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Conservative Rubio pulls ahead in Florida Republican primary


Tim Gaynor (Front Row government represent the
Washington) defining issues of this
Submitted at 2/24/2010 2:18:35 PM campaign,” he added.
Crist, a popular governor who
Conservative Republican Marco until recently was seen as a shoo
Rubio is building a lead over -in for the party’s Senate
moderate Governor Charlie Crist nomination, said last month that
in Florida’s Republican Senate he had no regrets about working
primary, a contest highlighting with Obama, and that accepting
the perils facing party moderates the funds was “the right thing to
in this rambunctious election do.”
year, a poll shows. “We needed the money. And it
A Rasmussen Reports telephone saved 87,000 jobs in our state,
survey of likely Republican and you know, I was raised to
primary voters released this respect the presidency of the
week showed Rubio, a former United States,” he said.
Florida House Speaker, with 54 A Quinnipiac University poll in
percent support against Crist’s late January had Rubio with a
36 percent. A poll in January favorite of Tea Party federal government stimulus, Obama and congressional more slender three-point lead in
had Rubio ahead by 13 points. conservative activists who hope and for his willingness to work Democrats in favor of the largest the race, which is tipped to be
The primary race has echoes in to make a splash in the 2010 with Democratic President spending bill in American hard-fought all the way to
Arizona, where veteran Senator congressional election and Barack Obama — a definite no- history,” Rubio said in a polling day on Aug. 24.
John McCain faces his strongest beyond, is campaigning on no with Republican hard-liners. statement released on Click here for more political
challenge yet from fiery issues including opposition to “While Republicans were Wednesday. news from Reuters.
conservative J.D. Hayworth, “excessive and wasteful advocating for targeted efforts “The differences between my Reuters photo by Mark
who is attacking his “moderate spending in Washington” and based on broad-based tax relief opponent and me on the stimulus Wallheiser
record” on taxes, social issues big government. and spending reforms, Charlie and on the virtues of limited
and the bank bailout. He is assailing Crist for taking Crist ignored those efforts, government versus a heavy-
Rubio, who like Hayworth is a funds from the $787 billion instead siding with Barack handed, big-spending

White House healthcare summit live blog


Reuters Staff (Front Row Live coverage of President lawmakers on healthcare reform.
Washington) Obama’s meeting with
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Hillary says Congressional gridlock challenges Options Update: HSBC


U.S. world stature Holdings March Put
Volatility Elevated into
David Morgan (Front Row Obama’s top adviser on foreign
Washington) policy. EPS
Submitted at 2/24/2010 12:01:52 PM “Their view does color whether Paul Foster (BloggingStocks)
the United States is in a position
Submitted at 2/25/2010 8:00:00 AM
The partisan gridlock that — not just this president, but our
has paralyzed Congress during country — is in a position going Filed under: Options
much of the Obama forward to demonstrate the kind HSBC Holdings( HBC) closed
administration may have far- of unity and strength and at $55.23. HBC is expected to
reaching implications for effectiveness that I think we report Q4 EPS on March 2.
America’s stature in the world, have to in this very complex and March put option implied
according to U.S. Secretary of dangerous world.” volatility is at 39, April and June
State Hillary Rodham Clinton. “We have to be attuned to how puts are 34; above its 26-week
Clinton said U.S. partners the rest of the world sees the average of 32, according to
overseas have been confused functioning of our government, Track Data, suggesting larger
about the Senate’s inability to because it’s an asset. It may be price movement.
approve President Barack an intangible asset, but it’s an Petrobras( PBR) closed at
Obama’s appointments to top asset of great importance. And $41.58. PBR is expected to
diplomatic jobs, including as we sell democracy, and we’re report Q4 EPS in early March.
assistant secretary of state the lead democracy in the world, Crude oil futures are recently
positions and ambassadorships.
f o r e i g n a i d t o c o u n t r i e s congressional gridlock has I want people to know we have down 0.58% to $79.54 a barrel
“It became harder and harder to
including quake-stricken Haiti, weakened Obama and the U.S. checks and balances but we also according to Bloomberg. March
explain to countries, particularly
still lacks a complete team to run presidency overseas during the have the capacity to move, too,” put option implied volatility is at
countries of significance, why she added. 37, July is at 38; versus its 26-
its operations. past year.
we had nobody in position for
C l i n t o n a l s 0 w e n t “There is certainly a perception Click here for more political week average of 39, according to
them to interact with,” Clinton
further, under questioning from that I encounter in representing news from Reuters. Track Data, suggesting non-
told a Senate Appropriations
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subcommittee hearing on the
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Obama budget plan for fiscal
Republican who jumped to the characterization. People just State Hillary Clinton at a U.S. P a u l F o s t e r o f
year 2011.
Democratic Party in 2009. don’t understand the way our S e n a t e A p p r o p r i a t i o n s theflyonthewall.com
She said the U.S. Agency for
Specter asked if she could system operates, they just don’t Committee hearing, April 30, Options Update: HSBC
International Development,
confirm his perception that get it,” replied Clinton, who is 2009.) Holdings March Put Volatility
which administers U.S. civilian Elevated into EPS originally
appeared on BloggingStocks on
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Warren sees dark times if financial Target Earnings Surge


reform fails over 50% in Q4
David Morgan (Front Row reform. Republicans fear such an Steven Mallas
Washington) institution could fall into the (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 2/25/2010 7:32:06 AM hands of people hostile to Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:30:00 AM
financial markets.
Elizabeth Warren paints a But if financial reform fails Filed under: Earnings Reports,
disturbing picture of the realities and the status quo remains? Wal-Mart (WMT), Target Corp.
facing the United States and the Then the economic problems (TGT), Costco Wholesale
Obama administration as grow until they shake (COST)
Americans claw their way clear international confidence in the Target ( TGT), a chain that
of the worst recession since the American economy and prompt competes with Costco ( COST)
1930s. other countries to wonder why and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT),
Lobbyists for the financial they’re holding U.S. Treasury among others, delivered some
industry have put the kibosh on securities. amazing growth in the fourth competitive holiday shopping
market reforms that would aid “We’re in a place right now quarter. Of course, it might not rush. In addition, as mentioned
the recovery. Banks, saved from where having pumped all this be so amazing in a sense, in the press release, the company
Tartarus by taxpayer money, are money into the financial considering how far we've come didn't have to contend with a
u s i n g a f r e e g o v e r n m e n t you at zero and you go out there institutions, their response has in the bad economic cycle. loss at its credit card segment. It
guarantee against failure to and figure out what you can been to hold it,” Warren said. Shareholders should have been was profitable this time around,
rebuild profits and credit ratings, squeeze out of every American “If we don’t have any jobs, if delighted Tuesday by the results, thankfully.
while either not lending to family. No new rules’,” she told we’re not producing anything, if though shares surprisingly Continue reading Target
business or trying to milk MSNBC. we don’t have any genuine dropped almost 3% on the news Earnings Surge over 50% in Q4
American consumers of every W h y h a v e t h e r u l e s n o t wealth that we create, there’s a (by market's close Wednesday, Target Earnings Surge over
dime they’ve still got. changed? “There are very reason other countries are they had climbed back up to 50% in Q4 originally appeared
“That’s our plan to rebuild the powerful interests that believe worried about holding our $50.99). on BloggingStocks on Thu, 25
American economy. Think about that they can profit from keeping paper.” According to our retail Feb 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please
it,” says the bespectacled status quo.” “I’m not the politician,” she summary, income jumped over see our terms for use of feeds.
Harvard professor who chairs Warren is seen as a front-runner added. “I just know what needs 50% to $1.24 per share. This Read| Permalink| Email this|
the Congressional Oversight t o h e a d P r e s i d e n t B a r a c k to be done.” number beat expectations. Comments
Panel set up to investigate the Obama’s proposed Consumer Click here for more Reuters Target held up well during the
$700 billion banking bailout. Financial Protection Agency. political news.
“What the government is doing But the notion of a free-standing Photo credit: Reuters/Mike
right now is, it’s permitting a set CFPA has emerged as a main Theiler (Elizabeth Warren)
of rules that says, in effect: obstacle to broader financial
‘Hey, banks. We will lend to

How to shoot product photos from your garage


(Holy Kaw!) behind-the-scenes look at how to of vintage Italian bikes—a tricky More on cycling.
Submitted at 2/24/2010 9:52:27 PM shoot product photos, like the product to shoot. Permalink| Leave a comment »
one above, in your own home. See how Ray does it at his Web
Ray Dobbins shows gives us a Ray’s process is particularly interesting, as he takes pictures site.
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US senator says no way to $200


million for 9/11 trial security New Business
Jeremy Pelofsky (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 2/24/2010 12:20:59 PM
Computers from
Maine Republican Senator
Susan Collins rarely raises her
Toshiba
voice to emphasize a point but Nadine Heintz (Inc.com) "parks" the hard drive heads
on Wednesday she spoke Submitted at 2/24/2010 10:10:21 AM when it detects sudden
forcefully against spending some movements, LCD display
$200 million on security for the Yesterday, Toshiba unveiled protection, and a spill resistant
trials of the five men accused of two new business laptops with keyboard. A handy USB Sleep-
plotting the Sept. 11, 2001 touch capabilities: The Satellite and-Charge port lets you charge
attacks, including the self- Pro U500 and the Portégé M780 a phone or camera even when
professed mastermind Khalid Tablet PC. the notebook is asleep. Price:
Sheikh Mohammed. The new Portégé convertible $1,279 and up
“It’s the safe assumption that notebook has a 12.1-inch LED The Satellite Pro U500 is
Congress is not going to backlit display that swivels to powered by an Intel Core
appropriate $200 million for the convert to tablet mode. It comes processor and comes loaded with
trials of Khalid Sheikh with an Intel Core processor and Windows 7 Professional and an
Mohammed in New York City,” for security. there will be costs associated faster DDR3 memory than its I n t e l G r a p h i c s M e d i a
Collins told Homeland Security A s a r e s u l t , t h e O b a m a with those trials,” she said. predecessor. The touch-enabled Accelerator. The notebook has a
Secretary Janet Napolitano administration has been forced Napolitano also said that no n o t e b o o k i s l o a d e d w i t h 13.3-inch multi-touch display
during a hearing on the to reconsider where to hold the matter where the trials are held, Windows 7 Professional, though and a hard drive impact sensor,
department’s fiscal 2011 budget. trials and even weigh whether it a security assessment will be there's an option to downgrade along with a built-in webcam
“It is not going to happen,” she would be better to prosecute the required which would dictate the to Windows XP Professional. with face recognition log-in.
said, adding that some of the five individuals in a special costs. Ideal for computing on the go, it Price: Starting at
money would be better spent on military commission trial rather When Collins asserted that costs has an impact sensor that
other things, such as resources than in a criminal court. would be dramatically less if the
for the U.S. Coast Guard.
U.S. Attorney General Eric
Napolitano said she had not trials were held on a military
been a part of those renewed base, Napolitano declined to
Science of the Olympics
Holder had decided last discussions but said President concede the point. (Holy Kaw!) Third, you can learn about the
November to hold the criminal Barack Obama expects trials of Click here for more Reuters Submitted at 2/24/2010 10:38:00 PM body-fat content of elite athletes
trials of the five individuals in terrorism suspects in the United political news. liks Apolo Ohno.
lower Manhattan but New York States. (Republicans have Photo credit: Reuters/Jim Want to understand the science Finally, learn how the U.S.
City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pressed to hold the trials at the Young (Napolitano and Holder of the Winter Olympics? Here skeleton team used a high-tech
reversed his support of doing so prison at Guantanamo Bay, during a task force meeting.) are four sources to get you simulator to practice for the
because he feared it would cause Cuba.) started. First, the science of ice Olympics.
a virtual lockdown in that part of “If the trials are moved from skating. Total coverage of the Winter
town, hurting business and New York City, nonetheless Second, you can listen to the Olympics.
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Assisted suicide: focus switched to suspect's motive on


prosecutions
(Top stories from Times can be it described as a numbers of circumstances" "were less valued." The eight pages of guidelines
Online) game." The Church of England Lord Carlile QC, chairman of which contain 16 public interest
Submitted at 2/25/2010 4:09:38 AM He added: "The policy does not repeated its call for relatives and Care Not Killing welcome the factors in favour of prosecution
change the law on assisted carers to resist requests to help a removal, saying, “Our main and six public interest factors
Message from fivefilters.org: If suicide. It does not open the loved one die, saying that the concern was that the interim against prosecution were
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continue developing it. Parliament. What it does do is to prosecution, nor do they give thereby affording them less responses.
The motivation of people who provide a clear framework for prior permission to break the protection than other people The policy takes immediate
help loved ones to die will be the prosecutors to decide which law.” It added that "most under the law. effect. The vast majority of
crucial factor in deciding if they cases should proceed to court compassionate course is to “We are very glad this has been responses were from individual
should face prosecution under and which should not." provide love, support and the removed. There are still some members of the public.
landmark guidelines issued The new final version of the best possible medical and flaws and problems which will Academics, health workers,
today. policy, arrived at after responses nursing care, not to acquiesce in need attention, such as how a politicians and religious groups
T h e D i r e c t o r o f P u b l i c to the draft from nearly 5000 requests for assisted suicide. compassionate suspect’s also contributed their views.
Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, has individuals and organisations, Compassion does not always motives are to be determined in There was a majority view did
revised his draft policy on makes some key changes. mean saying ‘yes’." practice.” not support a factor in the draft
assisted suicide to shift the focus The changes would not make The factors against prosecution Yet Richard Hawkes, chief guidelines that the victim had
away from the plight of the prosecution more or less likely, "are now centred on the executive of disability charity "clear, settled and informed
v i c t i m t o t h e s u s p e c t ’ s the DPP said. Nor do they relax voluntary, clear, settled and Scope said: “We do not support decision" to commit suicide.
intentions. or tighten the policy. informed decision of the victim any weakening of the protection But Mr Starmer said that in his
Campaigners for the right-to-die But there was a strong view that and the behaviour of the suspect offered under the law on view, this factor was "central" to
welcomed the ground-breaking factors against prosecution and the rationale behind his or assisted suicide, which is exactly any assessment of a case of
guidelines, in w h i c h "should not focus on the her encouragement or what these new guidelines do. assisted suicide.
compassion is a key factor, and behaviour and characteristics of assistance." “Many disabled people are The factor therefore remains in
which set out for the first time the victim but should more As a result, the new policy frightened by the consequences an amended form, making clear
factors the Crown Prosecution properly be centred on the drops the issue of whether the of these new guidelines and that the decision is also
Service will take into account actions and role of the suspect." "victim" has a terminal, with good reason. There is a real "voluntary."
when deciding on whether to "I agree with that and the policy incurable illness or disability or danger these changes will result There is also a new factor in
prosecute. has been refocused." severe degenerative condition in disabled people being favour of prosecution where the
But the policy does not change Reaction to the new guidelines from which there is no pressured to end their lives. suspect had history of violence
the law, decriminalise assisted was as swift and it was varied. possibility of recovery. The new policy also removes or abuse against the victim.
suicide or in any way open the Whilst Sarah Wootton, chief There was concern that the the question of whether the A further change is a broader
door to "mercy-killing," Mr executive of Dignity in Dying inclusion of this could be seen as suspect was a spouse, partner or category of health care
Starmer insisted today. called the guidelines a "victory discriminatory, such as to those close relative or friend of the professionals so that now a
No case of assisted suicide f o r c o m m o n s e n s e a n d with a serious illness or victim. factor in favour of prosecution is
could be guaranteed immunity; compassion.", Paul Tully, of disability. Responses to the initial where the suspect was acting as
and the decision about a anti-euthanasia group SPUC Pro Some groups representing those guidance, published last a medical or health care
prosecution would look at each -Life said the new policy with disabilities also felt that September, argued that such
case on its merits. "effectively decriminalises including this factor implied relationships could be ASSISTED page 9
"It is not a tick box exercise. Nor assisted suicide in a wide range that the lives of those affected "antagonistic or manipulative".
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Relatives who profit from assisted suicide may not be charged


(Latest news, breaking news, Draft guidelines published last who suffers from multiple Prosecution is also more likely change.
current news, UK news, world year had led to warnings that sclerosis, that her husband if the person assisting is a doctor Campaigners seeking to make
news, celebrity news, politics family members assisting a should know in advance if he or nurse or a member of an assisted suicide easier said they
news) suicide would be more likely to would be charged if he helped organisation promoting suicide. were pleased by the changes.
Submitted at 2/25/2010 7:14:45 AM face charge because they almost her to end her own life. People who have previously Mrs Purdy said she was
Message from fivefilters.org: If inevitably stand to make some Mr Starmer insisted that his new abused or harmed the victim are “overwhelmed and delighted” by
you can, please donate to the full financial gain from a relative's guidelines made it neither more also more likely to be charged. the “victory” on prosecutions.
-text RSS service so we can death. nor less likely that people Six factors weigh against a The new guidelines would make
continue developing it. Some of the most controversial would be prosecuted for helping prosecution, and mean that it easier for her and her
By James Kirkup, Political sections of the draft guidelines suicides. But that assurance charges are less likely where husband to make decisions about
Correspondent were abandoned on Thursday failed to persuade some someone assists a suicide her death, she said.
Published: 3:14PM GMT 25 after what Mr Starmer called an charities, who warned that legal reluctantly, acts solely because Sarah Wootton of Dignity in
Feb 2010 “extraordinary” response to a protection for disabled and of compassion, tries to Dying, a charity, said the
New guidelines on assisted public consultation exercise, vulnerable people had been dissuade the victim from suicide, guidelines were “a significant
suicide issued by Keir Starmer, with almost 5,000 groups and watered down. and co-operates with police breakthrough for choice and
the Director of Public individuals expressing views The draft guidelines had put inquiries into the death. control at the end of life for
Prosecutions, mean someone on the rules. more emphasis on the victim, Significantly, Mr Starmer said those who feel they are
driven “wholly” by compassion As the Daily Telegraph revealed their medical condition and that a single factor on one side suffering unbearably.”
to help bring about a suicide o n S a t u r d a y , t h e C r o w n previous actions. of the balance could outweigh Scope, a charity for the
should not be charge with a Prosecution Service dropped By contrast, the new guidelines multiple factors on the other disabled, warned the new
crime. draft guidelines that would have put the focus on the person who side. That could mean that guidelines weaken legal
Under a “common sense” given spouses special protection assists a suicide and says where a suspect acted solely out protections for victims of
approach, Mr Starmer said that from charges and made charges decision to prosecute depends of compassion, no charges assisted suicide.
the simple fact of a potential less likely where a victim had largely on their motives and would follow even if there Scope said: “Many disabled
financial gain would not justify a made previous attempts at actions, and less on the nature were several reasons to people are frightened by the
p r o s e c u t i o n . O n l y w h e r e suicide. and actions of victim. prosecute. consequences of these new
financial gain is shown to be the Nor will prosecutors be told that Mr Starmer set out a list of But he insisted that the new guidelines and with good reason.
motivation for assisting suicide charges should be less likely factors for prosecutors to rules could not give anyone There is a real danger these
will charges be likely. where the victim was consider when deciding complete certainty that they changes will result in disabled
“If it is shown that compassion t e r m i n a l l y i l l . whether to charge someone who would not be charged. “This is people being pressured to end
was the only driving force The CPS has taken the had assisted a suicide. not a tick-box exercise,” he said, their lives.”
behind his or her actions, the unprecedented step of setting out There are 16 factors that will saying all cases would be judged Five Filters featured article:
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p r o s e c u t i o n , ” t h e n e w The Law Lords accepted an or had not clearly signalled their of assisted suicide, or if the
guidelines said. argument from Debbie Purdy, desire to die. number of prosecutions would

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Madoff Family
Mother who starved daughter Khyra Ishaq to Members Want to
death cleared of murder Change Last Name
(FOXNews.com)
(Top stories from Times fridge full of food, which had of jurors fell ill. school in December 2007, five
Online) had a special lock fitted to The pair will be sentenced on months before she died. Submitted at 2/25/2010 6:32:20 AM

Submitted at 2/25/2010 3:30:31 AM prevent Khyra and other Friday next week. The school informed social
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continue developing it. or one bowl of porridge between extraordinary that her mental did see Khyra and other children NEW YORK One of Bernard
A mother who starved her seven them, which they had to eat with state was raised so late in the living there and said they had no Madoff's daughters-in-law says
-year-old daughter to death has their hands on the floor. trial. There had been no mention concerns about their wellbeing. she and her children shouldn't
been cleared of her murder and If the children were caught of it until the murder charge They passed the case on to the have to bear the burden of his
h a d h e r p l e a o f g u i l t y t o taking food they were punished against her partner was dropped home education team who had name.
manslaughter accepted. with “detention” and made to earlier this month. already seen round the home Stephanie Madoff filed court
Prosecutors accepted Angela stand outside in the cold, beaten But three psychiatrists agreed and room for use as the papers in Manhattan on
Gordon’s defence of diminished with a cane or made to overeat that she was suffering from classroom. Wednesday asking to change her
responsibility over the death of until they were sick. severe depression in the month Under current law there is no last name to Morgan. She made
Khyra Ishaq. During the trial, a young before Khyra died at her home in responsibility on local the same request for her two
Junaid Abuhamza, her partner witness told how Khyra was Leyton Road, Handsworth, authorities to monitor home children.
and a diagnosed schizophrenic, forced to stand in just boxer Birmingham. education, although new She's married to the jailed
h a d a m a n s l a u g h t e r p l e a shorts in front of a fan for 24 “For that reason we cannot resist legislation to come into force financier's son, Mark. She says
accepted earlier in the trial hours because she had been the defence of diminished shortly will tighten the law and her family has gotten threats,
following a report on his mental “rude”. In testimony which responsibility, now raised for oblige all families to register and she wants to drop the
health. made jurors weep, the witness the first time. It is extraordinary with the council. Local Madoff name to avoid
It brings to an end a traumatic described beatings with a stick that it emerges so late (in the authority officials will have new "additional humiliation" and
trial where jurors were told of and times when “Khyra was in trial) but the sole reason for that powers to visit the home and harassment. Her lawyer declined
the girl's severely emaciated the shed, she had to sleep in the is the denial... that Angela check children are making to comment.
condition at the time of her death shed if she had been rude”. Gordon has put up around progress, and have the right to Mark Madoff says in court
in Handsworth, Birmingham, in Gordon has also admitted five herself for all these months,” he speak to the children alone. papers he doesn't object.
May 2008. charges of child cruelty relating said. The Conservatives say they will Bernard Madoff is serving a
Medical professionals treating to other children in her care, Children’s services at reverse this law if they win the 150-year prison sentence after
Khyra after she was rushed to who cannot be identified for Birmingham City Council, election. admitting he cheated investors
hospital said her condition was legal reasons. which have been criticised by Five Filters featured article: out of billions of dollars through
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'Devastated' Wayne Bridge snubs England over And Of Course:


AFACT Appeals
John Terry sex scandal iiNet Ruling
(Top stories from Times Sources close to Bridge had careful thought I believe my Terry’s position in the squad Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Online) hinted on several occasions that position in the squad is now under fresh scrutiny. Although
Submitted at 2/25/2010 4:53:21 AM
Submitted at 2/25/2010 3:39:11 AM he would find it extremely untenable and potentially Capello would not hesitate to
difficult to be part of the same divisive. Sadly therefore I feel choose the former captain over This isn't a huge surprise, but
Message from fivefilters.org: If England squad as Terry, but for the sake of the team and in Bridge if he had been required down in Australia, AFACT, a
you can, please donate to the full Capello stated as recently as order to avoid what will be to do so, the Chelsea defender group representing the major
-text RSS service so we can Tuesday that he firmly expected inevitable distractions, I have will now be held responsible for movie studios, which had
continue developing it. both players to resolve the decided not to put myself the loss of a popular team-mate. already fought having to pay
Wayne Bridge stunned Fabio matter for the sake of the forward for selection. I have Bridge will be unable to avoid iiNet's legal fees after getting
Capello this morning by turning national team. today informed the management Terry in the immediate term, trounced in court, is appealing
his back on his England career, Bridge was due to be included of this decision. I wish the team however, with Chelsea and City the ruling itself. You had to
saying that his position had been alongside Terry in a provisional all the very best in South locking horns in the Barclays figure this would happen. The
r e n d e r e d “ u n t e n a b l e a n d 30-man squad for the friendly Africa.” Premier League on Saturday studios weren't going to go down
potentially divisive” by the John match against Egypt at Wembley Although Bridge is not one of afternoon at Stamford Bridge. without a fight. The main part
Terry affair. next Wednesday, but he England’s most important With Bridge said to be unwilling of the appeal is AFACT
The Manchester City full-back informed Capello earlier today players, the news is a huge blow to shake Terry’s hand as part of claiming that iiNet somehow
a n n o u n c e d i n a s t a t e m e n t that he felt he could not be part to Capello, not least because the pre-match festivities and authorized copyright
released by his lawyers that he of the national team for as long Ashley Cole, the first-choice with three of his team-mates infringement by not stopping
has declared himself unavailable as Terry – who has been stripped left-back, is struggling to be fit having publicly displayed infringement:"The court found
for selection for England, a of the captaincy over this and for the World Cup after “Team Bridge” T-shirts during large scale copyright
move that almost certainly rules other allegations about his suffering a broken ankle earlier the 2-0 win over Portsmouth infringements, that iiNet knew
him out of contention for the private life – is involved. this month. Capello stated earlier this month, it promises to they were occurring, that iiNet
World Cup finals. In a statement, Bridge said: “I confidently earlier this week be a tempestuous occasion. had the contractual and technical
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an affair with Terry, his former always been an honour to play Warnock. scale infringement was
Chelsea team-mate. for England. However, after The news will also bring occurring, but that it was
impossible for iiNet to be an
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Viktor Yanukovych inaugurated as continued from page 5

professional or was a "person in Pritchard said: "There is real


Ukraine's president authority."
Mr Starmer has also removed
concern out in the community
that this House is not having a
(Latest news, breaking news, minister, in an election run-off on Friday. the previous weighting given to say. People are very concerned
current news, UK news, world that the international community Mr Yanukovych inherits a some factors, to make the policy that this is a new back door to
news, celebrity news, politics ruled was broadly free and fair. country whose public finances clearer and more accessible. euthanasia in the UK."
news) Mrs Tymoshenko later are shot to pieces and one that Assisted suicide remains a Labour’s David Winnick
Submitted at 2/25/2010 7:17:50 AM challenged what she said was a hopes to extract a further multi- criminal offence in England and stressed the importance of
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By Andrew Osborn in Moscow remain unclear. situation. There is no agreed circumstances in each case. MP, called for the law to be
Published: 3:17PM GMT 25 With policies that are far more state budget for this year, foreign The interim policy was changed by parliament.
Feb 2010 Kremlin-friendly than his debt is huge, there is poverty, the published in September and has “No guidelines will ever be able
Mr Yanukovych smiled broadly predecessor's, Mr Yanukovych economy is in ruins, and there is been in force since. to distinguish, with the clarity
as he was inaugurated in the had been expected to make his corruption," he told parliament. Mr Starmer was forced to issue needed, between compassionate
Ukrainian parliament in Kiev, first foreign visit to Moscow in "Yet, I do believe that we cannot the guidelines after a Law Lords assistance to relieve terminal
revelling in his unlikely rise order to pay symbolic homage to only save the state from socio- ruling in favour of Debbie suffering of competent adults,
from the political dead just five U k r a i n e ' s f o r m e r i m p e r i a l economic collapse but that we Purdy, who has multiple and wicked assisted suicide of
years after being cast into the master. Russia has made no can quickly put it on the path of sclerosis. the mentally ill - legislation is
political wilderness by the secret of the fact that it sees accelerated development." He She wanted to know whether needed, and Parliament should
country's pro-Western Orange Ukraine as falling within its own now faces the tricky task of her husband would be act,” he said.
Revolution. sphere of influence. wining the support of most MPs prosecuted for helping her to Gordon Brown has warned
"I know what to do and how to But aides say Mr Yanukovych in parliament so that a new end her life. against legalising assisted
do it," he promised, going on to is just as keen to forge closer ties government and prime minister Campaigners for the right to die suicide, saying it would run the
theatrically cite the Bible in an with Europe as with Russia and of his choice can be appointed. welcomed the initial guidelines risk of putting vulnerable people
effort to persuade his opponents therefore deliberately decided to Five Filters featured article: and called for the Government under pressure to end their lives.
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In the Commons today, MPs
called for a debate on the issue.
Conservative MP Mark

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MPs blast 'ridiculous' pay in RBS Before the Bell: Futures


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December 31 is less than the £5
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the £24.3 billion loss that RBS
38 per cent.
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reported for 2008, a record for Sir Fred Goodwin, said that he (BloggingStocks)
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continue developing it. said: “RBS rewarding that the “thousands of best- Filed under: Before the Bell,
Politicians rounded today on individual bankers is like a performing people” who left International Markets, Apple Inc
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), football team paying their striker last year could have increased (AAPL), Coca-Cola (KO),
the state-owned lender, over its for scoring when they’ve just the banks’ profits by £1 billion. Market Matters, Coca-Cola
decision to pay up to £1.7 billion been relegated." “We will continue to lose staff Enterprises (CCE), Economic
in bonuses to bankers despite RBS is 84 per cent owned by because of the tightrope we are Data, Federal Reserve U.S. stock costs and exacerbate its
making a £3.6 billion loss during t h e B r i t i s h t a x p a y e r a f t e r walking. Retention of staff is futures fell Thursday morning as problems. This also caused fears
2009. receiving billions of pounds of my single biggest problem,” he investors digested news of a of other possible defaults among
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bonus pool while other staff The UKFI, the body set up by were his and his staff's “crosses from Federal Reserve Chairman Bell: Futures Lower After Data;
would share in a £400 million the Government to manage the to bear”. Ben Bernanke, as well as the Ahead of Bernanke
reward. state’s investment in British Mr Osborne did not deny that a release of several key economic Before the Bell: Futures Lower
George Osborne, the Shadow banks, yesterday granted RBS Conservative government would indicators. After Data; Ahead of Bernanke
Chancellor, said that bankers’ permission to pay the bonuses. also have given the green light Both Moody's and Standar & originally appeared on
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Assisted suicide: Debbie Purdie Is Barnes & Noble Going


welcomes new guidelines to Protect Shareholders
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current news, UK news, world
news, celebrity news, politics
She now knows that if the
Cuban jazz violinist is judged to
motivation of the suspect
rather than the characteristics of from Ron Burkle?
have acted with compassion a the victim. Zac Bissonnette
news) prosecution will not be pursued. "The policy does not change the (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 2/25/2010 7:20:58 AM "The important thing about the law on assisted suicide. It does
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continue developing it. encouragement and Parliament. What it does do is to the board of directors at Barnes
Published: 3:20PM GMT 25 compassionate support for provide a clear framework for & Noble ( BKS) has denied Ron
Feb 2010 somebody's decision," she said. prosecutors to decide which Burkle, the company's single
Keir Starmer, the Director of "The current guidelines are cases should proceed to court largest shareholder, the
Public Prosecutions, announced enough to give me my life back and which should not." opportunity to acquire more
today that a decision to charge and to know that I can carry on Ms Purdy, who is wheelchair- stock without triggering the
those who helped loved ones kill living and don't have to worry bound, said she still wanted a poison pill the company enacted shareholders."
themselves would be focused about making a decision now. change in the law because the hastily back in November. Continue reading Is Barnes &
on their motivation. "Now it's my turn to make sure I new guidelines only apply after In a letter to Mr. Burkle filed Noble Going to Protect
But she vowed to continue don't say 'OK I'm all right, end somebody has already died. with the SEC, the company Shareholders from Ron Burkle?
campaigning for a change to the of story'. She backed author Sir Terry notes that the poison pill is Is Barnes & Noble Going to
law, to give other people the The guidelines published today Pratchett's idea for "tribunals" to "intended to protect our Protect Shareholders from Ron
same clarity she feels she now make clear that anyone assisting look into cases where seriously shareholders from actions that Burkle? originally appeared on
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Sirius XM Swings to Profit


Melly Alazraki since the two satellite radio with a year-earlier loss of $245.8 Swings to Profit
(BloggingStocks) companies merged. This is after million, or eight cents. Analysts Sirius XM Swings to Profit
Submitted at 2/25/2010 9:50:00 AM last week its stock finally had expected a loss of 2 cents a originally appeared on
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Property market to surge on Colombia leader's


Conservative Party win cousin arrested
(Latest news, breaking news, figures compiled by property increases its vote, the housing (BBC News | Americas | being a sympathiser.
current news, UK news, world website Your Move. market should heat up in the World Edition) Aggressive action
news, celebrity news, politics However, in 1997, the three months following the Mario Uribe, a close political
Submitted at 2/25/2010 2:20:52 AM
news) Conservative vote stood at 9.6 election. The number of seats ally of President Uribe, is one of
Submitted at 2/25/2010 6:58:29 AM million, down from 14 million and the eventual winner isn’t Message from fivefilters.org: If the most prominent figures
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By Myra Butterworth, Personal Nick Leeming, director of But he added: “The increasing President Alvaro Uribe has been Many current or former
Finance Correspondent Zoopla.co.uk said: “People tend uncertainty of a Conservative rearrested over his alleged ties to members of congress have been
Published: 2:58PM GMT 25 to vote Conservative when victory is therefore potentially paramilitary groups. jailed or investigated for
Feb 2010 they are focusing more on their very bad news for the housing Mario Uribe Escobar, a former allegedly conspiring or
Research shows a link between o w n a s p i r a t i o n s a n d a r e market. With a high turnout senator, was detained following collaborating with United Self-
a rise in Conservative votes and confident in the prospects for and fewer Tory votes, the market an order from the Colombian Defence Forces of Colombia
a rise in the number of themselves and their family. is more likely to cool. But if the Supreme Court. (AUC) paramilitaries, in what
property transactions across the This mindset goes hand in Tories do well in May – or Mario Uribe, who denies any has been dubbed the
country. hand with thoughts of home- sooner - the bounce back should wrongdoing, was detained for "parapolitics" scandal.
In 1979, the Conservative Party ownership and moving up the be even more pronounced than several months in 2008 but Many of those investigated are
received 13.7 million votes, property ladder. It follows that usual.” subsequently released for lack of allies of President Uribe. The
compared to 11.5 million votes the housing market can get Five Filters featured article: evidence linking him to president remains popular,
in 1974. The rise resulted in 8.6 busier after a large Conservative Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: paramilitaries. however, for pursuing
per cent more people buying vote.” PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Dozens of current and former aggressive military action
and selling homes in the three David Newnes, the managing Term Extraction. lawmakers have been jailed or against leftist rebels.
months after the 1979 General director of Your Move said: “If investigated over their alleged He also negotiated the 2003
Election, according to the the Conservative party links to paramilitaries. peace deal that saw paramilitary
Former paramilitary leaders leaders surrender and demobilise
New class action lawsuit have alleged that Mario Uribe
conspired with their groups in
31,000 of their men in exchange
for reduced jail terms and
targets Yelp the 1990s to take over farmland
in agriculturally rich regions of
protection from extradition.
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How to Write a Code of Ethics for Business


Josh Spiro (Inc.com) Write a Code of Ethics for
Submitted at 2/24/2010 7:51:00 AM Business: Don't Sweat the Small
Stuff Making sure your code of
How to Write a Code of Ethics ethics is neither too vague, nor
for Business: What is a Code of just before the store's grand company has to take in laying employees "are hired and fired at too specific can be a challenge,
Ethics?A code of ethics is a opening. It would have been out a code of ethics is deciding such a pace that people don't a n d a s l i p u p c a n m a k e
collection of principles and easy to cave to the pressure of what values are important to it know what the corporate culture employees resentful of the
practices that a business believes t h e i r r e s p o n s i b i l i t y t o and what lines it won't cross. is." Dig Deeper: Is business endeavor. Jennings says that it's
in and aims to live by. A code of stakeholders, creditors, and When Marianne Jennings is ethics an oxymoron? How to a mistake for companies to kick
business ethics usually doesn't employees but Ikea has a firm no consulting with companies Write a Code of Ethics for off their code of ethics with
s t a n d a l o n e , i t w o r k s i n bribes policy. To get around the implementing a code of ethics, B u s i n e s s : G e t t i n g I n p u t A crackdowns on small details. "At
conjunction with a company's problem, they leased power s h e p r o b e s a c o m p a n y ' s common mistake that companies almost every company, people
mission statement and more generators to get their store lit up leadership to discover their make when drafting a code of who want to do business with
specific policies about conduct in time for its kickoff."A code of boundaries. The professor at e t h i c s i s n o t t o c o n s u l t you bring plates of cookies at the
to give employees, partners, e t h i c s i s a b o u t c o r p o r a t e Arizona State University's employees. "Often the code of holidays," she says. Companies
vendors, and outsiders an idea of culture," says Michael Connor, business school and author of ethics comes from the top, and often begin by pouncing on
what the company stands for and the editor and publisher of the The Seven Signs of Ethical the company is really not aware these sorts of transgressions
h o w i t ' s m e m b e r s s h o u l d o n l i n e m a g a z i n e B u s i n e s s Collapse, asks her clients, "What of the kinds of things the "and that immediately creates a
conduct themselves. The key in E t h i c s . " [ M a n y s m a l l - t o are the things you would never employees are facing," Jennings hostile atmosphere because
distinguishing a code of ethics medium-sized businesses] have do at this company to get a says. In these cases "the code of people don't want to let go of
from these other documents is to a code of ethics; it's probably not client, to keep a client, to make e t h i c s c o m e s o u t a n d i t ' s that. You have to work with
hit the right level of specificity. written down in many cases but sure you met your numbers for instantly dismissed as a sham them from the big perspective
It should address both the it wouldn't hurt if it was." the quarter?' Just thinking because the employees really until they self-realize what they
p a r t i c u l a r n u a n c e s o f t h e Connor believes that there's no through that sets the framework know what's happening and it's need to do" regarding the more
company's industry as well as its such thing as a business being for the code."Clarifying these not covered [in the code] or it's specific scenarios. Dig Deeper:
b r o a d e r g o a l s f o r s o c i a l too small to benefit from a code details can be especially helpful a d d r e s s e d i n a d i f f e r e n t What Enron didn't teach us How
responsibility and should be of ethics. Having a code is as the company grows. "As they way."Even if you think you're in to Write a Code of Ethics for
concrete enough to serve as a "often viewed as a luxury or grow, they're going to be hiring tune with the daily trials and Business: Particular Pitfalls
g u i d e f o r e m p l o y e e s i n a something that is an added cost," more people that are probably tribulations of your staff, you Some ethical dilemmas can
quandary without laying out he says. "The reality these days dissimilar to their value structure s h o u l d s o l i c i t b r o a d e r r e v e r b e r a t e m u c h m o r e
rules for every situation that is that the business that does not and [putting] those rules and participation in the crafting of powerfully through a small
could arise.Policies can include have a code of ethics subjects those procedures in place will the code. Employees need to business than through a larger
issues such as a companies itself to a much greater risk in its help your company grow in the have a say in it but they also corporation. Take the example
commitment to not work with day-to-day operations and if way you want it to grow," says need to know why the code is of officecest, or a romantic
vendors who use child labor or there is an unfortunate incident, John Fraedrich, a professor of important and why it ultimately workplace relationship."If you
are environmentally harmful, not they expose themselves to much business ethics at Southern contains the tenets that it does. have a small company you really
discriminating in their hiring, greater risk [from] regulatory Illinois University.Having HR Jennings suggests soliciting need to have a policy of no
and not taking bribes. For and prosecutorial authorities." educate incoming employees anonymous input from your staff dating within the company,"
example, recently when Ikea Dig Deeper: A more detailed about the code of ethics and the on a situation they were in Fraedrich says. "Let's say there
was opening their first location definition of a code of ethics company's culture is especially during the past year that made is some sort of harassment issue
in Russia, they were approached How to Write a Code of Ethics i m p o r t a n t i n t h e a g e o f them uncomfortable as a good or sexual misconduct; it doesn't
by local bigwigs requesting a f o r B u s i n e s s : S e t t i n g increasingly rapid job turnover. starting point. Dig Deeper: Case
kickback to turn their utilities on P r i o r i t i e s T h e f i r s t s t e p a Connor says that sometimes studies in business ethics How to HOW page 19
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Yelp Lawsuit Alleges Extortion Tactics


Christine Lagorio (Inc.com) victims tend to be small affected.
Submitted at 2/24/2010 7:55:00 AM businesses, such as our client, "It's definitely not an isolated
who often have no choice but to situation," he says. "We've had
Yelp is the target of a class- pay Yelp exorbitant sums in calls and plenty of emails as
action lawsuit that alleges the order to prevent further harm to evidence, too. Since the press
customer-review website uses their livelihoods.” release we've gotten notes from
high-pressure sales tactics that The suit hinges on the question people saying they'd been
amount to extortion. of whether Yelp is simply affected in exactly the same
Two law firms filed the suit in offering to run a positive way. So I think we're going to
Los Angeles federal court advertisement above negative discover a lot of people that will
a l l e g i n g u n f a i r b u s i n e s s reviews, or whether it is further testify against Yelp."
practices against Yelp, the San offering to remove negative The law firms say they will file
Francisco-based start-up that lets reviews for cash, which could in a permanent injunction against
users write and post reviews of court amount to payoffs to Yelp's alleged practices, but say
local businesses. Visitors use the prevent the site from doing they have not decided whether to
platform to recommend local future harm - a.k.a. extortion. file a more urgent preliminary
busineeses to others - or to vent The named plaintiff, a injunction.
over unsatisfactory service and veterinary hospital called Cats Negative online reviews –
critique products, sometimes and Dogs Animal Hospital in whether they bash customer
harshly. Customer reviews come Long Beach, California, asked service, ambiance, or a product –
with a rating of one-to-five that Yelp remove a false and on Yelp have been widely
stars.Miami-based business trial defamatory review from its known to bruise business-
law firm Beck & Lee filed the listing on Yelp.com. Yelp owners' egos. But whether they
case along with the San Diego- refused to take down the review, actually hurt business will likely
based Weston Firm – the same the suit alleges. What happened be examined by the court. As
firm that handled the Apple iPod instead? The company’s sales is easy," Sollitto said. "While we the Cats and Dogs Yelp.com Inc. reported recently in "
and iTunes antitrust litigation. r e p s c a l l e d t h e h o s p i t a l haven't seen the suit in question, listing page, or place them lower You've Been Yelped," "Yelp is
The suit alleges that Yelp repeatedly, demanding payments we will dispute it aggressively." on the listing page," and also by some measures the most
employees call businesses that of about $300 per month in The claim is being made under ensure negative reviews will not popular reviews website in the
appear with customer reviews on order to have the negative the California Unfair appear in Google and other world, with more than 26
Yelp and demand monthly review hidden or removed. Competition Law, a broadly- search engine results. The million monthly readers and a
payments in exchange for " T h e a l l e g a t i o n s a r e worded law dating back to 1933 advertising subscription would library of user-generated content
" r e m o v i n g o r m o d i f y i n g demonstrably false, since many that covers an assortment of also allow Cats and Dogs to that is probably matched only by
negative reviews," a release by businesses that advertise on Yelp fraudulent or unfair business choose the order in which Wikipedia. There are some eight
the law firms explains. It seeks have both negative and positive practices, including "unfair, customer reviews appeared and million Yelp reviews, covering
an injunction to stop Yelp.com reviews," Vince Sollitto, Yelp's deceptive, untrue or misleading pick its "tagline," or phrases in a service businesses in most major
from what it calls "wrongful v i c e president of advertising." single review that show on every American metropolitan areas,
conduct." communications, said in a According to the lawsuit, the search page. along with Ireland, Canada, and
“We believe that Yelp’s sales statement. "These businesses Yelp salesperson who contacted Gregory Weston, founder of the the United Kingdom."Earlier, a
tactics amount to high-tech realize that both kinds of Cats and Dogs stated that if Cats Weston Firm, tells Inc.com his series of articles published in the
extortion,” Jared H. Beck, a feedback provide authenticity and Dogs purchased a one-year firm has already heard from Bay Area newspaper the East
managing partner of Beck & and value."Running a good advertising subscription, Yelp dozens of small business owners
Lee, said in a release. “The business is hard; filing a lawsuit would "hide negative reviews on who have been similarly YELP page 17
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Social Network Rockets Houlihan Restaurants' Profits


Ben Paynter (Fast Company)
Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:40:12 AM

HOULIFANS: From left, Curt


Cuscino, Lara Espinoza, Charity
Kerr, and Adrian O'Hara enjoy
Houlihan's small-plates menu. |
Photograph by Austin Walsh
Casual-dining stalwart
Houlihan's reboots its chain with
the help of its own social
network.
When Houlihan's launched its
"small plates" menu in
September 2009, what was
supposed to be a hip selling
point -- tapas-style American
classics at recession-friendly
prices -- turned out relatively
tasteless. Customers complained
that the white-bean hummus and Customers appended that a-little research by NPD Group. The Jocelyn Jourdan, 30, a business Clark Wolf. Gulvik knows the
pita was "thick and spongy," the -too-cute prefix to all things new menu will roll out to more analyst in Minneapolis. feeling. After a recent HQ
flatbread pizza unpalatably Houli-, and they've helped the than 50 of the chain's 97 Houlifans are recruited from a protest, she brought back
"chewy." Some were even left formerly stodgy Irish pub locations this year. database of 600,000-plus chicken fajitas, even though
hungry because seemingly rebrand itself as a contemporary Why did Houlihan's build its customers who either visited the they're a lower-margin item. "It
"inattentive" and "distracted" suburban lounge-style hangout. own social network rather than corporate Web site or signed up was what our customers
servers thought all of the The community's feedback has piggyback on a public site? in-store for email coupons. Each wanted," she says. But when the
appetizers were supposed to be allowed the company to revamp "Exclusivity," says VP of must fill out a questionnaire that system works, the placated
delivered together in one batch on the fly, and the small-plates marketing Jen Gulvik. Tired of tests both their "brand love" and Houlifan brings even more
like a traditional three-course menu now accounts for 26% of being outspent and outshouted how socially active they are friends into the restaurant to
meal, instead of trickling out of item sales in the 10 markets by Applebee's and Chili's in beyond the keyboard. HQ show off her success. The early
the kitchen as they were ordered. where it has debuted. Those mass media, she decided to averages between 200 and 400 chicken-fajita returns look
But these reviews weren't your dishes carry a higher-than- approach millennials on their fans per restaurant, most of promising: Charity Kerr, 26, a
typical Internet-fueled vitriol. average profit margin on smaller own turf to harness their gift for whom bring in friends once a programmer in Kansas City,
Houlihan's had courted it. Last -than-average portions. In the gossip. She'd trade insider week. "You can't buy that," recently tweeted photos of her
summer, it created its own social Kansas City area, site of the first information about recipes and Gulvik says. favorite dishes to friends. When
-networking site, HQ, an invite- test, overall profits are up 12% redesigns in response for honest The concern about this strategy some of them agreed to come
only "brand community" of at a time when sales in the $83.5 input not intended for broadcast. is that "what customers really hang out there, she introduced
10,500 "Houlifans" to serve as a billion casual-dining industry "I joined to provide unrestricted want is good stuff for free," herself as the Woman Who
virtual comment card. have dropped 1%, according to feedback that's valued," says warns restaurant consultant Saved the Chicken Fajitas.
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Google's Sergey Brin Talks Hacking: Chinese Human Rights


Activists Targeted
Dan Nosowitz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:13:36 AM

Sergey Brin of Google sat down


with TED to talk about the
recent revelations about the
broad, sophisticated attacks the
company has been battling from
Chinese sources, and what that
struggle means for Google's
future in China. In the process,
he reveals a few little tidbits of
information--and explains why
he's not interested in figuring out
if the Chinese government is
behind the attacks.
Brin starts off by stating the of people in it, and if you look Department's willingness to get philanthropic mission: Perhaps censorship from search results,
primary goal of the hackers, at the associated army and involved. Should we really hold people don't believe this, but all and will simply pull out of
which wasn't entirely clear whatnot it's even larger. It's the government of China throughout the discussion of China if that option isn't
before: to gain access to the larger than most countries by responsible for intellectual originally entering China in available, and Brin reasserted
Gmail accounts of human rights far. So even if there were a property theft if it turns out it 2006 as we did, and the that goal, saying only that he's
activists in China. That's quite a Chinese government agent was ordered by twelve announcement last month, our "optimistic" Google and China
bombshell, and seems to point behind this, it might represent a cybersecurity officers in an focus has really been what's best can work out their differences.
the finger of blame squarely at fragment of policy, as it were. office somewhere? for the Chinese people. It's not After all, Google provides what
the Chinese government, which There are many people there, Brin went on to explain been about our particular many would call an essential
has, shall we say, a history of and they have different views. Google's immediate future in revenue or profit or whatnot. Internet service--won't it hurt the
seeking to squash dissidents. But Unbelievably, that point of view China, as well as showing an The future of Google in China Chinese people more if they
with a simple explanation, Brin has hardly been mentioned in the unrelentingly idealistic--not looks doubtful, despite Brin's have no access to it at all? But
puts the entire process of press, in favor of an unrealistic, necessarily, though optimism--he notes that since the for the moment, Google seems
"blaming the Chinese understandable desire to blame the word "naive" was tossed Beijing Olympics, China's to be standing on principle--and
government" in perspective: I an identifiable villain--but of around--attitude toward Google's draconian blocking of both after being attacked, nobody can
don't actually think the question course it's true, to an extent. I'm potential benefits for the Chinese search results and entire blame them.
of whether this was the Chinese sure it makes the entire process people. Contrary to the typical repositories like YouTube has [Via TED]
government or not is all that of assigning blame that much corporate yearn for ever more only gotten more severe. Google
important. I know that seems more difficult, but not pointless, profits, Brin painted Google's announced awhile back that they
strange. The Chinese as shown by the State inquest in China as almost a want to begin removing the
government has tens of millions
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Keep Those Customers!


Howard Greenstein (Inc.com) College. “Many time companies marketer in general can move contacts all customers who sign
Submitted at 2/24/2010 12:36:57 PMignore their existing customers - 10% of the attention they create up for their service. “It’s more
they don't make the same offers into qualified leads. With good interesting when we get
Entrepreneurs often move full available that they do for new customer retention, good complaints. We have no scripted
speed ahead to grab the next customers, and that can alienate service, good product, you have answers in our call center. We
customer, the next deal, or make the existing customers.” a huge amount of control about deal with people directly and
the next target. In their haste, “I don’t like the word retention – keeping your customers. They’re answer their questions if we iMaxi: Finally, the iPad
they often forget about the it implies the customer is trying yours to lose.” were your IT team. When there’s
people who got them where they to leave” says Christopher Penn, “Especially in the phone a crisis, we just admit a problem
Gets the Protection it
are today – their existing Vice President, Strategy and business, there’s always a or find a quick solution, then Deserves [FUNNY]
customers. When looking at Innovation at Blue Sky Factory challenge in customer service most people don’t want to leave Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
your sales cycle, you may Email Marketing. “If you look at and retention,” reports us. They just want a fix and
Submitted at 2/25/2010 3:02:15 AM
discover that finding the new standard funnel – marketing is at Phone.com President Ari good attention. If we do this
customer, obtaining interest in the top, then sales takes the leads Rabban. His 3-year-old business well, they often become When it comes to branding their
your product or service, gaining and creates customers. Then is growing in revenue every testimonial customers and pass products, Apple is one of the
trust, and getting a sale takes customer service and product month, and is up to 35 us on to others.” most successful companies in
time and effort. You often have design work with the customer. employees. “We port (move) As far as using tools like email the world. iPod has all but
to create deals or special offers From bottom of funnel to the top phone numbers, so we know if marketing for retention, Blue replaced the words “MP3
to break through the clutter of you have declining control. You you were previously a customer Sky Factory’s Penn says “This player”, and iPhone, MacBook,
the market. have full control where product of a specific other company – may be beating a dead horse, but iMac and most of their other
“The cost of obtaining new teams and customer service can we’ve done analysis – we have 9 just send relevant, timely, products are equally as
customers is typically greater tailor what you do to your times more numbers coming into targeted emails to people who successful.
than the cost of retaining your customers. When you get to our company than going out. We ask for it. That’s the real The iPad, however, invokes an
existing customers,” says Morris sales, control is iffy, and people think customer service is key to formula.” obvious joke, and that obvious
Bocian, President of Creative may not buy if they don’t have retention. We have an in-house How do you keep your joke just got very literal with the
Business Planning and Adjunct money. There’s even less control 24x7 customer call center, which customers happy, or just keep introduction of iMaxi, the
Professor of Business at NYU’s in marketing - you’re competing costs more, but the results speak your customers? Let us know protective case for the iPad that
School of Continuing and for people’s attention, to turn it for it.” looks, well, like a completely
Professional Studies and Baruch into a qualified lead. A good Rabban notes that his team different kind of pad.
YELP Funny or not, this joke
continued from page 14 obviously isn’t going away, and
Bay Express raised concerns negative reviews were showing sources and contradictory peers. when someone fashions it into a
about Yelp's business practices. up. When John asked what he evidence. The company, which What do you think about the real, preorderable product, you
The series quoted a San could do about his bad reviews, was founded as an online lawsuit? Have you had a good or have to admire the effort. The
Francisco Bay-Area restaurant- he told the newspaper that the business-listings service in 2004 bad experience with Yelp? Share $40 price seems a little steep,
owner, identified only as John, sales rep responded: "We can by Jeremy Stoppelman and your thoughts in the Comments though.
who says he received unsolicited move them. Well, for $299 a Russel Simmons, maintains that section below. Tags: apple, iMaxi, ipad, Tablet
phone calls from Yelp noting month." it's only goal is to provide a way
that his establishment had a solid Yelp denied the article's for consumers to find good local
standing – 3.5 stars out of five allegations on its official blog, businesses that have been vetted
on Yelp – but that a few chiding its use of anonymous and recommended by their
18 Business/ Tech/ E-reader News Edition

How Does the Bloom Box Energy Server Work?


Ariel Schwartz (Fast comparison, solar generally
Company) produces power at between 10%
Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:14:12 AM to 15% efficiency. But unlike
solar panels, the Bloom Energy
Now that the dust has started to Server produces CO2 as a
settle on the unveiling of the byproduct. According to the
Bloom Energy Server, we Energy Collective, "CO2
thought it might be useful to take emissions when running on
a more detailed look at some of natural gas would be just under
the technology behind the fuel 0.8 pounds/kWh, which
cell-powered electricity compares favorably to electricity
generator. The Bloom Energy from central station coal-fired
Server is made out of fuel cells, plants (2 lbs/kWh) or natural gas
or electrochemical cells. A plants (roughly 1.3 lbs/kWh) and
single fuel cell consists of an the national average for on-grid
anode, a cathode, and an electricity (around 1.3-1.5
electrolyte stuck between the lbs/kWh)." If the box runs on
two. As fuel flows in through the landfill gas or biogas, it
anode side and an oxidant comes produces net zero carbon
in over the cathode, a reaction is emissions.Eventually, Bloom
triggered that causes electrons to hopes that a scaled-down version
move into the fuel cell's circuit, device can be used in homes. A
producing electricity. The residential Bloom Box would
Bloom Energy Server isn't include methanol fuel cells, commercialized, but the to 1800 F). That means Bloom's produce 1 kW of power and cost
actually a server--that's just a PR hydrogen fuel cells, and zinc-air company's cells ("sand" baked cells will have to prove that they approximately $3,000. But that
buzzword. In actuality, it's a batteries. The Bloom Energy into ceramic squares that are can remain durable under the probably won't happen for at
distributed power generator. Server consists of solid oxide coated with green and black stress--already, the company has least 10 years.
Each "server" produces 100 fuel cells, which are attractive inks) supposedly have overcome had to come out to replace cells Read more about Bloom Box:
kW of power, consists of because they can be made out of most of the issues. Bloom's Web at eBay's installation, which has Bloom Energy Unveils Its Ultra-
thousands of fuel cells, costs low-cost materials with high site has a great animation been running for just 7 months. Secretive Bloom Box Fuel Cell
between $700,000 and energy efficiencies. The cells showing how solid oxide fuel In general, Bloom expects that eBay Opens Up About Installing
$800,000, and pays for itself in can run on a variety of fuels, cells work. One of the biggest its fuel cell stacks will have to Bloom Boxes and Their Room
three to 5 years based on an including traditional fuel, natural problems with solid oxide fuel be switched out twice during the for Improvement Is the Bloom
energy cost of 8 to 9 cents per gas, biomass gas, landfill gas, cells is their temperature device's 10 y e a r Box Energy Server the Future of
kW hour.There are many and ethanol. Until now, technical requirement--the ceramic l i f e s p a n . B l o o m ' s d e v i c e Plug and Play Electricity?
different types of fuel cells. challenges have stopped solid squares only become active at generates electricity at 50% to
Some of the more popular ones oxide fuel cells from being extremely high temperatures (up 55% conversion efficiency. In

Six Labs features now standard for Gmail users


Stephen Shankland Better search, customizable 'graduated' from Gmail Labs into Originally posted at Deep Tech
(Webware.com) label colors, YouTube previews, the mainstream version of the
a n d o t h e r f e a t u r e s h a v e Google's e-mail service.
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HOW Mandelson Gets To
continued from page 13
Choose How Long Your
matter if they were great friends companies could draft a code to somebody on the HR or sales found online, particularly on the 'Temporary' Suspension
in the beginning, at the end it's themselves, especially if they are team. This person is also in pages of university business
g o i n g t o b e a in a low-risk, low-liability field, charge of the system for ethics centers like the Illinois Would Be
nightmare."Another ethical and Fraedrich similarly advises monitoring and reporting Institute of Technology's Center Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
pitfall that can stir up particular that if you have more than 20 misconduct. Like the process for for the Study of Ethics in the Submitted at 2/25/2010 12:54:23 AM
trouble for a small business is employees, it's time to consult creating the code, this should be Professions.
nepotism. "In start-up an ethicist or human resources done anonymously as any The Ethics Resource Center is Remember how the UK was just
companies, it's all about 'who do specialist. Dig Deeper: 10 whistleblower would likely be an Arlington, Virginia-based playing a word game by
I trust' and sometimes nepotism principles to evaluate a concerned about what rocking non-profit that provides among claiming that it wouldn't
will come in," Fraedrich says, company's values How to Write the boat would do to their other things, updates on federal disconnect users from the
and family-run businesses have a Code of Ethics for Business: career.Some companies kick the policy connected to business internet via Peter Mandelson's
to be especially vigilant against Putting Someone in ChargeEven tires of their adherence to the ethics, surveys on topics such as Digital Economy Bill? That was
an ethical lapse that could lead at if senior management and code of ethics by checking in how the recession is impacting quickly debunked, as people
best to employee dissatisfaction employees embrace a code of with both managers and ethics, and links to other realized that the gov't was
and at worst to a discrimination ethics, someone needs to be put employees about it during resources around the web. simply changing how it
suit. Dig Deeper: Isn't it in charge of applying and performance reviews. It's also Business for Social described the disconnection,
romantic? Leigh Buchanan on updating it. This person is crucial to make your code of Responsibility is a global calling it a "temporary account
the perils of office dating How typically known as an ethical ethics a dynamic thing that network of companies suspension" instead. Of course,
to Write a Code of Ethics for officer or, in more intimidating changes as your business specializing in business ethics that's still a disconnect. Another
Business: Who to Turn to for terminology, a compliance changes. Connor says, "Like that provide consulting and unresolved question, however,
Help While it can be valuable to officer. They need to be reliable, taxes, it doesn't hurt, once a research services to help was how long is temporary?
consult a lawyer when drafting a have a strong commitment to the year, to look at it yourself and companies hone socially Turns out the answer is however
code of ethics, "[a] lawyer is not company's success, and good ask, 'Does this truly represent conscious business strategies. long Peter Mandelson thinks is
really an ethics individual," people skills. They also need to our business and where we want appropriate.
explains Fraedrich. "He or she is have access to senior to be?'" Dig Deeper: The Permalink| Comments| Email
there to determine what can be management or the board of importance of being ethical This Story
construed as legal or illegal and directors for periodic updates or ResourcesInc. has some sample
what can be argued in court." in case a problem arises.The role codes of ethics available, and
Connor says that smaller of ethical officer typically falls more such resources can be

Fidel Castro 'exceptionally well'


(BBC News | Americas | has said following what is table. conference in Copenhagen. Brazilian president visited him
World Edition) reported to have been an Mr Castro ruled Cuba for "The emotional meeting was an more than a year ago, in January
Submitted at 2/25/2010 3:44:45 AM "emotional meeting". almost half a century before expression of the existing 2008.
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continue developing it. Photographs of the pair show term expires, the two discussed Rumours that Fidel Castro's Term Extraction.
Cuba's ex-leader Fidel Castro is the two friends talking and topics including last year's health had declined seriously
in good shape, Brazil's president smiling as they sit around a global climate change were more frequent when the
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Next Firefox to
drop Mac OS
X 10.4 support
Stephen Shankland
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 2/24/2010 9:37:00 AM

The current version of Firefox,


3.6, supports Apple's Tiger
operating system, but the
browser's successor will require
Leopard or later.
Originally posted at Deep Tech

Ron Paul
Facebook Really Wants to Know Where You Are, Unfurls Kook
Considers Buying Loopt Flag in House
Kit Eaton (Fast Company) Facebook simply trotted out the systems. You only have to look keen to get involved. It's seeing (Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:14:06 AM party line "we don't comment on at Foursquare's recent big-media huge challenges to its success as Submitted at 2/24/2010 11:25:43 AM
rumor and speculation." partnerships, and Twitter's fresh the finger on the social pulse of
Rumors are swirling that But the rumor is apparently location-enabled Tweet system the world from the Twitter- Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) really
Facebook's looking to purchase based on sound information. to see this effect. And, of course, Google tie-up, as well as lets his kook flag fly in this clip,
location-aware social net Loopt. And from this we can infer that Google's new and controversy- backlash to its recent privacy accusing the Federal Reserve of
It makes perfect sense, given the Facebook is at least very beset social network experiment changes, and it's obviously keen helping Saddam Hussein buy
sudden arrival recently of interested in acquiring Loopt, or Buzz, which allows Foursquare- to not fall behind the weapons, helping fund the
Google's Buzz mobile, which is perhaps a location-based system like "check-ins" to particular competition like Foursquare and Watergate burglary, and
location-aware from the get-go. like it (because we don't know locations in its mobile version. Gowalla. We have no idea how planning a secret bailout of …
Facebook's playing catch-up. what other due diligence Location-aware systems are a Loopt would fold into Greece.
According to TechCrunch Facebook's planning team is also valuable tool masquerading as Facebook's social networking Fed Chief Ben Bernanke’s reply
Facebook is busy doing due performing.) fun games for users to play, system, should a deal go ahead, (as people laugh in the
diligence on the potential deal, The reasons are obvious: simply because they allow a but we can speculate it would be background): “These specific
indicating that the idea is in its Location-aware services of all whole new class of location- connected with Facebook's allegations you’ve made, I think
very early stages. And at such a kinds are an extremely hot topic. sensitive advertising to be status updating system, and are absolutely bizarre.”[Video]
point in deals like this, before That's partly because it's a social presented to users, bringing in possibly even tied into Facebook (Hat tip: KT.)
negotiations have really kicked trend, paralleling the rise of fresh revenue to the company Connect.
off, it's usual for everything to social networking itself, and that's delivering the location- [Via TechCrunch]
be shrouded in secrecy. Hence partly enabled by the explosion based service.
Loopt refused to comment, and in smartphones which carry GPS And that's why Facebook is
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Chevy's Volt Innovator Leaves for California Battery Startup


Ariel Schwartz (Fast Denise Gray, the director of with the small Volt team. And in batteries for GM's hybrid and all the city within the next two
Company) global battery systems a theme common to many -electric vehicles. When she years. It's not the most
Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:46:34 AM engineering at GM, is leaving on professionals who've left solid began at the battery systems inspirational environment, even
March 5 for a senior jobs to join startups, she said group, it had 25 employees. as auto startups like Johnson
GM just can't seem to catch a management position at the as simply, "I didn't want to look Now it has over 200. Controls and A123 Systems set
break. After billions of dollars in yet unnamed battery company. back and say, 'I could have, I But really, who can blame Gray up shop in the area. If major
losses and rumors that the prized Green Car Reports explains: should have ...' " for leaving? California has a glut automakers want to retain their
electric Chevy Volt won't make What led Gray to leave the only This is great news for Gray's of exciting new auto startups-- Detroit-based talent, they will
it into production (now proven company she'd ever worked for? new venture, but not such good Tesla, Fisker, and Better Place, have to start getting creative.
false), the auto giant's so-called " "The opportunity to create and news for GM. Gray spent 30 just to name a few--while [Via Green Car Reports]
battery czar" has announced that build and plant seeds and mold years at the company and was Detroit is in the unfortunate
she is leaving for an unidentified and shape an organization," she largely responsible for position of having 25% of young
California battery startup. said--just as she was able to do overseeing the development of professionals planning to leave
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Killer Whale Dragged Trainer Off Platform in Deadly Attack


(FOXNews.com) member Eldon Skaggs. But then, The couple said they watched man who had sneaked by "You can't put yourself in the
Submitted at 2/25/2010 6:10:06 AM the whale "pulled her under and the whale show at the park two SeaWorld security was found water unless you trust them and
started swimming around with days earlier and came back to draped over him. The man either they trust you," Brancheau said.
Message from fivefilters.org: If her," Skaggs told The take pictures. But on Wednesday jumped, fell or was pulled into Billy Hurley, chief animal
you can, please donate to the full Associated Press. the whales appeared agitated. the frigid water and died of officer at the Georgia
-text RSS service so we can Some workers hustled the Because of his size and the hypothermia, though he was also Aquarium— the world's largest
continue developing it. audience out of the stadium previous deaths, trainers were bruised and scratched by — said there are inherent
ORLANDO, Fla. A veteran while the others tried to save not supposed to get into the Tilikum. dangers to working with orcas,
SeaWorld trainer was leisurely Brancheau, 40. water with Tilikum, and only Brancheau's older sister, Diane just as there are with driving
rubbing a killer whale from a Skaggs said he heard that about a dozen of the park's 29 Gross, said the trainer wouldn't race cars or piloting jets.
poolside platform when the during an earlier show the whale trainers worked with him. want anything done to the whale "In the case of a killer whale, if
12,000-pound creature reached was not responding to directions. Brancheau had more experience because she loved the animals they want your attention or if
up, grabbed her with its mouth Others who attended the earlier with the 30-year-old whale than like children. The trainer was they're frustrated by something
and dragged her underwater. show said the whale was most. She was one of the park's married and didn't have children. or if they're confused by
Despite workers rushing to help, behaving like an ornery child. most experienced trainers "She loved the whales like her something, there's only a few
the trainer was killed. But Tompkins said the whale overall. children, she loved all of them," ways of handling that," he said.
Horrified visitors who had stuck had performed well in the show "We recognized he was said Gross, of Schererville, Ind. "If you're right near pool's edge
around after a noontime show and that Dawn was rubbing him different," said Tompkins. He "They all had personalities, good and they decide they want a
watched the animal charge down as a reward for doing a said no decision has been made days and bad days." closer interaction during this,
through the pool with the trainer good job. yet about what will happen to Gross said the family viewed certainly they can grab you."
in its jaws. Workers used nets as "There wasn't anything to Tilikum, such as transferring her sister's death as an And, he added: "At 12,000
an alarm sounded, but it was too indicate to us that there was a him to another facility. unfortunate accident, adding: "It pounds there's not a lot of
late. Dawn Brancheau had problem," Tompkins told the SeaWorld has also suspended just hasn't sunk in yet." resisting you're going to do."
drowned. It marked the third CBS "Early Show." the killer whale shows at all of Dawn was the youngest of six Mike Wald, a spokesman for
time the animal had been Another audience member, its parks, which also include children who grew up near the Occupational Safety and
involved in a human death. Victoria Biniak, told WKMG- locations in San Diego and San Cedar Lake, Indiana. Her Health Administration office in
The whale, named Tilikum, TV the whale "took off really Antonio, to review procedures. passion for marine life began at Atlanta, said his agency had
apparently grabbed Brancheau fast in the tank, and then he A SeaWorld spokesman said the age of nine, Gross said, on a dispatched an investigator from
by her long ponytail, according came back, shot up in the air, Tilikum was one of three orcas family trip to Sea World. Tampa.
to the head of animal training at grabbed the trainer by the waist blamed for killing a trainer in According to a profile of Wednesday's death was not the
all SeaWorld parks, Chuck and started thrashing around, 1991 after the woman lost her Brancheau in the Sentinel in first attack on whale trainers at
Tompkins. He told ABC's and one of her shoes flew off." balance and fell in the pool at 2006, she was one of SeaWorld SeaWorld parks.
"Good Morning America" that Two other witnesses told the Sealand of the Pacific near Orlando's leading trainers. In November 2006, a trainer
her ponytail swung out in front Orlando Sentinel that the whale Victoria, British Columbia. Brancheau worked her way into was bitten and held underwater
of the whale. grabbed the woman by the upper Steve Huxter, who was head of a leadership role at Shamu several times by a killer whale
"That's when the trainer next to arm and tossed her around in its Sealand's animal care and Stadium during her career with during a show at SeaWorld's San
him (Tilikum) said that he mouth while swimming rapidly training department then, said SeaWorld, starting at the Sea Diego park.
grabbed the hair, pulled her around the tank. Brazilian tourist Wednesday he's surprised it Lion & Otter Stadium before The trainer, Kenneth Peters,
under water. And of course, held Joao Lucio DeCosta Sobrinho happened again. He says spending 10 years working with escaped with a broken foot. The
her under water." and his girlfriend were at an Tilikum was a well-behaved, killer whales, the newspaper 17-foot orca that attacked him
Brancheau's interaction with the underwater viewing area when balanced animal. said. was the dominant female of
whale appeared leisurely and they suddenly saw a whale with Tilikum was also involved in a She also addressed the dangers
informal at first to audience a person in its mouth. 1999 death, when the body of a of the job. KILLER page 25
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Dad: Suspected Colo. School Gunman Acted Erratic Lately


(FOXNews.com) was too loud and that certain opened fire with a bolt-action running for lives just like on that Wrisk said Eastwood would
Submitted at 2/25/2010 5:29:24 AM foods made too much noise, his hunting rifle he stole from his day in 1999. come to buy cigarettes, but was
father said. father. "We thought all of that was always a little short of money,
Message from fivefilters.org: If Others said Eastwood would Sheriff's department behind us," resident Betty Makr and she would make up the
you can, please donate to the full show up at a nearby gas station spokeswoman Jacki Kelley said said. difference. He would grab a
-text RSS service so we can to buy cigarettes, but was often Eastwood left the building David Benke, a 57-year-old newspaper, look at the sports
continue developing it. 20 or 30 cents short, and would without being asked to do so. teacherergency manual does not page and mumble to himself, she
LITTLETON, Colo. The man mumble to himself as he read the She said a school security officer call for teachers to pounce on said: "Just a very odd, strange
accused of wounding two sports section the newspaper. was not at Deer Creek at the gunmen. guy. I'm not surprised."
middle school students in a "He has problems, but I never time. The officer also has duties Stevenson said Deer Creek's In 2005, Eastwood participated
community still haunted by the thought he'd go to the extent to at another school, but it hasn't security precautions involve a in a NASA-funded study in
Columbine massacre had hurt somebody," said his father, been determined where he was single button in a secretary's which he spent 10 days in a
become increasingly erratic in War Eagle Eastwood. "You can when the shootings happened, office that automatically locks hospital bed so scientists could
recent weeks, yelling at say you're sorry, but you can't Kelley said. down the school in the event of a study muscle wasting, an
imaginary friends and replace the fear and hurt he's put Asked about the possible shooting. If something happens affliction experienced by
complaining that eating in innocent people. He's put a security lapse, Jefferson County inside, teachers are to lock astronauts during long flights,
macaroni and cheese made too hole inside of me." schools Superintendent Cindy doors, get students out of according to a story in the Rocky
much noise, his father said As the math teacher was being Stevenson said only that there is hallways, keep them quiet so as Mountain News at the time.
Wednesday. hailed a hero, officials said the a sign-in sheet that requires not to tip off any gunmen and He told the newspaper that he
Investigators are looking into quick response was further proof visitors to state their name and stay out of the line of sight, she had a lifelong dream of being an
the bizarre behavior of 32-year- that the community learned the the purpose of their visit. She said. All of that was done astronaut and described his
old Bruco Strong Eagle lessons of Columbine in quickly said school officials did not have Tuesday, Stevenson said. occupation to the newspaper as
Eastwood as they try to figure responding to the shootings. But access to the sheet for Tuesday What Benke did "is pretty horse trainer working at his
out why the unemployed ranch there was growing evidence the because the school was closed as amazing," said Kelley. "We father's ranch. He pocketed
hand allegedly showed up at his school missed a chance to head a crime scene. don't train people to do that." $2,200 from the study and was
old school and started firing at off the attack. Eastwood was jailed on $1 "Everybody acted, nobody able to spend a week and a half
students in the parking lot before Investigators said Eastwood million bail on suspicion of froze," she added. watching DVDs and playing
being tackled by a math teacher. walked through the doors of the attempted murder. Eastwood has an arrest record in video games in bed.
Eastwood's father described his Deer Creek Middle School Residents were stunned by the Colorado dating back to 1996 Click here for more from
son's recent strange behavior in earlier in the day, indicated he thought of a gunman opening for menacing, assault, domestic KDVR.com.
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in the past month, he had begun know the nature of his shooting. Parents rushed to the described Bruco Eastwood as a
yelling. The younger man also conversations with school staff middle school, many unnerved "weird, very strange guy. He
complained that the refrigerator before he went outside and by the sight of youngsters talks to himself a lot."

Video: McCain Plays Birther Card


(Little Green Footballs) John McCain is playing the Hayworth to Orly Taitz and this.[Video]
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J. D. Hayworth, comparing is richly deserved. Gotta love
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Brancheau by the waist from a involving other whales at
poolside platform before SeaWorld.
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Guests were evacuated while play. a local TV channel that the girlfriend were at an underwater trainer escaped with a broken
fire crews tried to rescue the 40- Sea World curator Chuck trainer had just finished viewing area when they saw the foot after he was bitten and held
year-old, but they were unable to Tompkins: "He grabbed her hair explaining to the audience what whale with the trainer in its underwater by a female killer
revive her. and pulled her underwater". they were about to see. mouth. whale during a show at
The killer whale, Tilikum, was Courtesy Good Morning At that point, she said, the The entertainment park, known SeaWorld's San Diego park.
also reportedly involved in the America/ABC News whale "took off really fast, and for its killer whale, seal and In 2004, another whale at the
death of a female trainer in SeaWorld said an investigation then he came back around to the dolphin displays, was closed company's San Antonio park
Canada in 1991. was under way into Wednesday glass, jumped up, grabbed the after the incident. SeaWorld in attempted to bite a trainer, but he
Other orcas were also said to afternoon's death of Ms trainer by the waist and started San Diego also suspended its too escaped.
have attacked trainers at Brancheau, a trainer with 16 shaking her violently. The last killer whale show. Though called a killer whale,
SeaWorld parks in 2006 and years' experience. thing we saw was her shoe Tilikum is said to have been the orca (Orcinus orca), is
2004. Jim Solomons, a spokesman for floating." involved in previous incidents, actually the largest member of
'Shaking her violently' the Orange County Sheriff's Audience member Eldon the BBC's Andy Gallacher the oceanic dolphin family.
Chuck Tompkins, SeaWorld Office, said early accounts Skaggs told AP news agency the reports from Florida. Animal rights group Peta says it
parks' head of animal training, indicated she could have slipped whale had "pulled her under and A SeaWorld spokesman said the has long been asking SeaWorld
was quoted by Reuters news and fallen into the tank. started swimming around with orca had been one of three to stop taking wild, ocean-going
agency saying: "She was He said it was too early to tell if her". whales blamed for killing a mammals and confining them to
rubbing the killer whale's head, she had been attacked by the A male spectator who witnessed trainer in 1991 after she had an area that, to them, is "the size
and [it] grabbed her and pulled 12,000lb (5,450kg) orca. the tragedy gave CNN a similar fallen in a pool at a marine park of a bathtub".
her in." But witnesses told a different version of events. in British Columbia, Canada.
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Obama hosting live health summit continued from page 22

SeaWorld San Diego's seven


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World Edition) killer whales. She had attacked
importance of the healthcare special election in healthcare bill today than they Peters two other times, in 1993
Submitted at 2/25/2010 7:31:54 AM issue. Massachusetts. have ever been." and 1999.
"We all know this is urgent and The victory deprived Democrats Despite the tussling, the parties In 2004, another whale at the
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continue developing it. ideological battle; it became a it may end up driving through a voted overwhelmingly to pass a also escaped.
US President Barack Obama is very partisan battle where bill using a procedure called bill scrapping the exemption Wednesday's attack was the
facing top Republicans in a live politics ended up trumping budget reconciliation, which from federal anti-trust law that second time in two months that
TV summit on healthcare, as common sense," he said. only needs a majority vote. health insurance companies have an orca trainer was killed at a
part of a fresh bid to save his He added that he wanted to Republicans said they would long enjoyed. marine park. On Dec. 24, 29-
troubled reform plans. avoid the televised session use Thursday's talks to highlight The president has invested year-old Alexis Martinez
A b o u t 4 0 c o n g r e s s i o n a l becoming merely political the cost of the Democrats' much political capital in his Hernandez fell from a whale and
Democrats and Republicans are theatre, hoping that those reforms, while outlining their plans to make nearly all crushed his ribcage at Loro
taking part in the debate in involved would work together to own more scaled-back approach. Americans take out health Parque on the Spanish island of
Washington DC. try to solve the problem. Democrats are expected to seek insurance and to stop abuses by Tenerife. Park officials said the
For the first time, Mr Obama "If we keep an open mind and to portray the Republicans' plans insurance firms. whale, a 14-year-old named
offered his own version of a are not trying to score political as inadequate. But the issue has become a Keto, made an unusual move as
healthcare plan on Monday; it points then we may be able to 'Photo op' rallying standard for the two practiced a trick in
was rejected by Republicans. make some progress," he said. The meeting - which began at conservatives, who say Mr which the whale lifts the trainer
Analysts say the six-hour Cost of reforms? 1000 (1500 GMT) - is debating Obama is bent on introducing and leaps into the air.
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President Joe Biden and other anything that is on the table, our On the eve of the talks, one does not provide healthcare
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Caused Fire at Pilot's Bubbling Up,
Texas House Up, Up
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destroyed the house belonging to and a hatred of the government.
the man who flew his plane into The family's accountant has
an office building.
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Quicken Essentials for Mac now available


Michael Grothaus (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 2/25/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: Software
After a four year absence, the
next version of Quicken for the
Mac is here. It's called Quicken
Essentials for Mac and is a
ground up Cocoa rewrite. I've
been using the program for a few
weeks now. Is it worth the wait?
Well that depends what you
need in your financial software.
When I interviewed Aaron
Patzer, VP/GM of Intuit's
Personal Finance Group, he was
quick to point out that it's called
Quicken Essentials for a reason:
"It's called Essentials because it's
what we consider to be essential
for most users - about 80% of
users. We went to people's
homes and watched them use it.
The majority of them just want
to know: How much do I have?
How much do I owe? How
much do I spend on gas and
food? How many times do I go streamlined iTunes/iLife look improved categorization that cues from Mint.com, it's method of every credit union and bank in
to this restaurant? How many and feel with all your accounts, takes a ton of work off the plate of categorization is different the country. Transferring and
times do I go to Starbucks? reports, budgets, and tools nicely of the user. The guys at Quicken (and superior). Mint obtains its converting your data from
What investments do I have? Let displayed in a source list. It's have developed a learning categorization by performing a Quicken for Windows to
me set a budget to control my single window interface makes it algorithm for Quicken Online relatively simple Yellow Pages Quicken Essentials worked
spending." easy for the user to get a that allows users to self-tag, with look-up. Later in the year Intuit pretty well in my tests. I just
If an easy overview of your complete snapshot of all their the Quicken Online software will be combining the two saved a copy of my Quicken for
financial life is the goal Intuit finances. The interactive pie remembering those tags and then approaches and hopes to achieve Windows file, moved it to my
had in mind, they've outdone charts are snappy and applying them to other people's 95% categorization accuracy Mac, and double-clicked on it.
themselves. The first thing you'll responsive, and the built-in data. The more people who use (Intuit bought Mint in 2009). All my data was easily imported
notice is the completely reports make it easy to view it, the smarter the tagging gets. Out of the box, Quicken without any errors. Keep in
redesigned interface. Gone is the your checking, savings, and In my tests, the automatic Essentials supports 12,000 US mind that I was only working
horrible toolbar navigation with investing accounts. categorizing/tagging works and Canadian banks. That will with two years of Quicken data
multiple windows. Quicken Perhaps the most standout exceedingly well. Though grow to 16,000 banks in the next
Essentials has got that familiar feature of this revamp is the Quicken Essentials takes a lot of 2-3 months. That's full coverage QUICKEN page 32
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TUAW Quick Plays: Alchemize, Dizzypad, Alice in


Wonderland
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial conversion of what we're almost
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) certain to see of the
Submitted at 2/25/2010 8:00:00 AM extravagantly beautiful designs
on the big screen), this one is
Filed under: Gaming, Software, probably worth skipping unless
iPhone, App Store, iPod touch you have some die-hard young
Here's a quick look at three Alice fans in your family (or
games for the iPhone and iPod happen to be one). There are a
touch we've gotten a chance to few intriguing platformer twists,
play lately. like the chance to switch various
Alchemize is an interesting characters for various
twist on the old Tetris/Dr. Mario environmental abilities, or
dropping block gameplay. The mechanics like rotating your
idea is that you twist and drop iPhone to flip switches or using
pairs of potions that will match GPS to visit real world locations.
up whenever three of the same But in the end, the game doesn't
kind touch each other, and then do much that any other $4.99
leave one transmuted element of platformer does (may I
the next level in their place. recommend Castle of Magic?),
There are five different modes to and though I haven't seen the
play as well, including an movie, I do believe I got some
Avalanche mode that will drop a plot points spoiled as well. If
line of elements on the field if you absolutely have to revisit the
you fail to make a match in a world of Alice after the movie,
Two more quick plays after the pointed, and you tap to jump, so only thing missing is social
certain time frame, and even a it'll be there for you then.
"Read More" link below. the game is essentially you integration -- this seems like the
Bejeweled-style timed mode TUAW TUAW Quick Plays:
Nimblebit calls their new game timing your taps to hit just the kind of game you'd want to brag
with a full field of elements to Alchemize, Dizzypad, Alice in
Dizzypad"...Koi Pond meets right angle to the next pad. It's about to your friends on Twitter
switch around for matches. The Wonderland originally appeared
Doodle Jump," but I'd say there's addictive and simple fun, with -- but I didn't see it outside of
game is a lot of fun to pick up on The Unofficial Apple Weblog
more of an " Ancient Frog every missed jump just one tap Ngmoco's system. Excellent
and play, and while the graphics (TUAW) on Thu, 25 Feb 2010
combined with Canabalt" thing away from starting over again game for $1.99, and the extras
aren't much more than sprites, 08:00:00 EST. Please see our
going on. You play as a little and that familiar thought that will keep you hopping right
the gameplay (and the music) terms for use of feeds.
frog that jumps from little lilly "this time, I can do it better." along.
more than make up for any Read| Permalink| Email this|
pad to lilly pad on a beautifully The game's presentation is Finally, Disney has released an
disappointment in that area. If Comments
rendered pond, with the added great, too -- Ngmoco's plus+ Alice in Wonderland tie-in game
you enjoy a good dropping-
difficulty that the pads happen to handles achievements with ease, in advance of the Tim Burton
block game, you'll like this one,
be spinning. The one you're on and there are little frog skins to movie, and while the
too. It's $2.99 but has been
has a little arrow on it facing in earn for each one, all excellently platforming is serviceable (and
known to go on sale
the direction that the frog is designed and quite cute. The the art style is an impressive
occasionally.
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Lobby Group Says Open Source Battle of Puppets brings


Threatens Capitalism the fight to the
Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/24/2010 6:39:18 PM
development model, it
encourages a mindset that does
not give due consideration to the
marionette stage
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial actually affect the strategy of the
Does advocating the use of open value to intellectual creations. Apple Weblog (TUAW))
source software make one an As such, it fails to build respect game. And in addition to
enemy of capitalism? Yes, for intellectual property rights Submitted at 2/24/2010 9:00:00 PM commanding your puppet
according to a U.S. intellectual and also limits the ability of troops, you can "cast spells" on
property lobby group. government or public-sector Filed under: Gaming, Software, the screen with gesture input,
The Guardian reports that the customers (e.g., State-owned Deals, App Store which will also affect the flow of
International Intellectual enterprise) to choose the best Battle of Puppets fell through battle. It's almost too much to
Property Alliance, a lobby group lobby group has asked the U.S. solutions.” the cracks here when it was first handle on the iPhone's small
broadly representing the RIAA, Trade Representative to accord Countries apparently don’t even r e l e a s e d , a n d t h a t w a s screen, but the developers have
MPAA and others, has requested countries like Indonesia Special have to officially legislate the unfortunate -- it's a 2D real-time added in a tutorial that should
that the U.S. government put 301 status because they feel that use of open source software; strategy game for the iPhone help you figure it out.
countries including Indonesia, encouraging the use of open Indonesia has drawn the ire of with a distinctive art style and a At 99 cents, Battle of Puppets is
Brazil, and India on the “Special source threatens the software t h e I I P A f o r m e r e l y plethora of cool features that a steal. More casual game
301 watchlist.” Special 301 is a i n d u s t r y a n d d e v a l u e s recommending open source definitely deserves a look. The players might get a little dragged
r e p o r t t h a t c o n c e r n s t h e intellectual property rights. The s o f t w a r e i n a c i r c u l a r t o team has been updating the app down by the complexity, but
“adequacy and effectiveness of IIPA’s recommendation to the g o v e r n m e n t d e p a r t m e n t s . often, and the latest update not those looking for strategy will
intellectual property rights” USTR includes the following We’re somewhat astonished at only adds in achievements and find it underneath the cutout art
around the globe. Being put on text: the implications of this. What do leaderboards via the OpenFeint designs. And if they continue to
t h e a s s o c i a t e d w a t c h l i s t “The Indonesian government’s you think: does open source platform, but also has dropped update the app at the rate they
effectively puts those countries policy… simply weakens the software somehow inherently the price to just 99 cents for a have so far, there'll be even more
on a shortlist of governments s o f t w a r e i n d u s t r y a n d threaten intellectual property? limited time. coming in the future.
c o n s i d e r e d “ e n e m i e s o f u n d e r m i n e s i t s l o n g - t e r m Should countries who make use The game has a surprising TUAW Battle of Puppets brings
capitalism” who aren’t doing competitiveness by creating an of it in government departments amount of strategic depth -- the fight to the marionette stage
enough to protect intellectual a r t i f i c i a l p r e f e r e n c e f o r be sanctioned for weakening the more than you'd expect for an originally appeared on The
property abroad. companies offering open source software industry? iPhone title. There are five U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g
The reason the IIPA is so software and related services, [img credit: David Erickson] different armies (each one (TUAW) on Wed, 24 Feb 2010
c o n c e r n e d a b o u t t h e e v e n a s i t d e n i e s m a n y [via Computer World UK] representing an "opera" theme), 21:00:00 EST. Please see our
aforementioned countries? They legitimate companies access to Tags: Brazil, india, Indonesia, each with its own strengths and terms for use of feeds.
apparently have the audacity to the government market. intellectual property, mpaa, open weaknesses, and the little unit Read| Permalink| Email this|
either use or advocate the use of Rather than fostering a system source, piracy, Political, riaa, battles play out over 22 different Comments
open source software either in that will allow users to benefit software, special 301, trade theaters, where various
government departments or in from the best solution available environmental changes can
state-owned businesses. The in the market, irrespective of the

Feb. 25, 1837: Davenport Electric Motor Gets Plugged In


Dylan Tweney (Wired Top Thomas Davenport finally got a never made much money off it, its ... power source.
Stories) patent for his electric motor. He because it was an idea ahead of
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Full text searches on the iPhone? Gmail Retires 5 and


There WAS an app for that. Graduates 6 Labs
David Winograd (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
it first. There may be something
to that since reMail is arguably a
better mail app than the one that
Features
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:00:00 AM built into the iPhone.
Filed under: Rumors, Software, On the other hand, it may be Submitted at 2/25/2010 12:54:03 AM

iPhone, App Store Sometimes that Google, seeing a widening


you can't win for losing. A few of the search market, wants to Gmail Labs, the experimental
weeks ago, I was talking to build reMail's functionality into Gmail playground in which
every Google engineer can write 5. Custom Label Colors
fellow blogger and all-around another product. It would be 6. Vacation Dates
genius Brett Terpstra about how foolish, in my opinion to not do a Gmail feature, sometimes
retires features that aren’t used The five features that were
I wished there was a full-text so. Google has worked with retired are:
search for iPhone mail. He told Cselle before as part of the very much, and graduates
commonly used features, turning 1. Muzzle
me that there was, and it was Gmail team and knows what he 2. Fixed Width Font
called reMail. I immediately can do. With reMail as part of them into regular Gmail
features. 3. Email Addict
downloaded the free app, paid the bargain, he's more important 4. Location in Signature
the US $3.99 for the in-app to them than during his earlier Today, Gmail has retired five
features and graduated six 5. Random Signature
feature of using IMAP tenure. The features that graduated
mailboxes, and reMail started There is a rumor floating around others; over the next couple of
days, you’ll see the retired from Labs are either no-brainers,
downloading copies of all my that someone has reverse- such as autocomplete for
mail. This took overnight, but so engineered reMail and will features disappear from the
Labs. I haven’t really used any Gmail’s search and previews of
what? When done, I could release it as open source. This YouTube videos in emails, or
search on any word or term just could be interesting and may of the retired features; if you’ve
used any of them and are sorry nifty little details, like the
like the Macintosh Mail change the game, but it may be Forgotten Attachment Detector
application, and be rewarded team. just a rumor. Whatever happens, to see them go, please share it in
the comments. which alerts you if you wrote
with a listing of all the As a nice gesture, Gabor it'll be intriguing to keep your “I’ve attached” in your message
incidences of the term in my decided to keep supporting eye on the evolution of mail The six Labs features that
graduated are: but haven’t actually attached a
3,000 or so email messages in a reMail until the end of March apps on smartphones, and to file to it. Reviews: Gmail,
fraction of a second. 1. Search Autocomplete
a n d m a k e t h e t w o i n - a p p learn just what Google has in 2. Go To Label YouTube
This worked like a dream. I purchases free. Along with mind. Tags: gmail, labs
immediately put reMail on my IMAP support, you could also TUAW Full text searches on the 3. Forgotten Attachment
home screen and was happy. At buy the option of having it work iPhone? There WAS an app for Detector
least, that was, until last week with Rackspace email. And thus that. originally appeared on The 4. YouTube Previews
when I read that Gabor Cselle, started the conspiracy theories. U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g
reMail's creator, announced that Techcrunch surmised that this (TUAW) on Thu, 25 Feb 2010
the app was being put out to could be another shot over the 10:00:00 EST. Please see our
pasture, and was immediately b o w i n t h e A p p l e - G o o g l e terms for use of feeds.
being removed from the App s m a r t p h o n e w a r , a n d t h a t Read| Permalink| Email this|
Store. Google both bought the Google bought the technology to Comments
app and hired Gabor to be a kill it off, so Apple couldn't buy
Product Manager on the Gmail
E-reader News Edition Tech/ Tech News/ 31

Mac 101: How to use the iTunes


parental controls Should YouTube Allow
Dave Caolo (The Unofficial restriction, select "Restrict
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 2/24/2010 8:00:00 PM
explicit content." This won't let
users preview, purchase or
subscribe to content in the store
Artful Nudity?
Mike Masnick (Techdirt) videos of a well-known artist,
Filed under: iTunes, Mac 101 that's been marked as explicit by
Submitted at 2/24/2010 10:53:47 PM Amy Greenfield, for violating
As Apple removes sexually the content providers.
the "no nudity" policy. Now,
suggestive apps from the App Once you're done, click the lock
The EFF and the National this isn't actually a "censorship"
Store(and is evidently preparing to prevent further changes and
Coalition Against Censorship issue, since YouTube is a private
a Red Light District for the provide your machine's
are apparently asking YouTube site, and not the government.
future), users are wondering how administrator password (which
to consider changing its policy So, honestly, I don't see any
they can protect their kids from your kids don't know, right?).
w i t h r e g a r d s t o n u d i t y . problem with YouTube deciding
certain content. With that in All of these changes must be set
items won't appear in the left Apparently, it will allow nudity t h a t i t d o e s n ' t w a n t t h a t
mind, here's an overview of the up for each user account that
sidebar of the iTunes window. if the video is from a film or TV particular content on its site, but
parental controls in iTunes. will have limited access. Also,
Next, a drop-down menu lets show -- but not if it's user there is a separate issue raised
Note that the screenshot at right changes made in iTunes on a
you apply the content ratings generated videos made for here -- which is that, once again,
is from iTunes 9.0.3. Older Mac will apply to a mobile
systems from one of several YouTube. Separately, YouTube the real issue is Google's lack of
versions look slightly different. device (iPod touch or iPhone)
countries to your own machine. suggests it will allow nudity customer service -- something
Parental controls are only that's tied to that same limited
From there, you can apply more w i t h " s o m e e d u c a t i o n a l , we've seen a lot of lately. One
available in iTunes 5 and later. account. In other words, Jr.
fine-grained content restrictions. documentary and scientific o f t h e c o m p l a i n t s i s t h a t
To access these settings, select won't be able to use the mobile
For example, if you've opted to content, but only if that is the Greenfield's videos were taken
Preferences from the iTunes App Store to download apps that
use the US's ratings system, you sole purpose of the video and it down with no recourse and no
menu, and then click the the desktop version denies.
can limit access to movies that is not gratuitously graphic." The method for her to communicate
Parental tab. Here you've got TUAW Mac 101: How to use
are rated G, PG, PG-13 or R. problem, according to the EFF with folks at YouTube to talk
several options. the iTunes parental controls
Television shows can be limited and NCAC, is that there is no about getting them back online.
First, you can disable access to originally appeared on The
in the same way (TV-Y, TV-Y7, exception for work that is artistic Permalink| Comments| Email
podcasts, internet radio or the Unofficial Apple Weblog
etc.). i n n a t u r e , a n d a p p a r e n t l y This Story
iTunes Store completely. Note (TUAW) on Wed, 24 Feb 2010
As for apps, there are four YouTube recently removed the
that you can keep iTunes U 20:00:00 EST. Please see our
ratings, no matter which
accessible while disabling the
rest of the store. Additionally, country's system you've selected:
terms for use of feeds.
Read| Permalink| Email this|
iTunes App Store 'Explicit'
you can deny access to shared
libraries. Once turned off, these
4+, 9+, 12+ and 17+.
If you want even tighter
Comments Category: Now You See It, Now
You Don't
iPad, iPhone, Cash Mountain Expected to Dominate Charlie Sorrel (Wired Top Apple has cruelly removed an
Apple Annual Meeting Stories) 'explicit' category from the
submission process before it
Submitted at 2/25/2010 6:48:00 AM
Reuters (Wired Top Stories) Steve Jobs holds his annual face- for the information-technology even made it to the public store
Submitted at 2/24/2010 5:00:00 PM to-face meeting with company that's famously stingy After raising hopes of an adults- itself.
shareholders Thursday, there with information. only section of the App Store,
When Apple chief executive will be no shortage of questions
32 Tech/ E-reader News Edition
QUICKEN
continued from page 27

though. Quicken Essentials to look at iBank or Quicken


Home Cooking Is Killing The
allows for conversion from
previous Mac programs,
Premier for Windows running
under VMWare Fusion or Restaurant Industry!
Quicken for Windows 2007+, Parallels. Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
and the now defunct Microsoft Quicken Essentials for the Mac Submitted at 2/25/2010 6:30:00 AM
Money. goes on sale today for $69 and
If you're like me and just want a requires Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6, For many years, whenever
simple program to view all your an Intel-based Mac, and 1GB of people insisted that the ability to
financial accounts, see where hard disk space. download movies would kill the
your money is going, and keep TUAW Quicken Essentials for movie business -- including the
track of balances and upcoming Mac now available originally box office revenues -- we've
bills, I highly recommend appeared on The Unofficial made the analogy that just
Quicken Essentials. If, however, Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, because people can prepare food
you're a Quicken power user 25 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST. at home(for much lower cost!) it
who needs investing and Please see our terms for use of hasn't changed the fact that
planning tools, investment buy feeds. sometimes people still go out to
and sell tracking, TurboTax Read| Permalink| Email this| dinner. It's an apt analogy.
integration, or in-app bill pay, Comments People go out to dinner for a
then QEM is not for you. Think variety of reasons, despite
of this edition of Quicken Killing Music" by leaving the needs to be shared widely: Yes,
cheaper (and potentially second side blank so "you can folks, home cooking is killing
Essentials as iPhoto for your healthier) fare at home.
finances. It presents a snapshot help": This image (or a similar the restaurant industry. Why
Basically the overall experience one) shows up every couple of won't Congress and the USTR
of your finances and transactions makes it worthwhile as a social
in a simple to use interface. If years and makes the blog deal with this pernicious
experience. That applies equally rounds. So, at first I wasn't problem?
you need more than that, it's best to movies and eating out. I was going to bother posting it, but Permalink| Comments| Email
reminded of this recently. A then the Freakbits guys pointed This Story
whole bunch of you sent over me to various "offshoot" slogans
Gizmodo's post about the old and images, including the
Dead Kennedys cassette tape following one that's so good it
mocking "Home Taping is

ReverbNation Adds Some RtB To Its CwF Platform


Mike Masnick (Techdirt) focused on the Connect with company has been adding a lot (access, attention and some other that bands could already do
Submitted at 2/25/2010 3:17:10 AM Fans (CwF) side of the business of features lately, and now it's things tend to have more similar things, but the
for a while -- by building what it announced a deal to make it potential), but it is certainly a integration directly into
It's been neat to watch more and called a "fan relationship even easier for a band to sell good supplementary part of ReverbNation's platform is
more companies step up to better management" system. Basically, merch via ReverbNation. many CwF+RtB type business definitely a nice thing.
enable the types of business it was a more sophisticated Contrary to what the article models these days. So anything Permalink| Comments| Email
models that are working these email list manager, but with claims, I don't believe that just that makes it easier for artists This Story
days. The latest is ReverbNation some special features and selling merch is necessarily a seems like a good thing.
-- a company that's really widgets for bands. The great business model on its own Obviously, there are other ways
E-reader News Edition Tech/ Politics/ Tech News/ 33

Chatroulette Explained: CodeOrgan Translates


71% Male, 15% Female, Web Sites Into Music
Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)
14% Pervert [VIDEO] Submitted at 2/24/2010 10:30:53 PM

Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)


File under “strange and
Submitted at 2/24/2010 8:41:50 PM delightful” — CodeOrgan is a Opera 10.5 Beta 2 for
Flash app that turns any web
The random videoconferencing page into music. Windows Fixes Loads
sensation Chatroulette has been
all the rage lately, but we can’t
It analyses the text in the body of Bugs [Updates]
of the supplied URL and follows
blame you if you haven’t an algorithm to render that site being busy working on an Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
actually given it a try just yet. into a musical composition. It embeddable version of Submitted at 2/25/2010 4:30:00 AM
Casey Neistat approached the warned there’s some NSFW chooses a drum pattern, synth CodeOrgan as well.
new site for a more scientific language in there, although style and key based on the Mashable is sounding It also adds improvements for
breakdown of what might be thankfully any truly offensive contents of the page, and plays downright jazzy, according to the opera:config page and local
found there, confirming much of visuals were left out. back the associated music via CodeOrgan. What do your storage, but the newest beta of
our suspicion and hesitation: the chat roulette from Casey Neistat the “Play this website” button. favorite sites sound like? the seriously speedy Opera 10.5
average composition on a on Vimeo. [via Make Use Of] Reviews: is mostly about fixing and
After analyzing your URL, you
weekday afternoon includes Have you used Chatroulette? have the option of sharing your Facebook, Mashable, Twitter tweaking little things. Grab a
14% of users doing things you What’s your opinion of the site? results on Facebook and Twitter. Tags: codeorgan, Flash, music, copy and learn more at Opera's
really don’t want to see. [via The Awl via Holykaw] software, web sites site, and tell us what you like or
The creators, UK-based ad
If you’re unfamiliar with the Reviews: Vimeo agency DLKW, also report still want to see fixed and
Chatroulette concept, the video Tags: chat, chatroulette, nexted, upgraded in the comments. [via
b e l o w i s c e r t a i n l y a n social media, video ZDNet]
entertaining introduction. Be

Shocka: Hamas Founder's Son Spied for Israel


(Little Green Footballs) dozens of Islamist suicide handlers from his father’s Abdullah Barghouti, who is no “Hamas cannot make peace with
Submitted at 2/24/2010 10:15:13 AM bombers from finding their organization, the daily Haaretz relation of the jailed Fatah chief. the Israelis,” he told the daily.
targets, it emerged today. said. Yousef converted to “That is against what their God
Here’s a surprise from the Codenamed the Green Prince by Information he supplied led to Christianity and has a book tells them. It is impossible to
Middle East: the son of Hamas Shin Bet, Israel’s internal the arrests of some of the most about his undercover work make peace with infidels, only a
founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef security service, Mosab Hassan wanted men by Israeli forces, coming out— which doesn’t cease-fire, and no one knows
spied for Israel for more than ten Yousef, the son of Hamas co- including Marwan Barghouti, a make Israel’s security service that better than I. The Hamas
years. founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, Fatah leader often tipped as a Shin Bet happy. But the leadership is responsible for the
The son of one of Hamas’s supplied key intelligence on an potential president who was revelations in the book will be killing of Palestinians, not
founding members was a spy in almost daily basis from 1996 convicted of masterminding much more damaging to Hamas; Israelis.”
the service of Israel for more onwards and tracked down terrorist attacks, and one of about the terrorist group, Yousef And that’s right on the money.
than a decade, helping prevent suicide bombers and their Hamas’ top bomb-makers said this to the Times Online:
34 Politics/ E-reader News Edition

Why This Summit Matters


Jonathan Cohn (The New tremendous difficulty finding House and Senate passed late Conservative Democrats in the seen for more than a year now.
Republic - All Feed) comparable coverage elsewhere. last year. And there is the Senate are indicating their Top administration officials and
Submitted at 2/24/2010 9:00:00 PM That's pretty much the way the approach that leaders of the willingness to take up final congressional allies have
market works. And, combined Republican Party have amendments to the health care frequently urged Obama to step
Message from fivefilters.org: If with a new report showing that articulated--a set of familiar bill via the budget reconciliation back from comprehensive
you can, please donate to the full similar things are happening all conservative hobbyhorses that, process, while House Democrats reform, given its political
-text RSS service so we can over the country, the message at best, might lower insurance are, according to multiple difficulty. Obama has rejected
continue developing it. could not be clearer: The premiums for the healthy only sources, warming to the Obama the option repeatedly, arguing
On one end of Pennsylvania American health care system is by making the sick pay more. compromise. Exactly who that the nation’s health care
Avenue y e s t e r d a y , fundamentally broken. Around a But there is also a third option, leaked this and why is not clear, problems require a
administration staffers were sixth of the population has no one that’s been lurking in the but sources close to the comprehensive solution--that
busy making preparations for an health insurance at all; that much background ever since last administration were quick to say piecemeal measures just won't
event that will likely determine we’ve all known for a while. But summer, when the push for that any impression do the job.
whether comprehensive health even among the majority of comprehensive reform got of presidential mixed feelings And he’s right. The Republican
care reform goes forward. And working-age Americans who bogged down on Capitol Hill. would be wrong. bill would, if anything,
on the other end of Pennsylvania have private health insurance, It’s the administration’s Plan B Says one senior Democrat in accentuate and accelerate the
Avenue, their counterparts in s e c u r i t y t u r n s o u t t o b e or, as the insiders have been close contact with the White dysfunctions of the status quo.
Congress were busy making the p r e c a r i o u s . calling it, the “skinny bill.” House over this issue: People with medical conditions
case for why it should. You might think you’re safe-- Back in January, after the The truth here is that this would struggle to find decent
For several hours, members of that your insurance will always Massachsuetts election proposal was developed because coverage; people too poor to buy
t h e H o u s e E n e r g y a n d be there, at a price you can eliminated the Democrats' the president wanted to know insurance wouldn’t get the
Commerce Committee grilled a f f o r d , c o v e r i n g w h a t e v e r filibuster-proof majority, Robert what the impact would be if he financial assistance they need.
the chief executive officer of medical treatments you need. Pear and David Herzenhorn of had to go smaller after the The vulnerable, in other words,
Wellpoint, to see why the But if you get sick, you may the New York Times described Massachusetts setback. He wants would remain vulnerable if not
company's California subsidiary discover your plan has loopholes the basic outline of such a to pass comprehensive health more so.
was raising health insurance and limits, so that you owe tens scheme--primarily, a more reform and is fighting hard to The skinny bill, if enacted,
premiums by nearly 40 percent of thousands of dollars in out-of- modest expansion of public make that happen. would surely be an
f o r s o m e c u s t o m e r s . T h e pocket expenses. And if you buy programs to cover children and A senior administration official improvement. Sources confirm it
t e s t i m o n y , c o m b i n e d w i t h coverage on your own, you their families. On Wednesday, e-mails with similar thoughts: would bring insurance to an
documents that the Committee could end up trapped in a plan Laura Meckler of the Wall Street The President is not at all additional 16 million total, or
h a d o b t a i n e d , p a i n t e d a n that, eventually, you won’t be Journal reported that the White ambivalent. He understands that about a third of the uninsured,
illuminating if unsurprising able to afford--just like many of House stood ready to pursue the only way to solve the primarily through Medicaid and
picture. It appears that Anthem t h o s e A n t h e m B l u e C r o s s Plan B if the push for Plan A problem is comprehensive the State Children’s Health
B l u e C r o s s , W e l l p o i n t ’ s customers. fails. reform. You can't guarantee Insurance Program. It would
subsidiary, was trying to protect Thursday’s summit is about This isn't surprising: Of course affordable coverage for people also cost around a quarter of
profit margins at a time of rising how best to solve this problem. the administration has a Plan B. with preexisting conditions, you what comprehensive reform
medical costs. That meant, And, ostensibly, there are two (It would be political can't really rein in costs, etc, would, which means it could be
among other things, charging basic approaches on the table. malpractice to do otherwise.) unless you do this. paid for mostly through cuts to
more money to people that were There is the comprehensive plan But the timing of the story is The account of Obama's Medicare Advantage plans and
running up higher medical t h a t P r e s i d e n t O b a m a p u t rather unfortunate: Just in the sentiments is consistent with my other financing tweaks. That
expenses--people who, because forward on Monday, which is a last 36 hours, the signs from own reporting--and Meckler's might appeal to some skittish
of their pre-existing medical c o m p r o m i s e b e t w e e n t h e Capitol Hill have been story, for that matter. It's also
c o n d i t i o n s , w o u l d h a v e measures Democrats in the unambiguously positive: consistent with the pattern we’ve WHY page 38
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Poll Tax
Neera Tanden (The New was one of the more favorable analysis is that issues don’t hypocrisy, pushing a bad policy I know that lots of Democrats
Republic - All Feed) ones!) Numbers likes these have operate in a vacuum. Elections for political gain. Gore’s internal are in cold hard sweats right
Submitted at 2/24/2010 9:00:00 PM members of congress worrying are based on competing polls, I was told at the time, now. It is true that they face very
about their own election arguments. Of course, issues are showed him falling a disastrous difficult terrain. But health care
Message from fivefilters.org: If p r o s p e c t s a n d d e s p e r a t e l y integral to those arguments—the five points in the wake of this is not some issue that Democrats
you can, please donate to the full hoping the issue goes away. very building blocks of them. move. randomly adopted. This has been
-text RSS service so we can And, of course, on the surface, But very few individual issues Right now Democrats need to a 50-year fight for the party. The
continue developing it. this assessment is rational. make or break a nationalized stop worrying about health care Republicans have our backs
Last week, I left the Obama In my time in Washington, I’ve election. So in 1992 Bill Clinton polling and to start worrying against the wall. But in reality,
administration to join the Center watched congressmen, senators had a series of policies—a about their narrative. If momentum builds in politics. If
for American Progress. and their advisors allow middle class tax cut, help for Democrats do not deliver on individual members think that
Policy—constructing it, selling similarly stark polling data to college—that “Put People First.” health care reform, a reasonable they can survive Republican
it—has been my career, as an shape their calculus on countless They were meant to convey his voter could make the following attacks by simply running away,
advisor for the president and occasions. But the problem is support for the middle class, in assessment: Democrats spent the they should recognize that it’s
Hillary Clinton. The New polls can be amongst the worst contrast to Republicans who last year discussing a particular also possible that running away
Republic has asked me to use basis for a politician to make a were about supporting the problem and put forth a solution. could dramatically worsen their
t h i s e x p e r i e n c e t o h e l p good decision about their self- powerful. It was the entire And with 59 seats in the Senate predicament. Nothing will strike
illuminate the glorious (and interest. Often, they can suggest cocktail of policies that proved and 254 in the House, they failed voters as more pathetic than
o c c a s i o n a l l y u n a t t r a c t i v e ) a course of action that is so politically effective. to do anything about this doing nothing. And rarely in
process of policymaking, how b l i n k e r e d o r w o r s e , s e l f - And of course issues can help problem that they argued was a politics are pathetic politicians
wonks and politicians think destructive. And that’s exactly drive a negative narrative too. In catastrophe for the American rewarded.
a b o u t t h e h a r d w o r k o f the case with health care reform. the fall of 2000, Al Gore called people. And if they are not able Sometimes, the only way out is
governing. Herewith, my first There’s no denying that health for government to tap the to solve that problem with huge through.
installment. care is a tad unpopular. But what Strategic Petroleum Oil Reserve. majorities, why should they be Neera Tanden is the Chief
What can defeat health care d o e s t h i s s u g g e s t ? M a n y On paper, this was a good move. trusted to govern past Operating Officer of the Center
r e f o r m ? P o l l s — o r m o r e Democrats are making the Gas prices were rising November, when their majorities for American Progress. She
s p e c i f i c a l l y , D e m o c r a t i c relatively crude calculation that precipitously. It seemed like a are likely to shrink? And what served in the Obama and Clinton
politicians misreading them. if they drop this seemingly political no-brainer. exactly will they deliver? administrations.
Most of the data that crosses unpopular issue, their own Unfortunately, Gore had Incompetence is a pretty strong Five Filters featured article:
their desks these days resembles popularity will rise. They think denounced the idea of utilizing attack. Democrats should be Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
the numbers from the Kaiser of health care as an anchor, and these reserves several months well aware of that fact. They PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
Health Tracking Poll, which the minute they cut it loose earlier. He had made that case in bludgeoned George Bush for his Term Extraction.
shows the public evenly divided they’ll sail for better electoral a totally different context. But it botched response to Katrina and
on reform—43 percent in favor, waters. didn’t matter. His opponent, bungled efforts in Iraq with
43 percent opposed. (And that Well, the problem with this George W. Bush, accused him of devastating effects.

Exclusive: How Google's Algorithm Rules the Web


Steven Levy (Wired Top When it comes to finding stuff an unprecedented inside look at
Stories) online, there's Google — and the company's technological
Submitted at 2/24/2010 5:00:00 PM there's everyone else. Wired wizardry.
senior writer Steven Levy gets
36 Politics/ Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition
Quake III Runs
Poll: 10 Percent Say Congress Doing Good Job Fragtastically On a
(Newsmax - Politics) years. Only 15% say Congress Congress. Earlier this month, say a better strategy to reform Droid [Smartphones]
Submitted at 2/25/2010 12:12:33 AM has passed such legislation. 63% of voters said it would be the health care system would be
Forty percent (40%) of voters better for the country if most to pass smaller bills that address Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Message from fivefilters.org: If nationwide now say it is at least incumbents in Congress were problems individually. Submitted at 2/25/2010 9:11:08 AM
you can, please donate to the full somewhat likely Congress will defeated this November. Just Just 9% of voters believe most
-text RSS service so we can seriously address the most 27% of voters say their members of Congress are Ten years ago, Quake III
continue developing it. important issues facing the representative in Congress is the genuinely interested in helping required a PC tower with some
Voter unhappiness with nation. That’s down from 59% best possible person for the job. people, which ties the recent low gaming cred. Today, all you
Congress has reached the highest last March. Only 9% say it is Three out of four voters (75%) in December. Eighty-one percent need is a smartphone running
level ever recorded by Very Likely Congress will report being at least somewhat (81%) say most members of Android 1.6 or later. And it's
Rasmussen Reports as 71% now address these issues. angry at the policies of the Congress are more interested in even a free download.
say the legislature is doing a These numbers are consistent federal government. Part of the their own careers, a new multi- The hobby project of
poor job. with the analysis provided in frustration is likely due to the year high. thunderbird2k, this video shows
That’s up ten points from the Scott Rasmussen’s new book, In belief of 60% of voters that The plurality of voters (42%) Quake III running pretty well on
previous high of 61% reached a Search of Self-Governance. neither Republican political continues to believe most a the Motorola Droid—between
month ago. Scott notes that “Today, leaders nor Democratic political members of Congress are 20 and 30fps—while allowing
Only 10% of voters say Americans are united. United in leaders have a good corrupt, a result that has perks like multiplayer and
Congress is doing a good or the belief that our political understanding of what is needed remained fairly consistent over customizable controls. (Also
excellent job. system is broken, that politicians today. the past several months. One in impressive: before the Quake
Nearly half of Democratic are corrupt, and that neither Still, voters believe Democrats three U.S. voters (32%) does not was optimized for the platform,
voters (48%) now give Congress major political party has the are more likely than Republicans see most congressmen as it still ran at about 22fps.) Given
a poor rating, up 17 points since answers.” He adds, “Some of us to have a plan for the future. corrupt. Another 26% are that the Droid doesn't have the
January. The vast majority of are ready to give up; some of us Regardless of which political undecided. fastest processor around, I'd be
Republicans and voters not are ready to scream a little side voters are on, just 21% In 2010, Republican candidates curious to see Quake III running
affiliated with either party also louder. But all of us believe we believe that the federal have consistently held an on something like a Nexus One.
give Congress poor ratings. can do better.” government enjoys the consent advantage over Democrats in the In fact, maybe we should start
Seventy percent (70%) of voters The book has received positive of the governed. Generic Congressional Ballot. using games to benchmark these
say Congress has not passed any reviews from across the political As Congress continues to hash © All Rights Reserved. phones, just as we do with beefy
legislation that would spectrum. In Search of Self- out the health care reform plan Five Filters featured article: PC rigs.
significantly improve life for Governance is available from proposed by the president and Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Oh, and on a slightly related
Americans, up 10 points over Rasmussen Reports and at Congressional Democrats, just PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, note...
the past month and the highest Amazon.com. 41% of voters favor the plan Term Extraction. Unreal 4EVER. [ Android
level of dissatisfaction measured Other recent polling also while 56% are opposed. Sixty- Quake III via Slashdot]
in regular tracking in over three reflects voter disappointment in three percent (63%) of all voters

A closer look at the Square Payment System


John Biggs (CrunchGear) Lady Ada of AdaFruit industries payment from anyone for almost in seconds. Great for the
Submitted at 2/25/2010 7:30:00 AM took some photos and video of a anything. hunter/gatherer economy that
prototype of the new device. To Not much to write home about will come in to replace our
Phil Torrone got to look at the recap, the Square device is a right now but this early beta current capitalistic model.
new Square iPhone Payment little dongle that lets you swipe seems to work like a charm,
system and he and the daring credit cards. With a quick slash of the card you can accept reading and authorizing a charge
E-reader News Edition Politics/ Gadgets/ 37

Wasted Youth
E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New Progressives who doubt this (born 1946 to 1964), Important demographic factors
Republic - All Feed) could usefully spend time with conservatives led 43 percent to account for some but not all of
Submitted at 2/24/2010 9:00:00 PM the Pew Research Center's 18 percent. Among those born in the distinctiveness of the new
exhaustive new portrait of the 1945 or before -- Pew uses the generation: Census data cited by
Message from fivefilters.org: If Millennials that was released classic "Silent Generation" tag -- Pew shows that 61 percent of the
you can, please donate to the full Wednesday. The study the conservative advantage was Millennials are white compared Lomography's Classic
-text RSS service so we can underscored the new 45 percent to 15 percent. with 70 percent of Americans
continue developing it. generation's "distinctiveness," (Moderates and a few ages 30 and over. This means
LC-A+ Now Has An
WASHINGTON--Young and a big part of that respondents who refused a label that political outreach to the Instant Back Accessory
Americans are the linchpin of a distinctiveness is how made up the remainder in all young will require particular For Polaroid-Like
new progressive era in American progressive younger Americans groups.) attention to Hispanics (19 Photos [Photography]
politics. So why aren't are compared with the rest of the The difference in self-labeling percent of Millennials) and
Democrats paying more country. reflects real differences in African-Americans (14 percent). Kat Hannaford (Gizmodo)
attention to them? For one thing, they are not attitudes. It's well-known that For Democrats looking ahead to Submitted at 2/25/2010 9:36:44 AM
The relative strength of allergic to the word "liberal." younger voters are more liberal this fall's election, the Pew study
conservatives in American Americans under 30 include the on social issues, particularly gay has some disturbing news. Lomography already makes an
politics since the 1980s was built largest proportion of self- rights. But their liberalism also It's true that Millennials are the instant back for its more popular
on generational change: Voters described liberals and the includes sympathy for activist most Democratic age group in Diana F+ camera, so it was
whose views had been shaped by smallest proportion of self- government. the electorate -- they voted for about time they did the same for
the New Deal were gradually described conservatives of any For example, 53 percent of Barack Obama by 2-1. Their their classic LC-A+ model too.
replaced with the more cautious age group in the country: 29 Millennials said that turnout rate relative to older It brings Polaroid-like instant
souls who came of age after percent of the under 30s called "government should do more to voters was higher in 2008 than photos to the highly-saturated,
FDR. Then the Millennial themselves liberal compared solve problems." In every other in any election since 1972, the soft-focus photography format.
generation came along. The with 28 percent who called age group, pluralities preferred first presidential contest in The instant back will set you
Millennials--generally defined as themselves conservative. "In the alternative statement offered which 18-year-olds had the right back a rather steep $100, and if
Americans born in 1981 or after- every other age group," Pew by the pollsters, that to vote. you think you can write that off
-are, without question, the most notes, "far more described their "government is doing too many Five Filters featured article: against the saving you'll make
liberal generation since those views as conservative than things better left to business and Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: on rolls of 35mm film, think
New Dealers, and they could liberal." individuals." PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, again. You'll need to load it with
transform our politics for Among Gen Xers (born "Millennials," the report Term Extraction. Fujifilm Instax film which you
decades. But this will happen between 1965 and 1980), the concludes, "are significantly less can pick up on Amazon (which
only if progressive politicians conservative advantage over critical of government on a in my experience, is heaps
start noticing their very best liberals was 38 percent to 20 number of dimensions than are cheaper for Lomo products and
friends in the electorate. percent. Among Baby Boomers other age cohorts." film than the actual Lomography
store) for $20 for two

10 Billion iTunes Songs Sold [Apple] packs—each pack can produce


10 photos. So you're looking at
around a dollar a photo, plus the
Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo) It took a little longer than we through iTunes. Crazy.
expected but it happened: cost of the instant back. Better
Submitted at 2/25/2010 8:58:57 AM
10,000,000,000 songs sold use that film wisely. [
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WHY Nicolas Cage and
continued from page 34

Democrats, who want nothing Most important of all, though, Democrat or Republican, don’t want to do, they'll pass the Ryan Reynolds to
except a face- (and job-) saving the skinny bill doesn’t actually accomplish those goals. Only comprehensive plan, which both
way out. fix the broken system. It doesn’t comprehensive reform does. covers more people and actually Visit the Stoneage
But the politics of the skinny re-engineer the insurance The president knows this. The gives them a major (ETonline - Breaking News)
plan aren’t as simple as they market, so that anybody can get Democrats in Congress know accomplishment. Submitted at 2/25/2010 3:02:00 AM
might seem. It would give the insurance regardless of pre- this. And they have the power to At this point, health-care reform
administration an existing condition; it doesn’t act on it. The only question is either passes or it dies. Yabba-Dabba-Doo! Nicolas
accomplishment, yes, but strengthen requirements on whether they will. Democrats are all in on this one. Cage and Ryan Reynolds are
nobody would mistake it for existing coverage, so that the Update: A senior administration They know it, Republicans know turning the clock back to
"success." It’s also not clear--to insured can be safe in the official got back to me just after it, and maybe more importantly, prehistoric times.
me, anyway--that the political knowledge that they’ll be the article posted initially; I've they know the Republicans The two will voice computer-
optics are so appealing. protected if they get sick; and it now added the quote. Also, Ezra know it. Letting health-care generated cavemen in 'The
Republicans have been known to doesn’t make as much progress Klein has some even stronger reform fail is indistinguishable Croods,' according to Variety. In
demagogue expansions of towards cost control, which (and compelling) warnings from conceding the 2010 the animated comedy, Crug
Medicaid and S-CHIP, after all; means neither individuals nor against the fallback plans: election. There's no real fallback (Cage) and his family fall victim
financing them with reductions employers nor the government ...there's no political upside in plan. If Democrats fall back, to an earthquake. This forces
to Medicare Advantage plans will get relief from the huge starting over. The right will still they fall. them to hesitantly navigate a
will, undoubtedly, produce the financial burden health care cry "death panels!" and let loose Five Filters featured article: world that is unfamiliar to them.
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(and for which most Democrats for health care reform has health-care reform despite Term Extraction. by Reynolds. His somewhat
have already voted). It's easy to seemed, it really does come controlling the second-largest modern way of life sparks the
imagine negotiations dragging down to those three goals: congressional majority since the interest of Clug's family, his
out, which is the last thing Making sure that everybody has 70s. There's a policy argument oldest daughter in particular.
Democrats need right now. And insurance, making sure the here in that a fallback plan will According to Variety, 'The
that's to say nothing about the coverage is good, and making cover more people than no plan Croods' will be in theaters on
broader impact on Obama's sure, over time, that health care will cover, but if covering March 30, 2012 in 3D.
ability to drive an agenda. costs less. The fallback options, people is what the Democrats

Murtha's Widow Endorses Aide for Empty Pa. Seat


(Newsmax - Politics) Murtha's former House seat. vacancy will be held as part of Cernic Jr. rewritten or redistributed.
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John Murtha's widow is Monday and announced his plan Barbara Hafer, former lieutenant Associated Press. All rights
endorsing an aide to the late to run. governor Mark Singel and reserved. This material may not
congressman in his bid to fill A special election to fill the Cambria County Controller Ed be published, broadcast,
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Blumenthal Fires Back at Breitbart Daily electronics deals


Nicholas Kolman-Mandle
(Again) (Consumer Reports)
player Ratings and buying tips.
Neither Consumer Reports nor
The Consumerist receive
(Little Green Footballs) Taylor. CPAC played host to Thomas Submitted at 2/25/2010 6:19:38 AM
anything in exchange for
Submitted at 2/24/2010 2:14:21 PM Did O’Keefe plan the event Woods, a former leader of the Daily electronics deals Today's featuring these deals; the posts
with his friend, the white white supremacist League of the electronics deals, courtesy of are intended to be purely
In the very public ongoing nationalist Marcus Epstein, the South and contributor to the neo- The Consumerist: informational. These deals are
battle between Andrew Breitbart Tancredo aide who pled guilty to secessionist Southern Partisan often fleeting, with prices
a n d M a x B l u m e n t h a l , randomly attacking a black magazine. And that CPAC held • Buy.com: LG 42LH30 42-inch changing or products becoming
Blumenthal has another article at woman and calling her the n- a seminar called “Abraham 1080p LCD HDTV $640 unavailable as the day
Huffington Post on James word? O’Keefe’s role in helping Lincoln: Friend or Foe of Shipped progresses.
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S a l o n . c o m a b o u t J a m e s friends charged white students European neo-fascist Geert s&h too good to be true, and check
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Charlie Sheen's Wife Allegedly a Crackhead [Sad]


Doree Shafrir (Gawker) Brooke Mueller saga just keeps Question: Who is watching their
Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:24:45 AM getting sadder. Now Radar is 11-month-old twin sons these
reporting that Mueller is rehab more than five times. days? [ Radar]
The whole Charlie Sheen- addicted to crack and has been in
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In the labs: 9 new LCD TVs, 2011 Hyundai Sonata


including a 60-inch model recall, stop sale
Eileen McCooey (Consumer But reflections are Bravia and the Samsung Consumer Reports Shopping
Reports) unquestionably an issue. We UN55B8500, both offer Blog (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 2/25/2010 7:11:03 AM have traditionally advised that streaming Internet video. The Submitted at 2/25/2010 6:58:23 AM
LCDs with matte screens are Sony can stream movies from
In the labs: 9 new LCD TVs, better than plasmas for bright Netflix and Amazon, and the 2011 Hyundai Sonata recall,
including a 60-inch model rooms with lots of windows or Samsung from Amazon and stop sale
While we wait for the new 2010 ambient lighting that can’t be Blockbuster. Hyundai has issued a voluntary
TVs to hit stores in force, our reduced, but that’s not true of Here’s a list of the sets we’re recall on the new 2011 Sonata
test labs continue to put LCD the new breed of glossy- now testing. Subscribers can due to a possible faulty front-
TVs through their paces, screened LCDs. When buying a check back for TV Ratings in door latch mechanism. The were sold to U.S. car buyers.
including a 60-inch LCD TV, new TV, make sure the screen mid-March. company briefly stopped sale of Dealers will replace the latches
the largest size we’ve tested. finish suits your taste and your • Hitachi UltraVision L46S603 the new sedan to address this free of charge for existing
The nine models currently in room setting. (If you have a • LG 47SL90 problem, but sales have owners, and the work is
our labs show that glossy preference or a comment about • Mitsubishi Unisen LT-52153 resumed. estimated to take less than an
screens are steadily becoming your experience with screens, • Samsung UN55B8500 The front doors have a hour.
more common in LCD TVs. we’d love to hear it. Scroll to the • Sanyo DP46849 convenience feature, which Consumer Reports just
Four sets have mirror-like bottom of this post for our • Sharp Aquos LC-60E77UN allows a locked door to be purchased a new Sonata and has
screens that show reflections Comments section.) • Sony Bravia KDL-46XBR10 unlocked from the inside door just begun putting on break-in
from a nearby window or lamp, Other trends we’re seeing: more • Viewsonic VT3245 release handle without unlocking miles before our formal tests.
much like plasma screens do. models with 120Hz and 240Hz • Westinghouse TX-42F810G the door via the switch. If the We’ll take care of the recall on
That’s a growing trend in a refresh rates, LED backlighting, switch is in the locked position, our own vehicle and have our
category where matte screens and ultra-slim designs. One of --Eileen McCooey while the inside door handle is full review and Ratings in the
were the norm not that long ago. the new sets, the Sony Bravia Subscribe now! pulled, the latch may coming weeks.— Liza Barth
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a shiny surface. As a bonus, with the TV wirelessly or via a preferences concerning the recall of about products. Update your feed
harder screens are less cable, say, if you tuck it behind 5,000 vehicles produced at the preferences
vulnerable to damage than softer the set. Alabama factory, of which 1,300
matte screens. Two of the sets, the Sony

Madoff Name Less Popular Now [Identity]


Hamilton Nolan (Gawker) Bernie Madoff's son Mark, know...we're sure she's nice and
Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:04:06 AM wants to change her last name to all. [ WSJ. Pic via]
"Morgan," for obvious reasons.
Stephanie Madoff, the wife of So if you come across a " S t e p h a n i e M o r g a n , " y o u
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Sample bill to help states enact Q&A: Can probiotics


texting bans help fight colds?
Consumer Reports Shopping each state. Any offense that rss@consumerreports.org
Blog (Consumer Reports) results in death or serious injury (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 2/25/2010 6:22:54 AM would become a felony with Submitted at 2/25/2010 2:59:59 AM
penalties determined by
Sample bill to help states enact individual state guidelines. Q&A: Can probiotics help fight
texting bans According to NHTSA, nearly colds?
The Department of 6,000 people died in 2008 in I’ve heard that probiotics, the
Transportation unveiled sample crashes related to distracted friendly bacteria in yogurt, can
2009, more than 200 bills were
legislation aimed at prohibiting driving, and more than half a help fight colds. Is that true? —
considered and more will likely Look for yogurt that contains
texting while driving that will million were injured. Research M.B., Bloomington, Ind.
be on the table in state the live cultures of lactobacillus
serve as a framework for states also shows that the most It’s too early to say. In a study
legislatures in the coming year. and bifidobacterium, the best-
looking to implement their own frequent offenders are young, published in August 2009,
The sample law applies to all studied probiotics. You can also
laws. The law, which was inexperienced drivers under 20 young children who consumed
drivers and makes it unlawful to buy pills, but they may contain
crafted by the National Highway years of age. probiotic supplements had fewer
manually type letters, numbers, less of the healthy bacteria.
Traffic Safety Administration Creating more laws is one step cold symptoms and missed
symbols, etc. into a wireless Read more on probiotics for
(NHTSA) as well as a number of in the DOT’s mission to reduce fewer days of school compared
device or to send or read data, treating irritable bowel
safety organizations, law the distracted driving problem. with kids who took a placebo.
which includes texting, e- syndrome(subscribers only)
enforcement, and the CTIA--The States will also look into public And taking a combined vitamin-
mailing, and instant messaging. and take a look some home
Wireless Association would help awareness campaigns, improved probiotic pill reduced the
Exemptions include law or remedies for colds and coughs.
states address the distracted police reporting of crashes, and severity and duration of colds,
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who text. licensing laws for novice While more research is needed
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Currently, 19 states and the drivers.— Liza Barth Subscribe to confirm those findings,
navigation device or conducting reliability on hundreds of
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wireless communication without products. Update your feed
enacted texting while driving S u b s c r i b e t o benefits, including easing
using manual entry such as voice preferences
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recognition services.
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The penalties would include a
targeting certain drivers like reliability on hundreds of
minimum fine of $75 for first
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offense and a moving violation
government enacted a law preferences
ticket. Penalties for subsequent
banning commercial truckers
offenses would be determined by
and bus drivers from texting. In

Butler out, but Dirk, Terry lift Mavs past Lakers


Associated Press you can, please donate to the full Reb, 5 Ast, 2 Stl PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
(ESPN.com) -text RSS service so we can Dallas: D. Nowitzki 31 Pts, 9 Term Extraction.
Submitted at 2/24/2010 10:54:34 PM continue developing it. Reb, 1 Ast, 1 Stl
Top Performers Five Filters featured article:
Message from fivefilters.org: If Los Angeles: L. Odom 21 Pts, 7 Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
42 Tech News/ Sports/ E-reader News Edition

An In-Depth Look at Microsoft's Spy Guide


Jolie O'Dell (ReadWriteWeb) help find missing kids, gaming government retribution. or Project Carnivore(which is
Submitted at 2/24/2010 8:15:39 PM records that can help return a For example, not too long ago, essentially the wiretapping
stolen Xbox, emails that can Sprint was revealed to have scandal of the digital sphere).
We recently reported that a help track down terrorists. complied with 8 million LA Again, our sources confirmed
watchdog site, Cryptome, was There's an emergency hotline requests for GPS data in 2009. that LE's desire to see user data
removed from the Web for for urgent or life-threatening This figure doesn't include any is often the only reason a digital
refusing to take down a copy of i n c i d e n t s , " s i t u a t i o n s l i k e other type of data from anyone company would need to turn
a Microsoft document. kidnapping, murder threats, government agencies - none of other than LE for any network over information - warrantless
This document, called the bomb threats, terrorism threats, whom wanted to be quoted, for other than Sprint - this is just for wiretapping all over again.
Microsoft Online Services etc." obvious reasons - these LE GPS data requests from In conclusion, Microsoft's spy
Global Criminal Compliance The full list of services includes procedures are a far cry from the Sprint. guide does state that certain
Handbook, or "spy guide," gives email, authentication (Windows day-to-day realities of data The implications of this are steps much be taken for law
details on how law enforcement Live ID), IM, social networking access. staggering, but the most enforcement to access data -
can grab user data from a wide (Windows Live Spaces and In other words, there's a reason confounding of them all is that steps that require law
range of Microsoft services, MSN Groups), custom domains, it's called a "spy guide." there could not possibly be enforcement to prove that their
from Windows Live ID to Xbox online file storage and gaming For one thing, federal and LE enough warrants to justify the searches and seizures in the
Live to Hotmail. Microsoft holds (Xbox Live). For each service, officers tend to have a much sum total of requests that digital digital world are legally
and can reveal a huge amount of data is accessible through a easier time getting access to user companies are handed by law justifiable. Whether or not
data on individuals through their series of web interface that allow data than their corporate enforcement seeking user data. anecdotal evidence supports this
social networking and file- law enforcement to browse conspirators might let on, our Our sources all confirmed that claim we will leave to our
sharing services, too. These data through relevant data in tables or sources told us. In ticking time without question, LE and readers to judge.
include IP addresses, credit forms. bomb scenarios, this can be a government officials are often What the document does show
cards, chat logs and much more. And there are procedures for good thing, as quick and given user data by companies us, however, is the extraordinary
How does a large corporation accessing all this information, unobstructed access to data can such as Microsoft without breadth and depth of information
balance end user privacy balance too. Law enforcement can't save people from imminent having to provide any kind of that Microsoft has and is willing
with the need to cooperate and simply ask for the information, harm. Where Are All Those justification - not legal to give to government and law
comply with law enforcement? according to the document. They Warrants? documents, not proof of criminal enforcement agencies. And that
Read on to see how Microsoft have to have a subpoena, a court However, we've been told by activity and not evidence of alone is enough to make us put
handles this issue. order or a warrant to gain access people who have handled such guilt. What About the Fourth on our tin foil hats.
Sponsor to data such as usernames, issues that government and LE Amendment? Note: We have contacted
On the Surface linked accounts and email often request and are given data And then, there are the less Microsoft's Rapid Response
After a quick read-through of address books. Digging Deeper without having to go through the widely known reasons that LE or media team with several
Microsoft's guide, everything But after talking to a few proper procedures, often because federal agencies would gain questions and are awaiting a
initially made sense. They've got sources who have worked in law of corporations' fear of access to user data - programs response. Discuss
a lot of data - IM logs that can e n f o r c e m e n t ( L E ) a n d such as government data mining

Vonn Sustains Injury in First Slalom Run


(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) U.S. Ski team announced Vonn pinky — when she crashed not been made.
Submitted at 2/24/2010 3:47:55 PM sustained a “non-displaced during the first run of the giant The second run of the Giant
fracture of the proximal phalanx slalom Wednesday. Slalom was postponed until
Lindsay Vonn’s campaign for of the small finger on her right A decision whether she will Thursday, with no Americans in
Olympic glory may be over. The hand,” — essentially a broken take part in Fridays slalom has the top 10 after the first run.
E-reader News Edition Tech News/ 43

Are The Fortune 100 Now Beginning To Embrace Social


Media Tools?
Alex Williams
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 2/24/2010 8:35:27 PM

A study by Burson-Marsteller
finds that 79 percent of the
largest 100 companies in the
Fortune Global 500 index are
using social media tools.
At first glance, this may seem
significant. But a closer look
shows that Fortune 100
companies are showing interest
but nothing to prove that social
media tools are gaining
significant corporate acceptance.
Here's a copy of the full report
and an accompanying power
point presentation. The fact that the Fortune 100 do The report says that Deutsche supporting multiple accounts. to see product videos.
But it is early in the game and not leverage multiple tools is a Telekom uses Twitter for This is perhaps most Connecting YouTube with
these are results show that social sign of how consumer-based announcements while encouraging: customer Twitter, Facebook and a blog
media tools are making credible social media tools are not fully Volkswagen uses it to RT and engagement is beginning to be can make for a potent
gains. understood or leveraged for Home Depot for customer more widespread across product combination if all are updated on
Sponsor maximum benefit. It's also service. Conclusion? Fortune groups. Facebook a regular basis.
The services of choice? No evident of just how much of an 100 companies are still Facebook shows some of the Blogs
surprise: Twitter, Facebook, opportunity big companies have searching for the best way to use most promise. Most of the Fifty-percent of the Fortune 100
YouTube and blog platforms. in using the social Web if they Twitter. But just posting Fortune 100 companies have companies from the Asia Pacific
Twitter is number one, followed use it to its full extent. announcements seems pretty tens of thousands of users. have blogs. Burson-Marsteller
by Facebook, YouTube and Companies that extend to sterile. Perhaps the strongest sing of says Asian companies prefer
corporate blogs. The study found multiple media networks still From the white paper:"Leaders acceptance is in the number of blogging due to the control they
that 65 percent of the largest 100 have a chance to get ahead of of the pack on the Fortune corporate product groups that can have over the
international companies have competitors. Global 100 are Sony's use Facebook. Companies like conversation."Only 11% of
active accounts on Twitter, 54 The frequency of posts SonyPlayStation with well over Sony have multiple fan pages. active U.S. company blogs had
percent have a Facebook fan illustrates that companies are 115,000 followers and YouTube posts in the past three months as
page, 50 percent have a posting but not nearly as often as SonyPictures who is followed by YouTube is used mostly by compared to 83% of European
YouTube channel, and one-third they could. almost 50,000 people and U.S. companies. Entertainment, blogs and 77% of Asia-Pacific
(33 percent) have corporate Let's take a quick look at some following over 6,000 Twitterers electronics and auto companies blogs. The U.S. blogs also had
blogs. Only 20 percent of the of the findings for Twitter, themselves." are the most likely to have fewer blog posts."
major international companies Facebook, YouTube and Burson-Marsteller also states YouTube channels. Viewership
are utilizing all four platforms to corporate blogs: Twitter that Fortune 100 companies are shows promise. Consumers want ARE page 44
engage with stakeholders.
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Are Modern Web Apps Killjoys? continued from page 43

The results show the increasing


Richard MacManus loved Foursquare at first and made him faster and more
(ReadWriteWeb) popularity of the real-time web
enjoyed 'checking in' at places. competitive. However, he also and its use across the enterprise.
Submitted at 2/25/2010 1:36:06 AM But then he found that he spent began to feel guilty if he missed But is it smart not to update a
the first few minutes of going a run - because the data would blog? We wonder what company
Is 'checking in' at places using into a place updating Foursquare suffer as a result. So despite fares better. The one that is
location-based mobile apps like with his location, which he documenting where we are? making him a better runner, the active on its Twitter account and
Foursquare and Brightkite realized could be time better The counter argument is that Nike+ shoes resulted in him "not its blogs or the one that has an
resulting in us enjoying life a spent actually enjoying the place products like Foursquare make it having as much fun." active Twitter account but
little less? Is there such a thing and socializing with the people easier for you to meet up with What do you think - are you infrequently updates its blog?
as too much data for a fun around him. your friends in real life, finding that modern web apps, Conclusion
activity such as running? We Technology has always had an particularly if you're young and whether location-based mobile Corporate America is using the
a d d r e s s t h e s e a n d o t h e r anti-social element to it. For socializing a lot. For example apps or products with sensors or social Web. It's apparent that
questions in the final installment example, Twitter. When you're you might see that a few of your something else data-driven, are companies have waded a bit
of our interview with Adam in a social situation and you stop friends are at a local cafe or pub, making you enjoy life just a little deeper into the water but the
Greenfield, author of Everyware: to tweet it, that disconnects you so you go out to join them there. less? Are you focusing too much opportunities are clear. The
The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous from the real world (at least for That definitely makes on the data, rather than just companies that embrace multiple
Computing. 30 seconds while you tap out Foursquare a fun product. But living life? Let us know in the mediums and keep up with a
Modern web applications are 140 characters on your mobile it's a use case that mostly applies comments. consistent volume of updates
p a c k e d w i t h f e a t u r e s t h a t phone). to young, highly social people. See also Part 1 of our interview will be the big winners, no
ostensibly connect us more to Step back further into the mists It's not just location-based apps with Adam Greenfield, in which matter if they are a Fortune 100
the real world and our activities of technological progress and that are potentially killjoys. we discussed the impact of the or a Fortune 1,000 company.
in it. Foursquare uses location there is the issue of cellphone Greenfield also spoke about his iPhone and other smartphones Discuss
data to connect us with places calls in social situations. When experience with Nike+ running on the Internet of Things. We
and people. Nike+ shoes deliver you're talking with someone and shoes, which come with a sensor also talked about the differences
data from your feet to your iPod. that person's cellphone rings, that tracks your run and sends between the U.S. and Asia in
All of this new data from the then they answer it and have a the data to your iPod. As we adoption of these technologies.
real world is good progress, conversation with someone else explained earlier this month, In Part 2, we focused on how the
right? Yes, the more data the on their cellphone - is there Nike+ has its own social iPad may become the missing
better! On the other hand, is our anything more annoying than network. Nike+ can also send link between Internet-connected
focus on data distracting us from that from a social point of view? updates to Twitter and post a items in your home, for example
actually enjoying life? So technology can be anti- status report on Facebook. the Internet fridge, and the Web.
Sponsor social; nothing new in that. But According to Adam Greenfield, Photo credits: whatleydude; Ed
Adam Greenfield doesn't like is a mobile location-based app Nike+ changed the way he ran. Yourdon Discuss
Foursquare, a location-based like Foursquare not only anti- Because the shoes could
social networking mobile app social, but also distracting us quantify his running
that has become popular over the from enjoying our surroundings performance, he said that they
past year. He told me that he because we're so intent on
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Oracle's Private 'Cloud' Not a Cloud Sometimes it Pays to


says Vogels Solve Hard Problems:
Tim Hastings
(ReadWriteWeb) CA Acquires 3Tera are delivered as a service to
external customers using
Internet technologies. Private
Submitted at 2/24/2010 5:00:00 PM
Mike Kirkwood
cloud computing is defined as a (ReadWriteWeb)
At London's Royal Opera style of computing in which
House yesterday Oracle scalable and elastic IT-enabled Submitted at 2/24/2010 5:01:00 PM

presented their perspective and capabilities are delivered as a keeping your choices open after
strategy on cloud computing service to internal customers As ReadWriteWeb's Richard it is deployed. The Cloud is
along with two industry experts, using Internet technologies. MacManus reported in 2006, Mainstream
Amazon's CTO, Werner Vogels a cloud would have fixed Private-Cloud-In-a-Box 3Tera is a company to watch: As self-reported by the 3Tera
and Gartner's VP of research, capacity (no elasticity) and Oracle used concept videos "3Tera strikes me as a company team in their blog, this
Phil Dawson. would always have fixed showing Cloud Administrator to keep an eye on - they're acquisition represented cloud
The consensus was that the operation costs - regardless of consoles integrated into tackling a complex problem and computing becoming
industry is heading towards a utilization. Enterprise Manager as a way to they have a lot of potential mainstream in IT. CA sees a
mix of public and private clouds. Sponsor demonstrate their vision and customers out there." need to fill in this piece in their
Although by Werner Vogels' Gartner's definition of cloud strategy in the private cloud. But CA must agree. The companies portfolio and IT leaders are
definition, private clouds are not computing has evolved between the company did not disclose have entered into a definitive asking for tools to deploy and
true clouds. True clouds, he 2008 and late 2009 to include any detailed plans for the future agreement for CA to purchase manage cloud infrastructure
argues, allow you to think about elasticity as a characteristic, and to avoid setting timescale and 3Tera, adding it to CA's growing assets."We started 3Tera to
resources in an unconstrained now includes this differentiation feature expectations. With that list of cloud acquisitions. radically ease the way IT
manner. Elasticity and pay-as- between public and private cloud said, they did hint that they Sponsor deploys, maintains and scales -
you-go pricing are central to computing: Public cloud expected it would take them 3 Simplifying Deployment MANAGES - applications. Our
Vogels' definition. When computing [is] a style of quarters to get the integration 3Tera's focus is simplifying the AppLogic® cloud computing
resources are switched off, you computing in which scalable and work done. Discuss deployment of environments. platform provides the foundation
stop paying. If privately owned, elastic IT-enabled capabilities The tools also helps synchronize of our partners' orchestration of
capabilities between cloud cloud services for public and
providers and so-called "private
'The Bachelor' Women Reveal Their clouds" hosted inside a
company's data center.
private clouds around the world.
Today, we're taking the next step
in moving toward making cloud
Picks for the Next 'Bachelorette' The company has a GUI based
application to help visualize,
computing mainstream by
joining CA."
(ETonline - Breaking News) Tenley, or Ali? ET talked to this footsteps. manage, and deploy solutions in It looks like cloud computing is
Submitted at 2/25/2010 4:05:00 AM season's bachelorettes to find out When asked, Ali told ET it was the cloud. This is an important becoming essential to the
who they think it will be. a tough call because, once again, thing to solve, especially if time enterprise. Is it in yours?
On Monday night, during "The Of all of this season's she would be put in the situation is of the essence in getting your Discuss
Bachelor: On the Wings of Love bachelorettes, Ali Fedotowsky is that caused her to leave Jake c l o u d - b a s e d a p p l i c a t i o n
-- After the Final Rose" wrap-up the one who has the most Pavelka high and dry following supported by your IT team, and
of the season, the name of the Internet buzz when it comes to the hometown visits: Love vs.
n e w b a c h e l o r e t t e w i l l b e speculation as to who will Career.
revealed! Will it be Vienna, f o l l o w i n J i l l i a n H a r r i s '
46 Tech News/ Apple/ E-reader News Edition

Learn How Canceling Credit Cards


Affects Your Credit Score [Credit] Make a DIY Touchscreen
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 2/25/2010 5:40:00 AM
Stylus from Anti-Static
Adam Baker, blogger at Man
vs. Debt, canceled all his credit
cards 15 months ago. His credit
Bags [Clever Uses]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Nexus One, but didn't have
score dropped just 10 points, but
he learned a lot about that score, Submitted at 2/25/2010 6:00:00 AM much luck—then again, it didn't
and what financial reviewers are look like the kind of full-fledged
looking for, by taking the We've seen snap fasteners, static bag I remember from my
plunge. fancy custom-made gloves and P C I c a r d m e m o r i e s . A l s o
Baker guest-blogs at the Get conductive thread hacks, and unanswered: whether this would
Rich Slowly blog about what back to zero. accounts. even snack sausages used to pull off the touch trick if your
living almost credit-free has • The type of credit used would operate a touchscreen when fingers were covered with gloves
done to his credit score. There be less diverse. We didn't have a It's a good read for anyone fingers are unavailable, or and not making direct contact
have been great benefits, besides mortgage and now didn't have who's ever considered going precision really counts. A with the anti-static film.
the obvious financial clarity, like any active revolving credit, credit-card-free, but still has a mobile-centered blog suggests You'd probably want to arrange
a spotless payment history and either. I've read that FICO likes house purchase or other financial an anti-static bag can also make your anti-static material such
no new-credit-lookup black to see an installment loan that move to make that gets graded the touch-sensitive grade. that a hard edge wasn't swiping
marks. But he's honest about isn't a student loan (for example, on a credit score. PocketNow.com demonstrates and scratching your screen, but
what living off the debt grid will an auto, jewelry, or personal Have you seen your own credit how a rolled-up anti-static bag, it's a good starting point for
likely do to his score, over time: loan). We're now lacking that, as score drop because you stopped the kind that hardware geeks making your own convenient
• The length of our active well. living with debt? Tell us how it often accumulate over time, can stylus that also makes for a neat
accounts would obviously be • Our overall credit limits were affected you, and how you fit the bill on a Zune HD some talking point. How To Make A
affected. Several of our credit all but eliminated. Previously, coped, in the comments. How kind of Windows Mobile phone, F r e e C a p a c i t i v e
cards were 4-5 years old. we had close to $15,000 in credit Much Does Canceling Credit and presumably other phones, as S t y l u s [ P o c k e t N o w . c o m ]
Canceling them reset the length card limits. This was obviously Cards Affect Your Credit well. I gave it a go using a small
of our active revolving loans reduced to $0 by closing the Score?[Get Rich Slowly] bag from a MintyBoost kit and a

How-To: Build Your First Site in iWeb


Olly Farshi (TheAppleBlog) easy way for you to get into web iPhone game using iWeb: the parts you’ll need to build the
Submitted at 2/24/2010 12:10:44 PM-design and launch your first www.thecosmokid.com site.
online project. With a little Rather than use a pre-set Check out the video after the
In this iWeb video tutorial p r a c t i c e , y o u c a n b e t h e template, we’re going to dive jump, or view the full-size, full-
you’ll learn how to import webmaster of your own domain right in and recreate the Cosmo resolution video here(MOV,
content, create links, embed a in no time. Kid website. Before you start the 135MB).
video and publish your website. This tutorial is all about getting tutorial, make sure to download
If you’re planning to build your you comfortable with iWeb. To professional looking sites, I the Cosmo Kid Content
own site, Apple’s iWeb is an show you how easy it is to create created the site for my new Pack(ZIP, 274 KB), it’s got all
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Save File To Creates Custom Save-As Context Cement


Eclipses
Menus in Firefox [Downloads] Kevin Collins (Flickr Blog)
Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker) system you want to set up. Submitted at 2/24/2010 4:06:11 PM

Submitted at 2/25/2010 6:30:00 AM Although we used an image as


our example in the screenshot Message from fivefilters.org: If
Firefox: If you hate having to above you can customize all the you can, please donate to the full
search through your folders Save As menus in Firefox -text RSS service so we can
every time you change the type including how you save pages, continue developing it.• About
of file or directory you're saving links, images, and other files. Flickr
to—and we certainly do!—Save Visit the link below to install Flickr is a revolution in photo
File To helps you make custom Save File To into Firefox or storage, sharing and
context menus for file saving check out the via link to see a organization, making photo
bliss. step by step tutorial at How-To management an easy, natural
The problem arises with the Geek on setting up Save File To. and collaborative process. Get
way Firefox retains the previous Save File To is free and works comments, notes, and tags on
folder you've used to save wherever Firefox does. Have a your photos, post to any blog,
something. That's great for when share and more!
move between directories. down through those folders—but favorite add-on for customizing Five Filters featured article:
you're saving a bunch of the
Save File To is a Firefox add-on you can also specify custom the menus in Firefox or a similar Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
same thing in a row—who
that enables editing of the right- folders and reorganize the menu. tool for another browser? Let's PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
would want to navigate from the
click "Save As" context menu. It's easy to add in a folder for a hear about it in the comments. Term Extraction.
default directory every time you
Immediately after installation it specific project you're working Save File To[via How-To Geek]
opened up the save as
adds in your Desktop and My on or create custom links to save
dialogue?—but if you're
Documents folders as available to your wallpaper collection,
frequently saving a variety of
entries—and you can navigate music collection, or any other
files you want a faster way to

Use LogMeIn and VNC Software for Remote Computing


Power [Remote Acccess]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) suggests using LogMeIn(or updates, malware scans, and regularly, and for what kinds of
Submitted at 2/25/2010 7:05:00 AM maybe a free equivalent) to do other maintenance that will take functions. Drop your discussion
the battery-draining stuff a long time when you're sitting in the comments, if you please.
Netbooks and ultra-portable remotely. down can be triggered remotely Top 5 Ways To Get The Most
laptops may be convenient, but Kendrick suggests that video and set to shut down when done. Out of LogMeIn[jkOnTheRun]
they don't always have the editing, file encoding, and other Kendrick lists four other clever
horsepower to get done what tasks that might take your uses of LogMeIn that he relies
you need. Mobile-obsessed portable computer far too long LogMeIn/VNC connection. on regularly. We're wondering if
blogger James Kendrick are best done with a remote Likewise, tasks like system you use remote desktop access
48 Gadgets/ Entertainment/ Sports/ E-reader News Edition

PMP Brief: Ramos T12FHD, Onda VX585, JXD Australia Scoops


Up Gold in
A30, ICOO R8 Touch, Baidu B618 Ladies Aerials
Tablet trend instead by hacking off released on the R8 Touch at this (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
(BestTabletReview.com) some letters from the previous time. The price and launch still
Submitted at 2/24/2010 9:57:57 PM
Submitted at 2/25/2010 7:43:37 AM model — the VX585HD which remain a mystery.
only featured 720p — and going Source: Cloned in China Lydia Lassila won a gold medal
Message from fivefilters.org: If with the lessed VX585 name for Baidu B618 in aerials skiing for Australia
you can, please donate to the full t h e s u p e r i o r p r o d u c t . T h e The Baidu B618 boasts Wednesday night, giving the
-text RSS service so we can VX585 has 1080p HD playback something somewhat rare (and nation three medals for the first
continue developing it. through its HDMI port and a 4.3 kind of wasteful) in a PMP — a time ever in a Winter Games.
Ramos T12FHD PMP -inch touchscreen surrounded by dual-core processor. Sometimes Three quality medals at that:
The T12FHD represents yet a white case. It supports MKV you get the sense that some of two golds and a silver.
another Ramos product to enter (H.26), AVI, MOV, RMVB, content from the device as well. these manufacturers stumbled This haul represents a payoff for
the PMP market. It features the FLV, MPG, DAT, VOB and TS. The A30 has also included into good deals from parts the creation following the 1998
look and style of the Ramos Release is expected within the puzzle and classic games into makers and include them in their Nagano Games of the Olympic
T12, but supports 1080p HD and next week or so but no firm the mix. tablet just for the hell of it. The Winter Institute of Australia,
RMVB, AVI, MKV, MOV, word on price. No listing of launch time or rest of the B618 spec sheet is designed to strengthen the winter
D A T , M P G , T S a n d M P 4 Source: Cloned in China final price. rather mundane, including 720p program of a nation renowned
codecs. It also features a range JXD A30 PMP Source: Cloned in China HD support and H.264, RM, for its Summer Games prowess.
of audio decoding including JXD is bringing a larger-format ICOO R8 Touch PMP WMV, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, Through the 1998 Games,
Dolby, AC3, DTS, AMR and PMP to the market with their ICOO hits us with another Xvid, RMVB, AVI, MKV, MP4, Australia had won only two
RA and uses USB OTG for A30. The A30 will feature a 7- PMP. This time it’s the R8 3GP, and MPG video codecs. It Winter Games medals. Now that
additional storage. inch 800 x 480 resolution Touch which houses a 4.3-inch also plays the typical audio number is nine, a third of them
N o w o r d o n p r i c e o r touchscreen in a white plastic touchscreen in a sleek metal formats. won in Vancouver.
availability. casing with button controls case. The R8 Touch has 1080p It’s expected to hit the market In ladies aerials, China won
Source: Cloned in China along the right side. It will have HD support and runs MKV, soon though no price is currently both the silver and bronze
Onda VX585 PMP support for 768p HD and RM, H.264, DVD, RM and a few listed. medals, bringing its total haul in
T y p i c a l l y w h e n C h i n e s e RMVB, FLV, MOV, AVI, MP4, others. It’s also packed with Source: Clone in China Vancouver to eight.
companies release a product 3GP, DAT and MPG video files some extras: games, clock, Five Filters featured article: Kevin Helliker
based on another they add more along with WMA, APE, MP3 dictionary and a TV-out. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
suffixes to the previous product and FLAC audio. There is a Unfortunately that’s all the PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
name. Onda decided to buck that H D M I p o r t f o r s t r e a m i n g information that ICOO has Term Extraction.

Johnny Depp Speaks Out in Defense of 'West Memphis Three'


(ETonline - Breaking News) years ago. According to "48 Hours," Hours" reports that Echols and DNA evidence points away from
Submitted at 2/25/2010 3:45:00 AM In an interview with "48 Hours Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin Baldwin were linked to the the young men, according to "48
Mystery" set to air this Saturday, and Jessie Misskelley were murders after then-17-year-old Hours."
Actor Johnny Depp is lending Depp defends the three young convicted of murder after three Misskelley, who was mentally
his star power to three young men, saying, "Every single piece eight-year-old boys were found handicapped, confessed to police
men who were convicted of of evidence points to their naked and drowned in a creek in that he had joined the two in
killing three children over 15 innocence, not to their guilt." West Memphis, Arkansas. "48 killing the three boys. Now, new
E-reader News Edition Gadgets/ Picture/ 49

Turn On Your iMac With a Key, a Real Key Alps


Zack Sheppard (Flickr Blog)
[Patents] Submitted at 2/24/2010 1:08:48 PM

Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) may for example be a cross that Message from fivefilters.org: If
Submitted at 2/25/2010 9:40:00 AM helps distinguish the pattern you can, please donate to the full
relative to an x and y coordinate -text RSS service so we can
An 2004 Apple patent app that system. As should be continue developing it.• About
was recently filed for appreciated, simple shapes are Flickr
continuation describes a more easily counterfeited and Flickr is a revolution in photo
touchscreen iMac that thus complex shape may be storage, sharing and
recognizes shapes, allowing you desired. For example, a large organization, making photo
to interact with your computer as circle may be relatively easy to management an easy, natural
you might a toddler's geometric counterfeit, whereas a complex and collaborative process. Get
puzzle. series of dots may harder to comments, notes, and tags on
So, you could unlock your counterfeit. your photos, post to any blog,
computer by holding up an While at first the idea certainly share and more!
appropriately shaped key. Or, sounds clever, the simple fact Five Filters featured article:
well, Apple can explain it it full: that car keys are a lot easier to Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
The pattern 122 may be any lose than computer passwords is PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
shape whether simple or related to the action to be on and off. In some cases, the enough to temper any Term Extraction.
complex. Some examples of performed. For example, the signet pattern may include an excitement over such a
patterns include circles, squares, pattern may be in the form of a alignment mark for helping possibility.
triangles, dots, dashes, coat of conventional key for actions determine the orientation of the But holding up a light bulb to
arms, logos, symbols, text and associated with gaining access to signet pattern relative to the turn on my computer? I'm all
the like. Other examples include restricted areas, or in the form of touch screen, i.e., helps the over that. [ US Patent Office via
binary patterns and Braille a light bulb for actions pattern recognizer to determine MacRumors]
symbols. The pattern may be associated with turning a light orientation. The alignment mark

zForce touchscreens from Neonode


Jimin Brelsford (CrunchGear) supposed to have plenty of complete touch screen solution, claims the zForce is equally
Submitted at 2/25/2010 4:00:27 AM advantages over current resistive ultrathin design, outstanding responsive when you’re wearing
and capacitive panel systems. finger touch experiences (multi- gloves. I know I would prefer
Anyone remember Neonode? Well that certainly sounds touch support for gesture like not to have my fingers freeze
Apparently we do, but not very enticing, doesn’t it? pinch to zoom), integrated when I’m trying to figure out
well. Anyway, these guys are And what exactly are those ambient light sensor for self exactly what part of Brooklyn
back with a range of touchscreen advantages you might ask? Well adjusting backlight levels and I’m lost in.
panels called zForce. These pads don’t ask me, ask the press lower power consumption and [ SlashGear]
r a n g e f r o m 5 t o 1 3 i n . release. needed like in resistive or much more.
widescreen models, and are 100% transparency (no overlay c a p a c i t i v e ) , l o w c o s t f o r The Neonode website also
50 Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition

No new Wii ‘any time soon’ says Nintendo


Doug Aamoth (CrunchGear) Dunaway went on to say: Nintendo’s not quite pushing
Submitted at 2/25/2010 6:20:30 AM “If you think of the PS2, there’s the envelope as much since
been about 50 million sold; Wii, MotionPlus is more of an
Don’t expect new console close to 28 million sold. So that improvement than anything else,
hardware from Nintendo in the says to me that there’s still a big but Microsoft and Sony are
near future. When asked “When audience out there that we can definitely looking to squeeze
do you think it’ll be time for access with Wii. more life out of their current
new hardware?” in a recent That being said, part of consoles. And given the
i n t e r v i e w w i t h G a m e s p o t , Nintendo’s heritage is to always economy, the thought of
Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway be looking at innovation and to purchasing a new console this
replied, “I don’t think it’ll be start working on the next year is likely a non-starter for
any time soon because even hardware as soon as we launch a most average consumers.
though our installed base is, at platform. So we’ll have it ready Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo Project Natal, Sony’s Motion The State of Nintendo 2010
this point, 5 million households when we think the time is right.” have all figured out ways to spur Controller (Orb, Gem, Arc, I n t e r v i e w : Cammie
larger than the PS2 installed That last sentence is probably current console sales by adding whatever it’ll be called) all open D u n a w a y [ G a m e Spot via
base was at the same point in its the key right there. The time new and/or improved control the door for an entirely different K o t a k u ]
lifecycle, it still has a lot of room likely doesn’t seem right for new s c h e m e s . W i i M o t i o n P l u s , segment of games.
to grow.” consoles from any company, and

Be aware of your digital footprint


Scott Merrill (CrunchGear) such documents.
Submitted at 2/25/2010 6:52:18 AM The real moral of the story here
is to remember that what you do
So the Internet is abuzz about online leaves a very real trace,
the fact that Microsoft has a and that companies and websites
document entitled “ Microsoft hang on to those traces —
Online Services Global Criminal sometimes for a very long time.
Compliance Handbook“. The Don’t assume that because no
document was leaked to one is actively looking over your
Cryptome, and as soon as MSFT shoulder that what you type into
found out they sent a DMCA that email or instant messaging
takedown notice to Network service provider is pretty much various services. It should also would develop a document to conversation is private. If you
Solutions. The proverbial cat is obligated to keep track of who come as no surprise that an detail what they can provide, and want real privacy, figure out
out of the bag, as the document does what in the event of a organization as big as Microsoft how it can be obtained. how to use strong encryption.
has been well circulated; but I’m lawsuit. It should come as no has been the recipient of lots of I would expect Google to have a Via Gizmodo, and lots of other
left wondering what’s the big surprise to anyone that Microsoft subpoenas, search warrants, and similar document, and we sites.
deal? retains some generic records court orders over the years. So it already know that Facebook and
In our litigious society, any about who does what on their makes sense that Microsoft other popular destinations have
E-reader News Edition Gadgets/ Entertainment/ 51
'Alice in Wonderland'
Star Mia Wasikowska:
'Everybody on the Film
is a Little Bit Crazy'
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 2/25/2010 3:30:00 AM

Virtually unknown actress Mia


Wasikowska is poised to go
down the rabbit hole of fame as
the title character of Tim
Burton's 'Alice in Wonderland,'
and ET's Mary Hart finds out
just how deep that rabbit hole
goes!
"It was a really long process of
auditioning, so I never once
thought I would get it or end up
being in the film, so it was just a
real dream," says the 20-year-old
star of landing the role of a
lifetime opposite such notables
as Johnny Depp, Anne
Hathaway and Helena Bonham
Carter.
In IMAX 3D and conventional
theaters in Disney 3D on March

Quake 3, Android style 5, 'Alice in Wonderland' picks


up with a grown-up, 19-year-old
Alice fleeing the prospect of a
Doug Aamoth (CrunchGear) won’t work on your Nexus One The features, according to the network support in Quake3
or other phone at this point,” project page: which works properly. I played dull marriage by returning to
Submitted at 2/25/2010 7:30:58 AM
according to the project page. • Audio against my laptop using wifi and Wonderland to reunite with her
Quake 3 has been ported to The minimum required Android • Hardware floating-point on it works fine,” according to the childhood friends -- White
Android. It looks slick, too (see version is 1.6, though, so you Neon-capable devices developer. Rabbit, Tweedledee and
video demo below). The project may be able to load it up on your • Input: keyboard, touchscreen Cool stuff. If ever there was a Tweedledum, the Dormouse, the
is called “kwaak3” and is based own Android phone if you don’t and trackball need for a full size mouse and Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat,
on Quake 3 ports to the iPhone have a Droid/Milestone. Indeed, • OpenGL 3D rendering keyboard, this might be it. and of course, the Mad Hatter --
and Nokia N900. The developer the developer lists frames-per- • Game uses ARM optimized kwaak3[Google Code via and to battle the evil Red Queen.
got everything up and running second rates for the HTC Hero libcgamearm.so / libqaarm.so / Slashdot]
on a Motorola Milestone (a as well. libuiarm.so
GSM Motorola Droid with multi Here’s a quick video demo from • Networking
-touch, basically) and makes use AndroidandMe’s YouTube
of the phone’s keyboard, “so it page: Yes, networking. “There is
52 Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition

With Lowered Sales Expectations, Palm Runs Out


of Options [Palm]
John Herrman (Gizmodo) regular suspects on the
Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:17:12 AM table—RIM, Nokia, Dell,
HP—but they seem chosen
When Palm issued a release because they'd be interesting Linksys router turned
announcing lowered guidance buyers, not because they've into smartphone-
and sales expectations for this shown any real interest. Hey,
year, Jon Rubinstein didn't even wouldn't it be neat if Nokia or
controlled doorman
try to cushion it, admitting, BlackBerry absorbed webOS, so (video)
"driving broad consumer they could both have truly Tim Stevens (Engadget)
adoption of Palm products is modern, user-friendly
Submitted at 2/25/2010 9:21:00 AM
taking longer than [he] smartphone operating systems?
anticipated." OK. Now what? Yeah it would! Someone should Working for a large company
The implication of "longer than tell them. comes with a lot of baggage, the
expected" is that success will counts anemic launch for their For Palm, this leaves two This leaves Palm with nothing least of which is an RFID
come if everyone just waits long barely differentiated Verizon options: either build a new to do but wait: to die; or to be security badge. For those small
enough. But to say something counterparts is to tacitly admit product—something they may saved by a hero it hasn't even companies who can't afford such
like that in February of 2010, that there's a serious problem. If not be able or positioned to glimpsed yet, and that probably extravagantly wireless door key
over seven months after the Pre Palm's current lineup doesn't do—and hope it's a wild success; doesn't exist. [ BusinessInsider]
launch, three after the Pixi have momentum now, it never or sell out. So who's buying? LINKSYS page 53
launch, and weeks after a by all will. BusinessInsider throws the

Philips intros new Ambilight HDTVs, speakers and other AV


wares
Darren Murph (Engadget) event bringing to us a refreshed goods, but don't expect to find
Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:33:00 AM lineup of LED-backlit Ambilight much in the way of pricing and
HDTVs (7000, 8000 and 9000 availability.
Philips ain't much for series), a new Immersive Sound Philips intros new Ambilight
introducing new gear here on US home theater system (with tri- HDTVs, speakers and other AV
soil, but for those fortunate speaker satellites) and the wares originally appeared on
enough to buy their milk with aluminum-tinged Soundbar Engadget on Thu, 25 Feb 2010
Euros, the company has a HTS9140. We're also told that 10:33:00 EST. Please see our
cornucopiaof new kit to tempt the new line of 8000 and 9000 terms for use of feeds. Permalink
you with. It seems as if the LED 1080p TVs are 3D capable, Pocket-lint, 2, Engadget
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made available separately and Comments
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include two Active3D glasses
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and a wireless transmitter. In
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solutions there's another option: source, and one less thing to


this DIY project completed by a forget on a Monday morning
team of developers at Sunlight when groggily heading to the
Labs. It all centers around a office.
Linksys WRT54GL, a Linux- Continue reading Linksys router
based wireless router that, with a turned into smartphone-
little firmware hackery and a bit controlled doorman (video)
of wiring, was tethered into the Linksys router turned into Palm sales 'lower than
office's door release buzzer. The smartphone-controlled doorman expected,' revenues to
team then went about allowing (video) originally appeared on
miss targets
Desktop PC components get SSH access to the router and
created Android and iPhone apps
Engadget on Thu, 25 Feb 2010
09:21:00 EST. Please see our Nilay Patel (Engadget)
rated for power efficiency, that instantly connect to the
device and open the door,
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Make| Sunlight Labs Door
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authenticated by a PIN and a Opener, Software| Email this| Ruh-roh. Palm just confirmed
Intel rules the roost unique ID assigned to each
device. Users can also deliver
Comments what we heard from analysts
yesterday: sales aren't going so
Tim Stevens (Engadget) perhaps no surprise that high- their PIN via SMS or a simple
efficiency PSUs trump older, phone call to open the door. well. The company's updated its
Submitted at 2/25/2010 9:44:00 AM
hotter ones, but you might not E l e g a n t , i m p r e s s i v e , o p e n PALM page 54
With all the antitrust noise, expect to learn that desktop
threats to AMD, and conflicts S S D s o f f e r b a r e l y a n y
with NVIDIA, it's hard to feel i m p r o v e m e n t o v e r t h e i r
too charmed with Intel at the 5 , 4 0 0 R P M p l a t t e r - b a s e d
NBC's 'Prime Suspect' Put on Hold
moment. But, if you're looking brethren. Follow the article's Allison Waldman (TV Squad) push'Prime Suspect' into pilot
for the best combination of advice and you can shed 104 Submitted at 2/25/2010 8:29:00 AM production at this time. Veteran
p e r f o r m a n c e a n d p o w e r watts without losing a single writer/producer Hank Steinberg
consumption possible, you'll 3DMark point -- though you Remember that proposed -- he did'Without A Trace' for
have to swallow any animosity may shed quite a few dollars in remake of the British crime CBS -- has wisely decided to
and put an Intel inside, with an the process. series 'Prime Suspect' for NBC? push the project back and revisit
efficiency piece at bit-tech.net Desktop PC components get You can forget about it... for a it in June. It could always be
finding that chips from that rated for power efficiency, Intel while anyway. NBC has shelved created as a mid-season show
manufacturer were, on average, r u l e s t h e r o o s t o r i g i n a l l y 'Prime Suspect' till June and the instead of a fall 2010 premiere...
considerably more efficient than appeared on Engadget on Thu, reason why is all about casting. assuming the project comes
their AMD counterparts. That's 25 Feb 2010 09:44:00 EST. This, my friends, is exactly what together.
just part of the story, the site Please see our terms for use of we were saying when the idea Continue reading NBC's 'Prime
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Jane Tennison as Helen Mirren So, NBC is acknowledging that C o m m e n t s
is madness. T'aint gonna happen. they have not found another
She's an Oscar, Emmy, SAG and Helen Mirren and will not
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third quarter financial guidance but we'll see if that kicks


to say that consumer adoption of someone at Verizon or Palm into
its products is "taking longer realizing they might need a new,
than expected," leading to less-stupid ad campaign focused
lowered order volumes from on capabilities, not stereotypes.
carriers and deferral of some Palm sales 'lower than
orders to "future periods." That expected,' revenues to miss
certainly puts that "Chinese New targets originally appeared on
Year" Pre / Pixi work stoppage Engadget on Thu, 25 Feb 2010
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about $300m, or about the same
it pulled in in Q2 before the Pre
Plus and Pixi Plus launched on
Verizon. That's not a good sign,

Allsaints Launches New


Iphone App
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Submitted at 2/24/2010 12:35:54 PM

Brit brand Allsaints just


launched a new Iphone App that
allows users to check out (and
Klipsch's black / white Image S4i
purchase) its latest styles, search
for products by name or —Erin Clements and S4 earbuds filtering out to stores
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coming(as we discovered during line microphone for iPhone to stores originally appeared on
o u r t o u r o f K l i p s c h ' s yappin') any day now. The Engadget on Thu, 25 Feb 2010
Indianapolis campus), and now former will sell for $79 while the 10:12:00 EST. Please see our
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Apple COO Tim Cook Confirms Mobile Device


Focus, Calls Apple TV a ‘Hobby’
Darrell Etherington much for consumer confidence straddle two.
(TheAppleBlog) in Apple’s set top box, and it Another area Cook addressed
Submitted at 2/24/2010 8:19:04 AM must be especially disheartening was Apple retail, revealing that
to hear for those that already Apple hopes to aim higher this
Apple’s Chief Operating Officer own the product. year than it has in 2008 and
Tim Cook wasn’t shy about the While downplaying Apple’s 2009 in terms of new store
company’s focus through 2010, role in the home theatre TV- openings. It’s been staying
in a conversation with Goldman viewing aspect of consumers closer to the 25 stores per year
Sachs analyst David Bailey. The lives, Cook also couldn’t stress bottom end of its target range
talk took place at the Goldman enough the significance the Mac owing to the recent international
Sachs Technology and Internet maker has in terms of its economic troubles, but it has 50 Andrea Peyser Is Gay
Conference this Tuesday in San viewing on mobile devices. new locations planned for 2010.
Francisco, and was given before Much of the talk focused on the The expansion plans bode well
for Sexxxy Firemen But
an audience of investors. An iPad, which is rumored to be for the future, since the company not Sexxxy Fire Ladies
audio stream of the talk is gearing up for pre-sale later this depends so much on direct sales. [Sexy Time]
available here. week. Cook basically reiterated U.S. customers hoping for an Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
In general, the talk was what the company line regarding the end to exclusivity will be
you’d expect. Cook sang the i P a d ’ s c o n s i d e r a b l e w e b despite the temptation to grow it disappointed by Cook’s Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:35:23 AM

praises of the company’s current browsing, email and photo further, owing to the high comments regarding AT&T. He
number of great ideas they have You might suspect that Andrea
offerings, and gave highest viewing capabilities, and he mainly discussed the advantages
coming from the elite staff they Peyser, the New York Post's
praise to the yet to be released went after netbooks, too: of a single carrier model, citing
hire. He also reminded investors hardcore pornography critic,
iPad, a device for which the The netbook is not an simplicity and the ability to
about the pricing strategy Apple would be totally gay for hot
company obviously has very experience people are going to work together in close
took with the iPad, saying “we sexxxy "Fire women," kicking in
high expectations. But he also continue wanting to have. When partnership to introduce
didn’t want to leave a pricing doors of burning buildings in
took time to frame one of the they play with the iPad and innovative new features. He also
umbrella for competition, so we their blazing hot fire gear, with
company’s weakest sellers in a experience the magic of using added that while Apple has seen
got very aggressive on this.” sweat pouring off their chiseled
fairly dismissive light. it… I have a hard time believing more sales and higher profits in
Cook also said he wasn’t afraid abdominal muscles, covered
Cook called Apple TV “a they’re going to go for a all the markets where multiple
of the iPad cannibalizing sales of only by a sheer layer of fire
hobby” owing to its low sales netbook. carriers have been introduced,
its other products. That point I retardant gel. But no—"if I were
numbers when compared to the I suppose when asked how your that won’t necessarily be the
agree with, though I would be to be caught in a fire, I'd feel a
Mac line. He did, however, state new product, which occupies an case every time. Brave words
very afraid of the opposite being lot safer in the arms of a 6-foot
that Apple would continue to entirely new category, is going considering there’s no data to
true. It seems to me that a lot of man than those of a 5-foot girl."
invest money into its hobby, if to compete with a tried and back them up. Cook’s defense of
potential iPad owners would This is the topic of Andrea
only because “our gut tells us tested strong seller, “magic” is the much-derided AT&T was
probably be better suited by an Peyser's popular newspaper
there’s something there.” While as good an answer as any. But definitely the low point of the
iPhone/iPod touch or a column today, which is
being dismissive about a weak Cook emphasized the company’s talk, and struck me as fairly
computer. The iPad could do illustrated with a photo of a
seller is a good strategy when confidence in the product by hollow overall.
more to help people choose a typical fire lady in typical fire
talking to investors, I can’t pointing out how focused it
lane than encourage them to gear, a sports bra. [ NYP]
imagine the comments made do manages to keep its product line,
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'Dick Cavett Show' CBS Locks Up CEO


Audience Member Recalls Les Moonves Through
the Day a Guest Died 2015
Danny Gallagher (TV Squad)
Allison Waldman (TV Squad) WiiWare First Look:
Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:10:00 AM
Submitted at 2/24/2010 9:41:00 PM

'The Dick Cavett Show' has long


Art Style series
been a talk show of legend. It If Les Moonves were a playing Light Trax, Rotozoa
not only broke the traditional craps at a Las Vegas casino, he'd
be the guy with the dice on a hot Randy Nelson (Joystiq)
late night mold of jokey sketches
and characters, but it also birthed streak. You would put your Submitted at 2/25/2010 9:30:00 AM

a long list of interesting and chips down to let it ride and


that's exactly what the CBS Nintendo's house brand of
historic television moments from
Corporation did. CBS has given "minimalistic mechanics"
the famous"Woodstock" show to
president and CEO Leslie downloadables, the Art Style
his public support of John
Moonves a new contract through series, is growing its ranks with
Lennon as he faced deportation
Starcher of Bridgeport, Conn. sat February 22, 2015. He's being two new titles: Art Style: light
that scored him a special
in the audience for that show and asked to keep on doing just what trax and Art Style: Rotozoa, both
mention on the Richard Nixon
recalled what it was like to he's been doing, that is keeping for WiiWare. The games were
tapes.
watch a TV moment that only a CBS as a powerhouse network. present (and looking close to
One of the most infamous
few people have ever seen. Read They want him to continue being finished) at the Big N's media
moments resurfaced on
television when Cavett made a our interview with Mrs. Starcher the anti-Jeff Zucker. Moonves come, it also further aligns and gathering in San Francisco, and I
guest appearance on Jimmy after the jump about her fleeting with the Midas Touch is how strengthens the interests of the took both for a spin -- quite
Fallon's'Late Night'. Cavett foray into TV history. you might describe him because chief executive with those of our literally in one case. Catch my
Continue reading'Dick Cavett things are just good and getting shareholders." thoughts after the break.
recalled one episode that the
public never got to see because a S h o w ' A u d i e n c e M e m b e r better at the Tiffany network. Continue reading CBS Locks Continue reading WiiWare First
guest, Dr. James Rodale, Recalls the Day a Guest Died Executive Chairman Sumner Up CEO Les Moonves Through Look: Art Style series Light
F i l e d u n d e r : L a t e N i g h t , Redstone had nothing but good 2015 Trax, Rotozoa
actually died on tape.
The episode has never seen the Interviews, Talk Show, Reality- things to say about Moonves in Filed under: Industry, OpEd, WiiWare First Look: Art Style
light of day even though the tape Free the Wall Street Journal story NCIS, Reality-Free, The Big series Light Trax, Rotozoa
P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | | about the new contract. He said, Bang Theory originally appeared on Joystiq
still reportedly exists in the
network's vault, but Kathy Comments "This agreement not only P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | | on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:30:00
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Daily Show's Jason


Jones Heads to
Primetime
Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
Submitted at 2/25/2010 9:19:00 AM
DSiWare First
'The Daily Show with Jon
Look: X-Scape
Stewart' correspondent Jason and Metal Torrent
Jones is starring in an ABC pilot
Randy Nelson (Joystiq)
'How to Be a Better American.'
Remember when it used to be Rob Riggle (among others) as
Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:30:00 AM

that to find the next generation having launched their careers


of comedy talent, one only had Two DSiWare shooters were on
from behind the 'Daily Show' show at Nintendo's Q1 Media
to look at the cast of'Saturday desk.
Night Live?' Well, it's sort of the Summit -- X-Scape(left) and
The show is about a father who Metal Torrent(right). Both hail
same, except that now the
industry looks to the cast of 'The
Daily Show with Jon Stewart.'
involves his family on a personal
journey to become a better
person and they don't want to go.
'American Idol' - 'Top from different dimensions (of
gameplay and graphics). I
played them both, and you'll find
Jones is married to fellow 'Daily
Show' correspondent Samantha
Bee. It wouldn't be surprising if
What do you think? Does it
sound like a winner? 12 Boys Compete' my impressions beyond the
break.
Filed under: Programming,
Bee made a few appearances on
the show as well. If the show
OpEd, Celebrities, Pickups and
Renewals, Casting, Reality-Free
Recap Continue reading DSiWare First
Look: X-Scape and Metal
Torrent
ends up as a ratings success, P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | | Kona Gallagher (TV Squad) girls, they were generally DSiWare First Look: X-Scape
then Jones joins the ranks of Comments Submitted at 2/24/2010 11:25:00 PM underwhelming. However, the and Metal Torrent originally
Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, night was not without its funny appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 25
Ed Helms, Rob Corddry and I don't know about you all, but I moments and mini-heartbreaks, Feb 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please
was severely underwhelmed by and at the end of it, Kara see our terms for use of feeds.
the girls' first performance, so DioGuardi realized she needed Permalink| Email this|
my main hope going into the to hire a lawyer. Comments
Top 12 guys' performance is that Continue reading'American
it won't bore me to death. I also Idol' - 'Top 12 Boys Compete'
hope that I can get back in sync Recap
with the judges a little more Filed under: American Idol,
tonight, because my opinions Judges, Reviewcaps,
differed wildly from theirs. Contestants, Performances, Host
Two hours later, one of these Permalink| Email this| |
things happened. While the guys Comments
had more high points than the
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Is the Internet Ruining the Olympics? [Olympic Mysteries]


Richard Lawson (Gawker) can't really watch everything
Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:16:28 AM when it's happening. Say what
you will about NBC's Americans
Watching the silly drama unfold First, Questions Never airing
yesterday about disappointed practices, but an 8pm block is, I
skier Julia Mancuso's mean suspect, still the most sensible
Tweets about teammate Lindsey way for most us to watch the
Vonn, I started considering how games. Yet the internet doesn't
the internet has played a part in respect our personal wishes and
these Hotlympics. And I don't splashes this spoiler shit
like it! everywhere they can. "Why are
Obviously Gawker has been Bode Miller's race results on
giving you the Best Olympics LARPer.com??," I think
Coverage On the Internet, so the desperately to myself when
ol' series of tubes has definitely scanning my favorite websites.
proved good for something these It's just a shame.
past two weeks. But otherwise? Obviously the internet has done
It's mostly doing damage. some good things for us during
Are we surprised that two these Olympics (two thumbs),
athletes who have competed but for the most part I think we'd
with each other since childhood who doesn't like two pretty girls told to go home because of tells him to go home. Lest we all be better off without all the
are not always the best of fighting and splattering sexy sexxxy photos he took in the fans start to suspect that the peripheral noise it creates. That
friends? We really shouldn't be. mud all over our beautiful, kind Olympic Village. To be fair, it is Olympians might be doing bad said, if the web can dig up
But then Mancuso uses a bad global celebration. Frustratingly, quite shocking that a 22-year-old sex things! anything about, oh say, just off
word in a Tweet while the athletes can get all caught up kid who just won an Olympic And of course the internet is the top of my head, some sort of
discussing yesterday's flagged in it too, and the whole gross, medal in Baggy-Pant Spinning also giving us those cruel, Joubert/Weir hate-sex scandal or
Giant Slalom run (caused by dumb thing keeps getting would be gallivanting around horrible spoilers. Right on the something, I think some of us
Vonn crashing) and everyone frothier and frothier. Athlete Disneyworld flirting and front pages of the New York could take an academic interest
gets allll posty about how there's Or attend the tale of poor Scotty trying to pull a little tail. And T i m e s o r , m o r e m i n d - in that.
Fightz! going on among the Lago, the dudebro snowboarder because of The Internet, TMZ bogglingly, NBC.com. I am fine As always, pics via Getty
ranks of the women skiers. And (is there any other kind?) who can run some candid snaps of with the fact that time is what it
everyone picks it up, because became be-scandal'd and was such behavior and Vancouver is and the work day is too, so I

Antawn Jamison Finally Has Reason to Smile in Cleveland


Pat McManamon (FanHouse back to the last time he was in Philadelphia, the "pretend pistol" was left to try to explain things
Main) Cleveland. act that caused NBA for his team.
Submitted at 2/24/2010 3:30:00 PM He would be excused if the commissioner David Stern to "We were in disarray and we
memory caused him to get cold suspend Arenas and say he was didn't know what was going to
Filed under: Cavaliers, Wizards chills. not mentally or emotionally fit happen," Jamison said. "It was
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio -- It Because that game came the day to play. one of those situations where it
wasn't long after he was traded after Gilbert Arenas had pulled With Arenas gone and the wasn't a pretty one."
Washington's pregame huddle in
that Antawn Jamison flashed the "pretend pistol" act in Wizards in Cleveland, Jamison
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Movie Bloopers
Which Actress Used to Get It on with Her Own — “Breakdowns”
Aunt? [Blind Items] — of 1936
Brian Moylan (Gawker) 3."Another don't look me in the Barry Ritholtz (The Big
Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:01:15 AM eyes film set experience. Unlike Picture)
yesterday when our actress Submitted at 2/25/2010 7:30:52 AM
If she were a Sade song, she indicated she didn't like don't
would be the "Sweetest Taboo." look me in the eye notices, this Message from fivefilters.org: If
This actor is no "Smooth former A list action actor and you can, please donate to the full
Operator," yelling at a scalper at A c a d e m y A w a r d -text RSS service so we can
the Olympics. There's "No nominee/winner who is now a continue developing it.
Ordinary Love" for this star on struggling B- list loves having The Warner Bros. annual
set. Actually, there's no love at the don't talk to me and don't blooper reel for 1936.
all. look me in the eye notices put up Featuring Humphrey Bogart,
1."This blind is a little on set. During the most recent Joe E. Brown, James Cagney,
outrageous, but our source movie he filmed, the notices Bette Davis, Kay Francis, Leslie
swears by it. This female actress, went up and a crew member Howard, Paul Lukas, Barton
foreign born is reportedly in the said, 'I don't think anyone has to MacLane, Fredric March, Paul
closet, but has dealt with the worry about looking him in the Muni, Pat O’Brien, Claude
rumors about her sexuality eye because he is so damn short.' Rains, Edward G. Robinson,
before. Before she was a star, After that remark, random crew Warren William, etc.
she allegedly lived with her up to Vancouver for the saying that the price was members would point to the Film was expensive then and
girlfriend, which also happens to Olympic Games, one actor outrageous and that there should notices when the actor was stoppages were costly. Film now
be her aunt! We're not sure how certainly made a less-than-super be some sort of discount for around and everyone would start is the least of the expenses and
this worked, but the source impression. He really wanted to celebrities like him. Although laughing. The actor had no idea they can make up for it by
claims they were DEFINITELY see a particular event – for scalping is not illegal in British the entire time that everyone was adding it as “extras” on the
more than family, if you catch which tickets were in big Columbia, a little discretion laughing at him." [ CDaN] DVD. Flubs then cost money,
out drift! Not a Milla Jovovich." demand – and was observed would have probably been more now they can make money.
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Tom Hanks and Steven NFL declines to punish Oakland


Spielberg Salute to Raiders coach Tom Cable
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Olympic Men’s Hockey Diary: Canada 7, Russia 3


(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 2/24/2010 4:19:54 PM

Reuters Rick Nash puts the


puck past Russia goalie Evgeni
Nabokov to give Canada a 3-0
first-period lead.
The Journal provides minute-by
-minute analysis of Canada’s 7-3
win over Russia in a quarterfinal
game. Journal staffers are at
Canada Hockey Place and Sochi
World to offer commentary.
The U.S. returns to face Finland
in the semifinals Friday after the
Finns beat the Czech Republic
Wednesday night.
For the Journal’s diary of the
U.S.’s 2-0 win over Switzerland,
click here.
7:18 pm | Pregame | by Reed out of the quarterfinals in the NHLâs most formidable mob of Canadians if this game 7:23 pm | Pregame | by Adam
Albergotti Torino. In the 1970s and 1980s, forwards, and the list goes on. turns ugly. Thompson
Canadian Blood Boils over they were the U.S.S.R., What Canada lacks in flash, it 7:19 pm | Pregame | by Ian Greetings from Sochi World,
Russia-Canada Match â LIVE! embarrassing Canada on their has made up for with the highest Johnson aka Russky Dom. This is the
An angry mob of Canadians is own soil -â and in this very city - scoring team in this Olympic It must be a hockey game: Russian Olympic headquarters,
filtering into Canada Hockey - on a number of occasions. tournament, with 22 goals. And "Rush" is on the speakers as the and it's hard to say what Karl
Place right now, as the Russian Now, they are the much less what Russiaâs defnse has been Canadian team takes the ice for Marx would say about it. Giant
Federation and Team Canada mean-sounding âRussian one of the most porous of the the pregame warmup. The areas for major Russian gas, auto
face off in a grudge match that Federation.â But they are just as teams here. Russians entered a few minutes and telecom companies, among
has the attention of all of stacked with talent. Canadaâs captain Scott ago to boos. The arena is only others. In the lobby there's a
Canada. Alexander Ovechkin, the most Niedermayer anchors its stalwart now filling up as security has group playing traditional
The Russians are being booed popular player in the National defense that says it is in no way been tight. A few Russian flags Russian music that sounds like a
by Canadian fans and those boos Hockey League right now is intimidated by Mr. Ovechkin but 90% Canuck. thousand-times-cooler version of
arenât just for fun -â in the way playing with an impressively hot and a Russian front. 7:23 pm | Pregame | by Reed the Tetris theme song. The club
New England Patriots fans might stick right now. He is also This is more than a hockey Albergotti area isn't open yet, but it fast
boo the Cleveland Browns when playing with a ferocity not often game. There is hatred in the air Unless Russian fans can yell developed a rep as one of the go-
they run out onto Gillette Field. seen in the Olympics. He laid tonight and it is emanating from really loud, there's no way the to party spots in town.
These Eastern Europeans in out a scarily brutal hit earlier in people with maple leafs Federation is going to know 7:25 pm | Pregame | by Ian
their dark red uniforms have the tournament against Czech somewhere on their body they're here. Their red and blue Johnson
been bullying Canada around for player Jaromir Jagr, instantly shouting âCan-a-da!â outfits just kind of blend into the Yes, Reed, blood is in the air.
decades, in one form or another. changing the speed of the game. Sit back and enjoy as we bring red and white Canadian ones. It's a far cry from the days of my
Four years ago, they were And Russia is not a one-man you the action, and try to avoid This crowd might as well be
âRussians,â knocking Canada show. Evgeni Malkin is one of being snubbed out by an angry 100% Canadian. OLYMPIC page 62
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youth in the Montreal Forum, 7:31 pm | Pregame | by Ian great because you know the in Markov and Gonchar but after way things have started. But the
where we'd cheer good plays by Johnson game is about to begin. Teams that it drops off sharply and Russian pop group rehearsing its
the opponents and toast the Marc is sporting about five are on the ice. One minute to go. they're playing guys who songs for tonight's gig here is
Habs' goals with maple-syrup pounds of gel in his hair, while 7:37 pm | Pregame | by Reed wouldn't make Team Canada or totally bringing it. The show
cocktails. I think some people Darren is bald. The varying fates Albergotti Team USA. Meanwhile, the must go on.
here have been drinking beer, of ex-goalies... Itâs so loud I canât hear myself Canadian defense is pounding 7:54 pm | 1st period, 1-0
although fortunately it's Molson 7:32 pm | Pregame | by Reed blog. the Russian forwards and Canada | by Reed Albergotti
Canadian, which is so watery Albergotti 7:38 pm | Pregame | by Adam moving the puck out efficiently. 12 minutes to go in the first and
and so expensive you'd need to Marc's euro-trash hoodies will Thompson Still very early to make any big Canadaâs defenseman Brent
be a Russian billionaire to get be auctioned off for charity later, Journalistic first: I have never, generalizations about the game, Seabrook heads to the box for
drunk on it. Maybe Alexander I hear. ever, ever sat in a lounge however. interference. Russia on the
Medvedev from the KHL is in 7:35 pm | Pregame | by Adam dedicated to a Russian railroad 7:43 pm | 1st period, 1-0 power play.
the audience? Thompson with a curling team, male or Canada | by Reed Albergotti 7:55 pm | 1st period, 1-0
7:25 pm | Pregame | by Adam My bad -- that was a replay of female. You donât really have to even Canada | by Reed Albergotti
Thompson the curling. I'm now sitting with 7:39 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by watch the game. You know Alexi Morozov whiffed on a
Just for the record, the fabulous the Russian women's curling Ian Johnson exactly whatâs going on by just nice opportunity to one-time one
Canadian women's curling team team. No joke. I don't think I've been in a listening to the crowd, which past Luongo.
is up big on the Russians. No 7:36 pm | Pregame | by Reed louder hockey arena. It is truly reacts to every tiny move of the 7:56 pm | 1st period, 1-0
one here reacted. Albergotti deafeaing. And they're off. puck with the oohs and ahhs you Canada | by Ian Johnson
7:30 pm | Pregame | by Ian Loud cheers from the crowd 7:39 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by expect from 4th of July Russians have Kovalchuk and
Johnson here after they show video of Ian Johnson fireworks displays. Gonchar on the point in the
The jumbotron is showing the Canada winning in speed Minute and a half in and a big 7:48 pm | 1st period, 1-0 power play -- big shooters. Bu
Good Olde Dayse of Canadiane skating. Why does Canada's flurry by Canada. Toews ripped Canada | by Reed Albergotti their second unit is less
Hockey -- 2002, when the speed skating team race in it wide, or did Nabokov get a Ovechkin looks a little slow. impressive: top-flight Andrei
Canadians beat Team USA for pleather? Did someone show up piece of it? Seems like heâs trying to get Markov but also Ilya Nikulin
gold. Ooops, now it's showing to wind tunnel testing after 7:41 pm | 1st period, 1-0 checked really hard or get his who plays in the KHL. They
the Russians winning at the staying out all night clubbing Canada | by Reed Albergotti nose broken â- that sort of thing can't set up and the penalty is
world championships recently. and realize it was aerodynamic? 17:39 in the 1st period â- usually wakes him up a little. over.
Nine minutes until the puck is 7:36 pm | Pregame | by Reed Canadaâs Ryan Getzlaf scores Heâs munching on rocks on the 7:56 pm | 1st period, 1-0
dropped. The atmosphere is Albergotti on a pass from Dan Boyle. bench right now. Canada | by Adam Thompson
tenser than a Timbit. I am so close to the action right Canada up 1-0. 7:49 pm | 1st period, 1-0 A few tepid tries at Sochi World
7:31 pm | Pregame | by Reed now I can literally see all the 7:42 pm | 1st period, 1-0 Canada | by Reed Albergotti to clap along to the arena feed of
Albergotti gaps in Ovechkinâs mouth. Canada | by Adam Thompson I just thought of a good chant Hendrix, but it doesn't take.
I feel bad for people watching 7:37 pm | Pregame | by Ian Crickets chirping at Sochi for the Canadians, based on 7:57 pm | 1st period, 1-0
this on TV, because they don't Johnson World, except for one guy who some things I learned at the Canada | by Reed Albergotti
get to see the brilliant jumbotron One of my favorite parts of the belatedly realized that the other Super Bowl: âWho, eh? Who Instead of playing on the point,
interviews by former NHL Olympics is the uplifting theme guys in red scored, not his. thinks they can beat Team Ovechkin stations himself in
goaltender Marc Denis, who is song/video clip they show just 7:43 pm | 1st period, 1-0 Canada, eh?â If you say it in front of the net -â still attempting
interviewing another former before the hockey games (and at Canada | by Ian Johnson kind of a nerdy voice, it sounds to get his nose broken. Heâs on
goalie, CTV analyst Darren the start of other competitions? Everyone talks about Ovechkin cool and intimidating. the bench again now, eating part
Pang, right now. Marc translates I'm not sure.) You have these and Malkin but that goal showed 7:52 pm | 1st period, 1-0 of a hockey stick for a light
every interview into French for stunning shots of Vancouver, the weakness in the Russian Canada | by Adam Thompson snack.
the five non-English speaking athletes from around the world defense. They've got two Not a lot of noise from the OLYMPIC page 63
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7:57 pm | 1st period, 1-0 only the first period. room wall and cancelled practice sliding save. players. Every person in here
Canada | by Ian Johnson 8:02 pm | 1st period, 3-0 because there really wasnât 8:12 pm | 1st period, 4-1 was yelling at the top of their
Break in the play with 9:54 to Canada | by Adam Thompson âanything they needed to do but Canada | by Ian Johnson lungs cheering on Team Canada.
go. Russia got a lot of shot on After the third goal we've read that article.â So far, so Russia's defense seems 8:27 pm | 2nd period, 4-1
that power play. Luongo seemed reached the Yelling at the TVs good. completely overwhelmed. The Canada | by Reed Albergotti
to have seen most of them. He's stage at Sochi House. The TVs 8:05 pm | 1st period, 3-1 Getzlaf line stayed out there and Number eight, Ovechkin, comes
solid but hasn't had to be just stare back in cold silence. Canada | by Adam Thompson Morrow just walked it out of the out onto the ice to start the
spectacular. 8:03 pm | 1st period, 3-0 Kalinin's one of their KHL corner and roofed it over second period, stuffed after
7:58 pm | 1st period, 1-0 Canada | by Ian Johnson players. Nabokov. Not a great effort by eating an entire live chicken
Canada | by Ian Johnson How do you say "rout" in 8:07 pm | 1st period, 3-1 Nabokov either. 1:40 left in the between periods. Malkin lines
Crosby drew a penalty with a Russian? Now, it's too early yet Canada | by Adam Thompson 1st and it's 4-1. up at center and Alexander
brilliant rush up the rink. Cut in but the Russians have just called Chants of "shaiboo" erupt. 8:13 pm | 1st period, 4-1 Semin on right wing.
on Nabokov and was hauled a timeout after that last goal by Loosely translated (and spelled) Canada | by Adam Thompson 8:30 pm | 2nd period, 4-1
down by Anton Volchenkov at Nash. Nash started the it means "get a goal." Let's as a group agree not to say Canada | by Adam Thompson
9:34. tournament playing with Crosby 8:10 pm | 1st period, 4-1 the Canadians are making Just talked to Ekaterina Galkina,
7:59 pm | 1st period, 1-0 but it didn't seem to work. With Canada | by Reed Albergotti Evgeni Nabokov look like the 21-year-old lead on the
Canada | by Adam Thompson these guys he seems to have 1:42 left in the first: Canadaâs Vladimir in net. Russian curling team. She says
You get the sense that if you found his grove. like âuh uh,â and Brenden 8:14 pm | End of 1st period, 4-1 her countrymen need to do better
shot Ovechkin it would really Russia's not out of it yet, by any Morrow sneaks one by Nabokov Canada | by Ian Johnson in their own end. It may be in
annoy him. means. They're pressing and on the behind-the-net Tell you what, whoever faces the wee hours in Moscow, but
7:59 pm | 1st period, 1-0 with their firepower it's still wraparound to make it 4-1 one of these teams after tonight she's sure everyone's awake and
Canada | by Ian Johnson wide open. Canada. is going to thank the loser. Both watching. More from Ekaterina
Half the power play is over and 8:04 pm | 1st period, 3-1 8:10 pm | 1st period, 4-1 are pounding the heck out of the later.
Canada almost scored. Set up Canada | by Reed Albergotti Canada | by Adam Thompson other. Great hockey but it has to 8:30 pm | 2nd period, 4-1
nicely and got some shots on net 5:21to go: Russia, pretending Uh-oh, 4-1. Russians not be wearing. More hitting and Canada | by Reed Albergotti
but nothing yet. Nabokov hasn't they still have a chance, gets one practicing the tao of shaiboo. pressure in the Russian end and The crowd is comparatively
had to make many saves because past a screened Roberto Luongo. 8:11 pm | 1st period, 4-1 we're at the end of the first. subdued to start the second
a lot of the shots were blocked. Anton Kalinin with the sniper Canada | by Ian Johnson 8:14 pm | 1st intermission, 4-1 period. Tough to drum up the
8:00 pm | 1st period, 2-0 wrist shot from the point. Russia With 3:32 left Doughty just Canada | by Ian Johnson same fervor when your team is
Canada | by Reed Albergotti makes it 3-1 Canada. showed why Steve Yzerman put Shots on goal: Canada 21, up 4-1 and you just had a chili
7:51 left: Canadaâs Dan Boyle 8:04 pm | 1st period, 3-1 him on the team. The Crosby Russia 12. cheese dog and a beer.
scores on the power play â- right Canada | by Adam Thompson line had good pressure down 8:18 pm | 1st intermission, 4-1 8:32 pm | 2nd period, 5-1
through Evgeni Nabokovâs five- And the curlers go wild! They low, sent it back to Doughty, Canada | by Reed Albergotti Canada | by Reed Albergotti
hole. Assisted by Dany Heatley chant, "Rus-ee-ya" and scream. who did a little spinerama At the end of the first period, 16:50 left: Canada scores
and Patrick Marleau. And the musical rehearsal has around his checker and drove in Canada leads 4-1 and has made another one after the Russians
8:01 pm | 1st period, 3-0 shifted in tone drom melancholy to the net. No goal but good Russia look like a team of get caught basically cherry-
Canada | by Reed Albergotti sax solo to a more upbeat pressure. Of course it was also pickup hockey players who all picking on their breakout. Corey
7:05 left: Canada comes right number. pretty risky -- if he'd have been want to score, but donât want to Perry with the goal, Ryan
back down the ice and scores. 8:05 pm | 1st period, 3-1 stripped of the puck it could play as a team. Itâs kind of the Getzlaf with the first assist.
Rick Nash with the pass from Canada | by Reed Albergotti have been an odd-man rush.... opposite of the old Soviet teams 8:33 pm | 2nd period, 5-1
Jonathan Toews on a two-on- Team Canada head coach Mike 8:12 pm | 1st period, 4-1 that used to control the puck and Canada | by Reed Albergotti
one that would make any Babcock said before the game Canada | by Ian Johnson weave up and down the ice as a On that goal, the Russians were
defenseman weep. Itâs 3-0 that he taped my âOvechkin: A Tic-tac-no. Getzlaf to Perry to single unit. The fans might need OLYMPIC page 64
Canada. Game. Over. And itâs Survival Guideâ to the locker Morrow to...Nabokov in a more of a breather than the
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trying an uber-aggressive basically stopped any semblance predicted this score? No one could've foreseen this instead?
breakout, hanging two or three of a game plan and is just 8:45 pm | 2nd period, 7-2 game -- I actually thought the 8:56 pm | 2nd period, 7-3
people all the way down on playing offense, hoping for a Canada | by Ian Johnson Russians would win. But Canada | by Ian Johnson
Canada's blue line. When the flurry of goals. This could get After a commercial break at looking back at their win over After that bizarre exchange of
pass from Russia's defense didn't very ugly. 13:13, the game is back on. The the Czechs, there were signs. goals, the game is back to a fast-
get there, Canada had a three-on- 8:41 pm | 2nd period, 6-2 Russians are taking more time Long stretches of lethargic play tempo, end-to-end affair. Russia
one. Canada | by Ian Johnson breaking out and seem more in that one. is pressing mightily but
8:34 pm | 2nd period, 5-1 I know it sounds ridiculous, but calm and collected. They're not 8:50 pm | 2nd period, 7-3 whenever Canada breaks out you
Canada | by Adam Thompson with Russia's firepower it's still rolling over. Canada | by Reed Albergotti get the feeling that the Russian
Palms slapping foreheads in possible for a comeback. Russia 8:45 pm | 2nd period, 7-2 When Russia actually crowds defense will not be organized
Sochi World. The Canadian looks more possessed after Canada | by Ian Johnson the crease, theyâve had success and allow a scoring chance.
monster that slept through switching goalies to backup Ilya Ovechkin isn't backchecking at screening Luongo. That one 8:57 pm | 2nd period, 7-3
Switzerland and the U.S. is fully Bryzgalov and it's 6-2 with 13 all. He's just hanging around the looked like it bounced off Canada | by Reed Albergotti
awake now. Yowza. minutes to play in the second. A blue line and red line waiting for Canadaâs Shea Weber to go in. Hey Ovie, if you're going to
8:35 pm | 2nd period, 6-1 goal or two this period and then a break-out pass. It's 8:51 pm | 2nd period, 7-3 cherry-pick on the blue line, try
Canada | by Reed Albergotti it's a game. Unless of course the understandable given the gap Canada | by Ian Johnson to handle the pass when you get
15:53 in the 2nd: Canada has Russian defense doesn't tighten and the need for a goal, but 8:33 to go and a chance for it. Otherwise, you bring shame
essentially embarrassed Russia up. risky. Russia. Joe Thornton serves for on all of Mother Russia.
with another goal. Shea Weber 8:42 pm | 2nd period, 6-2 8:46 pm | 2nd period, 7-2 a dumbo penalty by Canada: too 8:57 pm | 2nd period, 7-3
rifled a slap shot past Evgeni Canada | by Adam Thompson Canada | by Adam Thompson many men on the ice. Canada | by Reed Albergotti
Nabokov, who's essentially Wonder if Ted Leonsis is And here's the really bad news: 8:52 pm | 2nd period, 7-3 One more goal for Canada and
being hung out to dry by quietly smiling that his big we're only halfway done. And Canada | by Ian Johnson Canada Hockey Place is going to
Russia's non-existent defense. bopper in Washington is going that can only mean one thing: And just like that it's 7-3, with have to send someone to the
8:36 pm | 2nd period, 6-2 to get some extra rest. more curling anecdotes. Gonchar scoring on what looked store get more vodka.
Canada | by Reed Albergotti 8:43 pm | 2nd period, 6-2 8:48 pm | 2nd period, 7-2 like a screened Luongo. Assist to 8:59 pm | 2nd period, 7-3
15:14 in the 2nd: And itâs Canada | by Adam Thompson Canada | by Ian Johnson Malkin. Four-goal game. Not the Canada | by Adam Thompson
officially a pickup game now, Also -- how awkward is that Hasta la vista. 10:09 and Perry prettiest game of the tournament. That's true. It would get in the
with Russiaâs Maxim first day back in the Penguins scores his second of the night 8:53 pm | 2nd period, 7-3 way of the feature on brave
Afinogenov carrying it into the locker room going to be between with assists to fellow Anaheim Canada | by Reed Albergotti American athlete who bounced
zone by himself and putting one Crosby and Malkin? Duck Ryan Getzlaf and Carolina 6:50 left: Russia's Konstantin back from the pain of his great
past Luongo to make it 6-2 8:43 pm | 2nd period, 6-2 Hurricane Eric Staal. The Korneyev called for interference. uncle getting hit by lightning.
Canada. Canada | by Reed Albergotti Russians are trying to do too Canada's on a power play. 9:00 pm | 2nd period, 7-3
8:37 pm | 2nd period, 6-2 Ovechkin is taking long shifts much -- get all the goal back at 8:54 pm | 2nd period, 7-3 Canada | by Reed Albergotti
Canada | by Adam Thompson now, essentially looking for a once. So it allows these counter- Canada | by Adam Thompson 45.7 seconds left in the second
And the curlers are leaving. chance to take a shot and not punches. If we were NBC, we'd switch and Duncan Keith of Canada is
Good thing most of the Russian worrying too much about 8:49 pm | 2nd period, 7-3 away from the game and start called for tripping. And yeah, he
players are going back to places playing back. At this point, what Canada | by Reed Albergotti talking about the time we rode tripped that Russian dude pretty
like Phoenix. I think if they had else is there to do? 8:20 left in the 2nd: Sergei on a seaplane. bad.
to return to Moscow, their 8:44 pm | 2nd period, 7-2 Gonchar of Russia slices it past 8:55 pm | 2nd period, 7-3 9:01 pm | 2nd period, 7-3
federation would make them go Canada | by Reed Albergotti Luongo with a slap shot from Canada | by Reed Albergotti Canada | by Reed Albergotti
by foot. 10:09 â On another two-on-one, the point for a goal to make it 7- If we were NBC, we'd never 3.9 seconds left: you're on the
8:38 pm | 2nd period, 6-2 Canadaâs Corey Perry scores on 3 Canada. have this on in the first place. power play, puck's being
Canada | by Reed Albergotti the pass from Eric Staal, making 8:49 pm | 2nd period, 7-3 Isn't there a high-school dance or OLYMPIC page 65
This is fun to watch. Russia has it 7-2 Canada. Who could have Canada | by Adam Thompson something they could televise
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dropped in Canada's zone. Pull defenseman but the Canadian 9:24 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 The jumbo-mumbo thingamajig 9:35 pm | 3rd period, 7-3
the goalie? brass figured they wanted more Canada | by Ian Johnson at center ice that dominates our Canada | by Ian Johnson
9:01 pm | 2nd period, 7-3 pairings, like Chicago's Duncan Two minutes in and Eric Staal experience here at the arena is But seriously, I'm not sure I buy
Canada | by Adam Thompson Keith and Brent Seabrook. is injured racing in to grab a showing the goals and Nabokov Ovechkin being such a physical
I'm so bummed for the 9:09 pm | 2nd intermission, 7-3 loose puck. He was in a foot race really looked weak on several of player. He makes spectacular
Russians. I don't have a horse in Canada | by Ian Johnson with Anton Volchenkov, a shut- them. He's been a good regular- hits when he sees someone
this race, but you never want to As we continue in the second- down defenseman with the season goalie for the Sharks but vulnerable -- like Jagr a few
see a team go out like this. If I period break, you have to think Ottaawa Senators. It seemed like hasn't won much in the playoffs games ago. But a truly physical
could, I'd buy the entire country it'll be tough for Russia. If they'd Volchenkov hit Staal but it was and looked like he basically player doesn't headhunt. He is a
a shot. Hell, make it a double. scored on that power play, it fair and Staal slammed into the choked. thrilling player but when he's
9:02 pm | End od 2nd period, 7- would have been only a three- boards. He got up under his own 9:30 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 off, he's invisible.
3 Canada | by Reed Albergotti goal game and a quick strike at power and is on the bench. Canada | by Ian Johnson 9:36 pm | 3rd period, 7-3
Canada is up 7-3 going into the the start of the third would have That's good for Canada because Lackluster power play by Canada | by Adam Thompson
third period, and the mighty put them in position for a he's been a big help to Sidney Canada and Russia is at full Counterpoint on Ovechkin: I
Russian Federation has been comeback. Now, it's still a four- Crosby as his winger. strength. They're more interested know he hasn't done it alone, but
reduced to a group of kids goal game and barring a 9:25 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 in hammering the Russians how quickly have the Caps risen
playing pond hockey. Ovechkin complete meltdown, I can't see Canada | by Ian Johnson physically, it looks like. since he landed in the District?
looks like he's bored and wants Russia scoring four times in the 17:59 to go and Russia does get 9:31 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 9:39 pm | 3rd period, 7-3
to go home. Hmmm, maybe third. But stranger things have a penalty, but to Gonchar for Canada | by Adam Thompson Canada | by Adam Thompson
someone did poison his food. happened in ice hockey... hooking. Unless they score short This is death. With under 12 Now it looks like Ovechkin
9:05 pm | 2nd intermission, 7-3 9:17 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 -handed, that eats another two minutes left, you'd have to think may have hurt his hand during
Canada | by Editor Canada | by Adam Thompson minutes off the clock. the cavalry would've come by garbage time. Leonsis no longer
While we're between periods, A lot of long faces at Sochi 9:25 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 now for the Russians if it were smiling.
enjoy our live blog of the U.S.'s World. An observer just got a Canada | by Ian Johnson coming at all. 9:40 pm | 3rd period, 7-3
2-0 win over Switzerland. text from Russia, where it's Payback time: Jarome Iginla, 9:34 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 Canada | by Ian Johnson
9:07 pm | 2nd intermission, 7-3 about 5 a.m. I asked her what it after hitting the post during the Canada | by Ian Johnson He's a great, player, don't get
Canada | by Ian Johnson said. She pointed both index power play, slams Volchenkov Some hockey writers have me wrong. But a winger can
Here's a non-definitive factoid: fingers at her temples and said, into the boards. Ouch. No accused the Canadians of only do so much. You build a
Russia's 23 players are from 18 "They want to shoot penalty. playing too physically and winning team from the goal out,
different teams, while Canada's themselves." 9:26 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 finishing their checks too much. to the defense and through
are from 14. That's allowed 9:19 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 Canada | by Ian Johnson But the upside is on display. center. You don't build from the
Canada to build complete lines Canada | by Ian Johnson 16 minutes left in the third and a Pavel Datsyuk was hammered a wings.
and defense pairings, improving And we're starting the third good penalty kill by Russia. minute ago while trying to make 9:42 pm | 3rd period, 7-3
cohesion -- a big problem for period with Russia still on the Bryzgalov looked sharp on a few a play, coughed up the puck and Canada | by Ian Johnson
Russia tonight. I think it reflects power play. So far Canada has shots (except Iginla's post). Canada was back on the attack. I Here's extending a hand to the
the fact that Canada has more had two easy clears with 30 9:27 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 don't think it's for nothing that ice-dancing folks: time out and
depth at various positions, so the seconds left in the penalty. Canada | by Adam Thompson coaches have said over the the jumbotron shows Canada's
management could forego a 9:19 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 Another too many men on the decades that you play the man, gold-medalists in ice dancing to
player at one position for Canada | by Ian Johnson ice penalty? The Russians have not the puck and so on. roars of approval. See, we
another who had a linemate the Teams are at full strength with to feel like there have been about 9:34 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 hockey fans can be nice to you
team wanted. That's why, for 18:36 left in the period. It's still nine Canadians on the ice since Canada | by Ian Johnson ice dancers.
example, the Capitals' Mike 7-3 for Canada so Russia's hope the first drop of the puck. Canadian fans are taunting 9:43 pm | 3rd period, 7-3
Green was left off -- he's only of a quick strike early on has 9:29 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 Ovechkin with "Ovie Ovie." OLYMPIC page 68
the league's top-scoring faded. Canada | by Ian Johnson This might just rile him up...
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Associated Press go for naught. U.S. general puck sneaked past his pad and was a near goal the U.S. thought much of an attack. The
(ESPN.com) manager Brian Burke said he inside the left post 2:08 into the it scored to break the deadlock Americans' best scoring chances
Submitted at 2/24/2010 11:24:25 PM wasn't happy with his team's third. The goal came 12 seconds with less than one second left in came at even strength, but when
play through the preliminary into a power play. the middle period. they wound up for drives in
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V A N C O U V E R , B r i t i s h Their challenge came from the these games against Switzerland, and deflected it off his shoulder time, even in the NHL,"
Columbia -- The longer it went, lightly regarded Swiss and not including a tournament-opening before it fell behind him. defenseman Tim Gleason said.
the tighter the Americans got. from tournament favorites 3-1 victory last Tuesday. The puck tantalizingly slid onto "Guys are laying down left and
They clanged shots off the post, Canada, Russia or defending Switzerland seemed to tire as the goal line and toward the net right. That's good to see and you
then the crossbar. A wrist shot Olympic champion Sweden. the game wore on. The upstarts, as the clock struck 0.0. A video hope they get right back up.
early in the game by Phil Kessel "I thought after the first two or who forced Canada to a shootout replay confirming no goal sent Guys are getting their nose dirty,
that looked like a bad omen hit three games I could play better. I in the prelims, reached the the pro-Swiss crowd into and that's what wins
both. Everything else the U.S. knew I would," said Parise, who quarters with another tiebreaker jubilation as the teams headed to championships and medals."
hockey team threw on net had no goals and three assists in win over Belarus on Tuesday. the dressing rooms. The Swiss were content to clog
Wednesday, Swiss goalie Jonas the opening three games. "It's Switzerland was forced to play "I thought I scored," Kesler said the middle and contest every
Hiller smothered. always nice to get rewarded. I past regulation in its previous "I thought it was in and we were pass and each puck carrier as he
But Zach Parise put all that just kept wanting to keep three games. going into the locker room up 1- tried to get into the offensive
frustration aside, deflecting a shooting." Despite only two regular NHL 0 but apparently the time ran out zone. Bobby Ryan rushed
wrist shot from Brian Rafalski Burnside: Moving On players, the Swiss were gallant and I wasn't lucky enough. I toward the blue line before being
early in the third period. He then Team USA fields one of the in longtime coach Ralph knew there wasn't much time left upended with a hip check by
scored into an empty net to seal youngest, most inexperienced Krueger's last Olympics. and I just tried to throw it on net Mathias Seger that flipped him
a 2-0 quarterfinal win that sends teams in the field. But against Switzerland finished sixth four to generate a rebound and it with 5:15 left in the second.
the U.S. to Friday's semifinals the Swiss on Wednesday, they years ago in the Turin Games happened to find the back of the "We waited and waited and
against Finland, which beat the proved they have the patience and was looking for its best net a half-second too late." waited, and I guess we waited
Czech Republic 2-0. and chemistry of an elite team, showing in Canada. A wild sequence in the third had them out," Gleason said. "We
"The goalie was great and we writes Scott Burnside. Story "We had high expectations," the both teams believing they had got a little antsy ... you want to
did a good job of sticking with • LeBrun: Calling All Scorers teary-eyed Hiller said, his voice scored. do it yourself and you get
it. We were pretty confident and In front of a full crowd that cracking. "We knew we had a At 3:40, Sandy Jeannin sent a frustrated."
said just keep putting pucks at traded chants for each team, solid team and we can upset wide-angled shot that appeared The only thing that got into
him," said Parise, who failed to Hiller gave the Swiss a chance to some of the big ones and that's to beat Miller inside the right either net in the opening two
score on his first 13 shots of the pull off the upset by making 42 what we tried to do. I wish we post. The red light came on, but periods was Dustin Brown's
tournament. saves. He had stymied Parise could have upset them a little play continued. Before the next stick that was stuck in the back
Ryan Miller made 19 saves to several times earlier, but couldn't more. whistle, Ryan Suter fired a shot of the Swiss goal.
backstop the victory and move keep the New Jersey Devils star "It's always tough to lose, but past Hiller. That goal was Switzerland generated only
the Americans within two wins down all the way. losing in the quarterfinals in the disallowed because of a high- eight shots on Miller through 40
of their first men's hockey gold Parise, the top-line forward who Olympics and being that close, it sticking penalty against minutes while allowing 32.
medal in 30 years. struck posts with two other definitely hurts. I am quite teammate Ryan Kesler. Hiller kept the Swiss in the game
For a while, though, there was a shots, got a stick on Rafalski's disappointed right now." Even with the benefit of three during the first period when the
chance their stirring 5-3 win shot and bounced it off the mask Until Parise scored, the power plays in the second
over Canada on Sunday might and arm of Hiller before the signature moment in this one period, the U.S. couldn't forge PARISE'S page 67
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Canada | by Ian Johnson 9:51 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 Thompson


Ovechkin took a wrist shot from Canada | by Ian Johnson Heard one last, sarcastic "Go,
Toews in the .. wrist. That's 2:43 left and the bad blood is Canada, go" with a Russian
gotta hurt. there. Boyle (without the puck) accent. Da svedanya.
9:44 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 was hammered behind the play 9:56 pm | Postgame | by Ian
Canada | by Ian Johnson by Semin and then tapped in in Johnson
Russia is playing for pride now the chest with a "hey, wtf" look. The Russian fans and media
and it's working. With 5:23 left, Semin then fell down. Refs here in Vancouver look shell-
their sustained pressure caused weren't fooled with the eurodive shocked. Unbelievable that such
Pronger to take a holding and Semin's in the bin. a collection of talent could go
penalty. 9:52 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 down so easily. Maybe it just
9:44 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 Canada | by Ian Johnson goes to show the oldest of sports
Canada | by Adam Thompson
I'll sum up this game for Russia
in five words: Someone spit in
Ooops, I guess they were and in
hindsight, rightly so. Boyle
hauled down Semin and both are
truisms: defense wins games and
championships. None of the big
teams has looked so shaky on
Team Canada Gets Its
the borscht.
9:45 pm | 3rd period, 7-3
sitting. 4-4 hockey.
9:52 pm | 3rd period, 7-3
defense as the Russians had and
they paid for it.
Groove Back
Canada | by Ian Johnson Canada | by Adam Thompson Canadian team raises sticks to Kevin Blackistone (FanHouse teammate Jarome Iginla, who
Bad news for Russia: Luongo Sweden and Slovakia: think salute the crowd. Main) was leading their Olympic effort
has been sharp. He just denied their fans are still watching this Two more games on tap tonight: Submitted at 2/24/2010 4:10:00 PM in scoring, didn't put the puck in
Malkin on a breakaway with or just hiding under the covers? Slovakia-Sweden (the winner the net, either.
4:14 left. 51 seconds left on the 9:53 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 plays Canada) and Czech- Filed under: USA, Ice Hockey, Neither did their teammates
Russian power play. Canada | by Ian Johnson Finland, with the winner playing Canada, Russian Federation Patrick Marleau, the NHL's third
9:46 pm | 3rd period, 7-3 Last minute of play. Crowd is Team USA. We'll post those V A N C O U V E R , B r i t i s h leading scorer, nor Dany
Canada | by Ian Johnson acting like Canada won results when we know them. Columbia -- All of a sudden, last Heatley, the league's sixth
Ovechkin is out on the power something. From Vancouver, I'm signing Sunday seems like it happened leading scorer.
play but Luongo is really sharp. 9:54 pm | Final, 7-3 Canada | by off. l a s t s u m m e r , o r t h e l a s t And still Team Canada turned
But he doesn't seem engaged. He Ian Johnson millennium. I recall something what was supposed to be an epic
just passed up a chance to hit a It's over. 7-3 Canada. about the U.S. men's Olympic battle with their nemesis Russia,
player with the puck. 9:55 pm | Postgame | by Adam hockey team beating the gold- the other gold-medal game
medal game favorite Canadians favorite, into a mere historical
Euro tumbles amid flight to havens in the Vancouver Winter Games, footnote of a mismatch, 7-3, to
but the details have all but faded. advance to the medal-round of
(Financial Times - US markets triggered a fresh bout of was pushed close to eight-month I'm actually starting to wonder if this tournament.
homepage) nerves among investors on highs as poorly-received US it even happened no more than That came on the heels of an 8-
Submitted at 2/25/2010 6:22:58 AM Thursday, after the euro tumbled j o b s d a t a a d d e d t o t h e four days ago. 2 thrashing Canada administered
to a one-year low against the uncertainty Because all I can remember on Tuesday to overmatched
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the NHL lead in goals, didn't U.S.
score for Team Canada. His
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The Count: Nets’ Quest for 10 Wins


(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) remaining game. SRS takes into
Submitted at 2/24/2010 2:48:06 PM account a team’s results and its
schedule. As a predictive
The New Jersey Nets are giving mechanism, it incorporates home
fans of Fred Carter, Leroy Ellis -court advantage, such that when
and other members of the two teams of equal quality meet,
immortal 1972-73 Philadelphia the home team has a 65% chance
76ers hope. On Tuesday the of winning. The Nets, naturally
Nets dropped their 52nd game in the record. rank dead last in the league in
57 tries this season, losing at There are reasons to think the SRS, and so their highest
home to Portland, 102-93. At Nets can grant his wish and probability of winning any
their current pace, the Nets will avoid infamy by at least tying individual remaining game isn’t
finish with seven wins, or two those woeful 76ers’ win total. very high — a mere 39% when
fewer than the nine put up by The Nets’ wins have come hosting the Detroit Pistons next
Canada Routs Russia,
those 76ers, against 73 losses, in against four teams, and they’ll month. But add up all their
the worst 82-game finish in play three of them— fellow remaining win probabilities, and
NBA history (and two fewer E a s t e r n C o n f e r e n c e c l u b s the total is 4.04, which would be
Surging Into Semis
FanHouse Newswire size to open leads of 3-0 and 4-1
than the Nets’ Jersey neighbors, C h i c a g o , N e w Y o r k a n d just enough to tie the Sixers’ win (FanHouse Main) in the first period and 6-1 early
the Jets, won in a 16-game Charlotte — again a total of four total. in the second period, and the
Submitted at 2/24/2010 2:30:00 PM
schedule last fall). Getty Images times. Sweep those four games, The schedule, though, doesn’t unexpected rout was on.
Keyon Dooling and the Nets and the Nets can drop their other particularly help the Nets. Eight Filed under: Ice Hockey, The resurgent Canadians meet
have a fighter’s chance at double 21 and still finish with just 73 of their last 10 games are against Canada, Russian Federation the Sweden-Slovakia winner in
-digit wins. losses. teams currently in the thick of V A N C O U V E R , B r i t i s h Friday's semifinals. If they
This year’s Philly team has Past results are no guarantee of playoff races, rather than those Columbia (AP) -- A dominating advance, they might face the
done its part, sweeping their first future performance in the NBA. at the very bottom or top of the Canada ended 50 years of United States in a rematch of the
three games against New Jersey But a more detailed analysis league who might not have Olympic hockey frustration 5-3 loss on Sunday.
despite winning barely a third of suggests that the Nets should be much left to play for at season’s against Russia. That disappointment marked
the rest of their contests — able to scrape together about end. New Jersey will have to The Canadians got a goal and their first Olympic loss to the
though Carter, Philly’s leading four wins. I used Basketball work hard to avoid ignominy. two assists from Dan Boyle U.S. since 1960; the punishing
scorer in 1972-73, has indicated Reference’s Simple Rating during a take-charge first period win over Russia was their first
to the current coaching staff that System to compute New Jersey’s to beat the world champions 7-3 since the same tournament in
he wouldn’t mind holding on to probability of winning each Wednesday and surge into the Squaw Valley and only the
Olympic semifinals. second in 11 Olympic games
A superpower showdown - one against the Russians or Soviets.
that may have been better suited Long before it was over, fans
for the gold-medal game than began chanting, "We Want
the quarterfinals - quickly Sweden," just as they had asked
became a super letdown. for Russia the day before. After
T h e p h y s i c a l , f o c u s e d that, it was "We want gold."
Canadians took advantage of On this day, Canada got all it
terrible goaltending by Evgeni wanted.
Nabokov and superior depth and
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China postpones
As Canada Rematch Looms, Team USA Keeps Its military exchanges
Cool with US
(Financial Times - US
Jay Mariotti (FanHouse Main)
homepage)
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rooted for the Swiss, not high-level military exchanges
realizing how silly they sounded. with the US, in the first tangible
In goal, Jonas (The Thriller) sign of retaliation over
Hiller was stoning the Washington’s decision to sell
Americans, stopping their first $6.4bn in arms to Taiwan.
34 shots and getting a break “China has decided to suspend
when a puck that deflected off arrangements for some planned
his blocker and shoulder and mutual visits between the US
into the Swiss net -- yes, the man and the Chinese military,” a
scored on himself -- was waved Chinese military spokesman said
off after a replay showed time on Thursday.
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interest now, and we have to y o u t h f u l s i d e w i t h n o Gleason said. "We waited and
hockey in the U.S., meaning
deflect that. We still have a lot p a r t i c u l a r l y v o c a l o r waited and waited them out. We
pretty much everybody,
of work ahead of us." demonstrative presence in the were getting a little antsy."
suddenly are demanding time
What should impress the locker room, it would have been "It's frustrating to put so many
from the players.
homeland about this team, even easy to wobble Wednesday as shots on net and not get one past
The point being: There's plenty
as the dopes at NBC continued S w i t z e r l a n d p l a y e d a him,'' forward Patrick Kane said.
to distract the new American
to tinker with tape delay and conservative dump-and-chase "And then to have two called
idols, the rage of a nation, if
back-channel placement, is its game and depended on Hiller, back where I would have had a
their minds are so inclined to
poise and equilibrium. With one the mightiest of the NHL Mighty couple of assists."
wander.
monumental win over Canada, D u c k s , t o t u r n b a c k t h e
"We've been trying to temper all
Team USA transformed from a A m e r i c a n o n s l a u g h t .
that," Ryan Miller said. "I'm still
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Ladies’ Aerials: Last Big Chance for


Australia
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) overall World Cup standings last
Submitted at 2/24/2010 7:17:55 PM year.
Four of the finalists are
The finals in ladies’ aerials Chinese, however, and during
tonight is very likely Australia’s qualifying runs they posted three
last chance to meet its goal of of the top four performances.
winning three medals in a There is talk, in fact, of a
Winter Olympics, something the possible Chinese sweep of the
nation has never done. podium.
Australia, a Summer Olympics By contrast, the three Australian
powerhouse, entered the 2010
Games having won six Winter
finalists are ranked in the bottom
four of the 12 finalists, based on
Nintendo: WarioWare D.I.Y.
Medals in history, according to
Barry White, spokesman for the
their qualifying runs. Rank getting two DLC microgames
matters in the finals because
Olympic Winter Institute of skiing last a luxury afforded the weekly, famous devs contributing
Australia, an organization highest-ranked is a distinct Randy Nelson (Joystiq) we jotted down is rounded out
formed after the Nagano Games advantage, since the aerialist
of 1998 to strengthen the knows what score she has to Submitted at 2/25/2010 6:00:00 AM by word of contests Nintendo is
countrys winter program. Getty planning to hold, in which
As it has turned out, however, beat.
Images Lydia Lassila Meeting with Nintendo reps specific microgame themes will
Vancouver has held a few In aerials skiing, athletes ski off
Since 1998, Australia has yesterday to check out the be presented to the D.I.Y.
disappointments for Australia, ramps known as kickers, and are
averaged two medals per Winter interoperability between community, it'll take
most notably the early exit in scored by judges based on
Games, which is exactly how WarioWare D.I.Y. for DS and submissions (for, say, a game
snowboard cross of Australian takeoff (20% of score), form in
many it has won so far in WarioWare D.I.Y. Showcase for based on your favorite food) and
Alex Pullin, who had posted the the air (50%) and landing (30%).
Vancouver. But the nation had WiiWare, we were informed that the best of the best will then be
fastest times in qualifying runs. Aerialists reach greater heights
hoped to jump to three in the publisher itself will be chosen and distributed by the
In tonights ladies aerials finals t h a n a n y o t h e r W i n t e r
Vancouver, especially given the making two original games Big N. Got that notebook full of
starting at 10:30 p.m. eastern O l y m p i a n s , a c c o r d i n g t o
improved performance of its available for download each (tiny) game ideas handy?
time three of the 12 finalists are O l y m p i c e x p e r t D a v i d
skiers and skaters on world week after the titles launch at the Gallery: WarioWare: D.I.Y.
Australian, including Lydia W a l l e c h i n s k y .
circuits. end of March. Not only that, but Showcase (WiiWare)
Lassila, who ranked first in
there are plans to distribute Nintendo: WarioWare D.I.Y.
D.I.Y. microgames created by getting two DLC microgames
"famous" game developers in the weekly, famous devs
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From Woe Canada, to Oh Canada:


Celebrating Delightful Games
Lisa Olson (FanHouse Main) has been, as far as Olympics go,
Submitted at 2/24/2010 4:00:00 PM a relatively minor
inconvenience. Some, like the
Filed under: Canada ugly chain link fence concealing
VANCOUVER, British the Cauldron and the vomiting
Columbia -- I come to praise the ice-resurfacing machine at the
Games. No, really, close your speed skating, were easily fixed.
dropped jaw and wipe the Others, like the disastrous heavy
skepticism off your face. While rains on Cypress Mountain that
the 2010 Winter Olympics forced organizers to cancel about
certainly won't be remembered
as the best ever, they've
rebounded from a dreadful start
20,000 standing room tickets
and the dense fog shrouding the
Whistler slopes, couldn't be
Mario, Metroid, Sin and
and have cleaned up rather
nicely as we careen down the
There were legitimate issues, to
be sure. The training run
helped. (Not even Wayne
Gretzky can direct dial the
Punishment, more dated
final stretch. accident that killed the young
Good luck finding a single soul
in the mad crush of crowds
Georgian luger Nodar
Kumaritashvili on the eve of the
weather gods). Those who chose
to slam the Opening Ceremonies
because of -- quelle honte!-- a
in Europe
Games will always be the JC Fletcher (Joystiq) It's due June 27 in North
who'll say anything derogatory dysfunctional torch or the failure
about these Games. In the end, heartbreaking prelude to to properly honor Canada's Submitted at 2/25/2010 10:00:00 AM America. We've collected all the
it's the fans' opinions that matter Vancouver's narrative. The French culture ought to send European release dates for Wii
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and Olympic officials who spent far from over; until they are it is Australian who choreographed those of you in Europe interested date for Dragon Quest IX!) after
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on air and in print, over fault and blame. and Sin and Punishment: Star [Via Eurogamer]
problems large and small. But most every other problem Successor. Nintendo announced Continue reading Mario,
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Europe on June 11, not long more dated in Europe
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And Sin and Punishment will be Punishment, more dated in
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Burberry brought London


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yesterday with a powerful

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filled with got-to-have-it
looks—the jackets and boots
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Christopher Kane's bad girl with and Mia Wasikowska sitting
example, it meant the chance to
honour those (heroes or victims,
than Balts fought on Hitler's
side) become irrelevant.
The end of
a twist, Richard Nicoll's killer front row at Burberry yesterday
bustier look, plus-size model Runway photos: Imaxtree
but not villains) who fought
against the impending Soviet
Slovaks and Croats want to de-
demonise their wartime
history, revisited
(The Economist: Daily
Crystal Renn walking in Mark Front row photo: Getty Images occupation in 1944-45. Yet republics (Nazi puppet states columns)
Fast's show, and the first look Follow ELLE on Twitter. many outsiders see these men as from one viewpoint, a snatched
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Google defends search rankings leaving their pasts behind
Feb 25th 2010 | From The
(Financial Times - US quality and more relevant result pages individually. must then decide whether to Economist online
homepage) than a system that involved But the blog gave no additional open a formal investigation into WHERE would they be without
Submitted at 2/25/2010 4:47:17 AM human intervention. information about how the Google’s conduct – a move t h e i r p a s t , t h e e x - c a p t i v e
“Other search engines approach a l g o r i t h m a c t u a l l y w o r k s , which could allow other third nations? (Or "ex-communist
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By Nikki Tait in Brussels which relies heavily on an Google is likely to remain on issue formal charges against the between the Baltic and the Black
Published: February 25 2010 i n d i v i d u a l ’ s t a s t e s a n d the defensive as competition company. Sea is so shaped by history that
12:47 | Last updated: February preferences, just doesn’t produce regulators at the European Copyright The Financial Times at first sight the question seems
25 2010 12:47 the quality and relevant ranking Commission examine the three Limited 2010. You may share absurd. Trianon, Yalta, Molotov
Google on Thursday morning that our algorithms do,” he c o m p l a i n t s r e c e i v e d f r o m using our article tools. Please - R i b b e n t r o p , M u n i c h — t h e
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system, claimed the company’s l o u s y ” w a s t o a d j u s t t h e expected to response in the next of history, and writing new ones.
algorithms produced a better algorithm rather than rearrange few weeks. The commission That has been an exhilarating,
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from the shadows (and from Sweden, or that Finland used to Hungarians' real animosity is
SEC Short Ban:
abroad), with their own unhappy
memories that undermine the
be a Grand Duchy of tsarist
Russia?
directed towards the Austrians,
who have (they feel) betrayed “Regulation By
self-righteousness of both Now central and eastern Europe them by selling shares in MOL,
Communist and ethno-
nationalist versions of history.
may be joining the club of the
ahistorical and apathetic.
the Hungarian energy company,
to Russians against their will.
Placebo”
Yet re-examining taboos is a Historical rows are already the The historically difficult Barry Ritholtz (The Big traders could only execute short
self-limiting process: you run exception, not the rule. Poland is relationships with Serbia, Picture) sales for the stock at a price
out of them after a bit. And the signal example. In recent Romania and Ukraine, all home Submitted at 2/25/2010 6:15:36 AM above the market’s best bid. The
historical inquiry inevitably bogs years it has successfully pursued to Magyar minorities, look curb stays in place through the
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you may spend your evenings squabble with Lithuania about sustainable. Change is in the bear market, we have this recent Jesse Westbrook
examining the interplay between spelling. The recent ripple of wind. Power is up for grabs. SEC action: Bloomberg Feb. 24 2010
the Munich agreement (when protest in Poland when Ukraine's And it is more fun than history. “The Securities and Exchange
Britain and France betrayed outgoing president, Viktor Readers' comments Commission narrowly approved http://www.bloomberg.com/apps
Czechoslovakia) and the Yushchenko, made the wartime The Economist welcomes your curbs on short selling, /news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a
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Rating agencies Durable Goods rock but


threatening punishment only if you make planes
Peter Boockvar (The Big Greece 5 yr CDS is trading Peter Boockvar (The Big which get directly plugged into
Picture) around 390 bps, now up 40 bps Picture) GDP, fell .2%. The core cap ex
Submitted at 2/25/2010 7:21:44 AM in the past 3 days and Greek Submitted at 2/25/2010 7:30:02 AM figure, non defense capital goods
stocks are down almost 2%. ex aircraft, fell by a
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yesterday in warning Greece that unemployment rose by 7k vs the expectations at the headline lowest since Sept ‘08. Bottom (Yahoo! News Search Results
a downgrade or 2 may be consensus gain of 16k. Bernanke level, up by 3% but ex transports line, manufacturing has led the for e-readers)
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The Greek 10 yr yield is higher Term Extraction. on the core was a 9.7% fall in Term Extraction. NEWS page 77
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Bloom Energy Launch at eBay


info@greentechmedia.com cell the gas is fed to the anode electricity is emitted as heat, basic knowledge about the conjecture in Greentech Media’s
(Greentech Media: Headlines) side in it’s pure form, no which can be used to self-sustain technology. I find it latest article title “Is Bloom
Submitted at 2/24/2010 11:54:11 AM oxygen. On the cathode side, the temperature of the fuel cell. disconcerting that someone with Energy’s Secret Ingredient
oxygen is ionized, which in its In combustion, the ONLY such a public opinion seems to Zirconia?” (although I did enjoy
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present. In a solid oxide fuel energy that isn’t captured as tends to be a general lack of the ridiculousness of the
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around-the-Web tech Architect Community launched terrorism ruling could affect Hospitals retain pricing power Intel; Oracle; Vizio; e-readers;
coverage: Sam Diaz: Google Bloom Energy unveils the how you use Gmail, Twitter and even in bad times Adrian IE6 (02-25)
execs wrongly convicted by Bloom Box Adrian Kingsley- Facebook Jason D. O'Grady: Kingsley-Hughes: How to stop • Bloom Energy unveils the
Italian court over an uploaded Hughes: Open source "weakens iPhone SDK references camera, the 'Chuck Norris' botnet Bloom Box(02-24)
video the software industry and f l a s h , z o o m a n d v i d e o roundhouse-kicking your router • Salesforce earnings: Strong
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people group Heather Clancy: Is the Customer Carebot Heather King: HP announces 3.0 Porn gets no tech respect.(02-24)
• Tom Foremski: Italian federal government setting the Clancy: Things of signs to software upgrade for • Google execs wrongly
conviction of Google execs right example in data center come: New LED street light MediaSmart EX470 and EX480 convicted by Italian court over
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to provide sales stats? Twitter: Becoming nothing Christopher Dawson: A little Windows Phone 7 get Microsoft
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Gallup: Economic Confidence Steady in Recent Weeks


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PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's
Economic Confidence Index
stands at -27 for the week ending
Feb. 21, on par with the previous
week's -28. The trend, based on
roughly 3,500 interviews each
week, clearly shows that
consumer attitudes have been
steady thus far in February, as
well as for the past six weeks.
The most recent decline in
confidence was recorded in mid-
January, and followed a modest
post-Christmas bounce that
Gallup first detected in late
December.
The Gallup Economic
Confidence Index is based on
Americans' answers to two
questions -- one asking about
current economic conditions in
the country and the other about
the direction of the economy.
Both components of the index sample of approximately 3,500 Index weekly trend highlights a helping to drive the Dow Jones gauge of consumer attitudes at
have been highly stable in recent U.S. adults per week, and thus significant timing issue inherent Industrial Average down more the beginning of each month.
weeks. However, in late provide highly reliable estimates in The Conference Board's than 100 points by the close of Thus, The Conference Board's
December and early January of consumer views. recent release, which stated, markets. finding of a drop in consumer
there was an uptick in consumer Conference Board Release "Consumer Confidence, which The Conference Board data are confidence in February in reality
optimism about the economy's Behind the Curve"As the Gallup had been improving over the based on mail surveys received describes a decline that
direction, resulting in the slight trend suggests, the souring of past few months, declined in the first half of each month, happened between early January
improvement to the overall consumer attitudes that The sharply in February." That report meaning most of those surveys and early February. Conference
index at those points. Conference Board detected with -- showing a drop in consumer are likely filled out by Board preliminary numbers are
Gallup's weekly findings are its early February reading most confidence from 56.5 in January respondents in the first 10 days not reported until late in a given
based on aggregated results of likely set in around mid- to 46.0 in February -- is widely of the month. As a result, The month.
Gallup Daily tracking interviews January." credited with rattling the nation's Conference Board's Consumer
with a nationally representative Gallup's Economic Confidence equity markets on Tuesday, Confidence Index is largely a GALLUP: page 79
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As the Gallup trend suggests, 2007, and has fallen well below associated margins of error Gallup interviews approximately
the souring of consumer 0, the neutral Index point, for the around a mail panel survey of its 1,000 national adults, aged 18
attitudes that The Conference past two years. However, the -27 kind, the current reading is and older, each day. The Gallup
Board detected with its early figure for Feb. 15-21 is not essentially the same as the Economic Index is based on
February reading most likely set much different from the values October (48.7) and July 2009 random half-samples of
in around mid-January. The Gallup recorded in the last (47.4) readings. approximately 500 national
February finding looks quarter of 2009. Bottom Line adults, aged 18 and older, each
particularly dramatic in When one focuses just on On the whole, American day. Weekly results are based on
comparison with the slightly Gallup's Economic Confidence consumers are more negative telephone interviews with
elevated level of consumer Index for the first full week of than positive about the U.S. approximately 3,500 adults. For
confidence that The Conference each month (the week most economy -- both in their these results, one can say with
Board found in early January. comparable to The Conference assessments of current 95% confidence that the
Gallup data, however, show that Board's field schedule), the conditions and their outlook for maximum margin of sampling
current confidence levels are results tend to track The whether things are improving or error is ±2 percentage points.
generally no more negative than Conference Board's monthly getting worse. While Americans Interviews are conducted with
they have been for much of the Consumer Confidence Index are now slightly more negative respondents on land-line
last six months. (This insight has closely. Gallup's ability to than they were at the start of the telephones and cellular phones.
been widely available on monitor attitudes on a year, this shift occurred roughly In addition to sampling error,
Gallup.com in near-"real time," continuous basis throughout the five weeks ago, in mid-January. question wording and practical
both on a weekly basis and in month, however, provides a Since then, Gallup's Daily difficulties in conducting
Gallup's daily reporting of much more complete tracking shows that consumer surveys can introduce error or
continuous three-day rolling understanding of how American attitudes have been highly bias into the findings of public
averages. consumers are feeling about the stable. opinion polls.
The fact that Gallup's data show national economy and its More broadly, the good news is Five Filters featured article:
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attitudes at present are positive of each month. are in fact substantially less
or that they haven't shown some While The Conference Board's negative than they were a year
decline since the beginning of 46.0 reading this month is ago at this time, and for most of
the year. Gallup's Economic technically the lowest seen since 2008.
Confidence Index has been in April 2009 (when it was 40.8), Survey Methods
negative territory since March given the likely sample size and For Gallup Daily tracking,
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Bloom vs. Solar: Which One is Best?


info@greentechmedia.com Bloom, however, doesn't scale This price includes service, ago, the same box that now replacement at this pace is
(Greentech Media: Headlines) down yet. It sells its 25 kilowatt maintenance, gas and all of the produces 25 kilowatts of power contemplated in the 9 to 10 cents
Submitted at 2/24/2010 2:47:32 PM boxes four units at a time. Home other costs associated with only produced 5 kilowatts. Scott a kilowatt hour price. If
and small businesses need not running it. Commercial solar Sandell, a Bloom board member replacement occurs at a faster
Message from fivefilters.org: If apply just yet. Solar systems installations in California, when and a partner at NEA, said the rate, it could throw off the costs.
you can, please donate to the full span the kilowatt and megawatt incentives and external costs are costs for Bloom have gone down Warranty. Solar systems have
-text RSS service so we can range. Ergo, when it comes to added, generate power for 25x in just a few years. warranties that last 20 years or
continue developing it. financing and flexibility, solar around 10 cents a kilowatt hour, Bloom, therefore, may have an more. Bloom currently offers a
Bloom Energy today formally wins for now. according to Shayle Kann at advantage, because costs always 10-year warranty. That
unveiled its energy server, an Can fuel cells scale down? Yes. GTM Research. Residential drop the fastest in the beginning. discrepancy will definitely raise
industrial solid oxide fuel cell Panasonic started selling home solar generates power for around On the other hand, Bloom is eyebrows.
that can convert natural gas or fuel cells in Japan last year that 19 cents a kilowatt hour and outnumbered. Thousands of Testing and certification. Solar
other hydrocarbons into generate around 1 kilowatt, not utility-scale solar costs around engineers in various segments of and wind both have an
electricity pretty much on enough to power a complete 11 cents a kilowatt hour. Cutting the solar industry are working on advantage here. Underwriters'
demand. household, for $30,000 before -edge wind turbines can generate dropping those costs. Do you Laboratory and hundreds of
And in the process, the incentives, or $15,000 if you power for costs five cents a believe in individual genius or utilities have tested and tinkered
company has ignited a debate factored in U.S./California kilowatt hour after incentives, crowdsourcing? That is the with photovoltaic panels and
over which of the alternatives to incentives. ClearEdge Power has according to the American Wind dynamic at play here and this wind turbines for years. Getting
coal, nuclear and centralized a 5 kilowatt fuel cell that costs Energy Association. Kann says will be one of the more a solar field approved mostly
natural gas plants might be best. $56,000 and drops to the that on average, wind costs a interesting races to watch. revolves around obtaining
Can we answer it today? No -- $30,000 to $25,000 range after little less than solar. Maintenance. Solar wins here. financing. Bloom will have to go
one of the pivotal factors will be incentives. (Side note: Bloom's Wind, thus, still wins this Solar panels require a minimum through the proctology exam of
how Bloom's servers (formerly fuel cell produces mostly contest, and solar and Bloom are of maintenance. Dust them utility reliability testing. That
known as Bloom Boxes) electricity and a little heat, while about tied. Bloom server buyers occasionally and wipe off the could take a few years. On the
perform over time. Board heat consists of half or more of will have to contend with snow and you are done. Bloom other hand, if Bloom passes
member Colin Powell said at the the power from the Panasonic fluctuating gas prices: the box servers will be monitored closely these tests well, sales will zoom.
unveiling that the company and ClearEdge fuel cells. does not work if you don't put by their initial buyers. The Carbon emissions. Solar and
doesn't have twenty years of user Electricity is more valuable than gas into it. If methane and servers also contain fans and wind win again. It takes about
data. heat, so for Bloom to be biogas rise in price, so will the other mechanical objects. More four years to work off the carbon
But we can speculate and equivalent in price or less than cost of running the box. Buyers, handholding and repairs seem footprint of a solar panel. The
compare. And here are some of these guys would be a victory however, can likely insulate inevitable. Bloom server continually emits
the key things to keep an eye on. for Bloom.) We're guessing themselves with long-term gas One of the big hurdles that carbon dioxide. The Bloom
Versatility and Up-Front Cost: Bloom is aiming for around contracts. Bloom will have to cross is the server emits about half of the
A 100-kilowatt Bloom server $1,000 a kilowatt, which won't Cost reductions: This is a big reliability of the carbon dioxide that would be
array costs around $700,000 to be easy. Ceres Power in England question mark. Solar and wind ceramic/zirconium plates inside generated if you bought power
$800,000, or $7,500 a kilowatt, will come out with a fuel cell are somewhat mature the fuel cell. These plates, which from a power plant, but it's still
after incentives that cover made in part with diesel technologies. Nonetheless, convert gas to electricity, must carbon dioxide. Consumers can
around 50 percent of the costs. components next year. incremental advancements -- operate in an 800-degree Celsius reduce their carbon footprint by
The company hopes to have Energy costs: CEO and Founder better solar racking, cheaper thin environment without becoming stoking the box with biogas, but
home versions that generate a K.R. Sridhar said the Bloom films, more efficient turbines -- distorted or corrupted. User data biogas remains an exotic
few kilowatts and cost about server will produce power for 9 continue to bring down the cost will be heavily scrutinized. substance. Most of the industrial
$3,000 in ten years, but they to 10 cents per kilowatt hour of both solar and wind. Bloom is Sources say that the plates have
don't exist now. after incentives in California. just starting out. Three years a lifetime of five years: BLOOM page 82
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(Greentech Media: Headlines) unsubsidized grid parity, they is a long way off at this point. between; in future years, it will (Greentech Media: Headlines)
Submitted at 2/25/2010 4:00:10 AM say, profits will shift to "selling First Solar expects its be seen as a short-term reaction Submitted at 2/24/2010 9:37:27 PM
electrons." EPC/systems business to have a to market forces, rather than as a
Message from fivefilters.org: If On the flip side, developing a margin of only 5 to 6 percent in sound long-term strategy. Message from fivefilters.org: If
you can, please donate to the full successful systems business 2010, compared to 40 percent Instead of full-on integration, you can, please donate to the full
-text RSS service so we can involves competing with one's for modules. Its decision to what makes more sense is -text RSS service so we can
continue developing it. customers and straying from the integrate downstream was made developing strong strategic continue developing it.
Persistent oversupply at the c o r e c o m p e t e n c e o f to enable it to penetrate a market relationships with downstream San Jose--Bloom Energy made
module level has led many manufacturing. Developing that it otherwise would not have players. This has already begun its long-anticipated debut today
module manufacturers to projects also requires a been able to -- namely, the U.S. to happen -- ENN Solar, for and while the company didn't
contemplate an entry into completely different skill set utility-scale market -- and until example, inked a partnership share all of the details behind its
b u i l d i n g p l a n t s , p r o j e c t from producing modules; it is recently, it did not place this agreement with U.S. utility Duke so-called energy servers, it did
development, and energy sales. difficult to see a module vendor market against its European to jointly develop commercial give some.
First Solar's proven success in being able to compete with an customers. The answer to the PV projects, and Signet Solar An energy server can provide
building and operating utility- established developer unless natural question -- why bother? - has collaborated with German 100 kilowatts of power by
scale plants over the last two profit margins at the module - lies in First Solar's long-term developer BSC-Solar on project converting natural gas or other
years has also done these desires level are high, in which case it vision to singlehandedly enable development in Europe. Other hydrocarbons into electricity
no harm. would make little sense to parity, a vision that emerging companies that succeed in doing pretty much on demand. A
Downstream integration can branch out of manufacturing in manufacturers can ill afford to so will gain a significant single server is about the size of
have definite benefits: it creates the first place. Traditionally, have. competitive advantage in the an industrial shipping crate,
a sales channel for modules, s u c c e s s f u l d o w n s t r e a m As far as thin film is concerned, marketplace in the years to come consists of four 25 kilowatt
which can protect shipments and integration in PV has taken the First Solar is likely to be an -- never a bad thing in what in a modules, and costs $700,000 to
margins in a highly competitive form of acquisition (First Solar, anomalous case rather than a few months time will re-emerge $800,000. In all, that means
environment. It also enables SunPower), and few thin film trend-setter in this department. as a grossly oversupplied power for 9 to 10 cents after
overall margin expansion, since firms have the balance sheets While there will likely be a push market. incentives in California.
the module producer can capture necessary to do so; the few that from manufacturers to engage in Five Filters featured article: But how does it work inside and
the developer's margin. Those in do are Chinese a-Si companies p l a n t Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: what makes Bloom's better than
favor point to the likelihood of with large corporate parents ( construction/development/operat PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, the fuel cells designed by
modules becoming increasingly Astronergy, ENN Solar, QS ion in 2010, the companies that Term Extraction. others? CEO and founder K.R.
commoditized in the future, Solar). manage to do so successfully Sridhar gave us an explanation
transforming into a low-margin As far as profits shifting from and reap sustainable benefits in the video. The picture shows
two of the internal ceramic
plates.
Sridhar (in the video and earlier
in the day) also explains how
Bloom may enhance the fuel cell
in the future for a push into the
domestic market in about a
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gas sold and shipped in pipelines turbines in many areas generate relatively small company will decade and the enhancement make fuel from sunlight and
in the world comes from wells most of their power at night. have to run fast to stay ahead of represents both a step forward carbon dioxide. Maybe
deep in the ground, not landfills Storage: Advantage Bloom industrial giants or else face and a step back. Carbon dioxide discretion is the better part of
or manure digesters. again. Fuel cells are by their getting acquired. Solar and wind and water are byproducts of the valor here. Besides, if someone
Bloom's patents discuss very nature electricity storage have already gone through this gas-to-electricity reaction. By else, such as BioCee or Sun
converting the waste carbon devices. Power doesn't get made process. Solar and wind adding some additional Catalytix, can crack the carbon
dioxide into a methane-like fuel until gas gets released into the companies again can also license "plumbing" components, the fuel dioxide-to-fuel formula, Bloom
by running the carbon dioxide fuel cell stack. General Electric ideas and leverage partnerships. cell can capture the water, run it may be able to license it.
through the fuel cell and adding and others are trying to build Bloom right now is sort of on its through the fuel cell later and (Another highlight: Sridhar
water. It's a fascinating but sodium or lithium battery packs own. produce hydrogen. Hydrogen confirmed that zirconia, also
extremely challenging idea. to store power at wind and solar Manufacturing footprint: The could then be stored until needed called zirconium dioxide, is a
Effectively, that would be like fields but these are in the solar industry continues to work to power a car or provide key ingredient, confirming our
making energy from experimental stage. off a glut of excess factory electricity to a home. earlier review of the patents.)
Gerolsteiner bubbly mineral Sridhar also mentioned that in capacity. Bloom needs to build The water-to-hydrogen reaction There's an interesting
water and some power. In about ten years, Bloom will add its up. Solar, thus, wins for now, will require additional connection between Bloom and
today's press conference, Sridhar plumbing and other technology but for painful reasons. electricity. Bloom suggests that Hara, the carbon management
downplayed the carbon dioxide- to its servers so that the boxes Although Bloom has raised solar panels can provide this software company. Kleiner
to-fuel idea, which makes it can convert water into hydrogen around $400 million, it will need power. Although the fuel cell Perkins invested in both
sound like the idea might be on for more energy storage. Pulling to raise more to build up factory could do this reaction now, companies and both listed Coca-
the far back burner. Still, Bloom this off will require electricity capacity. As other companies Bloom isn't putting in the Cola as a signature client. In
represents a step forward from an outside source, have found, finding financing components because the market fact, Fortune 500 friends played
compared to power plants. preferably from solar panels. still remains tough. isn't ready, said Sridhar. So an integral part of the launches
Availability: This is Bloom's Don't be surprised to see them Five Filters featured article: having a path to energy storage: of both companies. It gives the
biggest selling point. The box team up with Sun Catalytix, an Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: a step forward. companies credibility. However,
can produce power 24 hours a MIT spin-off with a catalyst for PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, So what is the step back? In if Kleiner relies on the same
day in a completely predictably splitting water. Term Extraction. Bloom's patents, it talks about names too much, it may begin to
fashion. Solar panels only Competition: Bloom will have taking both the carbon dioxide take the sheen off the impact. So
produce during the day and wind to face an array of competitors: and hydrogen, running them look for the big names at the
turbines are only active about 30 General Electric, Siemens, through the fuel cell and next Kleiner launch and cross-
percent of the time. Worse, wind Philips, Areva, you name it. The producing a methane-like fuel. check them with the rest of the
In other words, Bloom-at least portfolio.
for now-doesn't appear to be And finally, here's a video of
looking at recycling carbon the servers themselves:
dioxide for the big architectural Five Filters featured article:
jump into the consumer market Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
ten years from now. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
"It is simpler" to just concentrate Term Extraction.
on hydrogen, Sridhar said.
Recycling carbon dioxide is a
dream of many; it also remains a
thorny scientific challenge.
ARPA-E gave $23.7 miillion in
grants to companies who hope to

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