he withheld information about an ex-teammate's use of performance-enhancing drugs when questioned in 2005 by congressional investigators. Tejada was sentenced to probation, 100 hours of community service and a $5,000 fine. Tejada acknowledged he bought human growth hormone while playing for the Oakland Athletics but said he threw the drugs away without using them, and prosecutors said during his February plea hearing they had no evidence to contradict that. Through it all, Tejada excelled on the field. Without naming names, MacPhail explained that he never figured his new third baseman would be available this late in the offseason. "I would be honest with you: I don't know how realistic I thought our potential acquisition was going to be," MacPhail said. "We always had him on the board. But I wasn't holding my breath."

Tejada became a free agent after the Astros declined to offer him arbitration last month. In 158 games with the Astros last season, Tejada hit .313 with 14 home runs and 86 RBIs. Tejada, 35, is a six-time All-Star and has hit .289 with 285 home runs and 1,185 RBIs in his career. Manager Dave Trembley said, "I'll say this about Tejada: I don't think there's ever been a guy who wants to win more. He has a very, very strong passion to win. Guys on the team love him. I never had a problem with him. If it works out that he comes back here, I think it would be a real good acquisition." The addition of Tejada means newcomer Garrett Atkins will spend most his time in the field at first base. Atkins, signed as a free agent in December, can also play third. "The plan is for me to play first, depending on who else they sign," Atkins said. The Associated Press contributed to this story. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Dan Glickman will exit the Motion Picture Association of America April 1, according to the studio trade group. His new career is in the human services arena; he will become the president of Refugees International. Bob Pisano, president and COO of MPAA, will be interim CEO. Glickman has been with MPAA since 1004, when he succeeded the late Jack Valenti. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Sources: League to inform Gilbert Arenas of the length of his suspension next week By Chris Sheridan (ESPN.com)

Derek Fisher, president of the NBA players union, said he wants a number attached to Submitted at 1/23/2010 7:45:08 AM Gilbert Arenas' suspension, NEW YORK -- Gilbert Arenas saying a bad precedent would be will know his fate -- at least in set if Arenas' "indefinite" terms of how long he'll be suspension remains indefinite suspended from the NBA -- by much longer. the end of next week, ESPN.com The NBA has concluded its own learned Friday. investigation of the incident, and Multiples sources said the a comprehensive report on the wheels were already in motion episode was expected to be for the Arenas case to take its submitted to Stern by the end of next turn, although the question this week. of whether the Wizards will Friday night marked the 10th subsequently attempt to void consecutive game Arenas missed Arenas' contract may remain since Stern suspended him unanswered. indefinitely for his behavior in O n e s o u r c e s a i d J a v a r i s the aftermath of the incident in Crittenton, the other player which Arenas brought four involved in the now infamous handguns into the Washington handgun incident in the Wizards locker room, and Crittenton locker room last month, will allegedly responded by pulling have closure in his case, too. out a handgun of his own and Crittenton has been under chambering a round. investigation by authorities after Arenas has since pleaded guilty he allegedly chambered a round to a felony weapons possession in his handgun during the charge and awaits sentencing standoff with Arenas. March 26 in the District of Definitive penalties for Arenas Columbia. His sentence could and Crittenton would then be r a n g e f r o m p r o b a t i o n , announced by commissioner community service and a fine to David Stern, possibly as early as a m a x i m u m o f f i v e y e a r s ' W e d n e s d a y , o n e s o u r c e imprisonment. indicated. Removing the "indefinite" tag The developments came as and putting a defined number on

the length of Arenas' suspension will be a welcome development for Fisher, who said the union has been growing increasingly uncomfortable with the notion of Arenas' suspension remaining indefinitely indefinite. "I don't know if there is a magic number of a certain amount of time, but I do think it's something we have to keep an eye on, because I don't know if it's about fair or unfair, but if it sets the right precedent to indefinitely suspend someone and just kind of keep it hanging without putting a name or title or number on it and moving on from there," Fisher told ESPN.com prior to the Lakers' game against the Knicks. "[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. But I do know that we're definitely keeping an eye on the indefinite part of the suspension, because I think everyone agrees that there will be a punishment that will fit the crime or the mistake he made, and what that should be, I don't know if anyone

knows exactly, but hopefully we'll find out." Fisher said he had no opinion on what a proper punishment would be, because no player has ever been penalized under the gun prohibition clause that was added to the league's labor agreement in 2005. "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." Chris Sheridan is a senior NBA writer for ESPN.com. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

The Count: Will LeBron Be Next to 25,000? (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Submitted at 1/22/2010 2:44:27 PM

Kobe Bryant, at age 31 and 151 days, on Thursday became the youngest player in NBA history to reach 25,000 points. Unfortunately for Bryant and the Lakers, they were facing the player most likely to reach that milestone at a younger age. LeBron James, who turned 25 last month, has 14,301 points, including 37 for the Cleveland Cavaliers against L.A. as the Cavs swept their season series by winning, 93-87. Fortunately for the Lakers, losing the season series probably won’t matter much come playoff time. Reuters LeBron James got the better of Kobe Bryant on Thursday, but it probably won’t matter in June. When Bryant was the same age that James is today, he’d just finished his seventh season in the league and had amassed 10,658 points, an impressive total but well behind James’s pace. That COUNT: page 55

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Serena Williams rolls past Carla Suarez Navarro, into Australian Open fourth round By ESPN.com news services (ESPN.com) Submitted at 1/23/2010 4:36:54 AM

Serena Discusses Third Round Win Serena Discusses Third Round Win VIDEO PLAYLIST • Serena Discusses Third Round Win Serena Discusses Third Round Win • Serena Cruises In Third Round Serena Cruises In Third Round • Venus Tops Dellacqua At Australian Open Venus Tops Dellacqua At Australian Open MELBOURNE, Australia -Serena Williams moved a step closer to successfully defending her Australian Open title and extracted some family revenge Saturday with a 6-0, 6-3 victory over Carla Suarez Navarro. Last year, Suarez Navarro beat Venus Williams in the second round and made it to the quarterfinals. The Spaniard didn't even get close this time, and the Williams sisters remained on course for a semifinal meeting when Venus held off Australia's Casey Dellacqua 6-1, 7-6 (4), closing with an ace on her third match point.

Serena's only real difficulty was in closing the first set, needing eight set points in a game that went to deuce 13 times and lasted longer than the previous five games combined. Complete results Need the scores from any match played in today's Australian Open? Results After she missed her seventh set point, pushing a backhand too long, the top-ranked Serena dropped into a sitting position on the court with a look of disbelief. "It was definitely the toughest 6love set," she said. "I thought, 'OK, Serena, don't put too much pressure on this. Worst-case scenario it will be 5-1.' But way to keep fighting. "At the end of day I'm glad I didn't lose that game." Serena, who has won the Australian title each oddnumbered year since beating Venus in the 2003 final, will play No. 13 and local hope Samantha Stosur, a 6-4, 6-1 winner over Italian Alberta Brianti. Venus will play No. 17 Francesca Schiavone of Italy, who ousted No. 10 Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2, 6-2.

Venus is thinking final, which would mean beating Serena along the way. "Of course I want to progress well to the final, that is my goal," Venus said. "So far, I'm getting closer. You know how it works. Just got to play well every match." In other women's matches, U.S. Open runner-up Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark beat Shahar Peer of Israel 6-4, 6-0. Wozniacki will face Li Na of China, who equaled her best run at Melbourne Park when she advanced 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 over 2008 semifinalist Daniela Hantuchova. Li is one win away from reaching the quarterfinals at a third major. No. 7 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus had a 6-0, 6-2 win over Italy's Tathiana Garbin to set up a fourth-round match against No. 9 Vera Zvonareva of Russia, who beat Argentina's Gisela Dulko 6-1, 7-5. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Gearbox: Borderlands art style helped 'make a certain leap of faith' By Mike Schramm (Joystiq)

-- they could "make a certain leap of faith into an Submitted at 1/23/2010 8:00:00 AM understanding that the crazier T h e B o r d e r l a n d s c r e w a t and wackier and more fun things Gearbox Software is making the can exist in this world." And post-mortem interview rounds, t h e y s a y t h a t f o r f u t u r e and this time Aaron Thibault, installments, they are taking Stephen Palmer and Matthew player feedback into account: Armstrong stopped to chat with Both a mini-map and more levels G4. The interview has some are two things that they didn't excellent insight into the making quite expect such a call for, so of the game: The team originally it's a safe bet that we'll see those was finishing up the Halo PC f e a t u r e s i n a n y f u t u r e port when they realized that installments of the "important" Bungie had dynamically coded franchise. Please? their guns, and wondered what Gearbox: Borderlands art style you could do if you dynamically helped 'make a certain leap of created guns from that code. " faith' originally appeared on Halo meets Diablo" was the Joystiq on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 answer, and that was Gearbox's 08:00:00 EST. Please see our premise from the beginning. terms for use of feeds. They also talk about the famous Read| Permalink| Email this| art style change, and say that the Comments current animated look actually helped players get into the game

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was just the third season that Bryant started scoring at a torrid rate. In his first four years, he averaged 15.9 points per game. James, though, averaged 20.9 points per game his rookie season, and has never dipped below 27.2 points per game since. If he keeps his current pace and stays healthy, he could burst past 25,000 in the early part of the 2014-2015 season before he turns 30. James, though, still hasn’t won any titles, compared to Bryant’s four championships. While the victory over the Lakers gave the Cavaliers the most wins in the NBA and extended their lead in the race for Eastern Conference’s top seed, it probably doesn’t say much about their chances of winning the title. As I noted in a blog post last year, regularseason success against an opponent usually isn’t much of a predictor of head-to-head postseason results. In the 28 postseasons before last year’s playoffs, teams that won the season series but finished with a worse regular-season record won just 26 of 73 series between such

pairs of teams. Last year the regular season meant a little more, as two of three such series swung to the team that had the regular-season edge — OrlandoBoston and Portland-Houston, but not Orlando-L.A. — but the overall winning percentage is just 37%. So don’t read too much into Cleveland’s sweep this year; the other 80 games the Cavs play will say more about their chances should they meet L.A. in the finals. And such a matchup isn’t terribly likely. Even if each team holds on to the best record in its respective conference, there’s too much chance of an upset in a 16-team playoff to expect any two teams to make the championship round. In the 33 seasons since the ABA-NBA merger, just 12 times — or 36% — the teams with the best record in each conference made the finals. It used to happen far more often during the reign of dynastic teams in the 1980s and 1990s. Four finals series involving Michael Jordan-led Bulls teams fit the bill, as did five finals featuring Magic Johnson and the

1980s Lakers. It’s occurred just twice in the last 11 years, each time involving Lakers teams featuring Bryant. If L.A. and Cleveland do meet in the finals, the biggest relevance of their regular-season meetings may be that the Cavs would own the home-court advantage, if the two teams finish with identical records. It seems possible that they would, given that each team is 22 games over .500. If each team has a probability of winning each remaining game equal to its current winning percentage, there’s about a 10% chance they’d finish with identical records. In that case, their headto-head meetings would matter — if they do meet in the finals. Even then, unless the series goes seven, home-court advantage probably wasn’t a decisive factor (like with the MLB playoffs). No wonder some NBA fans don’t pay much attention to the regular season.

Left 4 Dead 2's Versus mode getting bots, autospawn tweaks By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) Submitted at 1/23/2010 11:30:00 AM

Question: What's the only thing scarier than a looming horde of normal-speed zombies? Answer: A looming horde of normalspeed zombies with robot brains. That's the kind of nightmare we'll soon be facing once Valve puts the finishing touches on an update for Left 4 Dead 2, which will add Infected bots to the game's Versus mode to help balance out one-on-one games. In addition, Valve's doing some tweaking to the zombie autospawning which occurs during the finale events in Versus mode. Apparently, the developer

decided that the average 34.56% chance of survival for the human team was a little too low, and is trying to balance things out by disabling auto-spawning during the campaigns' climaxes. Of course, none of that will matter when the human team is attempting to escape from robot zombies. Gallery: Left 4 Dead 2 Left 4 Dead 2's Versus mode getting bots, auto-spawn tweaks originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Men Get Older, Their Jeans Get Cheaper. Great. By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 1/22/2010 2:58:00 PM

For as many years as I’ve had a thing for men of a certain age, I’ve joked with friends that the one and only downside of this is their penchant for denim on denim—in other words, their general cluelessness as to what to put on once they’ve de-suited for the weekend. In a piece published earlier this week in The New York Times, writer Guy Trebay tackles this issue—or more specifically, how men often fall fit victim to what he cutely calls “mommy jeans”—raising in my mind what may be another no-solution, super fantastic male/female double-standard. Between the early ‘90s and the present (the length of time your author has been trying on pair after pair of ill-fitting jeans), trends in women’s denim have run the gamut from boot-cut to low-rise to straight-leg to highwaisted to wide-legged to baggy boyfriend to the current, putthrough-the-wood-chipper hipster skinny jeggings-y things

you see on Rihanna and Leighton Meester (when she’s promoting her album). For men, the denim evolution has been subtler. Though not without its bizarre hiccups (exhibit A: every pair Jon Gosselin has ever worn), much of today’s man denim has been stuck in a braided beltcinched, light-washed, balloonseated standstill. For whatever reason, men, especially middleaged men but not exclusively so,

have been relentless in their refusing to give up a decades-old style that has been scientifically proven (what else do you call the entire country, including the First Lady, siding against President Obama and his unfortunate jeans last Summer?) to be universally unflattering. Trebay, whose article was inspired by the Extraordinary Measures poster in which Harrison Ford out-pantses his

the case with most women, I’ve revisited the fantasy that less expensive can out-do more expensive when it comes to denim. I think, hey, Anja Rubik looks incredible in those GAP ads, I’m gonna give the under$75 pair a try— again. But each time I do this, each time a little older and my body a little more in need of the innovative “tricks” and higher-quality construction built into the Siwys, the J Brands, and the Current/Elliotts, I reach with progressive quickness the same, walletbusting conclusion my girlfriends and I always reach: the best jeans out there do not come cheap. Except, I guess, for that other younger co-star, Brendan Fraser, gender that also happens to get sought insight and advice from a better looking with age. Happy variety of experts (including Friday. F o r d ’ s l o n g t i m e c o s t u m e —Johanna Cox designer, Bernie Pollack) on this Robert Redford, another of matter, all of whom favor for Bernie Pollack’s longtime cheap men a simpler, back-to-basics cut jeans-lovin’ clients (L-R): at in a dark wash that, as Pollack Sundance yesterday, at Sundance reminds, “fit[s] your rear.” in 2002, in Manhattan in 1978 The pair that fit Ford’s 67-year- Photos: Getty Images old rear in that movie poster? $32 Wranglers. Every few years, as I’m sure is

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Lisa Solberg's Proenza-Inspired Painting By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog)

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Fashion and art are old collaborators, from Yves Saint Laurent working Piet Mondrian’s grids into his 1965 collection to Marc Jacobs using Takashi Murakami’s caricatures for Louis Vuitton. But it’s rare that a painter is so inspired by a runway look that she’ll base a canvas on it. Enter Lisa Solberg, an ex-professional snowboarder and downtown L.A. artist, who created paintings referencing Balenciaga’s spring 2010 gunmetal eye makeup, a Barney’s catalogue, and Alexander Wang’s dark fall 2009 collection. (She titled the last one, “F-OFF I’m Dreaming.”) Solberg’s latest obsession? Proenza Schouler’s Spring 2010 show, which featured playful tiedye dresses and scuba-inspired skirts and sweaters that she has re-imagined on canvas as multidirectional tropical sparks. “The yellow and shades of blue mixed with black tiger stripes and a playful skirt makes it completely unexpected,” says Lisa, who paints with a combination of acrylic, oil, make-up, and china marker. As for her own self-described “beachy California style,” Lisa

wears a mix of feminine and edgy looks. She admires Christopher Decarnin of Balmain for his tough-girl chic aesthetic. “I gravitate towards his clothes because I have a soft image, it’s easy for me to look like a surfer girl from next store.” And then there’s Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Jacobs, and Japanese designers that she found while traveling through Asia. “But when I’m painting, I wear a lot of easy staples, like basic black jeans, leggings, oversized t-shirts, tank tops, and cardigans in black, white, and

gray,” says the 26-year-old, who studied fine arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Similar to the ever-changing nature of fashion, Lisa’s art continues to transform. Recently, she’s begun to see more and more inspiration in beauty—literally. She’s been playing with new mediums, such as blush and lip-gloss, which give her paintings a soft sheen. Who knew that a painting of a pink sunset could come from an old box of lip gloss? —Laura Stoloff Lisa wears Current/Elliot jeans,

an Apolis shirt, necklace by Planet Blue Los Angels, and a vintage lion ring (photo by Lauren Ward and makeup by Megan Thiroit). The Proenza Schouler Spring 2010 look that inspired the painting “Jacque” 108” x 72” (acrylic, oil, makeup, and china marker) Lisa’s apartment and studio in the industrial/arts district of downtown L.A.

JOLIET, Ill. – From nearly the moment the lead investigator stepped into the suburban Chicago area home where former policeman Drew Peterson's third wife was found dead in a dry bathtub, he treated her death as a tragic accident. Illinois State Police Sgt. Patrick Collins collected no forensics evidence from the scene — not fingerprints, unfinished drinks or clothes. Most disturbingly, say experts, Collins let Peterson sit in on what may have been a vital interview. Six years later, as prosecutors and defense attorneys prepare for Peterson's trial on charges of murdering Kathleen Savio, one thing has become clear: Police blew the initial investigation, undermining prosecutors' ability to prove their case. "The incompetency that comes out is somewhat unbelievable," said Richard Brzeczek, a former Chicago police superintendent who now works in private criminal defense. "It seems that, pretty fundamentally, what should have been done was not done." Among the litany of mistakes: Collins said he never asked anyone whether Savio's body had been touched or moved, he never EXPERTS: page 58

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tried to account for her body being bent forward, and he never interviewed her relatives. And when he left the house, he didn't seal it, meaning someone could walk in and take, move or even clean something. "They could have had the evidence with a proper investigation," Brzeczek said. "A prosecution's extremely more difficult now." The now-retired Collins testified Thursday and Friday at a pretrial hearing meant to determine what, if any, "hearsay" evidence prosecutors can use during Peterson's murder trial. Both prosecutors and defense attorneys hit Collins with tough questions, with prosecutors trying to show he could have gathered evidence pointing to Peterson's involvement in Savio's death. The defense, which has long claimed Savio's death was an accident, argued that even if someone had killed her, the investigation was so shoddy it would be impossible to determine who that was. Peterson has pleaded not guilty in Savio's 2004 death. Officials exhumed her body and ruled her death a homicide only after Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared in 2007. He hasn't been charged in her disappearance, but authorities say he's the only suspect.

Brzeczek says one of the glaring examples of Collins' poor judgment was permitting Peterson to attend an interview of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, in which she was asked about her husband's whereabouts the day Savio died. Peterson and Savio had divorced and Peterson married Stacy Peterson before Savio died. Collins testified that Peterson not only sat in on the interview, he answered a question put to his wife about what they ate for breakfast that day. "Collins should have said, 'I'm sorry there are serious considerations here, we have a death investigation, and at this point there will be no profession courtesies,'" Brzeczek said. "You just cannot do those kind of things." The spokesman for the Illinois State Police office where Collins worked didn't immediately return a message for comment Saturday. Attempts to reach Collins at listed phone numbers weren't successful. Savio's death was the first homicide investigation for Collins, a more than 20-year police veteran who previously had taken part mostly in narcotics and gaming industry crimes. But Chicago attorney Michael Helfand said Collins' apparent blunders don't

necessarily point to incompetence. They may have more to do with an entrenched police culture in which cops, almost by reflex, trust and protect each other. "Within the profession, it takes a lot for a cop to go after another cop," Helfand said. "I don't think it's corruption. I don't think they would purposely cover a murder up. They just think, 'That's just the police way (to watch out for each other).'" If one of Peterson's other wives had under died mysterious circumstances before Savio, it's likely Collins and other officers would have taken the possibility of murder more seriously, Helfand said. As it was, investigators likely assumed Peterson was telling the truth. "It wouldn't surprise me if, what happen was â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with Drew's reputation as a smooth talker â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he says to investigators, 'Gosh, I'm all broken up about this, and if you find out there's foul play, please let me know. But here's what I think happened,'" Helfand said. Collins testified it wasn't so much that Peterson was a police officer that led him to believe the death was an accident, but the opinion of a far more experienced crime scene technician, who told Collins shortly after he arrived that

Savio's death appeared accidental. "I relied pretty much on his judgment and his opinion," Collins testified. But good homicide detectives, Brzeczek said, always gather everything that could conceivably be evidence if a death turns out to be a homicide. When a cause of death isn't obvious, as in Savio's case, that's all the more reason to do a thorough examination, he said. Fingerprints are nearly always a must, even if investigators expect to find a husband or exhusband's prints because he once lived in the home or came by frequently. "Maybe they say Peterson's would be there because he came there a lot," Brzeczek said. "But why not dust for prints to see if anyone else's were there?" Collin's conceded in court Friday he didn't do all he could have. Under questioning from one of Peterson's attorneys, he acknowledged he didn't recover or even examine bedding, a glass of orange juice left on the kitchen counter and other items that might have revealed clues. "Looking back now, everything could be important," Collins conceded. Ironically, Peterson may have been the one person in the house who knew that. Peterson's career

as a police officer included time as an evidence technician, according to prosecutors. But Collins, who didn't interview any of Peterson's fellow officers, did not know that. Collins testified he didn't try to verify someone else's suggestion that Savio got a gash on her head when she accidentally hit the back of the tub. He also said it never occurred to him the scene in the bathroom might have been staged. After Stacy Peterson disappeared, authorities said they believed Savio's death was a homicide staged to look like an accident. Collin said one thing that led him to believe the death was accidental was that he found no defense wounds on Savio's body. He stopped short of admitting he was wrong to believe Savio's death was accidental but conceded his investigation could have been more thorough. "If I had to do certain things over, yes," he said, "I would." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. – Hundreds of Southern Californians were back in their homes Saturday as a stampede of storms that brought lightning, vicious downpours and tornadoes turned to sunshine. Fears of debris flows northeast of Los Angeles subsided. Mandatory evacuation orders for hundreds of homes were lifted after public works experts determined the ground was safe — for now. The homes are in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains burned bare last summer by wildfire. Forecasters said clear skies in California should last through Tuesday evening, when more rain moves into the southern part of the state. It's not expected to last more than two days, said National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Vanderburg. "We'll have a few days to dry out and enjoy the sun before another, smaller system moves in," Vanderburg said. "That one will be more of your average winter storm. It won't be a huge rainmaker." The storms blanketed parts of Arizona and New Mexico with snow, with more expected

Saturday. Forecasters warned of blowing and drifting snow that could make driving even more treacherous as plows cleared roads under gray skies. The storms flooded small towns, caused a train derailment and closed major interstates. Snow collapsed roofs in northern Arizona, where up to 6 inches was expected on top of 4 1/2 feet that fell since Monday, piling up to the third-highest five-day snowfall of all time. Interstates closed in northern Arizona were open to traffic Saturday morning. A 6-year-old boy who was swept away in rising waters about 70 miles north of Phoenix was presumed dead. The boy's father and sister were also swept by the current, but managed to get to safety. Three others died in vehicle accidents this week — two on Interstate 40 east of Flagstaff and one in Phoenix — as a series of storms moved through the state. At least two people were killed by trees toppled by high winds in California in recent days. In Ventura County, the body of a 40-year-old man was found Friday in an overflowing creek. Forecasters issued winter weather and wind advisories for southern New Mexico Saturday,

saying heavy snow was expected in the Gila and Sacramento mountains. In the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico, wind gusts could top 90 mph on Saturday. More than 2 feet of snow have fallen in the Chama area in northern New Mexico, while parts of southwestern New Mexico got 27 inches of snow. The storms drenched Las Vegas, where 1.69 inches of rain fell this week, more than the 1.59 inches of rain that fell all of last year. Harsh winter weather also hit the Dakotas, where thousands of people were without power after icy weather toppled miles of power lines. A winter storm carrying freezing rain and snow pushed through the region with blizzardlike conditions expected to develop over the weekend and into Monday. Across metropolitan Phoenix, downed trees blocked driveways, and palm fronds and other debris from the storm littered the streets. A teenager died after the vehicle he was in lost control while traveling through water Thursday afternoon on a Phoenix street. About half the residents of a small western Arizona farming community were evacuated by tractors, boats and buses after

floodwaters swept through the town Thursday. Pools of water, muddied streets and damaged homes and businesses remained after a wash that runs through Wenden flooded. Some homes had up to a foot of water, and residents were awaiting word on whether they could return, La Paz County sheriff's spokesman Lt. Glenn Gilbert said Saturday. American Red Cross spokeswoman Tracey Kiest said about 100 people stayed at shelters overnight Friday. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency for San Bernardino County, citing county estimates of 124 homes damaged by the storm and costs of more than $11 million for emergency response, building damage and debris cleanup. States of emergency have been declared for Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Francisco and Siskiyou counties. The declarations will allow the counties to obtain state reimbursement for much of their damage and cleanup costs, although state officials said it was unlikely that the damage was serious enough for them to qualify for federal emergency aid.

The city of Long Beach estimated $3 million in damage to homes and buildings. Flooding damaged the city's main library and buildings at California State University, Long Beach earlier in the week. Ana Barenos said cars parked in her Long Beach neighborhood flooded up to the windows and water seeped into her basement. She blamed the city for not doing a better job clearing the storm drains before the heavy rains. "We had to contract a company to take out the water and they took five hours to take all the water from under the house," she said. "It cost a lot of money. I think they should clean the drains before the (rainy) season." ___ Associated Press writers contributing to this report include Christopher Weber in Los Angeles, Felicia Fonseca in Flagstaff and Jacques Billeaud and Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. As hundreds of Californians prepare to return to evacuated homes, Arizona residents are digging or drying out from the stampede of southwestern storms that flooded desert areas and buried mountain towns under feet of snow. The biggest weather system to hit Arizona in nearly two decades flooded small towns, caused a train derailment and closed major interstates. Snow collapsed roofs in the northern part of the state. Meanwhile, searchers looked for a 6-year-old boy swept away late Thursday in a flood. Three others died in vehicle accidents this week â&#x20AC;&#x201D; two on Interstate 40 east of Flagstaff and one in Phoenix â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as a series of storms moved through the state. At least two people were killed by trees toppled by high winds in California in recent days. Hundreds of California evacuees, meanwhile, were allowed to return home Friday as a week of lightning, vicious downpours and tornadoes dissipated into occasional thunderstorms. Still, tens of

thousands of people remained without power throughout the state. Flood control channels remained swollen and swift despite the drop in rainfall. In one dramatic rescue, a firefighter splashed into a raging Los Angeles River to rescue a German shepherd mix and managed to hang on safely, even after the dog furiously bit his arm and hand. Joe St. Georges, a 25-year Los Angeles Fire Department veteran, said he received a "real bite in the thumb" but was otherwise fine. To the north in Ventura County, the body of a 40-year-old man was found Friday in an overflowing creek. Matthew Chidgey, 40, told his roommate he wanted to venture into the closed park to see what the waterfalls looked like during the storm. At least two other people in California were killed by trees toppled by high winds. In Arizona, searchers spent Friday looking for a 6-year-old boy who was swept away in rising waters about 70 miles north of Phoenix as his family tried to take him to a hospital for treatment.

The boy's father and sister were also swept by the current, but managed to get to safety. Dwight D'Evelyn, a Yavapai County sheriff's spokesman, said the boy was presumed dead. The storms also drenched Las Vegas, where 1.69 inches of rain hit this week, more than the 1.59 inches of rain that fell all of last year. In western Arizona, a 2-foot surge of runoff flooded streets and an unknown number of homes early Friday in Wenden, a community of 500 people. Travel in northern Arizona was severely restricted with the closures of the main routes between Phoenix and Flagstaff. Across metropolitan Phoenix, downed trees blocked driveways, and palm fronds and other debris from the storm littered the streets. A teenager died after the vehicle he was in lost control while traveling through water Thursday afternoon on a Phoenix street. In Wenden in the southwest, flooding from the storm receded late Thursday but more water returned several hours later when a surge of runoff came through a nearby wash, said Lt. Glenn Gilbert, a spokesman for the La Paz County Sheriff's Office.

Several busloads of people were evacuated from their homes in Wenden and taken to a high school five miles away in Salome. "They're going to see their homes muddied up and basically destroyed," said Gregory Palma, chief of the local volunteer fire department. "They'll just move back in and rip off their dry wall and do what they gotta do." At least three trailer parks near Black Canyon City were evacuated late Thursday and early Friday due to the rising Agua Fria River. Also Friday, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency for San Bernardino County, citing county estimates of 124 homes damaged by the storm and costs of more than $11 million for emergency response, building damage and debris cleanup. States of emergency have been declared for Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Francisco and Siskiyou counties. The declarations will allow the counties to obtain state reimbursement for much of their damage and cleanup costs, although state officials said it was unlikely that the damage was serious enough for them to

qualify for federal emergency aid. The city of Long Beach estimated $3 million in damage to homes and buildings. Flooding damaged the city's main library and buildings at California State University, Long Beach earlier in the week. Ana Barenos said cars parked in her Long Beach neighborhood flooded up to the windows and water seeped into her basement. She blamed the city for not doing a better job clearing the storm drains before the heavy rains. "We had to contract a company to take out the water and they took five hours to take all the water from under the house," she said. "It cost a lot of money. I think they should clean the drains before the (rainy) season." Repairs crews around the region, meanwhile, worked around the clock to restore power to thousands left in the dark when lashing wind and falling trees knocked down power lines. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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spokesman told Reuters news agency. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio Submitted at 1/23/2010 4:12:30 AM signed a cheque for $1m to the Please turn on JavaScript. Media Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, which requires JavaScript to play. was started by former presidents Hope for Haiti Now footage Bill Clinton and George W Bush. courtesy of MTV Haitian-born rapper Wyclef Jean George Clooney has hosted a - who set up the charity benefit concert for Haiti foundation Yele Haiti - Bruce earthquake victims featuring ASpringsteen, Jennifer Hudson, List names such as Madonna, Mary J Blige and Shakira Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and Jay performed in New York. Z. Madonna sang Like A Prayer Other acts who appeared in the with the backing of a choir, two-hour Hope for Haiti telethon while Sting sang Driven To included Bono and Rihanna, who Tears. pre-recorded their performances Rihanna, meanwhile, performed in London on Friday. a cover version of Bob Marley's It was shown on all major US Redemption Song, which she has TV channels, YouTube and on released to raise money for the MTV in the UK. It was people of Haiti. broadcast on Haiti's Radio One. not alone, they need to know that broadcast shocking images from Keaton. The live programme could be the earthquake and interviews LA-based journalist Sandro An estimated 1.5 million people that we still care." seen online via YouTube, Monetti told BBC Radio 5Live: have been left homeless by the The telethon's organisers were with Haitians. MySpace, Hulu, Fancast, AOL, hoping for a record global More than 100 Hollywood and "Hundreds of millions are earthquake. MSN, Yahoo!, Bing.com, pouring in from what has been a The official death toll from the audience. Its performances from music stars took part. BET.com, MTV.com, CNN.com, 7.0-magnitude quake has risen to L o n d o n i n c l u d e d B e y o n c e Some of them performed while very effective telethon. VH1.com and Rhapsody. s i n g i n g h e r h i t H a l o , others, including director Steven "It was quite a line-up all 110,000. As well as donations from The benefit concert took place accompanied on the piano by Spielberg, singer Stevie Wonder brought together by George viewers, more money will be and TV star Ellen DeGeneres, Clooney. in New York, Los Angeles, Coldplay's Chris Martin. raised through the sale of songs She changed the lyrics, and sang took telephone pledges from "The tone was very sombre and London and Haiti, and is being performed on the show, via classy, different from the upbeat screened again on UK TV "Haiti we can see your halo, we viewers. iTunes. The line-up featured the cream nature of telethons we have in channel MTV and its sister pray you won't fade away". Meanwhile, Rod Stewart, Leona Jay Z also debuted a song, of Hollywood, including Clint the UK. With that turnout of channel Viva from 2100 GMT Lewis, JLS and Michael Buble Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Nicole stars it was quite something." on Saturday. have signed up to provide vocals Clooney, who organised the with U2's Bono and The Edge. Kidman, Brad Pitt, Robert De He added that Madonna gave for a Haiti charity single, event, said: "At the core of every It featured Jay Z rapping about Niro, Matt Damon, Cameron $250,000 (£155,000), Brad Pitt organised by Simon Cowell. religion is the belief that we care the earthquake while Bono and Diaz, Denzel Washington, Will and Angelina Jolie gave $1m They will record a cover of for one another, we take care of singer Rihanna's lyrics included Smith, Robert Pattinson, Halle (£620,000) and supermodel REM's ballad Everybody Hurts. each other especially in times of " N o t g o i n g t o l e a v e y o u Berry, Julia Roberts, Leonardo Giselle Bundchen gave $1.5m • W y c l e f J e a n ' s c h a r i t y stranded." DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Tim (£0.93m). need. A s w e l l a s m u s i c a l Robbins, Ben Stiller, Michael Clooney had donated $1m "The Haitian people need our STARS page 63 c o l l a b o r a t i o n s , t h e s h o w Keaton, Tom Hanks and Michael d uring the telethon, his help, they need to know they're

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Many more remain uncollected in the streets. 'Most complex operation' Submitted at 1/23/2010 9:25:05 AM The BBC has started a new Haiti's government has made the radio service in Creole, one of "heartbreaking" decision to the country's main languages. declare the search and rescue The 20-minute long daily phase for survivors of the broadcast, called Connexion earthquake over, the UN says. Haiti, will try to give people upThe announcement came a day to-date information about the after two people, an 84-year-old basic services they need to woman and a 21-year-old man, survive - such as where to find were pulled alive from the rubble food, clean drinking water, in Port-au-Prince. medical assistance and shelter. The UN spokeswoman An estimated 1.5 million people Elizabeth Byrs says 132 people were left homeless by the 7.0have been rescued since the magnitude quake, which some earthquake 11 days ago. have estimated has killed as On Friday the official many as 200,000 people. government death toll from the The UN says 130,000 people quake rose to 110,000. have now been relocated out of Speaking in Geneva, Ms Byrs Port-au-Prince, easing the Prince's shattered Roman said that the decision to end the Haitians about the decision to with the help of friends. pressure on overcrowded camps Meanwhile, a 21-year-old man, Catholic Cathedral for the r e s c u e o p e r a t i o n w a s end search efforts. in the city. "heartbreaking" but that it had But although two people were Emmannuel Buso, was pulled funeral of Haiti's Archbishop Meanwhile the UN agency the been taken on the advice of pulled out alive in the capital on out alive by an Israeli search Joseph Serge Miot and a vicar, World Food Programme says it Friday, it is believed rescue team and is said to be in a stable Charles Benoit. experts. has increased its food aid to President Rene Preval attended She said most search and rescue teams have detected no new condition. survivors. teams would now be leaving signs of life under the rubble for Speaking from his hospital bed the service, joined by New York Speaking after a two-day Haiti, although some with heavy t h e p a s t t h r e e d a y s , o u r he described coming out of the Archbishop Timothy Dolan and evaluation mission to Port-aushower when the earthquake hit. the Vatican's ambassador to lifting equipment may stay to c o r r e s p o n d e n t s a y s . Prince, the executive director of Please turn on JavaScript. Media He said he had no food, and Haiti. help with the clean-up operation WFP, Josette Sheeran, said that requires JavaScript to play. drank his own urine to keep "I came here to pay my respects and with aid distribution. on Friday the agency had thirst at bay. to all the dead from the She added that humanitarian Rescued after 10 days in rubble delivered about 2 million meals. On Friday an 84-year-old The head of the Israeli team, earthquake, and to see them have relief efforts were still being "This is the most complex scaled up in Port-au-Prince, as w o m a n w a s f o u n d i n t h e Major Amir Ben David, said the a funeral," mourner Esther o p e r a t i o n W F P h a s e v e r well as in the towns of Jacmel, wreckage of her home seriously rescue had given hope more Belizair told AP, saying that she l a u n c h e d , " s h e s a i d . Leogane and other areas affected injured and severely dehydrated. people could be found alive. had lost a cousin. "Haiti's entire supply chain She is being treated by doctors No decision has yet been taken Few funeral services have been by the earthquake. infrastructure has been The BBC's Adam Mynott, at a at the main city hospital with on whether the Israeli team will held in Haiti for those killed by devastated, and we have been university building in Port-au- intravenous fluids and drugs. now go home, the Associated the quake. faced with launching an At least 75,000 bodies have so Prince where many people are Her son said he had heard her Press news agency reported. feared buried, says there has cries on Thursday morning and, More than 1,000 mourners far been buried in mass graves, HAITI page 64 been some disquiet among almost a day later, he dug her out gathered on Saturday by Port-au- Haiti's government has said.

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US indefinite detentions attacked (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 1/23/2010 2:28:43 AM

The American Civil Liberties Union has criticised a recommendation that 47 Guantanamo Bay inmates should be held indefinitely without trial. Justice department officials said the men were too dangerous to release, but could not be tried as evidence against them would not stand up in a US court. ACLU executive director Anthony Romero said their detention would reduce the camp's closure to a "symbolic gesture". The White House said the president did not have to accept the recommendation. It came as the deadline President Barack Obama had set himself on his second day in office for closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay passed. 'Not evidence at all' Earlier on Friday, officials said a task force led by the justice department had recommended that while 35 detainees could be prosecuted through trials or military tribunals, 110 could be released either now or at a later date. The other 47 detainees were considered too dangerous to release, but could not be tried because the evidence against them was too flimsy or was

extracted from them by coercion, so would not hold up in court, it concluded. In a statement, the ACLU said it disputed that any significant category of such detainees existed, and renewed its call for the closure of the prison. "If there is credible evidence that these prisoners are dangerous, there is no reason why that evidence could not be introduced against them in criminal trials," said Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU National Security Project. "The criminal laws, and the material support laws in particular, are broad enough to reach anyone who presents a serious threat, and the federal courts are fully capable of affording defendants fair trials while protecting the government's legitimate interest in protecting information that is properly classified." Mr Jaffer said evidence that had been "tainted" according to the task force's recommendation, was "not evidence at all". The US justice system, he added, "excludes coerced evidence not only because coercion and torture are illegal, but because coerced evidence is unreliable". "Just as important as closing the prison quickly is closing it right, and that means putting an end to the illegal policy of indefinite detention without charge or trial," said Mr Romero.

Former detainee Moazzam Begg criticised Mr Obama for failing to keep his promise on closing Guantanamo Bay. "The whole talk that change has come to America is simply a lie," he told the BBC. 'Dismay' The BBC's Adam Brookes in Washington says the recommendation will dismay many of Mr Obama's supporters, who had hoped the president would end the practice of detention without trial. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. However, a White House official stressed that this was only a recommendation, which Mr Obama did not have to accept. The task force's findings will also be subject to review by the National Security Council. Congress has laid down that only those to be tried can be moved to US soil, so the question of what to do with those who officials want to be detained indefinitely without trial has yet to be resolved. More than 40 detainees have been transferred out of the prison during Mr Obama's first year in office. But diplomatic hurdles and domestic opposition to the government's plan to house suspects on US soil have hampered his plans to close it down completely.

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Plans to move detainees approved for trial to a prison facility in Illinois remain under consideration. Yemen suspension The task force recommended that among those cleared for release, 80 detainees, including about 30 Yemenis, could be freed immediately, the Washington Post said. The panel said the release of another 30 Yemenis should be contingent on an improved situation in Yemen, the newspaper reported. However, the US recently suspended the repatriation of Yemeni prisoners indefinitely, following an airliner bomb plot that was allegedly planned in Yemen. Yemenis account for approximately half of the inmates at Guantanamo. Mr Obama set himself the 22 January closure deadline a year ago, shortly after being sworn in. He has subsequently said he wants the camp closed this year, without setting a specific deadline. Print Sponsor Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

foundation has taken on a new accounting firm after the rapper admitted on Friday it had made mistakes. The finances of the Yele Haiti Foundation were questioned last week after it was revealed it had paid Jean, 37, to perform at fundraising events and bought advertising air time from a television station he co-owns. On Wednesday, the Grammywinning artist told talk show host Oprah Winfrey the charity had "learned from our mistakes". "In moving forward, I think we're going to be stronger than ever," he said. Print Sponsor Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Tax the rich? Ore. voters scratching their ballots (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Submitted at 1/23/2010 11:15:14 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; If any Americans are willing to fork over more to state governments in 2010, it might just be those of Oregon, where voters are TAX page 64

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deciding the fate of two proposed tax increases that target the wealthy and corporations. Oregon voters the past two weeks have been marking referendum ballots on two tax issues, one raising rates on people who make more than $125,000 a year in taxable incomeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; $250,000 in twoearner households â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and on businesses, many of whom pay a minimum tax of $10 a year. The mailed-in and dropped-off votes will be counted Tuesday. The results are likely to be part of the national spin cycle the next morning and could give legislators in other states a hint about whether they can ask taxpayers for help in repairing ravaged budgets. The only independent poll made public so far shows the tax increases ahead by healthy margins. If they pass, that would be a break with history. Despite Oregon's reputation for leftleaning politics, voters have often shot down tax measures. But if the poll results prove out, "I think that would bode well for Arizona's efforts to balance our budget," said Phoenix political consultant Doug Cole. Cole is running an election campaign for Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, who has proposed a

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temporary sales tax increase in the face of fierce opposition in her own party. She's running to keep the office she inherited as secretary of state when Democrat Janet Napolitano joined the Obama administration, and she faces strong competition in the primary. Here and there in legislative sessions just getting under way in January, leaders have talked about or pushed tax increases, as in Arizona, Illinois or Washington state. "What we hear over and over again from the states is that everything is on the table," said Arturo Perez, a fiscal analyst for the National Conference of State Legislatures. Oregon's tax increases came out of a legislative session last year in which Democrats with commanding majorities pared the budget, deployed some reserves, parceled out federal stimulus dollars, and tiptoed around tax increases that would have hit large numbers of Oregonians. They assumed any tax measures would be referred to the voters, as is routine in Oregon, and would face difficulty, as is also routine. Nine times since the 1930s, for example, Oregon voters have rejected sales tax proposals,

leaving the state government relying primarily on income taxes at some of the highest rates in the nation and secondarily on lottery proceeds. Twice in the past decade, voters have rejected broad-based income tax increases. In 2007 they rejected higher taxes on cigarettes, whose revenue would have been used to provide health insurance for children. So, legislative leaders crafted tax packages that by state estimates would hit about 2 percent of the top earners and put the biggest bite on corporations, many based out of state, with the largest amount of sales. "These increases are more carefully focused on those who have resources in order to protect services for everybody," said Democratic Rep. Dave Hunt, speaker of the Oregon House. The measures were referred to the voters by business leaders, and the resulting campaign has seen them duking it out with the unions representing teachers and state workers. The business campaign featured contributions from the likes of Phil Knight of Nike and Tim Boyle of Columbia Sportswear. But business interests haven't had a united front, and some high tech companies, fretting

about the education system they rely on for workers, have stayed on the fence. In the last week of the campaigns, the unions were ahead of business in fundraising, although both sides have had plenty of money for broadcast advertising. A telephone poll of 500 likely voters Jan. 14-15 had the individual income tax measure ahead 52-39 and the corporate taxes ahead 50-40. The poll, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points, was done for Oregon Public Broadcasting, Fox 12 TV and the Portland Tribune. Pollster Tim Hibbitts said the results suggest the tax increases will be approved, with this caveat: Voters are more likely to change their minds when it comes to tax issues than they are with candidates. He said the results are likely to be close, and either or both measures could fail. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

operation from scratch." A benefit concert featuring more than 100 music and Hollywood stars has been broadcast around the world to raise money for the victims of the earthquake. Print Sponsor Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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situation. Ghanbari took the lead to make sure Vivier wasn't forgotten, tracking down the ARLINGTON, Va. – Ray family members and arranging a Vivier had been an adventurer, a proper funeral. Marine veteran who explored the On Friday, Vivier's ashes were country from South Carolina to inurned at Arlington National Alaska, the father of five Cemetery with full military children. honors. The 61-year-old also was a man "You can see from what he did starting to get his life back that he definitely had a good together after living for years in heart," said Mercedes Cruz, a shanty beneath a Cleveland Vivier's ex-wife of 23 years, who bridge. He had struggled with attended the funeral with the alcoholism, but by November he couple's children. "No matter had a welding job, friends and a what our difficulties were in our place to stay at a boarding house. marriage, I'm very proud of He rescued five people from that what's happened." house when arsonists set it For his grown children — who ablaze — but Vivier couldn't now are scattered around the save himself. He and three others country — Vivier had been gone died, and two people have been for about 15 years. They know of charged in their deaths. Vivier's his heroism now — but they b o d y , u n c l a i m e d a n d don't know much about the man unidentified for weeks, seemed he was trying to become. They destined for an anonymous, remember their dad's struggles modest burial. with alcohol and other troubles. However, Jody Fesco — who "What I'm trying to get out of met Vivier while she was this is to have one good, concrete volunteering at a soup kitchen memory that I can have of him and had even invited him to her for what he did to save those wedding — heard that Vivier people," said his oldest daughter, may have died. Fesco and her Elisha Vivier. "I'm proud of the husband contacted their friend man that he was becoming." Haraz Ghanbari, an Associated Vivier was a private in the U.S. Press photographer, about the Marine Corps in 1965 and 1966, Submitted at 1/23/2010 12:29:23 PM

though he didn't see combat. He was stationed at Parris Island, S.C., Cruz said. After his discharge, Vivier spent years working as a machinist, welder, iron worker and other tough jobs. He loved the outdoors and moved his family from Alaska to Oregon. "He was just adventurous," Cruz said. "He loved to see different places and see what it was like to live there." When he was homeless in Cleveland, he was proud to have one of the best shanties around, said Fesco, 29, who met Vivier at a soup kitchen. "We hit if off right away," she said. She took Vivier home for Christmas one year and later invited him to her wedding. Vivier was genuine, she said, "a real gentle spirit. "He was trying to get himself out of some struggles — some struggles with alcohol — and just do better for himself, and he was, which was fantastic," Fesco said. Ghanbari, who is an ensign in the U.S. Navy, helped arrange for Vivier's remains to be placed in a columbarium wall at Arlington National Cemetery.

The site overlooks the Pentagon with the National Cathedral and Washington Monument in the distance. At the military service, seven Marines fired three rifle shots, and a bugler played taps. Elisha Vivier carried a gold urn with her father's ashes to the wall and placed them inside, alongside the remains of thousands of veterans. Ray Vivier was quiet, friends said, but people knew who he was. Cleveland City Councilman Joe Cimperman met Vivier years ago while working as a social worker. He said Vivier was quiet, yet kind and compassionate. More than 125 people attended a memorial service weeks after the fire in Cleveland. "It was a huge blow for the community. This was one of our neighbors who people cared about and knew," Cimperman said. "We're less because he's gone." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Biden pledges Blackwater appeal (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 1/23/2010 9:07:21 AM

US Vice-President Joe Biden says the US government will appeal against a court ruling dismissing manslaughter charges in the Blackwater shootings case. Mr Biden was speaking after meeting Iraqi politicians in Baghdad. Iraqis were furious when a US judge threw out charges against five Blackwater security guards over the 2007 killing of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad. Mr Biden is in Iraq in an attempt to defuse a political crisis over candidates for the election in March. Class action Mr Biden said the dismissal of the Blackwater charges was just that and "not an acquittal". Expressing "personal regret" over the 16 September 2007 shootings in Baghdad's Nisoor Square, he said the US justice department would file its appeal against the court's decision next week. "The United States is determined to hold to account anyone who commits crimes against Iraqi people," Mr Biden added. "While we fully respect the independence and the integrity of BIDEN page 68

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good health and is being quarantined while animal experts monitor him for rabies. Vernon A California firefighter who was "appears to be well-maintained bit by a German shepherd as he and cared for," said Sgt. Charles hoisted the dog to safety from Miller of the Southeast Area the Los Angeles River on Friday Animal Control Authority in is not holding it against the Downey, Calif. frightened dog. "He’s doing fine, he’s enjoying Joe St. Georges, a 25-year his celebrity status," said Justin veteran of the L.A. Fire Guzman, Animal Control Department, told Fox News on O f f i c e r . Saturday that he suffered severe The dog does not have a name hand and arm injuries during the tag or computer chip. Vernon's heroic helicopter rescue but is owners have ten days to come recovering. forward and claim the German VIDEO: Incredible Dog Rescue shepherd before the dog will be Caught on Camera put up for adoption. "I knew the dog was scared and “We’re encouraging the owner to tired. It's not too surprising that it come forward,” Guzman told was really upset with this big, Fox News. "We just want loud noisy thing blowing all over Vernon to find a nice home." it," St. Georges, 50, said. "And If an owner shows up with proof then some guy comes and jumps of rabies vaccination, the dog on its back — what a surprise the could be monitored at home. If dog bit me." the owner doesn't show up, The dog, nicknamed Vernon officials will try to find the dog a after the Southern California new home with one of the town where he was found, is in hundreds of families that have Submitted at 1/22/2010 10:18:55 PM

already come forward inquiring about adopting the dog. At least 50 firefighters responded to reports that the dog was in the river on Friday afternoon. For an hour, firefighters stood at the top of the steep, concrete banks, throwing life vest and float rings, hoping the dog would grab on. Most of the time, the canine walked along a pipe or ledge in the center of the river, sometimes slipping. One firefighter got into the river and tried to catch him, but the dog took off. Soon the pipe was submerged. When the helicopter hovered overhead, the dog scrambled to the side of the river and tried to climb the sides, only to slip each time. St. Georges finally splashed down from the helicopter, wrestled with the frightened canine and lifted it to safety. At a late afternoon news conference, helicopter pilot Scott Bowman said St. Georges took a

muzzle with him but he wasn't able to get it on, "so he decided to go for the capture." Miller said the dog had some scrapes and worn nails, but was otherwise fine. "He was fearful when he first got here, understandably. He went through a big ordeal," Miller said. Storms that started Monday have already dropped up to 8 inches of rain in Los Angeles County, the National Weather Service reported. Watch Fox News Channel at about 6:20 p.m. ET Saturday for a live, on camera interview with Los Angeles Fire Department paramedic Joe St. Georges and Los Angeles Fire Department helicopter pilot Scott Bowman. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Balloon Boy Mom's Interviews Contradict Husband (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 1/22/2010 11:07:19 PM

FORT COLLINS, Colo. A newly released video shows the mother of the 6-year-old boy purported to be in a runaway balloon finally acknowledging to authorities it was all a hoax — contrary to her husband's repeated public denials just before reporting to jail. The video interviews obtained by the Fort Collins Coloradoan Friday show Mayumi Heene telling sheriff's officials that the Oct. 15 event was a hoax that she and her husband orchestrated to gain notoriety and land a reality TV show. "We tried working so hard to make money to survive. It's a shame to come up with this idea," Mayumi Heene told a Larimer County Sheriff's investigator during an interview days after the flight televised worldwide. "This was something that could take me, take us to the point we wanted to be at." The boy, Falcon, was hiding at

home during the balloon's fivehour ride. SLIDESHOW: 'Balloon Boy' Hoax Case Mayumi Heene pleaded guilty to filing a false report and her husband, Richard Heene, pleaded guilty to attempting to influence a public servant. He began serving a 30-day jail sentence Jan. 11. His wife will serve a 20day sentence after him. Richard Heene told The Associated Press before reporting to jail that he truly believed his son was in the balloon but pleaded guilty to prevent his wife from being deported to Japan. "Now folks out there will probably be saying, ah this is a bunch of crap, but there are lies, after lies, after lies that have been told to persecute me," Heene told the AP, days before beginning his jail term. Richard Heene also said that because his wife's first language is Japanese, she got confused and thought that "hoax" meant "an exhibition" when authorities

questioned her. In her interview with the sheriff's official, Mayumi Heene said she earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from a Japanese college. She told the sheriff's investigator about the hoax after she was told she'd just failed a lie detector test. Richard Heene also was told he failed a polygraph test, but he continued to maintain his innocence. He also said he was tired and has diabetes and that he needed to see his wife. Steven C. Barber, a 48-year-old filmmaker who has known Heene for more than 10 years, said last week that he still believes in him and plans to prove him right with a documentary he expects to release later this year titled, "Balloon Boy: Guilty Until Proven Innocent." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Two New Yorkers Free After 'Drugs' Turn Out to be Candy (FOXNews.com)

said, as the cops handcuffed him and Pena, and several other police cars rushed to the scene. Two New York men were Rodriguez said he buys a 50locked up and left in a jail cell cent bag of Coco Candy, a hard for nearly a week after police coconut-based treat, almost officers mistook their candy for a every day. Because it easily bag of crack. crumbles, he puts it in a The "drugs" were finally tested s a n d w i c h b a g . five days later and determined to "Can you test it? Can you taste be popular Coco (coconut) it?" Rodriguez asked the cops. C a n d y . T h e c h a r g e s w e r e "Shut up!" they replied. dropped. "I didn’t know having candy was The trouble began the night of a crime," he said. Jan. 15, as José Pena, a 48-yearThe men’s lawyer, Neal old plumber from the Bronx, Wallerstein, said the cops could N.Y., and his longtime pal and have realized their mistake colleague Cesar Rodriguez, 33, quickly. were headed to a party, and "That’s the reason why they have decided to stop at a bodega on a field-test kit," he said, referring 181st Street and the Grand to the NYPD’s portable drug Concourse. identification equipment. When they came out, cops were But Wallerstein said cops just waiting and asked to search their needed their noses. Ford minivan. "I said ‘Go "It smells like sugar," he said. search.’ I even opened the door," Click here for more from the Rodriguez told The Post. NYPost.com. An officer rummaged around, Five Filters featured article: came out holding a "Hello Kitty" Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: sandwich bag, and shouted PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, "Bingo!" the men said. Term Extraction. "It’s only candy!" Rodriguez Submitted at 1/23/2010 5:51:45 AM