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Healthy lifestyle discount or insurance loophole? By Donna Smith (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 1/7/2010 2:38:21 PM

Dozens of healthcare reform advocates are sounding alarm bells over a Senate proposal to allow companies to reward employees who quit smoking, exercise or engage in other healthy activities. The groups, including the A m e r i c a n H e a r t Association, say the measure would create a “dangerous” loophole that would allow insurance companies to discriminate against people with health problems if it is included in the final healthcare reform legislation. The healthcare overhaul aims to stop insurance companies from excluding coverage for people with pre-existing conditions or charging people more based on medical history. But Sue Nelson of the American Heart Association said the provision is

written in a way that would allow insurers to raise premiums but then provide discounts, as much as 50 percent, for people who quit smoking or join gyms and exercise more. “Although described as ‘incentives’ this practice allows employers to raise costs across the board for everyone and then lower them selectively for those

refinement. The healthcare advocacy groups said they prefer the House version, which provides incentives to small businesses to sponsor wellness programs for workers. Grants would be awarded for up to 50 percent of the costs of the program. The Senate version also calls for a government study on how wellness program incentives impact the quality and cost of healthcare. What do you think. Should employers and insurance companies offer premium discounts to people with healthy who meet certain health targets. for people who engage in lifestyles or is it just a way for Incentives quickly become employer-sponsored wellness insurers to continue the practice penalties for those who cannot programs. of basing premiums on medical meet the targets,” Nelson said. The provision was added in the history? Supporters of the provision Senate Finance Committee as an Photo Credit: Reuters/Jamie argue that encouraging people to a m e n d m e n t o f f e r e d b y Fine (Yoga students at the quit smoking or engage in a Republican Senator John Ensign “OmFactory” yoga studio in healthy lifestyle would help and Democrat Thomas Carper. New York.) bring down soaring healthcare C o m m i t t e e C h a i r m a n M a x costs. Current law allows up to Baucus supported the measure, 20 percent premium discounts but at the time said it needed

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President Barack Obama reached back into history in choosing the words for his much -awaited statement on intelligence mistakes over the Christmas Day attempted airline attack. “I am less interested in passing out blame than I am in learning from and correcting these mistakes to make us safer,” Obama said on Thursday after much speculation on whether he would do a mea culpa. “For ultimately, the buck stops with me.” And with those words, Obama became the latest American president to use a variation of that phrase to show the public he was aware of the huge responsibilities that come with the Oval Office. President Harry S. Truman had

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a sign on his desk“The BUCK STOPS here!” and he would refer to that motto in public statements to emphasize that it was the president who had to make the decisions. “He can’t pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. that’s his job,” Truman said in his farewell address. And President Gerald Ford used

the phrase in his remarks when he granted a pardon to Richard Nixon. “I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right,” Ford said. By Charlie Sorrel (Wired Top For more Reuters political news, Stories) click here Submitted at 1/8/2010 6:18:00 AM Photo credit: Reuters/Jason Reed (Obama) Everybody has new e-readers at

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Suncor Energy Remains in Uptrend By Joseph Lazzaro (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 1/8/2010 5:00:00 PM

Filed under: Stocks to Buy As oil's price rises, oil sands company Suncor Energy Inc.'s ( SU) prospects brighten, which is a major reason I'm reiterating my

buy rating for the company's shares, first recommended on February 25, 2009 at a price of $18.35. If you bought Suncor in February 2009, you're up more than 100%. Canada-based Suncor's oil sands stemming from the Petro-Canada production jumped 24% in Q3 to merger and improved 305,000 barrels per day (bpd),

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Emanuel Adebayor on Togo football team bus ambushed by Angola gunmen By David Smith (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:04:37 PM

Gunmen spray automatic fire at bus carrying players to African Cup of Nations tournament African football was in shock tonight after gunmen attacked Togo's national squad, including Premier League striker Emmanuel Adebayor, six months before the continent hosts its first World Cup. The Togolese football team told tonight how they crouched under their bus seats for 20 minutes as they were "machinegunned like dogs" by an armed gang in Angola. The attackers reportedly killed the driver and wounded four others, as well as dealing a big blow to Angola as it prepares to host its first African Nations Cup. Adebayor, one of Manchester City's star players and a member of the Togo squad, was on the bus but unhurt in the attack. The tournament, due to begin Sunday is Africa's last big sporting showcase before 32 teams, including England, arrive in South Africa for the World Cup in June. Thomas Dossevi, a Togo striker who plays for French club Nantes, told French radio station RMC: "I'm OK but several

players are in a bad state. We are still at hospital. They were armed to the teeth ... We were machinegunned like dogs and had to remain hidden under our seats for around 20 minutes to avoid the bullets." In a separate interview, Dossevi said: "We had just crossed the border five minutes before, we were surrounded by police buses, one in front of us another behind. "Everything was fine and then there was a powerful burst of gunfire. Everyone threw themselves under the seats and tried to protect themselves but some couldn't escape the bullets. "It lasted a good 15 minutes, the police fired back but really, it was hard to handle and it still is now. I'm shocked. When we got off the bus we were asking ourselves why us and not others? We were asking ourselves what had happened, we were crying and thanking God." The team was travelling by road from a training camp in CongoBrazzaville. They had just crossed into Angola's restive oilrich Cabinda region when the ambush happened. "The Angolan driver was killed on the spot," said a Togolese sports ministry spokesman, adding that the wounded included two squad members and two medics. Other reports from French radio suggested that three players were among the injured:

Serge Gakpe, who plays for Monaco, Serge Akakpo of Romanian club Vaslui and Kodjovi Obilale of French team Pontivy. Manchester City said it had spoken to Adebayor, who was "shaken but unharmed". Midfielder Richmond Forson said the number of injuries could have been much worse had the gunmen not originally fired on the wrong bus. "It was the bus carrying our baggage which was in front of us which they fired on the most," he told Canal Plus. "They thought we were in the bus in front. Midfielder Alaixys Romao admitted the players feared the worst and said Togo was likely to pull out of the tournament. "We're not thinking yet of what could happen," he said. "But it's true that no one wants to play. We're not capable of it. "We're thinking first of all about the health of our injured because there was a lot of blood on the ground. For the moment there is not much news because they have been taken to different hospitals. "In cases like these we're thinking of those near us, of those we love because that really could have been the end of us." He added: "We're all still in shock. As far as I know, seven people were hit by bursts of machine gun fire... the driver,

our doctor, a member of the delegation, the assistant coach, the goalkeeping coach and two players." Angola has spent $1bn on stadiums, hotels and other infrastructure for the tournament, seen as a hugely symbolic step for a country where civil war raged for 27 years and claimed up to 1 million lives while displacing 4 million people. Its economy has boomed in recent years but sceptics have questioned whether its transport and hotel infrastructure is ready to deal with the 16-team tournament. South Africa has faced its own questions over its readiness to deal with the threat of terrorism during the World Cup. Rich Mkhondo, spokesman for the local 2010 World Cup organising committee, said: "This is a tragic incident and we hope the law and order services in Angola will deal with it. This year in South Africa our security establishment is ready for any eventuality. We want to host an incident-free World Cup." This is an isolated incident and can happen anywhere in the world." Human rights groups have accused the Angolan military of atrocities in Cabinda and claim government officials have embezzled millions of dollars in oil revenue. The government has

denied the charges. There were claims that Togo had failed to inform tournament officials that they were planning to travel by land rather than flying to the capital, Luanda, as other squads have done. "They should not have travelled by road," Togolese football federation vice-president Gabriel Ameyi said. "They did not tell CAF [Confederation of African Football] that they were travelling by road. They should have flown to Angola." Togo are due to play Ghana, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast in their group matches. They are due to play Ghana on Monday. Claude Leroy, a former Cameroon and Ghana coach, said African footballing authorities now had to decide whether the tournament should go ahead. "You have to ask the question. Football's just a game," Leroy told RMC radio. "This is really serious and means that safety cannot be guaranteed. These local hotspots can be really dangerous. The CAF is going to have to take a decision on this crazy shooting." In the line of fire Emmanuel Adebayor, 25 One of African football's most recognisable stars and Togo's pre -eminent celebrity. The striker established himself as a key EMANUEL page 8

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Migrants and residents in standoff in Italy after four Africans wounded By John Hooper (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

setting the cars alight, and clashing with police in riot gear. Some 2,000 immigrants demonstrated in front of the Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:53:37 PM town hall today to protest against • Southern town of Rosarno w h a t t h e y s a i d w a s r a c i s t suffers night of violence treatment by locals. Some • Farm workers protest against shouted "We are not animals" racist treatment and carried signs reading Two Africans were shot and " I t a l i a n s h e r e a r e r a c i s t " . injured tonight as racial unrest As the demonstrators marched continued to grip the southern through Rosarno to the town Italian town of Rosarno after a hall, a resident fired shots into night of rioting and an earlier t h e a i r f r o m h i s b a l c o n y , shooting in which two other allegedly to protect his wife and immigrants were wounded. child, who he said had had On a main road, close to a s t o n e s t h r o w n a t t h e m b y disused building in which p r o t e s t e r s . hundreds of itinerant farm By nightfall, after further workers live in conditions of demonstrations by immigrants squalor, about 100 local people and locals, seven people had a r m e d w i t h i r o n b a r s a n d been arrested and 34 injured. wooden staves were manning an Several clashes were reported illegal roadblock. between locals and immigrant The latest shooting took place at farm workers, most of whom the same location as the earlier come from sub-Saharan Africa attack – an unoccupied factory or the Maghreb. Furious over the on the outskirts of the town that violence and damage, groups of also serves as sleeping quarters locals occupied the town hall and for African workers. As in the blocked a main road. previous attack, a drive-by Silvio Berlusconi's interior shooting, the victims were hit m i n i s t e r , R o b e r t o M a r o n i , and injured with pellets from an p r o v o k e d c o n t r o v e r s y b y air rifle or pistol. appearing to blame earlier Following the first incident, governments for the outburst of more than 100 immigrants violence. He said: "For all these rampaged through the town last years, clandestine immigration night, smashing car windows has been tolerated, which feeds with steels bars, setting rubbish crime." bins on fire, forcing local But others pointed a finger at the residents out of their cars and farm workers' conditions. Father

Carmelo Ascone, the parish priest of Rosarno, said they reminded him of the circles of hell in Dante's Divine Comedy. "These people live in inhuman and desperate conditions," he said. Several thousand immigrants live in and around Rosarno while helping with the harvest of oranges and clementines. Looming behind the disturbances was Calabria's mafia, the 'Ndrangheta. A town of 14,000 inhabitants, Rosarno is a stronghold of the organisation, which Italian police and prosecutors say has overtaken Sicily's Cosa Nostra to become the country's most potent crime syndicate. In December 2008, the town council was dissolved on orders from the head of state because it was infiltrated by mobsters and their known associates. Rosarno is currently administered by a prefect appointed by the central government. The prefect, Domenico Bagnato, said today: "The situation is serious and onerous. I have spoken to the immigrants and I have told them that we shall do everything possible to protect them. But I have also made it clear that they ought not to confuse an attack by individuals with the attitude of the entire town." Just over a year ago, at the time

of the last citrus harvest, an unknown gunman walked into a factory where several hundred farm workers were sleeping and shot two of them. One, a 21-year -old from the Ivory Coast, was seriously injured. The latest riot began as a protest against the insecure conditions in which the immigrants find themselves. But a former town councillor, Domenico Ventre, said: "The immigrants in Rosarno are helped and assisted. Their reaction to the isolated incident on Thursday was disproportionate. We cannot allow them to devastate our town, spreading fear among the inhabitants." In their report of arrests, the Carabinieri said that one man had been held for trying to run over a farm worker with an earth mover. Another had allegedly attempted to run down an immigrant with his car. A smaller riot by immigrants broke out near Naples in September 2008 after a multiple killing that was linked to organised crime. According to the Roman Catholic charity Caritas, immigrants now account for 7.2% of the resident population in Italy — one percentage point more than the EU average. Caritas put the number of legal immigrants at 4.5 million and said the number of illegal

immigrants had fallen sharply, to 422,000. Berlusconi's government has taken a hard line against illegal immigration and made an agreement with Libya to prevent boatloads of immigrants landing on its southern shores from Africa. The boats are now routinely intercepted in international waters and returned to Libya. Grapes of wrath Desperation of itinerant workers The disturbances in Calabria have brought home the fact that the wretched migrants who arrive from Africa off Italy's coastline do not disappear once they are taken ashore. Thousands end up in a transient workforce of crop-pickers that finds work in the south. Some of the Africans who rebelled after the shooting in Rosarno will have been helping with the wine harvest in Sicily in the early autumn or picking olives in Puglia in the late autumn. Some will be intending to drift up to Campania, around Naples, next spring. On the Gioia Tauro plain which encompasses Rosarno, they are collected each morning by overseers and driven into citrus groves for work that can last from dawn to dusk. "They earn €25 a day", said Father Ennio Stamile of the MIGRANTS page 9

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Divorced from reality | Tristram Hunt By Tristram Hunt (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:30:01 PM

The left's hostility to family and marriage has had some profoundly unprogressive results ' On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain." This week David Cameron got into trouble backing up the Communist Manifesto with his confused plans for marriage tax breaks. But the left should not be too cock-a-hoop, for it also remains far too much in the grip of Marxian thinking on marriage. From socialism's earliest days, there existed a profound hostility towards traditional family forms. The French socialist Charles Fourier regarded marriage as a desperate hypocrisy that subverted the natural urge for sexual variety and resulted, at his count, in 32 different types of adultery. In Fourier's utopian future, citizens would be allowed full sexual freedom, women would have control over reproduction and children would be given the opportunity to choose between real or adoptive fathers. In Britain, the socialist Robert

Owen– who married into his New Lanark money – was equally opposed to wedded bliss. "Marriage, religion and property are the sole causes of the calamity that has existed since the world began." To move from the immoral world of selfishness to the moral world of fellowship demanded an end to the traditional marriage contract. His communes emphasised group education and doggedly resisted any "family interest" developing in opposition to the community. To this tradition Marx and Engels added some materialist rigour. For them, the modern family was simply a product of private property and the nucleus of capitalist inequality. An abusive system of sexual inequality underpinned the practice of marriage comparable to the exploitation of the workers. "Within the family he is the bourgeois, and the wife represents the proletariat." Marx and Engels chronicled the slow, steady loss of female power since the earliest societies, when gender equality was the norm as land and partners were held in common. But with private ownership and the advent of inheritable wealth, men demanded female monogamy. To pass on property to their

biological offspring, paternity had to be established beyond doubt. There was nothing God-given or natural about sexism; it was the inevitable result of capitalist economics. So behind the contented veneer of Victorian family life lurked "a conjugal partnership of leaden boredom, known as 'domestic bliss'". Its predictable accompaniment was widespread prostitution and relentless unhappiness. Indeed, Engels could see little difference between a street whore and a bourgeois wife, who merely "does not let out her body on a piecework, as a wage worker, but sells it once and for all into slavery". But come the revolution all would be different. With the abolition of private property (let alone tax breaks) and the communal raising of children, marriage would crumble. The individual family would cease to be the economic unit of society, private housekeeping would be transformed into a social industry, and there would be a happy rise in "unrestrained sexual intercourse". Relationships would be entered into for love and then dissolved without "the useless mire of divorce proceedings".

In the 20th century, this Marxian assault on the family proved extraordinarily powerful. On the one hand, it transformed the prospects of women in the face of religious and customary oppression from Russia to China and Cuba. Female literacy and education in socialist societies stood among the world's finest. On the other hand, in the west it led to a voguish, new left assault on the nuclear family as bourgeois, repressive and past its sell-by date. But there was always a more socially conservative strand to the Labour party's thinking. While the Second International made fighting for gender equality a priority, the Labour world of chapels, trade unions and friendly societies liked the family form just so. And for much of the postwar era, British social democracy was slow to develop policies on marriage and the family any different to the Tories'. It was in reaction to such institutionalised sexism that many on the metropolitan left embraced a Marxist hostility to marriage and the family as a political end in itself. As it did so, it aligned itself with an ethos of social hedonism with profoundly unprogressive consequences for the offspring of

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generations of unstable households. So, just as it is absolutely right for Harriet Harman to criticise Tory tax breaks for subsidising philandering men on their second or third marriages, so Ed Balls is also surely right to argue that for too long "family policy was all about children". Now, he argues that it is "the strength of the adult relationships that is important for the progress of the children". And marriage, surely, is as good a guarantor of that as any. And what of the original opponents of marriage? Well, Karl Marx remained happily wedded to Jenny von Westphalen for 40 years. And even Engels the great Bohemian granted his partner Lizzy Burns her final wish with a death-bed marriage. Clearly, there was more to the family form than private gain. • Marriage • Weddings • Family • Children Tristram Hunt guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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Christmas Day bomb suspect appears in US court By Daniel Nasaw (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

A grand jury this week charged Abdulmutallab on six counts, including one that carries a potential life sentence: attempted Submitted at 1/8/2010 11:26:44 AM use of a weapon of mass Criminal case against Umar d e s t r u c t i o n . Farouk Abdulmutallab begins as Authorities say Abdulmutallab Obama comes under fire from boarded Northwest Airlines conservatives flight 253 in Amsterdam with a The alleged Christmas Day b o m b c o n c e a l e d i n h i s b o m b e r U m a r F a r o u k underpants. The lives of the 279 Abdulmutallab pleaded not passengers and 11 crew members guilty to criminal charges in aboard were spared when the federal court today, opening a bomb's detonation caused only a case that has earned Barack small explosion and fire and O b a m a c r i t i c i s m f r o m Abdulmutallab was subdued by conservatives who say the the passengers. Since the failed suspected terrorist should be attack security has tightened at treated as an enemy combatant. airports around the world. The 23-year-old Nigerian faces Investigators in Yemen and the several criminal counts related to US have linked Abdulmutallab his Christmas Day attempt to to al-Qaida operatives in Yemen, bring down a Northwest airlines t h o u g h Y e m e n i o f f i c i a l s flight from Amsterdam to maintain he acquired the Detroit. explosives in Nigeria. Several demonstrators braved Defence attorneys are likely to the cold outside the Detroit c h a l l e n g e i n c r i m i n a t i n g courthouse as Abdulmutallab statements Abdulmutallab made arrived. One protested the immediately after his arrest, Obama administration's decision question his mental health and to try Abdulmutallab in civilian seek a plea deal. On Sunday court, with a sign reading "no US O b a m a ' s c o u n t e r - t e r r o r i s m rights for terrorists". Two other adviser John Brennan suggested men carried an American flag Abdulmutallab would be offered and a green banner reading "not a d e a l i n e x c h a n g e f o r in the name of Islam". information about the terrorist

network in Yemen that may have facilitated the suspect's attempt. Obama yesterday criticised the US intelligence and counterterrorism apparatus, saying officials "failed to connect the dots" in allowing Abdulmutallab to board the plane, even after he came to their attention when his father warned US officials in Nigeria that he had come under the sway of Islamic extremists. Obama resisted pressure to sack officials for the widely acknowledged failings, instead calling for improved coordination among intelligence and counter-terrorism agencies and expanded criteria for adding individuals to the US terrorist list. He also promised to introduce more body scanners at America's airports and step up research into better screening technology. The president has come under fire from conservatives who say Abdulmutallab should not be tried in civilian court, in part because they maintain legal protections afforded criminal defendants hinder his interrogation by counterterrorism agents. "President Obama has weakened American security by treating

terror as a law enforcement matter, refusing to use every tool at his disposal to prevent attacks, and taking his eye off the ball," said Liz Cheney, daughter of former vice-president Dick Cheney. The two terrorism suspects arrested on US soil whom former president Bush ordered held in military custody- Jose Padilla and Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri were ultimately tried and convicted in civilian court after attorneys for the men challenged their status. Richard Reid, the failed shoe bomber, was prosecuted in the civilian court system. • Global terrorism • Obama administration • Al-Qaida • US national security • Yemen • United States • Nigeria • Republicans Daniel Nasaw guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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player for Arsenal before signing for Manchester City last summer in a deal worth £25m. Moustapha Salifou, 26 Has spent the past three years on the fringes of Aston Villa's first team after an early career that has taken in Germany, France and Switzerland. The 26-yearold has been labelled 'the Togolese Zidane' in his home country. Assimiou Touré, 22 Regarded as a rising star in the game. A German national, he played youth football for the same country, and is registered with the Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen. Serge Gakpé, 22 A naturalised Togolese who was born in France and is a graduate of the country's vaunted Clairefontaine academy. A key player for Monaco, he has drawn admiring glances from a series of Europe's top clubs, including Barcelona. • Angola • Togo • Togo David Smith guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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Exclusive: Chancellor Alistair Darling's windfall tax has not led to cut in rewards for bankers The world's biggest investment banks are expected to pay out more than $65bn (£40bn) in salaries and bonuses in the next two weeks, reinforcing the view that it is business as usual on Wall Street and in the City barely a year since the taxpayer bailout of the banking system. Despite efforts by Alistair Darling to deter banks from handing out multi-million pound bonuses through the introduction of a 50% windfall tax, City sources believe that the biggest employers will absorb the cost of the tax rather than cut the size of the bonus pools they amass throughout the year. This will mean that while proceeds from the tax could top £2bn – more than four times the £550m estimated by the chancellor in the pre-budget report – the government will have failed to alter the traditional bonus culture in the City.

Lord Oakeshott, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, described the size of the potential bonuses as "global greed by banks when global governance has failed". He added: "Britain's bonus tax only toys with the symptoms of the sickness, not its cause. These last few investment banks left standing have statebacked licences to print money so they must pay supertax on their superprofits, not hold taxpayers to ransom." The leading Wall Street firms employ thousands of people in the City – Citibank alone employs 10,000 – and bankers are hoping their payments will not be reduced because of the 50% tax on bonuses over £25,000 implemented in last month's pre-budget report. The major US players are scheduled to report their fullyear trading performance in the next fortnight, starting with JP Morgan on Friday and culminating with the titans of Wall Street the following week when Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will announce their results. Their bonus policies will be watched closely by their European rivals, particularly

Royal Bank of Scotland – of which the taxpayer owns 84% – which has a large investment banking business and must have its bonus payments approved by the government. Figures already published by the five highest-profile US banks reporting in the next fortnight show they have already set aside $50bn to pay their staff in the first nine months of the year. In the final three months of the year, analysts at Sanford Bernstein reckon a further $10bn will have been put aside by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan even though 2009 was the worst year for the US economy in 30 years. While the Sanford Bernstein estimate takes the Goldman compensation cost to $19.8bn, analysts reckon it could swell further to $22bn and the other two banks might amass an estimated $5bn. Brad Hintz, an industrialist turned banker and now an analyst, conceded that workers on Wall Street are overpaid. "I've worked in the industrial world and I know there was equal talent in industrial America but when I went to Wall Street my compensation went up

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by a factor of three." The potential for a $22bn compensation bill at Goldman was cited by an Illinois pension fund in a lawsuit filed on Thursday which argued that the payments harmed shareholders. Goldman maintained the lawsuit was "completely without merit". The figures that the banks report as "compensation" include a number of costs including salary and benefits which are paid throughout the year, as well as the one-off cost of bonuses. Staff at the banks will be informed of their bonus payouts in the coming fortnight although they may not receive the payments for a few more months. • Executive pay and bonuses • Banking • Banks and building societies • Tax and spending • United States Jill Treanor guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

Roman Catholic charity Caritas. "They have to send money to their countries to maintain their families and also live here. Not much is left for them. The economic crisis has exacerbated their situation." "On the plain, there are about 2,000 African immigrants who sleep the night crowded together in a former paper mill and another large building, said Monsignor Pino de Masi, the vicar-general of the OppidoPalmi diocese. "If anyone from central government were to see the conditions in which they live, without sanitation, electricity, water or heating, they would not be surprised by what has happened." • Italy • Race issues John Hooper guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

Video Tour of the Dell Mini 5 Tablet By Gizmodo Staff (Fast Company) Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:43:16 PM

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their cup campaign against Ghana on Monday. The Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor escaped Submitted at 1/8/2010 11:51:02 AM unharmed in the attack. A • Driver killed and at least three statement posted on City's Togo players injured website this evening read: • Emmanuel Adebayor unhurt, "Manchester City can confirm Manchester City confirm that striker Emmanuel Adebayor Gunmen have attacked a bus is uninjured after this afternoon's carrying the Togo national team attack on the Togo team bus in in Angola, killing their driver Angola. Club officials have and injuring at least three spoken with Adebayor and members of the squad. The side though shaken by the terrible are in the country ahead of the events, he is unharmed." Africa Cup of Nations, which Romanian side FC Vaslui begins on Sunday, but their confirmed their defender Serge participation in the tournament is Akakpo was shot and badly now in severe doubt. injured in the attack. The club According to reports at least said, however, the 22-year-old three Togo players and the bus was out of danger after being driver were hurt during the treated by doctors. attack, with the driver's injuries A statement on the club's proving fatal. "I'm okay but website read: "Badly injured in several players are in a bad an ambush in Angola, Serge state," the Togo and Nantes Akakpo is now out of danger. striker Thomas Dossevi told the Akakpo was struck by two French radio station RMC. "We bullets in the attack and has lost are still at hospital. We were much blood. His condition was machine-gunned like dogs and stabilised by doctors. had to remain hidden under our "FC Vaslui have been in touch seats for around 20 minutes to with relatives of the player, who avoid the bullets." confirmed he has undergone Togo were scheduled to begin surgery, which went very well."

Aston Villa confirmed that their 26-year-old midfielder Moustapha Salifou was "shaken but okay" following the attack. The midfielder Alaixys Romao admitted the players feared the worst and thinks Togo are now likely to pull out of the tournament. "We're not thinking yet of what could happen," said the Grenoble player. "But it's true that no one wants to play. "We're not capable of it. We're thinking first of all about the health of our injured because there was a lot of blood on the ground. For the moment there is not much news because they have been taken to different hospitals. In cases like these we're thinking of those near us, of those we love because that really could have been the end of us." • Togo • Africa Cup of Nations guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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Filed under: International markets, Launches, China, Indices, Market matters, Headline news China wants to join the international trading club. Regulators approved "in principle" the trading tools of stock index futures, short selling and margin trading. These trading practices have long been used in London, New York and most international trading exchanges. It will take about three months for the new changes to take effect. Meanwhile,stocks of major Chinese brokerage houses were bid higher in anticipation that they will be making margin loans to investors. Continue reading Chinese Regulator to Approve Stock Trading Tools for Chinese Stocks

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Taser Wants to Help Stop the Sexting Craze [Taser] By Adam Frucci (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:16:53 PM

Taser, not content just helping cops electrocute old people and

the handicapped, has decided to focus some of its energy on stopping sexting and texting while driving. Not with electrocution, sadly.

it lets parents monitor texts and control when they can use their phone. Why the hell they're doing this when they normally The tech itself is pretty ho-hum: make, you know, tasers, is

beyond me. But hey, power to you, Taser.

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Parrot AR.Drone: Helicopter + Augmented Reality = Recipe for CES Buzz By Cliff Kuang (Fast Company) Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:49:33 PM

Controlled by an iPhone, Parrot's new drone mashes up several tech trends. Here's a tour. One of the most buzzed-about gadgets at this year's CES was Parrot's AR.Drone, a four-rotor helicopter controllable on iPhone and mounted with a camera for creating augmented-reality flying games. That's a surprising product for Parrot, given that they're probably best-known for their sexy Philippe Stark-designed speakers. And it's interesting in that it mashes up three of the hottest trends of current research: AR games; micro UAV's, and

remote-controlled spying. For example, Sensorfly, a drone being developed at Carnegie Mellon which can't be knocked down and controls it's own flight path: At home, in the spy game, you have Wowee's Rovio, a camera-

armed robot sentry: And on the games front you have lots of examples of games that use the real-world as a staging ground: The AR games tend of be a little unconvincing--I mean, who cares if they just offer some tiny bit of

real-world gloss? A decent Xbox game is still more fun. And meanwhile, remote controlled sensors have either been wonky in the extreme (eg, Rovio) or limited to specialized, military use (eg, Sensorfly). By combining all of these,

Options Update; Vix At 18-month Low, Apple Volume Modest By Paul Foster (BloggingStocks)

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Parrot's hopes to turn its drone into a full-fledged developer platform, for which others could develop games. Which brings us back to a lesson about AR in general, and it's application to gaming: When people say it's a fad, it's often because the AR is presented as the crucial component. While it might be cool, it's ultimately a gimmick--unless you can combine it with other functions and features. (Social networking comes to mind.) Now maybe the Parrot drone is gimmicky, but it's good proof that if you're hoping to make AR into something more, it's gotta be a supplement rather than the main attraction.

report Q1 EPS in on January 25. AAPL option volume was modest with 105K contracts trading on put volume of 30K. February option implied volatility is at 37, April is at 36, July is at 37; versus its 26-week average of 37 according to Track

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Applied DNA Sciences Uses Plant DNA to Track Luxury Goods By Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company)

inks can be placed in inkjet, toner, varnishes, and textile treatments for easy tracking. Submitted at 1/8/2010 4:31:00 PM Such a specialized service isn't Plants: they're good for more cheap--Applied DNA Sciences than just growing food, flowers, won't disclose exactly how much and fuel. A futuristic-sounding the luxury goods company is company called Applied DNA paying, but the company does Sciences recently signed a deal charge for each authentication with an as-yet-unnamed luxury mark purchased as well as for goods company to use unique authentication of potential plant DNA to track products to counterfeits. individual customers. The plant DNA-tracking system A p p l i e d D N A S c i e n c e s ' has already been used by the technology uses the complex U.K. police with great success. codes embedded in plant DNA to Applied Sciences' technology track counterfeited products. The caught a pair of criminals company's DNA-marked security attempting to hold up a cash

delivery van with help from DNA markers present in the cash boxes. The cops caught the criminals using a handheld scanner that identified the markers. We're guessing that the counterfeit technology is still far too expensive for mass use, but one day criminals could even be prevented from walking out of the local drugstore with unpaid goods--no more faulty security systems necessary. [Via Toronto Sun]

How Come No One at CES Has a Tablet Encabulator? By Tyler Gray (Fast Company)

been too distracted by e-ink and touch screens to invent a device that competes with Rockwell's Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:17:16 PM Retro Encabulator. Even though Confession: We here at Fast it debuted, what, six years ago Company have been watching now, it's still the industry CES like hawks for a new, standard. Why? Two words: smaller device that provides magneto reluctance. But enough inverse reactive current for use in o f o u r g u s h i n g . H e r e ' s a unilateral phase detractors but company promotional film that w o u l d a l s o b e c a p a b l e o f offers a hands-on explanation. s y n c h r o n i z i n g c a r d i n a l Related: Google is rumored to granmeters. be considering purchasing I mean ... right? Rockwell. Apple is rumored to Sadly, the tech minds at the have ordered parts for a touchyear's biggest gadgetfest have screen version.

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Safeway Has Survived The Recession

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Filed under: Safeway Inc (SWY), Stocks to Buy Grocer Safeway Inc's ( SWY) stock has meandered since the February 20, 2009 buy call at a price of $20.90, but I'm reiterating my rating. Here's why: The view from here argues that the thesis that food margins sector-wide will decrease is flawed.: Grocers will continue to see more consumers shift to 'generic' labels, but overall margins should stabilize as

demand rebounds as the major lay-off period in the U.S. job market subsides in 2010. Continue reading Safeway Has Survived The Recession Safeway Has Survived The Recession originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

Filed under: International markets, Earnings reports, Forecasts, Alcoa Inc (AA), Recession The earnings season is going to kick off on Monday when aluminum manufacturer Alcoa(NYSE: AA) reports its fourth quarter numbers following the market close. Headed into Monday's report, analysts are expecting to see the company posting its second positive quarter in a row after posting losses for three consecutive quarters. Analysts are expecting earnings of 6 cents per share during the quarter.

At CES? Join Wilson For a Talk About the Future of GPS Navigation [Announcements] By Wilson Rothman (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:09:12 PM

Quick heads up that I will be moderating what promises to be a great panel on the future of GPS navigation, starting in a Continue reading Alcoa fourth little under an hour here at the quarter earnings preview Las Vegas Convention Alcoa fourth quarter earnings Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;3pm, North Hall N260. preview originally appeared on We've got amazing people from BloggingStocks on Fri, 08 Jan T o m T o m , G a r m i n , N o k i a , 2010 16:45:00 EST. Please see TeleNav and SiRF/CSR on the our terms for use of feeds. panel, and my guess is that P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | Apple and Google will come up Comments at least once eachâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;every 3 minutes. Here are some more details: [ CES]

Infographic of the Day: Where's the Money Going in Afghanistan? By Cliff Kuang (Fast Company) Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:15:43 PM

Would you believe it costs $1 million for every solider we send?

War is incredibly expensive--but when you hear figures ranging from $ 1 to 3 trillion, it's easy for the eyes to glaze over. What helps put it in perspective is how much it costs to deploy every when you average the $65 billion single solider. For example,

cost to deploy 68,000 troops to Afghanistan in 2010, that comes to about $1 million a soldier. What exactly is costing all that money? Newsweek created this graphic as an answer: Be sure to check out the actual

The many faces of web celebrity Daniel Bru By John Biggs (CrunchGear) Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:17:51 PM

He may have 14 million

followers on Twitter but we still have to sign a waiver to have him on the show floor! Presenting a tribute to wee

Daniel Brusilovsky, our official

CES 2010 CrunchGear mascot. Look for plush dolls at our CG gift shop this April!

graphic, which has details of the costs when you mouse-over each section. [Via WeLoveDataVis]

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NSFW: The Ola Vibrator: Squeeze it and it Vibrates By Lydia Leavitt (CrunchGear) Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:34:58 PM

Teleepoch's Qualcomm-powered WMDP gesture phone in action By Paul Miller (Engadget) Submitted at 1/8/2010 5:16:00 PM

It might not look like much, but it really isn't. The new handset prototype from Teleepoch is a flip phone with a miniscule display cut-out and nothing else of note. All functionality is controlled by tilting the phone up and down to scroll through menus and shaking the handset a

particular direction to drill in and out of menu options. There's voice control for inputting numbers and quick-dialing, and everything of note is powered by a new "wearable device" WMDP chip design from Qualcomm that integrates the phone radio, processor and accelerometer into a board about the size of a quarter. With this few elements (the only pure mechanical

interaction with the phone is the hinge), the handset should be dirt cheap, but it's difficult to say if anyone will actually want to use it when it's released later this year. Check out a video of an early version after the break. Gallery: Teleepoch's Qualcomm -powered WMDP gesture phone in action Continue reading Teleepoch's Qualcomm-powered WMDP

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And you thought we were going to ignore the AVN. Here's some news from our upcoming AEE 2010 coverage. We present the Ola Vibrator. A totally new design in vibrator, the Ola Vibrator by Minna takes a different approach to pleasure. Hold the base and this squeezable vibrator responds to your grip by vibrating faster, harder, or in whatever pattern you just squeezed. That makes this vibrator amazing for couples use because instead of having one partner simply holding the vibrator, you can have one person squeezing this toy and seeing your reaction based on how hard they squeezed or the pattern in which they squeezed. If you get tired of squeezing, this vibrator incorporates â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rhythm Memory,â&#x20AC;? which records the pattern you just squeezed and replays it until you say stop. Click through for more potentially NSFW images.

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Razer reinvents the 360 Controller with the Onza By Dave Freeman (CrunchGear) Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:10:40 PM

Invisibility Cloak Technology Back On Track; Wand Technology Still Lacking [Science] By Brian Barrett (Gizmodo)

one another to form thicker columns. Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:00:00 PM The chains and columns would Scientists are fickle, aren't they? lie along the direction of the First they're saying we can't have magnetic field. If they were invisibility cloaks, now they're oriented vertically in a pool of saying we can. I vote "can," water, light striking the surface obviously. How will it work? would refract negatively – bent The same way everything in the in way that no natural material future will work: nanoparticles. can manage. A team from Fudan University This property could be exploited in Shanghai believes that silver- for invisibility devices, directing plated nanoparticles suspended light around an object so that it in water could be the trick to appears as if nothing is there, or draping yourself in invisibility: be put to use in lenses that could In the absence of a magnetic capture finer details than any field, such nanoparticles would optical microscope. simply float around in the water, See, scientists? That wasn't so but if a field were introduced, the hard! USPS, I hope this lighting particles would self-assemble a fire under the ass of your owlinto chains whose lengths training division. [ New Scientist depend on the strength of the via Slashdot] field, and which can also attract

The boys at Razer are at it again, with the new Onza controller for the 360. They’ve manage to significantly improve on the standard 360 controller by improving the control buttons, adding a tension control, and making it easy to pwn your buddies with a programmable multi-function button. This is something I’m definitely going to have to review. Razer generally doesn’t create a product unless they are improving on the design, and this is a perfect example of this philosophy. First, they changed up the buttons, and replaced them with their own high quality and tactile style. Then they added a programmable multi-

function button on the back, that can be mapped to any of the action buttons, allowing you to set it up as an auto-fire using a selector on the bottom of the controller. The most exciting feature (at least to me, I love to snipe in Halo 3) is the inclusion of a tension control for the analog stick. You can adjust it to

make it as tight or slack as you like, just by making a minor adjustment. No word on MSRP or exactly when it’ll be available, but we do know that it will be available worldwide. I’m also going to be reviewing one as soon as it is available.

Google muses about ads in Street View By Tom Krazit (Webware.com) Submitted at 1/7/2010 2:51:00 PM

Ads pay the bills at Google, so it's not all that surprising that the

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Parrot’s iPhonecontrollable AR.Drone will result in UFO sightings everywhere By Doug Aamoth (CrunchGear) Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:05:48 PM

The AR.Drone from Parrot is a remote-controlled flying machine that’s made of plastic and foam and is about the size of a pizza pan. It’s got two onboard cameras that stream video directly to your iPhone with translucent touch controls overlaid atop the video. So you literally see what the drone sees and can make it spin around and go up and down using the onscreen controls. Steering is handled by the iPhone’s accelerometer. It’s all very, very By Chris Ziegler (Engadget) accents, and rounded edges. The physical buttons down below. Continue reading LG's GT540 cool. UI's very standard with only We couldn't verify what kind of mixes Android 2.0, pretty, and Parrot wouldn’t budge when it Submitted at 1/8/2010 5:04:00 PM came to pricing and only said minor tweaks, including a few processor this thing has on low-end LG made the bold leap to custom LG apps; we couldn't get board, but the UI speed certainly LG's GT540 mixes Android 2.0, it’d be available “sometime this Android 2.0 with the low-to much information on it since it's didn't blow us away -- if we had pretty, and low-end originally year.” We’ll post more info as midrange GT540 it's showing a Euro-only release and the to guess, it's probably the same appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 we get it over the coming weeks this week, turning up the style booth's being staffed primarily core that you'll find in the Jan 2010 17:04:00 EST. Please and months. If you’ve been dial a couple notches in a by the company's US team, but GW620 Eve. Follow the break see our terms for use of feeds. following our live video stream handful of colors (white, pink, we can see that it's got a 3 for a quick hands-on video. Permalink| | Email this| from CES, there’s video of the AR.Drone in action. More info at dark gray, and black) with megapixel cam, a 3.5mm jack, Gallery: LG's GT540 mixes Comments Parrot’s website, too. stylized wavy backs, chrome and a mix of touch-sensitive and Android 2.0, pretty, and low-end AR.Drone[Parrot]

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MSI Demos Three New PCs at CES By Daniel Brusilovsky (CrunchGear) Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:26:15 PM

MSI has unveiled three new concept products at CES where the company is trying redefine the way consumers will interact with digital information in their homes. The first product that was demoed was a 3D all in one PC. MSI has developed the world’s first 3D All-in-One PC which comes with wireless 3D glasses, where users can have the ultimate life-like gaming experience and 3D HD movie experience with the computer’s 24-inch display. The second product is the Sliding Screen all in one PC with LED technology. MSI’s new concept PC allows the user to slide the screen up and store the keyboard behind it when not in

use, to try to save space. The wireless mouse can also be used as a remote control, and can also be used as an IP-phone, which is pretty neat. The third produced is a projector PC. The computer is combining a PC, plus a projector, so it is an ultimate two-in-one computer for meeting rooms and conference rooms. You can also attached the computer directly to a wall or screen by using it’s attachable stand, which allows the PC to be rotated 90 degrees to turn any ceiling into an alternative movie experience.

Old but awesome: The YouTube piano By Josh Lowensohn (Webware.com) Submitted at 1/7/2010 5:36:00 PM

Ever wanted to turn YouTube into a musical instrument? Now

you can, with the YouTube piano: a creative use of YouTube's annotation system. Originally posted at Web Crawler

Sprint bringing on A9292 WiMAX phone from HTC? By Chris Ziegler (Engadget) Submitted at 1/8/2010 5:08:00 PM

HTC's produced a WiMAX phone in the past, so there's precedent to believe the rumors coming out today that Sprint will be picking up a so-called "A9292 WiMAX bar handset" from the company. PhoneArena appears to have secured some sort of inventory sheet showing the phone without any additional

detail; for what it's worth, Sprint has been basically mum recently on its plans for taking its WiMAX network from data cards to handsets, but this seems to jibe with a recent rumor that the carrier's first 4G phone would be packing Android-something HTC's pretty well acquainted with. Other than that, your guess is as good as ours on when this'll happen and exactly what form it'll take, but we can

already say with a high degree confidence that we want one. Sprint bringing on A9292 WiMAX phone from HTC? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| PhoneArena| Email this| Comments

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Hanvon WISEreader ebook lineup hands-on By Jacob Schulman (Engadget) Submitted at 1/8/2010 5:26:00 PM

D-Link DIR-632 802.11n Router Has 8 Ethernet Ports [Routers] By Kyle VanHemert (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:21:13 PM

D-Link's giving your popularity the benefit of the doubt by offering 8 Ethernet ports on their new DIR-632 802.11n router. If you're worried about all those open ports bumming you out, DLink has 3 other new devices to check out. If the DIR-632's 8 ports seem

like overkill, there's the D-Link Rush (DAP-1560), the Touch (DAP-865), and a new 802.11n pocket router that has no epithet. The Rush is a secure, powerful access point designed to beef up your current home network for bandwidth intensive content, like HD movies. The Touch, as its name suggests, has a 3" touch screen for, you know, changing all those settings you change on your router. The pocket router

Another day, another company pimping a slew of e-readers here at CES. Up next is Hanvon, with its WISEreader lineup of 5-inch E-Ink display-based readers on display. They're pretty basic in both the design and functionality departments, with support for text, images, and audio in the usual array of formats -including DRM'ed EPUBs. The N518 and N526 models both have touchscreens, though you'll need to use a stylus for

can function as its own router or as an access point, extending an existing network. The new routers will be available in the first half of 2010, and prices will be announced at launch. In the case of the DIR632, that gives you just a few months to secure your LAN By Chuck Squatriglia (Wired party RSVPs. [ Top Stories)

handwriting and note-taking. Other than that, there wasn't really much of note, though we were told that there's a capacitive version in the works but it wasn't quite ready to bring out of their labs in Taiwan just yet. There's always next year. Gallery: Hanvon WISEreader ebook lineup hands-on Hanvon WISEreader e-book lineup hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| | Email this| Comments

Study: Batteries â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and EVs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Won't Get Cheaper Anytime Soon Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:09:00 PM

Still, it finds 6 percent of vehicles sold in 2020 will have a cord.

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Trexta iPhone cases made of leather, wood, and other good stuff By John Biggs (CrunchGear) Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:11:44 PM

Studio XPS 16 OLED concept laptop hands-on Sanyo Xacti VPC-CS1 hands-on: a full 1080p camcorder in your pocket By Ross Miller (Engadget)

Do Not Touch" sign deterred us from fixing ourselves) is that the ultra-glossy wrist panel is a Beautiful viewing angle and beacon for dust. Feast your eyes legitimately wide viewing angle, below! the Studio XPS 16 OLED Gallery: Studio XPS 16 OLED concept laptop was on hand and concept laptop hands-on turning heads at Dell's CES suite. Studio XPS 16 OLED concept It's definitely a beaut, claiming a laptop hands-on originally s u p e r - t h i n 2 m m s c r e e n , a appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 0.004ms response time, and a Jan 2010 17:20:00 EST. Please c o n t r a s t r a t i o " e x c e e d i n g see our terms for use of feeds. 10,000:1." The big catch here, as Permalink| | Email this| you can see in some of the Comments images below (the giant "Please Submitted at 1/8/2010 5:20:00 PM

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room with it was another matter altogether. Wait, did we mention it's thin? Submitted at 1/8/2010 5:01:00 PM Gallery: Sanyo Xacti VPC-CS1 At first glance, the Sanyo Xacti hands-on VPC-CS1 is thin. Really thin. Sanyo Xacti VPC-CS1 handsWe got to play around with the on: a full 1080p camcorder in tiny camcorder, and fell in love your pocket originally appeared with the form factor. It's much on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 thinner than our older Xacti, and 17:01:00 EST. Please see our we had no problem slipping it t e r m s f o r u s e o f f e e d s . into our pocket -- though getting Permalink| | Email this| out the door of Sanyo's meeting Comments

Just a quick gallery of some cool iPhone cases for you all. Trexta is a Turkish company that makes cases for multiple manufacturers. These cases are made of actual leather and wood and custom molded into the right shape. No pricing but if you see it take at stores it might be a second look.

Stephanopoulos: "My Mistake" [Whoops] By Pareene (Gawker) Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:22:19 PM

George Stephanopoulos acknowledges that he should've pressed Rudy Giuliani on his insane comments this morning.

Video: Steve Schmidt Goes Rogue (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:13:44 PM

On 60 Minutes last night, rogue, revealing that the McCain former John McCain campaign staff was very concerned that strategist Steve Schmidt went Sarah Palin’s debate with Joe

Biden was going to be “a debacle of historic and epic proportions.” And Palin couldn’t stop

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NFL Wildcard Weekend: 3 Things to Watch on Twitter By John Thornton (Mashable!) Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:57:49 PM

J o h n T h o r n t o n (@JohnThornton) played in the NFL for 10 seasons with the Titans (1999-2002) and Bengals (2003-2008). He now runs Jockbiz.com, hosts “Bengals Rountable” on 700WLW in Cincinnati, and blogs at Allproblogger.com. This is the first full NFL season where a large number of players have used Twitter and other forms of social media to engage with fans. The off-the-field life of a pro athlete was previously limited to MTV Cribs or tabloid web sites. Now, all you have to do is follow your favorite athlete on Twitter to find out everything you need to know. And for the most part, players have not abused the rules that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell set before the season — no tweeting 90 minutes before the game, and no tweeting after the game until the media session is over. The NFL knew it had a monster on its hands, which is why they opted not to outlaw social media altogether. NFL coaches hate the fact that players use Twitter, and certain teams don’t allow their players to tweet. But the majority of coaches just tell their players to be careful. Now that the playoffs are here, players and coaches will get extremely tight with information. Still, some players will still rely on Twitter to talk to

fans during down times before the big game. Here are three things that I’m looking forward to on Twitter during this NFL Wild Card Weekend. 1. Chad Ochocinco (Bengals) Vs. Darrelle Revis (Jets) These two have been going at it for over a week now. Last week it was all fun and games. The teams played in a game that was basically meaningless for the Bengals, but meant everything to the Jets. Chad started off the week by letting Darrelle know what he was in for and how Darrelle couldn’t cover him one on one. Darelle fired back by letting Chad know that he would cover him with ease. Both guys had fun with it, and Darrelle’s Jets went on to beat Chad’s Bengals 37-0 on Sunday night. Luckily for football fans, there will be a rematch this weekend in Cincinnati. But if you’ll notice, both players are putting the brakes on the tweeting. Why? It’s the playoffs, and there’s a lot at stake. Players don’t want to be accused of causing a distraction or providing bulletin board material for the other team. If Chad Ochocinco repeats last week’s tweeting and then goes out to have zero catches like he did in the 37-0 game, people would speculate that Chad’s tweeting was a distraction that contributed to a loss. I played with Chad for six years in Cincinnati, and he is the one guy I know who could talk all week

and back it up when the game rolled around. But I’m sure he doesn’t want to give the fans and media a reason to blame him for distracting his young team in the playoffs. I have also been good friends with Darrelle for five years, and he is normally a quiet and focused guy. I know he won’t let Twitter get in his way this week. But if Chad decided to stir up another online rivalry, Darrelle wouldn’t back down — it’s all in good fun. This will be another great match-up in Cincinnati on Saturday, both on the field and on Twitter after the game. 2. NFL Reporters Social media has changed the way that journalists cover sports, and Twitter has become a great platform for NFL reporters. I don’t even watch ESPN, CBS, or Fox as much as I used to — I just follow all of their football reporters on Twitter to get the same info. I am also looking forward to seeing which reporters break news stories first. The fun for me is in watching a “breaking news” tweet come in, only to be followed by ten other “breaking” tweets with the same information. I can picture the

reporter who broke the news first, holding his iPhone in one hand and pumping his fist, so happy his tweet got out there first. Twitter has given the fans instant info from reporters the same way they get it from the athletes that they follow. If you want to get up-to-the-minute information, even while the game is going on, follow some Twitter-savvy NFL reporters for the entire scoop. Start here for a list of some great reporters and NFL insiders to follow. Pro tip: create a Twitter List with NFL reporters that cover your team so you can watch an undiluted stream of football tweets during the game. 3. Post Game Tweets I’m always interested in how players handle their new found fame via Twitter. During my 10 year NFL career, I would always go into hiding after losing a game, not because I was embarrassed, but because I just didn’t want to deal with the public and have to answer questions. Some star athletes have hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter just waiting for them after a game. And if that player’s team happens to lose, watch out. Some fans love to get under players’ skin by making negative remarks and daring the players to respond. This is where players need to be careful. One bad tweet by an athlete can end up on ESPN’s SportsCenter and all over the

web in a matter of minutes, and team fines and suspensions could follow. Just ask former Kansas City Chiefs and current Cincinnati Bengals RB Larry Johnson how losing your cool via Twitter can almost ruin your career. During this past NFL season, I have noticed that players on winning teams are quick to tweet after games, and players on the losing end usually take a few days to resurface. The one player who usually bucks this trend is Bengals’ WR Chad Ochocinco. He is pretty consistent, and shows his Twitter face no matter what. So while you’re watching this NFL Wildcard Weekend, see how long it takes your favorite player to tweet after the game. I even have some fun with my followers where we guess which Cincinnati Bengal will be the first to tweet following the game. More sports resources from Mashable: - 5 Essential Online Resources for the NFL Playoffs - When Social Media Gets Athletes in Trouble - 5 Predictions for Athletes on Social Media in 2010 - 5 Most Memorable Sports Tweets of 2009 - 5 Best YouTube Sports Moments of 2009 Image courtesy of iStockphoto, LUGO NFL page 21

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Rednex Release New Single On Pirate Bay, Explain Why Record Labels Will Die By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

than their fans, but really like to hang out with the fans and party with them. As for the "RtB" If you're a NY Yankees fan, for part, the band isn't just giving at least the past decade, you've away its music for free, it's got a probably become familiar with variety of ways for fans to the song "Cotton Eye Joe" that is support the band and get value played in the middle of the back. The band claims that it has eighth inning of every game. no idea how to make money, but That version of the old southern that doesn't appear to be the case folks song is done by a Swedish in reality seeing it offers up a band, Rednex, and the song was whole bunch of ways to support quite a hit for the band back in the band: At our website one can the mid-nineties (hit number 1 also get a membership. You can on the charts in 15 different be a free member but also a countries). Since then, the band paying member for anything has sold millions of albums -- between 3 to 666 Euro. For this but it has decided to go in a you can get free stuff, such as a somewhat different direction cap with a cow that says, "I w i t h i t s l a t e s t m u s i c : i t ' s want moooore!!!" ( ... We didn't promoting it on The Pirate Bay say it was funny, just that you along with a massive 28 page could ... ) or free downloads of pamphlet explaining why record music, pics and videos, chat with labels will die(pdf), but file us, read articles and interviews, sharing will thrive -- and they win backstage passes or even want to be in front of that wave. order a prank call from us to The explanation shows that the your boss in the middle of the band really does seem to be night! At the website we also embracing both aspects of the have ads where we get some CwF + RtB mantra. The band money if they are clicked on. But says that some of the reason the the band also realizes that old record labels don't like them perhaps its fans might have some is that they don't try to hold good RtB ideas as well: But also themselves out as being better -- we want your ideas!! So how

the hell can we make a living on our music now?? Tell us. Help us. Call your local bar and tell them to book us for a show! Call Jack Daniels and ask him to sponsor us! Call the circus and ask for vacancies! Any support we can get are we happy for... But in the end the band is sure that file sharing isn't just the future, but that it benefits everyone. While I don't fully agree with the band's claim that record labels will disappear in 12 years (perhaps a more accurate version is that record labels as we know them will disappear in that time), the entire explanation of what's going on in the music business is well worth reading. The band points out, quite accurately, that file sharing is not going away, and the moral and legal questions people raise are pretty pointless. It points out that the big four major record labels have basically done everything wrong with little effort to really adapt. Then, amusingly, they suggest that any employees at such labels might want to bail out sooner rather than later -- to prevent having such a dead end company on the

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resume for too long. They also suggest that new bands avoid signing with the majors, knowing that from here on out they'll just be stuck in the rapid decline phase. And, in the end, the band is thrilled about all that opportunity: Well, well, sad tunes, huh? Actually, not at all! The fact is that this development is only bad news to a few individuals. For the rest of us it's fantastic and hugely beneficial, and not simply in terms getting free access to music and film, but in relieving all costs, borders and delay to obtain access to ALL information across the globe. The benefit to mankind is so monumental that it cannot be compared to anything that we have experienced before. This movement is part of something much greater and we all need to expand our perspectives to realise the enormous value and potential that lies within it. I'm just quoting a few select parts, but an awful lot of the arguments made in the paper sound like what we talk about here. Take, for example, this section on

A new wireless interface standard called Wireless HD that could get rid of the wires connecting your TV to

copyright: This debate needs to be taken to another level. It is no longer relevant or even interesting to discuss whether someone has the moral right or not to exclusively demand rights to one's music or ideas. It is not at all as clear-cut as the music business and various law enforcement institutions claim. The copyright is definitely not a holy natural right that people acquire at birth. The concept that as soon as someone has an idea they also have the right to it is absurd. Copyright is something that is claimed and needs supporters to then assert the claim. There is nothing wrong in trying to capitalise on one's ideas but it is important to realise that this is not a given right that everyone automatically must agree to and respect. It's a good read, and definitely great to see yet another band that seems to have embraced what the technology allows, and are jumping fully into new business model experiments. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

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Foursquare Changes the Game … Literally By Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable!)

skip the physical address entry step when you check in at a new venue, they’ll automatically Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:47:59 PM attach your GPS location — as Earlier this week the much- pinpointed by your mobile a n t i c i p a t e d F o u r s q u a r e device — to define the venue’s everywhere release came to location. Given how tedious it is fruition, making the location- to manually enter the address of based mobile game available to a new place, especially with the all regardless of their physical knowledge that your GPSlocation. Details behind the enabled phone knows where you everywhere launch and how it are, we find this to be the most a f f e c t e d t h e o v e r a l l g a m e welcome development of all. experience, however, were Badges of Honor sparse. Until now. Duplicate badges are donzo, Foursquare everywhere changes which means gone are the days the check-in game as we know it. when you could earn the Newbie So take what you know and badge for each new city you throw it out the window. This traveled to. When it comes to just got more interesting. The badges, think of them as no City Shake Up longer constrained to a particular T h e w h o l e F o u r s q u a r e city, but worldwide badges of experience used to be centered honor you carry with you. In around your city, so badges and fact, you can earn badges check-ins were city-specific, and anywhere in the world and take anytime you’d find yourself in them with you as travel. So, if another city you’d essentially you’ve unlocked the School need to start over from scratch. Night badge in San Diego, Foursquare everywhere turns there’s no need to try to stay out that model upside down, so now all night in New York (on a you can place yourself anywhere week night) to repeat your i n t h e w o r l d ( i n s t e a d o f previous coup. Foursquare locking you down in For those of you who love a the nearest city). challenge, Foursquare You’ll also notice that adding everywhere now includes a new venues is now address- whole new set of badges for you optional. Instead, Foursquare to try to unlock. There are a total finally got smart: If you opt to of 10 new ones (three pictured

competition elements to Foursquare users on the fringe of larger playing fields. Coming Soon With money in the bank, Foursquare is pushing out improvements at lightning speed. In the coming weeks you can expect a spiffy new version of above), but we also know that the iPhone app — version 1.5 even more are on the way. Since — to be released in the App there is such an allure around Store. While there won’t be tons unlocking mystery badges, we of cosmetic changes to this won’t spoil the fun, but we know update, you can expect 1.5 to be that some of you at CES have more sophisticated when it managed to unlock a few of comes to locating and serving up these new treasures. Who’s on more accurate places nearby. Top? Eventually the iPhone app will I personally play the Foursquare also support more “Trending c h e c k - i n g a m e f o r t h e Nearby” functionality to call out mayorships, badges and tips hot places. We also know that from friends, but some of you the team is working on drastic take rising to the top of your UX improvements to the iPhone city’s leaderboard very seriously. app, so you can expect a major If that’s you, pay close attention, redesign in the coming months. because the rules have changed When it comes to other mobile slightly. devices, the beta BlackBerry app With the city-lockdown lifted, is being tested by 5,000 users Foursquare now organizes local and Foursquare plans to push leaderboards by your proximity this to the public in about a to other Foursquare users. Now week. And of course, Palm Pre y o u ’ l l b e r a n k e d a g a i n s t users can already get their hands everyone who has accrued points on that app now. within 25 miles (40 km) of your [img credit: MariShelbley] current location. You probably Tags: foursquare, Mobile 2.0, won’t notice the change too social media much, but we think it’s a smart play and opens up the

Vancouver Train System To Charge Buskers Huge Fees To Play In Stations By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 1/8/2010 11:44:00 AM

We were troubled last month by reports that SOCAN, a music collection society up in Canada, was looking to get buskers(street performers) to pay performance fees. Now more details are coming out on this story. It really involves TransLink, the Vancouver-area transit authority, and SOCAN, with SOCAN demanding a lot more money from TransLink. Apparently, TransLink quickly caved and agreed to a massive increase in fees, which it is immediately dumping on the buskers themselves -- even though most "venues" cover any such fees themselves. It turns out that Buskers in TransLink stations already had to pay $75/year -but now if they want to play during the Olympics, that will be a separate $50 fee just for the Olympics, and the new annual fee will probably be around $300. For busking. I wonder what they want to charge you for humming or singing along? Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

France Uses Tired Media Playbook to Push 'Google Tax' By John C. Abell (Wired Top Stories)

French President Nicolas Sarkozy takes a page from the "Woe is Me(dia)" playbook in a

campaign to tax Google and other foreign net companies who make money off ads on web

pages seen by French people. increasingly hard to define in a The notion of 'doing business' global internet economy. and even 'country' are

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Apple prepping new prototype retail More Surveillance Can store in Palo Alto, California? Make Us Less Safe By Steven Sande (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

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the US in the first place -despite widespread warnings, was that there was a backlog in In the wake of the September 11 p r o c e s s i n g a l l t h e d a t a : Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:00:00 PM attacks, we had a post detailing Abdulmutallab never made it Filed under: Retail, Apple The w h y g r e a t e r s u r v e i l l a n c e onto a no-fly list because there San Jose Mercury News is wouldn't have helped prevent the are simply too many reports of reporting that Apple may be attacks. The data was all there, it suspicious individuals being moving its store in downtown just wasn't put together. And submitted on a daily basis, which Palo Alto, CA to a new, larger yet, in the time since then, the c a u s e s t h e s y s t e m t o b e space that would be "a new g o v e r n m e n t h a s , i n f a c t , "clogged" -- overloaded -- with prototype for the company." continually focused on gathering information having nothing to do Planning documents quoted by more surveillance (warrantless with Terrorism. As a result, the newspaper describe a store wiretaps, anyone?), rather than actually relevant information that has a completely transparent on making better use of the data ends up obscured or ignored. At facade at street level and huge that is there. Back in 2002, in what point do people realize that interior skylights. There will be another post, we discussed how collecting more data doesn't has declined to comment about the glass storefront "dissolves the so much daylight in the stores collecting more surveillance data make us more secure, and the proposal, and the applicant boundary that traditional store that trees can be grown inside the in data retention schemes also actually can do the opposite. As for architectural approval was facades create. By not breaking building. made it harder to find the useful is pointed out at the Salon link not specifically named, but the the horizontal ground plane of The store is planned for 340 data and harder to connect the above, the idea that you even can architectural review board chair, the sidewalk with opaque wall or University Avenue, where a Z dots on the data that you had. sacrifice liberty for security is Alexander Lew, says that "a lot landscape element, for example, Gallerie furniture store was With the attempted terror attack wrong. The famous saying may of people have kind of guessed" the street is made part of the formerly located (see photo at on Christmas, it appears that this say that you "deserve neither," that the tenant is Apple. store's interior; the pedestrian is right). The architectural review focus on doing more surveillance but increasingly people are The developers sent the city a in the store before entering it." board for Palo Alto voted 3 - 0 in rather than better security was a realizing that sacrificing liberty note stating that "The proposed TUAW Apple prepping new favor of allowing the project to major part in "failing to connect doesn't necessarily get you more store is a new prototype for the prototype retail store in Palo move forward. the dots" that allowed the plot to security anyway. applicant. Fully half the function Alto, California? originally According to the article, the get as far as it did. The EFF Permalink| Comments| Email of the store serves to provide appeared on The Unofficial architectural firm involved in the points us to a report noting that This Story education and service to business Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, new store is Bohlin Cywinski the reason why Abdulmutallab as well as customer patrons in 08 Jan 2010 14:00:00 EST. Jackson. This firm designed the was allowed on an airplane into addition to product sales. The Please see our terms for use of Apple flagship store on Fifth store is a commons for the feeds. Avenue in New York City, a p p l i c a n t ' s c o m m u n i t y t o Read| Permalink| Email this| which is a huge glass cube above gather." Comments ground level with the store The memo continues to say that located beneath the cube. Apple Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:02:34 PM

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CES Watch: More tales from the iLounge By Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

• iWave's also got four new collections of cases, speakers, and headphones to introduce at the convention. Submitted at 1/8/2010 4:30:00 PM • The Cignias NAO Symphony Filed under: Accessories, is a nice looking speaker dock Hardware, App Store Another with a strange feature: the ability day at CES 2010, another round to control the dock with a second of new iPhone, iPod, and Mac- iPhone or iPod touch. You can related accessories. We're putting also stream music to it over WiFi them all together in one post -- or Bluetooth, and the unit will it's like you're on the show floor, run you a hefty $299. without the terrible AT&T • The Phubby will keep your reception. iPhone attached to your wrist, • iLive is introducing a whole but that looks pretty bad for slew of new speakers and micro circulation. speaker systems. • Toktumi showed off an app • Case-Mate has some cases that will supposedly add a with charging features, including second phone number to your a pretty slick-looking induction iPhone. charger panel. • Engadget went hands-on with

the L5 remote dongle that we talked about the other day. • SRS is releasing a new iWow adapter-- it's supposed to make music, movies, and TV sound better on your iPhone. • And finally, Targus is showing

off fingerprint blockers to keep the prints off of your devices.

anyone ever wanted to overpay for an accessory, it's probably there. We'll keep an eye on any other Mac-related releases during the show for you throughout the weekend. TUAW CES Watch: More tales from the iLounge originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Google Chrome for Mac (finally) gets Extension support By Brett Terpstra (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

Extensions available already at Google's Extensions Gallery, although not all of them will work with the Mac version. Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:00:00 PM Interested developers can dive Filed under: Software into the documentation on Exciting news for Mac-using creating new extensions. Chrome lovers: the latest dev- Additional features include built channel build of Google -in support for bookmark Chrome(finally) includes support syncing, as well as the ability to for extensions, among other new "pin" tabs with just their favicon features. Similar to Firefox Add- showing. It seems like a big ons, Chrome Extensions allow jump in bringing the Mac 3rd-party developers to add new version of Chrome up to feature functionality to the browser. parity with other platforms, There's a decent collection of which is great to see. Remember,

these features are in the bleeding -edge dev channel, you won't find them (yet) in the main (likely more stable) beta download. Side note: there's a continuing issue with Chrome on my MacBook Pro where most common web fonts show up garbled. It's only (apparently) fixable by restarting the font server ( atsutil server -shutdown)

before launching, but returns soon after. It might be related to FontAgent Pro, or maybe something horribly wrong with my font cache (which has been cleared and rebuilt with no results), I'm not sure. Until this one is fixed, I'm starting Chrome with a shell script that stops and then pings the font server before launching Chrome. It's not a pretty solution, and I sincerely

hope I see a fix for this one soon. If you've got a solution, sound off in the comments! [via Lifehacker] TUAW Google Chrome for Mac (finally) gets Extension support originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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France Considers 'Right To Forget' Chicago Prosecutor's Office Leaks Old, Unsubstantiated, Discredited Internal Memo Law, Apparently Not Realizing The Internet Never Forgets To Smear Innocence Project Founder By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) embarrassing in college, and By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:52:53 PM

Last year, we wrote about the rather troubling situation in Chicago, involving prosecutors who were given information from the famed Medill Innocence Project (which consist of journalism students who examine potential wrongful conviction cases) indicating a wrongful conviction. Rather than use the new evidence, the prosecutors began a campaign against the Innocence Project subpoenaing a ton of information that has no bearing on the case whatsoever, but seem designed to intimidate the journalism students. On top of this, the

prosecutors have leaked claims that the students paid witnesses, which appears to be a misreading of a situation where cab fare was paid for by the students, and there was a bit of money left over. But at every turn it looks like the prosecutor's office is out to smear, rather than to investigate. The latest, coming via Romenesko, is that the prosecutor's office released a decades old internal memo that smears the founder of the Innocence Project with claims that are either totally unsubstantiated or entirely discredited. The memo was given to at least two news organizations and has absolutely

nothing to do with the case at hand. A spokesperson for the prosectors' office claimed that the document was distributed, "in the interest of trying to get the whole picture out there," which is really quite stunning. Again, the document has nothing to do with the case at hand and is either unsubstantiated or totally discredited. It's hard to see that as anything other than the Cook County State's Attorney's Office trying to smear the guy in charge of the Innocence Project. It certainly doesn't seem like an operation seeking truth. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

your friends put pictures of it online, once the time limit for the Hot on the heels of France "right to forget" law kicked in, c o n s i d e r i n g l a w s t o t a x you could demand every version successful internet companies to of that picture be taken offline. try to prop up unsuccessful Yeah. Like that will work. e n t e r t a i n m e n t i n d u s t r y Trying to suppress information companies, comes a report that online doesn't work, no matter France is also considering a what law you put in place. I'm special "right to forget" law, reminded of the convicted which would allow anyone to G e r m a n m u r d e r e r , w h o i s ask that any information about demanding that information on them be deleted after a certain his conviction be removed from period of time. At first, I though Wikipedia under a similar type that they meant content created of law. All that did was call a lot by the person asking for it to be more attention to the story. deleted (like emails), but it Permalink| Comments| Email sounds like they mean any This Story content about a person. So, say, if you did something Submitted at 1/8/2010 10:30:17 AM

3D TV: Comcast CEO Talks Pricing [VIDEO] By Christina Warren (Mashable!)

ESPN and Discovery have announced plans to launch 3D cable networks. Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:42:59 PM You can watch the clip here. When he was interviewed by The discussion about 3D TV CNBC at CES, Comcast CEO takes place in the first two Brian L. Roberts discussed minutes: Comcastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acquisition of NBC- Some analysts predict that more Universal, but showed real than 40 million 3D TVs will be exictement about 3D TV. sold by 2014. The rationale for in comparison with current LCD M a j o r m a n u f a c t u r e r s a r e that sort of growth? As Roberts HDTVs. bringing out 3D television sets says in the video, the pricing for For instance, Vizio is launching this year and already DirecTV, 3D TVs is going to be nominal its 3D TV lineup in August, and

a 47 LED backlit 3D model will have a MSRP of $1,999.99 U.S. Vizioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s non-3D LED backlit HDTV sets are priced at $1,799. I predict that 3D will essentially become a standard feature in the higher-end TV market, which lowers some of the barriers to adoption. Plenty of households are just now switching to HDTV or are looking to upgrade their sets. If given the option to get HDTV or pay a little bit more (or

even about the same as a highend set) to get 3D capabilities as well, that 40 million mark might actually be conservative. What do you think about 3D TV? What does it need to offer for you to consider making your next TV 3D? Tags: 3D, 3D TV, CES, CES 2010, comcast, television

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Candelair IR driver addresses Apple Vanessa Hudgens Claims She Owns Copyright On remote issues in Snow Leopard Nude Photos Of Herself By Michael Rose (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

photos, so I'll rely on the claims at that link that the photos show her posing, with no indication Filed under: Bugs/Recalls, As we've discussed in the past, that she is the one taking the Freeware, Snow Leopard As we the subject of a photograph does photos. It is possible that the wait on the threshold of 10.6.3, not have any copyright claim on photos used a timer, I guess, but there are still some hiccups and the image. The copyright is, other reports have said that the interesting issues in Snow instead, granted to whoever took p h o t o s w e r e c a m e r a p h o n e Leopard that might make your the photo (amusingly, yes, this photos, which usually don't have life a bit more difficult (as Aron means that if you hand your little timers. As such, it certainly mentioned recently). In point-and-shoot to a random sounds like it might be a case of particular, getting your Apple stranger to take you photo while copyrfraud to falsely claim litany of woes with 10.6.x and activate a legacy compatibility Remote to behave properly with on vacation, technically, that copyright on images where you remote use, with many reports of mode to help old apps behave as all the apps that it's supposed to stranger owns the copyright on d o n o t , i n f a c t , h o l d t h e control may be an exercise in Front Row overriding remote expected. For me, I'm just happy the photo). This is something copyright. That said, it's hard to commands destined for other that my remote is working again. frustration. TUAW Candelair IR driver that people often confuse -- as be sympathetic to a site posting In the case of my unibody apps like EyeTV. they assume that the subject has nude photos of someone who MacBook Pro, I couldn't get the Good news, though: even if the addresses Apple remote issues in a copyright on the images. does not want them posted -upcoming OS update doesn't S n o w L e o p a r d o r i g i n a l l y machine to recognize any remote Copycense points us to the news though, you have to admit that commands at all - even after clear up the remote issues, there's appeared on The Unofficial that actress/singer Vanessa it's odd that these photos were verifying that the batteries were a fine & free solution right now. Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, Hudgens isn't just suing some registered with the US copyright fresh (by looking for infrared The Candelair driver, provided 08 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST. blogsite for posting nude photos office. flashes via the iSight camera) by the developers of Remote Please see our terms for use of of her, but is claiming copyright Permalink| Comments| Email and trying to pair/unpair the Buddy, installs simply and works feeds. on the photos, saying she took This Story remote. I wasn't alone; there's a l i k e a c h a r m . Y o u c a n Read| Permalink| Email this| them herself. I haven't seen the disable/enable the driver via the Comments five-page thread on Apple's discussion boards detailing a provided preference pane, or Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:00:00 PM

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machine they built had all the trappings of a complete computer: a processor, an I n 1 9 7 2 , r e s e a r c h e r s a t operating system, an assembly California State University, language, a hard disk drive, a Sacramento put together a color display, and a printer microcomputer using Intel's output. 8008 microprocessor. In a Because the parts were very project led by Bill Pentz, the expensive, the machine--which Submitted at 1/8/2010 4:00:00 AM

was used at the university for compiling medical records-never went anywhere. But its promise was huge: had the parts not been so expensive, and had the project been done privately instead of at a university, there's a real chance that it could have become the microcomputer

hobbyists first went crazy over, rather than the MITS Altair 8080. Here, we see the front panel of the "Sacramento State '08" computer at the DigiBarn Computer Museum in Boulder Creek, Calif. The components of the machine were recently

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“A-Team” Trailer: Check It Out While You Can [VIDEO] By Christina Warren (Mashable!) Submitted at 1/8/2010 11:52:29 AM

Catch this one while you can folks, because 20th Century Fox is already sending out cease-anddesist letters! The A-Team is getting the big screen treatment this June. Starring Bradley Cooper, Liam Neeson and Jessica Biel, the film is about a group of veterans from the Iraq War who set out to clear their names in the eyes of the U.S. military. yet. parking the car. As with all of The guys over at The Film Stage How to prevent this from these types of situations, a little were kind enough to grok the trailer (which is low-quality, but happening to you? Don't leave an bit of care goes a long way. expensive computer unattended TUAW Burglars going after LA l e g i t ) f r o m a C a n a d i a n in your car (duh), or just make Apple Store customers originally n e w s p a p e r t h a t a p p a r e n t l y the Apple Store the last stop on appeared on The Unofficial uploaded the trailer a bit early. your list. I've made a few pricey Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, Check it while you can: purchases while driving around 08 Jan 2010 15:45:00 EST. The film hits theaters June 11 out here (most recently, I picked Please see our terms for use of and you can catch the trailer on the big screen this weekend in up a PS3), and no matter what feeds. the neighborhood, I didn't feel Read| Permalink| Email this| front of “Daybreakers.” [via ComingSoon.net] safe about leaving it unattended. Comments Tags: A-Team, Film, movie, Even when I'm just carrying my video, web video iPod around, I always lock it out of sight in the glovebox before

Burglars going after LA Apple Store customers By Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

and keeping a computer or other purchase in their car. The thieves wait for customers to walk away from Apple Store bags in their Submitted at 1/8/2010 3:45:00 PM car, either at home or at another Filed under: Tips and tricks, store, and then they break in and Odds and ends, Security I better take them. For some reason, no be careful next time I walk out of c o m p u t e r s h a v e y e t b e e n my Apple Store here in Santa returned, either, which makes Monica -- apparently burglars cops think that they're possibly a r e t a r g e t i n g A p p l e S t o r e being "shipped out of the country customers here in the Los or fenced right away." But of A n g e l e s a r e a . O v e r 1 0 0 course that would require an customers have apparently been organized ring, and police aren't targeted after leaving the store even sure these are all related

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TetherBerry Becomes Tether, Sets Sights on Android and… iPhone?

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By Samuel Axon (Mashable!)

(Little Green Footballs)

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TetherBerry, an application for BlackBerry smartphones that lets you access your phone’s Internet connection on a connected laptop computer, has been renamed Tether. The name was changed because the app is headed to handsets other than BlackBerries, including Android devices. The app is available in the BlackBerry App World right now, but Tether’s announcement says that an Android version is in beta testing right now, meaning an official release isn’t too far away. Even more interestingly, the release also names Apple’s iPhone as a future platform. That’s interesting because AT&T hasn’t enabled tethering on the iPhone yet. While you can jailbreak your phone to force it, iPhones with normal software just won’t do it. Apple said when

Apple seizes 16 domain names from squatter

James Rainey interviewed me several days ago for this piece in the Los Angeles Times: A blogger’s parting with the right. By Mike Schramm (The point to either a blank Apache Johnson’s posting on Nov. 30, Unofficial Apple Weblog p a g e o r a s i m p l e d o m a i n “Why I Parted Ways with The (TUAW)) Right,” created a maelstrom in placeholder. And as you may have noticed, some corners of the blogosphere Submitted at 1/8/2010 5:00:00 PM there are no secrets here -- and the Twitterverse. Onetime Filed under: Internet, Apple macfriend.com is probably just a hyperlinking pals have called it announced iPhone OS 3.0 that Apple dropped the hammer on a stab in the dark on the part of the him a tyrant and a traitor. Earlier, tethering would eventually come, domain squatter the other day, d o m a i n s q u a t t e r , a n d one had questioned his sanity. but nobody’s heard anything reclaiming sixteen different ipodsbaratos.com means "iPods In Johnson’s mind, he has not from AT&T about when or domain names in one fell swoop. cheap" in Spanish. Just Apple really changed but merely shifted under what conditions. With that The company filed a complaint a reclaiming some of their rightful his focus. Where once he was in mind, it’s hard to say what the while back against a guy named web space. preoccupied with national Tether team has planned for the Daniel Bijan, who didn't bother TUAW Apple seizes 16 domain security, staking out a hawkish, iPhone. Do they know something to fight his case at all (not that he names from squatter originally pro-military position, he now we don’t about AT&T’s plans or has one), and the result earlier appeared on The Unofficial spends more time focusing on are they just speculating? this week gives them the rights Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, his liberal social views, and Tags: android, App, blackberry, to all of them. They run the 08 Jan 2010 17:00:00 EST. gripes with conservatives who blackberry app world, cell gamut from iphonecheap.com to Please see our terms for use of disagree. “I like to think,” he told phones, iphone, Mobile 2.0, macbookpro.com(how did Apple feeds. me this week, “I am pretty tether, tetherberry, Tethering not own that one?), and as of this Read| Permalink| Email this| independent of [the] political writing, we couldn't find any that Comments winds.” were actually being used by But not totally immune. As I Apple yet -- they all seem to talked to Johnson in his office, an alert flashed on one of his two giant computer monitors. An angry screed targeting him on A federal appeals court suggests o r d e r i n g C o m c a s t t o s t o p for defeat. another website concluded: “I the Federal Communications throttling BitTorrent traffic. FCC think a visit to Mr. Johnson’s Commission has no power to Chairman Julius Genachowski home might be warranted. enforce net-neutrality rules by signals the agency is preparing Anybody got his address?”

Court to FCC: You Have No Power to Enforce Net Neutrality By David Kravets (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:00:00 PM

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Caught on Tape: Tonight's Creationist Message from Prisoner Breaks Free of 'Sarah Palin' Chain Gang [VIDEO] (Little Green Footballs)

you ever seen a scientist with a good hair cut? You betcha haven’t! The fact is that they Hi everyone! Sarah here… don’t wash much at all, and Ya know, isn’t it just great how they’re trying to do the same to awesome Americans are taking our kids: make them dirty. charge of schools this way? This You know, it’s important to is a great movement in America, keep our kids clean because it’s and it just makes me so proud to part of the great plan for God’s be a Conservative American! America, which I fully support, You know, lots of left-wing and I know you do as well. stuff gets taught to our kids at That’s why I support changing school today - really bad stuff the school books nationwide to t h a t t e r r o r i s t s w r i t e f r o m reflect this stand against leftist o v e r s e a s l i k e f r o m S o v i e t science which really is Obama’s Russiana or France. You know, kinda Marxism. And I should stuff that doesn’t really make any know! Remember, I can see s e n s e w h i c h i s w h y w e Russia from my porch! Americans don’t come up with You know, that’s why I also it! support home schooling for And there’s a reason for this: God’s children - the children Scientists. who pray to the right kinda God Now, I know to a lot of you in on the right side of the issue. this audience, that is a dirty Because, we all know how old word, and I agree! After all, have the earth really is, don’t we? We Submitted at 1/7/2010 6:51:40 PM

By Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable!) Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:11:34 PM

Naquan Thompson escaped from a Staten Island stationhouse on Wednesday after managing to slip off his handcuffs while being escorted out of the prison — and one cameraman got it all on tape. The incident — which led to a wild chase and the eventual capture of the fugitive — was a huge embarrassment for the police department, and the cop responsible has been suspended. According to the New York Post, officers didn’t realize their gaffe until a cameraman, who took footage of the chain gang escort and watched the event

unfold, pointed out that the man in question had escaped. To make matters worse, video of the unfathomable incident was posted to the web, which means the world can watch the Staten Island Police Department’s big blunder. You can watch it for yourself below: Tags: prisoner escape, staten island prisoner, viral video

Rudy: 'We Had No Domestic Attacks Under Bush; We've Had One Under Obama' (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 1/8/2010 10:42:57 AM

[Video] Uh, Rudy — the statement that we had “no domestic attacks” when Bush was President is

simply false. Even assuming you meant “after 9/11,” domestic terror attacks under Bush’s watch included: Richard Reid, the anthrax letters, the shootings at Los Angeles International Airport, and several

other incidents. Good grief. Is there anyone remaining on the right who doesn’t pander to Obama Derangement Syndrome?

don’t need to spend billions of dollars to try to find out the answer to a question we’ve had answered in our book since thousands of years! The fact is that instead of pointing the big telescope “Bubble” thing in the sky outwards, they should point it on the Bible and read God’s word real close. Maybe then those scientists might get a clue! Well, I’m going to keep asking these questions, because they’re important questions! And I’m going to keep sticking up for people who are trying to take back science from the scientists! See you all later? You betcha! (This parody was channeled by LGF operative Summer.)

Crack New Scanner Joe Biden's Looks for Bombs Mother Dies [And Inside Body Cavities Now She's Dead] By David Hambling (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 1/8/2010 10:06:00 AM

The method used by the "underpants bomber" has many calling for new and more invasive security measures. One company trumpets a sensor that can detect substances hidden inside the human body.

By Pareene (Gawker) Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:27:42 PM

Vice President Joe Biden's mother, Jean Finnegan Biden, has died.

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Why Creationists Seek to Influence Texas Schoolbook Purchases (Little Green Footballs)

notes scrawled in a microscopic hand. With childlike glee, McLeroy flipped through the Here’s an excellent article at pages and explained what he saw Washington Monthly by Mariah as the gaping holes in Darwin’s Blake, showing how the atavistic theory. “I don’t care what the GOP creationist agenda has a educational political lobby and direct and highly deleterious their allies on the left say,” he effect on education in the United declared at one point. “Evolution States: Revisionaries. is hooey.” This bled into a rant Don McLeroy is a balding, about American history. “The paunchy man with a thick broom secular humanists may argue that -handle mustache who lives in a w e a r e a s e c u l a r n a t i o n , ” rambling two-story brick home McLeroy said, jabbing his finger in a suburb near Bryan, Texas. in the air for emphasis. “But we When he greeted me at the door are a Christian nation founded on one evening last October, he was Christian principles. The way I clutching a thin paperback with evaluate history textbooks is first the skeleton of a seahorse on its I see how they cover Christianity cover, a primer on natural and Israel. Then I see how they selection penned by famed treat Ronald Reagan—he needs evolutionary biologist Ernst to get credit for saving the world Mayr. We sat down at his dining from communism and for the table, which was piled high with good economy over the last three-ring binders, and his wife, twenty years because he lowered Nancy, brought us ice water in taxes.” cut-crystal glasses with matching Views like these are relatively coasters. Then McLeroy cracked common in East Texas, a region the book open. The margins were that prides itself on being the littered with stars, exclamation buckle of the Bible Belt. But points, and hundreds of yellow McLeroy is no ordinary citizen. Post-its that were brimming with The jovial creationist sits on the Submitted at 1/7/2010 6:15:41 PM

Texas State Board of Education, where he is one of the leaders of an activist bloc that holds enormous sway over the body’s decisions. As the state goes through the once-in-a-decade process of rewriting the standards for its textbooks, the faction is using its clout to infuse them with ultraconservative ideals. Among other things, they aim to rehabilitate Joseph McCarthy, bring global-warming denial into science class, and downplay the contributions of the civil rights movement. Battles over textbooks are nothing new, especially in Texas, where bitter skirmishes regularly erupt over everything from sex education to phonics and new math. But never before has the board’s right wing wielded so much power over the writing of the state’s standards. And when it comes to textbooks, what happens in Texas rarely stays in Texas. The reasons for this are economic: Texas is the nation’s second-largest textbook market and one of the few biggies where the state picks what books

schools can buy rather than leaving it up to the whims of local districts, which means publishers that get their books approved can count on millions of dollars in sales. As a result, the Lone Star State has outsized influence over the reading material used in classrooms nationwide, since publishers craft their standard textbooks based on the specs of the biggest buyers. As one senior industry executive told me, “Publishers will do whatever it takes to get on the Texas list.” I’ve been pounding on exactly this issue at LGF for quite a while, pointing out that the textbook choices made by Texas have an outsized effect on the entire country. This is why creationists are so determined to promote their Dark Ages nonsense there — because it gives them a chance to spread their craziness over the whole United States. Previous LGF posts about the agenda of Don McLeroy and the Texas creationist mafia.

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From Damon Lindelof, the executive producer of Lost

comes the news: OBAMA BACKED DOWN!!!! Groundhog Day is OURS!!!!!!! (God Bless America) Okay. So Obama didn’t technically “back down.” He

leveraged Carlton and I to do

By The How-To Geek (Lifehacker) Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:00:00 PM

Chrome only: Extension Don't Break the Chain tracks your progress with Jerry Seinfeld's productivity secret—a calendar that tracks how many consecutive days you've successfully achieved a certain goal. All the extension really does is bundle up the calendar from previously mentioned webapp Don't Break the Chain and move it into an easy-access button on your toolbar, but it's a great way to keep yourself productive without a lot of effort. Simply click the box for each day you complete a task, and skip the days you don't—the app will tell you when you've been dropping the ball. Don't Break the Chain is something on the show. Two a free download, works wherever words. MORE FROGURT. Google Chrome Extensions do. Five Filters featured article: Don't Break the Chain[Google Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Chrome Extensions] PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Lost Premiere Safe From Obama State Of The Union By Bill Gorman (TVbytheNumbers)

Don't Break the Chain Tracks Your Progress Seinfeld-Style in Chrome [Downloads]

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Why You Need to Clean Your Reusable Shopping Bags Today [Shopping] By Lisa Hoover (Lifehacker) Submitted at 1/8/2010 11:00:00 AM

The most important part of owning reusable shopping bags is remembering to take them with you to the store, but remembering to wash them regularly is a close second. A recent study showed way too many creepy-crawlies lurking in grocery totes. Photo by x-ray delta one. It goes without saying that fresh meat products should be wrapped separately in plastic bags for the trip home from the market, but that doesn't mean other contaminants won't find their way into your reusable bags. Bacteria, yeasts, and molds from produce, and other food items can easily transfer their way onto the welcoming interior surface of your sacks and linger there, waiting for a chance to leech onto your new purchases. Canada's Times Colonist reports the results of a study that tested random samples of reusable grocery bags: Of the bags tested, 64 per cent were contaminated with "some level of bacteria," about 30 per cent had "elevated bacterial counts" higher than what is considered safe for drinking

RaopX Streams Any Audio (Not Just iTunes) from Your Mac to Your AirPort Express [Downloads] By Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)

water, 40 per cent of the bags had yeast or mould, and some of the bags had "an unacceptable presence of coliforms." That's pretty gross, but fortunately, there's an easy solution. Most reusable grocery totes are made of canvas or heavy cotton-poly blend that can withstand multiple washings in hot water. It's a good idea to toss your bags in the wash after every use, then tumble dry on a low setting to keep them from getting wrinkled and balled up. Most

bags cost only a dollar or twoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;stock up and keep extras on hand so you always have a fresh supply of bags that you can grab as you run out the door to the market. If you've got some great tips for washing or using reusable grocery bags, share them in the comments. Soiled, Reusable Shopping Bags Pose Health Risk[Times Colonist via Shelterrific]

RaopX in a Terminal session (just launch Terminal [Utilities > Terminal], type in RaopX, and Submitted at 1/8/2010 11:30:00 AM hit Enter). RaopX will build a 9 Mac: One of the coolest parts second buffer and then stream all about Apple's AirPort Express audio from your computer to any router is wirelessly playing speaker connected to an AirPort music from iTunes through Express. speakers all over your home. It's certainly not as easy as With RaopX, however, you're no picking "AirTunes" from a droplonger limited to iTunes; you can down menu, but it's hard to play any system audio through complain when you can finally AirTunes. stream Pandora, Mixtape.me, or In order to play audio through your other favorite non-iTunes your AirPort Express, you'll need media player to AirTunes. Note: RaopX and inter-application R a o p X d o e s n o t c u r r e n t l y audio router Soundflower. After support Apple TV or iTunes installing both, all you need to Speaker Passwords. do is go to Sound in System RaopX is a free download, Mac Preferences and change your only. RaopX default input and output to "Soundflower (2ch)" and start up

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Boost Your Healthy-Eating Willpower; Burning Off Fast Food Is Harder than You May Think [Health] By Lisa Hoover (Lifehacker) Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:00:00 PM

Indulging in that fast food meal doesn't sound as good when you realize what you have to go through shed the pounds you'll put on. Working off a 6-pack of chicken nuggets requires way more than an hour on the treadmill. Green blog EcoSalon corralled a batch of popular fast food meals and snacks, analyzed their nutrition content, then figured out just how hard you have to work to burn off calories after you've stuffed your face. For instance, you'd have to swim laps for more than two hours to compensate for the 620 calories packed into a Burger King double cheeseburger. Not all the calorie-blasting ideas are drudgery—some are quite fun. The thing is, when you look at how long you'd have to do every day chores like cleaning or gardening just for the sake of having a bacon cheeseburger for lunch, suddenly it hardly seems worth it. Re-roofing your house for a couple hours is one price you could pay for cramming a Carl's Jr Bacon Swiss Crispy Chicken Sandwich in your maw, and

Are You Running a 32bit or 64-bit Operating System [Reader Poll] By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)

32-bit or 64-bit?( polls) If you're not really sure whether you've got a 32-bit or 64-bit OS, Last month we discussed the we detailed how to find out in finer points of 32-bit vs. 64-bit our 32-bit vs. 64-bit guide. Share operating systems, explaining the m o r e d e t a i l s o n y o u r O S benefits of one over the other. decision—if you chose your With that in mind, we're curious: version as an actual decision—in Which do you actually use on the comments. your main system? Is Your Main Operating System Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:30:00 PM

here's your penance for IHOP pancakes: 110 calories and 3 grams of fat per dessert pancake, and 230 calories and 58 grams of fat per two ounces of syrup. So if you layer up the pancakes, you're looking at about 790 calories. But no worries. If you bicycle like a rabid hamster – or, roughly 20 mph – you can burn it off in 45 minutes. And possibly win the Tour De France. Look out, Lance Armstrong! We're not suggesting you should

never indulge—you actually do need calories to survive, after all—but if you're looking for some motivation to avoid an unhealthy meal, EcoSalon's post puts an unhealthy fast food meal in perspective. Hit up the post for more, then share your best and most fun fat burning tips in the comments. Thanks, Sara! What It Takes to Burn Off 5 Fast Food Meals (and a Latte)[EcoSalon]

Brittany Murphy 911 Call (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:18:00 PM

--------ET is on the scene in Los Angeles, where authorities have just released emotional audio of the 911 call made the day actress Brittany Murphy passed away. On the tape, Brittany's mother

Sharon is heard sobbing and wailing as she explains that her daughter has been found unresponsive. The paramedics explain how to perform CPR, which Brittany's husband Simon Monjack does while Sharon is on the phone with paramedics.

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Vacuum-Seal Your Electronics for How to Find Great Temporary Protection [Clever Uses] Podcasts: Video Tour of HuffDuffer By Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)

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Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:00:00 PM

Nobody wants to be without their gadgets, but who wants to risk losing them to water damage? You can follow the lead of one iPhone-loving-chef and vacuum seal your gear for temporary protection. Over at the culinary blog Behind The Knife they tend to focus on using non-kitchen items to make kitchen life easier and more interesting, but recently they stumbled upon a clever way to repurpose a kitchen product for life outside the kitchen. Chef Chip Sheen loved his iPhone and hated the idea that he might do it in with all the hustle and bustle of kitchen life. His solution? Use the vacuum packer in the kitchen to seal his phone into waterproof pouch: You certainly don't need a

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commercial-grade behemoth like the one featured in the video. Any small vacuum sealer would do. It's a temporary solution, however, because you can't plug in a charging or sync cable, and it's best suited for objects that don't need to be opened—I'd have a hard time giving up the slideout keyboard on my phone—but it offers a high level

of protection from spills and dunks and gives you total access to the front panel of the device. Have a clever way to keep your electronics safe in the face of inclement weather—and kitchen!—conditions? Let's hear about it in the comments. How To Sous Vide Your iPhone[Behind the Knife]

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Was Frasier really better than Cheers? By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) Submitted at 1/8/2010 5:01:00 PM

One of the great topics of TV discussion is the "which spinoffs are better than the original shows?" discussion. Are there actually TV show spinoffs that are better than the shows that spawned them?

Woman's Day named their ten picks. I agree that Knot's Landing is better than Dallas and NCIS is probably better than JAG. Not sure if I agree with Family Matters being a better show than Perfect Strangers. Frasier better than Cheers? Hmm, probably not. Also: is Match Game just because both Family Feud really a spinoff of starred Richard Dawson? I guess

it could be, I've just never heard that piece of information before. I'd pick The Andy Griffith Show(from The Danny Thomas Show). Of course, we could talk about this endlessly (though not as endlessly as we could talk about spinoffs that are worse than the show that spawned them). What are your picks?

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cloud service provider? Marc Limotte, director of engineering at Feeva Submitted at 1/8/2010 11:03:03 AM Technology, writes:"The obvious Using a cloud computing problem is that the difficulty in service may sound enticing, but switching limits consumer choice you better consider how that data and therefore competition. You can be moved around if you want can't "vote with your feet", if you to switch to a different provider. can't walk away. It's a big problem that now has This is common in IT, though. the attention of Vint Cerf, who is It's never been easy to switch calling for standards to define from one enterprise package to how customer data gets passed another, or from one hosting between different cloud service facility to another. providers. The data isn't even the worst of Cerf, Google's chief Internet the problem. In most cases, you evangelist, is one of those can at least get an extract (even if legends of the tech world, up it is terabytes of data), and there with people like Steve to the lack of communication and perform a load in to some other Wozniak. He is one of the co- familiarity among computer system. The more complex issue designers of the TC/IP protocol. networks in 1973." is when you architect your He is one of those few who had People will want to move data solution to take advantage of a this idea way back when of around. They may have multiple vendor's proprietary services hooking computers together to cloud service providers. They (e.g. the data store in Google create a network. Today we call may want to use different cloud App Engine, or the Amazon's service providers as an that network the Internet. SQS). Not that you shouldn't use interconnected network. Moreso, Sponsor these features... they're useful, So you listen when Cerf gets up customers will simply want to just be aware that they start to to speak and says that it's like move data from Cloud A to limit your options is you want to 1973 out there when it comes to Cloud B. someday move away from that cloud computing data portability. Cerf went on to say that the platform. i n d u s t r y n e e d s t o d e v e l o p According to InfoWorld, Cerf My suggestion... make sure you s a i d m a j o r c l o u d s e r v i c e protocols and standards to make know how to export your data. providers like Amazon, Google this all happen. It's important to And try and use your own and IBM have no real form of n o t e t h a t G o o g l e , C e r f ' s interfaces in front of custom interoperability. Cerf spoke employer, obviously has a stake services. that way if you want to Thursday night at the Churchill in how this all pans out. move, you just have to write an We went to Aardvark to ask Club in Menlo Park, Ca. adapter, and not a complete re"We don't have any inter-cloud about this issue. architecture." standards," Cerf said. "The What can you do right now to Discuss current cloud situation is similar avoid getting locked into one

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From the frozen tundra of Minnesota I hail, not by choice but by birth. I bring with me a head full of useless knowledge and trivia. I know, “Is this guy some sort of Superhero?” No, just an ordinary man, or am I? I’ve always been a tinkerer and owned many PC’s throughout my life. One day I grew tired of always troubleshooting and wanted to just enjoy the computer. From that point on, I was a Mac user. Using my machines to edit movies and other multimedia content. I work in Higher Education as an Apple Admin at a college in Minnesota. Since I came onboard, we have been making the switch to becoming a 100 percent Apple campus. Before I was here, there was a big fear of Macs. Now there is a love affair. I created the site ADaMac to journal my troubleshooting experiences and hopefully help other Admins out who had nowhere to turn. A large-scale mixed Apple/Microsoft environment , can be tricky at

times. Aside from Apple, I have a wife and two kids that keep me pretty busy. I love music, film & of course video games. I’m also a volunteer Firefighter in my city. My feeling is that I want to have a lot of experiences to look back on. So how did I become a writer for TheAppleBlog? I guess I sent the right email at the right time because here I am. I’m very excited to have a little part of the site and I will do my best to contribute the best articles I can. You can follow me (because I’m so interesting) on Twitter@flocchini.

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How To Keep Track of Over 130 Top VC Bloggers

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by magic. The more you use Google Reader, the more it learns about what kinds of Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:35:00 PM stories you read, and it reflects We recently told you about 5 these trends when it sorts a feed Great Blogs For Funding by "magic". Advice, and now we wanted to Another tool for sorting through remind you about a resource that a heavy list of blogs is to use can get you advice straight from OPML files and filter them the horse's mouth: Larry Cheng's all. through PostRank- a process we extensive list of 131 top blogs Sponsor described in great detail last from venture capitalists and Along with his list, Cheng offers January. In short, PostRank takes firms - a priceless tool for any Google Reader bundles of your list and creates a new feed, entrepreneur looking for free various breakouts of the list. If sifting through the noise and advice. 100 blogs is too much, you can filtering out only the best and The blogs are ranked by their alternatively subscribe to the top most popular posts. The only n u m b e r o f G o o g l e R e a d e r 10, 25 or 50 blogs. Or if you drawback is it takes time for subscriptions, though Cheng, only want to read blogs from PostRank to determine which himself ranked 33rd, says, "there your neck of the woods, there are p o s t s a r e m o r e p o p u l a r , are many great blogs with fewer location based bundles for periodically dumping out a subscribers as the number of California, Massachusetts, New dozen or so posts at a time. subscribers doesn't necessarily York, Europe, Canada and Israel. If you really want to stay on top correlate to the quality of If you just can't get enough VC of the VC game, applications content." blogs, there's also an option to like Snackr can provide a Nevertheless, resources like this get the whole kit and caboodle- scrolling marquee of your feeds are a great tool for keeping up over 130 blogs total. across your screen while you with what the VC's are talking Whichever bundle or bundles continue to work on other things. about, but how can one possibly you choose, Google Reader is an Snackr is built using Adobe AIR, manage a blogroll so large? excellent way to filter through so it's compatible with Windows, Thankfully, there are plenty of your feeds. The best solution for M a c a n d L i n u x o p e r a t i n g solutions for managing RSS managing a large list is a feature s y s t e m s . D i s c u s s feeds so you can stay on top of it Google recently rolled out: sort

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Just like we reported earlier, television is nowhere near done recycling every great entertainment memory you ever had into a TV series. At least now they are stealing from better source material. MTV is reportedly looking to turn George Romero's immortal (no ironic pun intended) horror masterpiece Dawn of the Dead into some kind of television series. They haven't given away much in terms of details surrounding the show, how it will link to the original film or even when it might hit the air. They have noted the show will feature a mix of the classic, slow moving zombies and the latest fad of turning the undead into Olympic sprinters. It's good to see so much diversity on television.

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TMZ: NBC to Conan: Move To Midnight Or Take A Walk By Bill Gorman (TVbytheNumbers) Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:41:41 PM

If true (and seems logical at this point), it shows exactly how

committed to keeping Conan NBC is. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re told network execs have told Conan they will let him decide if he wants the midnight Lenoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show will only be a half to 1:00 AM time slot. If he does,

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BlockChalk: An Anonymous Message Board for Your Neighborhood By Frederic Lardinois (ReadWriteWeb)

run the product team at del.icio.us and some of the same Simply start up the app, allow d e s i g n e t h i c s h o w s i n Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:24:35 PM the app to access your location BlockChalk. The design is BlockChalk is an anonymous data and you can see what others simple, to the point and doesn't m e s s a g e b o a r d f o r y o u r a r o u n d y o u a r e s a y i n g . get in the way of the product's neighborhood. The company's BlockChalk works worldwide features. Anonymity: Good, Bad f o u n d e r s w a n t t o e n a b l e and has active users in over 90 or Just the Best Way to Get neighbors to interact with each countries. Features People to Share? o t h e r w h i l e p r o t e c t i n g BlockChalk keeps its feature set While using BlockChalk is a lot everybody's privacy. At it's core, light and to the point. Besides of fun, there is also something B l o c k C h a l k f e e l s l i k e a n posting your own messages, you strange about the anonymity of anonymous, location-based can browse replies to your own the service. On the one hand, it Twitter clone. posts and respond to messages will surely encourage those users BlockChalk just released its publicly and in private. On the who would otherwise be afraid native iPhone ( iTunes link) i P h o n e , B l o c k C h a l k a l s o to reveal their location to use the today and also offers an app for supports push notifications. service. On the other hand, the Palm Pre and Pixi. Android Thanks to this, you can easily see however, this could easily users can access the service whenever somebody replies to e n c o u r a g e v a n d a l i s m . through a mobile website. BlockChalk offers a profanity By Kona Gallagher (TV one of your messages. Sponsor By default, BlockChalk doesn't filter and the ability to 'bury' Squad) Anonymity Makes for an Easy reveal a user's exact location. posts, but only time - or an attach Submitted at 1/8/2010 5:30:00 PM Setup You can, however, force the by 4chan - will tell if this will be Given that BlockChalk is service to do so by typing[here] enough to discourage disruption. We heard a lot yesterday about NBC's crazy attempt to save completely anonymous, you in a post. Discuss their sinking ship by moving don't have to sign up for the One of the company's coaround their late night shows. service or jump through any founders, Stephen Hood, used to The whole situation is very hoops before you can get started. confusing, and at the end of it NBC will probably end up with some sort of all-singing, alldancing six-hour block of Leno, Conan, Fallon, Dateline and Law (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) into South (AP) PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, & Order. Everyone will continue to forget that Carson Daly is on 24 seconds ago 2010-01Term Extraction. Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:06:07 PM the network. 08T14:13:43-08:00 With all of the talk coming out AmandaG buzzed up: Icy Five Filters featured article: hazards persist through US, deep Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:

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of NBC, I was kind of curious to see what the late night competitors had to say about the whole matter. Luckily, Craig Ferguson took some time to poke fun at the chaos and, more importantly, relate it to his show, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Continue reading Craig Ferguson weighs in on the Conan/Leno debacle Filed under: Late Night, Industry, Programming, Video, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

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Hearst Believes There's Money to Be Made from Website Printouts By Frederic Lardinois (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 1/8/2010 11:07:55 AM

Hearst is showing the Skiff ereader at CES this week, but the company also just announced a deal with Format Dynamics that focuses on a very different aspect of the online content business: printing hard copies of websites. Printing from most websites tends to result in wasting lots of paper on printing empty pages. Often, the layout of the site also doesn't look quite right on the printed page. Format Dynamics works with publishers to create printed pages that are professionally formatted - and in the process, the company also adds advertising to those pages. Sponsor Hearst is rolling out Format Dynamics CleanPrint technology on GoodHousekeeping.com now, and plans a larger roll-out later

larger publishers, but the company's CEO Ethan Holien told us that a self-serve product for small publishers is also on the company's roadmap. this year on its other sites like Question: Do People Still Print? Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, We couldn't help but wonder Redbook, Popular Mechanics how many people actually still and Seventeen. Some of the print anything from a website. larger websites that already use A c c o r d i n g t o H o l i e n , t h i s Format Dynamic's technology number is higher than most i n c l u d e t h e D e n v e r P o s t , people expect. He couldn't Politico, CNN Money, Slate and disclose the exact data - though the Wall Street Journal. the company does offer detailed Format Dynamics takes a statistics to its customers. The publisher's HTML code and only statistic we were able to get reformats it into a multi-column was that for a typical news site, layout. The service then adds about 0.5% of all visitors print advertising to these printouts out news reports. According to based on criteria set by both the Holien, for other types of advertiser and the publisher. content, this number can often be Advertisers are charged per much higher and given the printed ad. Catering to Big c o n t e n t o n Publishers for Now - Self-Serve GoodHousekeeping.com, Hearst Services Coming in the Future will likely see printout rates For the time being, Format higher than 0.5%. Discuss Dynamics is only working with

Michael Cera joins the cast of Jersey Shore in a hot tub, for some reason By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) Submitted at 1/8/2010 4:30:00 PM

MIchael Cera got into a hot tub with the cast of MTV's Jersey Shore recently. I'm hoping this was a promotion for Youth in

Revolt and not a meeting of new friends. Cera talks about going on The Late Show with his hair like that, but he didn't (though his hair is pretty bizarre right now as it is). Actually, that clip is better than this one. It shows

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Robert Gibbs has a special message for Lost fans By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)

and funny response. It's not often you see pop culture discussed at a press briefing, and even rarer The internet has been worried that you have a White House this week, worried that President spokesman who knows what's Obama's State of the Union going on with something like speech would be on February 2, Lost. which just happens to be the day Mediaite has video of the press of the season premiere of Lost. A conference. reporter actually asked White Filed under: News, Lost, Reality House Press Secretary Robert -Free Gibbs if the President was going Permalink| Email this| | to speak on that night and C o m m e n t s disappoint fans of Lost, and Gibbs gave a refreshingly honest Submitted at 1/8/2010 3:10:00 PM

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Smartsheet and Google Apps: Crowdsourcing Made Easy By Alex Williams (ReadWriteWeb)

information pops into the spreadsheet. You can then import the Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:32:38 PM spreadsheet back into Google Let's say you want a list of every with Google Apps. Clients can Apps. Fortune 1,000 CEO in the United work from Google Apps to Smartsheet integrates with a States, along with a picture and c r o w d s o u r c e i n f o r m a t i o n wiki environment. For example, through Smartsheet. contact information. Smartsheet works with Brain You can look through Google. Let's say you have a list of the Keeper. Structured information Top page results may help a bit. startup companies from the top f r o m S m a r t s h e e t m a y b e But to get the granularity you 10 metro areas in the United imported into the wiki, providing need, top page results can only States. You have the names of the crowd-sourced data to go so far. What's the best way to the companies in Google Apps. anyone with access. g o a b o u t d i s c o v e r i n g a n d But you are lacking the name of Crowdsourcing is a classic collecting information that is so t h e C E O a n d a n y c o n t a c t example of how the enterprise often scattered and fragmented? information. So, you add some can get information almost Crowdsourcing works but you c o l u m n s a n d o p e n t h e immediately that could take need a process and a way to Smartsheet application directly hours to collect if done manually from Google Apps. organize the information. by one person. You may now make your The cost savings alone makes Sponsor Smartsheet provides a way to request to have the work done Smartsheet an application worth use wikis and spreadsheets for for you. Smartsheet opens a giving a try. crowdsourcing information from service such as Mechanical Turk. SmartSheet is a subscription services like Mechanical Turk You describe the job, what you service. Pricing starts at $9.95 need and set your price. As the per month on a per-user-basis. and Live Works. Smartsheet recently integrated tasks are performed, the new Discuss

Better Off Ted Fans Begin Futile “Save Our Show” Campaign By Bill Gorman (TVbytheNumbers) Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:16:44 PM

As certain as the sun rising in the morning, doomed television shows engender futile “Save Our Show” campaigns. Now, ABC’s Better Off Ted has one, and, of course, a useless online petition too. Ted has averaged just a 1.2 adults 18-49 rating in episodes

Subtle Subtitles: Men of a Certain Age By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) Submitted at 1/8/2010 4:00:00 PM

If you haven't seen our game before, we give you a picture from a recent episode of a TV series and you provide the

caption! Last week's winner is Xolus with this:"So Turk...how many surgeons does it take to change a light bulb?" This week's picture is from a recent episode of Men of a

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during its regular timeslot since it returned to ABC in December, the worst ratings average for any scripted show on the network. Shows with those ratings are not saved by fan campaigns, their only hope is for divine intervention. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Microsoft’s Slate: Exactly Unlike Apple’s Upcoming Tablet By Liam Cassidy (TheAppleBlog)

I’m a shameless Apple fanboy and this is pointless Microsoft bashing, yada yada… but while Submitted at 1/7/2010 3:50:52 PM the former might contain an So, Microsoft has unveiled a ounce of truth, this is by no new tablet PC — a prototype means a pointless exercise. made by HP, dubbed (not There’s good reason to study the coincidentally) a Slate. Fake Microsoft slate; while it doesn’t Steve Jobs suggests it ought to precisely tell us what to expect be called the “meh,” and he’s from Apple’s tablet, it does dead right, while the UK’s demonstrate what not to expect. Telegraph said it could be a Chunky Fingers, Dinky Screens “major blow” to Apple, and A mixture of bad timing and they’re just dead wrong. poor UI design doomed I’d like to laugh at this crazy last Microsoft’s original Tablet PC -minute pantomime display of vision. The hardware available in “Me too!” (all dressed-up, it t h e e a r l y 2 0 0 0 ’ s w a s seems, as “Me first!”) but I can’t underpowered, overpriced, and because the whole thing reeks of remained that way through the desperation. end of the decade. (And I should In my personal blog yesterday I know — I owned several tablet made some (not particularly PC’s myself!) original) predictions about Ironically, it was the one thing Microsoft’s new tablet. I said it Microsoft could have fixed, the would fail, and that it would fail software, that proved to be the because it would run the full w e a k e s t l i n k . M i c r o s o f t version of Windows 7 and c r o w b a r r e d - i n a m o s t l y require a stylus. My stylus unmodified version of their prediction proved incorrect (so desktop operating system, an OS far; just you wait for the designed with a keyboard and “Microsoft Slate PC Student and mouse in mind. Not a stylus. Business Edition” which will Certainly not a finger. If you likely have a stylus and fold-out ever tried holding a bulky tablet keyboard. That’s right, aka “a in one hand, brandishing a notebook”.) delicate stylus in the other, while Now, I know what the first doing anything other than sitting comments down below will be; perfectly still and you’ll know

why the whole thing was an exercise in error and frustration. Apple avoided making that mistake. The iPhone’s software might be based on OS X, but you’d never know by looking at it. Its UI is perfectly suited for a chunky finger on a dinky little screen. I expect when Apple’s slate is revealed it will employ yet another version of OS X; something that lies between the iPhone’s UI and that of the fullfat, full-sugar, carb-rich desktop Mac OS X. And I guarantee you will not see a single control element (button, tab, scrollbar and the like) migrate, intact and unchanged, from desktop OS X to tablet OS. Apple knows not to make that mistake. Microsoft does not; it’s loading Windows 7 — unmodified UI et al— onto its tablet. But this time there’s not even a stylus to help you. You gotta use your pinkies. The result — an awkward, practically unusable UI.

Ballmer very handily (pun intended) demonstrated this by fumbling about with the thing. His fingers weren’t particularly good at hitting the UI controls on the 7-inch screen that, due to its very form factor, rendered Windows controls as little more than diminutive dots. We can only conclude Microsoft is making the same mistakes it made nearly 10 years ago with the first tablet PC’s. At least in 2002 it was doing something innovative. Microsoft’s tablet announcement — just weeks before Apple’s — seems a desperate attempt to grab a little media attention and be the first to announce a tablet. Only, there’s nothing to gain in rushing to make this announcement, particularly not now, while it’s still only at prototype stage. The indomitable Andy Ihantko said it best on Twitter; Title of Ballmer’s CES keynote: “Sorry, Guys…I Panicked And Told The NYT We’d Unveil A Tablet. You Have 72 Hrs To Build One.” Worse: Microsoft has backed itself into a corner. This summer, in the wake of Apple’s iSlate (or whatever it’s called) if HP releases this tablet largely

'Scrubs'' Sarah Chalke Welcomes Baby No. 1 (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:08:00 PM

"Scrubs" star Sarah Chalke is a new mom! Chalke and her entertainment-

lawyer fiancé, Jamie Afifi, tells People.com. w e l c o m e d a b a b y b o y o n The parents named their infant Christmas Eve, the actress’ rep son Charlie Rhodes Afifi.

unchanged, it’ll get laughed out of the room. The alternative — massively changing it to more closely resemble Apple’s device — will be humiliating. If we lived in Bizarro World, and Apple’s tablet turned-out to be just like Microsoft’s prototype, I’d be devastated. I’d question Apple’s creative strategy. I’d wonder if Jonny Ive was out of his mind. I’d definitely question Steve Jobs’ sanity. But you and I both know that when El Jobso takes the stage on the 27th and unveils his shiny new toy it will be breathtaking. In the entire tech industry, the company with the requisite financial and engineering might to even come close to challenging Apple’s tablet is Microsoft. So, is this tired-old slate the best they can do? C’mon. For even the most ardent Microsoft fan, that’s simply embarrassing. Who will buy this? The curious? Microsoft fanboys? Those who can’t afford an Apple slate? Or just masochists? Disagree vehemently with my fanboy ravings in the comments below.

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Browser Tip: Blocking Flash in Chrome By Bryan Schuetz (TheAppleBlog) Submitted at 1/8/2010 7:46:55 AM

I’m cuckoo for Chrome. It’s super fast, it’s Webkit, it’s got some nice developer tool options that aren’t available in Safari and it’s combo Search Box/Address Box is so intuitive it’s completely ruined me for any other browsers that still split up those two elements. The only thing really keeping me from moving over to Chrome full-time at this point is my reliance on Safari for ClickToFlash. Luckily, the newest Dev build of Chrome released yesterday enables support for extensions so closing this gap should now be easier than ever. If you’re not familiar with ClickToFlash, it’s a Webkit plug -in that replaces all flash elements on a web page with a nice nondescript gray gradient and a little Flash logo. To view the blocked Flash you just click the logo and the browser loads it in. This has a number of benefits, not the least of which are that since the flash won’t be loaded until you ask for it page load times won’t grind to a crawl, your CPU usage won’t spike, and you won’t be forced to look annoying home mortgage

ads when all you do is rent. The easiest way to replicate this bit of functionality in Chrome (now that the latest Dev build supports it) is to just grab an extension. A quick search through the extensions gallery surfaces a number of possible options to choose from. • FlashBlock(by Josorek) offers the most configurability with options for managing a whitelist of sites, blocking not only Flash but Silverlight as well, and customizing the look and placement of the placeholder icon. • Kill-Flash is based on a Jetpack port of ClickToFlash and so it looks a lot like what I’m used to seeing in Safari. Unfortunately though, it doesn’t seem to work as well as it’s pedigree might suggest. By default the extension has whitelisted some sites such as YouTube and Gmail but left out

any options for the user to manage the list. • Another FlashBlock(this time by Ruzanow) works well enough but provides less configuration options than its identically named competitor. This flavor of FlashBlock blocks both Flash and Silverlight and provides no options pane for managing your whitelist. You can disable it for a site by right-clicking on the placeholder of a Flash element but there seems to be no way of then removing that site from the list. I’ve been using FlashBlock by Josorek for a few weeks now, first with the latest Dev builds of Chromium and now with the most recent Dev build of Chrome, and would recommend it as the best one of the options above. Of course you could also go with a more robust approach to block not only Flash but all advertisements using something like AdBlock but for me that’s a bit overkill. Now that Chrome has enabled support for extensions I’d be curious in hearing how others are customizing their installs of Chrome. If you have a favorite extension or user script you’ve been using please share it with us in the comments.

Jake Pavelka Reveals More on 'The Bachelor' Scandal (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:07:00 PM

As ET earlier reported, Rozlyn Papa has been named as the woman at the center of "The Bachelor" scandal that rocked the show. Now Kevin Frazier gets to the truth in his interview with Jake Pavelka. "There is no reason to beat around the bush here," Jake tells Kevin. "All of the rumors are true. One of the bachelorettes entered into an inappropriate

relationship with one of the staffers. It was one of those moments." Jake explains that while it was unraveling, he didn't think it was true. His initial thought was it was something that was being produced and thrown at him to make the show dramatic, but then he realized it was serious and it broke his heart. "I had never been cheated on. I got cheated on," he says.

Report: Prosecutors to Seek Involuntary Manslaughter Indictment of Dr. Conrad Murray (ETonline - Breaking News)

June 25 death. The source tells the AP that the case will be Submitted at 1/8/2010 11:03:00 AM presented to the district attorney Prosecutors will reportedly seek by the Los Angeles Police an involuntary manslaughter D e p a r t m e n t b e f o r e t h e indictment for Michael Jackson's i n d i c t m e n t c a n b e s o u g h t . former personal physician, Dr. Dr. Murray has been the focus Conrad Murray. of an ongoing investigation into Citing a law enforcement Jackson's death, which was ruled source, the Associated Press to be a homicide by Los Angeles reports that Dr. Murray will be police. prosecuted on a theory of gross negligence for the King of Pop's

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Apple Advances in Greenpeace Charts By Darrell Etherington (TheAppleBlog)

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Once per quarter, international environmental advocacy agency Greenpeace releases its Guide to Greener Electronics, which ranks gadget and computer makers on their efforts to be more ecologically minded. Last time around, Apple had managed only a ninth place finish in October of last year. For this inaugural 2010 survey, it jumps four spots to fifth overall. Apple’s score didn’t increase that much, going from 4.9 to 5.1, but some of its competitors did very poorly over the period covered by the rankings, according to Greenpeace’s analysis. What Apple did manage to do was to actually act in a way that was much more environmentally friendly than previous attempts, despite actually moving backwards in its attempts to educate the public about its ecological efforts. According to Greenpeace’s detailed evaluation, the redesign of the environmental information portion of Apple’s website actually provides less information than before, which counts against it according to the rating criteria the organization has established: Apple loses a point for providing even less information (on its updated web-pages) about

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The husband of Tamra Barney, who stars on "The Real Housewives of Orange County," is filing for divorce, reportedly claiming she cheated on him. Simon Barney alleges in court documents filed Thursday that Tamra "has been verbally abusive and has committed acts of disloyalty and adultery," reports People.com. Tamra denies the allegations on her Facebook page, writing: “Thank you to everyone who understands and supports me. For the record, all accusations are false.” its supply chain communications than before. This criterion evaluates disclosure of information flow in the supply chain. Apple also loses a point for minimal information about its future toxic chemical phase-out plans, reducing its communication on this subject on its updated web-pages. In terms of practical steps taken to lessen the impact of its actual products on the environment, though, Apple did very well: Apple does best on the toxic chemicals criteria, where it scores most of its points. It scores substantially less on waste and energy. In this evaluation, Apple wins and loses some

points on toxic chemicals, but gains on energy. All Apple products are now free of PVC and BFRs, with the exception of PVC-free power cords in countries where their safety certification process is still ongoing. The four companies ahead of Apple on the ratings scale are Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Philips. That means that Apple is second among computer makers overall. Nintendo, Microsoft and Lenovo occupy the three bottom spots on the chart, with Microsoft slipping this year for a failure to support strong chemicals legislation. Apple is the only company to

have earned four stars in Greenpeace’s new supplemental ratings chart regarding the elimination of harmful chemicals. Every time these rankings are released, people tend to take issue with Greenpeace’s methods and motivations, and generally naysay the value of the guide. It may be true that Greenpeace has a very clear political aim, but I really don’t think provoking some sense of accountability in consumer-facing electronics companies is really a bad thing, even if you disagree with the methodology involved.

Late Night Wars! Jay Leno & Conan O'Brien Through The Years (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 1/8/2010 11:00:00 AM

After recent reports of NBC's plan to move Jay Leno back to his old 11:35 p.m. slot and start "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" later in the evening, late night programming might be undergoing some massive changes at NBC. Take a look at former "The Tonight Show" host Jay Leno and current host Conan O'Brien through the years.

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New Year’ Eve With Carson Daly Celebrates Best-Ever Numbers By Bill Gorman (TVbytheNumbers)

Research. On New Year’s Eve from 11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. ET, “NBC’s Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:08:41 PM New Year’s Eve With Carson via press release: Daly” delivered a 3.2 rating, 11 ‘NBC’S NEW YEAR’S EVE share in adults 18-49 and 9.3 W I T H C A R S O N D A L Y ’ million viewers overall, beating CELEBRATES BEST-EVER i t s p r e v i o u s b e s t r e s u l t s NUMBERS established one year earlier, by 7 THE ANNUAL SPECIAL percent in both 18-49 and total D E L I V E R S I T S F O U R T H viewers. These are the biggest STRAIGHT YEAR OF GAINS, increases among the midnight I N C R E A S I N G V S . L A S T New Year’s Eve specials on the YEAR BY 7 PERCENT IN major networks and the only BOTH 18-49 AND TOTAL increase in 18-49 rating. This VIEWERS year’s edition was also telecast CARSON DELIVERS THE o n C N B C a n d e a r n e d a B I G G E S T I N C R E A S E S combined 3.4 rating in adults 18AMONG THE NEW YEAR’S 49 on NBC and CNBC. EVE MIDNIGHT SPECIALS Only six non-sports primetime ON THE BROADCAST NETS telecasts on any network last UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – week earned a higher rating than January 8, 2010 – “NBC’s New NBC’s 3.2 for “New Year’s Eve Year’s Eve With Carson Daly” With Carson Daly.” — ABC’s has scored its biggest ratings “ D e s p e r a t e H o u s e w i v e s , ” results ever, topping its four “ B r o t h e r s & S i s t e r ” a n d prior 11:30 p.m. ET telecasts in “Extreme Makeover: Home adult 18-49 rating and total- E d i t i o n ” a n d F o x ’ s “ T h e viewer average, according to Simpsons,” “Family Guy” and “live plus same day” viewing “Cleveland Show.” figures from Nielsen Media This year’s “NBC’s New Year’s

Eve With Carson Daly” outscored the Fox New Year’s Eve special (2.0/7 in 18-49, 4.7 million viewers overall from 11 p.m.-12:30 a.m. ET) in 18-49 and total viewers for a fifth year in a row. “NBC’s New Year’s Eve With Carson Daly” started as a primetime special on December 31, 2004 (1.7 rating in adults 1849, 4.5 million viewers overall from 10-11 p.m. ET) and has steadily grown since then, switching to start times at roughly 11:30, earning a 2.5 rating in 18-49 and 7.3 million viewers overall in 2005, a 2.6 rating and 7.5 million viewers in 2006, a 2.8 rating and 8.0 million viewers in 2007 and a 3.0/10 and 8.6 million viewers overall in 2008. This year’s coverage included a 10-11 p.m. segment that averaged a 1.2/4 in 18-49 and 3.4 million viewers overall. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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ended 2009 having cut into “Meet’s” total viewing lead 43 weeks out of the year, which did Submitted at 1/8/2010 11:08:54 AM not include the three weeks when via press release: ABC was number one). “THIS WEEK” CONTINUES Season-to-date, “This Week” is T O C L O S E G A P S W I T H averaging 2.77 million Total “ M E E T T H E P R E S S ” – Viewers, maintaining its second NARROWS TOTAL VIEWING place rank for the season so far, GAP BY 50% AND DEMO outperforming CBS’s “Face the GAP BY 57% YEAR TO YEAR Nation.” “THIS WEEK” IS #2 SEASON- Terry Moran, who filled in for TO-DATE AMONG TOTAL George Stephanopoulos on VIEWERS Sunday, January 3, interviewed According to Nielsen Media Deputy NSC Director John Research, ABC News“This B r e n n a n a n d m o d e r a t e d a Week w i t h G e o r g e congressional panel with Reps. Stephanopoulos” on Sunday, Harman and Hoekstra and Sens. January 3, 2010 closed the total Collins and Lieberman. The viewing gap with NBC’s “Meet r o u n d t a b l e f e a t u r e d R o n the Press” by 50%(740,000 in Brownstein, David Sanger, 2010 vs. 1,470,000 in 2009) Cynthia Tucker, and George versus the same week last Will. year. Among the key Adults 25- George Stephanopoulos is the 54 demographic, ABC closed the anchor of “This Week” and Ian gap with NBC by 57%(270,000 C a m e r o n i s t h e e x e c u t i v e in 2010 vs. 630,000 in 2009) producer. The program airs year-to-year. “This Week” Sundays on the ABC Television

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victory over Texas. The Associated Press trophy honored the Crimson Tide for Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:05:40 PM being voted No. 1 at season's Maisel: Saban looks ahead end. The others were from the Getting caught up in the National Football Foundation, moment isn't Nick Saban's style. the Football Writers Association After leading Alabama to the and the crystal BCS trophy he BCS National Championship, the received on the field Thursday Crimson Tide coach is only night. t h i n k i n g a b o u t t h e n e x t His wife reminded him this challenge. Story morning that a statue of him will NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- be going up outside the stadium Nick Saban is thrilled to have in Tuscaloosa. He says he hopes brought another title to Alabama it serves as a model of the reward and a lot of joy to everyone for working hard. involved in the Crimson Tide Copyright 2010 by The program. Associated Press S a b a n s p o k e a t a n e w s Five Filters featured article: conference on Friday, sitting Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: alongside four trophies crowning PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, A l a b a m a a s t h e n a t i o n a l Term Extraction. champion following a 37-21

Alabama Rides Title Wave to Victory By Jim Henry (Fanhouse Main)

football community matters little 37-21, in Thursday's BCS to Alabama. national championship game at The top-ranked Crimson Tide the Rose Bowl. Submitted at 1/7/2010 7:15:00 PM overcame early jitters and then, While mindful of beating the Filed under: Alabama, Texas, following a game-changing second-ranked Longhorns SEC, BCS Championship Game injury to Texas quarterback Colt without McCoy, who hurt his PASADENA, Calif. -- How it's McCoy, displayed the resolve shell-shocked but gritty Texas, right passing shoulder on just the remembered by the college needed to overcome initially fifth snap in the final game of his

record-setting career, Alabama embraced history with a respectful smile. Not to mention a thunderous celebration as the final seconds ticked away, bringing back glory to one of the country's most storied programs.

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Reuters Editor Finds Comedy Gold in Accusations That He's a Shill For Steven Cohen [Comedy] By John Cook (Gawker)

David: You got any insider tips? My UK apartment is under water. Reuters' editor for global news [snip] thinks it's hilarious that, if you David: Lemmie spell that out for b e l i e v e " s o m e b l o g s a n d you, Stevie. journalist talk," he and his boss David: It's M O N E Y. That bowed to pressure in killing an spells MONEY That's what we investigation into hedge fund need. manager Steven Cohen. [snip] The idea that Reuters would kill Stevie: OK, I would really a story, which the wire's chief appreciate it if you guys don't put editor described as "not a bad out a story that's supposedly story, which had "nothing wrong going to rock my world with the reporting" and which Me: Say ‘Please.' "could have run", which was Stevie: Please. about a guy whose hedge fund [snip] owns $2 million worth of Me: OK, that settles it. It's a kill. Thomson Reuters stock, and We're gonna get some flak. But which the subject called the CEO that's OK. Stevie's a nice guy. of the firm's market division and Me: By the way, Stevie, my asked him to spike it is so TDAmeritrade account is 39… comical to Jack Reerink that he HA HA HA HA. This is funny just had to cut loose. So he sent a because it's not true, you see? note, obtained b y Because a preposterous fantasy TalkingBizNews' Chris Roush, like that is clearly the only way to his editorial staff describing that Cohen could ever exert any the imaginary conversation sort of pressure on Reuters, between himself, Reuters editor because everyone knows that David Schlesinger, and Cohen insidious, subtle pressure is that would have to happen in never brought to bear on editors order for such a scenario to be and that every transactional true: accommodation afforded Me: We've got a bombshell wealthy investors by journalists here, Stevie. I'm about to push i s a l w a y s s p e l l e d o u t i n the button. hyperbolic clarity. Either David: It's going to rock your Schlesinger and Reerink killed world. the story for reasons that had Me: Rock it. nothing to do with Cohen's call, Stevie: You can't do that. I'm or Cohen literally bribed them. worth $6 billion! There's no murky space between Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:36:32 PM

those two poles, and since the bribery story is so difficult to believe, the whole thing must be on the up-and-up. Case closed. We don't know why Schlesinger and Reerink killed the Cohen story. They won't say—even to their own reporters. Here's what we do know: • Reuters reporters Matthew Goldstein and Svea HerbstBayliss were working on a story related to allegations that Cohen engaged in insider trading in the 1980s. • Reuters lawyer Thomas Kim had read and signed off on the story. • According to "scuttlebutt" cited by a Reuters reporter during Wednesday's staff conference call—scuttlebutt that Schlesinger didn't dispute—unnamed Reuters editors had approved the story

decision, Reuters staffers should just trust them, because there's no evidence that Cohen directly paid them in cash. Here's the full memo: Tip of the week – Ethics 101 Psst.. Did you hear that we killed a bombshell story about hedge fund king Stevie Cohen the other week? It happened right after a conference call between Stevie, Devin Wenig, David Schlesinger and myself. Here's a recording I secretly made ( I know you're not supposed to do that without asking permission, but I figured it was important. for publication. • C o h e n c a l l e d T h o m s o n I'm not very ethical.) Reuters Markets CEO Devin Me: We've got a bombshell Wenig to complain about the here, Stevie. I'm about to push the button. story. • Wenig called Schlesinger to David: It's going to rock your world. pass along the complaint. • Schlesinger read the story and Me: Rock it. decided that it was "not a bad Stevie: You can't do that. I'm story," that there was "nothing worth $6 billion! wrong with the reporting," and David: You got any insider tips? that it "could have run." But he My UK apartment is under water. had questions about it. • In the conference call with Me: Yeah! I wanna buy some staffers Wednesday, Schlesinger calls. repeatedly declined to say what Me: I still can't believe it. I was an expat in Singapore. Now I'm those questions were. • S c h l e s i n g e r p a s s e d h i s back in Jersey. My wife makes "questions" along to Reerink. me do all this work on the house. We sanded another floor this • Reerink killed the story. Sunday. And the value is So there you have it: Cohen's dropping like a … Whatever. call clearly had nothing to do The bottomline is, Stevie: I need with it, and if Reerink and REUTERS page 47 Schlesinger won't explain their

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You Really Should Be Watching Big Love [Pleas] By Richard Lawson (Gawker)

weeeeird-look-at-that crazy Mormon folks. The show's major Achilles heel, its biggest Big Love— HBO's beguilingly dealbreaker — why would two wonderful melodrama about a of these wives ever do this in the family living on the fringe — first place? — was sorta returns for its fourth season on answered in a realistically fuzzy Sunday night. You really should way. And, while the show isn't watch it. If you initially wrote it shy about creating true villains, off as unsympathetic, give it we at least saw hints of layered another chance. motive in the eviler characters, We'd been excited for the show's flashes of flaw and yearning and premiere back in 2006, it just desire. It was the kind of sounded so intriguing and Under satisfying, patient storytelling the Banner of Heaven y. that HBO excels at. It just took Mormons and polygamists and Big Love three seasons to get evil sect cults! But then it aired there, rather than starting with a and it was just so... angular and bang right out of the gate like strange. None of the characters The Sopranos. were likable, not abhorrently If you're finding this reviewmisogynistic patriarch Bill type thing a little vague, that's (played by Bill Paxton with his deliberate. We don't want to give usual dead-eyed drawl), and not away any plot points in case you his wives — long-suffering first decide to go rent the DVDs and, wife Barb (marvelous Jeanne bleary eyed and joyful, catch up Tripplehorn), second fundie wife that still managed to seem writers and actors and directors imaginary symbolism that that in time for Sunday's premiere. Nikki (the sneaks-up-on-you s i m p a t i c o w i t h u s r e g u l a r and cinematographers during last series has been freighted with. Threads first glimpsed in the first Chloe Sevigny), and third Americans. Big Love was as year's third season, and Big Love Big Love is freed by its outre season are suddenly brought up chipper child bride Margene weird and alien and quietly actually became *big.* Stones weirdness, it can do almost in the third. It's an immersive (delightfully annoying Ginnifer menacing as the rocky state in we'd long been eying were anything because we've been a n d l o y a l t y - r e w a r d i n g Goodwin). There was just which it's set. We know lots of finally unturned, and the true sad taught and inured to expect experience, so we don't really nothing to grab onto, nothing to people who, after a few episodes, theme of this show — that this is almost anything. want to mention a single relate to in any tangible way. said "Nunh uh" and turned the a cruel kind of faith, one that Not that the show goes hog wild c o n c r e t e d e t a i l . These were antiquated people channel to something less devalues individuals while just for the hell of it. The other What we will say is this: For our living in an understandably opaque and less ugly. And we pretending to uplift them — was wonderful thing about the third money, Big Love was the best condemning modern world. Why didn't blame them for it! But for cast into light. And it was also season was how deeply humane thing on television last year. And would we want to root for this some reason we stuck with the just exciting as hell, with politics it was. These archetypes — the we have high hopes for this gofamily when the very structure of show, hoping for two seasons and zealots and death and sex sad wife, the crazy wife, the around. Sissy Spacek's joining the clan was so inherently fucked that it would evolve from solidly and pervy maybe-incest and naive wife, the evil prophet, the the cast! And, if nothing else, - m a d e m o r a l t h r i l l e r i n t o secret pregnancies. Big Love horny son — were given the you just can't say no to Sissy up? The show just didn't have any of s o m e t h i n g a s g r a n d a n d isn't as nuanced a show as the rounding and shape they'd been Spacek, can you? t h e s l y u n i v e r s a l i t y o f a sweeping as HBO at its best. tremendously good Mad Men, lacking in previous seasons. A n d t h a t t h e n h a p p e n e d ! but it's blessedly not weighed Essentially, we really got them masterwork like The Sopranos, a Something started firing with the d o w n b y a l l t h e r e a l a n d as people, not just as ohseries about even worse monsters Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:58:03 PM

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Lessons from the Holocaust Faux-Memoirist's Book Contract, By the Numbers [Books] By Doree Shafrir (Gawker) Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:23:38 PM

Herman Rosenblat is the Holocaust survivor whose Oprah -endorsed story of meeting his wife while in a concentration camp turned out to be fake. When his publisher found out, they demanded their advance back. We've got the documents. Most of the letters and contracts in the package a tipster forwarded to us are pretty standard-issue for publishing. But a few things—for anyone who's planning on selling a fake memoir, say—stand out. Penguin demanded their $30,000 advance back. This seems low, doesn't it, even assuming that he only received two installments of his advance. That assumption is based on copies of the checks that were sent to us—one dated February 14, 2008, for $15,000; and one dated April 18, 2008, again for $15,000. Presumably he would have been paid another $15,000 on publication. Interesting, since a $45,000 advance isn't very much for someone who'd been championed on Oprah. In this section of a letter to Rosenblat sent by his agent's lawyers, they

advise him that Penguin is "demanding" the return of the $30,000—but that they're not going to enforce it. Why's that, you wonder? Well, they're entitled to keep their portion of it. So they don't have a dog in this race. Rosenblat's ghostwriter is entitled to her share, too. Speaking of the ghostwriter, perhaps you were wondering how much ghostwriters get paid these days? Well, to write fake Holocaust memoirs, they apparently get $17,000. After Rosenblat earned back his advance, the ghostwriter, Susanna Margolis, was entitled

to 10 percent of his royalties, up to a cap of $100,000 (which includes the $17,000 advance). But based on the scans of the checks that were sent to us, Rosenblat probably didn't have much left of the advance to send back to Penguin. Scrawled on the check dated April 18 are the notes: "8500 Susanna, 4,250 Herman, 2,250 Andrea"—Hurst, his agent. So out of the $30,000 advance Rosenblat got, he'd actually only received $8,500. The other noteworthy money bit in the contract is what Rosenblat would earn if his book made the New York Times bestseller list. These types of bonuses are pretty

common; they're often either pegged to the bestseller list or earning out one's advance within a certain amount of time. So, for example, each week that Rosenblat's book made the hardcover list in positions one through five, he'd get $5,000, with diminishing payouts for the rest of the spots. For the paperback, he'd get $10,000 a week if he made it to number one on the list, down to $1,500 for spots 16 through 20. The whole story was sad and pathetic, but it somehow makes it sadder that a RELATIVELY small amount of money was at stake here. For a book that was supposed to be a nearly 80-yearold man's life's work, he was getting just enough money that maybe he could play a few extra rounds of shuffleboard down in Miami Beach during the winter and put something away for the grandkids. But he sold his soul, and tarnished his reputation, his publisher's and his agent's, for what in the publishing world amounts to bubkis. [ Photo of Herman and his wife before everyone found out he was a fraud, via AP.]

Capitals Seek to Tighten Grasp on Southeast By A.J. Perez (Fanhouse Main) Submitted at 1/8/2010 6:30:00 AM

Filed under: Capitals ARLINGTON, Va. -- Mike Knuble didn't offer his best defense for the division his Washington Capitals have reigned over this season. "You can make the case the Southeast is the weakest division in the league, record-wise and such," said the Caps forward at the team's practice facility on Friday. "We just go out and play the games. They are still good teams who for whatever reasons haven't been winning games. People can say, 'Yeah, but' all they want, but we don't pick our division."

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MONEY. David: Lemmie spell that out for you, Stevie. David: It's M O N E Y. That spells MONEY That's what we need. Devin: Guys, please. Forget this money talk. Devin: Stevie, you're a nice guy. We're nice guys. If you don't like the story, just ask David and Jack not to run it. It's their call. I've got nothing to do with Editorial. Stevie: OK, I would really appreciate it if you guys don't put out a story that's supposedly going to rock my world Me: Say ‘Please.' Stevie: Please. Me: Well, what do you think, David? I'd say: Kill it. David: I wanna hear ‘please' one more time. Stevie: Please. David: Louder, please. Stevie: PLEASE. Me: OK, that settles it. It's a kill. We're gonna get some flak. But that's OK. Stevie's a nice guy. Me: By the way, Stevie, my TDAmeritrade account is 39… Devin: Guys, don't you have

some sort of an ethics code in news? We're gonna have to take this offline. Bye Stevie. Stevie: Bye guys. You figure David and I would know better, right? We do. There conference call never happened. But it describes perfectly what transpired if you believe some blogs and journalist talk. Don't. It's a fantasy. In the real world, we live by the trust principles. In the real world, we kick back stories for more reporting, balance or insight. In the real world, we don't run every story just because we wrote it. Are we going to be right all the time? No. But we'll try very hard. And we'll learn from our mistakes. (and this was not a mistake, by the way). Speaking of the real world, Matt Goldstein and Svea Herbst today shed more light on the insider trading saga that's hitting big Wall Street's names. They have been doing the heavy lifting on a story that's getting huge clicks. People love to read about …

themselves. That's why we've been pushing financial industry coverage so hard. We want to be first there. We want to be exclusive. We want to be insightful. That's why I've been liking Matt and Svea's stuff. (When the Galleon scandal broke, I was having breakfast with a bunch of traders. They were all jogging their memories and checking e-mails to see if they had had any contact with the people involved. Talk about wanting to read about this stuff. They eat it up!). Anyway, the latest development reported by Matt & Svea: Turns out there's another former staffer of $13 billion hedge fund SAC who got caught up in an insider trading probe. Me: SAC? Doesn't that stand for Steven A Cohen? OMG! How did this happen? Sorry, I gotta call Stevie now.

Freshman Gilbert Nearly Steers Longhorns to Win By Jim Henry (Fanhouse Main) Submitted at 1/7/2010 7:05:00 PM

Filed under: Texas, BCS Championship Game PASADENA, Calif. -- Colt McCoy stood in front of his locker, trying to explain and fathom how fate works at times. McCoy didn't have an answer but he wouldn't dare question his faith. No way. Yet, Texas' senior quarterback -composed and steely-eyed confident -- honestly believed in his heart he had the answer to an obvious question: Yes, he would have been the difference in Thursday's BCS National Championship game won by topranked Alabama, 37-21, at the Rose Bowl. No question. The Crimson Tide figured to have a much easier time than they did when they knocked out McCoy five snaps into his final game. McCoy couldn't help but

imagine what it would have happened if he played in the Longhorns' remaining 65 plays. "It would be so easy to question why -- Why things happen the way they do," said McCoy, who suffered a nerve injury to his right throwing shoulder when he was sandwiched into center Chris Hall when tackled by Alabama defensive end Marcell Dareus on a keeper down the line.

3 minutes of Metro 2033 footage from the future By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) Submitted at 1/8/2010 5:00:00 PM

Given that the entirety of Metro 2033 is set in a bleak, subwaybased future -- Moscow's subway

system of 2033, specifically -it's not exactly an outright lie when we say the trailer is "from the future." Sure, it might not have "traveled through time" or whatever your "fact-based"

interpretation of our statement was, but it's of a fictional postapocalyptic world and that's more than enough for us. Heck, there's talk of the next evolution of human beings even. That's

about as futurey as you could possibly want, right?! Gallery: Metro 2033 3 minutes of Metro 2033 footage from the future originally appeared on Joystiq on

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The Guy Between Hardball and Countdown Will Not Win a Senate Race [Things That Won't Happen] By Pareene (Gawker) Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:08:40 PM

People are still pushing the "Ed Schultz for Senate" idea? Really? Schultz lived in North Dakota for many years, and he endeared himself to many as the voice of local sports, but since then he has moved to Minnesota and gotten a show on liberal MSNBC. He would be toxic to voters in North Dakota. One radio host got himself elected and suddenly people think a shouty former sportscaster will net enough support in a conservative state to win a Senate election against a popular governor? Notably, Ed Schultz wouldn't be

the first professional progressive talker in the Senate, if he chose to run. Original Air America host Al Franken has been the sitting Senator from Minnesota for six months now. And, if Ed were to win, progressive radio would

being to look like the training ground for the future of the Democratic partyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;unlike conservative radio, which produces a bunch of hot air but few people who look sane enough to voters to send to the

Senate. Franken barely eked out a victory against an unpopular incumbant who'd never cracked 50% in a state-wide election, and who, notably, lost to Predator star Jesse Ventura when he tried to run for governor. And this is in a state that hasn't gone to a Republican in a presidential election since 72. North Dakota is a little different! Dear Liberals: if you want a Democratic Senator from North Dakota (and you probably will not get one, this year) convince Earl Pomeroy to run. Not the guy you see on MSNBC.

you knew what people would be saying next. Poor Texas. It's certainly appropriate to feel Submitted at 1/7/2010 6:10:00 PM sorry for McCoy and the Filed under: Alabama, Texas, Longhorns, but direct a little Bowl Games, B C S sympathy the Crimson Tide's C h a m p i o n s h i p G a m e way. They are one of the best PASADENA, Calif. - You BCS champions ever, and all couldn't hear Colt McCoy's right most people will talk about is shoulder pop Thursday night, but how the crown was handed to

them. Yes, they almost threw up on

By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) Submitted at 1/8/2010 3:00:00 PM

The PS3 community got a chance to get its hands on the multiplayer beta for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 in November -today, we learned that the PC community will get its chance to try out the shooter in a few short weeks. According to a recent post on the Battlefield blog, the beta for the PC version of the game will kick off January 28, and will be available until February 25. To get on board, just reserve the game at participating retailers and ... " eTailers." For more details about their gift-wrapped win. Freshman quarterback Garrett downloading the beta, and to Gilbert deserves as big a bonus f i n d o u t a b o u t t h e m a p as Mack Brown. And Texas participants will be riddling with a b s o l u t e l y , p o s i t i v e l y , bullets, check out the Battlefield unquestionably suffered without blog post. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC McCoy. beta dated, detailed originally The point is, so did Alabama. appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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BCS Championship Game Diary: Alabama 37, Texas 21 (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Submitted at 1/7/2010 2:51:55 PM

Getty Images Alabama’s Mark Ingram (22) and Barrett Jones celebrate a second-quarter touchdown. The Journal provides minute-byminute analysis of tonight’s BCS National Championship Game as No. 1 Alabama defeated No. 2 Texas 37-21 in Pasadena, California. Journal staffer Darren Everson is at the Rose Bowl to offer commentary on the game. 5:55 pm | Pregame | by Darren Everson For three years, the Southeastern Conference has ruled college football, taking three consecutive BCS national championships without much trouble in the title game. Most expect the streak to reach an unprecedented four in a row when No. 1-ranked Alabama meets No. 2 Texas at the Rose Bowl tonight. The question of the day: Can Texas's offensive line hold up against Alabama's inventive, relentless pass rush? It would seem not, considering how the Longhorns' offensive linemen were last seen impersonating turnstiles in the Big 12 title game. Texas's offense was similarly feeble in a narrow win over Oklahoma. But it is dangerous to underestimate a team of the Longhorns' skill. Oregon was considered a solid favorite in the Rose Bowl over Ohio State, only to be overmatched by the

Buckeyes' talent on defense.Â Alabama is no Oregon, of course, but Texas is no typical underdog either. 8:18 pm | Pregame | by Darren Everson A little more than 20 minutes to kickoff. Prediction time. Colt McCoy said this week that Texas hasn't come close to playing its best game yet. Perhaps that's true, but it's hard to believe it'll come tonight against this defense. A lowscoring game seems likely, given the strength of both defenses, but Texas's problems against quality competition this season make it illogical to expect a Longhorns upset. 8:23 pm | Pregame | by Darren Everson Here's what I mean. Here are

Texas's total-yardage figures against their quality opponents this season: --Texas Tech 414, UT 340 --Oklahoma 311, UT 269 --UT 400, Missouri 173 (impressive, granted) --Oklahoma State 277, Texas 275 --UT 597, Texas A&M 532 --UT 202, Nebraska 106 That's three sub-300 yard games, and two games in which Texas didn't reach yardage parity. 8:33 pm | Pregame | by Darren Everson By contrast, here are Alabama's total-yardage figures against its respectable competition: --Bama 498, Virginia Tech 155 --Bama 425, Arkanas 254 --Bama 354, Mississippi 197

--Bama 356, South Carolina 278 --Tennessee 339, Bama 256 --Bama 452, LSU 253 --Auburn 332, Bama 291 --Bama 490, Florida 335 Whereas Texas usually didn't decisively outgain quality opponents, Alabama did. 8:34 pm | Pregame | by Darren Everson The crowd at the Rose Bowl sounds fairly split, although that might be because we're situated on the Bama end. Texas looks like it has a slight majority in the stands. 8:39 pm | Pregame | by Darren Everson But as we said at the top, this all comes down to whether the Texas offensive line can block these guys. If the Longhorns can, they have more than enough

playmaking ability and toughness against the run to get this done. 8:43 pm | First quarter, 0-0 | by Darren Everson Awfully shaky start for the Tide, with Mark Ingram getting stopped for no gain on first down, a false start on second and a huge sack of Greg McElroy. 8:44 pm | First quarter, 0-0 | by Darren Everson Wow -- a fake punt on fourth and 23! And it fails miserably! For a team that received the opening kickoff, is this the worst start in title-game history? 8:47 pm | First quarter, 0-0 | by Darren Everson Here comes Texas, snapping quickly on its first two downs BCS page 50

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before taking its time on third. Alabama's defensive coordinator, Kirby Smart, has said that the Tide hasn't handled teams that change the pace especially well. 8:51 pm | First quarter, 0-0 | by Darren Everson Timeout, Texas -- second and 10, Bama 11, 10:54 left. Still in shock over that fake punt attempt that was intercepted. Here's why that's a horrible call (and this isn't just 20/20 hindsight talking): What do you gain if you convert? First down near midfield? Far too little of a reward for so big of a risk. 8:52 pm | First quarter, 0-0 | by Darren Everson But now Colt McCoy is out, apparently having injured his right hand before the Texas timeout. What an unreal first few minutes. 8:58 pm | First quarter, 3-0 Horns | by Darren Everson Just to recap the craziness: On fourth and 23 from its own 20 on the opening possession of the game, Alabama attempted a fake punt, throwing the ball down the left sideline, but P.J. Fitzgerald's pass was short and intercepted. McCoy was injured on a no-gain rush on Texas's fifth play of the game. He came up shaking his right hand, and freshman Garrett Gilbert replaced him. Gilbert looked jittery on his one pass attempt, throwing the ball away while getting hit on a third and goal. Texas's Hunter Lawrence did hit an 18-yard field goal to take a 3-

0 lead, but obviously that drive was a win for the Alabama defense -- especially if McCoy doesn't return soon. 8:58 pm | First quarter, 3-0 Horns | by Darren Everson 9:11 left, first quarter. Goodness, what a first few minutes. 9:00 pm | First quarter, 3-0 Horns | by Darren Everson Will this game ever settle down? Texas's kickoff, which was short, hit the turf and was recovered by the Longhorns at the Bama 30. Another short field for Texas. 9:01 pm | First quarter, 6-0 Horns | by Darren Everson Still Gilbert in at quarterback. Texas playing awfully conservatively with him, running on first and second down. His third-down pass might've picked up the first down, but was dropped by Dan Buckner. The ever-reliable Hunter Lawrence hit a 42-yard field goal, though. 6-0, Texas, 8:04 left in the quarter. 9:03 pm | First quarter, 6-0 Horns | by Darren Everson This is the most bizarre start to a big game in memory. Texas leads, and Alabama has had two turnovers in less than seven minutes, but has such an advantage ever felt so tenuous? McCoy went to the locker room; obviously, everything seems to ride on whether he returns to the game. 9:05 pm | First quarter, 6-0 Horns | by Darren Everson No word in the press box yet on

McCoy's status. In the meantime, Alabama finally has a decent offensive play. After McElroy is sacked on first down, the Heisman winner breaks off an 18-yard run to the Texas 45. 9:07 pm | First quarter, 6-0 Horns | by Darren Everson McElroy sacked for a third time! Robinson and Sergio Kindle this time. Texas is overwhelming the left side of the Bama line. 9:10 pm | First quarter, 6-0 Horns | by Darren Everson Alabama fails to convert on third down. Bama punts it into the end zone. At this point, one has to wonder about McElroy. Will the constant pressure start getting to his head? He had plenty of time on Bama's third down just then, but hesitated and ran it back to the line. 9:10 pm | First quarter, 6-0 Horns | by Darren Everson 4:29 left, first quarter. Texas ball, own 20, first & 10. A reader was wondering about the commentators tonight. It's ABC/ESPN's A team -- Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit. 9:12 pm | First quarter, 6-0 Horns | by Darren Everson Still Gilbert in at quarterback. Bet he wasn't expecting this when he woke up this morning. Texas playing it safe, running the ball on first and second down -- and getting nowhere. Gilbert's third down pass is a safety-valve that's obliterated for a loss. Punting time.

9:13 pm | First quarter, 6-0 Horns | by Darren Everson Bama gets it back at its own 43, as Texas kicks it out of bounds to avoid Javier Arenas (sensibly). 2:45 left in the quarter. Though Texas is still ahead, it looks more and more like the Horns have no shot without McCoy. 9:15 pm | First quarter, 6-0 Horns | by Darren Everson Ingram goes for eight on first down, nine more on second down. Alabama starting, finally, to settle down. First and 10 on Texas 40. 9:18 pm | First quarter, 6-0 Horns | by Darren Everson After another solid run (five yards), McElroy finds Julio Jones wide open in the left flat for 20 yards. First down at the UT 12. What a bitter feeling this must be for Texas fans. From their standpoint, this is not setting up how they wanted. 9:18 pm | First quarter, 6-0 Horns | by Darren Everson Nine more for Ingram to the 3. End of first quarter -- Texas 6-0. How long will that last, though? 9:19 pm | First quarter, 6-0 Horns | by Darren Everson ABC is saying that McCoy is having his shoulder X-rayed. Not a good sign. 9:21 pm | Second quarter, 6-0 Horns | by Darren Everson Trying to recall a quarterback getting hurt this early in a game of this magnitude. Cannot think

of any. Of course, Oklahoma partisans are surely finding some cosmic justice in this. Texas might not even be here if Sam Bradford hadn't gotten hurt early in this season's Red River game. 9:22 pm | Second quarter, 7-6 Tide | by Darren Everson First and goal for the Tide from the 1. With Cody as lead blocker (but not actually having to hit anybody), Ingram rolls in straight ahead for the touchdown, untouched. Extra point makes it Alabama 7, Texas 6. 14:18 left, second quarter. 9:24 pm | Second quarter, 7-6 Tide | by Darren Everson Gilbert still in at quarterback. Texas back on offense at its own 26. Texas crowd deathly quiet. 9:27 pm | Second quarter, 7-6 Tide | by Darren Everson A chop block on Texas pushes the Horns back to their own 13 -second and 23. This almost isn't fair. Texas is forced to run the ball virtually exclusively, and Bama knows it's coming. 9:29 pm | Second quarter, 7-6 Tide | by Darren Everson Bama ball, first and 10, own 42. Gilbert hit as he throws for an incompletion. Texas forced to punt. Texas again punts toward the sideline to bottle up Arenas, who's dropped immediately. About Garrett Gilbert: true BCS page 51

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freshman from Austin. He played in nine games this year, but all in a mop-up role in blowouts. 15-of-26 for 124 yards. 9:31 pm | Second quarter, 7-6 Tide | by Darren Everson Another sack by Texas -- Kindle this time. Bama backed up to a third and 16 from its own 47. 9:36 pm | Second quarter, 7-6 Tide | by Darren Everson Bama capitulates on third and long, running it for a short gain and then punting. Still 7-6 Bama, 9:39 left, Second quarter. Texas ball, own 15. McCoy sighted without shoulder pads, looking downcast. ABC says he's going from the X-ray room to the Texas locker room. His dad is said to be coming down as well. That's as grim as it gets. 9:39 pm | Second quarter, 7-6 Tide | by Darren Everson Gilbert throws incomplete on first down. A good idea, though. Mack Brown has to open it up at some point. Bama's defense is tough enough to run on when it doesn't know it's coming. After a run for no gain by Gilbert on second down, his third -down pass is batted down. Another three and out. 9:40 pm | Second quarter, 7-6 Tide | by Darren Everson 8:44 left in half, First and 10 Bama, UT 49. Bama drops Arenas and Jones deep this time for the punt, which gives Arenas a chance to do something on this return. He

gets seven, pushing it across midfield. 9:41 pm | Second quarter, 7-6 Tide | by Darren Everson It is all up to the Texas defense now. How long can they hold out? Can they force a turnover? Flip field position? Something? Anything? So far, they've done a fine job keeping Texas in the game, but now they're dealing with another short field. Seems like just a matter of time. 9:47 pm | Second quarter, 14-6 Tide | by Darren Everson 7:59 left in the second. And just like that, the UT defense collapses. After getting stopped for no gain on first down, Trent Richardson bursts through the middle for a 49-yard touchdown run. Just had to get through the line; his sprint through the secondary was unchallenged. The XP makes it 14-6. 9:47 pm | Second quarter, 14-6 Tide | by Darren Everson Here's the official announcement in the press box on McCoy: right shoulder injury, will be reevaluated at halftime. Which we could've figured. 9:48 pm | Second quarter, 14-6 Tide | by Darren Everson Here's the official announcement in the press box on McCoy: right shoulder injury, will be reevaluated at halftime. Which we could've figured. 9:49 pm | Second quarter, 14-6 Tide | by Darren Everson 7:55 Second. Texas first and 10,

own 40. Horns finally hit a play on first down, running a sweep to D.J. Monroe for 28 yards to the Bama 32. 9:50 pm | Second quarter, 14-6 Tide | by Darren Everson A horrible turnabout for Texas. After Gilbert nearly throws a touchdown on second down-Marquis Johnson tipped away the throw into the end zone at the last moment--Arenas intercepts him at the Bama 25. 9:51 pm | Second quarter, 14-6 Tide | by Darren Everson 5:57 left. First down Bama, UT 45. You have to wonder if that was Texas's last gasp. Bama driving again now, getting yards in chunks now on the ground. 9:53 pm | Second quarter, 14-6 Tide | by Darren Everson Texas stops Richardson for one on third and 5, bringing up a fourth and 4 at the Texas 39. Bama immediately sends out the punt team, and indeed does punt. Interesting. The strategy appears to pay off, as Bama downs the punt at the Texas 2. 14-6 Bama, 3:50 left. Still Gilbert in at QB. 9:56 pm | Second quarter, 14-6 Tide | by Darren Everson Gilbert runs a sneak on first; Tre Newton gains three on second down. Gilbert has Jordan Shipley -- who has one catch so far -open down the right sideline on third down, but misses him. Another three and out. Bama gets it back at the Texas 29 after

a short punt and decent return by Arenas. Bama seems content to play it safe on offense, which makes perfect sense, given the situation. The Tide needs only to not give Texas an opportunity to get back in the game. 9:59 pm | Second quarter, 14-6 Tide | by Darren Everson 1:24 left. Second and 8 Bama, UT 16. This possession could be the deathblow. Bama continuing to run the ball out of a three-wide, one-back set. Ingram gets two yards to set up a second and 8 before Alabama calls timeout. 10:01 pm | Second quarter, 17-6 Tide | by Darren Everson 0:33 left. Bama faced with a fourth and 1 from the UT 9 after a bootleg scramble by McElroy. Logical play is to kick the field goal here, which Bama ... does. 26-yard field goal by Leigh Tiffin. 17-6. 10:03 pm | Second quarter, 17-6 Tide | by Darren Everson 0:23 left. Bama's two-score lead seems impregnable. How is Texas going to score once, let alone twice? Texas, which has played virtually the entire game without McCoy, has 82 yards of offense. Gilbert's line: 1 of 9, -4 yards, one interception. Yikes. 10:07 pm | Second quarter, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson 0:03 left. And if Texas hadn't had bad

enough luck already ... Gilbert attempts the safest of throws -- a shovel pass to the running back -- but it's bobbled, intercepted by lineman Marcel Dareus and run back 28 yards for a touchdown. Incredible. XP makes it 24-6. 10:11 pm | Halftime, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson Imagine you're a Texas fan. Can you imagine what it feels like right now to have dropped a grand (or likely more) to fly all the way out here to see this? Alabama might very well have been had tonight. Remember how jittery the Tide was early, trying that absurd fake punt, getting sacked repeatedly, not covering that kickoff. But Texas had virtually no shot the instant McCoy went down. And what little chance there was has been snuffed out by Gilbert's two picks. 10:31 pm | Halftime, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson Second half kickoff is moments away. Got a feeling there's going to be a lot of filler talk over these remaining 30 minutes of regulation. 10:33 pm | Third quarter, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson McCoy is out for the game says ABC's Lisa Salters, who cites an unaired interview with Mack Brown before the second-half kickoff. First and 10 Texas, own 27. Gilbert in at QB. BCS page 52

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10:33 pm | Third quarter, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson A small sign of encouragement: a first down for Texas. Newton gets nine on a first-down run, and after he gets stopped for a loss on second, Gilbert converts the third down on a short curl to Shipley. 10:35 pm | Third quarter, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson Texas's line gets called for a leg whip, putting the Longhorns in a second-and-25 hole from their 27. It should be noted that this isn't all on Gilbert. Most of it is, of course -- he's so green. But the Bama corners are completely draping the Texas receivers. The Longhorns aren't getting any separation at all. 10:39 pm | Third quarter, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson The Horns somehow convert third and 25, as Marquise Goodwin takes a short pass from Gilbert and breaks free for a 39yard gain, into Bama territory. But the Texas offense is still out of joint. Gilbert and his receiver (Goodwin) get crossed up on a pass down the right sideline, with Goodwin breaking the route off short and Gilbert throwing it deep, incomplete. The Texas drive stalls out at the Bama 45. 10:43 pm | Third quarter, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson 11:57 left, 3rd. Bama ball, own 20 (after punt goes for touchback). At this point, Nick Saban could order nothing but running plays.

One could even argue that he should. Even if Bama went three and out on each possession, Texas just isn't scoring three touchdowns without assistance (i.e., turnovers). 10:45 pm | Third quarter, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson Just to recap (because a reader was unclear): McCoy's injury is to his right (throwing) shoulder. Sure enough, Bama does play it safe, running twice and throwing a dump-off to Ingram for five yards. Three and out. Ingram came off the field a little gimpy. Looks like his right leg is bothering him a bit. Walking it off on the sideline. 10:49 pm | Third quarter, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson 9:24 left. Texas ball, first and 10, own 49. Texas is starting to do a little more on offense. Shipley gets free over the middle for a thirdand-5 conversion. But then D.J. Monroe gets dropped for a fiveyard loss on a run. Even runs aren't safe for UT at this point. 10:54 pm | Third quarter, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson 8:09 left, 3rd. Bama ball, own 19. Texas punts after a third-and-15 deep ball by Gilbert is nowhere near its target. Pretty much everything that Gilbert has thrown beyond five yards has been well off, save for that one ball in the end zone in the first half that was tipped away. 10:55 pm | Third quarter, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson

Some commenters are asking a fair question: Sure, it's unfortunate to lose your starting quarterback, but should so much rest with one player? It's a good point. I doubt Bama would be this helpless without McElroy, with its powerful running game. As Texas and Oklahoma have gone highertempo with their powerful offenses, they've become more and more quarterback-dependent. Ironically, the one team in the Big 12 that isn't reliant on its QB is Texas Tech, whose pass-happy offense hums along pretty much regardless of who's doing the throwing. 10:56 pm | Third quarter, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson Sure enough, Ingram is hurt and comes out after a carry. Bama goes three and out again. Texas gets it back at its own 47. Of course, Bama can three-andout its way to the national championship at this point. 11:02 pm | Third quarter, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson And even without Ingram, Alabama still has Trent Richardson, who might actually be better. Texas runs for no gain on first down, throws an incomplete flare on second, throws high and off target on an out on third down. Three and out again. Sigh. Bama ball, own 20 (touchback), 5:34 left. 11:04 pm | Third quarter, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson Kindle is playing a whale of a

game, though. He sacks McElroy again -- a 10-yard loss this time - as Bama's bootleg action doesn't fool him in the least. After a 5-yard gain by Richardson, third and 15 for Bama from its own 15. Dud of a second half so far. 11:05 pm | Third quarter, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson McCoy's injury is thought to be a sprain. ABC says that he begged to go back in, but that he was told not to put his future in jeopardy. He's on the sidelines in uniform and a headset. 11:08 pm | Third quarter, 24-6 Tide | by Darren Everson Texas gets it back at its own 41 and this time, is doing something with it. Goodwin takes a widereceiver screen for 13 on a thirdand-8 to the Bama 44. Still, it's going to take two scores (not one) to make Bama sweat. 11:10 pm | Third quarter, 24-13 Tide | by Darren Everson Uh oh -- might we have a game? Gilbert gets time, Shipley gets open across the middle on a post route, and Gilbert hits him in stride--perfect throw--for a 44yard touchdown. XP makes it 24-13 Bama, 1:31 left, 3rd. Texas actually has looked better on offense this half than Alabama, although that's likely because Alabama is sitting on the lead. 11:11 pm | Third quarter, 24-13 Tide | by Darren Everson Goodness -- we may indeed have a game. On the ensuing kickoff, Texas tries something

I've never seen before: a bullet of an onside kick, which ricochets off of a Bama player and back to Texas, which recovers. Think of a basketball player maintaining possession for his team by spiking the ball off of an opponent. 11:13 pm | Third quarter, 24-13 Tide | by Darren Everson Texas can't do anything with it, though. Another three and out. 24-13 Bama, 0:32 left, 3rd. Texas does pin the Tide at its own 6 on the punt. 11:17 pm | Third quarter, 24-13 Tide | by Darren Everson Still no Ingram for Bama, as Richardson picks up three on first down--and the last play of the third. If I'm a Bama fan, I'm still not worried, though. Texas needs two touchdowns (barring twopoint conversion attempts) to win this game. In three quarters, Texas has driven the field once on the Bama defense. The Horns aren't getting in the end zone two more times without help. 11:21 pm | Fourth quarter, 24-13 Tide | by Darren Everson The Bama offense finally shows some life, as Richardson runs for 10 and gets a first down, up to the Bama 18. A reader took Texas coach Mack Brown to task for not playing his backup quarterback more this season, thus not preparing him for this situation. I don't think that's fair. Brown did BCS page 56

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Associated Press Nick Saban looks thankful for the full use of his shoulders after his players nearly dislocated them during the traditional Gatorade bath. While they were likely not as disappointed as Longhorns lovers, college-football fans who were putting the finishing touches on an elaborate spread of game-time snacks during the early minutes of Thursday’s BCS Championship had to feel pretty awful by the time they finally sat down to watch. Just five snaps into Texas’s first drive and five minutes into the contest, Longhorns quarterback Colt McCoy went down with a shoulder injury after a clean, solid shot from Alabama defensive end Marcell Dareus. Suddenly the spinach-artichoke dip didn’t taste as tangy. Alabama went on to win, 37-21, although the game was considerably more exciting in the fourth quarter than that score suggests. At CBS Sports, Dennis Dodd confesses to feeling somewhat cheated by the way things worked out. “For six weeks we’d built up this tilt between filthyrich, tradition-bound college football superpowers,” Dodd writes. “Five snaps into it, it was like somebody kidnapped the Pope.” That nails the strange sensation of watching Texas scuffle along

with true freshman Garrett Gilbert under center, then rally to come within 24-21, and then resume scuffling. Gilbert played much better in the second half than he did in the first, but to demand a comeback win from the frosh against a super-stout Alabama defense was to demand the impossible, Chuck Carlton writes in the Dallas Morning News. “The experience, good and bad, that Gilbert gained will be invaluable in September,” Carlton writes. “[But] it’s scant consolation now.” At Fox Sports, Mark Kriegel writes that Texas was doomed the moment McCoy left the game. Of course, Alabama won the game as much as Texas lost it. Dareus led a dazzling defensive effort for the Crimson Tide, and

Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram and freshman speedster Trent Richardson both topped 100 rushing yards. In the Birmingham News, Kevin Scarbinsky praises the brilliance of ‘Bama’s defense, which turned in a dominant effort. Alabama’s win gave Coach Nick Saban his second national championship, and made him the first coach to win national titles at two different schools since the Associated Press started crowning them during the Great Depression. In the Huntsville Times, Mark McCarter hails Saban’s work in restoring the Tide to supremacy. “In three short seasons, Alabama became dominant again. Saban restored luster,” McCarter writes. “Not only did he put Alabama football

back on the map, but on a night for the ages, when it snowed two inches of crimson and white in Southern California, Nick Saban put Alabama back in its customary spot in the football galaxy.” But at the Guardian, Michael Tomasky refuses to join in the chorus of praise for Saban. At Sports Illustrated, Andy Staples offers a tribute both to the game and to his late mother, a gonzo University of Alabama fan.* * * Of course it wasn’t easy: It’s boxing, after all. But few who observed the sparring over drugtesting methodology holding up March’s planned mega-bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao thought the spat would actually derail what promised to be a wildly

lucrative, once-in-a-generation fight. And yet, for the time being, that seems like what happened. Nine hours of mediation on Wednesday failed to produce an agreement, and the Mayweather-Pacquiao bout appears unlikely to go off as scheduled. “When critics used to trot out the reasons for boxing’s decline, the word ‘greed’ inevitably made the list,” Tim Starks writes at the boxing blog Queensberry Rules. “They were wrong. I’m not saying it doesn’t exist in boxing. But boxing is the only sport I know of where irrational emotion and excessive pride regularly trump greed.” While boxing had seemed to be HORNS page 58

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Investigative Report Details Leavitt's Lies By Brett McMurphy (Fanhouse Main)

wisely" because Leavitt was "the most powerful man in the building," as reported in Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:31:00 AM FanHouse's initial story. Filed under: South Florida, One player, identified as Coaching, FanHouse Exclusive " S t u d e n t A t h l e t e C " t o l d TAMPA, Fla. -- University of investigators that Leavitt "flat South Florida fired coach Jim out lied" in his denial of the Leavitt Friday for striking a incident and "every word in the player and repeatedly lying to FanHouse article is accurate." investigators, FanHouse has Ketchel's name and the names of learned. all student athletes were USF fired the only coach the originally redacted in South Bulls have had in the program's Florida's release, but player 13-year history following an names were leaked to multiple investigation initiated after a locations online. FanHouse report that stated The investigative report, Leavitt grabbed sophomore walk conducted by Thomas Gonzalez, on Joel Miller by the throat and found several instances where hit the walk-on twice in the face Leavitt lied to the investigator. Nov. 21 at halftime of the Among them that Leavitt Louisville game. "denied grabbing or slapping Share The investigation found [Miller]" during the game. that Leavitt "inappropriately The findings also indicate grabbed the throat and slapped "Leavitt was told not to discuss the face of a student athlete," and the review with any Student t h a t h i s d e n i a l s w e r e Athlete" ... "nevertheless, he "consistently uncorroborated by admits having spoken to [Miller] credible witnesses ... [and] immediately after [Miller's] first contradicted by a number of interview." credible witnesses." The university announced his FanHouse Exclusive firing at a press conference F u l l d o c u m e n t s d e t a i l i n g Friday. Leavitt, who was fired Leavitt's firing: for cause, will receive one â&#x20AC;˘ USF's Letter to Leavitt (PDF) month's base salary as severance, â&#x20AC;˘ Investigative Report or roughly $66,667. Leavitt was in the second year of a sevenThe 33-page investigative year, $12.6 million contract and r e p o r t , o b t a i n e d f i r s t b y was due to make 800K in base F a n H o u s e , s h o w s L e a v i t t salary this season. regularly lied during his Running backs coach and interview with the investigator. It former Duke head coach Carl shows that Leavitt told Miller Franks was named interim coach. that he should "choose his words Despite denials from Leavitt and

Miller's penalty, an illegal block on a punt return. Leavitt said he knelt so he could make eye contact with Miller, but the player did not respond. Leavitt says he shook [Miller's] knees, and asked "what's wrong [Miller], what's wrong?" The coach then claimed he grabbed [Miller's] shoulder pads and told him he would do better. He denied grabbing his neck and strength coach Ron McKeefery, said there was "no way" that his the reviewers found that the hand could have slipped or that incident took place as originally he touched Miller's face. However, several student reported. I n v e s t i g a t o r s i n t e r v i e w e d athletes described the event 21student athletes and nine non much differently. student-athletes, including USF Student Athlete B said Miller staff members and Miller's high was looking up at the coach as Leavitt came quickly toward him school coach, David Mitchell. According to the report, Miller and that Leavitt grabbed Miller initially denied having been by his throat and then struck grabbed by the throat or struck, Miller's head twice with an open but provided the names of five hand. o t h e r s t u d e n t a t h l e t e s t o He told investigators that he was investigators. Two of the five certain he had witnessed a crime. athletes had seen the event and He also said he was unable to described it as, "involving Coach sleep or eat because of we had Leavitt grabbing [Miller] by the witnessed and categorized it as t h r o a t w i t h o n e h a n d a n d "an assault." Athlete B felt 'slapping' or 'striking' [Miller's] betrayed and said he believed Leavitt had violated the face with his other hand." Student Athlete H said he program's values and standards. remembered that [Miller] looked Miller reported that when he "shocked" and definitely was spoke with Leavitt, the coach advised that Miller should "shook up" after it. Another student athlete warned "choose his words wisely, of the coach, "When Leavitt's because he, Leavitt, was the most doing his thing, I stay away." powerful person in the building," In the report, Leavitt claimed he according to the report. didn't know Miller had a "bad Miller's position coach, Franks, first half," nor did he remember told investigators that when he spoke to Miller's parents after the

Louisville game, they told him they were "concerned" about what had taken place in the locker room. Athlete C said Miller was bothered by the incident, asking "Did you see that s---? Did you see what he did to me?" Miller's former high school coach, David Mitchell, told investigators that he spoke to Miller over the phone and Miller described the incident "exactly as it was reported in FanHouse." Miller's initial reluctance to verify the initial story was due in part to the player's concern for the fate of the team's assistant coaches, according to the report, as well as his own concerns of maintaining his scholarship to pay for college. Miller repeated that he "just wanted to play football." The report characterized Miller as not "a person who would be untruthful. ... He very much seems like the sort of man who would not want the incident to affect the coaching staff or others." But the incident's impact continued to grow. Student Athlete N, who was injured and did not travel to Louisville, learned of the incident following the game and said that the entire team was aware of it. FanHouse first reported details of the incident Dec. 14. Five witnesses, USF players and staff INVESTIGATIVE page 56

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South Florida Bulls fire coach Jim Leavitt By ESPN.com news services (ESPN.com)

player who was "down" when he grabbed the player's shoulder pads during halftime of a game Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:16:25 PM against Louisville on Nov. 21. South Florida Fires Jim Leavitt But the letter athletic director South Florida Fires Jim Leavitt Doug Woolard presented to TAMPA, Fla. -- South Florida Leavitt during a meeting with fired football coach Jim Leavitt Genshaft informed the coach after a school investigation " y o u r d e s c r i p t i o n o f y o u r concluded he grabbed one of his conduct toward the student players by the throat, slapped a t h l e t e i n q u e s t i o n w a s him in the face and then lied consistently uncorroborated by about it. credible witnesses." A letter hand-delivered to the The school also concluded coach and released along with a Leavitt interfered with the report on the three-week probe investigation by having "direct said the university's findings contact with material witnesses were based on "independently ... at a time you knew or should corroborated statements of have known was critical to the persons found to be in the best review process." p o s i t i o n t o o b s e r v e y o u r Leavitt, who was 95-57, just conduct." completed the second season of a "Coach Leavitt committed a s e v e n - y e a r , $ 1 2 . 6 m i l l i o n serious violation of our standards c o n t r a c t . of conduct regarding treatment "I truly wish there had been of students," university president a n o t h e r o u t c o m e t o t h i s Judy Genshaft said Friday, situation," Woolard said during a adding a national search for a news conference Friday. replacement will begin Before Leavitt's firing was immediately. announced, a USF staff member Reached by telephone, the only told ESPN's Joe Schad that the coach in the program's 13-year entire coaching staff would be history told The Associated Press fired. However, the university he was "disappointed" and the said coaches have been told it allegation was "absolutely false." w o u l d b e u p t o L e a v i t t ' s Leavitt told investigators he has successor to decide whether they never struck a player and that he will be retained. was trying to lift the spirits of a Genshaft and Woolard launched

the investigation last month after an AOL FanHouse report said Leavitt had grabbed sophomore Joel Miller and hit him in the face twice during halftime of the Louisville game. Miller was penalized for an illegal block in the first half, and he also was on the field when Louisville returned a punt for a touchdown. "I'm very disappointed. The allegations as reported are absolutely false," Leavitt said Friday. "I'm going to respond in time." Miller told Schad that he would have no comment about Leavitt's firing but that he planned to release a statement in the coming days. In an interview last month, Miller said he plans to remain with South Florida's program. "It's been real hard especially on my family," Miller said at the time. "But my plan is to stay and play here." Citing Miller's father, a high school coach and five USF players who were not identified, FanHouse initially reported Leavitt struck Miller because he was upset about a mistake Miller made on special teams. Miller's father later backtracked, telling reporters Leavitt did not strike his son but rather grabbed him by the shoulder pads while

trying to motivate the sophomore walk-on. Neither Genshaft nor Woolard took questions, and specifics about Leavitt's dismissal were not discussed during the news conference. Investigators talked to several players, who were not identified by name and who either witnessed the alleged incident or were told of it by a player referred to in the report as "Student A." The report said during an initial interview with investigators that "Student A" tried to play down the incident, saying the coach grabbed his shoulder pads and "didn't touch me in any malicious way." The investigation concluded differently. In his letter to Leavitt, Woolard said the athlete's statements after the probe began "are unpersuasive because they were contradicted by the same student athlete in his conversations with credible witnesses made close in time to when that conduct occurred." Leavitt was hired in December 1995 and launched USF's program from scratch, operating out of trailers on campus in the early years while guiding the Bulls' swift progression from

Division I-AA to BCS conference member. USF joined the Big East in 2005 and has played in a bowl game every year since joining the league. The Bulls were ranked as high as No. 2 in the nation in 2007 before a midseason conference slide dropped them out of the Top 25. Similar collapses in conference play followed 5-0 starts each of the past two years. The Bulls finished 8-5 this season. Florida defensive line coach Dan McCarney, former Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville -- who has strong ties in the state from his tenure on Miami's coaching staff -- and Michigan offensive coordinator Calvin Magee are expected to be candidates to replace Leavitt, a source told ESPN.com's Ivan Maisel. Information from The Associated Press, ESPN.com senior writer Ivan Maisel and ESPN college football reporter Joe Schad was used in this report. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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work him a little, using him in blowouts. More reps against Louisiana-Monroe wouldn't have made the difference tonight. Texas's problem is that it can't run the ball. Not just against Bama. Texas's running game is the weak link on this team. Colt McCoy has been their de facto running threat, and he's actually pretty dangerous in that role. But look what that got the Horns tonight. 11:23 pm | Fourth quarter, 24-13 Tide | by Darren Everson 13:04 left. First and 10 Bama, UT 39. Penalties starting to kill the Texas defense. A pass interference (on an uncatchable ball) and a hands-to-the-face personal foul (on a 2-yard run) move Bama into Texas territory. They also bleed the clock. 11:26 pm | Fourth quarter, 24-13 Tide | by Darren Everson Texas holds, though, as Tiffin misses a 52-yard field goal. This is nominally still a game, although it's still highly unlikely that the Longhorns can get closer without turnovers. Gilbert is 7 for 28 for 104 yards, 1 TD and 1 interception 2 interceptions. 11:13 left, Texas first and 10, own 35. 11:33 pm | Fourth quarter, 24-13 Tide | by Darren Everson Texas ball just across midfield. The Longhorns are moving the ball in fits and starts, relying on short passes to Jordan Shipley. Without much time to run the ball, and without the accuracy to

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go deep, it's pretty much all they have. 11:35 pm | Fourth quarter, 24-13 Tide | by Darren Everson Invisible early on, Shipley is a presence now. He converts another third down with a catch over the middle. His line: 8 catches, 82 yards, one score. This drive is starting to chew up the clock, though -- it's down to 7:30. Still 24-13 Bama. Texas has to get something out of this. 11:38 pm | Fourth quarter, 24-21 Tide | by Darren Everson Speaking of Jordan Shipley! The star receiver catches a 28yard touchdown pass, as Gilbert fools Bama defensive back Robby Green with a fake, then lofts the ball to Shipley down the right side for the score. And then Texas gets the two-point conversion on a throw over the middle to Buckner. 24-21 Bama, 6:15 left. Unreal. 11:41 pm | Fourth quarter, 24-21 Tide | by Darren Everson What is with these Texas kickoffs? Another short one is fair-caught by Bama at the 35. Smart, safe move. 6:15 left. 11:44 pm | Fourth quarter, 24-21 Tide | by Darren Everson Ingram back in. Alabama putting away the toys now. Ingram takes a first-down dumpoff for seven, then carries for 19 and a first down at the UT 39. Just under five minutes left. 11:46 pm | Fourth quarter, 24-21 Tide | by Darren Everson Just one yard on two carries by the Heisman winner leaves Bama

with third and 8 at the Texas 37. McElroy, under pressure, throws incomplete to the outside. Fitzgerald in to punt. Timeout, Texas. 3:21 left. 11:53 pm | Fourth quarter, 24-21 Tide | by Darren Everson Texas gets it back at its own 7. A defensive holding penalty on a first-down pass moves it out to the 17. And then: disaster (from the Texas standpoint). Gilbert, hit from the blind side, fumbles and Alabama recovers at the Texas 3. The young quarterback never felt the rush coming, as it came from his blind side, the left. Just under three minutes left. Alabama going for the kill. 11:58 pm | Fourth quarter, 31-21 Tide | by Darren Everson And there it is. On third and goal, Ingram gets in on second effort (and after further review). 31-21 Tide, 2:01 left. The game, and the title, are Alabama's. The championship, depending on who's counting, is anywhere from Alabama's seventh to its 13th, and first since 1992. 12:04 am | Fourth quarter, 37-21 Tide | by Darren Everson One more interception for Gilbert -- his third -- has Alabama knocking on the door once again. Trent Richardson charges in for a 2-yard touchdown with 47 seconds left, drawing boos from the Texas crowd. It's now 37-21(the extra point was no good), but that score isn't representative of how this game

has gone. Total yards: 265-258, Alabama. 12:12 am | Final, 37-21 Tide | by Editor And Gilbert is intercepted again off a deflection. McElroy takes a knee and it's over. 12:17 am | Postgame, 37-21 Tide | by Darren Everson Check that: one *more* interception for Gilbert. His final line: 15-of-40, 186 yards, two touchdowns, four interceptions. Final score: Alabama 37, Texas 21. A fourth straight national championship for the Southeastern Conference. That's what will go in the record books, but obviously, that doesn't tell the entire story. We'll never know what might've happened had McCoy not gotten hurt. Then again, we don't know how Alabama would've played either. The key to the game (besides the injury, of course) was the Crimson Tide's ability to run the ball in the second quarter. That compelled Texas to start taking some risks with Gilbert in the passing game. And that enabled Alabama to stretch its lead. So the injury is arguably unfortunate for both teams. It deprived Texas of a decent shot, but it also sullied Alabama's victory. At least, though, Alabama still got the victory.

members, said that Leavitt was upset by a mistake Miller made on special teams during the first half against Louisville, leading the coach to strike Miller. When reached for comment Dec. 14, Leavitt would neither confirm nor deny the incident. "Things that happen or don't happen usually are kept within the team -- whether they happen or don't happen." Wednesday, wide receiver Colby Erskin, who was not present int he locker room at the time, told FanHouse that Miller told him about the incident and asked for his advice on what he should do, a few days after the Nov. 21 incident. Erskin also said Leavitt cleaned out his locker and threw his personal effects into a trash bin. Erskin said he believed that Leavitt suspected him of leaking the story to the media. Leavitt is 95-47 overall at South Florida and 17-18 in the Big East. He guided the Bulls to a 27-3 International Bowl victory over Northern Illinois in his final game. The search for a replacement will commence immediately. Contact FanHouse reporter Brett M c M u r p h y a t brettmcmurphy@gmail.com Follow Us on Twitter Friend Us on Facebook

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Seattle Seahawks fire Jim Mora; Pete Carroll courted, sources say By Chris Mortensen (ESPN.com) Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:03:46 PM

Seahawks Target Pete Carroll Seahawks Target Pete Carroll VIDEO PLAYLIST • Seahawks Target Pete Carroll Seahawks Target Pete Carroll • Houshmandzadeh Comments On Mora Firing Houshmandzadeh Comments On Mora Firing • Schlereth: Seahawks Can Win Division Schlereth: Seahawks Can Win Division • Seahawks Fire Jim Mora Seahawks Fire Jim Mora Seattle Seahawks coach Jim Mora has been fired, the first coach in team history to be let go after one season, and league sources say longtime USC coach Pete Carroll is being targeted as Mora's replacement. Mora attended a meeting Friday morning with management, at which time he was told by Seahawks CEO Tod Leiweke that he did not win enough games to save his job. The Seahawks ended the season on a four-game losing streak to finish

5-11. Mora Carroll Mora was shocked by his dismissal, believing that when he was called to Lieweke's office that he they would be in discussion about the team's vacant general manager's job, Seahawks sources said. "This team, more importantly this community, means so much to me that it hurts not being able to see this through," Mora said in a team-issued statement. "I am disappointed I did not get the chance to complete my contract. This is a tough business that sometimes demands immediate gratification." The Seahawks are floundering less than four years after they appeared in the Super Bowl. Seattle is 9-23 since its last playoff appearance in January 2008, after four consecutive NFC West titles, and now it's without a coach, general manager and president. Sando on Mora ESPN.com NFC West blogger Mike Sando has thoughts, analysis and more on the firing of Seattle coach Jim Mora. Story

"We've made a tough decision today," Leiweke said in a statement. "It became apparent after conducting an extensive internal audit that a new direction was needed to provide an opportunity for the organization to be successful. Today's decision, while difficult, is part of the process in building a franchise with a new vision in 2010." Will Carroll be part of it? In a text message Friday, he said, "You know I haven't responded to a NFL question in two years." But a league source said Carroll is interested in the job and is trying to persuade USC offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates to join him in Seattle -- as opposed to Bates pursuing the same position with the Chicago Bears. Said another source close to Carroll: "You're about to see a big headline that shakes up the major college football world," in reference to the Seahawks' development. The Seahawks did not confirm but also did not deny that Carroll is a leading candidate to become coach. "Pete's name comes out at this time every year. In the past, he

hasn't commented on such reports," USC spokesman Tim Tessalone said in an e-mail, according to The Associated Press. "He was not expected in [Friday]. ... At this point, we have nothing to report." Miller on USC Why would Carroll leave USC for Seattle, a franchise that has been sagging since a Super Bowl appearance in 2006? ESPN.com Pac-10 blogger Ted Miller looks at potential reasons. Blog Meanwhile, Seattle has spent time trying to hire a general manager after Tim Ruskell, who in 2008 picked Mora to be coach Mike Holmgren's replacement, resigned during the season. Seattle spoke to Holmgren about becoming GM, but the two sides couldn't come to an agreement before the end of the regular season. Eagles GM Tom Heckert and Ravens director of player personnel Eric DeCosta canceled their previously scheduled interviews -- both before Carroll's name surfaced. Heckert canceled shortly after his visit to Cleveland and DeCosta canceled earlier this week.

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The Seahawks plan to begin interviewing GM candidates next week. Mora joined the Seahawks in February 2008 on a five-year contract that called for him to transition to coach once Holmgren retired. Mora was an assistant for the 2008 season, then succeeded Holmgren. Mora is believed to have about $12 million remaining on the final three years of his contract. Once Mora was informed of his dismissal, the Seahawks asked Vikings defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier to interview quickly for the job but he turned them down, suspecting that the team did not have serious interest but were only trying to satisfy the Rooney Rule that requires minority candidates to be interviewed, a source said. Chris Mortensen is ESPN's senior NFL analyst. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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embarking on a mini-renaissance of late, the inability of people who stood to make a great many headlines and a great deal of money to get this fight off the ground reminds ESPN’s Tim Keown of the sport’s bad old days. “For those of us who long for the days when boxing was the sporting world’s crazy uncle, the past few weeks have provided us with a nice hit of nostalgia,” Keown writes. “Scurrilous allegations, defamation suits and a heavily tattooed man claiming a fear of needles — MayweatherPacquiao isn’t Tyson-McNeeley, but it’ll do.” Keown places the lion’s share of the blame for the debacle on Mayweather’s team, while Starks blames boxing’s broader selfdefeating tendencies. But both agree with Martin Rogers’s assertion, at Yahoo, that boxing fans are the biggest victims of this self-defeating silliness. “Sadly,” Rogers writes, “it is those of us who love this sport, warts and all, despite its challenges and problems and fall from grace in the sporting conscience, who will be most

hurt by the demise of the matchup that promised so much.”* * * Garey provided a brief encomium round-up after sportscaster George Michael died last month. While it seemed logical to assume that Michael’s legacy would be the “George Michael Sports Machine,” his simultaneously goofy and trailblazing syndicated sportshighlights show, Dave McKenna complicates Michael’s legacy somewhat in the Washington City Paper. In a report that’s not notably more flattering to Redskins owner Daniel Snyder than to Michael, McKenna explains Michael’s leading role in a seamy, long-running pay-toplay scheme devised by Snyder and the ‘Skins. “Michael’s amazing run atop the D.C. sportscasting scene was fueled by checkbook journalism,” McKenna writes. “He started paying Redskins players and coaches to get access shortly after arriving in town in 1980, and after Dan Snyder bought the Redskins, Michael and WRC even began taking money from the team to get Snyder’s message out via various

sources, including Snyderproduced infomercials.” At Deadspin, Alan Siegel provides an entertaining account of his semester as an intern for the mercurial, occasionally gracious Michael.* * * Chances are when you think of online sportswriting, you think of the quick, glib style pioneered by Deadspin and mimicked by its countless bloggy imitators. But there’s another side to online sports journalism that is essentially the opposite aesthetic. It features long-form writing that often feels more like a journal entry than traditional journalism. Joe Posnanski, the estimable columnist for the Kansas City Star and Sports Illustrated, has long been one of the masters of this unhurried style at his blog, but he may have outdone even himself with a mournful, magisterial 9,000-word post on the dreadful decade that just concluded for the Kansas City Royals. Chances are you already know whether or not you’re part of the audience for this. It is, after all, a very long essay about one of the saddest franchises in pro sports. But if you’re up for it,

it’s typical Posnanski in its unique tone, depth and humor.* ** Armenia is, in many ways, like a number of other former Soviet Bloc nations. That is, it’s poor and cursed with dysfunctional politics. What sets Armenia apart, both from its neighbors in the Caucasus and from every other nation in the world, is its national obsession with, and stunning proficiency at, the game of chess. In a fascinating piece for Britain’s Prospect Magazine, David Edmonds examines this small nation’s peculiarly outsize excellence at this cerebral game. — Tip of the Fix cap to readers David Davis, Don Hartline and Fred Sternburg and fellow Fixer Garey Ris. Found a good column from the world of sports? Don’t keep it to yourself — write to us at dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll consider your find for inclusion in the Daily Fix. You can email David at droth11@gmail.com.

Two Teenage Girls Sought in Cincinnati Bank Robbery (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:27:28 AM

CINCINNATI Police in suburban Cincinnati are searching for two teenage girls they believed robbed a bank. The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office says a robbery was reported Tuesday afternoon at the First National Bank in Symmes Township. Authorities say the suspects were described as two girls. One was 14 to 16 years old and the other could have been as young as 12. Officials say the girls didn't appear to have weapons and walked out with an unknown amount of what's called "bait money." The money can be easily identified as coming from the bank. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Aurélie Bidermann's Artful Accessories By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 1/8/2010 10:30:00 AM

Yesterday morning, Parisian jewelry designer Aurélie Bidermann presented her chic

spring collection. Bidermann, shown at left). Now, it’s easier who has a background in art than ever to get your hands on history, creates gems that exude the Kate Moss and Lou Doillona poetic artistry (delicately coiled loved line—the current snake bracelets and rings) mixed collection is available to buy with a quirky, one-of-a-kind little elephants and dragonflies, through her website. Click here twist (her line of charms features to shop the designer’s favorite

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Taking Stock of World Manny Pacquiao to fight Joshua Clottey instead of Floyd Mayweather Junior Stars Jr., promotor Bob Arum confirms By Bruce Ciskie (Fanhouse Main)

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But Arum confirmed Pacquiao's plan to fight Clottey to The Associated Press on Friday. Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:40:40 PM Top Rank, the promotional With his fight against Floyd company that handles Pacquiao Mayweather Jr. all but off, and Clottey, told ESPN.com it Manny Pacquiao has instead has been in contact only briefly agreed to fight Joshua Clottey on with Clottey's manager, Vinny March 13 at a site to be Scolpino, to discuss the determined, Pacquiao trainer possibility of the fight and the Freddie Roach told ESPN's Brian sides have not yet discussed Kenny on Friday. money. The Pacquiao-Mayweather bout, Clottey had last been slated to which had also been tentatively fight Carlos Quintana on Dec. 5. set for March 13, was called off But that undercard bout was Wednesday night by Top Rank's called off when Kelly Pavlik Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter, pulled out of the main event after mediation failed to resolve against Paul Williams with a their issues over drug-testing lingering hand injury. protocol. The final issue in the negotiation But Mayweather Jr. maintained for the Pacquiao-Mayweather Thursday night that he still megafight was drug testing. wanted to fight Pacquiao. They agreed to unlimited Clottey (35-3, 20 KOs) last r a n d o m u r i n e t e s t i n g , b u t fought in a split decision loss to Mayweather also insisted on welterweight titlist Miguel Cotto random blood testing, even on June 13, a fight many though the Nevada State Athletic believed Clottey won. Commission, which would Clottey, who Friday was in his oversee the bout at the MGM native Ghana, has not agreed to Grand in Las Vegas, requires the fight, nor does he necessarily only urine testing. know about Pacquiao's Pacquiao (50-3-2, 38 KOs) inclination, Top Rank told didn't want blood testing but ESPN.com. later relented and agreed to three

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blood tests: one during the week of the kickoff news conference, which would have taken place next week, one random test to be conducted no later than 30 days before the fight and a final test in his dressing room after the fight. Mayweather (40-0, 25 KOs) would be subject to the same testing procedures. When they could not come to an agreement, Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions, which represents Mayweather, turned to a mediator, retired judge Daniel Weinstein, who had successfully mediated a series of disputes between Top Rank and Golden Boy in 2007. But after nine hours in mediation on Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif., and further attempts to come to a resolution on Wednesday failed, the fight was pronounced dead by the Pacquiao camp. Information from ESPN.com boxing writer Dan Rafael was used in this report. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Filed under: NHL Draft, Team USA, Team Canada, International Hockey, Junior Hockey For many of the young players who took part in the 2010 IIHF World Junior Championships, there was more on the line than a gold medal. While guys like Jordan Schroeder ( NHL rights: Vancouver), Derek Stepan (N.Y. Rangers), and Jerry D'Amigo (Toronto) didn't have to worry about their NHL draft stock, other players in the tournament -like Canada's highly-touted Taylor Hall -- did. How did they

do? More importantly for NHL fans, how did Schroeder, Stepan, D'Amigo, and the scores of other already-drafted players perform? Are some of these highly-touted prospects closer to making it to the NHL?

Bear Stearns name set for scrapheap (Financial Times - US homepage)

price as it tottered on the brink of collapse in March 2008 has decided to emblazon its own Submitted at 1/8/2010 11:41:06 AM name on the last remnant of the Farewell, then, Bear Stearns. Bear empire: a brokerage unit More than 86 years after Joseph serving rich, but not too rich, Bear, Robert Stearns, and Harold p e o p l e ( â&#x20AC;&#x153; S i n g l e - d i g i t Mayer pooled $500,000 in m i l l i o n a i r e s , â&#x20AC;? i s h o w o n e capital and founded an equity employee coyly describes his trading house named after the target audience). first two, the Bear Stearns name Five Filters featured article: is to be consigned to the dustbin Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: of history. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, JPMorgan Chase, which bought Term Extraction. the investment bank for a cut-

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Child's Play charity raises more than $1.7 million in 2009 By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) Submitted at 1/8/2010 4:00:00 PM

Mega Man 10 footage caught on tape By JC Fletcher (Joystiq)

post mid-boss area: in normal difficulty, there's a spiked ball that constantly slams into Mega Capcom is showing off Mega Man, but in Easy Mode that M a n 1 0 a t C E S . C E S h a s obstacle is absent, making the p o s s i b l y t h e h i g h e s t boss a fairly simple matter. At concentration of video cameras the end, the game announces of any location on Earth. You that, like Mega Man 9, there will see where this is going. be DLC and a time attack mode. A f t e r t h e b r e a k , w e ' v e Mega Man 10 will be available embedded off-screen footage of on Xbox 360, Wii, and PS3 as a the faux-retro downloadable download in March. game's stadium stage, captured [Via GoNintendo] and written up in preview form Continue reading Mega Man 10 by The Mega Man Network. footage caught on tape Capcom didn't allow the boss's Mega Man 10 footage caught on name to be released, so it's just tape originally appeared on "the stadium stage" for now. The Joystiq on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 MM Network blogger managed 15:30:00 EST. Please see our to play, and record, the stage in terms for use of feeds. both normal difficulty and the Read| Permalink| Email this| new Easy Mode, allowing us to Comments see some of the differences. It's especially notable in the goal Submitted at 1/8/2010 3:30:00 PM

Though the guys over at Penny Arcade would probably find more eloquent ways to articulate this piece of news, we'd like to simply say: Holy crap, you guys. The annual Child's Play charity drive raised over $1.7 million in By Richard Mitchell (Joystiq) on the new game." The next donations in 2009. Despite the update is set to drop on Tuesday, Submitted at 1/8/2010 5:30:00 PM fact that everyone lost their jobs, January 12. and the stock market ate all our Here's the news, Halo fans: In the meantime, we'll be monies, you still found a way to You're going to buy the February scrutinizing every detail of the dig deep and give games to sick issue of Game Informer. The cover for clues about the game. kids. This is us high-fiving you. magazine will have a ten page For example, did you notice that (Smack!) cover story on Halo: Reach, the third Spartan from the left To learn more about the charity, including screens, details and -- has a skull painted on his visor? check out the latest episode of as illustrated by the cover above Because he totally does. PATV. Not only does it give a -- some new artwork. In addition Halo: Reach detailed in next nice history of the foundation, it to the cover story, the Halo: G a m e I n f o r m e r o r i g i n a l l y also does a great job of showing R e a c h h u b o n appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 08 you where your donations end GameInformer.com will be Jan 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please up. receiving updates throughout the see our terms for use of feeds. Child's Play charity raises more rest of January, including a look Read| Permalink| Email this| than $1.7 million in 2009 at the Halo franchise, profiles of Comments originally appeared on Joystiq on Bungie and 343 Industries Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:00:00 EST. employees and "expanded details Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Hecht’s (ahem, pitch perfect) Red Hook accent, but I do very strongly encourage those of you January 24th will be a big night in the NYC area not to miss for Manhattan’s Cort Theater. View From the Bridge’s short, Not only will it play host to the 14-week run. first Broadway showing of To purchase tickets to the show, A r t h u r M i l l e r ’ s s e a r i n g , click here. And hurry, because if Brooklyn-set tragedy, View the packed house at the preview I From the Bridge, since it first attended last week was any opened back in 1955, but it will indication, seats won’t be also mark the Broadway debut available much longer. By Richard Mitchell (Joystiq) The content in Resident Evil 5: for actress Scarlett Johansson (Clockwise from L): Director Gold Edition will be available as and, after a 17-year hiatus, the Gregory Mosher; the billing Submitted at 1/8/2010 4:30:00 PM DLC this February and arrives at Broadway return of celebrated poster; Hecht and Johansson onThe official Japanese site for the retail in March. director Gregory Mosher. stage; the final, powerful scene upcoming Resident Evil 5: Gold [Via andriasang.com] Because of the rule barring any before Intermission (featuring, L Edition has been updated with a Gallery: Resident Evil 5: Gold reviews until after opening night, -R: Johansson, Santino Fontana, ton of fresh screens showcasing Edition (1/8/2010) I can’t say much about what I Schreiber, and Corey Stoll) some of the new content in the New Resident Evil 5 Gold thought of the production, the Photos: Joan Marcus, update. In the gallery below, E d i t i o n s c r e e n s o r i g i n a l l y performances, or even Jessica W i r e I m a g e you'll find shots of the new appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 08 costumes available for Sheva and Jan 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please Chris, as well as some glimpses see our terms for use of feeds. of the " Desperate Escape" Read| Permalink| Email this| episode starring Jill Valentine Comments and Josh Stone. Submitted at 1/8/2010 11:16:30 AM

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Global stocks recover after US jobs data disappoint (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:52:54 PM

21:40 GMT. The dollar slumped, bond yields dropped but Wall Street hit fresh 15month highs after equity investors shrugged off a disappointing US labour market report. A Reuters poll of analysts had suggested that no jobs would have been lost or gained in December, and that the unemployment rate would inch up to 10.1 per cent. In the event, 85,000 jobs were lost last month, though revisions to earlier data showed payrolls had managed a small gain in November, the first increase since December 2007. The unemployment rate remained at 10 per cent in December. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

A Breath of Fresh Air: Ferre and Dree Hemingway By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 1/8/2010 9:31:06 AM

Gianfranco Ferré, the Italian fashion house, has taken darling Dree Hemingway as the face of their new campaign. The

campaign was shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadi and features Dree suspended in motion on what looks like an elaborate scaffolding setting while her sheer, fluid clothes are brought to life in the breeze.

But look closely: There is something else making its first

appearance in the campaign. It's called the Signature Pin symbol and it's meant to "mark the new course and future of the brand"— which, judging by its minimalist look, will presumably involve an elegant, clean and simple approach.

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Between the Line: A Coloring Book of Drawings by Contemporary Artists By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 1/8/2010 11:05:06 AM

In another life, I could have been an amazing artist (or: a concert pianist, a gymnast, a downhill skier, a dancer, or zoologist), but a chronic lack of interest in practice and technique in favor of pleasurable freehanding led me to be one who just “dabbles.” Still, I owe any and all interest in drawing and painting to the very basic exercise of coloring. As in, a coloring book, a box of crayons, and my adherence—or lack there of—to the palette of the world. I still remember my older brother sitting me down at age 4 and teaching me how to color, instructing me to outline the object first, then color it in so I could better stay in the lines.

That tiny bit of know-how was instrumental in the many accolades and awards I received for my coloring skills in the early years of elementary school. Twenty-years later, RxArt is allowing me to indulge, once again, that small, almost Zen-like

luxury of simply coloring, albeit on a more adult level. Now in its second volume, Between the Line: A Coloring Book of Drawings by Contemporary Artists is available to those adults who have since forgotten how joyous filling in a colorless

image can be. With drawings by forty-eight artists including Takashi Murakami, Adam McEwen, Aurel Schmidt, and fashion designer Cynthia Rowley, there’s a picture and a style for any artistic taste—there’s even a few pages of stickers to play around with. I took the first picture in the book by McEwan and had a go on my lunch break. She’s got blue skin and green hair, but so what? I stayed in the lines, didn’t I? My older brother would be proud. Both volumes of the contemporary artist coloring books are available online, or in the RxArt store at 208 Forsyth Street, New York, NY 10002 (212.260.8797). —Seth Platter, Assistant Editor Follow ELLE on Twitter. Become our Facebook fan!

Shanghai paves way for short selling (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 1/8/2010 11:38:43 AM

Beijing has approved the launch, on a trial basis, of stock index futures and the short selling of stocks, an important and longawaited step in the development of China’s equity market. Shorting stocks and trading index futures will allow traders to profit from falling as well as rising markets. They will also enable investors to hedge their positions against downturns in China’s notoriously volatile markets. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Christmas Day Terror Suspect Pleads Not Guilty (FOXNews.com)

shoes and light olive pants, said "yes" in English when asked if understood the charges against DETROIT A Nigerian man him. pleaded not guilty Friday to Authorities say Abdulmutallab charges that he tried to blow up a was traveling from Amsterdam packed U.S. Detroit-bound when he tried to destroy the airliner on Christmas Day. N o r t h w e s t A i r l i n e s p l a n e Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab carrying nearly 300 people by said little during a federal court injecting chemicals into a hearing that lasted less than five package of explosives concealed minutes. The 23-year-old, who in his underwear. The failed wore a white T-shirt, tennis attack caused popping sounds Submitted at 1/7/2010 11:50:47 PM

and flames that passengers and crew rushed to extinguish. A grand jury indicted Abdulmutallab on six charges earlier this week. The most severe carries up to life in prison — the attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. During Friday's hearing, Abdulmutallab stood at the podium along with Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Tukel and defense attorney Miriam

Siefer and answered a few questions from Magistrate Judge Mark A. Randon. When the judge asked if he had taken any drugs or alcohol in past 24 hours, he answered, "some pain pills." Siefer then said he was competent to understand the proceedings. Abdulmutallab, who is being held at a federal prison in Milan, Mich., had been treated at a hospital for burns after the

attack. His attorneys then waived the reading of the indictment, and the judge entered not guilty plea enter on his behalf. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Life Through the Eyes of a Garment Worker: A Documentary in the Making By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:16:42 PM

Over the winter break, besides attending the Burj opening in Dubai, I worked on a documentary which I filmed and directed. Its focus is life through the eyes of a garment worker in Bangladesh. The garment industry in South Asia has been under scrutiny over the past decade, with outcries of human rights abuses and child labor running rampant through the media. But as Bangladesh sits to take the

spotlight as the go-to location to produce low-priced clothing for the mainstream consumer market, the question is whether it has been able to keep a tidy employment policy. More and

more, giants like Kohl's and Bebe are taking their production to the nation and it's even shifting business out of neighboring textile-producing countries, like Pakistan.

Chill shocks the 'sunshine state' (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 1/8/2010 7:19:52 AM

The US cold snap has struck the famously warm southern state of Florida, damaging key citrus crops and shocking both residents and tourists. Temperatures have dipped and tourists hoping to enjoy Florida's balmy climes have been donning coats to keep warm. Iguanas were seen falling from trees in southern Florida while sea cows and manatees congregated in warmer waters outside power plants. Temperatures have fallen to around 0C, far below normal

levels in the state. An environmental specialist for the Tampa Electric Company, in whose waters giant eagle rays and spinner sharks also sought refuge, said it was typical for such mammals to swim to warmer waters. "This is a spa for them," Wendy Anastasiou told the Associated Press news agency. At the Palm Beach Zoo, workers transferred some 50 parrots and some of its collection of monkeys indoors and set up heat lamps to keep the other animals warm. 'Strange situation' Although temperatures in the southern state were nowhere near

as brutal as in the northern US states, blighted by snow drifts and arctic winds, Cintia Martinez, a cruise operator for Royal Caribbean, told AFP news agency the sudden dip was "a strange situation". She said that luckily many of those on the company's cruises had come from Nordic countries and were able to cope with the colder weather. "I'm a little disappointed and frustrated - I was hoping to get a tan," said Helsinki resident Marja Vesikko-Sorsa, on holiday in the sunshine state. Farmers and fruit-growers are worried that colder temperatures this weekend will damage more

I followed my subject through the shanty where she lives as she gets up in the morning to go to work and progresses through her day in the factory. The piece touches on the conditions for garment workers and also tries to covey that, while the pay is far less than one would expect in the West, a factory worker's wages are actually competitive for that part of the world and provide employment to those who would otherwise have none. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin Follow ELLE on Twitter. Become our Facebook fan!

US site hit in west Afghanistan (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 1/8/2010 10:50:35 AM

Multiple rockets have been fired at the site of the future US consulate in the west Afghan city of Herat. At least three rockets were fired at the building, a former hotel, with one hitting it and others landing nearby. The building's windows were shattered but no-one was injured in the attack, according to a deputy provincial police chief, Rahmatullah Sediqi. As the gateway to Iran, Herat is a city of key importance to Afghan officials and has been of their crop. Already some say that as much comparatively peaceful. as 10% of their harvested It provides the bulk of legitimate oranges and lemons have been c u s t o m s r e v e n u e t o t h e damaged by the formation of ice g o v e r n m e n t . Two buildings in the city were crystals. Concerns over the potential leased by the US government in damage to orange crops has 2009 as part of its strategy to pushed up frozen concentrated bolster its diplomatic presence orange juice futures in New beyond the capital, Kabul, York, which hit their highest though no diplomats have yet been stationed at the attacked levels in almost two years. site. Print Sponsor Five Filters featured article: Print Sponsor Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Five Filters featured article: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. Term Extraction.

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Cops Eye Playboy Model's 'He's Trying to Kill Me' Text (FOXNews.com)

FoxNews.com with copies of the text messages because he said North Miami Police detectives The ex-boyfriend of a murdered were using them as part of their Playboy model confirmed Friday investigation. to FoxNews.com that she had Coleman said the last time he been sending him text messages heard from Sladewski, 26, was in during the time she was dating a text message she sent him after her current boyfriend, and that midnight on New Year’s Eve. He she had expressed fear that the said there was nothing alarming man was “trying to kill" her. about her message and he said it The frantic messages have didn’t make it seem like she was become an important part of the drunk. investigation into the grisly New Coleman, who lives 10 minutes Year’s weekend murder of Paula from Sladewski and her current Sladewski, whose badly burned b o y f r i e n d K e v i n K l y m i n body was found Jan. 3 in a Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., said Dumpster in Miami. he and Sladewski dated in the Meanwhile, North Miami Police late 1990s and had remained detectives are examining a close friends. “We always had second surveillance video that each other’s backs,” Coleman shows Sladewski leaving a said. Miami nightclub. The lawyer for Coleman said Sladewski texted her boyfriend, Kevin Klym, told him often asking for help when FoxNews.com that there is video things got heated with Klym, evidence that shows Sladewski including one time when he said leaving the club with another Sladewski claimed Klym had man. A copy of the club's video l o c k e d h e r i n t h e g a r a g e . however, posted on a Miami TV Coleman said there seemed to be station’s website, shows her a lot of drama in the Klymleaving alone. Sladewski relationship. SLIDESHOW: Playboy model The latest incident involved murder investigation. Klym allegedly punching “She used to text me all the time Sladewski and breaking her nose in trouble asking for help,” ex- d u r i n g a n a r g u m e n t a t a boyfriend David Coleman told Michigan hotel while the couple FoxNews.com. He said the last w a s v i s i t i n g h e r f a m i l y . time he received a text message Sladewski was subpoenaed to of that nature was on Dec. 27, testify Jan. 4 in the case. 2009, just a few days before An assault charge against Sladewski’s charred corpse was Sladewski, alleging she cracked discovered in a blaze in the trash a bottle over Klym’s head, was bin. dropped last month. Coleman could not provide FoxNews.com also learned that Submitted at 1/7/2010 11:54:59 PM

Klym reportedly was arrested in 2008 during a drug bust in Warren, Mich., in which he was charged with cocaine possession. North Miami Police spokesman Lt. Neal Cuevas said Klym, 34, was the last known person to see Sladewski alive and remains a person of interest in their investigation. Klym told police that he and Sladewski got into a verbal altercation at a Miami club, and said that body guards escorted him out and would not let him back into the club, said Cuevas. Klym said he tried to get Sladewski to leave the club because he thought she was too drunk, setting off a heated argument that ended with his getting kicked out of the club. He said Sladewski didn’t want to leave and stayed inside, according to Cuevas. Cuevas told FoxNews.com that police were able to confirm Klym’s account of when and how he got back to his Miami hotel from the club. Klym told police that he took a taxi back to his hotel. Sladewski’s stepfather, Richard Watkins, who lives in Michigan with Sladewski's mother, told FoxNews.com that he wasn't surprised to hear that Sladewski's boyfriend was named a person of interest. "They had a horrible relationship," said Watkins. "I have told them from the start that they shouldn’t be together." Police, meanwhile, are awaiting

the medical examiner’s report and official cause of death. They also are in the process of interviewing all the employees at the nightclub where Sladewski was last seen. They are also hoping to get accounts from any club goers who were there that night. Police reviewed the surveillance video from the nightclub, but said the quality is too poor and grainy. Cuevas said they will continue working with the footage. Cuevas has warned women going out to clubs in Miami to be on alert until a suspect is caught. He said if there is a predator on the loose, they could be vulnerable. Watkins said he last saw his stepdaughter when she visited her family in Michigan just after Christmas. He said she seemed happy and like her usual self. Police said Sladewski — who appeared in the video "Playboy: The Ultimate Playmate Search" — was so severely burned that officials had to use dental records to identify her. "We were praying that it wasn't her,'' said Watkins, according to the Miami Herald. “It's been real hard. I didn't know this many tears could fall." The L.A.-based model had been visiting Florida during a holiday with Klym, who reported her missing. The couple splits time between Michigan and Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., The Miami Herald reported.

Watkins told FoxNews.com that Sladewski had told him they were going to Las Vegas on vacation, so he was surprised to learn they had instead gone to Miami. Watkins' wife, Patsy, received the telephone call from a concerned Klym on Monday saying that her daughter was missing. Monday happened to be Patsy's birthday, which Watkins said was "a birthday that she will never forget." He said his wife "can’t cope with this." Patsy Watkins called Coleman to tell him that Sladewski’s body had been found. Coleman had known that Sladewski was missing, but he said he figured that she and Klym and just gotten separated at the bar. “I was screaming when I found out,” Coleman told FoxNews.com. “I thought no f— -ing way. I have been so pissed.” Richard Watkins told FoxNews.com that he can't understand why Klym would leave her at the nightclub alone. "He left her alone in a bar full of predators and I blame him for doing that. How could he do that? How could he just leave her alone? I can’t wrap my mind around why he would do that." Patsy Watkins asked Klym those very questions on the phone Monday, and Richard Watkins said Klym told her he didn't know why he left her. COPS page 65

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Christmas terror suspect says little in court (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)

The longest answer came when the judge asked if he had taken Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:21:18 PM any drugs or alcohol in past 24 DETROIT – A young Nigerian hours. Abdulmutallab answered: man, wearing a white T-shirt and "some pain pills." Siefer then tennis shoes, did not speak much s a i d h e w a s c o m p e t e n t t o Friday during his first public understand the proceedings. court hearing to face charges of Abdulmutallab, who is being trying to ignite a chemical-laden held at a federal prison in Milan, explosive on a U.S. airliner on Mich., had been treated at a Christmas Day. hospital for burns after the Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attack. gave a one word answer — "yes" His attorneys then waived the — when asked whether he reading of the indictment, and understood the charges against Randon entered the not guilty him. Magistrate Judge Mark A. plea. It is routine practice in Randon entered a not guilty plea federal court for the defendant to for the 23-year-old, who could allow the judge to enter a plea on face up to life in prison on the his behalf rather than say m o s t s e r i o u s c h a r g e — anything himself. attempting to use a weapon of President Barack Obama's mass destruction. counterterrorism adviser, John Authorities say the young Brennan, has said Abdulmutallab Nigerian with al-Qaida links was would be offered a plea deal in traveling from Amsterdam to e x c h a n g e f o r v a l u a b l e Detroit when he tried to destroy information about his contacts in the Northwest Airlines plane Yemen and elsewhere. carrying nearly 300 people by After the hearing, one of injecting chemicals into a Abdulmutallab's attorneys, Leroy package of explosives concealed Soles, declined to talk about the in his underwear. The failed case. attack caused popping sounds "It's just too soon in the process and flames that passengers and to make any comment," Soles crew rushed to extinguish. said. During his arraignment on Maryam Uwais, a lawyer in Friday that lasted less than five Nigeria, and Mahmud Kazaure, a minutes, Abdulmutallab stood at lawyer from Maryland, told The the podium along with Assistant Associated Press before Friday's U.S. Attorney Jonathan Tukel arraignment that they were sent and defense attorney Miriam by Abdulmutallab's family to Siefer and answered a few observe the hearing. Neither questions in English from the have a role in the case, but both judge. spoke briefly with the suspect's

legal team. They declined to further comment. At least one passenger from Flight 253 attended Friday's hearing. Hebba Aref, a Detroit area native now working as a corporate lawyer in Kuwait, said she sat six rows in front of Abdulmutallab on the plane. Aref, who drew international attention last year after being refused a seat directly behind then-Presidential candidate Obama at a Detroit rally because she was wearing a headscarf, said she came Friday because Abdulmutallab "changed my life." "I just wanted to see him again," the 27-year-old told reporters outside the courtroom following the hearing. "It's a historic moment, and I want to be part of it." President Barack Obama considers the Christmas attack an attempted strike against the United States by an affiliate of al -Qaida. But he also has said the government had information that could have stopped Abdulmutallab, but intelligence agencies failed to connect the dots. U.S. investigators have said Abdulmutallab told them he received training and instructions from al-Qaida operatives in Yemen. His father warned the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria that his son had drifted into extremism in Yemen, but that threat was never fully digested by the U.S.

security apparatus. Earlier in the day, authorities set up metal barricades outside the courthouse and limited foot traffic in the area. A protester stood holding a sign that read: "No U.S. Rights For Terrorists." About 50 men and women identifying themselves as Detroit -area Muslims chanted "We are Americans" as they marched behind metal barricades outside the courthouse to denounce terrorism. About a dozen of them carried U.S. flags or signs with messages such as "Not in the name of Islam." Four Muslims who were part of the protest performed Friday prayers in the court's small museum located on the first floor. Protest organizer Majed Moughni said it was important to take time for Islam's most important prayer even with the events of the day. "We have prayer rugs outside in the car. We could have done a show for the media," protest organizer Majed Moughni said. "We're doing this for God." ____ Associated Press writers Mike Householder and Jeff Karoub contributed to this report. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Klym has denied any involvement in Sladewski's disappearance. His lawyer, Marc Beginin, said Klym is "devastated and traumatized. He has no involvement whatsoever," said Beginin, the Herald reported. Sladewski's older sister flew down to Miami to assist in the investigation. Watkins said she will fly back to Michigan with her sister's remains this week. The North Miami Police Department asks anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477. Click here for video of the family's comments about Sladewski at MyFoxDetroit.com. Click here for more from The Miami Herald. Click here for more from SkyNews.com. FoxNews.com's Ali Reed, Sky News, The Miami Herald and MyFoxDetroit.com contributed to this report. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Source: DA to seek indictment of Jackson doctor (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)

physicians. The coroner has ruled Jackson's death at age 50 was a homicide LOS ANGELES – Nearly seven caused by acute intoxication by months after Michael Jackson's the powerful anesthetic propofol, death stunned the world, the w i t h o t h e r s e d a t i v e s a official investigation of his death c o n t r i b u t i n g f a c t o r . is edging toward conclusion with Propofol depresses breathing prosecutors prepared to seek an and heart rate while lowering indictment of Jackson's doctor on blood pressure, so it's supposed a charge of involuntary to be administered by an manslaughter, The Associated anesthesia professional in a Press has learned. medical setting. The fate of Dr. Conrad Murray The singer died after Murray h a s b e e n t h e s u b j e c t o f administered propofol and two speculation since he found other sedatives to get the chronic Jackson unconscious in his home i n s o m n i a c t o s l e e p , c o u r t i n L o s A n g e l e s l a s t J u n e . documents state. Murray told Jackson was preparing for a police he left the room to use the strenuous concert comeback in bathroom, and phone records L o n d o n , a n d M u r r a y , a show he also made calls for 47 cardiologist, had been hired as minutes around the time Jackson his personal physician for the encountered problems. tour. When Murray realized Jackson A law enforcement source who was unresponsive, he began spoke on condition of anonymity frantic efforts to revive him, but because the investigation J a c k s o n n e v e r r e g a i n e d remains open said Friday that c o n s c i o u s n e s s . Murray would be prosecuted on The coroner found the propofol a theory of gross negligence was administered to Jackson alleging that his treatment of without any medical need and J a c k s o n w a s a n e x t r e m e that recommended resuscitation departure from the standard of equipment was missing. care normally followed by As the police investigation Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:10:35 PM

neared an end, criminal attorney J. Michael Flanagan said Friday he had been hired to join Houston attorney Edward Chernoff in representing Murray. In addition, Chernoff released a statement saying he had not received notice that a grand jury was hearing the case or inviting Murray to testify. Chernoff spokeswoman Miranda Sevcik said earlier that Murray neither prescribed nor administered anything that should have killed Jackson. A final legal action could be weeks away, after the case is formally transferred to the district attorney's office by the Los Angeles Police Department. If a grand jury indictment is sought, secret hearings would be held, and the panel would have the final decision on possible charges. An involuntary manslaughter conviction carries a potential sentence of two to four years in prison. The district attorney's office is waiting for Los Angeles police to turn over the case before presenting it to a grand jury, the source said.

However, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office denied that any decisions have been made. "We have been working closely with the Los Angeles police during the pendency of this investigation," spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said. "There is no case before us at present, and no final decision has been made." To prove a charge of involuntary manslaughter, authorities must show there was a reckless action that created a risk of death or great bodily injury. If a doctor is aware of the risk, there might also be an issue of whether the patient knows that risk and decided to take it. A large number of witnesses have been interviewed by police, including those who were present during Jackson's last days and those who worked with him in preparation for his comeback concert, "This Is It." Authorities have also lined up medical expert witnesses who will testify about the normal standard of care in a situation such as Jackson's and will give opinions on why Murray's actions constituted gross

negligence, the source said. Murray's professional history is expected to be explored during a trial with an emphasis on whether he had the required expertise in administering propofol. The timing of an indictment would be dictated by two factors — how long it takes for the district attorney's office to conduct an internal review of the evidence and when the grand jury will be available to hear the case. The person said it was thought that it would be more efficient to go to a grand jury than to charge Murray and proceed by way of a preliminary hearing. A presentation to the grand jury where witnesses testify behind closed doors could take three to five days. • Associated Press Writer Ken Ritter in Las Vegas contributed to this story. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Nicolas Cage’s face is everywhere (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 1/8/2010 9:35:12 AM

Have you ever wondered what the world would look like if Nicolas Cage’s mug popped up

more? Yeah, probably not, but one dude with a Blogspot account did and the result is Nic Cage as Everyone. The features a collection of bizarre pictures where the Academy Award

winning actor’s face is

photoshopped onto other famous Good times, albeit a little creepy. people’s faces, like Nic Cage as Keep up to date on the latest Rosie O’Donnell or Nic Cage as celebrity news. Chuck Norris or Nic Cage as Permalink| Leave a comment » your mom. Ok, I made up that last one, but it could happen.

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Suspect in St. Louis Plant Shooting Unhappy at Work (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 1/8/2010 6:43:50 AM

ST. LOUIS Police on Friday identified the four people killed in a shooting at a St. Louis industrial plant and confirmed that man suspected of opening fire was among the dead. Suspect Timothy Hendron, 51, of Webster Groves, Mo., died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound beneath his chin, police said. He was found inside ABB Inc.'s plant on Thursday. SLIDESHOW: Gunfire at St. Louis Power Factory Police believe Hendron shot and killed three of his co-workers at the sprawling plant: Cory Wilson, 27, of Collinsville, Ill.; Terry Mabry, 55, of Moscow Mills, Mo.; and Carlton Carter, 57, of St. Louis. All three were shot in the head. Mabry was also shot in the leg and Wilson in the shoulder. Five other people were wounded, all of them men in their 50s. Two were in critical condition, two were in fair condition and one was treated at a hospital and released. The shootings began at 6:30 a.m. Thursday, sending the 40 to

50 employees inside the building scurrying to the rooftop, broom closets and boiler rooms to seek safety. Police said Hendron was armed with an assault rifle, shotgun and handgun. The motive wasn't known. But in 2006, Hendron and other ABB workers sued the company over retirement losses. The federal lawsuit accused ABB and its pension-review committee of causing their 401(k) accounts to include investment options with "unreasonable and excessive" — and undisclosed — fees and expenses. The trial began Tuesday in Kansas City. The shooting occurred during a shift change at the plant, which employs about 270 people. Forty to 50 employees were likely in the building at the time, police Capt. Sam Dotson said. Police said the bodies of Carter and Mabry were found outside the building. The bodies of Wilson and Hendron were inside. All four were pronounced dead at the scene. Swiss-based ABB Group makes power transmission and industrial automation equipment. It manufactures transformers at the St. Louis site.

Wilson was a supervisor at the plant, according to Carl Poelker, a football coach at McKendree University in Illinois, where Wilson was an all-conference linebacker. Wilson played in high school at Collinsville and was an assistant coach there. "I never saw the kid have a bad day," said Poelker, whose oldest son, Tim, was a close friend of Wilson's and had been out with him the night before the shooting. "It was always life is good, life is wonderful. And he played football like that — on a Saturday afternoon, he thought it was just great to go out there, and it permeated with the rest of the team." Poelker said the shooting left many people at McKendree and in Collinsville struggling. "It's just so senseless," he said. "It's not only the coaches here, but there are a lot of people with a big hole in their stomach now. So many people liked him and considered him a friend." Many of Hendron's neighbors in Webster Groves, a St. Louis suburb, described him as an amicable family man. Yet even those who knew him casually were aware that Hendron was

unhappy at work. He mentioned in passing that he was having problems at ABB, and over the last two years he asked his neighbor Mike Sweney, an attorney, for referral to a good labor lawyer. "I sensed a certain disgruntlement on his part," Sweney said. Jerry Schlichter of the St. Louisbased Schlichter, Bogard and Denton law firm, which is representing Hendron and the other ABB workers in their lawsuit, declined to discuss his client Thursday during a break in the trial. Police searched Hendron's modest, brick home in the middle-class neighborhood. Neighbors said Hendron left behind a wife and teenage son. Click here for more from Fox2Now.com. Click here for more from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Federal Charges for Philadelphia Man After 44 City Arrests (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:59:03 AM

PHILADELPHIA The 45th arrest could be the charm for authorities in Philadelphia trying to convict a suspected career criminal. Federal authorities stepped in this week to prosecute 23-yearold John Gassew after he's walked free on 44 city arrests, many for violent crimes. The failure to convict Gassew was a focal point in a recent Philadelphia Inquirer series on city courts. But Gassew now faces a much higher conviction rate — and longer sentence — in the federal system. The latest charges involve an October armed robbery of a 7Eleven. Police say they shot him as he fled. A judge Friday denied Gassew bail until a detention hearing Wednesday. Public defender Ross Thompson says he just got the case and has no immediate comment. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Vice President Biden's mother, Jean, dies at 92 (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)

politically astute, and she still runs the show," the vice president quipped shortly after WILMINGTON, Del. – Jean she fell last year. Biden, who raised her son Vice "You think I'm joking? I'm not," President Joe Biden to believe in he said. what he called "America's creed The former Catherine Eugenia ... everyone is your equal," died Finnegan was born July 7, 1917, Friday after falling seriously ill in Scranton, Pa. In 1941, she in recent days. She was 92. married businessman Joseph In a statement, the vice president Biden Sr., with whom she had said she died in Wilmington four children. The couple moved surrounded by her family and from Scranton to Claymont, loved ones. She had suffered a Del., in 1953, when their eldest broken hip in a fall in March son, Joe, was 10 years old. 2009. Joseph Biden Sr. died in 2002 at "Together with my father, her age 86. husband of 61 years who passed According to Biden's 2007 away in 2002, we learned the autobiography, " Promises to dignity of hard work and that Keep," his mother had some you are defined by your sense of reservations about whether he honor," he said in the statement. should risk a promising career as " H e r s t r e n g t h , w h i c h w a s a young lawyer to enter politics. immeasurable, will live on in all "You're not going to run for of us." Senate and ruin your reputation, Joe Biden Jr. was first elected to are you?" he recalled his mother the Senate in 1972, shortly asking. before his 30th birthday. His "And once Mom was reassured mother helped out by organizing that my future was safe, win or coffee klatches — part of a lose, she would do anything," family effort that also included Biden wrote. B i d e n ' s f a t h e r , s i s t e r a n d Biden was elected vice president brothers. as Barack Obama's running "Those of you who have met my mate. In his speech at the mom, you know she's fairly Democratic National Convention Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:49:53 PM

in August 2008, he paid tribute to his mother, who was in the audience. "My mother's creed is the American creed: No one is better than you," he said. "Everyone is your equal, and everyone is equal to you. My parents taught us to live our faith, and to treasure our families. We learned the dignity of work, and we were told that anyone can make it if they just try hard enough." Biden said he also learned honor and loyalty from his mother. "When I got knocked down by guys bigger than me, and this is the God's truth, she sent me back out the street and told me, 'Bloody their nose so you can walk down the street the next day.' And that's what I did." Raised in a family with a strong Irish Catholic tradition, Jean Biden leaned on her faith in comforting her eldest son after his wife and daughter were killed in a car crash in December 1972, the month after he was elected to the Senate. His two sons were seriously injured. "After the accident, she told me, 'Joey, God sends no cross that you cannot bear,'" Biden recalled.

In his autobiography, Joe Biden recalled being mocked by a seventh-grade nun for his stuttering, an incident that sent his mother to his school in a fury, her children in tow. "If you ever speak to my son like that again, I'll come back and rip that bonnet off your head. Do you understand me?" she told the nun. Joe Biden also recalled how when his mother couldn't find a pair of cufflinks for him to wear to an eighth-grade dance, she fashioned a pair from nuts and bolts, which left him mortified. "Now look, Joey, if anybody says anything to you about these nuts and bolts, you just look them right in the eye and say 'Don't you have a pair of these?'" she told him. ___ Associated Press Writer Polly Anderson in New York contributed to this report. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Top 10 NBA 3-point shooters (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 1/8/2010 2:06:58 PM

The NBA implemented the 3point line during the 1979-80 season and it changed the game of basketball. Today, the 3-point shot accounts for 35% of attempts in an NBA game. Pictured above is Chuck "The Rifleman" Person who finished his career sinking a total of 1,220 three pointers and had his best year during his '95-'96 season connecting 190 3-point goals while with the San Antonio Spurs. See if your favorite star made the top 10 NBA 3-point shooters list. Stay on top of NBA news. Permalink| Leave a comment »

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Detroit airport after he allegedly tried to detonate a device concealed in his underwear on Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:50:09 PM Northwest Flight 253 from A "not guilty" plea has been Amsterdam to Detroit. entered on behalf of the Nigerian The plane landed safely after man accused of attempting to p a s s e n g e r s a n d c r e w detonate a bomb on a Detroit- o v e r p o w e r e d h i m . bound plane on Christmas Day. He faces life imprisonment if A Detroit judge took the action found guilty. after Umar F a r o u k Political fallout Abdulmutallab declined to enter The attempted attack prompted a plea during his first court widespread criticism of US appearance. intelligence services for failing Mr Abdulmutallab, 23, is to prevent the plot. charged with the attempted A short young man, he sat in a murder of 290 people and five chair and for several moments other counts. listened and nodded to his The incident has led to dozens lawyers. of new security measures being He looked up slowly, his eyes introduced. staring with a slightly vacant Mr Abdulmutallab, wearing leg look at the court. His shoulders shackles, walked slowly into the were hunched. court room. On Thursday, President Barack He confirmed his name and its Obama announced new terrorist spelling, as well as his age in a watch list guidelines and other soft voice, prompting the judge security upgrades. to ask him to speak up. While criticising "systemic" Asked if he had had time to read failings, he said: "The buck stops the indictment, he answered with me." "yes". He also confirmed he The US had failed to "connect understood the charges. and understand" intelligence Asked if he had taken any drugs received prior to the failed attack in the previous 24 hours, he said o n t h e a i r l i n e r , h e a d d e d , he had taken some pain killers. delivering a televised statement Mr Abdulmutallab was treated f r o m t h e W h i t e H o u s e o n for burns after his arrest at T h u r s d a y .

He announced that he was ordering an immediate strengthening of the terrorist watch list. Information on security risks would be distributed more widely and analysis of that information would be improved. Also among more than a dozen new measures were improved screening technology at US airports, the recruitment of hundreds more air marshals and a review of the issuing of US visas. Announcing the conclusions of an urgent White House review, Mr Obama said the US government had "had the information scattered throughout the system to potentially uncover this plot and disrupt the attack". Mr Abdulmutallab's name was on a US database of about 550,000 suspected terrorists but not on a list that would have subjected him to additional security screening or kept him from boarding the flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Print Sponsor Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Argentine bank chief steps down (BBC News | Americas | World Edition)

Recess In the emergency decree, Mrs Fernandez de Kirchner said the Submitted at 1/7/2010 8:55:31 PM central bank governor had "failed Argentina's central bank boss to fulfil the duties of a public has stepped down after the servant" and urged prosecutors to president signed a decree firing s e e k u n s p e c i f i e d " l e g a l him for refusing to use currency m e a s u r e s " a g a i n s t h i m . reserves to pay foreign debt. Later she named Mr Redrado's Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner deputy, Miguel Pesce, as his cited misconduct and dereliction interim successor. Mr Pesce had of duties in a decree dismissing supported the government's Martin Redrado. move to use reserves to cover A spokesman for Mr Redrado debt. said he had agreed to step aside "The decision was made because but not to resign, and was the central bank must keep launching a legal challenge. functioning," she said. Constitutional lawyers say the But opposition politicians and decree may be illegal, as the constitutional experts said the central bank chief can only be president did not have the legal removed by Congress. authority to dismiss Mr Redrado. M r R e d r a d o a n g e r e d t h e Under the bank's charter, the president after he rejected her g o v e r n m e n t c a n d i s m i s s a order to transfer $6.6bn to a member of its board, but must government fund to pay foreign have a recommendation from a debts. special congressional committee. Argentina has $13bn of Economy Minister Amado international debt that matures B o u d o u s a i d s i n c e i t w a s this year, and a hole in its budget u l t i m a t e l y t h e p r e s i d e n t ' s of between $2bn and $7bn. decision and Congress was in The BBC's Candace Piette, in recess, the direct dismissal was Buenos Aires, says economic legal. analysts believe the attempt to Print Sponsor sack Mr Redrado shows how Five Filters featured article: d e s p e r a t e A r g e n t i n a ' s Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: government is to get funds to pay PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, debt - a bad sign for a country Term Extraction. seeking more foreign investors.

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Kids' visions of the future (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 1/8/2010 1:02:00 PM

Forget hoity-toity futurists and their scientifically-based predictions about the coming decade. The Philadelphia Inquirer decided to look into a crystal ball with the people who boast the best imaginations — no, not Calvin and Hobbes — kids. The children made predictions about what the world will look like over the next 10 years with some forecasting a sunny outlook and other dreaming up a decidedly more gloomy future. Bonus points for trying to guess the political affiliation of each kid’s parents. I think all of the animals will be dead in 10 years because America is polluting too much. People who aren’t married won’t have dogs, cats, fish, or any other type of house animal. Lexi, 8 Robots will take over the world. They will have lasers. Jacob, 9 I think presidents will only have one year and one year only to

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live in the White House with fame. So yearly people get a chance to vote. I don’t think there will be a flying car, which is just unreasonable. Ori, 9 By the year 2020, I think there will be a lady president, and school will be at home and at 8:30 a.m. the TV will automatically go on the education network. Eric, 7 I think there will start to be vacation resorts in outer space

and vegan fast food chains. The fast food will be completely kind to animals and nothing derived from animals in the whole company. Avital, 10 Swing over to Philly newspaper’s website to see all the kid predictions. All about kids. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink| Leave a comment »

Ahmedzay as a US citizen. FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said they had been arrested after Submitted at 1/8/2010 7:09:06 AM Mr Medunjanin was involved in Two more men have been a car accident. Federal agents arrested in the US in connection picked him up after he was taken with an alleged plot to bomb to hospital. New York City last year. Mr Medunjanin's lawyer said his The two - named as Adis client had done nothing wrong. M e d u n j a n i n a n d Z a s r e i n The two men are due to appear in Ahmedzay - were detained as court in Brooklyn later on p a r t o f a n " o n g o i n g Friday. investigation", an FBI The New York Times spokesman told reporters. newspaper says they are They are said to be associates of suspected of travelling with Mr an Afghan-born Colorado man, Zazi in 2008 to Pakistan, where Najibullah Zazi, who is accused prosecutors allege Mr Zazi of planning an attack on New received al-Qaeda training. York commuters. Both were questioned by Mr Zazi and two other men were investigators last year, the charged in September. All deny Associated Press news agency the charges. adds. Investigators said at the time Print Sponsor that the imminent threat of an Five Filters featured article: attack had been disrupted but Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: that they would continue to PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, examine a "wide range of leads". Term Extraction. Mr Medunjanin is described as a Bosnian immigrant and Mr

The health benefits of Cleopatra's eye make-up (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 1/8/2010 12:15:00 PM

Long before the days of Cover Girl and Revlon, women whipped up their own make-up recipes, occasionally poisoning themselves in the process, but

beauty is pain. Cleopatra and other ancient Egyptian women sported the original smokey eye look, favoring heavy eye make-up and, to achieve that style, used lead salts. Not only did the salts help research suggests the ingredient create the desired look, but new

also provided medical benefits. Researchers from the Louvre Museum discovered that the lead salts produce nitric oxide, which help the immune system fight off the bacteria that causes eye infections. The scientists say that the benefits only occur with very

low doses of the poisonous substance, so don’t go sticking lead in your eyeball. A big dose of health news. Permalink| Leave a comment »