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Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:25:44 AM
John McCain says he was
misled by former Treasury
Secretary Henry Paulson into
supporting the Wall Street
bailout.
“We were all misled,” the
Arizona Republican told NBC’s
“Meet the Press” over the
weekend.
Misled in what way?
With the economy showing
every sign of burning to the
ground, McCain says Paulson
told Congress the Bush
administration wanted to buy up
toxic mortgages blamed for the
conflagration. But he turned
around and gave the money
directly to Wall Street.
“Whoever thought that we
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would, when we passed that, we
would own General Motors and
Chrysler, GMAC? I mean, it’s
beyond what anyone had
anticipated,” McCain said.
Dick Durbin, a leading Senate
Democrat, confirms part of the
story: Paulson’s initial pitch was
for money to buy up bad
mortgages; then the focus
switched to Wall Street’s
balance sheets.
But Durbin, who like McCain
has been in Congress for 28
years, says it’s difficult to see
that as misleading.
“It’s hard to understand how
John McCain could have been
brainwashed by Hank Paulson,”
the Illinois senator said on
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“The bottom line is, whether we
were buying toxic assets or
cleaning up their balance sheets,
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we were helping big banks and
big insurance companies. We
knew what all that was all
about,” Durbin said.
“At the end of the day, hundreds
of billions of dollars were going
to stabilize Wall Street.”
McCain’s efforts to distance
himself from the $700 billion
TARP bailout may show how
angry voters are about
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help Wall Street during the
worst recession since the 1930s,
among other things.
Conservative voters, especially.
Politico says McCain had more
power than anyone as the
Republican presidential nominee
to derail the Troubled Asset
Relief Program in the fall of
2008.
Now McCain is up for re-
election and facing a serious
primary challenge from
conservative J.D. Hayworth, a
former Republican congressman
running with Tea Party support.
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Dusk to dawn curfew imposed as Chile's looters run wild

(Top stories from Times desperation by the lack of water with the noise of homes crushed ice-cream store, told how the the night huddles of people
Online) and electricity. under waves or being impaled wall fell in at the Entre Curdas congregated outside and queued
Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:11:03 AM The Mayor Jacqueline van by 20m (65ft) tall trees. bar where he was drinking. His to speak to volunteers who were
Rysselberghe said: "We need Another survivor has told of the friend Fernando Chamorro was taking down the names of
Chile officially appealed for food for the population. We are confusion that filled the town as one of five people who died earthquake victims and missing
international aid today as the without supplies, and if we don’t waves and aftershocks struck. when interior walls collapsed at persons, and broadcasting them
country's President Michelle resolve that we are going to have Two cars crashed head-on as the Corta Madero disco. on the radio with appeals for
Bachelet imposed a dusk to serious security problems during panicked residents tried to Sergio Cornejo, 25, a sociology them to contact their families.
d a w n c u r f e w i n t h e t w o the night," She warned of grave outrun the force of the student, ran from the 14th floor Concerns were mounting today
provinces closest to the epicentre "social tension" in the area. destruction. "People were going apartment where he and six for six Britons reported missing
of Saturday's earthquake and British aid workers are due to crazy," the woman said, with other students were staying as after the quake. Two British
tsunami and the death toll rose arrive in the region today, where tears in her eyes. "It was utter the quake hit, shaking the walls couples staying at the coastal
to over 700 people. around 1.5 million Chileans chaos." with a monstrous noise. resort of Pichilemu have yet to
The army was sent in overnight have been affected. The tremors Sebastian Pinera, the President- "I ran back in to find people, but contact their families two days
to help the overwhelmed police struck at 3.45am on Saturday, elect, said that the situation in the door had jammed shut and after the 8.8 magnitude quake.
force to deal with looters in causing buildings and roads to Concepcion was dangerous. we had to kick it down," said Kirsty Duff, from Stonehaven,
Chile’s second city, Concepcion, collapse and leaving 500,000 "When we have a catastrophe of Mr Cornejo. Aberdeenshire, and Dave
which was 70km from the homes severely damaged. As this magnitude, when there is no He said that his teacher, Raoul Sandercock, from Edinburgh,
epicentre of the quake. powerful aftershocks up to 6.9 in electricity and no water, the Nariteri, was killed when a both 25, arrived in the country
Chilean television has shown magnitude continue, many population becomes preoccupied falling beam hit his head in the three weeks ago, according to
images of supermarkets in thousands of people have spent and starts losing the sense of Tierra del Fuego restaurant in reports, while Andre Lanyon,
Concepcion that have been the last two nights sleeping public order," he said. Talca. His wake was due to be from Guernsey, and Laura
stripped of stock and looters outside in tents and makeshift Ms Bachelet, who is due to held later today. Hapgood, both 29, went to
making off with fridges and shelters, too afraid to return hand over power on March 11, The scenes of destruction in the Pichilemu on Friday.
plasma televisions. Teargas home. said that the air force was to little town intensified in the "We have been very worried.
intended to drive looters away Looting has been reported in the begin flying in food and vital aid centre, where in one place an We just keep watching the news
has hampered efforts to rescue coastal towns which have been to badly hit areas, some of entire row of houses had and hoping that they are
survivors from the nearby ruins hardest hit by the disaster, after which were largely cut off by the collapsed. Older houses were alright," said Valerie Lanyon,
of a toppled tower block. the earthquake was followed half quake. worst hit, and a large colonial Mr Lanyon's mother.
Guillermo Ramirez, military an hour later by a 2.6m (8ft Residents of the hard-hit town warehouse was ripped apart, Two other Britons — a woman
commander of the central Maule 6ins) tidal wave leaving fishing of Talca, 100km inland from the sheets of corrugated iron named Natalie Cass, and Tina
region, sent soldiers with boats stranded in the streets. quake epicentre, told The Times flapping off its girders. Cadwallader Lopes, who was in
megaphones to warn the 500,000 Pellehue, a coastal town with that there there was a cacophony "We don't have water or the resort with her Portuguese
inhabitants of Concepcion of 1,000 residents, is partially of explosions and sirens as the anything. No-one has appeared husband and two children —
the 9pm-6am curfew. buried in mud. The rest of it is earthquake hit at around 3.45am with help and we need more have also been reported missing.
"I would advise criminals not to no longer there, apparently on Saturday, when plenty of police to keep order. There are All are named on a website set
mess with the armed forces. Our washed away by the ferocious people were still out partying many people here who are up by The Surfer’s Cottage, an
response will be severe, but waves. and eating. robbing," said Ana, 78. eco-lodge for surfers in
within the context of the law," "The earth started shaking so "The power station exploded, we With mains power completely Pichilemu.
he told would-be looters. violently that we couldn't stand," saw many fires, car alarms were down there was no electric light A spokesman for Gordon
As they struggled to keep order, said one woman who escaped going off everywhere," said anywhere in Talca except at the Brown said the British Embassy
troops fired teargas and water the devastation. As she fled to Tomas Jorquera, 27. local Paloma Radio station,
cannons on residents driven to higher ground, the air was filled Pablo Avila, 22, who owns an which has a generator. Through DUSK page 4
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Rare Buddhist flower
Chile-Earthquake Tsunamis Smaller Than found under nun's
washing machine
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Earthquake.") does decrease its amplitude measure the pressure differences news)
The giant earthquake in Chile "The main story here, I think, is somewhat." from passing waves thousands Submitted at 3/1/2010 5:33:35 AM
that struck Friday—one of the that the full evacuation of Predicting Tsunamis From of feet above. (Take a tsunami Published: 1:33PM GMT 01
m o s t p o w e r f u l e v e r Hawaii was unnecessary," Chile Earthquake Difficult quiz.) Mar 2010
recorded—killed more than 700 S y o l a k i s t o l d N a t i o n a l The decision to evacuate "Measurements from these The Udumbara flower was
people and leveled cities. Yet the Geographic News by email. Hawaii was based purely on the buoys, located in deep water, found in the home of a Chinese
t s u n a m i s s p a w n e d b y t h e Geophysicist Emile Okal agreed tremendous power of the allow us to estimate the wave nun in Lushan Mountain, Jiangxi
earthquake were smaller than that the the tsunam spawned by earthquake in Chile, which at size and update the forecast province, China.
e x p e c t e d , l e a v i n g e x p e r t s the Chile earthquakei wasn't magnitude 8.8, was the fifth models," the University of The rare Youtan Poluo or
speculating as to why.(See Chile really all that small. "It is much largest in the past 110 years. California's Synolakis said. Udumbara flower, which,
earthquake pictures.) larger than anything we've seen The 2010 earthquake also "[They also] allow us to estimate according to Buddhist legend,
Tsunamis reached only 4 feet in the Pacific in 45 years," said rocked the same region as a the duration of the event and the only blooms every 3,000 years,
(1.2 meters) in Japan and 6.5 O k a l , o f N o r t h w e s t e r n magnitude 9.5 earthquake in numbers of waves that get measures just 1mm in diametre.
feet (2 meters) in the South University in Evanston, Illinois. 1960, which sent waves racing triggered." Miao Wei, 50, was cleaning
P a c i f i c i s l a n d o f T o n g a , The tsunami only seems small, across the Pacific. The 1960 Accurate Tsunami Forecasts when she discovered the cluster
according to scientists. Tsunamis he added, because Hawaii and tsunamis killed 61 people in And while these instruments are of white flowers under the
can often become monster waves Japan were both spared its Hawaii, 138 in Japan, and left 32 few and widely scattered, some washing machine.
of more than 100 feet (30.5 brunt—and because those places dead or missing in the of the predictions made about At first she thought the barely-
meters). both remember much bigger Philippines. tsunamis from the earthquake in there stems were worm eggs,
Furthermore, despite a massive tsunamis from 1960 and 1946. Predicting a tsunami from Chile were actually close to however, the next day she
evacuation of Hawaii, tsunamis "[These] are what the public has seismic information alone is correct. discovered that the stems had
in Hawaii measured only about the memory of, because [they] difficult, scientists say, because For example, he said, the model grown 18 white tiny flowers on
three feet (one meter), too small wrecked Hawaii," he said. the earthquake might have predicted that the earthquake top and smelled "fragrant".
to do any damage. Although it will be a while vibrated the seabed up and would create small waves in Los Local temples believe the mini
But this doesn't mean the before geophysicists understand down, or sideways. Angeles harbor—exactly what blooms are specimens of the
tsunamis in Hawaii fizzled, said for sure why the tsunami wasn't "If all the movement is happened. miraculous Youtan Poluo flower
Costas Synolakis, director of the larger, Okal speculates that part horizontal, you will have [no] "The forecast was quite - called "Udumbara" or
Tsunami Research Center at the of the reason may be that the tsunami," said Solomon Yim, accurate," Synolakis said. "Udambara" in Sanskrit,
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in Santiago was trying to
establish the whereabouts of UK
citizens in the country but had so
far received no reports of
British casualties.
Mr Sandercock’s sister, Ellie,
posted messages on social
networking site Twitter
appealing for help.
"People are posting on Facebook
from there, yet no news from my
bro Dave Sandercock. Can
anyone help?" she wrote.
Ellie Sandercock wrote that her
brother and his girlfriend were
"keen surfers" and were staying
in the Pichilemu region at a local
bed and breakfast.
She wrote: "Dave is 5ft 10ins
(muscular build) with blonde
hair. He may also have a beard.
He has a Scottish accent.
"He is travelling with his
girlfriend Kirsty Duff. They are
probably in Pichilemu,
O’Higgins Region. Last contact
was Thursday 25 February. They
were staying at a local
B&B/pension (name unknown).
They are keen surfers."
Details of Mr Sandercock and
Miss Duff were also posted on
the missing person website
Google Person Finder, set up for
families to post details of people
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Submitted at 2/28/2010 5:30:26 PM
Here’s some crystalline minimal
missing since the quake.
The Foreign Office has so far
made contact with around 100
Britons in the stricken country
but said no UK casualties were
reported at present.
About 65,000 British tourists
visit Chile each year, according
to the country’s tourist
authority.
Meanwhile, remarkable tales of
survival began to emerge as
rescue workers dragged
survivors from the rubble.
Alberto Rozas and his seven-
year-old daughter Fernanda
escaped with nothing more than
a few cuts, scrapes and bruises
after surviving a fall from their
13th floor apartment when their
building collapsed in the quake.
The pair were sheltering in the
bathroom doorway when their
15 storey apartment building
crumpled, sending them
tumbling through the falling
rubble, hugging each other all
the way down.
Mr Rozas said he had no idea
which way was up until he
looked through his apartment's
shattered window and spotted
"the light of the full moon."
"The earthquake and the fall
were one single, horrible thing,"
ECM jazz from the Tord
Gustavsen Trio, with Harald
Johnsen (bass) and Jarle
Vespestad (drums), performing a
Mr Rozas told the Associated
Press. "I held onto her and she
never let me go."
Hundreds of people remain
camped out in parks in the centre
of Santiago, the Chilean capital,
and others were ready to escape
their homes at a moment's
notice, according to Brian
Murphy, a Briton who lives
there.
"When I went back into my
apartment yesterday morning a
lot of people had their doors
wide open and had suitcases
sitting there with their things
packed up to leave," he wrote, in
e-mails to relatives in Britain.
Damage was greatest in poorer
and middle class areas of the
city, added Mr Murphy, where
many older buildings have
collapsed and there is no
electricity or gas, and only
intermittent water. Strict
building regulations have
ensured that newer properties
withstood the quake.
Most supermarkets remain shut,
and a number of roads and
bridges have collapsed, leaving
many people stranded away
from home, said Mr Murphy.
Many countries have offered
aid, and Hillary Clinton, the US
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“Still There” from the album
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Secretary of State, is expected
to visit Chile tomorrow as part
of a scheduled tour of South
America.
Staff from the British aid
agency Oxfam are due to reach
Chile later today as the aid
effort starts to gather pace.
Jeremy Loveless, Oxfam’s
deputy humanitarian director,
said: "It is deeply frustrating
that it can take some time to get
our staff to where they need to
be. Our team has to drive over
the top of the Andes on badly
damaged roads to get to
Concepcion because the
Santiago airport is still closed.
"Until our team has been able to
reach the affected area and
complete an early assessment,
we are unclear how we will best
be able to assist the thousands
of people affected by the quake.
We are not asking for donations
at this stage."
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perspective
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Submitted at 2/28/2010 2:04:00 PM
Toyota is recalling 8.5 million
cars because acceleration or
brake problems may have caused
thirty-nine deaths in the past
nine years. Out of curiosity, I
looked around for statistics
about how Americans die and
found these stats ( Source:
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention) for 2006:
• Heart disease: 631,636
• Cancer: 559,888
• Stroke (cerebrovascular
diseases): 137,119
• Chronic lower respiratory
diseases: 124,583
• Accidents (unintentional
injuries): 121,599
• Diabetes: 72,449
• Alzheimer’s disease: 72,432
• Influenza and pneumonia:
56,326
• Nephritis, nephrotic
syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,344
• Septicemia: 34,234
I also learned that there are
twenty-seven million men,
women, and children held as
slaves. There were also 16,272
murders in the United States in
2008. Every death is a tragedy,
but this is something to think
about.
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Yorkshire ripper begins bid for freedom
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Submitted at 3/1/2010 5:30:33 AM
By Martin Evans
Published: 1:30PM GMT 01
Mar 2010
A previous ban on the reporting
of Sutcliffe's legal bid was lifted
by a High Court judge who
said he could see no reason why
it should not be known what
the convicted killer was
attempting to do.
Lawyers for Sutcliffe, who now
uses the name Peter Coonan, are
attempting to establish a
minimum tariff, which could one
day see the serial killer
released on parole.
Previously referred to as "P" to
protect his identity, a question
mark remains over whether
Sutcliffe will have to spend the
rest of his life behind bars.
The lorry driver from Bradford
was convicted at the Old Bailey
in London in 1981 for the
murder of 13 women, and seven
counts of attempted murder, in
Yorkshire, Greater Manchester
and Lancashire.
Teen Dies After Highway Jump From S.C. Ambulance
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Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:01:50 AM
GREENVILLE, S.C. A
teenager has died after jumping
out of a moving ambulance on
an interstate highway in South
He is currently being held in
Broadmoor top security
psychiatric hospital after being
transferred from prison in 1984
suffering from paranoid
schizophrenia.
At a preliminary hearing at the
High Court in London today, Mr
Justice Mitting was deciding
what form the tariff setting
hearing should take, and what
evidence should be admitted.
The judge was told there was
new expert evidence on
Sutcliffe's psychiatric state
which could help his case for
release on licence.
But the judge refused to allow
the new evidence to be admitted
as part of the tariff setting
exercise.
He said however it would be
considered in relation to his
conduct post-sentence.
At the centre of the move was a
November 2006 medical report
by the doctor treating him
doctor at Broadmoor, Dr Kevin
Murray.
The central issues addressed
were Sutcliffe's state of mind at
the time he committed the
crimes and at the time of the trial
Carolina.
Multiple media outlets reported
the 16-year-old boy died shortly
after the leap near Greenville
while be was being driven to a
psychiatric hospital in Columbia
Coroner Mike Ellis says the
and also his subsequent
progress in hospital.
The treatment prescribed to
Sutcliffe "has had in Dr
Murray's view very
considerable success", said the
judge.
Since 1993 he had been
"relatively responsive to
treatment", leading to a
conclusion that "so long as
treatment continues he should be
regarded as posing a low risk of
reoffending", Dr Murray
concluded.
The judge who reviews
Sutcliffe's tariff will take into
account, among other things,
the gravity of his crimes,
whether or not he has made
"exceptional" progress in
custody, the state of his mental
health and any "representations"
from Sutcliffe, his victims, or
their families.
The judge will have power to
impose a definite number of
years that Sutcliffe must serve
before he can seek his freedom –
but could also rule that he must
spend his "whole life" behind
bars.
Sutcliffe's life sentence means
teen was restrained on a gurney
in the back of a Greenville
Hospital Systems ambulance
when he loosened his restraints,
moved past an emergency
technician, opened the door and
jumped.
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that, whatever the outcome of
the tariff decision, he will only
be freed when, and if, the
authorities consider that he no
longer poses a serious danger to
the public.
The Prime Minister said in
February last year it was "very
unlikely" Sutcliffe would be
released.
Sutcliffe believed he was on a
"mission from God" to kill
prostitutes – although not all of
his victims were – and was
dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper
because he mutilated their
bodies using a hammer, a
sharpened screw driver and a
knife.
He has spent nearly all of his
years in captivity at Broadmoor
after being diagnosed as
mentally ill, but refused
treatment until 1993 when the
Mental Health Commission
ruled it should be given forcibly.
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teen before taking him back to
the hospital in Greenville, where
he was pronounced dead minutes
later.
An autopsy was planned
Monday.
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Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe bids for freedom Watchdog Says
Copyright Law Is
(Top stories from Times only been referred to as "P" to pursuing that application.” judges alone, and Sutcliffe has
Online) protect his identity. It was on July 5, 1975, just 11 instructed lawyers to apply to Outdated
Submitted at 3/1/2010 5:03:54 AM Today a High Court judge lifted months after his marriage, that the High Court for a tariff- Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
this cloak of anonymity and Peter Sutcliffe took a hammer setting hearing.
Submitted at 3/1/2010 2:09:04 AM
Peter Sutcliffe, the serial killer, ruled that the press was free to and made his first attack on a Today Mr Justice Mitting is
has asked the High Court to fix a name the killer as he comes back woman. having to decide whether new
This is more or less stating the
time when he can be considered to court for a ruling on his Sutcliffe believed he was on a expert evidence on Sutcliffe’s
obvious to most folks around
for release from prison. sentence tariff - the minimum “mission from God” to kill psychiatric state which could
here, but UK consumer rights
Now known as Peter Coonan, term to be served for retribution prostitutes - although not all of help his case for release should
advocates, Consumer Focus, has
Sutcliffe was convicted at the and deterrence before he can be his victims were - and was be admitted at the full hearing.
put out a report pointing out that
Old Bailey in London in 1981 considered for parole. dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper He still faces the possibility of a
copyright law is obsolete and
of 13 counts of murder and Mr Justice Mitting, sitting in because he mutilated their whole-life tariff. It is normally
confusing to most consumers,
seven counts of attempted L o n d o n , w a s h o l d i n g a bodies using a hammer, a imposed if an offender has
leading many of them to infringe
murder in Yorkshire and directions hearing to decide sharpened screw driver and a murdered two or more people,
on copyrights frequently without
Greater Manchester in the late what form the tariff-setting knife. where each murder involved a
even realizing it. This, the group
1970s and early 1980s. hearing should take, and what He has spent nearly all of his substantial degree of
notes, is a problem that should
Dubbed the 'Yorkshire Ripper', evidence should be admitted. years in captivity at Broadmoor premeditation or planning, if the
lead the government to fix
he was given 20 life sentences The judge took away Sutcliffe’s after being diagnosed as victim was abducted or there
copyright law by adapting it to
after one of the most notorious anonymity, saying: “It is now mentally ill, but refused was a sexual or sadistic element
the times. Of course, the UK
murder hunts in British criminal common ground this is part of treatment until 1993 when the to the killing.
seems to be going in the
history. the criminal process and must Mental Health Commission The Prime Minister said in
opposite direction these days
He is held in Broadmoor top t h e r e f o r e p r o c e e d i n t h e ruled it should be given forcibly. February last year it was “very
with the Digital Economy Bill....
security psychiatric hospital d e f e n d a n t ’ s o w n n a m e . Mr Justice Boreham, the trial unlikely” Sutcliffe would be
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serve his whole life in prison in Sutcliffe, indicated there had from the trial judge and the Lord
2008, but reporting restrictions been an application to continue Chief Justice.
were imposed on the case keeping his identity secret, but Since then the law has changed
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Sterling tumbles on weak housing demand Small Cars -

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expected this spring. That in turn in approvals for the second down during the snowiest from Consumer
raises fears among investors month in a row adds to tentative weeks of the month, which they
Submitted at 3/1/2010 4:44:34 AM that there will be a delay to evidence from house price said had forced homebuyers to Reports
cutting Britain's giant debts. surveys that the recent mini delay purchases. Press Room (Consumer
Sterling tumbled to a nine- Sterling fell 2 per cent to as low house price boom may be Mortgage brokers were Reports)
month low against the dollar as $1.4943 today, its lowest running out of steam." optimistic that better loan
Submitted at 2/28/2010 9:00:59 PM
today after a fall in the number since early May 2009. It also Of the mortgage figures, Adrian criteria from banks would see
o f h o m e l o a n s g r a n t e d i n plunged against the euro, falling Coles, the director-general of the February's figures show an Small Cars - from Consumer
January triggered fears that a to €1.0991, its lowest since the Building Societies Association increase. Reports For the March issue,
recovery in the housing market end of November. (BSA), said: “Although it is not Brian Murphy, the head of Consumer Reports tested three
is waning. The drop in the number of home possible to compare lending lending at the Mortgage Advice small cars - the VW Golf,
Figures from the Bank of loans from 58,223 to 48,198, is figures in January to previous Bureau, said: "The mortgage Nissan Sentra, and Suzuki SX4.
England showed that the number well below the 70,000 to 80,000 periods it is evident that activity market picked up sharply in Small Cars Subscribe now!
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indicator of housing market groups, believes is consistent "Low activity in the month was on to the market. Ratings, buying advice and
health, fell by 17 per cent in w i t h s t a b l e h o u s e p r i c e s . expected following the surge of "Product availability is up by reliability on hundreds of
January to a nine-month low, hit Economists had not been buyers aiming to beat the end of around 30 per cent since the products. Update your feed
by poor weather and the end of expecting quite such as steep the stamp duty relief in beginning of the year and preferences
the stamp duty holiday. fall, with 50,000 the average December. The adverse weather lenders are starting to compete at
The weak figures increased forecast. conditions experienced at the higher LTVs [loan to value].
speculation that house prices Although the amount lent to start of the year have further "Lenders are still very
could fall again this year and homeowners rose from £1.2 suppressed market activity.” conservative in their criteria but,
further stirred worries about the billion to £1.5 billion between It is thought that hundreds of overall, the environment for
health of the UK economy. December and January, the total buyers brought forward their borrowers is much improved on
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Twitter Unveils Google Ad Model, Despite Hype

Tom Johansmeyer Dick Costolo explained that the ad giant Google ( GOOG). Ads, appeared on BloggingStocks on
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8 World/ Business/ Tech News/ E-reader News Edition
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Speeding couple fined after saying they couldn't Recognition: Computers
See Bees Like We Can't
remember who was driving Alexis Madrigal (Wired Top
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By By Richard Savill is £60. Cornwall Safety Camera The multi-million pound and making detailed notes about
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Mar 2010 said: "We cannot be sure who Mrs Oliphant-Thompson, the London specialising in are figuring out how to use
I a n a n d J a y n e O l i p h a n t - was driving and they have not registered owner of the vehicle, creating innovative ways of computer vision techniques to
Thompson were both prosecuted been able to assist. wrote several letters in reply to helping organisations of all sizes convert the myriad motions of
after they told police it was “The answer they gave is not say she did not know which one grow and re-brand. creatures big and small into
“immoral” to continue asking uncommon but the owners of a of the couple had committed Mr Oliphant-Thompson, whose crunchable data.
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Steak 'n Shake's Sardar Biglari Is No Warren Buffett

Zac Bissonnette
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:30:00 AM
Filed under: Berkshire
Hathaway (BRK.A) Sardar
Biglari has done an admirable
job of turning around operations
at Steak 'n Shake ( SNS), but
over the past few months, he's
made a few less-than-subtle
efforts to imitate his idol Warren
Buffett.
Back in December, he
announced that he would do a 1-
for-20 reverse split of the stock
to boost the share price over
$300 and "dissuade speculators."
"We are attempting to eliminate
those who erroneously think that
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Officer who killed PC Ian Terry
'fired shot involuntarily'
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Online)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 4:49:10 AM
An armed police officer reacted
instinctively, pulling the trigger
in an “involuntary action”,
when he shot dead a colleague
during a training exercise, an
inquest has been told.
PC Ian Terry, 32, was playing
the role of a suspect in a
getaway vehicle when he was
hit in the chest by a practice gas
round fired from a pump action
shotgun at point-blank range.
Chris, the officer’s pseudonym,
told the inquest that his role
during the ambush of the
suspects’ Suzuki Vitara jeep was
to shoot out the near-side wheel.
But he changed his “objective”
when he saw the passenger
waving a pistol in the air.
His voice cracking with
emotion, he described to the jury
how he moved to cover the
threat from PC Terry, who is
understood to have been one of
Chris’s closest friends.
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Chris had told investigators
from the Independent Police
Complaints Commission: “I do
recall pointing the weapon in the
direction of the subject. I did
not know it was my colleague
PC Terry.
“At this point I pulled the
trigger. Looking back at this I
know I did not mean to pull the
trigger. It was an involuntary
action”.
He added that he initially
thought it “all right” because it
was a training round and that
the powder would disperse. PC
Terry, who was not wearing
body armour, died almost
immediately.
Asked about his reaction to the
shot, Chris replied: “When the
weapon went off, it was
complete shock and complete
disbelief. At first I did not know
what had happened. I was aware
it [the shotgun] had gone off. I
just wanted Ian to be OK.”
Chris agreed that he could see
the cloud of inert CS powder
from the practice RIP (round
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fill the vehicle.
Asked by Jonathan Hough,
counsel for the inqust, whether
he was able to see that he had
hit Pc Terry, a father of two
children, he replied: “No.”
“I obviously heard that Ian had
yelped and moved,” he said.
“That is why I wanted to get
him out to see what had
happened. I opened the door of
the car. I wanted to drag him
out to see how he was. I could
see he was hurt. I put him on
the floor at the side of the
vehicle.”
Mr Hough asked: “You describe
the action of firing the weapon
as an involuntary act. Can we
assume this was a shot you did
not mean to fire and that you are
now very remorseful about
having fired?”
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Greek Crisis Moving to
a Showdown
Connie Madon
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Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:10:00 AM
Filed under: International
Markets, Politics, Financial
Crisis
Greece's ongoing debt crisis is
coming to a head this week.
Germany's biggest banks are
proposing that they buy Greek
bond debt with a guarantee from
Berlin.
In the past, German banks have
refused to participate in the plan.
They already hold billion of
euros of Greek debt. Hypo Real
Estate, Eurohypo and Deutsche
Postbank are among those
unwilling to join. However, if
Berlin sweetens the deal with
guarantees, they may decide to
participate. One bank official
told the Financial Times last
week: "This could be one of the
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has to be government
involvement if it were something
on the eurozone level. I don't
think my bank would say: We
would not take part."
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Hamas chief assassination suspects Unemployment Benefits

'hiding in Israel', says police chief
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news)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 5:32:12 AM
Published: 1:32PM GMT 01
fled the southern Gulf emirate
on flights to Europe and Asia.
Police say they are convinced
the Israeli spy agency Mossad
carried out the Cold War-style
hit.
Began Ending Sunday
the United States which it
considers its best friend," he told
Al-Khaleej newspaper.
February 28
Connie Madon
The Emirati central bank is (BloggingStocks)
helping to trace the credit cards
used by several suspects, Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:50:00 AM

Mar 2010
Mahmud al-Mabhuh, a founder
of the military wing of the
Palestinian Islamist movement
Hamas, was found dead in his
Dubai hotel room on January 20.
Police have said he had been
drugged then suffocated.
Lieutenant General Dahi
Khalfan, Dubai's police chief,
said: "I say (the suspects) are in
Israel. Israel says they are in
Israel.
"If they stay in Israel, they won't
be arrested."
But "eventually they will leave,
and then, they can be arrested,"
he added, referring to a list of
suspects passed on to Interpol.
Twelve British, six Irish, four
French, three Australian and one
German passports were used by
26 named suspects, according to
Dubai police, who say they had
Khalfan also called on Israel to
fight its conflicts on its own soil.
"When (Israel) has a conflict, let
it wage the war on its own land,
not on our land," he said.
Khalfan also said that a 27th
suspect had been identified as a
woman who was also travelling
on an European passport.
Khalfan appealed to the
Western five countries whose
travel documents were used to
cooperate in Dubai's
investigation.
The investigation has caused a
diplomatic headache for the
Jewish state in which the five
countries whose passports were
used have all called in Israeli
envoys to hear protests.
Khalfan says the suspects would
not have dared used US
passports. "I think Israel was
scared of provoking a clash with
Khalfan said. Dubai police says
14 cards issued by MetaBank of
the United States were used.
Israel itself has sought to play
down the row, saying there is no
hard proof of its involvement.
Officials have refused to confirm
or deny the reports, although
Israeli media see the killing as
the work of Mossad.
Danny Yatom, a former Mossad
chief, said on Israel's army radio
that Western intelligence
services also targeted "terrorists
who threaten their countries,"
stressing that he was not
commenting on the Mabhuh
case.
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We have an absolute crisis of
the greatest magnitude facing the
unemployed. After Sunday,
February 28, the jobless will no
longer be able to apply for
federal unemployment benefits
or the COBRA health insurance
subsidy.
Federal benefits kick in after the
basic state funded 28 week
period. Federal benefits are
divided into tiers and the jobless
must apply each time they move
up to a new tier.
Here are some devastating
statistics:
• Nearly 5 million will run out
of benefits by June.
• Right now, 1.2 million stand
to lose benefits in March.
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iPhone's LED bests Nexus One's OLED?

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Extreme Makeover, Weiner Edition: RKS Redesigns the

Deadly Hot Dog
Ravi Sawhney (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 10:34:17 AM

Last week, the American

Academy of Pediatrics called
for the redesign of hot dogs. "If
you were to take the best
engineers in the world and asked
them to design a perfect plug
for a child's airway, you couldn't
do better than a hot dog," said
Dr. Gary Smith, former
chairman of the AAP's
Committee on Injury, Violence,
and Poison Prevention. "When
it's wedged in tightly, that
child is going to die." Never
ones to resist a challenge, or the
chance to play with our food, we
carved out a little time to explore
the redesign of the hot dog.
We began by thinking outside
the bun. What other ways could
we come up with for hot dog
delivery? Looking for
inspirations from food
innovations like GoGurt and
Push Pops, we briefly toyed
with the idea of a semi-solid hot- redesign, it seemed a bad idea to Look for opportunities increase compressed, and, worse, that idea involved baby-pea-sized
dog paste...a Push-Pup, if you train kids to eat things shaped sense of play Enhance people wouldn't be able to pellets of hot dog, packaged
will, not unlike the Sushi like toys. condiment-to-hot dog resist the urge to stuff the hole loosely in a natural casing to
Popper. But frankly, the idea of So we decided the best way to engagement with cheese, and that would take retain the traditional hot dog
a hot dog in a non-Newtonian preserve the hot dog We began our exploration in us back to square one as a shape. When bitten into, the
form, was more than a little gag- experience would be to work sketch form. When one designer choking hazard. casing would release the pellets
inducing. inside the bun, and identified remembered a friend choking Flat, ribbon-style shapes could which would be too small to
For enhancing a sense of play, several key factors to keep in on a Lifesaver candy, but still be folded to create the volume choke on. Of course, if these
we flirted with the idea of mind: Esophagus-sized cylinders being able to breathe, we looked of a traditional hot dog. Forms spilled onto the floor while
Lego-inspired shapes, like the and spheres = bad, very bad at options with a hole down with grooves and deep troughs
fruit snacks at right. But, given Fit within existing buns for the center. We worry that these would be great conduits for EXTREME page 14
the reason behind the call for "authentic"-ish experience holes could be too easily condiment consumption. One
12 Business/
Crib Sheet: Prince Alwaleed--Saudi Oil Tycoon, Fox News
Investor
Addy Dugdale (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:52:19 AM
He's a prince! He graduated
summa cum laude from Menlo
University in 1979! He's the
Saudi Warren Buffet! He's also
Fox News' fourth biggest
investor--although Prince
Alwaleed bin Talal claims that
he's the second biggest investor
in News Corp., after Rupert
Murdoch himself. And it's
precisely because of his
involvement with Fox, whose
anti-clean energy policy takes a
decade off the life expectancy of
ecologists each time they switch
on the channel, that has gotten
him in the news this week. In a
nutshell, alternative fuel
campaigners are worried that
Fox News and Alwaleed have a
vested interest in keeping
America oil dependent.
So let's have a little look at
Prince Alwaleed, shall we? The
nephew of King Abdullah of
Saudi Arabia, Prince Alwaleed
will celebrate his 55th birthday
this coming weekend. So, what
do you buy one of the 25th
richest men in the world? A bag
to put it all in, perhaps?He's the
head honcho (and holds 95%) of
the Kingdom holding company,
a Saudi investment firm that has
shovelled cachillions into U.S.
firms such as Citigroup, Apple,
AOL and Compaq. He's also
into soft drinks and hotels,
although Bernie the Bargain
Basement Carpet King from
Wisconsin is still waiting for
Alwaleed to return his call.After
his graduation, Alwaleed, whose
grandfathers were the founder of
Saudi Arabia and Lebanon's first
Prime Minister, returned to his
homeland and started up the
Kingdom Establishment for
Commerce and Trade. Its first
contract, worth $8 million, was
to build a bachelor's club at the
Riyadh Military Academy.His
purchase of the then Citibank in
1991 was "not [done] by a sense
of altruism," apparently.The
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125. An Airbus A380 will be
touching down at Alwaleed
Airport later on this year.He's
got a lot of honorary degrees and
awards from educational
establishments worldwide.
University of New Haven,
Kyungwon University in Seoul,
Syracuse, Execter, The Islamic
University of Uganda, the
University of the 7th of
November at Carthage in Tunis,
St John's University in New
York and Brawijaya University
in Indonesia are just a few of the
places who've given him a
mortar board and a scroll.Let's
talk about the medals, now.
Italy, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Senegal, Guinea, Togo, Burkina
Faso, (capital: Ouagadougou)
Djibouti, Gabon, the
Netherlands, Kenya, China and
the Vatican have all awarded
him stuff. Where does he keep
them all?Well, there's probably a
room at home given over to
them--and someone to keep
them polished at all times. His
sand-colored palace has 317
rooms, including four kitchens
Hollywood adage of "If it floats, g i v e n o v e r t o A r a b i c ,
fucks or flies, rent, don't buy" Continental and Asian cuisine.
d o e s n ' t h o l d w a t e r w i t h The fifth is just for desserts, and
Alwaleed. One helicopter-toting his chefs can feed 2,000 with
yacht, with another one on the just an hour's notice. There are
way (173 meters long, due this also 250 TVs, apparently.Both
year), several private planes,
including a Boeing 747, and CRIB page 14
Airbus 321, a Hawker Siddeley
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Print is Dead, Long Live Print: Digital Magazines Have

Publishers In a Spin
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 10:40:32 AM

Time Inc, Hearst, Condé Nast,

Wenner Media and Meredith
magazine publishers have
banded together to promote their
print editions in a "power of
print" ad campaign. But let's do
the Time Warp again, and
remember digital mags really are
the future.
The "power of print" campaign
is due to be announced today,
and it cost some $90 million and
constitutes 1,400 ad pages. What
may be the major placement is a
two-pager featuring Michael
Phelps, with the tag line "we surf
the Internet, we swim in social networking threaded isn't dead yet. already digital-savvy Net edition million on a printed-mag advert
magazines." The body text of through more and more Web But that's also wrong, isn't it? staff. This also ties in to a more campaign is a little silly. Even
this one makes lots of the sites, surely it's Web Sure, the Net hasn't killed the subtle question, which has more amusingly, and ironically,
emotional differences between publications that truly embrace magazine, but that's not really apparently had Conde Nast in a it may be exactly the sort of
the two different media--the Net the user. So, given this mixed the looming, menacing, spin: Do magazines go for mere dynamic, adaptive highly-
is "exhilarating" but the printed message, what's the big transformational threat that the straightforward digital targeted adverts that work online
word in a magazine is campaign actually all about? industry really faces: E- recreations for the iPad and that'll help the digital magazine
"enveloping" and while the Net Statistics. The ads will make publishing, and digital versions other tablet PCs, or do they industry through this crisis,
"grabs you," a magazine note of the fact that magazine for the next paradigm of mobile embrace the kind of clever rather than static print ads.
"embraces you." readership has has risen 11% computing heralded by Apple's technology used on Web sites? [via MinOnline, PaidContent]
This is a pretty odd line to push, during the time that Google's iPad. The dynamic, complex With the dead-tree publishing
if you think about it because been around (12 years,) and in content that can be delivered in a industry in a bit of a mess right
every printed word is dead, the same way TV didn't kill the tablet PC magazine edition is across the board, and a huge,
fixed, whereas the dynamic movies, the Net hasn't killed the already resulting in in-fighting difficult digital upheaval
changing text published online is magazine. The group is pushing inside publishers as to who threatening to arrive any
very much alive. And with this message to remind the assumes control over the iPad moment, you may well argue
web2.0 user interactivity and general public that the magazine editions--the print staff, or the that spending a whopping $90
Fill in the Blanks: Algorithm Makes Something Out of Nothing
Jordan Ellenberg (Wired Top A technique known as everything from medical
Stories) compressed sensing may change imagery to astronomy.
14 Tech/ E-reader News Edition
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frozen, we'd quickly move from
choking hazards to slip-and-fall
accidents.
These forms could also entice
play, much like string cheese.
Still, the temptation to bring
bacon into the picture is hard to
resist.
When it came to 3-D
explorations, given the time
constraints, we decided to go
old-school...or, actually, pre-
school. That's right. We broke
out the Play-Doh Fun Factory!
Why render when you can
extrude?
The Fun Factory was
particularly handy for creating
spaghetti-inspired forms with
thin strands which could be
bound together like sheaves of
wheat or even braided.The
downside could be the high
outside-to-inside ratio. In many
foods, there's a fine balance
required between the inside and
outside. Think of a Reese's
Peanut Butter Cup. It's not just
the taste of the chocolate and
peanut butter; it's the ratio of
chocolate to peanut butter that
achieves perfection.
Our favorite form ended up
being a Slinky-esque spiral. The
initial inspiration sketch looked
a little too corkscrew shaped,
bringing to mind pig parts (tails
and otherwise) we'd rather not
approach. But as the form
developed in sketches and
modeling, it offered a good
outside-to-inside ratio, a hot
dog-shaped form factor, and lots
of room for finger play and
getting the condiments down
into the loops of the spring
shape.
Clearly, this was a very quick
exploration..a conversation
starter. We'd hope that these
designs and more would be
explored by manufacturers and
vetted by the experts at the
American Academy of
Pediatrics.
You can find more of shots of
the modeling session on our
Flickr page. If you have
solutions you'd like to share, or
thoughts on our ideas, please
post them in the comments
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and published by Wharton
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an IDSA Fellow and Executive
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study program.
his wives live with
him.Alwaleed claims to have a
collection worth $730 million,
and gave Britain's future Queen
Camilla (née Parker-Bowles) a
diamond and ruby necklace
worth $1.5 million. So that's
$728.5 million, then. The
necklace he's wearing in the
picture is the Order of
Distinguished Rule of
Izzuddeen, bestowed on him by
President Nasheed of the
Maldives, in December last
year.In an interview with Charlie
Rose in January this year,
Alwaleed spoke on a whole host
of topics whilst supping a large
mug of herbal tea. He didn't
remove his sunglasses once.Here
he is on Google's shenanigans in
China. "If any company goes to
a country, it has to respect the
rules of that country, no matter
how those rules are different to
the rules of the United
States."And here he is on the
United States. "America is down
but not out. You're in a mess
right now."There is between 120
and 150 years to find an energy
successor to oil--and he's not
against alternative energy, oh no,
just a bit of a realist. "Every time
the price of oil goes up, we see a
lot of hoopla around ethanol, etc,
but when the price goes down,
we see it subside."Fellow
investment chums include Bill
Gates--Mr Microsoft's private
investment and holding
company, Cascade, also invests
in Four Seasons Hotels and
Resorts and Coca-Cola. And
then there's Murdoch, whose
News Corp. recently bought
10% of Alwaleed's Middle
Eastern media conglomerate,
Rotana.[Via Charlie Rose,
Wikipedia, Raw Story, Kingdom
and Clean Technica][Image Via
Flickr]

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Getting Hospitalized Should Be Like Flying First-Class
Cliff Kuang (Fast Company)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:22:03 AM
PriestmanGoode has a radical
solution to how hospital wards
should be designed.
PriestmanGoode, a London
design house, has worked on
everything from cell phones to
speakers to first-class cabins for
Swiss Airlines. But Britain's
Design Council, hoping to see
what serious design thinking
might produce, asked them to
work on something completely
different: Hospital Wards.
PG has just released their
Coffee Industry Hit Hard by Climate Change
Ariel Schwartz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 8:50:12 AM
The latest industry to get
clobbered by climate change is
coffee, according to the
International Coffee
Organization (ICO). The
organization, which represents
77 coffee-producing countries,
says that the temperature has
risen half a degree in coffee-
producing countries over the
past 25 years--five times faster
than in the previous 25 year
period. That change has led to a
panic among countries reliant on
coffee.
In a meeting this week between
coffee producers in Guatemala,
proposal today, in a " healthcare
manifesto." In it, they argue that
the central problems facing
hospital design happen to have
already been solved in the
design of first-class cabins for
airlines.
Think about it: Nurses need to
be able to visit patients easily
and efficiently. So do airline
stewards. Hospitals, meanwhile,
need to maximize their square
footage utilization, while giving
patients privacy and--ideally--a
comfortable, homey
environment. Which actually
happens to be exactly what
roasters expressed concern that
unstable weather has led to
fights for increasingly-limited
land and water resources. The
National Coffee Association of
Guatemala estimates that
production of coffee in nine
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airlines do, in their first-class architecture, which is both
cabin. expensive and hard to adapt
PG points out that hospitals when technology changes. By
usually attempt to solve their contrast, they propose pre-fab,
design requirements with lie-flat beds and room dividers,
for coffee to rise from 132
million bags in 2009 to 134
million 60-kilogram bags in
2010.
All of this means that already-
expensive coffee is about to get
a whole lot pricier. And even
though coffee companies like
Starbucks and Peet's tout their
commitments to sustainably-
sourced products, temperatures
are continuing to rise. So in
addition to making sure that they
use Fair Trade beans, coffee
Latin American countries will c h a i n s i n t e r e s t e d i n s e l f -
dip 28% in the first three months preservation may also want to
of this years growing season. work towards preventing further
Coffee production in Columbia climate change--a process that
already fell 30% to 35% last Starbucks has already begun.
year to a 33 year low. At the [Via PhysOrg]
same time, ICO expects demand
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similar to what they've designed
before. These would be far
cheaper to manufacture, more
flexible, and far more space
efficient. Moreover, the
arrangement would allow nurses
to easily monitor dozens of
patients, while offering each one
privacy. Of course, this probably
wouldn't be a replacement for
private rooms--but rather the
grim recovery wards familiar to
anyone who's spent any amount
of time in a hospital.
[Via Dezeen]
March 1, 1966: Probe
Makes First Contact
With Another Planet
Betsy Mason (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 9:00:00 PM
The Soviet Union crash-lands a
probe on Venus, the first time
human artifacts touch another
planet.
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Some scientists defend tsunami warnings (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) ground Saturday in a panic that Disaster Office had reports of a apologies for the warnings and tsunamis is difficult, given the
Submitted at 2/28/2010 10:03:10 PM circled the Pacific Rim after wave up to 6.5 feet hitting a defended their work, all while vast size of the ocean and the
scientists warned 53 nations and small northern island, with no worrying that the false alarm volatile forces at work miles
HONOLULU – The warning territories that a tsunami had indications of damage. could lead to complacency below the surface.
was ominous, its predictions been generated by the massive And in Japan, where authorities among coastal residents — a Scientists use an earthquake's
dire: Oceanographers issued a Chilean quake. ordered 400,000 people out of disastrous possibility in the magnitude and location as the
bulletin telling Hawaii and other It was the largest-scale coastal communities, the biggest earthquake-prone Pacific Rim. basis for their predictions and
Pacific islands that a killer wave evacuation in Hawaii in years, if wave was a 4-foot surge that hit A similar quake in Chile in then refine it constantly with
was heading their way with not decades. Emergency sirens the northern island of Hokkaido, 1960 created a tsunami that data from more than 30 deep-
terrifying force and that "urgent blared throughout the day, the flooding some piers. killed about 140 people in Japan. water sensors stationed across
action should be taken to protect Navy moved ships out of Pearl A Japanese official offered an The same surge hit Hawaii and the Pacific as the shock wave
lives and property." Harbor, and residents hoarded apology to those affected after devastated downtown Hilo, on sweeps across the ocean floor.
But the devastating tidal surge gasoline, food and water in the government had warned that the Big Island, killing 61 The sensors, located at 15,000
predicted after Chile's magnitude anticipation of a major disaster. waves of up to 10 feet (three residents and wiping out more to 20,000 feet beneath the
8.8-earthquake for areas far from Some supermarkets even placed meters) could hit some northern than 500 homes and businesses. surface, measure the weight of
the epicenter never materialized. limits on items like Spam regions. "If you give too many warnings the water and beam it to buoys
And by Sunday, authorities had because of the panic buying. "The tsunami estimates of the and none of them materialize, floating on the surface.
lifted the warning after waves At least five people were killed Meteorological Agency were too then you lose your credibility," Scientists then use the data to
half the predicted size tickled the by the tsunami on Robinson large, and so I'd like to apologize Wang said. "That's something calculate the tsunami's wave
shores of Hawaii and tourists Crusoe Island off Chile's coast to individuals that were that we have to deal with and we height in the open ocean as it
once again jammed beaches and and huge waves devastated the evacuated or inconvenienced," have to improve." progresses toward shallower
restaurants. port city of Talcahuano, near Sekita Yasuo, an official at the Despite some of the panic in waters.
Scientists acknowledged they hard-hit Concepcion on Chile's agency, told reporters Monday. Hawaii, public officials called Coastal inundation models
overstated the threat but many mainland. He said the agency compared its the evacuation "perfect" and said based on topographic mapping
defended their actions, saying But the threat of monster waves estimates to those from abroad it was a good test case that add another layer of analysis,
they took the proper steps and that left Hawaii's sun-drenched and chose the larger of the two, proved the system worked. helping scientists make
learned the lessons of the 2004 beaches empty for hours never leading to the overzealous Chaos was at a minimum as assumptions about how the
Indonesian tsunami that killed appeared — a stark contrast to forecasts, and that he wanted to people heeded evacuation orders surge will behave in shallower
thousands of people who didn't the tidal surge that killed improve accuracy in the future. and roads were free of the waters and how it might affect
get enough warning. 230,000 people around the After the Pacific Tsunami gridlock that can paralyze a shoreline communities.
"It's a key point to remember Indian Ocean in 2004 and Warning Center lifted its region before a disaster. The "There are all sorts of
that we cannot under-warn. flattened entire communities. warning, some countries kept smooth response occurred assumptions that we make in
Failure to warn is not an option This time, waves of more than 5 their own watches in place as a largely because the state had so trying to figure out how big the
for us," said Dai Lin Wang, an feet were reported in Kahului precaution. Early Monday, the long to prepare; Hawaii is nearly waves are going to be. If we can
oceanographer at the Pacific Bay in Maui and in Hilo, on the Japan Meteorological Agency 7,000 miles from where the avoid some of those
Tsunami Warning Center in eastern coast of Hawaii's Big warned of a possible tsunami quake hit, and it took 15 hours assumptions, maybe we can do a
Hawaii. "We cannot have a Island, but did little damage. about a foot and a half in size for the tsunami to arrive. better job," said Fryer.
situation that we thought was no Predictions of wave height in along its entire Pacific coast and "I hope everyone learned from "If this event happened
p r o b l e m a n d t h e n i t ' s some areas were off by as much told people to stay away from this for next time, and there will tomorrow, even with this
devastating. That just cannot as 50 percent. the waterfront. That warning be a next time," said Gerard knowledge, we would be forced
happen." In Tonga, where up to 50,000 was cleared later Monday Fryer, a geophysicist for the to do the exact same thing."
Hundreds of thousands of people fled inland hours ahead morning. warning center.
people fled shorelines for higher of the tsunami, the National But scientists offered no The science of predicting SOME page 22
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AP IMPACT: Drug gangs taking over US public lands (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) and 2008, and authorities say an fields use illegal fertilizers to Michoacan. hometown and Jose rips them
Submitted at 3/1/2010 2:56:06 AM estimated 75 percent to 90 help the plants along, and use Growers once slept among their off, they are going to go after
percent of the new marijuana cloned female plants to reduce plants, but many of them now Jose's family," Stewart said. "It's
S E Q U O I A N A T I O N A L farms can be linked to Mexican the amount of seed in the bud have campsites up to a mile big money."
FOREST, Calif. – Not far from gangs. that is dried and eventually sold. away equipped with separate When the harvest is complete,
Yosemite's waterfalls and in the In 2008 alone, according to the Mexican gang plots can often be living and cooking areas. investigators say, pot farm
middle of California's redwood D r u g Enforcement distinguished from those of "It's amazing how they have workers haul the product in
forests, Mexican drug gangs are Administration, police across the domestic-based growers, who changed the way they do garbage bags to dropoff points
quietly commandeering U.S. country confiscated or destroyed usually cultivate much smaller business," Wood said. "It's their that are usually the same places
public land to grow millions of 7.6 million plants from about fields with perhaps 100 plants domain." where they get resupplied with
marijuana plants and using 20,000 outdoor plots. and no security measures. Drug gangs have also imported food and fuel.
s m u g g l e d i m m i g r a n t s t o Growing marijuana in the U.S. Some of the fields tied to the marijuana experts and unskilled Agents routinely find the
cultivate them. saves traffickers the risk and drug gangs have as many as labor to help find the best land discarded remnants of camp life
Pot has been grown on public expense of smuggling their 75,000 plants, each of which can or build irrigation systems, when they discover marijuana
lands for decades, but Mexican product across the border and yield at least a pound of pot Wood said. fields. It's not uncommon to
traffickers have taken it to a allows gangs to produce their annually, according to federal Moyses Mesa Barajas had just discover pots and pans, playing
whole new level: using armed crops closer to local markets. data reviewed by the AP. arrived in eastern Washington cards and books, half-eaten bags
g u a r d s a n d t r i p w i r e s t o Distribution also becomes less The Sequoia National Forest in state from the Mexican state of of food, and empty beer cans
safeguard sprawling plots that in risky. Once the marijuana is central California is covered in a Michoacan when he was and liquor bottles.
some cases contain tens of harvested and dried on the patchwork of pot fields, most of approached to work in a pot But the growers leave more than
thousands of plants offering a hidden farms, drug gangs can which are hidden along field. He was taken almost litter to worry about. They often
potential yield of more than 30 drive it to major cities, where it mountain creeks and streams, far immediately to a massive crop use animal poisons that can
tons of pot a year. is distributed to street dealers from hiking trails. It's the same hidden in the Wenatchee pollute mountain streams and
"Just like the Mexicans took and sold along with pot that was situation in the nearby Yosemite, National Forest, where he groundwater meant for
over the methamphetamine grown in Mexico. Sequoia and Redwood national managed the watering of the legitimate farmers and ranchers.
trade, they've gone to mega, About the only risk to the parks. plants. Because of the tree cover,
monster gardens," said Brent Mexican growers, experts say, is Even if they had the manpower He was arrested in 2008 in a armed pot farmers can often take
Wood, a supervisor for the that a stray hiker or hunter could to police the vast wilderness, raid and sentenced to more than aim at law enforcement before
C a l i f o r n i a D e p a r t m e n t o f stumble onto a hidden field. authorities say terrain and six years in federal prison. agents ever see them.
Justice's Bureau of Narcotics The remote plots are nestled weather conditions often keep Several other men wearing "They know the terrain better
Enforcement. He said Mexican under the cover of thick forest them from finding the farms, camouflage fled before police than we do," said Lt. Rick Ko, a
traffickers have "supersized" the canopies in places such as except accidentally. could stop them. drug investigator with the
marijuana trade. Sequoia National Park, or Many of the plots are encircled "I thought it would be easy," he sheriff's office in Fresno, Calif.
Interviews conducted by The hidden high in the rugged-yet- with crude explosives and are told the AP in a jailhouse "Before we even see them, they
Associated Press with law fertile Sierra Nevada Mountains. patrolled by guards armed with interview. "I didn't think it can shoot us."
enforcement officials across the Others are secretly planted on AK-47s who survey the would be a big crime." In Wisconsin, the number of
country showed that Mexican remote stretches of Texas ranch perimeter from the ground and Stewart said recruiters look for confiscated plants grew sixfold
gangs are largely responsible for land. from perches high in the trees. people who still have family in between 2003 and 2008, to more
a spike in large-scale marijuana All of the sites are far from the The farms are growing in Mexico, so they can use them as than 32,000 found in 2008.
farms over the last several years. eyes of law enforcement, where sophistication and are leverage to keep the farmers Wisconsin agents used to find a
Local, state and federal agents growers can take the time increasingly cultivated by illegal working — and to keep them few dozen marijuana plants on
found about a million more pot needed to grow far more potent immigrants, many of whom have quiet.
plants each year between 2004 marijuana. Farmers of these been brought to the U.S. from "If they send Jose from the IMPACT: page 21
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Chile troops tackle quake looters
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Some people broke into
supermarkets to grab food and
water
The Chilean military is
attempting to restore order in the
country's second city,
Concepcion, amid looting after
Saturday's devastating
earthquake.
Troops have fired tear gas at
looters attempting to flee with
food and other goods from
wrecked stores, as a major
rescue effort is under way in the
city.
The death toll of 708 from the
8.8-magnitude quake is expected
to rise.
The United Nations has said it
will rush aid deliveries to Chile
after the government asked for
help.
UN spokeswoman Elisabeth
Byrs said Chile had requested
field hospitals with surgery
facilities, mobile bridges,
communications equipment,
kitchens, and disaster assessment
and co-ordination teams.
In coastal towns and villages hit
by giant waves after the
earthquake, the scale of
destruction is becoming clear.
AFP news agency quotes state
television as saying more than
300 bodies were found in the
fishing village of Constitucion
alone.
In the port of Talcahuano, more
than 20 boats were swept ashore
and dumped in the streets by the
waves.
Defence Minister Francisco
Vidal has admitted the country's
navy made a mistake by not
immediately issuing a tsunami
warning after the earthquake, a
move that could have helped
coastal residents flee to higher
ground sooner.
But he added an alarm sounded
by port captains had saved
hundreds if not thousands of
lives.
'Social tension'
Many of Concepcion's 500,000
inhabitants are short of food and
have seen their water and
electricity supplies cut off.
I get the sense that the
government is totally
overwhelmed at the moment by
the magnitude of this quake.
In Concepcion, the city closest
to the epicentre, there were ugly
scenes, with scores of people
breaking into supermarkets and
just taking anything they could
get their hands on.
It's been more than 48 hours
since the quake, and people are
getting desperate - in many areas
they still don't have water, they
still don't have food, and they
still don't have electricity.
The army was called in to help
the police force deal with
looters, some of whom filled
shopping trolleys full of
groceries while others made off
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that we are going to have serious
security problems."
Regional military commander
Guillermo Ramirez issued a
warning to would-be looters.
"I would advise criminals not to
mess with the armed forces. Our
response will be severe, but
within the context of the law,"
he said.
'Giant effort'
About two million Chileans are
believed to have been affected
by Saturday's earthquake, the
seventh most powerful on record
and the worst disaster to befall
Chile in 50 years.
President Michelle Bachelet,
due to hand power to President-
elect Sebastian Pinera on 11
March, said the air force was to
with plasma TVs and other begin flying in food and vital aid
electrical appliances. to badly-hit areas, some of
T h e g o v e r n m e n t s a i d a n which have been cut off by the
overnight curfew was imposed quake.
in some of the worst-hit areas. It "We face a catastrophe of such
said it was largely observed, unthinkable magnitude that it
despite a number of strong will require a giant effort," she
aftershocks that sent frightened said.
residents running out into the Chile did not initially request
streets. foreign assistance, but Ms
Meanwhile, rescuers with heat Bachelet has subsequently said
detectors are hunting for dozens some offers of aid would be
of people believed to be trapped accepted.
in an apartment block toppled by She said Chile needed field
the quake. hospitals, temporary bridges,
The city's Mayor, Jacqueline w a t e r p u r i f i c a t i o n p l a n t s ,
van Rysselberghe, has warned damage assessment experts and
there is the potential for severe rescuers to relieve those already
"social tension." working to find survivors.
She said: "We need food for the Emergency aid
population. We are without
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Arson suspects grew up together in Texas church (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 1:11:50 AM
TYLER, Texas – Even as
authorities closed in, one of the
two suspects in a string of east
Texas church fires attended a
Sunday service and went to a
Baptist ministry on his junior
college campus for a free meal.
Such activity wasn't unusual for
19-year-old Jason Robert
Bourque, a former Eagle Scout
and high school debate
champion who grew up in a
small church not far from 10
others that authorities believe
have been set ablaze since Jan.
1.
But officials say they found
weapons and books detailing
atheism and devil worship
during a pre-dawn raid at a home
where Bourque was arrested
Feb. 21. In a separate raid in San
Antonio, authorities captured
Daniel George McAllister,
Bourque's childhood friend from
First Baptist Church in tiny Ben
Wheeler.
Bourque and McAllister, 22,
each face one count of felony
arson for a fire at Dover Baptist
Church near Tyler, about 90
miles east of Dallas. They are
suspects in nine other church
fires that were ruled arsons and
three attempted church break-
ins, according to court
documents.
Both men are being held on $10
million bond. They could face
life in prison if convicted.
Investigators say the motive for
the fiery crime spree remains a
mystery.
The young men's former pastor
described Bourque as an
outgoing, inquisitive child who
asked pointed questions about
the Bible and was a whiz at
memorizing passages. The Rev.
Carlton Young recalled
McAllister as a quiet and shy
boy, nurtured by a mother who
worked in the church nursery
and home-schooled her son
before she died several years
ago.
"As a church and even the
people in the community are just
in grief," Young said. "There's a
lot of sorrow and concern for the
10 churches that have been
burned. Then you put a face on
it."
Young said he mostly lost touch
with Bourque when the young
man's family moved about five
years ago and rarely saw
McAllister after his mother's
death.
About seven years ago, the boys
sneaked into the church in the
middle of the night, said Young,
who lives next to the church and
only knew about the incident
because his wife saw the boys
leave.
The pastor said the boys had
rigged an emergency door earlier
so it would open from the
outside. He said nothing was
stolen or vandalized, and he
never reported the incident to
authorities. He said he sees no
connection between the fires and
the incident, which he
characterized as youthful
mischief.
"It was two little junior high
kids, you know, out doing their
thing they shouldn't be doing,"
Young said.
Bourque was under surveillance
when he showed up for a free
meal at Tyler Junior College's
Baptist Student Ministry four
days before his arrest, ministry
director Mark Jones said. The
director said Bourque had been
attending the weekly at least a
few months, but he didn't know
much about him.
"I think it was a shock for my
core students," Jones said.
"Here's this guy who walked
among us that we interacted with
that we had no idea of the
darkness there or the struggle or
the hurt."
Jones said Bourque was
sometimes joined by McAllister,
whose father told reporters his
son had struggled to find a job in
the past year but was upbeat
after moving to San Antonio to
join a girlfriend he planned to
marry.
An arrest affidavit indicates that
a family member took
McAllister to the bus station for
his trip to San Antonio two days
after the fire the men are charged
with setting.
Young said McAllister was
traumatized by his mother's
death.
"She was sort of the anchor in
Daniel's life, and he lost that,"
the pastor said.
Family members of Bourque
and McAllister declined to
comment to The Associated
Press. Attorneys for the men
aren't commenting, citing a
judge's gag order.
According to court records,
authorities first contacted
Bourque on Feb. 11 at his
grandparents' upscale home in
Lindale, the site of one of the
fires. He was arrested 10 days
later at his girlfriend's mobile
home in a rural area about 15
miles away.
During the intervening
surveillance, authorities say,
they observed Bourque entering
a store bathroom a day before
someone reported a carving on a
bathroom stall that said "Little
Hope was Arson," with an
upside-down cross in flames
under the wording.
It was an apparent reference to
the first arson attack, which
occurred Jan. 1 near Athens,
about 40 miles southwest of
Tyler. Authorities had listed the
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cause of that fire as
undetermined until after the
arrests.
On his Facebook page, Bourque
joined a bonfire fan group that
included hundreds of images of
people watching bonfires. His
social networking shows a
cerebral side as well, quoting
philosophers on his MySpace
page.
At Van High School, he was a
state debate champion.
A woman who knew Bourque
in high school said his life
apparently deteriorated the past
two years. Whitney Faber said
Bourque told her he had been
kicked out of the University of
Texas at Tyler last year, but he
didn't elaborate. She said
Bourque seemed "very, very
depressed" when she talked to
him, the last of those
conversations occurring several
months ago.
Young, the pastor, said
acquaintances told him in recent
days they didn't see that side of
Bourque.
"They would see Jason in
passing — 'Hi. How are you?
What's going on?'" Young said.
"Never thinking about anything
like this going on."
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Parents Plead for Teen's Return After Sex
Offender Arrest
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:05:30 AM
The parents of a missing
suburban San Diego teenager
pleaded for her safe return
Monday, a day after authorities
arrested a registered sex offender
in connection with her
disappearance.
The arrest came after about 120
law enforcement officers and
1,400 volunteers scoured
Rancho Bernardo Community
Park in San Diego Sunday for 17
-year-old Chelsea King.
Investigators found evidence
that led to the arrest of 30-year-
old John Albert Gardner of
Riverside County, according to
San Diego County Sheriff
William Gore.
"I think our best clue is who the
sheriff's department has
arrested," Chelsea's father, Brent
King, said in an interview
Monday on Fox News.
"She is every parent's dream,"
added her mother, Kelly, who
Pelosi Protects Rangel
(Newsmax - Politics)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 1:06:47 AM
Rep. Charlie Rangel's censure
by the House ethics panel does
not disqualify him from leading
the chamber's vital tax-writing
committee, House Speaker
described the straight-A student
and long-distance runner as
"bright, outgoing and
compassionate."
Gore said investigators, who
combed the area around Lake
Hodges in the park where King's
car was found, discovered
physical evidence linking
Gardner to the case. Gore would
not elaborate on the nature of the
evidence.
Gardner was taken into custody
outside a business in Escondido
shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday and
was questioned Sunday night.
"This investigation is ongoing
and specific criminal charges are
still being determined," Gore
said at a news conference
Sunday.
Investigators also suspect
Gardner could be tied to a Dec.
27 assault on a female jogger
from Colorado Springs, Colo. in
the park, a popular regional
recreation area full of running
trails, Gore said.
Gardner is from Lake Elsinore
Nancy Pelosi said Sunday,
accolrding to Fox News.
"No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't,"
Pelosi said. "The fact is, is that
what Mr. Rangel has been
admonished for is not good. It
was a violation of the rules of
the House. It was not something
some 75 miles north of San
Diego, according to the Megan's
Law Web site. He had to register
as a sex offender because of a
conviction for lewd or lascivious
acts with a child under 14, the
site said.
It was not immediately clear
whether Gardner has hired an
attorney.
Gore said the search for King
and for further evidence would
continue through the night and
expand beyond the park.
"There are several searches
going on around the county,"
Gore said. "We are going to
refocus some of our search
efforts."
The volunteers also handed out
flyers during the weekend effort.
"It's a reflection of who she is
and what kind of person she is,"
Brent King said of the numbers
showing up to help. "She's that
kind of kid that everybody loves,
and it shows."
Chelsea King's BMW was
found in the park after she failed
that jeopardized our country in
any way."
"It said he did not knowingly
violate House rules, so that gives
him some comfort," Pelosi
added.
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to return to her home in
suburban Poway, Calif. on
Thursday, sheriff's
spokeswoman Jan Caldwell said.
Investigators also looked for
clues on the teen's cell phone,
which was found in her car, and
on her home computer.
The search for Chelsea King, an conference on Monday to
honor student and senior at
Poway High School, also took to
the Internet, where a Facebook
page generated more than
24,000 fans. A Web site was
created at findchelsea.com.
Click here to read more from
Fox5SanDiego.com
Click here to visit
FindChelsea.com
The Associated Press
contributed to this report.
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Ga. GOP Rep. Deal
Leaving House for
Governor Race
(Newsmax - Politics)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 2:28:14 AM
Republican Rep. Nathan Deal is
leaving Congress to concentrate
on his previously announced
race for governor of Georgia.
The 67-year-old held a news
announce his resignation,
effective next Monday.
Deal represents the
mountainous 9th District in
north Georgia. He served in the
Georgia Legislature as a
Democrat and was elected to
Congress in 1992 before
switching to the GOP in 1995.
There are six other Republicans
and five Democrats in the race to
succeed Gov. Sonny Perdue in
November. Perdue cannot seek a
Deal entered the governor's race
last spring, saying his biggest
challenge would be boosting
name recognition statewide. He
is also dealing with two
Congressional ethics
investigations of his business
contracts with the state.
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Venezuela 'helped Eta and Farc'

(BBC News | Americas | Eta". Salazar, with conspiracy to Eta has been blamed for more
World Edition) Both groups are listed as commit terrorist murders. than 820 deaths during its 41-
Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:47:35 AM terrorist organisations by the US His investigation found that year campaign for an
and EU. Farc members travelled to Spain independent Basque homeland
A Spanish judge has accused Bomb courses to try to kill former Colombian in northern Spain.
the Venezuelan government of The judge said Eta and Farc had President Andres Pastrana and to Farc has been fighting even
assisting two rebel groups which been collaborating since 1993, stage an attack on the longer, mounting a major Every Windows Mobile
plotted to kill Colombia's and accused Arturo Cubillas Colombian embassy. insurgency intended to topple Phone Out Now Is
President Alvaro Uribe. Fontan of being a key link. A Farc member reported that "it the Colombian government and
Judge Eloy Velasco charged six Mr Fontan lives in Venezuela would not be difficult to carry establish a Marxist-style state. Officially at the
members of Basque separatist and has held a job in the out an attack on those two There have long been Evolutionary Dead End
group Eta and seven members of government of President Hugo targets as long as they could allegations of links between Farc [Windows Phone 7]
Colombian rebel group Farc Chavez - and may still have one count on the help of Eta", the and President Hugo Chavez's
with various offences. - the judge wrote. indictment said. left-wing government in matt buchanan (Gizmodo)
He said he believed Farc had He is also a key member of Eta, Later the target list was Venezuela. Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:23:06 AM

asked for Eta's help in a plot to r u n n i n g i t s o p e r a t i o n s i n allegedly expanded to include In 2008 a major diplomatic
kill Colombian officials in Venezuela and the region, Mr Mr Uribe and other Colombian dispute arose after Colombia General Manager for
Spain, including Mr Uribe. Velasco's indictment said. officials. accused Venezuela of running Microsoft's Asia-Pacific Mobile
H e s a i d t h e t w o g r o u p s It said Mr Fontan "co-ordinated Left-wing ideology arms to Farc. Mr Chavez has Communications Business
benefited from "Venezuelan relations between Farc and Eta The investigation was launched strenuously denied any such confirms it: There is no
government co-operation". and the participation of Eta after links to Spain came to light links. upgrading to Windows Phone 7,
In a 26-page indictment Mr m e m b e r s i n c o u r s e s o n when a computer used by Farc Print Sponsor not even for the badass HD2.
Velasco said an investigation explosives and urban guerrilla leader Raul Reyes was seized Five Filters featured article: So! Every Windows Mobile
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o p e r a t i o n i n t h e i l l i c i t Edgar Gustavo Navarro Morales Both Eta and Farc claim to be
collaboration between Farc and and Victor Ramon Vargas rooted in left-wing ideology.
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national forest land. Now they
discover hundreds or even
thousands.
"If we are getting 40 to 50
percent (of fields), I think we are
doing well," said Michigan State
Police 1st Lt. Dave Peltomaa. "I
really don't think we are close to
50 percent. We don't have the
resources."
Vast amounts of pot are still
smuggled into the U.S. from
Mexico. Federal officials report
nearly daily hauls of several
hundred to several thousand
pounds seized along the border.
But drug agents say the boom in
domestic growing is a sign of
diversification by traffickers.
Officials say arrests of farmers
are rare, though the sheriff's
office in Fresno did nab more
than 100 suspects during two
weeks of raids last summer. But
when field hands are arrested,
most only tell authorities about
their specific job.
When asked who hired him,
Mesa repeatedly told an AP
reporter, "I can't tell you."
Washington State Patrol Lt.
Richard Wiley said hired hands
either do not know who the boss
is or are too frightened to give
details.
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organized crime of a different
fashion. There's nothing to gain
from (talking), but there's a lot to
lose."
___
Valdes reported from Pasco,
Wash.
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SOME
Search spreads for Calif. teen; sex continued from page 16

Those models could be more with his father and was

offender held (AP) accurate if scientists had more
deep-water sensors and could
disappointed the two had to
cancel their plans because of the
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) she would be found. King, comes home," Brent and build coastal inundation models evacuation orders.
Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:29:30 AM Gardner was taken into custody Kelly King said in a statement for vast parts of the Pacific Rim But Okamoto said his family
at a restaurant in Escondido released through a family where the topography hasn't yet understands the tsunami threat
SAN DIEGO – Authorities and shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday and spokeswoman Sunday night. been well-surveyed, Wang said. better than most because some
volunteers are widening a search was being questioned Sunday "We will continue searching for Because complete data doesn't of his relatives lived through the
for a 17-year-old missing in San night. Gore told ABC's "Good her, and we ask that all of you exist for every coastal area, tidal surge in 1960. They
Diego County after a registered Morning America" on Monday do the same until she's back with scientists must play it safe in remember how the water was
sex offender was arrested in that the interrogation was us." their wave predictions, he said. sucked down the beach moments
c o n n e c t i o n w i t h h e r unproductive. Gore said the search for King "Even for Hawaii, we only have before the wave hit.
disappearance. "This investigation is ongoing and for further evidence would a forecast for less than 10 "My uncle was on the top floor
Some 1,400 volunteer searchers and specific criminal charges are continue through the night and locations, we don't have when all the water washed away
a n d m o r e t h a n 1 0 0 l a w still being determined," Gore expand beyond the park. inundation models for every and all the kids ran out to grab
enforcement officers failed to said at a news conference "There are several searches coastal point in Hawaii and it's the fish and before they could
find Chelsea King on Sunday, Sunday. going on around the county," the same story for the U.S. get back, the wave came. He was
but evidence was found that led Investigators also suspect Gore said. "We are going to mainland," Wang said. "We've way up top, he saw all his
to the arrest of 30-year- old John Gardner could be tied to a Dec. refocus some of our search got to be a little conservative. friends get washed away and
Albert Gardner of Lake Elsinore 27 assault on a female jogger efforts." One point doesn't tell you that's none of them were found, ever,"
some 75 miles to the north, San from Colorado Springs, Gore Chelsea King's BMW was going to be the maximum Okamoto said, as he sat with his
Diego County Sheriff William said. found in the park after she failed everywhere else." father in a hotel lobby. "They
Gore told the Associated Press Gardner's Riverside County to return to her home in In areas where inundation did the right thing."
in an interview. residence was also searched suburban Poway, Calif. on models exist, scientists' _____
King disappeared on Thursday Sunday, Gore said. Thursday, sheriff's predictions were close to Associated Press Writer Jaymes
after going for a run near Lake He was required to register as a spokeswoman Jan Caldwell said. accurate, Wang said. Song contributed to this report.
Hodges at Rancho Bernardo sex offender because of a The search for the straight-A Residents and tourists alike in Five Filters featured article:
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cell phone and iPod inside, were It was not immediately clear than 45,000 fans. A Web site — even though the waves never
found later that night. whether Gardner has hired an was created at findchelsea.com. showed up.
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they were holding out hope that our beautiful daughter, Chelsea

Gang Starr MC in Coma [Hip Hop]

Hamilton Nolan (Gawker) Monotone-voiced Hall of Fame reportedly had a heart attack last in a coma. He's scheduled for
rapper Guru of Gang Starr weekend, and is in the hospital surgery today. He's 43 years old.
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CHILE
continued from page 18
The epicentre of the quake was
115km (70 miles) north-east of
Concepcion and 325km (202
miles) south-west of the capital
Santiago.
About 1.5 million homes in
Chile have been damaged. Most
of the collapsed buildings were
of older design - including many
historic structures.
About 90% of the historic
centre of the town of Curico was
destroyed. Many roads and
bridges across the affected area
were damaged or destroyed.
One US risk assessor, Eqecat,
has put the cost of repairing the
damage at between $15bn and
$30bn (£9.8bn-£19.6bn) or 10-
20% of gross domestic product.
US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton would visit Santiago on
Tuesday and meet Ms Bachelet
and Mr Pinera, officials said.
The European Union has
pledged 3m euros ($4m; £2.7m)
in emergency aid for Chile.
Japan said it was providing an
emergency grant of $3m, as well
as sending tents, generators,
water cleaners and other
emergency gear, while China
has pledged $1m.
Are you in Chile? Did you
experience the earthquake? Send
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Trouble at Twitter?
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 8:55:26 AM
Not sure what's going on, if this
is for everyone, or just a few, or
just me.
The last update in my timeline
is 8 hours old.
But some people are getting
Kobe cold, but Lakers finally
defeat Nuggets
Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 10:54:11 PM
Top Performers
Denver: N. Hilario 14 Pts, 11
Reb, 2 Ast, 3 Stl
23
updates, because I've gotten
replies to some of my messages.
No mention of the problem on
status.twitter.com.
Update at noon: They have
something about it at the status
site.
1:PM: My timeline is back.
Los Angeles: L. Odom 20 Pts,
12 Reb, 1 Ast, 4 Stl, 1 Blk
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A to Z of the greatest journeys on Earth

(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:44:10 AM
One exciting way to see the
world is to travel by way of
alphabet! The Independent has
compiled a great A to Z list of
unforgettable adventures from
Annapurna, Nepal to Zambeze
whitewater rafting in Zambia!
See a few highlights below:
D—Drake Passage, Antarctica
Named after its discoverer, Sir
Francis Drake, and renowned for
its wild storms and choppy seas, easily navigable section below along the Causeway Coast with
the 800km strait connects the Aswan are the spectacular Edfu sandy beaches, cliff-top paths
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It’s Temple and the Valley of the and at its heart, the geological
also the shortest sea crossing Kings (with Tutankhamun’s wonder of the Giant’s
between South America and tomb) as well as the vibrant city Causeway.
Antarctica, where the visitor will of Luxor. Many tour operators Full story at The Independent.
find penguin rookeries, seals, offer cruises which take in these Planning a trip? Check out our
whales and, of course, icebergs. sights. travel coverage.
N—Nile Cruise, Egypt U—Ulster Way, North Ireland Photo credit: Fotolia
The Nile, reckoned to be the Relaunched last year, the 1,000 Permalink| Leave a comment »
world’s longest river at km Ulster Way is a circular
6,695km, passes through eight it’s Egypt—and particularly its walking route around the best
countries besides Egypt on its ancient civilisation – that is most landscapes in Northern Ireland.
way to the Mediterranean. But associated with the river. In the The highlight is the 50km stretch

Shakeup: No. 3 Purdue latest top team to lose

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24 Popular News/ Gadgets/ Economy/
Clinton starts Latin America tour
(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 4:08:58 AM
US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton is starting a five-day
tour of Latin America, with her
first visit to countries like Chile
and Brazil.
She will also attend the
inauguration of the Uruguayan
President and former guerilla
fighter Jose Mujica.
The US secretary of state was
expecting to spend a day in
Chile on Tuesday.
State Department officials said
she would still be stopping in
Santiago, but the agenda of her
Knowing iPhone and Android users through their
click rates
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 10:11:26 PM
If you’re looking for a really
comprehensive view of iPhone
and Android users, look no
further than this recent report by
AdMob, which tracks click
metrics from iPhone and
Android users to learn more
about them. They learned, for
instance, that:
Only 21% of Androit users
purchase at least one paid app
per month, compared to 24% of
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visit may change in the wake of
the earthquake there.
page with its southern
neighbours, the Obama
(CNBC)
Barry Ritholtz (The Big
Hillary Clinton may be going to administration has brought little Picture)
Latin America, but she will be change to US policies in Latin
partly focused on Iran. America and has paid little Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:16:18 AM
Question time attention to the region.
Washington is pushing for a Washington's policy of isolating The Warren-Buffett-a-thon on
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Brazil, a rising regional player to face tough questions
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After promising to turn a new interface is a great way to do
that! The eviGroup Paddle's stop
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The Paddle actually looks like a
decent little tablet: 10.1-inch
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91% of iPhone users and 88% Atom N270 processor, up to
of iPod touch users would 320GB of onboard storage, runs
r e c o m e n d t h e i r d e v i c e , Windows 7. Yep, it's all pretty
compared to 84% of Android appealing, until you get the the
users and 69% of webOS. price— starts at $952—and the
webOS users are 3.4x more Scale UI, which simulates what I
likely to not recommend their imagine car sickness to feel like.
device relative to iPhone OS No more details on specs are
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Review: Viva il Re board game app asks to be crowned

Sebastian Blanco (The almost exactly like the tabletop with six, just twice). As soon as
Unofficial Apple Weblog version and most of the everyone votes yes on a
(TUAW)) functionally is the same, it's just character, total up your points
Submitted at 3/1/2010 10:00:00 AM not as much fun to compete and start a new round. If,
Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, against bots as it is to outwit however, at least one person
App Review The iPhone might other people. Continue reading votes "no," that character is
be the most amazing computer and see if you agree. removed from the castle - and
you can slip into your jeans, but Gallery: Viva il Re scores nothing - and the game
there are some things it just The Game continues. One special rule here:
doesn't do very well. For The game is played over one or if it's the last round in a game, if
example, you can't really get three rounds, with each round you manage to score zero points
into a bluffing match against the ending with the election of a from characters, you get a bonus
machine, at least not with the new king (yes, we know, kings of 33 points. Even royalty like to
iPhone/iPod touch app Viva il don't usually get elected, but shoot the moon, apparently.
Re($1.99). Here's what we work with us here). To start the The game mechanics are simple
mean. game, each player gets a card enough, and the game is so
Viva il Re (which means "Long listing six names. These are the enjoyable that people have made
live the King" in Italian) is a characters that will score you their own homemade boards that
well-designed board game by points at the end of the game, so incorporate Star Trek or cute
Stefano Luperto that has been the higher you can get them in little animals. Board gamers are
beautifully ported to the iPhone the castle, the better. a pretty dedicated bunch, and
by by Pro-netics S.p.A. The The castle (game board) is made you can guess that there's
object is to score points and up of seven sections, numbered something here worth keeping if
hopefully get one of your 0-5 and 10. The lower six floors they go ahead and re-theme a
characters to become the new are where the characters spend game. To explore the game in an
king, because the old king has most of their time. In the set-up online, turn-based setting, click
decided to retire (can kings do phase of the game, players place here of download the game rules
that?). With the retirement a character on a floor numbered summary in PDF.
announcement, "the pirouette for 1-4 (each player will place the The App
succession begins!" according to same numbers of characters, and As we said, when you go
the official game setup. Each the extras start on floor zero). through all these steps with
player is secretly hoping one of Once everyone has taken their friends around a table, it can get
their six characters manages to place, movement starts. pretty intense, especially once a
reach the top, out of 13 total. Now, with each turn you can few rounds of voting have
When you play the board game move any character up one, and passed. When playing the
version of Viva il Re, called only one, floor. The only time iPhone app version, though,
King Me!, the reasonably slow you can't do this is when a floor everything moves a little too fast
pace of the game and the face-to you want to move to is full with and the "opponents" (bots) don't
the floor they are on when the You can always vote "yes," but
-face interaction means that f o u r c h a r a c t e r s a l r e a d y . have any sort of personality to
round ends. are limited to voting "no" to a
there is time to develop guesses Obviously, you want to get all of make you feel like you're
When does this happen? When small number of times based on
about which characters each your characters as high in the playing a bluffing game. Instead,
a new king is crowned. Each how many players are in the
player is hoping will take the castle as possible, because they
time a character is moved to the game (e.g., with three players, REVIEW: page 29
throne. While the app looks will each score points equal to
top floor, an election is held. you can vote "no" four times,
26 Tech/
TUAW Fact Check: Apple using underage labor? No.
Chris Rawson (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 3/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
Filed under: Apple Corporate,
Apple When a lot of people get
their news electronically,
skimming over headlines
through news aggregators, RSS
feeds, and retweets on Twitter,
sometimes the majority of
information people will get from
an article comes from the
headline.
When a headline leans towards
the sensational side, or doesn't
accurately reflect the
information that's actually
contained in the article, it's easy
for poorly-represented news to
spread like wildfire. This article
from the UK's The Daily
Telegraph, regarding Apple's
self-initiated audit of its overseas
manufacturing facilities, is a
perfect example, with its
attention-grabbing headline:
"Apple Admits Using Child
Labour." The sub-headline isn't
any better: "Apple has admitted
that child labour was used at the
factories that build its
computers, iPods and mobile
phones."
Once a person reads those
words, his or her knee-jerk
reaction is most likely going to
be one of disgust and horror.
"How could you, Apple?" they
might say. If this hypothetical
reader owns a Mac or an iPhone,
their eyes might glance over at it
with anguished guilt; if they
don't own any products from
Apple, it's just one more reason
not to buy them.
If you dig beyond the headline,
however, to the meat of the
Telegraph's article, where the
actual reporting finally begins?
Then you get a completely
different story as early as the
first sentence: "At least eleven
15-year-old children were
discovered to be working last
year in three factories which
supply Apple." That's pretty far
from the image conjured by the
headline, of legions of school-
aged children lined up in
factories and slapping together
MacBook Pros when they
should be slapping together
algebra homework. Instead, we
find a relatively small number of
teenaged factory workers --
reprehensible, but not unusual at
all for overseas factories. The
end of this first sentence is even
more important, because it puts
the focus where it belongs: three
factories which supply Apple.
Two paragraphs later, we find
another very important bit of
news not reflected in the
headline: "Apple said the child
workers are now no longer being
used."
Other news sites performed
better reporting on the matter,
but at least one still had an easily
misinterpreted headline. Read on
to find out more.
Engadget's headline for its story
is a bit better -- "Apple supplier
audit reveals sub-minimum
wage pay and records of
underage labor" -- but it's still
ripe for misinterpretation. The
reporting at least is far better
than the Telegraph; right away,
Engadget notes that the reports
of child labor come straight from
Apple's own 2010 Supplier
Responsibility Progress Report,
and they also note that out of
102 audited manufacturers, most
of them said Apple was the only
manufacturer that performed
compliance checks this rigorous.
That means Sony, Lenovo, Dell,
HP, and all the other
manufacturers out there may
well have even worse working
conditions at their suppliers'
factories than those reflected in
Apple's audit, but until or unless
E-reader News Edition
emphasis added at key points:
"Apple discovered t hree
facilities that had previously
hired 15-year-old workers in
countries where the minimum
age for employment is 16.
Across the three facilities, our
auditors found records of 11
workers who had been hired
prior to reaching the legal age,
although t he workers were no
longer underage or no longer in
active employment at the time of
our audit.
In each of the three facilities,
we required a review of all
employment records for the year
prior to our audit, as well as a
complete analysis of the hiring
process to clarify how underage
people had been able to gain
employment. Apple required
they perform similar checks, we each facility to develop and
have no way of knowing. institute appropriate
Another bit of perspective on management systems- such as
t h i s c o m e s c o u r t e s y o f more thorough ID checks and
MacRumors: "Apple in 2009 v e r i f i c a t i o n p r o c e d u r e s - t o
found a total of 17 instances of prevent future employment of
w h a t i t c o n s i d e r s ' c o r e underage workers."
v i o l a t i o n s ' o f i t s c o d e o f Issues like underage labor, poor
conduct, representing about 2% working environments, and
of core issues assessed by its substandard pay are all very real
auditors." Far from perfect, yes, consequences of doing business
but equally as far from the with overseas suppliers. Most
sweatshop conditions conjured manufacturers are content with
up by the Telegraph's headline; turning a blind eye to the whole
in fact, if you actually read t h i n g , s o l o n g a s t h e
Apple's own audit, you find that shareholders stay happy and
97% of its facilities were in stock prices stay high. By
compliance with regulations running comprehensive audits of
against underage labor. its suppliers, Apple runs the risk
Finally, the wording from
Apple's audit itself, with TUAW page 27
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10 Reasons You Should Attend or Watch a Global Ignite Week

Event
Jennifer Van Grove since 2006, this year’s quickly and succinctly (or be left Even if you can’t make it out to
(Mashable!) coordinated Global Ignite Week behind by their own slides). 6. the Ignite event in your
Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:40:13 AM initiative is a first of its kind — It’s pitch-free neighborhood, you can tune into
with more than 12,000 people As conference goers, we all the Ignite events from all areas
What was once just a Seattle slated to attend 72 events always fear that conference as each local event will be live
event — first started by Brady spanning six continents — that’s sessions will derail into tedious streaming their talks to the web.
Forrest of O’Reilly Media and bound to become the talk of the and unwanted pitch fests. Fear You can turn to Ignite’s recently
Bre Pettis of Etsy.com in 2006 Web over the coming week, and not! Ignite is a pitch-free zone unveiled video site to eavesdrop
— Ignite has grown to become perhaps after. 2. It’s global and talks are guaranteed to on sessions happening around
a n o n g o i n g s e r i e s o f We’ve already mentioned that minds from all walks of life encompass an array of topics the world or catch up on popular
International geek gatherings events are taking place in six participate and get their five like the above example, How To talks from previous events. 10.
where the brightest minds get continents, but given that that minutes under the spotlight. 4. Work a Crowd. 7. There’s booze You can unlock a Foursquare
five minutes of stage time to Ignite is one hundred percent Talks are only 5 minutes (hint: Event organizers — volunteers badge
make their point. volunteer organized we think it’s you won’t get bored) though they may be — are still The Foursquare badge is
Today marks the start of remarkable that this single week Ignite is perhaps the most tasked to find venues that have starting to become choice
Ignite’s most ambitious will encompass events structured event we know of that bars. Enough said. 8. There’s du’jour for the hidden gem of
endeavor to date: Global Ignite happening in North America, still manages to inspire creative science fair-like contests any geeky event and Ignite is no
Week. This week-long Ignite South America, Europe, Asia, thinking. Each presenter is At some Ignites, organizers will different. If you’re attending an
extravaganza has been eight Australia and even Africa. Six limited to five minutes and there opt to include a contest portion event in person and check-in on
months in the making and is a out of seven is no small feat, but is absolutely no wiggle room. in addition to the standard five Foursquare, you’ll be welcomed
first of its kind. we hear that next year we could None. Period. 5. Presentation minute talks. Contests vary with a custom Ignite Foursquare
You can find an Ignite event to e v e n s e e I g n i t e e v e n t s i n slides auto-advance depending on location but badge. As any Foursquare
attend or watch online, but either Antarctica. 3. No keynotes In order to up the challenge they’re meant to be activity- fanatic knows, each badge is like
way you’ll want to familiarize Trust us, this is a pro. Instead of factor, Ignite speakers are only based exercises with rules that a trophy that highlights your
with the movement that is Ignite. putting a few special guests on a alloted 20 slides. The catch is inspire creativity and yet make adventurous nature.
To catch you up to speed, we’ve pedestal for a keynote speech or that each slide auto-advances winning a challenge. Contests [ Img credits: LaughingSquid,
put together a list of reasons why p a n e l , I g n i t e e v e n t s a r e after 15 seconds, regardless of from years past include egg Yukon White Light, NYTVF]
Global Ignite Week (@ignite) s t r u c t u r e d s u c h t h a t a l l whether or not the presenter has slams, Popsicle-stick bridge Tags: Events, foursquare, ignite,
should be on your radar. 10 p r e s e n t e r s a r e e q u a l . A l l finished their thought. This c o n t e s t s , p a p e r a i r p l a n e List, Lists, live video, o'reilly
Reasons to Attend or Watch speakers are treated the same, makes for an atmosphere that c h a l l e n g e s , a n d c u p c a k e
Online 1. Be a part of history in alloted the same amount of time, crackles with intensity and contests. 9. Video is live
the making and must follow the same set of forces presenters to stay on topic streamed to the Web (and
While Ignite has been around rules. Still, some of the greatest and get their points across archived)
TUAW
continued from page 26

of finding out just how poorly its
suppliers treat its workers, and
by publishing those results, it
runs the risk of news outlets like
the Telegraph blowing them out
of proportion. Despite what
some newspapers or news sites
would have you believe, Macs
and iPhones are not crafted by
children, and that's partly due to
Apple's performance of these
audits in the first place.
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Encouraged by iPhone market, Nuance announces
new medical apps
Mel Martin (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 3/1/2010 8:00:00 AM
Filed under: Enterprise,
Hardware, Odds and ends,
iPhone, iPod touch, iPad Dragon
Dictation and Dragon Search
from Nuance Communications
were definite crowd-pleasers, so
today the company is
announcing specialized medical
versions of the apps for
physicians and medical
professionals.
The first app is Dragon Medical
Mobile Dictation. It is designed
to allow clinicians to dictate
patient notes, emails and text
messages instead of typing them
on a mobile device. The idea is
to let medical professionals
dictate and capture information
in real time with a smartphone,
without having to return to a
desktop or laptop computer. The
product is expected to be
available before the end of the
year.
Nuance is also announcing
Dragon Medical Mobile Search,
Wacom Cintiq 21UX: Now this is a touchscreen
John Biggs (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:30:57 AM
Pressure-sensitive tablets are
a variation of Dragon Search
that will allow medical staff to
search a variety of medical
websites completely by voice
using an iPhone. The app is
expected to be released by April
30.
Finally, Nuance is unveiling
Dragon Medical Mobile
Recorder, a voice capture app
that will allow clinicians to
conduct on-the-go dictation
using a smartphone. Once the
sound is recorded, the file is
forwarded through Nuance's
background speech recognition
technology and into a
transcription where a high
quality draft is created, then
returned for review and sign off.
The Dragon Medical Recorder is
due before the end of this year.
Nuance estimates that by the
end of next year, 81% of
physicians will be using
smartphones. More interesting is
that the company research shows
the iPhone breaking away from
the pack of other smartphones to
be the preferred device in the
medical enterprise. According to
nothing new but how about a
tablet that can sense 2048 levels
of pressure? This $1999 Wacom
tablet has a 21.3-inch
E-reader News Edition
'CSI: Miami''s Horatio
Travels to Los Angeles
to Unravel a Secret
(ETonline - Breaking News)
produces MacSpeech Dictate. Submitted at 3/1/2010 12:01:00 AM
The application uses the Dragon
speech recognition engine. "CSI: Miami" is Los Angeles
Nuance also provided the voice bound on tonight's episode when
recognition that powers the Horatio Caine ( David Caruso)
popular Siri app for the iPhone, and Eric Delko ( Adam
that lets users do searches with Rodriguez) travel to Los
natural language queries. Angeles to unravel a secret from
t h e N u a n c e r e s e a r c h , t h e Peter Durlach, the Senior V.P. Jesse Cardoza's ( Eddie Cibrian)
Blackberry is still the leading of marketing and Strategy for past.
smartphone among physicians, Nuance, told me the company is "Jesse Cardoza is a new member
b u t t h e i P h o n e g r o w t h i s also taking a close look at the of our team. He was transplanted
explosive and almost doubled in Apple iPad for use by medical from Los Angeles under some
use by physicians between 2008 professionals. The company will difficult circumstances -- the
and 2009. In a July survey of see if the form factor works for death of his wife. He came to
Medical Students it was found doctors and nurses, and Durlach Miami to join our team but his
that 45% owned an iPhone or an says he expects the iPad to be an past is haunting him. In order for
iPod touch. Of those who did not important part of future Nuance him to break free of it we need
own a smartphone, 60% planned solutions. to come to L.A. As a result, we
to buy an iPhone or iPod touch TUAW Encouraged by iPhone are digging into the past and
within a year. market, Nuance announces new trying to clarify what happened,"
That has to be good news for medical apps originally appeared David tells ET.
Apple, and I would expect Steve on The Unofficial Apple Weblog Also in the episode, Malcolm
Jobs and colleagues to continue (TUAW) on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 McDowell guest stars as a sleazy
to push the iPhone into the 08:00:00 EST. Please see our lawyer, while Michael Madsen
enterprise in the coming months. terms for use of feeds. is playing a bodyguard to a
For Nuance Communications, Read| Permalink| Email this| murder suspect, and Sheri Moon
it's a further endorsement of Comments Zombie plays a Los Angeles-
Apple products. Earlier this based photographer.
month Nuance bought
MacSpeech, the company that
toggle buttons for performing Y o u c a n c h e c k i t o u t a t
actions without having to lift W a c o m ’ s w e b s i t e .
your pen.
touchscreen as well as rear It should be available in April.
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Microsoft software to let patients see
medical records
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:02:56 AM
Microsoft is unveiling new
health care software that will
give you a glimpse of your own
medical records online.
The company on Monday
announced its new HealthVault
Community Connect software,
which is geared toward hospitals
interested in helping patients
access their own health care
history.
Following a hospital stay, you
and your personal doctors can
view electronic copies of your
hospital records online. Using
the software, you can also
preregister for future hospital
appointments using your
existing medical information.
You log onto the hospital's
patient Web site, said Microsoft,
where you can call up physican
notes, discharge instructions,
prescriptions, and lab and
radiology results. You can send
copies of your hospital records
to your personal HealthVault
account, if you have one.
HealthVault is a free service
from Microsoft that lets you
store and organize all your
health care records online.
Your personal doctor or
referring specialist can also
request access to the system to
keep on top of your hospital care
and ongoing treatment.
Microsoft said that the hospital
will control the list of outside
physicians who are able to tap
into your records.
"With HealthVault Community
Connect, we are targeting one of
the fundamental gaps in the care
process -- the lack of electronic
information flow between the
hospital, the patient and the
patient's care team outside the
hospital," said David Cerino,
general manager of Microsoft
Health Solutions Group, in a
statement. "By allowing patients
and their personal physicians to
access electronic copies of their
discharge instructions, for
example, hospitals can facilitate
better health outcomes by
getting the relevant information
into the hands of the people who
need it most."
HealthVault Community
Connect was announced at 2010
Annual Healthcare Information
and Management Systems
Society (HIMSS) Conference &
Exhibition, a health care trade
show taking place in Atlanta this
week.
The software is designed for
any size hospital, said Microsoft.
It can also integrate with a
hospital's existing network
enviroment and run on
Microsoft's SharePoint Server.
HealthVault Community
Connect is slated to debut in the
third quarter of this year.
With the push toward lowering
medical costs by modernizing
the system, Microsoft has been
one of several tech companies
introducing new health care
products. Last year, the company
formed a venture with CVS to
let people download their
prescription information to their
HealthVault accounts. It also has
been buying companies to
enhance its medical portfolio,
most recently picking up health
care sofware maker Sentillion in
December.
Microsoft's Amalga product line
is designed to help doctors and
patients more easily access and
organize medical records and is
currently being used in large
hospitals such as New York-
Presbyterian.
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it becomes a simple game of
moving your characters up and
voting now and again. Sure, this
sounds like pretty much the
same thing, but if just feels very
different and not in a good way.
The Toilet expansion is also
missing.
There are some nice digital-only
touches. Instead of needing to
remember who your characters
are, they are conveniently
highlighted in yellow on the
game board. This makes your
turns much quicker, since there's
no need to refer back to your list
of candidates.
It's impossible to know if the
bots ever vote "yes" to a
character that isn't on their card
so as to hold on to a "no" card
for later while expecting at least
one other player to decline the
new king, but it appears they do.
We played some games where a
round ended much earlier than
expected, something that is
certainly reminiscent of the
tabletop version.
The app also doesn't remember
settings - the number of players
or rounds selected - from game
to game, so you need to reselect
them each time. Not cool. Also,
each time you move a character
to another level, the game
automatically shifts it to the
leftmost open spot on that level.
This isn't a real problem, just
kind of silly.
The game's music is harmless
and appropriately medieval-
Tech/ 29
sounding, but why can't we
listen to iTunes while playing?
This is quickly becoming our
number one annoyance with
iPhone games. We're carrying
around gigs of music for a
reason, my friends, and we
probably like our tunes better
than your game's soundtrack.
On the table, King Me! is a fun
and light "filler" game. On the
iPhone, though, it falls flat. The
main flaw of Viva il Re is that
it's for one player only. While it
would make the game take
longer, pass-n-play does not
seem like it would be that hard
to implement, and it would
certainly turn Viva il Re from a
C+ game into an A- in a hurry.
At the very least, playing other
opponents over a network would
be nice. This is an interactive
game, and any digital version
needs to respect that. For now,
we're voting "no."
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Quix makes bookmarklets even Intuit Offers a New

easier to use Look at the Economy
TJ Luoma (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
you don't find the one you want,
you can add your own using
Quix's easy syntax in a plain text
and Employment Trends
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:00:00 AM
Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
file( Mine is available for
Filed under: Internet Tools anyone who wants to use it.) Submitted at 3/1/2010 5:30:31 AM

Bookmarklets are one of my If you still are not convinced,

favorite things. I have an entire checkout their two minute video Many economists (and the
folder of them in my Safari "raiders of the lost ark"), then which shows it in action. By the President) believe that small
Bookmark Bar for Instapaper press Return. As Jeff Goldblum time I finished watching it, I was businesses will be what reignites
and Readability and bit.ly and used to say"There's no step already sold. Instead of an entire job growth in the US. Today,
Pukka and Tumblr and ... well, three." Some of the other built-in folder of bookmarklets, I have Intuit is out with a new way to
y o u g e t t h e i d e a . T h e y ' r e commands: one for Quix, which does track that theory – a monthly US Department of Labor? In its
incredibly handy for doing everything that I did before, and small business employment most recent report– for January
"something" with the current • Search IMDB: "imdb search more. index that leverages payroll data – the unemployment rate
webpage that you are viewing, word(s)" Oh, and one more thing: since from tens of thousands of dropped from 10 percent to 9.7
or quickly looking up other • Search Google: "g search this is just javascript, it also customers to track hiring trends. percent, breaking an uptrend
information. works on Mobile Safari on the Specifically, the index measures we’ve seen since 2007.
word(s)" hiring at roughly 50,000 Their number looks at overall
Quix has come up with a way to • Search Google Images: "img iPhone. Ever tried to find a
make them even better. It calls search word(s)" specific word on a long page of companies with less than 20 employment though – not just
itself "Your Bookmarklets, On • Search Wikipedia: "w search text in Mobile Safari? It can be a employees that use Intuit Online small businesses – so if the
Steroids" and it's hard to argue word(s)" real hassle. With Quix, just type Payroll. Much like Mint (which thesis that a recovery starts with
with that description. Imagine all • Search only the current site "find search word(s)" and Quix is now owned by Intuit) can small business is to be believed,
of your bookmarklets together in u s i n g G o o g l e : " g s s e a r c h will highlight all instances of the shed insight into personal perhaps Intuit’s data is telling us
one, and being able to come up w o r d ( s ) " word on the current page and finance habits by analyzing something, especially if January
with shortcuts to trigger each • Reformat the current page show you the first one. customer data, the idea here is doesn’t prove to be an anomaly
one. Quix is incredibly handy. Check that in aggregate, Intuit’s small when the Department of Labor
using Readability: "read" business customers can tell us issues its next report.
The interface is extremely • Share on Tumblr: "tumblr" it out at Quixapp.com.
minimal: a javascript popup • Share on Facebook: "fb" TUAW Quix makes which way small business is In any event, we like that Intuit
window with a text input space. • Share on Delicious: "db" bookmarklets even easier to use trending each month. is leveraging its data to provide
What you type in that space • Clip current page in Evernote: originally appeared on The The company’s first report insight into broader trends.
dictates what happens next. Quix "evernote" Unofficial Apple Weblog shows that there were 40,000 We’ve seen companies like
comes with a bunch of (TUAW) on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 new small business jobs created AdMob, Flurry, and JiWire(and
commands already built-in, and in February, representing a 0.2% even Facebook) do similar
There are scads more for 09:00:00 EST. Please see our increase in their index. recently within their respective
using them is a breeze. The shortening links, sending the terms for use of feeds.
syntax couldn't be simpler: just page to other programs like Read| Permalink| Email this| Moreover, their report shows fields, and see it as an effective
type a command shortcut (such CSSEdit, MarsEdit, Pukka, Comments that small business employment way for brands to build further
as "imdb") followed by a word Tweetie, or many others. and if bottomed out in the middle of awareness for their products.
or words (like "ghostbusters" or last year, with 150,000 jobs Tags: employment, intuit,
created in total since June, 2009: statistics
How does Intuit’s data compare
to that released monthly by the
E-reader News Edition Tech/ 31

Network Solutions Confused About Social Networks Play a

The DMCA Major Part in How We
Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 4:34:00 AM
for a "notice-and-notice" system
of dealing with takedowns,
whereby it needs to first notify
challenges the Notice by
submitting a Counter
Notification that complies with
Get News [STATS]
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Last week we wrote about how the user and wait for them to the DMCA, the Host is required
Microsoft abused the DMCA to respond. Unfortunately, the to disable access to the allegedly Submitted at 3/1/2010 2:50:36 AM

force Cryptome offline via DMCA does not follow such a infringing site for a period of
Network Solutions. Since then, procedure. It would be much "not less than 10 business days, The latest study from Pew
there's been some interesting better if it did. However, the nor [sic] more than 14 business Internet analyzes the news
scrambling by all parties DMCA is a "notice-and- days" (the "Challenge Time consumers in America and
involved. Mircorosft claimed takedown" setup, whereby the Period"). Again, this appears to various different ways of finding
that it never meant to take service provider who receives be incorrect. If it had been news. Based on a sample of
Cryptome down entirely, just the the notice needs to first take following the DMCA, it should 2,259 adults, the study reveals
that three fourths of the people claim they read news in a
one document (though, it no down the content, if it wishes to have already taken the content national newspaper such as the
longer is asking for it to be taken retain its safe harbor protections. down to retain safe harbors. It (75%) who find news online get
it either forwarded through email New York Times or USA
down). But that doesn't make It can choose not to take the makes no sense to say once the Today.
much sense, because Network content down (though, that counternotice is sent then you or posts on social networking
sites, and half of them (52%) Also interesting is the division
Solutions only had the ability to rarely happens), but it risks take down the content. Instead, between news consumers
take down the whole site, not l o s i n g t h e s a f e h a r b o r the no less than 10 days/no more forward the news through those
means. according to their relationship to
pieces of content. Either way, protections. As the law itself than 14 days refers to how much news. 33% of cell phone owners
what really confused us was clearly states: upon notification time the service provider is It translates to a large portion of
all Americans. According to the now access news on their cell
Network Solutions response to of claimed infringement as supposed to wait before putting phones and 28% use
the DMCA takedown, which described in paragraph (3), the content back that it already report, 59% of those surveyed
get news from a combination of personalized news, meaning they
was that it waited until responds expeditiously to took down. Of course, given have a customized page that
Cryptome filed a counternotice remove, or disable access to, the that NetSol was confused about online and offline sources.
However, the study also shows includes news from sources
to take down the site. That's not material that is claimed to be the notice-and-takedown they’ve personally chosen.
how the DMCA works. infringing or to be the subject of process, you could see why it that very few people nowadays
(7%) are getting information Perhaps most importantly, news
Yet, in a blog post sent over by infringing activity. So NetSol is felt the need to take the content consumers today participate in
Achura, Network Solutions tries wrong to claim that they first down after the counternotice -- from a single media platform. In
fact, nearly half of Americans the creation of news; 37% have
to provide a "layperson's guide" need to notify the user and wait because that's the point that it contributed to news creation,
t o t h e D M C A . T h e o n l y for the response. realizes it was legally supposed (46%) claim they get news from
four to six media platforms on a commented on news, or shared it
problem is that they get it Second, NetSol is then wrong in to take the content down earlier. via social media sites such as
wrong. how it responds to a Permalink| Comments| Email typical day. And while TV is
still the biggest source of news Facebook or Twitter.
First, Network Solutions seems counternotice from the user. It This Story The entire report is available
to think that the DMCA provides c l a i m s : I f t h e c u s t o m e r (78% of Americans say they get
news from a local TV station), here.
Internet sits on second place Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
(61% of users get news online), enot-poloskun
ahead of radio and newspapers. Tags: News, social media,
Interestingly enough, relatively social networks, trending
few people – only 17 percent –
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New iPhone ad: Family Travel The Blue

Steven Sande (The Unofficial Southwest Airlines app to check International Airport is actually Marble
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) in on a flight from Denver to a mashup of restaurants located Kevin Collins (Flickr Blog)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 10:45:00 PM LA, finds a restaurant for the throughout Denver International Submitted at 2/28/2010 9:48:21 PM
family ( Heidi's Brooklyn Deli) Airport. All of the apps are free,
Filed under: Odds and ends, in the C concourse at Denver although Schlage Link does • About Flickr
iPhone International Airport with Gate
If you've been watching TV Guru, makes sure that she has
require a monthly subscription
and appropriate Z-Link
Flickr is a revolution in photo
storage, sharing and
Dropcam gets
over the last few days (and who entertainment for her kids in the
hasn't, with that USA / Canada form of "Finding Nemo" loaded
hardware on the home front
(similar to the Christmas tree ad
organization, making photo
management an easy, natural
an updated
hockey game and the tsunami in the iPod app, and then turns
coverage), you may have seen off the living room lights at
from the holidays).
TUAW New iPhone ad: Family
and collaborative process. Get
comments, notes, and tags on iPhone App
the latest in the series of iPhone home with the Schlage Link app. Travel originally appeared on your photos, post to any blog, John Biggs (CrunchGear)
ads. For those of you who are The Unofficial Apple Weblog share and more! Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:30:10 AM
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Upgrading to Windows Phone 7 May Not Be perimeter remotely with my
iPhone. It is a problem no more.

Possible Dropcam, makers of $199

wireless webcams, have released
an updated iPhone app that let’s
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) upgrading, as Microsoft’s UK Windows Mobile 6.x owners you add cameras to your system
Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:16:15 AM Mobile Business Group Director will be left with dead-end with a minimum of fuss and
Alex Reeve said it’s up to their d e v i c e s , a s M i c r o s o f t i s muss. Each camera pops up on
Yes, most of us want Windows “hardware partners to think supposed to continue support for the app as its started and you can
Phone 7 to be very different about.” them under the name Windows view images over Wi-Fi and 3G
from Windows Mobile. And But now, news comes out that Phone Classic. But if you’re anywhere in the world.
Microsoft promised that it will, owners of HTC HD2, a new interested in upgrading to The App is free and each
indeed, be different, closer to the Windows Mobile 6.5 device Windows Phone 7, you’re camera costs$199.
latest generation of Zunes than which seems more than capable none of the current phones have treading on unstable ground, no I personally use Vitamin D for
to a Windows Mobile 6.x phone. of running the new software, what it takes. matter which Windows Mobile my home surveillance but this
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Phone 7 software. for Mobile Communications not be upgradable,” she said.
Up until recently, it looked as Business in the Asia-Pacific This doesn’t mean that
though there is a chance of region, Natasha Kwan, said that
E-reader News Edition Tech/ Gadgets/ Entertainment/ 33

We7 Gives UK Users Toni Braxton

Looking to Enter
Another Music Streaming Dating World
Forwarding A Option on the iPhone (ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 12:04:00 AM
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Defamatory Email Is Submitted at 3/1/2010 4:26:23 AM Recently single Toni Braxton
confided in ET's Kevin Frazier
Not Defamation Peter Gabriel-backed UK music
streaming service we7 just
launched an iPhone app which
backstage at the 41st Annual
NAACP Image Awards that she
Mike Masnick (Techdirt) protections. The fact that the is looking for love.
guy added a brief intro to the lets Premium+ users listen to Toni said, "I haven't started
Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:22:30 AM
email also didn't change this -- music on their iPhone, ad-free. dating yet…no one has asked
We've seen some folks claim in though, the content of that intro We7 gives several options to me." A stunned Kevin vowed to
the comments that Section 230 c o u l d b e r e v i e w e d f o r u s e r s : f r e e s e r v i c e i s a d - the iPhone. The two apps have play matchmaker and is on a
safe harbors go away if the defamation (the court found s u p p o r t e d , a n d w o r k s the same price in the UK for mission to find her a date.
person or company is involved there was none), since that was worldwide, Premium option is their premium subscription; ET was also sure to speak to
in forwarding or posting the actually written by the guy. UK-only and lets you stream Spotify, however, is a bit many of the night's big winners
material of others -- but courts Once again, this is exactly how music (without ads) from your cheaper at 9.99 euros (13.6 i n c l u d i n g G a b o u r e y
have repeatedly held otherwise. Section 230 should act. It's PC, and the Premium+ option dollars) in other countries. Sidibe(Outstanding Actress,
Now we've got yet another such designed to make sure liability (also UK-only) lets you listen to Spotify also has the advantage of ' P r e c i o u s ' ) , M o r g a n
case, that actually has pretty a gets applied to the right party -- “millions of songs” without ads, being available in several Freeman(Outstanding Actor,
pretty similar story line to some the one actually making (for both on your PC and your Euroepan countries, while we7 ' I n v i c t u s ' ) , a n d
previous lawsuits. Basically a e x a m p l e ) t h e d e f a m a t o r y iPhone, for a monthly fee of i s s t i l l l i m i t e d t o U n i t e d Mo'Nique(Outstanding Talk
guy forwarded an email to a remarks. Merely passing along 9.99 pounds (roughly 15 US K i n g d o m o n l y . Series, "The Mo'Nique Show").
mailing list, which someone what someone said shouldn't dollars). As far as other mobile platforms
claimed was defamatory -- and have the liability passed on to With this move, we7 joins go, according to we7’s website,
t h e y s u e d t h e g u y w h o you as well, and that's exactly Spotify as another European Android version is “coming
forwarded the email. But, once what the court found. provider of streaming music on soon”.
again, a court has found that the Permalink| Comments| Email
mere act of forwarding the email This Story
does not take away section 230

Plextor’s first SSDs are now available for your consumption

Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:48:39 AM
It seems like nearly every
computer accessory maker has a
line of SSDs now and Plextor
just joined that club with two
SSDs. The company showed off
its upcoming models at CES
2010, but now both the 64GB
and 128GB options are available
— for a pretty price.
Pricing is inline with other
current options available. The
64GB ( PX-64M1S) carries an
MSRP of $235 with the 128GB ( 70MB/s on the 120GB drive.
PX-128M1S) going for $415. They are a tad expensive, yes,
The drives utilize the popular but they are also breakneck-
Marvell controller chipset, quick.
which delivers read/write speeds
of 110MB/s and 65MB/s on the
64GB option and 130MB/s and
34 Politics/ E-reader News Edition

Well, What I’ve Always Wanted to Do Is Direct

Michelle Cottle (The New Scott was elected as driving, drug possession, or date Stars”?)—being the child of a Why should political kids (or
Republic - All Feed) Massachusetts’s junior senator rape; having a bevy of family political celebrity can provide a their parents) worry so much
Submitted at 2/28/2010 9:00:00 PM and the GOP’s newest It boy, friends on call to bail you out of fast track to actual celebrity? I about maintaining a “normal”
aspiring pop star Ayla Brown failed business ventures, help mean, why settle for appearing life when everyone else in the
You’ve got to hand it to Bristol showed up peddling her wares buy you a baseball team, get you on a tedious political chat show country is fighting to get their
Palin: The gal is working on CBS’s “The Early Show.” A elected governor of Texas, and watched largely by the elderly excruciatingly normal lives
overtime to turn those lemons f o r m e r “ A m e r i c a n I d o l ” pave your way to the White and the unstable when mom’s transformed into the next Fox
into lemonade. contestant (she was one of 16 House. political fame can score you a spectacle?
A week or so before graduating semi-finalists in season 5), Ayla OK. That last example is a bit guest spot on a prime-time Projecting out a few years, how
high school last May, America’s has enjoyed a wave of attention specific. Then again, among the drama series? Why sing your long before politicians have to
favorite unwed teen mother since dad’s victory, popping up most enduring benefits of having heart out to a few thousand stop citing their kids as the
signed on as an abstinence on various chat shows and a political parent has been that it drunk fans at local ballgames reason they won’t pursue higher
ambassador for the Candie’s having her new EP ( Circles) dramatically facilitates one’s when dad’s election can get you office—and we instead see kids
F o u n d a t i o n ( a p e r p l e x i n g rushed to market. Ever the own entry into the game. Forget a national audience of three lobbying their parents to run as a
development for those who supportive parent, then-Senator- full-blown dynasties like the million? I hear the Obama girls way to boost the kids’ public
r e c a l l e d B r i s t o l ’ s e a r l i e r elect Brown told ABC’s “This Kennedys and Bushes: The list are big fans of Fox’s “Glee.” If I image? After all, without all that
proclamation that abstinence is Week” on January 31 that he of little boys (and girls) who, but were Malia, I’d start lobbying grotesque personal invasion that
“not realistic at all”). Four would love to see Ayla get for the grace of political hard to join the tryouts for next Sarah Palin whined about in ’08,
months later, young Bristol another shot on “Idol.” But even nepotism, would have wound up season’s new cast members. Bristol would be just another
i n c o r p o r a t e d h e r s e l f a n d assuming Fox doesn’t oblige, anonymous cubicle jockeys or Accompanying this trend, I statistic, a sad cautionary tale
launched a political p.r. and Ayla’s dreams of stardom will used car salesmen is endless. I suspect, will be the fading of the told by anxious Wasilla parents
consulting shop named BSMP undoubtedly be well served by mean, does anyone believe Evan perceived downsides of political looking to scare their own
(short for Bristol Sheeran Marie dad’s new gig. Bayh could have snagged so kid-dom. Once upon a time, hormonal offspring into keeping
Palin). Now comes the big news So what I’m now wondering is: much as a seat on the Muncie pretty much all pols agonized their pants on. Instead, Bristol
that Bristol will try her hand at Do these two lovelies represent a school board if his daddy about the lack of privacy their Inc. is preparing to enter the
acting with an appearance on the sharper, savvier model of weren’t the most charming man families would suffer because of world of wardrobe fittings and
third season of ABC Family’s political kid-dom? to come rolling out of Indiana in their profession. Today, we have script approval. Like Ayla
popular “Secret Life of the There have long been decades? Similarly, related fields Scott Brown touting his Brown, she is ready for her close
American Teenager.” Playing a advantages to having politically like lobbying, consulting, and daughters’ extreme dateability -up, Mr. DeMille.
fictionalized version of herself, prominent parents. Some of the punditry have traditionally during his victory speech and Can the other political progeny
Bristol will befriend the show’s perks are generic, shared by the rushed to embrace those with a calling for Ayla to once more be far behind?
main character in a music class offspring of the rich, powerful, political power player in the shake her groove thing for Michelle Cottle is a senior
for teen moms. and well-connected in any field: family. Simon Cowell. And why not? If editor of The New Republic.
Not too shabby, eh? At this rate, enjoying easier access to elite But have we now reached the our reality TV/YouTube culture For more TNR, become a fan on
it’s a toss-up as to which Palin schools; hobnobbing with other point where—with the lines has taught us anything, it is not Facebook and follow us on
will be the first to score her own Masters of the Universe and between pop-culture and politics to fear exposure. Exposure is Twitter.
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Defiance
E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New estate tax. Kyl is essentially system doesn't operate enough on posing seemingly naive inefficiencies the market creates,
Republic - All Feed) leveraging the unemployed to like every other market. He questions: "I just am curious. while Republicans on the whole
Submitted at 2/28/2010 9:00:00 PM get a deal on estate tax relief that seemed troubled less by the Would you be satisfied if every think market outcomes are
would cost $138 billion over the many Americans who lack member of Congress just had almost always better than
WASHINGTON -- The word next decade, according to health insurance than by those catastrophic care? Do you think anything government can
"partisanship" is typically estimates by the Center on who abuse the insurance they we'd be better health care produce.
a c c o m p a n i e d b y t h e w o r d Budget and Policy Priorities. already have. purchasers?" That's not cheap partisanship.
"mindless." That's not simply The estate tax has already been Addressing Obama, Barrasso Barrasso answered in the It's a fundamental divide. The
insulting to partisans; it's also cut sharply, so the reduction Kyl suggested that we might be affirmative, though he didn't paradox is that our
untrue. is pushing along with Sen. better off if people were insured propose that senators dump their understanding of politics would
If we learn nothing else in 2010, Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., would only for catastrophic care. "Mr. present coverage. Obama came be more realistic if we were less
c a n w e p l e a s e f i n a l l y affect the estates of fewer than President, when you say right back: "Would you feel the cynical and came to see the
acknowledge that our partisan three out of every 1,000 people (people) with catastrophic plans, same way if you were making battle for what it really is.
divisions are about authentic who die, according to the Tax they don't go for care until later, $40,000 ... because that's the E.J. Dionne's e-mail address is
principles that lead to very Policy Center. I say sometimes the people with reality for a lot of folks. ... They ejdionne(at)washpost.com.
different approaches to The proposal helps estates catastrophic plans are the people don't fly into (the) Mayo (Clinic) E.J. Dionne, Jr. is the author of
governing? worth more than $7 million in that are (the) best consumers of and suddenly decide they're the recently published Souled
Last week's health care summit the case of couples. I guess health care in ... the way they going to spend a couple million Out: Reclaiming Faith and
was a day-long seminar that struggling millionaires deserve use their health care dollars." dollars on the absolute, best Politics After the Religious
should make it impossible for the same empathy we feel for "A lot of people" with insurance, health care. They're folks who Right. He is a Washington Post
anyone to pretend otherwise. But those without a job. he added, "come in and say, my are left out." columnist, a senior fellow at the
before we get to that, let's And notice this: Especially in knee hurts, maybe I should get Obama concluded: "We can Brookings Institution, and a
examine the Senate debate over the Senate, what passes for an MRI, they say, and then they debate whether or not we can professor at Georgetown
whether to e x t e n d "bipartisanship" too often say, will my insurance cover it? afford to help them, but we University.
u n e m p l o y m e n t i n s u r a n c e involves a Democrat such as That's the first question. And if I shouldn't pretend somehow that (c) 2009, Washington Post
coverage. The matter is rather L i n c o l n a l l y i n g w i t h a say yes, then they say, OK, let's they don't need help." Writers Group
urgent for jobless workers Republican on behalf of the do it. If I say no, then they say, As neatly as anything I have For more TNR, become a fan on
because 1.1 million of them are wealthiest interests in the well, what will it ... cost? And seen, this exchange captured the Facebook and follow us on
scheduled to lose their benefits country. And we're supposed to what's it (going to) cost ought to philosophical and emotional Twitter.
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measure is blocked is the effort Republican who is also a care." It's that Democrats on the whole
of Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., to use physician. Barrasso's central Obama played the old TV believe in using government to
it as a way of forcing a cut in the concern is that the health care character Columbo, who thrived correct the inequities and

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36 Politics/ TV/ E-reader News Edition

Millennials on the Move

(AEI.Org: Articles) While a solid majority of millennials are distinct. They are teens and tweens are less likely
Submitted at 2/28/2010 3:00:00 PM millennials, 57%, currently more racially diverse than in the than 20 years ago to think
approve of the job Obama is past. Today 61% are white, 20% smoking is OK (27% in 1989,
Young people often lead doing as president, a whopping Hispanic, 14% black and 5% 18% now), more likely to say
change, and two new surveys 73% gave their approval in Asian; in 1972 the age cohort they will wait until marriage to
provide some clues as to where February 2009. (Interestingly, 18 was 90% white. Millennials are have sex (24% to 33% now) and
that change is headed. - to 29-year-olds are the only age more accepting of interracial more likely to say they would
Last week the Pew Research group to give the president dating and interracial marriage refuse a drink at a party (36% to
Center released its new report on majority support today.) The than older groups. They are also 58% now). However, like their 'The Amazing Race'
"millennials," who the survey president's ratings on handling more supportive of immigration older brothers and sisters in the
defined as 18- to 29-year-olds. the economy have dropped 22 and less likely to worry about millennial survey, they value
- 'Run Like Scalded
At 50 million strong, the group p e r c e n t a g e p o i n t s a m o n g assimilation. diversity and accept Dogs' Recap
is larger than the boomer millennials since April 2009 Although they express more homosexuality.
Jackie Schnoop (TV Squad)
generation, so we can expect its (from 66% to 44% in January liberal attitudes than older The millennials are somewhat
members, as they age, to exert 2010) and 17 points on handling people on most social issues, more pessimistic than other age Submitted at 3/1/2010 12:20:00 AM

disproportionate influence on health care (from 63% to 46%). they split pretty evenly on groups about where they are
everything from politics to Fifty-four percent of millennials ideological identification: 32% financially today. That's hardly (S16E03)"Run like scalded
fashion. identified themselves as call themselves moderates, 29% surprising. They are at the dogs?" Well, that's a new one on
B a r a c k O b a m a d i d Democrats (and 40% as liberals and 29% conservatives. bottom of the ladder and just me. It was said by one of the
extraordinarily well among Republicans) in Pew's fourth- This should raise some questions starting out. But they are very cowboys on'The Amazing Race'
millennials in 2008: 62% of 18- quarter 2009 data, but the about their possible long-term optimistic about their prospects. tonight and is just about as
to 29-year-olds voted for him vs. Democrats' advantage was much allegiance to the Democratic Two-thirds told Gallup in a 2003 pleasant as the "don't throw the
only 32% for John McCain. The larger a year earlier. Not only Party. survey that they would be rich. baby out with the bathwater"
way you cast your first vote can are the president's marks lower, Furthermore millennials display And, as all of us know, they are saying. Who comes up with such
anchor you as you age, and but the early enthusiasm young some conservative family tech-savvy. Eighty-three percent evil sayings? What twisted
Obama's big margin suggested people showed for him didn't values. Nineteen percent of in in the Pew poll say they sleep minds create such horrid
he had an opportunity to cement carry over to Democrats in the Pew's survey said they grew up with their cellphones or keep images? Probably some of the
a generational allegiance to the V i r g i n i a a n d N e w J e r s e y in divorced homes. Most of their them nearby at night. As for same minds who create
Democratic Party, like Franklin gubernatorial elections in 2008 mothers work outside the home. fashion, 38% sport tattoos, but challenges on reality television
Roosevelt before him. Those nor in the Massachusetts Senate Their life experiences may of that group, 72% say the competition shows.
who came of age politically election this year. In fairness to explain why they place strong tattoos are hidden. Continue reading'The Amazing
during the Roosevelt era became Obama and the Democrats, emphasis on having good Karlyn Bowman is a senior Race' - 'Run Like Scalded Dogs'
wedded to the Democratic Party millennials are hardly warming marriages and being good fellow at AEI. Recap
and carried their Democratic to the Republicans. When asked parents. These conservative Five Filters featured article: Filed under: OpEd, The
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promising for the president. Demographically the HPOL- news-people ) suggests
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The American Awakening
Dexter Filkins (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 9:00:00 PM
In The Graveyard of Empires:
America's War in Afghanistan
By Seth G. Jones
(W.W. Norton, 414 pp., $27.95)
I. With the war in Afghanistan
hanging in the balance, it is
useful, if a little sad, to recall
just how complete the American
-led victory was in the autumn of
2001. By December, the Taliban
had vanished from Kabul,
Kandahar, and much of the
countryside. Afghans celebrated
by flinging their turbans and
dancing in the streets. They dug
up TV sets, wrapped in plastic,
from hiding places in their
gardens. In Mullah Omar’s
hometown of Sangesar, the
locals broke into his madrassa
and tore out the door frames for
firewood. Among ordinary
Afghans, there was a genuine
sense of deliverance. The world,
which had abandoned them more
than a decade before, was
coming back.
What a difference eight years
makes. Today the Taliban are
fighting more vigorously and in
more places than at any point
New Video: 'The Bachelor''s Family Meets The Final Two
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 12:05:00 AM
Tonight's the night that "The
Bachelor"'s Jake Pavelka will
since they fled the capital. They
are governing, too, with sharia
courts and “shadow”
administrators, in large parts of
the Pashtun heartland in the
south and the east. American
soldiers are dying faster than
ever: twice as many were killed
in 2009 as in 2008. Perhaps most
disturbing, the Afghan
government of President Hamid
Karzai has revealed itself to be a
hollow shell, incapable of doing
much of anything save rigging
elections. The center is giving
way.
The catastrophic reversal in
Afghanistan has many fathers,
but all the many failures can be
boiled down to two: a lack of
resources, which might have
been used to build enduring
Afghan institutions; and a
conviction, until recently, that
time was on our side. In the
crucial years from 2002 to 2006,
as the fledgling Afghan
government hobbled along, the
Americans--by this I mean
officials in the Bush
administration in Washington,
for the soldiers and the
diplomats in the field were
perfectly aware of the dangers--
carried on without the slightest
make a decision that could
change his whole life. Will he
propose to Vienna Girardi or
Tenley Molzahn at the end of
this season's finale?
sense of urgency. In time, the
thinking in Washington went,
Afghan democracy and the
Afghan state would take hold,
and the Taliban would wither
away.
Today, in the gloomy winter of
2010, American policy has been
almost entirely reversed. For the
first time since the war began,
the White House is devoting its
full attention--and the necessary
men and matériel--to drive back
the Taliban and create an
effective Afghan army and state.
The thirty thousand new troops
being dispatched by President
Obama will bring the American
total to around 100,000. Obama
has also ordered a crash effort to
train and equip 400,000 Afghan
soldiers and police, in addition
to a novel plan to organize tens
of thousands of local militiamen.
The U.S. military, meanwhile,
has learned from its disastrous
early mistakes and reinvented
itself. In the villages, American
soldiers are carrying out a
sophisticated strategy that
relegates the killing of
insurgents to the lowest tier.
And that brings us to the
question of time. The most
startling line in Obama’s speech
But first, Jake wants to hear
what his family has to say, so he
introduces both women to his
parents and siblings when they
arrive in St. Lucia.
Politics/ Entertainment/ 37
Stars Send Outpouring
of Affection to Marie
at West Point in December was Osmond
its invocation of an eighteen-
(ETonline - Breaking News)
month timeline for the maximum
deployment of American troops. Submitted at 3/1/2010 5:47:00 AM
After that, he said, they would
While at an event to stamp out
begin to come home. The
hunger, stars such as Nick
president announced an
Lachey, Marcia Cross, and Debi
escalation and a de-escalation in
Mazar sent their condolences to
the same speech. You have the
Marie Osmond and her family
resources now, he seemed to
upon finding out about the tragic
say, but your time is short. In the
death of her teenage son
days that followed, his aides
Michael.
qualified the president’s pledge--
"Desperate Housewive"'s Marcia
it’s “not a cliff, it’s a ramp,” Jim
Cross, who holds a masters
Jones, the national security
degree in psychology, said,
advisor, said. And so it probably
"What's so devastating about
would be. But the fact remains
that is, first of all, death is
that with those crucial sentences,
irrevocable, and you think, 'Oh
Obama bared his intentions, and
my God, did they have
even his soul. He does not want
medication? Was there
to be in Afghanistan. His heart is
something that could have been
not in it. To be sure, he is
done?'...It's heartbreaking."
proceeding with the escalation,
Actress Debi Mazar got to know
and his heart may yet change,
the Osmond family while
but it is difficult to imagine that
competing against Donny
the Taliban--and the Pakistanis--
Osmond for the mirror ball
have not concluded that the
trophy on "Dancing with the
Americans will soon be gone.
Stars." She knows many people
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quite tragic. They're a very
private family."
"This is very serious for me,"
Tenley tells Jake's mother. "I am
looking for the man I am going
to spend the rest of my life
with."
38 Politics/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition

The Inkblot Test Neil Patrick

Jonathan Cohn (The New
Republic - All Feed)
the apple to vote ‘no’ this time
because they went home and had
few days they feel the odds for
passage are higher than they
changes to the Senate bill that
can pass through the
Harris to
Submitted at 2/28/2010 9:05:40 PM an unpleasant experience as a
result of their ‘yes’ vote. I don’t
have been at any time since
January, when Scott Brown’s
reconciliation process.
Still unresolved is the question
Direct Musical
An article that ran in Politico on know if there is anybody who victory in Massachusetts took of sequence. The White House (ETonline - Breaking News)
Friday provided a Rorschach test voted ‘no’ that regrets it.” away the Democrats’ filibuster- and the Senate want the House Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:07:00 AM

for those of us following the That said, Altmire said he’s proof margin in the Senate. to pass the full Senate bill first,
health care reform debate. reconsidering his own “no” vote. That's not what a lot of the with reconciliation changes to "How I Met Your Mother" star
The story was about reform’s And he’s not alone. recent media coverage suggests, follow. They believe this is Neil Patrick Harris is making a
prospects following President The first paragraph certainly I know. But I'm inclined to think preferable both politically and big step from actor to director.
Obama’s bipartisan meeting. seems discouraging. And if these sources are right and the procedurally. The House has The stage vet will be directing
And it dwelt, at length, with the you're looking for reasons to be media coverage is wrong. repeatedly rejected the idea: Its the premiere of Rent at the
situation in the House. In order skeptical about reform, well, that The steady, if slow, progress members don't trust the Senate Hollywood Bowl from August 6
to enact reform, as you probably paragraph will give you plenty. since the Massachusetts election to to do its part and actually pass -8, according to The Hollywood
know, the House will have to But the actual news in that has been unmistakable. After an the reconciliation changes. That Reporter.
pass the Senate bill as written, as passage is the second paragraph. initial period of confusion and would leave House members on In 1997, Harris starred in the
well as pass amendments that In order to get a bill through, listlessness, the administration the hook for the elements of Los Angeles production of Rent
the Senate can consider through House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and congressional leadership reform they despise most, and won a Drama League Award
t h e b u d g e t r e c o n c i l i a t i o n will have to convince at least a have made clear their intentions including the full tax on health for his performance. Harris can
process. It won’t be easy, the few members who voted "no" to to continue pursuing benefits and the Cornhusker be seen every Monday night on
Politico article explained: change their minds. Altmire is comprehensive reform rather Kickback (the agreement to have "HIMYM," airing on CBS.
“I just don’t know where they saying he could be one of them. than scale back their ambitions. the federal government cover the
get the votes in the House,” said And others might join him. (The statements to that effect cost of Nebraska’s Medicaid
P e n n s y l v a n i a R e p . J a s o n That's a breakthrough. were particularly strong on the expansion).
Altmire, a Democrat who voted Does this mean reformers Sunday morning talk shows.) No Five Filters featured article:
against the initial House bill. finally have the upper hand? No. less important, they have nearly Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
“ I t ’ s a h u g e c h a l l e n g e But a variety of administration finished working out a PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
because…the people who voted officials, congressional staff, and compromise between the House Term Extraction.
‘yes’ would love a second bite at lobbyists have said in the past and Senate bills, including

Al Gore in the New York Times

(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 10:31:55 AM
I agree with almost everything
Al Gore writes in his New York
Times op-ed today, but we all
know that people who despise
Gore (and there are more than a
few on the right) are going to
reject it out of hand.
Gore is a very polarizing figure,
partly because of his rather
extreme attacks on George W.
Bush during the Bush
presidency (such as the red-
faced yelling speech in which he
accused Bush of betraying the
country).
This animus from the right
damages his ability to be a good
spokesman for climate change,
which is unfortunate because he
has a pretty good grasp of the
science, and a realistic
assessment of the political
issues, and can argue effectively
on both fronts. But the populist
hatred of Gore is fully exploited
by Republican politicians, who
relentlessly demonize him as a
hypocrite, a liar, etc.
Even if you hate Gore, though,
try to put it on hold long enough
to give his article a chance.
There are some thoughtful points
in here that deserve to be
discussed instead of dismissed,
starting with the title: We
Can&##x2019;t Wish Away
Climate Change.
(I checked the comments on
Twitter’s conservative feed
‘#tcot’ just to see how bad the
Gore Derangement Syndrome is,
and it’s raging out of control. A
typical tweet: “When do
Congressional hearings start into
Al Gore’s criminal fraud and the
man-made #GlobalWarming
lie?”)
E-reader News Edition Politics/ E-reader News/ 39

Florida's Kottkamp Blasts Obama's Chilean Earthquake,

Economic Policy Day Two
(Newsmax - Politics) look for government solutions biotechnology and life sciences, (Little Green Footballs) Earthquake experts said the
Submitted at 2/28/2010 12:33:56 PM when we all know … that aerospace, alternative energy, Submitted at 2/28/2010 9:21:54 AM strains built up by that
private sector free mark digital technology. These are movement, plus the stresses
Florida Lieutenant Gov. Jeff solutions are what’s going to areas where you bring high wage More than a million and a half added along the fault zone by the
Kottkamp strongly objects to work.” jobs to your state,” Kottkamp people are displaced in Chile 1960 quake, led to the rupture on
President Obama’s intervention As for healthcare, Kottkamp said. after yesterday’s 8.8 earthquake, Saturday along what is estimated
in the economy. agrees with current Attorney “That is the future of Florida.” and at least 300 people have to be about 400 miles of the
“It appears this president doesn’t General Bill McCollum’s plan to He strongly supports drilling for been reported killed — a terrible zone, at a depth of about 22
have a lot of respect for the sue if the Democrats’ reform natural gas off Florida’s coast to number, yet surprisingly low for miles under the sea floor. The
foundation of this country,” plan passes. reduce our dependence on such an enormous event. With a quake generated a tsunami, with
K o t t k a m p , a R e p u b l i c a n “It’s clearly a violation of the foreign oil. In addition, “We quake this size, the danger isn’t small surges hitting the West
candidate for state attorney 10th amendment,” Kottkamp have to be serious about solar over; more than 90 aftershocks Coast of the United States and
general, told Newsmax.TV. said. “If the federal government energy.” Solar energy can be have been reported so far, some slightly larger ones in Hawaii
E d i t o r ' s N o t e : S e e t h e can force you to buy healthcare, used to heat water in South of them quite large. and other parts of the Pacific. A
Newsmax.TV interview with t h e y c a n f o r c e y o u t o d o Florida homes, Kottkamp says. The New York Times has an 7.7-foot surge was recorded in
Florida Lieutenant Gov. Jeff a n y t h i n g . ” He wouldn’t indicate who he article on what scientists know Talcahuano, Chile.
Kottkamp below In terms of specific Florida supports in the Republican about the geological forces that Jian Lin, a geophysicist with the
“In some ways it seems like he i s s u e s , K o t t k a m p o p p o s e s primary for Senate between caused the quake. Woods Hole Oceanographic
doesn’t have an appreciation for Obama’s space budget cuts. Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio. The magnitude 8.8 earthquake Institution, said the quake
nation states. Everything he’s Those cuts will hurt workers on “They’re two very dynamic that struck off the coast of Chile occurred just north of the site of
done seems to be a systematic Florida’s space coast, where people. It will be a very fun race early Saturday morning occurred the 1960 earthquake, with very
attack on the foundation of this rockets are launched, he says. to watch,” Kottkamp said. “They along the same fault responsible little overlap. “Most of the
country.” In addition, the cuts deprive us both have strengths and for the biggest quake ever rupture today picked up where
Kottkamp in particular objects of technology and put national weaknesses.” measured, a 1960 tremor that the 1960 rupture stopped,” said
to spending increases, tax defense in jeopardy, Kottkamp © Newsmax. All rights reserved. killed nearly 2,000 people in Mr. Lin, who has studied the
i n c r e a s e s , a n d O b a m a ’ s says. Five Filters featured article: Chile and hundreds more across 1960 event, which occurred
healthcare reform. He says Florida must continue Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: the Pacific. along about 600 miles of the
Basically, the president doesn’t to broaden its economy beyond PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Both earthquakes took place fault zone and was measured at
believe in limited government, tourism and agriculture. “For the Term Extraction. along a fault zone where the magnitude 9.5.
Kottkamp says. “He continues to l o n g - t e r m i n F l o r i d a : Nazca tectonic plate, the section For more analysis, geologist
of the earth’s crust that lies Kim Hannula has a good blog
E-Readers’ Price May Fall to $150 With New under the Eastern Pacific Ocean post comparing the Haitian and
Chip, Freescale Says (Bloomberg) south of the Equator, is sliding Chilean earthquakes: How big
(Yahoo! News Search Results beneath another section, the was that EQ? Magnitude vs
Semiconductor Inc. , whose
for e-readers) South American plate. The two intensity in Chile and Haiti.
products power about 90 percent
are converging at a rate of about
Submitted at 2/28/2010 9:32:55 PM of electronic book readers, said a
three and a half inches a year.
new chip will help drive down
[ fivefilters.org: unable to the price of the devices to less
retrieve full-text content] March than $150 this year.
1 (Bloomberg) -- Freescale
40 Politics/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition

Cracked: The 5 Most Badass Paranoid Delusion of

Presidents of All-Time the Week
(Little Green Footballs) Riggs. Sure, he probably didn’t someone who is strying to kill (Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 1:21:34 PM have an irate black lieutenant to them with a loaded gun. Submitted at 2/28/2010 6:30:31 PM
answer to, or a weary partner On one occasion, he challenged
Here’s a hilarious piece at who was too old for this shit, but a man named Charles Dickinson Frank Gaffney’s post at Andrew
Cracked.com on The 5 Most he most certainly had a death to a duel, (the reason behind it Breitbart’s “Big Government”
Badass Presidents of All-Time. wish. wasn’t important, not to us and blog is titled, “ Can This
When the 1828 election rolled How do we know? Well, certainly not to Jackson), and Possibly Be True?”
around, a lot of people were despite everyone’s best efforts, Jackson was even kind enough I suggest an alternate title: “
t e r r i f i e d w h e n t h e y h e a r d Jackson was elected to the top to give Dickinson the first shot. Could This Possibly Be Any
Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson office, and when he wasn’t busy We’re gonna go ahead and More Paranoid and Ridiculous?”
w a s r u n n i n g . I f y o u ’ r e shaping the Presidency as we repeat that: In a duel with Now, thanks to an astute
wondering how a guy we’re know it today, you could find pistols, Jackson politely observation by Christopher appears ominously to reflect a
calling a bad ass got such a lame him out back dueling. In case volunteers to be shot at first. Logan of the Logans Warning morphing of the Islamic crescent
nickname, it’s because he used you haven’t been to the 18th Dickinson happily obliged and blog, we have another possible and star with the Obama
to carry a hickory cane around century lately, this unmanly shot Jackson, who proceeded to explanation for behavior that — campaign logo. (For a
and beat people senseless with it, sounding activity actually shake it off like it was a bee in the face of rapidly growing comparison, the previous logo is
and if you’re wondering why he involves standing across from an sting. When Jackson returned threats posed by North Korean, below.)
did that, it’s because he was a armed man and shooting at him the favor, Dickinson was not so Iranian, Russian, Chinese and Even as the administration has
f*cking lunatic. while he in turn shoots at you. lucky, and that’s why his face others’ ballistic missiles — can lately made a show of rushing
Former Democratic Senator and The number of duels that isn’t on the twenty. The bullet, only be described as treacherous less capable sea- and land-based
Secretary of the Treasurey Jackson took part in varies by the by, remained in Jackson’s and malfeasant: Team Obama’s short-range (theater) missile
Albert Gallatin feared a Jackson depending on what source you body for 19 years because, we anti-anti-missile initiatives are defenses into the Persian Gulf in
presidency because of his consult; some say 13, while assume, Jackson knew that time not simply acts of unilateral the face of rising panic there
“habitual disregard of laws and o t h e r s r a n k t h e n u m b e r spent removing the bullets disarmament of the sort to be about Iran’s actual/incipient
constitutional provisions.” Or in somewhere in the 100’s, both of would just fall under the general expected from an Alinsky ballistic missile and nuclear
other words, the man was a which are entirely too many category of “time not dueling,” acolyte. They seem to fit an capabilities, Team Obama is
loose canon—17th Century times for a reasonable human Jackson’s least favorite category. increasingly obvious and behaving in a way that — as the
Washington’s answer to Martin being to stand in front of worrying pattern of official U.S. new MDA logo suggests — is
submission to Islam and the theo all about accommodating that
Andrea Peyser's Column, Condensed -political-legal program the
latter’s authorities call Shariah.
“Islamic Republic” and its ever-
more aggressive stance.
What could be code-breaking
[Sex Pervs] evidence of the latter
explanation is to be found in the
Watch this space as we identify
and consider various, ominous
and far more clear-cut acts of
Hamilton Nolan (Gawker) the raunchier the newly-disclosed redesign of the submission to Shariah by
Submitted at 3/1/2010 10:15:25 AM better...satisfying the primal urge Missile Defense Agency logo President Obama and his team.
to find places to plant their (above). As Logan helpfully
"Sex addicts...pert and vehicles." Normal Monday. [ shows, the new MDA shield
pretty...Women who ogle...grab NYP]
at men in a sexual fashion...dirty gang rape...millimeters from his
bastards...sex objects...I feared crotch...the nastier, the grabbier,
E-reader News Edition
Why Financial Reform
Is Stalled
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 3:00:00 PM
According to the media's
narrative about Washington, the
Obama administration's financial
regulation proposals have not
gotten through Congress because
the town is gridlocked by
partisan warfare. It's a simplistic
story that does not require much
thought to generate or accept.
Here's a better explanation: The
proposals are not grounded in a
valid explanation of what caused
the financial crisis, reflect the
same impulse to control a sector
of the economy that underlies its
health-care and cap-and-trade
proposals, and more than
anything else reflect Rahm
Emanuel's iconic motto for all
statists that a good crisis should
never go to waste.
The administration appears to
have begun its regulatory reform
effort with the idea propagated
by candidate Barack Obama that
the financial crisis was caused
by deregulation. There was
never any evidence for this. The
banks, which were in the most
trouble, are the most heavily
regulated sector of the economy
and their regulation has only
gotten tighter since the 1930s.
This article is available by
subscription from the Wall
Street Journal.
Peter J. Wallison is the Arthur
Brooks Fellow in Financial
Policy Studies.
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Cole
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Ark. Lt. Gov.
Announces Senate Bid
Against Lincoln
(Newsmax - Politics)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 12:14:41 AM
Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter
says he is seeking the
Democratic nomination to
challenge U.S. Sen. Blanche
Lincoln this fall.
Halter's spokesman provided a
statement Monday in which
Halter said he would file papers
for the Senate this week. Halter
is the only Democrat to formally
announce a challenge to Lincoln
as she seeks a third term.
Lincoln faces a tough re-
election fight, with eight
Republicans already announcing
interest in the seat. Groups on
the left have criticized her
stances on labor, health care and
air pollution regulations.
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N.J. students give mixed
reviews to using e-
readers instead of books
(The Star-Ledger)
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Submitted at 3/1/2010 4:10:00 AM
Lincoln has become emblematic
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Q&A: Does drinking soy milk cause prostate cancer?

rss@consumerreports.org of studies. While a 2007 analysis genistein, inhibited the growth prostate cancer, including being
(Consumer Reports) suggested that some soy of prostate cancer cells in older and eating a lot of red
Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:40:46 AM products might increase the risk testtube studies, though it’s too meat. Subscribe now!
of advanced prostate cancer, early to say whether it does the S u b s c r i b e t o
Q&A: Does drinking soy milk most studies have concluded that same thing in men. So you can ConsumerReports.org for expert
cause prostate cancer? moderate consumption of soy continue to include soy milk in Ratings, buying advice and
Is there any evidence that doesn’t increase prostate-cancer your diet without concern. reliability on hundreds of
d r i n k i n g s o y m i l k c a u s e s risk—and may actually lower it. Find out why you should add products. Update your feed
prostate cancer?— G.D.T., That might be due to soy’s high more soy to your diet and take a preferences
Columbia, S.C. concentration of isoflavones, s i m i l a r l y t o t h e h o r m o n e look at some factors that can
Not according to a vast majority plant chemicals that behave e s t r o g e n . O n e i s o f l a v o n e , likely increase your risk of
42 Consumer Reports/ Sports/ Fashion/ E-reader News Edition

Recalls: Acura, Chrysler, Dodge, Honda, Saab,

and Toyota
Consumer Reports Shopping vehicle. Until a repair is made, Dealers will replace the driver’s
Blog (Consumer Reports) the air bags may not provide -side retractor free of charge and
Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:30:20 AM optimum crash protection. will also replace the passenger
This recall affects vehicles retractors for 10 years from the
Recalls: Acura, Chrysler, r e g i s t e r e d o r s o l d i n t h e date of sale.
Dodge, Honda, Saab, and following states: Alaska, Owners may go to
Toyota Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa,
A few recalls have been I l l i n o i s , I n d i a n a , K a n s a s ,
gmownercenter.com for more
information.
Party on,
announced recently affecting K e n t u c k y , M a s s a c h u s e t t s ,
Acura, Chrysler and Dodge Maine, Maryland, Michigan, 2002 Honda Accord and 2001-
2003 Honda Civic, 2002 Honda
2010 Toyota Tacoma
Toyota is recalling 8,000 Canada
minivans, a number of Honda Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Tacoma pickup trucks due to a Ariel Helwani (FanHouse
vehicles, the Saab 9-3, and New Hampshire, New Jersey, CR-V and Odyssey and 2003 problem with the propeller shaft, Main)
Toyota Tacoma. If your vehicle New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Honda Pilot. which may develop cracks
is listed here, the manufacturer Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, The company says a defect in during manufacturing. Over
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should contact you. Customer- South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, the air bag’s inflation system can time, the cracks could lead to the
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2005-2006 Chrysler Town & District Of Columbia. control. British Columbia -- Feb. 28,
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GM is recalling over 14,000 Team Canada and Team USA.
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problem with the seat belt goal to Sidney Crosby's game-
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Sponsor Post: Developer Community 101: Treat Your

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platform component in it. integrated with business internal projects delivered by build on your API? (Money, pay close attention, and analyze
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is an excellent corporate tactic to down approach for planning • Do you know the proper developer portal dashboards (or
achieve faster time-to-market your API starts by defining what It's important that the API c h a n n e l s t o r e a c h y o u r reports) to get aggregate
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U.S. Department of Defense Goes Social...Yes,

Really!
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) blocked access to 12 popular members are reminded that
Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:08:32 AM social media sites from .mil while the new policy opens up NintendoWare
computers citing "bandwidth access to Facebook and the like, Weekly: Mega Man
On Friday, the U.S. Department concerns," reports the Navy other sites like those containing
of Defense announced a new Times. In August 2009, the gambling, pornography and hate 10, Fatal Fury Special
policy which allows all users of Marine Corps banned the same -crime, are still banned. Also, JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
unclassified computers in the sites, this time citing security personnel are advised that
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:45:00 AM
.mil domain access to popular issues. Other services also began "everyone has a responsibility to
social networking sites including blocking social media sites at the protect themselves and their [ Capcom] Mega Man 10 is up
Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and direction of various commanders information online, and existing today on the Wii Shop, offering
YouTube among others. This in certain locations. Sometimes regulations on ethics, operational a new 8-bit-style test of your
change in policy effectively those bans even led to the security, and privacy still apply." memory, patience, and pure
reverses the previous ban on shutdown of personal blogs. The Social Sites of the DoD twitch ability. This time,
accessing these types of sites - a Unfortunately for military According to the Times, Lindy Elsewhere on the DoD Social however, it's got easy mode!
ban that had been in place for p e r s o n n e l , t h e s e b l o c k i n g
Kyzer, an advisor to the Army's Media Hub, are links to other Imagine being able to tell all
nearly three years. In embracing measures forced troops to use
Chief of Public Affairs on social DoD social media sites including your friends you completed
the new policy, the department their own personal computers in
media issues, said that all the Twitter feeds for Price Floyd Mega Man 10-- without
also launched its own social order to communicate with
units will be now be required to and the department itself, its resorting to the total lie you told
media hub, a blog-like site friends and family via Facebook,
open access to social networking Facebook page, Flickr account, about completing Mega Man 9.
complete with live Twitter feeds, Twitter and other social media
sites initially. Afterwards, if any YouTube account, uStream See all the new Virtual Console,
Tweetmeme buttons and "share services while stationed in the
commander does need to block account and more. Blog posts on WiiWare, and DSiWare games
on Facebook" links. And in case U.S. When deployed, they had
sites for security purposes, those the site focus on how the after the break.
you thought they weren't serious, to visit Internet cafes in order to
blocks can only be temporary. department uses new media and Continue reading
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Action Streams: A New Idea for Social Networks

Marshall Kirkpatrick Sponsor its superior features or design.
(ReadWriteWeb) Earlier this month social You could interact with your
Submitted at 3/1/2010 12:59:48 AM software designer Adrian Chan These idea are exciting and are friends on Google Buzz from
offered up a proposal for what supported by a substantial inside Facebook, or from a
Walled gardens are already he called Action Streams. number of people, though. social network that doesn't even
under attack because of the ease Action streams would not only The Activity Streams discussion exist yet. More and better social
of sending content like messages share status/activity update meta is participated in by engineers networks would spring into Fly Out of Regional
and photos from one website to -data but also permit updates to from companies like Google, existence because the ability to Airports to Save Money
another. Sites that don't let function as actions. For example, Facebook, Nokia, Yahoo and see and interact with friends and Hassle [Airline
content flow in and out freely, an invitation update posted in others. Chris Messina, who would no longer be a scarce
when that's what users want, are twitter could be accepted in joined Google in January, is one resource hoarded by the biggest Travel Tip]
fighting against the powerful Buzz. The vision for action of the key voices, and semantic social networks. Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
tide of the internet. streams thus involves a web builder Monica Keller, who If you think social networking Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:30:00 AM
Now a new proposal aims to distributed and decentralized left MySpace for Facebook last is a world-changing
take things to the next level and ecosystem of coupled action month, appears to be taking an phenomenon today, imagine When planning a flight most
send a payload of item-type posts, rendered by third party even more active role in the what it might be like if people focus on flying out of
specific action options along s t r e a m c l i e n t s a n d w i t h i n effort than she had before. interoperable social networks major airpots, hopping from one
with every piece of content that participating social networks. If Activity Streams with sprung up like wildflowers. It's metropolitan area to another.
gets shot across the internet. A This idea was added tonight to Actions can be implemented one thing to make content Plotting a course that starts in a
loose body of innovators from the Activity Streams wiki where effectively, that would mean not available in a standard format - regional airport can lead to
some of the biggest social it will be discussed by the only that you could participate in but making some basic actions significant savings and less
networking companies online community building the Activity any social network you choose transmittable and standardized hassle.
h a v e b e g u n d i s c u s s i n g a n Streams format. The standard and still read messages from would make the prospect of Photo by kossy.
addition to the Activity Streams types of actions that can be taken outside that network - you could communication across networks Over at the frugality blog
standard format called an Action in regard to content items of the also interact with them from all the more real and powerful. Wisebread they've put together a
Stream. That could blow the same categories on Amazon and those other networks as well. That could mean an environment list of ways you can save money
world of social networking wide Facebook were listed as prior RSVP to Facebook event invites, ripe for innovation and a better on airfare and travel expenses.
open, allowing users to try out art. The discussion has just tag yourself in photos, etc. experience every day for users. Among them:
other competing social networks begun, and data interoperability without visiting Facebook, but Discuss Use Regional Airports: Again
without losing their ability to isn't something that everyone at from within whichever social
i n t e r a c t w i t h f r i e n d s o n big social networks agrees is in network won your heart through FLY page 46
F a c e b o o k , f o r e x a m p l e . their best short-term interests.

Milan Fashion Week Fall 2010: Must-Have Minis at Versus

ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 5:46:37 PM
Another Day, another chic up-to
-there dress on model-of-the-
moment Tati Cotliar. First, it
was Donatella's motocross mini
at Versace. Today, I fell for
Christopher Kane's and
Dontatella's tuxedo-like velvet
number at Versus. Both dresses
(sexy and slick at Versace; sly
and a little prim at Versus)
looked all the more chic on the
Argentinian beauty who has
walked in every major show so
far this season.
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FLY
Google Challenges Bing's continued from page 45

often missed by major search airports I tried out Flint. Not

Photosynth; Adds User Photos to engines (and even some travel
agents), be sure to check out
only was it more pleasant to fly
out of Flint—parking lot to
what the smaller regional boarding can be as short as 30
Street View airports can offer. For example,
the best way to fly to Toronto
minutes on a slow travel day—it
was cheaper and has consistently
Jolie O'Dell (ReadWriteWeb) Google has chosen to highlight from select U.S. cities is with been so.
Submitted at 2/28/2010 9:15:24 PM a n d i n t e g r a t e t h i s f e a t u r e Porter Airlines, which flies into The last time I needed to fly to
because of competition with T o r o n t o ' s r e g i o n a l I s l a n d New York the short notice ticket
Google Street View has made a easier to navigate through these Bing. The Next Web recently Airport. From there, you're the from Detroit was $1200 and the
few headlines at RWW lately - images in a way that should feel called Microsoft's Photosynth, a world's shortest ferry ride away ticket from Flint was $212. Like
once for getting itself into hot similar to how you're used to similar product launched in 2008 from the heart of downtown they highlight in the tip at
water in Europe and once, exploring within Street View." and integrated into Bing Maps, Toronto. Here are just some of Wisebread with the Toronto
notably, for bringing Street Sponsor "the killer app of the Bing suite" the potential benefits of flying example, you'll want to check
View's photo-tour features into Users can submit pictures from that differentiates Bing from with regional airports: out which major airline is the
retail outlets. Picasa, Panoramio and Flickr Google in a positive way. • You'll save time and money major one at the regional airport.
Now, we've learned that Street that show different views, times "The feature," wrote Jacob on transportation to and from Flint, for example, is part of the
View will also begin to feature of day or pedestrian-only areas. Friedman , "displays collections large airports. AirTran network and flying
user-submitted photographs. Here's an example of what the of photos stitched together into a • You'll save money on airport from Flint to their hub in Atlanta
According to a recent Google interface looks like; the square panorama[...] The results, to put taxes by using regional airports is practically as cheap as your
Lat Long blog post, "We began in the top right corner indicates it bluntly, can be spectacular." in lieu of larger international cab fare to even get to the
integrating user photos into there are user-submitted images While Google's offering may ones. airport.
Street View last year. User for that area. not have the 3D-esque quality of • Security lines and checkpoints Check out the article at
photos allow you to view A n d h e r e i s t h e p h o t o Photosynth, allowing for more are usually smaller. Wisebread for more tips and if
locations from entirely new navigation interface. Users can creative images and photos from • Regional airports often cater you have some of your own to
perspectives, whether through also navigate through photos a larger geographical area to be to business travelers, so the share we'd love to hear them in
t h e e y e s o f a t a l e n t e d u s i n g n e w c l i c k - a n d - d r a g shared in Street View is a smart quality of travel and service can the comments. 14 Travel Hacks
photographer with a knack for controls to see images from move for the company. Let us be superior. and Airfare Saving
capturing architectural detail, or nearby areas, or different angles know what you think in the Tips[WiseBread]
simply taken from locations we or crops of the same area. comments. Discuss I started using regional airports
couldn't get to... We're making it Some have speculated that when, upon realizing I lived
almost right between Detroit
Metro and the Flint Regional
E-reader News Edition
JuiceDefender Saves Batteries by
Automating Android Data
[Downloads]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:00:00 AM
Android: Most phones doesn't
make it easy to switch cellular
data connection on and off, even
if doing so really helps save
your battery. JuiceDefender
toggles wireless data and Wi-Fi
on and off every so often to
preserve power.
The whole point of a
smartphone with Google apps
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your email, Google Voice
messages, and other online
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walking around, at your office
desk, and generally not actively
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in every minute with the
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you set a time interval—5
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then shut off again. You can also
set similar Wi-Fi connectivity
rules, or only have web data
enabled when you've got your
screen on. Besides the battery
savings, those who like to parse
out their email checks and avoid
minute-by-minute distractions
see some benefit here, too.
That's all in the free
app—paying for UltimateJuice
(€2.79, or just under $4 in U.S.
money) provides access to MMS
messages, more automated Wi-
Fi features, and a daily "night"
sleep schedule. We've
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for offering a similar on-off
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into for automation, Locale, now
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JuiceDefender is a free
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continued from page 43
of your API network.
In addition to the segmentation
questions mentioned above,
consider your top developer
targets, and the resources you
need to provide to help them
achieve success. It can be
something as simple as language
considerations. Build in Success
Metrics
As mentioned earlier, the API
platform needs to play a role in
the revenue growth of the
company. Oftentimes,
champions of API platforms
struggle with proving the ROI of
a program since it's a relatively
new channel that has many
avenues of use. The simplest and
most powerful way to
demonstrate the impact is to
assess what can be measured,
such as:
• revenue attributable to API
• CTR to pages with ad revenue
via API
• affiliate CTR on content using
API
• number of user of mobile apps
Tech News/ 47
built using API
And since a robust, active and
engaged API network leads to
more creative developments,
take note of metrics that
substantiate a healthy
community, such as:
• number of developers
• number of live applications
• downloads of your SDKs and
toolkits
This combination of strategic
thought-starters for platform
planning and developer
segmentation is hopefully a
guide for you to get the most out
of your API platform. So
remember, treat your developers
like customers. That's the best
rule of thumb when it comes to
creating a robust developer
community around your API
program. Discuss
48 Tech News/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition

Fotobabble: Add Audio to Your Pics QOTD: “Half the

Jolie O'Dell (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 8:27:39 PM
We've recently come across an
app that literally brings its users
"talking pictures."
Essentially, Fotobabble attaches
an audio caption to any image
with audio than conventional
text-based captions do now?
Read on and tell us what you
app.
We do wish that Fotobabble Formulas They Teach You
would let users audio-caption
pics from Facebook, Flickr
photo streams or elsewhere on
in Grad School Are False”
Barry Ritholtz (The Big grad school. Half the formulas
the Web. Ensuring ownership Picture)
they teach you are false. It’s a lot
would be easy enough, as well,
of self-study. I read a lot of
through Flickr's API or Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:00:45 AM

you can upload. It's a cute, fun finance books, and I usually read
think. Facebook Connect.While we're
way to share and narrate photos Harry Markopolos, the Madoff them with a calculator because I
Sponsor on that subject, account creation
with friends, and could even be whistleblower whose new book, go through the math to make
Here's our example. It took just should be possible through
useful for certain kinds of online No One Would Listen sure I master the formulas.
a few seconds to create. Facebook Connect or Twitter
businesses - for example, is out tomorrow, had a brief >
Currently, users can choose to OAuth. Ideally, we'd also want
photographers who wanted to interview in the Sunday NYT One other line that I could not
share their creations across a to be able to create slide shows
explain more information about magazine. agree more about:“It’s a lot of
wide variety of social networks and sets or groups of pics.
a particular shot or online This quote leapt out at me: self-study.”
or email; however, autosharing What do you think: Can you see
retailers who wanted to give > Five Filters featured article:
is not built in. The app is yourself using Fotobabble? If so,
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Avoid Overindulging by Knowing Your Fast Food Fries [Fast

Food]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Texas Cheese Fries with McDonald's has that under
Submitted at 3/1/2010 5:30:00 AM Jalapeno Ranch from Chili's, control.
which drops 1,920 calories, 147 How do you avoid indulging on
When you're indulging in chain g r a m s o f f a t , a n d 3 , 5 8 0 fries when, on occasion, they're
restaurant or fast food meals, milligrams sodium onto your so, so good? Share your secrets,
fries can seem like just a drop in table. That's basically your or simple willpower tales, in the
the calorie bucket. The creators calories for one day, saturated comments. America's Worst
of the worst foods in America f a t f o r t h r e e , a n d s o d i u m French Fries (and What You
list beg to differ, pointing out allotment for a day and a half. Should Eat Instead!)[Yahoo!
some fries that sit like whole Men's Health follows its formula Health via The Consumerist]
meals. of detailing the excesses of McDonald's fries can turn out and BK), you'll find the least
For those who read these kinds corporate food and suggesting not that bad for you—if you caloric, least salty fries
of listicles only to skip right to alternative sides on the same constrain the portion: underneath the golden arches.
the heavyweight champ (and menu. The odd bit of actual Out of the big three fast food The key to ordering a smart side
we're that type, too), it's the s u r p r i s e , t h o u g h , i s t h a t joints (Mickey D's, Wendy's, dish is portion sizing-and
E-reader News Edition
Opera Chugging Along, Releases
Fourth 10.5 Release Candidate in
24 Hours [Updates]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 4:40:00 AM
Windows: Opera's development
team has cranked out no less
than four 10.5 release candidate
builds in (roughly 24 hours. That
might signal a final build due
tomorrow, timed to arrive with
Microsoft's mandatory browser
choice screen in Europe.
Opera is listed among the
browsers, ranked in random
order, that new editions of
Windows must offer first-time
installers as of March 1, after a
long and drawn-out legal battle
over monopoly powers in
Europe. Opera's team, in the
meantime, has been fixing bugs
and tweaking features—like
HTML5-compliant video—like
a team possessed. For us in the
U.S., it's just convenient to be
able to try out what looks to be a
near-final Opera 10.5 on our
Windows system, and feel some
of that notable speed boost. No
Mac or Linux builds yet, but
they're likely to arrive, well, at
least by tomorrow.
This Opera 10.5 release
candidate is a free download for
Windows systems only. Give a
shout out to anything new you
find, or features you've found
improved, in the comments.
Thanks for the tip, tc4001!
10.50 RC4[Opera Desktop
Team]
Prevent Squiggly TV Images in
Photographs [Photography Tip]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:00:00 AM
Ever notice how older-model
televisions and monitors have
that scanning-in-progress look in
video and photographs? That's
because your lens is literally
capturing the set in the middle of
a screen refresh. You can avoid
that effect with some camera
adjustment.
Photo by dailyinvention.
The Digital Photography School
blog explains the capture science
behind trying to capture non-
LCD/plasma TVs, CRT
monitors, and other display
devices:
The screen on a TV is rolled
down one pixel at a time at
lightening speed. Use a speed of
Right now on Cinematical
Kona Gallagher (TV Squad)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 6:33:00 PM
The folks at our sister site,
Cinematical, are working hard to
give you news and reviews of
the best -- and worst -- the silver
screen has to offer. Here are
some of their musings on the
latest blockbusters, indies, and
everything in between:
• Cinematical talks ageless
actors: namely commercial co-
1/30 or slower to catch the fully
‘rolled out' screen of pixels.
If your camera doesn't allow
you to set a shutter speed, take a
look at the automatic modes. For
example, 'sports' mode wouldn't
be any good because the shutter
is too fast.
Got experience shooting with
stars Abe Vigoda and Betty
White. Who's your favorite?
• My dog, Buckley, is named
after Ben Stiller's dog in 'The
Royal Tenenbaums.' Does your
pet have a cinematical name?
• Bruce Willis wants to do a 5th
'Die Hard' installment. I'm all for
this. Cinematical discusses how
it should go.
• Taylor Lautner may not be
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older, electron-beam-powered
monitors in the frame? Do tell in
the comments. How to Take
Photos of a TV Without the
Squigglies[Digital Photography
School]
'Max Steel,' but it looks like he
will be 'Stretch Armstrong.'
• Cinematical absolutely loathed
'Cop Out,' but I saw it last night
and quite enjoyed it. It wasn't the
funniest movie ever made, but I
was entertained. What did you
think about it?
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What you can expect from the
Archos 7 and 8 Home Tablets
Tablet
(BestTabletReview.com)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:39:18 AM
The Archos 7 and Archos 8
enter the alphanumeric lineup
We learned that Archos was
coming out with the Archos 7
Internet Tablet, a larger version
of their popular Archos 5IT,
back in January, but now news is
that Archos is releasing the
Archos 8 model in addition to a
whole family of alphanumeric
devices.
To briefly recap, the Archos 7
(or “Archos 7 Home Tablet”)
runs off a 600MHz ARM 9
processor, has a 7-inch resistive
touchscreen, uses Android and
comes in 2GB and 8GB memory
versions. Much like the A5, it’s
meant to be a MID device that
plays all kinds of video, audio
and image files in addition to
surfing the internet and running
a variety of Android
applications. The battery life is
said to last between 7 hours (for
video) and 44 hours (for audio
only). The A7 will launch in
April for €149 (selling for $179
in the U.S.) for the 2GB model
and €179 (we’re guessing
between $200-$229 U.S.) for the
8GB version. Watch an
exclusive hands-on video by
Charbax.
The Archos 8 Home Tablet is a
slightly different animal. While
sharing the same processor,
price (4GB is €149) and
thickness (12mm or 0.47-
inches), it takes design
suggestions from other digital
frame tablets. With an increased
bezel and square design, it
speaks to those who wish to use
it as an in home device and prop
it up for media consumption. It
also may be a substitute or even
worthy contender to the Sony
Dash. Both will fill the same
need and cost about the same,
but we expect the Archos 8 to
have a built-in battery for
portability while the Dash will
have many more applications
available for it. The A8 will
begin selling in May.
But wait, there’s more! Archos
won’t be leaving the other
numbers out of the mix for long.
They plan on releasing an entire
family lineup of tablets this
Summer. These new tablets will
features ARM processors up to
1GHz and screen sizes from
three to ten inches. So expect to
possibly see the A3, A4, A6 and
A10 rounding out the Archos
line soon.
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Thin, flexible “solar
threads” to turn fabrics
into power generators
Serkan Toto (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:02:33 AM
A Tokyo-based venture called
ideal Star[JP] has developed a
new method that makes it
possible to produce solar cells in
the form of flexible and thin
threads. The company is
supported by a total of six The solar threads feature an
energy conversion efficiency of
Japanese universities and the
government. just around 3%, but ideal Star
claims 10% are possible. The
The current prototype cell is
5cm long and just 0.8mm in picture above shows amperage
being measured from one of the
diameter. ideal Star says the core
consists of polymer material and threads that’s exposed to light.
ideal Star estimates mass-
is surrounded by an electrode
layer, and layers for hole production of their products
would be cheaper than that of
transport, power-generating (this
layer is made from fullerene), standard silicon solar cells. For
example, all layers in the threads
electron transport and another
(transparent) electrode layer. are coated down, meaning
production requires no
Once the company finds a way
to make the threads longer, they expensive semiconductor
manufacturing equipment. The
could be woven into power-
generating solar sheets or solar company hopes to
commercialize the technology
power fabrics for clothing or
curtains. As a first practical within the next five years.
Via The Nikkei[registration
application, sheets consisting of
these threads will be used on rice required, paid subscription]
paddies (while they are being
rested) to generate solar power.
E-reader News Edition Gadgets/ 51

Netgear's Universal Wi-Fi Internet

Adapter Connects Consoles and TVs
Alike [Wi-Fi]
Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) Consoles
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:45:48 AM NETGEAR is also introducing
the industry's first compact USB
The Netgear Universal Wi-Fi -powered Universal WiFi
Internet Adapter can connect Internet Adapter (WNCE2001)
anything with an ethernet port to that works with Internet TVs,
your 802.11n network, be it an game consoles and Blu-ray
Xbox 360 or a TV. But so can players. The first of its kind, the
many other devices on the adapter is the only affordable
market. What's better about this
one?
solution in a small form factor
that delivers optimal Wireless-N
Choose One: The Archos 7
Much like the Xbox 360
Wireless N adapter, Netgear's
performance and works
universally with any Ethernet- and Archos 8 Home 'Tablets'
latest wireless N adapter is tiny, enabled CE device. This saves
easily squeezing behind consumers from the confusion Each Cost $200 [Android]
components in your home and expense of purchasing Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) Meanwhile, the Archos 8 Home
theater. Plus, it runs off USB separate WiFi USB adapters for Tablet (or, OK, picture frame) is
Submitted at 3/1/2010 10:18:00 AM
power, meaning you don't need each CE device in their home an 8-inch touchscreen tablet
Unfortunately, it's similar to
to ferret around to plug it in to a theater. Archos has never made bad loaded with 4GB of storage,
Microsoft's dongle in more ways
powerstrip. The Universal WiFi Internet products, but their PMPs have available overseas this May. The
than one. This puppy will run
Really, taking into account the Adapter is powered by the USB definitely grown less relevant s c r e e n t o c a s e r a t i o i s n ' t
$80 when it's around this May.
convenience, the Universal Wi- port, avoiding the need for a over the last few years. But fantastic, but the cooking
By the way, if you're just
Fi Internet Adapter might be the long wire to the power outlet and now? Now two Android- software already has me
looking for a cheap way to
most cleverly designed Wi-Fi making it more visually pleasing wielding Archos Home Tablets mentally placing the Archos 8
connect the 360 to a Wi-Fi
adapter since Microsoft's high- in the already congested home will each cost only about $200. into my kitchen. It should be
network, check out our feature
priced 360 dongle. And it works theater environment. With The Archos 7 Home Tablet is available overseas this May for
on the matter here.
on anything with a USB and NETGEAR Push Connect pretty much just a refresh to about $200.
The Universal WiFi Internet
ethernet port, from your TV to technology and CD-less set-up, their existing Archos 5 Internet It should be noted that both
Adapter (WNCE2001) for Home
your Blu-ray player, without it is truly a plug and play Tablet—it's a 7-inch touchscreen tablets have Arm9 CPUs that
Theater Devices and Gaming
special drivers. experience. Android tablet (or, OK, MID), won't be blazing fast. And each
loaded with Wi-Fi and USB. will probably be launched in the
This April, a 2GB model (we US, eliminating the need for an
really hope there's an SD card import. [ UMPC Portal via
slot) goes on sale for about $200 SlashGear]
overseas.
52 Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition

Wacom's new Cintiq 21UX pen display ups the sensitivity,

skips the multitouch and 'affordability' options
Paul Miller (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 10:26:00 AM
We'd sell any number of our
children and internal organs in
exchange for a Wacom Cintiq
pen display, but unfortunately
we're not sure any of them are
quite valuable enough. The holy
grail of drawing on you
computer has just upped its
game with the newest Cintiq
21UX. First and foremost is a
new level of pen sensitivity, with
support for a "near-zero" starting
pressure and a total of 2048
levels of sensitivity. The 21-inch
LCD display also has rear
mounted "Touch Strips" running
along the sides that let you
adjust different parameters based
on what you select with the
thumb-convenient Touch Strip
Toggle button. Unfortunately,
there's no mention of that
rumored finger-friendly
multitouch(or even finger touch
of any sort) on this new display.
It's hard to blame Wacom, it has
a priority to serve artists first and
Microsoft Touch Pack dabblers
second, but hopefully we can get
a second, multitouch version of
this display that's a little less
extravagant on the pen end and a
little more affordable than the
$1,999 pricetag affixed to this
display. The new Cintiq 21UIX
should ship later this month or
early April. PR is after the break.
Gallery: Wacom's new Cintiq
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Wacom releases the new Cintiq 21UX graphics tablet that you
desperately want
Tablet The beauty of the Cintiq models most of us can afford. Still, it
(BestTabletReview.com) is that they incorporate onscreen fills a spot on all of our wish
Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:01:50 AM display to the graphic tablet lists and remains the subject of
surface. Being able to look at the desire mentioned in all our
The new Wacom Cintiq 21UX source as you draw on it, not on emails to rich relatives. Now
graphics tablet a pad below it, greatly increases wipe the drool off your chin and
Few things on this earth inspire accuracy and ease of use for the get back to work on that
more desire and envy for graphic artist. In the past, the Cintiq freelance project.
artists than Wacom’s Cintiq 12WX (a review can be found Source: Gizmodo
graphics LCD screen tablets. here) and Cintiq 21WX had Five Filters featured article:
Now Wacom has updated their 1,024 levels of pressure and Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
popular 21-inch model to the limited bezel buttons. The new each side of the frame and back sensor tech resulting in the PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
massive Cintiq 21UX which 21UX kicks those features into trackpads for easy manipulation slightest touch registering in a Term Extraction.
features 2048 levels of pressure, overdrive and doubles the when holding the tablet. They’ve screen action.
a new grip pen and a couple of pressure sensitivity, includes 8 also updated the popular Wacom The price still remains the same
other snazzy features. buttons and a thumb wheel on Grip Pen to include new tip at $1,999 which is higher than
E-reader News Edition
EviGroup updates their Pad tablet PC
to the Paddle slate tablet
Tablet
(BestTabletReview.com)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:40:16 AM
The EviGroup Paddle tablet PC
EviGroup sure nailed the right
name for their tablet back in
October with the EviGroup Pad.
Now they’ve improved upon
their original Pad tablet and
added a little extra —
specifically a “DLE.”
The EviGroup Paddle tablet PC
will keep the same size,
connection options (WiFi &
3G), ports (audio in/out,
Ethernet, multifunction memory
card slot and three USB 2.0
ports), memory (1GB) and
processor as the previous Pad.
They both share an Intel Atom
N270 1.6GHz processor and
10.2-inch 1024 x 600 resolution
display (the Paddle adds
multitouch) but differ on quite a
few other things. Gone is the
freaky AI interface named Seline
(although you can still get that
option with the Paddle Seline10)
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Google Must Take New Street View Photos
Every Six Months In UK, Or EU Regulators
Will Be Mighty Unhappy [Google]
Kat Hannaford (Gizmodo) boggles with the time and
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:50:00 AM expense that'd throw Google, so
and instead is replaced with Much like the Pad there are I wouldn't be surprised if this
Scale — a tabbed interface with plenty of customizable features After villagers chased the Street one goes to court—which is just
concave scrolling(think of a that will increase the base price V i e w c a r s a w a y i n what Google needs after being
hamster inside a video-display of €699 (around $950). The Buckinghamshire, England, it hit with an antitrust investigation
wheel). Its primary OS will be tablet is expected to launch became pretty obvious last year by the EU last week, and the
Windows 7 Home Premium. anywhere between April to June that a lot of Brits were unhappy whole business over in Italy
Other improvements include a (yay for specific launch dates!). having their houses and streets where three Google employees
redesigned webcam (front- Source: UMPC Portal documented online. were convicted in a Google
facing) and microphone, external Five Filters featured article: Now, European regulators have Video lawsuit.
WiFi antenna and a bevy of Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: told Google they must delete One day Google will pull its
storage options which include PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, images obtained by the streetcars services out of Europe forever,
160GB, 250GB and 320GB hard Term Extraction. every six months. and then we'll be stuck using
drives or 16GB and 32GB SSD. Google currently updates Street Bing, Symbian and Streetmap.
View annually with new photos, WILL YOU BE HAPPY THEN,
but the EU reckons they need to HUH EUROPE? [ Telegraph via
change their retention policy to TechRadar]
just six months. The mind
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EviGroup's Paddle is the

more advanced, more
expensive Pad (video)
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 10:03:00 AM

Remember the eviGroup Pad,

the 10-inch tablet with 3G and a
creepy looking AI slave built-in?
We won't blame you if you
forgot it, but maybe its more
advanced cousin will be more
memorable. If anything its name
will be: Paddle. It's the same
basic design as the Pad, a 10-
inch keyboard-free tablet with
netbook internals, but this one
gets a swankier LED-backlit

Infinitec officially launches IUM ad hoc multitouch display along with

SSD storage -- though a paltry
32GB max on flash is hardly an
streaming device: ships in July for $129 upgrade over the 320GB you can
get on platters. Also new is an
Darren Murph (Engadget) your PC to, well, pretty much the location," and if all goes officially launches IUM ad hoc optional WiFi antenna to boost
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:00:00 AM anything. PC to PC, PC to Blu- well, it'll ship in even more streaming device: ships in July range and a new layer over
ray player, PC to printer and PC locales in due time. Hop on past for $129 Windows 7 called Scale that
It's been a long time comin', but to console streaming is all within the break for the full release and Infinitec officially launches looks a little like being trapped
the little startup-that-could has reach, with HD support baked in promo video, and be sure to give IUM ad hoc streaming device: on the inside of a paddlewheel of
just gone official with its first to boot. We've already given you that Shufflegazine link a visit for ships in July for $129 originally content (video below). How
major consumer electronics low-down on functionality, but podcasts detailing the use appeared on Engadget on Mon, much would you pay for such
peripheral, the IUM. First t o d a y t h e c o m p a n y i s scenarios. 01 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST. decidedly evolutionary steps?
introduced at CES, this ad hoc a n n o u n c i n g a J u l y 1 s t Gallery: Infinitec Infinite USB Please see our terms for use of For eviGroup's sake hopefully
streaming stick creates a local availability date for consumers Memory Device (IUM) feeds. Permalink| Infinitec, your number is somewhere
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2.4GHz to 5GHz) for all sorts of Europe. We're told to expect it IUM ad hoc streaming device Comments EVIGROUP'S page 55
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AAXA L1 laser pico projector hands-on by Mr.
Murkycam (video)
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:22:00 AM
Oh, you haven't been introduced
to Mr. Murkycam? He's the
darker, more mysterious cousin
of Mr. Blurrycam; his services
occasionally called upon to show
off products like the new AAXA
L1 laser pico projector. The
device just started shipping and,
according to the video, this is the
first one captured in the wild.
AAXA promises perfect focus
on any surface, even curved
ones, and while it's a bit difficult
to tell from the video we've
Freescale's new i.MX508 processor could mean cheaper, faster
e-readers
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:44:00 AM
E-readers are getting better
without a doubt. But cheaper?
Not so much. The upcoming
Spring Design Alex will sell for
$359 -- way out of reach for
those who cruise the used book
store scene. Freescale's i.MX508
EVIGROUP'S
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that's the MSRP when it starts
shipping this summer -- a rather
steep increase over the (already
pricey) €500 Pad.
Continue reading EviGroup's
embedded below it certainly
looks to do a decent job. The L1
also features built-in media
player functionality and even
includes a 2GB thumb drive for
you to load up with whatever
processor might finally make
these things more of a smart
buy, an 800MHz ARM-based
chip that includes, among other
things, USB host functionality
and dedicated circuitry for
controlling E-Ink panels. It's
effectively a system on a chip
for the next-generation of would
-be Kindle killers and it'll sell
Paddle is the more advanced,
more expensive Pad (video)
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advanced, more expensive Pad
(video) originally appeared on
you like before slotting it in the
side. Photo and PowerPoint
performance seems a bit
mediocre, and sadly the video
doesn't show the thing playing
any footage, but it does look like
for just $10 at volume, resulting
in more advanced readers that
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it works as advertised -- as it
should for that $599 MSRP.
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Netgear’s Universal
Wi-Fi
Today’s Internet adapter
TVs, Blu-ray
NETGEAR’S page players,
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game consoles, and even AV
Matt Burnscrave
receivers (CrunchGear)
access to the
Internet, but most will never get
could, according to Freescale, 01 Mar 2010 09:44:00 EST.
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the pleasure of the ‘Net. Why?
Because Mom and Pop don’t
wanna run a CAT-5 cable
through their house and power
line adapters are about as
reliable as two tin cans
connected with string. But now
there’s this: Netgear’s Universal
Wi-Fi adapter.
This device is a lot like power
line adapters, which utilizes a
device’s Ethernet port to send
and receive bits and bytes sent
over power lines. But the
Universal Wi-Fi Internet
Adapter uses Wi-Fi instead. This
means that the adapter should
work without drivers or
installation on any device with
an Ethernet port, being an AV
receiver, Blu-ray player, or game
system. It can also leek power
off an USB port if there’s one
available.
It will be a tad pricey at $80
when it’s available in May,
though. For that price Mom and
Pop should be able to hire the
neighborhood nerd to run a
cable.
E-reader News Edition
The iPad as a Peripheral Display
David Klein (TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 11:47:30 AM
I was thrilled to hear that
current apps will be compatible
with the iPad, but I’m more
excited for apps that haven’t
been written yet. Apps for the
iPhone and iPod touch are
designed for use while being
held. There’s an exciting new
use case that comes with the
iPad — when it’s sitting in the
dock. Owners not only have a
new device to read news while
on the couch, but they also have
the perfect peripheral display.
What’s a peripheral display?
Something that provides basic
information without distracting
you from your primary task. It
runs silently in the background
and it’s there when you need to Picasa, Twitter, Facebook, CNN this app and launch Safari. This
retrieve some glanceable (and other news sites), etc. The applies to the other widgets too;
information. You already use app could be free with the tapping them should launch their
plenty of them every day: requirement that one of the corresponding apps. Interactivity
clocks, stock tickers, weather widgets shows advertisements. makes this app better than any
icons, unread email icons, etc. I A quick paid upgrade (perhaps digital picture frame available.
currently use one app on my $9.99) would remove the ads There are tons of apps that
iPhone as a peripheral display: and offer a spot for another provide basic information, but
Flip Clock. I think we are soon widget. now they can be combined to
going to see a lot more apps like I’ve taken the liberty of take advantage of the larger
this. mocking up in Photoshop what screen.
My perfect peripheral display this app may look like using the Now that I’ve filled your head
app would come with a few iPad GUI. Below you can see a with ideas, go build it! Just think
basic widgets like a clock, few basic widgets, a tweet that of me when you publish the app
calendar, stocks, weather, and changes every few minutes, and to the store. Also, let me know if
access to photos on the iPad. a photo slideshow powered by you think this is a good idea.
The app could then offer Flickr. The tweet includes a link
upgrades (perhaps $2.99 each) which when tapped should close
for access to services like Flickr,
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Macworld Expo 2010: Cool Product Finds From
the Show Floor
Weldon Dodd (TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 5:45:48 AM
I saw some great products at the
recent Macworld expo. Here are
a few items that grabbed my
attention.
Navigon for iPhone: The latest
release of Navigon
MobileNavigator for iPhone has
added a new panorama 3D view
that uses terrain elevation data
from NASA. The feature is
available via in-app purchase. I
also got a hands-on demo of the
MyRoutes feature which will
show you three different route
choices to find the best
combination of speed and
distance for you.
DJay Software with Spin
Controller: The thing I love
about the Djay Software with
the Spin hardware controller is
that it is a real DJ system for the
Mac. It’s not a game like DJ
Hero or something. You can
spin records right from your
iTunes library. You get some
added digital benefits like
automatic tempo matching so
you can concentrate more on the
music and less on the technical
bits of DJ-ing. Here Karim of
algoriddim (and the man behind
normally available and the gas-
shock arms will hold a 27 iMac
without drooping. You’ll find
cheaper arms out there, but I do
not know of anything better.
MacSpeech Scribe: This new
product from MacSpeech lets
you transcribe recordings to
text. You can “train” the
software to learn a certain voice
from recordings by correcting
the transcription. I see a lot of
uses for this software where the
full MacSpeech product does
not always make sense. For
example, a professor can use
MacSpeech Scribe to create a
transcription of a lecture podcast
to make the lecture searchable
the DJay software) demonstrates on a weekend camping trip. on the web.
a few aspects of the controller. Hmm, I wonder if that’s a good Microvision ShowWX:$499 for
Batteries: My iPhone was thing? a tiny battery-powered ShowWX
nearly dead at the end of every VESA mounts: I’ve been microprojector sounds like a
day at the Expo. For the first wanting to mount my screen on great deal for all the road
time, I started shopping for an an adjustable arm for a long warriors out there. I’d much
extra battery. I like the ones that time, if only to clear some desk rather throw this in my bag
plug in to the dock connector space. If you need an arm, then instead of taking another carry-
with a cable like the Richard you should check out the top- on. Check out the demo of the
Solo and HyperMac batteries. quality products from Flatscreen infinite focus. The scan lines and
The HyperMac stuff is not Arms. These are unique in that hot spot are an artifact of the
cheap, but really nice looking. I they connect directly to the built camcorder and are not visible in
think I’m about ready to splash -in pivot in the 24 and 27 iMacs person.
out for the HyperMac Micro. rather than relying on the Apple What did you see at Macworld
With this bad boy, I could play VESA-mount adapter. It is a Expo that you thought was cool?
iPhone games for much longer much cleaner look than what is
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Quick Tip:
Search the
Trash in OS X
Bryan Schuetz
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:00:58 AM
At the moment I’ve got 1,303
items in the trash bin in my
dock. Not that much compared
to the usual pile that
accumulates there when my
normal maintenance has me only
cleaning it out once every couple
of months. Usually, it’s not a
problem. Occasionally though
I’ll throw something away by
mistake, and that’s when I’m
reminded that you can’t just
click on the bin and search
through the trash like you can
with other folders in your Dock.
It may sound like a small
annoyance, but if I’m digging
through the trash, it’s because I
really need to find that thing I
tossed out. Without a chance to
search for it I’m left with no
other option but to browse
around through a pile of files
that typically number in the
thousands. All this turns a small
annoyance into a rather large
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one. There’s got to be a better
way to deal with all this Trash.
Ordinarily when searching for
files in the Finder you can
choose to limit the scope of your
search to the current folder by
selecting it from the search bar.
This is a big help when you
know the file you want is
somewhere in this folder, but
you’re not entirely sure what its
name is.
Trying this approach after
clicking on the trash icon
though, leaves you searching the
entire system with no way to
limit your scope. I suppose I
could just do a better job
'Big Love' - 'Next Ticket Out' Recap
Danny Gallagher (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:02:00 AM
(S04E08) "There is nothing
about us that's the same and you
know nothing about me." - Barb
Henrickson
"Oh I know some...and I'm just
getting started." - Marilyn
Densham
The season is winding down
and usually the plot endings that
come to a predictable end do so
just before the big shockers do.
And that's what happened this
regularly taking out the trash,
this would leave me with fewer
files to browse through when the
time comes, but I know myself
and that’s just not going to
happen. Another option would
be to write a script to handle
trash maintenance, but that
might just make a bad problem
— worse if my script gets rid of
something I accidentally threw
away before I have a chance to
retrieve it.
The best solution it seems is
also the easiest one. Use “Go To
Folder” in the finder to navigate
to the otherwise hidden trash
directory at~/.Trash and drag
week.
However, the surprise, one of
many to come I'm sure, wasn't
within the plot or the behavior of
the characters or even the duality
that folder into the dock. Now
the next time I accidentally
throw something away I won’t
have to browse through
thousands of items looking for
the lone needle in the haystack. I
can just use.Trash to limit my
search scope as I would with any
other directory in the system.
View screencast of how to do
this.
between good and evil of some
of the supporting players in our
little bigamy tragedy. It's the
emotional reaction to the
characters' connections and their
endurance to endure that sneaks
up on you and knocks your
block off as you stand there all
smug and self-aware that you
were able to predict the ending.
And it should. A show like this
about much more than its
plotlines and story shockers.
Continue reading'Big Love' -
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'Battlestar's' Park
Lands on 'Hawaii
Five-0' Remake
Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 10:02:00 AM
Grace Park seems to have a
thing for television remakes. She
shot to fame as Boomer
on'Battlestar Galactica' and now
she's going to have a role on the
new'Hawaii Five-0' on CBS.
Granted, in between the two
roles she also appeared on'The
Cleaner' on A&E with Benjamin
Bratt.
She's not the only ex-'Battlestar'
babe to keep working. Tricia
Helfer now has a steady gig
on'Dark Blue'. Katee Sackhoff
just got cast on an unnamed
ABC pilot (and had a
memorable appearance on'The
Big Bang Theory'). Given both
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of their statuses on 'Battlestar' as Five-0'? Were you planning on

ageless Cylons, it's even
conceivable that down the road
Park or Helfer will show up on
the prequel series.
For those'Lost' fans, 'Hawaii
Five-0' also stars Daniel Dae
Kim.
With the addition of Grace
Park, are you planning on
watching the remake of 'Hawaii
watching it anyway?
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Magazines Replaced by Error-

Ridden Mobile Websites [Media]
'Desperate Housewives' Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:24:48 AM

- 'The Chase' Recap Fancy magazines are dying, and

no amount of fancy magazine
Isabelle Carreau (TV Squad) 'The Chase' offered us tidbits ads will save them! Journalism
Submitted at 3/1/2010 1:05:00 AM about Penny, Karen McCluskey, scientists can now confidently
Andrew, Celia and, two of my predict what will replace them:
(S06E16) "You may envy our favorite recurring characters, M a g a z i n e websites,
lives, Gaby, but it's nothing Bob and Lee. While introducing w h i c h — s c i e n t i f i c a l l y
compared to how we envy a new cryptic character named s p e a k i n g — s u c k .
yours." - Bob to Gaby Sam ... For sure, he has a secret Yes, it is a new survey! After
After last week's episode agenda that will rock Wisteria combing through 665 survey
c e n t e r e d a r o u n d R o b i n , I Lane. responses from magazines, CJR
expected this week's installment Continue reading'Desperate d i s c o v e r e d t h a t m a g a z i n e
to put the main ladies back front Housewives' - 'The Chase' Recap websites are, generally, low-
and center. I was pleasantly F i l e d u n d e r : D e s p e r a t e standard journalism ghettos editorial resources into the print [The New York Times is getting
s u r p r i s e d t o s e e t h a t Housewives, Episode Reviews, beset by poor editing, feeble edition. Also, a quarter of all out in front of this trend by
the'Desperate Housewives'' Reality-Free standards, and virtually Americans are now getting their signing a deal to put content on
writers hadn't forgotten about P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | | nonexistent fact checking. news on their cell phones, a 850 video screens in "coffee
some of the background Comments Which should surprise no one medium that doesn't reward the shops, casual eateries and airport
characters and decided to give who has ever worked on a sumptuous photography and newsstands." Which will give
them center stage this week. magazine website! Or read lovingly curated journalism of them more viewers than they got
websites, in general. print magazines so much as it with that Discovery Channel
So the future of magazines is rewards sexxxy nudes. deal, zing. Pic: Flickr]
clearly online, but they still pour Brickbreaker is the future of
the vast majority of their journalism, huzzah!
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Marty and Leo Are Engaged! [Monday Box Office]
Richard Lawson (Gawker)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 10:13:55 AM
O Meo my! It's true! Because
their movie Shutter Island just
did so well again this week, the
longtime pair has agreed to
make it official. To celebrate
their nuptials, they'll next be
making a romantic comedy with
Katherine Heigl.
1) Shutter Island— $22.2
million
The thriller-chiller's big
numbers make it the highest-
grossing second-week, February
-March interchange weekend,
home-with-your-parents-and-
seeing-it-at-Coolidge-Corner
movie of all time. Quite a
record! This is easily DiCaprio's
biggest hit that hasn't involved
boats. Oh wait. No, there was a
boat in this, wasn't there? Well,
it's definitely his biggest hit that
hasn't involved Boston. Except
for The Departed... Hm. OK. So
maybe it's not really breaking
any records per se, but it's still a
splashy late-winter hit, one that
is proving Paramount right to
have moved it from the fall, and
one that ought to have legs as
more and more people demand
to know its sssseeeeecret. Well,
I'll save you the eleven bucks
and tell you the secret right now:
The yuppie lady who first buys
Diane Keaton's gourmet baby
jam in Baby Boom is in it. Yep.
That's the big reveal. As I was
getting up and putting my coat
on my mom grabbed my arm
and said, "Did you recognize
that one lady?" And then she
told me and we had a good
laugh. Baby Boom is such a
good movie, isn't it?
2) Cop Out— $18.5 million
If you level out the numbers
between Tracy Morgan's
relatively low debuts and Bruce
Willis' relatively high ones (save
for Surrogates, and much of the
'00s), then this was a pretty
respectable opening. Oh, and
Kevin Smith! Oh yeah, this is
pretty good for Kevin Smith too.
Good all around. I didn't see it,
did you? Mostly I want answers
to this question. Why the
bicycle?? Is it for wacky
reasons, or for zany ones?
Madcap or screwball? Irreverent
or joyfully subversive?? I
suppose I could just read the
pullquotes on the poster, but
who's got time to read? Who can
read?
3) The Crazies— $16.5 million
Showing surprising strength for
a documentary, this film —
which follows denizens of
various middle-American towns
as they descend into the
irrational and violent frothing
madness of the Tea Party
movement — seems to prove
that America's appetite for
political polemics has not waned
since the great boiling rage-
cauldron days of the 2008
election. Many audience
members squealed in terror and
vowed to see the film again as
they watched a formerly
perfectly-sane housewife from
Monroe, MI forward emails
entitled "How a Hussein Stole
the White House" to her son at
Grinnell. Others covered their
eyes, too terrified to watch, as a
respected car dealership owner
from Tempe inexplicably
brought a loaded firearm to a
town council meeting about
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makes Catherine Keener
(repaying a gambling debt) look
like she's standing in a small
phone booth while being
grabbed by a minotaur. The lady
from Providence was actually
living on the studio lot when
they started building the sets, so
they just let her stay around and
say a few lines.
6) Valentine's Day— $9.5
million
This movie has now made $100
million. That's one with two
zeroes after it. Of millions.
renaming the local civic center. T h a t ' s a b o u t t h e G D P o f
Truly probing and scary stuff. Kiribati, a small island nation in
5 ) P e r c y J a c k s o n & T h e the Pacific. I don't really know
Olympians: The Lightning what that means. But that's what
Thief— $9.8 million Wikipedia told me. I think it
This foreign language import means that Topher Grace is
f r o m G r e e c e i s s h o w i n g richer than all of Kiribati?
surprising box office stamina, Topher Grace could buy Kiribati
dropping a slight 35% in its third if he wanted? I'm told that
week. Its total cume of $71 Ashton Kutcher actually owns
million is an impressive number, Swaziland. And, for years,
considering that, judging from Jennifer Garner has been the
the special effects, the movie cruel dictator of Djibouti. You
cost about seventeen dollars to wish that J. Garner was the
make. Uma Thurman probably dictator of your Djibouti! Aww.
got a fiver, Pierce Brosnan a Remember Djibouti jokes? Oh,
coupla clams. Sean Bean was Djibouti. What was I talking
just happy to be there, and the about again?
little Logan Lerman kid got a
Big Mac and a hander from
Doris the wig lady. The rest was
spent on super classy CGI that
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Which Actress Is Now a Hooker with a Gay
Boyfriend? [Blind Items]
Brian Moylan (Gawker)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 10:09:20 AM
She couldn't whore herself for
fame, so now she's just a whore.
This celeb is a slut with some
funky spunk. A sober actress, a
gay athlete, and a cheating golfer
put out as well. They should get
paid!
1."Do you have $35,000? Well,
if you do and have an hour to
kill, you can have sex with this
former B list television actress
who has a B list movie actor for
a boyfriend. Well I guess he is B
list. He had a chance to make A
list but his above the line movies
have bombed. Our actress is not
even bothering to audition for
acting jobs at this point. No one
can understand how she
maintains her lifestyle without
acting. Now you know. Oh, the
boyfriend doesn't care because
he is just not that into women." [
CDaN]
2."While this celebrity was not
one of the performers at the
Vancouver Winter Olympics, he
still managed to make a big
impression on some of the
athletes there. He was a
spectator at one of the outdoor
events and was apparently
having trouble coping with the
cold weather. He later told the
athletes that he was so cold
during the event that, if he got
lucky that night, certain bodily
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that she is now 60 days sober.
This, despite the fact that she
spends all her time with a drug
dealer." [ CDaN]
4."Which English international
sportsman is gearing up to come
out to teammates now he's met
the love of his life?" [ UK
Mirror]
5."Which Hamptons hotelier
was at his bar drinking with
more than 20 patrons one
weekend night at 12:45 a.m.
when he suddenly stood up and
ordered everyone out, "Now!"
— told them they didn't have to
tip or pay their tabs, just get their
coats and go, and 'then sat there
drinking by himself,' said our
source?" [ P6]
fluids were likely to have the 6."Which members of Congress
consistency of frozen yogurt." [ make regular, secret visits to
Blind Gossip] Cuba as guests of Fidel Castro,
3."This former B list television flying in from nearby islands?
and sometime very bad movie Their passports aren't stamped,
actress who is now a C with so no one's the wiser." [ P6]
great name recognition has had 7."This A list female pro golfer
some very public drug, alcohol, is sleeping with a married
and other drama issues this past college professor." [ CDaN]
year. Well, I am happy to report
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Olympic Men’s Hockey Diary: Canada 3, U.S. 2 (OT)

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 11:13:50 AM

Getty Images Sidney Crosby

(left) and Scott Niedermayer
celebrate Crosby’s gold medal-
winning overtime goal.
The Journal provides minute-by
-minute analysis of Canada’s 3-2
victory over the U.S. in overtime
in the gold-medal game. Journal
staffers are at Canada Hockey
Place to offer commentary.
2:11 pm | Pregame | by Adam
Thompson
Are you ready for the
ahockalypse?
I'm writing this intro from my
BlackBerry waiting on the
looooong security line at Canada
Hockey Place's media entrance. in that first 5-3 win, everyone predictions but we're in the Kane, I'm not sure that any of back once. Great but not great,
As you might have guessed, this could get really tight really fast. infotainment business so here's the U.S. forwards could crack because it's hard to know how
game is sort of a big deal here. I'm almost to the metal detector. mine: Canada 4-2. the Canadian team. On defense they'll deal with falling behind
The Globe and Mail called it Should be even crazier inside. Why, well since all my it's even more prounounced, early should that happen.
merely "the biggest hockey 2:13 pm | Pregame | by Reed colleages are predicting a U.S. although Brian Rafalski is a Overall, they've done what
game of all time." You get the Albergotti victory, I sort of feel I need to good power-play quarterback -- they've had to do but been pretty
sense that if Canada wins today, There was evidently a military take the other side. Plus, one- but heck, Canada even left at lucky. The two toughest teams
this town will burn to the takeover last night in Canada. goal predictions are for wimps. home the best in the NHL, Mike they had to play, Canada and
ground. Then again, you get the There is marshal law on the Canada has the better team on Green, because they're so Finland, pretty much self-
sense that if Canada loses, this streets. Canadian citizens have paper. Before you screech that loaded. destructed. I'm not taking these
town will burn to the ground. been forced to wear red paper teams don't win Another reason to go with victories away from the U.S.
What can we expect today? If uniforms and have been tournaments and statistics are for Canada is they've had more squad but if Canada had had
it's anything like the first U.S.- corralled into fenced-off pens all losers, it's equally true that some adversity to get here. They Luongo in nets instead of
Canada meeting a week ago, it over the streets of Vancouver. players are objectively better screwed up, had to play the Brodeur, it probably would have
probably won't end in an They look tired, worn and scared than others for a reason. At Russians and have been won. As for the Finns, the U.S.
American victory. The U.S. as they wait in line outside bars center, for example, would you challenged throughout the benefited from one of the
cannot leave goalie Ryan Miller that have apparently been turned want to build your team around tournament. But they've won. biggest meltdowns in Olympic
put on an island to face 45 shots into official rationing stations. Sidney Crosby or Paul Stastny? Most good teams go through history. Again, I'm not trying to
again. But you do sense a tense Oh, wait, never mind. I'm told Stastny is a budding young star adversity -- it makes them better run down the U.S. team, but it
energy between the Canadians there's just a hockey game on. but I'm pretty sure that 30 of 30 and able to withstand setbacks. hasn't had one convincing
and their fans. If the Great Satan 2:39 pm | Pregame | by Ian NHL general managers would The U.S., by contrast, has had a victory over a big power.
(in the home fans' eyes) can Johnson go with Crosby. I could go on charmed tournament, always in
bloody the hosts' nose early, like So maybe Toe Blake didn't like and on, but except for Parise and the lead -- never having to come OLYMPIC page 63
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The big caveat is goalie, and
that's possibly decisive. Miller is
better than Luongo (although
neither has won a big
tournament). The only problem I
have with this is I'm not sure
how often you can ride your
goalie to victory.
All in all, Team USA reminds
me of the 1993 Montreal
Canadiens: not a great team but
solid, with a couple of well-
placed stars (especially in net--
Patrick Roy) and a fair amount
of luck. Of course, they won the
Stanley Cup. Can I change my
prediction?
2:53 pm | Pregame | by Jason
Gay
Guys, I'm at the Saskatchewan
House. Place is packed, bison
burgers on the grill, Keeping Up
with Kardashians on the TV. Is
there hockey also today?
2:56 pm | Pregame | by Adam
Thompson
I do think the U.S. is going to
win, just a hunch more than
anything. And unlike Ian's, my
prediction will be cowardly: 3-2.
There's a tension weighing on
the Canadians that the
Americans are free of. And
they've got the better goalie.
Luongo has been an A-minus so
far. Miller's been an A at least,
letting in five goals on 103 shots
this tournament. You want the
better ace on the hill for Game 7
of the World Series and you
want the better goalie between
the pipes for this.
2:57 pm | Pregame | by Reed
Albergotti
Guys, in war, there are no
winners. I hope these two teams
can come to the table and work
this out in the next five minutes,
so we don't have to witness the
devastation that will surely come
if the puck is dropped here this
afternoon.
3:02 pm | Pregame | by Adam
Thompson
We are 20 minutes to game time
and the house is already nearly
full. I remember from attending
the '02 medal game in SLC the
vibe being pretty great, but I'm
fully expecting to be happily
deaf here before too long.
3:07 pm | Pregame | by Adam
Thompson
Ian, on the forwards I think
you're getting carried away. You
can have Patrice Bergeron. I'll
take Ryan Malone or David
Backes.
3:13 pm | Pregame | by Adam
Thompson
In a funny twist, the U.S. is
technically the home team
thanks to being the top seed.
That means they get last line
change during stoppages. No
word yet on whether the
famously polite Canadian fans
will feel compelled to cheer on
the Americans out of obligation.
3:15 pm | Pregame | by Adam
Thompson
Canada's men's curling team is
here, and the crowd is treating
the gold-medal winners like
they're the Rolling Stones -- or
maybe they just treat the Rolling
Stones here like the curling
team.
3:17 pm | Pregame | by Adam
Thompson
Hardly seeing any fans clad in
red, white and blue. Think it's
fair to say the Canadian fans
want that ticket more.
3:18 pm | Pregame | by Jason
Gay
Keeping Up Kardashians off;
hockey on. Saskatchewan House
rocking like Â
Bourbon Street after Tracy
Porter picked Peyton
3:19 pm | Pregame | by Reed
Albergotti
The men's curling team has
been helping the Canadian
hockey team out with their
training regimen, giving them all
kinds of tips, like how much
beer to drink before, during and
after exercising.
3:19 pm | Pregame | by Adam
Thompson
First line for Canada will be
Toews, Richards and Nash. For
the U.S, Parise, Langenbrunner
and Stastny.
3:20 pm | Pregame | by ian
Johnson
Patrice Bergeron over who?
3:20 pm | Pregame | by Reed
Albergotti
Tickets are $4,000 for this
game. I would spend that in a
giant HD television, to be totally
honest. Or donate it to the
USOC so they can buy back the
podium.
3:22 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Adam Thompson
Now Kane, Kesler, Brown vs.
Crosby, Iginla and Staal. First
shot is a slapper from Keith that
Miller handles with 52 seconds
gone.
3:23 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Reed Albergotti
You could actually hear that
slapshot hit Canada's Drew
Doughty in the back. It made a
loud "thud" sound. I hope Mr.
Doughty's mom isn't reading
this.
3:25 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Reed Albergotti
The Americans are playing
slightly more cautious than they
have in games past. One of the
things coach Ron Wilson said
yesterday was his team can't
"hide in a foxhole," and that they
have to find ways of being
aggressive. But this doesn't look
like the blitz they handed
Canada last time. And the
Canadian crowd is a bit more
pensive, too.
3:26 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Adam Thompson
Luongo covers up on a ricochet
off the boards. These fans act
like the parents of toddlers,
sounding their approval of
everything he does. Nash breaks
his stick on a 3-on-2 try. Four
minutes gone.
3:27 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Reed Albergotti
Ryan Miller and Roberto
Luongo are stealing this show.
Like thieves with 50 pounds of
pads on.
3:27 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Adam Thompson
Doughty's alone on backhand
but loses control.
3:28 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
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Ian Johnson
Beautiful end-to-end action,
with the U.S. getting the best
chances -- I'd say they've out-
chanced Canada 3-1 in the first
five minutes. Canada isn't trying
to do too many direct shots on
Miller because I think they
respect him too much -- trying
for deflections.
3:29 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Adam Thompson
Definitely the most hitting I've
seen these two weeks. Parise just
laid out Niedermayer. 13:21 left.
3:30 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Jason Gay
Haven't heard a crowd this
passionate and knowledgeable
since Reed Albergotti's Golden
Globes party.
3:30 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Ian Johnson
Crowd is saying "Mill-ller Mill-
ller" to taunt Ryan Miller. Sort
of idiotic because he's been
playing great. When the
Canadian fans taunted Ovechkin
a couple of games back, it made
sense because he was lousy and
the taunting might have rattled
him. To MIller, this has got to
be a sign of respect. Or maybe
that the U.S. doesn't have any
other recognizable stars?
3:31 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Reed Albergotti
The Americans are playing a
simplified breakout; it seems
more like they're pushing the
puck down the ice rather than
weaving and finessing it into
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Canada's zone. It's not pretty, but
they have gotten a few nice
scoring chances out of it.
3:31 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Adam Thompson
Very young U.S. fan behind me
just screamed: "You have to get
something on the net! And that
thing is a puck!" We'll try to get
the message to Wilson.
3:33 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Reed Albergotti
Well, Jason, I do live in the
theater district. Care to share any
of the Saskatchewan hockey
knowledge with us?
3:34 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Reed Albergotti
The U.S. team knows what time
it is: Miller Time. But they also
do a great job of blocking shots
for him. Jack Johnson -- the
hockey player, not the musician
-- blocked a nice one with his
knees there.
3:35 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Jason Gay
Just ordered a Diet Coke at the
Saskatchewan House. Whistled
and serving a 10-minute
misconduct
3:35 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Adam Thompson
11:09 left, Nash has a nice
chance on a Backes turnover, but
Miller is square to his hard shot
from the slot, allows zero
rebound.
3:36 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Ian Johnson
The game is getting a bit chippy
and I think the refs might have
their whistles out. Brooks Orpik
just checked Dany Heatley into
the U.S. bench and tried to push
him completely over the boards
-- a bit questionable. Ryan
Getzlaf has also been a bit on the
edge as well, pushing players
from behind.
3:36 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Reed Albergotti
There are a lot of NHL scouts
here today, which only adds
pressure for these young
Americans, many of whom hope
to sign pro contracts one day.
3:37 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Adam Thompson
Dustin Brown speeds down left
wing past Doughty, Luongo
stones him, though the puck did
squeeze free and dance at the
goal line. Under 10 to go.
3:38 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by ian
Johnson
Luongo makes a great save on
an attempted stuff by Kane.
Behind the play, a Canadian
defender was hauled down but
no call. Hey, one of the refs
calling the game, is grizzled
NHL vet Bill McCreary, who's
clearly "letting them play."
3:38 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Jason Gay
Lot of provincial pride at the
SH; all three goals against
Slovakia were by Saskatchewan
boys.
3:39 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Reed Albergotti
This is a nail-biter so far. You
get the feeling whoever scores
first is probably going to win
this game.
3:39 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Ian Johnson
With a little under nine minutes
left, I'd say Team USA is taking
the play to the Canadians more
than the other way around.
Canada looks a bit tentative out
there and is reacting more than
driving the play itself.
3:40 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Adam Thompson
And definitely whoever scores
most.
3:41 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Reed Albergotti
Itâs amazing how much snow
was just shoveled off the ice
halfway through the first period.
Think these guys are skating
hard?
3:42 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Jason Gay
There definitely is not a David
vs. Goliath vibe here. In the
U.S., the Americans have been
portrayed as these plucky
unknown upstarts; but here at
the SH people are scared of em.
3:42 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Ian Johnson
Canada doesn't look sharp. A lot
of missed passes or shots right
into Miller's "USA" logo. I think
the U.S. will score first or at
least draw a penalty soon.
3:43 pm | 1st period, 0-0 | by
Reed Albergotti
The U.S.âs Ryan Callahan
nearly had himself a breakaway
but the puck was fluttering and
he couldnât control it.
3:43 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
7:10 left in the first: Canadaâs
Jonathan Toews scores on a
rebound in front of the net,
putting Canada up 1-0.
3:44 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Or Canada will! Turnover by
Erik Johnson behind the
American net, Toews pops in the
rebound of the Richards shot.
7:10 left.
3:45 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Ian Johnson
And as usual I was wrong.
Canada's energy line of Richards
and Toews puts one in. Won the
battle behind the net, Richards
walks it out, sharp wrist on
Miller, rebound and Toews drills
it in. Now the U.S. wants it back
badly.
3:45 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Pavelski just tossed Sid the Kid
as payback.
3:45 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
5:58 to go and Ryan's going for
tripping behind the play.
3:46 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
Bobby Ryan gets tangled up
with the goal-scorer Jonathan
Toews, who goes down hard on
his back. Ryan is called for a
questionable tripping penalty by
a Canadian set of officials. Do
we have a little controversy?
3:47 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Ian Johnson
Long overdue penalty. Game
was getting out of control.
Bobby Ryan keelhauled Toews
behind the play. Completely
pointless and right in front of
ref. Canada's power play has
been unremarkable thus far in
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the tournament.
3:47 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Guys, am I wrong or is this the
first time the U.S. has trailed?
3:48 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Jason Gay
After goal, Canadian couple
next to me made out for two
minutes. Not kidding.
3:49 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
And with four minutes to go,
penalty's over after a close-range
chance for Staal.
3:49 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
Yes, it is. Unless Norway
scored fist, which I don't think
they did.
3:49 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by ian Johnson
Puck is bouncing like crazy on
the ice. Heatley just leveled
Stastny behind the play, no call.
3:50 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
I think the Americans toned
down their aggressiveness in this
game. You can tell theyâre
playing the game Canada wants
them to play. Now that theyâre
down by a goal, time is going to
start running off the clock fast.
The U.S. needs to up the
urgency if they one to get one
past Luongo.
3:51 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Jason Gay
Right! That knowledge brought
to you by three
Saskatchewanians.
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3:51 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
I don't see them panicking out
there. U.S. looks like it did
before the goal. Plenty of time
here. 1:45 to go in first.
3:52 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Ian Johnson
With under two minutes left, a
time out. Play is chippy, not up
to level of Finland-Slovakia
bronze-medal game last night,
which was furious. These two
teams are still a bit uncertain and
with neither side really behind,
they're not opening it up. Decent
hockey but not one for the ages -
- yet.
3:52 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
I agree with Ian. This is not the
all-out speed fest people had
hoped for.
3:53 pm | 1st period, 1-0 U.S. |
by Adam Thompson
Totally different tone from the
first roller-coaster game between
these two. 1:14 left.
3:54 pm | 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
Skeleton gold medalist Jon
Montgomery is shown on the
Jumbotron to huge applause.
Heâs a working man hero in this
country: a used-car salesman
turned skeleton sledder.
3:54 pm | End of 1st period, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
That'll do it for the first after
Luongo turns aside Callahan on
a 1-on-1. Shots are 10-8 for
Canada.
3:55 pm | 1st intermission, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
One last bit of jawing on the
boards before the teams head
off.
3:56 pm | 1st intermission, 1-0
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
The fans are not even as loud as
they were in the first game
between these two teams. I think
they all collectively realized they
at $4,000 a ticket, that rather
unimpressive first period just
cost them $1,332.
3:56 pm | 1st intermission, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Now they're trotting out Mark
Messier. You have to think
they've got Wayne or Gordie
waiting for the third.
3:57 pm | 1st intermission, 1-0
Canada | by Jason Gay
Rich people cheer quietly.
3:59 pm | 1st intermission, 1-0
Canada | by Ian Johnson
Surprisingly the stats chart here
at the period's end shows Canada
leading the U.S. in shots, 10-8. I
thought the U.S. had had the
better chances, especially during
the middle frame of the period.
In a way, this reminds me of the
U.S. games versus Switzerland -
- both times (in the round-robin
and quarters) it had a hard time
scoring against Jonas Hiller. The
similarity is in both cases, the
U.S. faced (and is facing today)
a competent starting goalie who
isn't in the throes of self-
destructing (like Kiprusoff did
two days ago). Luongo isn't one
of the all-time greats, but he's
one of the top four or five in the
league right now and is making
all the stops he should make.
Not to make too many
generalizations only one-third of
the way through a game, but to
me this highlights the lack of top
-end U.S. scoring. Beyond the
handful of young superstars, the
team doesn't have the secondary
scoring. Its grinders are just that,
grinders and muckers. Canada's
grind line, by contrast, features
some top-end talent and got its
goal. But still plenty of time for
Stastny, Kane & Co. to respond.
3:59 pm | 1st intermission, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Being loud hasn't been hard for
David Ash, the loveable nut
from Regina who keeps showing
up to these games with a
working red light spinning on
his head.
4:01 pm | 1st intermission, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
I was wrong. They're bringing
out Gordie Howe now. He
confesses: his dad was born in
Minnesota. National scandal!
4:02 pm | 1st intermission, 1-0
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
Wait a minute. Gordie Howeâs
Canadian, too? Are there any
famous people from America?
4:06 pm | 1st intermission, 1-0
Canada | by Jason Gay
Nick Lachey is. Wait -- he's
from Ohio.
4:06 pm | 1st intermission, 1-0
Canada | by Jason Gay
Beer consumption levels at SH
approaching Buffalo Bills
tailgate/Charlie Daniels Band
concert level......
4:07 pm | 1st intermission, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
We're not too far from re-
setting. Adding to the stakes for
Canada: win this and they set the
winter record for golds by one
country.
4:07 pm | 1st intermission, 1-0
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
This crowd is seriously
apathetic. The Americans just
skated on the ice and I did not
hear a single âboo!"
4:08 pm | 1st intermission, 1-0
Canada | by Jason Gay
This whole thing makes me
want to compose a Rush rock
opera. And has there been a
Geddy Neil or Alex sighting?!?
4:08 pm | 1st intermission, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Now they're trotting out the
U.S. bobsledders who won
yesterday. Fair amount of
applause all around.
4:09 pm | 2nd period, 1-0
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
This period, the U.S. wins the
faceoff. Watch out, nation of
Canada!
4:09 pm | 2nd period, 1-0
Canada | by Jason Gay
Just showed the celebs. Neil
Young is in the house. Plus
Shatner -- that is gold
4:10 pm | 2nd period, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Iginla nearly makes the U.S.
pay for a turnover.
4:11 pm | 2nd period, 1-0
Canada | by Jason Gay
Reed, you gotta get to the
SHouse. No apathy here.
4:16 pm | 2nd period, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Another Canada power play
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with 2:33 gone, Malone for high
-sticking.
4:16 pm | 2nd period, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Thornton bats one out of midair
into Miller's chest.
4:17 pm | 2nd period, 1-0
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
I havenât agreed with either
penalty. I thought Ryan
Maloneâs hit looked clean.
4:18 pm | 2nd period, 1-0
Canada | by Ian Johnson
Miller looking sharp on the U.S.
penalty kill. Canada got one
chance but burned 45 seconds of
the man advantage. Canada
never really got a clean chance
and now it's the U.S. the attack
as Staal goes for a dumb
retaliatory penalty.
4:18 pm | 2nd period, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Power play over. How many
shots can Drury block? And now
Staal's going for interference at
4:41. First U.S. power play.
4:19 pm | 2nd period, 1-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Not much doing aside from a
hard long-distance shot from
Rafalski. Penalty over.
4:19 pm | 2nd period, 1-0
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
I donât think the US got a single
shot on that power play.
4:20 pm | 2nd period, 2-0
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
GOAL: 12:47 to go - Corey
Perry scores for Canada to make
it 2-0.
4:21 pm | 2nd period, 2-0
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Submitted at 2/28/2010 5:00:20 PM

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parade during the closing
ceremony at BC Place.
The Journal provides minute-by
-minute analysis of the
Vancouver Games’s closing
ceremony. Journal staffers are at
BC Place to offer commentary.
8:11 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
Has it been 17 days already?
Once again, weâre settled into
Vancouverâs BC Place for a
two-hour pageant of songs,
speeches and Canadian cultural
icons. Brace yourself for
appearances by Mounties,
beavers and William Shatner.
(Still no sign of Celine Dion.) wonât see on TV. Please follow white with red snowboards the IOC, Jacques Rogge, is a theyâre playing a tune that was
Tonight, a Winter Olympics that along at home, and send us your surrounding that icicle toothpick little Canadian. He just came out actually written for the 1984
began shrouded in sadness over questions and comments. torch. Has to do with the wearing a Canadian scarf. Iâve Games in Los Angeles by John
the death of an athlete will try to 8:25 pm | by Phred Dvorak countdown. never seen him in anything but a Williams. But it is such a catchy
close things off on a happier Minutes to go before 8:40 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler sharp suit. tune that they whip it out
note. Today has already proven countdown, and the audience The kids are pretending like 8:45 pm | by Phred Dvorak frequently.
to be a day of celebration in prep just finished. White and theyâre snowboarding on a Now the dignitaries in 8:49 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Vancouver: The sun is finally blue ponchos, check. Snow stage covered in fake snow, as traditional attire: four Host Great Britain's flag-bearer is
shining, and proud Canadians globes, check. Moose antlers, they chant the new city anthem: Nations chiefs in feathers and their sole gold-medalist: Amy
are cheering in the streets after check. Oooh, oh, Vancouver, eh? woven shawls, then Prime Williams, the skeleton racer
their gold-medal win over the 8:33 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler 8:41 pm | by Phred Dvorak Minister Stephen Harper in a whose controversial helmet
U.S. in men's hockey. And bring in the clowns! Nice And now... "fireworks" INSIDE Canada hoodie. (Wait... that isn't provoked protests from both the
The closing ceremony will also to see that Vancouver has a the stadium: shooting heavy his native costume -- where's the U.S. and Canadian teams for
give the Russian city of Sochi, sense of humor about the strings of curled paper from the suit?) being too aerodynamic.
which will host the 2014 technical troubles that prevented roof. Feel like I've been covered 8:46 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler 8:50 pm | by Adam Thompson
Games, the first opportunity to its cauldron from totally working with papery spaghetti. Itâs back, the âooh, oh, Vancouver doesnât just roll off
leave an impression on the world during the opening ceremony. 8:41 pm | by Jessica Marmor Vancouverâ chanting. Kinda the tongue in song the way, say,
with an eight-minute 8:35 pm | by Phred Dvorak The strains of O Canada playing like weâre in a cult. Chicago does.
presentation. (Hint: This will And now, snowboard nation! endlessly in my head have now 8:46 pm | by Phred Dvorak 8:53 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
involve thousands of blue- and 8:39 pm | by Phred Dvorak been replaced with Whoa-O Stop the music! I want to get Carrying the flag for Canada is
red-lit snow globes.) Blog readers: In case you're not Vancouver. off. Joannie Rochette, the figure
Weâll try to bring you analysis seeing what we are, there's 8:44 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler 8:48 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
and color from inside that you literally a small army of kids in Tonight even the president of As the flags of the nations enter, WINTER page 67
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skater who won the hearts of
Canada by continuing to
compete just a few days after
her mother died. She won
bronze, and has emerged as one
of the greatest Canadian heroes
of these Games.
8:53 pm | by Phred Dvorak
After trying to figure out what
order these athletes are entering
we have our answer: There IS no
order. From the media guide
book: "no longer grouped by
nation but all together in one
nation of athletes."
8:54 pm | by Adam Thompson
Donât complain about that -â
means weâll be done twice as
fast. No 45-minute medley of
walking.
8:54 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
At least no more lining up
means the athletes wonât have
to spend as much time sweating
in their heavy coats. Several
American athletes complained it
was like a sauna waiting in the
queue for the opening
ceremony.
8:55 pm | by Phred Dvorak
There's Russia. We liked those
uniforms at the opening
ceremony. Now, after seeing
them all over the streets and
concession stalls of Vancouver
(pre-Sochi marketing)... not so
much.
8:56 pm | by Phred Dvorak
If my ears don't deceive me
with the stadium distortion, this
song is in French. It took them
all the way to the end of the
Opening Ceremony to get in a
French song, much to the anger
of Canada's Francophones.
8:58 pm | by Jessica Marmor
A lot of athletes have been
talking up the "one nation of
athletes" idea -- happy just to be
here and have performed... but
somehow I don't think the mood
would have been quite as
celebratory had Canada lost
earlier today.
8:59 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
A reader asks what formation
the snowboard children made
earlier. It wasnât entirely clear to
us, either, but the press packet
says they were forming the
numbers (5, 4, 3, 2, 1) during the
countdown. Â And during the
Canadian anthem, they spelled
out âStrong & Freeâ (a line
from the anthem.) At the end
they made a maple leaf, natch.
9:02 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
As they take their seats, many
of the athletes are taking off the
heavy coats and just wearing
short-sleeve t-shirts. Hope they
enjoyed the Spring Olympics!
9:04 pm | by Jessica Marmor
Eva Avila, Nikki Yanofsky and
Derek Miller perform "Let's
Have a Party." With most of
their events over with, athletes
were certainly out partying last
night in Vancouver.
9:04 pm | by Adam Thompson
Why is that woman wearing a
nest?
9:05 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
I just heard the second French
musical lyric of the evening.
Looks like Vanoc got the
message that they needed more
French content this time around.
Itâs a politically sensitive issue
in Canada.
9:07 pm | by Phred Dvorak
The audience blossoms in
psychedelic colored paper. We
were promised this would have
meaning...
9:08 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
Perhaps to the consternation of
some, many of the athletes and
audience members are already
wearing the moose antler hats
that were provided for a portion
of the show that isnât supposed
to happen until later tonight.
But who can resist wearing
funny antlers?
9:08 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Isn't that Geoff in antlers right
now? Moost becoming.
9:09 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
Now the medal ceremony for
the 50km cross country skiing. It
would be awesome if the
athletes had to ski in on that fake
snow. But I guess theyâve skied
enough for one day.
9:09 pm | by Adam Thompson
Call him Moose Def.
9:12 pm | by Jessica Marmor
The cross country 50km medal
winners score big time -- I doubt
the rest of the medal ceremonies
had an intro with hundreds of
snowboard-wielding dancers. I
guess after their 50km slog they
deserve it.
9:13 pm | by Phred Dvorak
This 50km cross-country event,
by the way, was supposed to be
the first to feature a blind
athlete: Brian McKeever of
Canada. He was pulled late
Friday night in favor of faster
teammates, Canada's cross-
country ski coach said. Very sad
for him.
9:15 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
Now many of the athletes are
playing with the sparkly light
toys that are supposed to be used
later tonight. Stop messing up
the show, guys!
9:17 pm | by Jessica Marmor
More fireworks-like sparkly
material popping out at us. For
all the glitter, we could be at the
figure-skating exhibition gala.
9:19 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Foul! False start!
9:19 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Naw. The music here is too
martial.
9:19 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Wow. The back of that
wheelchais reads "Vancouver"
in lights! That's one sparkly ride.
9:20 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
And a big applause for the
volunteers. I was amazed at
how these folks kept a perky
smile on their face, even when
we were all grumpy and
drenched by the rain.
9:25 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Now the solemn, operatic part
of the Closing Ceremony. The
media guidebook assures us the
tone will come down soon.
9:26 pm | by Adam Thompson
Who knew Ricky Gervais could
sing like that?
9:26 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
If this Olympic anthem sounds
old, thatâs because it is. It was
first played at the very first
modern Olympics in 1896.
9:27 pm | by Phred Dvorak
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Did anyone else feel nervous
when that ring of flowing fabric
descended past the blazing
torch?
9:27 pm | by Jessica Marmor
The mayor of Vancouver hands
off the Olympic flag to the
mayor of Sochi. Most exciting
gig for the Sochi mayor ever?
9:28 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
Not to complain, but how many
anthems are we going to listen to
tonight? The Russian anthem
makes number four by my
count.
9:28 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Moscow State Academic
Chamber Choir performs the
Russian national anthem a
capella. A welcome break from
the banging electric guitars and
blaring of trumpets.
9:32 pm | by Jessica Marmor
And now, what we've all been
waiting for. No, not Celine Dion
sadly. Sochi's presentation --
let's see what they've got
planned for us in 2014.
9:33 pm | by Phred Dvorak
The Sochi presentation starts,
and here come the zorbs!
That's what those transparent
globes those people are standing
in are called, supposedly.
9:33 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
Sochi appears to have a huge
budget for computer generated
graphics ⦠and supermodels.
9:34 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Bouncing around in those zorb
bubbles looks like a lot of fun.
9:34 pm | by Phred Dvorak
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Canada | by Adam Thompson
Getzlaf's pass bounces off
Whitney's skate, and Perry beats
Miller high from the slot.
4:23 pm | 2nd period, 2-0
Canada | by Ian Johnson
Too much pressure, too many
odd-man rushes by Canada right
after the U.S. power play was
decisively killed. Corey Perry
buries a rebound that Miller left
on a Getzlaf shot. Crowd is
predictably euphoric. But
remember the Slovakians...
4:23 pm | 2nd period, 2-0
Canada | by Ian Johnson
Now a few dump-and-chase
sequences. Come on guys! This
isn't Columbus versus Tampa
Bay.
4:24 pm | 2nd period, 2-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Keith gets second assist. This
game felt like Canada was
tightening its grip even before
the goal. And Marleau's shot
requires a pad save by Miller.
4:24 pm | 2nd period, 2-0
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
Sensing a gold medal, the
Canadain crowd here is cow-
belling it up and making noise
again, but Jonathan Toews ends
the celebrations with a tripping
penalty.
4:25 pm | 2nd period, 2-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Another chance for the U.S.
With 11:35 left. Toews trips
Suter.
4:25 pm | 2nd period, 2-0
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
Another power play and the
U.S. already looks like theyâre
going to spend this one
lollygagging around as well.
They canât even get the puck in
Canadaâs zone.
4:26 pm | 2nd period, 2-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Crowd roaring now on penalty
kill. Another quick whistle as
Luongo doesn't appear in total
control. Second time that's
happened. 10:11 to go.
4:26 pm | 2nd period, 2-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Penalty over. Best US chance
yet -- Jack Johnson burned in,
Stastny couldn't bag rebound.
4:28 pm | 2nd period, 2-0
Canada | by Ian Johnson
Jack Johnson shows why he's
one of the best young rushing
defensemen in the NHL, giving
the Canadian defense fits as he
drives in on Luongo, but he's
turned back.
Now a great save by Miller on
Boyle. Game has picked up and
is entering the thrilling zone.
4:28 pm | 2nd period, 2-0
Canada | by Adam Thompson
On fan noise -- it may have
been louder last time, but it's not
like paupers were here for that
one. Everyone here is rich.
4:29 pm | 2nd period, 2-0
Canada | by Jason Gay
Reed's the Simon Cowell of
Olympic hockey! Love it!!
4:29 pm | 2nd period, 2-0
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
What's killing the Americans is
tiny fractions of a second of
hesitation on every pass. I think
they had too much time to sit
around and think about this
game for the past day and it's
gotten to them. Watching them
play for almost two weeks, this
is the first game I've seen where
they seem to be thinking about
where to pass the puck.
4:30 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Goal USA! 7:16 left and Kesler
BEAUTIFUL deflection of a
Kane feed through Luongo.
4:31 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
7:16: GOAL The U.S. shows
signs of life and catches Luongo
asleep at the wheel. He lets a
shot by Ryan Kesler trickle
through his pads.
4:32 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Ian Johnson
Kesler does one on his
teammate Luongo, beautifully
deflecting Kane's wristerÂ
between Luongo's right arm and
body. It flutters in end over end.
That's a really tough save to
make but you have to wonder if
Miller wouldn't have made it.
U.S. back in the game.
4:32 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Now Parise has daylight on
Luongo, but can't finish.
4:33 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Jason Gay
Sassy Haus sounds quieter than
Roland Garros all of a sudden....
4:33 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Ian Johnson
Canadian players don't seem
used to the no-touch icing rule.
Several times they tried long-
bomb passes that didn't click,
went the end of the rink and
were called for icing.
4:34 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
Brian Rafalski saved a goal
there by getting back and taking
two guys out of the play on a
potential three-on-one.
4:34 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Now we've got end-to-end odd-
man rushes both ways. More
like the first game.
4:35 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Miller gloves Weber shot
through all kinds of traffic. 4:23
left.
4:35 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Jason Gay
Ryan Miller's helmet looks like
Jeremy Shockey's arm.
4:36 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
Wow, what a save by Ryan
Miller. He was totally screened
and it looked like he blindly
snatched that shot out of the air
with his glove hand.
4:36 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
But does it smell the same as
Shockey's arm?
4:37 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Ian Johnson
The U.S. seems to sense the
tying goal. It's now dominating
in the Canadian end and the
shots are coming really close to
beating Luongo.
4:38 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
U.S. defenders are rushing the
net more. Suter just tried a
deflection by the crease. Three
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4:38 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Jason Gay
Simon, I mean Reed, would you
say this period is worth $1332?
4:39 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Ian Johnson
Best line on the ice for Canada:
Toews-Richards-Nash, which is
the fourth line. They take it to
the U.S. time and again, with
two and a half minutes left
almost scoring another goal.
4:40 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Richards has open net but can't
finish sweet feed from Nash.
U.S. dodged a bullet. 1:52 left.
4:40 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
No, because I donât get paid as
much as Simon.
4:41 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Staal has a breakaway! But he
shoots high over Miller.
4:41 pm | 2nd period, 2-1
Canada | by Ian Johnson
Second-best Canadian line:
Getzlaf-Perry-Morrow -- big,
skilled players, hard to get off
the puck. That leaves Crosby's
line as the third-best. Who
would have thought...
4:42 pm | End of 2nd period, 2-
1 Canada | by Adam Thompson
Phew. Period over. Break out
the oxygen. Shots 15-15 in that
period.
4:43 pm | 2nd intermission, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
This is a first: a line for the
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Anybody else think they should
make running in those zorb ball
things a new Olympic sport?
9:34 pm | by Jessica Marmor
The zorbs look much bouncier
than I had envisioned them.
Almost like really thick bubble
wrap.
9:35 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Here's what Sochi organizing
committee president Dmitry
Chernyshenko said this weekend
about the zorb:
``The zorbs reflect the Sochi
universe. Every participant will
bring their own world to the
games. Once there they'll be
united as one.'' Hmmm.
9:37 pm | by Jessica Marmor
The ice dancers were way more
in unison than these ballet
dancers are.
9:37 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
Most of the costumes worn by
these ballet dancers would
violate the regulations for
Olympic figure-skating
competition.
9:38 pm | by Phred Dvorak
And more big round objects
going aloft. A translucent white,
so not sure if they're technically
zorbs too. We were told zorbs
are translucent.
9:39 pm | by Jessica Marmor
And speaking of ice dancing --
we now have on the screens
2006 Olympic champions
Tatiana Navka and Roman
Kostomarov performing on ice
in Sochi. And now they're gone.
That was fast.
9:40 pm | by Phred Dvorak
The winged princess atop globe
with horses in blinking lights.
It's Sochi Disneyland!
9:40 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Well that's too bad. That was
eight and a half minutes of...
well, don't know exactly what
that was.
9:41 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
I didnât really understand the
point of that Sochi presentation,
but it looked like a lot of fun.
9:43 pm | by Jessica Marmor
According to remarks the
president of Sochi 2014 Dmitry
Chernyshenko gave yesterday,
the zorbs are supposed to reflect
the dot in the Sochi 2014
emblem. Everyone in unison,
now: Huh?
9:44 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Furlong says: ``We Canadians
are stronger... more united and
more connected with our country
than ever before.''
``Now you know us, eh?''
To HUGE roars of applause.
9:44 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Yes. And then he was asked by
an astute reporter why the Sochi
emblem dot was actually a
rounded square, not a circle.
His answer: There's always
room for improvement...
9:46 pm | by Phred Dvorak
So much cheering and
footpounding in the stadium at
the reference to Canada victory
in ice hockey it felt like an
earthquake.
9:49 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
A reader writes to ask whether
gold winning figure skater Kim
Yu-Na carried the South Korean
flag. No â- it was carried by
speedskater Mo Tae-Bum. Itâs
not clear whether Kim is still in
town. Earlier in the week, she
told us that sheâd be returning to
Toronto to train for the world
championships.
9:51 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
John Furlong, the CEO of the
Vancouver Organizing
committee, makes mention of
the Georgian athlete who died
shortly before the opening
ceremony. That gets a standing
ovation from the audience.
9:52 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Just got the obligatory press
release from the Canadian prime
minister's office. This one:
"PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN
HARPER MARKS CLOSING
OF VANCOUVER 2010
OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES."
I'd thought since he's here, he
wouldn't be able to put one out,
but I've underestimated him. His
pr office has sent out releases
congratulating the Canadian
recipients of every medal, and
have marked his every move
around the city. Here's one from
yesterday: "Prime Minister
Stephen Harper and John
Furlong, CEO of VANOC,
watch the men's curling final."
9:54 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
Another reader asks what are
the paper-looking things that
people are wearing in the
audience. Theyâre white, blue
and lavender ponchos that have
been given to everyone (along
with the moose antlers). They
give a wintery look to the
crowds, and perhaps also protect
the audience from things that
fall onto us. During the opening
ceremony, there was faux snow
â- which was kind of like soap
bubbles.
9:56 pm | by Jessica Marmor
Plastic poncho chic.
9:57 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
At the end of each Games, IOC
President Rogge traditionally
comes up with one phrase to
describe what they were like.
This time, he used âexcellent
and very friendly.â
9:57 pm | by Jessica Marmor
Nice that they didn't forget to
give a shout-out to Richmond,
where the speedskating races
were held, and which has some
of the best food to be found in
the area.
9:58 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Rogge actually got a muted boo
from the crowd here when he
declared the 2010 winter games
closed...
9:58 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
It would be awesome if they let
Neil Young extinguish the flame
himself.
9:59 pm | by Jessica Marmor
And the folks over at Sochi
2014 aren't too busy with the
uber-VIP party they're hosting to
shoot out a press release of their
own: "Five Olympic champions,
a World champion hockey star, a
top supermodel, a world-class
soprano, a globally revered
conductor, children and âZorbsâ
â giant spheres like snow globes,
maneuvered by performers
inside â took centre stage in a
packed BC Place Olympic
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stadium on Sunday night, as part
of a spectacular show to mark
the Olympic Flag Handover to
Sochi."
10:00 pm | by Jessica Marmor
Canadian legend Neil Young
sings "Long May You Run" as
snow falls.
10:01 pm | by Jessica Marmor
Audience members are now
supposed to activate their cell-
phone displays as the flame
flickers out. Let's see if it really
works.
10:02 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
This cauldron still reminds me
of Supermanâs icy/crystalline
home.
10:03 pm | by Jessica Marmor
Also reminiscent of Superman's
icy home -- the Sochi 2014
branding.
10:04 pm | by Phred Dvorak
More confetti in the air here.
They're throwing out a lot more
stuff than in the opening
ceremony. Exploding globes of
confetti, strings of curly confetti,
spot bursts of confetti from the
roof...
10:05 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
Captain Kirk emerges from the
floor, and heâs âproud to be a
Canadian.â
10:06 pm | by Phred Dvorak
The ducks are quacking "O
Canada"! And William Shatner
comes up from the floor!
We're in the Canadiana section
of the program. Bring on the
moose!
10:07 pm | by Adam Thompson
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media bathroom.
4:47 pm | 2nd intermission, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Philip Kuehnert writes that he's
following from a church meeting
in Fairbanks. Kind of feels like a
church in here too, actually. But
with more sirens.
4:48 pm | 2nd intermission, 2-1
Canada | by Jason Gay
Lost in the madness!? It's sunny
and 98 degrees in Vancouver
today.
4:51 pm | 2nd intermission, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Just saw highlights of the '02
game between these two. A few
from that game still on the ice:
Rafalski and Drury for the U.S.,
Iginla, Niedermayer, Pronger
and Brodeur for Canada. Joe
Sakic owned that game, which
Canada won 5-2.
4:55 pm | 2nd intermission, 2-1
Canada | by Ian Johnson
Get back to prayin'; this game
isn't over yet.
4:56 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Here we go! Last 20 minutes of
Olympic competition.
4:57 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Weber's shot gets through
Miller but trickles wide. Just
over a minute gone.
4:58 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Last 20 minutes unless we have
OT. How awesome would that
be?
4:59 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Ian Johnson
Chris Pronger, who I've thought
of as a bit of a dinosaur in these
games, just hit the post with a
lob from the point that Miller
didn't see, just two minutes into
the third.
5:00 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
16:20 to go and the fans like the
fight they see from red so far.
5:01 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Ian Johnson
Pronger seems to be out there
every other shift. He and
Seabrok are now a pairing -- I
had thought that Keith and
Seabrook would both be playing
for Canada because they're both
with the Chicago Blackhawks
and more familiar with each
other.
5:02 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
U.S. left Perry all alone in front,
but Miller bails out Suter and
Rafalski with 15:59 left.
5:03 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Ian Johnson
Five minutes into the third and a
lot of dump-and-chase. Kind of
boring. And no fighting allowed!
How will Burke's troops rally?
5:03 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
14:28 left and this game is
Canada's to lose. Big cheer to
John Furlong, head of
Vancouver's organizing
committee.
5:04 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
John Furlong -- a Canadian who
is NOT a celebrity.
5:06 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
The U.S. needed to come out
and skate as if they were being
chased by an angry mob of
Saskatchewanians. They're
dumping and chasing and
playing pretty reserved for a
team that is 13:22 away from a
silver medal nobody wants.
5:07 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
13:22 left and the U.S. hasn't
broken through the Canadian D
yet this period.
5:07 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Play still chippy, whistles
somewhere in refs' esophagus.
5:08 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
One thing Luongo hasn't done
this game is give up any
rebounds near the net. They all
go bouncing way out to the
boards and the U.S. rebound
machine has no shot.
5:09 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Luongo has been all Canada's
needed so far. 11 minutes to go.
Tick tock, Clarice.
5:11 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
What a pad save by Miller on
Heatley after a sloppy U.S.
turnover.
5:12 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
9:03 and Drury and Malone
generate a little friction in the
Canada end.
5:13 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
The U.S. is livening up a little,
generating some good rebounds
and scoring chances.
5:14 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Ian Johnson
Best sustained U.S. pressure of
the game with nine minutes to
go, as Canada looks like it wants
to win 2-1. Dangerous strategy
against this young, energetic
Team USA. Game still very
much up for grabs.
5:15 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Under eight minutes now. U.S.
is going to have to start
gambling now. I'd be shocked if
anyone got a penalty for
anything short of amputation.
5:15 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
I believe amputation is a five-
minute major under international
rules.
5:16 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
The best thing that could
happen to the U.S. is if the fans
here start prematurely chanting
"nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey,
goodbye!"
5:17 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Six minutes left, sand keeps
slipping through the hourglass.
5:17 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
The Americans are finally
starting to look like they have all
tournament, but it might be too
late. Five minutes to go in the
third.
5:18 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
5:05 left, Rafalski gets into the
circle, but Luongo handles and
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covers up.
5:18 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
I'd put in your ear plugs. I have
a feeling this is going to be a
very loud final five minutes.
5:19 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
If you're Wilson here, do you
start double-shifting the Kane
line?
5:20 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Ian Johnson
Canada is playing the U.S.
really close, squeezing out the
speed on the outside. Pronger is
playing a monster game on the
edge of the rules, blocking the
onrushing speedy U.S. players in
what could be called interference
but which seems to be allowed
today...
5:20 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
4:26 left and again the crowd
applauds Luongo for breathing.
5:21 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
After an icing, the U.S. gets
another face off in Canadaâs
zone. Stastny takes it.
5:22 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Under four minutes now, good
Canada forecheck.
5:22 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
The crowd is into it now,
cheering loudly every time the
puck heads into the U.S. zone.
5:23 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
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Crosby's OT goal sinks U.S., gives Canada gold
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(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 9:26:03 PM
VANCOUVER, British
Columbia -- Rest assured,
Canada, the national honor is
served.
With a flick of the wrist from
The Next One, Sidney Crosby,
Canadians found Olympic
redemption Sunday.
The pall of a luger's death, a
series of embarrassing glitches, a
first half so dismal the hosts
conceded the medals race, a loss
to the upstart Americans in a
preliminary game.
All but forgotten.
Canada is the Olympic
champion in men's hockey, and
the whole country can finally
celebrate its Winter Games.
Canada survived one of the
greatest games in Olympic
history to beat the Americans 3-
2 in overtime and cap the host
country's record gold rush in
Vancouver.
Crosby -- hockey heir to
Canada's own Great One, Wayne
Gretzky-- won it when he
whipped a shot past U.S. goalie
Ryan Miller 7:40 into overtime
after the U.S. had tied it with
24.4 seconds left in regulation.
"It's a pretty unbelievable thing.
You know what? Every kid
dreams of that opportunity,"
Crosby said. "Being in Canada,
that's the opportunity of a
lifetime. You dream of that a
thousand times growing up. For
it to come true is amazing.
Burnside: Putting On A Show
After watching one of the
greatest hockey games of all
time on Sunday, we could only
ask one question: Did it have to
end? Story
• LeBrun: Both goalies are
golden
• Caple: Work, desire pay off
"Our team worked so
unbelievably hard," Crosby said.
"Today was really tough,
especially when they got a goal
late in regulation. But we came
back and got it in overtime. ...
To win it in overtime, here in
Canada, it doesn't get any better
than that."
Canada's collection of all-stars
held off a young, desperate U.S.
team that had beaten it a week
ago and, after staging a furious
comeback from down 2-0 on
goals by Jonathan Toews and
Corey Perry, almost beat the
Canadians again.
With Canada less than a minute
away from celebrating the gold
medal, Zach Parise-- the son of a
player who figured in Canada's
finest hockey moment -- tied it
with Miller off the ice for an
extra attacker.
The moment he scored, the
groans of disappointed fans
likely were heard from
Vancouver to the Maritimes. But
Crosby, scoreless the previous
two games, brought back the
cheers with his second post-
regulation game-winner of the
tournament, a shot from the left
circle that Miller was helpless to
stop. He also beat Switzerland in
a shootout during the round
robin.
Harry How/Getty Images
U.S. goaltender Ryan Miller
kneels as the Canadian team
swarms Sidney Crosby after his
game-winner.
It was close. It was nerve-
racking. It was a game worthy of
an Olympic hockey final.
"I just tried to shoot it quick,"
Crosby said. "Iggy [ Jarome
Iginla] kind of bumped it out
from the corner, I tried to get a
quick shot on net. I didn't even
really see. I barely looked at the
net. I just tried to throw it there."
Before the game, Crosby
received a brief text message
from Penguins owner Mario
Lemieux that said: "Good luck."
Now, Crosby joins Lemieux --
whose goal beat the Soviet
Union in the 1987 World Cup --
and Paul Henderson, who beat
the Soviets with a goal in the
1972 Summit Series, among the
instant national heroes of
Canadian hockey. At age 22,
Crosby has won the Stanley Cup
and the Olympics in less than a
year's time.
"He's got a little destiny to him -
- his entire career, throughout
minor hockey, junior hockey,
NHL," Canada executive
director Steve Yzerman said
about Crosby. "So it's just
another monumental moment in
his career. And he's what, 22
still? He's a special, special guy.
Kind of like Gretzky."
Minutes after the game ended,
delirious fans chanted, "Crosby!
Crosby! Crosby!" International
Olympic Committee president
Jacques Rogge paused before
giving the final medal to Crosby
as the crowd got even louder.
Then he gestured with his right
hand, calling for more cheers for
Crosby.
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Sid The Kid
Sidney Crosby didn't put up
gaudy numbers during the
Olympics, but he came through
when it counted in Canada's
quest for gold.
"It's just fitting, I think, that Sid
would get it," goalie Roberto
Luongo said. "I couldn't think of
anyone better."
As "O Canada" played, the
Canadian team stood shoulder to
shoulder, while the U.S. team
stood dejected, staring at the ice,
many with their hands on their
hips.
To win, Canada withstood a
remarkable and determined
effort from a U.S. team that
wasn't supposed to medal in
Vancouver, much less roll
through the tournament unbeaten
before losing in the first
overtime gold-medal game since
NHL players joined the
Olympics in 1998.
"No one knew our names.
People know our names now,"
said Chris Drury, one of three
holdovers from the 2002 U.S.
team that also lost to Canada in
the gold-medal game.
Miller, the tournament MVP,
was exceptional, and Parise
scored a goal that -- if the U.S.
had won -- would rank among
the storied moments in
American Olympic history.
With less than a half minute
remaining and Miller out of the
net and off the ice for an extra
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Can we get just one
"Khaaaaaaaaaan!" from him?
10:08 pm | by Jessica Marmor
Yes, we hear you Trekkies.
10:09 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Cap'n Kirk says, ``You have to
be proud of a land that's a final
frontier" -- first Trekkie
reference of the evening.
10:13 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Comedienne Catherine O'Hara
does a riff on Canadian
politeness.
Michael J. Fox gets more out of
the crowd with just the line: "My
name is Mike."
10:14 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Kind of odd to hear celebrity
after celebrity come out and say,
"Hi, my name is X. And I'm a
Canadian."
Reminds me of AA.
10:17 pm | by Jessica Marmor
Michael Buble sings "The
Maple Leaf Forever" dressed as
a Mountie, and then rips off the
Mountie jacket to reveal a white
tux jacket.
10:18 pm | by Phred Dvorak
OK, after having held back
(somewhat) during opening
ceremonies, we're getting an
overdose of Canadian cliches.
It's the Ziegfeld mounties!
10:19 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
I guess it is great to have a
funny sense of pride about being
Canadian, but this segment with
the dancing Mounties reminds
me of a Mel Brooks film. And
not in a good way.
10:20 pm | by Phred Dvorak
And here comes the next
Canadian cliche -- ice hockey!
And yes, hockey players versus
the mounties!
Bring it all on!
10:22 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
Do you reckon they added those
gold medals to the cut-out
hockey players this afternoon â-
or maybe they were just sure it
would work out?
10:22 pm | by Jessica Marmor
There is so much to process:
singing Mounties; a child
dressed up as a hockey puck;
oversized tabletop hockey
players; dancing maple leaves.
Canadian emblem overload!
10:23 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
Ok, seriously -â did Mel Brooks
produce this? Tap-dancing
maple leavesâ?
10:24 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
And here come the beavers!
10:24 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Now we get the French cliches:
the voyageurs with their kayaks,
off to hunt in the interior.
Giant beavers, floating moose!
Accompanied, appropriately by
a song in French.
10:26 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
One of the floating moose
handlers is waving an American
flag. I hope he doesnât get run
over by that Canadian beaver.
10:27 pm | by Jessica Marmor
This is also one of the longer
segments we've seen yet. They
only give Sochi eight minutes to
present their vision for 2014, but
we get nearly 13 minutes of
Buble, flying maple leaves,
beavers, and a float-size moose.
10:28 pm | by Phred Dvorak
We were wondering earlier why
we didn't feel there something
ominous about the hundreds of
flag-caped Canadians singing
the national anthem on the
streets after the hockey game.
This moose and beaver-filled
extravaganza is the answer.
10:32 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
Speaking of Canadian
stereotypes, a reader asks where
is Celine Dion? No sign of her
here tonight so far, and there's
no mention in our press
materials.
10:36 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
I'm a fan of some of Avril's
music, but she sounds and looks
kind of bored tonight.
10:37 pm | by Jessica Marmor
We hear from our colleagues in
New York that NBC just ended
coverage of the closing
ceremonies to show the premiere
episode of Seinfeld's Marriage
Ref, which has been heavily
promoted during the Olympics.
What you've missing out on:
performances by Nickelback,
Avril Levigne and next up:
Alanis Morissette.
10:38 pm | by Phred Dvorak
A Canadian reader opines
there's been a certain lack of...
restraint and ... talent in tonight's
ceremony, then writes his A-list
of Canadian stars. We're happy
to say that one of them -- Alanis
Morisette -- is on tonight's
roster.
10:40 pm | by Jessica Marmor
And the part of Celine Dion will
be played tonight by... Alanis
Morissette? Seriously, she's
wearing sparkly jewelry, has her
hair ironed straight, the entire
stage just went into pastel blue
Celine colors and she's singing a
Celine-esque song.
10:40 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
Alanis is singing something that
sounds like a Celine Dion song.
Bring on "Isn't It Ironic"! If ever
there was an evening of irony ...
10:46 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
For folks that can't follow along
at home, we're now hearing the
dulcet tones of Simple Plan, a
band from Montreal (that is
singing in English).
10:46 pm | by Jessica Marmor
Looks like athletes are
awkwardly mixing and dancing
on the stage floor. If I were a
ticket-holder, I'd feel left out.
10:47 pm | by Phred Dvorak
While these acts are performing
on the stage, many of the
athletes are in the center of the
stadium milling around rather
aimlessly.
10:48 pm | by Jason Gay
Simple Plan actually only thing
worse than The Marriage Ref....
10:51 pm | by Phred Dvorak
This last (we think) band is the
French-Canadian Marie-Mai.
Sounds like Eurobeat though.
10:53 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
A lot of audience members are
picking up their stuff to leave.
I'm a little bit embarrassed.
Maybe they don't dig the rock-
concert vibe?
10:56 pm | by Adam Thompson
Rapper ... from Ontario ... wait,
it isn't Snow?
10:57 pm | by Phred Dvorak
OK, now we're off the script. A
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hip-hop band from Toronto
called K Os. Don't see them in
our media guide. Wonder if this
has anything to do with
comedian Martin Short
canceling at the last minute.
10:59 pm | by Jessica Marmor
Wait. Am I at the Olympic
Closing Ceremony, or a rave
from the 1980s?
Now there are girls in
sweatshirts dancing in all the
aisles. At first I thought they
were just letting people out onto
the floor. I was about to get up.
11:00 pm | by Adam Thompson
Meanwhile, my wife in New
York has this dispatch on The
Marriage Ref: "The debate is
over whether or not they should
install a stripper pole in the
bedroom."
11:01 pm | by Phred Dvorak
Some huge, bouncing glowing
globes in changing, psychedelic
colors moving through the
stadium now. Or else I've been
here too long.
11:02 pm | by Jessica Marmor
For all of you watching the
Marriage Ref on NBC: The
party's over here at BC Place,
after a quick fireworks display
outside. And now: everyone
races for the trains. The Skytrain
is about to get very crowded.
11:03 pm | by Geoffrey Fowler
And that's all folks. The light
spirit of the night was certainly
in keeping with the reception
Vancouver has given the Games.
But I have to admit I was
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Sidney Crosby shut down on a
breakaway by Miller! Man, he
has been totally stoppable in this
tournament.
5:23 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
Two minutes to go, the U.S. is
trying something, ANYTHING.
Fans on their feet. Gold-medal
cheers.
5:24 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
U.S. can't establish in Canada's
zone. 2:09 left. The crowd really
smells it now.
5:25 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
The U.S. will soon have to take
their best player off the ice -â
Ryan Miller. Heâs played a great
game.
5:25 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Out goes Miller! 1:17 left.
5:26 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
Time out, Team USA.
5:26 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
Miller out, the U.S. has some
great chances with garbage
flying around the net. Kessel,
Kane and Brown out on the ice.
5:27 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
U.S. sends out Kane,
Langenbrunner, Parise, Kesler
Suter and Rafalski.
5:27 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Jason Gay
Sassy Haus on fire.
5:28 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Reed Albergotti
Empty net, less than a minute
left now. Face-off in Canada
zone. Pavelski takes it.
5:29 pm | 3rd period, 2-1
Canada | by Adam Thompson
54.8 ticks left. Getzlaf, Nash,
Toews, Niedermayer and Weber
out for Canada. Now they call
time.
5:29 pm | 3rd period, 2-2 tie | by
Adam Thompson
Toews clears. But the U.S.
scores with 24.4 left!!!
5:30 pm | 3rd period, 2-2 tie | by
Reed Albergotti
You have to be kidding me.
That is all I have to say.
5:30 pm | 3rd period, 2-2 tie | by
Adam Thompson
Parise pops in rebound of a
Kane shot that hit off
Langenbrunner.
5:31 pm | 3rd period, 2-2 tie | by
Reed Albergotti
Wow. The USA chants in here
are rivaling the Canada chants. I
didnât know there were any
Americans in this place.
5:31 pm | 3rd period, 2-2 tie | by
Jason Gay
Sassy Haus a crypt.
5:32 pm | End of 3rd period, 2-2
tie | by Adam Thompson
The Olympics have officially
been extended. Overtime,
people.
5:33 pm | 3rd intermission, 2-2
tie | by Ian Johnson
24.4 seconds left to gold and
Canada flubs it. They had so
many chances to win it in the
third and didn't. Now the
inevitable tie with the goalie
pulled. Worse: the gold could be
decided by a skills competition
(a shootout). But first, overtime.
5:34 pm | 3rd intermission, 2-2
tie | by Adam Thompson
We've got a full 15-minute
intermission. After that, a 20-
minute sudden-death period.
5:35 pm | 3rd intermission, 2-2
tie | by Adam Thompson
How about Zach Parise? This
certainly cements him as the best
U.S. forward of the tournament.
5:41 pm | 3rd intermission, 2-2
tie | by Adam Thompson
Now they're running out of
hockey legends. Craig
MacTavish? I mean, nice player,
but... By the way is there a better
looking retiree from the end of
the no-helmet era? I think not.
5:46 pm | 3rd intermission, 2-2
tie | by Adam Thompson
This is NOT a joke: I just saw
Wayne Gretzky getting into an
elevator with Janet, his wife. His
face was red and he looked like
he hadnât breathed in about 20
minutes.
5:46 pm | 3rd intermission, 2-2
tie | by Reed Albergotti
Was their hair tussled? What
does Janet Jones look like these
days?
5:47 pm | Overtime, 2-2 tie | by
Adam Thompson
And weâre back on. One goal
for everything Canada holds
dear.
5:47 pm | Overtime, 2-2 tie | by
Reed Albergotti
You gotta think the four-on-four
gives Canada the advantage.
They have the skill players who
can move the puck around in this
format.
5:48 pm | Overtime, 2-2 tie | by
Reed Albergotti
The press tables at this arena
may be the only safe place in
Vancouver right now.
5:49 pm | Overtime, 2-2 tie | by
Adam Thompson
Agree on 4-on-4. But like Ian
said before the game started on
paper, they shouldâve had the
advantage all along. Ask the
Swiss about that.
5:53 pm | Overtime, 2-2 tie | by
Ian Johnson
Actually I think it's to the U.S.
advantage. They have the faster
players. Canadians' size is now
neutralized.
5:54 pm | Overtime, 2-2 tie | by
Reed Albergotti
U.S. guys coming off the ice
look dead tired. I think theyâre
finally skating as hard as they
can.
5:58 pm | Final, 3-2 Canada | by
Adam Thompson
Goal Canada! Crosby scores
7:40 in off an assist from Iginla
off a turnover in the U.S. zone.
Rafalski was near the puck.
Crosby threw his mouthgaurd,
gloves and stick in the air in one
motion and initiated a mosh pit
in the corner.
5:58 pm | Postgame | by Ian
Johnson
So much for Crosby not
showing up this tournament....
6:00 pm | Postgame | by Reed
Albergotti
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Yeah, Crosby could have sat on
the bench the whole tournament.
Thatâs all he needed to do.
Fitting that hockeyâs best player
gets the medal-winning goal.
6:00 pm | Postgame | by Adam
Thompson
The moose has roared. 14 gold
medals for Canada, a new
record. And this one meant
more to most of their sports fans
than all the others put together.
6:04 pm | Postgame | by Adam
Thompson
What a game. Iâm totally
buzzed right now. Never seen a
jolt of adrenaline like that.
Theyâre handing out the medals.
I think weâre all done here, up
against a hard deadline. Thanks
to everyone from Fairbanks to
Papua New Guinea for hanging
with us these last few weeks.
6:05 pm | Postgame | by Reed
Albergotti
Walking around town, the two
jerseys you see most -â and
everyone is wearing a hockey
jersey here -â are #87 and #12,
and those were the final two
point-scorers of the Olympics.
Thatâs gotta feel great for
Canadian fans to see that happen
in that way. Wow, what a game.
6:06 pm | Postgame | by Reed
Albergotti
They gotta wait for the Finns to
show up and collect their
bronzes.
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Cleveland Cavaliers center Shaquille O'Neal will
have surgery on sprained right thumb
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while playing with the Magic in
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fractured the same thumb.
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against New York, the Cavaliers
have 22 games left in the regular
season.
Cleveland also recalled rookie
Danny Green from Erie of the
NBA Development League on
Sunday. He was assigned to Erie
on Feb. 24 and played in two
games for the BayHawks.
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expecting a little more from the
show. For me, the best part was
the free moose antler hat. What
about you, Phred?
11:04 pm | by Phed Dvorak
Wouldn't mind having one of
those 20-foot beavers to put
outside the condo at Halloween.
CROSBY'S
continued from page 71
attacker, Patrick Kane took a
shot from the high slot that
deflected off Jamie
Langenbrunner to Parise, who
shot it off Luongo's blocker and
into the net.
Golden Leafs
By beating the U.S. in the gold-
medal hockey match, Canada
joined the Soviet Union/Unified
Team as the most successful
teams in Olympic hockey
history.
Parise is the son of J.P. Parise,
who scored two goals for that
1972 Canada Summit Series
team.
Three minutes before Parise
scored, Kane -- who also set up
Ryan Kesler's goal in the second
period -- knocked the puck off
Crosby's stick on a breakaway
that would have sealed it for
Canada.
"It's just a shame that both teams
couldn't have received a gold
medal," U.S. coach Ron Wilson
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Lakers Push Back, Send Message in Win Over
Nuggets
Chris Tomasson (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 3:47:00 PM
Filed under: Lakers, Nuggets
LOS ANGELES -- There are 15
championship banners hanging
in the Staples Center, and plenty
have been won with the Lakers
being known as a finesse team.
But finesse doesn't work against
the Denver Nuggets. You don't
say "pardon me" if you're
grappling with Kenyon Martin
for a rebound or "desculpe,"
which is Portuguese for "excuse
me," if Nene gets in the way in
the paint.
The Lakers finally figured that
out Sunday after getting sand
kicked in their faces for 2 1/2
games by the Nuggets. There
was a 105-79 road rout at the
hands of the Nuggets Nov. 13
and a 126-113 home setback to
them Feb. 5, a game in which
Denver didn't even have high-
scoring forward Carmelo
Anthony. Then the Nuggets
pushed around the Lakers in the
first half Sunday, taking a 52-43
lead.
Enough finally was enough.
Lamar Odom stopped being a
nice fellow. So did Pau Gasol.
"We need to really be the
aggressor," Gasol said after the
Lakers outscored the Nuggets 52
-37 in the second half to win 95-
89 in the battle between the
West's top two outfits. "We need
to challenge instead of we're
always being challenged ...
We're not aggressive enough.
We've got to start challenging
people and imposing our will.
And we can. It sucks sometimes
that we don't do it."
At least the Nuggets (39-20)
have been around the past two
seasons to knock some sense
into the Lakers (45-15). They
literally do it courtesy of elbows
by Martin and Nene and with
Anthony throwing around his
big body.
In last spring's playoffs, the
Lakers sometimes looked
disinterested until the Nuggets
woke them up. With the Western
Conference finals tied 2-2 and
the Lakers having been lucky to
win their two games thanks to
late-game faulty Denver inbound
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said. "A great player made a
great play and found a way to
finish us off. This was a classic
hockey game. In Canada now,
it's the greatest game ever."
Luongo didn't outplay Miller,
but still proved he is a big-game
goalie -- something he has never
been previously -- by making 34
saves in his own NHL arena.
Luongo went 5-0 in the
tournament and 4-0 after
replacing Martin Brodeur
following America's 5-3 win the
previous Sunday.
OK, you can exhale now,
Canada. The quivers of fear
created by the loss to the U.S.
and the shootout over
Switzerland are gone, replaced
by the good-as-gold feeling that
was a necessity for Canada to
passes, Los Angeles rose up to truly proclaim these Olympics a
win the last two games of the success.
series and then defeated Orlando Canada won its eighth hockey
4-1 for another NBA crown. gold medal and only its second
"[Sunday's win] was important since 1952 -- it beat the U.S. 5-3
because they beat us [twice this in Salt Lake City in 2002. For
season], and we feel like we're the United States, considered on
going to see them again [in the a t i e r s l i g h t l y b e l o w t h e
playoffs]," Odom said. "It was Canadians, Russians and Swedes
important to put in their minds, when the games began, it was an
if we play the right way, we can immense letdown, especially
beat them." since it was the best team from
nearly start to finish. Nearly.
"It stings right now," said Miller,
who made 33 saves after giving
up only a goal per game in the
first five games.
"It's devastating. It was the
biggest game any of us have
played in," U.S. defenseman
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Gatorade Gives Up on
Paper Tiger
Greg Couch (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 1:00:00 AM

Filed under: Sports Business

and Media They stood by Tiger
Woods through three months of
scandal, rumors, waffle
waitresses and porn stars.
Through sex addiction therapy,
hiding out, Ambien sex details
and no comments in self-
defense.
And then a week after Woods
apologized, Gatorade execs
decided this is the time to drop
him as an endorser.
Why now? Gatorade gave no people from knowing that there
answers Friday, but I think I was nothing behind the curtain.

Olympics Should Be About the understand. His apology

Athletes
Kevin Blackistone (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 3:50:00 PM
Filed under: Canada
VANCOUVER, British
Columbia -- In spring, the
Olympic Village that was a
temporary home to athletes will
begin undergoing a conversion
into an affordable housing
community for at least 16,000
people, replete with child care
centers, a school and green
space.
The Olympic Oval in suburban
Richmond that hosted speed
skating will start to be renovated
into a city recreation center, with
two ice rinks, eight basketball
courts, an indoor running track
and an infield for more sports.
And in the tiny ski resort of
Whistler, where the 2010
Olympic skiing and sliding
events were held, Whistler
Mayor Ken Melamed will look
to follow through on his promise
to erect a permanent memorial to
Nodar Kumaritashvili, forever
known as the Georgian luger
who was killed on the eve of the
opening of the Vancouver
Winter Games.
Tragedy, unfortunately, will be
as much a part of the legacy of
the 2010 Winter Games as
anything else. There can't be any
denying it, and there shouldn't
be.
What happened here to
Kumaritashvili should be the
starkest reminder to those who
run our world's biennial global
games -- Jacques Rogge and the
International Olympic
Committee -- that it is the athlete
who is the gathering's most-
precious resource and not the
capital their exploits can mine.
changed everything. It was when
Woods took his bad act public,
and actually bugged me more
than what he was apologizing
for. Which was none of our
business.
All these years of keeping
everything private, even firing
people who talked too much, and
that wasn't about protecting his
family, as he said the other day.
Turns out, he put that giant
curtain around his life for the
simple purpose of keeping
He suddenly looks weak.
Hollow. Like a guy who learned
all his lessons about life during a
childhood spent entirely on a
golf course. His apology was
clearly fake, scripted, dishonest.
And if felt more like a
submission than anything.
Gatorade stuck with Serena
Williams after her f-bomb laced
threats toward a line judge at the
U.S. Open. Why? Because she
still looked like a strong woman
after her tirade.
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Jack Johnson said. had won -- but, given the

Requiring the United States to
beat favored Canada two times
in eight days was a monumental
task; under Olympic formats
used until the 1990s, when there
wasn't a true gold-medal game,
the earlier victory and the
Americans' unbeaten record
would have been enough for
gold. The U.S. has never won an
Olympics outside the U.S., with
opponent and the circumstances,
it would have been one of the
nation's proudest moments in
international sports.
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Miami Must Add its two golds coming in 1960 at

Squaw Valley, Calif., and 1980
at Lake Placid, N.Y.
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JAPANESE page 78

Losing Dwyane Wade February By The Numbers

Tim Povtak (FanHouse Main) agents to join them -- LeBron
James, Chris Bosh, Joe Johnson, Barry Ritholtz (The Big February 2009 March lows, but down 27%
Submitted at 2/28/2010 4:10:00 PM
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and the Miami Heat. You can see it in his play, his erased much of the January Composite . . . 2238 . . . +4.23% Nasdaq is up 77% from the
When the trade deadline came body language now. He deserves losses, with both the Dow and Nasdaq100 . . . 1819 . . +4.46% March lows, but down 22%
and went last month, when better than what the Heat have S & P u p m o r e t h a n 2 . 5 % ; Russell 2000 . . . 629 . . . from the October 2007 highs
neither Amar'e Stoudemire nor given him. Nasdaq gained 4.2%. Indeed, +4.41% (and considerably more from the
Carlos Boozer landed in South Wade returned to action Sunday the S&P 500 Index had its best Currencies March 2000 highs).
Beach, it raised the stakes night after missing the previous showing for the month of U.S. Dollar Index (DX) . . 80.36 >
unbelievably in Miami for this four games with a strained calf February since 1998: . . +1.13% Sources: Standard & Poor’s
much-anticipated free agency muscle, and he probably wished Dow Jones Indices Euro . . . 1.36250 . . .-1.71% Markets, Credits and Risk
summer. he had stayed on the sideline a Industrials . . . 10,325 . . . Yen . . . . 0.01125 . . . + 1.63% Strategies Group, Barron’s,
Tick ... tick ... tick ... .tick ... little longer. He had 17 points by +2.56% British Pound . .1.52470 . .- Marketwatch, The Chart Store.
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-11.0% drop in the index in The Dow is up 60% from the
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like, the best thing ever. It's an
extra day! An extra 24 hours you
can spend doing whatever you
want, unless it falls on a work
day, in which case, you'll
probably spend it working. It
augments the month of
February, changing it from a
truncated, dissatisfying calendar
partition into a slightly less
truncated, dissatisfying calendar
partition.
We had planned out a ton of
Leap Year-related activities for
mnemonic device: "February 29
will join your collection, in all
years including a mid-term
election." Apparently, it ends
with " presidential election,"
with optional addendum, "unless
the year is divisible by 100, in
which case, it's not a leap year,
unless it's actually divisible by
400, in which case, it is a leap
year." Man, what a stupid
mnemonic device.
- PSP: 32,796 6,497 (16.53%)
- PS3: 32,130 7,319 (29.50%)
- DS Lite: 5,053 606 (10.71%)
- Xbox 360: 2,453 975 (28.44%)
- PS2: 1,883 14 (0.75%)
- PSP Go: 1,371 23 (1.65%)
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tomorrow, but were recently - Wii: 31,652 5,849 (15.60%)

crushed to learn that tomorrow is
plain ol' March 1. We thought
we'd memorized the time-old
- DSi LL: 24,388 3,198 Consumers in the UK poured Initially appearing to be a bit
(11.59%) more official than the standard
HEAVY page 79 placeholder date, a Brink
- DSi: 15,380 2,702 (14.94%)
sweepstakes page on
GameStop's website declares the
first-person shooter's release
date as September 7, 2010.
Publisher Bethesda Softworks
tells Joystiq that the date should
be "considered speculative." A
representative for the company
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out the pounds for PS3's Heavy
Rain last week, according to
Chart-Track's all-formats chart.
The adventure game took the hill
from Aliens vs. Predator, which
slipped down one spot.
Meanwhile, Just Dance kept
doing its cha-cha of endurance
and took third.
Nintendo's Wii Fit Plus got a
second wind (or a big shipment
to the region) and overtook Call
of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 after
moving up five spots and into
fourth. Finally, Napoleon: Total
War marched in at #12 while
White Knight Chronicles began
its quest at #35. are 'speculative' originally
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Short-Sale
Restrictions Dissent
by Kathleen L. Casey
Barry Ritholtz (The Big
Picture)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 5:30:46 AM

Short-Sale Restrictions
(Dissent)
by Commissioner Kathleen L.
Casey
U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission
Washington, D.C.
February 24, 2010
“When I voted to support the
Commission’s proposing release
last April, I noted that I was
hopeful that the comments and
empirical data and analysis we
solicited would help answer the
threshold question of whether
there was any basis to support
the view that the repeal of the
uptick rule was somehow
responsible or contributed to the
turbulent and volatile market
Olympics Report: On to Whistler Creek conditions we experienced most
acutely in 2008.
ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) should Canada beat the US at seascapes, looming cliffs, and swing. We watched in silent, Indeed, getting a firm answer to
Submitted at 2/28/2010 10:50:37 AM hockey today, the entire city forests thick with moss-covered shivery awe as the skiers cut that question seemed essential,
might just detonate into one pine trees, we were treated to a through the mist with awesome since it was the concern that
As the Olympic Games near the colossal firework of pure joy. Of white-china breakfast of demonstrations of thigh-strength repeal of the uptick rule had
f i n i s h l i n e , t h e h o o p l a i n course, none of this made it easy Canadian Maple Syrup pancakes derring-do, and as the Italian undermined investor confidence
Vancouver has reached Mardi to awaken at 5am for the journey and beer-infused boar bacon. I contingent in the crowd went that was driving the Commission
Gras-rivaling proportions. I do to Whistler yesterday, but my felt like I was on the Orient ballistic as Giuliano Razzoli won to revisit the issue.
happen to be staying next door fatigue quickly dissipated once I Express, only no one got the first Gold Medal for Italy in The release before the
to the Irish House, which is boarded the Rocky Mountaineer murdered, and I was wearing a the 2010 Olympics. Commission today answers this
possibly the biggest party in glass-ceiling train, which is snowsuit. From Whistler, it’s a —April Long threshold question…in the
town, so I can attest that the possibly the most civilized mode quick bus ride and chairlift up to negative. The release states
d e c i b e l l e v e l s i n c r e a s e of travel on the planet. As we Whistler Creek, where the clearly that there was no
nightly—to the point where, c h u g g e d p a s t d r a m a t i c Men’s Slalom event was in full evidence that the repeal of the

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uptick rule contributed to the
steep declines in stocks and
increased market volatility.
It states: “[W]e are not aware. . .
of any empirical evidence that
the elimination of short sale
price tests contributed to the
increased volatility in the U.S.
markets.” Moreover, in
considering whether there was
credible data and analysis
offered to question the efficacy
of the Pilot Study which
supported the repeal of the
uptick rule, the release
concludes: “[N]one of the
empirical studies have given us
reason to question the rigor or
validity of the Pilot results.”
Furthermore, analysis by the
Commission’s Office of
Economic Analysis (now the
Division of Risk, Strategy and
Financial Innovation) and
corroborating studies found that
short volume was a small
percentage of overall trading,
that price pressures on financial
stocks came from long selling
and not short selling, and that
short selling more generally
tends to be contrarian in that it
increases in a rising rather a
declining market.
Nevertheless, the release
recommends adoption of short
sale restrictions in the name of
achieving investor protection
anyway.
In support of the new rule, the
release goes on to note that,
despite these findings and the
targeted measures that have
already been taken to combat
abusive and manipulative short
selling, “questions and
concerns” about short selling
persist and therefore “we remain
concerned that excessive
downward price pressure on
individual securities
accompanied by the fear of
unconstrained short selling can
undermine investor confidence
in our markets generally.”
“Investor confidence” for
purposes of the discussion in the
release is limited to investor
trust in the fairness of the
financial markets. But, as we
now know, downward price
pressure during the 2008
financial crisis was driven
largely by long selling, and the
Commission has taken action to
limit and punish abusive and
manipulative short selling,
which is already illegal. One can
establish a clear nexus between
Commission efforts to rein in
manipulative activities and
investor confidence in our
markets. However, it unclear
how efforts to limit legitimate
short selling, which the release
acknowledges plays a vital role
in enhancing market efficiency
and price discovery, somehow
will promote investor
confidence.
The release makes little effort to
substantiate this potential
beneficial outcome other than to
offer a rationale and a statement
of belief. The argument seems to
be that, when the circuit breaker
in a particular stock is triggered,
it will allow long sellers to sell
first in a declining market, which
will help facilitate and maintain
stability in the markets and help
them run efficiently, and also
shore up investor confidence by
signaling to the market that a
security’s continued price
decline is more likely due to
long selling and the
fundamentals of the issuer,
rather than other factors. But this
is pure conjecture; there is no
data or evidence offered to
support the view that price
declines, brought on by any type
of selling, long or short, is a
problem that can be cured by
prohibiting short selling below
the national best bid in particular
stocks that have suffered
intraday declines, or that
investor confidence will be
shored up by such a rule.
More fundamentally, the release
appears to be suggest that short
selling vis-a-vis long selling is
less legitimate or even
illegitimate and should be
restricted if it results in price
declines. As previously noted,
this actually runs contrary to
what we know to be true of the
important and valuable role short
selling plays in our market and
distracts our efforts from
properly addressing abusive and
manipulative short selling which
can harm our markets.
The focus of the Commission
should be on rulemaking that
furthers the mission of the
agency: to protect investors,
maintain fair, orderly and
efficient markets, and promote
capital formation.
In the 330 pages of the rule
release, there is no evidence that
this proposed rule advances any
of these goals, even the inchoate
promise of the “promotion of
investor confidence.” Of the 90
pages of cost-benefit analysis-80
pages of which are dedicated to
the costs-even the roughly ten
pages dedicated to the “benefits”
focus largely on how the
proposals the staff recommends
are less intrusive and disruptive
to the markets than the
alternatives. While I applaud the
staff for recommending potential
changes that seek to impose the
least cost to market participants
and does the least damage and
disruption to the markets, this is
not the standard by which we
craft rules. Cost-benefit analysis
presupposes that a proposed
rulemaking has benefits; if we
cannot identify with specificity
truly anticipated benefits from a
proposed rule, we should resist
the urge to act merely to say we
have acted, and then choose the
most palatable of the unsavory
options.
Indeed the strongest case for
this rule is that it may mollify
those who have been clamoring
for reinstatement of the uptick
rule and show that we have
responded to their concerns.
This alone presumably may
provide comfort and confidence
to those investors and issuers
who are convinced of the
deleterious effects that repeal of
the uptick rule had on our
81
markets. But this is regulation by
placebo; we are hopeful that the
pill we’ve just had the patient
take, although lacking potency,
will convince him that
everything is all right.
Maybe the rule will have this
effect, and if so then the
additional restrictions that are
being placed on legitimate short
selling, and the additional costs
that will be imposed on our
markets, will be viewed by many
as worth the effort. But, we have
to do better than “maybe” it
seems to me. Investors expect
greater confidence and certainty
in the soundness of our
judgments. And it couldn’t be
more critical, where as here,
market quality will be affected,
and the compliance costs-which
are often underestimated when
we adopt rules-are already
estimated to be in the billions.
Moreover, I have no confidence
that the proposed rule will have
the intended effect. For some,
the uptick rule has taken on
talismanic properties or urban
myth status and they will be
satisfied with nothing less than
full reinstatement of the old rule
as a cure, I, therefore, predict
that today’s rule will be
criticized as insufficient. What’s
more, as soon as our equity
markets experience real
volatility again, which they will
at some point, the Commission
will be criticized for not having
taken more aggressive action,
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Chile's earthquake: In need of repair continued from page 81

including full reinstatement of

(The Economist: News of Chile's 17m inhabitants and government imposed a curfew in is complete, it is hard to estimate
analysis) the old Rule 10a-1, which they
account for around 70% its some of the worst-affected areas. the cost of reconstruction. will argue would have prevented
Submitted at 3/1/2010 12:12:31 AM GDP. An estimated 1.5m homes The earthquake struck just as Eqecat, an American catastrophe such volatility.
are thought to have been the Chilean economy was -management company, has Far from ending the inquiry and
Chile's earthquake Chile counts damaged and around a third may beginning to recover after an suggested that it could total as allowing the Commission to
t h e c o s t o f a d e v a s t a t i n g have to be demolished. estimated contraction of 0.9% in much as $30 billion, equivalent move on to other critical issues
earthquake and makes plans for The greatest damage and loss of 2009. The after-effects will to 20% of Chile’s GDP in 2009. for investors and our markets, I
recovery life, however, appears to have hamper the exports that drive the Part of the cost can readily be believe the clamor for full repeal
Mar 1st 2010 | SANTIAGO | b e e n c a u s e d n o t b y t h e country's growth. Copper, financed out of the public purse, will continue to be a distraction
From The Economist online earthquake itself but by a Chile's biggest earner abroad, is drawing on savings accumulated for the Commission.
RELIEF was the initial reaction subsequent tidal wave that produced mainly in the north of while copper price boomed The surest way we can improve
i n C h i l e t o w h a t s e e m e d washed over fishing towns on the country which was between 2005 and 2008. investor confidence is by
relatively limited damage given the coast of south-central Chile. unscathed. But damage to ports However, Mr Piñera, who has reinforcing our credibility as a
the scale of the earthquake that In one such town, Constitución, further south may hamper indentified increased private vigorous and expert regulator,
shook the centre and south of the rescue workers found over 300 shipments of forestry products, investment as one of the most and we can do that by
country in the early hours of bodies on Sunday. Much of the including wood pulp, while important components of higher guaranteeing to the public that
Saturday February 27th. That only town in the Juan Fernández exports of fruit, now at the growth, has indicated that the our rulemaking is in furtherance
picture has been replaced archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, height of the harvest season in government will not do all the of the agency’s mission and is
gradually by dismay as the full which belongs to Chile and is the southern hemisphere, will work. He expects Chilean sound, thorough, well-reasoned
extent of the cost begins to best-known as the place where face delays as a result of damage companies to play an important and undergirded by rigorous
emerge. By Sunday evening, the Robinson Crusoe was marooned, to the main roads of central role in the reconstruction empirical analysis.
number of confirmed deaths had was also destroyed. Chile. through a “Lift Chile” plan, I am deeply concerned that that,
reached over 700 and is still Chile has developed an efficient Despite the earthquake’s likely which he outlined on Sunday. by falling short of that standard
likely to rise, according to disaster-response system to cope impact on growth in the first This may well include a revival in this instance, we signal to the
President Michelle Bachelet. with what Ms Bachelet has and, possibly, the second of a public-works-concession public that we are guided less by
This is still a low toll, however, described as “a history plagued quarter, it may actually provide a scheme that Chile successfully empirical analysis and more by
for a quake of 8.8magnitude, one w i t h n a t u r a l d i s a s t e r s ” . boost for the economy in the launched in the mid-1990s public relations.
of the largest in the world since However, looters, particularly in medium term as the government precisely to build many of the While I certainly understand the
1900. the southern city of Concepción spends heavily to repair the motorways that were damaged temptation to proceed for these
Felt throughout almost all the and other nearby towns, have damage. This is welcome news by Saturday’s earthquake. reasons in this case, if for no
country, the quake hit most dented the image of a country for the country’s president-elect, Readers' comments other reason than to try and put
strongly in six central regions, swinging into action to relieve Sebastián Piñera, who is set to The Economist welcomes your the issue behind us, I believe
from the capital, Santiago, and its suffering people. Though take office on March 11th and views. that it will not have its intended
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I listed six principles that would
guide my decision whether to
support adoption of some sort of
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Pru agrees to buy AIA for $35.5bn

(Financial Times - US £15.3bn – and through the an overused word but this deal is marks a stunning transaction for
homepage) issuance of $5bn of senior debt. truly transformational,” said Mr Thiam, who took over from
Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:07:35 AM The rights issue at current rates Tidjane Thiam, chief executive Mark Tucker last September.
will be just below the £13.5bn of Prudential. “We have the full However Mr Thiam said the UK
Prudential, the UK life insurer, Lloyds Banking Group sought support of the AIG board and business remained key to the
has agreed to buy the Asian l a s t N o v e m b e r t o a i d i t s the US authorities,” he added. group and said it would be
operations of AIG for $35.5bn in r e c o v e r y . Credit Suisse, HSBC and holding onto the business “for
cash and shares in a deal that AIG, which is 80 per cent JPMorgan Cazenove are the foreseeable future.”
will see it undertake one of the owned by US taxpayers, had underwriting the issue. Mr Earlier on Monday Resolution
largest rights issues in UK earlier planned a $10bn-$20bn Thiam said some shareholders Limited, the renamed Friends
corporate history. partial listing of AIA on the had been consulted by its Provident, said it was not in
The deal will combine two of Hong Kong Stock Exchange but advisers in advance and were talks with the Pru about buying
the largest insurance businesses scrapped the idea in favour of a supportive of the deal. its UK life assurance operations.
in Asia, double the size of trade sale to the Pru. AIG will also receive 10.5bn Mr Thiam said the acquisition
Prudential in the process and The new group will seek a dual shares in the new company, had been “absolutely in line with
make the region the primary primary-listing on the market which will be led by Mr Thiam, our strategy,” which has seen the
driver of sales and profits for the once the acquisition has been the chief executive of Prudential, business expand in South-East
UK group. completed. A secondary listing and run by the existing Pru Asia and pull out of Japan after
The deal will be structured as an will be sought for the new board. eight years of struggling to
acquisition of both Prudential company in New York to satisfy The agreed price represents a expand in a fiercely competitive
and AIA by a new company, to US investors. multiple of 1.69 times embedded environment.
be known initially as New Prudential estimated that value – an industry measure of Prudential also released an
Prudential. Prudential will pay following the rights issue, it future revenues – and is unscheduled set of full-year
$25bn in cash and 10.5bn in expected around 11 per cent of expected to generate $340m of results on Monday, which
shares of the enlarged company, the company to be owned by cost savings during the next missed analysts’ expectations
which will be headquartered in AIG. three years. It is expected to because of weak UK sales.
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84 Economy/
More than 700 killed in Chilean quake
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 11:11:10 AM
Fear turned to desperation on
Sunday as hundreds of survivors
fought over food and water in
the cities worst affected by
Chile’s devastating earthquake
at the weekend, which killed at
least 700 people.
Chilean television showed
police firing tear gas canisters
and water cannon at a crowd in
Concepción, Chile’s second-
biggest city and the one closest
to the epicentre of the 8.8
magnitude quake – one of the
most powerful ever recorded.
The crowd smashed windows
and clambered into a shop,
dragging out sacks of rice,
cartons of milk, bread and
babies’ nappies.
Elsewhere, rescue workers tore
through crashed masonry with
shovels and sledgehammers,
searching for survivors buried in
the rubble of their homes. Some
streets were littered with downed
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short sale restriction:
1. The regulatory purpose
should be properly defined.
2. Empirical evidence must
guide the regulatory decision.
3. Regulators must consider the
potential for unintended
consequences.
4. The benefits of the regulation
must exceed the costs.
5. Regulators must, to the
power lines, upturned cars and
flattened traffic lights.
State television reported that
350 people had been killed in the
southern fishing port of
Constitución, which was also hit
by a tsunami.
Michelle Bachelet, president,
put the death toll at 708. She
said the catastrophe was
“enormous... there are a growing
number of people unaccounted
for, and this figure probably will
continue to grow”.
In the port of Talcahuano, the
centre of Chile’s fishing
industry, around 25 boats were
washed up into the city by
powerful waves triggered by
Saturday’s earthquake.
Rescue workers were trying to
reach between 60 and 80 people
thought to be trapped in an
apartment block which had
simply crumpled. Bridges
collapsed, roads were buckled
and aerial pictures showed
desolate images of houses in
coastal areas reduced to
matchsticks and swathes of
greatest extent possible, provide
certainty to market participants.
6. The opportunity costs of a
particular regulatory approach
need to be assessed.
For the reasons I have
discussed, I believe that, despite
the best efforts of the staff, the
rule the staff recommends the
Commission adopt today fails
these principles.
mangled rubble.
The government said some 2m
people, an eighth of the
population, have been directly
affected by the quake, and
around half a million houses
were made uninhabitable. Ms
Bachelet was closeted with
officials on Sunday assessing
how to respond.
Hillary Clinton, the US
secretary of state, is due to visit
Chile on Tuesday, and pledged
to “provide necessary assistance
to Chile in the days and weeks
ahead”. Her visit will consist of
meetings with Ms Bachelet and
President-elect Sebastián Piñera
at the airport.
Most of Chile’s copper mines,
its biggest industry, were
unaffected by the quake because
they are in the north of the
country but one of the country’s
biggest ports was closed and
wine regions near the epicentre
preparing for this year’s harvest
suffered.
The government has not yet put
a figure on the rebuilding effort,
The regulatory purpose hasn’t
been clearly defined, and to the
extent that it has, the proposed
solution has not been guided by
empirical data or evidence, but
rather runs contrary to it.
The staff clearly has spent time
considering the consequences of
the rule, but we do not fully
appreciate its impact,
particularly in the options and
but it will pose a challenge for
Sebastián Piñera, who is who is
to be sworn in as president on
March 11. He has visited the
affected areas, which the
government has declared a
catastrophe zone to speed up
disbursement of aid.
About a fifth of the 6m
population of Concepción
remained without electricity and
many lacked running water as
aftershocks continued to scare
survivors of the earthquake,
which struck shortly after 3.30
a.m. on Saturday when most of
the country was asleep.
Fuel is in short supply in the
worst-hit areas and was being
restricted to use in emergency
vehicles only. The price of bread
has shot up five-fold as supplies
start to dwindle in the south.
Firemen supplied survivors with
water direct from their fire
engines and long queues formed.
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ephemeral, and at best arguable,
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outweighed by the tangible costs
the rule would impose. And,
although the staff strove to
provide some certainty to market
participants, ultimately, because
this rule lacks a firm foundation
and ignores the prevailing
evidence and economic data and
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Kohn to step
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(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:18:25 AM
By James Politi in Washington
Published: March 1 2010 15:18
| Last updated: March 1 2010
15:18
Don Kohn will be stepping
down as vice-chairman and
member of the Federal Reserve
board in June, removing one of
the key architects of the US
central bank’s response to the
financial crisis.
Mr Kohn, 67, served at the Fed
since 1970, when he joined the
central bank as financial
economist at the Kansas City
Fed. He joined the board of
governors in 2002, before
becoming vice-chairman four
years ago.
KOHN page 85
analysis that would argue against
its adoption, it actually
undermines regulatory certainty.
If market participants have no
reason to believe that
Commission action will be
governed by rigorous
empiricism, and instead that
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US consumer spending picks up pace continued from page 84

“The Fed and the country owe a departure, but instead

(Financial Times - US With spending outpacing willngness to spend, recent
homepage) tremendous debt of gratitude to highlighted the “extraordinary
incomes, the savings rate surveys have shown that Don Kohn for his invaluable ability” of Fed staff during his
Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:14:03 AM dropped sharply in January, consumers are feeling more contributions over 40 years of career.
falling from 4.2 per cent in anxious about the economy, as public service,” Ben Bernanke, “At no time since the Great
By Alan Rappeport in New December to 3.3 per cent. the labour market continues to Fed chairman, said on Monday, Depression have this ability and
York Economists have mixed lag behind other areas of noting that Mr Kohn had dedication been tested as they
Published: March 1 2010 14:14 sentiments about the savings improvement. recently helped lead the stress have been over the past several
| Last updated: March 1 2010 rate, as consumer spending Alan Ruskin, a strategist at RBS tests of financial institutions years. I am confident that history
14:14 accounts for about 70 per cent of Securities, suggested that harsh during the crisis. will judge the Federal Reserve,
US consumer spending picked economic activity in the US. January weather may have Mr Bernanke added that Mr under the leadership of chairman
up in January for the fourth However, analysts are wary of played a role in spending Kohn was also the Fed’s point- Ben Bernanke, to have met these
month running, lifting hopes that US consumers returning to the outstripping income, with more man on international co- challenges with great speed,
consumers could start adding free-spending habits that they workers than usual being forced ordination efforts during the imagination and effectiveness.”
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where new and used copies are
available, while more frugal
students will order from Web
sites such as Half.com and
Amazon.com. Some students
may even order their textbooks
from Chegg.com, an online
textbook rental company where
books are rented for a fraction of
their list price.
With increasingly more options,
it is no surprise that college
textbooks are available on e-
readers such as Amazon's
Kindle. Amazon has recently
struck deals with three top
textbook publishers, including
Pearson, Wiley, and Cengage,
who make up 60 percent of the
textbook market.
Besides Amazon's Kindle, the
Barnes & Noble Nook, the Sony
Reader and the iPad, expected to
be released in April 2010, are all
portable devices specifically
designed for the storage and use
of books.
"I think these are an amazing
invention," said sophomore
Anita Mijic. "They allow for you
to have access to multiple books
at once without having to lug
them around. It's great in terms
of convenience."
The newest version of
Amazon's Kindle, Kindle DX,
can hold up to 3,500 books
which can be purchased from the
Kindle Store's collection of more
than 420,000 books, magazines,
newspapers and blogs. Once a
book is purchased, it is available
for reading in 60 seconds.
The Amazon Kindle DX, which
is almost identical to the original
Kindle, is marketed towards use
with textbooks and reading
periodicals. Textbooks can be
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need to look for a wifi spot.
The Kindle DX has a bigger
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magazines, and weighs 18.9
ounces. It also has a feature that
can make notes and highlights
on your documents, can search
for a certain word and bookmark
pages and can read your book
outloud. Once fully charged, the
Kindle's battery lasts through a
week of reading.
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Seven in 10 U.S. Workers Say Their Jobs Are Ideal
(All Gallup Headlines)
Submitted at 2/28/2010 7:00:00 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C. --
Gallup Daily tracking reveals
that 7 in 10 employed
Americans say their jobs are
ideal, leaving nearly one-third of
the U.S. workforce who feel
their jobs aren't exactly right for
them.
"'Ideal' perceptions also differ
somewhat by education level:
77% of workers with
postgraduate education report
that their jobs are ideal, the
highest among all education
levels; by contrast, 63% of those
with some college say this."
These results are based on
interviews with more than
18,000 employed U.S. adults,
aged 18 and older, conducted
during January 2010. While
majorities of respondents at all
income levels report that their
jobs are ideal, the percentage
saying so increases with income.
Americans with annual
household incomes of at least
$120,000 per year are the most
likely to say their jobs are ideal
(77%), while those making less
than $12,000 per year are the
least likely (57%).
Ideal Job and Work Sector
Perceptions of one's job as
"ideal" also differ by job sector.
Business owners (87%), farmers
(82%), and professional workers
(79%), such as lawyers, doctors,
teachers, and accountants, are
the most likely to say their jobs
are ideal. Manufacturing or
production workers (61%),
clerical or office workers (61%),
and those in service jobs (60%),
such as barbers, nurse's aides,
policemen, firefighters, and
waiters, are the least likely to
say their jobs are ideal.
In light of the relationship
between income and ideal job
status, it may come as no
surprise that business owners
and professional workers are two
of the most likely groups to say
their jobs are ideal, as these
sectors also tend to receive
higher pay than service and
Gallup Poll/ 87
being forced to take on work
below their qualifications, the
majority of American workers
evaluate their jobs favorably.
Although household income is
correlated with one's ideal job, it
isn't the only factor driving
"ideal" job evaluations.
Demographics suggest that
experienced, educated workers
in specialized fields view their
jobs most favorably, while those
who are at the beginning of their
careers and working in
professions not generally
associated with advanced
educational attainment (clerical,
service, retail, and
manufacturing) are among the
least likely to say their jobs are
ideal.
Survey Methods
Results are based on telephone
interviews with 18,269 national
adults, aged 18 and older,
conducted Jan. 2-31, 2010. For
clerical workers do. However, somewhat by education level: results based on the total sample
differences between groups 7 7 % o f w o r k e r s w i t h of national adults, one can say
persist, even when controlling postgraduate education report with 95% confidence that the
for household income. For that their jobs are ideal, the maximum margin of sampling
example, when professionals and highest among all education error is ± 1 percentage point.
service workers are compared, levels; by contrast, 63% of those Interviews are conducted with
differences in ideal job ratings with some college say this. Men r e s p o n d e n t s o n l a n d - l i n e
are seen at nearly all income and women are equally likely to telephones (for respondents with
levels. say their jobs are ideal (70% a l a n d l i n e t e l e p h o n e ) a n d
Older Workers Are Most Likely each). Non-Hispanic whites cellular phones (for respondents
to Say Jobs Are Ideal (73%) give their jobs more who are cell-phone only).
Workers aged 50 to 65 are favorable evaluations than do In addition to sampling error,
among the most likely to say blacks (62%), Hispanics (64%), question wording and practical
their jobs are ideal (78%), while or Asians (67%). difficulties in conducting
about half (52%) of Americans Bottom Line surveys can introduce error or
aged 18 to 29 say the same. At a time when job growth
"Ideal" perceptions also differ remains stagnant and many are SEVEN page 88
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Coda: Is it a Chinese Car or Not?
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Later this year, Coda
Automotive will release an all-
electric, freeway-legal car in
America. And one of the
questions will be where does it
come from exactly?
The car will get built on
assembly lines in China and is
based in part around a gas-
burning car from state-owned
Hafei that's been tooling on the
roads in Beijing and Shanghai
for a couple of years. The
battery under the hood of Coda's
sedan will come from a joint
venture owned by Coda and
Tianjin Lishen Battery Co.
To some, that will make it a
Chinese car. BYD, a Chinese car
and battery maker which counts
Warren Buffet as an investor,
will also release the electric e6
in the U.S. later this year.
But origin is a much more
complicated question, argues
CEO Kevin Czinger. The chassis
of the Hafei's car was licensed
from Mitsubishi. Thus, it's a
Chinese-made car based around
intellectual property from one of
Japan's more respected
manufacturers. Coda's U.S.
engineers have also redesigned
the Hafei mobile to meet U.S.
performance and safety specs.
The company has even listed
third parties like Porsche on
some aspects of design.
"Maybe ten percent of the
original design is left.
Otherwise, the car has been
completely redesigned. We have
full responsibility for all safety
aspects," Czinger asserted. "The
auto industry is a global
industry. Many components are
from China already. It is less a
matter of geography and more a
matter of what firm has control
over process and quality."
Coda engineers also remain full
-time on the manufacturing floor
to oversee production. And the
Chinese origin of the battery?
The electronics for thermal and
battery management of the pack
were designed and will be
produced in the U.S. Coda will
then send them to Asia to be
inserted into battery packs. The
complete battery packs will then
be inserted into cars and shipped
to the U.S.
35 to 40 percent of the
components in the car, when
measured by monetary value,
come from U.S. manufacturers
like Borg Warner, he adds. Coda
will release the car in the fourth
quarter of this year to American
consumers and hopes to deliver
15,000 cars within the first year
of production.
So which way is it?
"It's a Chinese car," said Wayne
Cunningham, who runs the car
technology coverage for CNET.
"I like his [Czinger's] patriotic
claims, but they aren't real."
"If I had to assign a nationality
to Coda, I'd say it is American.
It's based here, its top executives
are from here and any profits the
company might eventually make
will return here," said Chuck
Squatriglia, who runs Autopia at
Wired. "I don't know that such
designations are even relevant
anymore because the auto
industry is truly global."
The issue could be more than
academic. It can take years --
Tesla Motors excepted -- for a
car maker to achieve brand name
comfort with consumers. It took
Hyundai about a half a decade to
recover from a botched launch in
the 80s.
Coda has that hill to climb with
a whiff of China thrown in:
think toy and food recalls,
perceptions about quality
control, layoffs in the auto
industry in the Midwest.
"Straight from factories
originally erected and owned by
China's Communist Party" isn't
the kind of catchphrase destined
to warm customers' hearts. So
far, China has arguably two
global consumer brands:
Suntech Power Holdings, the
solar panel maker, and Lenovo.
Lenovo (formerly Legend) was
virtually landlocked in China
until it bought IBM's PC unit.
And let's add to the pile. The
principal investors include Hank
Paulson, the former Treasury
Secretary and Goldman Sachs
alum who became a household
figure in late 2008 when he
essentially demanded billions of
dollars from the American
public, and White House staffer-
turned-lobbyist Thomas
McLarty. You might as well
stuff a copy of Das Kapital and a
bottle rocket down Lou Dobbs'
pants while you're at it.
Most consumers will look
beyond any national and
political questions, both
Cunningham and Squatriglia
said: They won't care where it's
from, as long as they like it.
Again, it's a hung jury.
Coda says the car will have a
realistic range of 90 to 120
miles. A two-hour charge on a
240-volt plug will give drivers a
range of 40 miles. A full charge
will take about 5.6 to 6 hours to
achieve. The company has also
inked a deal with Sears so that
Sears technicians can check your
house and talk about charging
station options before you buy a
car. It will cost $45,000 before
tax incentives.
Those performance figures
aren't as impressive as the ones
associated with the Leaf from
the more established Nissan. The
Leaf is expected to go only
around 100 miles, but it might
cost only around $30,000 before
incentives and is capable of a
recharge in four hours. Nissan's
secret sauce is a novel lithium
polymer battery developed
through a joint venture with
NEC. General Motors' Volt will
likely cost less than the Coda.
"The Leaf is a much more
complete package," said
Cunningham. "Coda will have a
problem because the car is
Energy/ 89
basically ugly."
Squatiglia, meanwhile, saw the
same prototype and said he
didn't see anything that made
him think it was poorly made.
Since there will only be so many
Leafs and Volts to go around,
Coda has an opportunity to gain
ground.
If positive word-of-mouth about
the car spreads, and the price
comes down, sales could
follow. Still, other models like
the Reva in India could find a
smoother path.
"You have to overcome a
perception, but perceptions can
turn," Czinger said.
Czinger further added that Coda
didn't go to China just for low
labor rates. It was also a matter
of pragmatism, Czinger says.
Coda did not want to spend $500
million to build their own
production lines and the spare
manufacturing capacity they
could secure happened to be
located in China. The necessary
scale of the factory would also
dwarf Coda's output.
"U.S. and European car
companies would not welcome a
competitor on their assembly
lines," he said. "Someone has to
let you in. In North America, the
most efficient car plants need to
make over 200,000 vehicles a
year just to break even."
We will see what happens in
showrooms this fall.
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